Friday, August 25, 2006
Freeky Friday
Peter Lippman on Srebenica
http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article.jsp?id=2&debateId=42&articleId=3851
U.S. Envoy Warns Serbs Against Succession
http://wpherald.com/articles/991/1/US-envoy-warns-Bosnian-Serbs-against-secession/Support-for-sovereignty-of-Bosnia-Herzegovina-expressed.html
I don't know if it's just Firefox, or the whole Internet but things are wierd this morning, I'll try to get you some of the other stories I was looking at for you later! :)
is sad news but I suppose in a way the families involved will be relieved to know what happened to their kids.
News From the Gulag
http://www.yakima-herald.com/page/dis/286879419644356
Bosnia's Telecom Divide
http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/aug2006/gb20060825_162250.htm?chan=globalbiz_europe_more+of+today%27s+top+stories
Well there are some valid points in this article, I should say that one thing has really been liberating for me, and that is letting go of a need to have some sort of purpose in life. Frankly I think Last Days beliefs are a prime motivator of terrorism. Such
beliefs are held by all Abrahamic religions, and indeed all Middle Eastern religions. The MOMENT you have Last Days theology you are in BIG FAT trouble. Especially you are in BIG FAT trouble if people believe in the Last Days more than they believe in God's mercy, or when they think Last Days beliefs are more important than the conduct of daily life. The need for 'a sense o f purpose' is also a trap and a snare.
Thinking any human being can know God's will is also a trap and a snare, among the worst roads to sin. I like this quote in 'Report to Greco' The author has an Orthodox priest saying 'It is very hard to know the difference between God's voice and the Devil's voice'
Maybe that's the big problem with religion, how much is really doing God's will and how much is indulging our secret wishes and indulging our egoes? What I have to say about this goes for Christians, Muslims, Jews and Zoroastrians alike, all three religions have Last Days beliefs and Millenialism in some form or other. If we can't even be decent to each other in daily life, then our purpose in life and what happens to us in the Last Days don't mean a thing.
Radio Free Europe Report on Slavic Converts to Islam
http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2006/08/1051a2c7-c5f1-44ce-bb7a-a4d3488155b6.html
Man shoots other man instead of jackel
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=68627
There are jackels in BiH and southern Croatia as well. I heard jackels howling at night in the part of Dalmacija I spent some time in. At first when they began to howl I thought it was police sirens, or an ambulance, then I really wondered what it was, then M___ told me it was jackels. Incidentally NONE of my dictionaries had the word for 'jackel' in them and the online ones don't either, I know only the plural as a result.
Serb Returnees Recieve 30 Tractors
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/EKOI-6SZ36U?OpenDocument
UPDATES
Names of 800 Srebenica Suspects Revealed
http://www.iwpr.net/?p=tri&s=f&o=323383&apc_state=henptri
More Raids in BiH to Find War Crimes Suspects
http://www.iwpr.net/?p=tri&s=f&o=323387&apc_state=henptri
Update to the story about the seizure by Iran of a Romanian owned oil rig.
Romania Sends Team of Lawyers to Negotiate Oil Rig Hand-over
http://framehosting.dowjonesnews.com/sample/samplestory.asp?StoryID=2006082418230002&Take=1
Brits in the Balkans
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article1221876.ece
Update on the Mexican fishermen story
Fishy Tale
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article1221636.ece
http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article.jsp?id=2&debateId=42&articleId=3851
U.S. Envoy Warns Serbs Against Succession
http://wpherald.com/articles/991/1/US-envoy-warns-Bosnian-Serbs-against-secession/Support-for-sovereignty-of-Bosnia-Herzegovina-expressed.html
I don't know if it's just Firefox, or the whole Internet but things are wierd this morning, I'll try to get you some of the other stories I was looking at for you later! :)
is sad news but I suppose in a way the families involved will be relieved to know what happened to their kids.
News From the Gulag
http://www.yakima-herald.com/page/dis/286879419644356
Bosnia's Telecom Divide
http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/aug2006/gb20060825_162250.htm?chan=globalbiz_europe_more+of+today%27s+top+stories
Well there are some valid points in this article, I should say that one thing has really been liberating for me, and that is letting go of a need to have some sort of purpose in life. Frankly I think Last Days beliefs are a prime motivator of terrorism. Such
beliefs are held by all Abrahamic religions, and indeed all Middle Eastern religions. The MOMENT you have Last Days theology you are in BIG FAT trouble. Especially you are in BIG FAT trouble if people believe in the Last Days more than they believe in God's mercy, or when they think Last Days beliefs are more important than the conduct of daily life. The need for 'a sense o f purpose' is also a trap and a snare.
Thinking any human being can know God's will is also a trap and a snare, among the worst roads to sin. I like this quote in 'Report to Greco' The author has an Orthodox priest saying 'It is very hard to know the difference between God's voice and the Devil's voice'
Maybe that's the big problem with religion, how much is really doing God's will and how much is indulging our secret wishes and indulging our egoes? What I have to say about this goes for Christians, Muslims, Jews and Zoroastrians alike, all three religions have Last Days beliefs and Millenialism in some form or other. If we can't even be decent to each other in daily life, then our purpose in life and what happens to us in the Last Days don't mean a thing.
Radio Free Europe Report on Slavic Converts to Islam
http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2006/08/1051a2c7-c5f1-44ce-bb7a-a4d3488155b6.html
Man shoots other man instead of jackel
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=68627
There are jackels in BiH and southern Croatia as well. I heard jackels howling at night in the part of Dalmacija I spent some time in. At first when they began to howl I thought it was police sirens, or an ambulance, then I really wondered what it was, then M___ told me it was jackels. Incidentally NONE of my dictionaries had the word for 'jackel' in them and the online ones don't either, I know only the plural as a result.
Serb Returnees Recieve 30 Tractors
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/EKOI-6SZ36U?OpenDocument
UPDATES
Names of 800 Srebenica Suspects Revealed
http://www.iwpr.net/?p=tri&s=f&o=323383&apc_state=henptri
More Raids in BiH to Find War Crimes Suspects
http://www.iwpr.net/?p=tri&s=f&o=323387&apc_state=henptri
Update to the story about the seizure by Iran of a Romanian owned oil rig.
Romania Sends Team of Lawyers to Negotiate Oil Rig Hand-over
http://framehosting.dowjonesnews.com/sample/samplestory.asp?StoryID=2006082418230002&Take=1
Brits in the Balkans
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article1221876.ece
Update on the Mexican fishermen story
Fishy Tale
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article1221636.ece
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