Posts tagged ‘mind’
Return of Ramil Safarov
The world chooses who gets the “damaged image” and who doesn’t.
For centuries the west committed atrocities and continued wars across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, murdering thousands of innocents and got out without a drop of responsibility and “damage to their image.”
But when a crazy man flies into a building (keep in mind for his own political and radical agendas) he stigmatizes the whole religious faith. And when one man gets extradited and freed for an act committed as a result of a direct provocation, it creates an unbelievable upheaval in the political arena around the world. (more…)
Collective Punishment
Exercise of Collective Punishment
Who are we?
As people, as citizens of a country what are we? How can we define ourselves? Each time I raise the question I am not able to come up with a definite answer.
I realize if I can’t define us, how am I able to describe us to others. Well, I can describe events in our long history, attributes of our versatile culture and multifaceted society.
But does that really define who we are? Perhaps in reality we are not anything. The problem is that constantly we are defined by somebody else. It has been a common occurrence for centuries to our people to be defined by anyone but ourselves.
Defining us, telling us who we are.
We are Muslims, we are communists, we are Asiatics, we are Europeans, we are… (more…)
Occupy Movement
The Occupy Movement, the Global Revolution.
What are we waiting for?
Some have said that, according to Mayan calendar, the 2012 is the year that the world will come to an end.
Although people have been claiming this occurrence for years, even centuries, the events throughout the world in the past years fairly validates this claim, as the escalating incidents around the world might justifiably resemble an apocalypse.
Although like the creatures of habit, people are used to interpret everything literally, I believe Mayans have meant much profound, perhaps much potent implication to this event describing a devastation.
As known to the Mayans, it is a law of nature that after devastations, there comes a renewal, regeneration and rebirth. (more…)
Bad things happen when empires fall apart
Harking back to Armenia in 1915 will only drive modern Turkey into China’s arms
The best thing said about the Armenian tragedy was a sermon delivered in the main church in Constantinople in 1894, more than 20 years before it happened. Patriarch Ashikyan had this to say: “We have lived with the Turks for a thousand years, have greatly flourished, are nowhere in this empire in a majority of the population. If the nationalists go on like this [they had started a terrorist campaign] they will ruin the nation.”
That Patriarch was quite right, and the nationalists shot him (and many other notables who were saying the same thing). (more…)
Eşşəyin bilmədiyi
və ya Eşek hoşaftan ne anlar
İstər yazılı, istərsə şifahi xalq ədəbiyyatında eşşək obrazının nə vaxt yarandığı haqqında məlumatım olmasa da , eşşəyin sadəcə şərq ədəbiyyatına məxsus heyvan obrazı olduğunu düşünürdüm.
Bu yaxınlarda etdiyim bir ədəbi araşdırma zamanı, təsadüfən eşşəyin qərb və Afrika ədəbiyyatında da əhəmiyyətli obraz olduğunu gördüm. Hətta bir çox xalqların eşşək simvolik məna daşıyır. (more…)
But They Did Not Give Up…
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” ~ Samuel Beckett
As a young man, Abraham Lincoln went to war a captain and returned a private. Afterwards, he was a failure as a businessman. As a lawyer in Springfield, he was too impractical and temperamental to be a success.
He turned to politics and was defeated in his first try for the legislature, again defeated in his first attempt to be nominated for congress, defeated in his application to be commissioner of the General Land Office, defeated in the senatorial election of 1854, defeated in his efforts for the vice-presidency in 1856, and defeated in the senatorial election of 1858. (more…)
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04/12/2009 at 19:19 7 şərh