yesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.
we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.
they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.
Rwandan stories.org is less text and has more first person accounts and video. It has a stronger expression than anything I've seen on the history, the genocide, the perpetrators and the victims/survivors.
It is worse than a natural disaster by far.
that's all--back to original OP.
yesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.
we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.
they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.
jgnat,
Of biblical proportions for sure--tribal and thorough.
Has your son-in-law been back to rwanda? Neither would I be able to say "forgive" unless I had been in it too.
But they themselves are saying it, doing it.
The survivors have a particular forgiveness they are sharing throughout the rurals to deal with the scars in the communities. Don't they have to live on until a "natural" death takes their life? Your son-in-law may have some of the mental scars that those present during the massacres have.
"Rwandan stories" contains the stories of how the Rwandans are dealing with the incredible violence that stole everything from them--estimated 300,000 CHILDREN murdered. He may know of the work ongoing to heal some of the psychological suffering that has followed.
Glad you're his MIL. take care,
Maeve
http://www.jw.org/en/news/by-region/asia/kyrgyzstan/court-ruling-for-conscientious-objectors/.
december 30, 2013 | kyrgyzstan.
kyrgyzstan court rules in favor of conscientious objectors bishkek, kyrgyzstanthe constitutional chamber of the supreme court of kyrgyzstan unanimously declared on november 19, 2013, that the countrys current law on alternative service is unconstitutional and violates the right of freedom of religion.
ROTTEN TO THEIR CORE
yesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.
we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.
they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.
Skeet shooting is a gun game with a redundant name. Skeet I believe means "shoot".
It's a practice for bird shooting that is a game in itself, I think. The gunner skeets/shoots at clay "pigeons"--clay discs that are rapidly (mechanically) sent sailing through the air. He/she is not selective, shooting them all if possible.
that's what I (mistakenly) thought you were doing. Glad to hear otherwise.
yesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.
we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.
they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.
THANK YOU CALIBER FOR YOUR POST.
Definitely timely.
Yesterday I was thinking of leaving the board on account of the acidity levels being WAY too high for conversation to flow.
yesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.
we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.
they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.
cofty, You have been so ferocious that it wasn't until your last snarling post that it is clear that you actually are sifting through theist comments instead of skeeting them as they flew into the thread.
I am in sympathy with the sufferers of 2004--the personal horror of others is something I have taken to heart often--we take others in, 2 homeless women, 2 Cambodian families from the aftermath of the Vietnam War, and others. I say so that you don't think me cheap to say this: the Boxing Day deaths were no more the horrible because of their numbers, cofty. The deaths caused by the tsunami or the deaths by violent-other-means.
The woman holding her dead girl will have the same question of god even if the 249,999 were spared: where were you?
That question is every bit as valid coming from one as from 250,000.
when one looks back retrospectively at the very beginning of this organization, you could see that the wts.. was on a structural platform of success, created by cunningly created doctrines, such as the invisible return of.
christ, the end times and the imminently soon to come armageddon, all bundled together.. .. this religious organization like so many others established in the united states was unregulated and had.
no upper governing control over its daily operations.. they proclaimed and taught what they wanted to or needed to sustain their operations as a publishing house.. .
While i stumbled about for something to say, coco, you wrote one of your best pieces here. Thanks. Maeve
when one looks back retrospectively at the very beginning of this organization, you could see that the wts.. was on a structural platform of success, created by cunningly created doctrines, such as the invisible return of.
christ, the end times and the imminently soon to come armageddon, all bundled together.. .. this religious organization like so many others established in the united states was unregulated and had.
no upper governing control over its daily operations.. they proclaimed and taught what they wanted to or needed to sustain their operations as a publishing house.. .
Dear Dog,
the sure evidence that you have the mind of christ is to be thrown out ot the organization for simply stickingup for a low-status person who said they wanted to read the bible instead of parroting the "literature".
My friend and elder couldn't say that a t the first committee meeting at which this was the topic. he always said that he had the mind of christ as his focus. But when I asked him in front of the other elders if I had to read the answer from the bible or from the Book of Bible stories---He wouldn't even answer.
Not the mind of christ--and he was the best elder I ever knew or heard of.
yesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.
we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.
they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.
thanks, Jgnat, for the link to Schweitzer and cofty for Brabazonis definition of Reverence for life--the extention of the Golden Rule into nature. Not humans only.
Another thread, perhaps, jgnat?
if you like these here's one with a fellow that has gotten his family out recently:.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3nqfprloog.
thanks for this, Ray and Trevor.
