Σάββατο 28 Μαΐου 2016

So what do you propose Marxists?

Marxists come talking the marxist gibberish and talk about eating and full bellies. That philosophy and ideas and virtue are no help to anybody. Isn't it? Wasn't the problem that the Communists failed to implement a communistic virtue to people? Christians blame also the lack of christian virtues for their crimes.
Anyway the Marxists ideas have failed both in Soviet Union which collapsed, and in China which became capitilastic.
Somebody had said something about Western Communism, which was great. Of course it is. It was never tried out, that's why. In theory everything works fine, especially when one believes instead of using his reason.

It is a preoccupying fact

 The Church of Greece has downgraded the Roman Catholic Church to confession or community. No idea how this is going to affect the fifty thousand registered Greek Catholics, but such radicalisation is preoccupying.
The Greek Church is opposed to the Patriarchate of Constantinople. Is it allied with the Patriarchate of Moscow?
If the only the Greek State would keep away from these things, but when did the Greek State do something right? The Greek State guarantees the subordination of the Greek Church to that of Constantinople. What is it going to do now?
The bishop that started it said that the Orthodox Church should proclaim an Orthodox Pope of Rome.


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The mortals don't talk to the Gods!

In many verses Homer appears to narrate dialogues between mortals and Gods. However there is always another mortal envolved, but because the other mortal was inspired in a way by a God to talk or act a certain way, Homer presents the incident as a common dialogue after making it first clear how the communication is achieved.

Κυριακή 22 Μαΐου 2016

It is you who want an elitistic school?

It is funny when an ardent supporter of a party which is against any form of elitism, is in favour of a specialised school, which is a form of elitism.
After their ideas destroyed all levels of education, they still propose new ones.
Learning in grammar school is too oppressive, in second level too undemocratic, third level learning about social struggle is important, however they say they wonder about the lack of knowledge.
Until know it was said that the second level of education should be autonomous from the third one and in the second tier should be good for general education and the third for specialisation.
Now special schools are needed. 
How will these twelve year old children be chosen?  How will the children themselves know if they want to go to these schools, if they don't know anything about the subject? How will one know if somebody 'must' study German, Chinese or Russian?
Communism failed and no matter how many times they will try, it will fail again. So many years of Communism and they failed to educate proper Communists. They had more than enough time and resources to do that and they failed.

Κυριακή 15 Μαΐου 2016

A childish sketch and a childish text, but...

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The text is from a monk saying that all problems will be solved if Greeks return to Yahweh-Allah, in whatever way he means it. Probably by praying, fasting and keeping the rites, which will convince Yahweh-Allah to intervene. He says that otherwise even by a economic growth of 100%, austerity will be 400%. I don't know how austerity is measured.
The cartoon is national discord and is happy, because people have opinions. In the land of Homer, where his heroes discuss the matters and soldiers could speak their voice as well, in the land of orators and democracy, every opinion other than a prayer is an act of treason according to the theocrats.
Of course one might say, that monks don't play an active role, one can believe what one wishes, such articles aren't taken seriously, and so forth.
However one cannot discuss, because most participants have beliefs and not opinions. Somehow this tradition carries on, only one omits to say why.
Believers mostly profit from their beliefs, as they are members of parties and parishes and their jobs depend upon them. Communists, fascists and anarchists will preach their eschatological beliefs and because they have beliefs, and not opinions based on knowledge and reason, they will use every childish trick to win over the opponent.
So no discussions, no better ideas about what can be done under the circumstances about any problem, no learning from one another. Some people, which were never voted and many times no one knows anything about them, disperse sayings, that one can perceive that they are nonsense, or good for a small ruling minority and they will be accepted, because no one discusses. One won't discuss, because one doesn't want to be bothered by people who obviously talk nonsense and probably it seems as if it is their job to go around and talk nonsense. So one believes the mass media nonsense, uttered from people who have never been proofed able to solve any problems.




Σάββατο 14 Μαΐου 2016

Factory Farming 140 Chickens Per Minute Allegedly Forces Workers to Wear Diapers on Assembly Lines

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Why was Communism worse, Americans? Inhumane conditions, no payment, bosses who think themselves as gods and the others as ants. No difference!

Muslims fighting for the Greek War of Independence!

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The article is in French and the official documents are in Greek. The documents are official letters sent to the Greek Government either during the Greek War of Independence or shortly after. They state cases concern Muslims either Arabs or Turcs, who fought with the Greeks against the Ottoman Empire. Some considered Turcs are actually Muslim Albanians. The reasons they did it were different by every individual. Some were sure the Greek State was more just than the Ottoman Empire, others felt they were protecting their fatherland as they were born in Greece, others had personal reasons. The author of the article doesn't know that many 'Turcs' spoke Greek and that was a sign of a conversion of the local population, rather than colonisation. However the fact that Napoleon and the French Revolution and its ideals had lost and the Greek Revolution had to hide its inspiration and pretend it was a Greek Orthodox Revolution, discouraged Muslims from participating in large numbers. The Patriarch of Constantinople discouraged all the Orthodox Christians by accursing the Greek War of Independence. So in the end only a small part of Greece gained its independence.

Παρασκευή 6 Μαΐου 2016

...his research funding was cut and his teaching was no longer part of the curriculum

This scholar was of protestant belief, became a scholar on New Testament and a professor in Germany and through his research in the field of the quest for the historical Jesus, he found out that only 5 per cent of the words attributed to Jesus, could be attributed to a person and were not just later fiction. Due to his loss of faith he lost practically his job.

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Gerd Lüdemann (born 5 July 1946 in Visselhövede, Lower Saxony), is a German New Testament scholar. He taught this subject from 1983 to 1999 at the Faculty of Theology of the University of Göttingen. Since 1999 he has taught there with a special status as Chair of History and Literature of Early Christianity. He is married with four children and seven grandchildren.
After periods of teaching and research at McMaster University (1977–79) and Vanderbilt University (1979–82), he was appointed in 1983 to the Chair in New Testament Studies in the Theological Faculty of the University of Göttingen. Following a series of historically critical publications culminating in the publication of his book Der große Betrug: Und was Jesus wirklich sagte und tat (The Great Deception: And What Jesus Really Said and Did) in 1999, in which he argued that only about five per cent of the sayings attributed to Jesus are genuine and the historical evidence does not support the claims of traditional Christianity, the Confederation of Protestant Churches in Lower Saxony called for his dismissal from the Chair of New Testament Studies. Lüdemann stated that his studies convinced him that his previous Christian faith, based as it was on Biblical Studies, had become impossible: 'the person of Jesus himself becomes insufficient as a foundation of faith once most of the New Testament statements about him have proved to be later interpretations by the community'.[1]
Although the call for his dismissal was rejected by the state government of Lower Saxony, the members of the faculty, under pressure from the Church, complained to the University President that Professor Lüdemann had "fundamentally put in question the intrinsic soundness of Protestant theology at the University". As a result the Chair of New Testament was renamed the Chair of History and Literature of Early Christianity, his research funding was cut and his teaching was no longer part of the curriculum. Lüdemann complained that 'most of my colleagues have long since left the principles of the Church behind them yet still seek to attach themselves to this tradition by symbolic interpretation and by other interpretative skills'.[2]
In 2002, he debated William Lane Craig over the Jesus' resurrection.[3]

His homepage here.

Κυριακή 1 Μαΐου 2016

2 Rottweiler killed a five year old!

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Oh yes doggies can kill, they do not listen only to Mozart and poetry!

Faith must be reasonable!

There are some so called irreligious, who say that in matters of faith there is no room for reason. There should be, even though there can be no experiments in laboratories that verify them. Natural religions made sense to the people although modern people cannot see behind their symbolism. Christianity doesn't make sense for example, because Emperors tried to deceive their subjects and intervened all the time.

Biodiesel, Cocaine, Heroine, Cannabis are the problem!

Where do these environmentalists, vegans and other professional saviours and messiahs get their money from? Offices, staff and contractors, sites, magazines etc? From philanthropic market gamblers, I think they are called investors, who live from polluting industries, I guess.
Of course a vegan industry would be a profitable one as well. Hobby vegans, most of them last for one or two years, would eat quinoa, soya for a better world and investors can buy shares and insurances, and shares of insurances of shares, and insurances of shares of insurances of shares. So for every kilo of quinoa for example  that travels from South America to Europe or USA, inverstors speculate millions of dollars if the quinoa will make it on time.
Vegans say that animals are fed with grains and corn and we should eat this food, instead. So according to them, nobody eats bread, rice, noodles, potatoes, corn. It's either meat and eggs or dairy products that people eat or nothing.
What about biodiesel, or coca, or cannabis or poppies? Don't they need land? Why won't they say a word about these things?