TOUFIQ UL ALAM, 27 september 2013
Suddenly, I don't know why, I took notice of the ever revolving fan hanging from the ceiling. It has always been there. But I never looked at it. I have never thought of it before.
It is there. Like the eye of the heaven, it always, is, there. I sleep, I wake, I eat, I do good things, I sin, and (... więcej)
Gert Strydom, 26 september 2013
Early the next morning Ryno is testing the six Unita-soldiers that have been given as a team to him. Equipped with their firearms they jog a few kilometres into the field, where he put up some beer bottles as targets to test the shooting abilities of the men.
There AK-47 sub-machineguns are in (... więcej)
TOUFIQ UL ALAM, 24 september 2013
It’s almost 2 o’clock in the morning.
It was still raining. I looked out the window. I could see lights from two or three windows. I couldn’t see the sky because the tall buildings were hindering my vision. From a very small opening in my window I could only see very few things. There was one (... więcej)
TOUFIQ UL ALAM, 24 september 2013
Today, after a long time, I feel like writing something- a feeling that everything around me is shrinking, I have nowhere to go, there is nothing left for me in this world, I am too old to even seek silly childish happiness- I have to write about them. Everything has become so colorless to me. Why? Every (... więcej)
Yehoshua ben Peleh Shim'onai, 20 september 2013
When I was a little boy, I had a habit of browsing my elder brothers’ textbooks to look for anything interesting to read. I remember seeing a drawing of a dog in one of those textbooks. The dog had a bone clamped in its mouth as it stares at its reflection through a probably deep river. Under the picture (... więcej)
Gert Strydom, 18 september 2013
A lot later they feel that they are being watched and when they look up, it is into the faces of Roberto and his officers. “Thank you for the good work that you are doing here,” Roberto remarks.
“Everything has got a price with you. I wonder how you are going to pay us, for this. Roberto, (... więcej)
Gert Strydom, 13 september 2013
Ryno can hardly keep himself from assaulting Roberto Chipenda, where he sits in that man’s office. Two soldiers are however at both sides of the chair in which Ryno is sitting and their rifles are pointing to him.
It is clear that the building where they are had been a school at a time, as there (... więcej)
Gert Strydom, 10 september 2013
Ryno takes the Heckler and Koch 417 attaches a new magazine to it and cocks the weapon, before he puts the safety catch on.
“Can’t we do anything to help the animals,” Maria wants to know and her eyes burns worried in his. To both of them the killing of the animals is pure madness
”I (... więcej)
Gert Strydom, 28 august 2013
Although the old dilapidated lorry bumps along while chickens are cackling and goats are bleating on the back of it and the sun is scorching Ryno and Maria, Maria is happy that they do not have to walk like the previous day.
Her feet is not completely healed and the walking of the previous day, (... więcej)
Yehoshua ben Peleh Shim'onai, 26 august 2013
Part III: Final Thoughts - When In Trouble
It has been said that if being a Christian doesn't cost you anything, then you are probably not being a Christian at all. So true is this saying, for truly following Christ will surely involve facing toils, hardships, persecutions, and troubles.
(... więcej)
Yehoshua ben Peleh Shim'onai, 26 august 2013
Part II: The Church Persecuted
A. Great troubles happen to the church usually when great things are happening to it.
- When the church was born, many great things happened to it: (a) the baptism in the Holy Spirit of the believers (Acts 2:1-11, 9: 17-18, 10:44), (b) the sudden and continuous (... więcej)
Yehoshua ben Peleh Shim'onai, 26 august 2013
Part I: Background - General Insights from Acts 9-12
A. Where the word of God is preached, the Holy Spirit moves with power.
- Jesus told us not to be anxious with what to say when we proclaim His testimony but just let the His Spirit give the right words to our mouth (Mark 13:11b)
- It (... więcej)
Yehoshua ben Peleh Shim'onai, 26 august 2013
- The dread of God that drives one away from Him (3:8) as resulted by shame and guilt.
- Religion and self-righteousness, i.e., trying to please God with good works (3:7b, 4:28b).
- Pestilence and poverty (3:17-19)
- Faultfinding (3:12)
- Insecurity (4:5)
- Hate, which means coldness in love (... więcej)
Gert Strydom, 13 august 2013
“What do you want from me,” Petrofski wants to know from Ryno while he buttons his pants with shaking fingers. “Do not move, Petrofski,” Ryno remarks before he removes the makrof pistol from the holster on Petrofski’s belt.
There is shock on Petrofski’s face, when he notices that (... więcej)
Gert Strydom, 25 july 2013
It is night again when she is brought to the office where Petrof Petrofski, Carlos and the three black men are waiting on her. “I see you are doing better,” Carlos remarks smiling friendly and she gives him a look that sends him straight to hell.
“Maria, we have let you come to travel a (... więcej)
Gert Strydom, 19 july 2013
Maria smells the sweat of the five men that hangs heavy in the stuffy room around her and the vomit pushes up in her throat, so that she has to force herself to swallow to stop the bile that is rising.
She is on her hands on the floor of the room, with her legs in the air and her feet against the (... więcej)
Gert Strydom, 10 july 2013
The Russian throws the electrical cord to one of the corners of the room and draws Maria on her hair to the middle of the room.
“It is clear that you are an enemy agent. The time for games has passed. Unless you start talking and confess to everything, things are going to get rather nasty (... więcej)
Gert Strydom, 26 june 2013
Maria Ramos tries to stop shivering, when her jacket is pulled off her shoulders while she is loaded into one of the Jeeps on the quay.
There is a cold wind blowing suddenly out of the direction of the sea and the ride in the open Jeeps makes her even colder.
She is happy for the darkness (... więcej)
Lody Heront, 22 june 2013
I want to call you me,
but I am me,
you and me and I,
it's only 1 + 1
but the answer equals 3.
I might be just nobody.
You are you.
Bitter and sweet, bliss and misery are all the things that inspired in me.
We might be 3 but alas my mind becomes delusional.
Unable to approach (... więcej)
Gert Strydom, 19 june 2013
It is a humid hot evening, but a cool breeze is blowing over the beach were Maria Ramos is watching the lights of Luanda from a big rock.
It must be hours that she is sitting there, as she first realises that its high tide when a big wave breaks against the rock splashing her wet.
For a moment (... więcej)
Geetima Baruah Sarma, 18 june 2013
'Matri Divas' is celebrated on the twenty-second of December to commemorate the birth anniversary of Sarada Devi, who was fondly known as 'Maa Sarada' or the 'Holy Mother'. According to Swami Vivekananda, she was an illustration of an ideal woman due to her selfless service (... więcej)
Gert Strydom, 11 june 2013
They are barely half an hour in the air with the ‘bosbok” military light aircraft, when an Angolan Mig-21 appears from the naught telling them in broken English to change direction to where Luanda is situated.
Beneath them there are broken veldt with trees and some hillocks and the “bosbok” (... więcej)
kalaiselvan, 9 june 2013
Indian alchemy
Main article: Rasayana
See also: History of metallurgy in the Indian subcontinent
According to Multhauf & Gilbert (2008):[91]
The oldest Indian writings, the Vedas (Hindu sacred scriptures), contain the same hints of alchemy that are found in evidence from ancient China, (... więcej)
kalaiselvan, 9 june 2013
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• Halts the growth of cancer tumors.
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• Repairs "sludge blood" and reverses "sticky blood".
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Gert Strydom, 5 june 2013
It is cool in the shade of the blue gum trees that are planted next to the river where they are eating some of the sandwiches that Maria had prepared earlier that morning, while sitting with their feet in the river.
“What made you decide to follow such a dangerous profession? There are many (... więcej)
Geetima Baruah Sarma, 4 june 2013
Immense contributions were made by the great gurus of India during ancient times. Maharishi Ved Vyas is well known for protecting the Vedas and preserving knowledge.
Krishna Dwaipayan, popularly known as Ved Vyas, was born in Kalpi Island of the Yamuna River on the full moon day in the month of (... więcej)
Gert Strydom, 30 may 2013
After all the years it’s still difficult for Maria to talk about that tragic day, which had shattered Angola forever for her. She swallows at the knob in her throat, before she draws Ryno down on the grass next to the fountain and the Venus statue.
“My dad had been a good person,” she (... więcej)
Geetima Baruah Sarma, 29 may 2013
It was morning and the day was twenty-fifth December. The door bell rang. I opened the door and saw an old lady and a young girl smiling at me. “Merry Christmas,” they said and shook my hands. The girl then forwarded me a Christmas card. “We’ll be delighted if you with your family come to our (... więcej)
Geetima Baruah Sarma, 23 may 2013
Guru Purnima is observed on the full moon day in the month of Ashadh (June-July) every year. The birth anniversary of Maharishi Ved Vyas, the author of Mahabharata, is celebrated as Guru Purnima. The day is also known as Vyas Jayanti.
The word guru refers to perfection. Gu signifies concealed and (... więcej)
Gert Strydom, 22 may 2013
The sweet smell of sugarcane is suddenly replaced by the odour of pine trees and when the road meanders up a hillock, they suddenly see pine forests as far as the eye can see.
“It would be the easiest thing to set a ambush down there somewhere,” Ryno remarks and he notices that Maria is caught (... więcej)
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