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« on: November 01, 2025, 10:07:39 am »15year old Steve Winwood - Nobody knows you when you're down and out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwqsmNR_Q1M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwqsmNR_Q1M
Posted by: Heartsong
« on: October 23, 2025, 01:08:44 pm »Posted by: Heartsong
« on: October 03, 2025, 11:26:29 pm »"Everyday People" w/Lyrics- Sly and the Family Stone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hb0nZYwKnI&t=1s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hb0nZYwKnI&t=1s
Posted by: HOLLAND
« on: September 09, 2025, 08:04:01 pm »https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkOB57UcYk8
This is the Fairport Convention. I hope you all enjoy it.
This is the Fairport Convention. I hope you all enjoy it.
Posted by: KerimF
« on: April 05, 2025, 10:05:16 pm »Hi Holland,
I am not surprised that, for certain reasons, you understood what I wrote exactly the opposite of what I try to say. Yes, in general, this is normal. After all, we are made to live in totally different worlds.
Best wishes,
Kerim
I am not surprised that, for certain reasons, you understood what I wrote exactly the opposite of what I try to say. Yes, in general, this is normal. After all, we are made to live in totally different worlds.
Best wishes,
Kerim
Posted by: HOLLAND
« on: April 05, 2025, 02:26:06 pm »In reality, not on the news, before year 2011 in my city, the Syrian citizens were Druze, Alawites, Shia, Sunni, and Kurds who were all live and work together in total harmony. But divisions were forced to exist after Obama opened the show of Arab Spring also in Syria in March 2011 under the pretext of saving the Syrian people from a tyrant dictator.
I don't understand you, KerimF. The Syrian communities had been at war for centuries with each other. I would not blame it on the Arab Spring. I would admit that many of the dictators in the Middle East are defending borders drawn up by the European colonial powers and are keeping a lid on the communities within their borders from warring upon each other.
I would consider the Syrian coast and Aleppo as being exceptional compared to the rest of the country. Back in the 1950s and 1960s, Syria had a booming tourism industry along its coast and all the Syrian communities worked together to keep the trade from this tourism profitable to everyone. I cannot see how this tourism could continue when the Assad family started bombing the Syrian communities with poison gas and committed other atrocities.
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More than 400 thousand armed mercenaries were exported to Syria from many countries, from 2011 to 2021, to play the rebels looking for freedom and democracy (besides the severe world's sanctions imposed on the people, not on their high and ruling classes). Yes, we met saviors from Chechenia! They had all the necessary supports and means to destroy the Syrian life for good.
I do not think that this number of mercenaries were brought into Syria by the Assad family to support its regime. Don't you think that maybe if your community is Syria experiences a poison gas attack from the Assad family that it has a basis for being angry and have the right to revolution? I think you should not base Syrian social conditions on foreigners. At lot of Syria's problems are based within the Syrian communities at war with each other.
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By the way, till around 1973, there were also many Jewish families in my city (their places, unlike most of the city, are untouched even during the Arab spring). But, as most Jews in the world, they were also instructed to move to... you know.
But wasn't the Jewish migration to Israel a result of the Arab-Jewish wars in the last century? When the Assad family joined Syria with Egypt into a united Arab republic, it made life unbearable for Jews in Syria and so they had to emigrate.
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I am afraid that only a foreign (westerner) tourist who visited Syria before year 2011 can confirm what I say about how it was.
I would say that it had to be earlier. When the Assad family started using poison gas against the Syrian communities and committed atrocities on the wide scale, such as the massacring of villages, that would mean the ending of tourism in Syria.
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Thank you. But being a disciple of Jesus, the world will have to hate me when I will remind the world's multitudes the crucial truths on the Gospel, very clearly, for which Jesus was incarnated to tell us (because, before He came, no man was able to do it). Naturally, my fate will be the same as of the first disciples.
Sorry, I am not sure what he meant by 'believing in the Gospel'. For instance, does believing in scientific books let a man be a scientist?
I'm not understanding you here. If you will "remind the world's multitudes the crucial truths on the Gospel; very clearly for which Jesus was incarnated to tell us. . ." how can you ask what is meant by 'believing in the Gospel'. I sense a contradiction of meaning here. Please explain.
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Sorry again, which actions are you referring to? Without the Holy Spirit, the Ultimate Divine Spirit of Love that unifies the Heavenly Father (not incarnated) and Jesus (incarnated) since before Creation (I accepted in me since I was teen), I couldn't live that long and be totally free now. During my life, many (including some of my relatives) insisted to prove me by let me face real hard situations that God of Love doesn't exist, only a ruling God does. They all failed, one after another, even without the need to defend myself in any case because the Holy Spirit did the necessary and very quickly!
I do not understand what you mean that the God of Love doesn't exit but only a ruling God. Are you saying that God is not love?
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I am afraid that faith is simply the first step. A kid starts to have faith in his parents so that he can learn from them what to do later to have a good life.
Jesus came to save us from ignorance, the greatest weakness a human may have. Every human baby is born with this weakness (presented to our primitive ancestors as the Original Sin). This is why Jesus came to bring us the Light of God's Knowledge so that a human can know how to feed, if he wants to, his soul for eternity (in God's Realm of Love).
Please find for me where faith is in this Jesus' saying:
But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?
And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
Thank you.
I shall think on these things, Kerim. I am puzzled by the contradictions within what you've said and so I do not understand what you mean.
Posted by: KerimF
« on: March 24, 2025, 07:12:35 pm »I don't understand you, KerimF. I see in Syrian society very serious cultural divisions of community and many of these social groups have been hostile for centuries. I percieve profound differences between the Druze, the Alawites, the Shia Arabs, the Sunni Arabs, and the Kurds. I do not seeing them sharing a single nation state.
This applies particularly to the Kurds. Most Kurds want their peoples in a single nation state, a Kurdistan that would include parts of Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran.
In reality, not on the news, before year 2011 in my city, the Syrian citizens were Druze, Alawites, Shia, Sunni, and Kurds who were all live and work together in total harmony. But divisions were forced to exist after Obama opened the show of Arab Spring also in Syria in March 2011 under the pretext of saving the Syrian people from a tyrant dictator. More than 400 thousand armed mercenaries were exported to Syria from many countries, from 2011 to 2021, to play the rebels looking for freedom and democracy (besides the severe world's sanctions imposed on the people, not on their high and ruling classes). Yes, we met saviors from Chechenia! They had all the necessary supports and means to destroy the Syrian life for good.
By the way, till around 1973, there were also many Jewish families in my city (their places, unlike most of the city, are untouched even during the Arab spring). But, as most Jews in the world, they were also instructed to move to... you know.
I am afraid that only a foreign (westerner) tourist who visited Syria before year 2011 can confirm what I say about how it was.
Quote from: HOLLAND
I'm sorry that you've had such a hard life. You have indicated the tragedy of your friend and yourself. I pray that God will protect you in your final years.
Thank you. But being a disciple of Jesus, the world will have to hate me when I will remind the world's multitudes the crucial truths on the Gospel, very clearly, for which Jesus was incarnated to tell us (because, before He came, no man was able to do it). Naturally, my fate will be the same as of the first disciples.
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Concerning other matters, doesn't Paul the Apostle, in his gospel to the gentiles, call upon all who would hear him to believe in the gospel and be saved?
Sorry, I am not sure what he meant by 'believing in the Gospel'. For instance, does believing in scientific books let a man be a scientist?
Quote from: HOLLAND
Is the actions of the Holy Spirit to be considered magical?
Sorry again, which actions are you referring to? Without the Holy Spirit, the Ultimate Divine Spirit of Love that unifies the Heavenly Father (not incarnated) and Jesus (incarnated) since before Creation (I accepted in me since I was teen), I couldn't live that long and be totally free now. During my life, many (including some of my relatives) insisted to prove me by let me face real hard situations that God of Love doesn't exist, only a ruling God does. They all failed, one after another, even without the need to defend myself in any case because the Holy Spirit did the necessary and very quickly!
I am afraid that faith is simply the first step. A kid starts to have faith in his parents so that he can learn from them what to do later to have a good life.
Jesus came to save us from ignorance, the greatest weakness a human may have. Every human baby is born with this weakness (presented to our primitive ancestors as the Original Sin). This is why Jesus came to bring us the Light of God's Knowledge so that a human can know how to feed, if he wants to, his soul for eternity (in God's Realm of Love).
Please find for me where faith is in this Jesus' saying:
But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?
And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
Thank you.
Posted by: HOLLAND
« on: March 24, 2025, 05:04:50 pm »Before March 2011, Syria was among the safest countries in the world. There were no poor families. Almost every Syrian, when adult, was able to start a private business related to a certain field (I chose electronics, as a designer). After year 2011, divisions and hate were created artificially (the Arab Spring) by the world's big heads just for more money and power, as done in many other countries.
I don't understand you, KerimF. I see in Syrian society very serious cultural divisions of community and many of these social groups have been hostile for centuries. I percieve profound differences between the Druze, the Alawites, the Shia Arabs, the Sunni Arabs, and the Kurds. I do not seeing them sharing a single nation state.
This applies particularly to the Kurds. Most Kurds want their peoples in a single nation state, a Kurdistan that would include parts of Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran.
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Anyway, I will likely not live long enough to witness the divisions on the map too.
That will be the case with me. I'm in the twilight of my years.
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There is a very long weird story that let my partner (whom I knew since we were around 10) commit suicide after he was deceived by many people around us, and he had to sell all we had (even the small apartment we had to live in on the roof since after 2011).
So now I am totally free. I am free from doing more projects for my assistants who owned now our workplace and run it. I am free from worrying about friends who were involved, directly or indirectly, in what happened to my partner and me. I am free from having no money at all (unless a few dollars are money). I am free from having a house (but its owner allows me to live in as long as I need it... till my death).
In brief, I knew after his death (he was alone in the workplace where he electrified himself) that I have nothing.
He was a very kind helpful person. But during the last 5 years, he became like a lamb surrounded by wolves. But it was also my fault too. I used, based on unlimited trust, not to ask him seriously about our financial status, any time in my life. So, when he had to sell our place, step by step, I had no idea at all, though we live and eat together (yes, this sounds illogical till knowing the life story of each of us).
Also, he used to know that if he dies before me, it will be the beginning of the last episode of my life that needs me to be really free (as I am now).
How do I live meanwhile? I do, as Jesus said {Matthew 6:25-34}:
"...Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
For after all these things do the Gentiles seek... for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things..."
And this exactly what is happening to me in these days despite everything. And I just wait the time to play my last role in life.
Jesus was crucified for telling, in public, natural crucial truths by which those who, unlike the living things, have a soul can know how to feed it for eternity under the Light of God's knowledge (not by the well-known magic, believe and you are saved!). Even in these days (after around 2000 years) no man dares, is interested or is allowed to repeat them, in public and as clearly as Jesus does on the Gospel. So, when the time comes, the world will have to silence me, as soon as possible.
Please if you have any question, be my guest
I'm sorry that you've had such a hard life. You have indicated the tragedy of your friend and yourself. I pray that God will protect you in your final years.
Concerning other matters, doesn't Paul the Apostle, in his gospel to the gentiles, call upon all who would hear him to believe in the gospel and be saved? Is the actions of the Holy Spirit to be considered magical?
Isn't faith not a gnosis but rather something existential, a knowing of the divine that is transformative in the divine rather than the elevation of the ego?
I do not accept the idea of identifying salvic belief with magic. I would acknowledge there can be a connection of religion with magic.
Posted by: KerimF
« on: March 24, 2025, 01:43:38 pm »
I'm inclined to think that Syria and Lebanon will break up into smaller countries inevitably, much like Yugoslavia in Europe. The warring communities seem to hate each other too much to remain at peace. We shall see . . .
Before March 2011, Syria was among the safest countries in the world. There were no poor families. Almost every Syrian, when adult, was able to start a private business related to a certain field (I chose electronics, as a designer). After year 2011, divisions and hate were created artificially (the Arab Spring) by the world's big heads just for more money and power, as done in many other countries.
Anyway, I will likely not live long enough to witness the divisions on the map too.
There is a very long weird story that let my partner (whom I knew since we were around 10) commit suicide after he was deceived by many people around us, and he had to sell all we had (even the small apartment we had to live in on the roof since after 2011).
So now I am totally free. I am free from doing more projects for my assistants who owned now our workplace and run it. I am free from worrying about friends who were involved, directly or indirectly, in what happened to my partner and me. I am free from having no money at all (unless a few dollars are money). I am free from having a house (but its owner allows me to live in as long as I need it... till my death).
In brief, I knew after his death (he was alone in the workplace where he electrified himself) that I have nothing.
He was a very kind helpful person. But during the last 5 years, he became like a lamb surrounded by wolves. But it was also my fault too. I used, based on unlimited trust, not to ask him seriously about our financial status, any time in my life. So, when he had to sell our place, step by step, I had no idea at all, though we live and eat together (yes, this sounds illogical till knowing the life story of each of us).
Also, he used to know that if he dies before me, it will be the beginning of the last episode of my life that needs me to be really free (as I am now).
How do I live meanwhile? I do, as Jesus said {Matthew 6:25-34}:
"...Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
For after all these things do the Gentiles seek... for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things..."
And this exactly what is happening to me in these days despite everything. And I just wait the time to play my last role in life.
Jesus was crucified for telling, in public, natural crucial truths by which those who, unlike the living things, have a soul can know how to feed it for eternity under the Light of God's knowledge (not by the well-known magic, believe and you are saved!). Even in these days (after around 2000 years) no man dares, is interested or is allowed to repeat them, in public and as clearly as Jesus does on the Gospel. So, when the time comes, the world will have to silence me, as soon as possible.
Please if you have any question, be my guest
Posted by: HOLLAND
« on: March 23, 2025, 05:27:54 pm »Here is another song from the 60s. It made fun of the spy craze of the time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1vjibFn6Eo
I hope that you all enjoy it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1vjibFn6Eo
I hope that you all enjoy it!
Posted by: HOLLAND
« on: March 23, 2025, 05:23:15 pm »Hi Holland,
Glad to see you around.
Thanks, KerimF. I'm still dealing with fatigue and so I rarely post nowadays. I write occasionally and have some stuff I may post here at LGO. They are, primarily, science fiction/fantasy compositions.
I posted "La Mer" since it is a French version of an American song. I thought that the song may echo some memories for you since Syria was once a French colony.
May you take care. I'm inclined to think that Syria and Lebanon will break up into smaller countries inevitably, much like Yugoslavia in Europe. The warring communities seem to hate each other too much to remain at peace. We shall see . . .
Posted by: KerimF
« on: March 23, 2025, 02:36:08 am »Hi Holland,
Glad to see you around.
Glad to see you around.
Posted by: HOLLAND
« on: March 22, 2025, 06:01:30 pm »Here is another one from the 60s:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m_OxBnvnHY
May you all have a wonderful day!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m_OxBnvnHY
May you all have a wonderful day!
Posted by: Heartsong
« on: March 14, 2025, 01:13:34 am »Posted by: KerimF
« on: February 18, 2025, 08:41:35 am »I worked hard to become old and have as many real good souvenirs as possible (besides wisdom ).
When young, one has just vitual dreams.
).When young, one has just vitual dreams.