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Mayyas

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 Just a few hours before new year's eve , something unique and dazzling!!!

Waiting for new year's eve

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 Maybe I don't have the correct perspective .....but still something is not quite well .  

Guernica

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  We are preparing ourselves for the new year's eve. I wonder if  clocks are going backwards....... I have in my mind Bob Dylan's song ... I  believe that Israel could do better...

1914 Christmas Truce

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Yi (intention) in Yang Tai Chi Chuan

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Enlightening.Great teacher.!!!!

Pavlopetri the ancient underwater city

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Kyriacos Markides

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...." The eastern part of Christianity, because of historical reasons (triumph of Islam and communist takeover), remained cut off from the cultural and historical forces that shaped the modern age. This isolation from western cultural and intellectual developments (such as the Enlightenment) has served as a double-edged sword. On one hand it helped preserve the Three-fold Way. On the other hand, Eastern Christianity has shown serious deficits and gaps in its ability to deal creatively with the intellectual challenges of a world that is rapidly becoming global and culturally diverse. Therefore, the temptation is strong to nurture an insular fundamentalism, a tendency not only to be indifferent to an understanding of other religions, but to monopolize God, as it were, by demonizing other religions as nothing but heresies. Another difficulty is the tendency of some theologians to nurture hostility towards the West as if they are still living during the time of the Fourth Crusade, whe...

Konstantin Korotkov

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Interesting  work  and ideas from a person that spend a lot of time in scientific research trying to share knowledge with all of us.   

Peace, or just a dream?

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Is Peace ☮️  just a dream? "The Israeli–Palestinian conflict is an ongoing military and political conflict in the Levant. Beginning in the mid-20th century, it is one of the world's longest continuing conflicts. Various attempts have been made to resolve the conflict as part of the Israeli–Palestinian peace process, alongside other efforts to resolve the broader Arab–Israeli conflict. Public declarations of the desire to see a Jewish homeland established in Palestine, including the First Zionist Congress of 1897 and the Balfour Declaration of 1917, created early tensions in the region after waves of Jewish immigration. Following World War I, the Mandate for Palestine included a binding obligation for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people". Tensions grew into open sectarian conflict between Jews and Arabs. The 1947 United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine was never implemented and provoked the 1947–1949 Palestine War. The current ...