Action : Obey
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1 Peter 1.22: Continued #obedience is necessary for #salvation.
Action : Obey
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1 Peter 1.22: Continued #obedience is necessary for #salvation.
Action : #worship
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John 4.24: Prepare yourself mentally and spiritually.
#Colombia and the search for truth in Latin America’s longest running conflict: lessons from the South African experience
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Negotiators from both sides of Colombia’s longest running war met last month in Havana, Cuba, for the 37th round of #Peace_talks. The primary outcome of these talks was an agreement.....
#LATIN_AMERICA_IS_A_COUNTRY #Apartheid #gender #South_Africa #TRC #Truth_commission
Stephen Fry Explains Humanism in 4 Animated Videos: Happiness, Truth and the Meaning of Life & Death | Open Culture
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk5IWzTfWeM#t=47
Answers to life’s big questions don’t come cheap, but they very often come free, or at least we feel they should. Which answers you find compelling among your available options is up to you. In the widely pluralist parts of the world—or at least in their urban centers—the answers come as often in the form of secular humanism as they do in any other variety, and they generally come with a certain amount of satisfaction that it is humanism, in part, that makes such variety possible. So what is humanism and why is it sometimes so proud of itself? You could do much worse than ask Stephen Fry, the genial English actor, comedian, writer, and passionate activist and advocate.
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR7e0fmfXGw
Fry narrates the video series here, “That’s Humanism,” for the British Humanism Association. He begins in “How do we know what is true?” at the top of the post by telling us what humanism is not. It is not a belief that knowledge comes from a supernatural source, from revelations, prophetic visions, or divinely inspired books. While many a humanist has found poetic inspiration in such things, as Fry explains, it’s only the scientific method that provides us with reliable information about the natural world.
In the video just above, Fry takes an evidence-based approach to the question of questions: what happens when we die. The humanist answer, as he plainly states, seems perfectly obvious to anyone—everyone dies, and everyone can live on in the lives of the people who’ve loved them. We leave the work we’ve done behind, and our bodies return to the elements from which they came. Anything else, he suggests, is wishful thinking.
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File Under: #Mahmood_Mamdani on #South_Africa’s much vaunted #Truth_and_Reconciliation_Commission
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Because the (South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission) focused on perpetrators and overlooked the beneficiaries of mass violations of rights abuses – such as the pass laws and forced expulsions – it allowed the vast majority of white South Africans to go away thinking that they had little to do with these atrocities. Indeed, most did learn nothing new. The alternative would have been for the #TRC to show white South Africans that no matter what their political views – whether they were for, against or indifferent to apartheid – they were all its beneficiaries, whether it was a matter of the residential areas where they lived, the jobs they held, the schools they went to, the taxes they did or did not pay, or the cheap labour they (...)
File Under : The #Truth_and_Reconciliation_Commission
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Because the (South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission) focused on perpetrators and overlooked the beneficiaries of mass violations of rights abuses – such as the pass laws and forced expulsions – it allowed the vast majority of white South Africans to go away thinking that they had little to do with these atrocities. Indeed, most did learn nothing new. The alternative would have been for the #TRC to show white South Africans that no matter what their political views – whether they were for, against or indifferent to apartheid – they were all its beneficiaries, whether it was a matter of the residential areas where they lived, the jobs they held, the schools they went to, the taxes they did or did not pay, or the cheap labour they (...)
100 Years of Land Dispossession in #South_Africa
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This year marks the 100th anniversary of the #Natives_Land_Act, which ratified and legalized the exclusion of South Africa’s black majority from land ownership in favor of the white minority. The result was “just 7% of agricultural land set aside for blacks, though they comprised nearly 70% of the population.” Following changes to the act […]
#POLITICS #ANC #Ben_Cousins #land_reform #Landless_People’s_Movement #Truth_and_Reconciliation_Commission #Zimbabwe