The Islamic State and the Crime against Civilization – Tom Holland
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“The risk is that all traces of what once, back in antiquity, made the Fertile Cresent the most remarkable melting pot in history will soon have been erased. In cultural terms, it is as though a rainforest is being levelled to provide for cattle-ranching. Not just a crime against humanity, it is a crime against civilisation.” – Tom Holland
As the fighters of the Islamic State drive from village to captured village in their looted humvees, they criss-cross what in ancient times was a veritable womb of gods. For millennia, the Fertile Crescent teemed with a bewildering variety of cults and religions. Back in the 3rd Christian century, a philosopher by the name of Bardaisan was so overwhelmed by the sheer array of beliefs to be found in Mesopotamia that he invoked it to disprove the doctrines of astrology. ‘It is not the stars that make people behave the way…
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Enna Thavam seithanai – Lyrics and meaning
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To all moms!
This is one of the songs we relish very much, it is about the motherhood of Yasodha, but it applies to all the moms and their children. Every child has divine power in them and no matter what they are going to be they are just kids to their moms.
It is magical. Listen to the song in the link below. I ‘ve added the tamil transliteration and close enough meaning of the lines.
Meaning
What penance you did Yashodha?
To make the omnipresent parabrahmam call you Mother?
The one who created fourteen lokhas
hugged, cuddled, fed from you and heard your lullabies!
Even Brahma and Indra were jealous
to see you have the opp to tie the lord to a pounding stone so as to make him beg for your forgiveness!
Sanakaadhi rishi’s with all hardships and toiling attained the purity
that you got easily by being…
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