Until the End Times begin

Until the End Times...

(CNN) Pastor Rodney Howard-Browne said he wouldn't close the doors of his Tampa, Florida, megachurch until the End Times begin. The police weren't willing to wait that long.

On Monday, Florida sheriff's deputies arrested the evangelical pastor, who has continued to host large church services despite public orders urging residents to stay home to help contain the spread of the novel coronavirus.

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I was not in the mood to write... But I was seriously contemplating to initiate a diary in these demanding times... after all, I am staying at home and have to find means to share my time with the global community... 

I am not bored... I love my routine with my family... and the younger kids playing around in the backyard... in the front yard...

Sartre has said: " If you are lonely when you are alone, then you are in bad company." I indeed am not lonely... I have my books... my music... and my imagination... The pleasant distraction of the younger kids... and their lovely twits... their sounds of innocence... 

I get fed up with the cable news... Their repetition, hour after hour, bores me... I get the news, but the pundits are too much for me... The news is informative... But the commentaries of the pundits are polluting my space... 

... These are times to meditate... to indulge in the memories of the past years... to amuse ourselves with the stupid things that we have done... it's fun the go to the confessional when both the confessor and the priest are one and the same... 

I am enjoying the time to myself... I am enjoying the time with my family... But I am apprehensive when I come across to news of stupidity... 

Why the above pastor will endanger his congregation for the sake of his dogmatic fascism... If he wants he can wait to until the End Times begin... Why take his congregation on his stupid journey...

He can wait for Godot... till the end of times... 

These evangelicals... are dogmatic Christian fascists... danger to themselves and to society too...

DO A RANDOM ACT OF KINDNESS TODAY...

People are born GOOD... with good morals and good attitude... but learn trumpism through education and socialization...  and of course the profit based economic system adds to the degradation of human beings... the homeless... the immigrants... the migrants... the refugees... crisis are obvious to ALL... and, of course the wars for profit and greed are cases to think about...

Read and learn the charity below... and undertake a random act of kindness... today...

Heatwave: Supermarket sleepover for cool customers

By Sherie RyderBBC UGC and Social News

• 8 August 2018

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Image captionThe supermarket was clearly not worried about secret midnight feasts!

Whether you love or hate the heatwave, for some people the sticky, hot nights can prove difficult for getting a good night's sleep.

Record temperatures have been recorded across Europe, and in Finland, where many apartments have no air conditioning, the community spirit has helped keep some residents cool.

When a supermarket manager in the country's capital, Helsinki, heard her customers joking about spending the night in the coolness of her store it got her thinking.

Marika Lindfors opened the doors on Saturday to 100 lucky K-Supermarket customers in Phjois-Haaga, who were allowed to bring along their sleeping bags and mattresses for the night.

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The video of families settling down to a night in the crisps aisle has since been viewed more than 327k times on the supermarket's Facebook page.

Snacks and beer were available to buy until 9pm.

One customer, Riikka Manninen, described the experience as "like coming to camp."

Since the sleepover, a version with subtitles in English which appeared on the K-group retailers Twitter page has also been gaining traction.

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Image captionOne thankful customer said she picked the coolest corner

Whilst manager Marika said she was glad to make it happen, there were some disappointed applicants as more than 100 people put in a request to stay over.

This blog outlived itself...

This blog did outlive its purpose and is redundant...
There will be no more postings here...
Take care and work for WORLD PEACE...
Peace be with you...
H.K.

See you in another forum...

Hi All,
This blog completed its mission of creating a forum for me to write and keep in touch with former students...
I got a kick out of it and immense satisfaction...
But after two years, it is time to fold it and move on...
So,
i will not post anything new on this blog...
But,
if anyone wants to write "memories" from the school, specially my classrooms... they are welcome to send their "memories" to me by email and I will post them as they are, verbatim,  without any comments and without any changes... even swearing is allowed...
I am sure you have my email, but here it is again...
haroutkevork@gmail.com
Take care and all the best... 
...............................................YOU ARE THE FUTURE...
H.K.

KISS and Big Brothers...

What if it was true... ?
A street artist has a creative imagination... in Lithuania... and I wish it will come true...  Maybe that kiss will solve the many problems of the world...
I wish they will embrace tightly and hold each other until we  have world peace... 
I wish they will kiss until the wars in the Middle East calms down... I wish they will continue their kiss until the migrant crisis is settled... 
Maybe Trump will learn to love from that kiss... Maybe Trump will abandon walls and advocate peace and harmony...
Maybe Putin will learn to share... Maybe he will talk instead of fighting with Ukraine...
Maybe the U.S. and Russia and China and Europe and all the rest will reinvent the U,N, and this time it will promote peace and harmony... 


After checking the “Kiss” of Putin and Trump... I was wondering what if it was true and not only the creation of a street artist imagination... and for a day I am imagining all kinds of peaceful projects...                                                             I was imagining that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is solved and Jews and Palestinians share the land and live in peace and harmony...
I was imagining that Turkey apologized for the Genocides of Armenians... and Assyrians... and Pontic Greeks... and I was imagining that the Turkish government had opened the borders and returned the confiscated lands and churches and invited all the Armenians and Assyrians and Pontic Greeks back home... back to their ancestral lands... 
I was imagining that terrorists had abandoned their fight in Syria and the Syrians had decided to coexist with each other...
I was imagining that the wars were over... and the world is in peace and harmony...
But not so fast...
Today I read that an Egyptian plane was bombed in the air... and the brutal reality embraced me again... 

***

But then I had a glass of wine... and imagined again...
What if organized religions came together and kissed-embraced each other and shared God with each other...
What if God wanted to be shared...?
What if God did not want a competition... between Jesus and Mohammad...?

But not so fast...
Once there was an "Unhate" drive sponsored by clothing chain Benetton... in one of the posters it was the image of the Pope "kissing" Egyptian cleric Ahmed el Tayyeb... But the Vatican threatened legal action... and the poster was pulled out... all was cancelled...

But imagine the all the Big Brothers kissing and making up... Kissing and sharing... Kissing and embracing and promoting world peace and harmony... and sharing and looking after our brothers and sisters...   

What is it that we cannot share...?
What if Cameron and Putin... instead of yelling at each other... sat down and talked... decided to listen to each other... and instead of grabbing from each other... maybe share with each other...!!!
I looked at the Kiss mural in Lithuania and I began to imagine... of PEACE and HARMONY...

***

Angela Merkel succumbed to Turkish pressure and banned parts of a satirical poem mocking the Turkish President... written by a German comic who read the poem on German TV...

Erdogan, Turkish President...the German comic... and German Prime Minister...

In response the British The Spectator... announces a contest...


So, I came across and announcement in a British paper The Spectator... about...

A unique competition... in England...

Competition of Insulting the Turkish President... and through that upholding FREEDOM OF SPEECH...

But,Anticipating a harsh reaction from Erdogan, the Turkish President, journalist Douglas Murray, who came up with the idea of the contest, advised the Turkish president to respond in verse rather than through a law suit. A rather unique and civilized idea-invitation...

But I do not think a civilized approach is Erdogan's modus operandi... 

He is an Islamist-fascist bully who has initiated law suits against more that 2000 journalist-reporters in Turkey, and threatened to deport ALL the Armenians from Turkey and reminded the restive Kurdish minority, more than 25 million people, what happened to Armenians... in the 1915-1923 period... He reminded the Kurdish population of the Armenian Genocide... ! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The contest asked for entries that were "as filthy and insulting as possible about Recep Erdogan."
And, 

I have not been able to find a sponsor for the competition, the organizer wrote...  "So there aren’t any prizes – except perhaps for our continuing freedom.  If there is anyone out there who would seriously prefer a box of Ferrero Rocher, Turkish Delight or whatever then I don’t want them to enter this competition anyway. I would also like to stress that the aim of the competition is to be as filthy and insulting as possible about Recep Erdogan[the Turkish President].  Rhymes with some political point might be considered, but will inevitably take second-place to works which mull (for example) solely on President Erdogan’s reputed fondness for goats or his notorious untrustworthiness in the vicinity of any public zoo."  The organizer wrote also: "The limerick that follows is my best shot so far.  But I am happy to report that there are many available rhymes and sexual positions which are still in my jotting pad and remain unused.  I should like to reiterate that limericks will be excluded from consideration from the top prize if they are (a) not obscene or (b) non-defamatory.  I do not want to have to, Vizier-like, proclaim my own poem the winner.  Anyhow, here’s mine: Recep Erdogan is the Turk’ll Never tire of rim-jobs from his circle Yet his chief-est delight (Now Khilafa’s in sight) Are the felchings he gets from Frau Merkel "

The winner of the contest is the former mayor of London...

This was Johnson’s poem:                                              

There was a young fellow from Ankara

Who was a terrific wankerer

Till he sowed his wild oats
With the help of a goat
But he didn’t even stop to thankera

Of course this competition was in response to the Turkish President's initiatives in Germany... where he went after a German comic-satirist... because he felt insulted by a poem the comic had recited on TV about the Turkish president... which was overtly sexual... But it was a satire of the president... going after the journalists and reporters of Turkey...

Islamist-Fascists and European Democracies

The globalization of the world united us in a collective destiny never witnessed before...
The wars are not localized any more... and the elusive peace will not be localized too... 
The wars in the Middle East, mostly instigated by the West-NATO and the U.S. has rippled through Europe... The Migration Crisis is the face of the wars in the Middle east... The crisis in the Middle East has developed a tsunami effect through global terrorism... and as yet the global community has no solution to the crisis... in Syria, in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Libya, in Israel-Palestine... 
The Middle East is transformed to the perpetual killing fields of the 21st century... Will it stop...? It's anyone's guess... But definitely it will usher in a NEW WORLD ORDER... What will be its shape... is a guess for anyone... 
Will it be the total Islamization of Europe...? Maybe...
Will it curtail the U.S. global hegemony...? Again, maybe...
Will it initiate the decline of Judea-Christian civilization...? Definitely yes... The New World Order will be more democratic than the fake democracies of the West-NATO-U.S.
Democracies cannot be hinged to greed-profit chasing values of our capitalist societies... The New World Order democracies will be based on sharing and peaceful coexistence... of all nations... 
The wars in the Middle East are the painful witnesses to the birth of the New World Order... The wars are the childbirth pains... 

*** 

This is a projection of the face of the Turkish President Erdogan... It is styled as the face of Hitler... It appeared on the walls of the building of the Turkish Embassy in Berlin...
The projection was a reaction of German artists to the recent arrests of two Turkish journalists... because they offended the President and also printed news which the President's party did not appreciate... 

The Turkish President has a very thin skin and takes criticism of his imperial ambitions as personal insults... His regime has punished more than 2000 reporters-journalists for insulting Turkishness or the presidency...
The Turkish regime even extended its reach to Europe and wanted to punish satirists in Germany and France and Austria... The president succeeded partially in Germany... a court ruled over the weekend in his favour... 

Jokes About Erdogan Aren't Funny in Germany

 

The German government has allowed authorities to prosecute—if they choose to do so—Jan Böhmermann, a satirist who mocked the Turkish leader on TV... The judge ruled that Böhmermann is allowed to mock the Turkish president... but he should not refer to the president having sex with goats and animals and other sexual references...

By siding with the Turkish president... the German judge in fact arrested the free expression of artistic ideas... and handcuffed freedom of speech...

So if Big Brothers do not like anything they can refer to the German courts to curtail the free flow of ideas and criticism...

The Islamist-fascists of Turkey are exporting their authoritarian outlook and Islamic Sharia concepts to Europe and beyond... Now it is Germany... and then Europe and North America too...

For a century the Turkish fascists are denying the Armenian Genocide... and by their denials they are perpetuating the genocide...  

But neither Europe nor minorities can survive in a Islamist-fascist society... The authoritarian Islamist Sharia laws do not allow democracy and stifle all human freedoms...

Last week fascist parliamentarians attacked  Kurdish and Armenian PMs... in the Turkish Parliament...

Read below...

Istanbul Armenian Garo Paylan, who is also an MP from the pro-Kurdish “Peoples’ Democratic Party” (HDP) of Turkey, is speaking out... “They are attempting to silence and ‘digest’ not only me, but the opposition in Turkey,” Paylan specifically said and continued: “And we are continuing to fight. Of course, there is a greater risk in case of being an Armenian [member of the] opposition [in Turkey]."  He said, the attack that occurred in the Meclis [i.e. the Grand National Assembly (parliament) of Turkey] was pre-planned, and it was a lynching attempt based on hatred. “I have always received social networking website threats, or profanities, whose target was my Armenian identity. [But] after the incident in Parliament, my supporters’ messages have become more visible. “Targeting of the HDP MPs and the insults toward them continue, and this is led by the [Turkish] presidential palace.  The MP said; “Armenians can survive in a democratic Turkey; I am fighting for the fulfillment of this idea.”

Ross had Answers For Everything...

I was going to start when Ross and I were planning to visit a mosque... But then a funny thing happened... 
I was enjoying the day... It is cloudy, but the sun peeps out once in a while... I was watching out to my backyard from the sliding door... a bird flew and settled on a branch of the big oak tree... Played with the leaves... sang a while... and then flew to a chair in the backyard just a meter away from me... sat on the back of the chair... at the top... looked at me... sang again... and turned its back to me... raised its tail... and drop its shit on the back of the chair... and without hesitation flew away... They say in order to fly efficiently and quickly, the birds need to carry as little weight as possible, so they evacuate their excess cloaca...
that is, shit-pooh frequently...
I have not studied biology-zoology... In fact at school I studied very hard for that course... but no matter what, I barely passed the course...
The bird caught my attention and made me happy... and just then and there... I decided to share the poohing bird with you...
I went out to the backyard... checked what had happened... and left it there... It changed my mood for the better... I was in my backyard... under the oak tree... I looked up and checked the twigs that the bird played with... The oak tree is huge and when I look at it I always wonder... "How many leaves are on the tree...?" I have no clue... 
In the backyard I wondered... what if a human had done all that the bird did... I attempted to imagine my reaction... I contrived my plan of action... 911...? Chase him out...? I decided I would have done both... I will do both...
The bird made me happy... the human distorted the beauty... !!!!!!
I went back into the house...

***

Ross, the chaplain at me school, came to my class one day and was curious if I will be willing to visit a mosque with him... I told him that most probably they will not let us into the mosque... He said; "Let's try..." and i went along with him...
We phoned the office of a nearby mosque... and checked if we can visit them... The man on the other side of the phone was cordial and did not oppose... We sat a date...
Ross and I went to visit them... 


The "priest" invited us in the office... we chatted... He was very friendly... and Ross was very happy... when we said if we may visit the mosque... the "priest" looked at us confused and said... "No... the mosque is a place to pray... it is not a touristic sight...," he said...
Ross thanked and we bundled our disappointment and went to a nearby bar... We drank our disappointment out... 
I remembered all this while reading about Europe and what is happening there... My daughter lives in Europe and I check what the latest news is from that part of the troubled world...

***

I remembered Ross and his disappointment... and wondered what would have been his reaction to the migrant-refugee crisis in Europe... Would he have said, "They are allowed..." ? Would he have dismissed the situation as the essential by product of White Men's Burden... The inevitable by product of the invasion of Afghanistan... The invasion of Iraq... and the so dubbed "Arab Spring..." 

I wondered all morning what would have Ross said... what would have he done... and then the bird poohed in my backyard and for few moments I was happy... 

But the question remained with me... What would have Ross done and what would have he said...? What will happen to Europe...? 

A woman, with her fist raised, defying a uniformed march of neo-Nazis in Sweden

***

I would have not imagined that Sweden will be a stage where civilizations clash... But it is happening right now... all over Europe... 

I wonder if there will be a reconciliation or the clash of civilization will open the way to neo-Nazi thugs... 

I wonder if Ross would have connected the bird's pooh in my backyard... The neo-Nazi gangs in Europe and the Islamic-Jihadist-fascists in the Middle East and in Turkey... 

Neo-Nazi movements have been on the rise in Sweden and other European countries as a result of the migration crisis. The anti-immigration Sweden Democrats Party is the third biggest political force in the country. The country, which has a decades-old reputation for welcoming refugees and political asylum seekers, has introduced tighter border controls in an attempt to control the influx. Alongside Germany, Sweden is one of the main destinations for migrants trying to reach Europe. Tensions there have been heightened by arson attacks on asylum centres and other cases of violence.                                                                                    A woman, Ms Asplund, confronts the uniformed neo-Nazi demonstrators in Sweden ..... ..... ***  ... Is the, Islimazation of Europe the main impetus for the growth and bold resurgence of neo-Nazis ... Has Big Brother leadership placed its greed and profit chasing before the humane and Judaeo-Christian culture of Europe...? I wish Ross was around and answered my questions... !

... And still the...                                 Islamization of Europe Continues...

An immigrant group based in Bern has called for the emblematic white cross to be removed from the Swiss national flag because as a Christian symbol it "no longer corresponds to today's multicultural Switzerland." Ivica Petrusic, the vice president of Second@s plus, a lobbying group that represents mostly Muslim second-generation foreigners in Switzerland (who colloquially are known as secondos) says the group will launch a nationwide campaign in October to ask Swiss citizens to consider adopting a flag that is less offensive to Muslim immigrants. In a September 18 interview with the Swiss newspaper Aargauer Zeitung, Petrusic said the cross has a Christian background and while the Christian roots of Switzerland should be respected, "it is necessary to separate church and state" because "Switzerland today has a great religious and cultural diversity. One has to ask if the State wants to continue building up a symbol in which many people no longer believe." In the interview, Petrusic said Switzerland needs new symbols with which everyone, including non-Christians, can identify. As an alternative to the current Swiss flag , Petrusic proposed the former flag of the Helvetic Republic which was officially introduced in 1799 and consisted of green, red and yellow colors. "Those colors are similar to the current flags of Bolivia and Ghana and would represent a more progressive and open-minded Switzerland," Petrusic said. The proposal to change the Swiss flag has been met with outrage across the political spectrum and is sure to fuel anti-immigrant sentiments in Switzerland.

... And still the...                                 Islamization of Europe Continues...

The Swedish Green Party has Islamisation Problems... The party's problems started when Housing Minister Mehmet Kaplan, a Green Party member and former leader of a Swedish Muslim youth group, resigned last week after media reports that he had contacts with ultra-nationalists and Islamists in his native Turkey. Though he denied any wrongdoing and the party leadership defended him until the end, he stepped down when a video surfaced of Kaplan comparing Israel's treatment of Palestinians to how the Nazis persecuted Jews. Images emerged where Kaplan and other Muslim members of the Green Party were seen holding up four fingers, a hand gesture used by the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. One of them, a Green Party youth leader, walked into the picture during a live broadcast on Swedish television and flashed the sign behind the presenter. Of course the gesture isn't illegal in “liberal” Sweden but many Green Party members questioned whether the brotherhood's conservative views are compatible with the feminist and gay-friendly platform of the Swedish Greens. The biggest outcry came after Yasri Khan, a 30-year-old running for a seat on the Green Party's executive board, refused to shake the hand of a Swedish TV reporter. He said shaking hands with someone from the opposite sex is too "intimate," and instead put his hand on his heart in a Muslim greeting. ...And, The deputy head of Sweden’s main Turkish association stepped down in disgrace after calling for death to Armenians. Speaking to a small crowd in Stockholm, Barbaros Leylani urged Turks to awaken, and to kill what he branded "the Armenian dogs.” Speaking at Sergels Square in the center of the Swedish capital, Leylani also said: "Let us show Sweden, Scandinavia and Europe what Turkey stands for. We do not like blood, but we can let the blood flow when it is needed,"  the Swedish publication Dagens Nyheter reported.

... And here is...
Adonis, greatest Syrian-Lebanese Arab poet , who lives in Europe now says...

Being raised a Muslim himself and having deep and one of the greatest understandings of the language of the Quran, Adonis said: “You can not reform a religion. If they are reformed, [the original meaning] is separated from it. Therefore, modern Muslims and a modern Islam is already impossible... It is an oxymoronic contradiction...  Modern and Islam cannot go together... Modern and Muslim contradict each other... If there is no separation between religion and state, there will be no democracy especially without equality for women. Then we will keep a theocratic system. So it will end.” Laying down a heavy critique of the Islamic world, he added: “Arabs have no more creative force. Islam does not contribute to intellectual life, it suggests no discussion. It is no longer thought. It produces no thinking, no art, no science, no vision that could change the world. This violence is the sign of its end. The Arabs will continue to exist, but they will not make the world better.” The remarks are in reference to the broader questions of how he sees the Middle East, and specifically his native Syria which has been in a state of civil war for years. Adonis describes the totality of Islam in the life of people in the Islamic world saying Muslim society is “based on a totalitarian system. The religion dictates everything: How to run, how to go to the toilet, who one has to love…” He went on to say the rebels were controlled by interests in America, Saudi Arabia and certain sections of Europe, and stessed: “I have long been an opponent of Assad. The Assad regime has transformed the country into a prison. But his opponents, the so-called Islamic militants, commit mass murder, cut people’s heads off, sell women in cages as goods and trample human dignity underfoot.”

... But the...                                 Islamization of Europe Continues...

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The oil barons and their greed and profit chasing...

 Fort McMurray in western Canada is burning... The entire population - more than 80 000 - have been driven off their homes... 
Even emperor Nero would have felt the devastation... and not enjoyed the fire... but the oil barons do not care... They will pollute the earth and they will extract profit out of the dirty oil sands... and unfortunately squeeze people out of their homes...
Check the devastation below...

Officials said the size of the blaze was now more than 10,000 hectares (39 square miles) and it was being tackled by 100 firefighters.

People are fleeing through the fire tunnel...

The caravan of cars... and people abandoning their homes to the fire...

 

It is total devastation... and I hope the newly elected government... instead of showing off the charm and cute face of the Prime Minister... helps the people...

The oil companies should help the people too...