Oscar, it would appear so.

Stacy
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Philip
Are the majority being silent????????????????

Hi Philip,

What do you mean by medium? Is this where freedom applies?

Hi Philip,

You said you are not worried where you are. Would that mean you doesn’t care at all? If you’re really thinking, then what’s your purpose of living?

At least there are two choices, Good & Bad, forget about the balance, it’s within the process.

Hi Phillip,

A agree with you considering our precious time.

Charlie

Nah - Yahweh is an Anglicanisation of the Hebrew YHWH having been run through various previous tranlations to boot. Used mainly by American evangelical types it is of no serious academic worth, although it does promote Jewish wry smiles when pronounced with vigour. A more accurate English translation would be Jehovah but some folk like to feel they are showing off.

Worth remembering that many ancicent Hebrew script saw the act of writing God’s name as blasphemy, even today many Jews write G-d when refering to such, so references are generally open to interpretation or euphemistic. Hence the references to ’Father’.

Andy
Yes Abba means something closer to ultimate father and bar means son of ie son of the ultimate father.
Play on words
Clive

Hmm Philip
Abba means something close to god the crowd may have been calling for the realese of Jesus rather than Barabus.
Clive

Philip one for the tiny grey cells
Did the wolves shout free barabus
or bar abba ie free bar abba
What was shouted and what was believed to have been shouted are interesting and appear historically to be the knub of the problem.
On this occassion the silent majority may well have become vocal but the elitists heard what they wanted to hearand the rest as they say is history.

Hi Philip,

One can not and one should not achieve “harmonious balance” between right and wrong, violence and peace since right is right and wrong is wrong, violence is violence and peace is peace. The only thing is who will decide what is right and wrong, violence and peace, conflict and harmony ….

In my view only “The Sovereign” can decide.

But where lies the Sovereignty….. who is Sovereign?? And this is the ultimate question to be answered and agreed by all. Once that is done then your right can’t be my wrong.

IMHO assassination could not be a “criteria” of success or failure and evaluation of greatness. Then I am afraid where you would place Jesus as he was crucified (not my belief).

Moreover Gandhi refused to accept any Power and Security Cordon in divided India which he did not wished but succumbed to pressure of leaders who wanted that, to avoid civil war unlike Abraham Lincoln who accepted civil war than division of country. And this excessive attachment to non-violence, which anyway caused more deaths and destruction than what could have been in Civil war, could be sited as a blot on Greatness of Mahatma Gandhi.


Razi Khan

Razi,

It ciould be argued that there is no such thing as a silent majority, merely lots of silent minorities, who are far too tangled up in their own interests and agenda to coalesce into an entity large enough to make a difference.

It is only events such as the Poll Tax as alluded to by Chris that act as a Catalyst, a unifying event, that allow these silent minorities to become (all too briefly) a cohesive force for change.

It has been said that rebels couldn’t overthrow and then run a democratic country, and to a certain extent this is true. Once the common enemy has gone, there is a depressing tendency towards in-fighting and squabbling.

Your Elitists, ruling classes, or dictators, on the other hand, they only have their own agenda to worry about, and consequently there is little ambiguity of purpose or in-fighting stopping them from organising and planning effectively.

We may not like what they do (was there ever such a thing as a truly benevolent dictator?), but they certainly have the capacity to get things done.

Hi Philip

It is hard core fact against which majority had already surrendered without any regret, quite few notice and bear the pain of helplessness and very few dare to challenge this status quo, like Mahatma Gandhi or Nelson Mandela.

Razi Khan

But it is always "few minds" who control or regulate freedom of "everybody minds" and this will continue till man is governed by "Machiavellian Politics" where Self Interest of Individual or Nation is Supreme.