There is no "deal" in the world that will make countries buy their oil or gas from the Middle East again (or Russia).
The damage is done. Literally. And the only reliable supplier left is the US. That was the point. The obscene profits & record market share speak for themselves.
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This is called a stress position. This is not yoga. Try it on a cold floor, with your hands zip-tied, and see if you can hold it even for 5 minutes. Now imagine being held that way for hours, and even days. Stress positions are used in torture to cut off circulation and create extreme pain in the joints. Postures of humiliation are chosen where you cannot see what is happening, and have no chance to remain calm, clear, and alert. . Having your kidneys exposed to cold air creates vasoconstriction, high blood pressure, strains the renal system, lowers immunity and causes acute physiological stress.
I think of how many people in the world are being tortured right now as I write. I don't have to say this but I will. There are very few people who will put themselves aside to help others. There are only a few who would try (and even try again) to deliver food and medical supplies to Gaza. Both Canada and the US are ratified in the Geneva conventions against torture. In war time or in peace time, torture is not legal.
Stop supplying Israel. Stop supporting Israel. Apply sanctions. If we do not stop Israel's use of torture, one thing is clear. We are complicit. We know this. Write your elected officials, and for God's sake, speak up already.
It is said that the young man in the photo, named Ahmed Abdullah, was a pharmacist working in a pharmacy. Every month, an elderly poor woman would come to him for her medicine. She would then approach him at the cash register... Whenever she saw him, her face would light up with joy. For years, she had been buying this medicine, and this young man would only take 200 Egyptian pounds from her. She would pay and leave.
Then, the young man passed away... The elderly woman returned to the same pharmacy, requested her medicine, and went to the cash register to pay 200 pounds. But he was not there.
Before she could ask about him, the new cashier said: “What is this, madam?”She replied: “This is 200 pounds for the medicine.”He responded: “But this medicine costs 2,000 pounds, madam.”
Surprised, she said: “But for more than three years, I have been getting it for 200 pounds from the young man who was here... Where is he?”
The new cashier replied: “He passed away, madam. May God have mercy on him.” Upon reviewing the records, it was discovered that this young man had been covering 1,800 pounds of the cost every month from his own salary at the pharmacy.
When the pharmacy owner learned of this, he decided to continue selling the medicine to the woman at the same price as an ongoing charity (sadaqah jariyah) for the sake of the young man’s pure soul. The least we can do to honor this exemplary young man is to let his photo travel the world without stopping, so that everyone may pray for mercy upon him. He deserves recognition.
My Bubu!
Enigmatic in life and death
Hated and loved, Loved and Hated:
But always with passion, no half measures!
Derided by many, and often
Even those of his own camp
But used as convenience
Alas! He remains a reference point, always!
Eku ise takun takun
Sibe sibe Oluwa nbe!
Good evening Dipo Aina,
I know you won’t rest. I won’t either.
You typed all this just to prove my point. You fell right into the trap and handed me the textual contradiction I have been pointing out to you. I owe you no apology because your own copy-and-paste job destroyed your argument.
Firstly, look closely at the verses you proudly posted. You quoted Mark 15:40 saying the women were watching from a distance. Then you quoted John 19 claiming they were standing right near the cross having a direct conversation with Jesus. Which one is it? Were they far away, or were they right next to him?
This is the textual evolution I warned you about. Mark is the earliest historical account, and it puts everyone far away. Decades later, the anonymous author of John decides to move the women right to the foot of the cross and inserts a male disciple. That is a theological invention. It can never be the truth.
Again, look at your list of authors. You admitted Paul never met Jesus. You admitted Luke never met Jesus. You claim Mark was recording Peter's teachings. But we already established from your own book in Mark 14:50 that all the disciples fled, and later in Mark 14:66-72, Peter denied Jesus three times and ran away for his life.
How can Peter who ran for his life give an account of what he did not witness Dipo? Or which Peter did Mark got his teachings from? If you are not blind, you should know the truth already. Mark's account of the crucifixion is hearsay. It is not an eyewitness account. The disciples fled. All fled.
In addition, your entire claim of a disciple being at the cross rests on the Gospel of John. But serious biblical scholars know the gospels were written anonymously in Greek. The text never says I, John the Apostle, am writing this. The phrase “beloved disciple” is an anonymous figure. Claiming it was John the fisherman is a later church tradition created to give the book authority. It was never the truth.
More so, your reliance on a Roman centurion —who is a pagan Roman executioner, as your reliable witness is a very desperate move. Let us take a look at this star witness of yours. Do you even know his name? The Bible does not give him one. He is just an anonymous pagan soldier. He did not write a sworn testimony. He did not author the Gospel of Mark neither.
So who recorded his words? The Gospel of Mark was written in Greek by an unknown author decades after the crucifixion. This means an unknown writer who was not at the cross invented a quote and gave it to a nameless Roman soldier who worshipped Jupiter.
You are building your core theology on a fabricated quote because you do not have the testimony of a Roman centurion. If that is not storytelling, I don’t know what it is. Mind you, I am not here for stories. You can reserve that for your minions.
All I see is your struggle to smuggle the truth in. You can’t even do it well. You want to build a historical case, and all you could do was to build it using authors who were not there, letters written decades later, and accounts that contradict each other on basic details such as where people were standing during the event.
The Quran cuts through all this confusion perfectly. Surah An-Nisa verse 157 is clear. The matter was made unclear to them. From a distance, in the chaos and trauma, they assumed they saw him crucified. Allah saved His messenger.
You are the one parading copy and paste apologetics as serious historical scholarship. You better read more and help yourself in this mess you have put yourself.
Thank you for learning something new.