If you are curious about the various global traditional myths explaining the origin of life, you could be interested in going through the “Mythic Journeys“. Even if it was first designed for kids, it is pretty well covered.
With these nice Flash presentations, you will get more a traditional spirituality and “ancient religion” angle from our cross-culture quest. You will notice as well a certain similarity in all these stories… Would we be all the same ?
Yann Arthus Bertrand - a french photographer - has been prolific in photo projects (”terre vue du ciel” where he took pictures from a hot air balloon all around the earth). His current one is about describing people from all around the world. If you want to meet your global neighbour, click here, and enjoy, even if because these interviews are quite short, I believe they are stereotyped… let’s say it’s just nice.
Between the 13th and the 15th Century, Grenada got ruled by the Muslim Nasridi princes. During that time, before getting kicked out by the Catholic Kings who wanted to reconquer the rest of Spain (”La Reconquista”), they built up these fortress and palaces on the Sabika hill.
The interesting point is these Catholic Kings decided to not destroy this fine piece of art, but instead let it intact, sometimes adapting it (mosks were of course transformed into churches, sometimes destroyed, sometimes rebuilt).
Sorry for being so long, but it was so hot down here in Belgium (well to be honest, I enjoyed this wonderful weather).
Have a look to the God debate on the Newsweek magazine. When a pastor meets an atheist and discuss during 4 hours, it leads to various opinions and a better understanding of each other’s positions. Different types of mind’s structures, maybe the most interesting point out of this 10 (very interesting) pages summary.
The debate goes through Creationism vs Evolution, the existence of the soul, definition of the Truth,… well lot’s of points to read and talk about.
Another similar post : God created Darwin, so who’s right ?
In Turkmenistan, all libraries and bookstores have been closed, the only available sources of reading being the official ones. The regime is a pretty tough one. The giant book (ruhnama) on this picture is the only allowed by this dictatorship - a book of “poems” written by the main country’s torturer ; turkmenbashi (dad of Turkmen, “president” since 1992 - he recently passed away). All other books have been “burned” - just this piece of crap, schools and universities have to learn from.
In other words : it’s all about how mutating humans into animals… a fantastic example of contemporary “newspeak” (novlangue for those who can speak French). Read the rest of this entry »
From Alien Memoirs blog, go and get a closer look on this blog. Comments following this video (from the original source) might be interesting too (we never know who is behind a message, so just consider the message itself, keep yourself critical and balanced). This is Saudi writer Zaynab Hifni about women, sex and taboos.
Other articles of interest in this blog ; opening of the Arab Centre in Madrid, “sex” in the Muslim world.
from Maps of War
From the Kingdom of Egypt, through the Hittite Empire, the Kingdom of Israel, the Assyrian Empire, the Babylonian Empire, the Persian Empire, the Macedonian Empire, the Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire, the Sassanid Empire, the Caliphate, the Seljuk Empire, the Cruisader Kingdoms, the Saladin’s Empire, the Mongol Empire, the Ottoman Empire, European Colonialism, Israel, to the Era of Independance.
Well, very enjoyable maps. If you have any remarks from a cartography / date interpretation point of view, please abuse from the comment form below - moderated, but I approve easily. On the Internet, we should always be careful on freely available materials (especially about religion, and Middle-East topics).
Très chouettes cartes,… si vous avez des remarques, ou voudriez exprimer une différence d’interprétation d’un point de vue cartographique ou de date, faites-m’en part (commentaires).
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