"Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it is a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope."
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Stop Child Executions has just been informed that Seyed Reza Hejazi, a juvenile offender is scheduled for execution Tuesday morning at 4am
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"Atal Matal" and "Ye Toop Daram" performed in quranic style! Very funny.
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FRIENDS?
I hope Iran’s politicians are not counting too much on China and Russia’s support
This “friendship” that politicians and clerics in the Islamic Republic of Iran consider useful, is nothing more than a “doostie khale kherse”! Either Iran’s politicians have no problems with this one-sided friendship or they are ignorant of the fact that they are being played! When the Russians attacked South Ossetia and Abkhazia, Iran’s media blew this up into former-USSR-propaganda proportions! I don’t think Russian media even claimed this attack to be as much as a success as Iranian media did!
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Please be considerate with your people.
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"you are truely an inspiration for all of us "Michael Douglas to Shirin Ebadi.
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A French Interview of the Shah where he claims to Iran's right to nuclear military capability.
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RELATIONSHIPS
It seems everybody hurts in a different way
What does it take to be truly happy in life? Is it absolutely necessary to have a lover or a partner in life in order to be happy? Why are so many people out there looking, looking, and looking? Is our search for love a part of our yearning for our “personal legend” as reflected by Paulo Coelho? Can we have perfectly satisfying and rewarding lives without a love interest in the center of it? And, after all, how hard can it be to find someone? Most of us are looking for only one person in our lives, no more. If you think about it, there are more or less the same number of men as there are women in this world, give or take a few (million!)
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THINK
Rational thought and free inquiry vs. faith
Through centuries of living, learning, experimenting, experiencing, innovating and gaining vast knowledge, man has evolved to the next level. Today we are guided by our conscience and act with humanity; we no longer are bound by “one book”, rather we have many books to choose from for any aspect of our lives. Hitchens writes: “Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind … and the soul. … Religion spoke its last intelligible or noble or inspiring words a long time ago, … the devotions of today are the echoing repetitions of yesterday, sometimes ratcheted up to screaming point so as to ward off the terrible emptiness.”
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The Listening Post's Meenakshi Ravi reports on Shooting Back. It is a project organised by Israeli human rights organisation B'Tselem which gives cameras to Palestinians in the West Bank
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