I havent been watching to much news about whats going on with North Korea, but I have been read quite a few sites, BBC.com has this statement within its main headline about North Korea.
"...But in recent weeks it has threatened nuclear strikes and attacks on specific targets in the US and South Korea.
It has announced a formal declaration of war on the South, and pledged to reopen a mothballed nuclear reactor in defiance of UN Security Council resolutions." My question to those who have been looking and listening do you really think a war is about to break out?
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Brijesh
Anyone got/getting defiance?
Maeda
The advert for the X-box game "defiance"
Russell
defiance what an epic game
Yamamoto
I just wana get home and play some defiance
Takahashi
From Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks:
Thought for the Day: Yom HaShoah and the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
This coming Sunday is Yom Hashoah, the day we in the Jewish community observe our Holocaust Remembrance Day. And this year it will coincide with the seventieth anniversary of one of the most remarkable moments of that long dark night: the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
The Nazis deliberately timed some of their worst programmes of mass murder to take place on Jewish festivals, as a way of killing not only Jews but also Jewish faith. So they planned to liquidate the ghetto and murder all its inhabitants on Passover 1943, to prove on the Jewish festival of freedom that the God of freedom did not exist.
Somehow Jews within the ghetto heard about this in advance, and though they were weakened by starvation and disease, and had only a handful of weapons, they determined on a collective act of defiance. They knew that, surrounded by the German army, they couldn’t win, but they held out for a month, and sporadic fighting continued for another three weeks. It was a turning point in Jewish history.
Great rabbis in the ghetto supported the Uprising. They said: this persecution is different from any other in Jewish history. In the past, Jews were persecuted by people who wanted them to convert. So Jews were willing to go to their deaths as martyrs rather than betray their faith. But the Nazis did not want Jews to convert. They wanted them to die. So, said the rabbis, we must defy them by refusing to die, by fighting for the right to live.
They knew that almost all of them would die anyway, but they wanted to make a protest in the name of life, and they did so with immense courage.
After the Holocaust, Jews, and much of the world, vowed, “Never again.” Yet in the last few years antisemitism has returned to Europe, from Greece in the south to Norway in the north, from France in the west to Russia in the east. Nothing like what it was in the past, yet enough to make Jews fear what the future may bring.
Antisemitism matters not because it is an assault on Jews but because it’s an assault on humanity. Jews were hated because they were a minority and because they were different. But we’re all different, and any group may one day find itself a minority. It wasn’t Jews alone who suffered under Hitler.
Which is why we must learn to fight hate together. We owe the heroes of the Warsaw ghetto no less.
Desai
On this night of 4th-5th April in the year of our Lord 2013 I decided to watch the 9th episode of the second season of the show House of Lies. This was to be a normal evening of light entertainment. I did not mean to look for trouble but trouble found me and in doing so I found myself.
I had a mug of the finest Kenyan tea, switched off the lights, and got comfortable on the couch ready to watch the show. Two minutes into it a housefly, attracted by the light from the screen (or the raw animal magnetism of Kristin Bell), landed smack dab in the middle of the screen. It was very distracting. This fly was not asleep at 1 am and in hindsight I should have known not to underestimate ita fly up this late. That is the folly of man. I hit it very lightly with a piece of cloth so as not to kill it and smudge my TV but it didn’t bulge. Its defiance was an insult not only to me but to all upper primates. We have worked hard over millions of years of evolution to have my (and by transitive relation ‘our’) authority questioned by an insect. I could have sworn it called me impotent too. This meant war.
In exercising my right to belligerency I took a newspaper and swatted it like I have the thousands that came before him. I did not even care where he fell – I put down the paper and got on the couch to continue watching the wild antics of Marty Kaan. The fly had not only survived my efforts but it had a grin on its face. “Flies don’t grin, Kigunda.” I know you are thinking but this one did. I picked the newspaper and this time I told myself I was going to kill it and send it to the deepest level of hell from whence it came. I started wildly swaying the newspaper and it flew all around me. We fought for a long time with no one giving quarter. I went right, he went left, I faked left, he went right and BAM! Hit him in his stupid face. As he fell down I audibly said, “Eat shit” then stomped him.
Then I realised “Eat Shit” is not an insulting thing to say to a fly.
Lewis
I once woke up, tired of being frustrated at the cards I'd been dealt, and decided the only way to change things was to go back to the basics and start accomplishing things that had gotten away from me. That summer I got a motorcycle and changed my stars. My bike is my statement of freedom, defiance, and raw triumph over the forces that would hold me down.
I woke up again ready for another change. I was tired of sitting in the basement, watching the new years jubilation on TV and wishing I a part of it. "Next year..." I would always say under my breath. This January I rang in the New Year standing on a VIP balcony overlooking lake Michigan with fireworks blazing through the sky, sipping cocktails, and surrounded by wonderful people. It was the start of a New Year, the best year I've had yet... and it's only getting better.
I'm sitting here on the precipice of another big move, literally, to move back home after an arduous time out in Vermont. I feel exactly like I did that morning on Navy Pier. I'm drunk on opportunity!
Richardson
Lazaro in the top 3!??! this feel like defiance on scandal. something up with the voting.
Murphy
Love these days when you do nothing but lay around and eat. With me its also been ok what kind of a job to shoot for now that being in sales is over. Why cant there be an AmeriCorp in defiance lol
Rogers
I love atheists and anti-gun zealots...and here is why.
Lets say, for example, that an atheist, anti-gun zealot is walking down the street one night and out of the bushes jumps a violent, armed robber. The armed robber, visibly angry and distraught, demands the victim immediately hand over all their cash. The atheist, anit-gun zealot, in a move of defiance, shouts, "NO!" In a contemporaneous manner, the victim is summarily pistol whipped by the robber. Laying on the ground, in a pool of their own blood, the robber places the barrel of the gun to the injured persons head and, again, demands all their money...
Question: What is the first two things that the atheist, anti-gun zealot will think?
1) God, please don't let this person kill me..
AND
2) If I only had a gun to protect myself...
Moral of the story: God is great, but make sure you are ALWAYS capable of defending yourself, just in case He is busy at that moment.
Jenkins
2. Recognize that God is the One to Guide
Do not feel discouraged if people seem unconvinced by your beliefs, and are unwilling to share your faith. The Qur'an describes that God Alone is the One to guide people's hearts.
"Let there be no compulsion in religion: Truth stands out clear from Error: whoever rejects evil and believes in Allah hath grasped the most trustworthy hand-hold, that never breaks. And Allah heareth and knoweth all things." (Qur'an 2:256)
"If your Lord had so willed, He could have made mankind one people: but they will not cease to dispute." (Qur'an 11:118)
"And do thou be patient, for thy patience is but from Allah; nor grieve over them: and distress not thyself because of their plots. For Allah is with those who restrain themselves, and those who do good." (Qur'an 16:127-128)
3. Part Kindly From Those Who Ridicule Faith
If you face someone who persistently ridicules or mocks your faith, and is obviously unwilling to listen to your point of view, quietly withdraw from the situation. Do not become angry or engage in arguments.
"He has already revealed to you in the Scripture, that when you hear the signs of Allah held in defiance and ridicule, you are not to sit with them unless they turn to a different theme. If you did, you would be like them..." (Qur'an 4:140)
"Tell those who believe, to forgive those who do not look forward to the Days of Allah: It is for Him to recompense (for good or ill) each people according to what they have earned." (Qur'an 45:14)
"Therefore be patient with what they say, and celebrate (constantly) the praises of thy Lord, before the rising of the sun, and before its setting; yea, celebrate them for part of the hours of the night, and at the sides of the day: that thou mayest have (spiritual) joy." (Qur'an 20:130)
"Bear, then, with patience, all that they say, and celebrate the praises of thy Lord, before the rising of the sun and before (its) setting." (Qur'an 50:
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