it is worthy of note that ignorance is a renewable resource.
~ Contributed by Phil
Dutch version / Nederlandse versie: In deze dagen van bezorgdheid over de uitputting van de energie van de wereld
Dutch version / Nederlandse versie: In deze dagen van bezorgdheid over de uitputting van de energie van de wereld
Today, because many do not know their history we can see we are coming in very dangerous situation where the 1930ies are in away coming close to a repeat and the past shall put a stamp again on those who do not agree with the populists of today.
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To remember
75th Anniversary of arrival of Soviet troops in Poland in offensive to defeat Nazi Germany and so called liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau Camps.
- Italian Jew & chemist Primo Levi, celebrated Italian author of poems, short stories for children, science fiction & on his own life experience, from Turin interned at Auschwitz from February 1944 > you had to find a way to do as little as possible to preserve your energy.
- writes about his view of Germans & Germany + his own country Italy + its long period under Fascist dictatorship which led to Italian Jews like singled out + after 1945 Italy continued & continues to this day to have in its political life the heirs of Mussolini’s ideals.
- camps near Krakow cut off to the village of Oswiecim.
- commemoration for Sinti people + mass extermination of 2 August 1944 > Sinti + Roma came primarily fr. Germany, Austria, the Protectorate of Bavaria & Moravia, + Poland, with smaller groups arriving from France, the Netherlands, Yugoslavia/Croatia, Belgium, the USSR, Lithuania, and Hungary. + Norway & Spain.
- about 23 thousand men, women, + children imprisoned in the camp. ~ 21 thousand registered in the camp (370+ children born there).
- about 1,700 Polish Sinti + Roma murdered immediately after arriving at the camp, without being entered in the records.
- approximately 23 thousand Sinti + Roma deported to Auschwitz > ~ 21 thousand died or murdered in gas chambers.
- set up as of 1933 to exterminate all enemies of Nazi Germany => 1° all German Opposition political figures targeted, intellectuals + artists. 2° long list of enemies of the Reich + people declared to be sub-humans like Sinti + Roma people, Jews, priests, nuns, any religious denomination, resistance fighters, POW, homosexuals, + not fitting into Nazis book for a perfect society.
- badge to identify group they belonged to + number tattoo on their arm.
- large industrial death factory > sole purpose to exterminate the undesirable quickly
- 75 years later, Auschwitz name in history books > Far too many docu-drama cheapened memory of atrocities to point of trivializing them.
- ignorance + indifference
We must master the past otherwise the past will master us.
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Preceding
How a British ‘Master Spy’ Saved Thousands of Jews in the Holocaust
On Holocaust Memorial Day US Embassy Falsely Claims America Liberated Auschwitz
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Find also to read:
- Reformed Churches Muzzled but Protest at Barmen
- Through the Lens of Faith
- Nazi Germany
- the Soup will not be eaten as hot as it is served
- Black page 70 years Release – commemoration Auschwitz
- World remembers Auschwitz survivors
- Luca Jahier, EESC President on the present intolerance
- Polish commemoration of the liberation of the concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau
- Seventy-five years ago on January 27
- January 27 – 70 years ago Not an end yet to genocide
- 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz
- 5th World Holocaust Forum
- Dedication ceremony for a memorial at Jerusalem’s Sachar Park in honour of the casualties of the Siege of Leningrad
- Auschwitz survivors providing a warning of rising anti-Semitism and exclusion of free thinking
- What’s the Future of Holocaust Remembrance?
- Christadelphians’ role in the rescue of Jewish children from Nazi Germany
- Christadelphians, the Kindertransport, and Rescue from the Holocaust
This past week was the 75th Anniversary of the arrival of Soviet troops in Poland in their offensive to defeat Nazi Germany and so called liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau Camps. Currently I am reading a biography on Primo Levi, the celebrated Italian author from Turin who was interned at Auschwitz from February 1944. In the biography by Ian Thomson written in 2019 on the centennial of Primo Levi birth, we have a very good picture in Levi’s words of what that camp life was like, of the people he knew, of those who died and those who survived. We also read about the Germans at the camp who ran the factories for I.G. Farben and BASF. In order to survive Levi says; you had to find a way to do as little as possible to preserve your energy.
Levi had a long career in Turin as a chemist and he became…
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In this present world lots of short notices or messages are posted on social media, but to find serious writing on the net has become limited.
There is a serious need for analysing what happens in the world. We could do with some more bloggers recording for history what is going on and how we feel about it. Analyses of people giving an idea how a culture experiences the events.
It is for any person impossible to know what future shall bring, but by the knowledge of what happened in the past people can have an idea how things can evolve.
For sure all people should try to work for a better future and if they do not fix the disinformation problem, the divide will only widen.
You have very good reasons to point to Nazi Germany, because many factors are pointing that direction, and people could be surprised it can be as bad as then sooner than people think.
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To remember
Journals. Blogs. Letters to the editor. Letters to others. Letters to representatives. Emails. Facebook posts.
> recording for history
history written by those who have most to gain by revising history.
‘recording’ history =/= ‘rewriting’ history.
current problem = large number of people been brainwashed by lies + who think they are informed.
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Be the scribe. Record your experiences. Tell history the facts.
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Preceding
Mountains of information, disinformation and breaking away
Fake News Goes Back to the Garden of Eden says Pope Francis I
Parallels between what is happening in our world today and the atmosphere in pre-Nazi Germany
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Additional reading
- Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past
- Finish each day and be done with it
- A Living Faith #5 Perseverance
- No curtain placed over tomorrow
- So it will be on the day when …
- Not to speak is to speak
- Faith, hope and love abide
- A concrete picture of what is to come in the future
- Trust the future to God
- You God hold the future
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Related
- Historical facts in myths and legends
- Don’t Compromise Monuments and Parks
- America’s Cult of Ignorance
- I Know You Hold the Future
- Would You Send Your Children to University?
- Worst Military Leaders in History
- They All Fall Down
- Educated Goal Setting
- The Expansion of Time and the Mind
- The Future of Emails: I
- Writing Prompt Response
- Scribes
- Focus on Scribes
- Future thinking
- You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
- This Little Britain
- It Is Not A Democracy
- Now You See It, Now You Don’t
- Let’s Go To The Papers
- What is a historical fart?
Evolutionary Politics for Evolving Citizens
We should all be writing.
Journals. Blogs. Letters to the editor. Letters to others. Letters to representatives. Emails. Facebook posts.
We need to be recording for history what is going on and how we feel about it.
They say that history is written by the winners. I don’t agree. I believe history is written by those who have the most to gain by revising history.
There is a difference between ‘recording’ history and ‘rewriting’ history. We are seeing this happening in 2017. There are those in public life who don’t seem to understand that technology makes it easy to find the videos from the past that document a statement. You can try to deny that you said something but someone will find that video and publish it to prove you are lying.
The current problem is not just the lying about the past, even the recent past. What is most…
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Dutch version / Nederlandse versie >Verwaandheid, Vertrouwen en Onwetendheid
Not everybody is given to be a leader and not everybody can take up the leadership. The one taking up leadership always should respect those under him, willing to give them something more and offering them positive prospects, putting them on fire, willing to explore, discover, strive, soar and excel.
Joe DeRosa loves marketing and has spent a significant amount of his time and energy studying buyer behaviours. As an executive leader of several Marketing and Sales teams he has gathered vast amounts of data – qualitative and quantitative – around the customer journey.He, like us, is convinced that leadership is not selfish and that great leaders make it all about their teams which they lead with dignity. As we showed already in our previous postings, life is a learning process. In this competitive world the best leaders should be continuous learners, not claiming to have all the answers nor believing they themselves are the only ones capable of generating great ideas. With many youngsters, this might a be problem today and the cause of so many projects failing in the end.
An other big problem today is the lack of communication or the will to listen to others, and nobody wanting to take responsibilities.
With many of those born in the 1980s and 1990s we find a very placating and narcissistic tendency, many having a very strong ego. Many of them are also not willing to trust others and do not want to share all that they know, but want to be recognised as the one who knows most and best, which is not always so true.
Purpose-driven leaders understand the importance of gratitude. Being gracious for a job well done separates a good leader from a bad leader. There’s nothing wrong with expressing your gratitude or thanks to an employee who did a good job even though a good job is what’s expected. It’s often the smallest acts of kindness that embolden a team to its leader. {10 Things a Leader is Not}
Many youngsters think they know already everything and are often not open to learn more. They forget that everything changes so fast and everyday offers again something knew. For good leaders there is no place for ignorance and no place for such proud that no questions are dared to be posed about matters not known.
In good leadership is also no place for indecisiveness or a regular hesitating attitude.
Enduring leaders know that making decisions are required for leadership longevity. Those that shy away from making decisions, difficult or easy, don’t last long as leaders. Indecisive leaders are some of the most difficult leaders to work for. {10 Things a Leader is Not}
Let us therefore remember
- Leadership = collection of experiences, ideas, values, beliefs, and opinions
- = demonstrating humility while acknowledging = still more to learn
- not about being right but rather getting it right.
relationship formed through existence of mutual trust
Very important > Knowing when to lead + when to follow = area that separates good from great leaders.
> Please do find to read also:
- Should You Clean House? The most difficult question you’ll face as a leader.
- Is it time to change?
- Leader or Executive – Which Are You?
- Preparing to Fail is the First Step to Winning
- Best Practices…Who Says?
- Your Ability To Change Determines Success or Failure
- Are You a Helper, or a Server? An Important Question for Your Brand.
- Be An Inspiration
- Never Settle
- Stop Managing Change, Start Inspiring It
- Why Generosity?
- How Pressure Affects Performance
- 3 Hints to Help You Hit Your Goals in 2016: Hint #1 – Visualization
- 3 Hints to Help You Hit Your Goals in 2016: Hint #2 – Write it Down
- 3 Hints to Help You Hit Your Goals in 2016: Hint #3 – Tell People
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Leadership is a collection of experiences, ideas, values, beliefs, and opinions. Good leaders ask great questions. Great leaders apply what they’ve learned from those questions to their actions. It’s not about having,or projecting an attitude, but rather demonstrating humility while acknowledging there is still more to learn. It’s not about being right but rather getting it right.
Leadership is a privilege. It’s not a right, nor a duty as some may think. It’s a gift given to those who have earned it by demonstrating their desire to serve others. Those who have been given a leadership role without earning it are exposed rather quickly. People are eager to follow those they believe in, trust, and care about. That relationship can only be formed through the existence of a mutual trust. It’s the leaders job to build that trust. It is granted to the leader who demonstrates his or her genuine interest and caring for…
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Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Atheism in spe do not discriminate.
Human beings so much love the world to turn around themselves. The other human species which look different than them or act differently than them are often considered as a possible threat to their own individuality. They want to protect their own personality and consider another race as an infringement of their own being. All those who are not like the mainstream, showing other sexual feelings than the majority, are for lots of people elements which have to be avoided in their society.
They forget that all human beings are created in the image of God and that we should allow all creatures in existence to be here on earth because God allows them to be here.
Being different makes so many afraid. Not enough people are willing to know more, the why and how about certain matters, which makes that so many are excluded from our general society.
Much too often we hear that religion is the cause of the many problems and discrimination on this earth, but we should see that even when nobody would believe in a higher being, sexism, and all other forms of discrimination would still be social constructs born of fear and ignorance. Fundamental groups, when they would not be religious will still exist as has proven history where we can find enough examples of exclusions, torture and killing by others, not for religious but for political and for economical reason and most of all for getting the power, and that is it where it turns mostly around: Power.
It our those people who can reason who should be willing to use their brains and knowledge to open the eyes of others so that they would not in to the appeal of extremism.
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