cmotherofpirl Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury,pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There are a lot of people who need prayers, all those poor families that are barricaded in their homes tonight, and all their relations worldwide who can't get in touch with them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmotherofpirl Posted February 1, 2011 Author Share Posted February 1, 2011 http://twitter.com/speak2tweet is how the egyptians are communicating now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesus_lol Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 I heard the Military had joined in with the protesters, under the rule that protesters leave the streets at night so they can deal with the looters. dunno if thas true though. The Egyptians are doing the right thing, and i wish them luck. The western world has been backing the wrong horse for 30 years too long in their case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
add Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOAtLJeV7yk[/media] [i][i]this event will not bode well for [/i][/i][i] Israel[/i] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kujo Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 I can't believe that no one is talking about this on here... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatherineM Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 I just watched on TV guys being sent through the crowd on horseback hitting people with whips. The Canadian camera crew was interviewing people down by the pyramids whose business went from 5000 people a day to 0, and the local cops came over and knocked them down to get them to quit filming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmotherofpirl Posted February 3, 2011 Author Share Posted February 3, 2011 Yep, they just had a U.S. reporter on whose life was threatened on camera, and as she drove away her car windows there smashed out. This was by the por-mubarek group. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BG45 Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 (edited) Washington Post's Cairo Bureau Chief was arrested along with two dozen other journalists. A London Sunday Times journalist was nearly killed by a group of men, one wearing a police uniform. Anderson Cooper and his crew were beaten the other day. And that's just the foreigners... It's a riveting situation as the Egyptian people demand their freedom after suffering for three decades under a dictatorship, with hundreds wounded in the most recent clashes. They've definitely got my prayers. Edit: An appropriate quote from the TV show Babylon 5, by the character G'Kar after another race occupied his homeworld. "No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power tyrants and dictators cannot stand. The Centauri learned that lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free." Edited February 3, 2011 by BG45 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmotherofpirl Posted February 3, 2011 Author Share Posted February 3, 2011 [quote name='BG45' timestamp='1296755927' post='2208238'] Washington Post's Cairo Bureau Chief was arrested along with two dozen other journalists. A London Sunday Times journalist was nearly killed by a group of men, one wearing a police uniform. Anderson Cooper and his crew were beaten the other day. And that's just the foreigners... It's a riveting situation as the Egyptian people demand their freedom after suffering for three decades under a dictatorship, with hundreds wounded in the most recent clashes. They've definitely got my prayers. Edit: An appropriate quote from the TV show Babylon 5, by the character G'Kar after another race occupied his homeworld. "No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power tyrants and dictators cannot stand. The Centauri learned that lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free." [/quote] Anyone who quotes from B5 is my hero. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrestia Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 I just got back from not-lunch with an Egyptian (really Canadian) friend. (We were supposed to have lunch together, but she was didn't have much of an appetite - so we just talked.) She was in Egypt during the Christmas church bombing and subsequent Muslim human shield. In fact, one of her cousins participated in the human shield. As you can imagine, things over there are (prepare for the understatement of the year) nuts. The pro-Mubarak supporters are mostly corrupt policemen and newly released prisoners. According to her, the original protest was planned to be a one day thing on Jan 25. It was Mubarak's heavy-handed response that pushed the snowball down the hill. She is Muslim, but was raised to respect other people's beliefs. Her grandparents lived in a community that was mainly Christian, and they had no problems. She thinks that the religious attack around Christmas was meant to divide the Egyptian people, to make then easier to control. If that was the plan, methinks it backfired. At this point the protesters are afraid to stop. If they do, Mubarak will still have them all killed, so they might as well keep up the fight. Her family over there say that they really need gauze, iodine, and other first aid supplies. Unfortunately, Mubarak's wife is the president of the Egyptian Red Crescent, so they're not much help right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nihil Obstat Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 I hope they can overthrow the government. In something other than a military coup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BG45 Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 Thanks cmom! And glad to hear an analysis from someone with real life experience tgoldson, unlike most of the talking heads on TV. On the note of human shields: [url="http://imgur.com/NhC4m"]Picture of Christians shielding Muslims during prayer[/url] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kafka Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 The burden on Egypt will I think get much worse before it gets better, pending the first part of the Tribulation beginning soon in my lifetime, as I have is some way believed, sensed, reasoned, studied, considered it would for most of my adult life (thirteen years). The fact that that the Tribulation has not even begun and Egypt, along with other Middle Eastern and North African countries are at times particularly filled with civil strife, violence, confusion, hatred, etc. proves things will be worst in this region of the world once the Tribulation actually begins after these preparation times. The burden of Egypt will be uniquely severe and I think this is designed by God to punish their sins and lead them to repentance and renewal. Toward the end of the first part of the Tribulaion I think the great Catholic monarch of prophecy will save this country. These things and more are summed up in the prophecy of Isaiah chapter 19: {19:1} The burden of Egypt. Behold, the Lord will ascend upon a lofty cloud, and he will enter into Egypt, and the false images of Egypt will be moved before his face, and the heart of Egypt will waste away in its midst. {19:2} And I will cause Egyptian to rush against Egyptian. And they will fight: a man against his brother, and a man against his friend, city against city, kingdom against kingdom. {19:3} And the spirit of Egypt will be ruptured to its very core. And I will cast down their plan violently. And they will seek answers from their false images, and their diviners, and those led by demons, and their seers. {19:4} And I will deliver Egypt into the hand of cruel masters, and a strong king will dominate them, says the Lord, the God of hosts. {19:5} And the waters of the sea will dry up, and the river will be desolate and dry. {19:6} And the rivers will fail. The streams of its banks will diminish and dry up. The reed and the bulrush will wither away. {19:7} The channel of the river will be stripped down to its source, and everything irrigated by it will dry up and wither and be no more. {19:8} And the fishermen will grieve. And all who cast a hook into the river will mourn. And those who cast a net upon the surface of its waters will languish. {19:9} Those who work with linen, combing and weaving fine textiles, will be confounded. {19:10} And its irrigated places will begin to fail, with all those who make pools to take fish. {19:11} The leaders of Tanis are foolish. The wise counselors of Pharaoh have given foolish counsel. How can you say to Pharaoh: “I am the son of wisemen, the son of the kings of antiquity?” {19:12} Where are your wisemen now? Let them announce it to you, and let them reveal what the Lord of hosts intends for Egypt. {19:13} The leaders of Tanis have become foolish. The leaders of Memphis have decayed. They have deceived Egypt, the corner of its people. {19:14} The Lord has mixed a spirit of giddiness into its midst. And they have caused Egypt to err in all its works, like a drunken man who staggers and vomits. {19:15} And there will be no work for Egypt that would produce a head or a tail, one who bows down or one who refrains from bowing down. {19:16} In that day, Egypt will be like women, and they will be stupefied and fearful before the presence of the shaking hand of the Lord of hosts, the hand which he will move over them. {19:17} And the land of Judah will be a dread to Egypt. Everyone who thinks about it will be terrified before the presence of the plan of the Lord of hosts, the plan which he has decided concerning them. {19:18} In that day, there will be five cities in the land of Egypt which speak the language of Canaan, and which swear by the Lord of hosts. One will be called the City of the Sun. {19:19} In that day, there will be an altar of the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt and a monument of the Lord beside its borders. {19:20} This shall be a sign and a testimony to the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt. For they will cry out to the Lord before the face of the tribulation, and he will send them a savior and a defender who will free them. {19:21} And the Lord will be acknowledged by Egypt, and the Egyptians will recognize the Lord in that day, and they will worship him with sacrifices and gifts. And they will make vows to the Lord, and they will fulfill them. {19:22} And the Lord will strike Egypt with a scourge, and he will heal them. And they will return to the Lord. And he will be placated toward them, and he will heal them. {19:23} In that day, there will be a way from Egypt to the Assyrians, and the Assyrian will enter into Egypt, and the Egyptian will be with the Assyrians, and the Egyptians will serve Assur. {19:24} In that day, will Israel be the third to the Egyptian and the Assyrian, a blessing in the midst of the earth, {19:25} which the Lord of hosts has blessed, saying: Blessed be my people of Egypt, and the work of my hands for the Assyrian, but Israel is my inheritance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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