In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful. Peace and blessings of Allah be upon you all. Major points of the following address are being presented after this quote. An address delivered by His Holiness, Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Khalifatul Masih V(aba), Head of the worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community on 11th June 2013 at an event to celebrate the centenary of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in the United Kingdom, held at the Houses of Parliament ...
Updated Today at 01:48 PM by YALASH
On Staten Island, cicadas only make their presence every seventeen years. I had no idea they were native to this place when I first moved here. I had heard of cicadas in poetry, but when I came across one on a page I read right over it as another of the million insects I had no real knowledge of. There is the ancient Greek myth of Tithonus, a musician who is granted eternal life by the Aphrodite but who forgets to give him eternal youth with eternal life, and so forever grows older and older ...
Updated 06-16-2013 at 11:32 PM by Virgil
In the last half century the economy of the United States of America has gone from strong and growing to shrinking and weakening, and that was with a lot of people trying very hard to improve the economy, or saying they were. It probably would have been possible to do more damage to the economy, but it would have required a strong dictator and a very, very complacent populace, and we have only had a bunch of knuckleheads trying to run the country and a populace that believed that the politicians ...
Updated 06-15-2013 at 04:26 PM by PeterL
It is probably obvious to everyone that mental health is a lot on my mind. I just read a piece in the guardian about men's mental health. I am a big fan of Stephen Fry and I have seen and read about how open he is when it comes to this issue. This shouldn't be a taboo subject, it should be OK to talk about mental illnesses just like any other form of illness. This particular article was about letting children be children and not let girls be emotional and boys tough. I wonder about this a lot as ...
John.18 [38] Pilate saith unto him, What is truth? Funny thing about truth. Most people don't want to hear it. It is not found in popular opinion. people would rather have their own sweet delusions than to be forced to accept that it is what it is. Everyone has their own version, and most steadfastly refuse to upgrade. Lies are repeated twenty million times more than the truth. Take facebook for an example: You may have heard that it is best not to discuss ...
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