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And The Frenzy of Renown

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Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez(1927-2014) was a Columbian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century, arguably the greatest writer in Spanish since Cervantes, he was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and the 1982 the Nobel Prize in Literature. He died yesterday: 17/4/'14.

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Peace be on you.…Ahmadiyya Promised Messiah Mahdi writes:
On the morning of 11 April, 1900, the day of Eid ul Adha, I received a revelation, [Translation]‘Today you shall make a speech in Arabic. You are given the power’. This was followed by the revelation:

کلام افصحت من لدن رب کریم

This means, that the Gracious god has endowed this address ...

I don’t often think about the moral or other principles by which people live their lives, or try to live their lives, but the question came up recently as to whether or why people live according to what they read. Unfortunately, the question was poorly written, so the answers were not what was being sought; the asker intended to ask why people didn’t actually live by the moral principles that they had learned, and that is a valid question. There are several ways to regard the answers and the question. ...

Peace be on you.....As God has bestowed human the power of wisdom as initial means to understand basics of worldly life. Similarly He has granted power to receive revelations and to see visions. When human wisdom reaches its limits, God helps His sincere and truthful servants with revelations and visions so that they get certainty and perfect knowledge. To help people attain certainty, God sends Prophets who teaches ways of certainty towards Him. Just to keep using a basic faculty and ignoring ...

I don't bother with conspiracy theories when I can avoid them, but today I went into a coffee place and they had a question posted by a register for a get it right and save a whole ten cents. I usually know the correct answer, and I did today. The question was "Which branch is the Federal Reserve part of?" Obviously it is part of the Administrative branch. The clerk looked at the answer, and it said that is was privately owned. I was shocked that they would have that. I thought that foolishness ...