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From: "alexander koryagin" <koryagin@erec.ru>

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Hi, PETER COGGON! How are you?
on Saturday, 17 of  March, you wrote to ALEXANDER KORYAGIN about
"Re: Have I written  [1/2]"

 PC> Hello Alexander.   How are things doing in Russia today.?

While they are buying Russian oil at high price they are not very bad. ;)

 PC> Today everyone is thinking green and wearing green and trying
 PC> to make themselves as Irish as they can to help celebrate
 PC> St. Patrick's Day...

Even a miracle has happened when Irish cricket team bit Pakistan. ;)

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 PC> or speech.   Also ships are referred to as "her" "she" the "motherland"

 PC> Point also that other nations refer to the homeland as the
 PC> "Fatherland".

In Russia when we are speaking about the USSR we think first of all of 'the
union'. Is 'a union' also the feminine gender? I wonder. ;)

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 PC> It means a possible change in their culture and possible their religion
 PC> or bring questions that might change that religious belief.  All so
 PC> complex.   They are not going the vision the USA has for them, as
 PC> their culture is many years removed from that in the US.

The consiquences, of the big-scale interference in the big-scale
environment, very difficult to predict. It is like interference in climate.
In
both cases it may become too difficult to return all back to the initial
point.

 AK>> The region certainly was not as the Australian desert with some
 AK>> Bedouins & camels.

 PC>    Sammuel Clements  <Mark Twain> was there and described it as
 PC> very rural with really nothing there but religious sites.

In general, in that time it was hardly possible to find industrial
territories in all the Asia.

 AK>> There were millions of people there. Actually it was
 AK>> a decision of the religious group to enter in and fight for promised
 AK>> land. What they counted for? Did they think that the war will not take
 AK>> place?

 PC>    I think they did know there would be trouble, first with the British
 PC> who had control, and then afterwards the surrounding Arab countrys.
 PC> But this was a offshoot of the Jewish religion.   They eventually
 PC> got their way, and today many Jewish people, and Arab people are
 PC> working behind the scenes to try work a holding peace...but not
 PC> with the militant sect..which would mess up their teachings and
 PC> beliefs.

Yes, religion was the main engine of the events, but from the beginning
nobody asked the opinion of arabs on the issue. In such a way it is
difficult to count on their loyalty to the process.

 PC> Afterall ...peace was with one Arab country..with more coming, and
 PC> that is proof that it can happen, and it only happened because
 PC> the Zionists were not innvolved.   There is now even more crazy
 PC> sects out there....as can be seen on the news.

It seems to me it is too dangerous to allow _any religion_ be an argument in
politics. For example there was moslem religion also and actually the UN
made a preference...

 AK>> To build the state as mighty as David'd kingdom you need to be God'd
 AK>> prophet and anointed one. You have to have direct link with God, and
 AK>> in this case you and several dosens people will be able to defeat
 AK>> enormous army. But if somebody pretends to be a prophet he can plunge
 AK>> his own people into the bottomless bog. And it is suddenly occured
 AK>> that, in reality, he is not able to go on water or separates it.

 PC>    Well we have historically had lots of want to be humans claiming
 PC> to be devine, and look where that has ended up.  WW2 is  a great
 PC> example.

It seems to me that WW2 was not provoked by religion. Why do you think so?
Vice versa the absence of divine had provoked such a cruelty.

 AK>> to translate some books from Russian to English even if I am just an
 AK>> amateur. Learning the language is a quite captivating and useful
 AK>> thing. It is as an artificial respiration for brains, when in the
 AK>> vicinity there are no other tasks.

 PC>     Translating Russian into English also means you can do that for
 PC> English.   It would be a great project, and help understanding all
 PC> the way around.   Carry on...

All the great deeds have often been done by the people who did not know at
the beginning all the difficulties laying before them. It seems to me it
will be quite difficult for me to do it without English wife. ;=) To write
shoothly... I have already begun to translate a nice Russian novel for
children. The novel is very nice, and it is a pity that the world has never
read it.


[...Nil de nihito fil]
Bye PETER!
Alexander
fido7.english-tutor 2007



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