a thought provoking film about the insane nature of war, peacekeeping, politics and the media
Caution: death and strong language, there is no happy ending
Category Archives: culture
smartphone (computer and social networking) addiction
“Not long ago only doctors were on call all the time. Now everybody is.”
“How many people can honestly say that they have never pruned their e-mails to put off tackling more demanding tasks?”
“Employees find it ever harder to distinguish between “on-time” and “off-time”—and indeed between real work and make-work. Executives are lumbered with two overlapping workdays: a formal one full of meetings and an informal one spent trying to keep up with the torrent of e-mails and messages.”
“None of this is good for businesspeople’s marriages or mental health.”
These important quotes are from a recent article in “The Economist” I urge you to read it and interpret it broadly… in other words, not just your smart phone, but all the screens you sit gazing at… oh, and if you are not a business person, this STILL applies to you. Click HERE to read the whole article.
Oh, I have “The Servant” ready in Netflix… you may hear more about it…
Filed under culture, experience
Iran and Israel
do you distrust the media? how about well meaning Christian Zionists? ever wonder about their objectivity? yeah, me too… BUT, THIS my dear reader is a poster from INSIDE the Iranian Culture center in Sarajevo, BiH. It speaks for itself…
Filed under culture, from the Balkans, photos along the way
Belgrade
…by the time the bus arrived and I found the hotel, it was a bit past four, I hurried out knowing I was losing the sun… The first thing I saw was this unidentified government (?) building…
… then up the street I saw this… it must have been NATO destruction from ’99…
THEN, I got to my first destination, the Serbian Orthodox Cathedral…
… inside, they are remodeling or something… I pondered this image of Jesus on the cross… if you ever wonder what the extra crosses are on an Orthodox cross, you can figure out why in this image…
… as I left, I was amazed by this sunset…
… then I got a look at a mass in a nearby chapel…
… I grabbed a ride on a tram to the main square…
… after the main square, I explored…
until I “GPT”ed my way back to the hotel
Filed under culture, from the Balkans, photos along the way, things Central European
bus to Belgrade
after a quiet morning with the Lord, I had coffee with my contact in Srebrenica and we headed for the bus…
I was loaded up and ready to head to the capital of Serbia, we pulled away five minutes early! at 10:55…
We drove by the memorial cemetery on the way out…
it took us 45 minutes to cross the border from Bosnia to Bratunac, Serbia and arrive at a bus station where the ticket man rushed me onto another bus which backed out right after I got on and we were on our way… we followed the Drina river for a couple of hours …
it was a long ride
the mountains have faded into the distance as we are headed northwest
no mountains, its just a plain
I spotted a bridge over the Sava River
finally arrived in Belgrade…
now, where’s the hotel?
Filed under culture, from the Balkans, photos along the way, things Central European
promises to be a troubling film – no, its TERRIBLE
NO, NO, NO! DO NOT GO to this AWFUL movie. It is nothing more than an excuse to show rape, random killing, and sex and nudity. The story has so many factual problems that it is CONFUSING at best.
This movie is terrible and will only deepen the divisions against this already terribly divided nation.
This is, without a doubt the absolutely worst movie I have seen in a long time.
It was suitable, I suppose, that I went to see this film, here, in Sarajevo, the night before I travel to Srebrenica… where the worst European war crime since the Holocaust was committed… BUT that’s no reason to waste money on an awful movie.
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