Alexander Solzhenitsyn Dead at the Age of 89.

[ChefBeckyD]

I'm strange, I know - but world politics, and history, are loves of mine.

A. Solzhenitsyn was an incredible man & thinker. I have been fascinated with him since I was in High School - here is some info about him, and a link to an eerily prophetic address he gave at Harvard 30 years ago.


World News - Soviet dissident writer Solzhenitsyn dies at 89
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/arch/solzhenitsyn/harvard1978.html

 

[JAE]

I'm strange, I know - but world politics, and history, are loves of mine.

A. Solzhenitsyn was an incredible man & thinker. I have been fascinated with him since I was in High School - here is some info about him, and a link to an eerily prophetic address he gave at Harvard 30 years ago.


World News - Soviet dissident writer Solzhenitsyn dies at 89
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/arch/solzhenitsyn/harvard1978.html

Well, I really tried to read the address, but there were too many words that I had to think too hard about the meaning. I'll have to read it when I'm not tired.

 

[ChefBeckyD]

Well, I really tried to read the address, but there were too many words that I had to think too hard about the meaning. I'll have to read it when I'm not tired.

Yeah, it's not bedtime reading!

 

[rennea]

I saw this earlier on the news very sad. He was an amazing man.

 

[legacypc46]

Hey Becky...fellow history buff here. A.S. is a favorite author. He had an amazing and biting wit (which is unfortunately lost in most translations of his books...prefer the russian, but his writing can be a challenge to get thru). Sorry to hear of his passing. A truly great man.

 

[raebates]

I'm strange, I know - but world politics, and history, are loves of mine.

A. Solzhenitsyn was an incredible man & thinker. I have been fascinated with him since I was in High School - here is some info about him, and a link to an eerily prophetic address he gave at Harvard 30 years ago.


World News - Soviet dissident writer Solzhenitsyn dies at 89
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/arch/solzhenitsyn/harvard1978.html

Yeah, but that's part of why we love you. :love:

The man was an inspiration to many. His is a voice that will be missed.

 

[pampchefrhondab]

I've finished about 3/4 of it - will have to finish later. I agree w/some of his points, but many I do not.

Okay I fast forwarded to the last section. He does get to my point which is we have "free will" when it comes to faith in God (or a Supreme Complete Entity as he put it). There is sin in the world. There is no perfect society and never will be; however, I will take a democratic society over a socialized one any day.

We are humans and that "free will" always gets us into trouble:yuck:! There is no way of saving us from it. As put in the Bible, "Weeds will always be growing among the good wheat. It will not be separated until the harvest."

 

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

Remember that the weeds in the wheat also have the right to vote - and most of them are completely uninformed about for whom they are casting their vote. It saddens me to know that my vote can be nullified by some idiot who voted for the other guy because a television commercial told him to.