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FAITH CAN FIGHT EVERYTHING.
FAITH CAN FIGHT EVERYTHING.
So sorrowful l feel for those
who do not know the faith that drove
the Westerners to fight and sail
to find new lands that were unknown.
The faith that drove to martyrdom
while they were smiling and felt sure
that nothing can disturb their peace
could make their hearts a source of pluck.
The breath we move will have a stop.
A hundred years pass like a wink.
Just yesterday, Milton wrote verse
and was so full of hope to please.
What counts is what one feels inside
that takes a man to constant joy
which makes him live unending grace
that none on earth can annoy him.
BY JOSEPH ZENIEH
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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So sorrowful l feel for those
who do not know the faith that drove
the Westerners to fight and sail
to find new lands that were unknown.
The faith that drove to martyrdom
while they were smiling and felt sure
that nothing can disturb their peace
could make their hearts a source of pluck.
The breath we move will have a stop.
A hundred years pass like a wink.
Just yesterday, Milton wrote verse
and was so full of hope to please.
What counts is what one feels inside
that takes a man to constant joy
which makes him live unending grace
that none on earth can annoy him.
BY JOSEPH ZENIEH
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
____________________________________
Published 13th Dec 2022
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14th Dec 2022 10:40am
"So sorrowful l feel for those
who do not know the faith that drove
the Westerners to fight and sail
to find new lands that were unknown."
Even assuming that what drove Westerners to discover new lands, was their "faith" and not economic interests, that "faith" you speak of was what stood behind and allowed and justified the subjugation, exploitation, enslavement, and massacre of those indigenous to those lands.
To feel sorry for those who do not possess this "faith" is to show an immoral disregard for the suffering and death of others that such "faith" causes.
who do not know the faith that drove
the Westerners to fight and sail
to find new lands that were unknown."
Even assuming that what drove Westerners to discover new lands, was their "faith" and not economic interests, that "faith" you speak of was what stood behind and allowed and justified the subjugation, exploitation, enslavement, and massacre of those indigenous to those lands.
To feel sorry for those who do not possess this "faith" is to show an immoral disregard for the suffering and death of others that such "faith" causes.
Are you sure you know that you are conveying anything comprehensible when you write such things as
"The breath we move will have a stop."
Do we move breath? If so, where do we move it to? And what is the stop that this breath stops at?
Did you mean to say "there will come a time when our breath will stop"? If you did, you have not said it.
And did you mean to say when you wrote "A hundred years pass like a wink." "a hundred years pass IN the blink of an eye"?. To be "like" a wink is to be like a signal, given that "wink" means an act of closing and opening one eye quickly, typically as a signal.
Wink" To close and open the eyelid of one eye deliberately, as to convey a message, to close and open one eye quickly as a hint or signal or with some sly or humorous intent
wink
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
wink1 /wɪŋk/ ●●○ verb
1 Image of wink[intransitive, transitive] to close and open one eye quickly to communicate something or show that something is a secret or joke
https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/wink
in the blink of an eye
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
in the blink of an eye
very quickly
→ blink
Examples from the Corpus
in the blink of an eye
• A full volley will rip through the toughest regiment causing immense casualties in the blink of an eye.
• I had read somewhere that all the greatest discoveries had been made in the blink of an eye.
• He went from frozen stillness to liquid and menacing movement in the blink of an eye.
• It was the uncertainty, the thought that all my happiness could be smashed in the blink of an eye.
• He would be up and after them in the blink of an eye.
• How often does it lose a week's work in the blink of an eye?
Once again, you show that your grasp of English idiom is tenuous.
And your title should be "faith can stand up to anything" since what you are intending to talk about in your test is how faith gives one endurance.
Cue the ad hominem/red herring response.
"The breath we move will have a stop."
Do we move breath? If so, where do we move it to? And what is the stop that this breath stops at?
Did you mean to say "there will come a time when our breath will stop"? If you did, you have not said it.
And did you mean to say when you wrote "A hundred years pass like a wink." "a hundred years pass IN the blink of an eye"?. To be "like" a wink is to be like a signal, given that "wink" means an act of closing and opening one eye quickly, typically as a signal.
Wink" To close and open the eyelid of one eye deliberately, as to convey a message, to close and open one eye quickly as a hint or signal or with some sly or humorous intent
wink
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
wink1 /wɪŋk/ ●●○ verb
1 Image of wink[intransitive, transitive] to close and open one eye quickly to communicate something or show that something is a secret or joke
https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/wink
in the blink of an eye
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
in the blink of an eye
very quickly
→ blink
Examples from the Corpus
in the blink of an eye
• A full volley will rip through the toughest regiment causing immense casualties in the blink of an eye.
• I had read somewhere that all the greatest discoveries had been made in the blink of an eye.
• He went from frozen stillness to liquid and menacing movement in the blink of an eye.
• It was the uncertainty, the thought that all my happiness could be smashed in the blink of an eye.
• He would be up and after them in the blink of an eye.
• How often does it lose a week's work in the blink of an eye?
Once again, you show that your grasp of English idiom is tenuous.
And your title should be "faith can stand up to anything" since what you are intending to talk about in your test is how faith gives one endurance.
Cue the ad hominem/red herring response.
14th Dec 2022 12:51pm
"Milton wrote verse
and was so full of hope to please."
What justifies your claim that what stood behind Milton's writing verse was a hope "to please" (someone)?.
Cue the non-answer.
and was so full of hope to please."
What justifies your claim that what stood behind Milton's writing verse was a hope "to please" (someone)?.
Cue the non-answer.
14th Dec 2022 1:19pm
"What counts is what one feels inside
that takes a man to constant joy
which makes him live unending grace
that none on earth can annoy him."
So it's not "faith" that brings joy and that makes one imperturbable, but what one feels will take one to the experience of joy?
If this is so, then you have to agree that this would be inflicting pain on others if "one" is a sadist, And should one hold on to one's "faith" if it justifies causing harm to others? Deus vult!
that takes a man to constant joy
which makes him live unending grace
that none on earth can annoy him."
So it's not "faith" that brings joy and that makes one imperturbable, but what one feels will take one to the experience of joy?
If this is so, then you have to agree that this would be inflicting pain on others if "one" is a sadist, And should one hold on to one's "faith" if it justifies causing harm to others? Deus vult!
14th Dec 2022 3:17pm
14th Dec 2022 4:36pm
14th Dec 2022 9:53pm
Hey! I felt this so deeply ! I know that Faith can make a person stronger than everything and it can help them prove unconditional love and serving! Martyrs win eternal proof that they are loyal to God and I deeply admire them and try to act like them in a simpler, daily way.
15th Dec 2022 12:49pm
"Martyrs win eternal proof that they are loyal to God and I deeply admire them and try to act like them in a simpler, daily""
So you admire the suicide bombers who are willing to martyr themselves (and kill others) in order to show their devotion to Allah?
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt183q60v
So you admire the suicide bombers who are willing to martyr themselves (and kill others) in order to show their devotion to Allah?
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt183q60v
15th Dec 2022 9:54am
Very dear Boyana,
Thank you very much for your very valuable comment, which gives me a new and strong life that l need very much to continue my writing. I need to feel that what l write is appreciated at least by one person, and thank God this person came from you. I am very truthful about every word l say. I am very glad to read that you are a believer in God. This gives you great happiness. Please write poetry. This will make me able to read your writings, and give you my honest opinion.
Thank you very much for your very valuable comment, which gives me a new and strong life that l need very much to continue my writing. I need to feel that what l write is appreciated at least by one person, and thank God this person came from you. I am very truthful about every word l say. I am very glad to read that you are a believer in God. This gives you great happiness. Please write poetry. This will make me able to read your writings, and give you my honest opinion.
"I am very truthful about every word l say."
Are you kidding me? Your mouth is constantly filled with falesehoods.
And are you going to ask Boyana to tell you his/her nationality so that you have an idea of who it is you are corresponding with?
Are you kidding me? Your mouth is constantly filled with falesehoods.
And are you going to ask Boyana to tell you his/her nationality so that you have an idea of who it is you are corresponding with?
"The faith that drove to martyrdom"
Given the syntax of the above, it is unclear
1. what the faith that you are speaking of here was,
2. who it was who were driven by faith to martyrdom
3. whether what they -- whoever they were -- were driven to was to suffer martyrdom of to inflict it upon others.
I await your speaking truthfully on these matters -- which means making clear what you thought you were saying and not telling me that you have already addressed these points.
Given the syntax of the above, it is unclear
1. what the faith that you are speaking of here was,
2. who it was who were driven by faith to martyrdom
3. whether what they -- whoever they were -- were driven to was to suffer martyrdom of to inflict it upon others.
I await your speaking truthfully on these matters -- which means making clear what you thought you were saying and not telling me that you have already addressed these points.
"Milton wrote verse
and was so full of hope to please."
My dear J-Z,
I wonder if you know
your hero Milton held
that poets who, like you,
believed that for a writing to be poetry
its lines must be
set out with rhymes
were talentless
and only, in their efforts to put
entrancing words upon a page
showed themselves to be
dilettantes and jangelers
who had no grasp of how it was
that one achieved poetic art
since rhymes,
he said, were the invention of
a barbarous age
to falsely dress up wretched verse
as if it was
in substance and in grace
sublime.
https://tinyurl.com/ycxf8xux
and was so full of hope to please."
My dear J-Z,
I wonder if you know
your hero Milton held
that poets who, like you,
believed that for a writing to be poetry
its lines must be
set out with rhymes
were talentless
and only, in their efforts to put
entrancing words upon a page
showed themselves to be
dilettantes and jangelers
who had no grasp of how it was
that one achieved poetic art
since rhymes,
he said, were the invention of
a barbarous age
to falsely dress up wretched verse
as if it was
in substance and in grace
sublime.
https://tinyurl.com/ycxf8xux
