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Sedemikian kerasnya tamparan dari Yang Maha Kuasa kali ini, tidak juga membangunkan kesadaran segelintir manusia "kerdil" yang tak hentinya dengan semangat yang begitu membara terus menekankan "perbedaan" diantara mahluk ciptaanNYA yang begitu "tak berarti" ketika dihadapkan dengan kemurkaanNYA. Mungkin beberapa kata-kata orang bijak dari 3 abad berbeda berikut bisa untuk kita direnungkan bersama berkenaan dengan masalah kemanusiaan ini. =================================================================== Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), a Irish-born English writer, once said: 1. "We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love on another." 2. "A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart." 3. "May you live all the days of your life." 4."How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as take warning?" =================================================================== Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), a German philosopher, once said: 1. "Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money." 2."There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome-to be got over." 3. "All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." 4. "We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people." =================================================================== Andr� Gide (1869-1951), a French writer, once said: 1. "Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you." 2. "Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it." 3. "Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore." 4. "Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again." =================================================================== Many thanks to http://www.quoteworld.org for making the above quotes available to internet users worldwide. I could only wish more people could benefit and make good use of it. Terima kasih buat waktu yang telah Anda luangkan untuk menyimak wujud keprihatinan saya ini sampai selesai. Semoga bermanfaat, terutama dalam masa-masa seperti yang kita harus hadapi saat ini. Dengan keprihatinan yg mendalam, Wilson Kusumo --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Holy Uncle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ***Masih keras kepala ng-klaim bahwa bantuan2 demi kemanusiaan ? > > http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1965&e=9&u=/nm/india_186594 > > Hindus, Christians fight over tsunami victims > > Mon Jan 10, 7:13 AM ET > > By Sanjeev Miglani > > BAMBOO FLAT, India (Reuters) - Mohammed Shaheen, who survived the tsunami > that devastated India's remote Andaman and Nicobar islands, stands outside a > relief camp as Christian and Hindu groups argue over who would run it. > > > Reuters Photo > > > > "How can you be fighting over victims?" asks a dazed and shocked Shaheen, > who has just arrived after a navy ship picked him up from Katchal island, > where about half the 8,800 residents are still missing. > > > A group led by Christian aid agencies says the administration in the > islands' capital, Port Blair, gave them the camp. The other group, > affiliated with India's main hardline Hindu organisation, insists it is > theirs. > > > After a while, they thrash out a compromise: the Hindu group linked to the > Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) will run it for the first week, then the > Christian group. > > > But it's too late for Shaheen. Disgusted, he and his family pack their bags > and move to another camp on Bamboo Flat island, 45 km from Port Blair. > > > "We are more comfortable here, there is no dispute here," he says, standing > outside the tented camp on a hillside overlooking a smashed jetty. > > > BATTLE FOR INFLUENCE > > > Scores of volunteers from Hindu, Christian and Muslim groups have landed in > the palm-fringed chain of islands, more than 1,200 km from mainland India, > offering everything from food and water to solace and self-healing tips to > the survivors. > > > "There is a competition going on, both religious and political," said Madhu > Krishan, head of Islanders Sangatthan Manch, a group campaigning against an > influx of outsiders to protect the fragile ecological balance and the > traditions of primitive tribes largely untouched by the modern world. > > > "There is already too much upheaval, displacement. This kind of competing > for influence makes it worse," he said. > > > Hindu and Christian groups have long been at odds on the mainland with Hindu > hardliners accusing Christian missionaries of effectively bribing poor > people and tribals to take part in mass conversions. > > > Christians, who make up barely 2 percent of mainly Hindu but officially > secular India, say all conversions are voluntary and in turn accuse Hindu > radicals of whipping up a climate of distrust and fear against the tiny > community. > > > The two sides have also been active in the Andaman and Nicobar islands, > whose 350,000 people are largely Hindu, from descendants of settlers who > arrived during the British Raj to more recent migrants. > > > But there are also about 30,000 Nicobarese tribals, the largest of about > half a dozen tribes. They are mostly Christian and there is a small number > of Muslims living in the Nicobar group, where outsiders are barred without > government permission. > > > Christian groups say scores of Hindu volunteers have been allowed into the > outlying islands ostensibly for relief work, while they have been > discouraged from travelling. > > > "We were told volunteers are already in the area, so you needn't go there," > said Alex Joseph from the New Delhi-based Christian group, the Discipleship > Centre. > > > But the Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram, an affiliate of the RSS which focuses on > tribal welfare, said the tsunami was a humanitarian disaster, and had > nothing to do with religion. It instead accuses Christian agencies of > partisanship in relief work. > > > Mukesh Kumar Gupta, secretary of the Hindu group, says he ran a relief camp > for five days for about 900 Nicobarese Christians without s single > complaint. > > But last week, a Nicobarese tribal leader arrived, saying he wanted to shift > all the Nicobarese to a bigger camp. > > "The survivors were very happy here, they didn't want to move, but some > people could not stomach the idea of Christians in our camp. As far as we > were concerned, it didn't matter who they were," he said. --- End forwarded message --- ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Help save the life of a child. 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