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| Author: | Yunker [ Thu Feb 14, 2013 4:39 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Carnival Triumph - Now those people have it bad! |
Sitting here watching the news on this "awful" ordeal they have had to go through and thinking to myself, it's really amazing how much news coverage this is getting and yet years and years of abuse in missions all over the world gets no attention? What is the reason, are people just tired of hearing about it? Is it the face of abuse that puts people off? What is it that keeps these stories from blowing up all the News stations? Anyway, just a random thought. |
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| Author: | Raz [ Thu Feb 14, 2013 5:09 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Carnival Triumph - Now those people have it bad! |
Those are such great questions, Yunker. I have asked similar questions myself. No, I don't think most people are tired of hearing about abuse in missions. On the contrary, I think most people still have not heard about this. I do think the face of abuse does put people off. It is a very tough subject to think about and face. Yes, it is ridiculous, isn't it, that hours of new coverage are being dedicated to the news that the passengers on this cruise ship are having to deposit their waste products in plastic bags. Appalling. Meanwhile, in the real world .... All very upside down. |
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| Author: | mosquito bite [ Fri Feb 15, 2013 12:28 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Carnival Triumph - Now those people have it bad! |
Can't imagine that mission boards have that much influence. (To keep it out of the news.) It could be because people "just can't believe it." What has to happen to make it REAL to them? |
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| Author: | threewillows [ Sat Feb 16, 2013 11:58 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Carnival Triumph - Now those people have it bad! |
People don't want to hear because then they would have to look to their own. If it happened to missionaries then what is happening in their own church? Better to stick your head in the sand. "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." "Hypocrisy, of course, delights in the most sublime speculations; for, never intending to go beyond speculation, it costs nothing to have it magnificent." Edmund Burke |
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| Author: | Yunker [ Sat Feb 16, 2013 6:59 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Carnival Triumph - Now those people have it bad! |
| Author: | mosquito bite [ Sat Feb 16, 2013 8:44 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Carnival Triumph - Now those people have it bad! |
Would prefer to hear "sublime" and "magnificent" Referring to something Rather than hypocrisy. But, yes, VERY well said. |
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| Author: | mosquito bite [ Sat Feb 16, 2013 8:45 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Carnival Triumph - Now those people have it bad! |
I mean 'other than' |
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| Author: | Bemused [ Tue Feb 19, 2013 7:14 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Carnival Triumph - Now those people have it bad! |
| Author: | Bemused [ Thu Feb 21, 2013 5:35 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Carnival Triumph - Now those people have it bad! |
To the passengers of Carnival Triumph Now resting after your ordeal Back to showers and comfort Plus a well cooked gourmet meal Offers of compensation Another trip for free Not a bad outcome For a couple days of poo and wee There's another group a floating Far from a welcoming port Who get no lovely recompense For being dealt a hand too short If a week of misery and hardship Can generate such news Imagine years of even worse On an ark full of abused But life don't work that way As you show your pics to rels Some of us are still bobbing up and down In our own private hells There won't be no free trip Or even a welcome home For some will bob up and down And on safe ground never roam |
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| Author: | mosquito bite [ Sat Feb 23, 2013 1:21 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Carnival Triumph - Now those people have it bad! |
So moving, Bemused! You said it all. |
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