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[Zmeselo]

[Temt]

"ወይ ሕልፈት" ድያ ዝበለት መዓሮይ እልፋ! ሕጂዶ ይሓይሽ፧ We have to call a spade a spade. We have had problems in Eritrea and we still do. No mystery there. We are working hard to overcome them and we are showing visible progress. But, if there was anyone that had it better than the average Joe in Eritrea, it was the Eritrean artists and sportsmen and women. And when some sportsmen abscond as these misled young people did at a critical time when the Championship was on the line, that is unforgivable.

[Deqi-Arawit]

"ወይ ሕልፈት" ድያ ዝበለት መዓሮይ እልፋ! ሕጂዶ ይሓይሽ፧ We have to call a spade a spade. We have had problems in Eritrea and we still do. No mystery there. We are working hard to overcome them and we are showing visible progress. But, if there was anyone that had it better than the average Joe in Eritrea, it was the Eritrean artists and sportsmen and women. And when some sportsmen abscond as these misled young people did at a critical time when the Championship was on the line, that is unforgivable.

Weizero ትምኒት

Please tell the readers what kind of progress have you shown During the last 2 years... The only reason why wedi medhin berad poodles are whining and moaning about these players is not because they fled the country but because they shattered the image they tried to paint as paid cadres...

[Zmeselo]

Don't project, you son of a biiatch!

That's your modus operandi, you pervert!



Claims of ‘non-stop cycle of torture’ involving top officials in Ethiopian jail

Based on almost 100 interviews, including 70 former prisoners of Jail Ogaden, the study documents alleged abuses including rape, sleep deprivation, long-term arbitrary detention, collective punishment and forced confessions between 2011 and early 2018.... https://www.theguardian.com/global-deve ... ail-ogaden

https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/07/04/eth ... ion-prison

"ወይ ሕልፈት" ድያ ዝበለት መዓሮይ እልፋ! ሕጂዶ ይሓይሽ፧ We have to call a spade a spade. We have had problems in Eritrea and we still do. No mystery there. We are working hard to overcome them and we are showing visible progress. But, if there was anyone that had it better than the average Joe in Eritrea, it was the Eritrean artists and sportsmen and women. And when some sportsmen abscond as these misled young people did at a critical time when the Championship was on the line, that is unforgivable.

I can’t wait till PDFG Siddis gang rape these traitors

[Awash]

Zombie,
Fear from whom? It's from your tyrannical Agame junta, moron.

[Zmeselo]

SCIENCE

Fear Can Make You a Better Person

Philosophers and sages have long considered fear a tool for self-improvement—but no, cheap scares don’t count.

ARTHUR C. BROOKS

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/arc ... on/544454/

OCT 31, 2017


Visitors react at a haunted house.
Boo! Visitors cringe at a haunted house in Las Vegas.JOHN LOCHER / AP

Americans have a complicated relationship with fear.

On the one hand, we enjoy fear enough to dedicate a holiday to it. This year, we will spend an estimated $9.1 billion https://nrf.com/resources/consumer-rese ... adquarters celebrating Halloween. Horror films gross nearly half a billion dollars per year, and are known in Hollywood to have the best return on investment http://yourbusiness.azcentral.com/much- ... 14716.html in the movie business. Quasi-dangerous activities like roller coasters are a big industry as well, following Hunter S. Thompson’s famous exhortation,

Faster, faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.

These pursuits are occasions of “fake” fear. They simulate frightening circumstances that lie outside the realm of ordinary life, providing a fun shot of adrenaline without putting anyone in actual danger.

Real threats, however, are far less enjoyable. Not even roller-coaster fans look forward to losing their car’s brakes on a steep hill. To enjoy genuine mortal danger is considered abnormal: Indeed, in psychology, the “fear-enjoyment hypothesis” holds that pleasure from authentic fear increases http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/ar ... 6915300374 along with sociopathic traits.

Given that real fear can be scarring and unpleasant, there’s a temptation to believe that the best way to deal with it is to avoid it at all costs. But science and philosophy often suggest otherwise. Fear can be one of the great sources of personal improvement. In particular, fear can help people cultivate several classic virtues that religious figures, sages, and secular moral traditions have all seen as essential for living a well-ordered life.

One such virtue is courage. The University of British Columbia psychologist Stanley Rachman, a leading expert on fear, has studied people in the world’s most dangerous professions, from bomb defusers to paratroopers. He has concluded that courage is misunderstood when it is defined as complete fearlessness. In his book Fear and Courage, Rachman makes the case that courage is not the absence of fear, but the decision to go forward in spite of it. Brave people are not merely numb to danger or discomfort; they feel and acknowledge fear, and just refuse to allow it to dominate their behavior.

By this definition, fear is not the antithesis of courage. It is courage’s necessary precondition. The German philosopher Josef Pieper writes in The Four Cardinal Virtues that a man can only show courage when he

walks straight up to the cause of his fear and is not deterred from doing that which is good.

For Pieper, this final qualifier is important: The confrontation of fear must be oriented toward the common good. In practice, this could mean confronting your fear on behalf of people weaker than you—for instance, risking physical harm to bring someone else to safety in an emergency, or speaking up to stop bullying. (This rules out extreme thrill seeking and other fear-provoking situations that are ultimately just entertainment.)

Fear also can signal where people need to do moral work on themselves. Buddhists, for example, believe that fear is a sign of attachment. According to the Buddha, https://books.google.com/books?id=Mk3Ro ... ha&f=false the key to freedom from fear is to abandon

passion, desire, fondness, thirst, fever, and craving for sensuality.

There is a famous Zen Buddhist story about a band of samurai who ride through the countryside causing destruction and terror. As they approach a monastery, all the monks scatter in fear, except for the abbot. The samurai enter to find him sitting in the lotus position in perfect equanimity. Drawing his sword, the leader snarls,

Don’t you see that I am the sort of man who could run you through without batting an eye?

The master responds,

Don’t you see that I am a man who could be run through without batting an eye?

For non-Buddhists, indifference to death might entail a bit more nonattachment than is optimal. But virtually every major faith and moral tradition preaches the same core principle. Christians and Jews see a similar connection between fear and the deadly sin of pride—

an excessive desire for one’s own excellence,

in the formulation of Thomas Aquinas.

Modern research might back a connection like this up: Rankings of Americans’ top fears consistently reveal https://blogs.chapman.edu/wilkinson/201 ... ears-2017/ that one of their most prevalent social fears is public speaking. Presumably, the explanation is that people are abjectly terrified of humiliation in front of others. As Rousseau phrases it in his Confessions:

I was not afraid of punishment, I was only afraid of disgrace; and that I feared more than death, more than crime, more than anything else in the world.

A few jitters before a big presentation is one thing. But a paralyzing horror of being judged by others? That seems to be a bright-red warning that too much of your identity is tied up with others’ esteem for you.

If fear is often a weed growing over the roots of attachment and pride, what can we do? Try taking inventory of your daily anxieties and worries. See which ones boil down quickly to your wealth, your looks, your reputation, your social status, or your influence. Then attack these inordinate attachments—and be grateful for the fear that led you to them.

John Bunyan wrote in The Pilgrim’s Progress in 1678 that fear

keeps the soul tender.

Properly understood, fear is good.

So this Halloween, don’t settle for fake fear. Enjoy the haunted house, but then embrace the real thing.

Arthur C. Brooks is the president of the American Enterprise Institute.

[pushkin]

Ayte Poor Psycho Agame, the inferiority complex is not only suffering you it's killing you. Why don't you get a vaccine that makes you a proud agame instead you struggling to pretend to be an Eritrea Offposition on every Eritrean site. If don't know "digital woyAne/digital hamema" is dead before it's arrive and Game Over TPLF/woyAne is valid forever.

Zombie,
Fear from whom? It's from your tyrannical Agame junta, moron.

[Awash]

Bushtin aka wedi komarit geza Birhanu;
Just because you support the Agame junta of wedi komarit medlin does not mean you are Eritrean. Fessfass Agame.

Ayte Poor Psycho Agame, the inferiority complex is not only suffering you it's killing you. Why don't you get a vaccine that makes you a proud agame instead you struggling to pretend to be an Eritrea Offposition on every Eritrean site. If don't know "digital woyAne/digital hamema" is dead before it's arrive and Game Over TPLF/woyAne is valid forever.

Zombie,
Fear from whom? It's from your tyrannical Agame junta, moron.

[pushkin]

Anta resah wed ta chenawit mitra megal Agame! Kitmewit zikerebka aregit sheytan, Entay adeka mebekol kihilweka medenageri Agame Libi Tigray meleley meninetkum eyu

[deleted] aka wedi komarit geza Birhanu;
Just because you support the Agame junta of wedi komarit medlin does not mean you are Eritrean. Fessfass Agame.

[Awash]

Bushtin

Anta resah wed ta chenawit mitra megal Agame! Kitmewit zikerebka aregit sheytan, Entay adeka mebekol kihilweka medenageri Agame Libi Tigray meleley meninetkum eyu

[deleted] aka wedi komarit geza Birhanu;
Just because you support the Agame junta of wedi komarit medlin does not mean you are Eritrean. Fessfass Agame.

[pushkin]

Anta wed ta chenawit amenzra Agame! You are damaged beyond repair & turned your anuus from Meles chenawi to kagame. GAME OVER, no way to Eritrea let alone u bela roba Incle sum couldn't penetrate Eritrea the land of braves

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[Awash]

Bushtin,
ወዲ ኮማሪት ዓዱን ህዝቡን ናፊቑ

Anta wed ta chenawit amenzra Agame! You are damaged beyond repair & turned your anuus from Meles chenawi to kagame. GAME OVER, no way to Eritrea let alone u bela roba Incle sum couldn't penetrate Eritrea the land of braves

Bushtin,

https://youtu.be/LusHbL1dnwI?t=2836

https://youtu.be/LusHbL1dnwI?t=2873

[Awash]

Opposition Figure Presses On Against Political Odds

https://www.voanews.com/africa/rwanda-o ... tical-odds