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The BUTHIDARS

Way back in 2014 I started this blog after deciding it was time to leave Facebook where I ran a similar site but with many more members. Sometimes what we start in one place doesn’t always translate well in another. I had to be prepared for that. When I started here I did so with the following explanation.

About The Buthidars

The Buthidars is a religion free Order where people of all ages, colours and creeds can come together as one all-inclusive group united towards seeing peace in the world.
You will hear ( from me ) about Hugs as I maintain you can’t hug with a weapon in your hands.
You will see the reason I think Hugs are important to us as people, ourselves and others.
You will I hope learn to understand why I ask people to leave religion at the door as they visit and if…

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Alphabet soup for the soul – “S”

Words from Walden

S is for Suffering

“Pain is certain, suffering is optional”

-Buddha-

The Buddha famously said ‘life is suffering’ and that is true if you believe it. It does not however, have to be that way. I believe pain is a bodily experience whereas suffering is a condition of the mind. There can be one without the other.

Henry Ford has been attributed with saying “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right”.  It’s a choice and each individual gets to decide how to proceed. I believe the same goes for suffering. You can decide to suffer or not, it is up to you.

Let us use the example of having to receive a dozen stitches in your arm from a wound. The cut is deep and it hurts. There may be lots of blood around the cut and you may not be able to focus on anything…

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Four former Minneapolis police officers are indicted on charges of violating George Floyd’s civil rights. – The New York Times

Four former Minneapolis police officers were indicted on charges of violating the civil rights of George Floyd, a Black man whose killing last year led to months of demonstrations against police violence, the Justice Department announced on Friday.

The indictment was returned by a federal grand jury weeks after one of the officers, Derek Chauvin, was convicted of second-degree murder in the death of Mr. Floyd. The charges are another extraordinary censuring of law enforcement officials, who rarely face criminal charges for using deadly force.

The indictment charges Mr. Chauvin, 45, and other former Minneapolis Police Department officers Tou Thao, 35, J. Alexander Kueng, 27, and Thomas Lane, 38, with willfully depriving Mr. Floyd of his constitutional civil rights during his arrest.

The indictment alleges that by holding his left knee across Mr. Floyd’s neck and his right knee on his back and arm as he lay on the ground, handcuffed and unresisting, Mr. Chauvin used unconstitutional, unreasonable force that resulted in Mr. Floyd’s death.

Covid-19 Live Updates: W.H.O. Approves China’s Sinopharm Vaccine – The New York Times

The World Health Organization on Friday approved China’s Sinopharm’s Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use, easing the way for poorer nations to get access to another much-needed shot to help end the pandemic.

The approval allows the Sinopharm vaccine to be included in Covax, the World Health Organization’s global initiative that is designed to promote equitable vaccine distribution around the world.

Pacific Paratrooper reboot…..

Pacific Paratrooper

Smitty reclining in fron, on the far right, with the HQ Company/187th Regiment/11th Airborne

Pacific Paratrooper will now only publish one post per week.

I first started this website to honor my father and his HQ Co./187th/11th Airborne Division and that is what we intend on doing once again. Smitty never said, “I did this” or “I did that,” it was always – “The11thdid IT!”

From the beginning, Everett A. Smith (AKA: Smitty), will be re-introduced, his entrance into WWII, the letters he wrote home and the world that surrounded them at the time.

The Farewell Salutes will continue, as will the Military Humor columns. If there is someone you wish to honor in the Salutes, don’t hesitate to give me similar information as you see for others.

1943 11th Airborne yearbook

As a member of the 11th Airborne Association (Member # 4511) myself, I am privy to…

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Akrobat der Divisionen

An acrobat who can move freely and easily on the stone rope.

On every rope and every kind of weird division.

Lignes invisibiles

Von einem Ende bis zum anderen,

an der Kreuzung der Brücke

würdest du auf der linken Seite sehen

wie die goldenen Locken von der Sonne,

über dem Wasser hängen…

in mehreren Sprüngen

ohne vorgegebenen Rhythmus.

Würdest du deinen Blick nach rechts drehen,

würdest du mehr Wasser sehen,

das durch einen Felsen geschickt in zwei Teile getrennt wird:

Licht und Dunkelheit.

Die dunkle Seite hält also ihr Wasser immer im Schatten,

die jede Bewegung abkühlen.

Alle Bewegungen wirken jetzt plastisch.

Kannst du dir vielleicht diesen kleinen Kopf vorstellen,

der mit seinem Verstand

alle optische Täuschungen unterstützt.

Fast sieht es so aus, als würde es auf einem akrobatischen Seil aus Stein laufen

und nicht mehr auf einer Brücke;

aber so sollte es auch sein.

Der Wind weht

der Körper über die Brücke, der sich bewegt.

Würdest du es jetzt von irgendwo weit oder nah beobachten,

mit aller Natürlichkeit, warf es sich auf…

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Hadrijanov zid, Velika Britanija – Hadrian’s Wall, United Kingdom

Hadrian’s Wall – The wall was a kind of multicultural ante litteram experiment . It was built by three legions composed of soldiers from all over the empire because Hadrian wanted to employ and motivate people in peacetime. He encouraged religious freedom and successfully strengthened the feeling of soldiers that they were Romans, despite the divisions in today’s sense of the word. Ironically, when the Roman Empire began to disintegrate, the wall took on a completely different meaning, and even today some Britons believe that the old building marked the border between two historical rivals – England and Scotland.

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Rijetko se događa da književno remek-djelo postane bestseler, ali ipak se to dogodilo s Hadrijanovim memoarima Margerit Jursenar. Francuska spisateljka, vrstan poznavalac i poštovalac klasičnog svijeta, napisala je knjigu u obliku dugog pisma rimskog cara na samrti Marku Aureliju. Car pripovijeda o svom životu, ističe kako je važno služiti zemlji do posljednjeg daha i izlaže Marku svoje utemeljeno uvjerenje da će Carstvo neizbježno propasti. Bolje nego bilo koja savremena biografija cara Hadrijana, knjiga Margerit Jursenar uspjela je da prenese carevo složeno psihičko stanje i otkrije njegovu “mirotvoračku” filozofiju. Pošto je 117. godine naslijedio od Trajana ogromnu teritoriju koju su Rimljani ponosno nazivali “poznati svijet”, Hadrijan se, za razliku od svojih prethodnika, nikad nije zanosio osvajanjima. Čak ni njegova najvažnija vojna građevina – zid koji je podigao na sjevernom obodu carstva – ničim ne pokazuje ratničku namjenu.

Hadrijan je planirao izgradnju zida 122. godine, dok je putovao po Britaniji. Namjeravao je…

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Le argomentazioni non sono la vita

“The arguments are excellent, the ideas too. But I’m not life! They are extraordinarily suited to guide us in life. But they are not life. Abstraction is not life. Life is found in experience. It’s like reading a wonderful menu. You can lead your life with a menu, but the menu is not the food. And if you spent all your time with a menu, you wouldn’t eat anything. Sometimes even worse can happen. There are people who eat the menu. They live on ideas and thus lose their lives. “

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Le argomentazioni sono ottime, le idee anche. Ma non sono la vita! Sono straordinariamente adatte per guidarci nella vita. Ma non sono la vita. L’astrazione non è la vita. La vita si trova nell’esperienza. È come leggere un meraviglioso menu. Potete guidare la vostra vita con un menu, ma il menu non è il cibo. E se passaste tutto il tempo con un menu, non mangereste nulla. Talvolta può accadere anche di peggio. Ci sono persone che mangiano il menu. Vivono di idee e così perdono la propria vita.“

Anthony de Mello

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Un air de tranquillité!

A very calm, almost deserted beach! The blue sea, the sea breeze! It’s normal if there are a lot of people who find their inspiration at the seaside. Yes, that was long before the Covid-19 pandemic! The moment when we could afford to travel, to make visits and discoveries. Fortunately there are the photos that remain as memories and of course the story to tell to others …

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Une plage très calme presque déserte! La mer bleue , la brise marine!

C’est normal s’il y a beaucoup des gens qui retrouvent leurs sources d’inspiration au bord de la mer.

Eh oui, c’était bien avant la pandémie du Covid-19 ! Le moment où on pouvait se permettre de voyager , de faire des visites et des découvertes .

Heureusement qu’il y a les photos qui restent comme souvenirs et bien sûr l’histoire à raconter aux autres

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