Christo van Staden
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@ChristoMove
Collective & individual well-being. Organisation Development practitioner. Enneagram. Leadership maturity. Existential coaching. Biodanza. Poet.
sorry folks. Achilles and Odysseus are not role models, they are epic heroes. Each epic starts by specifying their destructiveness to their communities. Iliad: Achilles's rage sends myriad Achaeans to their doom Odyssey: Odysseus tried to bring his men home and failed
It has always struck me as a bit bizarre, the person attached enough to Homer to critique individual words in a translation, but not attached enough to learn Greek or how the LSJ works. But for the sake of some public education, let's talk about πολύτροπον. 1/
BREAKING: A court will seek to sentence four Palestine Action activists found guilty of criminal damage as terrorists even though they were not convicted of terror charges, in a move kept secret from the jury.
as a toddler the iof separated my sister from my mother & strip searched her in a dark interrogation room as a kid the iof refused to let me use the bathroom and made me go outside next to a billboard while they watched across the street & my mom & aunt had to cover me from their leering eyes as a teenager the iof kidnapped my cousin from his home without cause and dropped him off on the street, blindfolded, beaten & bruised 2 weeks later this is our reality as palestinians, inside occupied territory, in gaza and in the diaspora. we will not compromise or bow down to zionism in any fashion, and we will NEVER normalize it.
As a kid I hid behind the wall when I heard the IDF coming in their vehicles. As a teenager, my mom and I were kicked off the bus to Al-Aqsa and forced to walk miles just cause. As an adult, I was stripped of my clothes and held at gunpoint by an IDF soldier for smiling.
