News / Poles, Polonians and aliens on Pussy Riot? [182]


It is about religion remaining outside public life and people being free of religious influence in lawmaking and the workplace.


Actually it does mean exactly that for those who want to be free not to follow the religious rules of others.


As long as they (regardless of majority or minority) do not take any sort of precedence over laws which are in conflict with their religious views.

History / Interactive map of Poland 960-2004 [43]


Yes, it is.It was a military invasion. By the way, the English translation is 'annexation' rather than addition, a word which leaves plenty unsaid.

Travel / Warsaw airport to Bus Station Wilanowska stand number 14 [22]


Are you crazy? One glides smoothly along rails (and is cheap) the other bumps along 2 lane highways for hours.

Travel / Warsaw airport to Bus Station Wilanowska stand number 14 [22]

Indeed. It's worth avoiding some of the specially cheap trains like the Pociag Sloneczny to Gdansk on public holiday weekends, but otherwise I can't see much of an advantage in coach travel, especially since Poland has cheap and good railways. I wonder why the OP booked it.

History / Interactive map of Poland 960-2004 [43]

'Przylaczenie'!

That's certainly one way of putting it!

History / Interactive map of Poland 960-2004 [43]

It doesn't surprise me they lied about the opportunistic land grab in Teschen. I suspect that omission is one of several.

Travel / Warsaw airport to Bus Station Wilanowska stand number 14 [22]

That's a shame. I used to enjoy sitting in the Wars car sipping a beer and watching the countryside roll by. Nevertheless, going so far on small roads by bus is much, much less comfortable and not much cheaper. Plus you can't get up and walk about.

Travel / Warsaw airport to Bus Station Wilanowska stand number 14 [22]

It's still a bus which nobody needs to get unless they' either on the breadline or mean and frankly TLK is also downmarket travel. There are normal trains to Bialystok. Comfortable, you can stretch your legs and there is a dining car with drinks.

Travel / Warsaw airport to Bus Station Wilanowska stand number 14 [22]

So you save the price of a cheap bottle of wine and end up bouncing along a country road for hours on a packed and stuffy bus. Cheap in every sense.

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Some of them speak Polish as a first language and some speak English as a first language.

Travel / Warsaw airport to Bus Station Wilanowska stand number 14 [22]

The intercity is the best way to get there. It is very cheap and the restaurant cars are cheap and good.

Travel / Warsaw airport to Bus Station Wilanowska stand number 14 [22]

It should only be about €12 to Metro Wilanowska in a taxi. If you're determined to do it more cheaply get the 175 to Metro Centrum or the 188 to Metro Politechnika (whichever comes first) and get the Metro a few stops. It shouldn't take too long.

If there are any delays with baggage etc you should just jump in a taxi.

A better idea is to forget the bus to Bialystok - it is a bumpy and tiresome journey. Get the train instead; it is less uncomfortable and there will be fewer riff-raff.

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Dependa how heavy you are. Overweight guys they've got already and muscles are associated with low intelligence - if you're slim and intellectual you might have a chance.

News / Poles, Polonians and aliens on Pussy Riot? [182]

Lenka
Exactly. The paranoid 'right-wing' normally want to have their cake and eat it while putting emotion above common sense. Many of the posts in this thread are no exception.

News / Poles, Polonians and aliens on Pussy Riot? [182]


I'd narrow it down a bit and say that a fundamentalist holds an inflexible interpretation of religious minutiae and believes those principles are inerrant and should be imposed on others.

Travel / Fastest way to get from Warsaw Airport to Lodz central on Monday at noon. [42]

Google the PKP Timetable. It's online and in English.

News / Poles, Polonians and aliens on Pussy Riot? [182]


So you're suggesting the offended Russian Orthodox people should take a leaf from the murderer of Theo van Gogh's book?

News / Poles, Polonians and aliens on Pussy Riot? [182]


Well, you do exactly that often enough on here.

It seems you have one rule for some and another rulle for others. Like those brave girls who spoke out about the Putin regime.

News / Poles, Polonians and aliens on Pussy Riot? [182]


If that isn't making excuses, I don't know what is.

News / Poles, Polonians and aliens on Pussy Riot? [182]

Things will get far worse there before they get better. It isn't that long ago that they were poisoning dissidents in London restaurants and as oil prices steadily increase decade by decade they will become almost untouchable. It's naive to think that Putin hasn't thought about his successor and even more naive to think that there will be a normal democratic process.

News / Poles, Polonians and aliens on Pussy Riot? [182]

Exactly - fanaticism and repression feeding off one another. If a protest against a particularly distasteful regime offends certain individuals because it took place in their church, they should perhaps look a bit closer at the way the founder of their religion behaved.

News / Poles, Polonians and aliens on Pussy Riot? [182]

Or expressing an honest opinion. The girls are in the right, the off-centre religious extremists who bayed for their blood in an orchestrated campaign are wrong.

Easy to see which philosophy is better for the world.

News / Poles, Polonians and aliens on Pussy Riot? [182]

It would be exactly the same. Why do you mention synagogues?

News / Poles, Polonians and aliens on Pussy Riot? [182]

The real issue is the Church's disrespect of the people of that country by flagrantly supporting the regime.

Pussie Riot did the right thing. The god-botherers should be ashamed of themselves.

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A three chambered Orthodox church?

News / Poles, Polonians and aliens on Pussy Riot? [182]

As far as I know they just sang in front of the rather small congregation. One of their many impromptu performances in unusual places. They didn't even finish the song since they were bundled away by goons. Nobody took any notice until quite a while after appeared on YouTube and Putin's together with fringe religious fundamentalists started signing identical photocopied complaints that they'd been mortally offended.

Incidentally they crossed themselves and bowed to the altar before singing.

News / Poles, Polonians and aliens on Pussy Riot? [182]

It isn't at all the equivalent. The place where Jesus staged his own Pussie Riot was the temple at Jerusalem, the absolute centre of the Jehovah cult, the place where God chose that his name would dwell as the OT calls it. The protest in Moscow was in a city centre church chosen for media impact.

I suspect Jesus would have heartily approved.

News / Poles, Polonians and aliens on Pussy Riot? [182]


??????


Really. So would you have jailed Jesus for staging a protest in a place of worship?

News / Poles, Polonians and aliens on Pussy Riot? [182]


How would you described someone who staged a happening (for example driving out money changers) in the courtyard of a temple?


That's for a court to decide, however since there's evidence he ordered people to be murdered, I would imagine a pretty long one.

News / Poles, Polonians and aliens on Pussy Riot? [182]

Don't be so silly. What's that got to do with ***** Riot?

edit. Why do they bleep out ***** which is an inoffensive word that can also mean a small cat, but don't bleep out minge?