entropy wrote:

>How is 'works' supposed to be defined?
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George Smith says:

An excellent question! I think that there are as many answers as there
are people in the world. Every action you take, every word you say,
every word you write comprises your "works". When done with Gods Grace
it is counted good works. It is an attitude to life in the world you
find yourself in. I think that you most probably won't be aware of it
happening. Most of the Saints didn't. It involves all the "graces",
such as humility, agape, etc.. It is the "spiritual life" as described
by Maria Harris of Andover Newton:

"A life of dwelling at the heart of mystery with no answers at all, not
one - and with unshakable certainty."

Or Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass:

"I exist as I am, that is enough. If no other in the world be aware, I
sit content. And if each and all be aware, I sit content."

There are endless examples.

George

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Occupation forces might have to pay compensation for damage to Babylon [it's in the Bible]
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March 17, 2005.




It was one of the seven wonders of the world, but ancient Babylon attracts more insurgents
than tourists these days, with the nearby modern city of Hillah achieving notoriety
as the scene of the recent bombing in which 127 people died.

Last month, relatives wailed and beat their chests as they read the lists of dead and injured
posted up on hospital walls.

Corpses were loaded into trucks by relatives to be taken away for burial, and pools of blood
congealed in the marketplace where a car bomb exploded on February 28.

“I wonder how a city like Babylon could have become a den of terror, when it used to be visited
by scientists and educated people from all over the world,”
said Fayyadh Weleed, 22, from the village of Jumjuma near the archeological site of Babylon.

Hillah is the heir to Babylon, with many of its buildings made out of bricks taken from the
great palace of Nebuchadnezzar.

The ancient city, famed for its immense, fortified walls and the magnificence of its buildings,
was at the centre of Mesopotamia, the land regarded as the cradle of Middle Eastern
and European civilisation.

But as it lay deserted for two millennia, many believed it was no more than a Biblical myth,
a metaphor for wealth and power until its extensive remains were discovered in the 19th century.

The lawlessness seen in Babil – or Babylon – province in recent days c