Jakub Pawlowicz – Thoughts on life

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• Jakub Pawlowicz 3:11 pm on November 27, 2008 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: china, Dalai Lama, tibet   

  Who should solve the Tibet problem? 

  Today I have found an interesting news on BBC news site. It says about EU-China summit being postponed because French president Sarkozy is going to meet with Tibetan leader Dalai Lama.

  What makes it really interesting is a little quote by China foreign ministry, who said: “In China we have a saying, ‘Whoever causes the problem should solve the problem’. It is not China that caused the present situation.” addressing his/her words to France. But EU said they welcome the postpone with regret defending Mr Sarkozy decision.

  But the Chinese government misses the point. It is not France who caused the problem. It is China who invaded Tibet in 1950s and caused Dalai Lama to flee to India.

  It is sad to learn that international “diplomacy” is based on lies…

   

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• Jakub Pawlowicz 9:38 pm on November 29, 2007 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: catholics, Dalai Lama, origin, Rome   

  ‘catholic’ – word origins 

  As many of you may not know I’m a protestant (I should say I was, but that’s another story). That’s a problem living in Poland – a 99% catholic country, as everybody assumes you are one of them, and I’m not. Therefore I’m very critical to the catholicism in general, but I do affirm they do much good with helping the poor, etc. I’m simply trying to look at it from the logical point of view and point out all inconsequence and poor decisions they are coming with (like homosexual marriages, contraception, recent refuse to meet with Dalai Lama, etc). 

  So recently I’ve been looking up words in dictionary and found the origin of word ‘catholic’, which seems to come from the ancient greek word ‘katholikos’ which means ‘universal’ – looks logical as in the ancient Rome it was set to be the universal religion of the empire. And that’s when fun begins as ‘katholikos’ is not a root word – it comes from two words: ‘kata’ and ‘holos’, which means ‘with respect to whole’. Interesting, isn’t it? ;-))))

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  • ela 1:47 am on July 29, 2010 Permalink | Reply

    two words? kata & holos. What about likos? that also means somethng, I think you don’t have the whole story.

    • Jakub Pawlowicz 1:44 pm on July 29, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      By any means I’m not a specialist in linguistics, I just took the word root from a dictionary. I trust they are right.