prisoners of a white god
a documentary film about a mountain ethnic group in south east asia, prisoners of a white god investigates the activities of christian missionaries and international development among the akha peoples in thailand and laos .
prisoners of a white god received the grand prixes at raff film festival, at ecofilm festival, at festival of the mountain films, at “it’s up to you” film festival and the main prize at ekotopfilm in 2008 .
a very dirty war: british soldiers shot dead by enemy troops waving the white flag and argentinian prisoners bayoneted in cold blood. an ex - para tells of the horrors of the falklands
statues of death gods from other religions in the house of black and white, the lion of night and black goat - believed to simply be other
faces
of the one true god .
a very dirty war: british soldiers shot dead by enemy troops waving the white flag and argentinian prisoners bayoneted in cold blood. an ex - para tells of the horrors of the falklands | daily mail online
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charles colson, former white house council, and president nixon' s
hatchet man ,
served time in a federal prison camp where he felt led by god to honor a promise he made to remember prisoners and their families. that promise grew into the world' s largest family of prison ministries .
colson emerged from prison with a new mission: mobilizing the christian church to minister to prisoners. he founded prison fellowship ® in 1976, which has become the nation’s largest christian nonprofit serving prisoners, former prisoners, and their families, and a leading advocate for criminal justice reform. in recognition of his work among prisoners, colson received the prestigious templeton prize for progress in religion in 1993 .
prisoners of a white god was produced by czech anthropologist tomas ryska. through undercover work, ryska discovers “the enactment of a hell on earth”— the sickening truth of evangelical missionaries, arriving with their gospel and the promise of aid, kidnapping akha children from their villages to work in tea plantations and to sell them into the sex trade. many of the children are also sexually abused by the missionaries .
this story was connected with the establishment of the god' s orgies on mount kithairon in boiotia .
in the a song of ice and fire novels, the
many - faced god
is alternatively known as
him of many faces
, yet never the
god of death
, and is worshipped particularly by the faceless men, a guild of assassins based out of the free city of braavos .
prisoners who became acquainted with guards, meanwhile, sometimes fell prey to the temptation to befriend the enemy, thus risking retribution from fellow prisoners. this temptation was particularly great for conscripts and other prisoners who had not entered the war with enthu - siasm. but it also bedeviled veteran confederate prisoners, especially during the last months of the war when southern defeat looked inevitable .
there seems to be some confusion both in the books and the tv series between the god of death and r' hllor, the red god. it stems from a piece of dialogue spoken by jaqen h' ghar in both mediums, in which he refers to the god he worships (presumably the god of death, as he is a faceless man) as the
red god
— that is, r' hllor, the lord of light. while this confusion has yet to be cleared up, a likely explanation lies in the fact that the
many - faced god of death
is a syncretic religion, which holds that every god or set of gods is just another facet of the god of death. another possibility is that, just like he' s imitating the speech style of a lorathi, he also mentions the red god as part of his cover identity. in the show, arya hands jaquen an axe in time for the three prisoners to break their way out of their cage before it is consumed by fire - - which is how the lord of light doles his death. it is possible that if arya had rescued the men from drowning, then jaquen would have declared that arya stole three deaths from the drowned god, and the three subsequent kills would have been in the drowned god' s name instead .
black prisoners also sometimes endured the indignity of mistreatment at the hands of white inmates. hostility to black soldiers stemmed partly from bigotry, but it also was rooted in the knowledge that the prisoner exchange system had fallen apart as a direct result of the introduction of black soldiers into the conflict. other white yankee prisoners, however, firmly supported the lincoln administration' s decision to refuse exchanges until richmond agreed to include black prisoners in such trades .
anyone, whatever may be his color, who wears the blue of uncle sam is entitled to protection ,
wrote one captain imprisoned in a georgia stockade (mitchell 1988, p. 49) .
with events like these, men learned that dionysos was a god, and they began to honour him .
the many - faced god (alternatively known as the god of death) is a deity worshipped by the mysterious cult of assassins known as the faceless men, who are headquartered in the free city of braavos and they believe that through their assassinations they do his work .
since 2003 radim kotěšovec has edited films such as the last hunters, dance of the blue angels, a myth called shark, prisoners of a white god, bizarre world, sandstone, aldabra – once upon one island and many others. since the inception of the international film festival water, sea and the oceans, kotěšovec has been head of acquisitions for this event. since 2013 he has been teaching editing and postproduction at the department of social anthropology, faculty of arts, university of pardubice .
another statue of the stranger from the faith of the seven - believed by the faceless men to be yet another incarnation of the many - faced god .
this story was probably invented to explain his connection between dionysos, the egyptian osiris and the phoenician god of wine .
king pentheus of thebes refused to accept the god' s divinity and tried to apprehend him. the god retaliated by driving the king' s daughters into a crazed frenzy and they tore him apart limb from limb. < < more > >
prisons and prisoners of war .
gale library of daily life: american civil war. . retrieved july 09, 2018 from urltoken urltoken
glatthaar, joseph t. forged in battle: the civil war alliance of black soldiers and white officers. new york: free press, 1990 .
that man' s life was not yours to take. a girl stole from the many - faced god. now a debt is owed .
there is no one symbol of the many - faced god, simply the icons used to represent death gods in other religions. the temple of the faceless men in braavos, known as the house of black and white (due to the color of its doors), contains a large public sanctuary with statues of death gods from all other religions displayed equally :
all scriptures are quoted from the new king james version, including those originally quoted by ellen white from the king james version. —editors
a group of 11 formerly incarcerated citizens from california, ohio, louisiana and new york met with white house officials earlier this week to talk about policy recommendations for ex - inmates .
the confederate prison of andersonville, georgia, became one of the most notorious during the civil war. prisoners faced untold hardships: lack of rations, disease (dysentery was widespread due contaminated water), brutal guards, and hostile fellow inmates. in his 1865 book life - struggles in rebel prisons: a record of the sufferings, escapes, adventures and starvation of the union prisoners, joseph ferguson describes the architecture of the prison and life within its walls for the prisoners :
the god launched a campaign against the indian nation in the farthest reaches of asia, leading an army composed of satyrs, mainades, and demigods. < < more > >
later that day a white flag was flying over the falklands capital. we in 2 para, i am proud to say, were the first into the town .
[ the hymn begins with the story of the nursing of the god on mount nysa. ]... be favourable, o insewn (
dionysos' sacred animals were the panther (leopard), tiger, bull and serpent. the god rode on the back of a panther or drove a chariot drawn by a pair of the beasts. his sacred plants were the grapevine, ivy, bindweed (prickly ivy) and pine tree. devotees of the god wore wreaths of ivy and carried pine - cone tipped staffs .
homeric hymn 1 to dionysus 17 ff (trans. evelyn - white) (greek epic c7th to 4th b. c .) :
homeric hymn 7 to dionysus 1 ff (trans. evelyn - white) (greek epic c7th to 4th b. c .) :
dionysos, the youthful, beautiful, but effeminate god of wine. he is also called both by greeks and romans bacchus (bakchos), that is, the noisy or riotous god, which was originally a mere epithet or surname of dionysus, but does not occur till after the time of herodotus .
this morning, the members of the new york film critics circle, including me, voted to expel armond white, the former critic of the now - defunct new york press (and currently the editor and movie critic of cityarts), from the group. to me, it was a sad moment — pathetic, really, though armond brought it on himself. a week ago, at the circle’s annual awards dinner, white made a rude and bellicose spectacle of himself, as he did the year before, by heckling one of the winners — in this case, steve mcqueen, the director of 12 years a slave, a movie that white, in his review, had dismissed as “torture porn. ” make no mistake: he has every right to dislike 12 years a slave, a movie that he considers not a powerful historical docudrama but a sensationalist feel - bad fantasy that is subtly designed to make white people feel good about their own guilt .
when the parole system fell apart, the number of prisoners of war in both armies accelerated rapidly. captured soldiers typically spent their first hours of captivity knotted together in crowded holding pens or in places that could easily be converted into temporary corrals, such as gullies. after officers recorded their names, ranks, and unit affiliation, provost marshals sent captured prisoners off to various prison facilities. some fortunate prisoners were delivered to the gates of their prisons by train or boat, but most captured soldiers had to endure long marches on foot to reach their destination. by the end of the war, virtually all prisoners—especially union prisoners of the confederate military, which was squeezing every last bit of logistical support out of its unraveling transportation network—had to travel by foot to prison .
the entrance of black soldiers into the conflict was a great boon to the union war effort, but southern reaction to this development triggered a series of events that greatly increased the number of prisoners of war held by both sides. prior to the summer of 1862, north and south had cobbled together a prisoner exchange and parole system that, despite some flaws, kept prisoner numbers relatively low. but the confederacy flatly refused to even consider exchanging captured black soldiers. instead, the administration of jefferson davis threatened to enslave captured blacks and execute their white officers. president abraham lincoln responded by vowing to reciprocate in kind: for every white officer the south executed, the north would execute a confederate prisoner; for every black soldier reenslaved, the north would assign one of its prisoners hard labor. federal authorities also suspended union participation in the exchange system until the confederacy agreed to exchange black soldiers. this deadlock produced a tremendous upsurge in the number of prisoners held by both sides .
diese erschütternde dokumentation von unserer fpcn schwesterorganisation uwip aus tschechien beschreibt die lage der akha in thailand und laos. fanatische missionare christianisieren die akha brutal, vertreibungen, kindesraub und gehirnwäsche sind an der tagesordnung. prisoners of a white god erhielt bereits internationale preise bei: grand prixes at raff film festival, at ecofilm festival, at festival of the mountain films, at
it' s up to you
film festival and the main prize at ekotopfilm in 2008 !
prisons and prisoners of war .
gale library of daily life: american civil war. . encyclopedia. com. (july 9, 2018). urltoken
finally, a white flag appeared at the schoolhouse, and our platoon commander and two others went forward to take the surrender. as they approached, the enemy shot them dead .
the faceless men worship death, whom they believe is the only god. the cult is actually a syncretic religion: its followers believe that death is unknowingly worshiped by devotees of all the religions in the world, simply under different names. every religion either has a god of death (in polytheistic faiths), or has a god with dominion over death (in monotheistic faiths). the faceless men believe that all of these gods are simply different aspects, or
faces
, through which death has revealed himself to humanity - hence they formally refer to their deity as
the many - faced god
. [ 1 ]
dionysos (dionysus) was the olympian god of wine, vegetation, pleasure, festivity, madness and wild frenzy. he was depicted as either an older, bearded god or an effeminate, long - haired youth. his attributes included the thyrsos (a pine - cone tipped staff), a drinking cup and a crown of ivy. he was usually accompanied by a troop of satyrs and mainades (wild female devotees) .
cadmean ino, foster - mother of shining bacchus, holds the realms of the deep, encircled by bands of nereids dancing; over the waves of the mighty deep a boy holds sway, new come, the kinsman of bacchus, no common god, palaemon .
there are countless characteristics of dionysos for those who wish to represent him in painting or sculpture, by depicting which even approximately the artist has captured the god. for instance, the ivy clusters forming a crown are the clear mark of dionysos, even if the workmanship is poor; and a horn just springing from the temples reveals dionysos, and a leopard, though but just visible, is a symbol of the god .
this site contains a total of 14 pages describing the god, including general descriptions, mythology, and cult. the content is outlined in the index of dionysus pages (left column or below) .
for black union soldiers who were thrown into southern stockades, conditions were so bleak that some lamented not dying on the battlefield. life for all prisoners of war was marked by pain, hunger, and feelings of hopelessness, but for black prisoners conditions were particularly harsh .
we were kept at hard labor and inhumanely treated ,
recalled one black unionist .
if we lagged or faltered or misunderstood an order we were whipped and abused…. for the slightest causes we were subjected to the lash [ and ] we were very poorly provided for with food
( speer 1997, p. 113). medical treatment for black prisoners was virtually nonexistent as well, and the shelter they received was frequently even more negligible than that provided to white prisoners. all told, blacks held in confederate prison camps died at a rate of 35 percent, more than twice the average for white captives (speer 1997, p. 113) .
not only that these people were suffered by the name of other means, but these people were suffering by the name of god and its intent and their organizations' association .
i found myself increasingly drawn to the idea that god had put me in prison for a purpose and that i should do something for those i had left behind .
dionysos' most distinctive attribute was the thyrsos, a pine - cone tipped staff. his other attributes included a drinking - cup (kantharos), fruiting grapevines and a panther. the god was usually clothed in a long robe (chiton) and cloak (himation) and crowned with a wreath of ivy - leaves .
soon after, the rest surrendered, and the battle for goose green was over. we herded hundreds of prisoners into a huge shed. they were mainly conscripts and a pathetic lot, sheepishly scuffing the dirt with their boots .
“our goal is to encourage continued dialogue between the white house and the returning citizens community and to achieve a consensus on policy changes that will benefit marginalized communities, enhance public safety and value the lives of all god’s children, ” desmond meade, state director of florida’s live free campaign, said in a statement. “it is important that the voices of returning citizens be heard at the highest level of government. today we served as the emissaries of over 6 million returning citizens throughout this nation. ”
malnutrition and hunger were typical of many of the civil war prison camps. food allocations were meager to begin with, and withholding rations emerged as a common means of reining in or otherwise modifying the behavior of prisoners. tales of malnutrition or starvation in enemy prison camps also prompted some reductions in food rations .
now christ again appears to the view of his enemies. far above the city, upon a foundation of burnished gold, is a throne, high and lifted up. upon this throne sits the son of god, and around him are the subjects of his kingdom. the power and majesty of christ no language can describe, no pen portray. the glory of the eternal father is enshrouding his son. the brightness of his presence fills the city of god, and flows out beyond the gates, flooding the whole earth with its radiance... .
classical literature offers only a few, brief descriptions of the physical characteristics of the gods .
chuck colson was one of the most influential evangelical leaders of the past half century. after a career in hardball politics, he devoted his life to ministering to prisoners and sharing the gospel’s message of love and hope to millions. his contribution to the growing cultural influence of evangelicals was difficult to overstate .
the whole wicked world stand arraigned at the bar of god on the charge of high treason against the government of heaven. they have none to plead their cause; they are without excuse; and the sentence of eternal death is pronounced against them... .
chuck was a truly brilliant visionary, a man who understood human frailties and wanted to bring christ’s love and compassion into the lives of the downtrodden. his life exemplified the admonition for all of us contained in micah 6 –“to do justice, love mercy and walk humbly with our god” .
as we advanced, machine - gun bullets whipped through the air, mortars and grenades exploded and white phosphorus illuminated the sky. men were screaming in terror and pain, and, as our officers urged us on — ‘move! move! move! ’ — all i could think was, ‘please god, get me through this battle. ’
civil war prisoners from both the union and confederate ranks often found their worst suspicions about the other side confirmed once they were in the clutches of the enemy. in reality, however, the mistreatment and hardships that prisoners of war endured stemmed less from sanctioned policies of brutality than from individual acts of cruelty and, most pertinently, coldly logical decisions on the parts of the federal and confederat governments to divert the bulk of their limited resources to the armies still operating out in the field .
but now it was time to send our prisoners home. there were 6, 000 of them in stanley alone, a cold and miserable bunch. a lot of them were going back to argentina on the canberra, the p & o cruise liner that had transported thousands of british troops south to win back the falklands .
seneca' s hymn to dionysos in the play oedipus summarizes the god' s story from birth to heavenly ascension. see seneca pseudo - hymn to dionysus
god used a prison sentence to change chuck’s heart 40 years ago, and he’s doing the same for many men and women behind bars today. will you join with prison fellowship as we carry on chuck’s vision of restoration ?
now god’s creatures are forever delivered from his presence and temptations. “the whole earth is at rest and quiet: they [ the righteous ] break forth into singing. ” isaiah 14: 7. and a shout of praise and triumph ascends from the whole loyal universe. “the voice of a great multitude, ” “as the sound of many waters, and as the sound of mighty thunderings, ” is heard, saying: “alleluia! for the lord god omnipotent reigns! ” revelation 19: 6 .
the plight of confederate prisoners of war was worsened by the fact that the union commissary general of prisoners was colonel william hoffman (1807–1884). a bureaucrat with little regard for the welfare of the prisoners in his charge, hoffman ordered a succession of cold - hearted measures during the course of the war. these ranged from dramatic reductions in rations in retaliation for reports of similar reductions in southern prisons (which had far fewer resources to begin with) to burning packages of blankets and clothing sent to inmates at elmira by loved ones (hoffman reportedly only allowed clothing and blankets that were gray to be used by the inmates at elmira, one of the coldest locations in the entire union prison system). even hoffman' s reduced rations were more generous than what union soldiers received in most confederate prisons, especially andersonville. at war' s end, hoffman proudly returned to the federal treasury nearly $ 2 million he had saved through reductions in the rations given to confederate prisoners .
dionysos was a son of zeus, king of the gods, and semele, a mortal princess of thebes. the god was known as the
twice - born
for his mother was slain by the lightning - bolts of zeus during the course of her pregancy, but rescued by his father who carried him to term sown up inside his thigh. dionysos' grandparents were the titans kronos (cronus) and rheia, king kadmos (cadmus) of thebes and the goddess harmonia. he was a great - grandson of ares and aphrodite (harmonia' s parents) and also a distant descendant of the god poseidon. the god' s half - brothers and sisters included hermes, ares, aphrodite, athena, persephone, apollon and artemis. he married ariadne, daughter of king minos of krete (crete), and their sons became kings and princes of the best wine - producing regions in ancient greece. < < more > >
aferim! (romania) aferim! is almost a black comedy except that the reality it portrays is a bit too awful to be funny. shot in black - and - white, the film takes place in wallachia in 1835 during a period in which turks were in charge and roma (gypsies) were slaves .
embrace of the serpent (el abrazo de la serpiente) (colombia) shot in beautiful black - and - white, embrace of the serpent is a fictionalized account of the colonial destruction of amazonian tribes as seen through the eyes of karamakate, a shaman who believes the rest of his people have been killed by white invaders, and two explorer - scientists, german theo and american evan, who visit the jungle roughly thirty years apart, both in search of a rare healing flower. the story is inspired by the diaries of ethnologist theodor koch - grunberg, who made two extended expeditions into the amazon basin during the first two decades of the twentieth century, and richard evans schultes, a pioneer of ethnobotany and the study of psychoactive plants, who went there during world war ii. a fourth major character, manduca, who serves as theo' s guide, represents those native people who believe that not all whites are evil .
at other times, however, harris' s account turns toward the emotionally crushing realities of captivity. aside from the physical pangs of empty stomachs and exposure, boredom and depression wore on the prisoners, who dreamed of being reunited with their loved ones :
there is only one god, and his name is death. and there is only one thing we say to death:' not today' .
icons from lesser religions and cults are also honored in the house of black and white, including the hooded wayfarer, bakkalon the pale child, the moon - pale maiden, the merling king, and many others. [ 2 ]
this story was connected with the orgiastic thrakian cult of sabazios. in homer, the story is set during dionysos' childhood, elsewhere he is an adult god travelling from land to land .
dionysos was a son of zeus and the princess semele of thebes. during the course of her pregnancy, the god' s jealous wife hera tricked semele into asking zeus to appear before her in his full glory. bound by oath, the god was forced to comply and she was consumed by the heat of his lightning - bolts. zeus recovered their unborn child from her body, sewed him up in his own thigh, and carried him to term. < < more > >
when god chases ea into the real world, the goddess, while cleaning, inadvertently reboots her husband' s computer... and the world changes again .
thievery, assaults, and intimidation among prisoners were unfortunate realities in the inmate populations of many civil war prisons. these dark events played out on a routine basis in many stockades in both the north and south, but the most grimly spectacular example of this sort of in - fighting took place at the confederate prison at andersonville, georgia. conditions there were so awful that normal rules of civilized behavior and military brotherhood fell by the wayside. survivors recalled that the daily food allotment at andersonville generally consisted of three tablespoons of beans, a teaspoon of salt, and half a pint of unsifted cornmeal. a confederate doctor who worked at andersonville, meanwhile, reported that
from the crowded conditions, filthy habits, bad diet, and dejected, depressed condition of the prisoners, their systems had become so disordered that the smallest abrasion of the skin, from the rubbing of a shoe, or from the effects of the sun, the prick of a splinter or the scratching of a mosquito bite, in some cases took on a rapid and frightful ulceration and gangrene
( davis 1991, p. 176) .
the recognition of the divinity of dionysos is applicable to all the previous stories of his wanderings .
in the early stages of the civil war, feeding and sheltering captured enemy soldiers did not constitute a heavy burden for either the federal or confederate government. large battles occurred infrequently compared to later years, which served to limit the number of prisoners. in addition, despite president abraham lincoln' s initial refusal to authorize prisoner exchanges—a stance that stemmed from his belief that such negotiations might give the confederacy a veneer of legitimacy as a distinct nation and erode washington' s efforts to frame the secessionists as a collection of treasonous agitators within an already established sovereign state—field commanders frequently arranged informal prisoner exchanges. canny administrators on both sides of the conflict welcomed this approach, for they recognized that both the north and south were ill - equipped to handle large numbers of prisoners .
come, blessed dionysos, various - named, bull - faced, begot from thunder, bakkhos (bacchus) famed. bassaros god, of universal might, whom swords and blood and sacred rage delight: in heaven rejoicing, mad, loud - sounding god, furious inspirer, bearer of the rod: by gods revered, who dwellest with humankind, propitious come, with much rejoicing mind .
invested with supreme majesty and power, the king of kings pronounces sentence upon the rebels against his government and executes justice upon those who have transgressed his law and oppressed his people. says the prophet of god: “i saw a great white throne and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. and there was found no place for them. and i saw the dead, small and great, standing before god, and books were opened. and another book was opened, which is the book of life. and the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books. ” revelation 20: 11, 12 .
this battle had to be all about momentum — keeping going and getting on with it. fighting in the pitch dark, we simply did not have the resources to take prisoners .
as dionysos was travelling through the islands of the aegean sea he was captured by a band of tyrrhenian pirates who thought to sell him into slavery. the god infested their ship with phantoms of creeping vines and wild beasts, and in terror the men leapt overboard and were transformed into dolphins. < < more > >
in denis villeneuve’s prisoners, keller dover is a modern man possessed of biblical rage when his six - year - old daughter and a neighbor’s child are kidnapped. dover (played by hugh jackman) is one of those americans president obama labeled as “clinging to their guns and religion. ” he loves to hunt, craft and is caught up in the difficulty of providing for a family in this current economic downturn .
mount nysa, from which the god was believed to have derived his name, was not only in thrace and libya, but mountains of the same name are found in different parts of the ancient world where he was worshipped, and where he was believed to have introduced the cultivation of the vine. hermes, however, is mixed up with most of the stories about the infancy of dionysus, and he was often represented in works of art, in connexion with the infant god. (comp. paus. iii. 18. § 7. )
norman a. carlson, director, federal bureau of prisons (ret. )
religious services also helped pass the time for some soldiers and gave many religiously inclined soldiers a badly needed spiritual boost. an even greater number of imprisoned soldiers passed the time in conversation. these conversations—sometimes desultory, other times passionate—ranged over every conceivable subject, from the prewar lives that they had left behind to the character of fellow prisoners. but perhaps no topic preoccupied the soldiers as much as the question of when and under what circumstances their deliverance might come. not surprisingly, then, newly arrived prisoners were barraged with requests for information about the progress of the war, and the prospects for a prisoner exchange .
chuck colson has had a significant impact on the work of the aclj. one of the first letters i received after arguing my very first case at the supreme court was from chuck. his words of encouragement have had a lasting impact on me. he is a friend and a mentor .
the theban legends of dionysos were the subject of no less than five of the lost plays of aeschylus: semelê ê hudrophoroi, dionusos trophoi (or trophoi), bakchai, xantriai, pentheus. in addition, at least four others described the god' s thracian encounters: edonoi, lykourgos, neaniskoi and the bassarae .
in the early hours, we got our first proper sight of the ridge we were to take. it was a perfect defensive position. we were going to have a hell of a fight on our hands .
after dionysus had thus proved to the thebans that he was a god, he went to argos. as the people there also refused to acknowledge him, he made the women mad to such a degree, that they killed their own babes and devoured their flesh. (apollod. iii. 5. § 2 .) according to another statement, dionysus with a host of women came from the islands of the aegean to argos, but was conquered by perseus, who slew many of the women. (paus. ii. 20. § 3, 22. § 1 .) afterwards, however, dionysus and perseus became reconciled, and the argives adopted the worship of the god, and built temples to him. one of these was called the temple of dionysus cresius, because the god was believed to have buried on that spot ariadne, his beloved, who was a cretan. (paus. ii. 23. § 7. )
a story about four brothers from a poor family who need to fight to follow their dreams .
and we felt that they had little cause for complaint. they had started the war and they had not shown much respect for the white flag when they had shot my three mates who went forward to take the surrender at goose green .
source: ferguson, joseph. life - struggles in rebel prisons: a record of the sufferings, escapes, adventures and starvation of the union prisoners. philadelphia, pa: j. m. ferguson, 1865. sources in u. s. history online: civil war. gale. available from urltoken .
“they will be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and will be shut up in the prison; after many days they will be punished. ” isaiah 24: 22 .
in his best - selling memoir, born again, chuck wrote, “i found myself increasingly drawn to the idea that god had put me in prison for a purpose and that i should do something for those i had left behind. ”
in some instances prisoners were barely, if at all, afforded shelter. vermont private charles fairbanks remembered such conditions at one of the more infamous confederate prisons near richmond :
… we were taken to belle island, about one - half mile from the city. here we were surrounded by earth works, within an enclosure of four acres, where were confined over four thousand prisoners without shelter, except a few' cibley tents', the majority of the prisoners being exposed to the weather day and night
( fairbanks 2004, p. 71). according to benson, a similar situation existed at point lookout :
the prison was a rectangular enclosure of about ten acres … inside the fence were rows of tents with streets between … in the tent where i was placed, were 15 others, and it may be well believed that 16 men, even in a sibley tent, were badly crowded
( benson 1992, pp. 90–91) .
more than 400, 000 civil war soldiers spent at least part of the conflict as prisoners of war. tens of thousands more were paroled after capture and thus evaded prison; these soldiers—most of them captured during the opening months of the war—were the fortunate ones, for the men who were captured in the last two and a half years of the conflict endured many challenges to both body and soul. in fact, parole was fairly common up through the surrender of vicksburg in 1863, in which 30, 000 confederates prisoners were paroled. the average soldier, from either the north or south, headed off to war with a host of new hopes and fears for his new military duties, but left home without the faintest conception of the nightmarish trials that would await him if captured and held captive by his enemies .
one of the most difficult if mundane aspects of being a prisoner of war during the civil war was the utter lack of military or recreational activities to help pass the time. the crowded prisons in both the north and south offered no diversions of any kind for prisoners, and countless men spent their days shuffling or sitting and thinking about the bitter and miserable turn that their lives had taken. as one union soldier wrote of his stint in a confederate prison in south carolina, many of his fellow prisoners sat
moping for hours with a look of utter dejection, their elbow upon their knee, and their chin resting upon their hand, their eyes having a vacant, faraway look
( cooper 1888, p. 267). thoughts of delicious food and loved ones back home seeped into every waking moment, and with nothing to take their minds off such torturous subjects, many soldiers struggled with profound depression .
then, all of a sudden, snipers opened up on us from well - concealed positions. one of our platoon was dead, a bullet through the front of his helmet and out through the back .
soldiers who could read and write sought some relief from the tedium through letter writing, but shortages of paper limited this option, and censorship by authorities was so heavy - handed that many letters were rendered senseless by blacked - out marks or scissor cuts. the uncertainties of wartime mail delivery further contributed to the anxiety of prisoners desperate for even a moment of relief from the dark environment that enveloped them .
will no one send a little word to cheer us in our gloomy hours of activity ?
wailed one southern prisoner .
oh, god! how dreadful are these bitter feelings of hope deferred. thus we linger, thus we drag the slow, tedious hours of prison life
( clark 1901, p. 677) .
one sidelight: pilou asbaek, the star of a war, has been signed to appear as euron greyjoy in season 6 of
game of thrones .
attempts to escape these horrible camps were launched by both union and confederate soldiers, but most of these desperate bids for freedom failed. many would - be escapees were unable to get beyond the fences, and most of those who did make it out by using underground tunnels or other means were tracked down by bloodhounds and rifle - wielding guards. over the course of the war, though, a few hundred clever and intrepid prisoners did succeed in their escape attempts. most of these successful escapes from prison camp horrors were carried out by individuals or small groups of two to three, not by large groups of prisoners. when these fortunate individuals passed through enemy lines to safety, their accounts of inhuman conditions and brutal guards were seized on as propaganda tools by both sides. on the whole, though, few civil war prisoners ever mounted escape attempts, as most were too worn down physically and mentally to conceive of or carry out viable plans .
for nearly four decades, chuck colson’s life and example have been a constant and necessary reminder to those of us in and out of public office of the seductions of power and the rewards of service. his famous redemption story and tireless advocacy on behalf of the marginalized and the outcast have called all of us to a deeper reflection on our lives and priorities. he lives on as a modern model of redemption and a permanent rebuttal to the cynical claim that there are no second chances in life .
a british agent sets out to uncover the hidden facts behind a british government employee' s suicide .
after dionysos had demonstrated to the thebans that he was a god, he went to argos where again he drove the women mad when the people did not pay him honour, and up in the mountains the women fed on the flesh of the babies suckling at their breasts .
two hundred and fifty eight british servicemen paid with their lives for the recapture of the islands, and a further 775 were wounded. many of the rest of us paid with our peace of mind .
under such conditions it is not surprising that hygiene was non - existent, although prisoners made a valiant effort in the attempt. oake related ,
we of course had an abundance of water but having no soap we did not as a general thing do a very good job in our laundry work, but still it would freshen up our old rags, and for a short time would feel quite comfortable until the heat of our bodies began to revive the greybacks that had for a short time been put out of commission by being immersed cold water
( oake 2006, p. 122). dooley noted ,
police find the body of a missing four - month - old boy near ...
during the second year of okonkwo’s exile, obierika brings several bags of cowries (shells used as currency) that he has made by selling okonkwo’s yams. obierika plans to continue to do so until okonkwo returns to the village. obierika also brings the bad news that abame, another village, has been destroyed by the white man .
this is probably a period in romanian history that many romanians would rather not acknowledge, particularly as representatives of the church follow a version of christianity that would have made jesus' hair stand on end. indeed, one of aferim!' s highlights is a rant in which a priest runs through a record - setting recitation of ethnic and religious slurs. i couldn' t help but wonder how much of this appalling overt racism persists 180 years later .
as far as the nature and origin of the god dionysus is concerned, he appears in all traditions as the representative of some power of nature, whereas apollo is mainly an ethical deity. dionysus is the productive, overflowing and intoxicating power of nature, which carries man away from his usual quiet and sober mode of living. wine is the most natural and appropriate symbol of that power, and it is therefore called
the fruit of dionysus .
( dionusou karpos; pind. fragm. 89, ed. böckh .) dionysus is, therefore, the god of wine, the inventor and teacher of its cultivation, the giver of joy, and the disperser of grief and sorrow. (bacchyl. ap. athen. ii. p. 40; pind. fragm. 5; eurip. bacch. 772. )
the brand new testament (le tout nouveau testament) (belgium) the premise of the brand new testament is that god is a mean - spirited jerk who spends most of his time sitting at his computer thinking of new ways to make people miserable (e. g. , whichever line you choose to stand in, the others will move faster). god lives in brussels with his intimidated wife, the goddess, and their 10 - year - old daughter, ea. their son, jesus, is, of course, dead. however, as a small statue, he is still able to tell his sister how to escape their father by climbing through the washing machine and emerging into a laundromat in brussels .
dionysos instructed the hero ikarios (icarius) of athens in the art of winemaking. however, some shepherds, upon drinking the wine, thought they had been poisoned and killed him. the sorrowful god then set him amongst the stars as the constellation bootes. < < more > >
this character is still further developed in the notion of his being the promoter of civilization, a law - giver, and a lover of peace. (eurip. bacch. 420; strab. x. p. 468; diod. iv. 4 .) as the greek drama had grown out of the dithyrambic choruses at the festivals of dionysus, he was also regarded as the god of tragic art, and as the protector of theatres. in later times, he was worshipped also as a theos chthonios, which may have arisen from his resemblance to demeter, or have been the result of an amalgamation of phrygian and lydian forms of worship with those of the ancient greeks. (paus. viii. 37, § 3; arnob. adv. gent. v. 19. )
[ pentheus addresses dionysos: ] ‘your body is not ill - formed, stranger, for women' s purposes... for your hair is long, not through wrestling, scattered over your cheeks, full of desire; and you have a white skin from careful preparation, hunting after aphrodite by your beauty not exposed to strokes of the sun, but beneath the shade. ’
what’s bizarre, and distinctive, and revealing about this situation, however, is that armond obviously feels that he has the right to disrupt a public event. he’s not just a mindless crank tossing dumb insults from the back of the room. he’s a mindful crank who has turned the trumpeting of his opinions about movies into a form of (un) civil disobedience. he believes he’s justified because he thinks he’s the only truth - teller in the room. but that suggests that he’s a critic who’s now getting high on hate, and bringing that impulse out into the open. a lot of the people in the room last monday night could hear armond white, but in another sense he has stopped being a critic who anyone can hear. his writing and his heckling have merged into the sound of one hand clapping for itself .
andersonville was by no means the only death trap maintained by southern authorities, however. the mortality rate among prisoners at a confederate stockade in salisbury, north carolina, in fact, was higher than that at andersonville, according to historian robert eberly (eberly 1999) .
andersonville prison, mentioned above, was the most notorious of all the civil war prison camps. this sixteen - acre tract in southwestern georgia, composed of open fields and swamps, housed approximately 41, 000 union prisoners during the war. of that number, 12, 000 to 15, 000 perished inside andersonville' s fences. in august 1864, 100 prisoners per day were dying in that nightmarish stockade. at the end of the war, anderson - ville' s superintendent, henry wirz, became the only confederate to be tried and executed by the federal government for war crimes .
during the early months of hostilities, both sides struggled to provide housing for captured combatants. union prisoners captured in early engagements in virginia were transported to the fledgling confederacy' s capital at richmond. corporal william h. merrell of the 27th new york remembered conditions in richmond' s tobacco warehouse:
prisoners of a white god ( czech : zajatci bílého boha ) is a czech documentary about the akha people , produced and distributed by twin star in september 2008 . the documentary is about a czech researcher , tomáš ryška , who goes to the thai and laotian mountains in order to search and document the causes of wrongdoing and violence done to the indigenous peoples and their children by christian missionaries . 
prisoners of a white god (czech: zajatci bílého boha) is a czech documentary about the akha people, produced and distributed by twin star in september 2008. the documentary is about a czech researcher, tomáš ryška, who goes to the thai and laotian mountains in order to search and document the causes of wrongdoing and violence done to the indigenous peoples and their children by christian missionaries.
prisoners of a white god (czech: zajatci bílého boha) is a czech documentary about the akha people, produced and distributed by twin star in september 2008. the documentary is about a czech researcher, tomáš ryška, who goes to the thai and laotian mountains in order to search and document the causes of wrongdoing and violence done to the indigenous peoples and their children by christian missionaries.