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ÔÇ£It was my first award. It was valuable to me. But I do not need an award from an institution that does not fully understand what it is like to give up oneÔÇÖs life and, in anticipation of death, defend people and freedom,ÔÇØ Ukrainian soldier Yulia Mykytenko
said in a statement. ÔÇ£God is love. But you are not.ÔÇØ
https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-...nko-medal/
It's not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable. The hundred-times-refuted theory of "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it - Friedrich Nietzsche
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(01-03-2024, 12:48 PM)zqwerty Wrote: ÔÇ£It was my first award. It was valuable to me. But I do not need an award from an institution that does not fully understand what it is like to give up oneÔÇÖs life and, in anticipation of death, defend people and freedom,ÔÇØ Ukrainian soldier Yulia Mykytenko said in a statement. ÔÇ£God is love. But you are not.ÔÇØ
https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-...nko-medal/
Clearly the Patriarch Filaret is a deeply ignorant man. 
Unlike those soldiers who've condemned his actions & supported their fellow soldier, bloody well done them! 
 
That can't have been easy for them either.
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)
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