Welcome Abdulrhman....without giving out too much information, are you stationed in Bahrain with the military or do you live there?

If you are a soldier with whatever army you may serve I want to thank you for making a difference.

Blessings,

Emilie

Hi Emilie!
Yeah you're right I didn't give you more information about me!!
My name is Abdulrhman and I'm from Bahrain"(not a soldier )
and now I'm in Jordan to study "Surveying engineering". I'm 21 years old. I like reading,having more friends,knowing other calturals and having a simple life... and I'm ready for any other questions.

Thanks to all people who participates us, I'm very delightful with you and benefited from you.

Best regards,
Abdulrhman

Abdulrhman ~ I hope that you will continue to enjoy the forum.

Abdulrhman, I have a friend who lives in Bahrain, not with the military, but he does some kind of engineering for a private company. He loves it! He says the weather is beautiful and the people are friendly. Apparently the company he works for rented a great big house for him with all the comforts of his own home in America. He does have his family with him and they too like it very much.

Please let me know if I get too personal with my questions and don't feel you need to answer them.

Blessings,

Emilie

I don't view the sitting down and talking as convincing someone to see things a certain way. With discussion and exchange of views on any subject comes a deeper understanding on many levels. To know one's deepest beliefs is to know them as a human being. Once you know them as a human being on a personal level, they are no longer a distant concept. They become flesh and blood, with feelings and families, and hopes and dreams just like yourself. It makes it much harder to perpetrate violence and indifference on someone you can associate with. Sometimes, tradgedy occurs simply because we have no compassion for someone living elsewhere in the world. Indifference prevails and suffering continues because we simply have never connected on a personal level. Tragedy is something that happens on the news, but it sometimes begins in our hearts.

Very well said, joandboys.

Please clarify something for me. I am confused. I thought you said that you were a minister. Isn't that the main thrust of becoming a minister? IE: "caring what people believe". My understanding is that you express a viewpoint that is live and let live in your posts. However, on an earlier post you said that you thought it was "our duty to inform those who are misinformed" Isn't discussion a way of doing that? Could you please elaborate as the two impressions seem to contridict one another.

Oh! that's good.
Noooooo not at all Emilie. I like to know people and people know me, so I give you the green light to ask me anything you want!!

welcome, I like the picture, so peaceful. You like the sea and the calm it provides, there are few things in life that provide such peaceful escape as sitting by the edge and admiring the view and listening to the waves breaking. Do you also like tranquility music?