The author himself talks of his determination to confront and control his fears – Do his books tell us what he’s frightened of?

Stanislaw Barszczak, The Adventures of the Priest Antos…

I admit that I would like to have a clean contact with the readers, but God as a social phenomenon was my first speaker always. Because he told me: Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws. The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself. All Faith is false, all Faith is true: Truth is the shattered mirror strown in myriad bits; while each believes His little bit the whole to own (see Richard Burton). To perceive others only as ‘others’ is the beginning of violence. Beating roots is not always an effective remedy for loneliness, Ilija Trojanow had spoken. So, for these and other reasons I visit the modern world. One day I went to Hamburg. I went to the asylum camp – Jenfelder Moorpark. The migrants have already left the camp. I saw a burnt apartment block. As a Catholic priest could not I talk to the people of the camp. So, my mission- it is a kamikaze mission. How does my mission avoid self-destruction? I don’t know. I interviewed people I met. From this material has created this exclusive interview, record of live thoughts. So, we begin. Now the so-called social decisions are not democratic, I ponder. Is not democratic election at all. So, it is a long term battle for a decent life. I believe finally we will win in this war. How vulnerable is the West in the new balance of global financial power? We are prepared for everything, politicians say. Now on the one hand there is the souring of the Euopean Union, the imposition of western regulation and the direction of thought. We are paralized by the western world’s position as dominant force in global politics and economics. Migration, the Euro, and of course Brexit are testing the European Union as never before. In Italy there’s talk of another possible blow for the EU. If voters use a forthcoming referendum on constitutional change as a chance to register a protest vote against the country’s centre left government, anti-Euro populist parties may be able to capitalise. Are Italians becoming disillusioned with the EU project? An awful lot of powerful people in Britain and the rest of the European Union have joined the ‘don’t panic’ chorus. But how persuasive are they? How confident can we be of the EU’s future? On the other hand also in Poland, there are domestic problems. Minister Witold Waszczykowski won two years ago. Waszczykowski against the mechanism of the Western commission on Polish affairs now…Will Polish Government regain power in his lifetime? Sometimes it seems so democracy in Poland has lost its vitality. Waszczykowski Colleagues want “to be all one” -and only that. I have the bruises to prove it. Will the ascent of Mr President Andrzej Duda hasten the demise of Poland? The President is paralyzed still by law. Is the much vaunted Poland model under threat? So, I am demanding fully democratic elections for the city’s chief executive in Warsaw. What about migrants? We did not take them in Poland. It makes me work harder. I think the problem of immigrants is deeper. It is also the problem of free people and nations. For exemple in Ukraine, Russia started war. So,”We are on the different side of the aisle, we cannot have any kind of compromise over the territorial integrity and sovereignty of my country,” Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said… In Ukraine there is no military solution, there is certainly no humanitarian solution to this crisis, I would say. What we are looking for is an opportunity for these people to get back to that table, to stop the war, to silence the guns, give us a ceasefire, give us a chance to deliver more assistance and give us the resources….But we go to the bottom of the case. For years Poland has been the poster child of the European Union but not anymore. Its new government has made sweeping changes to its constitution and laws, changes that Brussels says are a threat to Poland’s democracy. In return Poland has said its economy is too dependent on foreigners. Is my country set on turning inwards and away from the European Union? Another problem, migrants affect us, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, leader of the Polish party Law and Justice said. So, racism (especially antisemitism) was present in Poland in the 1920s and 300 and I have to say that it’s still there. Polish attitudes seam to be largely out of kilter with a western Europe, someone said. Poland professes to be a Christian country but its attitudes are anything but Christian. I am also pleased to see Zeinab Badawi pressing Waszczykowski hard on the present Polish Government’s stance on refugees. The migrants do not have documents, he calls the latter. Let me finish, there are no Jews in Poland, one percent of minorities, there are not many Muslims. I also a warrior and I did not want to be in Poland. But I am a priest and I watch sheep in the flock of the Catholic Church every day. Democracy’s weakness – there is no immediate victory. Nobody knows that the President of Poland – a real revolutionary. You have to use it. How much is Europe concerned about the defense of himself? What is the Europe response? We are very sustainable, reliable. Immigrants fill the gaps in the German economy, says the Pole from Bavaria. Another Pole shows the interior of the burned block in Hamburg, the charred piano. The rich immigrants, they had promised the money for their arrival in Germany. But faith seems to have lost its realness to life. So, you need to keep Christian rules in Poland but also principles of the divorce. We are, let be clear, the momentum is with us. Two years of great social revolution we are, already behind us. I am very motivated to that. We do not diminish how we got some help from the West. Now there is no national economy just European.
Russia is most vulnerable according economy. We have enormous cost… high cost for Russia … your instrument,sanctions combine with charges…Europe shows unity. But Europe borders are not save. Is Europe serious about defence. I was determined to say it. One point – this will be cost us for a many long time. I am different opinion about that. Europe is able to show the life from the inside its core again. Political correctness is the plague disease of our time. Many people live from one dollar a day or less. They are looking for a pot of food. Human poverty is nourished by human cunning and the ability to survive. Terrorism is growing too. How to help them. We sit down to talk about details. You have to overcome fences in our mind and heart. We are relevant together. On the road of transformations in world of today you have to choose fine solutions, open up to local market scrutiny, convergence. I am reminded importance of the support primarily spiritual in my youth. I am not involved in oil resources. But the world, and most of all Europe, has left many times weak people on the margins of history. Though we are reacting positively. Three times I was “the best” in history, I think. The world has seen me from all sides. I do not know how it was with other citizens of the earth. And that’s for me enough. In Poland I was impressed with propaganda of the Russian revolution of 1917, Bolshevic revolution true. Here we lived in communism in socialist Poland, although officially no one loved it. That is why Wojtyla appeared, later Jan Paweł II the pope. Here on January 3,1961 I was born in Tarnowskie too.You imagine, my mum was three years old when that city was incorporated to Poland in 1922. Only then Mother came to Ząbkowice for bread.
And in our time again, everything permissible, ass hanging, it was imposed a new democracy. They are shot in hiding, millions of shoots. I’m not addicted to foreign capital. I writes texts over the internet but here is nothing according to my intentions finally. I do not have time to prepare an article according to the rules of a foreign scientific journal. I just do not have the strength to do it. Maybe someone in the future will be in the same situation – and thus solve my problem. In front of me columns of Polish newspapers. Thr pope Francis in Myanmar (Burma) and Bangladesh, among the poor and refugees. I have aid plea for malnourished Poland children, sometimes it seems me so. What are Team Pope Francis priorities for the church and world of today? To be with the poor- but with Christ whether this is true? This pontificate is shown as a result of the Conclave referendum. The study of the size and depth of the Christian spirit caused me to experience traumas. So, we do not mean to re-establish the church as Luther wanted. We want generational justice so that no bread is taken away from people on their land. Again, we killed a new the living Christ, sometimes I I think. As the teenager of the Poland Solidarność I will be forever great full to the Germany and Italy for opening up its borders to the immigrants of Syria and Turkey and Libya and consequently I am ashamed to have Polish heritage given that governement’s stance. Polish attitudes seem to be largely out of kilter with Western Europe. On the other hand Poland’s new judicial reform goes forward, I mean. Praising the Prime Minister Beata Szydło I commit suicide. So, homogenous my homeland, beloved country. But sometimes am I lost in Poland, my homeland again. So, the manifestations against the authoritarian authorities of the Polish Government, revealing the racism and anti-Semitism of the newest day … were transformed into a defense of that Government only… Though nature is happy, you have to show inner spring, one’s of man, without pride. You do not press too hard to show contemporary ideals, the resurrection of the world…So, we are to a new bishop in Czestochowa, who is not an anti-Semite, I see. On the television do not want in the world anymore Google. But how much do this company for the world? Exorcists wrote that children would not play in Halloween again. This world brings us that. HARDtalk’s Stephen Sackur speaks to retired Olympic champion and world record breaker Chris Boardman. What does one of cycling’s great innovators make of the sport today? Mister Stephen Sackur speaks to Otmar Issing, influential German economist and former board member of the European Central Bank. The European economy just about survived the post-crash era of recession, debt crisis and emergency bailout, but its resilience is about to be tested again. Global growth is sluggish, Europe’s banks still look fragile, and the EU is full of political uncertainty. Germany has long been Europe’s rock of stability, but for how much longer? Should Europe brace itself for new economic storms? Mr. Sucker editor recalls a hedge fund. This latter fund is an investment fund that pools capital from accredited individuals or institutional investors and invests in a variety of assets, often with complex portfolio-construction and risk-management techniques. It is administered by a professional investment management firm, and often structured as a limited partnership, limited liability company, or similar vehicle. Hedge funds are generally distinct from mutual funds, as their use of leverage is not capped by regulators, and distinct from private equity funds, as the majority of hedge funds invest in relatively liquid assets….Mr Stephen Sackur also speaks to Rob Wainwright, Director of Europol, the EU’s joint policing agency tasked with enhancing Europe’s response to major cross border security and criminal threats. So-called Islamic state has the intent and the capacity to mount major terrorist attacks in the heart of Europe – does Europe have the right tools to effectively counter the challenge? With the EU’s record on external border security and intelligence sharing patchy at best, is Europol just a sticking plaster on a gaping wound? Richard Haass was a senior advisor to both Bush presidents and has offered his insights to the president elect too. From big power diplomacy with Russia and China to global trade and climate policy how different and unpredictable is Trump going to be?…We blame Cameron for Brexit, I see. Then have I been in my office already. And I saw another thing. Is something rotten in the Republic of France? As the country prepares to elect a new President polls suggest record levels of apathy and disillusion amongst French voters. A spate of terror attacks has sown insecurity and sparked a heated debate about immigration, Islam and France’s identity. Is France living through an age of decline? “Life is applied uncertainty…If you want to get something nearly objective about our security, you should not listen to the state security experts or the medial fear profiteers, but rather take a look at the statistics…In an increasingly secure world, anxiety centers on ever smaller or less likely scenarios,” Jlija Trojanow said. What to say here? D’you know what happens when you hurt people?’ Ammu said. ‘When you hurt people, they begin to love you less. That’s what careless words do. They make people love you a little less, “Arundhati Roy said (see, The God of Small Things)“The secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don’t deceive you with thrills and trick endings. They don’t surprise you with the unforeseen. They are as familiar as the house you live in. Or the smell of your lover’s skin. You know how they end, yet you listen as though you don’t. In the way that although you know that one day you will die, you live as though you won’t. In the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, who doesn’t. And yet you want to know again…That is their mystery and their magic (The God of Small Things) And the air was full of Thoughts and Things to Say. But at times like these, only the Small Things are ever said. Big Things lurk unsaid inside…If you’re happy in a dream, does that count?…She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent hours on the riverbank. She smoked cigarettes and had midnight swims…Change is one thing. Acceptance is another…The only dream worth having is to dream that you will live while you are alive, and die only when you are dead. To love, to be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and vulgar disparity of the life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget, “Arundhati Roy wrote. But what was there to say?…Perhaps it’s true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that when they do, those few dozen hours, like the salvaged remains of a burned house- the charred clock, the singed photograph, the scorched furniture- must be resurrected from the ruins and examined. Preserved. Accounted for. Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Imbued with new meaning. Suddenly they become the bleached bones of a story (Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things) Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness – and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe…The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling – their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability… Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them…He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair…I am completely a loner. In my head I want to feel I can be anywhere. There is a sort of recklessness that being a loner allows me…There is a war that makes us adore our conquerors and despise ourselves…The American way of life is not sustainable. It doesn’t acknowledge that there is a world beyond America…If he touched her, he couldn’t talk to her, if he loved her he couldn’t leave, if he spoke he couldn’t listen, if he fought he couldn’t win…Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to…Colorful demonstrations and weekend marches are vital but alone are not powerful enough to stop wars. Wars will be stopped only when soldiers refuse to fight, when workers refuse to load weapons onto ships and aircraft, when people boycott the economic outposts of Empire that are strung across the globe,” Arundhati Roy said. So, dear Reader: “Deep in my heart – there’s a fire – a burning heart. Deep in my heart – there’s desire – for a start. I’m dying in emotion…You’re my heart, you’re my soul. I’ll keep it shining everywhere I go. You’re my heart, you’re my soul. I’ll be holding you forever, Stay with you together.”(see, Modern talking) So, I once saw the girl in the immigrant camp. It was sunny and beautiful. Since was she my heart, she was my soul. I know for sure, she’s good to me. The rest is history…But that I’ve break we will never part. And that’s true.

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