“Ahkeruus kovan onnen voittaa.” Or Not.

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• 	Conslaw January 26th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
  Lord, Give us a sign! Alrighty then.
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• 	Martin B January 26th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
  SALVATION It is a Sunday before Christmas, and the service begins at 11 a.m. at the Greater Grace Temple, Detroit’s largest church. A massive structure as brawny as the cars Detroit produces, it cost $35 million (€26 million) to build. Bishop Charles Ellis III is standing on the stage, calling upon his parishioners to fast with him on behalf of the auto industry. “We have to do a little bit more,” he says. “We have to pray a little more.” Ellis gave a major sermon last week, entitled “A hybrid hope.” Three hybrid vehicles were driven onto the church stage, a Ford Escape, a Chevrolet Tahoe and a Chrysler Aspen — all hefty SUV’s, but hybrids at least. “God existed before the automobile came along,” he said. He was flanked by men from the union, who said that they had done everything they could, and that their only choice now was to do what every doctor does when he no options left: to entrust his patient to the good Lord. Ellis believes that everything will improve again once the crisis is over. He also believes in the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. He says that he doesn’t know how far along we are already, or which crisis will trigger the return of Christ. It could have been Hurricane Katrina, he says, or perhaps the crisis in Detroit’s auto industry. “Salvation will come,” he says, “if the crisis is big enough.” From http://www.spiegel.de
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• 	Martin B January 26th, 2009 at 3:13 pm
  Maybe certain religious terms got blocked by spam filters. I was quoting from an article on the spiegel.de website describing a visit to a Detroit church and how they prayed for salvation for the auto industry. The picture jogged my memory of the following passage: Ellis gave a major sermon last week, entitled “A hybrid hope.” Three hybrid vehicles were driven onto the church stage, a Ford Escape, a Chevrolet Tahoe and a Chrysler Aspen
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• 	MikeInCanada January 26th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
  Car in Church – That’s “Good”, but not not “Great”. Just this weekend the Toronto PD drove one of their cruiser into a house a la Ricky Bobby and that was after another cruiser was parked on the train tracks during the conclusion of a Beer Store heist. And yes, the train hit it. What a weekend!!
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• 	H. Koppinen January 26th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
  That has nothing at all to do with Finland. The ditv.se site is obviously Swedish, while the incident itself happened in Germany. I have to ask: Are you trying to make a point or are you so American as to mix up Finland and Germany?
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• 	Martin Schwoerer January 26th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
  The point being: accidents happen.
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• 	mcs January 26th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
  Dang, Europe gets all the good stuff. First diesels, now apparently they can get the flying cars we were promised back in the sixties.
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• 	yankinwaoz January 26th, 2009 at 6:43 pm
  Can any one translate that phrase into English please!
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• 	Patrickj January 26th, 2009 at 7:44 pm
  Ahkeruus kovan onnen voittaa ‘Hard work overcomes misfortune’ (PS 541). http://www.folklore.ee/Folklore/vol6/synt.htm
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