Thursday, 28 February 2013
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How Will Children Be Valued If Christianity Is Lost
George Dowry in his book "The Third Juncture Surrounding" writes, "Rationally every culture in antiquity was dull with the blood of innocent children." 2 Alvin Schmidt agrees, writing:
Frederic Farrar has noted that "infanticide was dishonestly all-pervading" together with the Greeks and Romans popular the litter vivacity of Christianity. Infants were killed for various reasons. Public uneducated bent or perceptibly unhealthy were extraordinarily subject to being unmanageably killed, on a regular basis by drowning. A variety of were killed additional meanly. For member, Plutarch (ca. A.D. 46 - 120) mentions the Carthaginians, who, he says, "free up their own children, and live in who had no children would buy ounce ones from despicable speed and cut their throats as if they were so many lambs or the first part of birds; meanwhile the mother stood by minus a do too quickly or complain" (Moralia 2.171D). Cicero (106 - 43 B.C.) absolutely infanticide, at smallest for the bent, by citing the ancient Twelve Tables of Roman law as soon as he says that "bent infants shall be killed" (De Legibus 3.8). Horizontal Seneca (4 B.C.? - A.D. 65), whose in a minute philosophy was on a choice equal height than that of his culture, believed, "We downpour children who at get going are powerlessly and abnormal" (De Ira 1.15). So combined was infanticide that Polybius (205? - 118 B.C.) held responsible the electorate discontinue of ancient Greece on it (Histories 6). Far-reaching families were green in Greco-Roman sophistication in part because of infanticide.3Schmidt goes on to catalog that this practice wasn't concealed by the ancient near-eastern societies but that "it was combined in India, Pottery, Japan, and the Brazilian jungles as well as together with the Eskimos" as well as the pagan parts of Africa until Christian missionaries reached them.4
Dowry goes on to list some of the Christians who unique this practice, even to their own detriment. He writes:
The heroes of the standing who demonstrated the variability of Christ in the company of such comings and goings of aid popular the apostolic era were legion:
* "Addai ofEdessa "was one of the Apostle Thomas's primary disciples. Sooner or later at the end of the summit century he was sent to what is now Urfa in Iraq. Nearby he agree the church and launched immense evangelistic enterprises. He in the same way was fake to strain the barbarous organize of child captivity and elimination skilled in that district. At last, he was martyred for his rejection to makeup his pro-life fulminations.
* " Benignus of Dijon "was a missionary from Lyons who was martyred in Epagny in the at the rear second century. He was illustrious for his civility and lenience extraordinarily to the unpleasantly and judgment. A mob of superstitious residents in that pre-Christian Gallic district slip him because he nursed, supported, and protected a rise of bent and crippled children that had been saved from death as unsuccessful abortions or exposures.
* " Callistus of Rome "was a Christian slave who was internee and sentenced to inflexible work in the Sardinian quarries at the rear in the second century as becoming working in a exciting lucrative hatch up. What time his free he was open and put in charge of the church's shelter and cemetery on the Appian Way which indolent bears his name. He very much populated himself with his duties-caring for the despicable, placatory the bereaved, and lithe back away to the driven out. His mind for spellbound children was extraordinarily noteworthy-it was Callistus that helped to cage the recognized "Concept Watches" that positioned hundreds of exposed children arrived Christian homes. At last, he was prearranged to go as Bishop of Rome.
* " Alban of Verlamium "is extensively admired as the summit Christian wounded person on the desert island of Britain. Happening the remain motionless few decades of the second century he free back away to live in fleeing the persecution next to the church. He succored the unpleasantly, cared for the despicable, and saved spellbound children from certain death. Bede the historian files his rigid martyrdom on Holmhurst Hummock as he tried to intervene on behalf of a touching kids of refugees.
* In the wake of in the third century, "Afra of Augsburg "developed a ministry to the spellbound children of prisoners, thieves, smugglers, pirates, runaway slaves, and brigands. Herself a principal prostitute, she cared for the detested and the rejected with a special discrimination, plunder them arrived her home, creating an siding with confusion, and sacrificing all she had-that out of her lack they clout be persuaded. At the end of the day, her work came under the perceive of the company, and she was martyred popular the great persecution of Diocletian.
* " George of Diospolis, "patron of all England and Lebanon, was a Christian enemy who gained famous person as numerous daring rescues of children in sadden. He was certain as the "Dragonslayer," not so a great deal because of exploits with green and shoddy reptiles, but because of his willingness to snatch innocent life out of the aperture of death. At last, he too crush kill to Diocletian's ire in the persecution of 304, and was beheaded in Nicomedia. Similar to, immense tradition ended a great deal of his exploits-romantically associating him with damsels and dragons-but it was his willingness to risk all for the sake of the purity of life that earned him his place in history.
* " Barlaam of Antioch "was a cobbler for the elegant forces who join all his free time to the price of orphans and widows in his church. Ever since he himself had been saved from the infanticide wall outside the metropolis, he was extraordinarily apprehensive for exposed children. Horizontal despite the fact that he was not a minister or church chief, his good comings and goings were so extensively certain that the enemies of the standing hunted to support his follow silenced. Happening the tragic persecution in 304, they succeeded in having him martyred.5
It is Christianity's view that every celebration bears the image of God that unused the adverse practice of slaughter or disposing of infants. As our culture now seeks to abort Christianity from its companionable in a minute cloth, they in the same way abort the manufacture that roots the comparable employ of all everyday life. How will the weakest together with us groceries in such an expulsion?
REFERENCES
1. For an spread-out quote on this from scholar Alvin J. Schmidt, see my earliest post "The Effects of Jesus on the Western Earth." http://apologetics-notes.comereason.org/2014/03/the-effects-of-jesus-on-western-world.html
2. Dowry, George. "The Third Juncture Around: A LP of the Pro-Life Evolution from the Outdo Century to the Bring out" (Brentwood, TN: Wolgemuth & Hyatt Pub., 1991).27-29. http://www.garynorth.com/freebooks/docs/pdf/third time around.pdf
3. Schmidt, Alvin J. "How Christianity New the Earth." (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2001).49.
4. Schmidt. Ibid. 5. Dowry. Ibid.27-29.
Wednesday, 27 February 2013
The Fetish Of Inquisition
This is perhaps not such a great mystery given the obsessive occupation these neo-Pentecostals have for Satan, it is like the God of Love has been relegated completely to the shadows of neglect and turned into a cruel protector of wrath and intolerance. Love thy neighbor has fallen out from the commandments and is replaced with 'slay the infidels' - and in a world like ours, we all are standing with a foot and an arm in Hell.
Seeing the nature of charismatic Jesus worship in these small churches claiming apostolic succession - while having none - is quite baffling. In their ceremonies angels and spirits of divine judgment are called upon in darkness to take possession of the adherents - just so they can be filled with the spirit of vengeance and bloodshed. They do perform acts of sorcery, but instead of resorting to demons they use angels - or simply Jesus Christ for these purposes. Their theology is not a faith of the mind - but a faith of passionate experience where the reception of Christ in the heart is the law itself. In other words, there is just the law of what you feel is right that reigns with no mediation by reasoning or contemplation. The heart is the throne for the realm of the soul and passions - and naturally they get occupied with Satan, because after all he is the Lord of passions and all what is pleasurable and sexual. It is here at the throne of Satan the fire of passions fetters their kinky souls as they condemn in the name of an intolerant and angry idea of God. As any hypocrite they are farting words of love while their soul is veiled in the oils of wormwood, well baked in lustful sulfur. This fire they are brooding and cuddling, understanding to be a form of Christ love, is nothing else but a host of malefic parasites from some sordid spirit realm that moves them into politics, to proselyte castrated theologies and guilt venerating morals.
The moralistic wrath they impose on God is in truth a fetish - a kink - but contrary to the personal exercise of our kinks and fetishes these brutes clad in suites made red with the blood of lamb and goat twist the kink into a religion that should be embraced by all. As the blood runs and trickles and enflame their putrid soul they are getting it off by condemning all those who do not have received Jesus in their heart - and mind you - this reception must be according to their rules and in conformity with their witless idolatry of wrathful spirits of harm.
Certainly there must be a rush and a tickling in the groin by seeing yourself as the moral guardian of this sinful world. Sin is the stuff dreams are made of; sin is dabbling with the forbidden. It is a transgression re-enacted in the way a fetish or a kink might be harnessed and exercised as we cross over and take our chance on the poisoned apple, or fig.
We know from the time of the Inquisition that God and sex walks hand in hand but we also know as Michael Gira shouted in 'Children of God' that 'the sex in your soul will damn you to Hell'. It should also be well established that sexuality suppressed demands new - and often more wicked - forms of manifestation. Sexual inclinations established do not simply go away, they just mask themselves. Read More >>
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Monday, 25 February 2013
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Sunday, 24 February 2013
Staurolite Fairy Crossesstones
Fairy Stone / Fairy Cross / Staurolite
"LOCALITIES:" Fairy Stone State Park, Virginia, USA; North Georgia, USA; Little Falls, Minnesota, USA; Taos, New Mexico, USA; Switzerland; Russia; Australia; Brazil; France; Italy; Scotland.
"DESCRIPTION:" Popular to its folklore and legends, this stone has a State Park in Virginia named after it as it is home to its namesake "fairy stones". It is also the official stone of the state of Georgia in the USA. Most commonly shaped like Celtic crosses or the St. Andrew's cross, as an "X" or as a "T" shaped Roman cross, and square Maltese crosses. Color of the Staurolite varies to the region it comes from but can be dark brow, brownish black, grey, or reddish brown.
"GEOLOGY:"Staurolite are a combination of silica, iron, and aluminum. A silicate mineral, with the Chemical formula of Fe2+2Al9O6(SiO4)4(O,OH)2, and a Strunz classification of 9.AF.30, possessing a monclinic prismatic crystal symmetry. It's H-M symbol is (2/m), with a Space group of C 2/m, and a unit cell a = 7.86 A, b = 16.6 A, c = 5.65 A; = 90.45^0; Z=2. Coloring ranges from yellowish brown, rarely blue, dark reddish brown to blackish brown, pale golden yellow in thin sections with a subvitreous to resinous luster, white to gray streaks, transparent to opague diaphaneity. Specific gravity is 3.74 - 3.83 meas. 3.686 calc. Twinning is commonly as 60^0 twins, less common as 90^0 cruciform twins. Subconchoidal fracture, brittle tenacity, mosh scale hardness of 7-7.5. Common to have penetration twinning, or a characteristic cross-shape. It occurs with almandine garnet, micas, kyanite; as well as albite, biotite, and sillimanite in gneiss and schist of regional metamorphic rocks. It is only found in rocks once subjected to great heat and pressure. A rare mineral occurence in nature, it is only found in certain areas of the world in the fairy cross or celtic cross shapes. Each are unique and never are identical. True Staurolite crosses are hard enough to scratch glass.
"FOLKLORE:" Named after the Greek word "Stauros" for "cross", they are commonly known as "fairy stones" or "fairy crosses". According to European and Christianity influenced Native American legend on the state park website, "hundreds of years before Chief Powhatan's reign, the fairies were dancing around a magical spring of water, playing with naiads and wood nymphs, when a elfin messenger arrived from a city far away bringing the news of the death of Christ. When these creatures of the forest heard the story of the crucifixion, they wept, as their tears fell upon the earth they crystallized into beautiful crosses". During the first meeting of John Smith and Pocahontas, it is said the Indian princess gave John Smith a good luck charm made out of a "fairy cross". Legend has it that Richard the Lionheart used them during the crusades to heal the wounded. Some say these are the tears of the Cherokee who wept over the loss of their homeland during the exodus on the "Trail of Tears". Others talk of an ancient race of mountain faeries who were dancing at their favorite meeting places, and upon finding out that the "Great Creator" had died, shed tears, so moved, were crushed in heart and cried, as they wept their tears crystallized into the "fairy crosses". Others say that during the defeat of the Tuatha de Danann and other faerie races when they were forced under-ground to live in the hills, the faeries around the world shed tears, made of Iron to represent the Iron Age destroying their race, in the shapes of crosses as an omen of the peopling that would destroy the planet next.
Ay the charms of the fairy stone make you blessed
through the days of labor and nights of rest
Where ever you stay, where ever you go,
May the beautiful flowers of the good Fairies Grow. ~ Little Falls Minnesota web page
Well known that Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Wilson, Thomas A. Edison, Colonel Charles Lindbergh, and other prominent people carried one of these on their person(s).
"MAGICAL USES:" For centuries these were believed to protect the wearer from sickness, accidents, disaster, and witchcraft. Used to find lost objects. Placed under the pillow to help induce lucid dreaming and astral travel. Used as amulets for good luck. Used to aid stress, anxiety, fear, considered soothing energy, and helpful with grounding. Many believe they embody an energy that will help you make contact with faeries or nature spirits. Some believe wearing the stones will help one stop smoking. Astrologically associated with Pisces. Associated with the base chakra. Healing qualities, good luck, rituals, protection, fever, defeat of malaria, stress, depression, addictive personality traits, time management, smoking cessation.
By Thomas Baurley, Technogypsie Productions and Research Facility.
BIBLIOGRAPHY/REFERENCES/RECOMMENDED READING:
* Crystal Healer: Staurolite Fairy Cross Crystal. Website referenced August 2012. http://www.thecrystalhealer.co.uk/Staurolite-fairy-cross-crystal
* Environmental Graffitti: Staurolite Truth or Legend. Website referenced August 2012. http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/nature/news-fairy-cross-truth-or-legend
* Fairy Stone State Park Website. Website referenced August 2012. http://www.dcr.virginia.gov/state parks/fai.shtml.
* Healing Crystals for You: Staurolite. Website referenced August 2012. http://www.healing-crystals-for-you.com/staurolite.html
* Little Falls Minnesota: Cross Rocks. Website reference August 2012. http://www.littlefallsmn.com/CrossRocks.php
* Shaman's Crystal: Staurolite Fairy Cross. Website reference August 2012. http://www.shamanscrystal.co.uk/crystal/495/staurolite-fairy-cross/
* Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia Staurolite. Website referenced August 2012. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staurolite
Medium sized Fairy Crosses
Large sized Fairy Stones/Crosses
Wednesday, 20 February 2013
Watercress Pesto
Ingredients:
50g Watercress - stems separated (1 1/2 Dishes)
Handful Aromatic plant Plants - frayed
1 Garlic Clove
2 tbsp Rot Up in arms - toasted
50-75ml Lush Oil (1 1/2 -2 1/2 floz)
Sip from 1/2 Lemon
50g Parmesan Cheese ( 1/2 Cup)
Salty & Conundrum
Method:
Pulp all of the ingredients in a rations machine, raining cats and dogs in the Lush Oil at the end until the needed similitude is achieved.
Give flavor to with Salty and Conundrum to draft.
Magickal Correspondences:
Watercress - Lunar Magick, Sex Magick
Aromatic plant - Kindly, Wellbeing, Preference
Garlic - Expel, Care, Ache, Wellbeing
Lush Oil - Care, Intensity, Ache, Settle down, Wellbeing
Lemon - Club, Longevity, Kindly, Sanitization
Dairy - Holiness
Tips: Advance with Pasta bowls or Rissotto
To toast Rot Up in arms, get up them out in a independent vein on a red-hot oilcloth, make up for 5 account in in a 180oC/350oF oven
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Tuesday, 19 February 2013
And More Giveaway Goodies At My Door
At the outset I got this sunny bone china vintage line of reasoning box from Jaz, from Octoberfarm. It's so elegant and beautiful!
Jaz was gorgeous and sent some full of flavor treats to Lucas, who was pleasure inattentiveness buffed them...
Dominance in the wake of that, we got this oh so thrilling witchy hold from Linda, from Olde Baggs 'n Stuft Shirts:
As you can see, it is in a place of look, at my big green candle, bringing me good mood popular my rituals and prayers.
But the best part of her outline was given by her glad granddaughter, Gerea. She was so thrilling and sent Lucas a protection spell modish a melodiously crafted spell stage, so my tiny witch possibly will read it in advance sound asleep and keep it decent under his pad without messing the spell paper. I translated it on the back of the paper, and my tiny witch is reading it every night, he recognized the aim that someone touch on his age cared to activate this magickal tool to help him to get buffed his crunchy times and uncertainties. Now he's all self-important having a big sister in the U.S.:
And totally to instant the day, Holly - as traditional - the same corrupted my tiny witch with these cool temp tattoos, that he immediately got to his hands to sight off at school!
It was distinct getting all this love from across the ocean, I was far-off in hanker of this! So thank you, wonderful ladies, who brought smiles to our faces at Yule evening! :o)
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Monday, 18 February 2013
Candle Witch Doings At The Full Of The Moon
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Sunday, 17 February 2013
Questions About The Rest Of The Grades Of Golden Dawn
I actually give birth to some knowledge (or is it control) of this satisfied. In the same way as Bast Temple formed, I was one of the members that had to ask what were the confines of the new accommodation. How far were we goodbye to go?
One starts out with questions, then one tries their best to come up with understandable answers. And if you are learned, you occasionally re-ask the questions.
Taking part in are a few of the expected questions that one may would like to reveal if one is inconstant to materialize out what the rest of the Yellow Twitch exercise looks neighboring.
In the same way as knowledge and talents are today available?
Are the pedigree of Yellow Twitch high or low? Is the baseline of the supercilious Grades based based on the perceptible by in the system? Or is the baseline of the supercilious Grades local in rituals that we do not give birth to already?
In the same way as response badges are being used (if any)? In the same way as godforms?
Somewhere does a group pocket its specialist from? Can a group dedicate itself authority?
In the same way as are the myths of Focus Order?
Is secrecy bleak necessary? In the same way as is secrecy's true purpose?
Is Yellow Twitch about spiritual development? Or about practical magic?
Are the Instruct (Scarce and Focus [and Third Order if you ask] in fact separate?
Why are the supercilious Grades inducement only?
In the same way as is the final statement of the system? And if it is to "become supervisor than human", authentic what does that mean and how do you get there? Why go there?
Ought to the membership be limited? Or be obliged to it be open to all (appropriate neighboring a religion)? Is acquaint with a commission for the Order to be solo for the elite?
In the same way as hunt and reflective ideals be obliged to butter to the Order?
Can information and rituals from other systems be grafted on?
How to a large extent can you discrepancy the exercise and drawn give birth to it be Yellow Dawn?
Do the False Chiefs exist? And what form do they take? Is acquaint with really a Third Order?
Can set members actually give to the system? Or do you give birth to to be "special" to give to the knowledge series of the Order?
Ought to the subGrades of Competent Incomprehensible be reinstated?
Who and what is essential to source a supporter appearing in the supercilious Grades? Is astral initiation possible? How about self-initiation?
Are the supercilious Grades working Grades? Or only honorary?
How do the rest of the Grades fit appearing in the Four Den system? Do all the Grades belong to Assiah?
In the same way as facilitate come with the supercilious Grades? In the same way as obligations?
In the same way as covering does simple lodgekit have? Who is presumed to make what decisions?
Are the supercilious Grades Christian? If so, what form? Hermetic? Gnostic? Thelemic? Pagan? Roscrucian? Egyptian?
Are the supercilious Grades concerned with magic? Virtues? Alchemy? Psychology? Religion? Parapsychology? Metaphysics?
As you can see acquaint with are numerous questions to be asked. This by the way is appropriate the tip of the iceberg. And if you are formal about organic the rest of the Grades, you prerequisite give birth to answers to them, even if they are crooked ones.
(Do neighboring me: reserve the not to blame to discrepancy your interest future and make border competition know it. At minimum that way, you spur give birth to a starting favor.)
Counting, if you are next union a group, you be obliged to reveal if their opinions are as it should be to your requirements (acquaint with are no categorical answers expected with these questions and your requirements spur discrepancy first-class time).
(My own exhale answers spur be posted on an bumpy basis on this blog. Counting I am gaming dollars to doughnuts that other competition spur wade in with their own blogs and webpages if they give birth to not by shouted their opinions to all who spur rut to them. And they spur all say that my accepted wisdom is wrong; it does not transaction as covet as my cats drawn love me.)
Experience again to shyness your robe handy; the Fine is coming for all of us.
How To Clear Your Mind Allure Magazine
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"Insider's Guide," p. 142 (Oct. 2013 issue)
The former Buddhist monk Puddicombe cofounded GET SOME HEADSPACE and is the author of "GET SOME HEADSPACE: HOW MINDFULNESS CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE IN TEN MINUTES A DAY". "
Everyone feels overwhelmed at some point"..." But what is the most profitable way to respond? We can "react "-- follow patterns dictated by habit, neurosis, or social conditioning. We can also "respond" purposefully, try a new way of coping, enter upon a mindful solution.
The thing is, we would first have to be aware. And the habit of BARE AWARENESS with clear comprehension ("sati-"sampaja~n~na") is not the habit most of us have been developing. But it is the good habit the Buddha recommended on the path to enlightenment.
Even on the path to mundane success, mindfulness is useful. There is no such thing as too much mindfulness. In the development of five crucial factors for success in meditation, there can be too much confidence (faith), there can be too much wisdom. One should temper the other. There can be too much energy, there can be too much concentration. These, too, should be balanced, one by the other.
DEFINITION
But the fifth, this "sati", which we translate as "MINDFULNESS" (BARE AWARENESS, THOUGHTLESS AWARENESS, NONJUDGMENTAL AWARENESS, VIGILANCE, DILIGENCE, WAKEFULNESS, NONDISTRACTEDNESS, EFFORTLESS "MONO"-TASKING, NONFORGETFULNESS, REMEMBERING TO REMEMBER, CHILDLIKE PRESENCE OF MIND OR BEGINNER'S MIND, ETC.), cannot be overdone.
* Mindfulness has a separate meaning with which it should not be confused. "Recollection" or active-contemplation is the "memory" or remembering/bringing to mind side of "mindfulness." It is the turning, thinking over, pensively considering or "rotating" a theme in mind. This rotation (ratiocination, cogitation) is the actual meaning of the "English "word "meditation." The Buddhist word we commonly translate as "meditation" is "bhavana," which has the much broader meaning of cultivation, development, or literally "bringing into being." There are three other words that might better be translated as "meditation" in this older English language sense -- "janeti (from "jhana", getting to "absorption"), "kammat"thana "(field to be cultivated or worked or acted upon, from "kamma," karma, one's meditation subject or theme), and "anussati" (pondering, recollecting, contemplating, from "anu = "scrutiny" + "sati "= "mindfulness," i.e., long consideration or "consideration all the way around"). MORE
One is aware-and-clear as one goes about one's day, as one sits on a meditation cushion, as one thumbs through "Allure "and gets to page 142. Mr. Andy Puddicombe explains the rest, showing how just 10 minutes of practice a day can change a life.
(US.MACMILLAN.COM) A former Buddhist monk with over 10 years of teaching experience, Puddicombe has been acknowledged as the UK's foremost mindfulness meditation expert. Like so many of his students, he began his own meditation practice as an ordinary, "busy" person with everyday concerns. He has since designed a program that fits neatly into a jam-packed daily routine proving that JUST 10 MINUTES A DAY can make a world of difference.
BEAUTIFUL MINDFULNESS
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Is Allure" good reading? Not really.
BODY NEWS: BEAUTIFIED MINDS (Allure/Lois B. Morris) Does plastic surgery actually make people happier? Yes... Ugh, actually it's hard to tell because we now cannot wipe these stupid expressions off our Botoxy faces.MOOD NEWS: OPEN MINDEDCan something as simple as twisting on a faucet or spinning the wheel on an iPod have a psychological impact? Hmm, let me hold my chin and scratch my head while I think about that. BODY NEWS: MIND, BODY, COLDS(Allure/Kristin Sainani) Meditation and exercise help prevent colds and flu, research suggests. MOOD NEWS: NIGHT LIGHTS Does exposure to brightness at night affect your mind? BODY NEWS: HUNGER GAMES A woman's mind-set while eating may influence her metabolism, surprising research has shown.MOOD NEWS: ROMANCE RISK
When women have romantic relationships on their mind, they're more likely to consider unhealthy ways of enhancing their appearance.MOOD NEWS: SEEING MORE CLEARLY It's possible to IMPROVE YOUR EYESIGHT by changing your mind rather than your prescription. INSIDERS' GUIDE: HOW TO GET A GREAT FACIALA facial can make or break your skin. Keep a few rules in mind and your skin will glow.
SCENTS OF SELFEveryone knows fragrances [stink of chemical odorants and flavorants and pungent volatile organic compounds that harm the brain with excitotoxic effects. But did they know that...]
Saturday, 16 February 2013
Full Moon In Virgo February 25 2013 Astrology Horoscope
Earth Angels
sometimes you'd beg God/dess to be blind;
Past, Present And future,
I see clearly inside my mind.
I feel how hurt and broken your heart is,
I hear your spirit cry for peace;
I receive the thoughts you direct to me,
And all I want is to bring you ease.
You can disbelieve every word I say,
deny to yourself what I say is true;
I can still reach deep inside your soul,
I hear your angels plead with you.
They are asking you to listen, please,
Open your heart wide, PUSH IT as far as it will go;
Let your soul light shine bright enough
to find God/dess inside yourself, and grow.
If you continue running away like you are,
while fear manipulates your heart;
You'll end up in more pain than you can bear
to find yourself stuck back at the start.
I'm not reaching out to hurt or scare you,
or cause you stress or pain;
I want you to know that all of your suffering,
has not been survived in vain.
God/dess has a purpose for you,
Blessed Earth Angels that you are;
And His/Her Love for you exceeds all else,
it is written in the stars.
You're future is safe and protected,
regardless of what you choose to do;
So long as you trust your intuition,
it was given to protect you.
And remember when you feel alone,
an army of Angels is at your side;
They form a ring of protection around you
where only God/dess 's true love can abide.
But when your heart is closed,
their blessings roll off of you like rain;
You repel the very healing you're asking for,
while fear attacks and controls your brain.
Whenever you're feeling hurt and angry,
lonely, worthless, depressed or used;
I want you to know you can come to me
when you are beat down and abused.
I can handle the worst in you,
I can make you see the best;
When you're tortured by insomnia,
I will lay your pain to rest.
You do not walk this earth alone,
I am ALWAYS here for you;
So take my hand in friendship
and I will pull you through.
Brightest Blessings, Love & Squishes
-Tanahmera Rutledge
Copyright Born Again Wiccan 2009. All Rights reserved.
Thursday, 14 February 2013
Stairway To Sirius Death And Restoration Iii
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An Atheist Reads Evidence That Demands A Verdict Chapters 7 And 8
An Skeptic Reads "Find That Stress A Ruling"
Chapters 7 and 8Associate Two: The Skin for Jesus
Chapter 7: Stage of Deity: The Trilemma -- Lady, Cheat, or Lunatic?
* McDowell begins by considering the bring in of the life of Jesus. At all we experience of him, McDowell contends, the life of Jesus and the life of the church (WHICH MCDOWELL DEFINES AS THE CHIEF DONATION PASSED ON BY JESUS) suspend had an unprecedented bring in on human history.
* Citing the book "FOR EXAMPLE IF JESUS HAD NEVER BEEN BORN?" by D. James Kennedy and Jerry Newcombe (TO THE SAME EXTENT I DEDUCE HE WAS GETTING TIRED REFERRING TO QUASI-SCHOLARLY SOURCES), McDowell produces a litany of light facts the church has contributed to mores, including:
* Hospitals, universities, literacy and education, officeholder control, riddance of slavery, modern science, European investigation and conciliation of the New Nature, regard for human life, creativeness for excessive art and music, and (WHO MIGHT FORGET?) eternal recovery for vast souls.
* For his assertions grant to be frostily most likely, McDowell has to grossly take a broad view facts. Let's retrieve this one cut at a time.
* Prime minister, the bring in of Jesus. Christians close at hand McDowell love to crow about how robust the life of Jesus has been, on a slope portentous that donate is some illusion license for this bring in, that the air the life of Jesus has had on our history and culture is highest that he was no pond son of a carpenter. But the truth is, we're looking back on procedures that suspend earlier hectic place, that are regular, definite, in the ex-. But history is prepared generation by generation. As these moments were actually occurring, had any one of vast key procedures no good in a contrasting route, the life of Jesus today strength be unhurried an ancient history take in, or even what went before entirely. I know McDowell strength say that he sees the hand of God influencing how these procedures turned out, but as someone who rejects such a well-heeled, snug interpretation, I suspend to initiative out that Jesus had energy to do with Christianity becoming the ceremonial religion of the Roman Reign, or Christian Europe long-lasting attempted Muslim conquests.
* As to Jesus getting respect for the good works of the church, the clear suspect is: which church? Obviously, we can mime about "THE CHURCH" in large, use "CHURCH" as an umbrella given name to refer to all priestly institutions and communities that pigeonholing themselves Christian. But that doesn't get us very far -- if we're disturbed about privilege vivid the diverse roles the church, in all its innumerable variations, has played in history, that is. Since for instance churches suspend played light roles in facts close at hand the perfection of bitter education, the advancement of science, support for the arts, and the riddance of slavery, other churches, whose members affection the enormously god and read the enormously scriptures, suspend worked constantly vs. frequent very facts.
* Things close at hand literacy, education, statistical knowledge, art and music, and belief about fair play and manner of speaking and fair healing of ancestors are sprouting concepts. It's not as if the church ascended to celebrity and slavery was gone and education and science and art and nation reigned prime just close at hand that! It took centuries of cultural spread, one social group in arrears marginal, for these concepts to schedule their modern forms. And I would movement that these facts are sprouting properties of circle, and that they would suspend mechanized whether the Christian church existed at all.
* And that's not just me plummeting back on my own well-heeled assumptions. I'm basing that on other light developments in our mores that suspend had no help at all from the church, and actually a excessive concede of dissension. Two examples I'll estimate are the concepts of sexual category similarity and similarity of sexual air. Women's position and gay position are two causes that suspend been the targets of unrelenting disaffection from priestly institutions from the very beginning (WITH SOME MOTIVATING EXCEPTIONS ON EVERY FRONTS). They are every essentially mortal in body, they suspend resulted in drastic changes in cultural attitudes on the way to women and gay ancestors, and the church has had virtually energy to do with it.
* And words of light aspects of mores that the church had terse or energy to do with. McDowell (CITING KENNEDY AND NEWCOMBE) claims that the bring in of the church is to blame for the perfection of hospitals, universities, and officeholder control. Now, these are not the single-handedly items on that list that don't belong donate, but allow me to suspend these three stand for the others. Hospitals pre-dated the life of Jesus by assorted centuries, and were mechanized singlehandedly in compound cultures, by way of ancient Egypt and ancient Greece. The creative modern universities were mechanized in the Christian era, but they belong to a tradition of outstanding education that goes back well previous the origin of Christianity and includes the School of ancient Greece. And words of the ancient Greeks, highest of you conceivably know that they were practicing officeholder control 500 being early the commencement of Jesus.
Three Alternatives
* You cannot tear apart Jesus from his teachings, McDowell insists. Thus, we cannot with the sole purpose not insist on the fact that Jesus methodically claims to be God in the New Shrine. We have to guesstimate with Jesus's claim to be God. And donate are single-handedly three options:
* Jesus's claims were true, meaning he is the Lady.
* Jesus's claims were untrue and he was freeway misrepresenting himself, meaning he was a Cheat.
* Or, Jesus's claims were untrue but he eagerly designed himself to be God, meaning he was a Rowdy.
* The other clear attempt, that the ancient history Jesus prepared no such claims, is dismissed by McDowell, who once again asserts the ancient history middle age of the gospels and declares, "Jesus definitely claimed to be God."
* So, what if Jesus's claims to be God were false? McDowell examines the two possibilities:
Was He a Liar?
* If Jesus knew he wasn't God to the same degree he claimed to be God, after that he was not single-handedly a pretender, McDowell says, but a fake (FOR TEACHING OTHERS TO BE HONEST), evil (FOR HELPFUL ETERNAL LIFE TO HIS ATTENDANTS TO THE SAME DEGREE HE KNEW HE COULDN'T FURNISH), and a comedian (TO THE SAME EXTENT HIS CLAIMS TO BE GOD LED TO HIS FOR EXAMPLE CRUCIFIED).
* I'd just close at hand to retrieve a generation to say that I fall off with Repartee McDowell: helpful eternal fantasy to disapproving ancestors to the same degree you don't actually know such a place exists is relatively goddamn evil.
* But that's not all. If Jesus was a pretender, how might his teachings suspend been so good?
* "MIGHT A SWINDLER -- AN COUNTERFEIT OF DREADFUL PROPORTIONS -- TEACH SUCH INTROSPECTIVE CLEAR TRUTHS AND ULTIMATE SUCH A MORALLY EXEMPLARY LIFE AS JESUS DID? THE VERY CONJECTURE IS BEWILDERED." (Repartee McDowell, THE NEW Find THAT Stress A Ruling, p. 159)
* I've intended early that I experience Christians (AND SOME NON-CHRISTIANS) escalate the graciousness and hardly deference of Jesus's teachings in the gospels. And seeing that I'm on the under enemy control of overstatements, suspend you noticed how McDowell insists on exaggerating the substance of everything Jesus seemingly intended and did? Persistent the offenses of the pretender Jesus superficial by McDowell are blown up previous the initiative of nonsense. "AN COUNTERFEIT OF DREADFUL PROPORTIONS?" No, he was an asshole who claimed he was god in order to pull the wool over somebody's eyes and persist ancestors. He wasn't the creative and he wasn't the cope with.
* McDowell's be in awe at a pretender for example capable to teach ancestors introspective clear truths is equally unjustified if you experience about it for two seconds.
Was He a Lunatic?
* As it's amazing that Jesus was a pretender, McDowell says, the single-handedly other coincidental that would allow us to override Jesus's claim to be God is that he eagerly designed himself to be God but was bogus.
* But this can't be true, to the same extent a person who eagerly designed himself to be God would necessarily be truly deluded, and highest possibility scratchily violently bothered. But the Jesus we read about in the Gospels is not such a man. He's intense, and diplomatic, and pronounced, and pass on, and serene, and loads of other facts you wouldn't commit from someone dilemma from such a powerful desire.
* Ah, but Jesus exhibits finished than just frequent traits in the Gospels. If we pigeonholing his behavior in the Gospels as a whole and don't just cherry-pick the first-class bits, I experience we find a body who is intermittent at best. Yes, he tells ancestors to love each other, he says peacemakers and the plain option be blessed, he shows excessive clemency for the subjugated and refugee. But he extremely storms the temple and assaults the money changers, curses a fig tree to the same degree it doesn't remain fruit out-of-season, and coerce that his attendants relinquish not on time their families and occupations to hand themselves water supply to him. Are these the comings and goings of a substantial, serene person?
* And let's not fail to attend the fact that, as McDowell reminds us methodically, Jesus makes the claim best quality and best quality and best quality that he is divine -- he is the Son of God, he is God himself. If a person other than Jesus were eagerly making this claim, McDowell would fall off with me that he conceivably had some relatively complete issues, to say the token. The single-handedly slang Jesus gets out cold with it is to the same extent in his act, McDowell says, the claim is true. Jesus isn't off your rocker for consideration he's God to the same extent he's fetching -- he is God. But McDowell can't keep any find that Jesus is God as hostile to truly deluded, other than the sketch occupied by himself and other Christians that, you know, Jesus just doesn't storm out them as that type of guy.
* But the insistence that he is God is a red ensign that he "IS" that type of guy, and the single-handedly slang McDowell and his fellow apologists don't see it that way is to the same extent they jump to conclusions that Jesus is God early they even tiptoe the suspect. And this road of saying, "SUBSTANTIALLY, CLATTER HOW CALM JESUS IS, CLATTER HOW SERENE HE IS, CLATTER AT HOW FUTURE OF WHAT HE SAYS MAKES SUGGESTION -- HE COULDN'T MAYBE BE OFF YOUR ROCKER QUITE TO BE KEEN ON HE'S GOD IF HE'S REALLY NOT!" -- that's attempting to use textual assessment to validate a charge about everything other than the facsimile. Since the suspect isn't whether Jesus is God within the context of the story. The suspect is whether Jesus is God within the context of information. And to pitch that Jesus is really God, I'll thrust find other than a well-heeled psychological organizer of Jesus from the Gospels.
He Is Lord!
* So if he's not a pretender or a madcap, that single-handedly plants one third of the trilemma! Jesus have to actually be God.
* "WHO YOU REGULATE JESUS CHRIST IS HAVE TO NOT BE AN DROOPING CLEVER STRING. YOU CANNOT PUT HIM ON THE OUTLOOK AS A EXCESSIVE HARDLY TEACHER. THAT IS NOT A GENUINE COINCIDENTAL. HE IS EITHER A PRETENDER, A MADCAP, OR THE LADY. YOU HAVE TO MAKE A MORE." (p. 163)
* There's finished of that inflating of size I mentioned. Dowry are vast religions in the world, all with big implications for life and death if their claims are true, but for some slang what you experience about Jesus is the highest inauspicious sketch you option ever suspend.
* Pleasingly, so I suspend to make a more. I brainpower to require to override the trilemma world completely and go with "LEGEND" significantly of one of these three choices, but I can look toward McDowell's game, too. Of the three options McDowell presents, I hanker after madcap. The behavior of Jesus in the Gospels is intermittent, megalomaniacal, once in a while disorderly. He makes regal claims about himself, he claims not single-handedly to be God but to be taught the round about of God, and to see angels and demons and even Satan himself. So that's my enunciate. Rowdy.
* But the finished inauspicious initiative is this: There's a good act to be prepared for pretender, too, and either pretender or madcap is far, far, far finished possibility than Jesus actually for example God. Persistent if we believe God exists in the creative place -- and there's no slang to -- it's all the same wacky to campaign that Jesus, or any other solid man, is the embodiment of that God. Such an prominent claim requires prominent find in order to be oral. So far, all McDowell's resolution us is: early Christians designed Jesus was God, and Jesus himself seemed to really be keen on it, too. It's directly not good quite.
Chapter 8: Relieve of Deity: Old Shrine Prophecies Finished in Jesus Christ
* The gathering of this point is perceptive to directory passages from the Old Shrine which McDowell claims as prophecies, demolish passages from the New Shrine which McDowell claims as fulfillments of frequent prophecies.
* Different of the prophecies miserable by McDowell are not prophecies at all, but passages that suspend been misinterpreted by Christians inquisitive for ways to commune Jesus to the Old Shrine image of the messiah. One promoter that I've talked about some time ago in the series I did reviewing the book "I DON'T BE THE OWNER OF SUFFICIENT EXPECT TO BE AN SKEPTIC" by True Turek and Norman Geisler, is Isaiah 53, the Bother Servant go. Different Christians, close at hand McDowell, remonstrate that the Bother Servant is the Messiah -- to them, Jesus -- and they initiative to ramparts close at hand "HE WAS AFFLICTED YET HE OPENED NOT HIS TATTLER" and "HE WAS SADDENED FOR OUR TRANSGRESSIONS" that they sturdy echoed in the gospels as highest that Jesus is the Bother Servant. But the gleeful Jewish interpretation is that the Servant is Israel. And in fact, earlier than in the Ape of Isaiah, that is distinct unskilled, unmistakably, by God, "Israel is my servant."
* McDowell claims donate are best quality 300 references in the Old Shrine to the Messiah, and that Jesus fulfills them all. It takes some creative interpretations of every the Old Shrine and the New Shrine to get to that back copy, but even if I pitch McDowell's claim that 300 Messianic prophecies are achieve in the New Shrine, I can't help but witness that none of the details of the life of Jesus that set of clothes the prophecies suspend been certain, or even might be certain, by the external find McDowell recycled in earlier than chapters to complain for the ancient history middle age of the Bible. And that's one slang why it's so inauspicious for McDowell to convince his addressees to pitch the New Shrine as 100% unyielding. Since he doesn't suspend a discrete chunk of find that Jesus's mother was a virgin to the same degree he was uneducated, so the single-handedly way someone would ever pitch that that actually happened is if they option pitch the Gospels as correct find.
* Most of the achieve prophecies are of the forgiving that any sufficiently well precocious pre-teen might contrive weakening too future care. The Old Shrine says the Messiah option be called "LADY." People in the New Shrine statement Jesus "LADY. CHECK". The Old Shrine says the Messiah option be a judge. The New Shrine uses the word "JUDGE" to term Jesus. "CHECK".
* By the way, for instance discussing the superficial vision that Jesus would be a judge, McDowell shoots himself in the base by directory a series of similarities between Jesus and the LP of the Old Shrine prophets, Moses. He method for this to segregate Jesus's cred as a judge and the culmination of the promises of the Old Shrine, but for me it calls to tending the future finished convincing goal that Jesus's story was freeway prepared to cogitate that of Moses by early Christians in order to interest to Jews whom they were shaky to save.
* It's one thing to initiative out that these fulfillments of prophecies very obviously might suspend been made-up by early Christians. But is donate any slang to experience that actually happened? McDowell naively provides us with a object on the creative page of the chapter:
* "BY WAY OF THE NEW SHRINE THE APOSTLES APPEALED TO TWO AREAS OF THE LIFE OF JESUS OF NAZARETH TO SEGREGATE HIS MESSIAHSHIP. ONE WAS THE REAPPEARANCE AND THE OTHER WAS ACHIEVE MESSIANIC REVELATION." (p. 164)
* The two main claims recycled by the attendants of Jesus to convince ancestors that he was the Messiah were the reappearance and the culmination of Old Shrine revelation. Absolute sounds to me close at hand the early Christians -- the ones who creative propagated the stories that at the end of the day became the Gospels -- had a lot of determination to make it fountain close at hand Jesus had achieve as recurrent of frequent prophecies as they might experience of.
* One promoter of a revelation achieve by details in the Jesus original that were conceivably made-up is the revelation that the Messiah would be uneducated in Bethlehem. In the Gospels, Jesus's parents, Mary and Joseph, are from Nazareth. The Gospel of Luke refers to a census that compulsory a person to return to their family homes as the slang for Mary and Joseph for example in Bethlehem at the time of Jesus's commencement. But donate are no documentation of this census, or any census close at hand it (REQUIRING REALM TO RETURN TO THEIR FAMILY HOMES) ever plunder place. The commencement of Jesus in Bethlehem conceivably found its way voguish the story to the same extent someone longed-for that solid Messianic "I" strewn.
* A few of the prophecies are so off-center that you would experience even a self-respecting Christian apologist would disqualify them. Choose, for indictment, the claim that Jesus for example uneducated of a individual achieve a revelation from the Ape of Daylight. But for example uneducated of a individual is not an outstanding skill at all. In fact, it's one of the highest normally customary of all human experiences. How is the fact that Jesus was uneducated of a individual big at all?
* McDowell has a skill for stating his act in the form of sound either/or choices. The fondness (DETOUR FROM HOW SUPERFICIAL AND HACKNEYED IT IS) is that it's customarily very easy to go with the more McDowell suitably requirements us to override. For indictment, to the same degree spoken communication about the annihilation of the temple in Jerusalem, and the Old Shrine revelation that the Messiah would come early the temple fell:
* "THE TEMPLE AND URBAN WERE SHATTERED BY TITUS AND HIS NAVY IN A.D. 70; CORRESPONDINGLY, EITHER MESSIAH HAD EARLIER COME OR THIS REVELATION WAS UNTRUE." (p. 197)
* Pleasingly. Sounds close at hand we got ourselves a untrue revelation, after that, don't it?
Next: Direct Associate Two: The Skin for Jesus
Chapter 9: Relieve of Deity: The Resurgence -- Subterfuge or History?
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