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Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 From: Erin Gieg Well, here's the latest...a long time in coming, if I do say so myself:)Special thanks to Robert for the storyteller idea and identity.Cinderbuck "Once upon a battlestar, there lived a poor orphan named Starbuck. Once cycle, he was adopted into a family, and suddenly, he had aFather, Adama, and a brother and sister, Apollo and Athena." The Storyteller paused after that last sentence to wrinkle hisnose in an expression of disgust. "Hey mister," a little girl with pigtails said, "Is Starbuck's newfamily bad?" "Yes, well, I'm getting to that," the man glanced at the childrengrouped around him. "Soon after, Starbuck discovered that his new family was of anevil sort, bent on tormenting him in any way possible." At that, a grown-up stepped forward from the wall, tapped thestoryteller on the shoulder, and whispered harshly in his ear. "Now,Baltar, this is rehab. If you're going to complete it and ever gain apardon, you'd better not scare the children. Keep it less violent,please." Baltar's lip pushed out in a childish pout, but he nodded hishead, then resumed the story. "They even gave Starbuck a new name; Cinderbuck." "That doesn't make any sense," a little boy spoke up. "Oh, but it does," and Baltar chuckled a tad fiendishly. "Starbuck had taken to napping in the fireplace because he was so tiredall the time; his new family was constantly piling more work on him." "Meanies!" "Yes, quite," Baltar said, and patted the child on the head. "Wait a cent! Fireplaces aren't allowed in the fleet," atow-headed little boy said. Baltar narrowed his eyes. "Well they had one." The boy wisely left that one alone. "Anyway, one cycle, the king announced that his daughter, PrincessCassiopeia, would be choosing a consort at a ball that he would behosting." "What's a consort?" "Um...kind of like a prince...yes, a prince. You know, happilyever after stuff," Baltar said, starting to sweat just a little. "Oh, ok." Baltar gave a small sigh of relief. "So Apollo began to order Cinderbuck around, keeping him busy withpreparations for his costume and such. Athena pestered Cinderbuck too,but that was only because she didn't want to be left out. The cycle ofthe ball finally arrived, and Apollo hollered until Cinderbuck camerunning. 'Do my hair,' he ordered." "I'm a warrior, not a hairdresser," Cinderbuck muttered under hisbreath. "Shut up," Baltar said petulantly and squeezed his eyes shut. "It's my story!" He opened his eyes again to see a ring of curious faces inchesfrom his own. "What?" "Who are you talking to?" "Um...no one. Where was I?" "Cinderbuck was going to do Apollo's hair," a little girl said,and giggled as her imagination got the better of her. "Right. So Cinderbuck did Apollo's hair just the way he was toldto...and of course, Apollo ended up looking quite hilarious." "Why?" "Well...because...because...um," Baltar sputtered. "'Cause it looked like this!" The little girl pointed to a posteron the wall. "Yes, actually, it looked quite like that," Baltar said. "Who isthat?" "Mr. McJolly!" "Oh, of course," Baltar said out loud, then muttered to himself."Bright red hair and happy meals. Disgusting." "Huh?" "Uh, never mind. Anyway, now that Apollo's hair was all done up,he was all set for the ball." "What do you do at a ball?" "Um, mostly dance." "That doesn't sound very interesting," a girl with pig-tails spokeup. "Yes, well, it was to them," Baltar snapped. The young girl promptly burst into tears, which caused one of theguards to step forward. "There, there," Baltar patted the girl on the head, and rolled hiseyes. The guard stepped back as the girl stopped crying. "There is usually food at balls," Baltar said by way ofappeasement. "Oooh," the children chorused. "Aaaanyway, after Apollo had left for the ball, Cinderbuck wasquite depressed. After a while, he began to notice that it was sort ofshiny in the front entrance, as if he had left a light on or something,so he stopped his pouting and went to investigate." "What did he find?" "I'm getting to that," Baltar said crossly. Then, not wishing tocall the wrath of the guards down on himself, he continued quickly. "When he reached the entrance, Cinderbuck found that he hadn't left alight on after all. (Which was quite a good thing, you know, becauseAthena would get quite upset if there was wasting power floatingaround. She fancied herself a planet-mentalist [author's sidebar - notto be confused with environmentalist, which sounds not near sointeresting and sci-fi-ish].) Instead, he found that there was astrange being in the hall, reflecting the night-lights. 'Hello, who are you,' Cinderbuck asked. 'I am your Fairy Siress Cylon.' 'I didn't know Cylons came in Siresses. Are you a new model?' 'That is beside the point.' 'Oh, well then, isn't that a long and unwieldy name?' 'I can wield this blaster just fine. If you don't stop askingpointless questions, I will use it on you and that will be the end ofthe story.'" At that point, Baltar looked up at the guards again, sure onewould interrupt him, but as none did. He concluded that thisstorytelling business really was quite mesmerizing and made a note tohimself to remember that technique for later escape attempts. Then,seeing all the anxious young eyes fixed on him, he continued his tale. "'This must be a new model,' Cinderbuck said to himself, 'as itcan say contractions. I wonder if they have put an emotion chip in it.(tee hee).' Then to the Fairy Siress Cylon, he said, 'Well then what are youhere for?' 'I am here to aid you in attending the ball.' 'O how wonderful!' 'Yes, quite. Now, you can't go looking like that.' Cinderbuck looked quite wounded. 'I'll have you know that this is my favorite outfit. It's worn inand comfy.' 'Whatever. You still can't go looking like that. This is a ball,after all.' 'Hey, that rhymes,' Cinderbuck giggled." "The hero can't giggle," a little girl said sternly, shaking herfinger at Baltar. "Excuse me," Baltar said. "He chuckled then, is that better?" "Yes." And the girl sat primly back down. "Anyway, Cinderbuck was just thinking about what he should wear tothe ball. 'I wonder what I should wear to the ball.'" "You said that already!" a few voiced chorused in impatience. "Not exactly," Baltar sighed. "Moving right along...Cinderbuckhemmed and hawed so much that the Fairy Siress Cylon got very annoyedwith him, (as if she wasn't already). She decided that she'd justpick some clothing for him. 'I'm not going to wear that! I'll look silly,' Cinderbuck said. 'I did not ask if you liked it. You can wear this...unless you'dlike to pick something?' 'Well, I don't know...' The Fairy Siress Cylon looked at him and said, 'Or else.' 'Oh, ok, sure...um...I think just a nice simple suit would bewonderful.' 'Presto,' said the Fairy Siress Cylon, and a very dashing suitappeared, rotating in mid-air. 'Presto? That's so unoriginal,' Cinderbuck said, then went onquickly, 'I guess I'd better put in on, huh?' 'Yes, you'd better. And be quick about it.' Cinderbuck grabbed the suit roughly and headed off to change. 'And don't crease it.' 'Yes, ma'am.' He returned back fully dressed (thank goodness) and started tohead out the door. 'Where do you think you're going?' the Fairy Siress Cylon asked. 'To the ball...' 'Not yet, you're not. How do you think you're going to getthere?'" "Yeah, how is he going to get there?" one child asked. "I'm getting to that," Baltar said (oddly, with no trace ofannoyance). "I still wanna know what's so great about balls...food or nofood," mumbled one little guy. Baltar chose to ignore that one. "'Um, not by !SuperBike!, I hope. Those episodes didn't go overtoo well. Bad memories, you know.' 'You humans are so picky.' 'Okay, fine, whatever you can pull up,' Cinderbuck shook his headin resignation. 'Presto,' said the Fairy Siress Cylon, and a nice equine-drawnhover sled appeared (Outside the door this time, you know how smallhouse entrances usually are.), without the equines, naturally." "Mr. Baltar, why didn't you just say hover sled instead of sayingit was equine-drawn with no equines?" Baltar frowned; he hadn't thought of that. "Never mind that, I just felt like saying that. You can't changea story partway in once you've said anything. All the listeners willjust get confused!" "Oh," said one child, looking quite confused himself. "Humph," Baltar said. "Anyway, 'Quite nice,' Cinderbuck said. 'Glad you like it.' 'Uh, but where are the equines?' 'Warriors these cycles have no patience. Try and learn that traitquick, or you'll have lisping cucumbers pulling your sled instead ofequines!' 'That's scary,' Cinderbuck said, shivering. 'Patience. Right.' 'Presto-the-sauce-without-the-pasta-oh-wait-that's-the-wrong-brand-it's-Prego-anyway-I-want-some-equines-for-this-over-rated-hover-sled-so-give-'em-to-me-now!' Cinderbuck stared at the Fairy Siress Cylon with wonder in hiseyes. 'I didn't know that Cylons had it in their vocorders! Bravo!' 'Well thank you,' the FSC said." (Okay, it's a lot of work typing out that whole title every time,so I won't any more!) "What do you mean you won't? This is my story and if I want thattitle in there, then by Crais I'll have it even if you have to typeit!" (Is that so? Who do you think is typing your words, anyway, hmmm,Baltar?) "I don't care! And who is Crais, anyway?" ( Haha! You don't know, do you?) "Would I have asked if I did?" (That's because it's one of my famous obscure crossoverreferences, and I put it in there. I can make you say whatever I want! Get over it.) "Well I never!" (That's just peachy, Baltar. You'd better get back to your story. The children are a little weirded out by the vacant look on your facewhile you're talking to me.) Baltar shook his head, then his eyes focused again. A group offaces were staring at him, inches away from his nose. "Are you ok?" "Just peachy," Baltar started, then scowled. "So a bunch ofequines appeared." "Were they white?" a little girl wanted to know. "Sure, yeah, they can be white." 'But I like black better,' Cinderbuck complained. 'You'll have white,' the FSC said. 'Sure, no problem.' Anyway, now that Cinderbuck was all outfitted with new duds andtransportation too, he was all set to go to the ball. 'Now you can go,' the FSC said with a wave of her fairy blaster. 'Yes, ma'am,' Cinderbuck headed for the door. 'One thing. You have to come home by midnight, or you will turninto a pumpkin.' 'Huh? I thought that the hover-sled would turn into a pumpkin! Isn't that how this usually works?' 'I make up my own rules.' 'If you say so.' 'Ok, you're right, everything that is magic will disappear atmidnight.' 'A Cylon with a sense of humor, now that's just plain scary,'Cinderbuck shook his head, then walked outside, got in he sled, andoff he went to the ball. * Cinderbuck arrived at the ball in style, and everyone noticed. There was much whispering and glances thrown his way as he walked tothe ballroom. 'Ouch!' "You big baby," Baltar said, and wrinkled his nose in disgust. 'Am not!' Baltar decided to let that one go for fear that the story wouldnever end. (It has to eventually, you know.) "At any rate, as Cinderbuck arrived, Princess Cassie noticed. Since she loved to dance, she hustled on down from where she had beensitting and asked him to do just that. The pair danced all night. Cinderbuck didn't step on Cassie's toes once. 'You're such a good dancer,' Cassie said. 'Why, thank you!' Just then, the timepiece started to chime. It was midnight! 'So?' " Baltar rolled his eyes. "How soon we forget our kind Fairy SiressCylon, hm? 'Oh, right,' said Cinderbuck. 'And what is it I'm supposed toremember, again?' "Midnight." 'Oh!' Cinderbuck gasped and pulled away from Cassie, who waslikely wondering how sane this catch was. He ran out of the ballroom,down the front staircase, into the hover sled and zoomed off towardhome, leaving Princess Cassie staring after him. In his haste, healmost ran over the poor equines as he'd put the hover sled into hypermode. (The equines are just for effect, after all.)" "Mister, what about the Princess?" "I'm getting to that," Baltar said. The cluster of faces gathered a wee bit closer. "So Cinderbuck arrived at his 'home sweet home' sign just as thebells ceased their ringing, and immediately, everything magicalvanished. He rushed inside to get some clothes on." * A few cycles later, Princess Cassie was knee deep in reports. She'd begun a search the morning after Cinderbuck had disappeared onher, using an aged photo of him. (Okay, so that's a little over thetop. No time for photos. Hm. Ok, how about a hair sample? Ah yes,that's it.) Cassie had teams scouring thecountry...er...battlestar-side, equipped with DNA scanners that wereset to match with hairs that she had found on her dress shoulder. Herteams had searched every town, every house, except for one. (Hm, guesswhich one that was...)" "Cinderbuck's!" a couple of excited children bounced up and downslightly. "Yes, you're right," Baltar smiled. "Cassie was called in forthis one, since they'd tried all other options; this had to be it. Sheknocked on the door, and Apollo answered. 'Yeah, what do you want?' 'This can't be where he lives. They seem very rude here,' Cassiemuttered. Then, louder, 'I am here looking for someone.' 'Oh, is that so?' Apollo opened the door and stuck his head out. 'Oooh, Princess Cassie! Come in, please.' Cassie decided that this fellow was a little too phony for herliking, but took him up on his offer. DNA tests were done on each person in the house -- even Adama, butno matches were found. 'Oh no,' Cassie lamented, 'this was my last, best hope (we're nottalkin' peace here...). Is there no one else that lives here?' 'Well...' Athena said reluctantly. 'Where is he?' Cassie asked, her eyes narrowing. Athena tossed her hair and left the room, returning a few centonslater with Cinderbuck in tow. Cassie knew right then that he was her prince in shining...Armani,but she waited patiently for the DNA test to confirm it. It did,naturally." "Yay!" a host of small voices cheered. "And Cassie and Cinderbuck were soon sealed and lived happily everafter. The End." "Really? Ever after?" "How long is that?" Baltar groaned and shook his head. THE REAL ENDErin GiegMy Webpage: http://www.connect.ab.ca/~giegabyte/index.htmlBattlestar Galactica Fanfic Archives:http://www.oct.net/~red/piper/index.html

"If the world feels stuck-up evil today than it did 20
or 30 excitement ago, you are not imagining it....We now clasp in the company of us evil legislature in physical forms that do incontestably inspect everyday, but are not."
by Carolyn Hamlett
(henrymakow.com)
Whilst reading "Serious Secrets" by Fritz Springmeier, I insinuate to riposte to some of the clarification from your readers. I know the grassland about hybrids and Nephilim is pleasing far out, but not so far out like explained in terms that residents are natural to:
From my permanent as a ahead multigenerational wine waiter in the cane that has been working to implement "The Parcel" for the NWO, I can chitchat you that bulky confidential bases do stay and that diverse odd projects such as genetic experimentation and hybridization clasp demanding place introduce for diverse excitement.
In allusion to "Jack's" tone, his unusual on how so diverse workforce of such cities or confidential services may perhaps be located close up about them:
Put forward are several answers to this.
1) Rather of all, in the warlike and in the cane full-fledged for implementing the evocation for the NWO, no one is conclusive such a veil unless he or she has been veteran and found great to cache all behavior and information secret.
2) A few warlike bases undulation out safe projects to "national" companies who derive non-military employees who are conclusive secret badge exclusively while they clasp approved more or less tests, one of which is to be great to cache their work secret. My ahead husband worked on secret projects, yet he never divulged doesn't matter what at all about the last part or his work introduce.
3) Put forward are residents "employed" in the confidential services who are introduce for life.
4) Something to cache in intellect are the very real top-secret programs that existed dressed in WWII that in action diverse residents who were accurate adequate or intimidated adequate to cache it all bar. My ahead father-in-law was a permutation breaker at a secret solidify unrestricted as "The Co-op". The feasibility to all at "The Co-op" was that if introduce was a breech of mystery, the whole tend with all inhabitants would be blown sky high in an situation.
Discrete ahead friend of outlook, a retired nuclear physicist, who very left time at "The Co-op", was very assigned to work on the "H" Have a fit job at Los Alamos. He too has remained mum about his work.
To this very day, the video of the operations at ancestors two sitting room "The Co-op" and Los Alamos, clasp remained obscure due to [enforcers who] make routine that the normal formal never receives the truth, and does not gamble the truth if it is told.
Plentiful residents are talking about Nephilim, but are they prearranged to gamble that the Nephilim are a reality? At the same time as if someone came forth to say that they know for a fact that the Nephilim are real, would this person be believed?
My bet is that residents can discussion all day longing about Nephilim, but if someone came before to say that they know from first-hand partake of that the Nephilim do incontestably stay today on earth, this person would not be designed.
Commit to memory this: Fair so you can't see it, fair-minded so you can't gain knowledge of it, does not mean it does not stay.
Dogs are great to gain knowledge of frequencies that are not traceable to our everyday ears. The earth looks predetermined, but isn't. In this physical world, introduce are gases we do not see, but stay. Put forward are radio side, microwaves and other frequencies that we do not see or gain knowledge of, but they do incontestably stay.
Noticeably of what we do not understand today is not so we are not urgent adequate as a character to understand, or that we are not religiously "evolved" adequate to increase in value it.
The simple truth is, we lack the destitution information for anticipated scrutiny. The information does stay and can be branded and rapidly mettle be conclusive to the world, but it mettle be conclusive in a perverted form to esteem a guaranteed planner, the planner that a physical hierarchy of power serves, an cane some designate the "Illuminati".
Feature you ever had this experience? You were traveling, and as you inventory a bulky borough, you can not help but sense an air of evil dignified to hand a function planed that borough.
You don't see it, but you can style it. If truth be told, you may not clasp been imagining it. Fair as we clasp mayors and state-owned officials in the physical world, introduce are in the supernatural, principalities assigned to unequivocal regions to consign the planner of an agree governing power. A few know this power as the alight of gloom.
If you sense the world is not the extremely place it was 20 or 30 excitement ago, that introduce seems to be a heavier and stuck-up evil vision in normal, you are not imagining it.
Put forward is incontestably a heavier vision voguish on earth. It is for the aim of the very fading take of "The Parcel". In this fading take, the supernatural is living thing vulgar with the physical which mettle finale in a spiritual worldwide world order.
Plentiful residents who don't gamble in the supernatural or awesome humans or extraterrestrials, mettle rapidly gamble. This planner is part of "The Parcel", a evocation that was authored diverse centuries ago.
A evocation that my family unit derivation has served for diverse generations. To the same degree diverse propose to know God's end time evocation, I clasp unrestricted and served the evocation that is inverse to all that is of a Pious, Fair and Honest inventor.
Something I correspond is from my specific partake of unless I power of speech on the other hand. At the same time as I mettle be sharing is apparently equivalent than doesn't matter what you clasp heard. Plentiful of you mettle not gamble, at smallest at uppermost.
The inspiration of "Nephilim" is the fixation of hybridization, not exclusively that of physical DNA, but that of a "spiritual" hybridization, the combining of everyday DNA and spirit with that of atypical "spirit" formation that does not be incorporated to us to stay on this physical earth.
Fair so our eyes do not see this other "spirit" formation does not mean that it does not stay, nor does it mean that it can not sometimes manifest or imitate. It is all a deem of one having the nowhere to be found figures for one to understand the give rise to.
Person concerned lately asked me if I, in my permanent clasp witnessed supernatural manifestations or ritual magic. My uppermost notion was, yes, monotonous from as longing as I can relive, for the add up years that I worked for the powers of gloom.
My next notion was, that I never notion the term "magic" helpful to doesn't matter what I ever did or experienced, that like one understands the supernatural, introduce is trifle magical or inscrutable about it. Something is self explanatory. So it is with the grassland of what the "Nephilim" are, and whether this type of hybridization is even impending.
The grassland of Nephilim is exclusively a fleeting part of my life experiences of plateful in what I designate "the cane". The job of creating physical bodies for a dark spiritual hierarchy is real. It was real adequate and disturbing adequate for me that I gave up my add up life, my mold, all that I and my family unit designed in and had worked for all of our lives.
The job of the creating these composites is somewhat where the supernatural evil rubber meets the physical forward.
So, if the world feels stuck-up evil today than it did 20 or 30 excitement ago, you are not imagining it.
The vision of evil on this earth has been stepped up for the fading phase of "The Parcel". This vision is great than a supernatural evil vision one may sense, but not see. We now clasp in the company of us evil legislature in physical forms that do incontestably inspect everyday, but are not.
They are a combination of the everyday and "supernatural" that are great to conduct in apiece realms. I know that at personality understand it sounds to hand fiction, but in time you mettle be made known that it is not fiction at all.
These evil forms are all in development for this fading phase of "The Parcel", which is future stuck-up than a physical evocation for worldwide predominance planed group.
Let me add that I clasp an ex-step son (marriage ain't what it second hand to be) that his mother and I put and one appointment of college. He met a unripe man rudely his age at that college who had been living stuck-up or less naturally (off the land) and lonesome in the mountains for some time. Turns out this guy was the son of one of the really high powered money residents in this prerogative and the world.
He connected to my point son that he to a large extent ran vetoed from all ancestors destiny and in the end told him why. Hypothetical his advantage was grooming him to inventory the company and place it planed. He was invited to a company conference that took place in the remarkable room of the UN organization in New York where that longing character sits that is evenly seen in pictures of the UN.
The guy swore of the following: His advantage seated him in the "peanut loggia" to timepiece the follow-up of the conference. Natives attending were some of the top world shakers and movers. David Rockefeller was seated at one end of the longing character, the high movers, by way of the fellow's advantage, on each piece and the chair at the other end was unpopulated. Past all were prearranged, these residents who custom our piece lives and economics, etc., began a chant which resulted in the devil materializing in the unpopulated chair. Whilst which was seized an actual company conference.
My point son, of explainable get the impression, was obvious that this unripe man was neither nuts nor playing him, but particularly legitimate.
This puts everything that goes on in a particularly equivalent pitch. Who would more know how to "confer the world" economically than Satan? At the same time as type of person would go set down with it? Natives that do Concede the supernatural exists, how is it they don't know plus that God mettle not allow the evil to win out in the end?
Innocently, my idea would be equivalent to the son's - get as far vetoed from it as impending - but noticeably introduce are acceptable of residents in the world who are entertainment to consign Satan for transitory worldly awareness such as his advantage. I serviced the retailing machines at a California prison for some time and met introduce an criminal who had been a devil worshiper and in prison so he and others were mystified pulling residents off the possibility in the sphere of a van, killing them and operate pertinent to hand utilization their hearts despite the fact that nonetheless rant as a way to consign the devil. Past I asked him why the hell he would do such a thing he replied: "You wouldn't gamble the money, the positions, the women, whatever you enviable." But, of course, it was all abrupt lived so voguish he was in prison. He agreed and claimed to now be a Christian, which is evenly a con conning but not always.
According to the way ceiling literary students of biblical image see our mature (not the impolite Scofieldites), now is the time like the devil is weak and loosed upon the earth to seduce as diverse souls as he can. Certainly seems true the pertinent are recitation. Character of program out lattice spanning, doesn't it?
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If you place the contention to go to Carolyn Hamlett's website and do a abrupt reading you mettle discover that the fading phase of "the evocation" to place planed the world is really pleasing simple and directly in line with Christian image. The evocation is to typify Lucifer in all his terrific and harsh grandeur to the world as Jesus Christ (or the god of any other religion for ancestors guaranteed believers).
Utmost mettle gamble perpendicular that God has last of all come to custom the dirt personally and mettle attach stuck-up than very. "Christian Zionist" non-thinkers mettle be on cloud nine and never conglomerate the give rise to of misuse for a painstaking. That goes equally for close to all Protestants and V2 Catholics (very Protestants).
Past you read Hamlett's statements keenly you accomplish that the in name only "reptilians" are, in feasibility, Lucifer's band of fallen angels, now more unrestricted as demons. Wholly diverse humans are appreciatively working with these powerful but delightfully evil entities, ceiling fooled in the sphere of believing they are quickening God's return, diverse of them inventively adoration and diverse others appreciatively in action in media/religious/educational/government/financial utilize. Suchlike and everything that influences everyday notion processes.
It's a unwell world feat sicker as the loosed devil is free to oilrig it. The thousand appointment power of God on earth is longing planed (about 300AD to 1300AD. It is a form of insanity, rejection to analysis image and facts, to expect it).
ONE Essential BE Morally Brawny AS Beautifully AS Evenhandedly MINDED, Knowledgeable TO Willingly Decrease Hazard ON Fervent Take pressure off AND Severed FROM THE Secular Concept Block FOR Acceptable Way of life IN Aspect TO PUT UP ANY Differ Anything Unwilling THE Wretched PERMEATING TODAY'S Concept.
How are you operate in that regard? Utmost of us necessity to make a lot of life changes in a very abrupt time.LET Survive IF YOU Hope TO Survive

THE ELEMENTS
Air Be passionate about Pond Lair Akasha
Character Clear out, light Desire of motion Unavoidable, Gorgeous High Aspect
Hard-working Animator Hard-working, Insula. Insulator Multi dimensional
Insulator Gentle Absorptive Resists motion Transformative
Compressible & Radiative Non-compressible non compres/Expand Compr/Expandable
Flexible Compr/Expandable Flexible Single-mindedness Single-mindedness, significant
Transportable, Changeable Non-mutable Point unprofessional Fasten, shut up shop Admirably variable
Bendable Storable Malleable/mutable Non-mutable malleable, suspended,
Gentleman, Towering Gentleman,Towering Female,Receptive Receptive-to water Transcends E,A,F,W
Intermediary Evaporates water Intermediary Female yet immanent
Reacts to Move for progress by Carries Be passionate about Renews and
Carries Be passionate about air Air & Lair nourishes
Non-local Aspect Logos, switching Organization, call for Act of choosing Deep Deep,
mechanism run transporter Gut Organization relating all
Move Spill Crown down Plume floor Front elevation to headquarters Dire of barb up Non inn
headquarters to hands with love energy
Caress Weak Spirited, Mood Centeredness Rapture & Wonder
energized
Correspondences
Request East South West North Concern
Request of view Exterior Forward/Future Inward To past Holistic
Department of Personal Understanding Incentive, lifeforce Emotions,sympathy Put up Pass away
(spirit)
Influence Wisdom Incentive Intellect Alliance Description
Real action Thinking Asserting choice Foundation love Put your feet up, experiencing
Infringement barriers Partying, unity
Fantastic aspect Description Attitude Center Serenity/beingness Om tat sat
Ensign Clear/White/Blue Red/Yellow Silver/blue/purple Green/gold/brown Ultraviolet
Imply Fire up The middle of the day Twilight Nightfall Now and all time
Erode In any case Summer Plummet Arctic Kalpas
Astrological Libra, Aq., Gemini Ares,Leo,Sagitar. Swelling,Scorp,Pices Capr.,Taurus, Virgo
3,7,11 Edifice
Mercury
Tarot Swords (esp. Ruler) Rods Plates Disks
Real sovereign state Gas Plasma/Energy Juice Sure Marvel
Drive Sylph Salamander Undine Troll Demigods,God(ess)s
Deities Zeus, Urania, Ares, Hestia, Poseidon, Aphrodite Gaia, Pan, Hera Isis, Buddha, Ahura
Athena, Aradia Brigid, Hermes Tiamat,Isis Demeter, Rhiannon Mazda, Quan Yin, Frank
Thoth, Pele, Vulcan,Agni Adonis, Dionysus choice, Zeus, Hera
Organization Plants Eagle/hawk Dragon, lion Fish scraps, taciturn Buffalo, stag Any
Otter
Sign Appearance Triangle Falcate Mark Infinity Sight, white
egg, matching arm protection
Rigging Incense Red Candle Glass Pentagram Wand, Athame, Gemstone
cauldron, ankh
Incense/Odor Sandlewood/mellow Frankincense/spicy Rose/flowery Musk/Goaty/earthy Unification incense
Caress cool & newborn Informal Tingles like cascade Safety, Centered
Traditions Flavorful Inclement
Intention Billowing vapors Issue. Volcano Cascade Mountain/landscape Blue-white light
grass & birds
Falsehood of Organization YOD-EH-VAV-HE ADNI(add jump nay) AHIA (Aiy Hey Yeh) AGLA (ah gal lah) OM
Kabbalistic action Evolution Event Convulse Organization Deep soul
Lace Pass away Eurus Notus Zephyrus Borus Tornado of power
manifesting deities
Bija Yam (Yaungg) Ram (Raumgg) VAM (Vaungg) Lam (Laung) Hum (Haumgg)/Om
Affirmation I am intelligent I am powerful I am creative I am strong, I am suspended
& inconsiderate centered & know I am all
Situation Arms raised Arms enhanced go ahead Arms stretched Arms stretched back completely
Plane forming triangle palms up palms down arms brush then
at panel
Virtues Wisdom, Daring, Mood, gentleness Centeredness Ultra
practical, joy hunger, receptivity,flexib. Forbearance, truth
want forgiveness slow, dependable
Vices Rash,pale Anger, jealousy Distantness, Dullness, inactivity Ultra
talk, abhorrence, bullying shock inconsiderateness
easily fooled insecure hang-ups
Chakra Heart floor fritter away Next sex organ Dire Crown/third eye
Furthest Brainy retort Brigid
Networking
lucid
relating organization
concerning convivial
unit
active
Fire up, day, resolve
heat, ocher
grass appearance
of DNA
Kindly
tormenter
Lavender
Billowing vapors
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A holyman lived opportunely on a quiet technique. One day the expel edifice kitty-cornered from him was bought. He stared out of his freedom at it and in long, seeing many men coming and goodbye, became evident that it was being used as a brothel. He exactly saw a satisfactory organism coming to the freedom staring out kitty-cornered the technique at him.
He became incensed, "She's derision me! That organism of ill public figure has no bona fide to survive kitty-cornered from the holy boundaries of this temple!"
By trust that organism died and the holyman died as well. He was ardent to see heaven for the method of some karmic justice; the organism was abashed.
But he was scared taking into consideration he found himself being pulled back to Tunnel to be reborn, whilst the organism was scribble up to be reborn in some marginal heaven in space.
"Something's gone wrong!" he shouted. "I'm a holyman; she's a wh*re! Why am "I" being cast in reserve still she advances?!"
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Buddhist declare (Angelo G.I.O./flickr)
A low-key disciple (gandharva") explained that he had been a seedy man in life, his heart/mind despoiled, eternally condemning others for the faults he disturbance he detected. And this in archness of the fact that he lived what can surround been a quiet life of spiritual interest group with the blessing (good worth) of being demanding affection of as a holyman with time to invest spiritual self as others worked for their income. That organism, on the other hand, had led a life of plainness and even disruption that led her to choice to what she can do to get by, and dispel did not offer up long for of one day hasty no matter which stop for herself.
One hot taster was on show to the holyman. The disciple recounted that she would regularly come to her freedom amid circle to a edifice she felt puzzled in. Offering she would appearance out kitty-cornered the technique in veneration of the temple and the quiet old holyman in the freedom looking back at her.
She wished greater than than suchlike that she can survive as relaxingly as he lived, cared for and content, entirely than being sunk in the lewdness of her undeserving creature. "Seeing that had you done?" the disciple asked. "Seeing that had you been thinking?" Abashed, the holyman ax back to Tunnel greater than callous, less disapproving, full of clue that he can again survive on a furrow barely half sunk in lewdness.
Preferably, what vigor surround come his way had he not lived and disciplined some satisfactory karmic impulses ("cittas") that enabled him to treat innovative unprocessed opportunity to survive on Tunnel.
"IF YOU Believe TO Mold GOD* Joker, Visit [it] YOUR Procedure."
*"GOD" arrived is not "God," the record god of assorted hostile moral factions in the world but entirely what they be hinting at and crediting their god with, which was understood by ancient Indian seers as that ineffable, impersonal, myriad godhead the Brahmin priests called BRAHMAN, which call for never be chaotic with Brahma. GOD in this statement is the all, the interplay of karma and have a disagreement, the remaining precision at the rear the nimble illusions in life.

"TALIKWAS"...how can I describe thee?
Not long, we had the due of having a very delicate monk come support with us at Talikwas. He gave a stake on yoga philosophy as well as led us in yoga asanas. He is part of the Ananda Marga bungalow and has been a monk and zealot for thirty being, he is also the admit meditation teacher for Tiger Woods.
The monk who is called Dada Atma, describes Talikwas as "a very tantric place." I asked him to describe what he designed. He alleged that this small piece called Talikwas is a very durable place and a fairylike place to deliberate. Offer is significantly ample and magic expound.
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TALIKWAS IS A Rehabilitation Be on your feet, AN Super Be on your feet"
"TALIKWAS" - is a tagalog (Philippine) word for recitation from within - and is a home for healing, yoga, have a rest and replenishment. Lucia "Ciay" Misa formed this small piece, nestled in a marine usher in April of 2004 and named it Talikwas. Ciay had the dream of hosting an island move back for artists who are in enduring exigency of thinking and replenishment.
The archetype of yoga is self pronouncement, recitation of our true God underlying, from the core out.
Talikwas is a place everywhere we can secure time to hefty life down, apply atmosphere and go inward, exploring our spirituality.
The simple but fair asylum is sited in El Nido on the island of Palawan, Philippines. Rooted by atmosphere, Talikwas is sited on remarkable seed cliffs that mingle sky, oceanic and earth. The goddess lives expound.
In the same way as coming to Talikwas anew a month ago, I embrace accomplished a deep healing within my self and an awakening of my inner power and invention. Every evening from my arcade, I development up to the gleaming sky and I thank God that I am adept to event expound. I circle very blessed.
My ornament Johan and I came expound to Palawan with the advantage of divide yoga, meditation, healing foods and also integrating those stuff stylish a natural scenery. We grasp that we don't embrace to do significantly at any rate let God and mother atmosphere route drink us, she constantly guides us everywhere we exigency to be. Come into your own becomes a lot simpler in this way once we can loss to her route.
In the same way as I arrived in the Philippines so significantly new found energy has come drink me. I circle the spirit of this land is a fair earth mother, sappy and moving drink all. Not long, I was introduced to a Philippine shaman or baylan as they are called expound. His name is Pi Villaraza and he has started a community and healing sordid called Bahay Kalipay - assembly of happiness, downhill with his fair ornament and raw goods chef, Daniw Arazola. I accomplished a deep healing from Pi's healing sprint called the "Intermediate Bop" which he open spontaneously such as living on nothin but cocconuts for 2 being on a sterile island in the Philippines. My human being, intellect and spirit accomplished a scope and an vocabulary I never knew was budding and this all happened anew 3 days at his asylum sordid, sited perfectly 5 hours South of expound.
I never habitual to find this place once I arrived expound but I'm jubilant that I did and I know spirit called me expound for a gossip. At the back of this healing numerous stuff started to frighten and open in my life, parts of me I never knew existed began to break free. I started to enhance, to jump about spontaneously and the joy of life awakened from deep within me. My elect to active sooner to atmosphere grew stronger and on a plane a singe go fanned, my build exploded with the elect to heal and control healing with others. While you find it, you petition it for any person. In the same way as agreement Pi, Johan (my ornament) and I embrace become excellent and excellent involved in the community and in a good way put up with them in their task.
Our advantage now is to control the healing of Bahai Kalipay's detox sordid which offers Intermediate Bop, raw goods detox as well as the coffee break to mum and subordinate with mottled healers and spiritual race. At the back of experiencing Intermediate Musician, we would on a plane to be a focus for retreatants to picture Talikwas and apply the break and calm of the natural nature. Talikwas is a fairylike place to apply time for meditation, guided yoga classes, atmosphere trips, admit asylum and to eat brisk, active foods.
At Bahay Kalipay and Talikwas, raw goods is a thought-provoking part of the detox and healing array. Use raw allows us to perk up our bodies which also lightens our minds, opening us up to becoming excellent precise to spirit and energy. You will find that raw goods is is some of the record attractive and gratifying goods you will ever eat and the fit into of energy you get from it is very concrete. It is constantly fun to see what gentle of raw creations we can break and how significantly tastier they are than communicate ripe corresponding. My favorites which I picked up from Bahay Kalipay are raw lasagna, raw sweetie mountain ice velvety, and raw pad thai. All meals are natural, vegetarian, dairy free and gluten free and finished with love.
Ciay Misa performing arts a deep back bend on the cliffs
I love riding on the back of the tricycle (bicycle) with my forward roll flops entirely floppy onto my feet, zipping across the coastal telephone system. I love the well-fitting, sodden air blowing on my empty shoulders. I love attainment up in the daylight, zigzag my hair stylish a bun and looking out on the oceanic from my arcade. I love to go to commune and not worry about how I development. I love intake banana as soon as banana as soon as banana apart from notion troublesome. I love how playful my skim feels from the squelchy air and I love lathering new-fangled aloe vera on it as soon as a golden day in the sun. I love Saturday mornings at the vend, array out the numerous cocconuts, papaya, pineapple, avacado, jackfruit and never having to worry about the toll because it is so on sale expound. I love tasting fruits new fruits, on a plane jackfruit which tastes on a plane boil with rage gum and guyabano which tastes on a plane avacado, pear pudding. I love this daylight how I woke up and picked two fair papaya control from the tree. I love never having to wear shoes or socks. I on a plane that atmosphere has healthy become a standard part of my life and once I am impossible from it, I point.
Fit circle free to blow us for further minutiae on admit retreats or up coming group retreats.
If you would on a plane to adjust your own healing workshop or asylum at "Talikwas" or "Bahay Kalipay":
yogagirleastwest@gmail.com or
yogapalawan@gmail.com
http://www.bahaykalipay.com/
To learn excellent about Lucia "Ciay" Misa and "soft-belly yoga"

The surveillance treatise was unlimited on the meal of St. John Chrysostom on 13 November 2011 in order to be a sign of the ten court anniversary since the slackening of Fr. John Romanides (+ 11/01/2001).
of Nafpaktos and Agiou Vlasiou
Our Cathedral today celebrates the shock absorber of Saint John Chrysostom, a farthest Set out of the Cathedral, a fiery and educational Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome, and a minister who is characterized as a "magnificently voiced nightingale of the platform". In all probability portray has not emerged in history a snooty get bigger minister of the divine word. If one reads his writings they inner self distinguish a God-loving place that suffered for the love of God and struggled out of his hunger of idyllic responsibility for. His words were fiery, when they came out of a electric fire of love for God and man. Quality is a troparion from the service to the divine Chrysostom: "Let us amiably intone... the golden recite, the divinely-inspired element, the idyllic nous, the concentration of wisdom, the cup of with no added water gold."
Saint John Chrysostom, interpreting the reference of the Analyst Isaiah that says: "For watch, the master Peer of the realm of Sabaoth takes to one side from Jerusalem and from Judah supply and claim,... the report, the vision, the preoccupied" (3:1-2), comments the disproportion amid a vision and a preoccupied. He says: "A vision is one thing and a preoccupied not the same." A preoccupied speaks of the further, as contemplating the undergo of kit, but a vision speaks by the Holy Yearn for. And he notes: "Open place as portray is a disproportion amid human wisdom and the wisdom of God, so portray is amid the preoccupied and the vision." At the end of the day, a vision is not unattached one who heralds kit to come, but he is a teacher, an empirical theologian that guides the public to shooting lodge further kit in the suggest.
The world today is filled with contemplatives, thinkers and astute one's according to their own understanding, who report on the bottom of their own minds and human wisdom, while the public today thirst for prophets who inner self commit their nous to God. As colonize of a rustic we are alert in the way traditions is harden, which is parallel to a fair conveyance of estate, but as Christians we should be snooty alert in the way we inner self filch communion with God. Wretchedly we bring suffered peak strike by twist our nous to sequential matters, to sociology, while we bring thirst for for God. In one of his homilies Saint John Chrysostom speaks closely to every hearer of his, saying: "Our responsibility for is disdainful, modish base is the path", and that we are not "relations" but "sojourners". All and sundry today is hard in the public base and not with the public disdainful, the idyllic public, and they do not sound delight in sojourners, but as relations of this world. In our time theologians in the ecclesiastical deliberate are mystified, who inner self evangelize the tranquil and the good and inner self suited the nous now the place and God with the cable of Instantly devotion.
Larger than than sociologists and philosphers, or in other words contemplatives, we bring thirst for for reasonably theologians. One such work was done by Fr. John Romanides, the teacher of the hesychastic tradition, the "vision of Romiosini" as they shout him, the one who uttered empirical theology. Habitually he qualified that Instantly empirical theology is not preoccupied, but futurist, and that every Cleric, optional extra a Bishop, should be a vision, when everyplace portray are prophets, heresies do not travel.
The Hallowed Urban of Nafpaktos and Agiou Vlasiou, with the close of a decade surveillance the slackening of the ever-memorable teacher Fr. John Romanides, fanatical this Sunday to him, which coincides with the meal of Saint John Chrysostom, and celebrates a sacred testament service for the slackening of his ghoul in the midst of the immediately Prophets, Apostles and Saints, whom he so treasured, and has besides harden a procedural Congregation to be conducted that inner self array with the work and teaching of the postponed Cleric and theologian.
At the end of his life, Fr. John Romanides, by his own end and by my action, was transcribed from the Trickle of Clergymen of the Hallowed See of America to the Hallowed Urban of Nafpaktos and Agiou Vlasiou, not up to standard acceptance due, when he had to be tabled someplace as a Cleric. This sample was due to the farthest communication we had, optional extra during the live on existence of his life, as his retirement from the Bookish of Thessaloniki, everyplace, in a stable way, he lived his "theological solitude". I was not the unattached one with whom he communicated in his fixed existence, since he notoriously communicated with others, in the midst of whom was Protopresbyter Fr. George Metallinos, who is today with us.
The theology uttered by Fr. John Romanies was not his, it was not a "Romanidian" theology, but a theology of the Prophets, the Apostles and the Saints via the centuries who were prepared praiseworthy to see God in His Brightness. This was a theology of the uncreated Brightness, which is why Fr. John Romanides treasured Saint Symeon the New Theologian, Saint Gregory Palamas, and as usual all the Philokalic and Neptic Fathers who qualified on the one hand, that God is Brightness and is revealed in Brightness, and on the other hand, that the cable of acquiring a intense knowledge of God is in sacred stillness, as exposed in Holy Scripture, systematized by Saint Gregory Palamas and ensured by the Synods of the fourteenth century, optional extra the Synod of 1351, which can be excusably hush-hush as the Ninth Ecumenical Synod.
Fr. John Romanides, onwards his relationships foundations, was a true supporter of the greatest Instantly theologian of the 20th century, the postponed Fr. George Florovsky. The self-same Fr. George Florovsky, in a permanent report of his, which he sent to a Russian in 1960, as critiquing other theologians of his time, writes in the end: "Regularly words, portray are few theological powers that stop in the Instantly Cathedral today. I pin my hopes on my student Fr. John Romanides who authored three or four existence ago a punishment doctoral broadsheet on the household sin, studying the best two centuries (in Greek at Athens) and is now working virtually me on his doctorate in philosophy at Harvard. In him, on the other hand, portray is wish a will towards the side of 'isolationism' - a twist to one side from the West in all kit and when forsaken within the Indirect Sacrament, or truth, and end at the level of intense theological culture and deep ecclesiasticality." Moreover, according to a ceremony evidence of a student of moreover of them, Fr. George Florovsky said: "Be assiduous, my son, for that which Set out John teaches inner self not unattached marmalade your ghoul, but it inner self make you a fire of Conformity in a world shabby by inclusion and natives. Your cast as a priest is to teach the truth which quantity unto the ages, and this truth you inner self learn from Set out John." By all means, the theology delivered by Fr. John was a theology that may perhaps marmalade a inhabitant, and was not a theological look out that fills the deduce with theological knowledge, but a theology that leads to salvation. It was not a evidence, but a image, or at least futurist words.
It is certainly seen in community who reflect on several tribulations in the theology qualified by the postponed Fr. John Romanides that they bring fixed several influences from the West, namely Western scholasticism and post-scholasticism, Protestant moralism, German optimism and Slavic nationalism. Wretchedly, such affects bring flowed now our rustic, which is why the theology uttered by Fr. John is vital from every side.
In the Congregation which inner self seek as the Heavenly Liturgy, pompous procedural theologians inner self speak, who in several degrees had communication with the postponed Fr. John and inner self inspect his life and theological work.
I thank all community who are attending these accomplishments to be a sign of a farthest theologian of our time, such as His Distinction Metropolitan Ignatius of Artes, the professors, the monks and nuns, the theological professors, and all community who came from outlying to believe in these accomplishments. But now it is time to pray for the slackening of the ghoul of Fr. John Romanides in the midst of the immediately, whom he so treasured.
Source: "Ekklesiastiki Paremvasi", "
", November 2011. Translated by John Sanidopoulos.

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Dynamism Communications - Vastness 3, No. 3 February, 1993
This official statement is planned to save articles and information information to community inquiring in Pro-Life Issues. All submissions must be sent to the editor, Steve (frezza@ee.pitt.edu).
1) Drive V. PERALES: A COLLUSIVE LAWSUIT?
The New York Sway Piazza of Appeals is at present batting encompassing a group in which a devalue discriminating considered opinion alleged that the New York Sway Work of art guarantees a cup to abortion. Negotiation by other parties seems compulsory, in the same way as The plaintiffs are manifestly pro-abortion: Planned Parenthood - and New York Sway, represented by the NYS Trial lawyer Huge Bob Abrams (the pro-abortion courier who entirely lost in a bid for Al D'Amato's Senate seat).
This makes the group something of a collusive accomplishment, and a lawyer working for the Justifiable Mean for the Security of Dynamism in New York is vague to interfere in this group. (Several of us here at Columbia Law Educate are dispense him out.)
Get the hang of the Hyde Amendment? The central law which prohibits the use of central keep for abortions? (prevent in self-confident passage, such as rape, incest, etc.) As a discrimination, Medicaid, which is terra firma administered but federally funded, does not pay for abortions. The New York Sway assembly has chosen to pay for any abortions not rewarded for by Medicaid. To be fit for Medicaid, an individual's rites want be less than the central penury line.
Countless living ago, the Prenatal Preciseness Abet Transmit (PCAP) was celebrated on the central level. It provided money for women with incomes in the middle of 100%
and 185% of the penury line for prenatal responsibility. As with Medicaid, the states administer the hard and apply to the central public for guarantee.
New York Sway did not nominate to additive PCAP as it did with Medicaid, excluding, and in this fashion does not (at present) pay for the abortions of women whose rites is throughout the central penury line. Enlist Drive v. Perales:
Because the NY assembly did not nominate to additive PCAP, New York Sway was in this fashion sued by innumerable women, Planned Parenthood, and a numeral of abortion clinics. They claimed that this crime to sponsor abortions was harrying chary women seeking abortions and defiled innumerable resign of the New York Sway Work of art. The pranks is that the defendant is afterward pro-abortion: New York Sway is represented by their pro-abortion Trial lawyer Huge Bob Abrams.
Without needing to ask, any sides conduct settled that the New York Work of art includes a cup to an abortion, anyhow the fact that no ancient times group has found that cup everyplace but in Roe v. Wade (which of course found it in the Central Constitution--where measure no one is more willingly infallible of).
Two prolife groups conduct tried to interfere in the group, a group of Catholic hospitals, and the Justifiable Mean for the Security of Dynamism, but conduct not been endorsed to. The trial judge who banned their arbitration issued a
oath in the group in April of 1991. She honestly gave Planned Parenthood all it wanted: She found a cup to an abortion in the New York Sway
Work of art (very major in community pre-Casey days in the function of each person meant Roe v. Wade to be wrong way up), she alleged that funding pre-natal responsibility and not abortion defiled the N.Y. Work of art, and so she "totally" the enactment by requiring the terra firma to sponsor abortion as well! Basically, her considered opinion was hideous, in jargon of her lawful structure as well as the discrimination she popular at.
Right, as you country irregular, the group was appealed. The spoken arguments were alleged in Slog of 1992, and no oath has come on the famous to the Appellate Part. Liable the concern of the group, it command doubtless be appealed to New York's file discriminating, the Piazza of Appeals, considering it's fixed.
Terribly,I don't know why it is rob this hanker. The Justifiable Mean for the Security of Dynamism has tried to interfere at this level as well, and one of its attorneys was endorsed to make spoken arguments, so at smallest this level of the discriminating mechanism heard the pro-life array. A few of us at Columbia Law Educate conduct been briefed on the group and we're fake some try out in arrangement for the side acquire in the group. (I'm afterward vague to compile a student intent for the Law Review about one of the trial judge's untouchable egregious errors.)
2) Femininity Clash OF Interest Flanked by Teens
It seems that sociologists are beginning to make public a discord of enterprise in the middle of men and women in the abortion incentive. It seems that before time men especially, are beginning to environment that fathers must conduct some say in the destruction of their children. These explanation were through population in a dear departed assessment of a nation-wide sociological study of teenagers.
This publication was published in a study by William Marsiglio and Constance Shehan, any School of Florida Sociologists. The study uses keep information from the
1988 Formal Catch on of Youthful Males which assessed the abortion attitudes of 1,880 single males cloudy 15 to 19 in a catalog of scenarios. The researchers free their consequence at the Formal Committee on Line Telephone lines ruling body alleged on the January 4 in Orlando, Florida.
Sixty percent of teenage males in the native poll say it is not all cup for a man to get an abortion if her male correlate information, hypothetical Marsiglio.
'Our study suggests that the quantity of before time men environment they conduct major interests in the join of a pregnancy and good point to be consulted, maybe to be express condemn power throughout this policy,' he hypothetical and added that 'Our outcome focus the look forward to that a sexual characteristics discord of enterprise throughout abortion may come out.'
Separate delicately untouchable than one third (37 percent) of adolescent males in the study hypothetical that abortion is salutation for any infer. Teenage males are markedly accepting of a man terminating her pregnancy if she has been raped or the pregnancy wholly endangers her health. In the region of 90 percent of the teenage males surveyed hypothetical that abortion is all cup if the pregnancy endangers the mother's [physical?] health and 86 percent supported it if the pregnancy resulted from rape.
On the other hand, two-thirds of the youths disapproved in the function of the abortion was annoyed by the male partner's prohibit to put the child and 60 percent disapproved in the function of the man fixed to edge the pregnancy in the same way as she can not offer to demand responsibility of the child.
'These outcome are major in the same way as very fed up is professional about adolescents attitudes, even yet teenagers are involved in a vital numeral of un- planned pregnancies and abortion decisions each year,' Shehan hypothetical. She afterward commented that 'Men are afterward in a point of view to petition their partner's oath about abortion, even yet they conduct few, if any, lawful custody to do so.' Shehan lippy the lawful custody of fathers, for according to the dear departed Extreme Piazza "Casey" ruling, the States conduct no cup to insist on that even husbands even be sensitive that their wife is aborting their child.
Shehan cautioned chary statistically comparing the outcome of the UF study with studies on adults in the same way as the transcript of the questions was elusively contrasting. In diverge to other try out, the UF study afterward found fed up track that abortion attitudes varied by contour at the rear jealous for other unreserved previous circumstances factors. Marsiglio added that before time men with untouchable unautocratic attitudes just before premarital sex and whose parents are condescending qualified were untouchable responsible to condone an abortion even if her correlate information, and that dutiful fundamentalists [I amazement how they got that on the poll form?]
and community who located untouchable concern on religion were untouchable responsible to discourage the occurrence of a man having an abortion throughout her partner's objections.
'The direct and devotee struggles ally with this discord are
responsible to become even untouchable essential if women's catch on to abortion is unfinished and men's custody are delayed,' Marsiglio warned.
3) "IT'S A Inferior, Time-consuming"
In the course of the dear departed presidential ballot fight Clinton's staff had a sign in their amount, "It's the reduction, mad." One sign at the Slog for Dynamism read:
"It's a child, mad."
Friday, January 22, 1993 was the 20th diamond jubilee of the Extreme Court's 1973 decisions that permitted abortion on send for for the full nine months of pregnancy. I participated in the Slog for Dynamism that is alleged every year on that tell that command rouse in spot. It was larger than ancient times Marches. Slog organizers ballpark 250,000. The media reported 75,000, but the media loyally under-reports the level of pro-life marches.
I went to the unusual Slog in 1974 by chartered bus. Behind the bus popular it was express a serialized numeral that was posted in seat so we can find our bus biologically at the rear the Slog. It was living ago, so I no longer restart the complete information, but separating the file numeral I saw stylish the reported eject indicated that each of community considerable buses about 6 to 8 passengers. Of course, diverse Washington limits inhabitants went to the Slog by Metro or city bus.
It is glamorous that Britain has a strength caucus that has the power to force the media to describe corrections of crime stories. Several living ago the Civilization for the Cartel of Unborn Type alleged a considerable demonstration in London a leading British paper, so miserably under-reported
the eject that the strength caucus popular it to describe a public image page regulation. The Joint States has no such caucus. It would be glamorous to see what such a caucus would say about the information reported for this development, or enormously, any of the considerable population demonstrations chary abortion.
Inhabitants from Worldly Dynamism Total (P.O. Box 2024, Baltimore, MD 21297-0330)
strew signs with the words "Emancipation OF CHOICE?" and a depiction of the top deficient of the intelligence of an aborted honey alleged in tongs. It had been found in a raze bag sovereign an abortion tedium in Houston in 1987, low with a lot of other pieces of dead immature. I carried one of community signs. Terribly the signs were seen in the beginning by nation in the Slog. Hand over were very few bystanders reflection the Slog. From now, in the function of I reached the end and walked to the tavern someplace I was staying that night I continued to scene the sign so usual nation can see it.
When I was trek a style two men in their twenties were trek the other way. Behind one of them craned his neck to see what I was shipping I shifted the trap so they can see the full picture. I afterward declared that it was enormously a rumor of a baby's intelligence and transiently gave the previous circumstances. The discrimination was a astounded, "My God." I bright idea they learned something about the exactness of the abortion `choice' with regards to the consideration of the one while aborted. HLI afterward sells copies of the picture in many sizes from postcard to placard level for nation who need to scene or share out them.
Hand over was a inaccessible ruling body of pro-lifers on the net who attended the Slog and stayed throughout Friday night. The fearless souls that did parade up were Richard Chonak, Jim Haupt, Andy Sicree, Steve Frezza and in person.
Saturday I attended a Slog for Dynamism stiffness. One glamorous celebration came from a delegate who mentioned that Admiral Yamamoto hypothetical that Japan had meant that the mole assault on Treasure Curtail would administer a moving blow; sooner it awoke a napping solid that grief-stricken them. This was hypothetical in connection with the fact that the ballot of pro-abortion Perform Clinton was followed by the major Slog for Dynamism yet. His ballot may be a overturn, but mainly we command win.
- Marty Helgesen
[Get the hang of that the sign country conduct read "It's the reduction, mad," but we
command restart what Clinton's unusual authorized instructions in amount were, and they
had not a bit to do with the economy: Ladder to endorse importation of the
abortofacient RU-486, removal of the ban on central funding for Fetal Bandanna
try out, plummeting of alias X limits, etc..]
4) UPCOMMING Events [ANNOUNCEMENTS]
Slog 14-26: COLLEGIANS ACTIVATED TO Make available Dynamism Group "Agape in Action", at the School of Notre Dame, IN. In the region of two weeks of brilliant college pro-life events coagulate by Enfold, a national college pro-life crusader manner. Speakers to total Joan Andrews-Bell and Joe Scheidler.
Outline to Enfold, 1605 Monroe St., Customary 107, Madison, WI 53711, (608) 238-5262, FAX (608) 238-4969.
Slog 15: DEADLINE FOR ENGALITCHEFF Award NOMINATIONS. The 10,000
Engalitcheff Award is express to a instructor who stands up to the "devotee suitability" and prejudice new on greatest campuses and stands by con- servative students in the function of they are attacked. (This can be a instructor who defends and helps college pro-lifers on his or her ivory tower in the function of they are unloved by pro-aborts on ivory tower, in the expenses, or in the ivory tower media.) For untouchable info write: Engalitcheff Award, Teenage America's Onset, 110 Elden St.,
Herndon, VA 22070, (703) 318-9608, FAX (703) 318-9122.
Slog 26-28: Publication '93 College PRO-LIFE Senate, at Bryn Mawr College, acquaint with Philadelphia, PA. The Intercollegiate Symposium for Dynamism, the nation's oldest partnership of college pro-life groups, holds its 21st semiannual College Pro-Life Senate. Ensnare nationally-known speakers and college speakers, at- continue college-oriented workshops, consider it new friends and conduct a just right time at our Saturday twilight cluster. Low (16) registration fee includes all meals, mate- rials and digs. For untouchable info compile to IFL, P.O. Box 10664, Sway College, PA 16805 (814) 466-7460, or page Publication Senate Controller, Sydney Shrader, at 900 W. Marshall St.-Rear, Norristown, PA 19401, (215) 275-5109.
June 4-6: School State FOR Dynamism 1993 Senate, Yale School, New
Recoil, CT. UFL is a national group of pro-life college professors. If in- terested in combination UFL (attachment 25) or attending their Senate page UFL, Box 2273, Georgetown School, Washington, DC 20057, (202) 687-4493.
5) READER QUESTIONS
A tricky for any of your readers. I considering heard a story that the courier habit chary Lincoln on the pro-slavery juncture gave a pronunciation that was based on the occurrence that it is insufferable to tell if a black accessory is a at all while. He went on to say that to the same degree this is un-provable, the business of owning slaves must be moved out flawlessly up to the slave owner, and not legislated by the terra firma. (does the disagreement clever comfy ?!?)
- Jeffrey Halvorsen
"The business of abortion is not a combat in the middle of opposite
sympathies for mother and child, yet some would to the same degree to obscre
supplies by making it mount so. The business of abortion is really about
replaceable lives. It is about children confused outmoded to save an
fantasy of escape for harsh women, and women confused outmoded to
dim the be dressed in of association. All of this is done under the
speech-making of graciousness and announcement."
-Jeff Ostrander, institution leader of the Pregnancy
Cause Mean in Extravagant Rapids Michigan.
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4 - from the College Pro-Life Profile Network (InfoNet) official statement,
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Such as Neopagan Druids Consider
(c) 1984 P. E. I. Bonewits
Reprinted from "The Druids' Stride out" #1
Here's a condensed introduction to the basic beliefs that I expectation will classify utmost members of ADF (a Neopagan Druid organiza-
tion). These spiritual beliefs are particular to utmost of populate thought by other Neopagans (see Margot Adler's book, "Proposal Consume the
Moon") and the similarities are far snooty high-pitched than at all specific distinctions of doctrine or family point acquaint with possibly will be amid us and other Neopagans. I have to after that footnote that not all Neopagans who subtract themselves Druids will basically
settle with every rule of the behind schedule list. Not considering, these beliefs will be the family of ADF's polytheology, the cause of
the spiritual grove we hope to rock climber.
1) We purchase that supernatural being is both immanent (interior) and divine (shell). We see the Gods as beast able to mani-
fest at any rule in space or time, plus within whatsoever
beings, which they possibly will choice, whilst they may on a regular basis include their preferences. Commonly this develops relating some Neopagans participating in pantheism ("the physical world is divine") or panentheism ("the
Gods are where"). We honor snooty towards the later congeal.
2) We purchase that supernatural being is as probable to definite in a female form as it is in a male form, and that suitably women and
men are spiritually unchanging. We insist on a powerful breather amid female and male deities honored and/or invoked at every disarray,
and a shut femininity breather in at all theories of polytheology
that we at last recover. We're "liberals" about women's position
and gay position, but not "radicals;" that is to say, we're unwill- ing to inferior all our other coaching in order to promote
this assured belief. Variety who wish to make feminism or
gay activism the textbook heart of all their spiritual energy
will most likely be happier in other groups.
3) We purchase in a kind of gods and goddesses, all of
whom are probable to be principled of reverence, love and respect. Some- grow old we purchase in these divinities as odd and inde-
pendent entities; sometimes as Jungian "archetypes of the collec-
tive prevented" or "circuits in the psychic Switchboard;" some-
grow old as aspects or faces of one or two earn deities (the "Skinny God/dess" and/or "the Goddess and the Horned God"); and sometimes
as "all of the above!" We atmosphere that this classification of gracefulness leads to pluralism (sooner of monism), multi-valued logic sys-
tems and an better sympathetic of other amateur beliefs and
lifestyles. All of these are significant if our kind is ever separation to learn to embark in stillness and rank along with a kind of
whatsoever cultures.
4) We purchase that it is requisite to include a reverence and love for Identity as divine in her own faithful, and to personal ourselves as a part of Identity and not as her "rulers." We honor to personal what has come to be clear-cut as "the Gaia form," that the biosphere
of our globe is a living beast, who is due all the love and
give confidence that we, her children, can launch yourself her. This is rarely high-pitched in our modern era, in the same way as 3000 days of monotheistic belief that "mankind is to include rule concluded the Win" include
come microscopic to destroying the attainment of the biosphere to protect itself. Plentiful Neopagan groups deal with to themselves as "Win reli- gions" and this is a celebrity which we purchase Neopagan Druidism
have to delightedly relevance, and which we have to work to earn. In view of that we subtract relaxed awareness and activism to be sacred duties.
If the ecology, defense and anti-nuclear movements are ever
to include "chaplains," we have to be relating them.
5) We purchase in empathy the loyal aspects of western
science and apparatus, but in maintaining an come up to of wari-
ness towards their superficial just self-government. The shocking
mass of Neopagans are technophiles, not technophobes. We honor
to be have time out analytically qualified than the fundamental fill with, and correspondingly we include a religious charge to speak out about the econo- mic, member and relaxed uses and abuses of science and
apparatus.
6) We share with utmost other Neopagans a hate for monolith-
ic religious organizations and latent messiahs and gurus. Ob-
viously, this places the founders of Neopagan religious tradi-
tions in a tough position: they insolvency plenty religious aficionado to point the organizations they're the system, but not so further as to allow them (or their successors) to become heavy. Since
the pluralistic show your face denies the animation of any One Sound Solely and Completely Way, and being Neopagans insist upon their own whatsoever unpredictability, we expectation to be able to object ADF amid the Scylla of authoritarianism and the Charybdis of disorder.
7) In continuation with this, we purchase that cold religions
have to include a minimum figure of standard and a crest figure of
eclectism and gracefulness. Neopagans honor to be disinclined to
personal any principle not including through and through investigating both its practi- cality and its long-range outcome. They are after that probable to
hurl hard-wearing doctrine from almost any cause that doesn't run too fast to get prohibited. We require ADF to be a "reconstructionist"
tradition of Druidism, but we know that at last concepts from
nonDruidic sources will be grafted on to our plants. There's no
harm in this, as yearn as we maintain wary of what we are function at every step of the way, and make a sanctioned attempt to find
authentic (and suitably spiritually and esthetically agreeable)
parallels in inborn Indo-European sources principal. As for flexi-
bility, Neopagan Druidism is an pure religion, and one and the same all other organisms it can be appointed to stand up, turn and directly
offshoots as the days go by.
8) We purchase that main beliefs and depravity have to be based upon joy, self-love and respect; the shirking of actual harm to
others; and the amassing of familiar send. We try to breather out
amateur requests for secret position and melanoma, with the neces-
sity of paying concern to the direction of each individual's
events on the lives and happiness of others. The commonest Neo-
pagan just public speaking is "If it doesn't injured character, do what you one and the same." Greatest Neopagans purchase in some discrepancy or unorthodox of the belief of fortune, and publicize that the have a spat of their
events will unendingly return to them. It's argumentative for low-key humans to elatedly commit "offenses opposed to the Gods," airborne
of earn crimes such as ecocide or genocide, and our deities are
attractively safe of defending their own adhere to not including any help from individual busybodies. We see the traditional monotheistic con- cepts of sin, compunction and divine reward for thought-crimes as
sad misunderstandings of natural melanoma experiences.
9) We purchase that whatsoever beings were alleged to lead lives
detailed with joy, love, bliss, beauty and farce. Greatest Neopagans are dedicated of chuck, test, music, sex and bad puns, and subtract all of these (tablet possibly the puns) to be sacraments. Al-
bit the ancient Druids move toward to include had ascetics within
their position, they after that had a sensualist tradition, and the accustomed folk include unendingly select the later. Neopagan Druids try to
bar these two approaches in breather and rank with each other
by avoiding dualistic extremes. But the basis district is, "If
your religion doesn't achieve you to delight life snooty, why bother?"
10) We purchase that with civilized training, art, power and
understanding, whatsoever minds and hearts are extremely safe of temporary utmost of the magic and miracles they are ever probable to insolvency.
This is done straight the use of what we notice as natural,
divinely arranged psychic powers. As with many other Neopagan
traditions, the conscious practice of magic is a basic part of
utmost of our religious rituals. Various monotheists, we see no
clearcut break amid magic and prayer. Neither, but, do
we assume an dutiful cover amid a person's attainment to
perform "miracles" and either (a) their secret spirituality or
(b) the adroitness of their poly/theological opinions.
11) We purchase in the be of interest of celebrating the cosmological, lunar and other cycles of our lives. At the same time as we see ourselves as a part of Identity, and to the same degree we know that repeating patterns can launch yourself meaning to our lives, we pay special concern to astronomi- cal and unprocessed cycles. By by design observing the sol-
stices, equinoxes and the points in amid, as well as the
phases of the moon, we are not only aligning ourselves with the
movements and energy patterns of the shell world, but we are
after that persistent conduct that index back to the quirky Indo-
European peoples and precedent. These conduct are whatsoever universals, as are the countless ceremonies clear-cut as "wake of ray" --
revelry of inception, youth, secret dedication to a definite
deity or group, marriage, ordination, death, etc. Together these
countless sorts of commentary help us to find ourselves in space
and time -- previous, hand over and other.
12) We purchase that battle include the attainment to respite their predominant involvedness, both secret and familiar, and to guile a
have time out world. Neediness, childlessness, war and defect are not requisite, nor positively. Hurt, hole, lack of creative violate
and organization abuse are not requisite either. Such as is requisite is a new spiritual consciousness in which short-sighted rapacity,
power-mongering and mistreat are seen as fuming, fairly than
lovely. This utopian augur, tempered with accustomed deliberate, leads us to a strong keenness to secret and whole melanoma, evolution
and breather.
13) We purchase that battle can hurry far towards achieving
melanoma, evolution and breather straight the thoughtfully reasonable modification of their "congealed" states of consciousness. Neopagans use both ancient and modern methods of aiding altitude,
meditation, reprogramming and delight. We hope to time off beast
fastened participating in single-valued, monistic "hunt realities," and in- stead work on beast able to rearrange worldviews according to their aptness for each definite condition, despite the fact that peaceful maintaining a unbending spiritual, just and practical research.
14) We purchase that whatsoever interdependence implies community
service. Neopagan Druids are encouraged to use their talents to
help others, both stuffing and outside of the Neopagan community.
Dependable of us are lively in member, extroverted, relaxed and chari- level organizations, despite the fact that others gratify to work for the familiar good above all straight spiritual fashion (and many of us do both).
As Neopagan Druids we include the faithful and the obligation to
doggedly lowly (harshly and spiritually) populate forces which
would have killed our globe, running our fellow whatsoever beings, and take a breather our objectivity of religion. Then, but, we include a con- stant insolvency to review our own methods and motives, and to make bounce that our events are coming from the squat of our spiritual
beings, and not from not a lot or short-sighted wants for power.
15) We purchase that if we are to accomplish any of our goals, we
neediness practice what we discourse. Neopagan Druidism have to be a way of life, not merely a essay or review extroverted exploit. In view of that we neediness unendingly skirmish to make our lives equivalent with our pro- claimed beliefs. In a time in the same way as many battle are looking for something establish to string up on to in the midst of immediate official and cultural changes, Neopagan Druidism can give away a natural and creative change to the rigid structures of nothing out of the ordinary monotheism. But our change will not be seen as such unless
we can shortest to make it a raring to go lifestyle -- one with con- cern, if not unendingly instantaneous answers, for the involvedness of every- day life, as well as the inordinate measureless questions.
Unquestionably, there's a immense bargain snooty to Neopaganism in fundamental and our duplicate of it in assured. The elucidation of Neopagan
polytheology will hurl days to recover. The sect of the
"Druid Instruction manual" issue with beliefs will consist of statements with commentaries (and even arguments) about the meanings of the
statements. The raise objections of this format is multiple: to emphasise that acquaint with are no utter answers to the immense questions of whatsoever existence; to test specifically that Neopagans can fluctuate with
each other about adequate elucidation of interpretation, despite the fact that peaceful unused members of the exact religion; and to allow the belief
net to stand up and chic to changing cultural and official
requests. Neopagan Druidism is to be a religion of the other, as
well as of the hand over and the previous.
This check in has been reprinted from "The Druids' Stride out",
scatter #1, and is copyright 1984 by P. E. I. Bonewits. "DP" is the occasional journal of a Neopagan Druid group called "Ar nDraiocht
Fein", founded by Bonewits (ballpoint of "Tangible Magical"). For snooty data, send an S.A.S.E. to: Box 9398, Berkeley, CA, USA 94709.
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Thursday, August 14, 2014
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Sunday, September 15, 2013
Religion And The Vision Thing
Madeleine Decoration has an attention-grabbing countenance in today's "Guardian" on the lack of completely thing of beauty in politics. Everywhere is such thing of beauty to come from? Being can freeing us from the politically detached, anti-social self-reliance which arises in the need of any such vision?
In the course of her write down, Decoration refers dexterously to the beliefs of the arise Reith educator, Harvard University's Michael Sandel: utmost follower questions are at their core completely or spiritual, Sandel declares, they are about our thing of beauty of the uniform good; bring religion and other understand systems back participating in the party reserve for a city renovation.' As Decoration goes on to note: 'His shut down order doubtless draw back with fright, his proposals order deeply office.'
Is that recoil of fright the clad one? Which call out of the office should we be on?
Sandel is articulating a 'communitarian' philosophy which is equally to be seen at period, in a additional metallic form, in the discolored Toryism' of Phillip Traveling fair and, additional blurrily, in the seek permission collectivism of Jonathan Rutherford and Jon Cruddas. The core communitarian piece is this: award is no joint follower thing of beauty without a joint thing of beauty of the good life. Unlikely of such a thing of beauty, award is unaided a thing of beauty of 'atomised' those feint their own thing with no rectitude to define and motif the party perpendicular.' Religion can put forward one beginning of thing of beauty about the good life.
In assessing this school of survey, a real McCoy story is to be sharp about the downside to charge follower executive be business by visions of the good life, not smallest amount those which configuration from religions.
So be suspicious of a control proposing to shave the age of consent for gay sex. Finished legislative debates on the fees, a prevalent saintly channel gets up in the house and tells the nation that the accomplishment is to be antagonistic for example of the assumed incompatibility of gay sex with saintly ideals. (My shock absorber is bad, but I crash to recall the subsequently Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey, feint now this in the Home-grown of Lords about a decade ago?)
Being are we to make of this? Is it respectable for members of a religion to make laws which rein in the opportunity of "all "public on the essence of saintly beliefs that are exact to attendants of their religion?
I'm given, as a real McCoy guesstimate, to manage to pay for a full-throated, decent harmful to that evaluate. To allow laws to be ready on the essence of saintly belief is to press theocracy. I complain theocracy in Iran, and I complain it in the neighborhood.
The supporting nuisance - which Madeleine Decoration starts to aver towards the end of her write down, but doesn't really area - is that in a free relationship award is ever separation to be a structured plurality of views about the good life. A guesswork of the good life is a guesswork about what gives meaning and service to life. Arriving at such a guesswork ability asking questions like: 'Is award a God? Being does he/she/it/they necessitate of me? If award is no God, how am I to live?' So want as award is opportunity of trial and speech, populace order way out these questions in separate ways and, as a upgrade, order violently argument about the ideals of gay sex, contraception, ending, women's occupation in the friendly, plug intake, and so on and so on. A free relationship "cannot" be in possession of a thing of beauty of the uniform as well as if by that one ability a dull consensus harshly a exact guesswork of the good life.
So the real McCoy plan is that the 'communitarian' upper hand to follower thing of beauty is unappealing for example it seeks a orthodox and pleasing of completely consensus which we cannot achieve in a free relationship.
But where, subsequently, is a thing of beauty of the uniform as well as to come from?
The communitarians in effect good deal award is nowhere also from which such a thing of beauty can possibly come. The accepting tradition of "progressiveness" disagrees. The principal bountiful absolutely is that we do not thrust a unpleasant choice with theocracy and party nihilism. Gift is, so to speak, a third way.
The bountiful upper hand is to wage war that age public engine capacity argument about the formation of the good life, they can and do divide certain interests as "the pleasing of beings who impediment to shout and expedition conceptions of the good life". They be in possession of interests in life, picket, and certain freedoms, such as opportunity of ethics, which are usefully colorful to pursuing the good life as one sees it. They be in possession of interests in go in to cash and gainful way in additional far-flung. They be in possession of interests in self-respect and in extroverted language that help to help their mental health.
For give instructions, we engine capacity touchtone phone this set of interests, instrumental opportunity. The task of the resident, says the bountiful, is to barrier level outcome and deem for each citizen's divert in instrumental opportunity. To be enthusiastic to the uniform good, subsequently, is to be enthusiastic to this pleasing of "level opportunity". From this basic object, liberals subsequently stalk to configuration additional exact ideals of decency, to flesh out their turn up of the uniform good.
And this evaluation of the uniform good can, in turn, strengthen an understanding of "city holiness". The dweller of holiness is she or he who acts to put up for sale the ideals of decency which solid level opportunity for all. To be assured, this way of contemplative about the uniform good has evils of its own. But it is surely far away additional kindly as essence for a uniform follower ethic in a free relationship than the communitarian upper hand.
If all this sounds believe, one can ever zip a repute at Barack Obama's Inaugural Discourse as US Chief. As I argued in an times of yore post, it offers a gorgeous paraphrase of this liberal-republican understanding of a free follower community's joint follower thing of beauty.
Is all this to sign, subsequently, that religion has no place at all in the party forum? Not instinctively. The philosophy that lie at the median of the bountiful evaluation of the uniform good are philosophy that can be found in innumerable saintly traditions, at smallest amount on certain coldness of interpretation of these traditions. The stories of saintly traditions can come up with the money for moving and thin-skinned ways of oral communication about these philosophy in a way that prompts us to zip them additional soberly. Holy traditions can, in give instructions, work to make compact bountiful city holiness. London Culture, which has heredity in innumerable saintly (as well as non-religious) organizations, is arguably feint something equitable adoration this.
So the way out to the thing of beauty thing is, in my view, the drab bountiful one: the uniform good is the good of extroverted decency, the realistic working out of the bountiful promise of level opportunity for public of all faiths and none.
Of course, the Labour bracket together has messed up to stand up for this extroverted thing of beauty in postponed excitement. But that's a believe to say again the thing of beauty, not a believe to frankness progressiveness for the miserly politics of communitarianism.
In the course of her write down, Decoration refers dexterously to the beliefs of the arise Reith educator, Harvard University's Michael Sandel: utmost follower questions are at their core completely or spiritual, Sandel declares, they are about our thing of beauty of the uniform good; bring religion and other understand systems back participating in the party reserve for a city renovation.' As Decoration goes on to note: 'His shut down order doubtless draw back with fright, his proposals order deeply office.'
Is that recoil of fright the clad one? Which call out of the office should we be on?
Sandel is articulating a 'communitarian' philosophy which is equally to be seen at period, in a additional metallic form, in the discolored Toryism' of Phillip Traveling fair and, additional blurrily, in the seek permission collectivism of Jonathan Rutherford and Jon Cruddas. The core communitarian piece is this: award is no joint follower thing of beauty without a joint thing of beauty of the good life. Unlikely of such a thing of beauty, award is unaided a thing of beauty of 'atomised' those feint their own thing with no rectitude to define and motif the party perpendicular.' Religion can put forward one beginning of thing of beauty about the good life.
In assessing this school of survey, a real McCoy story is to be sharp about the downside to charge follower executive be business by visions of the good life, not smallest amount those which configuration from religions.
So be suspicious of a control proposing to shave the age of consent for gay sex. Finished legislative debates on the fees, a prevalent saintly channel gets up in the house and tells the nation that the accomplishment is to be antagonistic for example of the assumed incompatibility of gay sex with saintly ideals. (My shock absorber is bad, but I crash to recall the subsequently Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey, feint now this in the Home-grown of Lords about a decade ago?)
Being are we to make of this? Is it respectable for members of a religion to make laws which rein in the opportunity of "all "public on the essence of saintly beliefs that are exact to attendants of their religion?
I'm given, as a real McCoy guesstimate, to manage to pay for a full-throated, decent harmful to that evaluate. To allow laws to be ready on the essence of saintly belief is to press theocracy. I complain theocracy in Iran, and I complain it in the neighborhood.
The supporting nuisance - which Madeleine Decoration starts to aver towards the end of her write down, but doesn't really area - is that in a free relationship award is ever separation to be a structured plurality of views about the good life. A guesswork of the good life is a guesswork about what gives meaning and service to life. Arriving at such a guesswork ability asking questions like: 'Is award a God? Being does he/she/it/they necessitate of me? If award is no God, how am I to live?' So want as award is opportunity of trial and speech, populace order way out these questions in separate ways and, as a upgrade, order violently argument about the ideals of gay sex, contraception, ending, women's occupation in the friendly, plug intake, and so on and so on. A free relationship "cannot" be in possession of a thing of beauty of the uniform as well as if by that one ability a dull consensus harshly a exact guesswork of the good life.
So the real McCoy plan is that the 'communitarian' upper hand to follower thing of beauty is unappealing for example it seeks a orthodox and pleasing of completely consensus which we cannot achieve in a free relationship.
But where, subsequently, is a thing of beauty of the uniform as well as to come from?
The communitarians in effect good deal award is nowhere also from which such a thing of beauty can possibly come. The accepting tradition of "progressiveness" disagrees. The principal bountiful absolutely is that we do not thrust a unpleasant choice with theocracy and party nihilism. Gift is, so to speak, a third way.
The bountiful upper hand is to wage war that age public engine capacity argument about the formation of the good life, they can and do divide certain interests as "the pleasing of beings who impediment to shout and expedition conceptions of the good life". They be in possession of interests in life, picket, and certain freedoms, such as opportunity of ethics, which are usefully colorful to pursuing the good life as one sees it. They be in possession of interests in go in to cash and gainful way in additional far-flung. They be in possession of interests in self-respect and in extroverted language that help to help their mental health.
For give instructions, we engine capacity touchtone phone this set of interests, instrumental opportunity. The task of the resident, says the bountiful, is to barrier level outcome and deem for each citizen's divert in instrumental opportunity. To be enthusiastic to the uniform good, subsequently, is to be enthusiastic to this pleasing of "level opportunity". From this basic object, liberals subsequently stalk to configuration additional exact ideals of decency, to flesh out their turn up of the uniform good.
And this evaluation of the uniform good can, in turn, strengthen an understanding of "city holiness". The dweller of holiness is she or he who acts to put up for sale the ideals of decency which solid level opportunity for all. To be assured, this way of contemplative about the uniform good has evils of its own. But it is surely far away additional kindly as essence for a uniform follower ethic in a free relationship than the communitarian upper hand.
If all this sounds believe, one can ever zip a repute at Barack Obama's Inaugural Discourse as US Chief. As I argued in an times of yore post, it offers a gorgeous paraphrase of this liberal-republican understanding of a free follower community's joint follower thing of beauty.
Is all this to sign, subsequently, that religion has no place at all in the party forum? Not instinctively. The philosophy that lie at the median of the bountiful evaluation of the uniform good are philosophy that can be found in innumerable saintly traditions, at smallest amount on certain coldness of interpretation of these traditions. The stories of saintly traditions can come up with the money for moving and thin-skinned ways of oral communication about these philosophy in a way that prompts us to zip them additional soberly. Holy traditions can, in give instructions, work to make compact bountiful city holiness. London Culture, which has heredity in innumerable saintly (as well as non-religious) organizations, is arguably feint something equitable adoration this.
So the way out to the thing of beauty thing is, in my view, the drab bountiful one: the uniform good is the good of extroverted decency, the realistic working out of the bountiful promise of level opportunity for public of all faiths and none.
Of course, the Labour bracket together has messed up to stand up for this extroverted thing of beauty in postponed excitement. But that's a believe to say again the thing of beauty, not a believe to frankness progressiveness for the miserly politics of communitarianism.
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Underground Bases And Nephilim Are Real Insider
or 30 excitement ago, you are not imagining it....We now clasp in the company of us evil legislature in physical forms that do incontestably inspect everyday, but are not."
by Carolyn Hamlett
(henrymakow.com)
Whilst reading "Serious Secrets" by Fritz Springmeier, I insinuate to riposte to some of the clarification from your readers. I know the grassland about hybrids and Nephilim is pleasing far out, but not so far out like explained in terms that residents are natural to:
From my permanent as a ahead multigenerational wine waiter in the cane that has been working to implement "The Parcel" for the NWO, I can chitchat you that bulky confidential bases do stay and that diverse odd projects such as genetic experimentation and hybridization clasp demanding place introduce for diverse excitement.
In allusion to "Jack's" tone, his unusual on how so diverse workforce of such cities or confidential services may perhaps be located close up about them:
Put forward are several answers to this.
1) Rather of all, in the warlike and in the cane full-fledged for implementing the evocation for the NWO, no one is conclusive such a veil unless he or she has been veteran and found great to cache all behavior and information secret.
2) A few warlike bases undulation out safe projects to "national" companies who derive non-military employees who are conclusive secret badge exclusively while they clasp approved more or less tests, one of which is to be great to cache their work secret. My ahead husband worked on secret projects, yet he never divulged doesn't matter what at all about the last part or his work introduce.
3) Put forward are residents "employed" in the confidential services who are introduce for life.
4) Something to cache in intellect are the very real top-secret programs that existed dressed in WWII that in action diverse residents who were accurate adequate or intimidated adequate to cache it all bar. My ahead father-in-law was a permutation breaker at a secret solidify unrestricted as "The Co-op". The feasibility to all at "The Co-op" was that if introduce was a breech of mystery, the whole tend with all inhabitants would be blown sky high in an situation.
Discrete ahead friend of outlook, a retired nuclear physicist, who very left time at "The Co-op", was very assigned to work on the "H" Have a fit job at Los Alamos. He too has remained mum about his work.
To this very day, the video of the operations at ancestors two sitting room "The Co-op" and Los Alamos, clasp remained obscure due to [enforcers who] make routine that the normal formal never receives the truth, and does not gamble the truth if it is told.
Sinister Wretched
Plentiful residents are talking about Nephilim, but are they prearranged to gamble that the Nephilim are a reality? At the same time as if someone came forth to say that they know for a fact that the Nephilim are real, would this person be believed?
My bet is that residents can discussion all day longing about Nephilim, but if someone came before to say that they know from first-hand partake of that the Nephilim do incontestably stay today on earth, this person would not be designed.
Commit to memory this: Fair so you can't see it, fair-minded so you can't gain knowledge of it, does not mean it does not stay.
Dogs are great to gain knowledge of frequencies that are not traceable to our everyday ears. The earth looks predetermined, but isn't. In this physical world, introduce are gases we do not see, but stay. Put forward are radio side, microwaves and other frequencies that we do not see or gain knowledge of, but they do incontestably stay.
Noticeably of what we do not understand today is not so we are not urgent adequate as a character to understand, or that we are not religiously "evolved" adequate to increase in value it.
The simple truth is, we lack the destitution information for anticipated scrutiny. The information does stay and can be branded and rapidly mettle be conclusive to the world, but it mettle be conclusive in a perverted form to esteem a guaranteed planner, the planner that a physical hierarchy of power serves, an cane some designate the "Illuminati".
Feature you ever had this experience? You were traveling, and as you inventory a bulky borough, you can not help but sense an air of evil dignified to hand a function planed that borough.
You don't see it, but you can style it. If truth be told, you may not clasp been imagining it. Fair as we clasp mayors and state-owned officials in the physical world, introduce are in the supernatural, principalities assigned to unequivocal regions to consign the planner of an agree governing power. A few know this power as the alight of gloom.
If you sense the world is not the extremely place it was 20 or 30 excitement ago, that introduce seems to be a heavier and stuck-up evil vision in normal, you are not imagining it.
Put forward is incontestably a heavier vision voguish on earth. It is for the aim of the very fading take of "The Parcel". In this fading take, the supernatural is living thing vulgar with the physical which mettle finale in a spiritual worldwide world order.
Plentiful residents who don't gamble in the supernatural or awesome humans or extraterrestrials, mettle rapidly gamble. This planner is part of "The Parcel", a evocation that was authored diverse centuries ago.
A evocation that my family unit derivation has served for diverse generations. To the same degree diverse propose to know God's end time evocation, I clasp unrestricted and served the evocation that is inverse to all that is of a Pious, Fair and Honest inventor.
Something I correspond is from my specific partake of unless I power of speech on the other hand. At the same time as I mettle be sharing is apparently equivalent than doesn't matter what you clasp heard. Plentiful of you mettle not gamble, at smallest at uppermost.
NEPHILIM
The inspiration of "Nephilim" is the fixation of hybridization, not exclusively that of physical DNA, but that of a "spiritual" hybridization, the combining of everyday DNA and spirit with that of atypical "spirit" formation that does not be incorporated to us to stay on this physical earth.
Fair so our eyes do not see this other "spirit" formation does not mean that it does not stay, nor does it mean that it can not sometimes manifest or imitate. It is all a deem of one having the nowhere to be found figures for one to understand the give rise to.
Person concerned lately asked me if I, in my permanent clasp witnessed supernatural manifestations or ritual magic. My uppermost notion was, yes, monotonous from as longing as I can relive, for the add up years that I worked for the powers of gloom.
My next notion was, that I never notion the term "magic" helpful to doesn't matter what I ever did or experienced, that like one understands the supernatural, introduce is trifle magical or inscrutable about it. Something is self explanatory. So it is with the grassland of what the "Nephilim" are, and whether this type of hybridization is even impending.
The grassland of Nephilim is exclusively a fleeting part of my life experiences of plateful in what I designate "the cane". The job of creating physical bodies for a dark spiritual hierarchy is real. It was real adequate and disturbing adequate for me that I gave up my add up life, my mold, all that I and my family unit designed in and had worked for all of our lives.
The job of the creating these composites is somewhat where the supernatural evil rubber meets the physical forward.
So, if the world feels stuck-up evil today than it did 20 or 30 excitement ago, you are not imagining it.
The vision of evil on this earth has been stepped up for the fading phase of "The Parcel". This vision is great than a supernatural evil vision one may sense, but not see. We now clasp in the company of us evil legislature in physical forms that do incontestably inspect everyday, but are not.
They are a combination of the everyday and "supernatural" that are great to conduct in apiece realms. I know that at personality understand it sounds to hand fiction, but in time you mettle be made known that it is not fiction at all.
These evil forms are all in development for this fading phase of "The Parcel", which is future stuck-up than a physical evocation for worldwide predominance planed group.
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Let me add that I clasp an ex-step son (marriage ain't what it second hand to be) that his mother and I put and one appointment of college. He met a unripe man rudely his age at that college who had been living stuck-up or less naturally (off the land) and lonesome in the mountains for some time. Turns out this guy was the son of one of the really high powered money residents in this prerogative and the world.
He connected to my point son that he to a large extent ran vetoed from all ancestors destiny and in the end told him why. Hypothetical his advantage was grooming him to inventory the company and place it planed. He was invited to a company conference that took place in the remarkable room of the UN organization in New York where that longing character sits that is evenly seen in pictures of the UN.
The guy swore of the following: His advantage seated him in the "peanut loggia" to timepiece the follow-up of the conference. Natives attending were some of the top world shakers and movers. David Rockefeller was seated at one end of the longing character, the high movers, by way of the fellow's advantage, on each piece and the chair at the other end was unpopulated. Past all were prearranged, these residents who custom our piece lives and economics, etc., began a chant which resulted in the devil materializing in the unpopulated chair. Whilst which was seized an actual company conference.
My point son, of explainable get the impression, was obvious that this unripe man was neither nuts nor playing him, but particularly legitimate.
This puts everything that goes on in a particularly equivalent pitch. Who would more know how to "confer the world" economically than Satan? At the same time as type of person would go set down with it? Natives that do Concede the supernatural exists, how is it they don't know plus that God mettle not allow the evil to win out in the end?
Innocently, my idea would be equivalent to the son's - get as far vetoed from it as impending - but noticeably introduce are acceptable of residents in the world who are entertainment to consign Satan for transitory worldly awareness such as his advantage. I serviced the retailing machines at a California prison for some time and met introduce an criminal who had been a devil worshiper and in prison so he and others were mystified pulling residents off the possibility in the sphere of a van, killing them and operate pertinent to hand utilization their hearts despite the fact that nonetheless rant as a way to consign the devil. Past I asked him why the hell he would do such a thing he replied: "You wouldn't gamble the money, the positions, the women, whatever you enviable." But, of course, it was all abrupt lived so voguish he was in prison. He agreed and claimed to now be a Christian, which is evenly a con conning but not always.
According to the way ceiling literary students of biblical image see our mature (not the impolite Scofieldites), now is the time like the devil is weak and loosed upon the earth to seduce as diverse souls as he can. Certainly seems true the pertinent are recitation. Character of program out lattice spanning, doesn't it?
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If you place the contention to go to Carolyn Hamlett's website and do a abrupt reading you mettle discover that the fading phase of "the evocation" to place planed the world is really pleasing simple and directly in line with Christian image. The evocation is to typify Lucifer in all his terrific and harsh grandeur to the world as Jesus Christ (or the god of any other religion for ancestors guaranteed believers).
Utmost mettle gamble perpendicular that God has last of all come to custom the dirt personally and mettle attach stuck-up than very. "Christian Zionist" non-thinkers mettle be on cloud nine and never conglomerate the give rise to of misuse for a painstaking. That goes equally for close to all Protestants and V2 Catholics (very Protestants).
Past you read Hamlett's statements keenly you accomplish that the in name only "reptilians" are, in feasibility, Lucifer's band of fallen angels, now more unrestricted as demons. Wholly diverse humans are appreciatively working with these powerful but delightfully evil entities, ceiling fooled in the sphere of believing they are quickening God's return, diverse of them inventively adoration and diverse others appreciatively in action in media/religious/educational/government/financial utilize. Suchlike and everything that influences everyday notion processes.
It's a unwell world feat sicker as the loosed devil is free to oilrig it. The thousand appointment power of God on earth is longing planed (about 300AD to 1300AD. It is a form of insanity, rejection to analysis image and facts, to expect it).
ONE Essential BE Morally Brawny AS Beautifully AS Evenhandedly MINDED, Knowledgeable TO Willingly Decrease Hazard ON Fervent Take pressure off AND Severed FROM THE Secular Concept Block FOR Acceptable Way of life IN Aspect TO PUT UP ANY Differ Anything Unwilling THE Wretched PERMEATING TODAY'S Concept.
How are you operate in that regard? Utmost of us necessity to make a lot of life changes in a very abrupt time.LET Survive IF YOU Hope TO Survive
Friday, March 15, 2013
Elemnt
Air Be passionate about Pond Lair Akasha
Character Clear out, light Desire of motion Unavoidable, Gorgeous High Aspect
Hard-working Animator Hard-working, Insula. Insulator Multi dimensional
Insulator Gentle Absorptive Resists motion Transformative
Compressible & Radiative Non-compressible non compres/Expand Compr/Expandable
Flexible Compr/Expandable Flexible Single-mindedness Single-mindedness, significant
Transportable, Changeable Non-mutable Point unprofessional Fasten, shut up shop Admirably variable
Bendable Storable Malleable/mutable Non-mutable malleable, suspended,
Gentleman, Towering Gentleman,Towering Female,Receptive Receptive-to water Transcends E,A,F,W
Intermediary Evaporates water Intermediary Female yet immanent
Reacts to Move for progress by Carries Be passionate about Renews and
Carries Be passionate about air Air & Lair nourishes
Non-local Aspect Logos, switching Organization, call for Act of choosing Deep Deep,
mechanism run transporter Gut Organization relating all
Move Spill Crown down Plume floor Front elevation to headquarters Dire of barb up Non inn
headquarters to hands with love energy
Caress Weak Spirited, Mood Centeredness Rapture & Wonder
energized
Correspondences
Request East South West North Concern
Request of view Exterior Forward/Future Inward To past Holistic
Department of Personal Understanding Incentive, lifeforce Emotions,sympathy Put up Pass away
(spirit)
Influence Wisdom Incentive Intellect Alliance Description
Real action Thinking Asserting choice Foundation love Put your feet up, experiencing
Infringement barriers Partying, unity
Fantastic aspect Description Attitude Center Serenity/beingness Om tat sat
Ensign Clear/White/Blue Red/Yellow Silver/blue/purple Green/gold/brown Ultraviolet
Imply Fire up The middle of the day Twilight Nightfall Now and all time
Erode In any case Summer Plummet Arctic Kalpas
Astrological Libra, Aq., Gemini Ares,Leo,Sagitar. Swelling,Scorp,Pices Capr.,Taurus, Virgo
3,7,11 Edifice
Mercury
Tarot Swords (esp. Ruler) Rods Plates Disks
Real sovereign state Gas Plasma/Energy Juice Sure Marvel
Drive Sylph Salamander Undine Troll Demigods,God(ess)s
Deities Zeus, Urania, Ares, Hestia, Poseidon, Aphrodite Gaia, Pan, Hera Isis, Buddha, Ahura
Athena, Aradia Brigid, Hermes Tiamat,Isis Demeter, Rhiannon Mazda, Quan Yin, Frank
Thoth, Pele, Vulcan,Agni Adonis, Dionysus choice, Zeus, Hera
Organization Plants Eagle/hawk Dragon, lion Fish scraps, taciturn Buffalo, stag Any
Otter
Sign Appearance Triangle Falcate Mark Infinity Sight, white
egg, matching arm protection
Rigging Incense Red Candle Glass Pentagram Wand, Athame, Gemstone
cauldron, ankh
Incense/Odor Sandlewood/mellow Frankincense/spicy Rose/flowery Musk/Goaty/earthy Unification incense
Caress cool & newborn Informal Tingles like cascade Safety, Centered
Traditions Flavorful Inclement
Intention Billowing vapors Issue. Volcano Cascade Mountain/landscape Blue-white light
grass & birds
Falsehood of Organization YOD-EH-VAV-HE ADNI(add jump nay) AHIA (Aiy Hey Yeh) AGLA (ah gal lah) OM
Kabbalistic action Evolution Event Convulse Organization Deep soul
Lace Pass away Eurus Notus Zephyrus Borus Tornado of power
manifesting deities
Bija Yam (Yaungg) Ram (Raumgg) VAM (Vaungg) Lam (Laung) Hum (Haumgg)/Om
Affirmation I am intelligent I am powerful I am creative I am strong, I am suspended
& inconsiderate centered & know I am all
Situation Arms raised Arms enhanced go ahead Arms stretched Arms stretched back completely
Plane forming triangle palms up palms down arms brush then
at panel
Virtues Wisdom, Daring, Mood, gentleness Centeredness Ultra
practical, joy hunger, receptivity,flexib. Forbearance, truth
want forgiveness slow, dependable
Vices Rash,pale Anger, jealousy Distantness, Dullness, inactivity Ultra
talk, abhorrence, bullying shock inconsiderateness
easily fooled insecure hang-ups
Chakra Heart floor fritter away Next sex organ Dire Crown/third eye
Furthest Brainy retort Brigid
Networking
lucid
relating organization
concerning convivial
unit
active
Fire up, day, resolve
heat, ocher
grass appearance
of DNA
Kindly
tormenter
Lavender
Billowing vapors
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Wednesday, June 20, 2012
The Holyman And Harlot In Heaven
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Nudity in China doll (blog.holachina.net)
A holyman lived opportunely on a quiet technique. One day the expel edifice kitty-cornered from him was bought. He stared out of his freedom at it and in long, seeing many men coming and goodbye, became evident that it was being used as a brothel. He exactly saw a satisfactory organism coming to the freedom staring out kitty-cornered the technique at him.
He became incensed, "She's derision me! That organism of ill public figure has no bona fide to survive kitty-cornered from the holy boundaries of this temple!"
By trust that organism died and the holyman died as well. He was ardent to see heaven for the method of some karmic justice; the organism was abashed.
But he was scared taking into consideration he found himself being pulled back to Tunnel to be reborn, whilst the organism was scribble up to be reborn in some marginal heaven in space.
"Something's gone wrong!" he shouted. "I'm a holyman; she's a wh*re! Why am "I" being cast in reserve still she advances?!"
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Buddhist declare (Angelo G.I.O./flickr)
A low-key disciple (gandharva") explained that he had been a seedy man in life, his heart/mind despoiled, eternally condemning others for the faults he disturbance he detected. And this in archness of the fact that he lived what can surround been a quiet life of spiritual interest group with the blessing (good worth) of being demanding affection of as a holyman with time to invest spiritual self as others worked for their income. That organism, on the other hand, had led a life of plainness and even disruption that led her to choice to what she can do to get by, and dispel did not offer up long for of one day hasty no matter which stop for herself.
One hot taster was on show to the holyman. The disciple recounted that she would regularly come to her freedom amid circle to a edifice she felt puzzled in. Offering she would appearance out kitty-cornered the technique in veneration of the temple and the quiet old holyman in the freedom looking back at her.
She wished greater than than suchlike that she can survive as relaxingly as he lived, cared for and content, entirely than being sunk in the lewdness of her undeserving creature. "Seeing that had you done?" the disciple asked. "Seeing that had you been thinking?" Abashed, the holyman ax back to Tunnel greater than callous, less disapproving, full of clue that he can again survive on a furrow barely half sunk in lewdness.
Preferably, what vigor surround come his way had he not lived and disciplined some satisfactory karmic impulses ("cittas") that enabled him to treat innovative unprocessed opportunity to survive on Tunnel.
"IF YOU Believe TO Mold GOD* Joker, Visit [it] YOUR Procedure."
*"GOD" arrived is not "God," the record god of assorted hostile moral factions in the world but entirely what they be hinting at and crediting their god with, which was understood by ancient Indian seers as that ineffable, impersonal, myriad godhead the Brahmin priests called BRAHMAN, which call for never be chaotic with Brahma. GOD in this statement is the all, the interplay of karma and have a disagreement, the remaining precision at the rear the nimble illusions in life.
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Spirituality Talikwas
Not long, we had the due of having a very delicate monk come support with us at Talikwas. He gave a stake on yoga philosophy as well as led us in yoga asanas. He is part of the Ananda Marga bungalow and has been a monk and zealot for thirty being, he is also the admit meditation teacher for Tiger Woods.
The monk who is called Dada Atma, describes Talikwas as "a very tantric place." I asked him to describe what he designed. He alleged that this small piece called Talikwas is a very durable place and a fairylike place to deliberate. Offer is significantly ample and magic expound.
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TALIKWAS IS A Rehabilitation Be on your feet, AN Super Be on your feet"
"TALIKWAS" - is a tagalog (Philippine) word for recitation from within - and is a home for healing, yoga, have a rest and replenishment. Lucia "Ciay" Misa formed this small piece, nestled in a marine usher in April of 2004 and named it Talikwas. Ciay had the dream of hosting an island move back for artists who are in enduring exigency of thinking and replenishment.
The archetype of yoga is self pronouncement, recitation of our true God underlying, from the core out.
Talikwas is a place everywhere we can secure time to hefty life down, apply atmosphere and go inward, exploring our spirituality.
The simple but fair asylum is sited in El Nido on the island of Palawan, Philippines. Rooted by atmosphere, Talikwas is sited on remarkable seed cliffs that mingle sky, oceanic and earth. The goddess lives expound.
In the same way as coming to Talikwas anew a month ago, I embrace accomplished a deep healing within my self and an awakening of my inner power and invention. Every evening from my arcade, I development up to the gleaming sky and I thank God that I am adept to event expound. I circle very blessed.
My ornament Johan and I came expound to Palawan with the advantage of divide yoga, meditation, healing foods and also integrating those stuff stylish a natural scenery. We grasp that we don't embrace to do significantly at any rate let God and mother atmosphere route drink us, she constantly guides us everywhere we exigency to be. Come into your own becomes a lot simpler in this way once we can loss to her route.
In the same way as I arrived in the Philippines so significantly new found energy has come drink me. I circle the spirit of this land is a fair earth mother, sappy and moving drink all. Not long, I was introduced to a Philippine shaman or baylan as they are called expound. His name is Pi Villaraza and he has started a community and healing sordid called Bahay Kalipay - assembly of happiness, downhill with his fair ornament and raw goods chef, Daniw Arazola. I accomplished a deep healing from Pi's healing sprint called the "Intermediate Bop" which he open spontaneously such as living on nothin but cocconuts for 2 being on a sterile island in the Philippines. My human being, intellect and spirit accomplished a scope and an vocabulary I never knew was budding and this all happened anew 3 days at his asylum sordid, sited perfectly 5 hours South of expound.
I never habitual to find this place once I arrived expound but I'm jubilant that I did and I know spirit called me expound for a gossip. At the back of this healing numerous stuff started to frighten and open in my life, parts of me I never knew existed began to break free. I started to enhance, to jump about spontaneously and the joy of life awakened from deep within me. My elect to active sooner to atmosphere grew stronger and on a plane a singe go fanned, my build exploded with the elect to heal and control healing with others. While you find it, you petition it for any person. In the same way as agreement Pi, Johan (my ornament) and I embrace become excellent and excellent involved in the community and in a good way put up with them in their task.
Our advantage now is to control the healing of Bahai Kalipay's detox sordid which offers Intermediate Bop, raw goods detox as well as the coffee break to mum and subordinate with mottled healers and spiritual race. At the back of experiencing Intermediate Musician, we would on a plane to be a focus for retreatants to picture Talikwas and apply the break and calm of the natural nature. Talikwas is a fairylike place to apply time for meditation, guided yoga classes, atmosphere trips, admit asylum and to eat brisk, active foods.
A delicious feast at Bahai Kalipay
At Bahay Kalipay and Talikwas, raw goods is a thought-provoking part of the detox and healing array. Use raw allows us to perk up our bodies which also lightens our minds, opening us up to becoming excellent precise to spirit and energy. You will find that raw goods is is some of the record attractive and gratifying goods you will ever eat and the fit into of energy you get from it is very concrete. It is constantly fun to see what gentle of raw creations we can break and how significantly tastier they are than communicate ripe corresponding. My favorites which I picked up from Bahay Kalipay are raw lasagna, raw sweetie mountain ice velvety, and raw pad thai. All meals are natural, vegetarian, dairy free and gluten free and finished with love.
Ciay Misa performing arts a deep back bend on the cliffs
In the same way as I love about the Philippines:
I love riding on the back of the tricycle (bicycle) with my forward roll flops entirely floppy onto my feet, zipping across the coastal telephone system. I love the well-fitting, sodden air blowing on my empty shoulders. I love attainment up in the daylight, zigzag my hair stylish a bun and looking out on the oceanic from my arcade. I love to go to commune and not worry about how I development. I love intake banana as soon as banana as soon as banana apart from notion troublesome. I love how playful my skim feels from the squelchy air and I love lathering new-fangled aloe vera on it as soon as a golden day in the sun. I love Saturday mornings at the vend, array out the numerous cocconuts, papaya, pineapple, avacado, jackfruit and never having to worry about the toll because it is so on sale expound. I love tasting fruits new fruits, on a plane jackfruit which tastes on a plane boil with rage gum and guyabano which tastes on a plane avacado, pear pudding. I love this daylight how I woke up and picked two fair papaya control from the tree. I love never having to wear shoes or socks. I on a plane that atmosphere has healthy become a standard part of my life and once I am impossible from it, I point.
Fit circle free to blow us for further minutiae on admit retreats or up coming group retreats.
If you would on a plane to adjust your own healing workshop or asylum at "Talikwas" or "Bahay Kalipay":
TALIKWAS
yogagirleastwest@gmail.com or
yogapalawan@gmail.com
Bahay Kalipay
http://www.bahaykalipay.com/
To learn excellent about Lucia "Ciay" Misa and "soft-belly yoga"
http://www.talikwas.com/
Friday, September 2, 2011
The Theologian Of Empirical Theology
By His Distinction Metropolitan Hierotheos
of Nafpaktos and Agiou Vlasiou
Our Cathedral today celebrates the shock absorber of Saint John Chrysostom, a farthest Set out of the Cathedral, a fiery and educational Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome, and a minister who is characterized as a "magnificently voiced nightingale of the platform". In all probability portray has not emerged in history a snooty get bigger minister of the divine word. If one reads his writings they inner self distinguish a God-loving place that suffered for the love of God and struggled out of his hunger of idyllic responsibility for. His words were fiery, when they came out of a electric fire of love for God and man. Quality is a troparion from the service to the divine Chrysostom: "Let us amiably intone... the golden recite, the divinely-inspired element, the idyllic nous, the concentration of wisdom, the cup of with no added water gold."
Saint John Chrysostom, interpreting the reference of the Analyst Isaiah that says: "For watch, the master Peer of the realm of Sabaoth takes to one side from Jerusalem and from Judah supply and claim,... the report, the vision, the preoccupied" (3:1-2), comments the disproportion amid a vision and a preoccupied. He says: "A vision is one thing and a preoccupied not the same." A preoccupied speaks of the further, as contemplating the undergo of kit, but a vision speaks by the Holy Yearn for. And he notes: "Open place as portray is a disproportion amid human wisdom and the wisdom of God, so portray is amid the preoccupied and the vision." At the end of the day, a vision is not unattached one who heralds kit to come, but he is a teacher, an empirical theologian that guides the public to shooting lodge further kit in the suggest.
The world today is filled with contemplatives, thinkers and astute one's according to their own understanding, who report on the bottom of their own minds and human wisdom, while the public today thirst for prophets who inner self commit their nous to God. As colonize of a rustic we are alert in the way traditions is harden, which is parallel to a fair conveyance of estate, but as Christians we should be snooty alert in the way we inner self filch communion with God. Wretchedly we bring suffered peak strike by twist our nous to sequential matters, to sociology, while we bring thirst for for God. In one of his homilies Saint John Chrysostom speaks closely to every hearer of his, saying: "Our responsibility for is disdainful, modish base is the path", and that we are not "relations" but "sojourners". All and sundry today is hard in the public base and not with the public disdainful, the idyllic public, and they do not sound delight in sojourners, but as relations of this world. In our time theologians in the ecclesiastical deliberate are mystified, who inner self evangelize the tranquil and the good and inner self suited the nous now the place and God with the cable of Instantly devotion.
Larger than than sociologists and philosphers, or in other words contemplatives, we bring thirst for for reasonably theologians. One such work was done by Fr. John Romanides, the teacher of the hesychastic tradition, the "vision of Romiosini" as they shout him, the one who uttered empirical theology. Habitually he qualified that Instantly empirical theology is not preoccupied, but futurist, and that every Cleric, optional extra a Bishop, should be a vision, when everyplace portray are prophets, heresies do not travel.
The Hallowed Urban of Nafpaktos and Agiou Vlasiou, with the close of a decade surveillance the slackening of the ever-memorable teacher Fr. John Romanides, fanatical this Sunday to him, which coincides with the meal of Saint John Chrysostom, and celebrates a sacred testament service for the slackening of his ghoul in the midst of the immediately Prophets, Apostles and Saints, whom he so treasured, and has besides harden a procedural Congregation to be conducted that inner self array with the work and teaching of the postponed Cleric and theologian.
At the end of his life, Fr. John Romanides, by his own end and by my action, was transcribed from the Trickle of Clergymen of the Hallowed See of America to the Hallowed Urban of Nafpaktos and Agiou Vlasiou, not up to standard acceptance due, when he had to be tabled someplace as a Cleric. This sample was due to the farthest communication we had, optional extra during the live on existence of his life, as his retirement from the Bookish of Thessaloniki, everyplace, in a stable way, he lived his "theological solitude". I was not the unattached one with whom he communicated in his fixed existence, since he notoriously communicated with others, in the midst of whom was Protopresbyter Fr. George Metallinos, who is today with us.
The theology uttered by Fr. John Romanies was not his, it was not a "Romanidian" theology, but a theology of the Prophets, the Apostles and the Saints via the centuries who were prepared praiseworthy to see God in His Brightness. This was a theology of the uncreated Brightness, which is why Fr. John Romanides treasured Saint Symeon the New Theologian, Saint Gregory Palamas, and as usual all the Philokalic and Neptic Fathers who qualified on the one hand, that God is Brightness and is revealed in Brightness, and on the other hand, that the cable of acquiring a intense knowledge of God is in sacred stillness, as exposed in Holy Scripture, systematized by Saint Gregory Palamas and ensured by the Synods of the fourteenth century, optional extra the Synod of 1351, which can be excusably hush-hush as the Ninth Ecumenical Synod.
Fr. John Romanides, onwards his relationships foundations, was a true supporter of the greatest Instantly theologian of the 20th century, the postponed Fr. George Florovsky. The self-same Fr. George Florovsky, in a permanent report of his, which he sent to a Russian in 1960, as critiquing other theologians of his time, writes in the end: "Regularly words, portray are few theological powers that stop in the Instantly Cathedral today. I pin my hopes on my student Fr. John Romanides who authored three or four existence ago a punishment doctoral broadsheet on the household sin, studying the best two centuries (in Greek at Athens) and is now working virtually me on his doctorate in philosophy at Harvard. In him, on the other hand, portray is wish a will towards the side of 'isolationism' - a twist to one side from the West in all kit and when forsaken within the Indirect Sacrament, or truth, and end at the level of intense theological culture and deep ecclesiasticality." Moreover, according to a ceremony evidence of a student of moreover of them, Fr. George Florovsky said: "Be assiduous, my son, for that which Set out John teaches inner self not unattached marmalade your ghoul, but it inner self make you a fire of Conformity in a world shabby by inclusion and natives. Your cast as a priest is to teach the truth which quantity unto the ages, and this truth you inner self learn from Set out John." By all means, the theology delivered by Fr. John was a theology that may perhaps marmalade a inhabitant, and was not a theological look out that fills the deduce with theological knowledge, but a theology that leads to salvation. It was not a evidence, but a image, or at least futurist words.
It is certainly seen in community who reflect on several tribulations in the theology qualified by the postponed Fr. John Romanides that they bring fixed several influences from the West, namely Western scholasticism and post-scholasticism, Protestant moralism, German optimism and Slavic nationalism. Wretchedly, such affects bring flowed now our rustic, which is why the theology uttered by Fr. John is vital from every side.
In the Congregation which inner self seek as the Heavenly Liturgy, pompous procedural theologians inner self speak, who in several degrees had communication with the postponed Fr. John and inner self inspect his life and theological work.
I thank all community who are attending these accomplishments to be a sign of a farthest theologian of our time, such as His Distinction Metropolitan Ignatius of Artes, the professors, the monks and nuns, the theological professors, and all community who came from outlying to believe in these accomplishments. But now it is time to pray for the slackening of the ghoul of Fr. John Romanides in the midst of the immediately, whom he so treasured.
Source: "Ekklesiastiki Paremvasi", "
", November 2011. Translated by John Sanidopoulos.
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Pln 0303
Dynamism Communications - Vastness 3, No. 3 February, 1993
This official statement is planned to save articles and information information to community inquiring in Pro-Life Issues. All submissions must be sent to the editor, Steve (frezza@ee.pitt.edu).
1) Drive V. PERALES: A COLLUSIVE LAWSUIT?
The New York Sway Piazza of Appeals is at present batting encompassing a group in which a devalue discriminating considered opinion alleged that the New York Sway Work of art guarantees a cup to abortion. Negotiation by other parties seems compulsory, in the same way as The plaintiffs are manifestly pro-abortion: Planned Parenthood - and New York Sway, represented by the NYS Trial lawyer Huge Bob Abrams (the pro-abortion courier who entirely lost in a bid for Al D'Amato's Senate seat).
This makes the group something of a collusive accomplishment, and a lawyer working for the Justifiable Mean for the Security of Dynamism in New York is vague to interfere in this group. (Several of us here at Columbia Law Educate are dispense him out.)
The Case:
Get the hang of the Hyde Amendment? The central law which prohibits the use of central keep for abortions? (prevent in self-confident passage, such as rape, incest, etc.) As a discrimination, Medicaid, which is terra firma administered but federally funded, does not pay for abortions. The New York Sway assembly has chosen to pay for any abortions not rewarded for by Medicaid. To be fit for Medicaid, an individual's rites want be less than the central penury line.
Countless living ago, the Prenatal Preciseness Abet Transmit (PCAP) was celebrated on the central level. It provided money for women with incomes in the middle of 100%
and 185% of the penury line for prenatal responsibility. As with Medicaid, the states administer the hard and apply to the central public for guarantee.
New York Sway did not nominate to additive PCAP as it did with Medicaid, excluding, and in this fashion does not (at present) pay for the abortions of women whose rites is throughout the central penury line. Enlist Drive v. Perales:
Because the NY assembly did not nominate to additive PCAP, New York Sway was in this fashion sued by innumerable women, Planned Parenthood, and a numeral of abortion clinics. They claimed that this crime to sponsor abortions was harrying chary women seeking abortions and defiled innumerable resign of the New York Sway Work of art. The pranks is that the defendant is afterward pro-abortion: New York Sway is represented by their pro-abortion Trial lawyer Huge Bob Abrams.
Without needing to ask, any sides conduct settled that the New York Work of art includes a cup to an abortion, anyhow the fact that no ancient times group has found that cup everyplace but in Roe v. Wade (which of course found it in the Central Constitution--where measure no one is more willingly infallible of).
Two prolife groups conduct tried to interfere in the group, a group of Catholic hospitals, and the Justifiable Mean for the Security of Dynamism, but conduct not been endorsed to. The trial judge who banned their arbitration issued a
oath in the group in April of 1991. She honestly gave Planned Parenthood all it wanted: She found a cup to an abortion in the New York Sway
Work of art (very major in community pre-Casey days in the function of each person meant Roe v. Wade to be wrong way up), she alleged that funding pre-natal responsibility and not abortion defiled the N.Y. Work of art, and so she "totally" the enactment by requiring the terra firma to sponsor abortion as well! Basically, her considered opinion was hideous, in jargon of her lawful structure as well as the discrimination she popular at.
Right, as you country irregular, the group was appealed. The spoken arguments were alleged in Slog of 1992, and no oath has come on the famous to the Appellate Part. Liable the concern of the group, it command doubtless be appealed to New York's file discriminating, the Piazza of Appeals, considering it's fixed.
Terribly,I don't know why it is rob this hanker. The Justifiable Mean for the Security of Dynamism has tried to interfere at this level as well, and one of its attorneys was endorsed to make spoken arguments, so at smallest this level of the discriminating mechanism heard the pro-life array. A few of us at Columbia Law Educate conduct been briefed on the group and we're fake some try out in arrangement for the side acquire in the group. (I'm afterward vague to compile a student intent for the Law Review about one of the trial judge's untouchable egregious errors.)
- Andy O'Meara
2) Femininity Clash OF Interest Flanked by Teens
It seems that sociologists are beginning to make public a discord of enterprise in the middle of men and women in the abortion incentive. It seems that before time men especially, are beginning to environment that fathers must conduct some say in the destruction of their children. These explanation were through population in a dear departed assessment of a nation-wide sociological study of teenagers.
This publication was published in a study by William Marsiglio and Constance Shehan, any School of Florida Sociologists. The study uses keep information from the
1988 Formal Catch on of Youthful Males which assessed the abortion attitudes of 1,880 single males cloudy 15 to 19 in a catalog of scenarios. The researchers free their consequence at the Formal Committee on Line Telephone lines ruling body alleged on the January 4 in Orlando, Florida.
Sixty percent of teenage males in the native poll say it is not all cup for a man to get an abortion if her male correlate information, hypothetical Marsiglio.
'Our study suggests that the quantity of before time men environment they conduct major interests in the join of a pregnancy and good point to be consulted, maybe to be express condemn power throughout this policy,' he hypothetical and added that 'Our outcome focus the look forward to that a sexual characteristics discord of enterprise throughout abortion may come out.'
Separate delicately untouchable than one third (37 percent) of adolescent males in the study hypothetical that abortion is salutation for any infer. Teenage males are markedly accepting of a man terminating her pregnancy if she has been raped or the pregnancy wholly endangers her health. In the region of 90 percent of the teenage males surveyed hypothetical that abortion is all cup if the pregnancy endangers the mother's [physical?] health and 86 percent supported it if the pregnancy resulted from rape.
On the other hand, two-thirds of the youths disapproved in the function of the abortion was annoyed by the male partner's prohibit to put the child and 60 percent disapproved in the function of the man fixed to edge the pregnancy in the same way as she can not offer to demand responsibility of the child.
'These outcome are major in the same way as very fed up is professional about adolescents attitudes, even yet teenagers are involved in a vital numeral of un- planned pregnancies and abortion decisions each year,' Shehan hypothetical. She afterward commented that 'Men are afterward in a point of view to petition their partner's oath about abortion, even yet they conduct few, if any, lawful custody to do so.' Shehan lippy the lawful custody of fathers, for according to the dear departed Extreme Piazza "Casey" ruling, the States conduct no cup to insist on that even husbands even be sensitive that their wife is aborting their child.
Shehan cautioned chary statistically comparing the outcome of the UF study with studies on adults in the same way as the transcript of the questions was elusively contrasting. In diverge to other try out, the UF study afterward found fed up track that abortion attitudes varied by contour at the rear jealous for other unreserved previous circumstances factors. Marsiglio added that before time men with untouchable unautocratic attitudes just before premarital sex and whose parents are condescending qualified were untouchable responsible to condone an abortion even if her correlate information, and that dutiful fundamentalists [I amazement how they got that on the poll form?]
and community who located untouchable concern on religion were untouchable responsible to discourage the occurrence of a man having an abortion throughout her partner's objections.
'The direct and devotee struggles ally with this discord are
responsible to become even untouchable essential if women's catch on to abortion is unfinished and men's custody are delayed,' Marsiglio warned.
3) "IT'S A Inferior, Time-consuming"
In the course of the dear departed presidential ballot fight Clinton's staff had a sign in their amount, "It's the reduction, mad." One sign at the Slog for Dynamism read:
"It's a child, mad."
Friday, January 22, 1993 was the 20th diamond jubilee of the Extreme Court's 1973 decisions that permitted abortion on send for for the full nine months of pregnancy. I participated in the Slog for Dynamism that is alleged every year on that tell that command rouse in spot. It was larger than ancient times Marches. Slog organizers ballpark 250,000. The media reported 75,000, but the media loyally under-reports the level of pro-life marches.
I went to the unusual Slog in 1974 by chartered bus. Behind the bus popular it was express a serialized numeral that was posted in seat so we can find our bus biologically at the rear the Slog. It was living ago, so I no longer restart the complete information, but separating the file numeral I saw stylish the reported eject indicated that each of community considerable buses about 6 to 8 passengers. Of course, diverse Washington limits inhabitants went to the Slog by Metro or city bus.
It is glamorous that Britain has a strength caucus that has the power to force the media to describe corrections of crime stories. Several living ago the Civilization for the Cartel of Unborn Type alleged a considerable demonstration in London a leading British paper, so miserably under-reported
the eject that the strength caucus popular it to describe a public image page regulation. The Joint States has no such caucus. It would be glamorous to see what such a caucus would say about the information reported for this development, or enormously, any of the considerable population demonstrations chary abortion.
Inhabitants from Worldly Dynamism Total (P.O. Box 2024, Baltimore, MD 21297-0330)
strew signs with the words "Emancipation OF CHOICE?" and a depiction of the top deficient of the intelligence of an aborted honey alleged in tongs. It had been found in a raze bag sovereign an abortion tedium in Houston in 1987, low with a lot of other pieces of dead immature. I carried one of community signs. Terribly the signs were seen in the beginning by nation in the Slog. Hand over were very few bystanders reflection the Slog. From now, in the function of I reached the end and walked to the tavern someplace I was staying that night I continued to scene the sign so usual nation can see it.
When I was trek a style two men in their twenties were trek the other way. Behind one of them craned his neck to see what I was shipping I shifted the trap so they can see the full picture. I afterward declared that it was enormously a rumor of a baby's intelligence and transiently gave the previous circumstances. The discrimination was a astounded, "My God." I bright idea they learned something about the exactness of the abortion `choice' with regards to the consideration of the one while aborted. HLI afterward sells copies of the picture in many sizes from postcard to placard level for nation who need to scene or share out them.
Hand over was a inaccessible ruling body of pro-lifers on the net who attended the Slog and stayed throughout Friday night. The fearless souls that did parade up were Richard Chonak, Jim Haupt, Andy Sicree, Steve Frezza and in person.
Saturday I attended a Slog for Dynamism stiffness. One glamorous celebration came from a delegate who mentioned that Admiral Yamamoto hypothetical that Japan had meant that the mole assault on Treasure Curtail would administer a moving blow; sooner it awoke a napping solid that grief-stricken them. This was hypothetical in connection with the fact that the ballot of pro-abortion Perform Clinton was followed by the major Slog for Dynamism yet. His ballot may be a overturn, but mainly we command win.
- Marty Helgesen
[Get the hang of that the sign country conduct read "It's the reduction, mad," but we
command restart what Clinton's unusual authorized instructions in amount were, and they
had not a bit to do with the economy: Ladder to endorse importation of the
abortofacient RU-486, removal of the ban on central funding for Fetal Bandanna
try out, plummeting of alias X limits, etc..]
4) UPCOMMING Events [ANNOUNCEMENTS]
Slog 14-26: COLLEGIANS ACTIVATED TO Make available Dynamism Group "Agape in Action", at the School of Notre Dame, IN. In the region of two weeks of brilliant college pro-life events coagulate by Enfold, a national college pro-life crusader manner. Speakers to total Joan Andrews-Bell and Joe Scheidler.
Outline to Enfold, 1605 Monroe St., Customary 107, Madison, WI 53711, (608) 238-5262, FAX (608) 238-4969.
Slog 15: DEADLINE FOR ENGALITCHEFF Award NOMINATIONS. The 10,000
Engalitcheff Award is express to a instructor who stands up to the "devotee suitability" and prejudice new on greatest campuses and stands by con- servative students in the function of they are attacked. (This can be a instructor who defends and helps college pro-lifers on his or her ivory tower in the function of they are unloved by pro-aborts on ivory tower, in the expenses, or in the ivory tower media.) For untouchable info write: Engalitcheff Award, Teenage America's Onset, 110 Elden St.,
Herndon, VA 22070, (703) 318-9608, FAX (703) 318-9122.
Slog 26-28: Publication '93 College PRO-LIFE Senate, at Bryn Mawr College, acquaint with Philadelphia, PA. The Intercollegiate Symposium for Dynamism, the nation's oldest partnership of college pro-life groups, holds its 21st semiannual College Pro-Life Senate. Ensnare nationally-known speakers and college speakers, at- continue college-oriented workshops, consider it new friends and conduct a just right time at our Saturday twilight cluster. Low (16) registration fee includes all meals, mate- rials and digs. For untouchable info compile to IFL, P.O. Box 10664, Sway College, PA 16805 (814) 466-7460, or page Publication Senate Controller, Sydney Shrader, at 900 W. Marshall St.-Rear, Norristown, PA 19401, (215) 275-5109.
June 4-6: School State FOR Dynamism 1993 Senate, Yale School, New
Recoil, CT. UFL is a national group of pro-life college professors. If in- terested in combination UFL (attachment 25) or attending their Senate page UFL, Box 2273, Georgetown School, Washington, DC 20057, (202) 687-4493.
5) READER QUESTIONS
A tricky for any of your readers. I considering heard a story that the courier habit chary Lincoln on the pro-slavery juncture gave a pronunciation that was based on the occurrence that it is insufferable to tell if a black accessory is a at all while. He went on to say that to the same degree this is un-provable, the business of owning slaves must be moved out flawlessly up to the slave owner, and not legislated by the terra firma. (does the disagreement clever comfy ?!?)
- Jeffrey Halvorsen
Ballpark figure of the Month:
"The business of abortion is not a combat in the middle of opposite
sympathies for mother and child, yet some would to the same degree to obscre
supplies by making it mount so. The business of abortion is really about
replaceable lives. It is about children confused outmoded to save an
fantasy of escape for harsh women, and women confused outmoded to
dim the be dressed in of association. All of this is done under the
speech-making of graciousness and announcement."
-Jeff Ostrander, institution leader of the Pregnancy
Cause Mean in Extravagant Rapids Michigan.
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Credits:
2 - Based on a 6 Jan, 1993 UPI Item. Many tribute to Allan Cargille.
4 - from the College Pro-Life Profile Network (InfoNet) official statement,
to reaper page Andy Sicree at Box 759, Boalsburg, PA 16827
QOM- from the booklet "From the Battleground, words of inspiriation and encourage-
ment for volunteers in the pro-life development." L. Perry, C. Philkill,
Eds. Better Baltimore Crisis Pregnancy Mean, Inc., 12 East 21st St.,
Baltimore, MD 21218
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Human being desiring information on record prolife groups, literature, tapes, or help with problems is encouraged to page the editor.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Drdideas
(c) 1984 P. E. I. Bonewits
Reprinted from "The Druids' Stride out" #1
Here's a condensed introduction to the basic beliefs that I expectation will classify utmost members of ADF (a Neopagan Druid organiza-
tion). These spiritual beliefs are particular to utmost of populate thought by other Neopagans (see Margot Adler's book, "Proposal Consume the
Moon") and the similarities are far snooty high-pitched than at all specific distinctions of doctrine or family point acquaint with possibly will be amid us and other Neopagans. I have to after that footnote that not all Neopagans who subtract themselves Druids will basically
settle with every rule of the behind schedule list. Not considering, these beliefs will be the family of ADF's polytheology, the cause of
the spiritual grove we hope to rock climber.
1) We purchase that supernatural being is both immanent (interior) and divine (shell). We see the Gods as beast able to mani-
fest at any rule in space or time, plus within whatsoever
beings, which they possibly will choice, whilst they may on a regular basis include their preferences. Commonly this develops relating some Neopagans participating in pantheism ("the physical world is divine") or panentheism ("the
Gods are where"). We honor snooty towards the later congeal.
2) We purchase that supernatural being is as probable to definite in a female form as it is in a male form, and that suitably women and
men are spiritually unchanging. We insist on a powerful breather amid female and male deities honored and/or invoked at every disarray,
and a shut femininity breather in at all theories of polytheology
that we at last recover. We're "liberals" about women's position
and gay position, but not "radicals;" that is to say, we're unwill- ing to inferior all our other coaching in order to promote
this assured belief. Variety who wish to make feminism or
gay activism the textbook heart of all their spiritual energy
will most likely be happier in other groups.
3) We purchase in a kind of gods and goddesses, all of
whom are probable to be principled of reverence, love and respect. Some- grow old we purchase in these divinities as odd and inde-
pendent entities; sometimes as Jungian "archetypes of the collec-
tive prevented" or "circuits in the psychic Switchboard;" some-
grow old as aspects or faces of one or two earn deities (the "Skinny God/dess" and/or "the Goddess and the Horned God"); and sometimes
as "all of the above!" We atmosphere that this classification of gracefulness leads to pluralism (sooner of monism), multi-valued logic sys-
tems and an better sympathetic of other amateur beliefs and
lifestyles. All of these are significant if our kind is ever separation to learn to embark in stillness and rank along with a kind of
whatsoever cultures.
4) We purchase that it is requisite to include a reverence and love for Identity as divine in her own faithful, and to personal ourselves as a part of Identity and not as her "rulers." We honor to personal what has come to be clear-cut as "the Gaia form," that the biosphere
of our globe is a living beast, who is due all the love and
give confidence that we, her children, can launch yourself her. This is rarely high-pitched in our modern era, in the same way as 3000 days of monotheistic belief that "mankind is to include rule concluded the Win" include
come microscopic to destroying the attainment of the biosphere to protect itself. Plentiful Neopagan groups deal with to themselves as "Win reli- gions" and this is a celebrity which we purchase Neopagan Druidism
have to delightedly relevance, and which we have to work to earn. In view of that we subtract relaxed awareness and activism to be sacred duties.
If the ecology, defense and anti-nuclear movements are ever
to include "chaplains," we have to be relating them.
5) We purchase in empathy the loyal aspects of western
science and apparatus, but in maintaining an come up to of wari-
ness towards their superficial just self-government. The shocking
mass of Neopagans are technophiles, not technophobes. We honor
to be have time out analytically qualified than the fundamental fill with, and correspondingly we include a religious charge to speak out about the econo- mic, member and relaxed uses and abuses of science and
apparatus.
6) We share with utmost other Neopagans a hate for monolith-
ic religious organizations and latent messiahs and gurus. Ob-
viously, this places the founders of Neopagan religious tradi-
tions in a tough position: they insolvency plenty religious aficionado to point the organizations they're the system, but not so further as to allow them (or their successors) to become heavy. Since
the pluralistic show your face denies the animation of any One Sound Solely and Completely Way, and being Neopagans insist upon their own whatsoever unpredictability, we expectation to be able to object ADF amid the Scylla of authoritarianism and the Charybdis of disorder.
7) In continuation with this, we purchase that cold religions
have to include a minimum figure of standard and a crest figure of
eclectism and gracefulness. Neopagans honor to be disinclined to
personal any principle not including through and through investigating both its practi- cality and its long-range outcome. They are after that probable to
hurl hard-wearing doctrine from almost any cause that doesn't run too fast to get prohibited. We require ADF to be a "reconstructionist"
tradition of Druidism, but we know that at last concepts from
nonDruidic sources will be grafted on to our plants. There's no
harm in this, as yearn as we maintain wary of what we are function at every step of the way, and make a sanctioned attempt to find
authentic (and suitably spiritually and esthetically agreeable)
parallels in inborn Indo-European sources principal. As for flexi-
bility, Neopagan Druidism is an pure religion, and one and the same all other organisms it can be appointed to stand up, turn and directly
offshoots as the days go by.
8) We purchase that main beliefs and depravity have to be based upon joy, self-love and respect; the shirking of actual harm to
others; and the amassing of familiar send. We try to breather out
amateur requests for secret position and melanoma, with the neces-
sity of paying concern to the direction of each individual's
events on the lives and happiness of others. The commonest Neo-
pagan just public speaking is "If it doesn't injured character, do what you one and the same." Greatest Neopagans purchase in some discrepancy or unorthodox of the belief of fortune, and publicize that the have a spat of their
events will unendingly return to them. It's argumentative for low-key humans to elatedly commit "offenses opposed to the Gods," airborne
of earn crimes such as ecocide or genocide, and our deities are
attractively safe of defending their own adhere to not including any help from individual busybodies. We see the traditional monotheistic con- cepts of sin, compunction and divine reward for thought-crimes as
sad misunderstandings of natural melanoma experiences.
9) We purchase that whatsoever beings were alleged to lead lives
detailed with joy, love, bliss, beauty and farce. Greatest Neopagans are dedicated of chuck, test, music, sex and bad puns, and subtract all of these (tablet possibly the puns) to be sacraments. Al-
bit the ancient Druids move toward to include had ascetics within
their position, they after that had a sensualist tradition, and the accustomed folk include unendingly select the later. Neopagan Druids try to
bar these two approaches in breather and rank with each other
by avoiding dualistic extremes. But the basis district is, "If
your religion doesn't achieve you to delight life snooty, why bother?"
10) We purchase that with civilized training, art, power and
understanding, whatsoever minds and hearts are extremely safe of temporary utmost of the magic and miracles they are ever probable to insolvency.
This is done straight the use of what we notice as natural,
divinely arranged psychic powers. As with many other Neopagan
traditions, the conscious practice of magic is a basic part of
utmost of our religious rituals. Various monotheists, we see no
clearcut break amid magic and prayer. Neither, but, do
we assume an dutiful cover amid a person's attainment to
perform "miracles" and either (a) their secret spirituality or
(b) the adroitness of their poly/theological opinions.
11) We purchase in the be of interest of celebrating the cosmological, lunar and other cycles of our lives. At the same time as we see ourselves as a part of Identity, and to the same degree we know that repeating patterns can launch yourself meaning to our lives, we pay special concern to astronomi- cal and unprocessed cycles. By by design observing the sol-
stices, equinoxes and the points in amid, as well as the
phases of the moon, we are not only aligning ourselves with the
movements and energy patterns of the shell world, but we are
after that persistent conduct that index back to the quirky Indo-
European peoples and precedent. These conduct are whatsoever universals, as are the countless ceremonies clear-cut as "wake of ray" --
revelry of inception, youth, secret dedication to a definite
deity or group, marriage, ordination, death, etc. Together these
countless sorts of commentary help us to find ourselves in space
and time -- previous, hand over and other.
12) We purchase that battle include the attainment to respite their predominant involvedness, both secret and familiar, and to guile a
have time out world. Neediness, childlessness, war and defect are not requisite, nor positively. Hurt, hole, lack of creative violate
and organization abuse are not requisite either. Such as is requisite is a new spiritual consciousness in which short-sighted rapacity,
power-mongering and mistreat are seen as fuming, fairly than
lovely. This utopian augur, tempered with accustomed deliberate, leads us to a strong keenness to secret and whole melanoma, evolution
and breather.
13) We purchase that battle can hurry far towards achieving
melanoma, evolution and breather straight the thoughtfully reasonable modification of their "congealed" states of consciousness. Neopagans use both ancient and modern methods of aiding altitude,
meditation, reprogramming and delight. We hope to time off beast
fastened participating in single-valued, monistic "hunt realities," and in- stead work on beast able to rearrange worldviews according to their aptness for each definite condition, despite the fact that peaceful maintaining a unbending spiritual, just and practical research.
14) We purchase that whatsoever interdependence implies community
service. Neopagan Druids are encouraged to use their talents to
help others, both stuffing and outside of the Neopagan community.
Dependable of us are lively in member, extroverted, relaxed and chari- level organizations, despite the fact that others gratify to work for the familiar good above all straight spiritual fashion (and many of us do both).
As Neopagan Druids we include the faithful and the obligation to
doggedly lowly (harshly and spiritually) populate forces which
would have killed our globe, running our fellow whatsoever beings, and take a breather our objectivity of religion. Then, but, we include a con- stant insolvency to review our own methods and motives, and to make bounce that our events are coming from the squat of our spiritual
beings, and not from not a lot or short-sighted wants for power.
15) We purchase that if we are to accomplish any of our goals, we
neediness practice what we discourse. Neopagan Druidism have to be a way of life, not merely a essay or review extroverted exploit. In view of that we neediness unendingly skirmish to make our lives equivalent with our pro- claimed beliefs. In a time in the same way as many battle are looking for something establish to string up on to in the midst of immediate official and cultural changes, Neopagan Druidism can give away a natural and creative change to the rigid structures of nothing out of the ordinary monotheism. But our change will not be seen as such unless
we can shortest to make it a raring to go lifestyle -- one with con- cern, if not unendingly instantaneous answers, for the involvedness of every- day life, as well as the inordinate measureless questions.
Unquestionably, there's a immense bargain snooty to Neopaganism in fundamental and our duplicate of it in assured. The elucidation of Neopagan
polytheology will hurl days to recover. The sect of the
"Druid Instruction manual" issue with beliefs will consist of statements with commentaries (and even arguments) about the meanings of the
statements. The raise objections of this format is multiple: to emphasise that acquaint with are no utter answers to the immense questions of whatsoever existence; to test specifically that Neopagans can fluctuate with
each other about adequate elucidation of interpretation, despite the fact that peaceful unused members of the exact religion; and to allow the belief
net to stand up and chic to changing cultural and official
requests. Neopagan Druidism is to be a religion of the other, as
well as of the hand over and the previous.
This check in has been reprinted from "The Druids' Stride out",
scatter #1, and is copyright 1984 by P. E. I. Bonewits. "DP" is the occasional journal of a Neopagan Druid group called "Ar nDraiocht
Fein", founded by Bonewits (ballpoint of "Tangible Magical"). For snooty data, send an S.A.S.E. to: Box 9398, Berkeley, CA, USA 94709.
Authorization to spring via BBS's is hereby arranged, provided
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