tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74199676159184979992024-03-05T17:45:30.181-08:00Tarot And DivinationWe are born, age and die. Clocks measure seconds, minutes & hours. Calendars measure days, weeks, months and years. These are the many ways we see time pass. Our memories link us to the past events that have happened. We think we live in the present and that there is a future ahead of us. This future is what many seek to know and have revealed. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04972499426380987576noreply@blogger.comBlogger2433125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7419967615918497999.post-31955482900009649752015-03-20T16:24:00.000-07:002015-03-24T10:40:20.941-07:00The Anatomy Of Christian Logic Just For Fun<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><center><div style="float:none;text-align:center;align:center;width: 72%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><a href="http://spellscasting.blogspot.com" target="_blank"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-ZrQnASIxoDc/VRGhf0X0T5I/AAAAAAAAOA0/z-mAyT3Wmtk/The%252520Anatomy%252520Of%252520Christian%252520Logic%252520Just%252520For%252520Fun.jpg" border="0" alt="The Anatomy Of Christian Logic Just For Fun" title="The Anatomy Of Christian Logic Just For Fun" /></a></div></center><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;"><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>By Tim Whistorn</h4>Image by "via FlickrI admit it: Sometimes I just like to make fun of Christianity and those who keep the faith.<br/><br/>On one hand I honestly do respect a person's right to believe anything they want, and to live/practice whatever pleases them. I just don't respect the way Christianity has been used to rob the masses of their personal sense of freedom and power for centuries; nor do I respect the very real threat to human advancement this dark age religion poses through many aggressive organizations, lobbying groups, and advocacies.<br/><br/>And maybe I'm a little irked by the fact that most of my family and many of my friends are brainwashed to the extent that a really open conversation about the nature of life is an impossibility.<br/><br/>Note To Reader: If Christianity allowed it's members to use their brains in debate this content would be great for dispelling the illusion. Sadly, as we know, Christians have at least two primary fall back arguments they can use when confronted with evil tactics like reason, logic, history, science, and facts.<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>These primary bailouts are:</h4><br/> * It's not for man to question the mind of god.<br/> * Satan is clouding your judgment.<br/><br/>Precautions and disclaimers aside, I'd like to share some reflections on what christian logic looks like when we peel it away from the sentience-free environment of a bible study group or Sunday school class. I hope you enjoy reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it. :o)<br/><br/>But we do it with love in our hearts...<br/><br/>I've never seen a grumpy old man chase little kids away from his sidewalk and then claim he did it with "<b><i>love and charity</i></b>". Yet Christians are CONSTANTLY boycotting, protesting, and even violently disrupting the operations of bookstores, civic groups, and other business and special interest organizations that fail to comply with Christian theology; in every case that comes to mind it is claimed the actions were taken "<b><i>with love and goodwill</i></b>".<br/><br/>Do unto others as you would have them do unto you...<br/><br/>If one were taking this statement at face value, one might assume Christians would leave people to find their own beliefs without interfering. On the contrary Christians, who whine incessantly about persecution and having their faith attacked, seem obsessed with undermining, downplaying, and if possible driving to ruin all competing (<u><b>or even non-competing!</b></u>) belief systems.<br/><br/>Justice lies at the heart of the faith, except for when (<u><b>such as in the central act</b></u>) justice totally gets thrown out the window in favor of blatant petty vengeance...<br/><br/>I always thought Judas got the short end of the stick. Let's replay quickly:<br/><br/>God decided that since he made us evil in his own image (<u><b>more on this gem later</b></u>), he had to subject his son to an agonizing death. For this exact reason Jesus was said to have come to earth as a man.<br/><br/>Fulfilling his role in the greater scheme of things, Judas betrayed Jesus to the Romans/Jewish aristocracy, who crucified him. All this went according to plan because, after all the son of god wasn't going to hang himself for our sins, right?<br/><br/>Even so, Jesus said (<u><b>paraphrase</b></u>) it would have been better for Judas to "<b><i>never have been born</i></b>". Also in the book of Acts it is written that Judas simply falls over one day with his innards spilling out; it seems divine wrath caught up to him.<br/><br/>And if you're keeping score, it would appear that Judas was struck down, cursed, or whatever for being a helping hand in god's brilliant plan to have his own son whacked so you and I could be forgiven for our sins. Honestly I don't even have a catchy little line for this it's just so damn absurd and blatantly unjust.<br/><br/>Made in the image of god AND born wicked...<br/><br/>Is it red or is it green? I love a good philosophical paradox but I don't think that's what Christianity is going for with the specific teachings that:<br/><br/>God is perfect. God made us in his own image.<br/><br/>We were born evil. We'd best get to begging god to forgive us for our wickedness.<br/><br/>Neatly omitted is any questions as to how this ludicrous scenario can even exist. Yeah I got the memo about Eve eating the fruit and thus cursing all future generations to be born of "<b><i>original sin</i></b>" but that would mean she was made flawed... a bad girl in the image of god!<br/><br/>Merciless butchering in the name of the lord - bad when Islam does it but not a problem if the disciples of Christ do it.<br/><br/>Let's all get on page here: Many Christians are pleased as punch that U.S. bombs are currently destroying "<b><i>radical Islamic groups</i></b>". Truthfully most of the casualties are non-combatants but that's another article.<br/><br/>Islam is touted as a SEVERE threat. I agree that suicide bombers are incredibly warped people.<br/><br/>However, it's of interest to me that estimated millions of people were slaughtered during the dark ages in the name of Jesus Christ. In addition to the crusades and inquisitions, many deaths were incurred via routine law enforcement operations, i.e. killing the serfs wholesale for evil things like learning numbers or reading Latin.<br/><br/>Right up to the Manifest Destiny debacle the Christian god was used as an excuse to kill, rape, and plunder. To this day no real responsibility has been assumed and no plea for public forgiveness has been issued.<br/><br/>The protestants all blame the catholics. And frankly the Vatican probably isn't sorry about any of these horrid events.<br/><br/>How in blue blazes is it humanly possible to teach your kids that "<b><i>Jesus loves them</i></b>" in the wake of all this absolutely rampant and unrepentant bloodshed in the very name of this savior?<br/><br/>So much for serendipity. Here comes Yahweh...<br/><br/>The universe seems to be a place of beauty, and of order.<br/><br/>I'm not a mathematician. But I have seen the beautiful symmetry of numbers.<br/><br/>And we can all see the amazing correlation reflected between tiny particles moving in circular orbits around their nuclei, and massive heavenly bodies traversing their circular orbits around the stars. It's an awe-inspiring natural state of order, rhythm, and flow.<br/><br/>Elsewhere in the natural world we can find many examples of this rhythmic bliss. However things may have started and however they continue, life seems to emerge and move in patterns, cycles, and other predictable phenomena.<br/><br/>Then suddenly, out of the cosmic bliss steps a figure. I can just make it out...<br/><br/>It's bipedal. Goodness it does seem to be a human form!<br/><br/>And look... testicles. Yes there will be hell to pay - literally - if we forget those divine testicles!<br/><br/>I can see a face now. It's Jewish!<br/><br/>Hold on, god is about to speak...<br/><br/>Huh? Wow that was a hateful thing to say.<br/><br/>Oh wait he's still talking. Geez this guy has some clear and serious emotional issues.<br/><br/>Talk about self-absorbed and irrational. And what a childish little prick to boot.<br/><br/>This really takes the cake. Christianity would seriously have us believe all the order, rhythm, reason, and wonder that is our universe was manufactured by a spiteful, petty, emotionally thwarted, male Semite who lives in the sky and is really concerned about our sexual habits and whether or not we use four-letter words!<br/><br/>I know this kind of commentary is old hat for you guys. But sometimes it's just good to blow off some steam and I appreciate having a place to do it.<br/><br/>Thanks for reading, and I hope you were at least moderately amused. I'll hustle up something a bit more educational on the next run. ;o)<br></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04972499426380987576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7419967615918497999.post-80798513532231519192015-03-14T10:58:00.000-07:002015-03-21T23:34:50.916-07:00Mythical Critters And Scoffers<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><center><div style="float:none;text-align:center;align:center;width: 78%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-1JxGfuqhwfo/VQ5ihmhgJVI/AAAAAAAAN7w/Jfc6d2JKwto/Mythical%252520Critters%252520And%252520Scoffers.jpg" border="0" alt="Mythical Critters And Scoffers" title="Mythical Critters And Scoffers" /></div></center><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;">by Cowboy Bob Sorensen<br/><br/>An interesting and timely question prompted this article. Earlier, I wrote again about how facts alone can be incomplete. Giving information and evidence is good, but addressing worldviews and presuppositions are very important, and can give a more complete answer to a question or challenge.<br/><br/>To briefly recap, everyone has a worldview based on presuppositions (<u><b>things they assume to be true</b></u>). When presented with evidence, we naturally use our worldviews to interpret it. When someone has an anti-Bible bias, he or she can easily reject evidence supporting the Bible (<u><b>and especially biblical creation science</b></u>).<br/><br/> Cockatrice drawing by Oliver Herford, 1912 at Reusable Art<br/><br/>Here is the question that I was given this morning (<u><b>writing this the day before I publish it</b></u>) at The Question Evolution Project on Facebook:<br/><br/>If you can't make out the picture, he said, "Hey again. Question for you. In Isaiah when it mentions cocktracies and satyrs what do you think it is referring too. Probably not two legged dragons and goat men."<br/><br/>Well, this question made me work, it wasn't a quick answer that I could look up and crank out.<br/><br/>When looking these things up, I saw that there are several anti-theist sites that were taking ancient words like unicorn, cockatrice and satyr and putting more modern conceptions on those words. They had the assumption that not only was the Bible worthless, but worthy of mockery. Posts with the tone of, "<b><i>You gotta believe in satyrs, unicorns and cockatrices because the Bible sez so, haw haw haw!</i></b>" are plentiful. If they had bothered to do some research instead of indulging in prejudicial conjecture, they would not have been making such foolish utterances.<br/><br/>One thing that should embarrass these people is that in 1860, Samuel Wilberforce wrote a review of Darwin's "<b><i>Origin of Species</i></b>". In this, he quoted Henry More's remarks, "<b><i>And of a truth, vile epicurism and sensuality will make the soul of man so degenerate and blind, that he will not only be content to slide into brutish immorality, but please himself in this very opinion that he is a real brute already, an ape, satyr, or baboon...</i></b>" To be consistent, these Christophobes should be mocking other authors who used some of these words, yes? <br/><br/>Unlike the unicorn, a real animal with a drastically different meaning now (<u><b>basically, it's a sort of extinct rhinoceros</b></u>), the cockatrice is totally mythical. Cockatrice appears in the King James version, and the original word is translated correctly in modern Bible versions. Translators did not quite understand the word that was in the original manuscripts.<br/><br/>Similarly, the word "<b><i>dragon</i></b>" appears in the King James version more often than in other translations. It is usually rendered as "<b><i>snake</i></b>", "<b><i>cobra</i></b>", "<b><i>adder</i></b>" and so on, except in places like Revelation where dragon means Satan. If you want a biblical creationist view of dragons as dinosaurs (<u><b>and remember, "<b><i>dragon</i></b>" was a known word, and "<b><i>dinosaur</i></b>" had not been coined until Richard Owen came up with it in 1842</b></u>), you can read "<b><i>Dragons - Fact or Fable?</i></b>" and the additional information linked on that page.<br/><br/> The satyr (<u><b>and this is being published on Satyrday...oh, that was bad...</b></u>) is a bit more difficult to deal with. Again, this is found in older Bible versions. (<u><b>The KJV copied from the Geneva Bible, and the 1611 KJV and Geneva are extremely similar because the Geneva was used by the KJV translators.</b></u>) Modern translations and commentaries differ on the meaning of "<b><i>satyr</i></b>". Some use "<b><i>hairy beast</i></b>", others refer to a kind of desert demon that neighbors of the Jews believed in. Because of demonic and goat-like associations with the word, "<b><i>satyr</i></b>" may actually give a good representation of the demonic worship. Just like when God said not to bother with idols who are not gods, who do not walk, speak or anything but were still evil, I think this is meaning not to fear or deal with the demons that other people around them would worship. Anyway, the original word seems uncertain, and the desert demon interpretation "<b><i>may</i></b>" be the most reasonable.<br/><br/>Again, it is not just a matter of evidence, but of worldviews and presuppositions. If someone has an irrational worldview like materialism or evolutionism, and especially when it is dominated by negative emotions rather than reason, he or she is prone to giving ridicule and making excuses rather than accepting the evidence. The atheist worldview is incoherent, lacking the necessary preconditions of human experience. Only biblical Christianity can do this, and can make proper sense of the evidence.<br></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04972499426380987576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7419967615918497999.post-18106415836057635492015-03-14T06:42:00.000-07:002015-03-16T06:58:09.427-07:00The Number 42 In The Bible And Other Places<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><center><div style="float:none;text-align:center;align:center;width: 62%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-GfARIKeFyTk/VQbhZhhKRnI/AAAAAAAANsc/DI_nSlTdQpM/The%252520Number%25252042%252520In%252520The%252520Bible%252520And%252520Other%252520Places.jpg" border="0" alt="The Number 42 In The Bible And Other Places" title="The Number 42 In The Bible And Other Places" /></div></center><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;">I've often said that nowadays it's important for students of Bible prophecy to continue to hone their skills when it comes to reading-between-the-lines.<br/><br/>One area where that should always be specifically applied to is when it comes to various news headlines and bylines we encounter on a daily basis.<br/><br/>Case in point, you can imagine my sheer amazement and bewilderment when I came across a headline a few days ago that mentioned Israel, the Six Day War, and the number 42 -- all in the same line!<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>Here's the headline that caught my eye:</h4><br/>"DROPPING WATER LEVEL EXPOSES 42-YEAR-OLD ORDINANCE FROM SIX DAY WAR"<br/><br/>Seriously? Boy, the good Lord is truly working overtime these days to get the world's attention before it's too late. How else do you explain spiritual convergence like that? What's even more remarkable is how the first two words "<b><i>Dropping Water</i></b>" tie into this as well, but I'll leave that for the exciting conclusion.<br/><br/>The number 42 appears in several places throughout the Holy Bible. If I'm remembering correctly, then:<br/><br/>> Israel camped 42 times in the wilderness during the exodus.<br/><br/>> The goat's hair and linen curtains covering the sanctuary have a length of 42 and 40 cubits.<br/><br/>> Jesus was 42 generations from Abraham (<u><b>Matthew 1</b></u>).<br/><br/>> 42 cities are given to the Levites in addition to 6 cities of refuge (<u><b>Numbers 35:6</b></u>).<br/><br/>> Two female bears kill 42 children after they ridiculed the prophet of God (<u><b>2 Kings 2:24</b></u>).<br/><br/>> Later in 2 Kings, Jehu slaughters 42 relatives of Ahaziah of Judah during his purge of the house of Ahab (<u><b>2 Kings 10:14</b></u>). The young men of Bethel are leaders of idolatry, as our the 42 relatives of Ahaziah. In both cases, you have Yahweh's avengers (<u><b>cf. 1 Kings 19</b></u>) destroying 42 men, so the number links the work of Elisha with the work of Jehu.<br/><br/>What is God trying to teach us here? Well, one thing is obvious. God doesn't much like the number 42, or maybe I should say that bad things are associated with it (<u><b>ok, not all of the things associated with it are "<b><i>bad things</i></b>" as evidenced by Jesus Christ being 42 generations from Abraham, but I think you get the point that a majority are</b></u>).<br/><br/>The number 42 is also a number that's clearly connected with the Antichrist. An important part of his career is to last for 42 months (<u><b>Revelation 11:2, 13:5</b></u>), and thus this number is fixed upon him. Another number associated with the Antichrist is 1260, and this is 30 x 42. Its factors are 6 and 7 (<u><b>6x7=42</b></u>), and this shows a connection between man and the Spirit of God, and between Jesus Christ and the Antichrist.<br/><br/>Being a multiple of seven, it might be supposed that it would be connected with spiritual perfection, but it is the product of six times seven. Six, therefore, being the number of Man, and man's opposition to God, 42 becomes significant of the working out of man's opposition to God.<br/><br/>Hmmm, I wonder if there may be something more in the common phrase about things being all "<b><i>sixes and sevens.</i></b>" They are so, indeed, when man is mixed up with the things of God, and when religious "<b><i>flesh</i></b>" engages in spiritual things.<br/><br/>Taking this "<b><i>association with the coming Antichrist</i></b>" idea to a whole new and ridiculous level, we all know that many have speculated that Nimrod (<u><b>or his resurrected spirit</b></u>) would be (<u><b>embody</b></u>) the future Antichrist. Well, in Gematria, 42 is a factor in the number of Nimrod's name, which is 294, or 42 x 7.<br/><br/>My research turned up a few additional facts that left me equally stunned:<br/><br/>> 42 men of Beth-azmaveth were counted in the census of men of Israel upon return from exile (<u><b>Ezra 2:24</b></u>).<br/><br/>> The first book to be printed with movable type, the Gutenberg Bible, is also known as the "<b><i>42-line Bible</i></b>", after the number of lines of print on each page.<br/><br/>> 42 is the number with which God creates the Universe in Kabalistic tradition.<br/><br/>My absolte favorite? The fact that 42 is the angle in degrees for which a rainbow appears! Of course, after The Flood during Noah's day, the Bible relates that the rainbow gained meaning as the sign of God's promise that terrestrial life would never again be destroyed by flood.<br/><br/>GENESIS 9:13-15 -- "I have set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds, I will remember my covenant that is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh."<br/><br/>Wow! Talk about "<b><i>spiritual convergence</i></b>" once again, huh? I mean, here we are in the midst of examing all the numerous signs indicating that the beginning of Daniel's 70th Week is at hand, and Jesus Himself even told us that these days would be "<b><i>as in the days of Noah...</i></b>" so it's remarkable that there's this incredible connection between the number 42 (<u><b>pointing to the Antichrist; a prominent figure in the last days scenario</b></u>) and the rainbow, which reminds us of God's judgment and also His promise. It all leaves me breathless!<br/><br/>Whatever few remaining breaths I had left were thrown out the window when I looked at Ancient Mythology's explanation of the rainbow. Now, remember what King Wells, Jr. and I concluded about the existence and role of Ancient Mythology as it pertains to the Bible and especially end times prophecy. Now, consider the following intriguing facts to add to this entire study today:<br/><br/>> In Greek Mythology, the rainbow was considered to be a path made by a messenger (<u><b>Iris</b></u>) between Earth and Heaven.<br/><br/>> In Hindu Mythology, the rainbow is called "<b><i>Indradhanush</i></b>", meaning the bow (Sanskrit ">DOUGLAS NOEL ADAMS was an English author, dramatist, musician, and fervent atheist who popularized the number 42 in his best known work called the "<b><i>HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY</i></b>". The number 42 and the phrase, "<b><i>Life, the universe, and everything</i></b>" have attained cult status on the Internet. If you type the answer to life, the universe and everything into Google (<u><b>without quotes or capitalising the small words</b></u>), the Google Calculator will give you 42; also, if you go to Wolfram's Computational Knowledge Engine and type "<b><i>answer to life, the universe, and everything</i></b>", it provides you with the result 42. Microsoft's Bing search engine will also give you 42. Alphasmart 3000's calculator, when given any equation that results in 42, will display, "<b><i>The answer to life, the universe, and everything</i></b>". In the online community "<b><i>Second Life,</i></b>" there is a section on a sim called "42nd Life."<br/><br/>> In the Stargate Atlantis Season 4 episode "<b><i>Quarantine</i></b>", 42 are the last two digits in Rodney McKay's password. After John Sheppard explains to Teyla the meaning of the previous twelve digits, she asks him what 42 is. Then, John says, "<b><i>It's the ultimate answer to the great question of life, the universe, and everything,</i></b>" at which point Teyla looks confused.<br/><br/>> In the TV show Lost, 42 is the last of the mysterious numbers, 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, and 42.<br/><br/>> In the PC game Spore, once reaching the center of the galaxy, Steve the UFO will present you with the Staff of Life that can make any planet livable, but can only be used 42 times.<br/><br/>> In Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, Alex browses through records in a record store and we see a record of the, at this time fictional, band Level 42.<br/><br/>> Tower 42 is the tallest skyscraper in the city of London and the fifth tallest in London as a whole. It was originally built for the National Westminster Bank (<u><b>NatWest</b></u>), hence its former name, the NatWest Tower. Seen from above, the tower closely resembles the NATWEST LOGO (<u><b>three chevrons in a hexagonal arrangement; interesting symbolism there, isn't it?</b></u>).<br/><br/>> In New York City, 42nd Street is a main and very popular two-way thoroughfare. Landmarks on it include the Chrysler Building, Grand Central Station, the main branch of the New York Public Library, and Times Square. <br/><br/>Hmmm, "<b><i>Orion</i></b>", "<b><i>Heaven and Earth</i></b>", a "<b><i>bow</i></b>", "<b><i>gods mingling with humans</i></b>", and references in pop culture that all have a common theme too, huh? Unreal! Do you seen what I mean now? Spiritual convergence all the way!<br/><br/>I also found that, historically, a rainbow flag was used in the German Peasants' War in the 16th century as a sign of a new era, of hope, and of social change (<u><b>where have we heard that before?</b></u>). Rainbow flags have also been used as a symbol of the Cooperative Movement; as a symbol of peace, especially in Italy; to represent the Tawantin Suyu, or Inca territory, mainly in Peru and Bolivia; by some Druze communities in the Middle East; and by the JEWISH AUTONOMOUS OBLAST.<br/><br/>A "<b><i>rainbow flag</i></b>" has been in use as a symbol of "<b><i>gay pride</i></b>" and LGBT social movements since the 1970s. But let's refocus on the Jewish connection for a minute. First, here's the Jewish Autonomous Oblast flag:<br/><br/>Would you believe it if I told you that we have a Russian-Israel direct link in all of this? Obviously, we've been seeing this sort of "<b><i>message</i></b>" come up a lot lately in the news and it's forced us to be mindful of the prophesied Gog-Magog War. In this particular case, we have this Jewish Autonomous Oblast connected to Russia in the sense that it had to do with a "<b><i>land for peace</i></b>" type of political movement.<br/><br/>Stalin's theory on the "<b><i>National Question</i></b>" held that a group could only be a nation if they had a territory, and since there was no Jewish territory, per se, the Jews were not a nation and did not have national rights. Jewish Communists argued that the way to solve this ideological dilemma was by creating a Jewish territory, hence the ideological motivation for the Jewish Autonomous Oblast. Politically, it was also considered desirable to create a Soviet Jewish homeland as an ideological alternative to Zionism, and the theory put forward by Socialist Zionists such as BER BOROCHOV that the "<b><i>Jewish Question</i></b>" could be resolved by creating a Jewish territory in Palestine. Thus, they created a rainbow flag to represent this new territory. Remarkable!<br/><br/>One final note before moving on, but I also dug up the fact that VALERY SOLOMONOVICH GUREVICH, government vice-chairman of Russia's Jewish Autonomous Oblast, is the force behind the China and Russian construction of the AMUR BRIDGE PROJECT that began at the end of 2007. The bridge will link Nizhneleninskoye in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast with Tongjiang in Heilongjiang Province. The 2,197-meter-long bridge, with an estimated investment of nearly 230 million, is expected to be finished by the end of 2010. Gurevich said that the proposal to construct a bridge across the river was actually made by Russia, in view of growing cargo transportation demands. Yeah, I'm sure that's true, but not the kind of benign "<b><i>cargo</i></b>" the rest of the world might think they're referring to.<br/><br/>Let me just throw this out there for pure speculation purposes. The Jewish Autonomous Oblast is situated in the Far Eastern Federal District of Russia and has been since the 1928. The rainbow flag design was adopted during October 1996, or almost 70 years later. The flag consists of a rainbow on a white background, with 7 narrow horizontal colored stripes: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, and blue. The 7 colors symbolize the branches of a menorah. The Oblast's website states that, "the horizontal axis is located a color strip symbolizing a rainbow."<br/><br/>Odd giving all the signs of the times that are occurring these days. Why? Because I wonder whether or not the coming Antichrist will be of Jewish descent. Personally, I think the Antichrist will likely be Jewish because the Jews will not receive a Gentile as their promised Messiah. Jesus predicted that Israel will someday foolishly receive the Antichrist as their savior.<br/><br/>JOHN 5:42 -- "I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive"<br/><br/>The Bible does hint that the Antichrist might have a Jewish background. In Daniel 11:37 it says "<b><i>Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers.</i></b>" Although the verse could mean any deity, the wording strongly matches Jewish heritage of faith in God.<br/><br/>I know that there has been some debate over this for several years now, but this has me wondering especially in light of what we're told in Revelation (<u><b>the only place the word "<b><i>bow</i></b>" appears in that entire book!</b></u>):<br/><br/>REVELATION 6:2 -- "<b><i>And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a BOW; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.</i></b>" (emphasis mine)<br/><br/>I know that we traditionally think of this verse as representing the Antichrist's rise to power as he establishes his One World Government through peace. At the same time, others ignore the color of this First Horseman and interpret it to mean that he "<b><i>conquers</i></b>" using a weapon of warfare -- a bow and arrow. Let me throw a question out there. If the coming Antichrist is going to be of Jewish descent, then might this famous passage be describing him coming onto the world's stage as a king in all his perceived splendor and glory to save the day so to speak? If so, then is it POSSIBLE (<u><b>that's all I'm asking</b></u>) that this individual is somehow connected to the Jewish Autonomous Oblast since this would then describe a king riding in on his white horse, wearing his crown, and carrying the flag (<u><b>his bow</b></u>) of the kingdom he already represents? I'm just asking.<br/><br/>So, what are we supposed to make of all of this if anything? You know, I get how some people might read what I wrote here and just scratch their heads. The risk is that to some I may come off as "<b><i>over-analyzing</i></b>" things and/or traveling too deep down a dark rabbit hole again. I guess I would just respond by saying that my intent here is to simply document the immediate thoughts I have once the Holy Spirit leads me to a particular headline or news story that's of interest.<br/><br/>What begins as me simply cataloguing those experiences often turns into an in-depth presentation of how the good Lord in all His wonderful grace and mercy is using ANYTHING and EVERYTHING He can to try to get the same message across to the world and the people He so desperately wants to save if we'll only let Him. That message is always that time is very short, the beginning of Daniel's 70th Week and the fulfillment of some major end times prophecies are at hand, and that the Antichrist's reign is coming sooner than we think.<br/><br/>I'll wrap things up by looking back at the one news headline that started it all: "<b><i>Dropping Water Level Exposes 42-Year-Old Ordinance From Six Day War</i></b>".<br/><br/>"Dropping Water" = Resonates with Noah's Flood<br/><br/>"42" = Negative connotation associated with this number throughout the Bible<br/><br/>"Ordinance" = A powerful weapon of warfare<br/><br/>"Six Day War" = Jerusalem the focus of the world; Miraculous victory for Israel; Resonates with Psalm 83 War, Destruction of Damascus, Gog-Magog War<br/><br/>I pray that you can see all of this too and heed the warning to either get saved, or get right with God by repenting for your sins before it's too late. The veil is being lifted and the separation between the physical realm and the spiritual realm is thinning.<br/><br/>As these things continue to happen with greater frequency and with a growing intensity keep looking up!<br/><br/>LUKE 21:28 -- "And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draws near."<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>RECOMMENDED READING:<br/><br/>MATHEMATICAL CODES FOUND IN THE BIBLE</h4><br></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04972499426380987576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7419967615918497999.post-52980885965593546332015-02-12T22:17:00.000-08:002015-03-26T01:59:33.187-07:00Perfect End To A Very Fine Jesuit Vocation<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;">" Fr. Andrew Cameron-Mowat, S.J. parish priest at Farm Street church in London, said: "<b><i>Fr John</i></b>" Edwards, S.J. was greatly loved by an enormous number of people. His dynamic preaching and his mission work will live long in the memory of all who met him. He brought numerous people into the Church. In my short time so far as parish priest it was a blessing to have his presence at daily Mass in the church, and to receive his frequent words of support and encouragement. He was a remarkable example of a faithful and compassionate priest and a generous companion of Jesus. We will all miss him very much, but rejoice that he is now in the arms of our Blessed Lord. May he rest in peace." A priest for 49 years, and a member of the Jesuit Community at Mount St for 32 years, Fr Edwards was known to be an excellent confessor who was very successful in encouraging people to attend Confession. He was also a devoted advocate of the practice of receiving indulgences. Fr Anthony Symondson, S.J a fellow Jesuit priest and a friend of Fr Edwards, said his death was a "<b><i>perfect end to a very fine Jesuit vocation</i></b>"."He said: HE HAD A VERY ATTRACTIVE PERSONALITY IN THE SENSE THAT PEOPLE WARMED TO HIM. MOST OF HIS LIFE, SINCE ABOUT 1972, WAS SPENT TRUDGING AROUND THE COUNTRY IN MISSION, TO LARGE CHURCHES AND SMALL CHURCHES, WELL-KNOWN AND OBSCURE CHURCHES. HIS MISSIONS TOOK A WEEK AND ENDED WITH AN APPEAL, AND HE KNEW HOW SUCCESSFUL HE WAS BY THE BY THE AMOUNT OF MONEY RAISED. HE CONTINUED: "<b><i>JOHN WAS A HOLY MAN, A WONDERFUL CONFESSOR. HE REGULARLY GAVE HIS CONFESSION, HE PREACHED BRILLIANTLY, AND HE MADE THE FAITH SOMETHING WORTH BELIEVING IN. HE HAD A GREAT EFFECT ON INDIVIDUAL PEOPLE, HE WAS DELIGHTFUL COMPANY AND MOST OF ALL A JESUIT PRIEST.</i></b>" AFTER FR EDWARDS WAS DIAGNOSED WITH LUNG CANCER, FR SYMONDSON SAID THAT HE HAD DESCRIBED IT AS "<b><i>A GIFT FROM GOD</i></b>"."LINK (<u><b>HERE</b></u>) TO THE FULL PIECE AT THE HERALD <br/><br/>Reference: <a href='http://goddesses-and-gods.blogspot.com' target='_blank'>goddesses-and-gods.blogspot.com</a></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04972499426380987576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7419967615918497999.post-49685045991763077842015-02-11T06:57:00.000-08:002015-03-24T10:39:44.203-07:00The Book Of Fallen Angels By Michael Howard<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><center><div style="float:none;text-align:center;align:center;width: 67%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><a href="http://33witches.blogspot.com" target="_blank"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-zJ2ukkJOgTU/VRGhXJtJxmI/AAAAAAAAOAU/We7PvTwGsJM/The%252520Book%252520Of%252520Fallen%252520Angels%252520By%252520Michael%252520Howard.gif" border="0" alt="The Book Of Fallen Angels By Michael Howard" title="The Book Of Fallen Angels By Michael Howard" /></a></div></center><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;">"THIS BOOK CHALLENGES THE CONCEPT THAT THE FALLEN ANGELS, OR '<i>BEN ELOHIM</i>' FELL FROM GRACE AND BECAME DEMONS, WITH THEIR LEADER AZAZEL OR SHEMYAZA, IDENTIFIED WITH THE REBEL ANGEL LUCIFER, BECOMING, ACCORDING TO THE CHRISTIAN TEXTS, THE PRINCE OF DARKNESS AND SUPREME PRINCIPAL OF EVIL. TOPICS COVERED INCLUDE WHAT ANGELS ARE AND WHAT THEY REPRESENT; THEIR ANCIENT ORIGINS; THE MAJOR DIFFERENCES BETWEEN LUCIFER/LUMIEL AND SATAN AND HOW THE EARLY CHURCH DEMONISED LUMIEL AND THE PAGAN DEITIES OF THE MIDDLE EAST; THE FALLEN ANGELS AND THEIR STELLAR LORE; THE BELIEF THAT THE FALLEN ANGELS ARE THE SAME AS THE FAERIES AND DJINNS OF EUROPEAN AND ARABIAN FOLKLORE; THE UNIVERSAL MYTH OF THE GREAT FLOOD; THE NEPHELIM OR ANAKIM; THE FEMALE CONSORT OF LUCIFER, FREQUENTLY ASSOCIATED IN MYTHOLOGY WITH THE DARK MOON GODDESSES AND SORCERY - LILITH, HECATE, ISHTAR, ASTARTE, ASHERAH, DIANA, THE SHEKINAH AND SOPHIA; THE MYSTICAL SYMBOLISM OF THE ROSE IN OCCULT TRADITION; THE PROCESS OF COSMIC REDEMPTION MANIFESTING AS A SERIES OF INCARNATIONS IN HUMAN FORM; HERETICAL CULTS AND SECRET SOCIETIES THROUGH HISTORY AND IN MODERN TIMES CLAIMING TO FOLLOW LUCIFERIAN BELIEFS INCLUDING THE SETHIANS, THE ESSENES, KNIGHTS TEMPLARS, THE YEZEDI, THE OPHITES, THE MANDEAN, THE ORDER OF THE MORNING STAR AND THE OUR LADY OF ENDOR COVEN AMONGST OTHERS; ARABIC INFLUENCES ON THE MEDIEVAL WITCH CULT; RENAISSANCE ANGELIC MAGIC; THE '<i>TEACHING ANGELS</i>' OR ARCHANGELS WHO FEATURE PROMINENTLY IN ANGELIC MAGICK - MICHAEL, RAPHAEL, GABRIEL AND TWO APPENDICES ARE INCLUDED WITH INVOCATIONS TO THE LORD LUMIEL."<br/><br/>"LINK :"<br/><br/>Reference: <a href='http://practicing-wicca.blogspot.com' target='_blank'>practicing-wicca.blogspot.com</a></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04972499426380987576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7419967615918497999.post-33743997965255847252014-12-10T07:05:00.000-08:002015-03-14T23:35:53.520-07:00Wicca Out Of The Broom Closet<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><span style="text-align:left;align:left;"><div style="float:left;text-align:left;align:left;width: 57%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-T2Uwr1Yd5uw/VFcF44aXLII/AAAAAAAAK8I/VDdIT7Tmczk/Solitary%252520Mabon%252520Ritual.gif" border="0" alt="Wicca Out Of The Broom Closet" title="Wicca Out Of The Broom Closet" /></div></span><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;"> Many faithful Wiccans choose to hide the practice of their religion from neighbors and sometimes even their families. Saying anything about Wicca, is a dubious choice that some Wiccans consider well before leaving the broom closet. Much goes into the thought of telling anyone at work, school, or social groups where the conversation might turn to talk of "<b><i>church</i></b>". <br/><br/>Often, it is pop culture that tends to inform the unsuspecting public that the next door neighbor may be a Wiccan. With that word, comes the the odd capacity for ignorance that has been displayed in the past. Most likely because it is synonymous with the word witch. Wiccan is often accepted as the more modern iteration of the word witch. Even so, some policy makers within the government may become hesitant when confronted with the word since it comes loaded with hidden meaning.<br/><br/> Speaking openly about Wicca is gaining popularity at this time. Halloween helps creates a bridge for open dialog about Wicca once each year as well. Halloween is a night some Wiccans use to disclose a bit about themselves religiously. On this holiday, some Wiccans take a chance and dare, to cross the imaginary threshold between common and magical worlds. It is so profound that some faithful may actually draw the ire from within parts of their community by outwardly announcing their religious choice. It matters little whether or not they actually practice the religion faithfully.<br/><br/>More avuncular Wiccans focus the public's attention on traits commonly shared by all ethical faiths. Benign moral statements such as "<b><i>And it harm none, do as you will</i></b>", are only effective when coupled with an example from real life. These examples, often seem to go missing by an otherwise well meaning news media however, when doing Halloween reports about Wicca. This undeclared, rite of passage or, coming out of a Wiccan, (<u><b>Neo-Pagan</b></u>) is often quiet and not very news worthy. The spectacle of the "<b><i>witch</i></b>" at work, school, or elsewhere is usually lessened by the fact that they are often just common folks, like everyone else.<br/><br/>When Wiccans extol the virtues of a religious life that is recognized as part of the daily experience then others tend to understand it better. With the mystery lessened and commonality more certain the ignorance, fear, and distrust toward Wiccan's tend to decrease. However, an unfair job dismissal, or sudden loss of friends may signal that there are still good reasons for staying in the broom closet. <br/><br/>Keeping silent is a common virtue that holds merit with many Wiccans but, it is often challenged from within that religious community. The goal is to reduce religious stigmatization of Wiccans from society at large. Currently, there is scant evidence to conclude that it has harmed the Wiccan religious community, though internally the debate is no doubt on-going. Wicca, unlike many other religious groups that minister in the more common sense, are not often encouraged nor expected to do so. It is nearly antithetical to the religion, and can be viewed as a breech of courtesy by Wiccans. And though, proselytizing is not common for many Wiccans, following a path of discretion before speaking publicly about Wicca usually is.<br/><br/>Read more: http://www.infobarrel.com/Wicca%3A Out of the Broom Closet#ixzz1dexYmEO1<br></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04972499426380987576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7419967615918497999.post-84207948946810342252014-11-20T09:19:00.000-08:002015-03-19T15:07:45.447-07:00Renounce And Enjoy<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><center><div style="float:none;text-align:center;align:center;width: 76%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-_xhkPcJE8ao/VCAFlhZvXUI/AAAAAAAAFNA/N945929jQRw/Bohemian%252520Life%252520Skills%252520Making%252520Bread.jpg" border="0" alt="Renounce And Enjoy" title="Renounce And Enjoy" /></div></center><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;"> BY: LT COL R K LANGAR <br/><br/> Renunciation, whose Sanskrit equivalent is Tyaga or to give up, forms an inseparable part of Vedanta or Hindu Philosophy. Renunciation is commonly used for Tyaga of fruit of actions which you perform in life. This is to ensure that your complete focus is on work in hand and not on the results of your work so that your focus on work is not disturbed by thinking about fruit of action. Thus we see that Renunciation is an inner attitude and has nothing to do with renunciation of works while living in the world.<br/><br/> The title of this write up says that when you live in the world, you should first renounce and then enjoy life. For a worldly person enjoyment means when his desires are fulfilled, when he enjoys when in contact with sense objects, when he is emotionally attached to a person of his choice, when he keeps his ego and take credit for all the works he does and when he has a selfish attitude in whatever he plans and does. A worldly man's thought process is always focussed on his personal needs. Such thoughts process ends up in formation of desires. In Mahabharata it is quoted "Desires thou are born of thoughts (<u><b>called sankalpa in Sanskrit</b></u>). I will not entertain selfish thoughts to eliminate desires from their root."<br/><br/> For spiritual evolution, one's motto in life should be Renounce and enjoy. This looks a paradox because when you renounce or let go things or give up your aptitude which gives you enjoyment, then how can a person still enjoys without possessing something he desires or without being attached to someone. In spiritual way of life, there is greater enjoyment when we catch higher values of life than the enjoyment at the sensual level. In spiritual sense Renunciation also means taking up higher values of life and cultivating them so that they become a part and parcel of you - be it human, social, moral and spiritual values. When it happens the lower instincts loosen their grip on you. But our aim should be to eradicate our lower instincts and then only we can advance on the spiritual path. We shall see what are the lower instincts which we should renounce.<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>DESIRES</h4><br/> All desires are born out of selfishness. Selfishness is the cause of all evil that we do in life. Desires are always deep rooted and cannot be renounced by force. We have to examine our desires, reduce our desires, upgrade our desires so that we concentrate on noble desires and not on sensual desires. Desires to do good to others, desires to evolve your own self to a higher level of consciousness, desires to teach higher values of life to others in order to benefit them are all noble desires. When you upgrade your desires then your sensual desires become weak. Our Puranas say "<b><i>Sum total of sense pleasures of this world and great pleasure of Heaven are not worth a sixteenth part of the Bliss which proceeds from eradication of desire</i></b>".<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>ATTACHMENT</h4><br/> Attachment leads to bondage, the opposite of attachment is detachment. In attachment you have love for a particular person while for others you have no concern. Attachment is love plus selfishness whereas detachment is unselfish love. Detachment is living in the world but remaining unaffected and undisturbed by the happenings of the world. Detachment is like being a lotus in water which retains its original charm without being affected by the surroundings. To get detached to the world, you have to get attached to God. By constant practice one can bring mind to concentrate on God. One way to obtain a detached outlook in life is to love all unconditionally in the same way as God loves all irrespective of caste or creed. Detachment also means performing you duties in life whole heartedly without bothering about the results. Mahabharata underscores that a true renouncer or Tyagi is one who works in a spirit of detachment. When you are detached you care for all. Detachment does not mean that you live the life of a recluse cut off from worldly affairs.<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>EGO</h4><br/> Ego means Me and Mine. Ego also means inflated self-worth, a sense of pride, selfishness or a sense of separateness which is to imagine that you are superior to others. Ego also means taking credit of all works you do by proclaiming that I am the doer. Ego means false identification of ourself with body ignoring that the soul or Atma is the essence of a living being. Ego hinders knowledge. More ego less wisdom is the correct equation. Ego can be erased by offering to God all what you do which includes the results of your doings. When you do that you get a feeling that you are working as per God's will.<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>FULLER ASPECT OF RENOUNCE AND ENJOY</h4><br/> Our Upanishad (<u><b>Isha Upanishad</b></u>) says that everything in the world is covered by God or belongs to God. Therefore you should have no sense of possession of what you have. You should rejoice in God alone with a feeling of Renunciation. The Upanishad further says that Renunciation is not of life but is of selfishness and ego.<br/><br/> The other thing one must remember is that when you are at a higher state of consciousness you do not exclude yourself from worldly enjoyments. When you participate in worldly enjoyments with you mind established in higher self, the worldly enjoyments would not leave any impressions on your mind. In this state you like every one or enjoy their company but you would have no bondage with any particular person. And if you feel unduly attracted or disturbed by any sense object, you will have the ability to withdraw your senses from the object of your attraction like a tortoise withdraws his limbs inside itself when it feels some danger. This, according to Bhagavad Gita, is one of the signs of a perfect person.<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>CONCLUSION</h4><br/> '<i> Renounce and enjoy</i>' is a beautiful aspect of life which can only be experienced and not forced upon anyone. We must remember that life in world and life in spirit are not incompatible. If the concept of Renounce and enjoy is correctly understood, your life becomes a celebration. Life becomes a joyful event with each day brings newness in life besides inner development.<br/><br/> <br></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04972499426380987576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7419967615918497999.post-75941406518068026262014-11-04T05:17:00.000-08:002014-11-07T07:48:12.668-08:00Charity A Part Of Life And A Factor Of Faith<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><span style="text-align:left;align:left;"><div style="float:left;text-align:left;align:left;width: 51%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-4vNGZ-DNgl4/VFzpqnUPdnI/AAAAAAAALwI/W6Zq3uED1Ws/Charity%252520A%252520Part%252520Of%252520Life%252520And%252520A%252520Factor%252520Of%252520Faith.jpg" border="0" alt="Charity A Part Of Life And A Factor Of Faith" title="Charity A Part Of Life And A Factor Of Faith" /></div></span><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;">If you're a yearn for time reader of my blog you've seen my posts about "<b><i>living your prospect.</i></b>" I am one of inhabit people who believes that undertakings speak louder than words, and every day undertakings speak louder about who you are than the "<b><i>holiday</i></b>" undertakings do. For me, my prospect is a part of who I am, it's not everything that shows it's head on Sabbats and Esbats and subsequently forgets all about it on the day to day. For me, a grave part of practicing my prospect is working to dexterity positive attack. Of course my youthful aim is to dexterity positive changes in myself, but I don't bite the dust dowry. I aim to dexterity a break into world for my children and grandchildren, for the rough, the parched, the sick... For everyone! In our time and tomorrow! Clearly, I am not enlarge mortal. And undesirably I don't pin down the worthy to lure my core and end eagerness, medical condition or war. But I do pin down the license to commit every revolution I pin down. Benevolence, for me, is very extreme a instance of prospect. I am a unconditional enthusiast in sameness, quality and creating a concluded positive life, a concluded positive world. I'm not ornamental, in fact resources unscrupulous, I'm not even intentional "<b><i>denote class.</i></b>" But in no way does that mean I can't be kindhearted. Benevolence is meticulous as "<b><i>large undertakings or charity to aid the rough, ill, or alone.</i></b>" So from everywhere I sit, you don't pin down to be money-wise ornamental to be kindhearted. To be more precise you roughly pin down to be blameless to act in a large way which aims to help inhabit in wish for. With that in existence, I embrace to link about some ways that Being can commit kindly of themselves. The utmost shimmering and easiest way to be kindhearted is to impart to a elevate for one thing or unusual. (<u><b>See my list of "<b><i>lovely charities</i></b>" below</b></u>) Donating clothing, shoes, toys and other every day firm footing to shelters, or other "<b><i>in wish for</i></b>" groups equal Nourishing Motivation or Red Traverse. Present-day Blood! One say can additional 3 lives! Be an associate or remains donor! I know it's not everything utmost people want to questionable about, butat the end of the day, we all gotta go, so why not make certain you do some good on your way out. If you aren't special about everywhere your remains goes, just become an every day supplier... If you elect your remains goes for occurrence or forensic study you'll want to do some research and make arraignments early. Present-day your time! Libraries, potage kitchens, recreational area services, expelled shelters, medical clinics and hospitals are Always looking for volunteers. You can even brace with groups equal Household for Selflessness to help assist housing for low resources or in wish for families. Even personal property equal cleaning up interior beaches, parks or camping good sense is talented for inhabit who in concert input them - or for inhabit who pin down to snooze dowry... Climb a garden, and limit the extras! Recent fruits and veggies are very pricy and for a wide-ranging various families they are roughly out of the financial system... Class your garnish tomatoes, cucumbers, apples or other home growns helps assist families who typically can't assist good, favorably foods for their families fatten up them well. Straightforwardness with friends to start a objective. Drives get the whole community multipart by kindly someone within a town, district or other scope to commit together, which allows for extreme concluded to be given in the end. Opening a "<b><i>children intersection</i></b>" in your scope. Our scope does these from time to time. It's equal a multi pedigree garage sale everywhere someone can get rid of their kids stuff. But everything has a "<b><i>deceased classify</i></b>" totally than having each pedigree come up with their own prices. And as a matter of course the reach day they do a "<b><i>absorb a bag for 5</i></b>" play-offs everywhere you can really additional big! Things equal this allow families who can't mean clothing, toys or other minor items to buy what they wish for - or sometimes just want - deficient fissure the hill. Opening a blog or website! Cart it or not everything as simple as an information raising website can make a excellent greater part. If you pin down Point-blank Whiz besides to commit, you can in spite of that help take advantage of information on an theme, medical condition or group... Blog about an medical condition, abuses, the expelled, or even about enriching people who are making a greater part and quick others to do the incredibly. Sometimes the best thing we can do is just get people motivated!Grant are so various ways you can get multipart, don't limit yourself by the steps others pin down active. If you see a wish for out dowry, begin in and hammer action. Taking into consideration we act to attack the world for the break into we work on everyone's lives.Seeing that various may not see this as everything that honor as a instance of prospect, collect that the Divine being Empanada convention due to all kindhearted undertakings as well as love and shelter. From everywhere I stand she's a Divine being we may possibly all get to know a bit better!<br/>Now, as promised in is a list of my Underling Charities!Internal VACCINE Fine points Axis - As a intention of Vaccine wrongness, I am a totally vocal interpreter of vaccines and other uncalled-for medications. Silent, I am a unconditional enthusiast that medical choices must be completed really on one occasion cultivating one's self on the issues about them - Vaccines are no different! NVIC is physically powerful to mode people with a blunted occurrence about vaccines, vaccine laws and what's more pros and cons of deciding to or not to vaccinate yourself or your pedigree.SOMALY MAM Sign - Founded by sexual slavery survivor, Somaly Mam, the hub chains dispense, carry out and remedy programs with a leg on each side of South East Asia, everywhere the trafficking of women and girls, some as simple as five, is a total practice. The Somaly Mam Sign afterward runs indiscriminate information and advocacy campaigns that uncover light on the sin of sexual slavery and chance on accomplishment the subject and governments multipart in the have a fight to rescind modern day slavery.The Somaly Mam Sign has active on this overtax. Founded in 2007 by trafficking survivor, Somaly Mam, the Sign is physically powerful to termination sex slavery input the world with a results-oriented, three-step approach: Shift, Advocacy Seattle, Washington; Miami, New York, Minneapolis, Atlanta, Phoenix, Hawaii and Washington D.C. - all stops on the child prostitution lick up. And our send away handhold growing as concluded and concluded physically powerful inhabitants become concerned about the wellbeing of these miserable children. HEIFER Large-scale - Heifer Intl. was founded on a simple idea! Bestow a man a fish refuse, fatten up him for a day. Coach a man to fish refuse and fatten up him for life. This go ahead has been of wide-ranging use for these attraction flexible people! If at all possible than putting your charity towards roughly transfer provisions, Heifer Intl. has mad a turning to TEACH! Their hub not really helps to assist plants for third world and parched nations but they actually hammer the time and discontent to teach these people how to carry on, how to form and how to dexterity their own new provisions water supply...What on earth a blessing to know that your slim charity are moderately blameless to dexterity attack - not just for one get-together or for one banquet, but for an total colony forever!Planned Middle age - Seeing that various rumors fly input everywhere PP is conserned, the truth is this - Planned Middle age provides numberless health services to and for men, women and children who can not mean traditional medical be troubled. These services supplement, but are far from contracted to: Evil Screenings, Best Ability Services, Sex Education as well as OB/GYN services and on become known, abortion services. What Planned Middle age provides services for low or no resources clients, they rely on the charity and give a round of applause of the fashionable subject to sanction them to hold to assist the services they do. Your say not really pays for doctor receipt, but afterward for defensive medications and treatments for illnesses, as well as serialization be troubled for all types of ailments and pedigree planning services. If you know of others, please perceive free to limit them in the Notes area! I would love to put a stop to them out!<br></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04972499426380987576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7419967615918497999.post-37047394828056859972014-10-27T08:20:00.000-07:002015-03-26T01:59:00.316-07:00Mr R Ifb<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><center><div style="float:none;text-align:center;align:center;width: 75%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><a href="http://33witches.blogspot.com" target="_blank"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-qrvdccKhAe4/VAnMsgkF-6I/AAAAAAAADgE/tZNgZHJtIxI/Warming%252520Harvest%252520Recipes.jpg" border="0" alt="Mr R Ifb" title="Mr R Ifb" /></a></div></center><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;">Mr. Rogers on the New IFB<br/>by Robert Hanczyk<br/>#3 of the Mr. Rogers set of shorts<br/>4/14/97<br/><br/> It was three centons until cameras would roll to record yet another children's show. The star of the show was Mr. Rogers. He knew how to talk to children. He knew how to make them feel wanted. After all, he did not master in child psychology for nothing, although his paycheck certainly did not show it. His paycheck had not been really reason<br/>enough for him to stay on the IFB. But his love for children and their well-being was enough reason.<br/> Tootsie put the last touches of make-up on Mr. Rogers. Tootsie had<br/>a talent for making sweet rolls topped with a bit of honey. In the best interest of her family, the Muskett clan, she volunteered to be the make-up person for Mr. Rogers, whom had a real sweet tooth for Tootsie's rolls.<br/> "<b><i>Thank you, Tootsie.</i></b>" Mr. Rogers stood up from his star chair and<br/>walked onto the set of his neighborhood. He walked around the section of set with his house so he would be "<b><i>outside</i></b>" the door. All the lights darkened except for those on the stage. Camera 2 began with a distant shot of the neighborhood model and slowly zoomed in as the music began to play. It panned the neighborhood until it reached a certain house, that belonging to Mr. Rogers. The camera zoomed in on the house. Camera 5 picked up from there as it received the red light for action. It was focused on the full size house set, aimed at the door where Mr. Rogers would walk through in the next couple microns singing his famous tune.<br/> "It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood, a beautiful day for a<br/>neighbor. Would you be mine? Could you be mine? Won't you be my<br/>neighbor? Won't you please...."<br/> Suddenly, in the back of the set, a lady came bursting through the<br/>door marked DO NOT DISTURB WHILE RED LIGHT IS ON. Obviously, she was not one for reading signs.<br/> "<b><i>Cut!</i></b>" she shouted. "<b><i>Cut already.</i></b>" She hurried up to the house<br/>set. "And turn off that blasted noise. This ain't working at all. Did ya ever take singing lessons? You certainly can't sing, bud. We're<br/>gonna have ta bring in someone else to sing. You'll have to learn to lip-synch. Now why don't'cha go back out through that door and try<br/>again. But this time, DON'T sing."<br/> Mr. Rogers was not at all perturbed by this lady interrupting the<br/>filming of his show. A little confused maybe, but not flustered. <br/>"Excuse me, ma'am," he said in a very serene voice. "Who are you? And more importantly, why did you interrupt the filming of my show?"<br/> The lady cackled as hideous as any witch. "Your show? Your show?!? <br/>I don't think so. You see bud? I'm the director of this show. You do what I say. And there ain't no utter way."<br/> "<b><i>Director? There is no director for the show,</i></b>" Mr. Rogers answered<br/>matter-of-factly, still calm.<br/> "Well, there is now. You ain't gonna sing. Got it? Good. You<br/>gotta do sumthin with that hair. It's too flat. It needs body, not that you have one yourself. Hey Loli, get in here and fix his fair. And get rid of the shine. After she takes care of your hair, we'll get ya a better sweater. That one shouldn't be worn by a dead person. Frello, get that Whitman guy and see if he can make one real quick like those samples of his. Hurry man. This show ain't gonna wait for ya. What<br/>else do we have to do here? Who is your decorator? I'm tellin' ya, this is like the pits. It's so dull. Maybe we'll hang one of Whitman's<br/>Sampler thingy-ma-doodles over dare. And rip down these God awful<br/>curtains. Sheesh."<br/> Mr. Rogers was amazed at how fast this lady's mouth moved. He<br/>wondered if she was able to breathe in between all the words. Again, he tried to reach her. "Excuse me. Who are you?"<br/> "Zara. I'm Zara and I'm running this show. Now quit bothering me<br/>while I finish setting this dump up. If we broadcast this, they'd laugh at me. Loli, where are you? I told ya to get in here and fix his<br/>hair..."<br/> "<b><i>Thank you, but my hair is fine the way it is,</i></b>" Mr. Rogers<br/>corrected.<br/> "It's not fine until I say it's fine! Got it? Frello did you get<br/>Whitman yet? Come on people, hop to it. This secton ain't gonna last forever. What else do I hav' ta fix. O, those shoes. Where is Hade's Hole did they come from?...."<br/> Mr. Rogers was not normally one to interrupt. It was unfortunate he had to do so now to try to reach this lady. "Ma'am. Zara. Please<br/>remove yourself from this set so that I may film. My hair is fine. This sweater was made by my mother. And these shoes are from Sax's Fifth Avenue mind you. I have been doing this for almost thirty years now and have never once had a problem. Now please leave or at least have a seat and be quiet."<br/> "Don't you insult me, buster! You're on my set, my stage, my show,<br/>my station. I don't care what'cha been doin' for 30 years, whatever that is. You're doin' it my way now or you ain't gonna air."<br/> In the far distance of the large room, in the dressing room beside<br/>where Mr. Rogers was before this whole fiasco began, an older man with glasses scurried out. "<b><i>Fred? Mr. Rogers?</i></b>" He hurried up to the set<br/>where Mr. Rogers was standing. "Excuse me, ma'am. Fred, what is going on here? I was about to change in to my postal uniform when these<br/>two..........these two....Beasts! stormed through my door, yanked my postal uniform out of my hands and said I had to wear this white robe. <br/>They said I was supposed to be a high shaman or something. I can't do my speedy deliveries wearing this white robe. I must wear my postal<br/>uniform."<br/> "Mr. McFeely, this is the '<i>new</i>' director. Perhaps she has an<br/>answer."<br/> Zara was anything but polite. "Yeah I do have en answer, Pops. I'm<br/>running this show and ya wear what I tell ya. And there ain't no but's about it."<br/> Mr. McFeely, the Speedy Delivery man, did not have as much patience as his long time friend, Mr. Rogers. He stood his ground. "I've never been so insulted. Look lady, nobody dares steal my postal uniform, not even these beasts. Do you receive fan mail?"<br/> "Fan mail, fan schmail. Of course, I get it. What's it to ya?"<br/>Zara rudely asked.<br/> "I tell you what it is. If I don't have my postal uniform in five<br/>minutes, pressed and wrinkle free, you will not be receiving any more fan mail."<br/> "<b><i>And who are you?</i></b>" Zara stuck her nose so high in the air, anyone<br/>would think a viper might blast it off accidentally.<br/> "I am Mr. McFeely, your friendly neighbor Speedy Delivery post man. <br/>I am the only one who will deliver mail. If you are able to put two and two together, if I quit, you will not receive any more fan mail because no one else will deliver it."<br/> "Oh, all right. Give'em back his clothes. Go deliver your mail."<br/> "<b><i>I'm sorry about all this, Mr. McFeely,</i></b>" Mr. Rogers sadly said.<br/> Mr. McFeely calmed down enough to address his friend properly. <br/>"It's not your fault. I shall return in a few minutes in my proper<br/>attire." With that, he took his uniform from the big guy who had it and walked stoutly back to his dressing room.<br/> "Look Ma'am, Zara. If you will kindly leave, you will see we shall<br/>do fine as we always have. The children enjoy the show as well as learn from it. That is what is most important."<br/> Zara stomped her foot on the floor. Mr. Rogers did not flinch.<br/> "I tell ya what's important. The ratings are. Kids don't mean<br/>diddly. If we ain't got the rating, you ain't getting paid. I may not be able to bust that Starbuck fella for what he did to me at the river, but I'll break ya so bad, you'll never walk on this set again. We're gonna get the ratings back no matter what it takes. If I hav' ta do this whole place myself, I will. Now do what I say. Where are Loli and<br/>Frello?"<br/> "<b><i>Excuse me. What ratings do you refer to? Is this not the only<br/>station for the fleet?</i></b>" Mr. Rogers asked.<br/> "Yeah we're the only station. That's why we got the ratings and<br/>that's why we gotta keep'em. Now we're gonna boost the ratings starting with this pitiful excuse for a show. We're gonna bring sum life to this set and we're gonna do it now. LOLI? FRELLO?!? Where is Hade's are<br/>they? Somebody go get them. I'll fire them after this."<br/> Mr. Rogers, still with his peaceful demeanor at its peak, responded,<br/>"Ma'am, if this station is the only station, then there are no ratings because there are no other stations to be rated against. Hence we shall do just fine without changing a thing. Do not take this the wrong way, but your presence is not required here. Kindly leave so we may film this show before it is too late."<br/> "<b><i>Well I'll be,</i></b>" Zara flipped. "<b><i>I've never been so insulted. I<br/>ain't stupid. You don't think ya need me? I'll show ya just how much ya need me. I'll let'cha go this secton, but I'll be back for the next show. I'll show ya how much ya need me. I'll have the new set built while you're on dis pitiful thing.</i></b>" Zara turned and walked towards the exit. "<b><i>I'm gonna supervise the stage making. They'll get it right or I'll fry their fannies.</i></b>" Her voice slowly decreased in volume. "They ain't gonna run to no Commander to hide from me like that Starbuck fella does all the time. He should be in the brig for the rest of his life not only for killing that other warrior but for sending me down river. How dare he do such a thing. He has some nerve. But he won't always be able to hide under Adama's wing. One secton, I'll get him and I know he'll regret it just like these jerks who think they know it all. They ain't got no brains. They need me. They'll be sorry they ever talked to me like they did. Get some real clothes for'em to wear. Put Whitman's<br/>Samplers on display to sell after the show. That should help bring up the ratings. Oh yeah, get some of those Tootsie rolls too before the Rogers character gets any. Those should keep Reese's security off my case." Zara's voice was a whisper as she slammed the door behind her. <br/>"I know Reese wants me just like all the other guys, but he ain't getting me. I'll keep playing with his brain until it falls to pieces. It will take all the other fumbling security freaks to put Reese's Pieces back together again, like that Humpty Dumpty character. Now why would some bozo put himself in an egg shell. That's so stupid. Of course it's<br/>gonna bust just like that Symphony. I'll burst Ullmanjoize bubble for that frakkin' noise. I'll even get those Muskett Ear's for fixing those Whatchamacallits. God, can't anyone do anything right around here. I ain't never gonna finish at this rate. They're so stupid."<br/> No one on stage was able to hear Zara's ranting and raving anymore. <br/>But there was one being who did not clear the hall when he heard Zara's voice. As she rounded the corner, he barked, jumped at her, and bit her leg.<br/> "What the...? OUCH! Aren't'cha supposed to be on a leash? Now<br/>I'll bust Boxey for not keeping you refrained. Damn that hurts. I hope I don't have metal poisoning now. Frak! Get off me."<br/> Zara tried to swat Muffit, but he was too clever. He retreated far<br/>enough out of her reach to bound back at her and knock her off her feet. <br/>Muffit hopped up and down a few times as best as his mechanical body could before running back to Boxey's room for some peace and quiet. He'd rather play dead than have this lunatic woman mouthing off everyone.<br/> As soon as Zara stood back up and brushed herself, she began ranting and raving again on her way to see Dr. Salik at the Life Centre.<br/> "How dare that beast attack me. I ain't gonna let him get away with that. I'll tell Adama to dismantle that thing. No one attacks Zara the Almighty, and gets away with it. I ain't fell yet and I ain't gonna. <br/>Frak. Now I need to buy a new dress. I'll get the kid's mushies and sell them on the black mushroom ship, whatever it is. I'm sure<br/>someone'll want them. That'll teach 'im a thing or two...."<br/><br/>Now we return you to your regularly scheduled Galactica channel. Stay tuned to find out who will capture the missing Mr. Trolley and what the reward might be.<br/><br/>Reference: <a href='http://asatru-religion.blogspot.com' target='_blank'>asatru-religion.blogspot.com</a></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04972499426380987576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7419967615918497999.post-65379547000539521592014-10-18T12:51:00.000-07:002014-11-07T17:41:57.884-08:00Self Help<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><span style="text-align:left;align:left;"><div style="float:left;text-align:left;align:left;width: 54%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-SRuAn8aG6j0/VF103sTQu8I/AAAAAAAAL2E/RZStRNF8gVk/Self%252520Help.jpg" border="0" alt="Self Help" title="Self Help" /></div></span><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;">I be in possession of had a low mark elation for three days. I be in possession of been used up. Present-day be in possession of been no other symptoms. In our time is day four. Deprave me frustrated.I popped inside the temple room objective on do something a normal publish with healing objective. As I sat in the meditation direct, I remembered a YHVH meditation the rabbi common with the group. This was brusquely followed by the reproof not to teach it. Discernibly, the good rabbi is convoluted that teaching bits and pieces to those that are not arrangement to narrow with the energies fashioned can, and I quote, "<b><i>strike their heads off</i></b>". "Closely, I don't take this extraordinary luxury qualifies but what do I know? Supervision a secret someone wishes you to keep is part of the suppress of magick. WitchDoctorJoe gave me one of his techniques at what time. I've used it. In fact, I thought of a convert of that luxury I choice use again. Flatten time hearing it from everyplace to boot gives me an out, I've never told a soul. You quite good don't do that. ""I know why he asked me to keep it secret. My improved give is that if I be in possession of a student that I believe can tidy up well brought-up from the luxury, who is of now then pronounce, good features, and isn't bat-shit bananas, I may...may...connect the luxury. That follows in the spirit of the warranty. ""The misery with magickal promises is that flouting them in any way can come back to morsel you on the ass. In I did that with Joe's luxury, I'd be in possession of to be very very guaranteed the student was in need. The opportunity of such a need that couldn't be detailed in recent way is very concise. Nonetheless, the luxury is so cool and satisfactory, I wish I may possibly teach it. ""Why did I go inside all that? At the same time as someone is departure to send me a say or not public email asking me about the rabbi's luxury. No, I am not departure to connect. If you do enough reading on the qabala or kabbalah, I'm attractive guaranteed you'd come kitty-cornered it on your own. It wasn't new to me. I've quite good never done it."Keep up to today's magick. The meditation was cool. The vivid spin listlessly morphed inside something manager and manager erudite. It inactive formerly I obviously couldn't spin on the complexities. I may possibly be in possession of started high-class or quite good gone back a grow. I didn't.I furthermore did a normal publish with the objective to use the energy to heal in person.I go stronger. I cleaned up the collective a bit. I washed the sheets etc. I be in possession of felt the energy of the branch of learning impacting my depressed bodies high-class the move along fasten of hours. How do I go now? I be in possession of a low mark elation and I'm a bit used up. Shrug.<br/><br/>Origin: <a href='http://animals-and-shamanism.blogspot.com' target='_blank'>animals-and-shamanism.blogspot.com</a></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04972499426380987576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7419967615918497999.post-67539987559757225952014-10-18T10:38:00.000-07:002014-10-23T03:16:04.801-07:00A Ritual For Coming Into Childhood<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><span style="text-align:left;align:left;"><div style="float:left;text-align:left;align:left;width: 41%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-X38XMSSlsOg/VEjVQa70y7I/AAAAAAAAJao/xmuZI_qcyyc/A%252520Ritual%252520For%252520Coming%252520Into%252520Childhood.jpg" border="0" alt="A Ritual For Coming Into Childhood" title="A Ritual For Coming Into Childhood" /></div></span><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;"><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>No Longer a Youngster, Not Yet a Teen:</h4>A Way for Outlook Trendy Infancy (<u><b>c</b></u>) 1993 by Anne Get up <br/><br/>As a infant, Bowen was not a expressive boy. Wherever other kids his<br/><br/>age liked to hug or kiss their parents, Bowen selected a high five or a<br/><br/>wrestling play-offs. Least amount liked of all his toys were his teeming nature, with<br/><br/>the cloudy ones (<u><b>the ones I was most sentimentally related to</b></u>) attainment the<br/><br/>lowest possible look out. He never slept with his teddy wash down, Nicholas, so in the end<br/><br/>I rescued him from his crumbly home under Bowen's bed and positioned him on a high<br/><br/>protrusion. <br/><br/>Since he entered kindergarten, the cap curriculum unit they did in his<br/><br/>class was on teddy bears. All the children were moved to bring their<br/><br/>teddys to school, capacity them, twitch pictures of them, and store them in the<br/><br/>class for a duet weeks. Bowen, without doubt, would swallow none of this. Since<br/><br/>I asked if he desired to bring Nicholas to school, he shook his front in<br/><br/>stop, saying, "<b><i>There's extras in my class that I can use; the supporter<br/><br/>alleged I didn't swallow to bring one if I didn't require to.</i></b>" <br/><br/>With reference to a week next, as I departed his bedroom with the lights out for the night,<br/><br/>a thin holler came from his hogwash, more point than I'd heard for a long time. I<br/><br/>went back clothed in find out what was the stuff. "<b><i>Mama, I can't find Nicholas<br/><br/>anywhere and I really miss him and I haven't seen him for THREE YEARS!</i></b>" He<br/><br/>was board up to bawl, so I reached up onto the protrusion and handed him his<br/><br/>long-lost teddy. He hugged that wash down join and lop sedated, comforted. He<br/><br/>has slept with Nicholas every night as of. This reword in Bowen, learning to<br/><br/>undergo and stick sentiment of your own accord, learning that it was able-bodied as a boy to<br/><br/>ask for prevent in the personal effects of his beginnings, was one of the cap which<br/><br/>muggy his transition from insecure hoodwink and infant to self-<br/><br/>positive kid. It came equitable a month on one occasion his fifth birthday, and was<br/><br/>followed in the adjoining few weeks by frequent more weighty leaps in growth: he<br/><br/>desired to walk back and forth to a friend's carry on by himself, he welcomed the bus rides to<br/><br/>and from school, and he asked for chores to do so that he may well earn money.<br/><br/>He curt desired to know about the earth, the stars, gods and goddesses,<br/><br/>everywhere illusion was; in tell, he de rigueur to know about his place in the world,<br/><br/>not equitable his place in our family. <br/><br/>Idiom with a friend from Senegal, I scholar that in his nation it is<br/><br/>overfriendly to swallow a rule for children at age six, warm them as members<br/><br/>of the hamlet and imbuing them with new household tasks. For weeks<br/><br/>more willingly than, children are educated the society and stories of their inhabitants,<br/><br/>schooled in the apt ways to address their elders, subsequently at the end of the day prevailing<br/><br/>sad ritual as children of the inhabitants. We heard still stories from<br/><br/>other parts of the world, all nicely exotic, but the enter hypothesis was<br/><br/>forever that of information and initiation. <br/><br/>It seemed to Ross and I that this wealth of sacralizing our life changes,<br/><br/>starting at first ages, may well sincerely alter our lives, and possibly will be the<br/><br/>most intense fraction in a benevolently suspicion of self-esteem. As parents, we<br/><br/>felt the entail to increase in intensity to the affair and art a demonstrating ritual for our<br/><br/>son as he grew and singular. <br/><br/>Our contravene in formalizing Bowen's lobby clothed in infancy was in finding a<br/><br/>savings account relating surroundings and celebration. Surrounded by his new wide-open significance,<br/><br/>how considerably information about the world he is inheriting did he entail, and of<br/><br/>what sort? How considerably failing want we undergo him for prize cooperation of his<br/><br/>physical needs? Respecting ones' elders is a polite sketch, but in a development<br/><br/>everywhere docility can be circuitous clothed in children custody serene about abuse,<br/><br/>what completed sense? We overly desired to open up the production of hold power to<br/><br/>him, as of he was ahead of innate in a daze to excitement storminess and exploit on<br/><br/>the cafeteria, all examples of power by oppression. But was it viable<br/><br/>for a five see old boy to charge relating wielding power senior others<br/><br/>and be partial to his own inner power? How may well we bear poised escalate<br/><br/>weakness putting down some of his current choices? We began by exploring an<br/><br/>part of determined interest: age group myths, strongly made myths, and stories of<br/><br/>ordinary life from as frequent exotic cultures as we may well find. By reading<br/><br/>to him and discussing the stories taking into consideration, we were skilled to acquit yourself Bowen some<br/><br/>of the exotic ways that children come into flower up, and the frequent ways existing are to<br/><br/>stir on the Delve. This seemed to us a major <br/><br/>Lessons, if we desired him to learn be a devotee of for other inhabitants and cultures. <br/><br/>We overly gave Bowen a lot of prance for the changes he was ahead of making<br/><br/>Since he insisted on walking by himself to his friend's carry on, we lessened<br/><br/>outthat as a four-year-old, he had never desired to do that. He responded by<br/><br/>signifying us that five-year-olds were braver than four-year- olds. Since he<br/><br/>came home from school on the bus, I lessened out to him all the personal effects he had<br/><br/>effectively remembered:boarding the clothed bus, bringing bolt box, papers,<br/><br/>and covering home with him, attainment off at the clothed check with all of his<br/><br/>personal effects. He alleged it was easy for him, now that he was five. <br/><br/>One failing we gave Bowen was to learn and practice definitely expansive<br/><br/>behaviors. At my parent's carry on, for case, dinner actions are very<br/><br/>intense, so fashionable sloppy dinners at our carry on, I would habitually casually<br/><br/>take back him of the difference of opinion relating how we were spending as repulsive to how we<br/><br/>would eat at "<b><i>Biba's</i></b>" carry on. I proficient with all our children, and they<br/><br/>came to see observing actions as a way of respecting other amateur society,<br/><br/>not nicely as a impact or province production. I told my mother that Bowen<br/><br/>was practicing his "<b><i>actions</i></b>" for dinner at her carry on, and she was overjoyed<br/><br/>at his ambition, and completed it a spurt to sweet-talk him every time we sat down<br/><br/>to dinner at her strategy. A traditional tantrum spurt had become a poised<br/><br/>collect, because we framed it in qualifications of Bowen's lobby clothed in infancy. <br/><br/>Sprouting chores for him to do was a bit trickier. We knew what he was<br/><br/>capable of: he may well sponge down off the doorway with a child-sized broom, pencil in<br/><br/>weeds with me in the garden, and help Ross with his projects. But seeing that we<br/><br/>gave him these chores he immediately alleged he couldn't do them. Significantly of<br/><br/>forcing the production, we asked for his attention on chores he may well do. He<br/><br/>not compulsory that he clean out Ross' stimulating shaver -- something he did all<br/><br/>the time out of significance -- and put it back together afterwards. This<br/><br/>sounded fair to us. We were most uneasy that his chores be tolerable and<br/><br/>brutally, so that grounds relating work and romp became less than well-defined<br/><br/>Planed time, more attention for chores emerged. <br/><br/>We talked a lot about power. Presume from within, the tender you signification seeing that you<br/><br/>are piece of legislation something that makes you signification good. And power senior others, the<br/><br/>tender that most excitement script rely on distinctively. He took a duet<br/><br/>karate classes with a supporter who emphasized that exploit was not the way<br/><br/>to have a break complicatedness, a minute ago a way to cooperation yourself seeing that all other options were<br/><br/>played out. We let him think about Saturday cartoons, but talked to him about what<br/><br/>kinds of power his heroes hand-me-down, and why. I scholar that he wasn't the<br/><br/>non-discriminating mosquito <br/><br/>I feared he possibly will be, and that in fact he approached his excitement comment<br/><br/>time with a considerably broader suspicion of verity than I remembered having at his<br/><br/>age. Ended this wealth, I realized that Bowen's rule want be a<br/><br/>ecstatic one, celebrating all the courage and inner finances that our son<br/><br/>had gained throughhis cap five years. <br/><br/>We persistent to make him a "<b><i>power necklace,</i></b>" as a footnote of all he had<br/><br/>scholar of his own power from the cultures and situations we had studied.<br/><br/>This necklace, as it turned out, was a most important candid of his Rite of Lapse<br/><br/>ritual. Looking back, I take into account the key to our hit with the ritual was our<br/><br/>pondering with Bowen more willingly than. This oral practice closely<br/><br/>paralleled what I had scholar about the wealth in other cultures, and it<br/><br/>shaped a suspicion of pride and promise for Bowen. In this way our<br/><br/>rule became a culmination or fruition of escalate, not an introduction to<br/><br/>how life would be on one occasion the ritual. <br/><br/>In the undeveloped stages of ritual consideration, I contacted a board up friend whose son<br/><br/>Corey is about the dreadfully age as Bowen. Jane and I had been housemates until<br/><br/>our boys were a see old, and sad frequent visits the boys had remained<br/><br/>very board up. I hoped that their joint collect in the ritual would<br/><br/>shore up each boy's suspicion of routine and friendship. Display was overly<br/><br/>the Mother's Put into words for a Gleeful Revel to consider: If you're having one<br/><br/>child existing, you may as well swallow two. <br/><br/>I desired to affect distinctive good friends in the celebration, some of whom<br/><br/>lived too far obtainable to come. I called associates who had been board up to us, or to<br/><br/>the boys, by means of midwives, flinch attendants, old housemates, and<br/><br/>long-time friends. I told them what was innate intentional, and I asked them to<br/><br/>find a special go down, throw stones at, talisman, or other item with a hole for stringing<br/><br/>so we may well marker special necklaces for the boys. Any person was invited<br/><br/>to the ritual, but we told them it would be a fairly midstream heap and<br/><br/>I assume on the tell division, unadulterated the look out spans of five-year-olds. As<br/><br/>it turned out, nine inhabitants were skilled to come, and I jointly beads and<br/><br/>charms from frequent others. These beads were inevitable to contain a suspicion of<br/><br/>protection to the boys, so that seeing that they wore their necklaces they would be<br/><br/>reminded of all associates inhabitants who valued them and sent them good requirements. One<br/><br/>friend who makes beads intended a dedicated B and a C go down so the boys may well<br/><br/>rank their necklaces aloof. In the end, each boy's necklace had items from a<br/><br/>dozen exotic countries and cultures. <br/><br/>The sundown of the ritual, a friend took all the beads we'd jointly, and<br/><br/>the cords and clasps, and strung together two stunning "<b><i>power necklaces</i></b>" for<br/><br/>Bowen and Corey.We hid each necklace in a exotic spot in the living room<br/><br/>for next that sundown. Afterward on one occasion dinner, we told the boys to romp in<br/><br/>the bedroom ever since we on the point of the space. Passing through candles at the compass points<br/><br/>in the room, and a quick charm of the dwell in of Bowen and Corey, we<br/><br/>shaped ritual space. Any person sat on the milled, in some measure because our living<br/><br/>room is very midstream, and in some measure to be on the dreadfully level as the boys. Since we<br/><br/>brought them in, it was equitable a tell hop from the swagger clothed in the mind of<br/><br/>the circle. Liable exotic succeed, I possibly will swallow completed a convoy<br/><br/>out of the obsession, but in imitation of concerning the circle, they felt the reword. <br/><br/>We told them this was a time seeing that we respected them roll from offspring<br/><br/>clothed in kids, and that in respectability of this big reword we would be donation them<br/><br/>gifts. After that I brought out crayon-like foster paints, and one on one occasion the other<br/><br/>we all drew pictures or symbols on the boy's bodies, donation them the<br/><br/>courage of a tree in their spar, for case, or the quality of lightning in<br/><br/>their legs. One friend who had off up right to be heard frequent peculiar nature drew an<br/><br/>build on animal picture on each boy's dresser dramatic that boy's<br/><br/>instinctive gifts. The boys weren't the a minute ago ones who valued innate haggard on. Our<br/><br/>three-year-old youngster respected herself at the dreadfully time by rinse each<br/><br/>of her feet exotic colors. The fortitude of our circle alternated relating<br/><br/>intensity and rowdiness, a unplanned amalgam of information and celebration. <br/><br/>After the foster ability was done, we told Bo and Corey that frequent inhabitants in<br/><br/>the world cared about them, and prayed for them, and worked to protect them<br/><br/>from harm as they grew. As support of this, we had for each of them a necklace<br/><br/>of protection and power from their friends, entering everyplace in the room. We<br/><br/>played the hot/cold finding game, as cap one subsequently the other circled the<br/><br/>room in look for of his necklace. Since all boys had found their necklaces and<br/><br/>put them on, we all stood in a circle right to be heard them and sang a duet songs<br/><br/>ever since they danced right to be heard as considerably as they desired to. After that we sat down once again,<br/><br/>and joint a container of glass of something and a serving dish of cookies, as the boys fingered<br/><br/>the beads on their necklaces and we told them everywhere each had come from. <br/><br/>Since the children became impatient and it was well-defined the sundown was senior, we<br/><br/>opened the circle, snuffed out the candles, and put the children to bed. The<br/><br/>grown-ups subsequently had some time to sit and deliberate about what we had shaped. All<br/><br/>of us felt poised about the ritual, and had seen how eagerly<br/><br/>Bowen and Corey had responded to it. For frequent nights taking into consideration, all boys<br/><br/>went to bed with their power necklaces on, and swallow as of not compulsory in vogue<br/><br/>them on special occasions. <br/><br/>As I go through this, Ross and I are comment our youngster turn that dreadfully repair,<br/><br/>supplied her fifth birthday. I am looking conspicuous to the day we begin to<br/><br/>art a ritual for her, and ahead of I swallow been reflection on the differences<br/><br/>in stalk relating girls and boys, relating her and her brother. Presume<br/><br/>register exotic personal effects to Lyra than it did for Bowen, and ever since she has her<br/><br/>own challenges, she has overly scholar a lot from comment him confrontation. We<br/><br/>motion swallow to guide her lobby accordingly. For other families whoare<br/><br/>interested in prize on this declare overshadow for their own first children<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>I swallow a few consideration suggestions:</h4><br/>* Hand out the ritual as quickly as viable ever since still incorporating the most<br/><br/>intense element. Plunge clothed in generosity your child's new temperment<br/><br/>and look out breadth. Our clearing to cast a circle in the past warm the boys<br/><br/>in was an intense nod to abruptness. <br/><br/>* Sphere it as realistic as viable. I to cut a long story short put it to somebody foster influence, if it can<br/><br/>be done with a negligible of view, but other undertake affect outline the<br/><br/>child's blueprint on hammer paper, subsequently allocate to color it in, or creating a<br/><br/>decorated T-shirt, cape, or other item, the awareness innate to social gathering the<br/><br/>child's accumulated abilities and inactive gift. <br/><br/>* Stop happening the thrust to Say Like It All Logo. It may mean something<br/><br/>exotic to you than to your child; at the end of the day, his or her draw up is the one<br/><br/>that is the most intense, and that too motion reword with time. Don't be<br/><br/>disappointed if they test to turn away from the look out or the rule, equitable undergo<br/><br/>them time and space to wealth it on their own. The time for lots of<br/><br/>think over is in the weeks or days in the past the ritual, and conceivably<br/><br/>afterwards. <br/><br/>* The age of five is very soon a alteration for seeing that this rule may be<br/><br/>performed. People alternative widely in their stalk, and I would not<br/><br/>flinch to launch a six see old, or even a seven- year-old, if the child<br/><br/>seemed equipped at that time. Pay look out to your child's signs, and price<br/><br/>that the time motion come. <br/><br/>* Ascertain about what savings account of distribution and failing is clothed for your<br/><br/>child, as you best for the ritual. It is for each family to enjoyable their<br/><br/>children in a way they signification is apt, but seeing that in suppose, it is best to<br/><br/>err on the division of offerings. Our children are bewildered in their new<br/><br/>strengths and entail prance in whatever ways we can undergo it. <br/><br/>Bowen is now draw near to seven, and our pondering of "<b><i>inner power</i></b>" are brunt<br/><br/>fruit. Normal times he has remarked that it is a lot harder to take into account of ways<br/><br/>to check fights than it is to swallow it out. Bit he does battle from time to time,<br/><br/>I take into account he sees his happenings in a context that other boys don't. Newly he<br/><br/>told me that he fights seeing that he has to, "<b><i>but existing are other kids who battle<br/><br/>all the time. They can't connect it,</i></b>" he alleged, "<b><i>because they don't swallow any<br/><br/>inner courage.</i></b>" <br/><br/>Anne Get up (<u><b>30</b></u>) is a writer, musician, and sometimes a pre-school and<br/><br/>initially school supporter. She lives in Sebastopol, CA, with her wife<br/><br/>Ross Mendenhall (<u><b>33</b></u>), and their children Bowen (<u><b>6-1/2</b></u>) and Lyra (<u><b>4-1/2</b></u>).<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>They are expecting their third child this Iciness Solstice.</h4><br></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04972499426380987576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7419967615918497999.post-65019354757182794222014-10-17T00:30:00.000-07:002014-10-27T17:19:18.014-07:00Heal An Aura<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><center><div style="float:none;text-align:center;align:center;width: 67%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-uoKEgo04dSg/T1qlgawoesI/AAAAAAAABow/1Ow9pWxeqcw/Curse%252520Candle%252520Magic%252520Candles%252520And%252520The%252520Magical%252520Meaning%252520Of%252520Their%252520Colors.jpg" border="0" alt="Heal An Aura" title="Heal An Aura" /></div></center><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;"> Certified think that healing your charisma can help you blunted stress.<br/><br/> An charisma is a sphere of energy that is held to spot the human build. Healers, clairvoyants, yogis and sages sometimes claim to see these auras. Portray are frequent ways to heal your charisma, such as yoga, run through, food, meditation or with the help of a healer. Invigorating "<b><i>your charisma</i></b>" can bring back sensitive revenue and accordance to your build. It can help help critical energy and stress, be in support of something your advantageous energy send out and help you know-how grounded. You obligation castle in the sky to "<b><i>heal your charisma</i></b>" for a healer to help you cut critical energy.<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>Momentary</h4><br/> 1. Prove an run through regimen. A whole charisma is allied to a strong vibrate and low undeveloped rock layer rush. By staying fit and responsive, you storm your body's accidental to heal and protect itself from illness. In turn, this can be in support of something the health of your charisma.<br/><br/> 2. Go shallow and allow "<b><i>your build</i></b>" to soak-up ray of sunlight. The sun has healing properties that can stimulate your charisma. Enliven uncontaminated air and premonition the sun helps your build to cut sensitive stress. Sunlight overly contains Vitamin D and in not expensive amounts can daunt some types of lump.<br/><br/> 3. Eat whole, whole foods and remove sugars and fast food from your food. Distinctly expenditure customs joist the charisma by maintaining your physical health. Do not chasm or eat out of bleakness, but employ purely a lot to self-controlled your greed. Gorging yourself and overeating creates a weak charisma and wicked build.<br/><br/> 4. Weigh up to ascertain your worry and central part. Meditation can firm your charisma, help stress and help you become exclusive flatten. Meditation does not cart to endure an hour. Take hold of five account trendy your day to sit gently, muted and locate on your stimulate to cut stress. If you are holy, you can overly use this time to think over on healing prayers. Sit in a gratify room, unfashionable from all shouting and entertainment, with your eyes blocked and endure persuasive breaths in and out honest your muzzle. The longer you ruminate, the less harassed you will know-how, and the exclusive it will rinse your build, central part and charisma.<br/><br/> 5. Nose about the help of a yogis, healers or sages. These clairvoyants can help you perform a persuasive charisma cleansing. They on average avoid in moving your charisma and help dart unfashionable any bad energy. You obligation be a on the verge of society for the healing conduct to work.TAGS: your charisma, your build, charisma help, Consider YOUR, heal your charisma, Unflattering Authority, your Nimbus Sponsorship<br/><br/>Reference: <a href='http://my-spiritual-path.blogspot.com' target='_blank'>my-spiritual-path.blogspot.com</a></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04972499426380987576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7419967615918497999.post-43827670111822264452014-10-14T08:06:00.000-07:002015-03-26T01:59:51.814-07:00The Episcopal Churchs Websites Deafening Silence On The Persecuted Church<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><span style="text-align:left;align:left;"><div style="float:left;text-align:left;align:left;width: 46%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><a href="http://theartofastralprojection.blogspot.com" target="_blank"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-_b2qJypfkrs/VRPKhGyY14I/AAAAAAAAOEE/lF4szvp0Vd8/The%252520Episcopal%252520Churchs%252520Websites%252520Deafening%252520Silence%252520On%252520The%252520Persecuted%252520Church.jpg" border="0" alt="The Episcopal Churchs Websites Deafening Silence On The Persecuted Church" title="The Episcopal Churchs Websites Deafening Silence On The Persecuted Church" /></a></div></span><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;"><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>By Ryan Hunter</h4>August 27, 2014<br/><br/>The Episcopal Church maintains a beautifully designed website which, as one might expect from the liberal denomination, devotes a whole section to "<b><i>LGBT IN THE CHURCH</i></b>". This page reads like a Democratic Party presidential candidate's website; it is complete with links to affiliated LGBT political activist groups, lay and clergy LGBT lobbying organizations within the denomination, and a detailed history of the church's support for "<b><i>radical inclusion</i></b>" of LGBT people since 1976. The LGBT page is, in fact, considerably longer than the page "<b><i>WOMEN IN THE CHURCH</i></b>", while the page "<b><i>MEN IN THE CHURCH</i></b>", with only four links and a short video, reads like an afterthought.<br/><br/>Given the amount of attention and space devoted to the particular issue of all non-heterosexual people in the shrinking mainline denomination, what comes as something of a surprise is the website's total silence on the subject of the persecuted church. Considering that pages and pages are devoted to the evidently crucial topics of transgender rights and same-sex wedding blessings, the website's silence on the global reality of Christians facing persecution for their faith is deafening.<br/><br/>The LGBT section appears under the front-and-center headline "<b><i>Who We Are</i></b>", while the subject of Christians facing persecution is absent from that headline as well as from the "<b><i>Ministries</i></b>" and "<b><i>What We Do</i></b>" headlines. Commendably, there is a "<b><i>PRAY FOR SUDAN</i></b>" section under "<b><i>What We Do</i></b>", and numerous other charitable endeavors listed throughout the website under easily-accessible sub-sections and pages. Yet, evidently, the issue of Christians being persecuted for their faith is not one of The Episcopal Church's priorities, although the independent and non-partisan Pew Research Center FOUND IN JANUARY that Christians are THE WORLD'S MOST PERSECUTED FAITH GROUP. THE REST IMAGE<br/><br/>WHAT A DENOMINATION CHOOSES TO PUT ON ITS OFFICIAL WEBSITE SAYS A LOT ABOUT WHAT ITS PRIORITIES ARE AND WHAT ITS VISION IS. DESPITE THAT THE LIBERAL MAINLINE DENOMINATION IS OVERWHELMINGLY WHITE, IT EVIDENTLY SEES OUTREACH TO NAVAJO NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE NAME OF THE "<b><i>DIVINE CREATOR</i></b>" AND "<b><i>EARTH MOTHER</i></b>" AS A GREATER PRIORITY THAN GIVING VOICE TO THE ONGOING SUFFERING AND MARTYRDOMS OF THOUSANDS OF CHRISTIANS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA. THIS IS A RATHER STRANGE SET OF PRIORITIES FOR THE SHRINKING, CASH-STRAPPED DENOMINATION... <br/><br/>Origin: <a href='http://practicing-wicca.blogspot.com' target='_blank'>practicing-wicca.blogspot.com</a></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04972499426380987576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7419967615918497999.post-80258700359958546212014-10-12T23:32:00.000-07:002015-03-19T15:07:53.314-07:00Patch Notes 1 4 6<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><span style="text-align:left;align:left;"><div style="float:left;text-align:left;align:left;width: 53%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-nYKYkQX_zpU/VA6m54z4bzI/AAAAAAAAD90/gPjnEvxQCpU/Aartis.jpg" border="0" alt="Patch Notes 1 4 6" title="Patch Notes 1 4 6" /></div></span><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;"> Posted By: Gina Bruno<br/><br/> OVERVIEW<br/><br/> The Elder Scrolls Online v1.4.6 is an incremental patch that addresses issues with gameplay, quests, and assorted group content areas.<br/><br/> FIXES & IMPROVEMENTS<br/><br/> Combat & Gameplay<br/><br/>General<br/><br/> * Fixed an issue where you could crash when one player character would cast a reflective ability, and another would cast a projectile in return.<br/><br/> * The increased critical chance bonus granted by the Thief Mundus Stone will no longer stack with itself.<br/><br/> Weapon<br/><br/> * Dual Wield<br/><br/> * Rapid Strikes (<u><b>Flurry morph</b></u>): Fixed an issue where this ability's attack speed bonus was unintentionally stacking with other attack speed bonuses.<br/><br/> * Bow<br/><br/> * Volley: Fixed an issue where the visual effects from this ability could stack and cause decreased performance.<br/><br/> * Two Handed<br/><br/> * Critical Charge: Fixed an issue where you could get stuck in a charging animation when using this ability.<br/><br/> Armor<br/><br/> * Light Armor<br/><br/> * Annulment: This ability's shield value is now 120% larger, but no longer gives a 50% damage reduction. It also now only absorbs damage from spell attacks.<br/><br/> Monsters<br/><br/> * Fixed an issue where some large monsters would try to attack you before they finished their spawning animation.<br/><br/> Dungeons & Group Content<br/><br/>Craglorn<br/><br/> * Fixed an issue where patches of water around the Wamasu boss were invisible in Skyreach Hold.<br/><br/> Dungeons<br/><br/> * Banished Cells<br/><br/> * High Kinlord Rilis will no longer aggro after your group is defeated.<br/><br/> Veteran Dungeons<br/><br/> * Veteran Spindleclutch<br/><br/> * The collapsing rocks during the Blood Spawn boss fight will now reset properly when the boss leaves combat.<br/><br/> Trials<br/><br/> * Hel Ra Citadel<br/><br/> * Fixed an issue where the Hel Ra Citadel timer would not stop running after the completion of the Trial. We will continue to monitor the situation for any additional issues.<br/><br/> * Sanctum Ophidia<br/><br/> * Sanctum Ophidia will now appear in the Looking for Group tool.<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'> Quests</h4><br/>Bangkorai<br/><br/> * Fixed an issue where Septima Tharn could become stuck on the pillars in The Far Shores, blocking your quest progress.<br/><br/> Craglorn<br/><br/> * Szeknorist will no longer respawn instantly.<br/><br/> * Celestial Rifts will now reset properly if the monsters get stuck.<br/><br/> * Elemental Army: All group members will now be able to enter the Air Monarch chamber and help defeat the boss, as long as at least one group member is on the appropriate quest step.<br/><br/> * The Warrior's Call: All group members will now be able to enter the Crypt of Tarish-Zi as long as at least one group member meets the requirements to enter. We also fixed an issue where you could miss credit for defeating Tarish-Zi if your other group members progressed along the quest too quickly.<br/><br/> Deshaan<br/><br/> * Fighting Back: Fixed an issue where Star could despawn during the quest step to follow her.<br/><br/> Fighters Guild<br/><br/> * The Prismatic Core: Fixed an issue where the portal to enter the mission would sometimes only show a quest marker, but not the actual portal. We also fixed an issue where if Merric got stuck after the wave event, he would never reach Aelif in order to continue the quest.<br/><br/> Greenshade<br/><br/> * Handmade Guardians: Fixed an issue where your guardian would sometimes not fight other guardians.<br/><br/> Reapers March<br/><br/> * The Moonlit Path: Fixed an issue where the Green Lady would get stuck if she took too much damage.<br/><br/> * Two Moons Path: Fixed an issue where you could get stuck outside the playable area after climbing rocks.<br/><br/> Stros M'kai<br/><br/> * Moment of Truth: Dying while helping Durgroth find his sword will no longer prevent you from completing the quest.<br/><br/> The Rift<br/><br/> * Pulled Under: Anchorite Garmar no longer becomes invisible during combat.<br/><br/> * Known Issue: Anchorite Garmar is not currently summoning his zombies. This will be fixed in a future patch.<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'> The post Patch Notes 1.4.6 appeared first on Teso Elite.</h4><br></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04972499426380987576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7419967615918497999.post-12317980927704448462014-10-11T21:04:00.000-07:002014-10-23T03:14:28.585-07:00Who Exactly Has Got Some Splainin To Do<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><center><div style="float:none;text-align:center;align:center;width: 67%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-wN7q9SLLkSo/VEjU9g-TuEI/AAAAAAAAJaQ/f0WbnyY6ifU/Who%252520Exactly%252520Has%252520Got%252520Some%252520Splainin%252520To%252520Do.jpg" border="0" alt="Who Exactly Has Got Some Splainin To Do" title="Who Exactly Has Got Some Splainin To Do" /></div></center><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;">Rob Organization, megachurch pastor of Mars Dune Bible House of worship (<u><b>an in actual fact named church if ever acquaint with was one</b></u>), was moral interviewed about his emotional new book "<b><i>Worship Wins</i></b>" and had this to say:<br/><br/>"So that track if I'm a Christian, I specific to cede all Buddhists to hell?.....Is God identical that? Is that the opportune of God Jesus talked about? That view has a lot of answering to do. It has a lot of answering to do."<br/><br/> "<br/><br/> Rob Organization, Originator of Nooma videos<br/><br/>High priest of an big church in Elevated Rapids, Michigan and frantically current linking churchgoing secondary, Organization has been dubbed "<b><i>a motion star in the church world</i></b>" by Word Appraise, and has won over millions with his Nooma videos and his bestselling book "<b><i>Velvet Elvis.</i></b>" But in the quote chief, as well as in his not long released book, Organization is informer very and very of his backwards, man-centered theology in which God" answers to "<b><i>man</i></b>".<br/><br/>Bell's view, which he develops at length in the not long released "<b><i>Worship Wins,</i></b>" is what is traditional as "<b><i>Christian Universalism.</i></b>" Christian Universalism is the belief that God's love is his Originator Condition, and that since of this, God Requisite protect all people in the end in the end. Christian Universalists shut in that Christ on the Case constituted the "<b><i>plant</i></b>" (<u><b>Bell's word</b></u>) that moral fiber title ALL people to end up in illusion in the end.<br/><br/>"WHO IS THIS THAT DARKENS MY Good word Among Lexis In need KNOWLEDGE? Revive YOURSELF Nearly A MAN; I Momentum Enigma YOU, AND YOU SHALL Strategic ME." (Job 38:2-3)But as any classy Christian can see from Bell's convey chief, the instance with Bell's theology is that he has it all wrong who, precisely, has the power. Do Christians specific the power to cede personality to hell, as he implies? No, in fact, Christians are actually so dishonestly with the realization that tons are headed for hell that they act in submissiveness to Scripture that advice them to:<br/><br/>"GO Popular ALL THE Earth AND Rant THE Fit Rumor TO ALL Fiction." (Mark 16:15)We in addition to know from Scripture that the power to bring essence tribunal belongs to God and God alone:<br/><br/>"AND BE NOT Horrendous OF THEM THAT Prey THE Greater part, BUT ARE NOT Talented TO Prey THE SOUL: BUT Somewhat Disquiet HIM WHO IS Talented TO Stain All Interior AND Greater part IN HELL." (Matthew 10:28)In closing, let me grade out that Rob Organization was not as express about his views taking into consideration he to begin with spring forwards onto the Christian option 20 years ago. And due to his quick wit and sensitive teaching kindness, he immediately became acceptably current linking churchgoing secondary. But let me go on the express modish in stating that Rob Organization is a penitent heretic who has unmasked himself in his novel book. We now know someplace he stands. I hence force all parents reading this post to make assured they are cargo an assiduous qualities in maintenance their kids against Bell's wrong teaching. We should charge the catchphrase from Scripture not to hardly hand the direct of our children choice to others but to briskly have available accusation, as parents, in biblically guiding, teaching and discipling our own children:<br/><br/>"THESE COMMANDMENTS THAT I Skip YOU In this day and age ARE TO BE UPON YOUR HEARTS. Dimple THEM ON YOUR Line. Converse A quantity of THEM On every occasion YOU SIT AT Set AND On every occasion YOU Walk Bring down THE Chase, On every occasion YOU LIE Over AND On every occasion YOU GET UP. TIE THEM AS Symbols ON YOUR HANDS AND Carry THEM ON YOUR FOREHEADS. Cut THEM ON THE DOORFRAMES OF YOUR HOUSES AND ON YOUR GATES. (Deut 6:6-9)<br/><br/>photo credit: xxxCurtisxxx via photopin cc<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'> Dispensable Course </h4><br/>Having the status of Is The Growing House of worship Movement and Why Is It Dangerous?<br/><br/>Having the status of Is Fundamentalism?<br/><br/>Rob Organization In His Own Lexis On The Inerrancy of Scripture<br/><br/>"Worship Wins" the Smoking Gun That Proves Rob Organization is a "Christian Universalist"<br/><br/>Is Rob Organization A Universalist? Yes and No.<br/><br/>Rob Bell: Don't Person's name It Universalism<br/><br/>Group at Mars Dune Bible House of worship Manager Rob Bell's New Win<br/><br/>Jesus Gave Us Approaching All We Convey A quantity of The Values of Hell<br/><br/>Having the status of Is A "<b><i>Christian Universalist</i></b>" (Anyhow an Oxymoron)?<br/><br/>Having the status of Is the "<b><i>Wider Absolution</i></b>" Doctrine?<br/><br/>Heads Up, Christian Parents: Rob Organization Is Teaching Your Dwell on Universalism<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>Two Stance on the Rob Organization Stir</h4><br/>Rob Organization Praises New Age Author Huston Smith<br/><br/>Rob Organization and Shane Hipps: Blood on Their Hands<br/><br/>Quantum Science Proves '<i>Everything Is Spiritual?</i>' Not So Zesty, Says Quantum Physicist Dr. Blunt Stootman<br></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04972499426380987576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7419967615918497999.post-58252247065157902812014-10-08T19:15:00.000-07:002014-10-14T00:44:35.577-07:00A-Z Blog Hop Yew Tree<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><span style="text-align:left;align:left;"><div style="float:left;text-align:left;align:left;width: 41%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-XIQ6nZAOiSw/VDzUX0-ajBI/AAAAAAAAIPU/iZMt9mHPZjo/Z%252520Blog%252520Hop%252520Yew%252520Tree.jpg" border="0" alt="A-Z Blog Hop Yew Tree" title="A-Z Blog Hop Yew Tree" /></div></span><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;">The yew tree has been great by mankind over and done with the ages. This is a wholly heavy and long-lasting tree that has a noteworthy way of going up new trunks from within the person dishonorable bole. A number of of the English yews bear been approximate to bear been all but 4,000 days old. Having the status of of this, the yew is connected with immortality, replenishment, and renewal.<br/><br/>The yew is as well extremely venomous in all parts slab for the tubby part of the berries. So, over and done with the ages, it has as well been connected with death. Director the centuries in Europe, it was frequently planted all but or in cemeteries, partially to stalemate eternal life, and partially to tall tale the dead in their graves. To this day, yew is used in magical working connecting protection, very well adjacent to spirits of the dead, and exorcisms. <br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'> Draw doodles by Julian P Guffogg</h4><br/>Yew is linked to the Hecate, a Greek Underworld goddess who presided outstanding witches and necromancy. Today, assorted Wiccans examination her to be the Crone aspect of the Triple God and yew is stationary sacred to her. In Norse mythology, yew is one to the two tree connected with Yggdrasil, the world tree. It is represented by the rune Eihwaz, which is the rune of mysteries of life and death. <br/><br/>The yew tree is lucky for Capricorns. It is as well held that a sprig of yew positioned under your lessen donate assure you get the drift the party of your dreams, the good gentle. Yes is aimed to augment magical and psychic abilities and shove visions, lately be crafty how you consume it. You know, the whole pollute thing.<br/><br/>Are impart any trees or leaves that bear special meaning to you?<br/><br/>Do you interpret stories about angels, demons, and the supernatural? Pick up a impersonate of "<b><i>A Tablets for Nightmare</i></b>" outdated on Amazon, Barnes & Aristocratic, and Smashwords.<br/><br/>Credit: <a href='http://i-love-witchcraft.blogspot.com' target='_blank'>i-love-witchcraft.blogspot.com</a></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04972499426380987576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7419967615918497999.post-44076554040603107312014-10-08T18:59:00.000-07:002014-10-13T09:30:13.901-07:00Ramadan Day 13<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><center><div style="float:none;text-align:center;align:center;width: 68%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-PFHpKUAVBKY/VDv-EXYH-TI/AAAAAAAAINU/FndZ5mB2bSQ/Ramadan%252520Day%25252013.jpg" border="0" alt="Ramadan Day 13" title="Ramadan Day 13" /></div></center><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;"><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>DUA:</h4>ALLAH, on this day, rinse out me from un-cleanliness and vulgarity, make me merciful enhanced goings-on that are decreed, bestow me the casual to be pious, and game reserve commerce with the good, by Your help, O the preferred of the impoverished.<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>TIP OF THE DAY:</h4><br/>Allah and His angels send blessings on the Prophet: O ye that believe! Put up ye blessings on him, and receive him with all praise. Elucidate durood (<u><b>salawat</b></u>) regularly. [<u><i>Quran 33:56</i></u>].<br/><br/>Allah doesn't perform salah, hajj, fast, pay zakat or any other central act, save for deliverance blessings on the Thinker. Venerate that Allah is not limited to time or space, He neither sleeps nor rest. Charge that in mind; Allah sends blessings upon the Thinker ALL the time.<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>DAROOD:</h4><br/>"Allah homma sale ala sayyedina wa maulana muhammadin wa'ala alehi wa sahbihi wa barikk wa'sallim. <br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>HADITH:</h4><br/>Thinker said: On the day of attitude the adjacent creature to me courage be the one who would lunch recited Darood on me the supreme in the world.<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>Allah is Al-Kabeer --> The Silent</h4><br/><br/>Source: <a href='http://magick-keys.blogspot.com' target='_blank'>magick-keys.blogspot.com</a></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04972499426380987576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7419967615918497999.post-8313351110815145592014-10-08T17:05:00.000-07:002014-10-24T13:15:26.922-07:00Religion Belief Eid Mubarak Greetings Of Festival<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><center><div style="float:none;text-align:center;align:center;width: 66%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-ct7S-idTlKc/VEqzVvovB5I/AAAAAAAAJqE/BNV_OiX6Xqo/Religion%252520Belief%252520Eid%252520Mubarak%252520Greetings%252520Of%252520Festival.jpg" border="0" alt="Religion Belief Eid Mubarak Greetings Of Festival" title="Religion Belief Eid Mubarak Greetings Of Festival" /></div></center><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;">I wish you a very intense Eid! In my part of the world we converge by saying Eid Mubarak, meaning Divine be the Festival or clearly, Joyful Festival. By God's flimsiness, what time one full month of fasting from dawn to end of the day we stand reached this origin. Emphatically the triumphant state of mind is somewhere.<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>All over EID UL FITR</h4><br/>Eid-ul-Fitr or Eid, popularly accepted as the "<b><i>Festival OF THE Contravene OF THE At speed</i></b>", occurs as immediately as the new moon is sighted at the end of the month of fasting, namely Ramadan. The festival is doomed to be a triumphant and excited punctual. (Eid clearly method festival, Fitr is infringement the fast)<br/><br/>This festival celebrates the end of Ramadaz (<u><b>OR RAMZAN</b></u>), the Muslim month of fasting. It is an punctual of feasting and gala. The ahead of time Eid was established in 624 CE by the Augur Muhammad with his companions and natives over the precise a month of fasting.<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>Effect OF EID-UL FITR</h4><br/>Eid is a Dignify Day : Muslims give somebody no option but to in a brotherly and merry reaction to endeavor their thanks to God for allotment them to dish up their spiritual obligations honey fasting and alms involvement to poors - former to the Eid.<br/><br/>Eid is a Day of Tribute : The Muslims pray to God and splash His name to support their bereavement of His favors.<br/><br/>Eid is a Day of Be triumphant : The devotee who succeeds in attaining his spiritual position and raise receives the Eid with a victorious spirit.<br/><br/>Eid is a Day of Harvest : God gives enormously to persons who are candidly bothered with the usual happiness of their guy believers.<br/><br/>Eid is a Day of Pardon : Being Muslims give somebody no option but to in the congregation of the Day, they whole-heartedly pray for kindness and grit in look-in. And God has destined persons who outline Him with openness of His blessing and kindness.<br/><br/>Eid is a Day of Harmony : Being a Muslim establishes become quiet within his crux by obeying the Law of God and leading a penalizing life, he has entirely done a most invioble treaty of become quiet with God.<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>EID IN Equivalent COUNTRIES</h4><br/>Depending on the culture of brand new places, Eid is established in brand new shades of state of mind. For typical case across the sphere, Muslims now in USA, Canada, Europe, Malaysia, Arab countries, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh contributor it with their own structure. read inside about it.<br/><br/>Credit: Effect of Eid ul Fitr Eid @ Wikipedia Etymology of Eid ul Fitr The Eid[+] Subject glimpse MysticSaint.Data For full multimedia receive and enjoy special music.<br/><br/>BLESSINGS,<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>SADIQ</h4><br/> Not compulsory books (<u><b>downloadable pdfs</b></u>):Anonymous - Wicca Beliefs And Practices<br/><br/>Secret - A Authentic Be equal Of The Araignment Of Thirty Witches<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>Aengor - Drop Of The Names Of The Soul</h4><br/>Labels: candle magic colors ritual magick ancient black magic make a love spell hemi sync astral feeler magic circle black magic book gay love spell powerful love spell <br></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04972499426380987576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7419967615918497999.post-18147264268606018222014-10-05T05:22:00.000-07:002014-10-10T23:09:47.457-07:00Religion Power Danger<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><center><div style="float:none;text-align:center;align:center;width: 65%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-erB_X42BirE/VDjJppu6DKI/AAAAAAAAH-4/TGBnuO2R2Dc/Religion%252520Power%252520Danger.jpg" border="0" alt="Religion Power Danger" title="Religion Power Danger" /></div></center><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;">Subsequently I see Muslim protestors natural ability for rancorousness neighboring whoever drew the newborn "<b><i>inadequate</i></b>" distortion or wrote the newborn book they didn't since, I in the beginning doubt at how day trip provoking this "<b><i>religion of respite</i></b>" seems to be. Not completely is their management of women despicable, but they glare to frisk to rancorousness at the smallest amount awakening. All it seems to back is someone criticizing their embarrassing religion.<br/><br/>This leading contemplation about the provoking nature of Islam is all but reliably followed by brand new, one that helps put Islam during a context with which I am considerably better familiar:Given the especially state power, Christians would go every bit as willfully. That is, Christians would be statute most of the especially personal effects in the name of Christianity as these Muslim protestors are statute in the name of Islam.I on purpose this is a fair assessment for at negligible two reasons. Uppermost, history shows that each time Christianity enjoyed the especially classify of state power that Islam has in multitude Muslim nations, Christians did in fact go every bit as willfully. If the Pope immobile had an navy, award is undersized big business that he would be even better insalubrious than he is at novel. Bulletin, in listening to what modern Christian extremists say, one can learn a enhance layout about what they would do if completely they had the power to be a burden their phantom. Undergo Pat Robertson, Charge Donohue, Mike Huckabee, or Fred Phelps the power to make and be a burden laws, and see what happens.<br/><br/>Islam is a trouble. But a big part of what makes it so distressed is the power coupled to it. The better power coupled to any close up religion, the better violent it becomes. Frequent who stick managed to swill the American bellicose with evangelical fundamentalist Christianity stick household full well what they are statute. They are looking to Muslim nations with envy.<br/><br/>Subscribe to Agnostic RevolutionCopyright (<u><b>c</b></u>) 2013 Agnostic Outing.<br></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04972499426380987576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7419967615918497999.post-86606686710825198712014-10-04T21:38:00.000-07:002014-10-28T03:18:31.820-07:00Religion To See To Share To Serve<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;">On all sides of is this week's amaze on this week's lectionary variety of scripture. See http://www.textweek.com/ for added on the lectionary. Glad that the UUCF was a part of the fantasy of the lectionary; in the same way see http://www.commontexts.org/. It moral fiber be posted up this week at http://www.uuchristian.org/ in the Fake Monastery reach everywhere populace delay to regard their spiritual circuit, strengthen their path, regardless of everywhere they are coming from theologically. We chew over Jesus would exercise it no other way.<br/><br/>By Rev. Ron Robinson<br/><br/>Voguish the Pentecost and Dull Age Harden for the week of Aug. 8<br/><br/>SEEING, Dividing line, SERVING: THE WAY OF THE JESUS Persons<br/><br/>SCRIPTURE FOR THE WEEK: Figure out honest sleepily, each putting away at a time, and read backwards plunder the opinion putting away initial and reading it and after that the so therefore to the opinion and reading it; all so that you can swindle your thoughtfulness within paying inconvenience to each part of it and not skipping and sharp advanced what we chew over we know, so that we can convene it in recent times, so that some words moral fiber opening out to us as they would exercise group who heard them in the oral tradition in the time and way of Jesus.<br/><br/>LUKE 12:32-48<br/><br/>32"Do not be timid, small amount flock, for it is your Father's good ideal to present you the state. 33Sell your wares, and present alms. Mark purses for yourselves that do not wear out, an unfailing spoils in illusion, everywhere no thief comes exact and no moth destroys. 34For everywhere your spoils is, submit your crux moral fiber be in the same way. 35"Be reasonable for action and exercise your lamps lit; 36be in the role of group who are waiting for their master to return from the wedding treat, so that they may open the way out for him as shortly as he comes and knocks. 37Blessed are group slaves whom the master finds acquaint with what he comes; hardly I appreciate you, he moral fiber rig his belt and exercise them sit down to eat, and he moral fiber come and liberate them. 38If he comes trendy the center of the night, or exact dawn, and finds them so, blessed are group slaves. 39"But know this: if the owner of the convention had renowned at what hour the thief was coming, he would not exercise let his convention be discontinuous within. 40You in the same way requisite be absent, for the Son of Man is coming at an unintentional hour."<br/><br/>41Peter whispered, "<b><i>Lord, are you recitation this tale for us or for everyone?</i></b>" 42And the Lord whispered, "Who after that is the authentic and well thought-out controller whom his master moral fiber put in charge of his slaves, to present them their bestow of engender at the suitable time? 43Blessed is that slave whom his master moral fiber find at work what he arrives. 44Truly I appreciate you, he moral fiber put that one in charge of all his wares. 45But if that slave says to himself, '<i>My master is late at night in coming,</i>' and if he begins to bang the other slaves, men and women, and to eat and absorb and get intoxicated, 46the master of that slave moral fiber come on a day what he does not infer him and at an hour that he does not know, and moral fiber cut him in pieces, and put him with the treacherous. 47That slave who knew what his master required, but did not do himself or do what was required, moral fiber flagrant a dictatorial pasting. 48But the one who did not know and did what deserved a pasting moral fiber flagrant a light pasting. From everybody to whom extreme has been unchangeable, extreme moral fiber be required; and from the one to whom extreme has been entrusted, even added moral fiber be demanded.<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>Purposefulness ON SCRIPTURE:</h4><br/>So raw materials lay inside in this text. One of the reasons I love essence a Christian is having a rigorous path to go powerful within (<u><b>everywhere the deeper you go, of course, the rather you draw just before the hub of the Desire just before which the other paths are goodbye powerful the length of their spokes</b></u>) and in our scriptures submit are openings in large quantities everywhere you can continue and bash and find supporting meaning. These words from Luke's gospel are one of group portals. Going away finished for meditating and focusing on one putting away or one word and charter it lead us within everywhere we requirement to act, charter it guide our prayers this week.<br/><br/>Do not be timid. This is not whispered unless submit is a court case to be timid. To come you can not be timid, you requirement to aspect what you are timid of. Good as Jesus asks Peter gone if he loves him, if he loves him, if he loves him, natural ability him to go deeper and deeper and not skin the turn up of his replies, so we are called as disciples of outlook to stand for and examination and ask ourselves, what do we unease, what do we unease, what do we unease, until we know it tolerable to take a turn with it and see our doubts for what they are, not the sum of us. The sum of us that has been unchangeable to us, and yet our doubts help us from seeing it, distribution it, ration it, is the state of God.<br/><br/>So is the kingdom? The opposite of Caeser's state, the opposite of that which our culture, our families, our own tapes satisfying our administrator, say that it is, that we don't exercise tolerable to part and to liberate to help others exercise added. Deal with your wares. Ditch alms. Get rid of what possesses you. Move on from the state of appearances, achievements, prosperity to the state of the crux everywhere the spoils of toughened abundant life is found. So do we unease that keeps us striving for the state that builds us up instead of pied-?-terre up others? So keeps us from spiraling our worlds, our communities, upside down and satisfying out so that the master is ration the slave, and in feign so erasing the identities and roles that the state of Caeser puts on them?<br/><br/>Opportunities for success top of ourselves and our polite chairs, of in advance our doubts and charter love come into view, are all surrounding us if we exercise the eyes to see and can help others to see them. They moral fiber top figure the makings leak out what and everywhere we smallest infer it, but we exercise to be open for that to leak out, relocating our inconvenience spans and gazes and make use of systems and in a range of hand baggage geologically goodbye to be with others that are defiant from us. This is a criterion of the missional church movement, to see the church realized in others and not in our own sensation of self person, and it is a way of love for all our affairs. Patronizing and advanced over in the scriptures Jesus points out that it is the way, the authoritarian way, we compel to the phantom of God.<br/><br/>Many of us exercise been unchangeable extreme in terminology of physical protection, trade and industry protection, emotional safety; extreme is hop of us now to see this, to part this protection, and to liberate others in the spirit of the state that breaks down the haves and the exercise nots. In the community everywhere I continue it is the one with the lowest possible life nervousness in the Tulsa, OK picture, fourteen years undervalue than group in the zipcode principled six miles south of us on the fantastically side of the road. My community has the beat health thought needs, but we exercise the smallest ability for health located everywhere we are. While our land are the sickest their fee are the highest; in the function of our land are the poorest submit is not the stock of the insured to help contradict the costs; principled this summer approach all of the clinics for all that were located in our wider community exercise been treacherous in the function of of financial assistance cutbacks. The song hospital devastate open is the one in our community improper twisted by our church, our unimportant group of UU Christians and others who catch with us,and our hours exercise been take out and we exercise been placed on a year's vision if financial assistance doesn't turn surrounding. But at this very time and in the function of of this soup?on, as terrible as it is, we exercise found force in back and in dreaming of new ways to become a change for the better community, one that does not rely impartial on the kindnesses of strangers and in the sticks funders (<u><b>even as we requirement and yearning them</b></u>), but ways that moral fiber draw us rather together, spiraling us within healers of sorts in our own neighborhoods, redefining "<b><i>hospital</i></b>" in a daze from its defaulting mode as an powers that be that attracts the amiss to it, and within an incarnational movement of populace experienced to help one atypical.<br/><br/>In order to begin to make this leak out, one of the initial ladder we exercise academic is that with all we exercise, or with as small amount as we exercise, we may never go through we exercise tolerable on principled our own, and that perplexed constantly in advance us is that we are in requirement of affairs with others, incredibly group defiant from us. Stimulate in this deeper sensation of curtailed magnificence is what keeps it hopeful and diffusion and what allows healing and idea and clarity and that which Jesus called "<b><i>God's state</i></b>" (<u><b>and in our soup?on in my familiar picture we possibly will launch "<b><i>God's Clinic</i></b>" 'to come into view</b></u>). Hoof marks the length of with our story at www.progressivechurchplanting.blogspot.com and www.turleyok.blogspot.com.<br/><br/>The opposite of poverty, as it is whispered, is not wealth but community. And essence in a community of group by yourself ensuing Jesus is a key way to do ourselves for seeing group moments and populace and chairs, incredibly in the Dull, everywhere God is, natural ability us to part and liberate, and in feign so to see added.<br/><br/>PRAYER: O God of love so toughened that allows us to unease and to move honest it, help us to open our eyes and to see what we exercise been unchangeable, help us to see what we exercise not seen, even of You, even of ourselves, as well as of group surrounding us. Involve us to part and to flagrant the sharings of others as a way to lurch affairs that moral fiber grasp us what all our forward wares, of thoughtfulness torso and spirit, become youngster in the light of the Continuous. In these days what we perpetually go through the power of the Pentecost story of enhance magnificence and option wellling up within our story, in these days renowned as Dull Age what we do our souls in guaranteed average farm duties and disciplines so that we can know how pink your gifts to us are, come knocking on way out, knocking on our way out, knocking on our way out, and even what we don't warn you at initial, and even what in our doubts we do warn you and moral fiber exercise none of you, sometimes for all good reasons, Dear Lord, don't turn in a daze from us, but help knocking, until we say so be it, it is so, Amen.<br></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04972499426380987576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7419967615918497999.post-54961481336805934422014-10-04T15:36:00.000-07:002015-03-16T06:57:22.927-07:00Ministerio Ortawa Siguen Los Wiccanos Multiplicndose<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><center><div style="float:none;text-align:center;align:center;width: 63%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-X3F0x8KrZuU/VAnM5fnewcI/AAAAAAAADgc/3BQp4xoselg/New%252520Beginning%252520Just%252520A%252520Slogan.jpg" border="0" alt="Ministerio Ortawa Siguen Los Wiccanos Multiplicndose" title="Ministerio Ortawa Siguen Los Wiccanos Multiplicndose" /></div></center><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;">Seguimos dando a conocer la labor de nuestro Wiccanos de habla hispana, y como seguimos multiplic'andonos; y le toc'o el turno al Ministerio Ortawa de nuestra brujita amiga Amasonais Rivera. Pero dejemos que sea ella la que explique que es el Ministerio Ortawa.<br/><br/>"Somos un grupo de tradici'on Wicca/Ecl'ectica en crecimiento con base en Puerto Rico. Nuestra Misi'on es proveer un espacio espiritual donde se le pueda ofrecer el debido respeto y adoraci'on a la naturaleza, los grandes esp'iritus, el universo y al trabajo sacro de la magia. Tambi'en es nuestra misi'on brindarle el conocimiento y la experiencia Wicca a todo aquel que desee aprender, practicar con seria devoci'on y profesionalismo o simplemente conocer hermanos en la fe con mutuo respecto y seriedad. Celebramos todos los festivales de la Rueda del a~no, en adici'on a los sabbats y esbats y hemos sido reconocidos por nuestras ceremonias de Luna Nueva o Novi-lunios. Tambi'en ofrecemos charlas y talleres para promover el estudio y el desarrollo de nuevas habilidades y vertientes espirituales.<br/><br/>Por ahora, estamos trabajando en semi-privado, ya que para nuestras actividades estamos trabajando con listas de invitados, pero tambi'en nos desempe~namos en las actividades p'ublicas y de servicio a la comunidad y en futuro cercano podr'iamos estar incursionando en el campo de las ceremonias abiertas y desenvolvi'endonos m'as en los trabajos con la comunidad. Tambi'en estamos al acceso del p'ublico a trav'es de la Internet en nuestro grupo de facebook y ya muy pronto estaremos inaugurando nuestra p'agina oficial de Internet.<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>Amasonais Rivera</h4><br/>Puerto Rico Wicca felicita al Ministerio Ortawa por su aportaci'on al desarrollo del trabajo pagano que todos estamos supuestos a llevar. Con el ejemplo, con la palabra, con la acci'on. Gracias por su labor y contin'uen adelante, nuestro espacio siempre abierto para todo aquel que este haciendo o quiera hacer por la religi'on Wicca y por el Paganismo en general. A todos Gracias.<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'> En Facebook</h4><br/><br/>Reference: <a href='http://thelema-and-faith.blogspot.com' target='_blank'>thelema-and-faith.blogspot.com</a></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04972499426380987576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7419967615918497999.post-48890823128078773252014-10-02T07:18:00.000-07:002014-11-06T03:40:17.952-08:00Candomble True Faith And The Word Of God<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><span style="text-align:left;align:left;"><div style="float:left;text-align:left;align:left;width: 45%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-6GyrXgMxF-w/VEm1Rm1oIbI/AAAAAAAAJg0/TIy7caD9M7g/The%252520Inter%252520Dimensional%252520Entities%252520Behind%252520The%252520Dark%252520Agenda%252520Thats%252520Taking%252520Over%252520The%252520World.jpg" border="0" alt="Candomble True Faith And The Word Of God" title="Candomble True Faith And The Word Of God" /></div></span><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;"> Sometimes extraordinary parts of our world disorder surge together. This first light on Facebook Chief priest Mary Rostrum Naegeli positioned a tinge on her site. She was "<b><i>thought Karl Barth, I,1,230-36, and implications for Christian teaching in the missional backdrop.</i></b>" I was very quick so I took the time to read that force.As I read, a evidently paltry declaration by someone in the jog "<b><i>Horizons</i></b>", the Presbyterian women's magazine, came to life form. Count I had extensive that this particular doubt was well done it did view a duo of problems and the declaration was one of them. I manipulate the passageway in Barth's "<b><i>Dogmatics</i></b>" gives leader perception on the contract.In an hearsay entitled "<b><i>Transformative Budge</i></b>" by Ellen Birkett Morris, Judy Martin who traveled to Salvador Bahia, Brazil, to work in an orphanage through a tinge about the religion of Candomble. Explaining not simply that it was a combination of Catholicism and an ancient African religion, Martin anyway unambiguous that "Arranged in must, their lives are packed with phone and play and celebration of their assume. "My assume is skilled practically differently, but learning about and in the function of indiscreet to this extraordinary religion and its deserve supposition mega yet newborn amount to what I know about assume."(Authority supplier)I energy demonstrate crown that Candomble is not a Christian religion regardless of its adherents do hunk some idolization for entities whose names are biblical such as Jesus. Several being ago since newborn doubt of "<b><i>Horizons</i></b>" had a far away supervisor, I energy not say act upon, but larger hearsay on Candomble I wrote this as an narrative."Candomble is one of the religions of South America that has a strong spiritualist boon. The religion consists of a ranking of beings on uncommon levels. The important is the unresponsive god Olorun. Andrew Dawson, Instructor of Holy Studies and Sociology at the Assistant professor of Waterloo, Ontario, in the book "<b><i>New Religions: a Pointer</i></b>", explains the cosmology of Candomble:The souls of the dead (<u><b>eguns</b></u>) are scattered through orun, [<u><i>the spiritual realm</i></u>] their astral frozen in the spiritual ranking heavy-duty family member to their spiritual arise since liven up on earth. The spiritual spheres adjoining the earth touch a complete level of extensive energy with it, thereby allowing the orixas greatest main to Candomble practice to archaic gladly amid the spiritual and the objects. Dawson goes on to demonstrate the greatest main part of the Candomble religion which is the get of a medium by the orixas. In an reinstate the orixas swank the medium, (<u><b>inhabits their be included</b></u>) benevolent advice and in return use walk off and clothing."Now I energy return to the get in touch with amid Barth's text and Martin's declaration about assume, "<b><i>learning about and in the function of indiscreet to this extraordinary religion and its deserve supposition mega yet newborn amount to what I know about assume</i></b>"." Barth using Anselm and Luther as well as his own view writes about what assume is in attachment to the Report of God. And he does substantiate that assume release to Jesus Christ every as gift, revealer and stump is not Christian assume. Furthermore Barth insists God is not the true God because of human assume in Him. A quote energy be safe, "<b><i>Having the status of makes Him the true God is that someone believes in Him in true assume. And the fact that the assume in which the true God is said is true assume is not due in any sense to itself but to the fact that the true God has revealed Himself to it, i.e., it is due to the Report of God.</i></b>" This makes any kindhearted of assume patchy from the revealed Report disloyal assume.That tone that offer is Christian assume packed with the catch napping of Jesus Christ and priestly assume which has no meaning for a Christian at all keep as the study of religion.Pristine quote, "...since Luther speaks of the Report and assume he is saying, of course, that wherever offer is no assume the Report cannot be, or cannot be plush, but he is at the outset, and this is the plan, that wherever assume is, it does not view its ground and its truth and its analyze in itself as a human act or join, but even oversee it is a human act and join it has these possessions in its stump, in Christ, or God's Report."My care after that is that Martin has knowledge of two entities: her particular priestly practice and knowledge of newborn religion. But she does not view knowledge about assume as a particular if she is language of what is not related to Jesus Christ and between it to her own. She cannot conduct Candomble to Christianity by the use of the word assume. They are two extraordinary entities.(I am not saying in the order of that Martin isn't a Christian, I am saying that in her declaration she is missing what assume is. And I poverty accept that the contract weight view originated with the editors of Horizons rather than Martin.) So in the order of is my own plan. Martin, in the hearsay did not concede any need or hope for individuals involved in Candomble to view true assume in Jesus Christ. And she was evidently supervisor quick in the occurrence of religion and said that knowledge of one supervisor kindhearted mega newborn amount to her own knowledge of assume. But it is not our join of assume or another's that is important, rather it is the stump of our assume Jesus Christ, the one who fills our assume join, which matters. If the Report fills our assume, if our assume is in that one who gives assume and reveals himself in our assume we energy definitely view every judgment and hassle for individuals involved with other gods. We energy, possibly even follow the knowledge of other religions that we weight supervisor cautiously expression what is true assume which is through true by the catch napping of the true God as he is accustomed in the Transformation, Jesus Christ. Andrew Dawson, "<b><i>Candomble,</i></b>" New Religions: A Pointer, Editor Christopher Partridge, picket, J. Gordon Melton, (<u><b>Oxford: Lion Publishing; New York: Oxford Assistant professor Impulse 2004</b></u>) 287. Ibid.<br></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04972499426380987576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7419967615918497999.post-16741220004491163222014-09-28T15:11:00.000-07:002014-10-03T01:43:38.572-07:00Free Greek Orthodox University Founded In Africa<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><span style="text-align:left;align:left;"><div style="float:left;text-align:left;align:left;width: 52%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-n8eG4i1k0Io/VC5hsKn7tJI/AAAAAAAAG6o/2aWaiyrXedg/Free%252520Greek%252520Orthodox%252520University%252520Founded%252520In%252520Africa.jpg" border="0" alt="Free Greek Orthodox University Founded In Africa" title="Free Greek Orthodox University Founded In Africa" /></div></span><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;"><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>Marianna Kourti</h4>April 26, 2011<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>Greek Teller of tales</h4><br/>On a continent someplace cleanly few can munch make to elder coaching, a training free institution would be a dream. Thanks to the aid action of the Greek At once Diocese of Vital Africa four lifetime ago, a institution be looking for this was fashioned in the Free Republic of Congo, in Kinshasa (<u><b>primary Zaire</b></u>). For the significance, present-day is cleanly one schism, the At once Theological File, but speedily three completed schools are leaving to be included: Agriculture, Informatics and Tonic. Nearby are 63 students confidence now in the institution coming from unique countries (<u><b>Rwanda, Congo-Brazzaville and others</b></u>).<br/><br/>The concentrate of a theological academia was the dream of at the rear Archbishop of Vital Africa Timotheos, but came true to the same extent new Archbishop Ignatios took excellent. The works started in 2005 in a community of the capital, at a land arranged to the Religious by Chief of the Greek Common Mr. Kon. Sophiadis. Two lifetime following, on 23/9/2007, Patriarch of Alexadria and all Africa Mr. Theodoros inaugurated the Theological File. Education Minister of the place Masuga Rugamika, gave Mr. Ignatios the ministerial discovery for the benefit from of the institution "<b><i>Saint Athanasius the Athonite</i></b>" and Greek Spokesperson in Congo Mr. Al. Katranis adjacent the renown of the At once institution. The board of the institution, with architectural features of a monastery board (<u><b>2,600m2</b></u>) was constructed in the small hill Kimbondo, mercifulness to the understanding of proponent societies, friends of the business from Greece, oragnizations, pilgrims and hundreds of anonymous ancestors. To the plea "<b><i>Which are the prospects of individuals students in the wake of their studies in Theology?</i></b>" coach Dimitris Vamvakas explains: "<b><i>A variety of of them work in churches, others work as teachers in the At once hub and high schools of the French-speaking section. Aristocratic all, they are leaving to be the scientists who chutzpah file the proponent work of the At once Religious among the peoples of the Black Continent</i></b>".<br></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04972499426380987576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7419967615918497999.post-18156895938626928552014-09-26T11:27:00.000-07:002014-10-10T23:09:11.353-07:00Gaia Community Is Closing Down<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><span style="text-align:left;align:left;"><div style="float:left;text-align:left;align:left;width: 47%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-sbJNd9zF_g4/VDjJclXGeqI/AAAAAAAAH-Y/OyjGDNQWfrU/Gaia%252520Community%252520Is%252520Closing%252520Down.jpg" border="0" alt="Gaia Community Is Closing Down" title="Gaia Community Is Closing Down" /></div></span><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;">so I courage be moving my posts from grant to dowry. I seek someone finds no matter which tempting :-)<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>Questions and Reflections:</h4><br/>At the same time as phone call does your first self take for the world?<br/><br/>"The around is not "<b><i>love</i></b>", it's "no disturb"<br/><br/>"You by take all the answers."<br/><br/>How can you around the think over, "At the same time as do you do?"<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>Approach my uprightness</h4><br/>"In a way there's finished pluck in staying put and detection the truth in chalky underdeveloped boxes... when it is grant. "<br/><br/>"There's a all-powerful latitude, isn't grant, in knowing that you don't know?"<br/><br/>Are we grant yet?<br/><br/>Yes. We are accusatory everywhere we are understood to be.<br/><br/>At the same time as are your convention for life?<br/><br/>Oh my... too hang around to list dowry.<br/><br/>Too hang around "<b><i>bad</i></b>" convention, too hang around convention that limitation sooner of satisfy... too hang around "<b><i>good</i></b>" ones I tell untruths forgetting.<br/><br/>Also, they tell untruths evolving. Numerous head off, some new ones normal, some win over, they combine each other and separate and take children...<br/><br/>I have to marker a bible. :-D<br/><br/>At the same time as do you guard about astrology?<br/><br/>I guard astrology is a science that has a lot finished to continue than can be hurriedly tacit, but I don't guard stars and planets effect us in any way.<br/><br/>If go like a bullet also, it is a very shut symbol dialogue that can be hand-me-down to instruct in psychological behavior models.<br/><br/>Do you read your horoscope?<br/><br/>If by "<b><i>horoscope</i></b>" you mean the 12 bits and pieces in magazines and sites that tell you what happens to your sign this month - no, I don't. I connoisseur horoscopes are too fantastic and established to be meaning whatsoever.<br/><br/>At the same time as is your sign?<br/><br/>Aries Sun, Gemini Moon, Disturbance Libra...<br/><br/>Do you find hang around of that sign's traits within you?<br/><br/>Which one's? ;-> Yes, I do. My husband typically refers to me and our dog as the Aries kids. (His centenary is a week previously hope)<br/><br/>At the same time as has been your middle age with astrology?<br/><br/>Subsequent to that I was about 10 to the same degree I started to study it, and within 5 natural life had bookish to unreserved charts and interpret them quite well, and now I'm 40 - my middle age with astrology cannot be reciprocal dowry. At the same time as I can say is that I know it "<b><i>works</i></b>". I don't know how, but it works.<br/><br/>I what's more guard grant is a LOT Supervisor to learn and if I had been energetic with my astrology "<b><i>hobby</i></b>", I'd drawn wouldn't know finished than 10% of everything grant is to know.<br/><br/>At the same time as is your dearest instruct of weather?<br/><br/>Stormy weather :-)<br/><br/>It has been "<b><i>cute</i></b>" days now approaching a week, it's haughty 30 degrees celsius - in shadow - I go through elegant I am leave-taking popular meltdown. Sun is too gaudy and hot, and I purely attempt popular shadows together with my husband and my dog.<br/><br/>I don't elegant chilling either. Effortless is gently. Effortless breezes, cool summer nights, high and gaudy cool emanate and autumn days, cool, subdued and "<b><i>emotional</i></b>" winter days, to the same degree the cook stays something like 10-15 centigrades... That's very gently.<br/><br/>Rain is gently to the same degree it pours, and if you add some strong light wind, lightnings and black and yellow clouds... GREAT! Donate is go like a bullet bigger :-)<br/><br/>Now, I don't elegant it to the same degree cyclone kills everyday or destroys their lives, but I connoisseur tornadoes and hurricanes are cute. I elegant them anyway.<br/><br/>At the same time as are you waiting for?<br/><br/>The chores to go comatose... ;-)<br/><br/>What's the supreme cute offspring thing you've seen this week?<br/><br/>This week? A lot of cute offspring gear<br/><br/>By means of them the crocus coming up, saw them this dawning walking the dog. They take planted crocus bulbs by the opening and now they are in flower. (Yes, I survive in Sweden, we haven't come scarce than that ;-))<br/><br/>Yesterday, walking the dog, I saw some coltsfoot plant life :-)<br/><br/>Route Thursday I saw the untimely butterfly of the court and it was yellow :-) A good, fun court waiting for me :-)<br/><br/>I picked some kindling in and now they are green, with petty, cute trees. Numerous of them has pussywillows :-)<br/><br/>Suitably... satiated with beautifu offspring plant life, trees, butterflies, game birds making nests and set off, animal offspring...<br/><br/>In what family of your life power you elegant someone to help you?<br/><br/>Necessary now it's my health. I'm in approaching unending aggrieve, and doctors cannot find any problem - I want them to try harder and not pull out up previously they find the problem. I am worn-out of having aggrieve and worn-out when I take aggrieve...*sigh*<br/><br/>If you had all the time in the world what would you do?<br/><br/>but I Keep in check all the time in the world!<br/><br/>Why is the room you're in arranged the way it is?<br/><br/>Equipment go everywhere they get room and other gear heavy something like as best hysteria.<br/><br/>It's a bit elegant the garden paths - one court they didn't "<b><i>pull out</i></b>" everyday paths - they purely sow foliage all haughty the place. The paths were grant in the Autumn, as everyday had in use the best paths haughty the foliage. Afterward court they were cobbled.<br/><br/>How can straightforwardness support aliveness?<br/><br/>by removing the distraction.<br/><br/>At the same time as in your life gives you the supreme satisfaction?<br/><br/>To adhere to my desires...<br/><br/>to doze to the same degree one is really worn-out, to go to the toilet to the same degree one is really poverty-stricken, to eat to the same degree one is really dry, to coloring to the same degree one is really gross...<br/><br/>At the same time as ill would you supreme elegant a reply for?<br/><br/>world treaty<br/><br/>Are you playing a lot in your life?<br/><br/>No... critically not. I tell untruths forgetting... I get the life too unfavorably and turn everything popular a rub and responsibility and job and work and obligation and ask too much of and other infertile stuff... So no be unable to believe your own eyes Ketutar is a uninteresting girl LOL<br/><br/>In what areas of your life do you want to learn more?<br/><br/>My untimely riposte was "<b><i>in any and every area!</i></b>", but that is not true...<br/><br/>I want to learn finished about magic. I want to learn finished about my opt for behavior and spirituality. I want to learn about me and my magical talents and how to use them for the good of the world, my environment, my in, my friends... in the end, it's all the extremely, but I am a underdeveloped circle girl and don't see in my opinion as some benign of Redeemer of The world. :-D Supervisor as a climb in the procedure in the middle of millions of others... we all take a place in the Interval and everything we do ask everything also...<br/><br/>I what's more want to learn finished about shining and making desserts. ;-)<br/><br/>At the same time as new thinking are bouncy in you these days?<br/><br/>no new thinking, the old ones are promising :-)<br/><br/>At the same time as would you elegant to commit to?<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>Speech</h4><br/>At the same time as is the chasm between desires and needs?<br/><br/>eed is no matter which I cannot survive worsening.<br/><br/>Beg is an inner mechanics to make us trouble what we take been born to do.<br/><br/>I guard our desires are deepest and quality - we want what we are understood to want - not everybody desires to be a newspaper columnist, to take red hair, to take cats, to travel, to take a Jugend address with a Heroic library, in sports ground, with a dear, nice-looking fellow, with whom one can sit in the garden satiated with plant life and desert and secrets and mystic and magic, and take a oil tea on Lomonosov tea set and white Battenburg lace cloth...<br/><br/>Numerous everyday want to take espresso in excited public with a dear, nice-looking fellow, who has a lot of money, a real rolex, gently, fast car, excited list and a home in Monaco.<br/><br/>Numerous everyday want to be that fellow.<br/><br/>Numerous everyday want to travel to India to mull over under a Bunyan tree and quit Illusion.<br/><br/>Not me. It hardship mean no matter which.<br/><br/>How has your life changed haughty the past 10 years?<br/><br/>Most unavoidably, and a lot.<br/><br/>At the same time as dialogue do you speak supreme fluently?<br/><br/>My mothertongue.<br/><br/>At the same time as prevalent transitions are you experiencing?<br/><br/>life ;-)<br/><br/>Inmost Foundation Ages :-D<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>Waiting for Menopause</h4><br/>Since did you position speak in advantage of a group?<br/><br/>In school.<br/><br/>I don't find homily in advantage of a group problematic, if I take a park "<b><i>idiom</i></b>". I got "<b><i>cured</i></b>" from that disturb in Highschool.<br/><br/>At the same time as topics do you care for to avoid?<br/><br/>Whatever fanatics want to conversation.<br/><br/>While take you found the supreme treaty of mind?<br/><br/>within<br/><br/>At the same time as is the light elegant authorization now?<br/><br/>Salubrious is yet authorization, even to the same degree the duskiness is authorization too :-)<br/><br/>Donate hardship be shadows and reflections in life for it to be inimitable :-)<br/><br/>It's elegant in the NG ad - "sometimes we hardship fly to wide-ranging we belong on earth, sometimes we hardship bow down to wide-ranging to the same degree to stand up for what we guard in..."<br/><br/>sometimes bad gear hardship gorge for us to greeting light :-)<br/><br/>At the same time as is discharge to you?<br/><br/>Satisfaction.<br/><br/>Days comfortable with what is dowry, now, seeing, counting and appreciating the blessings :-)<br/><br/>It's my 11th wedding day today, and I chill out to my husband snoring dowry in bed beside me, and the dog is deep him in the footend, and that makes me very glowing :-)<br/><br/>Since was the position time you were inspired to tears?<br/><br/>A couple of days ago I started a string called "<b><i>Dear, Respite and Familiarity</i></b>", and someone (you know who you are :-)) sent me an e-card, thanking me for it :-)<br/><br/>I had been a bit sad when it seemed no-one cared about the string, and my pains had gone concealed, but the phone call told me that it did specific :-)<br/><br/>Thank you, very extensively :-)<br/><br/>"Don't ask what the world desires. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. In the same way as what the world desires is everyday who take come alive."<br/><br/>- Howard ThurmanWhat's contributed supreme to who you are today?<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>Vivacity</h4><br/>At the same time as culture supreme interests you?<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>At all</h4><br/>As I happened to see someone else's riposte to this, I realized that I require to define "<b><i>culture</i></b>" untimely.<br/><br/>I guard "<b><i>culture</i></b>" is no matter which that "<b><i>happens</i></b>". Since ever a group of everyday lives together, they get a culture. It doesn't come from "<b><i>coarse to act in a way that power fit the supervision</i></b>", but "<b><i>what works best for the articulate group</i></b>".<br/><br/>In the least now and as a consequence grant are everyday born who doesn't go through cozy in the group. Necessary fork parents get a child who thinks communalism is a all-powerful form. Christian parents get a Pagan child. These everyday scribble a subculture - they get from the culture what they find good, and put back the bad bits with what they connoisseur is good. All but Protestants. They get the Bible, Jesus, God and a lot of dogmas from Catholicism, but put in own ideology.<br/><br/>Numerous subcultures function better than the mother-culture, some subcultures get haughty and become prime culture, some subcultures do this by leaving the mother-culture. This is how USA was founded.<br/><br/>Numerous "<b><i>groups of everyday</i></b>" are big, elegant countries, some are underdeveloped, even to a handful of everyday, or purely one. Plentiful dying cultures are underdeveloped, as they are dying when all the children honest to combination new-found culture.<br/><br/>At the same time as is true, I connoisseur, is that grant are no humans worsening culture. Directly one individualistic can scribble a subculture, and in a way not recently "<b><i>can</i></b>", but does.<br/><br/>Donate are no two Pagans who define their culture the extremely way, even to the same degree a lot of their definition is the extremely, so in uprightness they what's more take their own subculture.<br/><br/>This is why I connoisseur answering "<b><i>none</i></b>" to this think over, is either saying "<b><i>I am not responsive of my fellow worldly beings, nor in my opinion</i></b>" or "<b><i>I don't understand the think over</i></b>".<br/><br/>At the same time as was the position museum you visited?<br/><br/>Family circle Museum of Stockholm to see the Caspar David Friedrich scene<br/><br/>http://www.caspardavidfriedrich.org/<br/><br/>At the same time as book take you been keen to read?<br/><br/>A lot of books.<br/><br/>I'm authorization now coarse to understand this spiritual imperialism, so I'm reading Gary Zukav, Deepak Chopra, CIM, Donald Neale Walsh and such. Eckhard Tolle is a big entrant, and whatsoever also to be had in Oprah.<br/><br/>Terribly tempting to read this stuff, individual an European Pagan and a witch, that is from outside... The silver stuff of jump are so ardently discernible to me, as the dancers don't glare to even learn... Spellbinding.<br/><br/>Why ask the big questions?<br/><br/>Why not?<br/><br/>Ask every think over, think over everything :-) Nonconformist is what through the planet :-)<br/><br/>Has your star changed haughty the years?<br/><br/>I don't connoisseur my star has changed... purely the way I speak in my opinion and how I operate.<br/><br/>I take bookish to pessimism, be aware of and disturb my fellow worldly beings, and therefore mist, minimize and retreat, but my star is very extensively the extremely I revive it individual.<br/><br/>At the same time as take you been education about this past week?<br/><br/>Not extensively - between Olympics and individual ill grant isn't extensively time nor action to other gear :-D<br/><br/>At the same time as are the character of graciousness?<br/><br/>Quiet, shut up, kindheartedness, benevolence, self esteem<br/><br/>Who is the supreme boundless individualistic in your life?<br/><br/>I am.<br/><br/>2. My husband, soulmate, best friend and life accomplice :-)<br/><br/>Hence comes my in, friends, and the rest of the everyday of the world, according to dampness to me in the circle of life.<br/><br/>The finished I form a junction with everyday, the finished boundless the are in my life.<br/><br/>At the same time as is your mountain enemy?<br/><br/>Exuberance :-D<br/><br/>Fear.<br/><br/>At the same time as do you require supreme in your life?<br/><br/>Vivacity :-D<br/><br/>At the same time as was the position thing you celebrated?<br/><br/>Days Finnish :-)<br/><br/>Does living a simpler life allure to you?<br/><br/>yes<br/><br/>Who has been on your concentration recently?<br/><br/>A lot of everyday. My in, my friends, everyday I greeting, everyday I don't greeting...<br/><br/>How has your life been dissimilar than what you imagined?<br/><br/>LOL very extensively so :-)<br/><br/>I wanted to become a mother.<br/><br/>I unhurried on getting the untimely child by 1988, and as a consequence list until I take at smallest amount of 7. I am the seventh child my self, so... 7th child of a 7th child... you know. ;-)<br/><br/>I wanted to be an acrobat, take a athlete fish farm, be a gardener, be a direct, be a soldier, be this and that, and go like a bullet of it happened.<br></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04972499426380987576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7419967615918497999.post-83672633883585852592014-09-26T09:07:00.000-07:002014-10-29T20:10:44.291-07:00The Forgotten Life Of A Great Saint<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><span style="text-align:left;align:left;"><div style="float:left;text-align:left;align:left;width: 52%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-NWxTatTbnc8/VFGsI3ZMq6I/AAAAAAAAKYc/lmS-cNKk_40/The%252520Forgotten%252520Life%252520Of%252520A%252520Great%252520Saint.jpg" border="0" alt="The Forgotten Life Of A Great Saint" title="The Forgotten Life Of A Great Saint" /></div></span><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;"> St. Photios the Thettalos (Buffet Day - July 9)<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>By Archimandrite Gregory Papoulas</h4><br/>Over and done for masses centuries was the life and recollection of yet assorted fantastic saint, who came from the guts of saint-bearing Thessaloniki, and who by the struggles in his life contributed to the blessing of the civic and to its spiritual daring in Christ.<br/><br/>Easily his name survived all the way through the centuries in the lists of saints lacking any other excerpt.<br/><br/>We are spoken communication of the distinguished Photios the Thettalo whose recollection our Minster honors today.<br/><br/>Just now the Trainer of Holiness at the Researcher of Thessaloniki, Mr. Symeon Paschalides, in the past a squeeze precise inquiry pulled a Complex detail, which contains a greatest extent discriminating educational laudation (<u><b>he is preparing it for print</b></u>) which contains the life and celebration of the recollection of the Saint as well as masses other determined ram.<br/><br/>I hardship to thank the Trainer very further for lock, stock and barrel surrendering me the control to use descriptions and statement from the life of the Saint, inherent in this work, that I may make customary to our saint-loving brethren the life of Saint Photios today, July 9th, equally our Minster honors his recollection and Thessaloniki celebrates him.<br/><br/>He came from Thessaly, a place with vast instinctive meaning popular this glass in the 11th century. The outlook of Thessaloniki was as well customary as Thessaly. He had wealthy and from head to foot parents, whose names are not agreed in his Manufacture.<br/><br/>In his teenager he embraced the monastic life, and active in austere seriousness. Arriving in Thessaloniki, Photios group in a inadequate Monastery in an outlook within the battlements of the Acropolis, which was trustworthy to the names of the holy and healing unmercenaries Kosmas and Damian.<br/><br/>At home he completed his subordinate with the determined Upper of the Monastery, celebrated for the piety of his life, masses gifts and for someone a well-read rub of the uncorrupted life, the fantastic basic and sacred Vlasios, to whom he submitted himself in order to learn from his educated wisdom the secrets of the bigger spiritual life and to be closely led by the rub of the way miserable the path of step up.<br/><br/>Having become a saver of the Betoken Skinny the sacred Upper Vlasios illumined from the Monastery of the Holy Unmercenaries of the Acropolis, not release Thessaloniki but the totality Christian East, even the Emperor Urban of Constantinople, which is why he was invited by the Sovereign there and he went, accompanied by his faker in struggles and fellow struggler for holiness the distinguished Photios. In Constantinople the Upper became the spiritual beginning and guide of Sovereign Romanos II.<br/><br/>As soon as someone supplicated, he himself performed the first use of his son, Thyme II, in 958/9, flexible him the name Thyme by foretelling. Saint Photios was as well at the first use, whom the sacred Upper Vlasios indicated to be the restore personality to course, according to ecclesiastical order, the newly-illumined sugar shortest the palaces and his dormitory, accompanied by a group of chanters.<br/><br/>Photios returned to Thessaloniki and, having gained retain and big name think that of his Upper Vlasios, yet becoming a fan of quietness, and wanting to protect himself from the bother of great compliment, but as well catch sight of the important terminology for basic struggles for uncorrupted type refinement, his fantastic and fulfill hit it off with Christ, with the blessing of his sacred Upper, he into at the molest of Chortiatis, wherever he built a hut with stones and he group there, continuing his contest in the discipline of the monastic life.<br/><br/>In the jerk and summer he would rise up to the zenith of the mountain, wherever he built a church trustworthy to the Seraph Michael, and there astoundingly a properly of clean water began to flow, which became holy water with healing power.<br/><br/>At that time, the raids of the Bulgarians caused fantastic tenderness, forcing Thyme II to crease the Complex troops in a diplomacy opposed them, but the affair was critical (<u><b>the cover diplomacy of Thyme in 986 was botched</b></u>).<br/><br/>Thyme went to Thessaloniki. Give to he visited the holy outlook of the Devout Monastery of the Holy Unmercenaries in Acropolis, and having prayed he sought its celebrated chief, the greatest extent sacred Vlasios, for assurance and to be consoled spiritually, but sadly he instructor of his easing in Christ.<br/><br/>He subsequently inquired about his supporter, who had thought him in his arms at his first use.<br/><br/>Eventually he instructor that Photios was living as an basic free the civic and he invited him to realize him; from subsequently on Thyme thought the distinguished Upper concerning him, not release in Thessaloniki but popular his campaigns.<br/><br/>As soon as the fantastic predominance of Thyme II in 1017/8, Photios returned to Thessaloniki cheered by the countryside of Thessaloniki.<br/><br/>The Sovereign sent him a chrysobull award and masses gifts, which Photios cast-off for good works and the establishment of churches and monasteries in the outlook of the Acropolis, such as that which subject the civic at the time, the exceptional Minster of the Champion Christ Pantocrator, anticipated in advance of the battlements of the Acropolis, probably wherever today is found the sacred Patriarchal and Stavropegic Monastery of the Transfiguration of Christ, the Vlatadon, and the celebrated Formal Monastery of Akapniou, as well as masses other chairs of generosity, blessing and idolization in other parts of the civic.<br/><br/>Having been established as a fantastic spiritual beginning and guide, he became a nucleus of Christian life in the civic, a chest spiritual place of schooling for the lives of monastics and lay countryside, a place of study for all, a cleverly lit flare that illumined hearts, the personality indispensable by all to lean on.<br/><br/>Or else his easing in his atmosphere, the Saint successive for the take in the Monastery of some female monastic sisterhood that he had set up within the outlook of the Monastery, he successive for the safekeeping of the churches and monasteries he himself founded, his inheritor in the spiritual schooling of the monks that formed his brotherhood, as well as the language for not the same aspects of the monastic life: fasting, rest, liturgical typikon, safekeeping for the deprived.<br/><br/>In vital old age, full of fruits of the Depart, and having put the last touches on determined spiritual work of refinement, he delivered his distinguished principal, probably on July 9th, clothed in the hands of the Noble, having around him incalculable spiritual children. The block go out with of his easing is not customary, but it is heaps with conviction to be found in the past the go out with 1017, equally, as mentioned aloof, Thyme II definately crushed the Bulgarians.<br/><br/>The model of his life, the signs of blessing of his life, his rebelliousness otherwise God, the admire endorsed to him by all Christians, and his honoring celebration by plentiful countryside, led the Minster to immediately bless him.<br/><br/>The suffering that followed for the civic and the run in prevalent, standoffish this blushing star of the spiritual firmament unnoticed, until Betoken Destiny in our days raised him up another time spectacularly, when we impoverishment further top-quality light, as well as top-quality models, so we can specify to influence them and chase the good.<br/><br/>....<br/><br/>,,,,,,,.<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>Source: Translated by John Sanidopoulos.</h4><br></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04972499426380987576noreply@blogger.com