Monday, 25 August 2008
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Widely NAMES: "Bendida"
ORIGIN: "Thrace; Dacia; Scythia"
ANIMALS: "Fox, deer, leopard, lurch."
PLANT: "Mistletoe"
ATTRIBUTES: "Torch, spear, pointed tooth, bow and marker in a fquiver, cup, staff, phallus."
MOUNTS: "A doe or a leopard; Bendis rides a chariot flat by three winged keep".
Charm ALLIES: "Bendis is accompanied by an followers of Nymphs, maenads, and satyrs. She is compactly ally with Artemis."
PLANET: MOON: "Bendis is if truth be told powerful from first to last past it and dark moon phases. She is as well the goddess of the winter sun."
Bendis is so ancient her birth are lost in the mists of time. Bendis was the whole goddess of gynocratic Lemnos and Thrace, everywhere girls worked the land and tended the typical and have a supply of. She was common as the gruesome Huntress of the Two Spears. She provided the saintly strengthening for the Lemnosian women's advance consume which each of the men of the islet were slain. Her name passage "to tie". In Her image She is depicted holding a branch of the tree that is concern to funding overtake towards criminal world. It is told that Her women wore lion pelts and fox skins. Community that worshipped Her did so in her own Holy Groves.
Bendis' name is interpreted as "moon" or "to bind. Swathe in bandages" may presage marriage or shamanism: Bendis binds further realms together. She is the mother of the now unspecified spirit called the Thracian Situation, Horseman, or Icon. Her procreative powers are so whole that she brought forth her son from herself not including male counsel. Close relative and son may be admired together.
Hesychius says, how the critic Cratinus called this goddess "dilonchos", either to the same degree she had to upright two duties, one towards illusion and the other towards the earth, or to the same degree she bore two lances, or as a final point, to the same degree she had two lights, the one her own and the other lesser from the sun.
Thracian immigrants brought her to Greece, everywhere she became very explode. She was infamous in a religious in Athens called the Bendideia, which included grandiose processions and races. The Thracians themselves may own up established her from their neighbors, the Dacians, whose testify was essentially in what is now Romania and Moldava but as well built-in parts of modern Bulgaria, Hungary, and Ukraine. Bendis may unofficially be of Scythian origin.
A Thracian mother goddess. Bendis was frequently common with the huntress goddess, Artemis. She was a huntress, notion Artemis, but was accompanied by dancing satyrs and maenads. Bendis first came out in Athens, consume the Peloponnesian War, everywhere she was Hellenised. Equally of this, what is now common of Bendis tends to be filtered consume Greek picture.To the Greeks, Bendis was the actual exact Thracian Artemis worshipped by the Amazons as Tauropolis. She was as well compactly similar with Cybele and Hecate. As Hecate, She was Moon and Night; Home and Influence. She had whole area of illusion and earth. She's as well the goddess of healing.
By a propos 428 BCE, Bendis had an ceremony register cult exhibit Athens. An annual meal, Bendidea, was designed in their own honour. The geographer Strabo says how the money and background with the Bendidea are unbiased notion populate within Thracian and Phrygian further types of carousing - Bacchus (Dionysus) and Rhea (actually Cybele). The perceptive Plato as well mentioned the social event within the meeting between Adeimantus and Polemarchus in the Republic about a horse-race at nighttime, everywhere each addition carried a torch. Excluding venerated, she was as well leisurely foul, a goddess of foreigners. She never wrapping her Thracian whittle (special Dionysus, who was built-in dressed in the Olympian pantheon). The Greeks common Bendis with Artemis and Hekate, notwithstanding she is even first-class resiliently lunar than either.
Bendis is at home in the wild and in the township. She is a spirit of divine rapture and inspire. Bendis epitomizes lunar, female power. She is petitioned for intensity, victorious childbirth, protection, good health, and good fortune.
MANIFESTATION: Good deed in the day, Bendis was described as inside a peaked Thracian hat, doubtful, concise tunic, and fox-skin boots. Commonly she is depicted holding a torch.
ICONOGRAPHY: In the fourth century BCE, Bendis was depicted with a group of male devotees, winners of night races in her honor; the men are depicted as notably minor than she is and disclose assemble phalli. In rush centry BCE, Bendis; peaked Thracian hat is sometimes designed to resemble a phallus.
Holy DAYS: She had several festivals owing to the year: two were renowned at the full moons unbiased ancient or coinciding with the solstices; her social event, the Bendidaea, featured delighted dancing, sexual money, and nightly defray races and/or colt races with torches. Finally, the Athenian government proscribed all her rituals but for the races. Widely rituals were constrained clandestine and practiced in secret.
OFFERINGS: Lunar images and images of her sacred nature.
From: Directory of Self-esteem and several other sources.
On Respected 9, 2006, I wrote a post, "America and Sturdy Britain in Biblical Eyesight," in which I explained the reasons the hobby popularly known as British-Israelism finds no boost in the Bible or in history, even whereas their proponents quote far from the Bible and history to authorize their bend.
In retort to my post, a missionary of British-Israelism who refuses to have a say his or her name and hides his or her identity under the name of "unnamed," has criticized my post for not presenting a "spot of evidence against Anglo-Saxon identity with the Ten Tribes."
A thrifty reading of my modern post heart imply that I cited assured texts from the Old Memorial to imply that hang around Israelites from the Northern Magnificence were not deported to Assyria. In fact, at what time the Assyrians beaten Samaria, the alight of the Northern Magnificence was incorporated all the rage the Assyrian period and became the Assyrian take of Samerina.
The advocates of British-Israelism contain that the Anglo Saxon personnel, individuals living in Sturdy Britain and the Associate States, are the intimate of the ten lost tribes of the Northern Magnificence that were under enemy control all the rage expatriation by the Assyrians. From this time, the Anglo Saxon personnel are the instruction intimate of the children of Abraham and as such, they become the inheritors of the promises God ready to Israel.
The basic scrap for British-Israelism has been engineering by hang around authors in England and in the Associate States. A rigid promotion of this view was free by Herbert W. Armstrong in his book The Associate States and Britain in Eyesight. Armstrong was the founder of the Minster of God. These are some of the basic beliefs of British-Israelism:
1. The personnel living in Sturdy Britain and the Associate States are the intimate of the lost tribes.
2. The British throne is a perpetuation of the throne of David.
3. The British Regal set are lineal intimate of David, King of Judah.
4. The stone of Scone is the one which Jacob anointed with oil.
5. The British Refinement personnel are the concurrence personnel.
6. The British personnel are select by ballot of God to dominate the world.
Existing are assured issues that offset against the scrap put forth by the proponents of British-Israelism, the view that Sturdy Britain and the Associate States are the end of the lost tribes of Israel. I do not brandish the time nor the craze to apartment every misconstruction in Armstrong's book. Suffice it to say that the interpretations are based on eisegesis, lack of imagination, and texts interpreted out of context. In this post, I heart apartment three issues raised by the adherents of British-Israelism.
The Tribes of Israel
Being my unnamed give your decision asked me to fundamental some of his questions, I asked him to make a list and name the ten tribes that were lost. Here is the list he provided:
The Southern Kingdom: Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin counting a few literal Levites.
The Northern Kingdom: Reuben, Levi, Gad, Dan, Ephraim, Manasseh, Isaachar (sic), Napthali (sic), Zebulun, and Asher.
The list of the twelve tribes of Israel appears about twenty epoch in the Old Memorial and once in the New Memorial. All the same, the names of the tribes that create the twelve tribes of Israel adjust from list to list.
The list of the tribes appears for the ahead of time time in Start 29:31-30:24 in the order in which the children were instinctive. Being Benjamin was instinctive in the land of Canaan, Dinah appears as the twelfth child of Jacob. This is the a moment ago time in the Old Memorial in which the tribes are nap in the order of their jerk. In the twenty lists someplace the names of the tribes score, hand over are eighteen be the same as orders in which the tribes are mentioned.
In some lists, Levi is counted as one of the twelve tribes, in some others Levi does not score. Having the status of Levi is absent, the band of Joseph appears as two tribes: Ephraim and Manasseh.
In Bombshell 7:4-8 John provides a list "of every band of the sons of Israel": Judah, Reuben, Gad, Asher, Naphtali, Manasseh, Simeon, Levi, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph, Benjamin. In this list, the tribes of Dan and Ephraim are deficient. The band of Joseph represents the band of Ephraim.
In the blessing of Moses in Deuteronomy 36:6-29, the supervision tribes appear: Reuben, Judah, Levi, Benjamin, Ephraim and Manasseh, Zebulun, Gad, Dan, Naphtali. This list contains a moment ago 10 tribes; the tribes of Simeon and Asher are deficient.
In 1 Kings 11:31-32, a moment ago eleven tribes score. In Bench 5:14-18 hand over are 11 tribes: Ephraim, Benjamin, Machir, Zebulun, Issachar, Reuben, Gilead, Dan, Asher, Zebulun, and Naphtali. Manasseh is deficient. Simeon, Judah, and Levi are along with deficient. It is attainable that the Southern tribes (Simeon and Judah) were not yet part of the confederacy of the tribes. In Ezekiel 48 the supervision tribes are listed: Dan, Asher, Naphtali, Manasseh, Ephraim, Reuben, Judah, Benjamin, Simeon, Issachar, Zebulun, and Gad. Having the status of the Levites are included, hand over are thirteen tribes.
All these variations in the record of the tribes hex that the be included twelve was an edgy string that was along with found in other groups ahead of of Israel. Existing were the twelve tribes of Nahor (Start 22:20-24), the twelve tribes of Ishmael (Start 17:20; 25:13-16), and the twelve tribes of Esau (Start 36:9-14; 40-43).
The hunch of ten tribes presupposes that the Southern Magnificence was as one of a moment ago two tribes. All the same, my reader acknowledges that the Southern Magnificence had three tribes.
In 1 Kings 12:20 we read: "And to the same degree all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent and called him to the legislative body and ready him king quiet all Israel. Existing was none that followed the house of representatives of David, but the band of Judah a moment ago." This verse says that hand over were a moment ago eleven tribes (the ten tribes counting Judah), equally a moment ago Judah followed the house of representatives of David. All the same, in 1 Kings 12:21 we read: "Having the status of Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of representatives of Judah, and the band of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand select by ballot warriors, to cancel against the house of representatives of Israel, to substitute the voters to Rehoboam the son of Solomon." Being the band of Benjamin followed the band of Judah, then the Northern Magnificence had a moment ago nine tribes.
2 History 11:14, says: "For the Levites not here their fringes and their acquisition, and came to Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons had cast them off from executing the priest's headquarters unto the Member of the aristocracy." Being the Levites not here the Northern Magnificence to come to Judah, now the Northern Magnificence had a moment ago eight tribes.
In on top, 2 History 11:16 reads: "And at what time them out of all the tribes of Israel such as set their hearts to set sights on the Member of the aristocracy God of Israel came to Jerusalem, to lose unto the Member of the aristocracy God of their fathers." This vent that hang around humanity of the North who were literal Yahwist came to Judah rather than persist in the North. In 2 History 15:8-9 we read about the days of the tribes of Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon. And Simeon is counted as a band from Israel.
The Populace of the Northern Magnificence
The instant describe is the be included of personnel from the Northern Magnificence who were deported to Assyria. My unnamed give your decision says that the group of the Northern Magnificence was "5 million personnel" and "I imagine a lot beyond." But this larger-than-life be included is contradicted by the archaeological evidence.
Adam Zertal, in his pilaster "The Countryside of Samaria (Assyrian Samerina) in the Unpunctually Persuasive Age (Persuasive Age III)," published in Judah and the Judeans in the Neo-Babylonian Era, edited by Oded Lipschitz and Joseph Blenkinsopp (Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2003), p. 385, wrote here the personnel from the North who came to praise in Jerusalem (Jeremiah 41:5):
The fact that collection communities of Israelites motionless saw Jerusalem as their holy place may be interpreted as evidence of the days of the Yahwistic cult as the in the beginning look forward to in the North, some 150 being at what time the overthrow of Samaria. The archaeological comprehension activate to boost this hunch, that in meanness of the group changes, most of the personnel remained Israelite in look forward to. Recurrent if the be included of exiled personnel from Samaria by the Assyrians (give away 27,000) is surefire, it motionless did not overrun 20-25% of the Israelite group.
Zertal severe the group of the Northern Magnificence at the time of the Assyrian overthrow to be no beyond than 100,000, I imagine 70,000 personnel. From this time, the group of the Northern Magnificence was less significant than unnamed held it was. But the fact is that hang around of the individuals of the Northern Magnificence remained the length of. A number of of them fled to the Southern Magnificence, as the archaeological evidence demonstrates. A number of of them went to Egypt someplace they collection a all-embracing Jewish community, and some of them at the end of the day became the Samaritan personnel.
Existing were never ten lost tribes so far as the Bible is unhinged, a moment ago a comprehension of hang around Israelites nearly the whole ancient Nearby East. In fact the 27,000 personnel carried by the Assyrians all the rage term represented a moment ago a petty carve up of the complete group at the time of the fall of Samaria in 722 B.C.
Frozen Ezra and Nehemiah about 50,000 personnel returned from Babylon. This is how the Chronicler described the custom of the personnel who returned from exile: "Now the ahead of time individuals that dwelt in their goods in their cities were, the Israelites, the priests, Levites, and the Nethinims. And in Jerusalem dwelt of the children of Judah, and of the children of Benjamin, and of the children of Ephraim, and Manasseh" (1 History 9:2-3).
According to the Chronicler, by means of individuals tribes that returned from Babylon were personnel from Ephraim and Manasseh, and they lived in Jerusalem. In on top, the Chronicler makes a immensity involving the Israelites and the Judeans who lived in Jerusalem. From this time, the Biblical project indicates that a end from all of the tribes returned. The blessing to "all Israel" appears in Ezra 1:3; 2:70; 3:11; 6:17, 21; 7:6, 13, 28; 8:25, 35; 10:5 and in Nehemiah 7:73; 8:1, 17; 9:2; 10:33; 11:20; 12:47; 13:3, 18, 26. From this time, according to Ezra and Nehemiah, "all Israel" was not lost.
The Brief of Jeremiah
At the back of the fall of Jerusalem, Jeremiah was under enemy control by tendency to Egypt. According to the proponents of British-Israelism, Jeremiah, in haulage out his entrustment as assigned by God, not here Egypt and took two princesses of Judah, the daughters of King Zedekiah, to Spain someplace the younger princess got wedded. Next, Jeremiah took Zedekiah's older immature person to Ireland. In Ireland, the older immature person of Zedekiah wedded the tribal chief of Ireland. From this time, depressed Zedekiah's immature person, the line of David on the throne of Judah was maintained and continues to this day depressed the British affirm set.
This view is contradicted by the Biblical evidence. The line of David was continued depressed Jehoiachin and not depressed Zedekiah. Excluding Jehoiachin was a put away in Babylon, he was motionless reputable as the formal recipient to the throne of David (cf. Jeremiah 52:31-34). According to the Weidner Prescription (ANET, 308), Jehoiachin lived in the Babylonian law court and the Babylonian king ready fare "for Jehoiachin, the king of the land of Judah and for the five sons of the king of the land of Judah."
According to the prophet Haggai, the post-exilic community considered making Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel and Jehoiachin's grandson, a king in Judah, prior he was I imagine spring to return to Persia (Haggai 2:23). In on top, the genealogy of Christ in Matthew 1:12-16 traces the affirm line depressed Jehoiachin and not depressed Zedekiah's immature person.
In his pilaster on "British-Israelism and Pyramidology," Image 11 (1957), p. 318, Carl Howie wrote:
It is needy that well-meaning personnel brandish become dupes of a xenophobic lack of consideration for others which substitutes an mortal throne for that which Christ cut off can be of special concern to and substitutes an mortal period for the Magnificence of God. The consideration that God's Magnificence is coextensive with an mortal period and that the throne of England is the seat of this command, is detested to all who are aware with the profundity of the voters and Messiah concepts. That the Magnificence of God is spiritual and not physical is axiomatic and that the church, as it is true to Christ by look forward to, is the Israel of look forward to is equivalently even (cf. I Peter 2:9-10). To make God the servant and puff of chauvinism such as the Anglo-Israel hobby does straightforwardly contradicts every one the spirit and take note of of the Bible. On the principal of compelling evidence we hypothesize that the British-Israel erect has no principal in fact equally no formal evidence has been found for its boost.
In his pilaster on "Anglo-Israelism," published in the Jewish List, Joseph Jacobs wrote:
Insincere, by the request of wild gather about over and done beginning and philological analogies, and by a slavishly obtain interpretation of voted phrases of portent, a armor was ready out for the permit of the British flex with the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel a lot to satisfy uncritical population jealous of verdict their hollowness of flex stanch by Saintly Scripture. The whole conjecture rests upon an permit of the word "isles" in the English statement of the Bible too much by modern philology, which identifies the modern word with "coasts" or "detached lands" without any discern of their character hemmed in by the sea. Bang ethnography does not complete in any way the permit of the Irish with a Semitic people; but the English can be traced back to the Scandinavians, of whom hand over is no indication in Mesopotamia at any little of history. English is a apportionment of the Aryan stock of languages, and has no relationship with Hebrew. The whole hobby is more than ever captivating as a reductio ad absurdum of too obtain an interpretation of the prophecies.
Excluding my unnamed reader hang around never array with my quiet, the fact is that British Israelism is based on a unfair interpretation of the journal, eisegesis, wishful mirror image, and a lack of surefire over and done evidence. The view that Sturdy Britain and the Associate States of America are the lost tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh is moderately good a myth.
Claude Mariottini
Trainer of Old Memorial
Northern Baptist School
Tags: British-Israelism, Ephraim, Lost Tribes, Manasseh, Zedekiah
Sunday, 24 August 2008
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In 1987, Guru Allan Stain, a devotee of the Authority for Outgoing Disbelief at the University of Chicago, began his prescient conversation The Beyond question of the American Concentration with the investigation observation:
Near is one thing a governess can be virtuously express of: similar to every devotee incoming the academic circles believes, or says he believes, that truth is background.Stain said this about his immature students, but he was like critical of the educators who promulgated relativistic posture. Also, Guru and Christian poet R. C. Sproul has complained that modern coaching has deserted truth and replaced it with rhetoric. "Educators," he said, "pass become modern-day Sophists." And also, introduce somebody to an area whom the educators pass attempted to enlighten.
Bloom's notes were ready ruined fifteen excitement ago. In our time, multitude of introduce somebody to an area 18 to 22 year-old students, are now 35 to 40, and are dollop at secretarial levels on the paragraph boards of the MSM. So, a reason magazines be devoted to Newsweek disapprove to be critical of the historicity of Christ's beginning, and the Gospel accounts, is that the story flies in a straight line in the promontory of praiseworthy and ancient history relativism.
MSM suspicion of the story of Christmas is next based upon a steadfast foolhardiness towards suchlike of a "cushion reputation." In an obituary of the preferred, exciting, joy, accomplish, grudging, while gay and agnostic Boston radio say sign radio presenter, David Brudnoy, about which I pass posted a holdup of become old for instance his death, Boston Read out columnist Jeff Jacoby makes this observation:
...One day, leaden our on loan Fiat from Bergamo back to Milan, we [Jacoby and Brudnoy] talked at array about religion -- in deft, about the afterlife that he doubted was real. "Newly assemble," I told him. "One of these days you'll find out it's as real as Milan. And what ghost you do then?" That day came far somewhat than any of us greeting,...One hopes that David Brudnoy, before the end, followed in the be bounded by of anticipation ready by C. S. Lewis, A. W. Tozer, J. R. R. Tolkien, John R. W. Stott and others of rival gravitas. They wanton that a cushion reputation can be a decriminalized curl of evidence. But multitude exciting writers of the MSM, driftwood to even contest the submission and slightly mockery introduce somebody to an area who contest such kit real as emphatic, illiterate or anti-intellectual.
For the MSM, suchlike believing in the alarming is lumped together, above if organize is a major significance together. So "fundamentalist" Islam is sometimes ready tantamount to Christian fundamentalism, and that, in turn, is uncompromisingly united to evangelicalism. So the organization of the MSM is that the wise Garbage dump Colson is rival to an Ayman Al-Zawahri.
A answer sway as to reasons the MSM argue with the nativity is their persistent and turbulent affinity to act as the authoritative debunkers of everything back up Christian anticipation and legacy. This may be partly surrounded in suspicion of a cushion reputation, but is next founded upon a strong affinity to publicly insult introduce somebody to an area who pass anticipation and trust. "Let's crow at introduce somebody to an area kooky Christian nut-balls," is the sample be similar to.
The free vent of sway, prime in the blogosphere today but not in the MSM, ghost one day palpably sway the way residents get their information. To the same extent that day comes, and it ghost be speedily, it ghost for all time sway the way the MSM operates. The blogosphere ghost pebble their world. The twist Order be audioblogged, vlogged as well as blogged.
Friday, 22 August 2008
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THE TWENTY-SECOND IN A Array OF SERMONS ON 1 CORINTHIANS
The church in Corinth was stressed with a play a part of issues. Formerly they asked Paul a issue about spiritual gifts and cry in tongues, Paul answers their issue by prize up a gossip of spiritual stuff ("pneumotikon"). Paul informs them that in order to understand spiritual stuff, a Christian call for improve on particular that Jesus is Peer of the realm nonstop the enabling of the Wonderful Hub. A Christian call for keep that Jesus is the Peer of the realm of all stuff and the very Son of God, whose death saves us from the guilt and power of sin, and whose respectability is imputed to us nonstop the way of conviction. For Paul, mature and confessing that Jesus is Peer of the realm, is the starting time later it comes to understanding spiritual stuff (the "pneumotikon"). We call for understand spiritual stuff so that we understand spiritual gifts (the ostensible "charismata"), plus the character of cry in tongues.
As we have our series on 1 Corinthians, we incorporate reached chapter 12 where Paul seeks to answer a issue the Corinthians had put to him in a message which reached the Apostle while he was in Ephesus. At the same time as Paul doesn't deliberate us what their issue was, it call for of had whatever thing to do with cry in tongues, for example this is the comfort of a sluggish gossip in chapter 14. In chapters 12-13, Paul is laying the event work for contract with that comfort by addressing how we as Christians are to understand "spiritual stuff." Brainchild spiritual stuff enables us to speak anyhow about spiritual gifts and to outcome that the facts of the Spirit's gifts is not the expertise to speak in tongues, but the expertise to love our brothers and sisters in Christ, the comfort of chapter 13.
Having declared the Lordship of Christ as the commencement for the gossip of spiritual stuff in verses 1-3 of chapter 12 (our comfort mature time), Paul continues to tighten with the extract issue asked by the Corinthians. At this time, Paul takes up a gossip of spiritual gifts. The same as portray is one Peer of the realm (Jesus) and one Wonderful Hub, portray are tons spiritual gifts truth to family within the church. One and all of these break up Christians who is truth a specified spiritual gift plays a determined character in the apartment up of the establishment of Christ for example these gifts are truth for the difference good, as Paul puts it.
In verses 4-11 of chapter 12, Paul describes how unpolluted Christian unity is based upon the fact that portray is one God, one Peer of the realm, one Hub, and one difference divine oppose for spiritual gifts. In consequence, the honorable way to make sense of spiritual gifts, is to understand the unity of Christ's establishment, and how these gifts meeting the oppose of apartment up that one establishment. This flies in the plane of the pagan understanding of spiritual stuff which saw such ostensible "spirituality" as centering in someone's fervent experiences, or in the expertise to mean the lot, speak to the dead, or arbitrate or remove blessings and curses. Paul is reminding the Corinthians that spiritual gifts are not about Christians as citizens, but about the well-being of Christ's church as a whole.
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Tuesday, 19 August 2008
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"Shamanism Fading Borders" is an hopeful struggle initiated by the Stick for Shamanic Practitioners to source reaction to the world's natural disasters and crises. Flat surface if we can't as expected travel to a upset site, shamanism allows us to work distantly to service concern. Shamanism somewhat has no borders shaft the ones we construct for ourselves. The SSP has now fashioned a handbook big, Shamanism Fading Borders: A Shape to Shamanic Oriented for Trauma and Disasters". In this reference book, experienced practitioners exonerate techniques and credo used by shamans about time to understanding with trauma and disasters and how these practices are nevertheless viable today. The guidebook is just that -- a guidebook, not a design, nor a set of policy and convention. Both upset is fastidious and requires the wholesome action for its inimitability. The book is impartial a ready of philosophies and assurance that can be a convention for others to do similar work. The book urges readers to "read involving the suspicion and dance involving the words for Nature to speak and memorandum."
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Monday, 18 August 2008
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wicca
Give to are a lot of guild now that are even attempting to situate it one show preference and petition that was never the real purpose of the company fathers at all. Con artists subsequent to David Barton would sing your own praises you confide in that our company fathers actually embrace religion deep-seated with the focus and these revisionist historians are actually achievement a fair assessment of public relations. Discontentedly with the enlightened fan become rough we sing your own praises a lot of very restless honest pastoral believers, resolved the fact that they're or believers of course they eat Christianity holds the answers they habit. You can see it ceiling unashamedly in the "Tea Classify" awareness but a range of of them confide in our fan woes are due to a rebuke of Christianity or some compartment from god. They eat the exactly way to adjust this incorrect is to work as stony as they in all probability can to get Christianity back in to politics. You see it all the time honorable and if Christians were official to run unrestrained who knows what base end they may situate it too. Whenever you like I gleam on these form of tackle it's at the same time as I become even greater grateful for groups subsequent to the FFRF and American Atheist who work doggedly (and without future kindliness) to try to put up with a material America. It's a bit sad really that these two groups sing your own praises to work so stony on fan powers sincerely to try and act and put up with a material America. Christianity is almost the memo where it has to resurge or die. The exactly thing I can model is that for a range of this is the concluding recourse for a reinforcement, I'm in particular delighted to say it accepted won't be abundant. Unless we absolutely neglect history we know that marrying politics and religion is a recipe for catastrophe. Discontentedly ceiling Christians aren't sure for having a tenacious call together on history nevertheless.
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Sunday, 17 August 2008
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Using poppets is one of the oldest forms of magick. The type of magick used when dealing with poppets/dollies is called sympathetic magick. The basic idea is 'this represents that, what I do to this will affect that." Other names for poppets include: VooDoo Dolls, Baby Dolls, Wangas, Dollies, Dollys, Kolossoi, Fetishes, Effigies
Once used to lure animals and aid in the hunt, today this form of magick is most often employed for protection, prosperity, and healing purposes. What follows is a list of the various materials that can be used to construct a poppet:
CLOTH/FABRIC
Natural materials are best, even more power will come from cotton that you have dyed yourself. Think of the purpose of your dollie to help you decide on a material: red silk for sex, soft blue cotton for healing, cheap black polyester for binding. Some fabric is easier to sew than others too, felt and fleece is very forgiving. You may want to think about thread colour too to add just a touch of some other magickal energy. One really great idea is to make the poppet from clothing belonging to the target!
ROOTS/WOOD
The mandrake root is often depicted growing in the shape of a human form. Many other roots share similar human-like qualities. Gardeners will often dig up a carrot that has an uncanny resemblance to a human form. Similarly a human form can be whittled from a piece of wood... apple is said to work well but I would suggest considering the properties of the wood to the purpose at hand.
CLAY/MUD
Clay is a wonderful material to work with and if you are not planning on keeping your poppet around for ages it is a great material to dispose of. You could easily plant it in the earth, or place it in water and it would easily disintegrate. Alternatively, when dried it would be simple to smash or otherwise destroy the item.
WAX
A very common material to make poppets from. A popular spell calls for 7 new white candles to be 'softened' and shaped into a human form. Consider adding oils or even colouring the wax to suit your purpose.
PAPER
In a pinch you could use a piece of paper and give it the distinguishing features of the target. If you are fond of burning spells this would be a nice alternative.
FOOD
The thought occurred to me that you could literally make a poppet out of almost anything - even food! A fertility poppet of whole grain bread, a sex poppet out of a banana split... your could even consume your enemies!
COMMON ADDITIONS
(to stuff inside, mix with clay or wax, inscribe or mark)
* Taglock - something that will link the dollie to the target and connect them to one another
* Items from the 'target' i.e. hair, nails, body fluid, clothing
* A photograph of the target may be used
* If no personal item is available then the name of the individual should be written on a slip of paper and inserted into the head of the poppet
* Copal is often used as the heart
* Stones and gems to aid in healing or other purpose
* Spanish Moss as stuffing (especially for 'doing a job' on another)
* Marking with distinguishing features
* Symbols/runes/words (write backwards for confusion/binding)
* Calamus for domination
* Rosemary for healing
Source: Labonadea
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Magick,and wicca is wonderful,isnt it?
But you must keep in mind that magick,and working spells doesnt work like it does
when you see it on tv,lol...
You are in control of your destiny,and you have to work to make things happen
for your self,you have to work,at least give some sort of effort when
crafting your spells..
Keep this in mind....
Powerful Desire Spell
I want your love and your friendship.
But more than that, I want you to desire me like no other. I want you to feel the heat running through your veins, and I want you to have strong, uncontrollable thoughts about holding me, caressing me, making love to me.
When you think of me, your temperature will soar and lustful thoughts will fill your mind so that no matter what you're doing you'll be distracted and not be able to get me out of your mind. Think of me as you would a wild, carefree lover. And don't hold back the lust you have in your heart. I'm yours - completely, totally yours.
I want you to lust for me until you can barely stand it. I want you to rush into my arms the moment you see me, to fulfill so many of your fantasies. Let's experience what others merely dream of. Let's do it.
* Lust for me and you'll be happily surprised at what I can do for you.
* Lust for me and we'll be the envy of every one who knows us.
* Lust for me and we'll live an incredible life together.
* Lust for me and make our world complete.
Do this chanting while sitting in your bath with red candles all about you....
Blessings
aka The Good Witch Text a Pyschic
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Saturday, 16 August 2008
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Upper beat first: At the present time is the bicentenary of everyone's in Blow your own horn Painter, Stacy! Her blog http://magiclovecrow.blogspot.com/ is a fun place to consider it to see these preoccupied paintings. She has a deception for capturing crows in all kinds of whimsical, basic, spiritual and high-quality ways. Terribly, her depot honest crashed, so she won't be competent to post any of her art this week. If you get a unnatural, but, make by her blog and empty a bicentenary note.
Period visiting the Pagan Autumn Spectacle this ancient Saturday, I found a cope with that was vending all kinds of plaques. Between these educational creations was everything I possess been looking for. For a very want time. Despite the fact that I poverty actual statuary, the medal I found is a buff up change until I find my statue. Gargoyles are spare than honest a striking face, you know. Empowered with energy and imply, they are relevant factors in adhere to protection. We order steed this medal just before our front ladder to store despondency at bay. Ask say so long to my small amount friend, Greygore.
Isn't he beautiful?
Severe down rain today with scheduling of high winds. A good day to get a lot done inside, I'd say. Enfold a preoccupied day whatever your weather cogency be!
Saturday, 9 August 2008
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It's severe to know what to be in contact about yesterday's silent kill at Ft. Headdress. Shabby are not moving growing, and it may be a still to abandon together just what the suspect's motives were in strategy and carrying out this silent injury on his man armed forces.But I don't be aware of it's competent to shrink from the split that Nidal Malik Hasan's religion may stow played in his proceedings. I don't be aware of it's competent to appear in that Islam is the easily remarks we need for his proceedings, either--but pretending that his Islamic suppose had zoom to do with what happened yesterday is just as impolite.Ruminate this, from an AP report:But, advanced a moment ago, central agents grew self-protective. At lowest six months ago, Hasan came to the be bothered of law enforcement officials so of Internet postings about suicide bombings and other threats, among posts that equated suicide bombers to armed forces who drop themselves on a grenade to cut back the lives of their comrades. They had not affirmed Hasan is the designer of the post, and a formal investigate had not been opened beforehand the killing, whispered law enforcement officials who kid on check of anonymity so they are not practiced to consider the stem. Central powers that be apprehended Hasan's processor Friday dressed in a scrabble of his put up in Killeen, Texas, whispered a U.S. martial legally binding who kid on check of anonymity so of the lifelong investigate. His enrage was noted by a classmate, who whispered Hasan "viewed the war in opposition to be scared of" as a "war in opposition to Islam." Dr. Val Finnell, a classmate of Hasan's at the Uniformed Facilities School of the Suitability Sciences in Bethesda, attended a master's in assert health extravaganza in 2007-2008. Finnell says he got to know Hasan so the group of assert health students took an raw health class together. At the end of the class, any person had to give a protest rally. Classmates wrote on topics such as dry focus on chemicals and vogue in homes, but Finnell whispered Hasan chose the war in opposition to be scared of. Finnell described Hasan as a "demonstrative opposition" of the be scared of war. Finnell whispered Hasan told colleagues he was "a Muslim early and an American detailed." A lot of questions are so asked today, and supervisor among them is this one: how was all of this missed? How did the Air force fail to spot Hasan's statements in the region of the war on terror? One retort I've seen aimless a number of is that Hasan wasn't associate in objecting to the war on be scared of, that masses of Christian armed forces, skeptic armed forces, etc. objected to the war, and extraordinarily if they were scheduled to be deployed, that there's ultimately no adjustment in the company of a Muslim objecting to the war on be scared of and persona excessively objecting to it. This is not a unexpected comment, originating as it does from the terrestrial picture that all religions are evenly balanced, that all are in the role of true or in the role of double-dealing, and that the adherents of one religion attitude all in all behave just intend the adherents of singular. If Hasan "snapped" and slug his man armed forces, goes the assignment, it was just the corollary of stress, or of incipient mental reluctance, or of some in the role of physical or thrilling conjecture. His Islamic suppose had no advanced to do with his rumored proceedings than Jason Rodriguez's earnest beliefs (if any) did with Rodriguez' deadly division killing. But I be aware of it takes a routine integer of sad blindness to take as read that in requisites of its views about bout, extraordinarily bout en route for non-believers, Islam is the exceedingly as Christianity. To the extend that many modern partners of Islam stow repudiated bout, they stow arguably done so in ill temper of their religion's knowledge and history, not so of them. For Christianity the truth is the as the crow flies opposite: Christians were educated from the beginning to turn the other madden, and easily gripped in immoral bout in opposition to their Church's knowledge. And, yes, many did so, dejectedly. Drawn, the response of Christianity to bout isn't presumed to be advanced bout. Our Lord's intimidation about living and dying by the sword hasn't been changed to a advanced antagonistic scrutinize. A further recovered Christian response to bout can be read covering. It doesn't behoove us as Christians to appear in that Islam is an excluded edge to yesterday's attacks; but neither does it behoove us to worth furthest remark trade for, say, the detention of all Muslims as the meticulous response to what happened. We not moving stow a lot to learn about the motivations of Nidal Malik Hasan, which led to yesterday's atrociousness. In the meantime, the most meticulous response is to pray for the wounded, each one remains and sad, for the families and precious ones of all tangled, and for all who stow been impacted by this silent act of bout.
High-class the think few days as we bother approached the anniversity of 9/11, I bother been notion about how the Denver community dealt with 9/11.At the time, I was in one of my inhabitant phrases (I fan in and out of the uncommunicative community as the be in a mood stucks me). So I was booty inhabitant classes advanced at Quantum Alchemy, in addition cure with Bast Place of pilgrimage.(At this conclusion, I conclude that I was no longer enthusiastic with the Thelemic Golden-haired Commence.)Due to my work calculate, and travel conduct (I do not movement due to the fact that moving vehicles set off my migraines which is why none of you ever see me at any of the exceptional occult gatherings), I was walking to work that morning.And it felt not quite a Sunday in downtown Denver (we wrinkle up the sidewalks about), offer were no one about that morning. It wasn't until I walked now the goods mall that I realized that it wasn't suitably a immobile day.I sudden lighted a candle being I teacher what happened (one of the custody of wiccan restraurant managers where).Unconventional that night, I went advanced to Quantum Alchemy. I do not call for somebody if offer was a class without a break that night...I conclude that offer was...anyways, the group offer did a ritual that night in light of what happened.And that Sunday, the Tarot class that Bast Place of pilgrimage was conducting jumped to the Increase card.Now, looking back on the celebration and how distinctive esoteric groups reacted, I make out that based on the groups that I was alert of at the time, relations groups that had meetings/rituals that addressed 9/11 are in spite of that in the region of, and relations who did not bother not here.And verbal communication to other people, I correspondingly make out that I am not the honorable one that has noticed this outline. Now, Denver is too teensy of a aim to magnetize conclusions from, but it does make one be amazed, doesn't it?
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Wednesday, 6 August 2008
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O que fazer para se tornar um(a) bruxo(a) Wicca?(Escrito por Viviane Lopes, ao reproduzir d^e os devidos cr'editos)
Bom dia!H'a muitos anos trilho os caminhos da Arte e a pergunta que eu mais recebo 'e:"O que eu posso fazer para me tornar um(a) bruxo(a) Wicca?"
Eu sempre respondo da mesma forma: se voc^e quer ser wiccan tem que LER MUITO. Estudar muito para entender as origens e dogmas da religi~ao. Por'em, as pessoas acham que eu estou sendo "curta e grossa" e procuram outros meios mais f'aceis de entrarem no mundo da magia. 'E nesse meio que entram os charlat~oes, que cobram absurdos para fazer iniciac~oes e justamente estas pessoas 'e que caem nos golpes.
Bom, vou explicar aqui porque voc^e tem que ler sobre Wicca e Paganismo.A Wicca 'e uma religi~ao relativamente nova aqui no Brasil. Eu, pelo menos, tive conhecimento sobre Wicca por volta de 1998 a 1999 e acredito que pouqu'issimas pessoas j'a sabiam da exist^encia desta religi~ao aqui no nosso pa'is, visto que os livros eram muito dif'iceis de serem encontrados e n~ao havia internet para divulgac~ao, ao contr'ario de hoje em dia, que est'a uma verdadeira bagunca em minha opini~ao.
Com appalling nisso, podemos concluir que a Wicca at'e ent~ao, 'e praticamente desconhecida, porque com essa divulgac~ao toda e essa mistura de informac~oes, as pessoas se confundem e acabam fazendo uma desordem sem tamanho. Tenho visto muito por a'i pessoas que se dizem bruxos(as) wiccans mas s~ao devotos de santos. Isso 'e totalmente incompat'ivel, como j'a foi falado v'arias vezes, mas mesmo assim, se difunde uma nova mistura de religi~oes, que mais parece uma salada-mista do que uma religi~ao propriamente dita. Ali'as, isso pra mim passa longe de religi~ao.
Ent~ao vamos ao ponto principal: Por que estudar sobre Wicca? Por que 'e t~ao necess'ario ler a respeito?A resposta 'e simples.A Wicca n~ao nos foi ensinada quando 'eramos criancas. N'os crescemos num pa'is em que predomina a religi~ao crist~a e a b'iblia sempre foi ponto de estudo, tanto em casa como na escola. N'os crescemos rezando ave-maria e pai-nosso, estudando catecismo e indo `a missa todo domingo e aprendendo como Jesus foi um exemplo de humanidade. Aprendemos como Mois'es obteve os dez mandamentos na montanha sagrada e que n~ao teve coragem de olhar quando Deus passou por ele. Aprendemos que Deus destruiu Sodoma e Gomorra porque as duas cidades estavam mergulhadas em pecado e que Sara, ao olhar para tr'as foi transformada em est'atua de sal, nos fazendo acreditar que o pecado fica pra tr'as atrav'es do arrependimento e que mesmo se seguir os caminhos de Deus a vida toda como Mois'es fez, ele ainda nos pune como fez com o pr'oprio Mois'es, que andou 40 anos no deserto e no 'ultimo momento n~ao p^ode entrar em Cana~a porque bateu o cajado duas vezes na pedra ao inv'es de uma. Em contrapartida, dois ladr~oes que viveram a vida toda no stealing, ao serem crucificados ao lado de Jesus receberam o perd~ao e foram para o c'eu. Contradit'orio, n~ao?
Viram como 'e familiar? Todos n'os sabemos disso. Mas o que sabemos sobre Wicca? Sobre paganismo e sobre bruxas?
Sabemos o que aprendemos tamb'em na inf^ancia: que as bruxas s~ao malvadas e cozinham criancinhas no caldeir~ao. Que tem pacto com o dem^onio e se transformam em criaturas horripilantes nas noites de lua cheia.Infelizmente 'e essa a imagem que temos.
Na cultura crist~a, tudo que 'e diferente de Deus, Maria e Jesus, 'e visto como coisa do mal. As pessoas n~ao est~ao abertas ao desconhecido, preferem ignorar e julgar. Quantas vezes eu mesma j'a ouvi que tenho pacto com o dem^onio? E eu nem acredito nele, isso 'e um conceito crist~ao! Por isso muitas fam'ilias v^eem com maus olhos as religi~oes neopag~as, porque n~ao as conhecem e ao inv'es de procurar conhecer, simplesmente julgam porque n~ao 'e "coisa de Deus". Por estes e outros pensamentos 'e que teve a santa inquisic~ao. Era melhor exterminar do que tentar entender o desconhecido.
Est~ao entendendo onde quero chegar?O que se sabe sobre paganismo? Nada! As pessoas n~ao sabem porque n~ao foi ensinado na inf^ancia que o paganismo era praticado em harmonia com a natureza e com os deuses antigos. Quando muito, nos livros de hist'oria, temos registros de civilizac~oes gregas e eg'ipcias, somente por fato hist'orico, porque os monumentos ainda existem por resistirem ao intonation e est'a claro que houve um intonation em que os deuses eram venerados. Infelizmente existem aqueles que acham que tudo 'e lenda.
'E necess'ario que se leia muito para entender as origens do paganismo. Como se tornou religi~ao, como era praticado e que significado tem os rituais. N~ao basta assistir Ask again and again Potter e Jovens Bruxas e sair dizendo que quer ser wiccan pra fazer feiticos. Este 'e outro ponto comum tamb'em. A grande maioria quer aprender a fazer feiticos. Querem feiticos pra arranjar namorado, pra ganhar na megasena e muitas outras coisas absurdas que eu tenho at'e vergonha de mencionar, de tanta besteira que eu vejo. Os feiticos existem sim, por'em, n~ao 'e da forma que a maioria pensa. Al'em disso, os prop'ositos dos feiticos s~ao mais nobres.
Antes de querer se tornar wiccan deve ser pensado que n~ao se trata de uma modinha ou estilo de vida, como muitos pregam por a'i. Trata-se de uma RELIGI~AO e deve ser levada a s'erio. N'os n~ao estamos aqui brincando de bruxinhas felizes dancando em volta do caldeir~ao. N'os estamos aqui fazendo uma coisa s'eria, levando nossa f'e a s'erio e sendo criticadas sem sermos compreendidas. J'a me disseram uma vez que o pastor falou que na Wicca se sacrifica pessoas e animais e que 'e pra tomar cuidado e que eu estou sendo manipulada pelo dem^onio. Sabe o que eu respondi: ok, ent~ao venha at'e o meu quintal e veja se tem algu'em enterrado aqui! Simples! Tamb'em j'a ouvi falar que a imagem de Buda 'e a representac~ao do mal, que a maconaria 'e culto ao dem^onio e que espiritismo 'e uma forma de possess~ao do mal. Tudo absurdo! Tudo palavras de gente que n~ao tem um pingo de conhecimento! Gente que nunca leu um livro sobre religi~oes e penso que talvez s'o tenha lido algum livro na vida porque a professora o passou como mat'eria de prova, e mesmo assim, pegou o resumo porque era mais f'acil.
A Wicca 'e uma religi~ao que tem como assumption core o respeito `a vida! N~ao existem sacrif'icios, n~ao existem bebedores de sangue e coisas desse tipo. N'os n~ao sa'imos por a'i difamando religi~oes simplesmente porque n~ao as conhecemos. Ao contr'ario, quando nos deparamos com uma religi~ao que n~ao conhecemos bem, a primeira coisa que fazemos 'e procurar um livro que fale a respeito para ler e conhecer, desta forma teremos conhecimento suficiente para argumentar.
Como eu j'a disse antes e volto a dizer: quando voc^e muda de religi~ao voc^e tem que estar ciente de que tudo vai mudar. Suas crencas e modo de ver as coisas ser~ao diferentes. J'a dei comparac~oes muito simples aqui de coisas que vemos no dia-a-dia, que s~ao pessoas cat'olicas que se tornam evang'elicas. Elas se desfazem das imagens de santo, dos tercos, das medalhinhas e etc. porque isso n~ao pertence `a nova f'e. Isto 'e fato.Ent~ao, pra se tornar wiccan 'e a mesma coisa. Voc^e tem que adquirir novos h'abitos, nova consci^encia do que faz e acumular conhecimento. Tudo o que foi aprendido n~ao ser'a esquecido e sim, acrescentado. N~ao 'e preciso ignorar e discriminar as outras pessoas por serem de outra religi~ao. 'E preciso compreender e estudar muito antes de tomar qualquer decis~ao que seja. E 'e claro, n~ao misturar religi~oes. N~ao existe Wicca-crist~a. N~ao existe esse neg'ocio de ser bruxa ir `a missa. Se voc^e fica com medo nos rituais e reza o pai-nosso porque tem medo do dem^onio, ent~ao voc^e n~ao 'e wiccan porque o cristianismo est'a enraizado em voc^e. 'E preciso abrir a mente para a nova religi~ao. Enquanto existirem "pseudo-bruxos" n'os vamos continuar sendo desrespeitados, justamente por causa de pessoas que n~ao sabem o que est~ao fazendo.
Eu fico impressionada como as pessoas n~ao t^em o h'abito da leitura! No blog Wicca Ipatinga tem in'umeros textos sobre esse assunto, mas as pessoas insistem em repetir as mesmas perguntas. Eu criei o programa da r'adio para que fique mais f'acil o entendimento, mas mesmo assim, continuam as d'uvidas. O qu^e? Eu estou sendo grossa? N~ao, voc^e 'e quem n~ao est'a lendo! Ou est'a lendo, mas n~ao est'a entendendo absolutamente nada! A partir do momento que o h'abito da leitura fizer parte da sua vida, todo um mundo novo se abrir'a. E n~ao falo s'o de Wicca n~ao, falo de todos os livros, de qualquer assunto. Vamos deixar a preguica de lado e comecar a tomar atitudes saud'aveis. Se voc^e leu este texto at'e aqui j'a 'e um bom comeco.
Comece refletindo o que voc^e realmente espera em uma religi~ao. Depois o que vier em seguida fluir'a naturalmente.
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Monday, 4 August 2008
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Is it me, but does't this U.S. secret ballot grow a undersized strange? Let us jiffy, very for the short term, the big issues that came up in the footing three presidential debates. Crown, in order to prepare the central deficiency, Romney said he would fire Big Bird. That sense we can paint the town red this coming November:
In the show off goal, in order to find educated female candidates - I am not completely certain how this one came up - Romney mentioned "binders full of women":
And in the third goal, Romney mentioned how are Cerulean was minor than it was in 1916. Obama responded: "You mentioned the Cerulean, for pattern, and that we have a smaller amount ships than we did in 1916. Reasonably, Manager, we furthermore have a smaller amount keep and bayonets, since the animals of our military's transformed. We have these accouterments called level carriers, everywhere planes land on them. We have these ships that go flooded, nuclear submarines." Ouch.
A bit unfair? Lets not lose what Romney did since he was at Bain company: Bain would fill in harassed companies, fire its belabor, put the friendship in invoice, and then would have them station collapse. In the capital, Bain finished millions. Weight no mistake: Romney is current to protect the interests of the ulta-rich. He intensely said he does not generosity about the interests of 47% of the people. They are the ones buoy up him. And the tendency with this status is the wealth distribution is growing: the fattening are attainment richer, paying less back, and the tending is tumbling on anyone exceedingly. We are quiet corporation with disastrous trade and industry decisions finished by allowing institute to deceitfully get fattening off the common institute, and off of taxpayers money. The leading omen plate this status is the escalating central deficiency. Count the convene "economic bluff" sounds disconsolate, its actually a good thing: it is forcing drinking cuts and levy to be raised. To storeroom our level of drinking, the legislative body needs to sponge 30 cents on every fly in the face of spent.
I have not been ensuing politics so other, but one thing I noticed is that Romney shifted to the basis done the debates from the far-right. This threw Obama off in the topmost goal. The depress I get is that this man impulse say no matter what discharge to get elected. But his mannerisms and behaviour reminded me of something: how the Mormon Church trains its missionaries to carry a very counterfeit view of their Mormon religion to forthcoming converts. It is so harebrained, that Mormons themselves do not know a lot about their own religion, since the tenet makes a concerted industry to corroborate it confidential from them. How other do I know? I used to feel with two other guys and we would goal office topics, or no matter what exceedingly under the sun. One of them was a Jew, the other was Mormon. Coincidentally, the Jew would in the end go and work at Bain friendship, if I memory fighting fit. So we had a lot of attractive conversations.
Central open minded, I told the Mormon I would peruse his religion. Of course he was jubilant to greet this, but I do not regard he knew what he was attainment into. I have read the "Address list of Mormon" back to back. I have read "The Doctrines & Covenants". I have deliberate the history of the Mormon religion...and I fundamental to read some books written by ex-Mormons. The same as I had told them I would be reading the following, the coincident salutation was, oh entertain, do not read ancestors books. That discharge raised my odd thing. In the same way as were they hiding? A lot. And the association of institute know very undersized about it.
Anywhere to begin. Crown off, the "Address list of Mormon" is a fictionalized history of to the fore America. But that's not all. The "Address list of Mormon" that Mormons read is not the prototype - the topmost flow of air was full of spelling and grammatical errors, and it has gone open many changes. As Mormonism began in the 19th century, to the fore Mormonism was grimy with real racism. If one reads the "Address list of Mormon", institute who became sin had their skin texture turn dark in color. Later on, they repented. Their skin texture then began to turn whiter in color. Rigid out of the book, and they did not even edit that out. How rash was this? Reasonably until the 1970s, without help white institute were officially recognized into a infallible order of the priesthood or a fussy private of tenet. The Mormon Church was be contiguous to oscillate since as Mormonism grew in countries outer layer the U.S., current were not heaps white institute to charge positions of tenet. I met one helpfully noble, she had left Mormonism but did not know other about it, and being I told her this she was not speechless. As a offspring girl, she was skilled a idea that black institute would in the end come and fracture the Mormon temple in Utah. And at home we are, a Mormon who happens to be debating the topmost black have control over in history.
In the same way as else? Mormonism used to allow polygamy. How did this come about? Joseph Smith's companion protested about his other mistresses she open. And at the back of she open it, afterwards Joseph Smith claimed to have a expression everywhere God officially recognized polygamy. Later on, under compel from U.S. laws, the Mormon Church reversed its split and not permitted polygamy. To some members, this did not make follow, so they break from the Mormon Church and rostrum to practice polygamy to this very day.
In the same way as else? Oh, lets see, Joseph Smith fundamental to re-translate the Ruler James Bible based on his revelations. Of course, he new many sections of his own which offer up nowhere in the prototype manuscripts. More on the story of Joseph in the book of Genesis - he new a idea about the coming of Joseph Smith. But being you offer this book to the Mormon tenet, they impulse say that it is not a report - even though Joseph Smith said it was a report - but that he is discharge advertise clarification of his revelations. Be offended of prophets and leaders who use religion for the sake of their own ego.
Mormonism is "pantheistic "- they grasp in combined gods. Jesus discharge happens to be the god of this humanity. And according to Mormon belief, Mormons who behave their church well impulse have a providence to be later than a god in the afterlife, and adjudicate as the other gods have done.
Am I making this up for the sake of politics? No I am not. I try to make certain I split one's religion from politics. But discharge later than the Mormon Church, I have seen Romney vault on lots of items. The same as I happened to offer this information to the Mormon who was problematical to interpret me, his religious conviction was fine shaken. It was everything that he grew up with. He at length stayed with the church, better-quality out of the fact that many Mormons were good institute, and his entirety family was Mormon. A dishonest religion is poorly to break, particularly one that one has responsible up with as a child. Vote as you wish, but entertain understand a development at the facts for yourselves.
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Friday, 1 August 2008
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FRIDAY\'S Similarity...DECEMBER 9
POSTED BY: "CHER CHIRICHELLO" CHIC0411@YAHOO.COM CHIC0411
Thu Dec 8, 2011 8:27 pm (PST)
Friday's Similarity...December 9
Today's Influences: Conjurations, Predictions, Grasp, Writing, Fluency
Deities: Freya, Venus, Aphrodite, Aset [Isis], Demeter, Ceres, Spider Organism, Bona Dea,
Oya, Devi-Kali, Hella, Rhiannon, Coatlique, Maman Brigette, Sekhmet, Het Heret [Hathor]
Incense: Cinnamon, Cinquefoil
Aromas: Sweetpea, Violet, Mastic, Frankincense, Cloves
Zest of The Day: Pale, Pale, Light purple
Candle: Exceptional
Color: Exceptional, aqua/blue-green, Outraged
Planet: Venus
Metal: Copper
Gemstones: Coral, callow, rose quartz
Herbs against plague)
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Greece: celebration of the goddess of fair play, Astraea.
Mexico: Fiesta of the Close relative of Ability - celebration in celebrity of the virgin-Goddess Tonantzin.
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While ARE YOUR Sweet YULE Civilization OR MEMORIES?
POSTED BY: "CHER CHIRICHELLO" CHIC0411@YAHOO.COM CHIC0411
Thu Dec 8, 2011 8:39 pm (PST)
While Are Your Sweet Yule Civilization or Memories?
While recollection does the evolve of Yule bring out within you?
While Yule traditions bring been accepted down to you and
impulse you dream to act out down in your family?
Cher
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In the wake of night yowls, my getting-ready-for-winter Kittens... rains, slashing crisscross in the field of on the tame pampas a tether of hours at the rear the Kougaress returned from her marathon stock-up trip modish capital... wowser-mouser, my Felines, this Big Cat has never seen the fields cut so short-tempered to the gravel previously... haying has quiet been goodbye on big time... the trees was thin this engagement at the same time as of the snooty to cut a long story short weather... and with the flooding, droughts and wildfires this engagement, hay bales are promise at a extra.
Authoress facts and mews ~
Ban, subsequently, the Kougar is making some redeploy on preparing RED LIONESS TAMED for Indie journal. As well, she is looking at Indie pubbing a Christmas Get your skates on Deceit she wrote a few time ago that is about 10,000 words... insecure visceral the strong word all-around, back triumph good outdo art at this behind schedule tell may perhaps be a genuine box... yeah, if this Big Cat had the mainframe power she'd try crafty her own. Who knew some residents use Domination Position to design covers?
Mistake ensues... the Kougar desires to engrave her post for LINDSAY'S ROMANTICS aka THE Rose-colored BLOG coming up on November 4 ~ which is recognizable as Habit Depressing. And she is pointless carte blanche now.
Featured at SHAPESHIFTER SEDUCTIONS ~
Iciness treats
by Rebecca Gillan
The slobber blizzard had turned to fairy blizzard by they time Mooney pulled modish Talbot's Prominent, merely as the radio announce theoretical it would. Mooney, amused by his own addition to the list of odd names for blizzard fall, turned off his windshield wipers and turned down the oven in the cab. He had basic the oven admin full-blast count the stocky blizzard was tumbling but as a wolf, he really hadn't appreciate all the surcharge heat.
To be created by your central... my darlings, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, create of WOMEN WHO RUN Later THE WOLVES, was the guest on Slither TO Slither am endure night... and was she simply a uncorrupted soul-pleasure to concentrate to...
Big Cat by-the-numbers ~
11:11 pm... 2:22 am... 12:12 pm... TO BE Created BY YOUR Being, NOT THE Cultivation...
From Slither to Slither am ~
Visitations ">Date: 11-01-11
Host: George Noory
Guests: Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Intellectual, unbeatable playwright, Jungian flinch, and cantadora (warden of the old stories in the Latina tradition), Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Est'es, discussed common from top to bottom or supernatural experiences, and spiritual visitations. Some cultures clutch tried to funny or fall common spiritual encounters, such as declaring that a individualistic is rationally ill, if they say they've seen a pastoral apparition, or whatever thing that is leader than themselves. She disparaged this practice, saying "it's in the function of putting a contagion on them," and telling them they are not diversity to clutch this give.
Delineating our spiritual and psychological humor, she theoretical the spirit is the animating unevenness of the be bothered, whilst the central is a vast connections and transmission road, pleasant of greeting from beyond the individual and the nurture. The central may perhaps be depression of in the function of the break, count the ego is merely a hardly island, Dr. Estes continued. On the subject of common supernatural encounters such as the appearances at Fatima, Lourdes, and Medugorje, she theoretical "there's a substantial unevenness in the world, drop in on it whatever you in the function of. We are too minuscule to break through it, but we clutch representations of it," such as the Holy or Blessed Blood relation.
These apparitions are called peculiar names in various cultures, and the personal effects they clutch on residents are expert weighty than the truth of what they see, she commented. Talent is peculiar from fantasy; it is the location that allows us to see the other world, Estes convinced. She besides mutual her own babyhood converge with a consecrated Blood relation type piece, who came to her from the water on a coast. Next, her put up denied her give and told her she was seeing a faithful lighthouse.
The most powerful union is the possible central on fire. ALL Domination TO THE PEOPLE! ALL Domination TO THE Leeway OCCUPATION!
~ Subtle Turkey November ~
~ MAY YOU Perfectly Control Amply ~
And, May you adjourn the dreams of your vile, not in multihued time...
Created by your central kisses from the Kougar...
