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Posted Jul 11th, 2008 03:36 PM by
Will Jarvis
Condom use is, to say the least, a highly personal and emotional issue for the actresses and actors in porn. We may be doing the sex for the cameras rather than for ourselves, but sex itself is still a personal issue. If an actress objects to doing anal sex, should she be forced to do it? Of course not. If she objects to using condoms, should she be forced to use them? By the director? By the industry? By the government?
These are my thoughts on condom use in sexually explicit movies. I'm not trying to tell you how to think or feel on the subject. Your thoughts and feelings are your own.
First, let's put things in perspective. What are your chances of dying in a fatal accident today? If you're the "average American," your odds are 1 in 1,743 according to the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research as reported in the Nov. 2007 issue of "Discover" magazine. Car crash. Plane crash. Killed by a vending machine falling on you. No, really; 13 people die each year by vending machines falling on them. Howcum the Government isn't poking its collective nose into vending machine safety? Thirteen more people each year die from vending machines than from performing in porn. Compared to the number of deaths from performing in porn each year - zero! - that's practically an epidemic. Isn't that a bigger problem? Isn't that a greater safety issue?
While I truly believe some of the individuals in the California government and the Health Department who advocate condom use in porn are sincerely concerned about the health and safety of the talent, as well as generally concerned with curtailing the spread of diseases, we all know that governments often use any means they can to get access to, and then regulate, various industries, groups, businesses and individuals. The porn industry must resist such government intrusion and interference, allowing participation by the government in our community only when the government can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves. Right now, we've got a damn good program in place for limiting the possibility of the transmission of STDs and HIV among the performers.
Ultimately, odd as it may sound, the issue of the government requiring use of condoms in adult movies is not a health and safety issue but a First Amendment one. Here's why: Any movie being created (XXX or other) is art. The copies of that movie, on DVD or VHS or whatever format, are product, and, as such, may have (under certain circumstances) some government regulation. Art, however, cannot ever have any government regulation (except art financed by the government; in such an instance a measure of control may be exercised by the government if it so chooses). Government interference in art is censorship. "You must have condoms in your movie" is the same sort of interference as saying, "You must have the color orange in your movie." Or "All adult movies must be between six minutes, twenty-three seconds and twenty-five minutes, eighteen seconds."
And then there's the bureaucracy. People in government understand bureaucracy. So let's start there. How does the government propose to monitor condom use in porn? Just because you don't see a condom on screen doesn't mean it isn't there. Could've been there in reality but later removed digitally. Is this possible. Or practical? When lobbying in Sacramento, I've had legislators ask me this question: "Couldn't you use condoms and then take them out with digital computer technology?" The answer is "No." For one, it is cost prohibitive. For another, such technology is used in movies to remove objects that need to be there for the actresses and actors to do certain things they can't do in real life. Like flying in a Superman movie, for example. The wireworks harnesses have to be taken out digitally. For the scenes of Superman walking around the Daily Planet offices in his guise as mild mannered reporter Clark Kent, however, no wires are needed. It would be stupid to hook the actor up to wires just to digitally remove them. Same with condoms in porn.
And how would this be monitored? How many tens of millions of (taxpayer) dollars would have to be spent on a review board to watch the unedited footage of movies; to send personnel to all porn movie sets to observe that condom usage is taking place; to watch all, I repeat all, live streaming video and webcam shows over the Internet? Not gonna happen. California doesn't have the money for it. Better to spend the money the State does have for education, emergency services, repairing our highways and surface streets, and other projects. Porn movies are generally shot, edited, packaged and distributed in a much shorter time frame than mainstream Hollywood movies. A porn movie can be shot, edited, packaged and released in a matter of weeks if not days. I did one once like that as an actor. We spoofed the incident with actor Hugh Grant and hooker Divine Brown. I got a phone call from a director asking if I could do a British accent. I said "Yes" (I lied, but I faked the accent okay) and he said "Good, we're shooting Huge Grant on the Sunset Strip starting in a couple of days and you're playing Huge." That was flattering. To keep it as timely as possible, the movie was released less than a month after the incident. There just wouldn't be enough time to submit that porn footage to a review board; some productions, to have the most impact, to be timely, to get the best sales, have to be done very quickly.
Plus, with the Internet, a sex scene can be uploaded in a matter of hours from the time it was shot. How could the Health Department monitor every Internet porn video upload? We're in the era of Instant Porno
. Any monitoring the government wants to do has to come after the fact.
(If you're wondering about the TM symbol, I had an idea back when TV shows like "Instant Comedy" and "Whose Line Is It Anyway" were popular. I wanted to do a video series of improvisational porn. I called it "Instant Porno"
or, in the alternative "Whose Fuck Is It Anyway"
, but, alas, I was unable to interest any producers in the idea. Still, I'm holding onto the TMs in the event improvisational comedy regains popularity on TV; if it does, I may again try pitching the porn idea to some producers.)
Porn is unique in many aspects and can't be regulated in the same manner as other entertainment media. For one thing, people fuck in real life as well as reel life. Very few people, in any profession, do the same thing for work that they do for recreation. For example, a police officer might use a gun for recreation, either for hunting or maybe because he enjoys shooting and goes to a shooting range on occasion. The police officer does not, however, stop a stranger on the street and tell the stranger, "I want you to go into that bank over there and pretend to rob it and them I'm gonna come in and pretend to arrest you. Just for fun."
However, porn performers fuck in their private lives as well as in front of the cameras. That should be obvious, but sometimes it's overlooked. If a person is going to do a thing anyway, what purpose is served by imposing government regulation? Shouldn't it be my choice, as a performer, what tools I use in my job? "You want lube?" "No, I'm good." I get to choose. The actresses and the actors get to choose what each one is comfortable with to do their job. Dammit! We are professionals and we should be treated as such. We know what tools we need to do the job. Do you make a carpenter use a hammer when what he needs is a saw? If some guys are going skydiving for fun and I ask them if I can video tape their jump, I'm recording something they are going to do anyway. How can the government think of regulating my recording of that? Same with porn. At its most basic, porn is simply a recording of a basic human activity that almost every one does. What's the point of regulating that?
Will "Taliesin" Jarvis is a veteran of adult entertainment with more than twenty years experience as an actor, author and activist. See him on the web at http://www.taliesinthebard.com.
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Characterization of microsatellite loci for Cypripedium kentuckiense (Orchidaceae)
- Madhav PandeyAffiliated withDepartment of Plant and Soil Science, Texas Tech University
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Cypripedium kentuckiense is one of the 15 Cypripedium species found in North America. Its populations are threatened by illegal collection and land conversion. Assessing the level of genetic variation within-and-among populations employing species-specific and variable co-dominant molecular markers such as microsatellite can assist in developing appropriate conservation strategies. For the first time, we report eight polymorphic nuclear microsatellite markers for C. kentuckiense. Number of alleles per locus ranged from two to eight and the mean number of alleles across eight loci was 4.13. Mean observed (H o ) and expected heterozygosity (H e ) values were 0.514 and 0.522, respectively. The eight markers reported in this study can be used to estimate genetic diversity, genetic structure, gene flow, and mating system of the species.
KeywordsConservation genetics Cypripedium kentuckiense Microsatellite Orchid
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- Title
- Characterization of microsatellite loci for Cypripedium kentuckiense (Orchidaceae)
- Journal
Conservation Genetics Resources
Volume 5, Issue 4 , pp 1031-1033
- Cover Date
- 2013-12
- 10.1007/s12686-013-9961-1
- Print ISSN
- 1877-7252
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- 1877-7260
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- Springer Netherlands
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- Conservation genetics
- Cypripedium kentuckiense
- Microsatellite
- Orchid
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- Madhav Pandey (1)
- Jyotsna Sharma (1)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Department of Plant and Soil Science, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, 79409, USA


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Thanks for your nice words.
If I have understood correctly you propose to add the custom actions (i.e. what you see under 'Action' menu) to the tool bar?
Is it correct?
Just wanted to let you know that I really like qgit a lot and that I appreciate the time you spent on developing it.
It could become the de-facto frontend for git if it could feature full support for the git toolchain in a graphical fashion, this could for example be achieved by using the existing notion of tool actions, which could then be based on shell commands (git scripts/custom scripts) with certain arguments, thus the GUI integration would mainly boil down to allowing users to provide tooltips for custom actions and place these actions along with a description on some sort of toolbar or in a context menu.
maybe saving actions/commands separately would be the best option because that would mean that users could easily share their "action files" for new/custom commands.
So, "Action" might benefit from a "scope" attribute, so that qgit may smartly detect the context in which they are valid or not, to adjust the toolbar or context menu accordingly.
Thus future extension of qgit would mainly come down to providing a growing library of "action snippets" for qgit use, so that it may eventually become a fully fledged frontend to git
thank you very much for qgit!
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Thanks for your nice words.
If I have understood correctly you propose to add the custom actions (i.e. what you see under 'Action' menu) to the tool bar?
Is it correct?
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I also like QGit a lot, but I think it should mature as a pure commit message viewer (i.e. gitk replacement) for now.
A Qt-based GUI for actually performing actions on the repository (i.e. a git-gui replacement) is currently underway here: http://repo.or.cz/w/ugit.git/
Maybe at a later point in time ugit could be rewritten in C++ as a new application or merged with QGit.
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I'm sorry, I wasn't really aware that QGit already can perform some "write actions" like "commit" from the Edit menu. That's great! However, I guess ugit can currently perform some more actions, making it the better replacement for git-gui for now. It would be fantastic to see QGit emerging to the one-and-only GUI for Git which encapsulates both gitk and git-gui functionality.
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As you said correctly QGit is on the same playfield as gitk.
It is not a specialized GUI git interface tool as git-gui, and is not meant to be.
Yes, you can customize actions, give them a name and call from Action menu.
Any command/script/etc can be an action and you can also pass parameters to them when launching.
But this is not a GUI interface, just a way to avoid the user to go on the ALT+TAB switch.
Just as a note, I have created the following custom actions that are useful for me:
git pull
make install
As you can see you can write anything you want, so it's really more then a set of
customizables shortcuts then a git interface.
BTW I have quickly checked ugit and I like it, developer has been very quick to play
catch up with the much more long lived git-gui.
Also ugit, altough in Python, uses Qt libraries as graphical framework, so it's the
most similar to qgit among the git tools that I know.
P.S: I have pushed some patches for Inno Setup that address your concerns, but if you cannot
compile under Windows I can push a new version qgit2.1.1_win.exe installer if this is easier
for you to use.
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Reading agin your post I think I have misunderstood you.
Commit action is not a custom action, but is one thing that qgit knows how to do as builtin.
Custom actions are under Action menu and are a totally different thing.
May I suggest you to give a look to QGit handbook (perss F1)..you could find some surprise ;-)
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Yeah, I really need to read more docs ;-) I think some of the confusion was due to how I used the word "actions" in my previous posts. I wasn't necessarily meaning to refer to what is listed in the "Actions" menu with that.
Anyway, the difference between "built-in commands" in the "Edit" menu and "custom commands" (which could call Git from the command line) in the "Actions" menu is clear.
I was just having a hard time trying to get ugit to run natively under Windows, which is why I thought it might be a nice thing if QGit included ugit's functionality in the future.
Regarding the updated installer: If you already managed to default to what is set via "GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF" / "diff.external" for the "External patch viewer" (see bug #1862033) I would highly appreciate an updated installer.
Thank you very much!
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Hi, me again - the OP.
Yes, I was mainly thinking of a way to extend and generalize the current concept of "actions", so that actions can be easily integrated into the GUI in various places (i.e. toolbars, context menus), preferably such configured actions would then be saved as individual files, i.e. in XML format, so that user-defined actions can be easily exported/imported for use by other users, basically facilitating "qgit actions sharing", where you as the qgit author would primarily make sure that you provide the low level building blocks so that qgit users can easily conceive, create and provide new actions for all sorts of interesting GUI/git integration which they would then only have to upload to the qgit webpage, so that others can download their actions.
Actions would then at least consist of the following "meta" information:
- version of action file format/XML?
- name of action
- description of action
- pre-requisites of action (i.e. certain tools)
- type/context of embedding/GUI integration (i.e. toolbar/context menus)
- context in which the action is valid and applicable (i.e. only for branches or tags)
- optional symbol/icon to be used within the GUI
So, the original idea was mainly to provide means for "static plugins" to be integrated into the GUI, so that "smart actions" can be implemented which are "context-aware", so that these actions only show up in the right context (think of context menu).
Hope, this clariefies the idea
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I've read the other postings, and personally I have to admit that I am not sure whether I agree about the future scope of qgit possibly becoming restricted to be mainly a repository tracker/viewer:
I just don't see the benefits in such a decision. However, on the other hand I really don't suggest qgit to become a fully-fledged git/GUI frontend anytime soon, rather I would hope qgit to become a generic "framework" for git-related GUI operations, regardless of whether they are passive or active. Hopefully, providing the core infrastructure required to enable its user base and community to provide individual functionality, for example in the form of custom actions that can be easily exported/imported by users and thus be shared within the community. And I am saying this for a reason: you might happen to know diff/patch frontends like Kompare or KDiff3, if you check out the history of these projects, as well as the overall nature of feature requests and suggestions made, you'll notice one trend: genericity.
A high degree of interoperability is becoming more and more important, users want to be able to use these GUI frontends to diff/patch with all sorts of SCM/RCS frontends (cvs,svn,hq,git etc), but they also want to be able to highly customize the GUI for certain specific purposes, i.e. so that they can provide specifically adapted frontends. However, these projects are now facing a challenge because of their rather static and inflexible design, which can no longer accomodate many of the recently requested features, as these would basically require a framework-centric thinking, where the hardcoded core is mainly providing an infrastructure to high level logics that may implement various types of abstract case-specific "applications".
And this is a pity, as it is simply in the nature of these projects to be primarily used by fellow developers, who usually happen to be quite familiar with coding and would more often than not like to be able to provide additional functionality.
Thus, I think that it is important to keep this in mind, so that this manpower may be leveraged for the sake of project's progress.
In this sense, I actually do like the approach of implementing higher level logics in a scripted fashion, i.e. by using Python. preferably using a dynamic architecture that can be easily extended using Plugins at runtime, where the community is encouraged and enabled to provide arbitrary high level wrappers on top of the actual core application, which would boil down to becoming a framework for patch management related tasks.
Assuming a certain degree of "evolution" taking place, it would only be natural that such a framework-centric development philosophy would eventually result in generic scripted libraries being derived from otherwise standalone scripts.
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I agree with you that flexibility and possibility to integrate external plugins is for sure a big plus.
Currently custom actions are saved as plain text, but the idea to use xml format instead is appealing.
Regarding interoperability with all sorts of SCM/RCS frontends (cvs,svn,hq,git etc) I would think that is very difficult that a single tool can achieve this, or, also if it is possible, I would expect results in terms of performance/code manteinability and so on would be sub-optimal.
From the experience I have with QGit I would say that the biggest part of the code and also the most "difficult" is the one that interface git, IOW is the one SCM dependant. In case you want to connect to different SCM you need to duplicate that part. Unfortunatly the code that can be reused 'as is' for different backends, i.e. the graphical part of qgit, is not the 90%, I would say we are more or less at 40-50%.
Anyhow is impossible for me to state how qgit will evolve in the future, what I'm sure is that I really don't want to block the updates/patches/ideas that come from the users. qgit will go where it's user/hacker base will choose, I will stay open to any contribute from anybody.
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Just to clarify: I really wasn't trying to suggest that Qgit itself should feature support for
multiple RCS/SCM backends, after all it's Q*GIT* - so it's purpose is pretty specific, and I don't mind
this at all. However, the original example was only meant to point out the requirement for
flexibility and extendsibility for most generic patch managers.
And in the context of qgit, I would personally also like to see an architecture that
encourages and enables community involvement. For example, I would like to have the
possibility to show a preview of patches directly in the main window or to add a
combo box (dropdown menu) showing all branches and tags in the main window, likewise
it would be interesting to eventually have the possibility to open multiple git repositories
and execute actions between them.
There are more examples for the power behind the aforementioned philosophy of framework-centric software development:
- you delegate the development of high level frontends to the user community
- core stability is not affectd
- new code can be added without recompiling qgit
- development of new features can be facilitated by providing the low level infrastructure
In this sense, it would actually be desirable to see a hybrid approach of qgit/git-gui, simply because
it would allow the flexibility of a dynamic, scripted approach, with the benefit of a native excutable,
which would mean that a qgit/git-gui hybrid would be based on an embedded python interpreter to
facilitate plugin integration.
This could be facilitated by removing the different between native and custom actions: if
native actions are implemented using the same means as custom actions are using, then the
playground is levelled off.
So, whether actions are passive or active doesn't matter anymore, users decide.
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Here are some thoughts concerning the use of XML to save/share custom actions:
- it would make sense to introduce the concept of "classes" or "types" of custom actions, depending on what sort of data they're dealing with, so that qgit can embed them appropriately and disable/hide actions if their functionality is not applicable to the currently active GUI element
- embedding should also take place accordingly, i.e. in a toolbar or context menu
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WRT interoperability: git supports already a multitude of wrappers for things like cvs and svn, so you can form example work with CVS and SVN repositories easily using git.
Apart from that I would also appreciate a way to expose more of these command line wrappers to the QGIT UI, so that custom actions can be defined. If these could be shared and exchanged with fellow users, all the better! That way, QGIT could easily become an interactive repository viewer/frontend.


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Yes it beat wall streets lowered "9 cents EPS expectations". What we are looking at is another case of manufactured earnings surprise.
Rick, not only that, when you dive into the numbers a big chunk of the earnings was because of a tax credit, not because of operations. Amazon is an internet era bubble stock, a bubble inflated with poop, that is going to burst and when it happens it isn't going to be pretty. It's going to smell bad too. Amazon long investors need to purchase hazmat suits; I'm sure Amazon sells them ;)
Old story. The revenue and guidance missed, the stock is up. I don't read much in "earnings beat" (let's see how they arrive at it), the guidance is now for a loss in Q2 vs. expected profit (-$0.36 vs. $0.22 a share!), which means further revisions down in yearly EPS. They may end losing money again in 2013.
AMZN's valuation has been completely irrational for many years. Despite outlooks that are heavily weighted toward the negatives and shrinking margins, the stock continues to climb. Why doesn't this change? I'm guessing a cartel is running it up. Massive purchasing and selling around the same people at increasingly higher prices, in conjunction with positively-charged reviews, reports and headlines to fool the algorithmic trading programs, are wreaking havoc on rational traders who assume this system is fair... Of course, this is all conjecture. Feel free to waste your money trying to short or put this stock. Or you can join the irrational group and hope that the market remains oblivious.
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Let's face it—what do any of us really know about language? If you had a gun to your head, could you tell me the difference between "farther" or "further," or spell "minuscule" correctly? To make matters worse, a lot of the things you think you know about words are probably wrong. In honor of National Grammar Day (March 4!) we'll be debunking dialectical deceit all month on Woot. Was your ninth-grade English teacher's classroom a house of lies? Find out from 74-time Jeopardy! champion (and self-proclaimed grammar Nazi) Ken Jennings.
Language Myth #1: Never End a Sentence with a Preposition!
During World War II, a memo was circulated in a British government department pointing out that some in the office were incorrectly ending sentences with prepositions—you know, short words used to express spatial relationships or semantic roles, like in, for, and of. An anonymous functionary (misidentified as Winston Churchill in many versions of the story) scribbled a snarky postscript calling the rule "offensive impertinence, up with which I will not put!"
This is one grammar rule that even non-grammarians assume they can scold people with. (Or "with which even non-grammarians assume they can scold people," as they would no doubt prefer.) It's been drummed into our heads by decades of grumpy schoolteachers. In one 1975 usage study, even 20 percent of professional writers agreed that the sentence-ending preposition was a huge no-no. But the whole thing is bogus. Not for a century has any actual grammarian supported the "rule." As long ago as 1926, usage guru H. W. Fowler was calling it a "cherished superstition."
The idea seems to have been dreamed up out of thin air in 1672 by English poet John Dryden, probably in imitation of the grammatical construction of Latin. Dryden complained, seemingly without an ounce of self-awareness, that the so-called "great" Elizabethan playwrights broke this super-important "rule" all the time. (What hacks! You mean, "We are such stuff on which dreams are made," right, Shakespeare?) Dryden didn't seem to realize that there are many constructions where postponing the preposition is preferable or even necessary. So the next time you ask an English professor what page he's on, and he asks you to re-cast the sentence, be sure to reply, "Okay. What page are you on, douchebag?"
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Thanks for the post. I cannot tell you how often my coworkers and I agree on this issue.
"These aren't the droids for which you are looking"
The Maltese Falcon is the name of the movie to which you are referring.
I thought this one was fairly common knowledge. Usually the person yelling out, "You can't end a sentence with a preposition!" is followed by an equally annoying Boo-Boo Bear yelling, "That's a myth, stupid!". I remember being taught in school as far back as the 80s that the rule was a misguided attempt to mimic Latin, where apparently it actually does matter.
A friend told me that his college professor explained that it was in emulation of Latin, where it's not so much incorrect as often awkward-sounding, and "there is nothing in Latin that we should aspire to."
Everybody looked at said friend, wondering what he was laughing at. Sorry, wondering at what he was laughing...which, I might add, is now ambiguous.
In high school, I was taught that, at the end of the day, there are only two grammar rules. First, your point must be clear to your audience. Second, it shouldn't sound clumsy. That's it.
The shopping list of other rules, regulations, guidelines, and diagrams are for making it easier to achieve those goals, not the goals themselves. And putting the preposition at the beginning of the prepositional phrase is going to often push you toward clearer, smoother expression. So from that perspective, it makes an acceptable "rule."
5367129 said, "The shopping list of other rules, regulations, guidelines, and diagrams are for making it easier to achieve those goals, not the goals themselves. And putting the preposition at the beginning of the prepositional phrase is going to often push you toward clearer, smoother expression. So from that perspective, it makes an acceptable 'rule.'"
I agree and all grammar rules were started sometime by someone. A rule having started in 1672 and still followed today has some historical clot.
Heh heh. Boo Boo Bear.
Anyway, I had always though the correct way to correct this faux pas was to repeat the sentence, adding a derogatory word at the end. Generally a hole dug to hold a donkey, or the common usage for a female dog.
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Nice work, ForbzyT! Maltese Falcon is indeed the movie of which I was thinking of.
I think the notion is still useful as a stylistic guideline. In bad writing, the word or concept that a preposition is referring to is often unclear. Inasmuch as prepositions are inherently relational, a lack of clarity here is often problematic. At least thinking about this particular 'rule' - whether or not you choose to follow it - will generally help you avoid this lack of clarity (unless, of course, you are aiming to obfuscate).
crkline2 wrote:I agree and all grammar rules were started sometime by someone. A rule having started in 1672 and still followed today has some historical clot.
That's something that hadn't occurred to me, actually. If this isn't a rule, what's makes something a "real" rule?
whoiskenjennings wrote:Nice work, ForbzyT! Maltese Falcon is indeed the movie of which I was thinking of.
I see what you did there...
Not that I ever believed or followed this "rule", but whenever I hear something about it, I've always been reminded immediately of "Beavis and Butthead Do America"
- Chief. You know that guy whose camper they were whackin' off in?
- Bork, you're a Federal Agent. You represent the United States government. Never end a sentence with a preposition.
- Oh, uhh. You know that guy in whose camper they -- I mean, that guy off in whose camper they were whacking?
- That's better.
jcolag wrote:That's something that hadn't occurred to me, actually. If this isn't a rule, what's makes something a "real" rule?
It would certainly help if any authority at all in the last, say, century still stood by it.
Or if it was widely observed by good writers before, during, or after the time it was formulated.
jcolag wrote:And putting the preposition at the beginning of the prepositional phrase is going to often push you toward clearer, smoother expression.
I think you might have to argue this, not just assert it. Prepositional phrases do have the preposition first ("at school," "under the bed") but sentence-ending prepositions don't occur in phrases like these, as a moment's thought will reveal. They're usually in relative clauses or similar constructions.
How is "I have the stuff for which you were asking" inherently smoother or clearer than "I have the stuff you were asking for"? It's not. In different variations, one version may have better cadence than the other, but clarity of expression is rarely at stake--and when it is, it probably favors preposition-at-the-end more often than not.
I agree completely, but there are times when a preposition at the end of a QUESTION is wrong (they're sentences too, you know!). For example: "Where are you going to?" or "Where did she put it at?"
In each example above, lop off that pesky preposition at the end because it's not needed, it's redundant. Indeed, the questions even sound better without them.
But that isn't a Rule, either. :-)
whoiskenjennings wrote:How is "I have the stuff for which you were asking" inherently smoother or clearer than "I have the stuff you were asking for"? It's not.
Fair, but clearer in many cases than either would be "I have what you wanted." Or specify what it is; I know I ask for a lot of things over the course of a day.
(Another possible point, wherein we're both wrong--though I forget the relevant linguistics to make the point--is that the "for" in your example may not be a preposition. Parts of speech are roles, not words, and prepositions are relational. Maybe I'm dense or there's a complement that's left understood, but I don't see what roles "for" relates.)
Maybe it's because I'm a programmer and work that way generally, but it seems perfectly viable to push borderline phrasing into the outright unpleasant so that it's replaced by something else. "...Or avoid the preposition entirely," seems implied.
As I said, I don't usually adhere to the guideline. I think I'm usually a clear enough writer that it doesn't help enough to spend time on it. I've also never demanded that anybody else follow it, because that's obnoxious even when right.
But where anything sounds off, I'll take what help on which I can get the hands of me (hey, possessives stink, too).
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Skip to comments.Other than the Bible, what are the most important Christian texts?
Posted on 04/22/2008 12:08:45 PM PDT by ChurtleDawg
Other than the Holy Bible, what writings should every Christian try to find and read, in your opinion?
For example: The Didache, writings by early Christian apologetics like Justin Matyr, St. Augustine's books, The Nicene Creed, the works of C.S. Lewis, Pope Benedict's book "Jesus of Nazareth", the Dead Sea Scrolls....etc.
These can be any book, writing or article that you think was essential to your understanding of Christianity, theology or to your interpretation of the Bible.
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In The Beginning Was Information, by Dr Werner Gitt
The Dictionary.
By your tagline I see you are probably an Eastern Christian, like my mother.
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They play quotes from Chesterton on the Catholic Channel on Sirius radio. I like him alot.
Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper-—GK Chesterton
Fantastic List. This is the kind of heavy theological writing that I was looking for.
Crossing The Thresshold Of Hope, Pope John Paul II.
Bondage Of The Will; Luther
Confessions; Augustine
The Holiness Of God; Sproul
Anything by Jonathan Edwards
Putting Amazing Back Into Grace; Horton
Modern Reformation; published 6 times a year
Your Best Life Now (just checking to see if anyone is reading this)
I'm trying to gather my nerve to read City Of God by Augustine
Ohhhhh, BB Warfield. But of course!
Don't let Soliton throw you; Asimov was an anti-Christian bigot and his books (I read many as a teen-ager) reflect his ignorant prejudices against the Bible and Christianity. They are worth reading mainly as a study into the minds of secular humanists.
I have an eclectic mix of suggestions - Chesterton and Lewis, as others have said, are worth reading, and Bunyan's works (not just PP) are always enjoyable lighter reading. I haven't ready Randy Alcorn (yet, someone gave me a copy of one of his books recently), but John MacArthur has also written a study on heaven that, as someone mentioned, is a worthy topic of study. For apologetics, look up the works of Jonathan Sarfati, Leonard Brand, Cornelius Van Til and Greg Bahnsen, not to mention Josh McDowell.
Dave Noebel's work on worldviews (Understand the Times) is another must-read, as are the works of Francis Schaeffer. John Foxe's Book of Martyrs (or better yet, Vol. I and II of Jesus Freaks by DC Talk - seriously) should also be read by Christians generally. And on the subject of persecution, Richard Wurmbrand's autobiographical book Tortured for Christ is a classic (you might even be able to get it free from Voice of the Martyrs at Persecution.com).
On social issues, Marvin Olasky is a favorite of mine, but I hesitate to recommend more without knowing what your specific interests may be. There is a lot of great Christian literature out there, but it tends not to be found unless you make an effort to look for it (Satan/the world aren't exactly in the business of promoting God's perspective, ya know?)
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First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians. Written during the apostolic age and read alongside scripture in many local churches prior to Nicea, Clement I explicitly states in its central chapter (44) that the process by which the episcopal college succeeded the apostolic college was established by the apostles themselves.
Indeed, He has Risen!
I was surprised that that far down in the thread nobody had mentioned him.
The Fathers of the Church in general. I've read so much of them over the years - I've essentially learned my Faith from them.
Take a shot of whiskey and go for it!
A good trick to study St. Augustine for those who want to do so, since he wrote so much, is to start with his Retractions written late in his life. He corrects errors he made in his earlier works, but it also gives you an outline and timeline - by him - of all his earlier writings and how to read and understand them better.
His Civitas Dei is a "civilizational" classic. I think I remember your name as a Protestant and not to scare you, but the current Pope of the Catholic Church, Benedict XVI, has been heavily influenced by St. Augustine "the Doctor of Grace" throughout his theological career.
Just the Bible. No more, no less.
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Not to be flippant, but you are here reading FR...
1. The Bible
2. Roberts Rules of Order
How about the Gospel of Truth? And throw in 'Paradise Lost' and 'Pilgrim's Progress' for the Protestants. :-)
Im trying to gather my nerve to read City Of God by Augustine
The weight of it is a bit daunting. On the plus side, the dispies don't like it.
Asimov was an anti-Christian bigot and his books (I read many as a teen-ager) reflect his ignorant prejudices against the Bible and Christianity.
Not even a good Jew -- he was an "Ethical Humanist", or somesuch (and, I have read, at the end did not face death well).
Asimov wasn't so much a bigot as he was an outspoken Atheist.
Thank You! What books outside sacred scripture have influenced you? I mentioned the Eusebius classic b/c it opened my eyes to the unspeakable persecution in the early church. Reading about the courage and perseverance of those early saints made me my heart ache and feel ashamed of how easy I have it. It drives a stake through the heart of the false gospels of greed popular today.
but the current Pope of the Catholic Church, Benedict XVI, has been heavily influenced by St. Augustine "the Doctor of Grace" throughout his theological career.
Everyone (in the West) claims him.
Sad it took 10 replies before this was posted.
"The Christian in Complete Armour" - William Gurnall
A towering masterpiece.
"Im trying to gather my nerve to read City Of God by Augustine"
I just began reading it and have made through 70 pages thus far. Very practical. It washes away any doubt that Augustine was anything but a dedicated Bible beleiver.(He never claimed to be infallibale anyway.)
retract my earlier Retractions to Retractationes.
is there a printed edition somewhere that you can point me to? (In English.)
Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren
I'll research more on what is available in English currently. I know Ignatius Press has several paperback books of at least partial translations of the Fathers.
A quick google search returned me this:
John Flavel - The Fountain of Life Opened Up: A display of Christ in his essential and mediatorial glory.
C. H. Mackintosh - Notes on the Pentateuch
Elisabeth Elliot - Shadow of the Almighty: Life and Testament of Jim Elliot
The two-volume biography of Hudson Taylor by Mrs. Howard Taylor.
A quick google search returned me this:
The Retractations
Which is more expensive that the same item brand new from Amazon. Oy! Was hoping for a cheap copy. Well, it's pretty far down my list, as it is.
I think that any Christian, whether they are Baptist, Orthodox or Catholic, could read Benedict's "Jesus of Nazareth" and gain great insight from it.
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I am reading that book. It is great!
Here is a link to Banner of Truth Press. They reprint Puritan books.
The most important sacred texts of the Episcopal Church:
1. The United Nations Millenium Development Goals.
2. Bishop John Shelby Spong, "Living in Sin."
3. Bishop Gene Robinson, "In the Eye of the Storm: Swept to the Center by God."
4. The Gospel of Judas.
5. The DaVinci Code
6. Thomas Anthony Harris, "I'm OK, You're OK."
7. Richard Bach, "Jonathan Livingston Seagull."
I agree, "The Imitation of Christ" by Thomas a'Kempis is truly a great work. Fulton Sheen's books are also worthy of this list.
Tender Warrior by Stew Webber, incredible spiritual growth book for men.
I would recommend Gerald Walsh's translation of City of God. It is abdriged, but like many writers of the era, they tended to go off on tangents for pages and pages. I didn't have it in me to handle the whole thing, so the abridged version (still 400 pages) stood in while I was in Iraq and reading it.
***the current Pope of the Catholic Church, Benedict XVI, has been heavily influenced by St. Augustine***
That's OK. Reformed Christians from Luther, Calvin down to Sproul today are Augustinians.
I have it on my shelf. Read the first few pages and put it up. It's one of those books that will mean a lot to me in a couple of years, it's just not foing anything for me right now.
I'm reading Keller's "The Reason For God" right now. Very good apologetic.
Parts of The Talmud are very interesting.
Probably the best Protestant devotional work ever written are the sermons of Lancelot Andrewes (who was likely the most influential person in determining the style and sensibility of the King James Bible).
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