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But, it is said, our religion is gone: we no longer believe in St. Edmund, no longer see the figure of him 'on the rim of the sky,' minatory or confirmatory! God's absolute Laws, sanctioned by an eternal Heaven and an eternal Hell, have become Moral Philosophies, sanctioned by able computations of Profit and Loss, by weak considerations of Pleasures of Virtue and the Moral Sublime
It is even so. To speak in the ancient dialect, we 'have forgotten God;' -- in the most modern dialect and very truth of the matter, we have taken up the Fact of this Universe as it is not. We have quietly closed our eyes to the eternal Substance of things, and opened them only to the Shews and Shams of things. We quietly believe this Universe to be intrinsically a great unintelligible perhaps; extrinsically, clear enough, it is a great, most extensive Cattlefold and Workhouse, with most extensive Kitchen-ranges, Dining-tables, -- whereat he is wise who can find a place! All the Truth of this Universe is uncertain; only the profit and loss of it, the pudding and praise of it, are and remain very visible to the practical man.
There is no longer any God for us! God's Laws are become a Greatest-Happiness Principle, a Parliamentary Expediency: the Heavens overarch us only as an Astronomical Time-keeper; a butt for Herschel-telescopes to shoot science at, to shoot sentimentalities at: -- in our and old Jonson's dialect, man has lost the soul out of him; and now, after the due period, -- begins to find the want of it! This is verily the plague-spot; centre of the universal Social Gangrene, threatening all modern things with frightful death. To him that will consider it, here is the stem, with its roots and taproot, with its world-wide upas-boughs and accursed poison-exudations, under which the world lies writhing in atrophy and agony. You touch the focal-centre of all our disease, of our frightful nosology of diseases, when you lay your hand on this. There is no religion; there is no God; man has lost his soul, and vainly seeks antiseptic salt. Vainly: in killing Kings, in passing Reform Bills, in French Revolutions, Manchester Insurrections, is found no remedy. The foul elephantine leprosy, alleviated for an hour, reappears in new force and desperateness next hour.
For actually this is not the real fact of the world; the world is not made so, but otherwise! -- Truly, any Society setting out from this No-God hypothesis will arrive at a result or two. The Unveracities, escorted, each Unveracity of them by its corresponding Misery and Penalty; the Phantasms, and Fatuities, and ten-years Corn-Law Debatings, that shall walk the Earth at noonday, -- must needs be numerous! The Universe being intrinsically a Perhaps, being too probably an 'infinite Humbug,' why should any minor Humbug astonish us? It is all according to the order of Nature; and Phantasms riding with huge clatter along the streets, from end to end of our existence, astonish nobody. Enchanted St. Ives' Workhouses and Joe-Manton Aristocracies; giant Working Mammonism near strangled in the partridge-nets of giant-looking Idle Dilettantism, -- this, in all its branches, in its thousand thousand modes and figures, is a sight familiar to us.
The Popish Religion, we are told, flourishes extremely in these years; and is the most vivacious-looking religion to be met with at present. "Elle a trois cents ans dans le ventre," counts M. Jouffroy; "c'est pourquoi je la respecte!" -- The old Pope of Rome, finding it laborious to kneel so long while they cart him through the streets to bless the people on Corpus-Christi Day, complains of rheumatism; whereupon his Cardinals consult; -- construct him, after some study, a stuffed cloaked figure, of iron and wood, with wool or baked hair; and place it in a kneeling posture. Stuffed figure, or rump of a figure; to this stuffed rump he, sitting at his ease on a lower level, joins, by the aid of cloaks and drapery, his living head and outspread hands: the rump with its cloaks kneels, the Pope looks, and holds his hands spread; and so the two in concert bless the Roman population on Corpus-Christi Day [Thursday after Trinity Sunday], as well as they can.
I have considered this amphibious Pope, with the wool-and-iron back, with the flesh head and hands; and endeavoured to calculate his horoscope. I reckon him the remarkablest Pontiff that has darkened God's daylight, or painted himself in the human retina, for these several thousand years. Nay, since Chaos first shivered, and 'sneezed,' as the Arabs say, with the first shaft of sunlight shot through it, what stranger product was there of Nature and Art working together? Here is a Supreme Priest who believes God to be -- What in the name of God does he believe God to be? -- and discerns that all worship of God is a scenic phantasmagory of wax-candles, organ-blasts, Gregorian Chants, mass-brayings, purple monsignori, wool-and-iron rumps, artistically spread out, -- to save the ignorant from worse.
O reader, I say not who are Belial's elect. This poor amphibious Pope too gives loaves to the Poor; has in him more good latent than he is himself aware of. His poor Jesuits, in the late Italian Cholera, were, with a few German Doctors, the only creatures whom dastard terror had not driven mad: they descended fearless into all gulfs and bedlams; watched over the pillow of the dying, with help, with counsel and hope; shone as luminous fixed stars, when all else had gone out in chaotic night: honour to them! This poor Pope, -- who knows what good is in him? In a Time otherwise too prone to forget, he keeps up the mournfulest ghastly memorial of the Highest, Blessedest, which once was; which, in new fit forms, will again partly have to be. Is he not as a perpetual death's-head and cross-bones, with their Resurgam, on the grave of a Universal Heroism, -- grave of a Christianity? Such Noblenesses, purchased by the world's best heart's-blood, must not be lost; we cannot afford to lose them, in what confusions soever. To all of us the day will come, to a few of us it has already come, when no mortal, with his heart yearning for a 'Divine Humility,' or other 'Highest form of Valour,' will need to look for it in death's-heads, but will see it round him in here and there a beautiful living head.
Besides, there is in this poor Pope, and his practice of the Scenic Theory of Worship, a frankness which I rather honour. Not half and half, but with undivided heart does he set about worshipping by stage-machinery; as if there were now, and could again be, in Nature no other. He will ask you, What other? Under this my Gregorian Chant, and beautiful wax-light Phantasmagory, kindly hidden from you is an Abyss, of black Doubt, Scepticism, nay Sansculottic Jacobinism; an Orcus that has no bottom. Think of that. 'Groby Pool is thatched with pancakes,' -- as Jeannie Deans's Innkeeper defied it to be! The Bottomless of Scepticism, Atheism, Jacobinism, behold, it is thatched over, hidden from your despair, by stage-properties judiciously arranged. This stuffed rump of mine saves not me only from rheumatism, but you also from what other isms! In this your Life-pilgrimage Nowhither, a fine Squallacci marching-music, and Gregorian Chant, accompanies you, and the hollow Night of Orcus is well hid!
Yes truly, few men that worship by the rotatory Calabash of the Calmucks do it in half so great, frank or effectual a way. Drury-lane, it is said, and that is saying much, may learn from him in the dressing of parts, in the arrangement of lights and shadows. He is the greatest Play-actor that at present draws salary in this world. Poor Pope; and I am told he is fast growing bankrupt too; and will, in a measurable term of years (a great way within the 'three hundred'), not have a penny to make his pot boil? His old rheumatic back will then get to rest; and himself and his stage-properties sleep well in Chaos forevermore.
Or, alas, why go to Rome for Phantasms walking the streets? Phantasms, ghosts, in this midnight hour, hold jubilee, and screech and jabber; and the question rather were, What high Reality anywhere is yet awake? Aristocracy has become Phantasm-Aristocracy, no longer able to do its work, not in the least conscious that it has any work longer to do. Unable, totally careless to do its work; careful only to clamour for the wages of doing its work, -- nay for higher, and palpably undue wages, and Corn-Laws and increase of rents; the old rate of wages not being adequate now! In hydra-wrestle, giant 'Millocracy' so called, a real giant, though as yet a blind one and but half-awake, wrestles and wrings in choking nightmare, 'like to be strangled in the partridge-nets of Phantasm-Aristocracy,' as we said, which fancies itself still to be a giant. Wrestles, as under nightmare, till it do awaken; and gasps and struggles thousandfold, we may say, in a truly painful manner, through all fibres of our English Existence, in these hours and years! Is our poor English Existence wholly becoming a Nightmare; full of mere Phantasms? --
The Champion of England, cased in iron or tin, rides into Westminster Hall, 'being lifted into his saddle with little assistance,' and there asks, If in the four quarters of the world, under the cope of Heaven, is any man or demon that dare question the right of this King? Under the cope of Heaven no man makes intelligible answer, -- as several men ought already to have done. Does not this Champion too know the world; that it is a huge Imposture, and bottomless Inanity, thatched over with bright cloth and other ingenious tissues? Him let us leave there, questioning all men and demons.
Him we have left to his destiny; but whom else have we found? From this the highest apex of things, downwards through all strata and breadths, how many fully awakened Realities have we fallen in with: -- alas, on the contrary, what troops and populations of Phantasms, not God-Veracities but Devil-Falsities, down to the very lowest stratum, -- which now, by such superincumbent weight of Unveracities, lies enchanted in St. Ives' Workhouses, broad enough, helpless enough! You will walk in no public thoroughfare or remotest byway of English Existence but you will meet a man, an interest of men, that has given up hope in the Everlasting, True, and placed its hope in the Temporary, half or wholly False. The Honourable Member complains unmusically that there is 'devil's-dust' in Yorkshire cloth. Yorkshire cloth, -- why, the very Paper I now write on is made, it seems, partly of plaster-lime well-smoothed, and obstructs my writing! You are lucky if you can find now any good Paper, -- any work really done; search where you will, from highest Phantasm apex to lowest Enchanted basis!
Consider, for example, that great Hat seven-feet high, which now perambulates London Streets: which my Friend Sauerteig regarded justly as one of our English notabilities; "the topmost point as yet," said he, "would it were your culminating and returning point, to which English Puffery has been observed to reach!" -- The Hatter in the Strand of London, instead of making better felt-hats than another, mounts a huge lath-and-plaster Hat, seven-feet high, upon wheels; sends a man to drive it through the streets; hoping to be saved thereby. He has not attempted to make better hats, as he was appointed by the Universe to do, and as with this ingenuity of his he could very probably have done; but his whole industry is turned to persuade us that he has made such! He too knows that the Quack has become God. Laugh not at him, O reader; or do not laugh only. He has ceased to be comic; he is fast becoming tragic. To me this all-deafening blast of Puffery, of poor Falsehood grown necessitous, of poor Heart-Atheism fallen now into Enchanted Workhouses, sounds too surely like a Doom's-blast! I have to say to myself in old dialect: "God's blessing is not written on all this; His curse is written on all this!" Unless perhaps the Universe be a chimera; -- some old totally deranged eightday clock, dead as brass; which the Maker, if there ever was any Maker, has long ceased to meddle with? -- To my Friend Sauerteig this poor seven-feet Hat-manufacturer, as the topstone of English Puffery, was very notable.
Alas, that we natives note him little, that we view him as a thing of course, is the very burden of the misery. We take it for granted, the most rigorous of us, that all men who have made anything are expected and entitled to make the loudest possible proclamation of it; call on a discerning public to reward them for it. Every man his own trumpeter; that is, to a really alarming extent, the accepted rule. Make loudest possible proclamation of your Hat: true proclamation if that will do; if that will not do, then false proclamation, -- to such extent of falsity as will serve your purpose; as will not seem too false to be credible! -- I answer, once for all, that the fact is not so. Nature requires no man to make proclamation of his doings and hat-makings; Nature forbids all men to make such. There is not a man or hat-maker born into the world but feels, at first, that he is degrading himself if he speak of his excellencies and prowesses, and supremacy in his craft: his inmost heart says to him, "Leave thy friends to speak of these; if possible, thy enemies to speak of these; but at all events, thy friends!" He feels that he is already a poor braggart; fast hastening to be a falsity and speaker of the Untruth.
Nature's Laws, I must repeat, are eternal: her small still voice, speaking from the inmost heart of us, shall not, under terrible penalties, be disregarded. No one man can depart from the truth without damage to himself; no one million of men; no Twenty-seven Millions of men. Shew me a Nation fallen everywhere into this course, so that each expects it, permits it to others and himself, I will shew you a Nation travelling with one assent on the broad way. The broad way, however many Banks of England, Cotton-Mills and Duke's Palaces it may have! Not at happy Elysian fields, and everlasting crowns of victory, earned by silent Valour, will this Nation arrive; but at precipices, devouring gulfs, if it pause not. Nature has appointed happy fields, victorious laurel-crowns; but only to the brave and true; Unnature, what we call Chaos, holds nothing in it but vacuities, devouring gulfs. What are Twenty-seven Millions, and their unanimity? Believe them not: the Worlds and the Ages, God and Nature and All Men say otherwise.
'Rhetoric all this?' No, my brother, very singular to say, it is Fact all this. Cocker's Arithmetic is not truer. Forgotten in these days, it is old as the foundations of the Universe, and will endure till the Universe cease. It is forgotten now; and the first mention of it puckers thy sweet countenance into a sneer: but it will be brought to mind again, -- unless indeed the Law of Gravitation chance to cease, and men find that they can walk on vacancy. Unanimity of the Twenty-Seven Millions will do nothing: walk not thou with them; fly from them as for thy life. Twenty-seven Millions travelling on such courses, with gold jingling in every pocket, with vivats heaven-high, are incessantly advancing, let me again remind thee, towards the firm-land's end, -- towards the end and extinction of what Faithfulness, Veracity, real Worth, was in their way of life. Their noble ancestors have fashioned for them a 'life-road;' -- in how many thousand senses, this! There is not an old wise Proverb on their tongue, an honest Principle articulated in their hearts into utterance, a wise true method of doing and despatching any work or commerce of men, but helps yet to carry them forward. Life is still possible to them, because all is not yet Puffery, Falsity, Mammon-worship and Unnature; because somewhat is yet Faithfulness, Veracity and Valour. With a certain very considerable finite quantity of Unveracity and Phantasm, social life is still possible; not with an infinite quantity! Exceed your certain quantity, the seven-feet Hat, and all things upwards to the very Champion cased in tin, begin to reel and flounder, -- in Manchester Insurrections, Chartisms, Sliding-scales; the Law of Gravitation not forgetting to act. You advance incessantly towards the land's end; you are, literally enough, 'consuming the way.' Step after step, Twenty-seven Million unconscious men; -- till you are at the land's end; till there is not Faithfulness enough among you any more: and the next step now is lifted not over land, but into air, over ocean-deeps and roaring abysses: -- unless perhaps the Law of Gravitation have forgotten to act?
O, it is frightful, when a whole Nation, as our Fathers used to say, has 'forgotten God;' has remembered only Mammon, and what Mammon leads to! When your self-trumpeting Hatmaker is the emblem of almost all makers, and workers, and men, that make anything, -- from soul-overseerships, body-overseerships, epic poems, acts of parliament, to hats and shoe-blacking! Not one false man but does uncountable mischief: how much, in a generation or two, will Twenty-seven Millions, mostly false, manage to accumulate? The sum of it, visible in every street, market-place, senate-house, circulating-library, cathedral, cotton-mill, and union-workhouse, fills one not with a comic feeling!
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I was not expecting Southampton fans to be over the moon about the current transfer business in this summer window, but I wasn't quite prepared for some of the over the top reactions from some.
It's like they've forgotten who they are. Saints have always lost their top players to those bigger and supposedly better clubs, it's the way it has always been. Talk of a fire-sale is crazy.
When Saints first team players are leaving for the likes of Stoke City and Aston Villa, then it will be time to worry about the intentions of the board. In reality are best players are being touted by clubs in a position to pay them more money and offer them Champion's League football. It seems like a disaster because 'so many' are leaving…
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Football fans from all over the country are expected to touch down at Toronto-area airports ahead of the 100th Grey Cup this week.
But Calgary resident Jeremy Ballantine decided to make a trip of it instead and is hitting the open road on the bus.
"If I have a choice, why not sit on a bus and really enjoy myself? I get to meet people, I get to see the beautiful countryside, and I don't have to drive," said the 29-year-old.
The round-trip Greyhound ticket cost him $300, considerably less than a plane or train trip would have set him back. He estimates he saved between $800 and $1,100.
Ballantine decided the bus would be an affordable way to spare his 1994 Ford Escort the roughly 3,400-kilometre trip down the Trans-Canada Hwy. He suspected the car probably wouldn't be as keen on making the trip as he is.
Ballantine is chronicling his journey across the country for CBC Calgary in the form of blog posts, radio hits and videos.
He's attending the game with his brother, who is also from Calgary. He is alone on the bus, however; his brother has a wife and 3-year old son at home and couldn't justify being gone for so long, so he's travelling by plane.
Ballantine says he doesn't have as many commitments waiting for him to return, other than his now lonely girlfriend.
He booked the bus ticket a few weeks ago but he's had the tickets to the game since they went on sale last year.
"There are milestones that happen throughout life, and this is one of them," he said.
Ballantine embarked on the 55-hour trip Tuesday at noon, and is expected to arrive in Toronto on Thursday at 6 p.m.
Stamps fans with less definite travel plans can still get to Toronto and find a ticket to the game, although at this point, it won't be cheap.
WestJet announced Monday it was adding one flight from Calgary to Toronto and another from Toronto to Calgary.
A spokesperson said there are still seats remaining on the Friday flight from Calgary to Toronto, but that Monday's return trip was expected to sell out by the end of the day Wednesday.
The big game officially sold out back in June, but there are still tickets to be had if you're willing to shell out for them.
Ticket resale website StubHub lists the cheapest ticket at $299 in section 531. The most expensive ticket? A whopping $25,000, for an entire suite.
Ballantine, a lifelong Stampeders fan, saw his first game when he was 5, "and I've been hooked ever since."
This will be the second Grey Cup game he's attended; the first was in 2009 in Calgary, when the now infamous 13th-man blunder gave the Montreal Alouettes a victory over the Saskatchewan Roughriders in the dying minutes of the game.
Heading toward Toronto in anticipation of the atmosphere and excitement surrounding the 100th Grey Cup is one thing, but Ballantine acknowledged that heading back could be a different story.
"I'm hoping I'll have 55 hours of glow from a Calgary Stampeders victory," he said.
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Charlie's First Day/
When my daughter was born three years ago, I wrote a post detailing the day as part of the blog I write to my children every day.
I did the same when my son was born three weeks ago, and it has just passed my wife's rigorous vetting process.
For those who expressed interest (as well as those that did not), I give you Charlie's First Day:
The cesarean section was planned for Friday, June 1, but our son decided to come two days early on May 30. Elysha began labor on Tuesday night, but she only realized this the next day.
The same thing happened with the birth of our daughter. It would seem that in terms of discomfort and pain, labor and indigestion are nearly indistinguishable to my wife.
The next morning, Elysha recognized that she was having contractions, but they were irregularly spaced and still not painful. She probably should have realized that something was wrong when she awoke at 3:15 AM and could not go back to sleep. She eventually went to the kitchen at 4:45 to eat breakfast, an hour of the morning that I don't she's ever seen before that day.
After Clara and I left for school, Elysha called the vet to make an appointment for Kaleigh, who was suffering from terrible allergies. Licking, scratching, and making us crazy. When the receptionist said that the earliest appointment was three days away, Elysha began crying. The receptionist then offered a Saturday appointment, which in her state of hormone insanity, she declined (creating problems for me later on). After hanging up the phone, she began crying hysterically until finally falling asleep in bed.
Looking back on that phone call, Elysha says this was the moment when she should have known that she was in labor.
When she awoke, she called the doctor's office and spoke to a nurse who told her to drink two glasses of water and wait for a return call. When the nurse called back five minutes later, she asked if Elysha had drunk the water.
"I drank one," she said.
"Don't drink the other," the nurse said. "Come in,"
When Elysha arrived at the doctor's office that morning, she was already three centimeters dilated and 75 percent effaced. She may have difficulty delivering children naturally, but her ability to go through labor relatively pain-free is remarkable.
Charlie's timing could not have been better, for a number of reasons.
First, I was at work when I received the call that the time had come. I had just finished my lunch and was minutes away from picking up my students from the cafeteria for an afternoon of teaching. This was to be followed by a district-wide curriculum meeting at Town Hall. I have always despised meetings, especially at the Town Hall where parking is near-impossible to find, so Charlie's first act in this world was to extricate his father from something he would not have enjoyed.
His early arrival also pleased my wife. She was not happy with the prospect of another c-section for many reasons, mostly pertaining to the recovery, but she also never liked the idea of planning the birth date for our child. She's always felt that a baby should be born when her body and the baby decide that the time is right. By coming two days early, Charlie did not allow doctors to choose his birthday. Like most children, he chose it for himself.
The early arrival also eliminated what would have surely been an anxiety-riddled Thursday night prior to the scheduled c-section, as well as the forced starvation that would have been required. Instead, Elysha enjoyed a relaxing Tuesday evening and even had some breakfast on Wednesday morning, not knowing that eight hours later, she would be in surgery, delivering her son.
Once the doctor realized that Elysha was in active labor, she sent her over to the hospital. I met her there, where she was waiting with Charlie's soon-to-be godmother, Kim. Nurses and doctors came and went, checking vital signs, presenting us with consent forms, reminding us that surgery can sometimes end in death, and preparing Elysha for the procedure. It took almost two hours before we were ready for the delivery, but with the hustle and bustle involved with the preparations, the time flew by.
At one point we were asked if we wouldn't mind allowing a Trinity College student to be present at the birth. He was doing a study on nurse interactions with patients and wanted to observe the ways in which the nurses assisted Elysha through the process. She consented, and so we were joined by Jake, who was only asked to leave (by Elysha) during the injection of Elysha's spinal and when she nursed Charlie for the first time.
Eventually we were brought to the operating room. Elysha went in ahead of me while I waited in an adjacent room. Fathers are never invited into the operating room until the mother is lying on the operating table, strapped down and drugged up. I'm not sure why this is the case, since this seems to be one of the most frightening moments of the process for mothers, but I spent my time, about twenty minutes in all, reading email, checking Twitter, texting friends about the possibility of golf on Sunday, and taking notes on a memoir proposal that I hope to complete this summer.
During the birth of Clara, I actually wrote sections of my second book. Prior to the transition to a c-section, Elysha pushed for four hours, so in between contractions, I would roll across the room and work on the novel. I had less time to write during Charlie's birth, but I managed to complete the outline of my memoir and add two additional scenes to it.
When I was finally invited inside the operating room, I was greeted by "Something" by The Beatles, playing on the Pandora station that Elysha had chosen for the delivery. This was the song that Elysha walked down the aisle to six years ago at our wedding, so it seemed like a good omen.
Like Elysha's previous cesarean section, the actual delivery only took about ten minutes. Putting her back together took considerably longer.
Unlike the previous c-section, Elysha was not cold and the suction line that had been positioned in my field of vision had been moved to a position out of my direct line of sight. I eventually saw the line with all its gore, but at least I was able to avoid staring at it while I sat there.
Charlie was born at 3:09 PM as the song "Turn Turn Turn" was playing in the background. Serendipity at its finest. I'm not sure if we could've chosen a more perfect song.
"It's a boy!" the doctor proclaimed and I began crying. A nurse explained that they had no tissues but offered me gauze to wipe my eyes. The doctor lifted him over the sheet as the nurse warned him not to "drip on us." We took our first look at our son.
Someone in the room asked what his name was and my wife shouted, "Charlie!" Her words sounded so happy and so right.
Then the nurses' work began. As they worked to measure and weigh and clean Charlie up, a nurse told us what was happening, step by step.
He weighed 7 pounds, 1 ounce. He was 18 inches long.
He scored a 9 on the Apgar.
A nurse named Heather began taking photographs. We were told that she was especially good at delivery room photos, and this turned out to be true. Even my highly discerning father-in-law thought these photos were perfection.
Charlie was grunting when he was born, a sign that his lungs were not yet clear of fluid, which is common for c-section babies. I was encouraged to hold him upright and pound on his back to make him cry, and when I was not deemed forceful enough, the self-proclaimed "mean" nurse took him away to attempt her own form of cruelty.
Eventually Charlie was taken to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in order to clear his lungs, and after about thirty minutes, he was returned to us in the recovery room, where Elysha was able to hold him for the first time.
Welcome to the world, Charles Wallace Dicks!


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Director Stephen Chow's martial arts filmmaking rattles across the screen like jazz, personality pouring directly from brain to hand to canvas. The incredible Kung Fu Hustle is the fight cinema equivalent of Dave Brubeck's "Take Five" — precisely composed, loose enough to swing. His latest, Journey to the West, is like the high school band's on the same standard.
True to his previous work, Chow strives to meld slapstick, wire work, and cultural profundity, but his take on the 16th century Chinese fantasy classic is unrefined and chaotic. Rich mythology drowns in garbage CGI as jokes pile up on screen with all the grace of a riot shotgun. But Journey to the West's core is still a jazz standard, with a bounce that's satisfying and familiar, even when it's incoherent.
Chow, who normally takes on writing, directing, and acting duties, remains behind the camera, enlisting The Sorcerer and the White Snake's Wen Zhang as the Demon Hunter Xuan Zang. While his contemporaries use brute force to smash devilish spirits to smithereens, Xuan Zang is a man of peace, calming enraged beasts with a book of nursery rhymes. He's not very successful.
In his first encounter, Xuan Zang strides in to a seaside town plagued by a blubbery fish demon. The film's lengthy prelude plays like a Rube Goldberg set-piece, Xuan Zang saving civilians, outrunning the oversized trout, and eventually pummeling it enough to recite a magical stanza or two.
But before Xuan Zang can bring out the fish's inner good, Miss Duan (The Transporter's Qi Shu) steps in for the kill. Armed with a magical, malleable, multiplying gold bracelet, Duan is the action hero alternative to Xuan Zang's pacifist demon hunter. The two are at constant odds. Whenever Xuan Zang encounters a beast worthy of nurturing back to human form, Miss Duan is right behind him, bagging her prey in a fury of punches and jump kicks. It's classic schoolyard pestering; Duan has the hots for Xuan Zang, a childlike soul with no interest in romance. He holds out for "deep love," a union with his one true love, whomever that might be. Who it's not is the sex-hungry Miss Duan.
Like previous adaptations of Journey to the West — including the original Dragon Ball manga and anime series — Chow's film is episodic, Xuan Zang, Duan, and the lady slayer's band of misfit sous-hunters trekking across China encountering an array of imaginative monsters. Quality-wise, it's a grab bag. The opening fish fight is endless, slowly building to Xuan Zang's introduction after several story fake outs and cartoonish antics that land with a thud.
Chow excels in the smaller-scale tussles. The film's second fight, teaming Xuan Zang and Miss Duan against a Donny Osmond-looking devil, who bursts through his skin to become a snarling pig, rip roars with adept camerawork and integrated special effects. When the boar bursts through the doors of the warmly lit arena into the surrounding forests, the effect stands out as half-baked animation, blocky like the worst kind of CG video game cut scene.
Journey to the West relies heavily on physical humor that's too mean-spirited for its whimsical fantasy attitude. An obese woman running in slow-motion is funny because... she's fat. In a scene where Xuan Zang and Duan are captured by rival demon hunters, the naïve boy is threatened at knifepoint to have sex with his female competitor. Chow spins it into a gag, though the lingering taste remains. There may be a cultural disconnect between the Journey to the West's comedy and the typical Hollywood blockbuster. Which is fine — Chow's films provide us with a much-needed glimpse into the Chinese experience. But when gay bashing jokes start piling up, the archaic tone is repulsive and distracting.
Chow's vision coalesces in the film's final act. Xuan Zang's quest takes him to the lair of Sun Wukong aka the Monkey King, a demon imprisoned by Buddha himself. This is the ultimate showdown, and Chow pulls out all the stops, orchestrating a battle that's like a live-action hybrid of Dragon Ball Z and Looney Toons. Xuan Zang is assisted by a number of other hunters, including an elderly man with a giant foot, a strapping Chinese animagus, and a telepath who slings arrows at his adversaries.
It's joyous mayhem that's strengthened by Chow's reliance on classic myth; without warning, Journey to the West shifts gears to a story of cosmic balance and Buddhist philosophy. Everything before the Monkey King battle was fluff — silly and occasionally inspired, but fluff. But Chow's crescendo packs weight, his imagery every bit as jaw-droppingly grand as a battle between gods demands. The conclusion had me running to the Journey to the West Wikipedia page to learn the implications and reference points to fortify everything I had witnessed. Not even Thor could pull off that cultural call to arms.
Journey to the West suffers from scope. What should be an epic adventure of the Lord of the Rings ilk is constrained by constructed sets without any sense of geography. The movie strolls from soundstange to soundstage instead of traversing across a fantasy world. That worked perfectly for Kung Fu Hustle, solidified as a masterpiece by Journey's messy construction. But Chow is a valuable voice in the action world. He's nutty and wry. His heroes are more Charlie Chaplin than Jet Li. And even when the high school band is playing his tunes, they're intrinsically soulful.
The Verdict
Director Stephen Chow's action fantasy film Journey to the West is a miss, but a wild, reverent, explosive miss.


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By mellowburnyoga, Oct 26 2016 09:19PM
Ok so can someone tell me who took 2016? I mean seriously? Nearly November!? The world whizzes by and the wise words of my 98 year old granny ring true; the older you get, the faster it goes!
So Mellowburn... Since I last wrote there have been servings of Om Yoga Magazine October edition, Lululemon Athletica Guest Teacher, Guildford Highstreet Aveda Promo class and a brand new timetable including a regular vinyasa flow class at the wonderful Cafe Mila in Godalming and the joyful Akram Hot Yoga Studio in Woking... I have two exciting workshops coming up; Connective Couples and Complete Beginners in January... There are literally classes of all kinds coming out of my brain and my mouth onto the mat, themes from 'Acceptance' to the 'Twists and the SI joint' to 'Stress Reduction Endocrine Focus Restorative', 'Core Flow' ....
There also a new up and coming Seated Yoga class coming up as from next week.... The creative juices are joyfully flowing and I love it...A fulfilling timetable allows me to truly spread the net of yoga joy fast and far and my encounters with the loveliest of humans really is what keeps me buoyant in this flaky yoga world. There have been a few powerful moments lately witnessing people being so able to connect into themselves they've been able to really release onto their mats and express emotion that has been pent up within them and finally comes tumbling out in a positive release. I like that; its powerful and wonderful and humbling as a teacher.
It's true that yoga seems to attract a particular type of person; the ones that want inner peace are usually seeking a nice community from which to enjoy that, those that want to improve their health show compassion for themselves (Karuna) and their wish to feel better shines a light on their wish to make others feel better too. Yoga resonates with so many because it simply tunes you into the inner part of you that is perfect and whole. That untouched, pure part of you that resonates good and reminds us of who we really are. When you connect into that a lot, just by stopping, by breathing, by noticing, you can't help but want more of that and ultimately want to be a better version of yourself.
Autumn often brings about time for reflection and to be honest theres been a lot of that - I notice some folks craving the more advanced asanas (poses) and making their practice all about that; people believing thats what yoga is; makes me think how can I illuminate the other side to yoga? I'm not talking about suddenly studying the hindu scriptures here; but I am talking about the philosophy that underlines why we practice. Finding our truth; understanding our purpose; finding contentment through acceptance - this is what yoga in the west means... and building confidence to know that and to remain clear in that message, in a world where there are so many distractions. There are many ways of bringing the beauty of yogic philosophy in a practical sense to our yoga mats, in the hope that it reflects back into our normal every day worlds.
So yes, a bit of a philosophical one from me this blog and as always another learning journey... its a wonderful ride :)
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Just added a CB to my new works van, have a look let me know what you think.
My Peugeot Bipper Van setup
A place for pics, either of your setup, your vehicle, yourself or anything else!
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I know this is an old thread, but I was hoping someone could advise me on where to mount my rig in my bipper. I currently have it on the bulkhead between the seats, but I need to put it somewhere a bit handier. Any help greatly appreciated.
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Interior of Fort St George, Madras, [showing the Secretariat]
Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
Medium: Photographic print
Date: 1851
Photograph of the interior of Fort St George, at Madras, taken by Frederick Fiebig in c.1851. This view shows Fort Square in the foreground and the Secretariat, dating from 1694, in the distance. The top of the flagstaff, reputedly the tallest in India, is visible behind, and the monument to Lord Cornwallis beneath a rotunda stands in front. The fort was erected in the early 1640s by the British East India Company as a trading post and base for European residents, and the city of Madras grew up outside its walls. It was considerably expanded and its fortifications strengthened during the 17th and 18th centuries and many historic buildings were erected within its confines.Little seems to be known about Frederick Fiebig. He was probably born in Germany and became a lithographer (and possibly was also a piano teacher) in Calcutta, publishing a number of prints in the 1840s. In the late 1840s Fiebig turned to photography using the calotype process, producing prints that were often hand-coloured. His photographs includes several hundred views of Calcutta in the early 1850s, one of the earliest detailed studies of a city, a large hand coloured collection of which were bought by the East India Company in 1856, their first major acquisition of photographs. Among the roughly 500 pictures were views of Calcutta, Madras, Sri Lanka, Mauritius and Cape Town.


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There are many things for an American like myself to admire many about Canada, but one that doesn't make the list is Canada's inability to strongly defend of free speech. Canada's strict and extensive censorship laws infuriate both the Mark Steyn and Noam Chomsky ends of the political spectrum and to an American, the Canadian attitude towards free speech seems to ignore the benefits of frank and open exchange of ideas and values.
The most recent example of censorship tendencies getting taken too far is a Canadian response to the extreme unpopularity of Governor Rick Perry's new web ad.
Rick Perry recently released an ad for his presidential campaign where he argued that "there's something wrong in this country when gays can serve openly in the military but our kids can't openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school." Because of the divisive language used in the ad, it currently has (at the time of this blog post) over 345,000 "dislikes" on YouTube.
While it is not the absolutely most disliked video on YouTube, it is rapidly making its way towards that spot. The video now has more dislikes then some uploads of the infamous "Friday" music video by Rebecca Black.
So what is the response to this from Canadian media personality Amber MacArthur in the Globe and Mail? To suggest that the video should be taken down because it is "hate speech."
The Perry video is an open attack on the gay community. He clearly implies that homosexuals should not be allowed to serve in the military, just on the heels of President Barack Obama's repealed of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." As Obama stated in September, "Patriotic Americans in uniform will no longer have to lie about who they are in order to serve the country they love."
When Perry declares that "there's something wrong when gays can serve openly in the military" he is, per the YouTube guidelines, demeaning a group of people based on their sexual orientation/gender identity. The Pentagon has declared zero tolerance for such discrimination, so perhaps the Google-owned video service should follow suit.
Aside from Perry's offensive political ad, there is a larger life-and-death issue at hand here. Each year there are reports of teens committing suicide, many of whom were publicly bullied about their sexual orientation. It is disheartening to see a grown man, particularly one who aspires to be president of the United States, contributing to such hatred and to speak out against what is a legal right (for gays to serve in the military).
It only takes YouTube a few hours to pull down a video if it features copyright infringement, so maybe it's time for YouTube to take a stand and defend the rights of the gay community, and pull the plug on this discriminatory Rick Perry rant.
MacArthur seems to be missing the beauty of what is happening here. Perry's ad is reviled by many people and that opinion is being made loud and clear.
The ad was already generating bad press for Perry, but bad press combined with a quantitative measurement for how unpopular his views are is incredibly healthy in a democracy. If the video were to be taken down, we would have no way of knowing that his video is hated by a vast majority of people who take the time to rate it.
I suspect that many people who care about gay rights are encouraged to see that the majority of Americans making their opinion known think that Perry's comments are wrong.
Arguably, Rick Perry would be served much better if he could run for office in a nation where his offensive remarks were scrubbed from the public record so they would be unable to follow him around. Now I don't know much about Canada, but I do know that you can get elected to Parliament representing a French speaking province without speaking fluent French and that Alberta is the Texas of the North.
So once his campaign reaches its ignoble end, perhaps Perry should start a new political career in Edmonton.


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Another new home for Dar after
only a week with his 'girl friends'.
Here he is in a round pen so he and the other pasture horses can get used to each other.
You can see his old hoof injury.
A corrective farrier will be trimming Dar's hooves soon.
Dar is impatient to be out with
his new friends.
He stayed in the round pen just ~a day and then he went out to the pasture to play with his new friends and run off all his pent up energy. Dar won't be ridden much until the weather warms up and he becomes accustomed to his new home. Dar's hooves need trimming first, as well as to become used to everything new and feel at home.
Dar loves his grain. He has been a good
boy and feels he deserves the grain.
Just before this he almost knocked the bucket out of my hand, so I'm supporting it for him.
Dar in his new pasture.
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Thursday, March 31, 2011
Taxes: A Valid Excuse
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Labels: business of writing, Organization, taxes
Monday, March 28, 2011
Conbust was Great!
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Sunday, March 27, 2011
Broadly Speaking: Strong Female Characters
Our guests this month are:
*Joyce Chng, whose novel about Singaporean werewolves, Wolf at the Door (written under the name J. Damask), is coming out in April through Lyrical Press.
*Kate Kaynak, author of the Ganzfield series of books about a teenage telepath, and co-editor of the upcoming Spencer Hill Press anthology, UnCONventional.
*Phoebe Wray, author of Jemma 7729, and current president of Broad Universe.
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Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Writing and Tarot
- Pull a single card from the deck.
- If you do read Tarot, do not try and read the card. If you don't normally read Tarot, you're better prepared for this exercise.
- Look at the picture and its components for one full minute. (I'll time you here; set a timer at home.)
- Flip the card over or return it to the deck and shuffle it in. Resist the urge to look at it!
- Write for two full minutes everything you remember from the picture on the card on a sheet of paper.
- On a second (and third, fourth, fifth, etc.) piece of paper, using only what you wrote on the first paper, construct a story or path for your character to take. (For the workshop, I'll give you 2 more minutes; at home, take as long as you want/need/can.)
- Collaborate with one or more partners and put your stories together. (For the workshop, I'll give you 3 minutes to do this).
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Sunday, March 20, 2011
The Good, The Bad, and the Stalking Opp
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011
March 2011 Woman Power Episode of the Broad Pod! ((fiction, science fiction, romance, fantasy, feminist))
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Welcome to the 2011 March episode of the Broad Pod! Join hostess Jean Marie Ward (http://JeanMarieWard.com) for this month's powerful collection of short readings from women writing across the realm of speculative fiction.
The Broad Pod is sponsored by Broad Universe, an international, non-profit organization dedicated to promoting, honoring, and celebrating women writers of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Find out more about our organization, including new fiction released by women, more podcasts, and information about writing and publishing for women, at our website, www.broaduniverse.org
March is Women's History Month, and this month's talented women writers spotlight many aspects of Woman Power—and powerful women:
Charged with treason, Gail Z. Martin's (http://www.ascendantkingdoms.com/) pregnant queen Kiera must wage a war of words to save herself, her friends, and her unborn child.
In Larissa N. Niec's (http://larissaniec.com/) selection, the goddess Rhianna's high priestess embarks on a dangerous spirit quest to seek help for her dying land.
Theresa Crater (http://theresacrater.com/) introduces her heroine—and us—to the legendary Morgan le Fey in the land beneath the hallowed hill.
Then journey with Diane Whiteside (http://dianewhiteside.com/) to present-day Virginia, where a psychically gifted homicide detective learns just how powerful a woman working for the FBI can be.
Finally, soar into the future with Danielle Ackley-McPhail (http://sidhenadaire.com/) and a squadron of hell-raising women fighter pilots led by the infamous Scarlet Jay.
Sit back. Enjoy. But don't expect to relax—not around these women.
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Writing Style and Cooking Style
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Monday, March 14, 2011
Belated Blogging
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Wednesday, March 9, 2011
But, Why?
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Monday, March 7, 2011
What's going on THIS Manic Month
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Friday, March 4, 2011
Feminine Friday
Blueberry: I'm single
Pineapple its complicated
Raspberry: I'm a touch and go woman
Apple: Engaged
Cherry: In a relationship
Banana: I'm married
Avocado: I'm the "other one"
Strawberry: Cant find the right one
Lemon: Wish i was single
Grape: wants to get married.
The bra game reached TV, lets get this one to do the same, and show everyone how powerful women are
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And this is your [flipping late] blog for today…
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The family of the local man killed in an industrial accident in Australia have said that he was 'enjoying' his time in Australia.
Gerry Bradley was killed alongside his friend Joe McDermott at a building site in Perth.
Joe was a 24-year-old from Omagh who had only recently moved to Australia, while 29-year-old Gerard had moved to the country around two years ago.
A family statement said: "What happened in Australia this week has come as a tremendous shock to our family and friends and to those of the McDermott family whose grief we share," it read.
"It is impossible to describe the hurt and loss we are all feeling now.
"Gerard was one of the happiest people you could ever meet.
"He was a wonderful son, grandson, brother and friend and whilst his death will leave a great void in all our lives, he will leave us with some wonderful memories.
"The Bradley family would like to thank everyone for their support and condolences at this tragic time and would sincerely ask the media to respect our wishes for privacy."


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When editing a plt file in cut and command, typically I use the join option which greatly reduces the number of objects. For example if I have 900 objects (lines) it would reduce the file to about 130 individual objects. I used coral to design the sheet and grouped them within corel but when they are imported into cut and command the grouping is not recognized. Is there something I am missing? The file that I am currently trying to join freezes cut and command.
Nevermind....Justin from Tracker took care of things....I am not sure how they do it!!! Looks like it was an operator error.
Thank you for the quick response and the help Tracker.
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Could you share the help that fixed your issue, I very often have the same issue, Corel shows the nodes connected, then when I open it in command and cut, I have all these individual lines.
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Lovell's 1871
Provincial Business Directory
A small island near the entrance of Fortune Bay, district of Fortune Bay. It is a fishing settlement of some importance. Distant from Harbor Briton by boat 5 miles. Mail fortnightly. Population 270.
Ashford Charles, fisherman Baker William, planter Bungy Ambrose, fisherman Bungy Charles, fisherman Bungy James, fisherman Bungy John, fisherman Bungy Richard, planter Bungy Robert, fisherman Bungy William, planter Bulley William, fisherman Cremer Morgan, planter Day James, fisherman Drakes Josiah, planter Drakes Thomas, fisherman Queen Thomas, planter Hackett Joseph, planter Jarvis Thomas, fisherman Jynes John, planter Keeping Benjamin, planter Keeping James, fisherman Keeping John, planter Keeping Richard, planter Keeping Thomas, planter Keeping William, planter Knowling William, planter Millar George, fisherman Mullins Jonathan, fisherman Short George, fisherman Skinner Charles, fisherman Skinner James, fisherman Skinner John, fisherman Skinner John, fisherman Skinner John, fisherman Skinner Peter, fisherman Skinner Thomas, fisherman Skinner William, planter Snook Benjamin, planter Snook George, planter Snook Robert, planter Snook Stephen, fisherman Snook Jonathan, fisherman Studley John, planter Tibboc John, fisherman (mistakenly called Sagoua in Lovell's)
The entries have been transcribed as
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Over the years, many of the names have become
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Also the Rebuttals section, below, in this article.
The Earth "Sutihat" (formed after a splat, is pressed and expanded), and the Bulging Miracle - Mentioned in the Glorious Quran and confirmed by Science:
The sections of this article are:
1- The Noble Quran's Divine Claims.
(a)- The Giant
Impact and the Big Splat!
(b)- What does Sutihat (سطحت) mean?
(c)- Sutihat (سطحت) means that the earth was formed after the Big Splat!
(d)- The Bible's flat earth.
2- The Scientific Proofs.
3- What other word could possibly sum all of these events up?
4- Conclusion.
5- Rebuttals.
1- The Noble Quran's Divine Claims:
Allah Almighty Said: "We will soon show them Our signs in the Universe and inside their selves, until it will become quite clear to them that it is the truth. Is it not sufficient as regards your Lord that He is a witness over all things? (The Noble Quran, 41:53)"
With this said, let us look at what Allah Almighty Said in the Glorious Quran:
|Noble Verse(s) 88:19-88:20
[088:019] And at the Mountains, how they are fixed firm?-[088:020] And at the Earth, how it
Arabic (from right to left):
88:19 والى الجبال كيف نصبت
88:20 والى الارض كيف سطحت
We have already seen how Allah Almighty in ample Noble Verses Said that the earth is:
Iron was sent down to it from space.
(Scientists call this "The Giant Impactor
The Big Splat")
Please visit the following detailed article for ample Quranic and Scientific proofs and details on all of the points above:
Also visit:
(a)- The Giant Impact and the Big Splat!
Allah Almighty mentioned in the Glorious Quran that He Sent down iron to earth from outer space. Scientists strongly believe that earth was slammed with a gigantic asteroid that was made up of mostly iron that had completely shattered and destroyed it, and caused for its flying rock-debris to wrap around the asteroid's iron body, which was as big as planet Mars, to form our modern-day earth's iron core. The flying rock-debris formed a ring around the earth like that of Saturn's. From the flying rock-debris our moon was formed. The reason why the moon doesn't have iron in it is because the debris was all made up of the original earth's material; only rock. Scientists call this event, which created the iron core of the earth, "The Giant Impactor: The Big Splat":
(Click image to play video-clip)
The earth experienced a Big Splat and Impact that ultimately created its Iron Core.
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The liquid iron core makes much of the earth's gravity and its magnetic field, which protects the earth from dangerous cosmic radiation, by the History & Discovery Channels.Iron was sent down from space.
Please also visit: The Miracle of the formation of the earth and the sending down of iron from space.
During my debate with him, David Wood quoted an Islamic source that said: Sutihat means made flat!
I personally agree with both David Wood and with the English translations above. The earth's surface is indeed made flat for us, humans, by Allah Almighty's Divine Mercy, to make life be balanced and comfortable on earth for us. We know that Allah Almighty in ample Noble Verses Spoke about the earth's spherical shape, suspension in space, movement in space, balance, and much more. So looking at Sutihat in light of these Noble Verses becomes quite clear that we do also have a Divine Scientific Miracle in this Noble Verse. One doesn't have to investigate far to see that the earth's surface does indeed feel flat to the humans living on it.
(b)- What does Sutihat (سطحت) mean?
So what does sutihat (سطحت) mean? And what did it mean to the Arabs of old, 1,500 years ago and much earlier?
We first of all, have to understand that in Arabic, many words, especially in the Glorious Quran, encompass several meanings. Sutihat (سطحت) is certainly a great example for this. Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, also said:
Narrated Abu Huraira: "I heard Allah's Apostle saying, "I have been sent with Jawami al-Kalim (i.e., the shortest expression carrying the widest meanings), and I was made victorious with awe (caste into the hearts of the enemy), and while I was sleeping, the keys of the treasures of the earth were brought to me and were put in my hand." Muhammad said, Jawami'-al-Kalim means that Allah expresses in one or two statements or thereabouts the numerous matters that used to be written in the books revealed before (the coming of) the Prophet. (Translation of Sahih Bukhari, Interpretation of Dreams, Volume 9, Book 87, Number 141)"
Allah Almighty, in the Glorious Quran, Gives Pithy Words with deep meanings to them.
Now according to:
سطح (sataha) means to lay something pressed, bloated, made flat on the ground or to spread it:
This is also Scientifically correct and requires no detailed analysis. Earth today encompasses 6.5 to 7.0 billion human beings. And it hold double and triple and quadruple this number, with ease!
It is man and his greed and evil that make earth tight for us!
(c)- Sutihat (سطحت) means that the earth was formed after the Big Splat!
In light of the other Noble Verses that I referenced above, and in light of the definitions and the Scientific facts above, it is clear that Sutihat means that the earth as we know it today (inhabitable, balanced, full of life and stability) was formed after the Big Splat. It doesn't mean that the earth is a flat sheet of paper. Not only that, but the Arabic root word for Sutihat, when applied to people, it also means having a bloat, or is bloated (مسطوح), because he/she is pressed from the gasses or excessive food inside him/her. We've also seen above that this is one of the word's main meanings. The earth is certainly experiencing the bloating in its sides because it is bulged and pressed from both the North and South Poles, causing it to be bloated in the middle. See the next main-section below for ample proofs and pictures.
And again, in other Noble Verses, we read in the Glorious Quran about the earth being:
Iron was sent down to it from space.
(Scientists call this "The Giant Impactor
The Big Splat")
Please visit the following detailed article for ample Quranic and Scientific proofs and details on all of the points above:
Also visit:
(d)- The Bible's Flat Earth:
David Wood knows well that his Bible spoke about earth in the following ways:
Please visit:
Nothing like this nonsense is mentioned in the Glorious Quran.
2- The Scientific Proofs:
Aside from the fact that the earth appears flat to us humans, but the following points must be taken into consideration:
So what other flatness did could Allah Almighty have talked about in the Glorious Quran?
Article #1:
The earth is bulged. It is pressed from both the north and south poles:
Play Video that demonstrates the Earth's shape and rotation
More detailed pictures from the NASA site: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]
Article #2:
NASA and the German Aerospace Center declare that the earth is bulging:
From http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2002-217:
NASA Research Offers Explanation for Earth's Bulging Waistline
November 06, 2002
A team of researchers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Pasadena, Calif., and the Royal Observatory of Belgium has
apparently solved a recently observed mystery regarding changes
to the physical shape of Earth and its gravity field. The
answer, they found, appears to lie in the melting of sub-polar
glaciers and mass shifts in the Southern, Pacific and Indian
Oceans associated with global-scale climate changes.
Article #3:
The early Muslims believed that the earth was spherical:
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth:
Medieval Islamic world
Further information: Islamic astronomy and Islamic geography
Around 830 AD, Caliph al-Ma'mun commissioned a group of astronomers to measure the distance from Tadmur (Palmyra) to al-Raqqah, in modern Syria. They found the cities to be separated by one degree of latitude and the distance between them to be 66⅔ Arabic miles (131 km) and thus calculated the Earth's circumference to be 24000 Arabic miles (47,000 km), a value which differs from modern estimates by about 18.6%.[47][48]
Another estimate given by al-Ma'mun's astronomers was 56⅔ Arabic miles per degree, which corresponds to 112 kilometres (70 mi) per degree and a circumference of 40,300 km (25,000 mi), very close to the currently modern values of 111.3 km (69.2 mi) per degree and 40,068 km (24,897 mi) circumference, respectively.[49]
Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī (973-1048) solved a complex geodesic equation in order to accurately compute the Earth's circumference, which was close to modern values of the Earth's circumference.[50][51] His estimate of 6,339.9 kilometres (3,939.4 mi) for the Earth radius was only 16.8 km (10.4 mi) less than the modern value of 6,356.7 km (3,949.9 mi). In contrast to his predecessors who measured the Earth's circumference by sighting the Sun simultaneously from two different locations, al-Biruni developed a new method of using trigonometric calculations based on the angle between a plain and mountain top which yielded more accurate measurements of the Earth's circumference and made it possible for it to be measured by a single person from a single location.[52]
John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson write in the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive:
Many Muslim scholars declared a mutual agreement (Ijma) that celestial bodies are round, among them Ibn Hazm (d. 1069), Ibn al-Jawzi (d. 1200), and Ibn Taymiya (d. 1328).[54] Ibn Taymiya said, "Celestial bodies are round—as it is the statement of astronomers and mathematicians—it is likewise the statement of the scholars of Islam". Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi (d.1311) drew a planetary model which depicted the celestial bodies in an epicyclic model. Abul-Hasan ibn al-Manaadi, Abu Muhammad Ibn Hazm, and Abul-Faraj Ibn Al-Jawzi have said that the Muslim scholars are in agreement that all celestial bodies are round. Ibn Taymiyah also remarked that Allah has said, "And He (Allah) it is Who created the night and the day, the sun and the moon. They float, each in a Falak." Ibn Abbas says, "A Falaka like that of a spinning wheel." The word 'Falak' (in the Arabic language) means "that which is round."[54][55]
The Muslim scholars who held to the round earth theory used it in an impeccably Islamic manner, to calculate the distance and direction from any given point on the earth to Makkah (Mecca). This determined the Qibla, or Muslim direction of prayer. Muslim mathematicians developed spherical trigonometry which was used in these calculations.[56] Ibn Khaldun (d. 1406), in his Muqaddimah, also identified the world as spherical. The later belief of Muslim scholars, like Suyuti (d. 1505), that the earth is flat represents a deviation from this earlier opinion.[54]
3- What other word could possibly sum all of these events up?
Noble Word sutihat (سطحت) is indeed the perfect word that describes all of the following events that happened to earth:
1- Experienced a big splat and was formed to accommodate life after the event and because of the event.
2- Was pressed and bulged, as the bulge in the Scientific proofs above demonstrates.
3- Was expanded because of the event that made it سطحت.
Sutihat (سطحت) perfectly means and encompasses all of these events. No Arabic-speaking person can dispute this. Allah Almighty's mentioning of Him sending iron from space to earth also further proves that these interpretations are absolutely valid and 100% accurate.
4- Conclusion:Again, the Noble Quran is filled with scientific statements and notions. These are statements of Allah Almighty describing how He created things on earth and in the Universe. What's most amazing is that all of these scientific statements and notions had been proven to be in perfect agreement with science and our modern-day scientific discoveries. Allah Almighty made the Noble Quran be Prophet Muhammad's (peace be upon him) Everlasting Divine Miracle and proof for Prophethood. The Holy Book certainly stood the test of time 1,500 years ago with Its Claims, Prophecies and Miraculous language eloquence, and it does again and again in our day today with Its overwhelming agreement with science and discoveries that were not known to man 1,500 years ago.
Allah Almighty Said: "We will soon show them Our signs in the Universe and inside their selves, until it will become quite clear to them that it is the truth. Is it not sufficient as regards your Lord that He is a witness over all things? (The Noble Quran, 41:53)"
While Noble Verse 88:20, by itself, doesn't seem to present a stunning Scientific Miracle as the other Noble Verses did about the shape and function of the planet earth in space, along with the other ample stunning Noble Verses that speak scientifically and miraculously about astronomy, geology, biology, physiology, embryology, zoology, plants, medicine and ample other fields of science, but when reading the Noble Verse (88:20) in light of the many other Noble Verses that I mentioned in the linked articles above in this article, and also in light of the Scientific proofs of the Giant Impact and Big Splat that earth experienced in the past to enable it to accommodate the life that we know of and are enjoying, then we clearly see that:
1- Allah Almighty's Mercy upon us is infinitely Great for making the planet earth very comfortable for us, humans.
2- The Glorious Quran is in perfect harmony with Science when Allah Almighty Said that "He formed the earth after a Splat, and He pressed it and expanded it" all in one Noble Miraculous Word.
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End of Times Volcanoes
will be caused by the stretching of
the earth's crust - Mentioned in the Glorious Quran and confirmed by
Evidence from the Quran that Allah Almighty
Created the
7 Heavens and all of their Earths from
The egg-shaped earth in the Glorious Quran.
The formation of continents and spherical
expansion of earth in the Glorious Quran.
Noble Verse [013:004] And in the earth are neighbouring tracts وفي الارض قطع متجاورات and many others are discussed.
Continents formation and reducing land from its sides (اطرافها) in the Glorious Quran.
5- Rebuttals:
Here is a detailed rebuttal regarding the shape of the earth in the Glorious Quran:
As I showed in the many
definitions, if something gets SUTIH, it means it got
pressed. A man who is MASTOOH is someone who is very bloated
after eating too much food that he feels he's about to blow up. A
nose that is MASTOOH, is a nose that is pressed in. An earth that
is MASTOOHA or has been SUTIHAT, means that it's been
Again, Sutihat means being
pressed and bulged, and also being flattened. In the link above, I
gave an example from the dictionary that say:
Thank you for the help guys. What about the second part regarding
judgement day ?
As'salamu Alaikum,
Again a great thanks to you all. I'd be so lost and miserable if it
weren't for this website.
He never said that akhi. Take
a listen here from minute 01:20:
I just updated my post above
and added the minute position that you should hear, because he
directly answer this very question. He said that earth and the
universe are the same age, but rocks go through cycles, and our
current earth is
only 4.6 billion years old
(he said that in minute
02:05). But earth started exactly with the Universe, and
they both have the same age, roughly around
10 billions years old.
The Scientific Miracles in the Noble Quran.
End of Times Volcanoes will be caused by the stretching of the earth's crust - Mentioned in the Glorious Quran and confirmed by Science!
Evidence from the Quran that Allah Almighty
Created the
7 Heavens and all of their Earths from
The egg-shaped earth in the Glorious Quran.
The formation of continents and spherical
expansion of earth in the Glorious Quran.
Noble Verse [013:004] And in the earth are neighbouring tracts وفي الارض قطع متجاورات and many others are discussed.
Continents formation and reducing land from its sides (اطرافها) in the Glorious Quran.
Dhul Qarnayn's story. Sunrise and sunset. Also Why حمئة and not حاميةٍ. Dhil Qarnayn's journey is detailed with scientific and geographical maps that are more 1000 years old.
Detailed Analysis from Lisan Al-Arab (this alone is 10 big books) and 7 other dictionaries proving the Scientific Miracles in the Holy Quran in Great Details.
The expansion of the earth - mentioned in the Noble Quran and confirmed by Science.
Earth's gravity and the various gravities of the planets mentioned in the Noble Quran and confirmed by science.
The Quran states that the light of the moon is reflected light.
Prophet Muhammad's peace be upon him section.
Allah, Islam, Quran, Muhammad questions and answers.
What is the place of Jews, Christians and non-Muslims in Islam.
Ask me any question section.
Orbit Miracle:
This is the short version of the long article below. Allah Almighty said this about the moon's S-shaped orbit around the earth:
36:39 والقمر قدرناه منازل حتى عاد كالعرجون القديم
"And We have decreed set phases for the moon, until it ends up عاد looking like an old date branch كالعرجون القديم. It is not for the sun to overtake the moon nor for the night to outstrip the day; each one is swimming in a sphere. (Qur'an, 36:39-40)"
Click on images to enlarge:
For ample more proofs, please visit: www.answering-christianity.com/moon_orbit_miracle.htm
|The egg-shaped
earth's orbit!
This is not the only time Allah Almighty used a notion for astronomy. In another Noble Verse, He described the shape of the earth's orbit around the sun as egg-shaped which had also been confirmed by science.
Please visit: If the Noble Quran says the earth is "egg-shaped" through a Notion, then why couldn't Prophet Muhammad just say it clear in plain Arabic? with detailed proofs demonstrating the miracle of the Word/Notion "dahaha".
The Miracle of the
Plate Tectonics,
mountains' formation, and the earth's Spherical Expansion:
My detailed proofs about the earth spread out
spherically are listed here:
Detailed Rebuttals:
Now, in Noble Verses 79:30-32, Allah Almighty Says:
And the earth after that He has spherically expanded
Indeed, scientists have proven that:
1- The earth has spherically expanded.
2- The earth produced its water and pasture on a large scale as a result. I have posted a Scientific Video from History Channel proving this:
The mountains due to this expansion were formed; due
to the plate tectonics movements,
which caused for land to be pushed on top of each other, which
formed mountains and hills. You can learn about this at:
Read all of the details at my article:
For ample more Noble Verses on mountains and the geology of earth, please visit:
The Earth Spread out Spherically, and its Waters came out from it:
Allah Almighty Said:
As thoroughly detailed in this detailed article, I thoroughly demonstrated using 7 encyclopedic dictionaries that DAHA دحاها means:
1- To push.
2- To throw.
دحا (daha): دفعه و رمى به (dafa'aahu wa ramaa bih) Caused it to move, pushed it, or threw it.
دحا الصبي المِدحاةَ أي دفع الصبي المِدحاةَ Daha the boy the rolling toy, means the boy pushed the rolling toy.
4- To make something round. I used several examples for ROUND AND BULGED TUMMY, and making round objects. I even used a Hadith from Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, when he said:
In Prophet Muhammad's Hadith: كان لأسامة بطننٌ مُندحٌ اي متسع Osama had a round and big tummy.
Also the dictionary says:
و بطنٌ مُنداحُ أي خارخٌ مُدوّر His tummy is mun-daahun means it is OUT THERE AND ROUND مُدوّر.
So when Allah Almighty DAHA THE EARTH, it means that
Allah Almighty EXPANDED
IT SPHERICALLY through
rotating around itself and moving in its orbit in space. And this
is why Allah Almighty Said after that (after He DAHAHA), He brought
forth from it its
water and pasture.
Science has proven this to be 100% accurate and True:
In Article #3'S video
in the article, the collision of
the iron-planet
For ample more details, please visit:
The sun never ceases nor disappears [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]:
Prophet Muhammad: The sun is in constant orbit always rising on people while setting on others.
عن ابن عباس رضي الله عنهما ان رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم سئل :هذه المغارب اين تغرب ؟ وهذه المطالع اين تطلع ؟ فقال صلى الله عليه وسلم هي على رسلها لا تبرح ولا تزول , تغرب عن قوم وتطلع على قوم ,وتغرب عن قوم وتطلع , فقوم يقولون غربت ,وقوم يقولون طلعت
"Ibn Abbas narrated on Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, that the Prophet was asked: Where does the sun go after all of these sunsets? And where does it come from after all of these sunrises? The Prophet, peace be upon him, replied: It is in constant motion. It doesn't stop nor disappear. It sets on people and rises on others, and it sets on people and rises on others. So people would say it has risen while others say it has set."
1- Jami'a Al-Usool li-ibn Al-Atheer.
2- Musnad Al-Imam Abi Is'haq Al-Hamadani
3- Al-Ijaz Al-Ilmi Fe Al-Sunna Al-Nabawiyyah, Dr. Zahloul Al-Najjar,
Page 132.
Did Prophet Muhammad know think that the earth was spherical or flat?
In this Hadith, above, he certainly seems to have
known this fact very well. And this Hadith is even older than Sahih
Bukhari. It is important to know that Imam Bukhari and others
have declared that they have
discarded thousands of Hadiths:
Other Articles:
Also, ample proofs for several of the Glorious Quran's Arabic words' definitions, from my Arabic-English and English-Arabic dictionaries, that prove that the earth is indeed spherical, rotating around its axle, and is suspended in space, are provided in the following important link:
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Looking back on past ideas about what the future would be like has long been a source of massive amusement to younger generations and one of disappointment to older folk – anyone else still waiting patiently for the personalised jet packs that would make the daily commute a doddle – and tremendous fun! – as was promised in 80s and 90s television shows like Tomorrow's World and other like it? Yeah, me too… Anyway, our conceptions about innovations that haven't been invented yet are often at once fairly close, yet amusingly wrong – for example, when the idea of electric lights was first described, some residents refused to countenance the idea, thinking that the light would not be constant and steady, rather that it would flicker and flash like lightning. Others believed that the light would be far too bright for human eyes, and that it would cause blindness and prevent peaceful sleep from taking place. These worries seem laughable now, but at the time, there was no scientific evidence either way and they seemed plausible and even possible to the more conservative members of the population!
In much the same way, virtual reality has always seemed dangerous to writers – the brave vanguard of the imagination who lead the way and show fiction how to become science fiction, and science fiction how to become science fact. (If you don't believe me, a little research into Star Trek will reveal how scientists used many of the 'space age' inventions as a baseline for modern inventions – Skype, mobile phones, wireless connections – all appeared on the small and big screens long before they became realities now so integral to our lives that we can scarcely imagine trying to get by without them!)
At first, as always, virtual reality seemed to be dangerous: a seductive wonderland where you could be whoever you wanted to be, you could perform acts and commit crimes that the real you would never dare to attempt, and you could change your appearance, gender, size and age with the click of a keyboard – and all at a dreadful price. Lawnmower Man, television shows like A Town Called Eureka and Warehouse 13, and several works of literary fiction all show the dangers of entering an unreal world. These tales include visions of people becoming so caught up in their make-believe worlds that they refuse to come out of it, risking starving to death or suffering renal failure from neglecting their bathroom visits.
However, the reality – so far – is immersive, but not exclusively so. No one – so far – has been so deeply embedded into the fake world that they cannot find their way back to real life, and no one – so far – has found out how to transform their consciousness into a living cloud of data, able to race down telephone lines and over data connections with little to stop them save a carefully crafted computer virus. There have been a few cases of gamers being so deeply addicted to their games that they have suffered from medical issues due to neglecting their basic bodily functions such as eating and sleeping properly, along with having regular bathroom breaks – but these unfortunate addicts were playing regular video games, firmly seated in their bedrooms or offices – not secure in the mistaken belief that they were living an entirely different life in a fantasy world…
As with all innovations, virtual reality is not the villain. Rather, it is a tool that people will use and love, or use and hate and how much it impacts on any life will depend on that person and their particular tech needs at the time.