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|English translation of
Holy Chuang Tzu
English translation by James Legge
taken from http://www.sacred-texts.com/tao/sbe39/sbe39.htm
Knowledge, disappointed by the fruitlessness of his questions, returned to the south of the Bright Water, and ascended the height of the End of Doubt where he saw Heedless Blurter, to whom he put the same questions, and who replied, 'Ah! I know, and will tell you.' But while he was about to speak, he forgot what he wanted to say.
Knowledge, (again) receiving no answer to his questions, returned to the palace of the TÓ, where he saw Hwang-TÓ, and put the questions to him. Hwang-TÓ said, 'To exercise no thought and no anxious consideration is the first step towards knowing the T'o; to dwell nowhere and do nothing is the first step towards resting in the T'o; to start from nowhere and pursue no path is the first step towards making the T'o your own.'
Knowledge then asked Hwang-TÓ, saying, 'I and you know this; those two did not know it; which of us is right?' The reply was, 'Dumb Inaction is truly right; Heedless Blurter has an appearance of being so; I and you are not near being so. (As it is said), "Those who know (the T'o) do not speak of it; those who speak of it do not know it;" and "Hence the sage conveys his instructions without the use of speech." The T'o cannot be made ours by constraint; its characteristics will not come to us (at our call). Benevolence may be practised; Righteousness may be partially attended to; by Ceremonies men impose on one another. Hence it is said, "When the T'o was lost, its Characteristics appeared. When its Characteristics were lost, Benevolence appeared. When Benevolence was lost, Righteousness appeared. When Righteousness was lost, Ceremonies appeared. Ceremonies are but (the unsubstantial) flowers of the T'o, and the commencement of disorder." Hence (also it is further said), "He who practises the T'o, daily diminishes his doing. He diminishes it and again diminishes it, till he arrives at doing nothing. Having arrived at this non-inaction, there is nothing that he does not do." Here now there is something, a regularly fashioned utensil;--if you wanted to make it return to the original condition of its materials, would it not be difficult to make it do so? Could any but the Great Man accomplish this easily?
'Life is the follower of death, and death is the predecessor of life; but who knows the Arranger (of this connexion between them)? The life is due to the collecting of the breath. When that is collected, there is life; when it is dispersed, there is death. Since death and life thus attend on each other, why should I account (either of) them an evil?
'Therefore all things go through one and the same experience. (Life) is accounted beautiful because it is spirit-like and wonderful, and death is accounted ugly because of its foetor and putridity. But the foetid and putrid is transformed again into the spirit-like and wonderful, and the spirit-like and wonderful is transformed again into the foetid and putrid. Hence it is said, "All under the sky there is one breath of life, and therefore the sages prized that unity,"'
Knowledge said to Hwang-TÓ, 'I asked Dumb Inaction, and he did not answer me. Not only did he not answer me, but he did not know how to answer me. I asked Heedless Blurter, and while he wanted to tell me, he yet did not do so. Not only did he not tell me, but while he wanted to tell me, he forgot all about my questions. Now I have asked you, and you knew (all about them);--why (do you say that) you are not near doing so?' Hwang-TÓ replied, 'Dumb Inaction was truly right, because he did not know the thing. Heedless Blurter was nearly right, because he forgot it. I and you are not nearly right, because we know it.' Heedless Blurter heard of (all this), and considered that Hwang-TÓ knew how to express himself (on the subject).
The sages trace out the admirable operations of Heaven and Earth, and reach to and understand the distinctive constitutions of all things; and thus it is that the Perfect Man (is said to) do nothing and the Greatest Sage to originate nothing, such language showing that they look to Heaven and Earth as their model. Even they, with their spirit-like and most exquisite intelligence, as well as all the tribes that undergo their transformations, the dead and the living, the square and the round, do not understand their root and origin, but nevertheless they all from the oldest time by it preserve their being.
Vast as is the space included within the six cardinal points, it all (and all that it contains) lies within (this twofold root of Heaven and Earth); small as is an autumn hair, it is indebted to this for the completion of its form. All things beneath the sky, now rising, now descending, ever continue the same through this. The Yin and Yang, and the four seasons revolve and move by it, each in its proper order. Now it seems to be lost in obscurity, but it continues; now it seems to glide away, and have no form, but it is still spirit-like. All things are nourished by it, without their knowing it. This is what is called the Root and Origin; by it we may obtain a view of what we mean by Heaven.
Phei-Ó was greatly pleased, and walked away, singing as he went,
Like stump of rotten tree his frame,
Like lime when slaked his mind became. Real is his wisdom, solid, true,
Nor cares what's hidden to pursue. O dim and dark his aimless mind! No one from him can counsel find. What sort of man is he?'
'The Luminous was produced from the Obscure; the Multiform from the Unembodied; the Spiritual from the T'o; and the bodily from the seminal essence. After this all things produced one another from their bodily organisations. Thus it is that those which have nine apertures are born from the womb, and those with eight from eggs
But their coming leaves no trace, and their going no monument; they enter by no door; they dwell in no apartment:--they are in a vast arena reaching in all directions. They who search for and find (the T'o) in this are strong in their limbs, sincere and far-reaching in their thinking, acute in their hearing, and clear in their seeing. They exercise their minds without being toiled; they respond to everything aright without regard to place or circumstance. Without this heaven would not be high, nor earth broad; the sun and moon would not move, and nothing would flourish:--such is the operation of the T'o.
'Moreover, the most extensive knowledge does not necessarily know it; reasoning will not make men wise in it;--the sages have decided against both these methods. However you try to add to it, it admits of no increase; however you try to take from it, it admits of no diminution;--this is what the sages maintain about it. How deep it is, like the sea! How grand it is, beginning again when it has come to an end! If it carried along and sustained all things, without being overburdened or weary, that would be like the way of the superior man, merely an external operation; when all things go to it, and find their dependence in it;--this is the true character of the T'o.
'Here is a man (born) in one of the middle states. He feels himself independent both of the Yin and Yang, and dwells between heaven and earth; only for the present a mere man, but he will return to his original source. Looking at him in his origin, when his life begins, we have (but) a gelatinous substance in which the breath is collecting. Whether his life be long or his death early, how short is the space between them! It is but the name for a moment of time, insufficient to play the part of a good Y'o or a bad Kieh in.
'The fruits of trees and creeping plants have their distinctive characters, and though the relationships of men, according to which they are classified, are troublesome, the sage, when he meets with them, does not set himself in opposition to them, and when he has passed through them, he does not seek to retain them; he responds to them in their regular harmony according to his virtue; and even when he accidentally comes across any of them, he does so according to the T'o. It was thus that the TÓs flourished, thus that the kings arose.
'Men's life between heaven and earth is like a white colt's passing a crevice, and suddenly disappearing. As with a plunge and an effort they all come forth; easily and quietly they all enter again. By a transformation they live, and by another transformation they die. Living things are made sad (by death), and mankind grieve for it; but it is (only) the removal of the bow from its sheath, and the emptying the natural satchel of its contents. There may be some confusion amidst the yielding to the change; but the intellectual and animal souls are taking their leave, and the body will follow them:--This is the Great Returning home.
'That the bodily frame came from incorporeity, and will return to the same, is what all men in common know, and what those who are on their way to (know) it need not strive for. This is what the multitudes of men discuss together. Those whose (knowledge) is complete do not discuss it;--such discussion shows that their (knowledge) is not complete. Even the most clear-sighted do not meet (with the T'o);--it is better to be silent than to reason about it. The T'o cannot be heard with the ears;--it is better to shut the ears than to try and hear it. This is what is called the Great Attainment.'
Kwang-dze said, 'Your questions, my master, do not touch the fundamental point (of the T'o). They remind me of the questions ad-dressed by the superintendents of the market to the inspector about examining the value of a pig by treading on it, and testing its weight as the foot descends lower and lower on the body. You should not specify any particular thing. There is not a single thing without (the T'o). So it is with the Perfect T'o. And if we call it the Great (T'o), it is just the same. There are the three terms,--"Complete," "All-embracing," "the Whole." These names are different, but the reality (sought in them) is the same referring to the One thing.
'Suppose we were to try to roam about in the palace of No-where;--when met there, we might discuss (about the subject) without ever coming to an end. Or suppose we were to be together in (the region of) Non-action;--should we say that (the T'o was) Simplicity and Stillness? or Indifference and Purity? or Harmony and Ease? My will would be aimless. If it went nowhere, I should not know where it had got to; if it went and came again, I should not know where it had stopped; if it went on going and coming, I should not know when the process would end. In vague uncertainty should I be in the vastest waste. Though I entered it with the greatest knowledge, I should not know how inexhaustible it was. That which makes things what they are has not the limit which belongs to things, and when we speak of things being limited, we mean that they are so in themselves. (The T'o) is the limit of the unlimited, and the boundlessness of the unbounded.
'We speak of fulness and emptiness; of withering and decay. It produces fulness and emptiness, but is neither fulness nor emptiness; it produces withering and decay, but is neither withering nor decay. It produces the root and branches, but is neither root nor branch; it produces accumulation and dispersion, but is itself neither accumulated nor dispersed.'
Hereupon Grand Purity asked Infinitude, saying, 'Do you know the T'o?' 'I do not know it,' was the reply. He then asked Do-nothing, Who replied, 'I know it.' 'Is your knowledge of it determined by various points?' 'It is.' 'What are they?' Do-nothing said, 'I know that the T'o may be considered noble, and may be considered mean, that it may be bound and compressed, and that it may be dispersed and diffused. These are the marks by which I know it.' Grand Purity took the words of those two, and asked No-beginning, saying, 'Such were their replies; which was right? and which was wrong? Infinitude's saying that he did not know it? or Do-nothing's saying that he knew it?' No-beginning said, 'The "I do not know it" was profound, and the "I know it" was shallow. The former had reference to its internal nature; the latter to its external conditions. Grand Purity looked up and sighed, saying, 'Is "not to know it" then to know it? And is "to know it" not to know it? But who knows that he who does not know it (really) knows it?' No-beginning replied, 'The T'o cannot be heard; what can be heard is not It. The T'o cannot be seen; what can be seen is not It. The T'o cannot be expressed in words; what can be expressed in words is not It. Do we know the Formless which gives form to form? In the same way the T'o does not admit of being named.'
No-beginning (further) said, 'If one ask about the T'o and another answer him, neither of them knows it. Even the former who asks has never learned anything about the T'o. He asks what does not admit of being asked, and the latter answers where answer is impossible. When one asks what does not admit of being asked, his questioning is in (dire) extremity. When one answers where answer is impossible, he has no internal knowledge of the subject. When people without such internal knowledge wait to be questioned by others in dire extremity, they show that externally they see nothing of space and time, and internally know nothing of the Grand Commencement. Therefore they cannot cross over the Khw‰n-lun, nor roam in the Grand Void.'
Z‰n Khi˚ had not made any reply, when Kung-nÓ went on, 'Let us have done. There can be no answering (on your part). We cannot with life give life to death; we cannot with death give death to life. Do death and life wait (for each other)? There is that which contains them both in its one comprehension. Was that which was produced before Heaven and Earth a thing? That which made things and gave to each its character was not itself a thing. Things came forth and could not be before things, as if there had (previously) been things;--as if there had been things (producing one another) without end. The love of the sages for others, and never coming to an end, is an idea taken from this.'
'Forests and marshes make me joyful and glad; but before the joy is ended, sadness comes and succeeds to it. When sadness and joy come, I cannot prevent their approach; when they go, I cannot retain them. How sad it is that men should only be as lodging-houses for things, (and the emotions which they excite)! They know what they meet, but they do not know what they do not meet; they use what power they have, but they cannot be strong where they are powerless. Such ignorance and powerlessness is what men cannot avoid. That they should try to avoid what they cannot avoid, is not this also sad? Perfect speech is to put speech away; perfect action is to put action away; to digest all knowledge that is known is a thing to be despised.'


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RANCHO CUCAMONGA – Prosecutors are considering whether to offer a plea bargain to a correctional officer accused of aiding his friend, a police detective, in the alleged kidnap and rape of a woman at gunpoint.
The prosecutor in Anthony Orban and Jeff Jelinek's criminal case said Wednesday after a brief court hearing that her supervisors will ultimately decide whether to offer Jelinek a plea bargain.
"They don't know if they're going to make them an offer," Deputy District Attorney Debbie Ploghaus said. "They're kind of going back and forth."
Jelinek, who worked at the California Institution for Men in Chino, is accused of standing by as Orban allegedly kidnapped a woman at gunpoint in the parking lot at Ontario Mills.
Both men were off-duty and had been drinking heavily prior to the April 3 incident, authorities said.
The woman, a 25-year-old waitress and mother, testified last month in a preliminary hearing that after she was kidnapped, Orban sexually assaulted and battered her for more than an hour.
Orban, who is charged with nine felonies, faces a maximum prison sentence of 25 years to life. Jelinek, 31, faces the same penalty because prosecutors allege he aided and abetted Orban.
Jelinek's presence beside Orban during the alleged kidnapping helped Orban by further intimidating the woman, prosecutors believe.
Jelinek picked up Orban after the alleged assault, attempted to erase text messages from Orban, and initially lied to police about what he saw, according to prosecutors.


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The case AGAINST open carry firearms....
Americans are used to seeing police openly carrying firearms. But because they are uniformed and easily identifiable and their position in society still commands some level of respect from most of society, most would never dream of overpowering or subduing a police officer in an attempt to grab their weapon away from them and then use it against innocents.
Not so for some schlub picking his nose in a Def Leppard t-shirt, who may or may not have had the proper training in order to maintain control of their own weapon. Some crazy asshole may get it in his head that Mr. Nose Picker doesn't look all that tough and that he could probably wrest Mr. N. P.'s crappy little 9mm away from him and then use it to cause some righteous anarchy.
And that is it in a nutshell. Gun control in this case means maintaining control of who is in possession of ones own weapon. I am not convinced that the majority of Americans are wholly prepared to do exactly that, which is why I'd prefer that those who choose to carry a legally registered firearm keep it concealed.
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- Anonymous4/27/2010 1:21 PM
Laz, I totally agree. Nice post.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous4/28/2010 7:23 AM
I disagree 100% with this post. Here is a copy of mainsails "open carry" argument. He also makes some very good points.ReplyDelete
1. Regardless of how skilled you are at drawing your weapon, you are going to lose.
2. My probability of being a victim of a crime, violent or otherwise, is completely unchanged by the fact that I have hidden beneath my shirt the means to defend myself. The goal is not to be a victim in the first place, remember? I don't want to be a victim that fought back successfully and triumphed; I prefer to not be victimized at all. By making it clear and obvious that I am armed, that I have teeth, I tip the risk scale to the point that the criminal's gains are far outweighed by the risk.
3. Like the first one shot in a robbery, argument, there is no credible evidence it happens. It also blindly ignores the more obvious fact that anything you possess can make you the target of a crime, be it a car, a watch, or even a female companion (girlfriend, wife, or daughter).
I say no, read mainsail's entire dissertation and then post a logical argument rather than an emotional one.
- Kate12305/03/2010 9:59 AM
I was shocked to hear of the people who believe they not only have the right to an open carry of a firearm but the need to do so. They want to be able to carry them into bars, restaurants, hospitals, schools, etc. I thought I was losing my mind when I heard people talking about "losing their freedom and 2nd amendment rights" when they wanted to carry firearms into Town Hall meetings, presidential debates and the like. What is going on in this world where people feel the need to arm themselves openly? There are far too many hotheads at meetings and debates to even think about allowing any type of weapons. Why allow people to carry an open weapon into a bar? Alcohol and firearms don't mix. Is this considered normal in Alaska?ReplyDelete
@Anon -- so you agree. I didn't say anything about NOT being able to carry. I pretty much said it offends me that people feel the need to open carry. It's the 21st century for chritsakes. Not Dodge City. People used to wear codpieces, too. Which isn't fashionable any longer either, though it is doubtful that other people could get injured if one improperly wielded a codpiece.ReplyDelete
The other 'logical' position taken was that most (let's say 99.9%) don't have the training to be able to safely carry firearms so that innocent people do not get hurt if they decide to use them to defend themselves. I stand by that point of argument.
And I say next time sign in as yourself, Darcie Salmon. I can tell who you are by the way you've written to me on facebook. Attempting to add commentary of any significance to a discourse while anonymous on the internet is 'illogical'.
(and yes I am self aware enough to understand the irony of posting this under a pseudonym, but people who know me know that this is just a long time internet nickname, not an attempt to obfuscate identity)
Look Randy, I understand completely what you are saying about open carry. This is not the wild west of years gone by, however, open carry Keeps situations from starting. That is why cops openly wear weapons. It works. Open carry is legal in some states and is rarely ever used. It is not prudent to carry an open weapon in most situations and people know this. It is rarely done in the state of Arizona, but you so see it from time to time. I understand your point of "nose picker" getting his weapon taken from him, it is a very real concern, I was a cop in the military and was astounded to hear the figures on how many cops are killed each year with their own weapons. The right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. These are strong words and made strong for a reason. I don't believe they wanted people walking around town brandishing the weapons of the time in 1776 Boston or Philly either, but understood that freedom to bear was better than the alternative. Incremental gun banning is a reality. Giving it legs will seal the fate of all gun owners and those who believe in the right. I don't wish to give an inch more on any gun issue. leave it where it is. it has been infringed enough.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous3/01/2013 11:16 AM
NO. 18,19,20 year olds cant have concealed carry, but they can have open carry, they can even have open carry oy a handgun. They can have a hand gun with parentol concent. I'v met people in the age range of 18-20 who are more mature than some people 21+. So hears my thought.....If a 18 yearold can go to war, why cant he/she have a concealed carry? So if they can buy a hand gun with parental concent and can pass a backround check like everyone else then why cant the GOV. change the law and inable a 18-20 yearold to buy a hand gun. It doesent help the lawabiding to pass more gun laws. If a criminal wants a gun they will git a gun, thats thy they are called CRIMINALS. Passing more gun laws hinders the lawabiding and gives moer freedom to the lawless.ReplyDelete


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In 2017, 33% of fourth-graders in Ulster passed the English exam, a 4 percentage point increase from 2016, and lower than both region and state (excluding NYC) rates (37% and 41% respectively). Within Ulster, New Paltz had the highest passing rate at 45%, while Ellenville had the lowest passing rate at 19%.
It should be noted that a substantial number of students did not take state exams in 2017 due to parent concerns about testing in schools. The large percentage of students not taking the exam may have an effect on overall achievement levels and should give caution when interpreting results. The opt out rate for Ulster was 35%, 37% in Dutchess and 34% in Orange.
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In his younger years your Savant had the unpleasure of preceding Brian Ferry/Roxy Music on stage. In a business suffused with ego and self-absorption, he took the biscuit. Preening, posturing, quivering, painted, bad-mannered and arrogant. No surprise he spawned such repulsive children (cf. Otis Ferry - who loves killing animals). Ferry affected upper-class mannerisms and always appeared in suit and tie, yet he emerged, troglodyte-like, from a coal-pit in Sunderland.
Anyway, it seems this diamond-quality arsehole has rightly fucked-up - there must be a god. In Germany he allowed that he thought the Nazis "just amazing" and admitted calling his recording studio the "Fuhrerbunker" - a title associated with Hitler's headquarters. He said: "My dear gentlemen, the Nazis knew how to put themselves in the limelight and present themselves".
"Leni Riefenstahl's movies and Albert Speer's buildings and the mass parades and the flags - just amazing. Really beautiful," blurting out: "I call my studio in West London - no, I have to stop because you're German."
But when the term "fuhrerbunker" was suggested, he admitted: "You surprised me. Normally I always say to German journalists, 'My headquarters'. That is less shocking." The prick was later forced to "unreservedly" apologise after his comments provoked uproar, and steps are now being taken to cancel his forthcoming tour.
Monday, 16 April 2007
Brian Ferry likes Nazis
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Spot on - he's an absolute prick, and so is his son.
- 20 April 2007 at 21:55
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Four days spread out over 3 years; two days 3 years ago and 2 more since arriving at the beginning of September. That is how long it has taken to do the last move of this problem. 3 years ago I tried it and quickly made it to the last move, a long dynamic move with the left hand from a crimp to a high sloper. The second day on I met up with Filipe and we both worked on the climb, he sent and I fell a couple of times on the same last move before it got dark and people left… I was on a short visit to Portugal and the next day I flew back to the US.
Today I met up with Nico Favresse and with Rances Rodriguez and after a nice little warm-up we went to check out this climb. Second try and I was back to falling from the last move. But this time the mood was different. No-one was eager to leave, sunset had come and the headlamps were out, and there was a lot of psych going around. I fell two or three more times then I stuck the move only to fall matching the sloper. Super amped I added one more element of motivation by putting La Roux's "Going in for the kill" on the little sound system. With little rest and much motivation I sent and let out an immense yell of satisfaction!!
Soooo Goood!!
What a climb! 5 stars! The first 7c (V9) in Portugal and such a beautiful line! Tall, unique (not an eliminate), excellent sequence of moves… SO PSYCHED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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Thomas Robert Malthus liked arguing with his father. The elder Malthus held liberal views and was optimistic about the prospects for betterment of human society. His more conservative-minded son, however, could not help but feel that social problems were here to stay, and that there must be real limits to the improvement of society.One theological argument, of course, is that social problems are inevitable because human nature is sinful. One might think this should have settled the matter for Robert, who after all had been ordained, at around age 22, in the Church of England. But he also had studied mathematics, and shown scientific inclinations; neither he nor his father seem to have regarded their debate as essentially theological.Searching constantly for stronger arguments, Robert eventually hit on an idea so persuasive that he decided to publish an essay laying it out in detail. Thus it was that in 1798 he gave the world one of its great books,
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. The gist of his case was that humans, like other forms of life, tended to reproduce in numbers greater than could be easily supported by available resources. This mismatch between population and resources generated poverty, crime, and greed. True, periods of relief occasionally would occur after plagues had sharply reduced population, or technological breakthroughs had abruptly increased available resources (especially food); but the power of population was so great that soon there again would be too many people. Population might eventually stabilize, but it would do so at a level above that of "easy support." Relief from social problems, then, would be rare and temporary.A key point in Malthus' argument–which has been under nearly non-stop debate for two centuries now–has been widely overlooked: his claim that population tended to stabilize at a level greater than what resources could easily support meant that there would be not only social problems, but also nearly constant pressure for culture change. As he wrote toward the end of the
, the press of population "is constantly acting upon man as a powerful stimulus, urging him to the further cultivation of the earth, and to enable it consequently to support a more extended population" (1976:121). The possibility that population pressure could help explain cultural evolution would lie in neglect for a long time indeed; when scholars at last latched onto it, they would label it, ironically enough, an "anti-Malthusian" approach!
Malthus, Thomas Robert
1976 [orig. 1799] An Essay on the Principle of Population. Text, Sources, and Background Criticism. Philip Appleman, ed. New York: Norton.Picture Credit: By kind permission of the Master, Fellows and Scholars of Jesus College, Cambridge.


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|Forbidden City, the Chinese name 'Zijincheng', so called because it was off limits to commoners for 500 years. Beijing Forbidden City is the largest and best-preserved cluster of ancient buildings in China.
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|For Beijing Travel, the must palce you should visit is Beijing Great Wall. About Beijing Great Wall Tours, Beijing One day tour is often chosen for Beijing tourists.
|Temple of Heaven is one of top 10 Beijing attractions.Temple Of Heaven, named 'Tian Tan' in Chinese words, located in the southern part of Beijing, is China's largest existing complex of ancient sacrificial buildings.
|Summer Palace is one of top 10 Beijing Attractions. Summer Palace is named 'Yi He Yuan' in Chinese words.
|Ming Tombs is one of top 10 Beijing Attractions. Ming Tombs is named 'Ming 13 Ling' in Chinese words, which is named as the cemetery of the 13 emperors of the Ming Dynasty(1368-1644).Covering an area of 80 square kilometers.
|Lama Temple is one of top 10 Beijing attractions. If you go on a tour in Beijing, you can go there to enjoy this imperial and Buddhist history beauty.
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|Beihai Park is located in the center of Beijing and covers 71.4 hectares(176.5 acres),half of which are taken up by water. It is one of the oldest and most authentically perserved imperial gardens in China.
|Bird's Nest, Located at Beijing Olympic Gardens, was designed by Pritzker Architecture Prize Gainer Jacques Herzog, de Meuron and Chinese Architect Li Xinggang, shaped as a "bird's nest", and looks like a cradle, designed for use throughout the 2008 Summer Olympics and Paralympic Games.
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Jim Harbaugh brought the heat while throwing out the fist pitch at a Detroit Tigers game.
Jim Harbaugh's love of baseball is well-documented, as the coach frequently shows up in the stands of MLB games during the off-season.
Michigan football's new leader has previously told reporters he has caught 20 foul balls at baseball games, and as a child he wanted an autograph so badly he peed in his pants.
Harbaugh got a chance to run out on to the diamond on Tuesday night, and he brought his signature intensity and khakis, as he donned a Mark Fidrych jersey and threw out the first pitch at the Detroit Tigers game.
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30 May 1994
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Concluding observations of the Committee on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights
1. The Committee considered the initial report of Morocco (E/1990/5/Add.13) at its 8th, 9th and 10th meetings held on 5, 6 and 10 May 1994 and adopted [1] the following concluding observations.
A. Introduction
2. The Committee thanks the State party for the submission of its report and for the additional information provided by the delegation in response to the Committee's questions and comments.
B. Positive aspects
3. The Committee takes note with satisfaction of the information provided by the representative of the State party with regard to the adoption of a revised Constitution in September 1992 and the various measures introduced in this new Constitution, including in particular the establishment of a Constitutional Council and an Economic and Social Council.
4. The Committee appreciates the measures taken to reduce the effects of structural adjustment programmes on the most vulnerable sectors of society and measures taken by the State party to reduce the level of poverty in the country. Efforts to improve the enjoyment of the right to adequate housing are also appreciated.
5. The Committee welcomes the efforts made by the State party in the field of health services resulting in the reduction of infant and maternal mortality rates, as well as the adoption of a National Plan of Action for the implementation of the World Declaration on the Survival, Protection and Development of Children.
6. The Committee takes note of the increase in the level of school attendance, the efforts to reduce illiteracy and the measures to ensure vocational training for school drop-outs.
C. Factors and difficulties impeding the implementation of the Covenant
7. The Committee notes that the development process towards modernization has not equally affected all sectors and areas of society and has aggravated economic, social and cultural disparities between traditional and modern sectors, among the various income groups, between rural and urban areas, as well as between male and female population.
8. It observes that economic difficulties, including the persistence of poverty, high unemployment and the servicing of the external debt have had a constraining influence on the application of the Covenant.
9. Other difficulties noted by the Committee relate to the contradiction between the obligations set forth under the Covenant and various provisions relating to the civil law status governed by the Code of Personal Status (mudawana) which is partly based on religious precepts and falls within the King's competence. The Committee considers that when a State has ratified the Covenant without making any reservations, it is obliged to comply with all of the provisions of the Covenant. It may therefore not invoke any reasons or circumstances to justify the non-application of one or more articles of the Covenant, except in accordance with the provisions of the Covenant and the principles of general international law.
D. Principal subjects of concern
10. As regards Western Sahara the Committee is concerned that the right to self-determination has not been exercised and expresses its hope that it will be exercised in full compliance with the provisions of article 1 of the Covenant, in accordance with plans approved by the United Nations Security Council. The Committee expresses its preoccupation about the negative consequences of the Western Sahara policy of Morocco for the enjoyment of the economic, social and cultural rights of the relevant population, particularly through population transfer.
11. In view of the obligations arising out of article 2 to guarantee the exercise of the rights enunciated in the Covenant without discrimination of any kind, the Committee expresses concern about the persistence, in the State party, of a "dual" society characterized by disparities in the level of modernization and enjoyment of economic, social and cultural rights which particularly affect persons living in rural areas. These disparities are particularly evident in the existence of marked differences in the levels of school attendance. According to the report submitted by the State party, the rate of primary school attendance in the urban areas is double that of the rural regions.
12. In the same respect, the Committee is concerned with the extent to which women enjoy the rights contained in the Covenant, in particular as regards matters arising under articles 6, 7, such as equal remuneration for equal work and employment opportunities, article 10, particularly relating to status of women in family, and article 13, particularly in relation to the right to education. While recognizing that some progress has been achieved in this regard, the Committee notes with particular concern the gender differences regulating marriage and family relations.
13. The Committee takes note of the information provided by the States parties to the effect that a Labour Code is under preparation. It notes, however, that according to information provided by the ILO, this process has been under way since 1969. The Committee considers that this project should be brought to function in the shortest possible time in order to ensure full protection of the rights recognized in the Covenant.
14. The Committee is also concerned that labour laws and regulations are largely ignored or disregarded in the informal and traditional sectors of the economy and that the absence or limited presence of labour inspectors in these sectors has impeded the effective implementation of regulations relating to just and favourable conditions of work, including health and safety of the workplace.
15. The Committee is concerned over the full enjoyment of trade union rights as provided for under article 8 of the Covenant. In this regard, the Committee notes with concern that although the Constitution guarantees the right of association and the right to form and join trade unions, as well as the right to strike, these rights have on several occasions reportedly been violated in practice. The Committee has received from various sources information on concrete cases of limitations to the right to strike, and lack of effective protection of workers against anti-union discrimination including arbitrary dismissal, arrest or physical violence. In this regard the replies given by the Government to certain questions posed by the Committee cannot be considered satisfactory. No information was provided about the incidents at the Meknès, DIMAPLAST and COMANAN enterprises. The Committee is particularly concerned, however, about the lack of any response concerning the case of the
two trade union activists Abdelhaq Rouissi and Houcine El Manouzi, who, according to non-governmental sources disappeared in 1964 and 1972 respectively and are reportedly still alive but detained in a secret prison.
16. The Committee is concerned about the discriminatory status of children born out of wedlock. It also expresses concern at the incidence of child labour, often even under the minimum legal age of 12, and the lack of
implementation of protective labour legislation with regard to children employed as domestic servants, in agriculture or in the informal or traditional sectors. The Committee also notes with concern that many of those children are not fully enjoying their right to education.
17. The Committee is also concerned that the economic constraints have led to a decline in the standard of living of certain segments of the population.
E. Suggestions and recommendations
18. The Committee recommends further measures by the State party to reduce existing disparities between the modern and traditional sectors of society and in particular between the rural and urban areas. In the Committee's view, particular efforts should be made to tackle the problem of discrimination against women and ensure their effective enjoyment of their rights under the Covenant. Such efforts should include both legislative measures and educational activities aimed at overcoming the negative influence of certain traditions and customs.
19. The Committee wishes to bring to the attention of the State party the need to adopt further measures to provide adequate safety nets for the vulnerable sectors of society affected by structural adjustment programmes. Such measures should include a system of taxation favouring direct and progressive taxes and the extension of the social security system to those categories which do not yet benefit from it.
20. The Committee recommends that the State party envisage adopting further measures to reduce the high rate of unemployment among young people.
21. The Committee recommends that the State party consider adopting relevant measures to ensure that effective sanctions are adopted and implemented in order to penalize the infringement of labour and trade union freedoms and regulations. The Committee suggests that the State party should give serious consideration to complaints concerning violations of labour regulations and trade union rights and provide judicial remedy to victims of such violations.
22. The Committee recommends that urgent steps should be taken in order to protect the workers' rights to join the trade unions of their choice, and to provide protection against arrest, imprisonment and arbitrary dismissal of their labour leaders. In the context of trade union freedoms, the Committee requests the Government to respond to the concrete issues raised in paragraph 15 above, in particular to provide information about the fate of the trade union activists Abdelhaq Rouissi and Houcine El Manouzi, by 30 September 1994.
23. The Committee recommends that measures be taken to eliminate discrimination and ensure effective protection against discrimination with regard to children born out of wedlock, as well as any differentiation resulting from the status of parents. Similarly, the Committee encourages the
efforts currently under way to raise the minimum working age of employment and suggests that measures be taken to ensure that working children, including in the informal sector and in agriculture, benefit from relevant protection at work and effectively enjoy their right to an education.
24. The Committee recommends that more effort should be made in the area of education, particularly in the less favoured rural areas, and that an effort should also be made in the direction of reducing the apparent disparities that exist between the rate of school attendance among boys and girls.
1 At its 26th and 27th meetings, held on 19 and 20 May 1994.


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We're already digging this gelato spot for its adorable logo: a smiley-faced scoop-topped cone. This new spot, dedicated to the art of gelato, comes from the owners of Salerno's, a longtime Berwyn eatery now located in Oak Park. The 18 house-made flavors aren't the only authentic part of this space -- everything from the crystal chandeleirs to the kitchen equipment is imported from the mother country itself. There's also a small menu of panini sandwiches and savory Italian specialties such as arancini.


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Mobile friendly
The wisdom of the recent changes made to their search engine algorithms by Google to take into account the 'mobile friendliness' is at least questionable.
Part of the problem lies in the lack of a definition of what is mobile friendly and part in the fact that mobiles and tablets are not really suitable for all purposes.
Google's definition of what makes a website mobile friendly includes the following characteristics -
2. Uses text that is readable without zooming,
3. Sizes content to the screen so users don't have to scroll horizontally or zoom,
4. Places links far enough apart so that the correct on can be easily tapped.
Personally, when I view a website on my phone or tablet I prefer to see the whole picture, or page. I then zoom into the area of interest.
I don't like to see a tiny section of page either, but what I dislike even more, is a watered down, simplified, baby version.
Google's online tool to test a website (https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/) for its mobile friendliness, however, will always fail if it does not render properly within a width of 320 pixels.
For me, this is too narrow and arbitrary. Most modern mobiles have screen resolutions far in excess of this. Many have resolutions greater than many desktops and most laptops.
The difficulty is made worse by small devices with ridiculously high definition screens pixel-wise. Showing a website on such a device would make it too small and impossible to read. You have to question what the high definition of the screen is for, if the human eye cannot read it without a microscope?
Fit for purpose
Assuming the website displays correctly, what happens if the website is anything more than a brochure/visual experience - one with lots of forms, for example, with acres of text and dropdowns galore?
When you try to enter text on a small device, the virtual keyboard will often cover almost all of the screen, making it very difficult to refer to any content that may be useful for whatever you are 'typing'. It is all too easy to click on the wrong 'key' or 'button', resulting in the form being submitted prematurely, with all the varied fun that can result.
And therein, lies the real problem. At best this could be described as one finger typing. One finger typing on a minature keyboard that has keys smaller than a baby's fingertip.
Perhaps websites are getting too friendly. If you use a mobile to do something more demanding than look at pictures, perhaps the website should tell you to go away (and come back when you have come to your senses, via a proper computer).
Evolution and all that
Over the past 20-odd years or so, computer technology has grown up, mutated, evolved, again and again. Desktop/laptop hardware (keyboards, mice and other input devices) and software have been improved and refined to increase productivity and ease of use.
In the last few years, mobiles and tablets have been given access to an arena in which they are just unsuited to anything that needs significant input from the user.
No matter how many three-fingered swipes, taps, twists or flicks you come up with on these devices, they will never be able to do what real keyboards can do so much more quickly. They are only really as useful as a mouse with no buttons - good for pointing and not much else.
Call me old-fashioned but I will refrain from doing anything difficult or important on a mobile or tablet. Neither will I buy a house based on viewing the property only through its keyhole.
Should you care?
The trouble is, Google is bigger than me. The changes in their search engine can and will have an effect on your website if it doesn't respond appropriately.
So, you should care if you do not want to see your beloved website plummet down the to the twelfth page and SEO hell.
If you need help making your website mobile-friendly, we are here to help, honestly and appropriately.


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So I'm trying something new and linking up about things I love today. My friend Kathy inspired me to try this so here it goes.
This past weekend I was at home in Summerville with my family. One of the things we ALWAYS do is get at least a dozen of blue crabs. It's mating season right now so a lot of the crabs are down deep (something new I learned) so they gave my sister a deal because they were smaller than normal. It did not matter to me they were delicioso!
These are a lowcountry favorite and my mom and sister seem to know how to season them just right. Living in the ATL, I cannot get them and my sister and mama always know to get a batch when I visit. But really, it's about more than the crabs. It's something special that the women in my family share. It's a girl thing. So we each get our tin pans, a cloth napkin, a cold glass of soda and we dig in! Every time there is a pan of crabs on the table, lots of laughs and love abound.
So, that's what I love on this Thursday. What about you?


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THURSDAY, Jan. 28, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- If nearly all women worldwide breast-fed their infants and young children, there would be about 800,000 fewer children's deaths and 20,000 fewer breast cancer deaths a year, researchers report.
That decrease in children's deaths is equivalent to 13 percent of all deaths in children younger than 2 years of age, the study authors reported in a two-part series published online Jan. 28 in The Lancet.
The researchers also said that current breast-feeding practices cost the world's economy hundreds of billions of dollars a year.
"There is a widespread misconception that the benefits of breast-feeding only relate to poor countries. Nothing could be further from the truth," series author Cesar Victora, of Federal University of Pelotas in Brazil, said in a journal news release.
"Our work for this series clearly shows that breast-feeding saves lives and money in all countries, rich and poor alike. Therefore, the importance of tackling the issue globally is greater than ever," Victora added.
Only one in five children in high-income countries is breast-fed for 12 months, the researchers said. And, only one in three children in low- and middle-income countries is exclusively breast-fed for the first 6 months.
This means that millions of children and women don't receive the full benefits offered by breast-feeding, which has been shown to be healthy for both mothers and children, the study authors said.
In a detailed worldwide analysis, the researchers identified a number of benefits of breast-feeding. For example, breast-feeding lowers the risk of sudden infant death in high-income countries by more than one-third, they said.
The study also found that breast-feeding could prevent about half of all cases of diarrhea and one-third of respiratory infections in low- and middle-income countries.
Breast-feeding reportedly also boosts children's intelligence and may protect them against obesity and diabetes later in life, the researchers said. Among mothers, long-term breast-feeding reduces the risk of breast and ovarian cancer, the researchers added.
The investigators also estimated that poorer thinking skills among children who aren't breast-fed cost the global economy about $302 billion in 2012. The loss in high-income countries alone was $231 billion, the study concluded.
Increasing breast-feeding rates for infants younger than 6 months to 90 percent in the United States, China and Brazil, and to 45 percent in the United Kingdom, would lower treatment costs of common childhood illnesses -- such as pneumonia, diarrhea and asthma. This could save health care systems about $2.5 billion in the United States, $29.5 million in the United Kingdom, $224 million in China and $6 million in Brazil, according to the study.
Despite the many benefits of breast-feeding, rates are low, especially in high-income countries, the study showed.
"Breast-feeding is one of the few positive health behaviors that is more common in poor than richer countries, and within poor countries, is more frequent among poor mothers," Victora explained.
"The stark reality is that in the absence of breast-feeding, the rich-poor gap in child survival would be even wider. Our findings should reassure policymakers that a rapid return on investment is realistic and feasible, and won't need a generation to be realized," he said in the news release.
Reasons for low breast-feeding rates include poor promotion and support of breast-feeding, and aggressive marketing and rising sales of infant formula, the study authors said.
"There is a widespread misconception that breast-milk can be replaced with artificial products without detrimental consequences," Victora said.
"The evidence outlined in the series, contributed by some of the leading experts in the field, leaves no doubt that the decision not to breast-feed has major long-term negative effects on the health, nutrition and development of children and on women's health," Victora concluded.
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Why you should try this:
One of the best ways to lose weight and look the greatest is doing the low carb diet. It has a tendency to reduce your appetite and cause fast weight loss, leaving your body with a leaner look and feel, without having to worry about counting your calories or keeping a good eye on your portion control. Doing so means you can eat until you're full, leaving you feeling full and still losing weight. For a long time now health authorities and diet trends have been saying that we should eat low calorie and low fat diets. The problem with that is it doesn't really work and the results people see aren't that good. An excellent alternative is the low carb diet which restricts the amount of carbs like sugars and starches and switches them with protein and fat.
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The low carb weight loss diet is great if you truly want great results and their not hard to get. Studies show that low carb diets reduce your appetite creating you to eat less calories and lose weight effortlessly, as long as you keep your carb intake down. Not only is this an easy way to eat what you want as long as there's minimal carbs, you'll lose weight but and you're appearance will look drastically slimmer from the depletion of carbs in your body leaving you with exciting worthwhile results. You must keep in mind that everyone is different and your carb intake really depends on your age, gender, BMI, activity levels and current metabolic health. Done right you won't think twice and the level of effort will feel minimal.
What to remember:
While doing this low carb diet, you must remember it's not all about weight loss, it is also for your health and improving it as much as you can. It should be based on real, unprocessed foods and healthy carbs, low carb junk foods are what you need to stay away from. To improve your health and lose weight at the same time, eat foods like fish, eggs, vegetables, nuts, healthy fats, and full fat dairy products. If you are to eat carbs and it shouldn't be many, eat sources of high fiber carbs like sweet potatoes, oats, and brown rice. The benefit of keeping the carbs low is your insulin and your kidneys start to shred excess water weight which is why it's very common for people to lose a lot of water weight in the first few days, talk about quick physical results, keeping you motivated to lose more weight.


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It is a single-lane highway bridge, operated without traffic lights. It consists of two metal lattice girders at the edges of the deck, each with two planes of lattice web. The bottom chord of each truss, and any crossbeams, are encased within a concrete deck slab.
The superstructure is supported from a series of cross-braced metal trestle piers. These have inclined legs on the upstream side to protect them against impact from river-borne debris.
The metalwork is riveted, which dates the original bridge construction to 1960 or so at the very latest, and probably much earlier. A bridge of broadly similar construction at Heatherslaw Mill in Northumberland dates to the 1870s.
Update 4th September 2014:
The comments to this post offer further information on this bridge, and see also pages 206 and 207 of http://www.drakkar.co.uk/ch13.
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GUESTVIEW: Fellay ordains SSPX priests, hints timid opening
The following is a guest contribution. Reuters is not responsible for the content and the views expressed are the authors' alone. Nicolas Senèze is deputy editor of the religion service at the French Catholic daily La Croix and author of La crise intégriste, a history of the SSPX. He wrote this for FaithWorld (translation by Reuters) after covering the ordinations in Ecône for La Croix.
(Photo: Bishop Fellay greets children in Ecône, in Valais canton in southwestern Switzerland, 29 June 2009/Denis Balibouse)
By Nicolas Senèze
Bishop Bernard Fellay has gone and done it. On the morning of June 29, before crowds of the faithful gathered on the large meadow outside the Saint Pius X seminary in Ecône, Switzerland, the Superior General of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X (SSPX) ordained eight new priests. Just like Bishop Alfonso de Galaretta did on Friday in Zaitzkofen, Germany, and Bishop Bernard Tissier de Mallerais 10 days ago in Winona, Minnesota in the United States. They went ahead and ordained these men despite the Vatican's declaration that the ordinations were "illegitimate", i.e. illegal according to the law of the Roman Catholic Church.
Was this a provocation by the SSPX against Pope Benedict, whose flag flies above the seminary? Absolutely not, a very self-confident Bishop Fellay responded to journalists who had journeyed to this Swiss Alpine village for the ceremony. "There is a tacit tolerance from Rome," said the Swiss-born bishop, whose 20-year excommunication was lifted in January along with the three other bishops drummed out of the Church in 1988. "We did not have an explicit order not to do this. I have contacts with Rome, I'm not just making this up out of thin air. Rome knows this is not a provocation on our part."
In any event, for Bishop Fellay, the SSPX is in the "state of necessity" which canon law mentions when it allows derogations from Church rules. "If everything went well in the Church, our gesture would have been disobedience. But all is not well in the Church," he said calmly. "We see such scandals at Mass, we hear sermons so contrary to the faith!"
This is the same "state of necessity" that Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre invoked in the 1970s and 1980s, when he went ahead with priestly ordinations without having the power to do so. At the time, the SSPX, which had been dissolved by the bishop of Fribourg with the endorsement of Pope Paul VI, had no official status in the Church. Pope John Paul had asked the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) to settle the Lefebvre case. The CDF prefect at the time was named … Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger.
(Photo: Candidates for SSPX priesthood in procession before their ordination in Ecône, Switzerland, 29 June 2009/Denis Balibouse)
Early this year, the same person, who became pope in 2005, lifted the excommunications pronounced after the collapse of the talks he had conducted in 1988 with Archbishop Lefebvre. Again, the case will now be entrusted to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith – a sign that the differences with these fundamentalists are primarily theological. But that means there is also a red line not to cross — the fundamentalists must accept the authority of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) and the post-conciliar magisterium of the popes.
"The biggest problem is philosophical," Bishop Fellay observed. "Two philosophies meet: the classical scholastic philosophy and modern philosophy. The pope is very eclectic and we feel that he has been marked by a subjective philosophy — less when he talks about morality than when he speaks in the abstract. Our scholastic philosophy is more objective."
So Bishop Fellay thinks that Rome and Ecône may speak "about the same thing, but differently." This is a timid opening, but it must be appreciated for what it is. Only a little while ago, the SSPX Council firmly rejected Vatican II as a council tainted by error.
In essence, Bishop Fellay is saying that the fundamental issue is less the Council itself than its interpretation. "There are differences of position within the Catholic Church that are larger and more serious than those we have with Rome," he said. "The Council texts opened the door to interpretations. It may be necessary that the pope clarifies them, as Paul VI did on collegiality. But when the pope condemned the hermeneutic of discontinuity, he condemned 80% of what ishappening in the Church!"
What's your opinion? Is 80% of what goes on in the Catholic Church wrong?
(For readers of French, here are La Croix readers' reactions to the ordinations)
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I would say that 80% of the Catholic priests and 95% of the Catholic bishops do not teach or live the Catholic Faith as they are supposed to, with grave consequences to their own Faith and to the Faith of their parishioners. It is indisputable that the way they offer Mass, preach, and give the Sacraments is often contrary to the teachings of the Church on these matters. JPII was too tolerant, and so liberal experimentation flourished, to the detriment of the whole Church.
If Vatican II was so great why does everyone (nuns, priests,people,brothers etc…) leave? Blind Obedience is not true obedience. SSPX chooses not to follow the sinking ship and sticks with what has worked for thousands of years.
"Except these stay in the ship, you cannot be saved." – Acts of the Apostles 27:31″ If a man have a stubborn and unruly son, who will not hear the commandments of his father or mother, and being corrected, slighteth obedience: They shall take him and bring him to the ancients of his city, and to the gate of judgment, And shall say to them: This our son is rebellious and stubborn, he slighteth hearing our admonitions, he giveth himself to revelling, and to debauchery and banquetings:The people of the city shall stone him: and he shall die, that you may take away the evil out of the midst of you, and all Israel hearing it may be afraid." – Deuteronomy 21:18-21God bless Holy Mother Church. And God bless our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI.
This story is irrelevant. After the Vatican lifted the excommunications on the Orthodox Church in the 70's did this mean that the Orthodox should stop ordaining priests?Obviously not, what it did do however was to build trust between the two groups. Now it seems that the media and the German, French and Swiss bishops want to stir things up again and instigate that the SSPX are unreasonably disobedient. It won't work~The SSPX is doing what the Church has always done and teaching the faith minus modernist leanings. This can never be considered heretical or disobedient.Let's pray that Rome abandons the sinking ship of Vatican II before it is too late.
The steps taken by the SSPX are necessary to safeguard and preserve the Catholic Faith. The Church is in tatters, due to the great heresy of Modernism that has been allowed to flourish. A false interpretation of the ambiguous patoral documents of the Second Vatican Council has created a crisis and led to a loss of Faith by many priests, nuns,religious, and ordinary lay Catholics. The changes caused by Vatican II are reflected in the confusion that now exists, a confusion sown by enemies within the Church acting on the orders of Freemasonry.
Is there any achievement for insuffient clarification at complex issues like validity of SSPX ordination.If you see media reports they are filled with illicitness of the ordination some thinking this is a credit to invalidity.I believe it is time to give pure clarification that SSPXinisters have valid sacramental powers. At consecration the wine and bread change to body and blood.About recent meadia report the true statement is that the Vatican gave clarification as response to some who asked the incoming ordination.I guess the questioners are those who started recently to watch SSPX movement especially after remmitance of excommunication of the four bishops.They were not aware that even in April this year SSPX was adviced to change deaconal ordination from France to Econe. Also it is a yearly routine priestly ordination occurs in the last week of June.SSPX controversy is a good place to learn theological and philosophical knowledge for most of people.We should take SSPX issue with great care rather than superficial and prejudged concept which we might end up at wrong place.Who knows what will be the fate of SSPX who have agreed to enter int doctrinal discussion with Rome?Kindly,Joseph Misango Magata, Tanzania, Africa
I think that all this needs numbers.To truly see the impact of The Vatican II council has had on Catholicism, one has to implement a before/after study.Although this is very difficult to do seeing as you can't measure faith, other criteria could be used such as-the change in the fundamental beliefs of catholics-church attendance-average age in a parishetc.If studies bring forward conclusive evidence of an impact (whether it be positive or negative) ony then can there can it be decided if something is wrong in catholicism is wrong or not
Addam, there are lots of numbers and studies out there already, but no consensus on what they mean. It's easy to draw a timeline for the Church from the 1950s to today and see there was a major dropoff from the mid to late '60s. That's just after Vatican II, so the temptation is great to blame it all on the Council. But if you can draw lots of other timelines for trends unrelated to Catholicism from the 1950s to today and find many other major changes starting in the mid to late '60s. Other faiths saw major dropoffs in attendance, too, without a Council. Respect for institutions, for politics, for authority, for marriage and for other longstanding social codes also changed dramatically in western societies at large. The Church lives in the world and the world changed fundamentally in the 1960s. Can all of the Church's problems only be blamed on Vatican II?
Don, it is obvious you are in oblivian to what is going on in the Church. If there is any "revelling, and to debauchery and banquetings", it exists when a "new order" priest presents to the sanctuary in a clown costume or dressed as "Santa Clause" or when there is a modern band in a Roman Church to entertain the faithful. I was once a "new order" Catholic, actually born after Vatican II. May Our Lord be glorified and honored in the Latin Mass for ever and ever, and may I bow to Him in humility for leading me back to Himself.Don, pray for humility and wisdom.Indeed, God bless our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI !!kp
Tom Heneghan's article is another attempt to scare off those seeking to save their souls. Tom writes that the ordinations by the SSPX Bishops, are illegitimate but conveniently forgets to add that they are still VALID. We are all getting rather tired of articles such as this. The only benefit of the negative articles is that it brings into the light those who are terrified of the age-old faith of Our Fathers. The Faith comes before obedience. If obedience decides who is a Catholic and who is not, then half of the clergy are actually out of the Church!!!
Irene,First of all, if you had read the post carefully, especially the first five lines written in bold letters, you would have seen that this is not Tom Heneghan's article, but Nicolas Senèze's. We made a special effort to explain that because Nicolas is not a Reuters correspondent, but deputy editor of the religion section of the French Catholic daily La Croix. That's not a problem, but you should at least know whose work you're criticising.That this post does not explicitly state the fact these ordinations are valid does not mean either Nicolas or I do not know that. But that is not the issue here. The Vatican recognises them as valid as well, so if the validity were an issue, the Church would not have a problem with these ordinations. But the problem lies elsewhere.The question is whether the SSPX bishops really want to come back into the fold of the Catholic Church or not. They lobbied the Vatican long and hard enough to get their 1988 excommunications lifted. Then as soon as they were confronted with the issue of complying with canon law, like Catholic bishops around the world, they claimed an exception for themselves and disregarded a Vatican warning that the ordinations would be illicit. This does not look like a sign of good faith towards a pope who risked — and got — a lot of criticism from within the Church for lifting the excommunications without any concessions from the SSPX.If the faith comes before obedience, why does the SSPX continue to try to reenter a Roman Catholic Church it cannot obey? Pope Benedict has made clear the SSPX will have to accept Vatican II reforms that the society rejects. If they accept these reforms in some deal with the Vatican, does that mean that they are also betraying the "age-old faith of Our Fathers"?Another point you may not have noticed in this post is the quote from Bishop Fellay indicating he might be ready to make some concessions on Vatican II. This is the start of the SSPX's negotiation for actual reintegration into the Church, a process that will most probably involve concessions that many SSPX followers may find hard to swallow. The point of this article is not "another attempt to scare off those seeking to save their souls" but to inform readers about a crossroads the SSPX and the Catholic Church are approaching.
¡¡VIVA THE CATHOLIC CHURCH¡¡ Viva the holy father Benedict¡¡ We are united as ONE HOLY UNIVERSAL CHURCH with the Christ's vicary, the pope together with all the bishops.
TomI don't think the SSPX has ever maintained that Faith comes form obedience, but rather the other way around. One must first believe the Pope is Christ's earthly representative before giving him obedience, to do otherwise would be idolotry.That said, the reality is that the SSPX priests and bishops conceed, and always have conceeded, that obedience is owed to the Pope (they are probably more obedient than most other bishops around the world on most things). But they argue that obedience to authority is only required when that authority is itself in obedience to the teaching of the Church. When those in authority display an adhearance to theological principles opposed to the Church's teaching, then it becomes a duty of the subordinate to (respectfully) disobey. Such apparent 'disobedience' is in reality obedience to a higher authority and a virtue. This is the SSPX's argument. One could debate whether they are right in their evaluation of the theological innovations of VCII, and hence the wish of the Pope for discussions.By the way, it was never the Pope who stated that the SSPX must accept the documents of VCII. This was a statement issued by the Vatican press secretary.One final point, it is constantly reported that the 'excommunications' of the 4 SSPX bishops was 'lifted' in January. Carefully reading the January document, particularly the last sentence or two, I can not help but think otherwise. I declares the former document which stated the SSPX bishops were excomunicated to be 'void of juridical effects'. In other words, the former document was in error, and the excomunication never happened.
SSPX should never accept false teachings of Vatican II. But Vatican II can be accepted as catholic council. But its confusing statements which destroyed catholic faith and teachings for years must be condemned and corrected by POPE. Let us pray for this grace tobe given to our holy Father by our blessed Lord And also pray for the holy father to come out from the erroneous belief ecuminism Which is a concept something against first commandment and also the teachings of catholic church.ByChristopher
It can not be argued that the modern church is destroyed due to the modern world environment. Because SSPX is also doing its work in the same environment only. The difference is SSPX does not follow wrong reforms of Vatican II. But modern church does it.
"What's your opinion? Is 80% of what goes on in the Catholic Church wrong"As a young Catholic, I can answer 100% yes…80% of what goes on in the Catholic Church is wrong.The misinterpretation and deviations from the text of Vatican II documents happened from the very beginning in 1965, after the close of Vatican II. Radical priests, bishops, Cardinals, friars and nuns who warped Vatican II into their own liberal agenda wrecked the Church. And the Popes (especially Paul VI, but also John Paul II), either did nothing to stop it, or timidly supported it. Many of Paul VI's dicrectives early on (save for the monumental encyclical "Humanae Vitae") discarded a thousand years of Catholic tradition and replaced it with modern fabricated garbage. The so called "New Mass" is an example of that. Mass attendance, and the number of those choosing religious life collapsed right upon the implementation of the "New Mass", and has been declining ever since.The SSPX and Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, and now the 4 bishops consecrated by him especially Bishop Fellay represent the hope of the Catholic Church to restore itself with Catholic tradition and the Latin Mass. Proof is that the SSPX and it's 400+ churches and 1.5 million faithful are flourishing.Benedict XVI sees the dramatic picture. He sees the rot and collapse of the "Vatican II" Church and what the misinterpretation of the Council has done to the Church, and he sees the solid, flourishing Catholic vibrant traditionalism and holiness growing under the SSPX.Don't be surprised if this summer, Pope Benedict XVI makes major re-structuring of the Catholic Church along the lines back to Catholic tradition. He knows what succeedes, (The tradition of the Church as expresed with the SSPX), and that which fails (the reforms of Vatican II).
Paul Mc – you write that the January document from the Congregation of Bishops says the 1988 document declaring the SSPX bishops excommunicated was "void of juridical effects." So, you conclude, "the former document was in error, and the excomunication never happened."The fuller quote from the statement does not support your argument. Cardinal Re wrote: "According to faculties expressly conceded to me by the Holy Father Benedict XVI, by virtue of the present Decree, I remit the censure of excommunication latae sententiae, pronounced from Bishops Bernard Fellay, Bernard Tissier de Mallerais, Richard Williamson and Alfonso de Galarreta from and, as of this day, I likewise declare void of juridical effects the Decree published at the time." Here's the original text.That verb "remit" is better known to English-speaking Catholics in its noun form, remission, as in the phrase "remission of sins." Re would not have to remit or forgive something that never happened.
Thanks Tom for pointing out the ways in which Pope Benedict has taken serious falls for the SSPX (like the remission of excommunications) only to be spurned yet again as with these new ordinations. I think part of the reason why the SSPX strikes such a raw nerve with Pope Benedict is that the Church itself is already divided into two sharply opposing camps. On the one hand there are those who have returned to the old Latin liturgy and push for a conservative/restrictive interpretation of Vatican II, and those who want to stretch the modern liturgy and the Council much farther. We're almost 50 years on from the last Council, and the rifts that have appeared in the Church make me wonder if we will see another Council quite soon to rethink the decisions of a half-century. Pope Benedict needs to mend his internal divisions before even contemplating the repair of a bitter schism.
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