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SUBDISCIPLINES: Anthropology of Religion
Doug Padgett * Posted May 1998
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"In the anthropology of religion, as in many interpretive pursuits of our postmodern age, there is nowhere left to hide." - James Boon
Introduction and State of the Field
According to Stephen Glazier (1997), one could easily arrive at the impression that in the discipline of anthropology as a whole, anthropology of religion is currently on the run. It is difficult to find programs that take anthropology of religion seriously, where one can do graduate work, where one can find professors for whom religion is a primary concern. But in the post-Cold War era, with rising levels of ethnic and religious conflict, the effects of religion, its impact on our social and political lives, have greater visibility than at any time in the past twenty years. As Glazier and others have suggested, we may in fact be in a sort of Golden Age for the anthropology of religion--but not all the action is taking place inside the discipline of anthropology.
In specific terms, the field is receiving rising interest from outside the academy and a rising level of credibility on the inside. Currently one can study the anthropology of religion at the anthropology departments of, among others, Drew University, Princeton University, Rice University, University of California -Berkeley, and University of Michigan, all of which have one or two established anthropologists who take religion seriously as a category of analysis. But it is also possible to study the anthropology of religion in religious studies at many other places, including Indiana University, University of Chicago, Harvard, and University of California-Santa Barbara. Furthermore, after contending with tremendous resistance, Morton Klass, James Peacock and others have finally succeeded in forming the Anthropology of Religion Section of the American Anthropological Association. Publications on the anthropology of religion are growing, and while a great deal of the output consists of reprints of classic texts, people are also beginning to re-think their theoretical standpoint towards the study of religion in some creative ways (Glazier 1997: 3). While there is no journal that specializes in the publication of articles on the anthropology of religion, many such articles can be found in journals of religion as well as in general anthropology journals.
What is Anthropology of Religion?
There was a time, in the nineteenth century, when anthropologists saw in religion an archaic mode of thought and action that would one day recede in the force of the modern institutions of science, law, politics, and education. Although no anthropologist would say that with such certainty today, problems of definition remain a hindrance to the study of religion. Depending upon how we identify it, what we see as the religious reaches into virtually every corner of human activity. Fundamentally then, the anthropology of religion must quite simply be seen as the application of the weight of anthropological theory and method to the analytical and social quandary of religion or religions--What is it? What are they? What do we speak of when we speak of "religion" and how does that relate to particular religions"? What makes religion? What does it do for us? Other disciplines ask the same or similar questions, but in anthropology the focus of the analysis is generally ethnographic. In comparison, within the history of religion, one may seek to answer the same questions of world religions by looking in the literary record, in myth, and the work of religious professionals. Of course, anthropologists of religion have never shied away from dealing with the broadest range of religious experiences and values, historically and in every sort of society, but they have usually focused their attentions on the immediate concerns of practitioners, which lie in tension with the perceived orthodoxy, the canons, and the doctrines of religious professionals.
Brief History of Anthropology of Religion
E.B. Tylor (1832-1917), of the so-called English School of anthropology, is regarded as the founding father of anthropology of religion. His works are still widely read, especially in religious studies, where he is regarded as a founder of sorts. Tylor's legacy has weakened in recent years and in practical terms, throughout both disciplines, his influence is but a memory. In general this is because his most well-known theory, which applied evolutionary theory to the study of religion, assumed that stages of material "advancement" corresponded with those of a spiritual nature, a concept which has been repeatedly disproved. In his most famous work, he formulated a theory of animism as the earliest, "primitive" stage of religion. Tylor was joined, in both England and France, by a host of fellow travelers, including James Frazer (1854-1941), whose comparative mythologies were so inspiring to later study, and R.R. Marett (1866-1943), who proposed a preanimistic stage of religion.
Despite Tylor's beneficence, perhaps the foundations of contemporary anthropology of religion are best seen as having been built upon the work of the same nineteenth century social thinkers that support virtually all of the social sciences: Durkheim, Weber, Marx, and Freud. Emile Durkheim (1858-1917), later regarded as the first of the French School, viewed religious experiences as "social facts" which bypass empirical truth. His successors included Marcel Mauss and Lucien Levy-Bruhl, both of whom were enormously influential in the analysis of "primitive" religion. Arnold van Gennep (1873-1957), author of Rites de Passage, was another influential member of the French School. Max Weber (1864-1920) emphasized the common links between the social and the economic spheres of human activity. Karl Marx (1818-1883) was concerned by the spiritual alienation arising from socioeconomic deprivation and drew attention to the masking of economic inequality through religious activity and thought. Sigmund Freud (1856-1839) articulated a full and intellectually inspiring reduction of religious experience to biological and social drives. These men broke down barriers to understanding religion, arousing, in the process, deep hostility and an amazing variety of interpretive creativity.
From the American standpoint, the German diffusionists, who countered the English and French evolutionists, have been a vital influence on the anthropology of religion. They held simply that similarities in cultures can usually be ascribed to diffusion from one site of original invention. The German-American Franz Boas worked in this vein and, in numerous studies, insisted upon the primacy of culture over inherent qualities of race, as well as on the most careful of ethnographic fieldwork. Hallmarks of this legacy may be found today in the work of almost any American anthropologist. Boas saw each element of a culture, physical or mental, as part of a cultural whole and thus is usually seen as a functionalist.
Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942), another functionalist who also advocated tight, descriptive ethnography, attempted to record--and establish the character of--the native mentality of an island people. He drew on Frazer for his general categorizations of magic, science, and religion and viewed those in the religious vein as being without application. A.A. Radcliffe-Brown (1881-1955) is also associated with the functionalist school for his work establishing the cosmological functions of myths in maintaining natural order.
In his work on theories of primitive religion, E.E. Evans Pritchard (1902-1973), like Boas, gave voice to a backlash against many of the assumptions about religion and religious categorizations found in Tylor's and other works. He was not alone in desiring to break up the classic anthropological dichotomies of primitive/modern, monogamy/promiscuity, white/brown, animist/monotheist that seemed to inform so much ethnography. Criticism of these early works continues to be a characteristic of contemporary anthropology of religion. Nevertheless, the works of many of these same men and women are still being read for the intricacies of their observation and interpretation.
Contemporary anthropology of religion rests upon a variety of figures and movements. The mythic structuralism of Claude Levi-Strauss, though out of a fashion as a totalizing theory, remains a vital point of conversation and an evocative foil for many who still write in a structuralist vein. The theories of Mary Douglas, who structured her generalizations upon ritual and emphasized social relations over Levi-Strauss's mental ones, are similarly less used than discussed. Clifford Geertz, the original practitioner of interpretive anthropology, while much criticized, sees religion as a set of symbols and stresses the meaning of those symbols as referents and creators of meaningful life.
In the sixties, a variety of new ideas about religious anthropology arose, some based upon the work of the three named above, some drawing from other disciplines. Geertz began his work on religion as a cultural system. Melford Spiro lashed out at the legacy of Durkheim for setting religion apart from the main of everyday life. Anthropologists began to see religion as sets of symbols or structured systems. Through the work of Douglas and Victor Turner, as well as performance theory, a new emphasis on ritual was established. The essential debate over ritual has generally involved issues of whether ritual reduces or enhances the ambiguity of life. Studies often hinge on psychoanalytic interpretations, involving Freud and Lacan. Work in the line of Durkheim and Weber has continued as well.
Much of the anthropological work conducted in a psycholanalytic vein was concerned with shamanism and, to a lesser degree, tantrism. Shamanism was a major topic of discussion in the late sixties and seventies, as it was seen by some to hold a variety of elemental social or psychological keys to religion and religious phenomena. In 1982, Sudhir Kakar attempted to compare the two as psychotherapeutic devices. Ake Hultkrantz took shamanism studies in another direction with ecological and phenomenological, cross-cultural research. As perhaps an offshoot of shamanism studies' emphasis on psychoanalysis and alternate states of consciousness, the anthropology of consciousness has developed and grown in recent years. Alone among other forms of the anthropology of religion, this subfield is concerned with the actual mental states of those undergoing religious experiences, and is found only in anthropology and not in religious studies.
The seventies and eighties saw the beginnings of the literary criticism and post-colonial studies revolution in anthropology, greatly affecting the manner in which we think and speak about religion. This trend dovetailed with the continual and painful self-examination into the predilections and prejudices of anthropologists through the last hundred and fifty years. A new brand of historical anthropology has arisen usually involving colonial and post-colonial studies and a review of the history of previous anthropological study in a particular area, focusing on the errors committed in earlier research and the manner in which the studies themselves have reflected back upon the subjects. As they concern religion, such works are more often written by anthropologists in religious studies departments.
Currently, the "lit-crit" revision of the humanities is in full swing in religious studies and anthropology of religion, though not without conflict and contention, particularly in religious studies departments. In a related mode, there is a continued questioning of categories like belief and religion itself, as theorists from a variety of backgrounds attempt to establish the usefulness of the manner in which we speak of religion and culture. The emphasis here, as elsewhere in the social sciences, is on the dynamic, unstable character of all historical phenomena, not only in the present day, but also in the past.
In terms of subject matter, the current emphasis is not on tribal or rural, but on urban religion. Studies attend less to religious texts and more to lived religion as it is experienced in our daily lives. This means including the experiences of white, middle class America, a normative category which had previously been ignored in studies. Anthropologists today are fascinated more than ever before by the religious strange in the culturally familiar--in particular, the study of what might be characterized as ugly and dark--religious racism, sexism, snake-handling.
Today, religion is seen by many anthropologists (and other scholars) on its own terms, as a discrete area of human activity, with defining, if contestable, characteristics. This does not mean that scholars are not critical of religion or do not resort to the same sophisticated theoretical modeling to understand religious phenomenon that they use in other areas. But neither do they dismiss it or reduce it entirely. Anthropologists of religion are highly self-reflexive and highly self critical. Today, more than ever before, scholars are extraordinarily careful when speaking of religion. They are critical of our everyday terminology: ideas like belief and culture and ritual are constantly being reassessed or called into question--to the point, in fact, where one can hardly speak reasonably about "belief" anymore outside of certain Western historical contexts.
General Characteristics of Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
As demonstrated above, anthropology of religion cannot be defined theoretically or, beyond a general concern with religion, even in terms of subject matter--it spans theory and is very frankly interdisciplinary in its broadest manifestations. But contemporary anthropology of religion may be characterized in more specific ways:
1. Contemporary anthropology of religion sympathizes with the "practicalities" (William James's word) of religious experience: religion on the ground, in the populace, and the tensions felt there between official, institutional notions and the polytheistic, even inclusive atmosphere of majority religious life. This is partially a result of anthropology's historical emphasis on "non-literate," "primitive" religious life, i.e., religion that does not resemble Western European Christianity and/or Judaism in any apparent way. Anthropology of religion thus tends to emphasize the local particularities of religious life--spirit worship, saint cults, possession--as opposed to the idealizations of religious specialists, world renunciants, or sophisticated religious ethics and scholasticism
2. Contemporary anthropology of religion is methodologically and theoretically diverse. Because anthropological subdisciplines share common intellectual roots, there are as many ways of doing anthropology of religion as there are of doing any other sort. Followers of Durkheim, Weber, Marxists, Freudians, structuralists, structural-functionalists, and those influenced by more recent theorists, have found--and still find--their own ways of interpreting religion.
3. Contemporary anthropology of religion attempts to overcome the prejudicial, Western-biased understandings of religion found in flawed but still valuable works such as those by Evans-Pritchard, Malinowski, Tylor, and Levi-Strauss. In the sixties, their concrete and totalizing definitions of religion began to be replaced by more fluid, contingent working definitions. Clifford Geertz, for example, understand religion to be a system of symbols that are uniquely realistic to practitioners in various ways. Melford Spiro, on the other hand, as an answer to Durkheim specifically, convincingly reduced religion to those acts and experiences that involve dealings with the superhuman. Both of these have been under fire for some years, though both maintain their utility
4. Finally, and most anthropologically, I believe, contemporary anthropology of religion emphasizes place. Place is what, in fact, sets anthropology of religion apart from "religious studies" and is also, perhaps, the greatest contribution of the anthropology of religion to contemporary religious studies. Anthropologists of religion in anthropology and in religious studies have consistently articulated a deep knowledge of place as an antidote to the sometimes facile, superficial approach of "comparative religion."
A Highly Selective Bibliography
Introductory Texts and Readers
Klass, Morton.
1995 Ordered Universes: Approaches to the Anthropology of Religion. Boulder, COWestview Press.
Lehmann, Arthur C. and James M. Meyers, eds.
1985 Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion: An Anthropological Study of the Supernatural. Palo Alto: Mayfield.
Lessa, William A., and Evon Z. Vogt, eds.
1979 Reader in Comparative Religion: An Anthropological Approach. 4th ed. New York: Harper and Row.
Case Studies
Brown, Karen McCarthy
1991 Mama Lola. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Evans-Pritchard, E. E.
1940. The Nuer. Clarendon: Oxford University Press.
Geertz, Clifford.
1976 The Religion of Java. Chicago : University of Chicago Press.
Grim, John
1983 The Shaman: Patterns of Siberian and Ojibway Healing. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
Hultkrantz, Ake
1967 Spirit Lodge: A North American Shamanistic Seance. In Carl-Martin Edsman, ed. Studies in Shamanism. Stockholm: Almqvist and Wiksell.
Spiro, Melford E.
1982 Buddhism and Society. 2nd ed. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja
1970 Buddhism and the spirit cults in north-east Thailand. Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press.
Turner, Victor
1967 Forest of Symbols. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Turner, Victor and Edith Turner
1978 Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture: Anthropological Perspectives. New York: Columbia University Press.
Asad, Talal
1983 Anthropological Conceptions of Religion: Reflections on Geertz. Man 18:237-259.
Bateson, Gregory, and Mary Catherine Bateson
1987 Angels Fear: Toward an Epistemology of the Sacred. New York: Macmillan.
Berger, Peter
1967 The Sacred Canopy. New York: Basic Books.
Bloch, Maurice and Jonathan Parry, eds.
1982 Death and the Regeneration of Life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Boon, James A.
1982 Other Tribes, Other Scribes: Symbolic Anthropology in the ComparativeStudy of Cultures, Histories, Religions, and Texts. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Boyer, Pascal
1994 The Naturalness of Religious Ideas: A Cognitive Theory of Religion. BerkeleyUniversity of California Press.
Evans-Pritchard, E. E.
1965. Theories of Primitive Religion. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Fabian, Johannes.
1981 Six Theses Regarding the Anthropology of African Religious Movements. Religion 11: 109-126.
Geertz, Clifford.
1973 Religion as a Cultural System. In his The Interpretation of Cultures. New York: Basic Books.
Glazier, Nathan, ed.
1997 Anthropology of Religion: A Handbook. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
Kakar, Sudhir
1982 Shamans, Mystics, and Doctors: A Psychological Inquiry into India and Its Healing Traditions. New York, 1982.
Keys, Charles F. and E. Valentine Daniel, eds.
1983 Karma: An Anthropological Inquiry. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Spiro, Melford E.
1966 "Religion: Problems of Definition and Explanation." In Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Religion. Michael P. Baton, ed. 85-125. London: Tavistock Publications.
Taussig, Michael.
1978. Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and HealingChicago: University of Chicago Press.
Taylor, Mark Kline.
1986 Beyond Explanation: Religious Dimensions in Cultural Anthropology. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press.
Turner, Victor
1969 The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure. Chicago: Aldine Publishing.
1973a Symbols in African Ritual. Science. 179: 1100-1105.
1973b The Center Out There: the Pilgrim's Goal. In History of Religions 12: 191-230.
Turner, Victor and Edward M. Brunner, eds.
1987 The Anthropology of Experience. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
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|This is the third book in the Marsbound series. The Others have just turned off all electronics on Earth, and now we need to survive. One problem with this book is that it jumps straight into the action -- I had to go back and re-read Marsbound and Starbound in order to understand what was happening in this book. That was ok because those two books are excellent, and I enjoyed re-reading them. In fact, those two are probably a little better than this one.
Overall Earthbound is pretty dark, and there isn't a lot of hope presented -- its just a series of scenes where the main characters attempt to deal with an all powerful adversary. Perhaps if the Others weren't so powerful this would be a better book, because you just know that everyone is doomed. I also respect authors who are willing to kill off lead characters, but that happens a lot in this book, which sort of bothered me. Perhaps that's what combat is really like though -- people you have an attachment to just stop being there. There's no warning or explanation.
The end of this book isn't very satisfying. There better be a sequel or I'm going to be annoyed.
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I will try to find it later, but Crist ran his first ad last night. Instead of hitting any campaign points he/they decided an attack ad against Rubio was the better bet. Politics as usualy for old Charlie and that has already done him in.
Crist is done! The next poll will have him 50 points behind and then only if his family members are involved in the poll.


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[QUOTE=mitty;1041756]Ok here's a video of a guy teaching a baby puppy using a clicker. It was uploaded 3 years ago. With all the advances in clicker training, how should we be doing it differently? Better yet, show us:
Renee, we are not communicating on the same wavelength. In clicker training a baby puppy, not much is new. Clicker training itself is not new. How you apply clicker training to teach skills in field dog work are a bit new. Using the platform is not new. Using it in clicker training (magnetizing dog to platform with clicker training) to teach precise positions and go-outs is kinda new (2-4 yrs) Using a platform to teach the concept of go out and sit facing me when I blow the whistle (whistle sit) is kinda new - at least to me, just came up with it in the last 2 months. Building on that and using the platform Pairing the whistle sit with casting is a little new, at least to me.
Pat Nolan has done an amazing job of melding both clicker/marker training with force training, from the few videos I've seen and word from others. His stuff is new, cause he invented the ways of applying the techniques for teaching certain skills and concepts.
Same for ecollars. You started a thread about history of the ecollar and how it evolved and how trainers have used it in new and improved ways. Same thing in my view.


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Last call for alcohol.
Just leave my threads alone. Mine are always placed where they should be.
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Just bustin chops. Guess sarcastic joking tones don't come through well here. I will try better.
A couple of great dinner spots: a.lure and Pink House. If you go to Pink House get the crispy scored Flounder. You can get that at Gharbaldi's as well, and it is equally as good. Pink House has a a dungeon bar that is pretty cool. alure is just damn good food all the way around.
Go up to Rocks on the Roof at the Bohemian hotel. Great roof top bar overlooking the river. Also, if you are hungry they have a chicken & waffle sliders. FREAKING AWESOME!
You got revenue by me being a VIP. With my VIP status I would like to have one muscle head checking ID's before people reply to my posts and to remove the ebay revenue stream from my line of sight. Not saying you need to get rid of it. I would just prefer if I didn't have to see it. :420:


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I'm checking my PM and your PayPal address as soon as I hit "send" on this post. I think you'll see my money by the end of this week even if it doesn't post instantaneously.I watched the first season and I think one episode of season 5. I'm more of a fan of the New Mexico climate than I am of the show itself.[/b]
First, I think you are only the second person I've ever encountered who wasn't obsessed with Breaking Bad after having watched only the first, or a few episodes of that program.
I'm surprised you stopped watching. Or was there another reason that had nothing to do with the quality of the show?
I think it's fascinating how it descends a good man who thinks of others first (his family) into using his genius (and that he is almost a genius) into a criminal mastermind and show us all how far we could fall as our bad choices (with good intentions) crash up against the consequences and unhinging twists in fate to turn into a nightmare.
I am trying to write stuff like that in my own literary endeavor. I'm just fascinated by our true human nature - our strong alliance or susceptibility to our dark side - constantly at war with our good side (as seen by Walter's motives on Breaking Bad). He does all the wrong things for (what surely started) as all the right reasons with a few convenient rationalizations - and you gather what happens. The excitement comes from the dual thrills of having "a genius character" trying to figure out how to "win" and set most things right again.
Many amongst us could be Walter White or "Heisenberg."
Anyway, I spent a lot of time with him in New Mexico (on TV) and a huge Billy the Kid fan and historical and outdoors enthusiast, I've been to New Mexico and rode horses in Lincoln and fired guns on the range there. I too love the setting. I'll give you that it could be interesting for the Zombie Apocalypse.
Who knows what they'll do.
OK. Let's define what the show is about. I think we're on the same page with this, you and I:I'm hoping that's something that isn't touched on for a very long time, if ever. The 'how' and the 'why' of the zombie apocalypse is not really what this show is about. Maybe at some point a resolution will be required, but it would just be unnecessary baggage right now.
To me the show is about surviving in the collapse of American civilization and families' struggles to survive.
They are also trying to stay true to their western / democratic culture (maybe not so much under the Ricktocracy or The Governor in Woodbury), but they would have supported trial by jury for example, as Rick had been a cop. But he just took it upon himself to banish Carol. Yet we don't like children playing with guns, but teaching Lizzie saved Tyrone's life. So everything that we came to be comfortable with as right and wrong in this world, gets turned upside down.
I don't think learning what caused the Zombie Apocalypse or how to immunize against it would stop this theme on the show. For one, there are too many walkers. For another, maybe civilization, humanity, will only continue with characters like Judith who might never turn. She just has to outlive even those as young as Carl, who will turn when he dies.
If the Zombie Apocalypse was learned to be caused by some government bio-weapon or terrorist attack from our old world, it even plays into there being a need for more fast action by the Ricktocracy for example.
But if one show delved into that, and Rick was left ignorant of it, actually either way he'd remain in the Walker World.
Three things before I proceed to responding to you on this point:I didn't say that Judith was the "chosen one," I just said I didn't think she was dead. In fact, trying to turn her character into some kind of "messiah" would ruin the entire show. So, not sure why you are bringing that up other than the fact that you know I'm a born-again believer in Jesus Christ and you think referring to the Son of God as a "legend" will push my buttons.
1) you are my friend and I do not mean to agitate you personally.
2) it is just historical knowledge that heroes born of virgins were characters in legends brought along by western civilization since before Christ and it would be a familiar story structure to market religion with. Additionally, even our beloved Star Wars that brings us together here was accused of borrowing from it. [side note: the novel Darth Plageuis suggests that Sith Alchemy by Darth Plageuis (his expertise in bio-engineering as he was really the Muun Hego Damosk, CEO of the Muun Pharmaceutical Corp.'s parent stock-holder company Damost Holdings and took medical science beyond conventional morality by employing Sith Alchemy) bought or paid for test subjects, which were paid for or paid directly, and may have included Shmi Skywalker "There was no father..." and she might not actually know what happened to impregnate her with so many midi-chlorians. Star Wars actually works with Walking Dead there - that the zombie plague might be synthetically engineered) - but not even the novel Darth Plageuis was definitively explicit about that. Palpatine may have just hidden Anakin away if he had something to do with their capture and placement into slavery, so that his Master couldn't raise up a new young Sith to replace him. It would have to be a follow-up book -but to allow one more speculation about that - Palpatine was being groomed to be able to take control of the Republic as a politician. Plagueis as Hego Damosk was already a "Donald Trump" figure in the galaxy. Not exactly sure what Plageuis' final plan was. But Sith apprentices are supposed to kill their masters. It was finally revealed that Palpatine was working on recruiting Dooku. In the meanwhile, Dooku knew of Dathomir and suggested Maul as a pawn, just like his brother Savage Opress became one. The women were more powerful on Dathomir, so Dooku took Ventress as insurance for himself. And Dooku was a popular business figure like a Rockefeller and worked his way into being the Separatist (CIS) leader, so if he and his droids won the war, he could kill Palpatine and be Dark Lord.
This is why Maul did not have Force lightning etc. They told him he was a "Darth" but he was actually not a Sith Lord to be (just an apprentice to be sacrificed - though Obi-Wan obliged much more prematurely than the Sith Master had planned). Read "Darth Plagueis. James Luceno is the best Star Wars author by a long shot!
Anyway, the historical employ of "heroes" from virgin births (you'll have to research this to learn if it was Ulysses, Gilgamesh, etc.) all pre-date Christian civilization. It is just history and not meant to provoke you.
I am not looking for a religious debate right now - even IN the Rancor Pit, where we are not.
To bring this back to The Walking Dead, it is just a literary / legendary / fictional device used in familiar story-telling patterns and Judith is the only child on WD that I can name who was born AFTER the Zombie Apocalypse.
To close this point, in terms of the writers on staff of WD, some might be believers like yourself, others might not be. I think having both contributes to a show portraying survivors from all walks of life.
Herschel was a great Christian character who held to his beliefs, abandoned them when his zombie wife was shot by Shane, and then returned to them for great grounding inspiration of a moral-compass character. It obviously enriched the WD to have him in the cast. I loved Herschel!
Just like on the show, we have to tolerate all points of view. Many on the show, Rick and Andrea for examples, do not seem to be believers. At least Rick returns to faith out of tradition and desperation some times - like in the church that they found before they found Herschel's farm. But this is a mystery that confounds many of us that cannot make a unilateral decision that "what's in the Bible is just the literal (or approximate) way it is.
3) That being said, as Christmas comes around every year, and the hypocrisy of the people allegedly "celebrating it," (historically timed for the Winter Solstice celebration in Paganism by the (historical) way - another marketing point as to survive birth in the manger, Jesus would likely have been born in the summer time if he was ever a living being and one individual and legends weren't combined - like a virgin birth through a ministry through a crucifixion after a trial pre-determined to free a murderer rather than upset the status quo of the Pharisees and Sadducees) - is all part of a semi-annual provocation of me. Not so much a "war on Christmas," for me personally, but a war on education, critical thinking, and smart voting by the masses. I spent Thanksgiving Dinner with my uncle's clients he invited to his "Republicans Only" country club where these rich guys with their 2nd or 3rd trophy wives they left the mothers of their children for, and talked about combining their money to overthrow my state's two more liberal Senators and how they were using wedge issues like ObamaCare paying for abortions and birth control to upset the faithful. These guys might go to church somewhere, but they are not faithful. That was evident since their new wives are my age and they are in their 70's and have kids older than their wives (ask me how I just got a private viewing box for the San Diego Chargers for the rest of the season - pictures provided next home game!). I just hate the hypocrisy. My own too, since now I can take dates to a private box at Qualcomm Stadium if I keep my mouth shut about the who these people are. But it must be said that YOU and everyone reading this patronizes these people's corporate interests without exception. My uncle is a major player in this country's finances and these are our top business leaders. Everyone else in our small family is dead, so he makes it a point to fill the table at his country club - but for whatever it's worth, they bought the loyalty of the US Marines by inviting them, too. (i.e. why the military overwhelmingly votes Republican - and I do not think Thanksgiving Dinner should incorporate oil futures discussions and "what we are going to do about Iran" when these guys own the weapon supply companies too, and can bankroll the politicians into Congress that will make the decisions they want them to. And my own uncle has told me he can get me elected if that's what I want to do, but I have to change political parties. Sorry. It just makes me so mad! And last but not least, these gentlemen are descendants of our country's great historical figures. It just seems to me that a war against Christianity is actually a war FOR what Jesus actually stood up for. Ghandi said something like, "I love your Jesus, but it's his followers that I cannot stand."
Anyway, enough of that. I'm just saying that making Judith a "Chosen One" figure on Walking Dead follows a pattern in crafting traditional legacies that has been successfully swallowed for generations. Maybe WD employs it. Maybe they'll surprise us and not.
That she was born after the Apocalypse is something different about Judith from all the other characters. Note: Judith will not be the sole "Chosen One." They won't go directly there. I'm sure others - a new generation - will rise with her. Perhaps years after the show has gone on. We might see WD: TNG some day. Since we love this show, it's not a bad idea.
[Quote}Yeah, I've still got a copy set aside for you and you should have my Paypal address, but if not let me know.
Thank you for your patience. I look forward to reading it. I believe this could be your first and only issue. No doubt I'll have questions about a sequel chapter that I'll send you in PM in probably several weeks, after I've paid, received, and done some reading.


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I do believe relationships win out when in doubt. People buy from people. If you work well and trust each other, then business runs much smoother and you get repeat business.
There is a point here that I think some in sales miss. Building a personal relationship with customers as described by a few in the thread is great, but I've found that it's more important to build a business relationship and professional trust. I've seen plenty of "superstar" reps with one vendor make bold claims about how many customers they would bring with them when they move to another vendor, but then fail because those personal relationships do not translate to business.
Like it or not, the Internet & other forms of mass media has changed the way business is being done. Customers can instantly find a comparable product or service very easily, sometimes at a lower price. Service is going to be your trump card.
Solid post, what market are you in currently?
Does anyone use 'social media' like Facebook or something else to promote their products/services?
If so, how have you gone about doing it?
Also I enrolled in a personality analysis seminar where the DISC method of recognizing the personality traits of a prospective customer and how best to sell to each personality (or how to manage employees within their basic personality) was a paradigm shift for me in my personal development. Once you know the personality of a prospect, you use that knowledge to allow the prospect to sell himself.
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That is it! Thanks man!!
That is it! Thanks man!!
One way to out think people is to make them think you think they'll think what you are not really trying to get them to think what you think.
Nowhere in your incoherent ramblings did you come anywhere close to the answer. Thanks to you, everyone in this room is now stupider having heard you. I award you no points and may God have mercy on your soul. -Billy Madison-
I am going to start deleting these repetitive posts of yours that just bound in to talk about the same stuff over and over with only the thinnest of threads connecting them to the real conversation.However, if they're shrinking figures, why not make a Scout Class BumbleBee like I want, already?
I got Thunderwing, he's ok, fun in a whooshable way, but dead simple, lazy soft sculpting, and crappy head. Leaving the arms to the side of the vehicle mode really puts a damper on it, but the little drone is a step back towards the right direction.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
I recently picked up Dirge. Very nice figure with a great sculpt and more like the old school Dirge. Nice paint and great look.
One way to out think people is to make them think you think they'll think what you are not really trying to get them to think what you think.
But I think I would like to get some other cool Autobot-wear.
I'm an Autobot fan, no matter how much I wish for more LC Decepitons (like Blackout) and Human [Nemesis] scale Decepticons (like Rampage and Sideways).
BAD Pts Need: R5-C7 lf leg (x2), , R4-P44 right leg BAD Pts Offered For Trade: PM me - I have lots of parts now including BG-J38!. New Kyle Katarn is also available.
Picked up Tracks yesterday at Target. Curiously, they were out of Jazz. I'm leaning toward "no" on Fallback; he's too movie-styled. If he were a repaint or retool of Legends Brawn, I'd get him, but he's not.
That's my jacket!
Fallback is a repaint of movie Brawn, which is why he's movie styled. Reveal The Shield is a combination line with Generations-style figures and movie-style figure, I gather.
My order from HTS of Tracks and Jazz showed up the day before xmas eve. I had been hearing a lot of guff about how bad Tracks is, and a lot of lauding for Jazz, so I started with Jazz.
Jazz's alt mode is really a mix of 2 different vehicles, the nose to the end of the hood is an amalgamation of Porsche Boxter and Pontiac Solstice but curiously everything from the windshield back is a Nissan 350Z. That is extremely odd because they've already got a 350Z in the Classics line that 3 characters are done as, first Prowl, then Smokescreen and finally Bluestreak. And it's the 350Z's weakest point, the rear end is vague and bloated. Then Hasbro went so cheap on deco they should be rapped on the knuckles by a nun, they put almost no paint on the car after the B-pillars, so the back window and lights and bumper line are all white except for the racing stripe running across the fenders - they didn't even complete the racing stripe down the middle! There's also no paint on the wheels or grille, but it's not as offensive, although the Japanese version's pictures just hit the web and it has ALL of that stuff painted in. At least when making a new 350Z for no reason they moved the spoiler up to above the rear window which looks quite good. Jazz's forearms are visible from the sides under the doors, and nearly rub the ground even when done right. A gimmick in this mode is opening the doors to reveal a pair of speakers - though not like the loudspeakers from the cartoon, more like bookshelf speakers. Portions of the front fenders have a tiny bit of alignment issue from transformation, as do panels that make up the rear end, but it's not horrible. The color of the plastic is white with a slight hint of translucence that seems a touch milky, while the roof is painted a brighter white over translucent blue. On the top of the roof is a rubsign, and it's been die-cut, no more square block around the shape. Ooh, 3 decades later and we get an advance! The alt mode has a good personality overall, the spoiler offsets the rear end in a way that makes it beefy but still a slick sports car.
Transformation is a variation on the G1 original, adding a little automorph for the head, but making it impossible to fold the door wings back which the original did. Unfortunately, the chest doesn't lock down, nor do the shoulders, which makes posing and play a tad frustrating. Transformation back to vehicle mode is straightforward except for alignment issues with the forearms and the roof which can be easily missed, but aren't a huge deal.
Bot mode is ok, but a number of things keep it from really popping, the aforementioned deco issues and non-locked-down chest, and there's something about it that doesn't exactly feel like Jazz to me, partly due to the door wings, but mainly the face. The head is clearly Jazz's, but there's a really peeved frown on his face which is then amplified by the overpronounced chin sculpt. It's a good sculpt really, just not Jazz's thanks to that expression. This robot mode has a lot of gappy areas that are just barely covered over, from most normal angles it's not a big deal, but from lower angles and close up the chest gap is very cheap-looking, as is the back of the thighs being totally hollow. The figure has some good sculpting, the forearms are black plastic with white paint which makes its details pop out, but unfortunately the rest of the white bits are cast white plastic so they just eat the sculpted details, of which there are plenty but largely lost to poor deco - there are even 2 modern-style car speakers sculpted into the back of each door. And the areas that aren't white are black which looks so plain compared to those areas on the G1 figure which had color to really bring those designs out (those were stickers, these are sculpted elements and don't even get as much attention, how dopey is that?). Articulation is good for a deluxe, ball-jointed head can really move, swivel waist, hinge & rotation hips, ball-jointed shoulders, swivel biceps and thighs, double-hinged elbows and knees, ball-jointed wrists, hinged feet with independent heels. Moving the figure is a bit frustrating though, the ball-jointed shoulders are tight but the chest and shoulder panels are not, so they're likely to get dislodged and then everything requires fiddling again. Likewise, the knees being double-hinged too often ends up with the thighs behind the shins rather than above them, throwing off the balance and visual appeal. The independent heels often get pushed back as well, so every time a pose is messed with, it seems like every bit of the figure needs readjustment.
So, what's good about Jazz's robot mode then? Well, it's a tall figure for a deluxe yet doesn't sacrifice bulk. Decent proportions, no weird skinny bits anywhere. The speakers pop out of his door wings and can be removed on their 3mm clips to be attached to his blaster, that's fun. There's good sculpting on most areas, extra details on interior surfaces, and a ton of touches harkening back to the original G1 figure such as the lined details on the shins, and the shape of the forearms and hips. The soles of the feet are angled for a nice wider stance. His rubsign ends up on his back in the proper orientation, and is his only faction symbol.
Bottom line, Jazz is a mixed bag, there are good things going for this figure but some cost-cutting issues and a few design choices really hold it back from being all it should be, especially at the deco and hollow bits. It's also hard to get past the un-Jazzy facial expression. Design issues also make it hard to pose without other things going wrong thanks largely to the free-moving chest. And why they went back to the Nissan 350Z for alt mode is beyond me. I'd grade this figure a "C+" that could have easily been a higher grade.
"Turbo Tracks" (they couldn't get legal clearance I guess for just Tracks) is so very different from his wave-mate Jazz. When I was a kid, I really dug car toys that flew, the Omnibot Overdrive was simple but really hit home with me. I never got Tracks as a kid, but I quite liked how the pictures looked of his flight mode, they really got that right. This new Tracks carries the spirit of the original yet is its own thing.
G1 Tracks in alt mode was a 1970s Corvette, blue with a garish flame deco on the hood. This new Tracks is a darker blue car, it's wider and beefier than any Corvette, but still has some of its styling, though I'd say the designers here crossed the Vette with a Camaro and added a few angular touches to boot - I think it's a fine automobile they've created, it has its own special style that doesn't remind me of any other TF (yet - they're reusing this mold with a few changes as Wheeljack down the road). The deco has tribal orange and yellow flames on the hood, they are garish, but it feels apt to a modern day show-off. There's also a decent amount of deco around while retaining a clean look, silver wheels and headlights, dark gray grille, red tail lights, dark smoke windows, and white pipes under the doors. Almost all the blue is plastic except for the roof and A-pillars which are painted and don't quite match - mine has 2 shiny lines on the roof from where the clear bands held the part down, the rattan strings didn't harm the paint but these clear bands did. On the roof is the die-cut rubsign, well-hidden among the dark blue, it's the only faction logo on the figure. There aren't many seams in alt mode, but there is some panel massage needed to get the rear end and doors to line up.
Flight mode is in the instructions, although I found the bit about rotating the thin panel at the rear end to be a bit vague since it rotates along the car's Z axis (the length of the car), basically it's just folding stuff out of the way to pull the doors down. What you end up with is... underwhelming, the doors don't impress as wings at all, they have not enough color or shape to carry the concept, the hinges add too much bulk, and they sit too low - well under the wheel line. You can slide them out slightly, hinge them up, fold down the rear wheels, to be hover fans, but in the end it's still lacking. I give them credit for trying though.
Transformation looks complex, in the instructions they make it quite complex. It's actually somewhat elegant though, there's enough to do that it's not simple, but it's major stuff, and there's some automorph with the head and shoulders - this doesn't lock down though, but it's not as bad as Jazz's chest. Tracks' instructions totally fail to show an important aspect about the backpack though, the wings slide out but then they're also designed to hinge up 45 degrees which allows clearance for the backpack to peg down. Oddly, Jazz and Tracks both share a different snafu in the instructions, where tabs holding the windshield to other parts aren't identified and they expect you to just slide parts away which are locked down. Tracks' transformation back to alt mode is fairly direct, although the hips can get out of alignment a bit easily requiring more massage, and the arms and hands have a specific orientation and alignment with regards to the elbow hinges. Oh, and it's SUUUUUPER easy to forget to stash the gun until it's too late.
Tracks in robot mode is a very cool customer. There's plenty of new details and some new paint brought to bear. The end result takes plenty of cues from the G1 figure but feels nicely modern as well. The first thing that's striking is the head with its red face and dark gray eyes, the sculpt is very reminiscent of the original. There are wings beyond his shoulders, rear wheels at the shoulders, the windshield and roof as the chest with the rubsign present, and the flip-down tab-style feet. The pipes/thrusters also can clip onto 3mm rails behind his head, and while the rear section of the car is still a backpack, this one folds all the way down instead of hanging out behind his head. This new Tracks comes off a little wider than the original, the backpack adds a bit of that but I don't find it offensively so, and the blaster can be stowed inside. The figure's proportions are good, no long or oversized arms, knees in the right place, then big boots but that's a standard Transformers thing. Tracks doesn't have as much sculpted detail as Jazz, there are some flat spots on the insides of things, but largely it's not a big deal as he's got it where it counts. He's about a head shorter than Jazz but not short for a deluxe, and he's got enough bulk to counter it.
Tracks has a black and silver handgun that is clearly the shoulder weapon from Wheeljack, who the mold is getting used as in a few months. His hands are 5mm holes, but they're sculpted open with a high thumb which can be an issue for shorter 5mm pegs. He's got very good articulation, ball-jointed head, ball-jointed shoulders with a shrug hinge, swivel biceps and thighs, double-hinged elbows, swivel wrists and waist, limited range hinged knees, and hinged feet that have independent ball joints at the front and rear section. The feet joints are a little light, no one joint can do it by itself so they have to work in concert - luckily, they have a great amount of range to really plant for that. The wings and shoulder thrusters/cannons also can move a bit. The chest doesn't lock down but isn't the problem Jazz's is, it doesn't move as often and when it does it only slides down a little bit.
Overall, I really like Tracks, there's a fine-looking alt mode, a keen transformation, a great robot mode, and even a flight mode of sorts. There are a few little issues, but the figure has a lot of personality and thought put into the execution. I'd grade it "A-".
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I think I love Jazz a bit more than you, JT, but I share your confusion ahout why Tracks isn't getting more love. My only Jazz complaints are the lack of deco. The mold is what I've wanted for decades! It would've been cool if his doors folded away somehow, perhaps with an extra joint (maybe some third party retailer will come up with something like they did with the Staracream Coronation set), but I'm not having a problem swinging them behins him. I transform the speakers out and there's plenty of room.
Re: Tracks' flight mode; I did a slightly modified version that actually harkens back to the G1 version and covers up the gap left by opening the doors. Swing out his arms so that they lay over the doors. It will swing the wheels down as part of the transformation. I like it so much more, I wonder if it wasn't somehow the original intention.
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People dislike Tracks? Are they daft? What do they want, a $10 action figure that actually whines if you get fingerprints on it?
And I still wonder why there's a combo line replacing the movie line with the same SKU, but the Generations line will continue. Do they want some sales under this SKU to make up for all the Skids and Mudflaps no one wants? More likely, I'm afraid it will make Reveal the Shield figures a bit tougher to find, as stores will be iffy about ordering them (which seems to be the reason the GIJoe Cobra Fury went to Ross before normal retail outlets, as best I can figure).
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Interesting. Do you slide the hands out of the forearms or leave them there? I just tried it, the alignment on the arms doesn't look nice in anything I've come up with, just looks like arms. I fold the forearms all the way back and it fills a little better and squares off, but it's still got those hands.Re: Tracks' flight mode; I did a slightly modified version that actually harkens back to the G1 version and covers up the gap left by opening the doors. Swing out his arms so that they lay over the doors. It will swing the wheels down as part of the transformation. I like it so much more, I wonder if it wasn't somehow the original intention.
I think they rolled Generations into the mainline because neither line was selling strongly enough this last year to get retailers to buy 2 separate lines. Reveal the Shield is a subline of the mainline, it turns out, not a new thing, so it'll keep pace with the existing ROTF line, which should clear out all the old junk for the holidays - TRU sold off a ton of the '09 ROTF figures for $6 this holiday.
I was watching some G1 cartoons last night after reviewing Jazz and Tracks and playing War for Cybertron, and it got me thinking about what all the Classics lines have delivered for the G1 faithful in this particular style (no reissues of other lines). Rounding 5am, I came up with a list of figures I had. In no particular order...
- Optimus Prime
- Ironhide
- Jazz
- Hound
- Tracks
- Bumblebee
- Sunstreaker
- Sideswipe
- Prowl
- Jetfire
- Powerglide
- Inferno
- Hot rod
- Mirage
- Grimlock
- Ultra Magnus
(To be clear, I didn't really want to include Magnus, it's a cop-out without his trailer, but what ya gonna do?)
- Megatron
- Starscream
- Skywarp
- Thrust
- Ramjet
- Dirge
- Astrotrain
- Octane
- Ravage
- Onslaught
- Galvatron
- Cyclonus
(I'm not counting the OP vs Megs 2pack since Megs there is G2. I don't care if Inferno is claiming to be G2, it's too slight a difference to matter.)
Comics characters:
- Straxus
- Drift
- Thunderwing
Figures in the line that I don't have:
- Cliffjumper
- Cosmos
- Wheelie
- Warpath
- Beachcomber
- Brawn
- Acid Storm (I really have a hard time counting this as anything)
- Bluestreak
- Smokescreen
- Ratchet
- Silverbolt
- Red Alert
- Blurr
- Skullgrin.
(I'm not going to bother listing the Ultra-class repaints or anything from a convention.)
Figures coming soonish:
- Wheeljack
- Thundercracker
- Windcharger
- Rumble
- Perceptor
- Wreck-gar
- Grapple
Recent figures in other lines that pretty much count here:
- Huffer (PCC)
- Seaspray (ROTF)
All told, that's 54 Classics-styled G1 characters! That's a heck of a run, I had no idea I had that many. The Legends minibots situation is a downer, but again, what ya gonna do? I honestly don't know why Hasbro is dragging their feet at re-releasing some of these figures and their repaints. At the very least Starscream could use another pass with better paint, Skywarp was missed by many, Smokescreen deserves a better pass, Ratchet and Ironhide deserve figures that don't have a million ugly seams, and I'd like to see Hasbro finally get a blue Bluestreak done mainly just for a better-looking Bluestreak figure than the rather unfortunate Silverstreak they did (I know he's not supposed to be blue in color but in language).
Who still needs to be done? I'm thinking mainly from the cartoon, so Trailbreaker, Gears, Soundwave (!!!), Laserbeak, Shockwave, Reflector, Slag, Sludge, Swoop, Snarl... and then we'd get into combiners so I'll just stop here.
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Running master at 11 months but didn't pass a master until 18 months and 4 more to go till MH.
It doesn't matter when you run a test just when you pass test. I can run my 1 year old in open it doesn't mean anything unless they earn a ribbon.
agreed......I was just passing on information......That was incorrect.......My bad.....Punkin is a good chessie either way
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- Honestly, there was not anything that stood out as entertaining.
- The entire system. Lacked intuitive design as well as entertaining factor
- Making more than one of any object. Time consuming as well as repetitive.
- Yes, the system is very tedious
- The reward was only found if you had a profession that was commonly needed. Bottle necking players
- I have crafted in every game I have played, MMO, RPG, and any other that allows it.
- The best system is one that entertains the player, while providing decent rewards for doing so. I hate how in mmos crafted items are nowhere near as good as the end boss ones.
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Up or down, the pattern of returns across the stock market has been spreading out. This might be one of the reasons for the chatter that 2014 could be the year when active managers beat the index.
You certainly see a scattering of returns of various stock-market sectors, which might help active fund managers (though that's not guaranteed). The years of lockstep trading in the stock market look imperiled.
From Morgan Stanley strategist Adam Parker:
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Apart from that, I finally got around to opening the Matty Black Friday/Cyber Monday boxes (first day of winter break gift) and two of the five final JLU sets I ordered came with severely bent cards. That doesn't concern me much, though, as the figures are intact. I didn't want to pay $30 for each set, much less the higher price for the 7-pack. Getting them all at substantially reduced rates was acceptable, though. I don't think I'll be paying the full price for the last of the final three packs on Monday's sale. I suspect it will eventually be offered for discounted prices. If it isn't, its loss won't mean that much to me.


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What is "resistance?"
"Resistance" occurs when the medicines you may be taking for your HIV disease can't stop the virus from making more copies of itself—a process known as replication.
What Causes Resistance?
Resistance is caused by the way HIV makes new copies of itself.
If you aren't being treated for your HIV disease, it can make billions of new virus particles every day.
But that replication process isn't perfect. HIV multiplies so quickly that it makes a lot of genetic mistakes in the new copies. If these imperfect copies of the virus are able to go on to create copies of themselves, they are known as mutations.
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Testing Positive and Resistant
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- Genotypic assays look directly at the genetic material of the HIV in your blood and give you information about the HIV drugs your virus is resistant to.
- Genotypic assays are the most common and widely used resistance tests.
- They usually take about 1-2 weeks to come back from the lab.
- They are less expensive than phenotypic assays.
- Phenotypic assays actually measure how well the virus responds to medications in a controlled environment, such as a laboratory.
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- Phenotypic assays are used if you have multiple HIV mutations and/or multiple forms of treatment have not worked for you.
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If my resistance tests show that I am resistant to a lot of HIV medications, does that mean that HIV treatment won't work for me?
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