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Success. Every business, organization, and person has a definition of success. Though there might be some shared elements, most definitions are unique. What one person sees as success represents failure to another. What one organization celebrates, another ignores. Success is a common, yet elusive, concept.
Many people view success in terms of income. Yet, many wealthy people are extremely unhappy. The same is true for businesses and organizations. Success isn't found only in the numbers; success is far more complex than that.
Bill Cosby said, "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." This is true for individuals and organizations. When we try to please everyone, we lose our identity and become slaves to those we intend to serve. When this happens in an organization, the leaders will do whatever it takes to keep people happy. You and I do it when we vacate our passions in order to gain acceptance.
Numbers don't paint an accurate picture. Numbers are easily manipulated to paint a false picture that provides satisfaction to individuals or organizational leaders. We can get caught up in the pursuit of the world's definition of success. In doing so, we abandon our unique design. We arrive at a goal only to discover that it holds no real value.
Success is measured in terms of integrity, passion, honesty, and humility. We are successful when we choose truth, contribution, and concern for others. If you're really the person or organization you claim to be, you won't have to hype yourself. If you're relying on hype to maintain the perception of success, you don't understand what real success is.
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I've been teaching Live Your Why for several weeks and the final session is this week. More than fifty people now understand how they are wired, their passions, and how to determine their opportunities. This group is poised to live with purpose and passion. Average in America is a bad goal. We weren't created to be average; we were created to invest our lives in things that really matter. You can begin your journey now.
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Photography in it's old format gave some sense of true photography. Today in this digitized world everything seems created in a zap. The basic building blocks of photography were indeed cool. SAT Prep
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Our perception of the people we view in nineteenth century photographs might be formed by their necessarily stiff and staring faces; this is often a false impression of a vibrant age caused by the medium's low sensitivity to light. Yet, in the portrait shown here we learn as much about the people depicted, and can read into their possible relationship and personalities, as we do about the tools and techniques used to make the image. I cannot feel but that there was more than a slow emulsion that determined the looks they send out through time, through the camera that made the image, and the materials on which the image was made.
As photography grew and changed, the sensitivity situation improved with the invention of the wet plate process in 1851. This immediately rendered the previous sensitized material obsolete. The emulsion was flowed onto a glass plate, which eliminated the textural interference and light dispersing character of the paper negative. Though Daguerreotypes were still used for portraiture, the material was slowly replaced by the glass negative and eventually faded into obscurity.
The gain in sensitivity represented by the glass plate was not without its problems. The plate was dubbed "wet" because it had to be coated with a light-sensitive emulsion right before exposure, then developed right after exposure. This tied the darkroom to the camera, which, though little problem in established studios, was certainly cumbersome in the field. Photographers had to travel with their own coating and developing systems, which meant pop-up tents, covered wagons and jars of sensitizer went with them.
Printing papers went through similar improvements. Albumen paper, which literally used egg whites as the medium in which light-sensitive salts were suspended, became so widely used that it has been written that "the chickens of Europe and America were put under great strain."
These breakthroughs produced a wave of photographers who worked in scientific, exploration, portrait and even fine art photography. Portraitists such as Nadar are certainly worthy of study. Nadar, a lively character who was also an avid balloonist, portrayed the writers and artists of Paris in straightforward fashion, allowing their strength of character and body language to tell the tale.
Photographers who took the wet plate into the field encountered the problem of the oversensitivity of the orthochromatic emulsion to blue, but overcame it by making two exposures--one for the sky and one for the ground, then combining the two negatives when they made a print. The combination printing technique was used by fanciful artists such as Henry Peach Robinson, who collaged them together with scissors and dye. His highly produced pictures depicted maudlin scenes from Romantic novels or bucolic idylls from an imaginary countryside.
These studio-produced images raised a cry of foul that sounds very much like the objections made to computer-produced imagery today. How could one ever trust that ultimate recorder of reality--photography--if it was manipulated with such disregard for the truth, complained nineteenth century critics.
The period 1870-90 saw the birth of true modern photography, with the wet plate being replaced by the dry plate (which could be prepared beforehand, thus freed the photographer from being tied to the darkroom), and, later, by film being available on a flexible support rather than glass.
The speed with which these changes occurred, and with which one technology eclipsed and made obsolete another, is akin to what's happening today. But each stage moved photography in the direction of ease of use, accessibility and the ability to work faster. Camera design followed the technology, and hand cameras soon replaced the cumbersome devices with which photographers had previously labored.
To delve further into the artists and materials, simply Google names or processes you're curious about and you'll find a rich archive that will aid in your research into the amazing history of our medium. Here's a start. Just click on these references to learn more.
Wet Plate Process: click here Daguerreotypes: click here Albumen Prints: click here Nadar: click here Henry Peach Robinson: click here
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Thank you for providing this great and useful post!It is great to look in the past when people didn't know about wind energy systems or digital cameras.However the photos taken a century ago still look great.
Black and white photography is the cornerstone. Earlier photographer appreciated each frame, which was doing. Now everyone considers himself a photographer.
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Spearman was born on Dec. 3, 1943, in Ingold. He was the son of the late Romie J. Spearman and Katie Seller Spearman.
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There are many people who don't know what the word arthritis means. Arth means joint. Itis means inflammation.
One of the most common myths about arthritis is that only elderly adults develop arthritis. That is so not true. All ages of people get arthritis, including children.
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Arthritis affects one in every seven Americans. What most people don't realize is that arthritis doesn't just affect elderly adults. Arthritis affects people of all ages, including children.
Many people think that if you move to a warmer, drier climate it can cure your arthritis, but this is just another myth. Arthritis occurs in all parts of the world. Many people do notice that a difference in the weather can cause their arthritis to flare, but for most people, moving to a different climate does not make a big enough difference to move.
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"Longing for the Cold War"
As spy stories go, this is a good one. It's well thought out and admirably executed. Characters are well drawn. The reader's one shortcoming is his American accent, which sounds forced. This is not distracting, just curious.
Yet in spite of this novel's excellent execution, somehow industrial espionage about oil companies does not fire the imagination like the Cold War did. Who really cares if one oil company screws another over? Or if the CIA and MI6 are willing to spy on each other over something so banal as money? Cold War spy novels at least left us with the illusion that altruism was possible. There are no white hats in this story. I long for Bernard Samson and George Smiley and Paul Christopher.
"Good thriller but technology from the last century"
This book is vintage Baldacci, literally. When I downloaded it, I thought I was getting the latest new Baldacci novel. By the time I was halfway through it, I had to check the copyright date, which turned out to be 2002 (Audible release date 4/2/13). I would not be surprised to hear that Mr Baldacci wrote this in the mid '90s.
No kidding. The tech in this novel is severely dated. We've had several generations of computer and communications technology since 2002. Most of the youngsters using computers these days probably have no idea what a floppy disk is or why anybody would use a telephone modem to connect to the internet. And why would anybody have a cell phone that can't do a google search or take a picture or tell you exactly where you are. What? No texting? Oh, yeah, right...that's how things were in the deep dark distant past, back when FBI agents were luddites who used Smith-Coronas.
Well, in spite of the historical nature of this novel, it is a pretty good thriller, one that I recommend. Also on the plus side, the reader did a fine job. I just wish that Audible had made it clear when I "pre-ordered" this audiobook that I was getting an 11 year old novel. I might have saved my credit for Baldacci's latest. I'll be checking much more closely in future.
"This book is a wild ride!"
Wow. I do not pretend to understand even the 20th part of the ideas in this book. Who would have thought that a physicist and mathematician could express himself so eloquently on so many disparate subjects? This book is all over the map; it's a wild romp through an amazing mind. David Deutsch's ego must be at least the size of the Milky Way Galaxy--no, wait, that's too "parochial", too provincial by N orders of magnitude! Well, I guess it does take some bravado to take on evolution, quantum mechanics, history, universality, even knowledge itself, and still find time for politics, philosophy, artificial intelligence, and a conversation with Socrates. Along the way, as Deutsch manages to drop an amazing idea you never heard before into just about every paragraph, his major theses boils down to two things: first, good explanations lead to an infinity of knowledge, while bad explanations have only the power to fool us; and secondly, there will always be problems, but they can be solved if we can separate the good explanations from the bad ones.
Doing that in the real world we live in every day is hard, way harder than I think Deutsch realizes. We are fallible human beings who more often than not ignore even the most elegant of explanations with impunity. That said, being inside his head for the last couple of days was a privilege indeed.
By the way, the reader did a great job of not being in the way!
"I am an atheist and I am pissed off!"
Until Richard Dawkins came along and so elegantly skewered religion with his razor sharp intellect, I did not self-identify as an atheist but as just another former catholic. And then I was hit by the triple whammy in quick succession: Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the late and truly lamented Christopher Hitchens. I have never looked back. Yet, as good as their arguments are, they did not prepare me for the barrage of vitriol that most atheists face when they come out. And that, in a nutshell, is what Greta Christina's book is all about. Religions, she argues, exist on the continuum between good and evil. Some religions may be less evil than others right now, but the trend over time for all religions is toward evil. A few religions are explicitly evil, but the majority that are not lend credibility to those that are and thus they aid and abet evil.
Dawkins et al provide the intellectual arguments against belief in the supernatural, but Greta provides nuts and bolts arguments that I can put in my back pocket for the next time someone tells me that I'm no different from the believers . She is angry, it is true, but her arguments are reasoned, not shrill, and her anger fuels the impulse to try to make things better. I am angry right along with her because, for example, I loved the Boy Scouts but can no longer suppress my revulsion. Hitchens liked to say that religion as a way of understanding the universe belongs to the childhood of our species. This book is a step along the way toward leaving our imaginary friends behind, growing up, and taking responsibility for ourselves in the one and only life we get.
"Le Carre remains the gold standard"
I read this novel years ago, but when I saw the movie, I knew I would have to listen to the audiobook. I really liked the movie, but by the time I'd finished the audiobook, it was clear to me (once again) that movie-making is really an exercise in making compromises. As I listened to George Smiley slowling peeling back the many layers of deception, many of which the movie barely hinted at, I found myself completely drawn again into the story in that way that only a great novelist can do. As Smiley walks the cat back, the tension builds slowly but inexorably toward exposing the bane of all counterintelligence operations, the dreaded mole.
While the movie was excellent, two main characters, Percy Alleline and Toby Esterhaze, were completely miscast as simpering morons. That said, Gary Oldman and Colin Firth nailed Le Carre's main characters so completely that as the audiobook played, I did not have to imagine what George Smiley and Bill Haydon looked like. I already knew.
It's been said before, and I agree, that Le Carre is not a great spy novelist, but rather a great novelist who happens to write about spies. The reader did a superb job. His rendering of George Smiley's understated voice was spot on.
"This is History done right!"
Can you call an audiobook a "page turner?" Well, maybe not, but the authors are such masters of their subject and display such eloquence and insight that I found myself saying, "Wow, that was interesting! What's next?" This is not your average dry and dusty history book, that much is for sure.
Well, to be fair, history did give them a wonderful cast to work with. Alexander the Great, Ptolemy Soter, Pythagoras, Archimedes, Aristarchus, Eratosthenes, Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, Mark Anthony, Claudius Ptolemy, Philo, Caligula, Caracala, Hypatia of Alexandria and many, many more. From the story of Alexander himself laying out the streets ca 300 BCE to the final dousing of the candle of knowledge before plunging in to the dark ages ca 600 CE, this is the story of a city like no other before or since. It was born from a vision, lived and flourished, and then like all good things, it died, the victim of its own brash nature and (in my opinion) the ultimately destructive forces of greed and revealed religions. But along the way, Alexandria taught us how to think.
This is a great read. The reader doesn't get in the way of the text, which is the third best thing you can say about a narrator.
"What did I expect for a 2 hour audiobook?"
I am not sure what this audiobook was trying to be. The reader is excellent, but this is not a history of ancient Egypt, certainly. While there is an excellent narrative of Egyptian mythology, the rest of the book seems to be aimed at an audience of third graders. I should have known, since it's only 2 hours and 25 minutes long. You can't even scratch the surface of 3000 years of Egypt and the Pharaohs in that amount of time. And that's what this audiobook does: it fails to scratch the surface.
If you want a real history of ancient Egypt in audio form, seek out Professor Bob Brier's efforts for the Teaching Company.
"The Willing Suspension of Disbelief"
There's an old saying in jounalism, to the effect that you should believe nothing of what you hear and only half of what you read. And it's probably the belief in the written word that has led human beings to stray from healthy skepticism into revealed religion for all of recorded history. No one would have remembered nor even known about the inane mutterings of a tribe of Bronze age desert wanderers had they not had the temerity to write down stories about their imaginary friend.
Bart Ehrman has it right, I think, at least partly right. We humans are credulous beings. Once people had written documents, the forging could commence, perpetrated by people who wanted control over the minds of other people. "This is what happened, see, it's all here for you to read!" Let the revelations begin.
Bart started life as a fundamentalist christian, but as this book proves, his inquisitive and logical mind could hardly sustain that. This book is a great read, and I'm sure even Bart would say it's worthy of a healthy dose of informed skepticism.
"I should know better..."
This was a great story, right up to the point where the USS Walker disappears into a black cloud. Haven't we done this before? Right! Kirk Douglas and the USS Nimitz disappeared into a black cloud, too, about 30 years ago. It was the Exec, though, who got the beautiful brunette nurse. Wasn't there a Japanese prisoner fished out of the ocean? Jeez, I just realized, there is a difference...the Destroyermen don't have a dog! Oh, yeah, Kirk Douglas also made it back home. I fear the Destroyermen are stuck in alternate reality hell for at least 10 books.
I can imagine some folks are probably endlessly facinated with this story. It just wasn't for me.
The narrator was above average. I wouldn't reject an audiobook solely because he was reading it, which is the second best thing you can say about a narrator.
"I really enjoyed this book!"
The authors obviously did a great deal of research into the letters and writings of people who actually took part in making this history. Most of the material they quote is not from the elites but from common sailors, wives, prostitutes, prisoners of war, young officers, criminals, women aboard British warships, impressed Americans, smugglers, parole breakers, and otherwise unknown and disreputable participants. For me, this brought historical events into sharp focus.
No single memorable moment, rather it is the compilation of hundreds of individual moments, each as perfect as if captured in amber, that makes this history so compelling.
One of the best stories about the British navy in the Napoleonic era that highlights the sensibilities of the age involves the visit of the Queen to a battleship just newly arrived back in England. The sailors, being sailors, had brought aboard hundreds of prostitutes, which was a common practice in the British navy at the time. The Captain ordered that they be kept below decks while the Queen toured the ship. But, the Queen, being the Queen, looked down into a passageway and saw these women staring up at her as if she were from another planet. She immediately ordered that the women be allowed to come up on deck so they could see what was going on. Priceless!
A lot of comments here about the reader, most of them negative. Too bad. I enjoyed Lawlor's narration, his comic French accent and terrible Scottish accent as well. His interpretations of the voices of all these common people who witnessed this conflict added immeasurably to their humanity and their realness.
First, let me state for the record that I have read and enjoyed all of Dan Silva's spy novels. But this one seemed formulaic and tired, frankly. The plot, at least for the past two or three, has been the same: something happens to bring reluctant spy Allon back into the game. He comes up with an intricate plan that includes a masterpiece of art, then calls in his old spy buddies who are grayer at the edges but otherwise ready and willing to jump back in the game. There is the old eminence grise, still smoking wherever it pleases him, when he should have died of lung cancer 20 years back. Back again is the lady with the photographic memory of terrorists who looks at the CIA files and in a day or two comes up with the answer than 200 analysts and their computers missed. Reprise from the guy who can track anybody anywhere. The London art dealer, whom I liked in the early novels, returns as little more than a caricature of his former self. Even when Allon and his beautiful Italian spy wife jump in the sack, I was left feeling, "Why bother?" Boring.
Another reviewer said this book amounts to pro-Israeli propaganda. I had not considered that when I read the previous Allon novels, but I have to admit that she has a point. It seems to me, Mr Silva, in the vast human catastrophe we call the middle east, you might be able to craft at least one believable character from the Palestinian viewpoint who doesn't go over to the Israelis. And no, the willing suspension of disbelief does not extend to the two Palestinian characters in this novel, one of whom barely shows up until it's time to save the day.
Bottom line, if you're a Silva fan, nothing I say will make a difference. But, if you don't have a history with him, pass this one by. Lots better ways to spend your time.


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House Bill 82 would require people whose animals had been seized by the authorities to pay for their care pending the resolutions of their cases.
A new proposed state law would charge the owners of seized animals up to $15 per day per animal for the duration of a trial or any other legal proceedings that determined whether the animals would be returned to them.
House Bill 82, which passed the State House late last month by a vote of 163-34, is intended to help shelters and other facilities that care for seized animals to recoup their costs.
The Humane Society of the United States supports the law. The organization's Pennsylvania director, Sarah Speed, told the Chambersburg Public Opinion that the bill protects shelters, which often spend thousands of dollars caring for animals that have been seized from owners accused of animal cruelty or comparable charges.
Not everyone is satisfied with the bill's provisions.
The American Kennel Club (AKC) has called the proposed law "problematic" and urged dog owners in the state to pressure their legislators to oppose the bill as currently written.
The AKC objects to the potential for animal owners to permanently lose ownership rights to the animals if they fail to pay the mandated maintenance costs at any time during a trial. According to the AKC, the costs of care during a trial could prove "extensive," even for animal owners who are ultimately exonerated of animal cruelty charges.
The bill will now be considered by the state Senate.
7:22 pm on Wednesday, February 6, 2013
This is just another example of a dumb law. If it indended to addtionally punish those accused and convicted of animal cruelty, just make those penalties harsher. Otherwise it will just result in pets being euthanized because people cannot afford the fines. Some fix.
12:59 pm on Thursday, February 7, 2013
And the money is refunded if they're exonerated, right? Nope. Guilty until proven innocent.
1:24 pm on Thursday, February 7, 2013
I agree with the above. More companion animals will be euthanized because of costs unless they are held in no-kill facilities.
9:50 pm on Monday, February 11, 2013
This is just stupid. These people can't even take care of their pets in the first place...let alone pay a fine.


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Neither, said Capt. Eric Pope Wednesday afternoon, has been determined yet as officers continue to interview witnesses and piece together what occurred at 17 Sylvia Lane.
James Ray Carr was killed by an unknown assailant as he stood in the front yard of his home, just after 7 p.m. Tuesday.
Because it was dark, foggy and misty, officers have very little suspect information to go on, but they do know that Carr was in front of his residence when a man pulled up to the mobile home, got out of his vehicle and opened fire, striking the victim at least once before fleeing the scene.
"We don't have a motive and we don't know what kind of weapon it was," Pope stressed. "Our suspect information is very limited, too, due to the visibility conditions at the time of the incident."
The suspect is described only as a large-frame black male driving a small passenger vehicle.
Although the shooting occurred outside and in a mobile home park, just off Taylors Bridge Highway, it was dark and foggy, and some of the homes in the area are abandoned. A family member, Pope said, lived next door.
Witnesses, a press release about the shooting indicated, were unable to provide detailed information.
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Investigators from the Sampson County Sheriff's Office and the NC State Bureau of Investigation are currently processing evidence and interviewing witnesses in an attempt to identify a possible suspect.
An autopsy Pope said, would also be performed.
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Further information, the sheriff's captain said, would be released as it was gathered.
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PHILADELPHIA — Jrue Holiday was staring at the scoreboard in disbelief. He didn't mind the score. It was the time that turned him a little incredulous.
Holiday and the 76ers made things difficult for themselves, stretching the final 26 seconds of the game across 12 minutes of real time before finishing off Utah, 99-93, Friday night.
"You start to think, 'Man, this is a long time,'" Holiday said. "I think there were 11 seconds left, Nick (Young) gets fouled and, all of a sudden, there's 10.3? It's like, 'Didn't more time come off? Shouldn't it be eight?' Those last seconds, it was probably the longest 11 seconds."
The Sixers (5-4) busted a two-game skid with a win in the middle game of their five-game homestand. They welcome Cleveland to Wells Fargo Center Sunday night.
Holiday scored a game-best 26 points on 10-for-21 shooting. Jason Richardson added 20 points and eight rebounds, Thad Young had 14 points and eight boards and Evan Turner tallied 11 points for the Sixers.
It wasn't easy, as they permitted the Jazz to knock down two 25-foot jump shots while committing two turnovers and two personal fouls in the game's final 31 seconds.
They made a contest they led by 10 points with 1:22 remaining into a too-tight-to-call affair, with Utah clinging to hope on buckets from Paul Millsap and Gordon Hayward. It took an improbable blocked shot by Holiday, on Millsap's last-ditch effort from beyond the arc, to officially close the book on the Jazz.
"Nah, not like that," said Holiday, when asked whether he'd ever ended a game on a block. "I guess I kind of gloved it. He threw it into my hand."
The Sixers seemed more content to find a way to lose in the last 90 seconds than finish off the road-weary Jazz, who have had a tiring East Coast swing that included a three-overtime win at Toronto and losses at Boston and Philly. Continued...
But the Sixers, coming off a disappointing loss Wednesday to previously winless Detroit, haven't exactly been blowing the doors off their opponents in any realm of their game.
"We kept our cool, but we've got to find out a way to close out games toward the end," said Richardson, the 11-year vet. "We gave up some turnovers, gave up some big 3s, gave up a foul that led to a basket. We've got to find ways to finish a game better.
"I told guys, 'We've got to calm down and relax. If you don't see a great pass, call a timeout,' because we had timeouts. It's all part of growing as a team. There are bumps and bruises along the way."
The Sixers were victims of a time crunch at Holiday's expense late. Playing with a lead, Sixers coach Doug Collins tried to get away with sitting Holiday to open the fourth quarter. So much for that experiment, as the Jazz responded with an 8-0 spurt to even the score at 71-all.
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"They were (outscoring us) 17-0 with Jrue out of the game," Collins said, "so I knew I had to get him back in. I knew he'd be a little tired."
After Holiday's return, the Sixers used an 11-2 run in a 3-minute, 2-second span in the opening moments of the fourth quarter to pull away for good. Holiday, who in the first half made eight of his first 10 attempts, started the second half with eight misses. He made two of his next three, even pulling down an offensive rebound in the process, to get the ball rolling for the Sixers.
A driving, finger-roll lay-up, followed by another lay-up under the rim gave the Sixers an 88-82 edge.
The Sixers also got significant defensive contributions from Kwame Brown, who made his third appearance of the season. Brown turned in 24 minutes, leaning on the bigger bodies in Utah's frontcourt to pair two points with six rebounds.
Visit Christopher A. Vito's Sixers blog at delcotimes.com for more coverage. Continued...
Utah 20 23 21 29—93
Philadelphia 30 22 19 28—99
Ma.Williams 1-4 0-0 2, Millsap 9-15 2-2 22, Jefferson 5-14 5-7 15, M. Williams 5-14 0-0 12, Hayward 3-6 1-2 8, Favors 3-8 2-3 8, Foye 2-7 0-0 5, Kanter 2-5 0-0 4, Tinsley 0-2 0-0 0, Carroll 6-6 4-4 17. Totals 36-81 14-18 93.
Turner 5-11 0-0 11, T.Young 7-14 0-0 14, Brown 1-5 0-0 2, Holiday 10-21 4-4 26, Richardson 7-12 1-2 20, Allen 5-11 0-0 10, Hawes 2-5 0-0 4, Wright 0-2 0-0 0, Ivey 0-1 0-0 0, N.Young 3-5 4-4 12. Totals 40-87 9-10 99.
3-Point Goals_Utah 7-22 (Millsap 2-4, M. Williams 2-7, Carroll 1-1, Foye 1-3, Hayward 1-4, Ma.Williams 0-1, Tinsley 0-2), Philadelphia 10-18 (Richardson 5-7, N.Young 2-3, Holiday 2-4, Turner 1-3, Wright 0-1).
Fouled Out_None.
Rebounds_Utah 43 (Jefferson 9), Philadelphia 54 (Richardson, T.Young, Allen 8). Continued...
Assists_Utah 23 (Tinsley 6), Philadelphia 20 (Holiday 7).
Total Fouls_Utah 15, Philadelphia 19.
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Jephthah's Vow and Sacrifice of His Daughter (Judges 11)
Human Sacrifice in the Bible
(and you know Who is responsible)Intro:
This is a carry over from Walter_Rat's site and adds one more notch on the belt of the Biblical God's evil.
Whew…at least no one is arguing she just got sent to the nunnery. The fine folk over there at tectonics on the other hand, spend so much time arguing for cultural context and the importance of the mindset at the time (like not carrying on the family line), that when push comes to shove even they have to note what would otherwise be understated as "wrong-headed or peculiar priorities." You don't say? They also admit, "Did Jephthah actually go through with a human sacrifice? Many commentators think so..." Aren't they like crazed maniacs when someone departs from the interpretation of "many commentators"? Oh well...at least these mainstream Christian apologists recognize if it is a human sacrifice regardless of God's lack of commission, "then we have a very disturbing story indeed, one that suggests that God endorsed a human sacrifice -- implicitly if not explicitly." Duh...everyone knows that._________________________________________________________________________
"Now the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, so that he passed through Gilead and Manasseh; then he passed through Mizpah of Gilead, and from Mizpah of Gilead he went on to the sons of Ammon. Jephthah made a vow to the LORD and said, "If You will indeed give the sons of Ammon into my hand, then it shall be that whatever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the sons of Ammon, it shall be the LORD'S, and I will offer it up as a burnt offering." So Jephthah crossed over to the sons of Ammon to fight against them; and the LORD gave them into his hand. He struck them with a very great slaughter from Aroer to the entrance of Minnith, twenty cities, and as far as Abel-keramim. So the sons of Ammon were subdued before the sons of Israel.
When Jephthah came to his house at Mizpah, behold, his daughter was coming out to meet him with tambourines and with dancing. Now she was his one and only child; besides her he had no son or daughter. When he saw her, he tore his clothes and said, "Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low, and you are among those who trouble me; for I have given my word to the LORD, and I cannot take it back." So she said to him, "My father, you have given your word to the LORD; do to me as you have said, since the LORD has avenged you of your enemies, the sons of Ammon." She said to her father, "Let this thing be done for me; let me alone two months, that I may go to the mountains and weep because of my virginity, I and my companions." Then he said, "Go." So he sent her away for two months; and she left with her companions, and wept on the mountains because of her virginity. At the end of two months she returned to her father, who did to her according to the vow which he had made; and she had no relations with a man. Thus it became a custom in Israel, that the daughters of Israel went yearly to commemorate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in the year."Of course the background problem here is the ultra high tension honor/shame system to which every turn of events in these chapters are hinged on…which is basically what makes them so horrifically offensive to modern (should I say Western) eyes and grants us these most potent gems on occasion. Granted…it all came from the mouth of Jeph (Jeff?) as the Gabester says, but this comes at a sin of God's omission on three counts. (And God is no stranger to sins of omission.)
One…this whole culture seems very much to be over-addicted to honor at like any expense. I'm not speaking out against honor per se…but I am noting that there is such a thing as too much of a good thing. For instance apathy is bad, and love is good…but too much love is smothering and inconsiderate. It is only a baby step more to note that every moral consideration, theme, or principle has a "green zone" on the dial that is only morally coherent within bounds and you should be able to tell that both apathy and smothering (for the sake of this example) are just different versions of not actually caring about someone else.Just tone that honor crap down a little bit then you don't have people thinking they have to kill themselves because the king fell at their side (remember the Saul debacle?)…what about future battles? What about your fellow soldiers that might need your fucking help? What about your family waiting at home that might be better off with a daddy and not an idea? Screw that! Better to die for a psychological affiliation than to live without honor right? Good thing the entire culture is equally as screwed up and reciprocates the same high tension. I'm not saying that God had anything to do with Saul's soldier, but the soldier's reaction to the situation was indicative of the mindset of the times and explains the reason stories like these could be written and received and it is important that the moral contradiction be plausible and justifiable in that regard. You might be tempted to ask, "Well who would make a story up like that?" and that's your reason. It is possible that not everyone in that society really had the same infatuation with honor and that perhaps (much like how our own movies don't exactly portray us accurately) many stories in the Bible contain a great deal of literary over-emphasis. That's all well and fine from a sociological standpoint, but presumably from a Christian perspective these things happened as is and are actually representative of good judgment on a morally superlative deity. "I'm Jesus Christ and I approve this message."
God we are told, was all about "cultural" change with his pure Aryan race (oops, sorry that was Hitler)—I mean his holy nation of Israel, but not *that* much change apparently. You know the psychologically stable kind that doesn't lend as easily to collective intercultural overkill and endless wars with no resolution and deep seeds of never ending retaliation and strife we see in the Middle East till even this very day. Me thinks that's what that "high tension" adds to the equation. It makes perfect sense that culture at this nexus of the ancient world could be tribalistic and always have a long list of historical reasons to mistrust their neighbors and that the "kill them before they kill you" and the instability of the times could yield a general psychological emphasis on ideas that transcended what would otherwise appear to be a passing breeze. You might not be able to count on your family not being massacred, but you could sure be honorable! This makes for great fodder in those crazy Kung fu movies where some warrior has to commit ritualistic suicide because he lost a battle. I don't know what happened to "training harder" and trying again later. Honor seems like it can be bigger than life itself in the East. I guess if you believe in an afterlife, this sociopathic tendency might "work out." However, I'm sure the next life can be quite well served with more modest parameters.
I'm of the "school of thought" that collateral damage exceeding everything in this life probably shouldn't be unnecessarily dished out at every opportunity for some misguided cosmic virtue and the sickness has a much wider base than just these Biblical stories. I would have to imagine that a deity with loving oversight would be looking to heal those cultural inflammations rather than justifying them or trying to short-sightedly exploit them for his own personal glory-mongering scheme. These are the amoral tools of a self-centered opportunistic tyrant that has set what is in humanity's best interest on the back burner for something else. Even in the hay day of Israel, King David was up to his eyeballs in bloodshed and King Solomon simply over-reacted the opposite direction and married every piece of ass he could get his hands on to his own spiritual detriment all in the name of peace and prosperity. These are not healthy stats and I'm not really even saying anything new that you wouldn't learn in Sunday School at that level. I am trying to point out the overall trend and end result is a Yahweh that is an immoral (hyper moral and amoral) product of the culture and fills a niche a non-existent deity can fill in an honor/shame society.
Anyway…point two sin of omission. If you knew your best friend or even a good friend (or even just anyone at all that you didn't want to see screw up their life) was going to make a bad decision…wouldn't you immediately be there to give them counsel and help them not run their mouth before they regret what they say? If that is the case…then maybe God could have sent a friendly angel to note the idiocy of the gamble and perhaps steer him into something more like "If my cause is right, may we win this battle." Or google forbid he ask for some peaceful supernatural resolution that required no war at all. But God's never there to nip things in the bud is he? Its always got to be some contrived scare tactic in some hearsay story so he can be habitually absent for the rest of actual history under the guise or spin of "being patient" while they "come to their senses." Are these not the hands and feet of a non-existent deity?
Point three of omission is the fact that he let the vow go through. Do two wrongs make a right? Apparently God is hoping for three wrongs making a right (three lefts would, at least; see Zoolander). How much evil can he do that good may result? It's like Grimm's fairy tales for honor/shame societies with national patron deities. It makes much better narrow-minded fiction. Even J.P. Holding agrees with the "apparent" moral sensationalistic format of the story-telling when he concludes, "We can surmise that there is a bit of literary 'trickery' here...the abrupt ending of the account and the non-specific 'he did to her as he vowed' is perhaps designed to shock the reader and make them wonder, 'Hey...did he? He didn't!'" [emphasis mine] So in other words for the passage to make literary sense, he would have to "apparently" kill his daughter in the end. lmfao. Gotta love Holding's idiocy.
1 Samuel 12:11
"Then the LORD sent Jerub-Baal, Barak, Jephthah and Samuel, and he delivered you from the hands of your enemies on every side, so that you lived securely."I could be mistaken but is a society that is pretty much in constant danger (even if they are constantly "saved") really living securely? I mean, I'm sure it would quite helpful to Mary Jane to have Spider-man always there to save her from falling off a building every week or whatever the case may be, but I'd have to say that those constant ups and downs would still tend to make someone loose their nerve in the long run.
Hebrews 11: 32, 39
"And what more shall I say? I do not have time to tell about Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel and the prophets...These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised."I guess this is the part in the story where God maintains his edge. He sent an angel to stop Abe from killing his son...I suppose he had to prove that it doesn't always work out like that. Great story telling! Why it is that God can't fill up his resume with success stories and gain his glory from a good saintly turn out in heaven always eludes me. What's this "glory" thing supposed to be about again? From start to finish the Bible is a shepherding disaster of... well, Biblical proportions. In this particular case, it appears from various commentaries that the arc of the book of Judges was about all these moral failings of Israel dovetailing into bringing a cruel monarchy upon itself. If I didn't know any better (and I'm just speculating here) I'd say this was some history retconning for the sake of a "future" king that wanted an excuse to be a cruel monarch. He could always point to stories like in Samuel and say, "See, you asked for this and you deserve it. Therefore you have to shut up." How cheap is that? I've noted a few of these kinds of themes in the OT especially that are a little too convenient for future leadership and I'll have to pull together a post on several key examples some time in the future. What's more likely? Are the myths real, or are people in power corrupt and willing to "adjust" history to their liking? This would add to the overall better explanation that we are not witnessing the provisional long term work of a good deity but rather the historical gimmicks of Jewish leadership from hundreds of years after the "fact."
I'm not trying to absolve humanity from all responsibility (and in fact never am), I'm simply calling attention to the apparent fact God isn't doing his half of the deal (or at the very least not doing it very well). For the religion to work at all there has to be some bottom line to an amoral relationship of this sort. Duh. Dysfunction doesn't mean 100% non-function. Using the Jeph example, God could have already been way far ahead on providing a stable cultural bed (across many nations, or google forbid even all of them) to raise his Jewish crop so that it wasn't constantly at war, and if that in and of itself didn't already change the course of events to the degree something like this might not even happen, he could have still provided the moderating counsel at just the right time…and even if Jeph for some improbable reason STILL decided to go on with the wager, God could have at least (or even Jeph's neighbors) could have stepped into prevent a person from being collateral damage. Free will would still be being honored and you wouldn't even have to by fiat remove all imperfection, but if you expect a plant to grow, you give it the right soil, you water and tend it, and you prune it at just the right times and then you get your fruit. Point your plow in some other direction and reap accordingly at your own peril. One could only assume for all of that "gardener" imagery we get elsewhere, that these would be reasonable expectations and there would be much more success than failure. You don't have to pretend to "know everything" to catch the trend. And its not just about "bad things happening" or "people dying," its about the context of that and appreciating the probable ramifications of these stunted humanity management skills being put into use. Too often "sophisticated" theologians like to pretend like the new atheists "just don't get" the overall theme of redemption unfolding in the Bible. Never mind that such line item pieces of junk that are focused on undermine that arc. And never mind as I've pointed out here and elsewhere, that the overall theme in the Bible's salvation scheme is divine negligence.
At every level of the scenario, constant war is accepted by this god, the high tension honor shame system is accepted by this god, fear tactic stories are accepted by this god, and long periods of nothing divine happening are accepted by this god, and cheap unfalsifiable resolutions (like everything being "okay" at the last second of some character's disastrous life) are accepted by this god. You can certainly get away with a "low impact" tall tale like that of the life of Samson with a fictional more-often-than-not impotent deity. You can come with with some improbable divine excuse for every iteration, but we have a perfect fit for the secular case overall as this is what we'd expect if this deity is only a cultural artifact. God doesn't exist is the conclusion. Force fitting him into reality is what makes him look evil in the meantime.
Outro:So…either God is just so fucking screwy in the head…or maybe this is all from start to finish just a big cultural ejaculation indicative of the times that should probably just be left in the sand where it originally landed. Perhaps you think Christians should start acting more like those crazy Muslim fanatics of today which would probably be the most analogous mindset we have on hand? I'll bet even all those moderates would start listening to the Sam Harris they so hate. ;)
Church signs say the darnedest things, don't they? Google forbid we open up the "pandora's box of non-theistic morality"... Better the devil you know, eh?
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