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Talk:Metering mode
Some classification. Note russian version[edit]
Too poor Metering modes in this english article. I've written some additional classification in ru-wiki.
- Where exponometer is placed?
- near object - metering ligth sources' flow (exponometer or flashmeter)
- near camera - metering object
- What is Photographer's part of metering?
- Manual
- Auto
- Aperture priority
- Shutter priority
My english is not good enough to write full thanslation here, sorry. ru:Участник:Qkowlew
I changed the text a bit because metering mode is not something that is found on digital cameras exclusively. The matrix mode goes back to the mid-1970s, spot metering to the late 1800s, and center-weighted averaging metering to the 1920s or 1930s. Jeff Medkeff | Talk 16:51, Jan 31, 2005 (UTC)
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Enhanced partial metering description, also stated mostly used on Canon cameras.
Added ESP (Olympus) to matrix metering. Suggest it is considered to change matrix metering to "Multi-Zone" metering..as Matrix is mostly a Nikon term..and multi zone is easier to grasp for readers.
Added a link to a film camera's manual..shows examples of metering in action...patterns etc
Need somemore examples of metering aka photos. Will have a dig about.--Barryfitzgerald 22:50, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
Poor information on spot metering & weak introduction.
Large chuncks + over complicated desription of spot metering..and in depth talk about exposure (which is not relevant to this page)..have been removed. Information here should be easy to read and not super technical. The previous edit was not informative on spot metering..and wandered into exposure.
I request users interested in inproving this particular article ...do so with some consensus. In depth info on exposure is not needed..nor references to only digital (people do use film too)......in particular percentages for APS-C etc etc for the spot metering area. What was wrong with 1-5%?
Introduction talks about people not blaming the camera...this is again not in the tone of the article....
Lack of images to show examples where a person may use a particular mode.
Request users consider a revised an not overly fluffy spot metering mode explanation, and a more direct and clear introduction
--Barryfitzgerald 01:22, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
Recommended: A History of Photographic Metering[edit]
Recommending the addition of Arthur_James_Dalladay, creator of the original photographic spot meter (1937). --Jordandalladay (talk) 01:40, 15 December 2009 (UTC)


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Watchmen on the walls 8
The Right has regained considerable power. The cheers die down. The champagne has been drunk. The recovery of America is only just beginning.
Continuing to explore ideas about what will follow now, we quote an excellent article – or a rallying cry – by J. E. Dyer, posted yesterday at Liberty Unyielding:
Commander J.E.Dyer
There's a division of sentiment among conservatives, the day after a big electoral victory for Republicans.
There are plenty of conservatives who were glad to be able to vote for candidates they admire and believe in. That distinguishes them from other conservatives who had to either withhold their votes in certain races, or vote for GOP candidates they didn't particularly like.
But even many conservatives who had attractive candidates to vote for share something important with less fortunate conservative voters. They share a sense that America has already experienced a break with the political consensus of the past that can't be repaired with this election.
This isn't only because Congress will remain divided from the president across policy lines for the next two years. That is important – and not mainly because it will theoretically result in gridlock. (Some gridlock would actually be pretty darn healthy at this point.) It's important because the president has executive power, and Congress doesn't.
Realistically, we can expect Congress to be slow and timid in any attempts to block executive unilateralism by the Obama administration. The American people, the targets of weaponized government, won't get any meaningful relief.
But it's even more than that. Something bigger than American partisan politics is going on in the world, and what the voters accomplished on Tuesday will do little to position America better to face it. That's the sense of settled foreboding I see in many conservatives.
It won't all be up to the United States government, in any case. The world is going to hand us problems created by others – diseases, foreign despots who churn out refugees; Islamists, Russia, China, Iran, some damn fool thing in the hot-spot of your choice – that could very well impinge as much on the daily lives of Americans as anything Obama does before 2017. They could impinge more, whether they involve geopolitical disruption or economic shocks.
Too much is unsettled now. Getting from where we are to where we need to be will require stopping at a waypoint we haven't reached yet. The election on Tuesday is not that waypoint.
Indeed, to revive the American spirit of liberty, the waypoint will almost certainly have to have the same weight and import as our constitutional convention of 1787-89. It's not clear yet what combination of circumstances might make it possible to identify such a waypoint, and take advantage of it.
For the time being, those with a coherent idea of liberty and limited government expect little gratification from today's partisan politics. They see what those who voted for Republicans as a status-quo alternative to Democrats don't: that the status quo itself can't continue. Creeping bureaucratic despotism – what we live under now – is unsustainable. It's not the future. … People have nothing to live for under its lash; ultimately, as limitations and pessimism drive out opportunity and hope, it must destroy itself.
That's a statement of enormous optimism. What can bring bureaucratic despotism to an end?
Even this clear-eyed writer cannot answer that vital question.
But what the outlines of the future will look like, and what factors might give events a push, no one can foresee from here. …
But Commander Dyer is sure there are better times ahead – because America is the embodiment of an idea: the idea of liberty, and it is an idea that cannot die.
The truth is that deadlines keep passing, for everyone who predicts one certain doom or another. America has not been loaded into a garbage truck from which the only exit is in the landfill. This country still has a lot of living to do.
Liberty has always been an idea, and as an idea, it can't be killed. It stills burns in the hearts of millions of Americans.
Only some of them know what liberty really is, but there are still millions of those people. And here's what I perceive about them. Although they remain committed to the political process – they think it's important not to give up on it – their investment in it is on the wane right now.
The reason? The political process is not making the difference between liberty and overweening government anymore. Electing Republicans doesn't bring relief from overregulation, collectivist statism, and the growth of public bureaucracies that are easily taken over by fanatical ideologues.
This is why the 2014 midterm election isn't an end-state, nor … a model for the future. It isn't good enough to elect Republicans to take over the same business the U.S. federal government has been doing for 100 years now. It's the business that has to change.
Seeing this clearly is going to keep liberty-minded conservatives in tension with old-consensus Republicans between now and 2016. But having a vision for something better always does that. …
So, though it is good that the Democrats – the ideologists of serfdom – have been defeated, she does not believe that the Republican Party will bring us the liberty we crave.
It's actually exciting, and a source of optimism, to realize that our future doesn't have to be charted within the confines of the patterns of the past. Yes, the GOP leadership in Congress is still an old-consensus leadership. But it's not discouraging to recognize that the Republicans we've just handed a congressional majority aren't going to change much for us. It's liberating to stop expecting them to.
The task now is for the sons and daughters of liberty to educate themselves on liberty itself, and man the ramparts as watchmen on the walls. … The watchmen on the walls have to be on the lookout for opportunity: knowledgeable about how liberty has been established in the past, and ready to interpret circumstances and openings when they arise.
I think those circumstances and openings are going to arise, although I can't tell you today what they will be. I do know that the day has come when it is more important to fan the flames of liberty than to damp them down, through the political process, in search of consensus. Putting too much into consensus only teaches us to believe lies about freedom, and we've been doing that for too long. …
I look to the future. Join me if you can. History gives us every reason to be optimistic about a future with liberty, because liberty is healing. Liberty is the empire of hope. So get up on those walls, troops. We've got some watching to do.
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The first – many libertarians would argue, the only – duty of government is to protect the nation from other nations and the individual from other individuals. Its instruments are military might and the rule of law.
That duty includes keeping the nation and the individual safe from infectious disease. The law must isolate persons and animals that could make others sick.
It may be hard to identify the infectiously sick. But to the extent that it can the state must do it, and force the infected into quarantine.
The people can insist that the conditions of the quarantine are pleasant, even luxurious (why not, if luxury can be afforded?), but the quarantine must be as absolute as can be.
Right now, Americans need to be protected from the horrific killer disease Ebola. It is known where it comes from; what its symptoms are; what its gestation period is; how it spreads or could be spread. The countries from which it comes should be quarantined.
To take every necessary protective measure would be to prevent panic, not create it.
Fear of Ebola is perfectly rational. It is fearsome. To do whatever is necessary to contain and cure it is also rational.
It is those who say do nothing and don't even talk about it who are being emotional and unreasonable. Nothing goes away just because it's taken no notice of.
This horror exists, it has been brought to the United States, now it must be dealt with forcefully, dictatorially, with high-handed authoritarianism – in the interest of freedom.
In the light of a setting sun 3
We continue the series of short essays by Jillian Becker posted on our Pages section under the general title of The Darkness of This World.
Here, in full, is the tenth essay, starting Part Two of the series.
It focuses on Russia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; the nihilistic mood that prevailed there among discontented intellectuals; the decadence of the monarchy and the Orthodox Church; and it outlines the astonishing story of the mesmerizing, disgusting, scandalous mystic and lecher Rasputin, a peasant who rose to wield imperial power – the enormous autocratic power that history had reposed in the weak hands of the last Tsar, Nicholas II.
Romanticism – which grew in opposition to Reason from the very beginning of the Enlightenment, their common parent – is a kind of religion.
In certain essential ways it most closely resembles the Gnostic creeds of early and medieval Christianity. Both Romantics and Gnostics depend on feeling and intuition for their "truth", which stands in both cases in opposition to their culture's norms. To rebel against conventional morality, they choose evil. Both rationalize their perversity as the means to a higher good. For the Gnostics good lies in the heavens after life on earth is over; for the Romantics it lies in this life on this earth, just over the horizon, beyond the next revolution. Whether up there, or over there, both promise paradise.
In actuality, Romanticism led the way not to an earthly paradise but to earthly hells.
If Romanticism could be said to have a deity, it was "the Devil". The Romantic imagination clung to him long after "God" had faded away. Germany "sold its soul" to him. Entranced by a Wagnerian fantasy of brutality, violence, war, conquest, "blood and beauty", Nazi Germany chose evil, rode the storm triumphantly for a time, fulfilled its romantic dream in atrocity, and ended in flames and irreparable moral degradation.
Karl Marx prayed in romantic poetry to be empowered by the Devil, and metaphorically speaking his prayer was granted when Marxists took power after his death and tormented and destroyed millions of hapless victims. The Russian Bolsheviks were the first tyrants to govern in the name of the creed that bears his name. But they were not the first (or last) tyrants to govern Russia, nor the first Russians to choose evil.
The Enlightenment did not penetrate far into Russia. Even by the late nineteenth century, the Russian people were still deeply religious and the church was still immensely powerful. But a weariness with the old order, a romantic pessimism was spreading through the vast anachronism that was Tsarist Russia.
Dostoyevsky's novel The Possessed (or The Devils or Demons), was published in 1872, eleven years before Karl Marx's died. It has a cast of intellectual nihilist terrorists who typify the Romantic rebel in late nineteenth century Russia. They are against everything. Patronized, courted, and encouraged for the thrill of their scandalous philosophy of existential despair and malicious criminality by a stupid Governor's wife – another type of civilization's decline – they transgress all moral and conventional boundaries and eventually murder for the sake of murdering, and literally set the town on fire. One of them commits suicide and allows the others to blame him for their crimes, leaving an untrue note that he is the culprit. Why? Because nothing matters. Nothing. The man they look to as their leader, Nicolai Stavrogin, is the son of a wealthy landowner, an eccentric widow. She enjoys a protracted and chaste love affair of the mind with a once-daring but now perfectly tame intellectual rebel who has long since outlived his small fame. Young Stavrogin – handsome, rich, and privileged – is the rebel du jour, reckless and unpredictable. At his mildest, we learn when we meet him, he has publicly indulged his evil impulses by making defiant gestures against polite custom, saying and doing irrational things – such as biting a distinguished gentleman's ear – deliberately to outrage society. In secret he has done far worse. He has committed a terrible crime that we learn about eventually: he raped a child, and the girl killed herself. Then, secretly again, he married a poor despised ill-used madwoman. Why? In penance? Out of compassion? Is he a saint as well as a sinner? Or is it a bizarre joke? Dostoyevsky perfectly describes what Stavrogin is doing: he is "living sarcastically".
Dostoyevsky believed Russia was sick with nihilism and despair, and could be saved only by a return to Orthodox Christianity. But the sun was going down on "Holy Russia". The Orthodox Church was no longer capable – if ever it had been – of distinguishing between its saints and its sinners.
In Orthodox eyes, which of the two – saint or sinner – was Grigori Rasputin, the man who more than any other single individual hastened Tsarist Russia into extinction?
Rasputin was a peasant monk who the royal family of Russia needed to believe was a mystic healer. They put all their hopes in him to cure the Tsarevich of hemophilia, the bleeding disease that threatened the life of the young heir to the throne, the only son of the Tsar. The peasant monk might also have been (it was both alleged and denied) a member of the Khlysty, a Gnostic sect that had arisen in the 17th century and lasted into the 20th century, to be ended along with everything else by the Communist revolution. The Khlysty believed in direct ("intuitive") knowledge of the divine and redemption through sin.
Whether or not as a member of the Khlysty, Rasputin convinced numerous highborn ladies that they could be redeemed through sin. Their lust being sanctioned by so exciting a promise, they stripped naked for him, begged for his sexual attentions, and – according to some colorful accounts – would even lick his greasy fingers clean after he had been eating with his hands at the table of the Tsar. What is well attested is that the occult was in vogue in high society, and some of its luminaries seriously expected – because they deeply longed for – miracles. Rasputin was their master; to them he was the Devil himself, laughing among them.
His own motive in performing his part may only have been the simple one of enjoying himself. By many accounts he fed gluttonously, drank copiously, and copulated promiscuously.
The Tsarina could not live without him. She did as he told her. And as she depended too much on her "holy healer", the Tsar depended too much on her. By her insistence, the Tsar took into his own hands the direction of his country's forces in the Great War, and he did not do it well. Persons in high places became concerned that Russia was being governed and misgoverned by the "mad monk" – and it was not too much of an exaggeration. He apparently had power even over the Holy Synod, though he had never been ordained a priest. It seemed that a lascivious peasant was working his will over church and state. The Tsar refused to send him away. Nothing could dislodge him.
Plots were hatched to kill him. And finally four would-be assassins – the Grand Duke Dmitri Romanov and Prince Felix Yusupov, along with a member of the Duma and an army officer – set about murdering him in the basement of the Yusupov palace on December 17, 1916; first with poison – but he stayed alive; then with a gun, shooting him many times – but still he did not die; then stabbing him and beating him on the head with a truncheon. Finally they dropped him, probably dead but by some accounts still alive, over a bridge and down through the ice of the River Niva. So ended his real-life performance as a "holy sinner", or magus.
It had been a magnificent mockery – of religion, power, aristocracy, and morals – born of a brilliant, if instinctive, perception that the stupidity of the great laid them open to exploitation by bold native cunning. Had the Romanovs, in particular the Tsarina, and her noble ladies avid for sin, not been mystics themselves, not believed in miracles, they would not have fallen under Rasputin's spell. The Orthodox Church itself – or part of it – romanticized mystic charlatans of his kind. Both the institutions of monarchy and church had become rotten stumps ready to be kicked over.
And kicked over they soon were. The downfall of Tsarist Russia began on April 16, 1917, just four months after Rasputin's death, when Lenin returned from exile and began the process that brought the Russians under Marxian Communism.
Jillian Becker September 20, 2014
Forward to the past 11
What does a conservative in the US most want to conserve? We would say: A commitment to liberty, the founding principle of his country. American conservatives may differ from each other on questions of religion, foreign affairs, entitlements and the economic "safety-net", homosexual marriage and abortion, even on defense, but if they are not loyal to the Constitution and the idea of individual freedom that it enshrines, they are not true conservatives.
In Britain too, conservatives are dedicated to the defense of the traditional and hard-won liberties of the people.
In Russia, being a conservative means something different. The very opposite. What Russian conservatives want to conserve is their long and almost completely unbroken tradition of tyranny. The quarrel within their ranks would now, in post-Soviet times, be chiefly over whether they want a return to the Red Tyranny of Bolshevism, or the older tradition of Tsarist oppression, where cause for national pride may more confidently be found.
Owen Matthews, author of Stalin's Children, writes in the Spectator (UK) about a conservative Russian military leader:
Strange times throw up strange heroes — and in Russia's proxy war with Ukraine, none is more enigmatic than the Donetsk rebel leader Igor Girkin, better known by his nom de guerre of Igor Strelkov.
In a few short months, Strelkov has gone from being an obscure military re-enactor to the highest-profile rebel leader in eastern Ukraine. But at the same time Strelkov's fame and outspoken criticism of Vladimir Putin for failing to sufficiently support the rebels has earned him the enmity of the Kremlin. Moreover, Strelkov's brand of sentimental ultra-nationalism, extreme Orthodoxy and Russian Imperial nostalgia offer a frightening glimpse into one of Russia's possible futures.
In the West, we are used to seeing Putin cast as a dangerous adventurer and nationalist. But to Strelkov, and to the millions of Russians who have come to admire him, Putin isn't nearly nationalist enough.
Within weeks of his arrival in eastern Ukraine in May this year, apparently on his own initiative, Strelkov quickly became the highest-profile rebel leader thanks to his discipline and military bearing. A veteran of wars in Bosnia, Transnistria and Chechnya, Strelkov is a reserve colonel in the Russian army and a former (and possibly current) officer in Russia's military intelligence service, the GRU. With his clipped moustache, pressed fatigues and careful charm, Strelkov styles himself on a pre–revolutionary Tsarist officer. In May he mustered a 2,000-strong local defence force in Slavyansk, banned his troops from swearing and ordered two of his own men to be summarily executed for looting.
He wrote a manifesto calling his troops "an Orthodox army who are proud that we serve not the golden calf but our Lord Jesus Christ" and declared that "swearing is blasphemy, and a Russian warrior cannot use the language of the enemy. It demeans us spiritually, and will lead the army to defeat".
Russian state television built Strelkov up as a hero. The nationalist writer Egor Prosvirnin praised him as the "Russian God of War" who "rinks the blood of foreign mercenaries to the last drop, and then asks for more". …
And then, in mid-August, Strelkov mysteriously resigned his post as "defence minister" of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic — along with two other Russian citizens who had been the civilian heads of the rebel Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics. All three rebel leaders were replaced by Ukrainian citizens.
The most obvious explanation for the reshuffle is that Moscow is preparing a negotiated settlement where the Russian-speaking eastern Ukraine — or Novo-Rossiya, "New Russia", in Russian nationalist parlance — will be given some degree of autonomy within Ukraine. Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary — from young soldiers' Instagram selfies tagged to locations inside Ukraine to the Russian regular soldiers taken prisoners of war on Monday by Kiev's troops — Moscow has also continued to insist that it is not a combatant in Ukraine. Clearly, having Russian citizens at the helm of supposedly autonomous rebel republics and their armed forces was a diplomatic inconvenience to the Kremlin which needed to be fixed — and pressure was put on Strelkov and his cronies to quit.
But there's another, deeper meaning to Strelkov's fall from favour. Though he's often portrayed as a stooge of Moscow, Strelkov has in fact been consistently critical of the Kremlin's failure to act decisively to annex eastern Ukraine as it annexed Crimea in spring. "Having taken Crimea, Putin began a revolution from the top," Strelkov wrote in June. "But if we do not support [this revolution] now, its failure will sweep aside both him and the country."
Strelkov's close associate Igor Ivanov, the head of the rebel army's political department, has also furiously denounced the "Chekist-oligarchic regime" of Vladimir Putin and has also predicted that Putin will soon fall, leaving only the army and the church to save Russia from chaos.
This mix of militarism, religion and a mystical faith in Holy Russia's imperial destiny to rule over lesser nations has deep roots. Ivanov was until recently head of the Russian All-Military Union, or ROVS, an organisation originally founded by the White Russian General Baron Pyotr Wrangel in 1924 after the victory of the Bolsheviks in the civil war. Its guiding motive was to preserve the Tsarist ideals of God, Tsar and Fatherland. For much of the 20th century, ROVS was the preserve of elderly emigré fantasists — before a new generation of post-Soviet nationalists like Ivanov breathed new life into the organisation as a home for Russian ultra-nationalists who hate Putin's brand of crony capitalism.
A similar outfit is the Narodny Sobor, or People's Assembly, which describes itself as an "Orthodox-Patriotic organisation devoted to fighting 'liberasts' and western values, to promoting Orthodoxy, and to preserving the traditional family", according to a recent study by Professor Paul Robinson of the University of Ottawa. In Russia, the Narodny Sobor has, along with the Russian Orthodox church, successfully campaigned for a tsunami of conservative legislation to be passed by the Duma, from banning swearing on television and in films to prohibiting the spreading of "homosexual propaganda". The head of the Narodny Sobor's Ukrainian branch is Igor Druz — a senior political advisor to Strelkov who has denounced the Kiev government as "pederasts and drug addicts".
On the face of it, Strelkov and his ilk and Putin should be on the same side. They share a nostalgia for a lost Russian greatness — indeed Strelkov has a degree in history and was until recently an enthusiastic military re-enactor, playing White Guard and second world war officers. And this year, in the wake of the Ukrainian crisis, Putin has abandoned years of hard-edged pragmatism and economic prudence and moved towards the kind of mystical, Orthodox nationalism so beloved of the ROVS and Narodny Sobor crowd.
Yet as Putin prepares to sign off on some kind of compromise peace deal with the Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko, there will be millions of Russians brainwashed by months of state television's patriotic propaganda who will agree with Strelkov that Moscow is selling the rebels down the river.
Strelkov himself has little chance of becoming a serious opposition figure to Putin; he is too stiff and too weird for public politics. But Putin's main challenger, when he comes, will be someone of Strelkov's stamp.
We tend to think of Vladimir Putin as being most politically vulnerable from the left — from the liberal, western-orientated professionals who came out in their hundreds of thousands on the streets of Moscow and St Petersburg three years ago to protest at Putin's third term. But in truth Putin's real vulnerability is from the right — from the racist football fans who rioted unchecked through central Moscow in 2010; from prophets of a Russian-led Eurasian empire such as Alexander Dugin, who was in the radical nationalist opposition to Putin before falling temporarily into step with the Kremlin in the wake of the Crimea campaign; and from militaristic ultra-conservatives on the Russian religious right.
So for the countries of Eastern Europe emancipated from Russian servitude barely a quarter of a century ago, there is not only the growing threat of re-subjugation, but the probability that it will be applied according to the whims of a madman, a religious fanatic living out fantasies of Tsardom and limitless imperial expansion by military means.
Obama's solemn judgment 2
Again we pinch a neat cartoon from PowerLine:
Beware the church militant redux! 28
A writer by the name of Enza Ferreri has written an article against Reason. She probably doesn't see that that is what she's done. But that is what she's done. She writes:
It's all very simple. We can't fight Islam in the West without fighting the enablers of Islam in the West, namely the Leftists.
So far, so good.
And, since the Left has many different and separate aspects, we have to fight against each one of them. Secularism, environmentalism, global warming alarmism, homosexualism, militant feminism, sexual relativism, multiculturalism, anti-Christianity, Islamophilia, post-nationalism, internationalism are just as important targets to attack as Marxist economics, the expropriation of the capitalist class (or, in its modern reincarnation, redistribution of wealth), and the dictatorship of the proletariat.
The words we have put in bold mark the issues we dispute with Enza Ferreri.
We don't know what "homosexualism" is, or "sexual relativism".
We consider sexual choices to be private matters (unless they involve children). They are certainly not dangerous threats to the survival of the West.
But while we agree with the author on her other "targets", we emphatically disagree with her when it comes to secularism and anti-Christianity.
First, secularism:
Secularism is not the same as Leftism. Between the founding of the United States of America and the dawning in the 1960s of this Leftist age, there was a very long stretch of secularism, liberty, and prosperity.
But in those times and those countries where a church (in the widest sense) has been the ruling power, there has always been tyranny. What greater tyranny can there be than the imposition of an orthodoxy on every mind?
Communism and Nazism also impose orthodoxy, and punish dissent as cruelly as a theocracy. That is one of the reasons why we class these ideologies as religions. Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia, Maoist China were not secular states; they were orthodoxies, as tyrannous as the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages, or the newly declared Islamic State now.
The secular state, and only the secular state, is a free state. Secularism is freedom. Freedom is only possible in the secular state.
Next, anti-Christianity:
In a free, secular society, people are free to be Christians. But people are equally free to criticize Christianity.
Neglecting any of these fronts is like fighting a war leaving a battleground to the enemy, like fighting on the Western front and leaving totally undefended the Eastern one.
Secularism and atheism are certainly the first lines of important wars.
So she contends that the prime enemy in her war is freedom. That being so, she has no case to make against Islam or Marxism.
For all that she seems to be speaking for tolerance (being against Islamophilia) and reason (being against environmentalism, global warming alarmism, "militant feminism"); and against Islam (aka multiculturalism) and Marxism (redistribution etc.), she is actually speaking for her own choice of intolerant, irrational, orthodox tyranny.
A secularist West will always lose to Islam, because it will have enough compassion, tolerance and self-restraint from violence that are the remnants of its Christian heritage, but it will have lost the ideals, the passion and certainty of fighting for a just cause that were once part of Christianity and have disappeared with its erosion.
Her assumptions are arrogant to an extreme. Compassion, tolerance and self-restraint from violence are not the legacies of "a Christian heritage" but of enlightened reason.
It is pointless to try and fight one irrational belief, such as Islam or Marxism, by setting up another irrational belief, such as Christianity, in opposition to it. There is no better reason to believe in the Trinity than in Allah or the inevitability of the dictatorship of the proletariat.
Two quotes here serve as epigrams. Robert Spencer wrote in his great work Religion of Peace? Why Christianity Is and Islam Isn't: "People who are ashamed of their own culture will not defend it." And Dennis Prager said during one of his radio broadcasts, "Only good religion can counter bad religion."
We admire much that Robert Spencer and Denis Prager write. And we think Spencer makes a point here worth thinking about. But to Prager's assertion we say, nonsense!
Some people claim that there won't be a religious revival in Europe because we are past believing in God. That this is not true can be seen by the high – and increasing – number of Westerners who convert to Islam. Many of them give as a reason for their conversion the need for absolutes, boundaries and well-defined status. A journalist writing for The Spectator on this subject explained why she is Catholic:
But above all, I like the moral certainties. I don't mind the dogma one bit. I would rather dogma and impossible ideals than confusion and compromise. In that sense, I do identify with those who choose Islam over the way of no faith, or a seemingly uncertain faith, like the woolly old C of E.
Confusion and compromise is inescapable. How can dogma – which is to say being incurably wrong – and "impossible ideals" be better than admitting the truth of scio nescio: I know that I do not know? It is as if the culture on which such persons as the quoted Catholic and the author of the article have been raised was never affected by Socratean doubt, the Enlightenment, the assumption of ignorance upon which all true science proceeds.
William Kilpatrick, in Christianity, Islam, and Atheism: The Struggle for the Soul of the West – a book I thoroughly recommend reading -, writes: Brian Young's friends said he was troubled by the decadence of Western society. David Courtrailler's lawyer said, "For David, Islam ordered his life." These are the sorts of reasons ordinary converts to Islam give. A common refrain from converts is that Islam provides a complete plan for life in contrast to the ruleless and clueless life offered by secular society. As Mary Fallot, a young French convert, explains, "Islam demands a closeness to God. Islam is simpler, more rigorous, and it's easier because it is explicit. I was looking for a framework; man needs rules and behavior to follow. Christianity did not give me the same reference points." If you look at the convert testimonials on Muslim websites, they echo this refrain: Islam brings "peace", "order", "discipline", and a way of life that Christianity and other religions fail to offer.
Islam brings peace! He – and she – can say that with a straight face? While IS (ISIS, ISIL) is rampaging through Syria and Iraq mass-slaughtering, impaling, crucifying, decapitating, raping, enslaving; while Hamas is firing thousands of rockets into Israel; while civil war rages in Syria; while Yezidis, Kurds, Baha'is, Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, other Muslims are being daily killed and constantly persecuted by Muslims?
Astonishing that some women crave the "order" and "discipline" of subjugation; when the "discipline" is exerted by enslavement, beatings, whippings, stonings, legal discrimination.
Human beings will never be past the need for believing in something bigger than themselves, because that need is part of the human mind.
Where are there human beings who do not know that natural forces are "bigger than themselves"? Who among us does not know that we are mortal?
She continues in the same vein. We'll not irritate our readers with all of it. She is a true believer. And what she believes is that Christianity is good and true.
We will skip to what she quotes as wisdom from a Catholic primate:
A clear direction was given by Cardinal Giacomo Biffi, Archbishop of Bologna, Italy. As early as 30 September 2000, before 9/11, when very few in the West even thought of worrying about Islam, he delivered a very forward-looking speech, which included this premonition:
… Either Europe will become Christian again or it will become Muslim. What I see without future is the "culture of nothing", of freedom without limits and without content, of skepticism boasted as intellectual achievement, which seems to be the attitude largely dominant among European peoples, all more or less rich of means and poor of truths. This "culture of nothingness" (sustained by hedonism and libertarian insatiability) will not be able to withstand the ideological onslaught of Islam, which will not be missing: only the rediscovery of the Christian event as the only salvation for man – and therefore only a strong resurrection of the ancient soul of Europe – will offer a different outcome to this inevitable confrontation.
The culture of reason is not a "culture of nothing". It is a culture of rational humility; of admitting ignorance and trying to find the truth, even if one can never be certain one has found it. Skepticism is the only engine of discovery.
"Freedom without limits"? Freedom of action always has a limit. In a free society, everyone's freedom is limited by everyone else's under the rule of law. But indeed the freedom of the mind has no limits, nor should it have any.
Notice the snide swipe at riches and "hedonism". Do you think that he, as a cardinal, pigs it in some hovel?
By "truths" he means the patent absurdities of Christian theological belief.
"Libertarian insatiability". What the heck does that mean?
If the Western culture of reason, secularism, liberty, skepticism, science, cannot withstand the onslaught of Islam, it will be because that culture has been abandoned by people like Enza Ferreri.
She goes on to blame shrinking birthrates on secularism. Then she ends with this:
Militant atheists à la Richard Dawkins have not really given enough thought to the long-term consequences of their ideas, which we are beginning to see.
And of which we are reminded whenever, for example, we read in the news of doctors and missionaries who die of Ebola while assisting affected patients for Christian charities. Not many atheist charities are involved in that work.
How many cures for diseases have been found by scientists among whom atheists are in a huge majority? The medical researchers who eliminated smallpox; those who found how to detect the beginnings of cancer and treat it before it becomes lethal, and how to restore wholeness to lepers and replace a faulty heart or kidney …. the list could run on for hours … cure more people than all the martyrdom-seeking self-righteous preachy Christians out to save their imaginary souls by "assisting affected patients" have ever done or could do in a thousand years.
As a reminder to readers who have a strong stomach of what happened when the Christian Churches provided "order" and "discipline" to Europe and wherever else they could reach, we recommend The Grand Inquisitor's Manual by Jonathan Kirsch, and our own post Calvin: a chapter in the terrible history of Christianity by Jillian Becker, April 25, 2010. (Put the title in our search slot.)
Nothing IS (ISIS, ISIL) is doing now in the name of Islam is worse in type or degree than what those Christians did in the name of Christianity.
The world needs saving from religion.
The long reign of terror: Vladimir Putin and his predecessors 7
We took this excellent though horrifying video from Front Page.
We feel the need to comment on only one thing. At the end, Bill Whittle says that Obama is "up against" the mass murderer Putin. But we doubt Obama sees Putin as an opponent. Obama was raised as a Communist. We think he is more likely to see Putin – even now – as an ideological ally than as an enemy.
A bed of dust and soil 5
Islam punishes the crime of being raped with death.
This picture and the text are from the Clarion Project.
A 10-year girl in Afghanistan is in danger of being honor-killed by her family after being violently raped by a mullah in a local mosque after her Quran class. After the family openly talked about killing the girl, the mullah offered to marry her, claiming to the authorities that he thought the girl was 17 and that the sex was consensual.
After nearly dying from her injuries sustained during the rape due to a delay in medical care, "Women for Afghan Women", a shelter for battered women and children, arranged for the girl to be taken to a hospital. Her injuries included a severing of the wall between her vagina and rectum that caused hemorrhaging.
After her recovery, she was taken to a women's shelter to protect her from her family.
Pictures taken of the girl to document the case show a small, pre-pubescent child whose weight at the time was about 40 pounds (about 18 kilos), according to the doctor.
Last week, the police were given orders to return the girl to her family, despite the fact that she will most likely be killed. Tuesday, the police entered the shelter and took the girl.
"I went to the hospital when they brought her there. I was sitting next to her bed when I overheard her mother and aunt saying that her father was under tremendous pressure by the villagers to kill the girl because she had brought shame to them," said Nederah Geyah, who is the head of the women's affairs office in Kunduz, Afghanistan.
Yes, there is, or has been, a "women's affairs office" in Kunduz.
Honor killings of girls who have been raped are common in Afghanistan, as family members believe that the raped girl brings shame to the family. Moreover, a girl who has been raped is considered not fit to be married and therefore must be supported by her family.
Dr. Hassina Sarwari, who is head of the shelter and a pediatrician, said when she arrived at the hospital to take the girl to the shelter, she encounter a large group of elders from the girl's village. The group included male members of the girl's family – her father, her brothers and an uncle.
Once inside, she met the girl's aunt, who told the doctor she had been told by her husband to smuggle the girl out of the hospital and deposit her into the hands of the family outside.
"She said they wanted to take her and kill her, and dump her in the river," Dr. Sarwari said.
The doctor made her way to the girl's room, where she found the girl and her mother holding hands and crying.
Did the mother wish to save her daughter? Not at all.
Dr. Sarwari remembers the mother's words: "My daughter, may dust and soil protect you now," she said. "We will make you a bed of dust and soil. We will send you to the cemetery where you will be safe."
With the help of Geyah, the girl was rescued from her family and placed in the shelter. Geyah also helped initiate legal proceedings against the mullah.
But that "women's affairs office" is not very powerful or even effective.
After publicizing the case, both women[ Sarwari and Geyah] were threatened with death by the mullahs as well as the girl's family.
A militia commander demanded that the doctor return the girl to her family or face the consequences.
At one point, Dr. Sarwari was forced to go into hiding. Geyah has since resigned her job and moved to a different part of the country. Dr. Sarwari has said she wants to leave the country altogether. …
Locals … are angry at the shelter – not at the mullahs or the family. The shelter, which is one of seven in Afghanistan, is perceived as a tool of the Americans to destroy traditional Afghani culture.
The traditional culture, which Afghan men want at all costs to preserve, includes the brutal raping and consequent killing of ten-year-old girls.
The shelter has been receiving American aid, but the funding will stop when the last of the Americans leave. The seven shelters for women and girls in Afghanistan will have to close. Then there will be nothing to impede traditional Islamic Afghan culture from doing its worst.
R too D to leave you free 5
When all the news is depressing or fearful, it's great to have a good laugh. Even if the laugh is a trifle hysterical.
We laughed that sort of laugh at this story from the Washington Free Beacon:
The National Science Foundation has committed $10 million to build robots that will act as "personal trainers" for children, in an effort to influence their behavior and eating habits.
The government has spent $2.15 million so far for the five-year project, which is being led by Yale University. The project, "Robots Helping Kids," will ultimately "deploy" robots into homes and schools to teach English as a second language, and encourage kids to exercise.
The project will develop a "new breed of sophisticated socially assistive' robots, designed to help children learn to read, appreciate physical fitness, overcome cognitive disabilities, and perform physical exercises", according to a news release by Yale University …
"Just like a good personal trainer, we want the robots to be able to guide the child toward a behavior that we desire," said Brian Scassellati, a computer science professor at Yale and principal investigator for the study. "What we want to do is move these robots out of the laboratory and into schools and homes and clinics, places where we can directly help children on a day-to-day basis," he said. …
"The need for this technology is driven by critical societal problems that require sustained, personalized support that supplements the efforts of educators, parents, and clinicians," the [NSA providers of] the grant said.
Scassellati envisions the robots influencing nearly every aspect of children's lives.
"We want them to help children learn language, we want to help them learn better eating habits, we want them to learn new social or cognitive skills through their interactions with these robots," he said. …
Social skills with robots. Interaction with robots who must therefore, presumably, also have social skills. This truly is a brave new world!
Of course kids will probably love having a robot as a pet and companion. Better than a doll or a stuffed bear!
But will the robot be sending info back to a mad professor or the state? We guess so. "He didn't eat his salad today." "She quarreled with a classmate."
The kids will be in the constant presence of a spy. Nurturing a serpent in their little bosoms.
The project is seeking to create robots that could be personal companions to children for up to a year. Scassellati said he wants to "build a healthy relationship of trust and respect between the child and the robot."
Respectful robots! They may spy on you, but they'll do it respectfully.
"At the end of five years we'd like to have robots that can guide a child toward long-term educational goals, be customized for the particular needs of that child, and basically grow and develop with the child," he said. "We want the robot to be the equivalent of a good personal trainer."
The NSF has allotted $10 million for the study through 2017. The grant is one of the highest amounts the agency dispenses.
The University of Southern California, MIT, Stanford, and Tufts University are listed as partners for the project. Willow Garage, a personal robotics company, is also participating in the research. …
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Scassellati said the robots would "not replace" humans, but provide additional attention and guidance for children. The research is focusing on both "regularly developing children and those with social or cognitive deficits." Some of Scassellati's prior research has focused on how robots can help kids with Autism.
Did you think the do-good factor, the "help" because "we care" factor would be missing? The state always exercises totalitarian control only for your own good.
"If we're successful in this, we think we can make a real difference in the lives of children," he said.
We don't doubt it for a moment. The personal robot scheme will serve the government's indoctrination purposes much better even than compulsory pre-kindergarten schooling could. Now the state will be with you 24/7. You'll have no secrets from it. It'll be in bed with you, at the table with you, in the bathroom with you, at school with you. And it will be fun! This is how you'll come to love Big Brother.
"And we think that we can produce some of the most interesting, the most engaging, and the most competent social robots that we've ever seen."
You could make them pretty too, Brian. The things could have the look of this or that Hollywood star, for instance.
Considering the official prurience of the state these days, they will very likely be programmed to teach the kids practical sex. No holds barred, of course. (Sado-masochism is strongly advised by state-supported institutions right now.)
Loads of fun for the next generation coming up! Who said that the age of American vision ended with the close of its space exploration?
And – parents – note that the interesting, engaging, competent companion of your kid will not need feeding. It won't consume the teeniest bite of the arugula, kale, broccoli, coarse bread and dandelion tea that it will prescribe for you and yours.
Brace yourselves for its constant (respectful) criticism though. It will be there to keep you in line too. Can't risk your preferences or bad influence of any sort undoing its good work.
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There are more than 100,000 known black Sudanese slaves under the Arabized Islamic Sudanese government, and the government encourages this by arming the Arab militias to ride on black villages. To the extent that these villages defend themselves, the government sends airplanes to bomb them. Thousands have died at the hands of the army of Sudan, and this is not good enough to cause demonstrations for the black community. Shame shame!!!!
The black Darfur people of Sudan had traditionally been Animist until the late 1800s, but since then have been under heavy pressure from the Islamic sword to convert, and they have complied. This is not enough for the barbarians, and to this day the Arab tribes have been riding them like cattle for slaves, and the Islamic government of Sudan has committed crimes against humanity. There are more than 2 million people displaced and half a million dead as a result of these barbaric acts. Up to this minute, many are dying at the hands of the government and its Arab militias, yet where are the demonstrations to protest against these barbaric acts? Shame shame!!!
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Since 2009 up to this minute, the barbaric Arabs have kidnapped thousands of Eritreans and Ethiopians from the borders between Eritrea and Sudan and Ethiopia and Sudan. These barbaric Arabs from Sudan and Egypt, and their latest customers, the smugglers of weapons for Hamas in the Sinai, have tortured Eritreans and Ethiopians for ransom in the Sinai Peninsula, subjecting them to rape, burning, and mutilation. …
Thousands have died, and thousand are still in captive. Where are Human Rights Watch, the UN, the black empowering institutions, the black Muslims, and the moderate Arab Muslims protesting these barbaric acts? There is no such protest. It is in their holy book: a non-Muslim deserves nothing …
These are pictures of a massacre: the aftermath of an air bombardment of civilians by the Sudanese Islamic government in May 2014
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Please Help! Low USMLE scores and interviews! 9 years 1 month ago #18655
Hi Ladies,
I really need some advice since I'm panicking and almost making myself sick over this. I didn't do well on either of my USMLE tests - 183 and 182 to be exact. There is no excuse, I just happen to be a terrible test taker with multiple choice, always have, always will. :tired:
My heart is broken. Can someone give me some advice? My story is a lot more in depth then what I put here, but right now I'm jsut super concerned about these scores. :weeping:
Any advice would be great. thanks!
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Re: Please Help! Low USMLE scores and interviews! 9 years 1 month ago #18656
As long as you passed there should be no issues. I am confused a little, you already have interviews right? so have they not seen your scores yet? I thought that residency directors will usually not extend interviews until they have seen your scores? and if this is so then if you passed and you have been invited what is the problem? just wondering.
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Re: Please Help! Low USMLE scores and interviews! 9 years 1 month ago #18657
Hi Efex,
I did pass, I'm like on THE line for passing. My two digit scores would be 75 each I guess.
I was under the assumption they wouldn't invite me for an interview if they didn't like my scores as well. But I've been reading interview sites and it seems that you can be ranked last or not at all with low scores. They do have my scores already - and they did extend the interview knowing my scores.
Perhaps one of my biggest worries is that ever since medical school my self esteem academically has gone to hell and I don't feel like I'm a worth a damn. Mind you, I graduated from an Ivy League undergrad with honors in biochem (I even had a minor!)- but after the grades I got in med school I just feel like a failure. No matter what I do - I get the big P, even in clinical where I'd do so well and then that damn test would pull me down to a pass over and over.
I was reading a review for residency interviews and thats where it said a question to ask programs is "do you rank applicants with low scores at all?" which to me implies that some programs don't.
Anyway, thanks for the encouragement, hopefully a program will see my potential beyond the grades.
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Re: Please Help! Low USMLE scores and interviews! 9 years 1 month ago #18658
You have accomplished a LOT! please do not thing that getting a P is NOT a huge accomplishment in itself. Not all medical students will honor/high pass so do not be so hard on yourself. I know that this process is very humbling believe me, but I still think that no matter what, you will still graduate with an M.D. and nobody can take that away from you. From all the medical school classes in the nation when all medical students do the match not ALL have stellar grades/board scores/etc..yet they still match so keep your chin up girl. I think that if you have so many interviews that you will match somewhere. Did you apply to high/middle/low of the row programs? a good spattering? good luck! and keep us posted.
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Re: Please Help! Low USMLE scores and interviews! 9 years 1 month ago #18659
I love this forum... where has it been my whole med school life?
Thank you SO much for your words of encouragement. I applied to umm.. all of them pretty much, top, middle and low (at least I think, I can't find the ranking for psych programs)
I have some specific ones in mind that I really want and they invited me for interview so now I guess I should just put my best foot forward and pray
I will definitely keep you posted and thanks again Efex :grouphug:
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Re: Please Help! Low USMLE scores and interviews! 9 years 1 month ago #18660
Hey, I just wanted to chime in with some words of encouragement!
Interviewing and making a rank list is an extremely time consuming process for a residency program. They wouldn't have invited you for an interview if there wasn't something about you and your application that interested them.
You should be prepared to talk about your test scores during the interview, but I know that when my FP program interviewed for the next intern class, we were more interested in what kind of partner the applicant might make. Were they the kind of person you'd want to be admitting a difficult patient with at 2am? Test scores ARE important, but we tended to place more weight on their grades from clinical rotations and letters of recommendation from their attendings, rather than their ability to sit and fill in scantron sheets for hours.
So, go to your interviews with confidence and try to focus on your strengths. Good luck, and let us know how things go! :crossfingers:
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