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Rated 5 / 5 stars
Was grumbling to myself that I'm only number 2 in the popular audio tab (and another song like 7th) and thought, "Well this one song thats ahead of me better be awesome".
Damn son...it is ^.^
Good job mate, loved it! 5/5.
Thanks, I didn't expect it to be appreciated so much. Seems NG likes the relaxing tunes :D Keep on downloading and enjoying it everybody!
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That was rad! Something about was really soothing to my ears, after a really long and stressful day! I needed that! Thanks! n_n
No problems, it was good to make this relaxing song after making my entry this months audio contest for "Anger Management", haha. It calmed me back down again, haha
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Intro layers remind me of Orbital.
Orbital had an awesome song in XXX with vin diesel, cant remem what it was called but destroys my track!
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Well, here's my review:
- There is a nice rythm in it, and it is a dance song while actually beign relaxed at the same time, something I actually didn't thought that could even happen, so congrats on this part! ;)
- You could have a better work on the loop, as it is both a dance/relaxing song it in interesing to have a nice loop, also it encourages remixing it later if it's of interest.
- I read that you are planning on adding a piano in place of the verse instrument, and though I think it would be nice, I fear it may lose some of the dance style, so if you can make it work go ahead, as the song can go to another style (not a bad thing entirely by the way).
Last but not least, I found it VERY well done and would love to hear more from you, keep sending new songs! ;)
Well that's my opinion, I also added it to my favorites list.
Keep it up!
Thanks Yunivor, I will see how it sounds with the piano sound in place and hopefully it is an easy decision on what to do from there!
I will also keep the looping idea in mind for future tracks!
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In self defense could a guy take a girl squeezing and yanking at his testicles?
Ive been taking a self defense class and all the other girls say if you have the chance to grab and squeeze the males testicles and he would be done... Show More
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I know this is a really old question, but I just wanted to share my experience and explain what would really work...
I recently competed in a mixed gender kick-boxing competition where a strike to the balls was allowed and guys were not allowed to wear any protection (protective cups etc) at all. I was competing against a girl and was winning comfortably on points going into the very last round, but with like seconds to go, I lost concentration and ended up facing the girl with my legs wide apart, so she literally ran up and kicked me in the balls as hard as she possibly could to win!
I immediately screamed out in shock, fell to the floor and was just rolling around screaming in absolute agony while the girl celebrated her win! A lot of the girls watching in the audience were laughing and cheering too! What made it worse was that my girlfriend was sat watching on the very front row and of course she was horrified!
I would not wish that pain on anyone and my balls were very bruised and swollen for at least a week! It was excruciatingly agonising! :o(
I have NEVER heard of guys not allowed to wear cups. In our DOJO and every competition, cups are mandatory. Guys testicles are vulnerable to serious injury. The match organizers would be sued if something like that happened and a guy ended up in a hospital.
Thanks for your comment on my answer. I have read your other comments and I can assure you this 'story' is very true, unfortunately! This was the only competition I've ever competed in where guys weren't allowed to wear cups. I only entered on the assumption that no girl would ever kick a guy in the balls to win a fight! How wrong was I!! I did end up in hospital, worst pain ever and really severe bruising and swelling, but fortunately no surgery required and my balls did fully heal eventually!
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It would depend on the ssituation. if you were fast accurate and went animal very quickly then you might be right about being done for. Otherwise you might be worse off. I had a bad experience back in high school, part my fault but not all, where I ended up naked with a nasty girl grabbing and wrenching my testicles. Even the other girls watching were telling her to stop. As you said, I was done for. In my case I was naked so beside vicious kicks she could get a solid hold on "things". If I was not naked I doubt she could have done it and the fight might have gone differently. It hurt now just remembering it. It sucked back then.
I was at a party over Christmas, and about an hour in I noticed a guy curled up in the hallway looking very sorry for himself. I assumed he was just drunk and left him alone as did everyone else. About two hours later I noticed that he was still there, so I sat down beside him and asked if he was OK. He told me that he had had an argument with his girlfriend and that she had grabbed one of his testicles and refused to let go while squeezing it. she had then walked off, leaving him in agony on the floor. At this point it had been over three hours since she had done this to him, and he was still in agony!
I have occasionally squeezed my boyfriend's testicles during a playfight and it seems to be agonising for him, so what this chap went through must have been awful. If this episode is anything to go by then I can confirm that this would definitely work in a self-defence situation.
I don't believe this story. Sounds like some guy victim fantasy or something.
Ok we have rape fantasies too but I would never write about it as if it were true. My BF just ties me up sometimes.
This story is bullshit.
bullsh*t. A guy is expecting you to do that, and most guys are stronger than you. You will probably not get a good grip, anyway. Hitting him in the balls is not effective either, because the pain usually takes about 5 seconds to really set in. In that time, he can hurt you.
If you MUST hit a guy in a confrontation, I would suggest the heel of your hand right into the tip of his nose. The nose is very easy to break and the bleeding will be profuse. The pain is excruciating and the mess will probably make him run away.
The best thing to do is to run away. Don't attempt to fight a man.
If you could actually grab them... yes. You'd be lucky to pull it off though. Depending on the pants he's wearing. The way he's probably already dominating the fight. And if you go for it and miss... and he figures out what you were trying to do.. expect his aggression to go through the roof. Just so you know.
But if you got em in your hands he'll be a quivering mess on the ground and take quite a while to recover.
If you are being attacked, a swift kick to that area would be best. I doubt he'd let you get your hands on them and if he notices you going for them, things probably won't be going your way. If he is really determined to cause harm, a ball attack will hinder him but not necessarily stop him (depending on how hard the kick and how solid the contact was), so an immediate escape is also recommended.
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Yeah but that's off limits. You can't do that at all. Advanced Black Belts can ball kick and it's considered a point.
Girls that attack guys weak areas like that are just plain stupid. The guy could seriously end up in the hospital.
I kicked a guy just by accident (I was only 14 or so and he was like 22) and he had to be driven home. He never once came back to my DOJO. Guys are embarrassed by that especially if it's from a girl
Don't do it!
I squeezed a guys balls once. He dropped to his knees & just said "oh please, oh please" about 20 times. LOL! When I let-go he stayed down & I just left him there. ha
So, I'd say he'll say uncle.
Holy crap that's hardcore.
2 of my female friends who were attacked didn't squeeze, but they distracted their attackers by showing them their panties and bra before kicking them in the balls.
Hope this helps.
Well, I hope you had some good reason.
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But while stars have access to teams of doctors, dietitians and trainers, regular people mostly manage their food intake alone. And that, say experts, is where public examples like Swank can be deceptive.
"Their bodies are their full-time job," Sharon Akabas, the associate director of the Institute for Human Nutrition at Columbia University, said of celebrities like Swank and Simpson. "Most people don't have that time, and then what they end up doing is taking different pieces of the regimen in the hope that they can achieve what she has."
"What these people really sell is hope," Akabas continued. "They hook people in that they'll lose weight. — But almost no one can maintain these regimens."
Rudd Center's Schwartz agreed.
"There are patients with eating disorders who aren't eating enough and then take vitamins to make themselves feel like they aren't putting themselves in danger," Schwartz said. "My biggest concern with this story is that if Hilary Swank is doing this … it may give some young women the impression that they don't have to eat a balanced and adequate diet."
But Garcia, who emphasized that Swank's supplements are just that — a supplement to an already-balanced diet — said such concerns were misplaced.
"From my perspective it's interesting that people don't question the fact that many stars have really bad practices," he said. "They eat tons of fast food, they smoke, they drink — and no one comes out and says, 'whoa, what's that all about?'"
He added, "What we're interested in is just a really good state of health."
As for Swank, it seems her pills pose a potential health hazard, though not in the way one might expect.
"I shoved them right in my mouth right before I met you, which I actually shouldn't do," Swank told W Magazine of her favored Longevity Pak. "Because I choked on my vitamins once before."


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Welcome and thank you for looking at my property. I will be delighted to host you in my lovely, typical, fully furnished Maltese terraced house which is only 1 minute away from the lively seafront and yacht marina of the harbour town of Senglea (known also as Isla). The house is in the street parallel to the seafront and offers good sea views from the roof of the yacht marina and harbour, part of the larger Valletta Grand Harbour area, in the region known as The Three Cities (Senglea, Cospicua and Vittoriosa).
My house is a period property (dating from World War II) and has been carefully restored to modern standards. It possesses a private street level entrance giving on to a good-sized hall. There is an old stone staircase leading up to the first floor into another good-sized hall which opens on to a dining room, a fully equipped kitchen (stainless steel sink, fridge/freezer, fan oven, electric hob and dishwasher), spare toilet and sitting/lounge room with LED TV and books. The dining room leads to a long balcony which is ideal for having tea and reading the newspaper or a book. Up another stone staircase you get to the second floor where there are two double bedrooms (1 double bed and 2 twin beds) with one large bathroom and another long balcony, also ideal for a lazy morning/afternoon. The bathroom has a toilet, big walk-in shower, a big sink and a modern washing machine. The roof is reached via another pretty stone staircase. Roof is good-sized and big enough for four to six sun loungers and/or barbecue. House offers complete privacy and modern living standards.
To note that the town of Senglea/Isla is one of the oldest in Malta, older even than the capital Valletta. The Knights of Malta lived there when they set foot on the island and before they constructed the new capital city of Valletta. Senglea essentially remains a mediaeval fortified city still preserving its historical architecture and buildings; its stone staircases are also typical of the mediaeval period. In recent years, there has been renewed interest in upgrading this locality; buildings and public spaces have been slowly restored and brought to life thanks also to the yacht marina which blends very well into the charm of this fortified port city.
Senglea is home to the renowned Church of Christ Reedemer while across the marina, there is the Church of St.Lawrence, where the Knight Grandmaster, Jean de la Vallette laid his sword after winning the extended three month siege of Malta by the Ottoman Turks in 1565. All in all, an area steeped in history, grandeur of old and now ideal for quiet days spent by the sea enjoying the sun and traditional charm of Maltese life.
(1). A welcome food package will be prepared for your arrival. This is usually a small pack of basic initial necessities to help you kick off your stay without having to worry about dashing off to find the nearest convenience store. Typically the welcome package consists of staple items like coffee, tea, fresh milk, fresh white bread, butter, cheese, ham, pasta and tomato sauce. Please indicate if you wish specific items like skimmed milk or brown bread or gluten free pasta in your package. As my guests I will always give you priority and only happy to help in case of need.
(2). WIFI is available and is free. Linen and towels will be provided. There is a washing machine for your use. Weekly laundry and/or cleaning is available on request against an extra charge.
(3). Water and electricity are an all-inclusive daily charge of EUR 5. Alternatively you may, if you wish, opt for individual calculation from your arrival to departure. Please indicate your preferred option when booking. If no indications are made in advance, the default option applied will be a daily charge of EUR 5.
(4). Due to the stairs, this house is not suitable for persons with mobility problems or for small children under 5 years. Children are to be under adult supervision at all times. Breakages and damage caused during your stay will have to be paid for. A refundable damage deposit of EUR 200 is to be paid on arrival.
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|Nearest travel links
|Nearest airport: Malta International Airport 15 km
|Family friendly
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|No pets allowed, No smoking at this property
|DVD player, Sea view
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|Kettle, Toaster, Iron
|Dishwasher, Cooker, Fridge, Freezer, Washing machine
|2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms of which 1 Family bathrooms and 1 Shower rooms, Solarium or roof terrace
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Senglea is a fortified city in the east of Malta, located in the so called Outer Harbour area. It is one of the oldest towns in Malta and pre-dates even the capital city Valletta. It was fortified by the Knights Hospitallers of St.John of Jerusalem, whose warrior knowledge as far back as the old Crusades, enabled them to readily identify strategic gaps in the city's lines of defense. The Knights proceeded to build mighty and imposing bastion walls all along the city and the other cities of the region which served well in shielding the area from attacks by pirates and the infidels.
The city of Senglea is also called Citta Invicta, because it managed to resist the Ottoman invasion at the Great Siege of 1565. The proper name is Senglea since the grandmaster who fortified it was the Frenchman Claude De La Sengle. He gave this city a part of his name. With an area of just over half a square mile, this is Malta's smallest locality but also its most densely populated. At the turn of the century, Senglea had been estimated as being older than 8,200 years. In recent years, attention has been devoted to rehabilitation of the area mainly thanks to the Cottonera Waterfront project whose centre of interest is a yacht marina, an upmarket hotel adjacent to a residential complex that have been discretely and carefully situated in rebuilt parts of the quayside that had remained long destroyed by the ravages of the Second World War. The area is now of interest to a fair number of expatriates and businessmen seeking a relaxed and quiet neighbourhood away from the traditional hubbub of tourist spots. The stimulus has in turn led to an upsurge in the renovation of various quaint and charming houses and a considerable appreciation of real estate in this city.
Senglea is one of the so-called Three Cities, the other two being Cospicua and Vittoriosa. Together they form the bulk of the Outer Harbour Area, historically important due to the busy ship building industry located on the edges of the towns to service the Knights vessels and later the British fleets. A festival of boating and water related activities known as "Maritime Senglea" is organized annually in September together with other folkloristic events coordinated by the town's local council.
Being the oldest towns in Malta, both Senglea as well as Cospicua, were centres for Malta's social upper crust elite and intelligentsia. However, the Second World War rapidly altered the cities' social structure as many of the well heeled families fled away to take refuge in outlying towns and countryside, never to return. In recent years, a rebirth has taken place in this part of the country with old buildings being restored and activities organised to stimulate life in the area. In particular, attention has been devoted to rehabilitation of the area mainly thanks to the Cottonera Waterfront project whose centre of interest is a yacht marina, an upmarket hotel adjacent to a residential complex that have been discretely and carefully situated in rebuilt parts of the quayside that had remained long destroyed by the ravages of the Second World War. The area is now of interest to a fair number of expatriates and businessmen seeking a relaxed and quiet neighbourhood away from the traditional hubbub of tourist spots. The stimulus has in turn led to an upsurge in the renovation of various quaint and charming houses and a considerable appreciation of real estate in this city.


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Traveling to Jamaica? Rent a car with Sixt from our office in the capital of Jamaica and choose from our wide range of rental cars, convertibles, SUVs, and vans. With a variety of options such as LDW insurance, additional drivers, and long term rentals, we are here to make sure your vacation is easy and enjoyable. Get the best deals with Sixt!
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Our Kingston car rental branch is right next to many great places to visit and things to do; from the lively Trench Town district and the historic Port Royal, to the beautiful Blue Mountains just an hour north by car. Sixt is located on Antigua Avenue, right in the heart of the capital city of Jamaica.
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American deaths in Afghanistan reach 1,000
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The challenges of winning over a reluctant and intimidated population have become clear in the wake of last February's operation to clear Marjah, a southern farming community of about 80,000 people in Helmand province west of Kandahar. U.S. Marines and Afghan forces seized the community in about two weeks of fighting, rushing in an Afghan administration to begin development projects and restore public services.
Three months later, officials acknowledge that progress in winning public support has been slow. Taliban fighters simply hid their weapons and blended in with the population. Through a clandestine campaign of assassination and intimidation, the Taliban have slowed development projects because people are afraid to cooperate with the coalition.
"The Taliban are moving back into Marjah and getting stronger," said Col. Kamaluddin, a deputy provincial police chief who uses only one name.
For coalition soldiers on the ground, the main task is to perform the mission with as few casualties as possible.
"We understand what we were getting into and we understand that it's something that has to be done," Staff Sgt. James Knower of Pavilion, N.Y., said at a base in Kandahar. "I would never think that what we've done here is a waste of time. We're going to the end."
Of American casualties, he added: "It's war. It's going to happen."
Associated Press writers Anne Gearan in Washington, Mirwais Khan and Christopher Torchia in Kandahar province, Amir Shah in Kabul and Monika Mathur at the AP's News Research Center in New York contributed to this report.


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I have been searching the net to see if I can get an average cost of home insurance but not finding much as they want me to give an address but I don't have one. I was also trying to find out if it is paid monthly or yearly. I saw some averages but it didnt say if it was a monthly or yearly payment.
Right now I am looking for houses in Montgomery County. Looking for 3bdrm, 2 bath place.
Other than that just trying to read up on different options in buying and other fees that can get tack on to the mortgage that I am not aware of.
Your cost will vary depending on the house value, your possessions (how much stuff you have that you want to insure), if you want any extras that aren't included in regular insurance, and the exact address (claim history on that particular house, yes, even if you haven't been living there yourself). Ours runs about $500/year, and we pay into escrow as part of our monthly mortgage payment. The loan company then pays the $500 out of our escrow to the insurance company once a year. We are in MoCo also. I don't know if this is close to the average or not, but it's about the same cost as for our previous house. I think you can get options where you don't pay it into escrow, but if I recall, it either costs more or the mortgage company dings you a fractional percent on your loan if you don't escrow it...either way it costs more if you don't.
If you don't put down at least 20% of the purchase price, you will have to pay private mortgage insurance. This is totally different than insuring your home and possessions for your benefit. It is insurance to the mortgage lender that you will pay your loan, as they don't have your 20% down payment as collateral. This totally varies with the price of the home. You pay it right along with your mortgage payment every month.
Don't forget all the taxes and fees you pay at settlement. These can add up to 10k-20k, maybe even more depending on the price of the home. Then there's the realtor's fees and the settlement attorneys fees...also paid at settlement. If you want any kind of home inspection, don't forget about the cost of those.
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I have no idea how much homeowners insurance is in your area, but two types of people should be able to help you out: any local insurance agent or mortgage banker can probably give you a rough idea. My mortgage banker estimate about $50 a month when she gave me a good faith estimate, it was closer to $60 really. And you can call any insurance office, and ask to speak to someone about homeowners insurance-- you might want to give them some address in the neighborhood you're looking into, and they should be able to give you numbers. Also, I would call a local office of a company, vs. a national 1-800 #. They'll probably have more accurate info for you.
I pay around $65 per month, goes into an escrow account.
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Condorcanqui's revolt is all but forgotten today. But it set off events that continue to reverberate, writes Robert Harvey. Less than half a century later, across Latin America, "Spain's empire had vanished without a trace, as had Portugal's dominion over Brazil." This astoundingly rapid loss of empire was the work of a handful of sometimes flawed but gifted reformers such as Simón Bolivar, José de San Martín, and Bernardo O'Higgins, who followed George Washington's then recent example and organized great armies of liberation against powers they had come to regard as foreign. These leaders paid a great price--all of them, and others Harvey profiles, died violently--for revolts that sometimes replaced one inhumane regime with another, but that, Harvey observes, at least pointed the way toward "the independence and self-respect for which the Liberators fought so hard."
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This fixes the call vote options. It turns off most of the options and leaves Restart Map and Next Map. All other have been turned off. Only works for...
Here is Revolt_4x for united offensive. It contains many improvements from 3x such as fixing the bone errors, new player uniforms, weapon adjustments and new weapon skins.
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After all these updates to revolt one small issue had not been addressed the call vote issue. Before release this update there was ether all the vote options on or none of the vote options on. This fix turn off most that would cause issue such as people calling kick and ban votes for fun. Also people have called unsupported gametype votes causing the server to get stuck on a map until restarted.
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State energy regulators voted Thursday to endorse a plan to keep electricity rates frozen for customers of a Madison electric utility.
Madison Gas & Electric Co. collected too much from customers in fuel costs in 2012, and is proposing to keep rates steady through the end of next year.
MG&E customers pay the highest rates of the five major investor-owned utilities in Wisconsin. Their rates went up 3.6% in January.
A typical MG&E customer pays $94.39 a month for 600 kilowatt-hours of electricity.
The utility said its costs are rising because of pollution control projects on a coal-fired power plant it co-owns with two other state power companies, but that it would use more than $6 million in savings from last year to offset those higher costs. The utility also asked to push transmission-related cost increases to 2015.
The Madison utility has requested electricity rate hikes every year for 15 straight years, until this year. Over that period, the utility sought annual increases of 7.3% and was granted increases averaging 4.8% by the Public Service Commision, according to the Citizens' Utility Board, a customer group.
Giving customers a break from another increase is the right thing to do given the economy, said Commission Chairman Phil Montgomery, who noted the PSC has approved similar freezes in recent years for customers of We Energies, Wisconsin Power & Light Co. and Wisconsin Public Service Corp.
Commissioner Eric Callisto said the utility gets several benefits from the freeze, including the fact that it keeps its allowed return on equity, or profit, at 10.3%, the same level that was in place since 2012.
"We should also be aware this will lead to, essentially, a baked-in rate increase in 2015 of about $10 million, or about 2.5%," Callisto said. "I do think it's a reasonable tradeoff. "
Utility customer groups, including CUB and the Wisconsin Industrial Energy Group, were generally supportive of the rate-freeze plan, although they had reservations about what the deal could mean for rate hikes in future years.
CUB Executive Director Charlie Higley praised the decision, saying it "will provide some needed relief to MGE customers."
Steve Kraus, spokesman for MG&E, said utility customers' local natural gas charges will also remain unchanged in 2014.
In trading on Wall Street Thursday, shares of MGE Energy, Madison Gas & Electric Co.'s parent company, closed up $1.31 at $58.52. The stock price has gained nearly 15% in 2013.


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The Browns have been connected to free agent WR Mike Wallace in the rhttp://www.waitingfornextyear.com/wp-admin/post-new.phpumor mill, but Lane Atkins of the Orange and Brown Report states that the Browns are unlikely to use upwards of $10 million dollars of their cap space on one WR. Enter Steve Breaston. The former Chiefs WR is drawing interest from teams, including the Steelers and the Browns- "NFL.com's Aditi Kinkhabwala reported that Breaston is set to visit the Cleveland Browns on Tuesday, according to a source apprised of the free-agent wide receiver's schedule. ProFootballTalk reported Breaston is meeting with the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday." Breaston is a 29 year old receiver/kick returner. His best season was in 2008 working opposite Anquan Boldin and Larry Fitzgerald where the trio all caught passes for over 1000 yards. Breaston has 3387 yards receiving in his six year career. He has 9 career touchdown receptions. [Related: NFL Draft: Weak class? Fits for Browns]
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Like Ecstasy, GHB is popular with club-goers and those who go to "rave" parties, including teens and young adults. When mixed with alcohol, the drug produces a depressant effect that can cause a person to become unconscious and black out. As a result, GHB is often referred to as the date rape drug.
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Swallowed (in liquid or powder form, which is mixed with water, or as tablets)
GHB causes both a euphoric high (intense rush of happy feelings) and hallucinations. GHB has caused many young people to need emergency medical care. Because the liquid is odorless and colorless, GHB diluted in drinks is virtually undetectable and sometimes is slipped unknowingly into someone else's drinks.
Side effects of GHB use include drowsiness, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, and vision changes. People who take GHB may become unconscious (pass out), stop breathing, and go into a coma. GHB use can kill.
Because both GHB and alcohol are depressants, mixing the two is very, very dangerous and can be deadly — even if someone has only taken low doses of the drug.
Because of its serious effects, GHB has necessitated emergency medical care for many young people and has killed more users than the drug Ecstasy.
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Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God. /2 Corinthians 5
I begin with this passage for one reason: I believe in the "ministry of reconciliation."
And I want to frame everything that follows here in the gospel that truly reconciles. I have no interest in contradicting that gospel. I have no interest in abandoning it. I aim to give my life to experiencing and sharing in that very same message.
But here's the thing.
There's a false gospel on the loose in the evangelical church.
And it is nothing less than a diabolical doctrine that comes clothed in a bright, angelic, counterfeit message of "reconciliation." It is a word entrenched in institutional power and amplified by hierarchies reaching up into the halls of religious academia and pressing deep into the world of prestigious publishing. Far from a message that subverts the empire of selfish power and control by reweaving justice and peace, this gospel is one that glorifies the way of empire, often calling it "God" and claiming to be his ambassadors. Then, when injustice strikes, instead of healing there is worse abusing; instead of honesty and advocacy, complicity.
And the ministers still mouthing "reconciliation."
It's an old, old story really, but it is playing out with new people in new ways. I've written before about the current lawsuit against Sovereign Grace Ministries and how it represents a rapidly approaching counseling cliff for the evangelical church at large – a cliff especially perilous when conservative churches deal with matters of abuse. Well, this week, more allegations were filed against SGM, and they are horrific. And, as of now, the major evangelical institutions that are closely connected to SGM – namely, The Gospel Coalition (where C.J. Mahaney, a defendant in the suit and founding leader of the SGM movement, is a council member) and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (major supporter/ally of C.J. and SGM, with President Al Mohler as close friend and staunch defender of C.J.) – have not issued anything in the way of cautionary or even concerned statements regarding the man or the movement (that I am aware of). There has been total silence about a celebrity preacher and an organization that is now literally inundated with accusations of sexually and physically abusing children and conspiring to cover it all up over many years. Nor have any/many connected big-name individual leaders, themselves also institutionally powerful, come out with words of warning or grieving. Instead, powerful men like John Piper have made gestures of support in the midst of C.J. and SGM's legal troubles.
The silence is deafening.
Just like it was when priest after bishop after archbishop in the Catholic Church were convicted and exposed having maintained silence and conspiracy and complicity all the way until the court's verdict finally came down. And just like it is even afterwards, as Vatican supporters try to minimize the atrocities committed, citing statistics and percentages and "we're doing pretty good, considering"'s. Because that's how it goes with power. That's just the way empire does things.
Hey, here's an idea. Where's the guy that's willing to lose his job by coming out with some STRONG statements of alarm, warning, grief, and mourning, at the sheer wretchedness of these allegations? Where's the guy who doesn't care if the leg bone's connected to the thigh bone from whence his big publishing deal cometh and decides to tear the freaking tarp off of this twisted metal wreck of a system that halts and hesitates to even empathize with these victims and weep with those who weep at the first sign of their weeping (not to mention their months of legal case-building)? I mean, we all know how this ends, right? WE ALL KNOW HOW THIS ENDS.
But this is the way the false gospel works, and it's an old, old story. This false gospel starts with a false god – a god who is anger. Yes, the god of this SGM movement was said to be just that – gracious – but the seedy backdrop behind this notion of grace is a god of sadistic and irrational rage. C.J.'s famous quip that we are all doing "better than we deserve" is grounded in the idea of a god of such cruelty that no matter what injustice we may have suffered in life – or perpetrated – all is better than what we really deserve, which is unending conscious torture at the hands of a concentration camp commander christ. So don't complain! Stop being depressed! And if, by some miracle of miniscule probability, you have been chosen for eternal life by the sovereignly electing mind of this raging god (a matter, of course, to be discerned by your SGM elders), then no matter what happens to you post-regeneration, you REALLY have no reason to whine!
The most grotesque allegations to come out of this lawsuit have to do with the culture of "gospel-centered reconciliation" in this movement, where victims of abuse – often, children – were simply told to "forgive" and "reconcile" with their adult church member/leader abusers. I mean, it's better than you deserve, right? So get over it. And smack dab in the center of this demonic-gospel culture were leaders who rise to levels of immense influence over their cruelly "humbled" people, all the while claiming to be humble themselves. These guys held the keys out of unspeakable eternal hells, and that gave them unspeakable power. Yet because the hell inside of some of them was almost as bad as anything postmortem, they perpetrated their patriarchal darkness upon innocent little ones, and then helped each other keep the concealing tarp firmly intact.*
And this false gospel of reconciliation doesn't stop here. It is not only reserved for churches fraught with sex abuse scandals. It rears its ugly head in all kinds of conservative evangelical circles, taking the similar shape of pain-denying theologies that counsel victims to get over it and get back together with those who harmed them. The gospel is about reconciliation, right? So if your spouse hits you, forgive them and reconcile. And if your kids are starving because of a father's gambling, get some counseling from an elder and make it work, honey. And if some friends cheated you in business, or a church member is spreading vicious lies about you, or a family member won't stop manipulating you into situations of terrible emotional pain, hey, it's better than you deserve because you're a hellbound sinner too, so just reconcile with them because that's what grace means (i.e., subjecting yourself to present pains presumably less than the eternal pain of conscious torment in hellfire).
This is all BS.
And it's BS because it twists the truth of the ministry of reconciliation into something that perpetuates the abuse of power instead of subversively stopping it.
See, in a very present and real sense, right now, God is at work to reconcile and restore the entire cosmos to shalom, to peace and justice and wholeness:
The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross. /Colossians 1
This cosmic dimension of true gospel reconciliation takes precedence over all interpersonal situations of wrongdoing, conflict, or abuse. The goal toward which the resurrected Jesus is working in the world right now is not some imaginary peace where people "reconcile" in name only while the abuse is never stopped and the wrong never righted. No, this is instead a total bending of the violent and unjust world back toward God's shalom, until it is completely put to rights on the final day.
Thus, any ministry of reconciliation that does not, as a matter of first importance, advocate for the innocent and safeguard the physical and emotional protection, not exposure, of the people entrusted to the church, is no ministry of reconciliation at all.
Because reconciliation is right.
Reconciliation bends things back to to justice and peace.
And reconciliation, rightly lived as part of God's cosmic work to restore all things, always subverts the empire of unjust power and control. It messes with thrones and powers and rulers and authorities. It takes them to task.
And forgiveness, which is the fundamental heart-level releasing of those who have done us wrong to the capable hand of God, hoping and praying for their redemption, refusing to live in bitterness and resentment (even in the midst of our righteous anger), endeavoring to love even our enemies, does not require a faux interpersonal reconciliation that merely opens us back up to the dangerous abuses of power that caused so much pain in the first place.
Because that's not what God is up to in the world. He is angry over abuses like these, to be sure, but that is precisely because he is not that sadistic, irrational being who is callous to all earthly pain in contrast to the eternal pain he intends to inflict upon the non-elect (and of which all are deserving). God is not anger.
God is love.
And that love is what any and every victim of injustice truly deserves.
What do you think about this case, and about this issue? I'd love to hear your thoughts.
*And remember, though I am responding strongly to the allegations as they have been presented – and I believe everyone should react strongly to them – they are not yet legal facts. We do not wait for a verdict before we speak out or empathize with the victims (because that is injustice in and of itself), but we respect due process before passing the final verdict ourselves.
[Update 5/17/13 8:30pm: Today's civil suit hearing has run into a severe statute of limitations setback. Read more here. It appears that some of the plaintiffs' allegations may still be admissible, and a criminal trial may be forthcoming. Regardless, the court of common sense will cast a strong verdict in light of the evidence, and the truth will shine, no matter what. Let's just hope that the abusers and complicit institutions and leaders are all held accountable.]


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