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Karmic Relief for the Misuse of "Karma."
If we're going to use the word, let's use it right.
In a recent PBS interview with Bill Moyers, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explained what his research reveals about the differences between liberals and conservatives.
Haidt's work on positive psychology and what he calls Moral Foundations Theory has received well-deserved acclaim, and much of what he said in that interview was illuminating. But one reference he made was off base, and Moyers — a national treasure whose return to TV from premature retirement is cause to rejoice — did not challenge him on it. Someone should, so here goes.
When asked about the conservative view on policies such as taxing the wealthy, Haidt said, "The conservative moral position on this is the Protestant work ethic. It's karma."
Never mind the dubious linking of Protestants with a core premise of the religions birthed in India (Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism). And never mind that the number of conservatives who would say they believe in karma is about as big as the number of Hindus who consider Jesus their personal Savior. Haidt went on to misconstrue the meaning of karma.
"Karma is a Sanskrit word," he said, "literally for work, or fruit." Not quite: it is usually translated as "action," not "work." But let's move on. Haidt explained that "Hindu tradition believes the universe will right itself, balance itself. It's like gravity. If I am a lazy, good for nothing, lying scoundrel, the universe will right that and I will suffer." Fair enough.
But then he went astray by linking that grand cosmic principle with modern conservative values. Conservatives, he said, don't like "liberal do-gooders and the federal government" bailing out the losers in the competitive marketplace, adding that the conservative position is basically that "liberals are trying to revoke the law of karma."
As Haidt probably knows, if liberals think of the concept at all, it would be to affirm that social justice produces good karma.
Later in the interview, he brought up karma in reference to that infamous moment in the Republican debates when Wolf Blitzer asked Ron Paul about a hypothetical person who falls into a coma after choosing not to buy health insurance.
Moyers asked Haidt why the audience cheered at the suggestion that the coma victim should be left to die. "Because they want a world in which karma functions," said the psychologist. Their reasoning, he said, is that the man "made a choice to not buy health insurance, and if karma works as it should, no one will pay for it and he will die."
Since the audience in question was presumably heavily Christian, one is tempted to ask, "Never mind Hindu ideas, what would Jesus say?" But that's another issue.
The point here is that the philosophy Haidt describes is closer to Social Darwinism than it is to the laws of karma. That is to say, it is more "survival of the fittest" than "you reap what you sow."
It is true, of course, that karma posits a fair and balanced universe governed by a system of cosmic justice that functions as lawfully as gravity.
So many Americans have found the idea appealing that "karma" has entered the vocabulary as a kind of shorthand for getting what we deserve, whether as a reward for positive actions or as punishment for negative ones.
You hear the word on newscasts, sports reports, sitcoms, pop music and in conversations far removed from yoga studios and meditation retreats. As a way of understanding the age-old question, "Why do bad things happen to good people, and vice versa?" it is rapidly replacing the alternatives.
But it is widely misconstrued and commonly misused, even by well-informed scholars like Dr. Haidt. Any conservative who evokes karma to justify winner-take-all economics is making a grave error (although, to be fair, the same error has been made in India by those who wish to leave the caste system unchanged). Properly understood, karma does not uphold indifference, fatalism or apathy.
That's one of many mistakes in Haidt's cavalier use of the term. Another is the time frame. Karmic law can play out over a long period of time. And I mean long. Not long as in a drawn-out court case or a bureaucratic snafu, but long as in lifetimes; karma can't be adequately understood without reference to its close cousin, reincarnation.
Hence, linking one's current economic status exclusively to one's prior actions in this life is simplistic to say the least. Nor is there necessarily not a connection. It's simply beyond the powers of human calculation to trace a clean cause-effect line. That's why the Bhagavad Gita refers to the complex patterns of karma as "unfathomable."
Haidt also fails to account for future karma. What are the karmic consequences for well-off individuals who are callous about the less fortunate? What is the collective karma of a society that fails to provide adequately for all its citizens, or allows the ill to die for lack of health insurance? Does good karma accrue to those who act to balance the scales in the present?
In short, karma can be used to justify liberal positions too.
I don't know if Haidt misunderstands karma or was merely attributing that interpretation to conservatives. I do know that the concept is catching on in the West, particularly in yoga circles, as a reasonable way to comprehend the impact of our thoughts, intentions and actions.
So, if we're going to invoke the principle in public discourse, let's get it right, before some yahoo claims it's Iran's karma to get bombed.
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This article still gets it wrong.
Karma is where yin and yang originated.
Therefore it is not a cosmic retribution, as the article still implies, but a balance of positive and negative, nothing more.
Of course I will allow for the vaguarity of the article, in that it has been utilized to make a point, and in making that point, still makes the universal error.
It's also said, Harleigh, that neither "bad" karma nor "good" karma actually exist. There is only karma, pure and simple. Good and bad are only relative and judgmental values. And yes, they have their relative place for the purposes of this article.
No karma is not about cancellation. It is not that I murder a person and I have negative karma and to balance that I save another person an achieve positive karma and both cancel each other. I will get the benefit of positive karma and I also have to suffer the negative karma.
Because I first enjoy the positive karma it does not mean that there is no negative karma, it will come in its own time.
They are independent according to Gita interpretation of Karma.
Vaguarity? This use of a non-word totally cancels out anything else this guy tried to say. And he's also WAAAYYY wrong about the yin/yang thing.
"As Haidt probably knows, if liberals think of the concept at all, it would be to affirm that social justice produces good karma."
Yes, and the mistake liberals make is in thinking that the State – an entity wholly predicated on violence and the threat of violence (ahimsa anyone?) – is an appropriate and effective instrument with which to deliver social justice. In point of fact, issues of social justice are complex – but the organizational dynamic of government are capable – at best – of solving complicated problems – not complex predicaments. The Law of Unintended Consequences therefore always attends governments attempts to "solve" complex predicaments. More here: http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2010-10-12/…
So how do well meaning but ultimately foreseeably short sighted policies which wind up causing harm play in the karmic balance?
One of the things I have always admired most about the Buddha is his stricture to 'see things as they are' – politically, though, modern Americans seem to specialize in seeing things as they desperately want them to be, or as they have been conditioned to see them, or in ways which are self serving in terms of maintaining a certain self image. I suspect there is a heavy price to pay for such delusion and refusal to honestly examine the cultural myths with which we think. Whether that price is 'karmic' or not, I'm not sure.
"..the State…[is] an entity wholly predicated on violence.."
Do you really believe that, oz? If so, I don't think you've been 'seeing things as they are', or as the Buddha put it, yatha-bhuta-dassanam. Our 'states', like our individual minds and bodies, are collective processes that embody many different and often competing values. Although a state – let's take the USA – may commit or threaten violence in many instances, it is also has a powerful collective mission to protect, support, and nurture its citizen's paths to freedom – in short, to embody what the Buddha called 'skillful/wholesome actions, kusala-kamma. States, like beings, are deeply contradictory and conflicted by nature, although they are of course different in many, many ways.
However much we should acknowledge all the unwholesome ways governments act, including ours, it is hardly realistic to ignore the multitude of ways our country tries, however imperfectly, to protect our welfare and liberty – from the free exercise of speech and spirituality (this dialogue, for example), to potable water, to safe & navigable roadways, to effective medical care, to creating consequences for dishonest or violent behavior toward citizens and groups including minorities.
Growing up in the 1950s as I did, for example, it seems to me that our gradual momentum toward a more protective and nurturing government is self-evident. There was no Social Security back then, no Medicare – both very effective instruments of social justice, I would say – and no civil rights for blacks, gays, or even women to a great extent. The US government was much more of a bully state, not unrelated to the fact that it regarded itself as locked in a dangerous ongoing confrontation with the Soviet Union and its allies. Relatively more enlightened dissent and vision arose in each of these areas, though, and gradually became ascendant, but it is always a mistake to imagine that the work is done.
You might want to read the comment of Padma Kadag below, because in an important sense it points to the current limitations of groups understanding their own impulses and behavior. I say 'current' because we actually live in a time where the particular processes of group interactions are increasingly understood – as in game theory, say. So Padma's assertion that groups can't 'go within' must be regarded as provisional.
Here's the punchline: governments are projections of the human beings they encompass. As such, they are complexes of both conscious and deeply embedded patterns that reflect both evolutionary influences, mostly subliminal, and our highest aspirations including tolerance, love, and cooperation with each other and our environment. As projections of the complex beings that we are, all intentional collectives, from sangha to state, have their shadows.
By the way, since you're apparently a student of the Buddhadharma, you'll recall that there was a considerable shadow side even in the Buddha's own sangha. Even forgetting the Buddha's cousin Devadatta, who tried to instigate a mutiny and murder the Buddha on several different occasions, there was enough misunderstanding and misbehavior to drive the sangha's gradual evolution from a group with no real rules at all to what became quite a restrictive array of monastic guidelines, and eventually a patriarchy that squeezed out the bhikkhuni. (The early texts even acknowledge that there were too many rules – as he was dying, the Buddha is said to have told Ananda the sangha should jettison most of them – the 'minor' ones – but never got around to specifying which were minor.)
At his death the Buddha was described as reluctant to dictate how the sangha should be after his passing, perhaps knowing that it would be no less vulnerable – and perhaps considerably more so – to unwholesome individual and cultural pressures. He was exactly right, too, but would hardly have argued for the sangha's eradication. Still, with his last breaths he said that the path must be located and followed by each one of us individually as well – to 'be an island unto yourself'.
Nimitta, no offense, but this appears to me to be a very long piece of rationalization.
Simply, governments take money by coercion from citizens and those same citizens can be lawfully killed if they refuse to participate in this extortionary scheme, even if they are ethically opposed to the uses to which that money is to be put. I'm sorry, but there is no possible way to argue this process does not rely wholly upon violence and the threat of violence. In fact, the very *definition* of government is: an entity that claims a monopoly on violence over a given territorial area.
I am vehemently opposed to, for example, Obama's decision to expand the drone war from one country to six (at last count) and to continue to murder innocent people (usually, brown people – though at a mercifully reduced scale compared to his predcessor) – and yet, I am forced by law to support such war crimes with my tax dollars with no way to opt out except to 1) crawl off and die, or 2) risk imprisonment, and if I resist imprisonment risk being shot dead for resisting imprisonment forcefully. In other words, not only is the State inherently violent, but it insists I become complicit in that violence and if I do not, then either implicitly or explicitly it can kill me.
Regardless of how many paragraphs one writes to try to get past this basic truism, it remains a basic truism: Government is wholly predicated upon violence and the threat of violence. The fact that such a simple truth can spark such a denial itself tells us something important, IMO.
You state that the US government "has a powerful collective mission to protect, support, and nurture its citizen's paths to freedom " – I see no evidence that it – as an entity – actually believes it has such a mission, though we hear a lot of rhetoric about it (aka window dressing), and, desiring to believe, most of us choose to do so in the absence of such evidence (the mind is a wonderful ally when self-deception in the pursuit of solace is the game), let alone that it is acting to achieve such a mission. I think that what you have stated is wishful thinking based on cultural myths which have not been sufficiently examined. The thing is, unlike in times past, the cultural myths with which we think – whether this is the notion you have advanced OR opposing myths like 'humans are above and not dependent on nature' or 'humans are a result of a *progressive* evolutionary scheme and not subject to ecological constraints' or any of a number of others – are invisible to those who accept them. It's quite interesting actually – it is why liberals and conservatives insist on demonizing and objectifying each other in *precisely* the same way without even realizing it. My liberal friends think conservatives are hard hearted and my conservative friends think liberals are soft-headed – because neither understands that the other side is operating under the influence of myths which cause each to see the world in distorted ways. The distortion here is as regards the nature of the State. I'd recommend something like German sociologist Franz Oppenheimer's 'The State' for a clear eyed analysis.
For example you imply that the mere fact that government does not prohibit you and I from engaging in this conversation constitutes freedom! As though an absence of violence and coercion in ALL areas equals freedom! Noam Chomsky has written extensively on this issue – I'd recommend viewing this Moyers' piece:
The point is not that the US is somehow totalitarian in the Soviet sense – but that even as "freedoms" for blacks, gays, women, etc seemed to 'advance' in one sense, in another broader sense, the overall freedoms were decreasing as civil liberties were being constantly eroded. You must look at things holistically, but you are positing reductionist arguments by focusing on the components. It's the *system* that matters, in the end. Because if small freedoms are granted to this group and that group, but the end game is to restrict freedom for all (or to render all at the mercy of an all powerful and unaccountable and murderous State – e.g. PATRIOT Acts, Obama's signing of the NDAA and refusal to STOP torture, rendition, and endless war, etc), then those gains were 1) temporary and in the end 2) illusory. Don't get me wrong – I am happy for those gains, but I am also looking at the wider picture in which the losses are mounting – and accelerating. Based on your arguments, you are not.
I would assert that your view that "our gradual momentum toward a more protective and nurturing government is self-evident." is in fact an excellent example of the inculcation of a cultural myth – note your use of the term 'self-evident' – this indicates an unexamined assumption on your part as I assure you that it is not at all evident to me or to many other intelligent and informed people – the fact that it seems so to you should, I assert, give you pause.
You cite Social Security and Medicare as "effective instruments of social justice" – and yet the undeniable reality of our time is 1) the move toward austerity programs (i.e. the dismantlement of precisely these sorts of programs at the behest of the wealthy banking elites – and just a few short decades after they were instituted) and 2) the ongoing destruction of the US dollar, both of which will invalidate those programs within a very short span of time.
Did you know that just over a century ago, there existed a complex web of entities – mutual aid societies, fraternal organizations, etc – which together constituted a *relatively* effective web of social support whose legacy stretched back to the guilds of the Middle Ages, and in some cases as far back as the Roman Empire? These civil society entities (with which one in three Americans volunteered their time) offered medical care, unemployment insurance, physician visits, etc – and they lasted and evolved over centuries, not decades! That is, they proved *sustainable* – while we are watching the unraveling of the government run replacement schemes in real time! The offered *community* support – NOT bureaucratic support – a major difference. And, like pre-industrial agriculture, they were a *polyculture* which means they were resilient – if one crumbled, there were others to take its place. When the government usurped these functions, all the eggs went into one basket – very much like our current 'monoculture' agriculture model – and that basket has now proven empty because of decades of dreadful mismanagement of the funds by – you guessed it – the State who usurped the function in the first place.
In regard to the psychological argument you make, regarding Freudian projection and Jungian projection of the shadow, I humbly submit that you are mistaken in your understanding of these mechanisms. We as humans, and the collective we as society, do not project "our highest aspirations including tolerance, love, and cooperation with each other and our environment" – projection concerns feelings and internal states that we cannot tolerate due to the discomfort they generate, usually due to childhood traumas, which we displace onto others. We do not "project" (in the sense in which you have used the word) tolerance or love, etc. James Hollis' excellent 'Why Good People Do Bad Things' <a href="http://(http://tinyurl.com/8xu8v3q)" target="_blank">(http://tinyurl.com/8xu8v3q) includes a superb discussion on this, and so is worth consulting on the subject of cultural shadow projection.
I am certainly familiar with the Devadatta story, but the notion that he was operating out of some shadow of the sangha is wholly unsupported. When a murderer murders, this is not evidence of the shadow at work, I'm afraid. I see this misconception crop up all the time in regard to the shadow. That's just now how it works, per Jungian analytical psychology. You'd actually get further using Alice Miller's work in this regard than Jung's!
In other words, Devadatta's attempts on the Buddha's life were not due to some 'sangha shadow' – but seem to be rather a run of the mill case of power grabs based in envy and greed. This tendency to look at any 'bad thing' that happens and ascribe to it a 'shadow' motive is unfortunate, and unsupported. Happens a lot though.
As for Padma's comment, and in fact in response to the original article, to be honest I lean toward Stephen Batchelor's analysis and conclusions regarding both karma and rebirth, which is to say, I don't buy these as doctrines as having any real meaning or impact, beyond the notion of karma as simple causality.
So just in case the above two-part comment was too abstract, abstruse, or just too verbose, here's a simple way of looking at it. If in fact modern States have "a powerful collective mission to protect, support, and nurture its citizen's paths to freedom", then let's give a quick look at the outcome of the last century, which was very much a century in which Statism came into its own – when large, powerful, centralized and integrated States became the dominant form of sociopolitical organization. I'll cite here the data collected by RJ Rummel, professor at Univ of Hawaii under the heading of 'democide' (http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/MURDER.HTM) which finds that, during the last century, governments killed over 260 million of their own citizens, or those under their 'protection'. Note that this does not include combat war deaths (that number, IIRC, for the same period, was around 150 million). So during the century most disposed toward Statism, we find not only was the bloodiest in terms of wars, but also in terms of democide – killings of people under the 'protection' of their governments. I consider this to be prima facie evidence that this notion of State-as-savior (with all of its Hegelian overtones) is pure fantasy.
So whatever evidence you have for this supposed mission on the part of States to "nurture its citizen's paths to freedom," there is this astonishing evidence that what happens in reality, all too often, is quite the opposite and in fact includes terminating vast numbers of those citizens very lives.
It's an inconvenient truth, I'll grant you, but there it is.
I see this as partly the result of "My Name Is Earl". The intro had always made me cringe.
Everything, all phenomena that arises in our individual experience is due to Karma…cause and result. Long before we were born all of the conditions that have made us suffer or enjoy are results and our reaction to all of the "fathomless" results create the conditions and on and on and on. Though we can rightly point to "group" karma as in races and nations it is only through the concept that we are experiencing individual karma that we can purify current results and previous actions in order to begin to make our lives more open and free. If we have the karma and aspiration to practice teachings which are able "liberate" these compounded concepts. Individuals have the capacity to go "within", groups do not…as in liberals or conservatives or even nations and families. The Buddha never said that Buddhists as a group because they call themselves "Buddhist" would liberate themselves. The Buddha also never said that he could liberate individuals. The individual can and must "go within".
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Karma looks after itself. It is not something to be wholly evaluated in 'real time'.
Do your best without worry or self consciousness about repercussions you cannot
see or foresee in terms of karma. Karma is not something that can be seen in another.
Tall, short, happy, wealthy, etc … Accessing the attributes of another based on perceptions
of karma is like giving full description of a star in the sky: there are uncountable factors as
to the how, why & where of it …. and of everything.
Everything changes. Two single words which, simply of themselves, describe our limitations.
When a good article (like this) spurs good interactions (like those above) then there's a meaningfulness
and value that I can't find elsewhere. I don't care for elements of lifestyle or collective self image. Those are
things I find self policing and unhealthy.
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Confession: I am a hopeless JLA fangirl. Every time I read her stuff, I get so absorbed in the story and characters that I literally forget to take notes, place stickies, feed children and pay attention to regular bedtimes. I literally dance around with glee when a new JLA publication arrives at my house. I've even infected family members with the mania. For just-for-fun reading, these books are as good as it gets. Guys, I hardly ever re-read. . . but I've been picking this back up and re-reading scenes. For months, I've been doing this- while maintaining my regular reading schedule. It's kinda ridiculous.
Here in book 3 of the series, Alex finds herself hopelessly confused- about who she should be with, what she should do, what will become of her, and who she can truly trust. She will learn quite a lot about the motivations and intentions of other characters. She will find out that some of the mythology of the story has been misrepresented, and will struggle with what to do with the information. And in classic Alex style, she creates bigger messes when she tries to make things better.
One of my favorite things about this series is that the characters talk like real people. I'm talking about how sometimes you read dialogue and think, "people don't really word things that way." That doesn't happen when you read the Covenant series. These characters' conversations, as well as the things that aren't said, are perfectly, realistically human. Ironic, since most of the characters are not human.
I really love the world Armentrout has created- the Greek mythology base is fun to play with, and these characters feel like old friends. Except the villains, of course, who feel like old enemies. And then there are the hotties- who, in this installment, qualify as smokin' hot, punctuated with a dang. Going back into this literary world is like watching a favorite movie with your best friends- the best kind of relaxing fun: a guilt-free indulgence.
Just in case I haven't been crystal clear: I loved it.
"History is on repeat, and things didn't go so well the last time. "
Alexandria isn't sure she's going to make it to her eighteenth birthday--to her Awakening. A long-forgotten, fanatical order is out to kill her, and if the Council ever discovers what she did in the Catskills, she's a goner... and so is Aiden.
If that's not freaky enough, whenever Alex and Seth spend time "training"--which really is just Seth's code word for some up-close and personal one-on-one time--she ends up with another mark of the Apollyon, which brings her one step closer to Awakening ahead of schedule. Awesome.
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LaMichael James remained adamant Saturday that he has not made a decision about his status for the 2012 NFL draft, in the wake of a report this week suggesting he's decided to pass up his senior season and go pro.
James disputed that report through a UO spokesman when it was initially released. He met with media for the first time since the report on Saturday, after Oregon's practice in the Moshofsky Center as the Ducks' Rose Bowl preparations continued.
"There's really nothing going on," James said. "I don't really know what happened with that deal. But I know my family called me, like, 'You declared for the draft?' I think it's kind of an unfair statement for somebody to go out and say something I didn't say."
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These are cobbled together from interviews with Chip Kelly and selected players after tonight's scrimmage.
Jeremiah Masoli went 9-of-19 and had four passes dropped, while Nate Costa went 16-of-35 with three drops. Costa had two touchdown passes negated by penalties and one bobbled out of bounds by a receiver, and there was also a rushing touchdown negated by a penalty while Costa was at quarterback. There were three total interceptions. Kelly didn't seem overly concerned, saying tipped balls were to blame in some cases, and in others the quarterbacks might have been forcing passes because of the situation they were put in (late game, needing a touchdown, or something like that).
LeGarrette Blount took a handoff on the first four plays of the scrimmage and then sat out the rest of the night. Kenjon Barner continues to play only offense. He'll do so until an injury necessitates his return to cornerback, if ever.
Kelly said he feels good right now about Jamere Holland, Jeff Maehl, Garrett Embry, D.J. Davis and Lavasier Tuinei. Newcomers Tyrece Gaines and Diante Jackson will be eased into the rotation early on after missing some of fall camp with knee injuries.
Bo Thran was able to participate to some extent, so the anticipated starting group was together for at least part of the scrimmage. Sounds like the second group struggled a bit, both with protection and on a couple of those penalties that negated scoring plays while Costa was at quarterback. Charlie Carmichael was carted out of the stadium after the scrimmage and entered the Casanova Center on crutches with his left ankle wrapped.
Zac Clark had a big night statistically, and several people mentioned that Terrell Turner had a good scrimmage. Wade Keliikipi did not dress, presumably because of his shoulder, and Keaton Arden wasn't suited up and had a walking boot on his left foot.
The interception by Bryson Littlejohn was apparently a nifty one-handed deal. Littlejohn had been limited by an arm injury this past week in camp, so his participation is a good sign. Dewitt Stuckey did not dress for the scrimmage.
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Delighting in the Trinity
"It is not to be expected that we should love God supremely if we have not known him to be more desirable than all other things." So wrote the great hymn writer Isaac Watts. And of course, he was quite right, for we always love what seems most attractive to us. Whether it be God, money, sex, or fame, we live for and love what captures our hearts.
But what kind of God could outstrip the attractions of all other things? Could any unitary, single-person god do so? Hardly, or at least not for long. Single-person gods must, by definition, have spent eternity in absolute solitude. Before creation, having no other persons with whom they could commune, they must have been entirely alone.
Love for others, then, cannot go very deep in them if they can go for eternity without it. And so, not being essentially loving, such gods are inevitably less than lovely. They may demand our worship, but they cannot win our hearts. They must be served with gritted teeth.
How wonderfully different it is with the triune God. In John 17:24, Jesus speaks of how the Father loved Him even before the creation of the world. That is the triune, living God: a Father, whose very being has eternally been about loving His Son, pouring out the Spirit of love and life on Him. Here is a God who is love, who is so full of life and blessing that for eternity He has been overflowing with it. As the Puritan preacher Richard Sibbes put it: "Such a goodness is in God as is in a fountain, or in the breast that loves to ease itself of milk." Here in the triune God, in other words, is an infinitely satisfying God, one who is the very fountainhead of all goodness, truth, and beauty.
That means that with the triune God there is great good news. For here is no mean and grasping God, but a Lord of grace and mercy—one, in fact, who offers a salvation sweeter than any non-triune God could ever imagine.
Just imagine for a moment a single-person god. Having been alone for eternity, would it want fellowship with us? It seems most unlikely. Would it even know what fellowship was? Almost certainly not. Such a god might allow us to live under its rule and protection, but little more. Think of the uncertain hope of the Muslim or the Jehovah's Witness: they may finally attain paradise, but even there they will have no real fellowship with their god. Their god would not want it.
But if God is a Father, whose very life has been about loving and delighting in His precious Son, then you begin to see a God who would have far more intimate and marvelous aims, aims to draw us into His life and joy, to embrace us with the very love He has for His dear Son.
Indeed, this God does not offer some kind of "he loves me, he loves me not" relationship whereby I have to try to keep myself in His favor by behaving impeccably. No, "to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God" (John 1:12)—and so with the security to enjoy His love forever.
The eternally beloved Son comes to us to share with us the very love that the Father has always lavished on Him. He comes to share with us and bring us into the life that is His, that we might be brought before the Most High, not just as forgiven sinners, but as dearly beloved children who share by the Spirit the Son's own "Abba!" cry.
In other words, the God who is infinitely more beautiful than all the gods of human religion offers an infinitely more beautiful salvation. Here is a God who can win back wandering hearts by the mere opening of eyes to who He is, who can give the deepest hope and comfort to the stumbling saint.
The Trinity, then, is not some awkward add-on to God, the optional extra nobody should want. No, God is beautiful, desirable, and life-giving precisely because He is the Father, the Son, and the Spirit. Only here can be found the God who is love and who shares with us His very own life and joy. Only here can be found the God whom it is eternal life to know.
John Calvin once wrote that if we try to think about God without thinking about the Father, Son, and Spirit, then "only the bare and empty name of God flits about in our brains, to the exclusion of the true God." Quite so, and that means that if we content ourselves with speaking of God vaguely or abstractly, without the Father, Son, and Spirit, we will never know the life, beauty, and comfort of knowing the true God.
Here and here alone is the God for whom our hearts were made, the God who can win our hearts away from the desires that enslave us, the God who is endlessly, unsurpassably satisfying.
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2010 Mercedes-Benz R-Class Resale Values
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35,001 - 45,000
45,001 - 55,000
55,001 - 65,000
65,001 - 75,000
75,001 - 85,000
85,001 - 95,000
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2010 Mercedes-Benz R-Class Packages / Options
Mercedes-Benz R-Class R350 Wagon Packages
Sport Appearance Package - $1,330
Alloy wheels: 20"x; Dark tinted sport tail lamps; Blue Glass; Heat reflective glass; Excludes: [581] 3-Zone Automatic Climate Control
P1 Package - $3,950
Rear cam&radar parking distance sensors; Power liftgate; 110V power supply; Audio system with digital radio; 4GBhard-drive with music register; Memorized adjustment: includes three driver settings, door mirror position and steering wheel position; Driver and passenger door mirrors; Auto-dimming rear view mirror; Electric foldable mirrors; Steering wheel; Navigation system with full map and voice; Voice activating system for radio and phone
P2 Package - $5,950
Smart card/smart key; includes central locking ; includes ignition starter, memory seat and memory steering wheel; Card key power locks; Harman/kardon audio system; Eleven harman/kardon speakers; Includes: [P01] P1 Package
Mercedes-Benz R-Class R350 Wagon Options
Illuminated Door Sills - $600
Illuminated Door Sills
Parktronic - $790
Front and rear radar parking distance sensors
Seven Passenger Seating - $670
Seating: seven passengers; Rear seats: 40/20/40 40/20/40; Weights: published curb weight (lbs): 5,040
Wood/Leather Steering Wheel - $580
Wood & leather-trimmed, steering wheel
Tele Aid - $650
Telematics; Online information system; Voice activating system
Panorama Roof - $1,070
Electric glass front to rear sunroof
Trailer Hitch-3,500 LBS. (Class II) - $540
Trailer towing preparation
3-Zone Automatic Climate Control - $1,430
Three-zone fully-automatic climate control; Rear heater; Rear air conditioner; Heat reflective glass; Ventilation controls; Excludes: [322] Sport Appearance Package
Rear Seat Entertainment System - $1,880
Entertainment display screen located in back of front seats; DVD/VCD; Cup holders; Rear seat center armrest with integral box
Rear Seat Entertainment System Pre-Wiring - $160
Rear Seat Entertain System Pre-Wiring
Heated Front Seats - $740
Front driver seat and Front passenger seat: : heated
Heated Leather Steering Wheel - $220
Steering wheel
Metallic Paint - $720
Metallic paint; Excludes: [J005] Standard Paint
Standard Paint - $0
Gloss paint; Excludes: [A] Metallic Paint
2010 Mercedes-Benz R-Class Ownership Costs
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2010 Mercedes-Benz R-Class Performance
Engine: 3.5L V 6 DOHC with variable valve timing
Premium unleaded fuel
Fuel economy: EPA (08):, 14 MPG city, 19 MPG highway, 16 MPG combined and 337 mi. range
Multi-point fuel injection
21.1gallon fuel tank
Power (SAE): 268 hp @ 6,000 rpm; 258 ft lb of torque @ 2,400 rpm
2010 Mercedes-Benz R-Class Handling
3.900:1 axle ratio
Brake assist system
Ventilated four-wheel disc brakes
Electronic brake distribution
Electronic traction control (via ABS & engine management)
Space-saver spare tire with steel rim
Stability control
Independent front wishbone suspension with stabilizer bar and coil springs, independent rear multi-link suspension with stabilizer bar and air springs
2010 Mercedes-Benz R-Class Exterior
Driver and passenger 3rd row windows
Body-color front and rear bumpers
Day time running lights
Driver and passenger and passenger power, heated ,body-color door mirrors
Exterior dimensions: 203.0 in. overall length, 75.7 in. overall width, 65.4 in. overall height, 5.8 in. ground clearance, 126.6 in. wheelbase, 65.5 in. front track, 65.3 in. rear track and 40.7 ft. curb-to-curb turning circle
Front fog lights
Halogen headlights with projector beam lenses
Luxury trim: leather on shifter, wood & leather on doors and wood/woodgrain on dashboard
Remote control operation of opening rear ¼ windows
Black paint
Rear side windows: on driver side and passenger side
Rear window defroster
Electric glass sunroof
Weights: gross vehicle weight (lbs): 6,305, published curb weight (lbs): 4,940, gross trailer weight braked (lbs): 3,500 and payload allowance (lbs): 1,365
Intermittent windshield wipers
2010 Mercedes-Benz R-Class Interior
Cargo area, front and rear 12V power outlet(s)
Dual-zone fully-automatic climate control
Anti-theft protection
Front and rear ashtray
Audio system with AM/FM radio, six CDs (reads MP3 format) ; includes RDS , digital media card
Cargo area cover/rear parcel shelf
Cargo area dimensions: length (inches): 19.4, front width (inches): 44.5 and width between arches (inches): 44.5
Cargo capacity: 85.0 cu. ft. w/rear seat down, 15.2 cu. ft. all seats in place and 42.2 cu. ft. third row seats removed
Cigar lighter in front seats
Coming home device
Trip computer: includes average speed, average fuel economy and range for remaining fuel
Cruise control
Front cup holders
Entertainment display screen located in front
Outside air temperature indicator
Floor covering: carpet in passenger compartment and carpet in load area
Floor mats
Intelligent driver front airbag, intelligent passenger front airbag with occupant sensors
Front driver seat : bucket with six 12-way power ; details: power height, power lumbar and power tilt, front passenger seat: : bucket with four 8-way power ; details: power height and power tilt
Height adjustable front seat belts with pre-tensioners for driver and passenger
Front seat center armrest
Garage door opener
Headlight control with dusk sensor
Two active height-adjustable front head restraints, two height-adjustable rear seats head restraints, two height-adjustable 3rd row seats head restraints
Interior dimensions: 39.8 in. front headroom, 40.4 in. rear headroom, 39.8 in. front leg room, 36.2 in. rear leg room, 60.3 in. front shoulder room and 59.6 in. rear shoulder room
Low tire pressure indicator
Remote power locks , includes power windows
Vehicle speed-proportional power steering
Power windows, express driver and passenger
Front and rear reading lights
Rear fog lights
Rear seat belts with pre-tensioners for driver and passenger
Rear seat center armrest
Rear seats: split-folding bucket with seating for two details: manual recline and manual fore/aft
Rear view mirror
Steering wheel-mounted audio controls
Remote control trunk/hatch release
All three rows protected by curtain airbag
Seating: six passengers
Vinyl upholstery
Service interval indicator
Front and rear side airbag
Eight speakers
Alloy & leather-trimmed, tilt/ telescoping steering wheel
Third row seat belts for driver and passenger
Third row seats: split-folding, bucket with seating for two fold flat to floor
Illuminated driver and passenger vanity mirror
Ventilation system with micro filter and automatic recirculation
Voice activating system for radio, phone and navigation system
2010 Mercedes-Benz R-Class Warranty
4 year / 50,000 miles
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4 year / 50,000 miles
83 year / Unlimited miles
4 year / 50,000 miles
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The basic warranty covers everything except items that are subject to wear and tear or replacement in the ordinary course of vehicle ownership, such as oil and air filters, wiper blades and brake pads. Tires and batteries are often excluded, but usually have their own warranty provided by the manufacturers of those items. Emissions equipment is required by Federal law to be covered for five years or 50,000 miles.
Drive Train Warranty:
In some cases the drive train warranty continues after the basic warranty has expired. This part of the warranty covers most of the parts that make the vehicle move, including the engine, transmission, drive axles and driveshaft. Like the basic warranty, consumable parts such as hoses and belts are not covered. However, most of the internal parts of the engine, such as the pistons and bearings, which are also subject to wear and tear, are covered by the drive train warranty.
Roadside Assistance:
Many manufacturers provide a service that will rescue you if your car leaves you stranded, even if it's your fault. Lock yourself our of your car? Run out of gas? Got a flat tire? A call to the manufacturer's toll-free number will result in somebody showing up who can help you out. There is a huge variance in these programs so check ahead of time to see what is covered and what you will have to pay for.
Rust or Corrosion Warranty:
Rust or Corrosion Warranty: This warranty covers the vehicle's sheet metal, and protects you from rust and corrosion that are severe enough to cause a hole - surface rust is not covered. However, if you keep your car washed and waxed rust shouldn't be a problem.
2010 Mercedes-Benz R-Class Safety Features
• Electronic Stability Control
• Pretensioner
• Rear Seat Head Restraint
• 4-Wheel ABS
• Energy Management Feature
• Trunk Release
• Daytime Running Lights
• Advanced Air Bag Features
• Auto Crash Notify
• Child Seat Lower Anchorage
• Side Airbag - Front
• Tire Pressure Monitor
• Adjustable Upper Belt - Front
• Head Airbag - Front
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Are just a few ways, to describe this ambitious and intelligent young woman. Born and raised in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, Pa; Jessica's drive for success and her passion for art and entertainment, began at a very young age.
With dreams and aspirations of becoming a self-made businesswoman, Jessica knew that ambition and drive would propel her into a brand. In order to gain the insight and skills to build her own empire, she began working in the fashion field.
In 2010, Jessica began to take that step, by utilizing the media world. Jessica created a channel on the largest video publication website, known as YouTube. From there, she signed a deal with Driver Digital, who is launching her into a social media maven.
But, this journey has not always been such a smooth ride for Jessica. She hit a rough patch in her personal life, which had her willing to give up on her dream.
Trying to find acceptance, peace of mind, and strength: She expressed her emotions through artistic body art. "I got HOPE tattooed on my right wrist, so it's a reminder to keep going. On my left wrist, I got a tattoo of Tiger Lily flower. Tiger Lilies, are beautiful, distinct, and vibrant… which I strive to be," is how she expresses her triumph and the view of herself.
Rising above the negativity, she gives much credit to her support system, her parents. "First, my mother. I love that drive about her, because she just won't stop. It's the strength and resilience of my father, which made me want to start my own business and work for myself. He is the ultimate fighter and go-getter," says Jessica. Not only does she credit her parents for her overcoming struggles, but also to her extended and loving YouTube family.
She even shared her life experiences and hardships with her supporters on YouTube. To her surprise, she received an overwhelming response of love and gratitude. Due to her fearlessness nature, Jessica was able to reach others by opening up her life to people, that have never met her.
Jessica Laliah has only just begun. She continues to grow and reach new heights. Jessica dreams that soon, you'll be able to tune in and see her on your television or listen to her on your radio. "Life is all about dreaming big! Dreams are forever and are always yours. You just have to fight for them, then make dreams your reality."
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Fouad Ajami, 1945-2014.
Jul 14, 2014, Vol. 19, No. 41 • By LEE SMITH
It's hardly any surprise that he supported the Iraq war and the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. The attacks that I suspect stung him the most were not for his advocacy of American military might, or his proximity to American power, but rather the accusation that he was acting on sectarian impulses: Saddam had hunted Shiites, Ajami was a Shiite, and therefore this American intellectual incapable of escaping his Middle Eastern identity would back any effort to topple a Sunni strongman and undo the Sunni order of the region.
As Tony Badran wrote in a tribute to Ajami in the Arabic-language magazine Al Majalla, "He was not, as his opponents claimed, seeking to drag American power behind a narrow cause of an ethnic or sectarian group. This sinister charge is an old trope of accusing a minority or ethnic pressure group of embroiling the United States in a foreign war on behalf of this group. In other words, it is, at the heart of it, a charge that Ajami's priorities were not American."
The charge, whether leveled at Ajami or at American Jews supportive of the Iraq war, was nonsense. And yet it has to be said that Ajami was misunderstood not only by his critics but also by many of his admirers. If the former called him a Shiite apologist and accused him of airing the Arabs' dirty linen in public, the latter applauded him for what they thought was his speaking hard truths about his native land and its troubled peoples. In reality he was just describing the ideological movements that the region's rulers and regimes had used to enslave their subjects. Arab nationalism and Islamism are corporatist enterprises scarcely less monstrous than modernity's two most famous totalitarian regimes, Nazism and Communism.
"An idea that has dominated the political consciousness of modern Arabs is nearing its end, if it is not already a thing of the past," Ajami wrote in his seminal 1978 essay for Foreign Affairs, "The End of Pan-Arabism." The idea had failed the Arabs, as he further detailed in The Arab Predicament, and Ajami rejected it personally. Some of his admirers have come to see it as a conversion of sorts, but I think that's not quite right.
Ajami's drama is still played out repeatedly throughout the Middle East—spirited young men, and to a lesser extent women, embrace a doctrine that promises to salve their wounds and resolve their ambivalence about a West that designs and makes all they desire, while they have no part in its manufacture. Arab nationalism teaches that the triumph of the West has come at the expense of the Arabs. It is a doctrine of resentment and grievance, a young man's sad and angry creed.
Giving this up isn't a conversion as much as the shedding of a hard shell. It requires recognizing that, first, Arab nationalism is a creed of fear and weakness, and second that America is worthy of one's strength, vulnerability, openness. The young man finds that the reasons he was attracted to America in the first place—knowledge, work, opportunity, mobility—are manifestations of a deeper truth: Its people really are free to think and do what they want. This is why Ajami couldn't abide identity politics or the culture of grievance. If you saw America not as a living patrimony shared by free men and women but as a down payment on an entitlement never to be fully collected, then you were either an ungrateful child or a charismatic conman.
Accordingly, Ajami was among the most astute critics of the current White House. "Mr. Obama has shown scant regard for precedent in American history. To him, and to the coterie around him, his presidency was a radical discontinuity in American politics," Ajami wrote in 2013. He'd understood Obama as early as 2008, he explained, because "from the very beginning of Mr. Obama's astonishing rise, I felt that I was witnessing something old and familiar. My advantage owed nothing to any mastery of American political history. I was guided by my immersion in the political history of the Arab world and of a life studying Third World societies."
Ajami was too modest. Immersion in Arab political history and the study of Third World societies hardly guarantees political insight, never mind wisdom. What he knew of the Middle East and its political furies he understood from the perspective of human freedom, that is, as an American. His clarity in describing both the Middle East and America was a function of character. Where these two lands, two ideas, meet were his main topics in The Foreigner's Gift and The Syrian Rebellion. I believe that his support of the Syrian rebellion, and his writing on it, will constitute the core of an enduring moral legacy.
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Testimony begins in trial of accused child molesterBy ALEX MCRAE
During the first day of testimony, the attorney representing accused child molester Sol Jason Moon asked the mother of one of Moon's alleged victims if she had pursued the case against Moon in part to keep from paying a very large past due amount owed Moon and his wife, Judy, for child care over a period of several years.
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The intestine is made up of the small intestine and the large intestine (colon). The small intestine runs from the stomach to the large intestine. The colon runs from the end of the small intestine to the anus. The intestine absorbs nutrients and water from the diet.
Obstruction of the intestine occurs when food and water cannot pass through the intestine. The area of intestine nearest to the obstruction becomes dilated and non-functioning. If the obstruction is not relieved, it can lead to intestinal gangrene and perforation.
The most common causes of intestinal obstruction in adults are adhesions, hernias, and colon cancer. Adhesions are scars that form between loops of intestine, usually caused by prior surgery, which causes such scar formation. Hernias are areas of weakness in the abdominal wall, through which loops of intestine can slip and become trapped. Colon cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer. While each reason for intestinal obstruction requires a different treatment, all intestinal obstructions are potentially life-threatening.
In most cases, surgery is necessary. While the patient is deep asleep and pain-free (general anesthesia), an incision is made in the midline of the abdomen. In the case of adhesions, the adhesion is removed, thus relieving the obstruction. In the case of a hernia, the hernia is repaired. If colon cancer is present, cancerous areas are removed, which also relieves the obstruction. .
In all cases, the intestine involved in the obstruction is examined. If any parts of the intestine look unhealthy from lack of blood flow during the period of obstruction, they are removed and the healthy ends are reconnected. A patient's recovery depends on several factors, including the cause of the intestinal obstruction and the length of time prior to relief of the obstruction.
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