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You're Just a Believer
Like Everybody Else!
Christan C Raxter
From: Christan C Raxter
To:"Positive Atheism Magazine"
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 1999
Subject: From one believer to another
Mr. Walker,
Hi. My name is Christan Raxter, a friend of Durbin Davis. I have been told of a publication you run entitled 'Positive Atheism', and I also am aware that you and Durbin have been discussing the existence or non-existence of God. My reason for responding to you is not to force my opinions upon you, because that probably has happened on many occasions. What I would like to say is that I believe faith is a universal element found in all people, and what makes us different is how we direct that faith.
Now, I will tell you that I know there is a God. You can call me illogical if you wish, but my beliefs are founded on both factual evidence and personal experience. You may say that faith is blind, but I also believe faith is grounded in reality.
Let's take everyday living for example, apart from any ties to God whatsoever. When I wake up in the morning I brush my teeth. I go directly to my bathroom, and get the toothpaste and toothbrush. Now, if you were to ask me the night before the infallible evidence that they are there, I could not prove that point to you without taking you to those items. The most I could do is believe they were there because that was where I left it. Here we have self presumption based on self action. After I brush my teeth, I immediately get a glass of water by turning the faucet. Why? Because I believe water will pour out, and it does. Why do I believe this? Because it has been proved to me countless times before, and I have faith in the water company. Now I could go to any other faucet in my house, this one is not necessary to me. But it is reliable.
When I leave my house in the morning, I open doors that I by faith believe will open, and when I leave in an automobile, I by faith believe in its successful operation. In these examples, there is self assumption based on the acts of others.
This list as you well can imagine could be infinite, but the idea that I am trying to relate to you is that there are millions of beliefs we put our faith in, and can not prove that until we simply try it again. Now I can not prove to you that any of these items will ever work again, I can only tell you this because it has been proven to me before, by myself as well as others.
The difference between these items and God is that God never malfunctions or is undeserving of faith. What these experiences have in a small part in common with God is that God has proven Himself, not only to me but millions of others.
I am not sure what caused you to not accept the existence of God, but I can tell there are many reasons to believe that He does, as you also well know.
Finally, you can call me illogical, but my belief in God is not the brainwashing of a Bible, but rather what I have seen God do in my life. I say God, because no chance of fate or extreme belief or natural occurrence could explain it. The immediate argument is that the mind, when completely convinced of an idea, changes lives in phenomenal ways. But you and I both know that minds alone can not make an idea true. Only the Truth.
I will give you only a few reasons why I know God not only exists, but loves us. You may not believe any of them, but they do exist:
1. Countless near death experiences
2. The fact that the earth is tilted at exactly the right angle so we neither are roasted or freeze to death
3. The abundance of food and shelter
4. The fact that we can wake up each morning
5. The scientific proof that when people die they lose weight, and the best way to explain this is by admitting we have souls
6. Noah's Ark found on Mt. Ararat
7. The countless confessions of trillions of people who admit when they accepted Jesus as their savior great burdens were lifted from them
8. The many times people have called out to God in prayer to help them in their situation and He did
9. The fact that scientists when dating the age of the earth were always off by 24 hours and it could not be explained except by a passage in the old Testament where it was said that God stopped the earth for one day. (Joshua 10:12-14)
10. The millions of miracles,
11. The trillions of people who believe in Him
12. The human body
13. The earth
14. Life
We on our own can not make these things happen. It could only be accomplished by someone greater than you and I. Humans are filled with mistakes, and I make them everyday. But what I do know is that God is real. He proves himself. Just because we can't see him doesn't mean He's not there.
I realize I have given you a lot of opinions, many of which you will attempt to disprove and will quite easily if you choose to do so. But I only want to ask a final question, without piety but sincerity. You quite convincingly state that there is no Tooth Fairy, Santa Claus, and Easter Bunny, which I believe along with you. However, if God to you falls into this category of 'childish myth' as you call it, then why do you insist denouncing something that does not exist? If God is nothing at all, then why bother in emphatically stating his non-existence? I do not believe in the Tooth Fairy, but I also do not go around telling others that I do not believe in the Tooth Fairy, because why should I prove its non-existence? Seeing as how short life is, it would seem logical to spend time stating the things you do believe, rather than all the things you don't.
I apologize for the length of a message which argues your beliefs, and I very openly encourage your response. I do not claim to know everything or anything at all, just what I believe. Please feel free to respond, because if I was wrong, I would certainly like to know before my life is over. Thank you for your time, and I hope you have a wonderful day.
Christan Raxter
From: "Positive Atheism Magazine"
To: "Christan C Raxter"
Subject: Re: From a nonbeliever to a self-proclaimed believer
Date: Tuesday, April 13, 1999 2:42 AM
I apologize for the delay: I lost the functionality of my hands for a few days and needed to cut my workload to a minimum. I wrote much of this earlier, when I received the letter, and then finished the rest of it tonight.
What I would like to say is that I believe faith is a universal element found in all people, and what makes us different is how we direct that faith.
If faith is something we all have, then why do the religions want us to have faith (i.e., to believe)?
If faith is something we all have, then how does one distinguish a believer from an atheist?
I don't buy it. This seems to be a misuse of the word "faith" which usually describes a property that some of us have and others of us do not. You seem to be changing the meaning around to suit your own purpose of denigrating atheists by saying that we have faith, when it is religious faith that we question. Religious faith is a specific thing that has nothing whatsoever to do with what you're talking about -- except that for some reason our culture uses the same letter sequence, F-A-I-T-H, to spell both words.
You may say that faith is blind, but I also believe faith is grounded in reality.
Religious faith is seldom blind. Even those with 20:20 vision get into accidents and exclaim, "I didn't see that guy!" Rather, religious faith is most often a case of mistaken information. What perhaps ought to have remained categorized in the "I'd better suspend judgment on this" pile is instead placed into one of the "Okay, I know what that is" piles. Most of what we observe, experience, and think is biased by both the fears and desires of the faithful individual as well as the upbringing that the faithful person experienced.
Finally, in order to avoid the errors described in the previous paragraph, one would need to engage in training of the mind and thinking processes that tends to get quite grueling. For most of us, it's much easier to continue the training that most of us received as children. And even among those who do go through with it, social conditions preclude their discussing it with others. You'd be surprised to discover just how many people you know are actually atheists, but are pretending to be religious just because they must in order to get along, in order to avoid the treatment we atheists endure, hurled against us by Christians, Muslims, and others. This ranges from simple pestering to outright persecution, but whatever it is, lying and dealing with one's conscience often becomes easier than telling the truth and then making a run for it.
When I wake up in the morning I brush my teeth.... etc.
This one's hazy. Needs work. I don't quite understand what you're getting at.
It sounds as if you may touching on solipsism.
If you are a solipsist, then I have nothing to say.
(That's a joke, son!)
After I brush my teeth, I immediately get a glass of water by turning the faucet. Why? Because I believe water will pour out, and it does. Why do I believe this? Because it has been proved to me countless times before, and I have faith in the water company.
There are better reasons for trusting that water will come out. I can explain it to you in numerous ways.
But you are talking about the same thing as religious faith, here, not the traditional, commonly understood sense of the word "faith."
When you take a word such as "faith" (a word that has several possible meanings or synonyms), and when you use different meanings for the same word in the same paragraph (without indicating to the reader that you have here changed the meaning from how you used it a few sentences ago), you only serve to inject confusion into the discussion. This may be fun (and some might even fall for it), but when this happens we are forced to stop and take a detour from the discussion at hand, in order to sort out the confusion.
In this case, you are confusing the word "faith" as used in a religious sense, with the way some people misuse word "faith": You don't "have faith" that the door will open, you simply open the door. There is no ambiguity about it, no question. (If the door did not open for you, then you would be right in becoming very concerned.)
I bet most Christian theologians (seminarians and alumni) would agree that this is a serious misuse of the word. I looked it up in three dictionaries (Merriam-Webster's Tenth Collegiate; Microsoft Bookshelf; Oxford American -- the three I currently use when I write). The closest I came to your (mis)use of the word, here, was, indeed, a form of reliance in a person, idea, or thing. However, the term faith, in this context, strongly implies that said person, idea, or thing could very prove untrustworthy. If there were no doubt, then the word faith would be the wrong one to use.
My cat is my faithful companion (and I keep her under lock and key to make sure). I have faith that Bill Clinton will run the country properly (well -- er -- no comment!). I'm faithful that our old '66 Ford Mustang will take us to Black Rock and back later this summer (though maybe the van would be more appropriate for a trip like that).
This is the only nonreligious use of the word faith, and its meaning, in this context, differs greatly from its use in the religious sense.
The difference between these items and God is that God never malfunctions or is undeserving of faith.
So much for having faith in God, then, in light of the above discussion!!
But a malfunctioning God? This is definitely an original one for me. I have studied most of the classic arguments for the existence of a god, and I have never encountered the claim that "God never malfunctions."
As for a god being undeserving of my trust, first, I have no reason to believe that the traditional monotheistic, transcendent, omnipotent, omniscient, all-merciful (&c.) exists. This god is impossible. For example, while I can conceive of something that has all power (I consider the cosmos to be or contain all power), and while I can imagine something that has all knowledge (the sum of what we know plus what we do not yet know), the model falls apart when I try to think of a being that is simultaneously all-powerful and all-knowing. A god who knows the future would be powerless to intervene in it, etc.
Secondly, people who trust in gods die of humanly preventable starvation and humanly preventable diseases all day long: 24-seven. An all-powerful god, we would suppose, could accomplish at least what men and women could accomplish, and more. I would assume that an all-powerful god is not powerless over earthquakes, such as the one in Lisbon during the 19th century that happened the moment most people were in their stone churches for a religious celebration.
During the recent quake where I live, a boulder crashed into the side of a car, killing the driver. The newspaper reported her husband as thanking God that she was the one driving, and not he. I feel the same way about those who thank God because one or two people survived an airplane crash (as was the case in a crash in South America not that long ago).
Finally, you can call me illogical, but my belief in God is not the brainwashing of a Bible, but rather what I have seen God do in my life.
The leader of the HeavensGate group, "Do," spoke with similar confidence about the spacecraft hovering behind the comet Hale-Bopp. Rev. Jim Jones is said to have performed miraculous faith-healings (or so his followers thought -- with great confidence). I don't mean to disparage your experience by relating it to those of people whom your peers probably denigrate as "cult" leaders, but these are commonly accepted facts.
Obviously, to place faith in these men -- or their gods -- was a mistake for their respective followers. However, both were adamant in their claims, and both."" garnered hoards of followers who also believe with as much certainty as you express here.
Meanwhile, I suffered one in a long series of health crises (with the resulting emotional breakdowns) in the winter of 1996. When I had nowhere to go, I decided to hang out at the Marxist commune at the University near where I had been living. The changes in me were instantaneous and profound. I recovered from a similar crisis through the love and care of a lovely young woman whom I will never forget. (We were both atheists.)
What I am saying is that profound changes occur in one's life is no proof that a god exists. Just because we do not know why something happens, we do not need to posit "God" as the explanation. In fact, we do better to suspend judgment on things we do not know, so that we can keep our eyes open for possible explanations and, perhaps, stumble across the answer.
You quite convincingly state that there is no Tooth Fairy, Santa Claus, and Easter Bunny, which I believe along with you.
I must have made a pretty convincing statement, considering that you got it completely backwards! In my letter to Durban I challenged him to prove that there is no Santa or Tooth Fairy. You cannot disprove an existential claim, so if you claim that a "God" exists, I cannot disprove your claim. Neither am I justified in going along simply because you make the claim: I have every reason to think you're lying unless and until you provide me with a compelling reason to go along with your claim.
I am not sure what caused you to not accept the existence of God, but I can tell there are many reasons to believe that He does, as you also well know.
You see, doc, it happened like this: I was walking down the street, minding my own business, when out of the blue, people kept telling me about this "God" fellow, like he was some kind of Santa Claus, only bigger, and just as invisible. So, right from the start I chalked it up as just another Santa Claus fable, except that this one's for older children.
It's not like anyone ever needed to convince me that the Sun exists. I only needed to be told what it is called, and later, what it is and how it works and how far away it is, etc.
Not so, with God, whose existence is not self-evident (or unambiguous). Allow me to try to make my case, here.
First. about a billion people (about 20 percent, worldwide) do not have a god-belief of any kind. If all the various types of nonbelievers (excluding atheistic Buddhists, atheistic Hindus, and atheistic Jews) were categorized together and this called a religion (though I disagree in calling it that), we would be the second largest "religion" in the world -- behind only all the different types of Christians lumped together (though slightly ahead of Roman Catholics as a group), and slightly further ahead of all the different types of Muslims lumped together.
So, there are a lot of people who, for whatever reason, do not see evidence that supports belief in the existence of a god.
Secondly, among theists, there is much disagreement about God. How many gods are there? What are God's characteristics? What is God's will for us (if any)? The list is endless. Michael Jordan's Encyclopedia of Gods lists and describes over 2,500 gods that mankind has endorsed at one time or another. Waka-Se-Na-Me-No-Kami is the Shinto goddess who is specifically concerned with the transplanting of rice. Her son, Waka-Toshi-No-Kami, takes care of the growing of young rice. I don't know who takes over when the rice gets older, or if there is a deity concerned with boiling the rice and another with eating it, but Kuku-Toshi-No-Kami (no relationship given) takes care of the harvest. My favorite is Quetzalcoatl. I don't know anything about this deity except that the name is a word that's as fun to write as it is to pronounce.
So, then, we have a vast divergence of opinion regarding the nature of God (gods) by people who do believe.
If a god existed, and if it was important for humans to know about his existence, it seems to me that there wouldn't be so much honest disagreement as to whether there is a god and if so, what characteristics we are dealing with, and which god or gods actually exist and which are false gods.
In contrast, only a couple of nuts in Los Angeles still think the Earth is flat and that the Sun and Moon scoot along the sky which is a giant lid, or firmament, formed above the Earth. We can expect this small amount of difference of opinion over self-evident things, especially given that the sphericity of the Earth is not immediately observable, and also given the incidence of maladies such as schizophrenia that plague a small percentage of our species.
This vast difference of opinion makes sense if God is fiction and superstition, and if there is no such thing as a god. But it does not make sense if there is a god who wants us to know of his (or her or their) existence. If knowledge of God's existence is only the very basis for the relationship with God that so many theists talk about, then it is easy to understand why some would wonder if this god is cruel in not making his (or her or their) existence clear to more than a relative handful of humans.
Meanwhile, to finish answering your question, I actually wanted there to be a god for many years. I asked and sought and knocked, as the saying goes. I have spend a large fraction of my life pursuing this quest. I think if there existed a god-claim that made sense, I would probably have encountered it by now. To use an analogy, there reaches a point when you must say, "We've looked and looked for your contact lens, with the brightest lights we have, and we think your contact lens is not on the elevator floor." There comes a time when we must restore the elevator to its proper use.
Finally, you can call me illogical, but my belief in God is not the brainwashing of a Bible, but rather what I have seen God do in my life. I say God, because no chance of fate or extreme belief or natural occurrence could explain it.
Have you absolutely eliminated the natural, more likely explanations? If you have done this (and only if you have done this), you may proceed with the less likely supernatural explanations.
1. Countless near death experiences
Were they yours or someone else's? Were you there? If not, were the reporters of these experiences mistaken? Could they have been lying?
How do we know what "near-death experience" means?
And most importantly, how can we trust the brain of someone who is so impaired, so sick, that observers (including, probably, doctors) conclude that the person is dying?
This is a better argument in favor of the naturalistic explanation of life's existence on Earth than it is for the supernaturalistic explanation. The Earth has conditions conducive to life; therefore, life developed and thrived on this planet. Life is tuned to the very conditions you describe, not vice versa. For example, if the whole planet had weather conditions such as those found in Kenya, all humans would probably have dark or black skin; there would be no polar bears, whose fur is like a mat of fiber optic strands. Had those conditions been different, life would have tuned to those conditions or perhaps not be at all.
For you to use this as an argument for theism is to put the cart before the horse. Besides, I would think that a god could have made anything able to survive almost anywhere.
3. The abundance of food and shelter
Again. This would also be a better argument in favor of the naturalistic explanation -- if it were even true. However, this statement is false. Many millions of people go without adequate food and shelter. Fewer still have anything that would rightly be called an abundance. Except for humans (and then only recently, after men and women of science -- not faith; not God -- made some startling changes in our survival rate), most life forms which come into existence do not survive long enough to procreate.
4. The fact that we can wake up each morning
This won't last. We're all going to die. And we're the lucky ones, too. The rest of us are already dead or never will be born.
Besides, you can speak for yourself on this matter: I have a disorder that sometimes prevents me from waking up at all; I have been known to sleep though the entire day and wake up "tomorrow." Thank gaud for computers: I log on each "morning" (even if it happens to be evening) and find out what time it is and what day it is.
5. The scientific proof that when people die they lose weight, and the best way to explain this is by admitting we have souls
I've never heard this claim. Are you getting this from scientists or from a preacher or New Age huckster?
Look out for that term "scientific proof," though; the only ones who use it tend not to be scientists (because science presupposes that all claims to knowledge are subject to revision. In my experience, the ones quickest to use the term "scientific proof" are those who are about to pull a stunt on their audience!
If we grant, for the discussion that it is true, does it necessarily follow that exactly one god exists? And if you prove something, then is it no more faith?
6. Noah's Ark found on Mt. Ararat
When? Where!? Can I go see it?
Is there any petrified elephant shit still in it? I want some!
(And I was beginning to think we may have a serious discussion on our hands.)
First, take my word for it: this is a lie.
(Sometimes I wish I could get my hands on some of these charlatans! Sometimes they piss me off so much that I just don't bother to control the violent feelings that tend to well inside me whenever I see good people being exploited like this.)
Secondly, if we were to grant, for the sake of this discussion, that a large craft was found in the mountains of Turkey, it would sdnot follow that the boat was built by anyone named Noah, or by any subject of the half-dozen or so other deluge myths that I've read (and I hear there are many more).
Thirdly, what would you do if they did find a boat but it was not made of hickory bark (or whatever the song -- rather, the myth says it was made out of)?
7. The countless confessions of trillions of people who admit when they accepted Jesus as their savior great burdens were lifted from them
Trillions of people have not existed.
Gotcha again!
Most Expressions of the Christian religion do not deal with the language "accepting Jesus as one's savior."
Gotcha a third time!
Jesus is alleged to have instructed his followers to "take up their cross" and supposedly informed them that "my burden is light."
Besides, how do such claims about Jesus differ from similar claims about other gods? And what about things that aren't even gods? I heard almost word-for-word the same testimony from newly "comrade-ized" Marxists as I have from newly converted Christians! the change inside, the change in lifestyle, the whole bit! What about my testimony? A whole world full oftruly gnarly burdens were lifted from me once I stopped believing in Jesus, once I was able to "let go" and face my humanity! Instead of having burdens with the weight of eternity upon me, I now have burdens that I can actually carry all by myself, burdens that are, in comparison, a joy to carry, burdens that I'm proud to walk next to when taking a stroll through the neighborhood (as it were).
For example: When someone I know ceases from life, I do not need to crawl into my shell and lapse into abject depression: that person is not going to spend even a moment in hell. I only cry because my friend is gone, because the death was premature, because I know this is our only opportunity to live and this person just finished her or his life forever, or simply because death is the price we pay to even live at all (in terms of natural selection).
When my Grandma died, I cried because I lost my closest friend. At the same time, I could be grateful that she no longer had to suffer like she did. But when her husband died ten years earlier, I could not face his widow. I knew ("for a fact" -- I thought) that he had just begun an eternity of cruel and brutal punishment for not having accepted Jesus as his personal savior!
I need no other reasons besides this one to curse the Christian religion for the rest of my life: because I believed its claims, I chose not to be there with her during the most painful moments of her life, during the only truly painful moments of this innocent and loving and vibrant and giving and care-free and happy woman's life (the rest of her family was on vacation and wouldn't return for her, either, so she held the funeral all by herself).
I know what it's like to be alone and to be in an emotional state where it's would be impossible to stop crying even if someone were there holding you in their arms.
Not flying up to be with her is among my top five regrets in life.
I didn't know. I just didn't know.
This is one of the main reasons why I don't begrudge Christians of their religion; rather, I presuppose that they think they have valid reasons for believing the way they do. I thought I did! But look what it cost me!
No. By comparison, my burdens are now light as a feather.
At least when I make a mistake, I have only myself to blame. But when I make a mistake, since I am doing all the thinking for the decision-making process, chances are that none of my mistakes will be as monumentally destructive as this one or several others that I made while a Christian -- that is, while the Christian religion was doing my thinking for me!
8. The many times people have called out to God in prayer to help them in their situation and He did
If I pray to Parjanya for rain and it starts raining, it doesn't follow that Parjanya made the rain.
If I sacrifice a virgin to Mixcoatl-Camaxtli and prevail in warfare, it doesn't follow that Mixcoatl-Camaxtli helped me win or allowed me to win.
If I get over this current illness, I promise you that Dharmakirtisagaraghosa will have had nothing to do with it.
Of course, I think you know all this.
Or do you?
What's the difference between Mithra and Jesus?
Mithras, God of the Morning, our trumpets waken the Wall!
9. The fact that scientists when dating the age of the earth were always off by 24 hours and it could not be explained except by a passage in the old Testament where it was said that God stopped the earth for one day. (Joshua 10:12-14)
Oh, my! Now NASA has become involved in this thing! They weren't part of the picture 34 years ago, when I first heard this canard.
Okay, which scientists?
Whenever you folks tell us that "scientists" said this or did that, our only appropriate response is to ask, "Which scientists? Tell us: which scientists said that? What is the name of the article so I may look it up, because I've never heard that one." (Maybe it's "I've heard that one only too often,") I have discovered a strong correlation between Evangelicals not knowing wich scientists said what they've just chimed out for all to believe and the chimed sentences being flat-out falsehood designed to trick us into believing in Jesus! In other words, when y'all cannot (or will not) tell us the names of the scientists, the odds are overwhelmingly in favor of the proposition that said "scientists" do not exist.
(Boy! Am I now becoming an ascientistist? Should I go to the State University with my bull horn and picket signs and demand that they march a few of those folks out to me to prove the truthfulness of their claim that scientists really exist?)
Level with me: is this another old wives' fable? a trick to get us to believe in your gods?
Which scientists did this!?
The following is from ChristianAnswers.net:
Although we believe that biblical account of Joshua's Long Day is true, the claim that NASA has proven it is an old urban myth....
No one who repeats this story has ever provided details of these calculations -- how exactly was this missing day discovered? This should automatically make people cautious. How could you detect a missing day unless you had a fixed reference point before this day?
In fact we would need to cross check between both astronomical and historical records to detect any missing day.... But the ancient records did not record time that precisely, so the required cross check is simply not possible....
There is so much good evidence for the truth of creation and the Bible that we don't need to resort to embellishments and urban myths.
10. The millions of miracles,
You mean to say, millions of reports of miracles, during times when it was considered moral to fabricate reports of miracles in order to bring credibility to God and to the church. You cannot verify that any of them actually were miracles.
11. The trillions of people who believe in Him
Again: trillions of people have not existed.
Even if you're a Mormon.
12. The human body
What about the human body makes it any more or less awe-inspiring than any one of the approximately 12,000 known species of roundworms.
If the human body is the work of a designer, then why is it so frail? How could one human (myself) have five different diagnosable problems with my eyesight alone, and three separate problems with my hearing?
If the human body is not the result of billions of years of natural selection (meaning that each of your ancestors back to the "primordial goo" lived long enough to procreate), then why are so many aspects of it "imperfect"? ("Primordial goo" is this weird stuff that creationists accuse only atheists of believing in, even though most evolutionists are theists and most Christians are evolutionists. In fact, only American Evangelicals tend to be creationists; the faith of the rest is stable enough to not be threatened by what science has shown us.)
13. The earth
Yeah? Planets exist.
14. Life
As unlikely as this seems, life does exist. There is nothing about its construct that makes it unlikely, in fact. Now, if the DNA molecule were made up of atoms of helium, argon, neon, and krypton, then even I might suspect supernatural hanky-panky!
Seriously, if one wishes to speak of design, it is necessary first to establish the existence of a designer. If I find a watch in the desert I know it was designed because I can travel to Switzerland and meet the designer.
I also can see evidence of formation, such as too marks in the gears, etc. But this is not so, because no life form now existing has evidence of having been formed. Quite the contrary: we can watch plants spring out of the ground every spring. We can go to the zoo and watch animals being hatched or born. These processes are seamlessly natural: they utilize no detectable tools or implements and, from all appearances, are occurring under their own power and design.
I can also (inconclusively) suspect that the watch had a designer because it is very unlike its surroundings. However, life is quite common in these parts. I heard on a science program recently of a recent discovery that life even exists in a hot spring at the bottom of Crater Lake -- where it is hot enough to kill virtually all other known most life forms.
Just because we can't see him doesn't mean He's not there.
Ahh! "We can't see him," he says! I see!
Does this mean that we cannot even detect Him?
As I noticed above, an invisible god does not look very good for the notion of a god who wants humans to know that He exists. Besides, just because we cannot see "Him" doesn't mean that "He" is there, either!
... if I was wrong, I would certainly like to know before my life is over.
I'm sorry I can't help you.
I'm not sorry that I don't really want to help you in this respect.
If you ever find yourself doubting your Christian faith -- doubting that Marketing as your interests in mind at all (to say nothing of your best interests!) -- if you ever discover that you either no longer have a god-belief or never really had a god-belief to begin with, then feel free to look me up. Until then, you are not the focus of my work: you are not "fair game"; I have no desire to see any theists deconvert, but will set aside all but the most crucial of personal plans if you think you need my assistance as an atheist being pestered by a Church bent on seeing you "repent" or reconvert. Although I think all atheists do best by effecting their own deconversion and deprogramming, I realize just how wily the Church can be and just how precarious her sales floor, the World, gets at times. It is to this extent and to this extent alone that I become serious when it comes to seeing people remain (but not become) atheists.
Frankly, I don't give a rat what you believe. I am not here to change your mind and, as you may have noticed, when my resources are slim, I give precedence to answering mail from atheists. I apologize for the delay, but that's the way it is. This magazine (website) has atheists as its target audience. When my body functions the way one would expect a 42-year-old body to function, I can get more done than I normally can. When it doesn't put out what is expected of a body its type, size, innate ability, and age, then I've got to set priorities.
I don't know much about you, personally, but I do know that I have been where you are now, as far as religion goes, and I was very miserable the entire time. To add to the cruelty, I was not allowed to show my pain to anybody because this would impede my testimony, adversely reflecting upon the reputation of my god. So I lied. I thought I was the only one who was miserable because of his faith, because he believed, so I simply "grew in wisdom," as they say.
Then, one by one, a few others began to trust me with their darkest secrets. One by one, these few told me that they want to believe but don't "feel" anything. They had no experiential religion -- no experience to verify what they believed. Others did not trust that the scriptures were the work of God and suspected that they were the work of man, that they contained errors, and that we cannot really know if anything in them is true.
I have now honestly and sincerely concluded that we cannot really know whether Jesus even existed: the existence of the Jesus myth and the existence of the Christian church can be explained without there ever having been a historical Jesus, without there ever having lived a man who even approximately answered to the description of the so-called historical Jesus.
I have studied this issue intensely, for a long time. Part of me wants to make sure; part of me is still spooked by Pascal's Wager and the visions of Hell that were taught to me as a child (not by my parents, but by other kid's parents and by teachers at school). If Pascal's Wager has any merit, I most certainly don't want to be wrong.
(Pascal's Wager, however, is, in my opinion, patently immoral. I don't see how any just deity could respect anybody who came to believe through this so-called argument, who came to believe solely for personal gain [that is, to avoid the Christian Hell]. I don't see how any moral deity could honor the faith of such a person.)
My life has been hampered in no small way because I spent a few youthful years in what anybody familiar with the subject would call a cultic religious state. Subsequently, I stumbled along through life as best I could (which wasn't all that good, actually). I made modest amounts of money, living a rather humble means, and managed to do a lot of good during those times when I could afford to pursue my first love: social activism.
Then I was shocked into focusing my career as a social activist on this subject (after being held in jail for just under a month simply because I refused a court order to undergo religious instruction in a faith-based rehabilitation program that I didn't really need). This is when I started paying attention to what was happening to me at the time, what I thought and felt, and even the fact that I am an atheist. Indeed, I had never called myself "an atheist" until that day in court! I was exactly the kind of atheist that my father is: neither of us paid the least bit of attention to our atheism, because neither of us gave a damn about the religion of other people.
It was only when a religious organization coaxed my government into taking from me my Religious Liberty and then proceeded to intimidate and harass me for my lack of religion that I woke up and realized that I really have no choice but to act, no choice but to spend the bulk of the remainder of my life struggling not for the rights and dignity of people in far off lands but for my own rights, my own freedom, and my own dignity (and those of my family, friends, and fellow Americans -- in that order).
Having studied my own experience, now, for several years, I discovered that I have a special ability to help atheists feel at home with their atheistic position. Most Americans who are atheists do not have the unique experience that I do, having been raised by atheists, who themselves were raised by atheists, who themselves had a total of one believer among my great-grandparent (a Unitarian, which cannot easily be distinguished from an atheist anyway). Top this off with the fact that I spent three or four years in the grip of a fundamentalist Christian sect, and several more years in the grip of the Twelve Step Program, easily the most malevolent religious cult in existence. I think this uniquely qualifies me to do what I have repeatedly stated is my goal with this magazine and web site (a project, really).
If your friend Durban thinks that I am about "discussing the existence or nonexistence of 'God'" (that is, discussing the merits of the Christian god-claim -- or lack thereof), he is mistaken. He probably caught me during a time of plenty, when I had the luxury of spending several hours engaged in a "sparring match" (as I see such discussions: I have yet to take one of them seriously; to me, it's all just a sport).
I hope that you don't take it personally that I don't share your interest in "discovering" or "being openminded" about a question that I got to the bottom of perhaps before you were even born. In the past five years, I've heard only one new argument. Even if I hadn't come to a resolution regarding that one, the other objections remain unanswered.
I get these letters every day: day in, and day out. Apart from the attitudes, they differ in but two respects.
First, the arguments (all of which I've already heard), which are, for the most part, not arguments but simply statements, vary considerably. Sometimes I get a neatly copied run-down of Lewis's book, obviously cribbed from a Sunday school hand-out. Other times I get a haphazardly understood (that is, original) outline of a McDowell speech. About three-quarters of them at least contain the patently immoral Pascal's Wager bit, if the "Wager" doesn't comprise the entirety of that particular e-mail. Almost always, the letter consists entirely of statements:
"Thus is so!"
"Oh, really?"
"Yup! Thus is so!"
"Well, can you give me any reasons for going along with that?"
"Of course! Thus is so!"
And so forth.
Secondly, the signatures vary, of course. I know this sounds cocky, but selling a savior on a stick is far from the pinnacle of human creativity.
Nevertheless, I find dignity even in the most indignant of e-mails.
Each letter was written by an individual who at least THINKS that she or he cares. This is often hard to see, judging by the attitudes of a great many of them, but as our FAQ states, it is my policy to presuppose that all theists have or think they have valid reasons for believing the way they do. In the same sense, I can (if I want) presuppose that they all care (and I often do just that).
When I was a teenager, a preacher gave me a most useful turn of adjectival phrase: "well-meaning but misguided." It takes the heat off the messenger without need of our giving credibility to the message.
Apart from that, apart from realizing that people think they care, I still must deal with the effects of this misguided sense of caring. The result, as viewed from my side of the exchange, is, in many if not most cases, indistinguishable from bigotry. This is where I'm at in the antibigotry fight, apart from what I described above about trying to popularize a more accurate definition for atheism.
That's all.
Thanks for writing!
And again, I'm sorry that I'm not all that interested in a sparring match. It's not you, I just don't want to spar with anybody, really. If your god-claim is true, the question becomes, why does He need you to evangelize me? Why doesn't He simply reveal Himself to me?
I'd rather see what I can do to learn how to get along, and I'm not convinced that accentuating our differences does much in this respect. Maybe it does. Maybe showing the Christians I meet that their efforts are -- misguided? -- is the first step toward putting those differences behind! I don't know. Maybe I'll eventually come back to that, but for now, I'm needing to spend my resources wisely, which means doing other things.
Again, thanks!
Cliff Walker
"Positive Atheism" Magazine
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Riemann manifold Langevin and Hamiltonian Monte Carlo methods
Version of Record online: 3 MAR 2011
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9868.2010.00765.x
© 2011 Royal Statistical Society
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B (Statistical Methodology)
Volume 73, Issue 2, pages 123–214, March 2011
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How to Cite
Girolami, M. and Calderhead, B. (2011), Riemann manifold Langevin and Hamiltonian Monte Carlo methods. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B (Statistical Methodology), 73: 123–214. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9868.2010.00765.x
Publication History
- Issue online: 3 MAR 2011
- Version of Record online: 3 MAR 2011
- [Read before The Royal Statistical Society at a meeting organized by the Research Section on Wednesday, October 13th, 2010, Professor D. M. Titterington in the Chair]
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- Bayesian inference;
- Geometry in statistics;
- Hamiltonian Monte Carlo methods;
- Langevin diffusion;
- Markov chain Monte Carlo methods;
- Riemann manifolds
Summary. The paper proposes Metropolis adjusted Langevin and Hamiltonian Monte Carlo sampling methods defined on the Riemann manifold to resolve the shortcomings of existing Monte Carlo algorithms when sampling from target densities that may be high dimensional and exhibit strong correlations. The methods provide fully automated adaptation mechanisms that circumvent the costly pilot runs that are required to tune proposal densities for Metropolis–Hastings or indeed Hamiltonian Monte Carlo and Metropolis adjusted Langevin algorithms. This allows for highly efficient sampling even in very high dimensions where different scalings may be required for the transient and stationary phases of the Markov chain. The methodology proposed exploits the Riemann geometry of the parameter space of statistical models and thus automatically adapts to the local structure when simulating paths across this manifold, providing highly efficient convergence and exploration of the target density. The performance of these Riemann manifold Monte Carlo methods is rigorously assessed by performing inference on logistic regression models, log-Gaussian Cox point processes, stochastic volatility models and Bayesian estimation of dynamic systems described by non-linear differential equations. Substantial improvements in the time-normalized effective sample size are reported when compared with alternative sampling approaches. MATLAB code that is available from http://www.ucl.ac.uk/statistics/research/rmhmc allows replication of all the results reported.


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One of the most recurrent nutrition-origin diseases in humans worldwide is anemia caused by lack of iron, an ailment that pounds all systems of the human body. The implications of ferrous-deprived anemia on human health prompted a team of researchers at the LABIOFAM Entrepreneurial Group to get involved in the quest for a diet supplement capable of counteract these negative effects.
As the man at the helm of this team, Dr. Cesar Garcia Caceres welcomes with open arms the fact that following two decades of studies, a product called Ferrical® -already registered- can now be sold in drugstores across the country as collaboration agreements with other nations for the exportation of this product are being implemented right now.
"We always believed this work wouldn't be complete as long as it could meet this objective. That's the reason why we spent so many years in search of the best and most efficient formulation that could raise hemoglobin count in blood. The fact that the Cuban people can now have access to this product is no doubt our greatest satisfaction."
According to the expert, "anemia caused by lack of nutritional facts in the diet is suffered by millions of people all around the world and today it continues to be a serious health problem."
Back in the 1980s, Dr. Caceres, who collaborates with meat-processing plants, assessed the possibility of using beef and horse meat by products as raw materials for possible pharmaceutical orientation. From that moment onward –that marked the beginning of this research project- the diet supplement has been dramatically enriched thanks to clinical and preclinical studies conducted on it.
On the other hand, attendance to national and international events has allowed countless experts to recognize the nutritional values of this all-Cuban product.
Main Properties
Ferrical® does not cause intolerance or resistance. Furthermore, it helps the metabolizing of minerals which are part of a daily diet intake, and for Dr. Caceres its most outstanding feature is its being a natural and organic product that both nourishes and minimizes the negative effects of anemia caused by lack of iron in the body.
Moreover —he adds— "up to this moment we have reported no adverse reactions whatsoever caused by consumption of it. Unlike ferrous fumarate, this product does not bring down zinc levels in blood, something that makes it very convenient for use in pregnant women."
This hydrolyzing combination of proteins, bee honey and several substances that act as preservatives, has been targeted in Ph D thesis works and papers in different scientific categories. The upshots bear out that Ferrical® raises levels of hemoglobin, hematocrits and the body's iron stocks.
Is there any similar Cuban-made product?
"For over 25 years we've been developing Ferrical® -Dr. Caceres goes on to say- we've had no reference of a similar product in terms of efficiency. There could be others made out of inorganic raw materials obtained with the help of other technologies, but I believe none of those have been subjected to such a rigorous study as Ferrical®.
"In 1992, it was registered for the first time. Then we've been updating it on a regular basis, as mandated by authorities from Cuba's Ministry of Healthcare.
"We have corroborated that in the case of lesser or less complicated surgeries, in patients showing acceptable hemoglobin levels the adequate administration of Ferrical® spared them from a blood transfusion."
For Cuba and the World
The LABIOFAM Entrepreneurial Group is implementing a strategy aimed at putting this product in the hands of those who need them, I mean, all these products that are the result of multiple and diverse research lines.
Several countries, especially from Africa, showed interest, within the framework of the LABIOFAM 2011 International Congress, in acquiring the diet supplement, bearing in mind that malaria –a disease that every year kills millions of people in that world region- is closely linked to low hemoglobin levels in blood.
Technology transfer will also make people reach out to this diet supplement, an objective that can only be met thanks to the motivation to provide healthcare and wellbeing to all of our peers.


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Marsha grew up outside Detroit Michigan and moved to VA in 1980. Marsha earned a BFA from the University of Michigan and attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
Most of Marsha's adult career has been in business and advertising. However Marsha has always painted and she now has her own studio in Alexandria, VA and devotes most of her energy to producing art. She shows her work mostly in the Virginia area and in Washington DC.
Marsha is both a painter and a sculptor. She works in several traditional mediums such as watercolor, oil, clay and bronze and is especially adept with movement, gesture, whimsy and portraiture.
Marsha's work is loose and free and a personal expression of people, places, animals, and landscapes. The best description might be expressionistic or impressionistic and occasionally abstract.
Marsha is married with one daughter.
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Jeannie wrote me this morning with an encouraging note. Thanks to all who have done so.. it wasn't a fun Christmas season for us. We generally expect Christmas to feel like the resurrection.. glorious, comforting, renewing… This year, while Christmas day and Boxing Day were great, the following days felt more like Golgotha.
I'm reminded that the first Christmas wasn't all music and light. Angels announced the birth.. but there was no room in the inn. Not too long afterward, Herod's soldiers were killing newborns….
Jeannie's note included a quote from Dallas Willard's USC business card… "Nakedly following the naked Christ." WOW. With my dream of last spring in mind, that caught my attention. Earlier this morning I felt the Lord speaking to me about death.. dying to my own ego needs.. of attention.. of comfort.. of approval… in view of following Him. The Cross lies at the center. The only way to a theology of glory is through that death.. any other shortcut is not really incarnational.
This morning we were listening to a very old Steve Bell album as he sang, "those who sow in tears will return with joy…."
If you find yourself more in the sowing stage early in this new year, remember that the Lord is near to you… and joy will surely come in the morning.


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Most of the Albany area apple orchards listed here offer U-pick options.
It's always best to call ahead and confirm before going!
What kinds of apples are in season now? Most orchards have all different varieties, but depending on when you go, there may be some varieties unavailable for picking. Make sure you call ahead to see what apple varieties are available for picking now. See our basic chart of apple seasons and flavors!
But wait... there's more! Many local apple orchards in the Albany area also have gift shops, apple cider, homemade doughnuts, markets with fresh in-season produce, pumpkin patches, corn mazes and more.
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This specification covers the minimum requirement for designing, testing, and labeling of weight-shift-control aircraft. This specification covers only weight-shift-control aircraft in which flight control systems do not use hinged surfaces controlled by the pilot. Flight requirements are specified for: (1) proof of compliance including hang point and trimming setting; (2) general performance such as (a) stall speed in the landing configuration, (b) stall speed free of control limits, (c) minimum climb performance, (d) flutter, buffeting, and vibration, (e) turning flight and stalls, and (f) maximum sustainable speed in straight and level flight; (3) controllability and maneuverability such as general, longitudinal, and lateral control; and (4) longitudinal stability and pitch testing. Structural requirements specified include: (1) strength requirements, (2) fulfillment of design requirements, (3) safety factors, (4) design airspeeds, (5) flight loads, (6) pilot control loads, (7) ground loads including landing gear shock absorption, and (8) emergency landing loads. Design and construction requirements are specified for: (1) materials, (2) fabrication methods, (3) self-locking nuts, (4) protection of structure, (5) accessibility, (6) setup and breakdown, (7) control system evaluated by operation test, (8) mast (pylon) safety device, (9) cockpit design, and (10) markings and placards. Powerplant requirements including installation, fuel system, oil system, induction system, and fire prevention, as well as equipment requirements such as powerplant instruments, miscellaneous equipment, and lap belts and harnesses, are detailed. Operating limitations such as load distribution limits are also specified.
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1.2 This specification covers only weight-shift-control aircraft in which flight control systems do not use hinged surfaces controlled by the pilot.
Note 1—This section is intended to preclude hinged surfaces such as typically found on conventional airplanes such as rudders and elevators. Flexible sail surfaces typically found on weight-shift aircraft are not considered hinged surfaces for the purposes of this specification.
1.3 Weight-shift-control aircraft means a powered aircraft with a framed pivoting wing and a fuselage (trike carriage) controllable only in pitch and roll by the pilot's ability to change the aircraft's center of gravity with respect to the wing. Flight control of the aircraft depends on the wing's ability to flexibly deform rather than the use of control surfaces.
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On paper, the set-up of Plan-B Theatre Company's Clearing Bombs is a risky proposition.
Take two economists who disagree, trap them on a roof to debate the merits of various economic theories, and expect an audience to come along for the ride? In less sure hands than those of playwright Eric Samuelsen, the 90 minutes of Clearing Bombs could have made the audience feel like they were trapped on that Cambridge, England, roof along with John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich Hayek, hoping for an explosion to end their suffering.
Instead, Samuelsen delivers a script that is hilarious, passionate and never less than enthralling as Keynes (Mark Fossen) and Hayek (Jay Perry) parry and thrust their way through a night-long debate for the benefit of Mr. Bowles (Kirt Bateman), an English everyman who joins the two academics for a turn watching for German bombers atop King's College Chapel at the height of World War II.
The economists, of course, are real, and their debates between laissez faire economics--Hayek's preference--and an economy regulated for the good of the populace (that'd be Keynes) make for some inspired dialogue. Keynes mocks Hayek at one point for his insistence on letting the markets run themselves free from regulation--"That's your religion, isn't it? Freedom"--while Hayek counters Keynes belief in using regulation to push the economy to help the citizenry: "An economist cannot afford the luxury of compassion."
Mr. Bowles is a fictional character, a worthy stand-in for the viewing audience, who is being educated by the two economists while being swayed back and forth by their arguments as they proceed.
Samuelsen's script could not be in better hands; Fossen, Perry and Bateman all give stirring performances. It's difficult to listen to the debate without being convinced along with Mr. Bowles. And Bowles is easy to empathize with as he describes his five children, all serving the war effort in way or another; as Bowles puts it repeatedly, his family is just "doing our part."
The sound effects of approaching bombers help give the proceedings an urgency that helps heighten the drama on stage, the period costumes are on point, and the set ably captures the rooftop environs. But Samuelsen's words and the performances of the actors are the reason to see Clearing Bombs. You'll find yourself gripped by economic theory in ways you never thought possible.
Clearing Bombs runs Thursday through Sunday at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center; visit the Plan-B Theatre Company website for showtimes, tickets and more information. Photos by Rick Pollock, courtesy of Plan-B Theatre Company.


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According to the 2014 Sochi website, Mark McMorris of Regina, Saskatchewan will have to step up and perform admirably in the semi-finals of the men's slopestyle snowboarding competition on Friday if he intends to qualify for Saturday's final.
McMorris will need to finish in the four in the semis (CBC, 10:30 p.m. mountain time) to earn one of the 12 spots available in the finals on Saturday (CBC, 1:45 a.m. mountain time).
McMorris, who is a three-time Winter X Games champion, broke his rib at the 2014 Winter X Games in Aspen, Colorado leading up to Sochi. In Wednesday's qualification round, McMorris actually fell in his first round and only posted a score of 89.25 in the second round (despite performing well), which was only seventh best in heat two. After the qualification, McMorris was surprised at his score.
If McMorris does finish in the top four in the semi-finals, he will join his Canadian teammates Maxence Parrot of Cowansville, Quebec (the 2014 Winter X Games champion and qualification leader) and two-time Winter X Games champion Sebastien Toutant of Montreal.


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Senior forward Chiney Ogwumike was a unanimous selection by voters to the 2013-14 Preseason Associated Press All-America Team, the AP announced Tuesday.
It marks the second straight season that Ogwumike has been named to the preseason team by the AP. She is also a two-time Associated Press All-American (regular season), earning second-team honors in 2012 and being voted to the first team last season.
Ogwumike was joined on the AP Preseason All-America Team by Maryland's Alyssa Thomas, Baylor's Odyssey Sims, and Connecticut's Breanna Stewart and Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis.
Ogwumike has received numerous accolades already this preseason, also being named a preseason candidate for the Wade Trophy Player of the Year (WBCA), the John R. Wooden Award (Los Angeles Athletic Club) and the Senior CLASS Award.
She saw her first action on the court this past Sunday as Stanford defeated Vanguard 79-47 in its only exhibition game of the preseason. Ogwumike scored 27 points with 15 rebounds in 21 minutes of action, and had a double-double by halftime with 20 points and 10 rebounds.
Last season Ogwumike was a consensus All-American and national player of the year finalist after averaging 22.4 points and 12.9 rebounds per game while shooting 58.6 percent from the field. Those figures, while ranking seventh, fifth and fourth in the nation, respectively, also led the Pac-12, making her the first player to capture the Pac-12 Triple Crown. She was named Pac-12 Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year, also becoming the first player to earn the conference's top individual player honors.
Ogwumike is one of four starters, along with Mikaela Ruef, Amber Orrange and Sara James, returning in 2013-14 for a Stanford team that went 33-3 and captured its 13th straight Pac-12 regular-season title and seventh consecutive Pac-12 Tournament crown last year.Stanford, ranked No. 3 in both the Associated Press and USA Today Sports Coaches Polls, opens the 2013-14 campaign with a trip to the East Coast and games at Boston College (Nov. 9) and No. 1 Connecticut (Nov. 11). Next Monday's game at Connecticut will be broadcast live on ESPN2 at 4 p.m. PT, leading off the network's 2013 Tip-Off Marathon.


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Nearly 270 homeless people have a bigger reason to smile thanks to volunteers from University of the Pacific, Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry. Pacific students and faculty provided free dental services during San Francisco's 18th Project Homeless Connect at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium on Aug. 29.
Using a mobile dental office provided by Onsite Dental and the facilities at the Tom Waddell Health Center, students and faculty members treated 68 people who needed cleanings, restorations and other emergent dental care. Pacific volunteers also conducted free dental screenings for 268 homeless people during the outreach effort.
"It was a wonderful experience and everyone involved did a great job of stepping up and providing a lasting service for a group of people who had been without oral health care for quite some time," said Dan Witcher, class of 2008. "The smiles we saw on the patients faces that day made all the work and effort that we put in more than worth it."
Dentistry is one of the top requested services by people who are homeless. In an effort to meet this need, Pacific formed a partnership to offer dental services during future Project Homeless Connect outreach programs.
"The results from the August Project Homeless Connect far exceeded our expectations," said Judith Klain, director for Project Homeless Connect. "We're looking forward to continuing our collaboration with the Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry."
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"Moot Point" is tonight's episode of "Suits." If you haven't seen the episode, then beware of spoilers. To review the briefings on the last case, click here. Be sure to check out the slideshow for more quotes from the episode. "Suits" airs Thursday nights at 8 on USA.
Mike wants to show Harvey how much he means to him (aww), and so he learns from Donna that Harvey has always wanted redemption. Eliot Stemple beat him three years in moot court, and Harvey has never been able to challenge Stemple since. Anytime a personal rivalry comes up, it is fun to watch. The case itself takes a backseat to the personal rivalry and deception happening in trying the case, so at times, it is hard to follow the actual lawsuit. What did you think of the case?
It's Scottie's first day at Pearson Specter, and she decides to go after Louis. Seeing Louis in battle mode is always fun. He gets very worked up, and there is always some underhandedness that happens. Plus, it is great to see him square off with someone other than Harvey and Mike. This storyline ends up being about power and status at the firm. There are a lot of things talked about, such as Scottie trying to be more than Harvey's girlfriend in the eyes of the firm, and Louis not being able to survive losing to Scottie. What would have been great is if the writers showed some members of the firm chatting about Scottie and Louis. It would not be hard to have Donna overhear some conversations or even take part in some. This way viewers could see how the firm reacts to Scottie and Louis. It is hard to imagine Louis not being seen as the mean one just because he doesn't get his case back. The writers could have had Mike chatting with the first years and had that come up. What did you think of Louis and Scottie battling it out?
Jessica calls Mike into her office to have him take his name off the case. Her reason? There is going to be an interview with Harvey about how he won, and Jessica does not want Mike anywhere near the spotlight. It makes sense. You can't have people looking into Mike Ross. What is interesting is that this point has never come up before. Mike learns that he will never really have the spotlight because he can't risk being exposed. This is a fantastic issue to introduce, and hopefully the writers will continue to show Mike wrestling with this. Do you think that Mike can ever be in the spotlight?
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|Canadian Dressage Riders Win Individual Gold and Silver at the 2011 North American Junior and Young Riders' Championships
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July 31, 2011 — Canadian Junior Riders Sarah Loewen and Monica Houweling continued their winning ways and earned the individual gold and silver medals in the Junior Freestyle test on July 30 at the 2011 Adequan FEI North American Junior & Young Rider Championships. The Junior and Young Rider Freestyles were the final dressage events at the competition being held at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, KY from July 27 – 31, 2011. Loewen of Winnipeg, MB, rode her 13-year-old Dutch Warmblood gelding Ricardo to the gold medal victory scoring 69.675%. Right behind Loewen for the silver medal was Houweling of Delta, BC. Houweling earned 67.700% riding Stentano, the 12-year-old Dutch Warmblood gelding she co-owns Linda Houweling.
Anneka Sutton of Drumbo, ON, and Fidelio, her 13-year-old Westphalian gelding, finished in eighth place in the Freestyle with a score of 65.850%. Ninth place was awarded to Monika Zillinger of Armstrong, BC riding Nucari, Christa Massingwinkel's 16-year-old Dutch Warmblood gelding, scoring 65.700%. Rounding out the top 10, with 64.200%, was Megan Overwater of Rocky Mountain House, AB and Wind Walker, a 10-year-old Canadian Warmblood gelding owned by Kim Aasman.
In the Young Riders Freestyle, Mathilde Blais Tetrault of Montreal, QC, rode her horse Michelangelo, a 13-year-old Swedish Warmblood, to a sixth place finish with a score of 66.400%. In 11th place with a score of 64.300% was Alexandra Dvorak of Hillsburgh, ON riding Fling, Thomas Dvorak's 11-year-old Westphalian gelding.
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The Seattle Sounders FC (13-7-2,41pts) will be looking for goals and and a much needed win when they take on the San Jose Earthquakes (6-9-6,24pts) 7 p.m. wednesday night on the XBox Pitch at Century Link Field. Sounders FC are 2-3 in their last five games and just 1-3 in there last four MLS games. Sounders FC last win was 6-0 US Open Cup victory over the Houston Dynamo at the Star Fire Center. Sounders FC last MLS win was a 2-0 vicotry over the Portland Timbers on July 13th at home.
Wednesday's game against the Earthquakes will be the third and final regualr season match between the two sides with each team sporting a 1 Nil win at home.Sounders FC will have plenty of motivation besides wining the season series against the Earthquakes. A win on wednesday would put them back on top of the Western Conference and the overall record in MLS.
For Sounders FC to regain there swagger they will need to get back to usign teh wide areas of the field , spreadging out opponents defenses and finding Clint Demspey , Obefami Martins and Kenny Cooper upfront. Seattle offense has become stangant and as a result Sounders FC have been outscored 6-1 in there last three MLS losses.
After Saturdays loss to Real Salt Lake ,Sounders FC Coach Sigi Schmid was adamant about his teams need to improve on it's offensive play, "We've got to connect to get ourselves into a good rhythm early and to get Clint [Dempsey] into a good rhythm early," said Schmid. "Afterwards, he picked up the ball more in midfield, we changed into a 3-5-2 for like the last six, seven minutes. At the end of the day, today, it just wasn't enough.
Sounders FC offense should get a much needed boost from Obafemi Martins and possibily Marco Pappa. Martins will return to the starting line up missing the RSL game due to a red card suspension. Pappa missed the RSL match as well and his absence was due to a hamstring strain.
San Jose is coming off the teams worst defeat in team history, a 5-0 defeat to FC Dallas."I'm going to be looking at everything. I thought it was a very poor performance. I thought we started poorly, which is unacceptable at home," said Quakes head coach Mark Watson. "Defensively, that game was unacceptable; you can't defend like that at this level and expect to get any kind of result.." Before Saturdays lost to FC Dallas , San Jose was undefeated( 2 wins -2 ties) in it's last four games.


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June 2, 2009 – Pleasantville, NY – More than 4,000 prints and 20,000 negatives of groundbreaking African-American photographer Gordon Parks's work – along with a large collection of 19th and early 20th century images by Mathew Brady and other early American photographers – will move to a new home at Purchase College/State University of New York, where the collection will be preserved, catalogued, and made available for public view and study, according to officials of the Gordon Parks Foundation, a division of the Meserve-Kunhardt Foundation.
As the first black photographer at LIFE magazine, Gordon Parks masterfully chronicled everything from the Civil Rights movement to gang life to the worlds of fashion and art. With equal parts grit and beauty, he photographed poor families living in squalor as well as professional athletes and glamorous stars. His iconic images of boxer Muhammad Ali are among his most well-remembered and widely-reproduced, but his portraits of neighbors from his Fort Scott, Kansas childhood home, and the signature "American Gothic" image of a black cleaning woman holding mops in both hands are stunning images that underscored race and class issues in mid-20th century America.
In addition to his photo work, Parks was a respected musician, poet and novelist. He wrote The Learning Tree (and directed the film version). He also wrote, directed, and scored 1971's iconic Shaft, which ushered in the sub-genre that became known as "blaxploitation."
"Gordon Parks' career is one that could never be categorized," said Dyllan McGee, Executive Director of the Meserve-Kunhardt Foundation. "His wide-ranging work showcased a personal journey from poverty to wide acclaim, but his photographs also documented a crucially important time in America's history and they resonated with people all over the world. We're thrilled that this collaboration with Purchase College will allow so much of Gordon's artistic output to be more broadly seen, studied and understood."
The Parks collection moves to Purchase College along with the Meserve-Kunhardt Collection of 100,000 Civil War-era photographs by Brady, Alexander Gardner, and Timothy O'Sullivan, and the newly acquired collection of LIFE magazine photojournalist Ed Clark who chronicled, among other things, the impact of war on Americans in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s.
"We are privileged to have these exquisite collections at Purchase College," said President Thomas J. Schwarz. "Together they form an extraordinary resource for students and scholars of American social history and culture. This partnership with the respected Meserve-Kunhardt Foundation not only provides teaching and research benefits for our students and faculty but also opportunities for the college and the foundation to collaborate on digital and physical exhibitions that will help inform the public."
The Parks collection, and all of Meserve-Kunhardt's photographic holdings, will be housed at Purchase College Library, where the prints, negatives and other related memorabilia will reside in an active, climate-controlled area in the library's offices.
"There is enormous potential for a collection like this," said Patrick Callahan, director of the library at Purchase College. "The photographs are all beautiful and richly evocative, and I'm confident that our students will directly benefit from having access to these research materials."
The Parks and Meserve-Kunhardt collections will also get further exposure though the acclaimed Neuberger Museum of Art, which is situated on the Purchase College campus.
"These collections are among the most important resources to become available here since Roy Neuberger made the gift of twentieth-century American Art that established the Neuberger Museum of Art," said Thom Collins, Director of the Neuberger Museum.
The Meserve-Kunhardt Foundation acquired the Gordon Parks Collection in 2007, after Parks' death the previous year. Philip B. Kunhardt, Jr. and Parks were colleagues and close friends at LIFE magazine. Parks was so impressed by the Foundation's care for the work of 19th century photographer Mathew Brady, he began discussions months before his death to leave his photographic legacy in the Foundation's care. Meserve-Kunhardt founded the separate, non-profit Gordon Parks Foundation under its auspices, with the mission of preserving Parks's legacy, supporting young artists, and opening the collection to public review and scholarly research.
About the Meserve-Kunhardt Foundation
The Meserve-Kunhardt Foundation is a New York State 501(c)(3) corporation, created in 2002 and dedicated to the preservation of oral and visual history and its use to inform, educate, and inspire. Named for Philip B. Kunhardt, Jr., a former managing editor of LIFE magazine, and Frederick Hill Meserve, Kunhardt's maternal grandfather, who began collecting historical photographs and glass negatives in 1897, including rare photos of President Abraham Lincoln, The Foundation's collection, which also includes the comprehensive archive of children's book author Dorothy Kunhardt (Pat the Bunny), offers unparalleled insight into 19th- and early 20th-century America. For more information, visit www.mkfound.org.
About the Gordon Parks Foundation
The Gordon Parks Foundation was created to preserve and perpetuate the artist's legacy, support the work of others, and honor those whose contributions have advanced what Parks called "the common search for a better life and better world." For more information, visit www.gordonparksfoundation.org.


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