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Rank, Otto
Otto Rank 1884-1939
(Born Otto Rosenfeld) Austrian psychotherapist.
An early follower of Sigmund Freud, Rank eventually broke with Freud and developed his own highly respected school of analysis that focused on developmental psychology and therapeutic technique. According to Rank, the human soul and will were essential aspects of the personality that were usually overlooked by traditional psychoanalysis; Rank sought to incorporate the study of these into his work and his treatment of patients.
Biographical Information
Rank was born in Vienna in 1884 to Simon Rosenfeld and Karoline Fleischner. His father was an emotionally distant alcoholic, which some biographers speculate contributed to Rank's later interest in parent-child relationships, but Rank was close to his mother. According to many accounts, Rank was desperately lonely and alienated as a child, and his diary entries confirm that he had bouts of depression and suicidal preoccupations. He began using the name Rank as an adolescent to symbolize the act of self-creation. Because the family could not afford to send both of their sons to college, Rank became a locksmith while his older brother studied law. Rank was raised as a Jew in predominantly Catholic Vienna, but he was at heart a religious skeptic, far more interested in philosophy and the secular arts. He spent much of his time writing poetry and reading, particularly the works of Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche. When Rank first read Freud's Interpretation of Dreams, he was profoundly influenced. He wrote an essay applying Freud's theories to a study of artists, with which Freud was suitably impressed to hire Rank as a secretary at the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society in 1906. He became the group's expert on literature, philosophy, and myth. At Freud's urging and with his financial support, Rank entered the University of Vienna, earning his Ph.D. in 1912; his was the first psychoanalytic thesis in the history of the university. Even before he received his degree, Rank published several important works, including Der Künstler (1907; Art and Artist,) and Der Mythus von der Geburt des Helden (1909; The Myth of the Birth of the Hero). Unlike the other members of Freud's group, Rank lived in Vienna and worked closely with the analyst on a daily basis. Together they ran a publishing company, edited journals, and trained other analysts. Rank served with the Austrian army in Poland during World War I. There he met Beata Mincer, whom he married in 1918. Mincer became a noted therapist in her own right after the couple separated. As Rank developed his own ideas, Freud cooled his support of his favorite student. Finally, Rank's belief in the essential role of the mother and the trauma of birth in psychological development caused an irreparable rift between Rank and Freud. Rank and his wife moved first to Paris in 1926 and then to New York City in 1935, where Rank found the intellectual atmosphere much more receptive to his new thoughts. After his break from Freud, Rank was widely maligned by members of the psychoanalytic community, but he continued his work and wrote some of the most important books of his career. In the United States his ideas were adopted at the Pennsylvania School of Social Work, where Rank taught when he first moved to America. Abroad, one of his best known patients was the French writer Anaïs Nin, who was also a personal friend to him. Near the end of his life, Rank divorced his wife and married Estelle Buel. He died in New York City in 1939.
Major Works
The turning point in Rank's career—and the event that caused his final break with Freud—was the development of his theory that all human anxiety can be traced back to the trauma of being torn from the mother at birth. Consequently, he created a form of analysis in which the patient attempted to relive the birth experience, which he explained in Das Trauma der Geburt und seine Bedeutung für die Psychoanalyse (1924; The Trauma of Birth). For Rank this particular trauma was a metaphor for the birth of a person's individuality, which Rank considered one of the most important steps in psychological development. He believed that the personality of the artist is the paradigm of a healthy psychological profile. Rank outlined this theory in his book Art and Artist, in which he argued that the human creative impulse—rather than the sexual impulse, which was Freud's assertion—is at the root of both artistic production and life experience. In artists, Rank believed, the will is strong enough to focus the impulses toward healthy, productive behavior that prevents the formation of neuroses. In Technik der Psychoanalyse 2: Die analytische Reaktion in ihren konstruktiven Elementen (1928; Will Therapy) Rank described his therapeutic technique, designed to help the patient focus on making conscious choices and developing the will to separate from others by pursuing individuality. The notion that will and soul are fundamental parts of human psychological formation was unique to Rank. While classical Freudian theory held that neurotics were people of weak will, Rank believed that neurotics were exceptionally strong-willed but that their wills were misdirected. Traditional Freudian therapy, he contended, either ignored or crippled the will; Rank sought to strengthen it by fostering creativity. Some of Rank's most important works were in the area of psychoanalysis and literature, particularly The Myth of the Birth of the Hero, Das Inzest-Motif (1912; The Incest Theme in Literature and Legend), and Die Don Juan-Gestalt (1924; The Don Juan Legend).
Critical Reception
When Rank broke off from Freud, he became embroiled for respect in the psychoanalytic community. Many of Freud's other followers had grown to resent Rank's position as Freud's personal favorite among them. At one point the American Psychoanalytic Association terminated Rank's membership because of his unorthodox methods, and at intervals from the 1930s to the 1960s his works were banned from some university reading lists. In the 1970s, however, Rank's reputation experienced a resurgence. More recently, many of Rank's theories and methods have come to be considered mainstream approaches that opened the door for important progress in the field.
Principal Works
Der Künstler [Art and Artist: Creative Urge and Personality Development] (nonfiction) 1907
Der Mythus von der Geburt des Helden [The Myth of the Birth of the Hero] (nonfiction) 1909
Das Inzest-Motif in Dichtung und Sage [The Incest Theme in Literature and Legend] (nonfiction) 1912
Die Bedeutung der Psychoanalyse für die Geisteswissenschaften (nonfiction) 1913
Die Don Juan-Gestalt [The Don Juan Legend] (nonfiction) 1924
Das Trauma der Geburt und seine Bedeutung für die Psychoanalyse [The Trauma of Birth] (nonfiction) 1924
Der Doppelgänger: Eine psychoanalytische Studie [The Double] (nonfiction) 1925
Sexualitat und Schuldgefuhl (nonfiction) 1926
Technik der Psychoanalyse 1: Die Analytische Situation (nonfiction) 1926
Grundzüge einer Genetischen Psychologie 3 vols. (nonfiction) 1927-29
Technik der Psychoanalyse 2: Die analytische Reaktion in ihren konstruktiven Elementen [Will Therapy] (nonfiction) 1928
Seelenglaube und Psychologie [Psychology and the Soul] (nonfiction) 1930
Technik der Psychoanalyse 3: Die Analyse des Analytikers und seiner Rolle in der Gesamtsituation [Truth and Reality] (nonfiction) 1931
Beyond Psychology (nonfiction) 1958
Trigant Burrow (review date February 1939)
SOURCE: "The World as Will," in Journal of Social Philosophy, Vol. 4, No. 2, February, 1939, pp. 162-73.
[In the following review, Burrow praises Rank's artistic approach to psychoanalysis despite the flaws he finds in Truth and Reality and Will Therapy.]
The task of the reviewer is a precarious one. As with any social rôle to which one conforms, the pattern of performance is laid down for him in advance, so that before he knows it he is already off to a bad start. In reviewing a work on psychiatry, or a work that deals with the ineptitudes of human behavior, it is particularly salutary that one's own reactions be subsumed...
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Fay B. Karpf (essay date 1953)
SOURCE: "'Art and Artist'—A Biographical Sketch," in The Psychology and Psychotherapy of Otto Rank: An Historical and Comparative Introduction, Philosophical Library, 1953, pp. 3-17.
[In the following essay, Karpf discusses ways in which Rank deviated from the Freudian approach to psychoanalysis, focusing on Rank's emphasis on artistic creativity.]
Otto Rank was born in Vienna in 1884, the second of two sons in a comfortable middle-class family. His educational plans were originally directed toward an engineering career. But these plans were radically changed as a result of his first meeting with Freud. Recognizing an especially gifted student along...
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Fay B. Karpf (essay date 1953)
SOURCE: "Distinctive Aspects of Rank's Personality Theory1," in The Psychology and Psychotherapy of Otto Rank: An Historical and Comparative Introduction, Philosophical Library, 1953, pp. 64-86.
[In the following essay, Karpf examines major differences in Rank's and Freud's terminologies used to discuss personality theory.]
Like all theory which developed as an offshoot of psychoanalytic doctrine, Rank's theory of personality appears upon the established background of psychoanalytic thought and is presented chiefly by contrast with and frequently criticism of the Freudian position. As in the case of other such developments, notably the theories of Jung...
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Ernest Becker (essay date 1973)
SOURCE: "Otto Rank and the Closure of Psychoanalysis on Kierkegaard," in The Denial of Death, Free Press, 1973, pp. 159-75.
[In the following essay, Becker examines the evolution of Rank's ideas about the place of sexuality in psychoanalysis.]
It seems to be difficult for the individual to realize that there exists a division between one's spiritual and purely human needs, and that the satisfaction or fulfillment for each has to be found in different spheres. As a rule, we find the two aspects hopelessly confused in modern relationships, where one person is made the god-like judge over good and bad in the other person. In the long run, such...
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David G. Winter (essay date 1975)
SOURCE: An introduction to The Don Juan Legend by Otto Rank, edited and translated by David G. Winter, Princeton University Press, 1975, pp. 3-34.
[In the following essay, Winter providess background information on the Don Jaun Legend.]
Otto Rank was one of the most brilliant and imaginative, yet surely one of the most perplexing members of the group who were drawn to Freud and who participated in the early development of psychoanalysis. Rank analyzed myth and legend with an insight and a facility that approached that of the master; his energy and resourcefulness were essential to the survival of the early psychoanalytic publishing ventures; his wide reading and...
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Esther Menaker (essay date 1976)
SOURCE: "Creativity as the Central Concept in the Psychology of Otto Rank," in Psychoanalysis, Creativity, and Literature: A French-American Inquiry, edited by Alan Roland, Columbia University Press, 1978, pp. 162-77.
[In the following essay, originally published in 1976, Menaker argues that Rank's own struggle to cultivate his creative personality led to his emphasis in his work on artistic ingenuity.]
It is unfortunate, yet probably inevitable, that Otto Rank, to the extent that he is known at all, is known primarily as a dissenter from Freudian psychoanalysis, and that his name is associated chiefly with his much misunderstood book, The Trauma of Birth....
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Robert D. Stolorow and George E. Atwood (essay date 1979)
SOURCE: "Otto Rank," in Faces in a Cloud: Subjectivity in Personality Theory, Jason Aronson, 1979, pp. 132-71.
[In the following essay, Stolorow and Atwood examine Rank's theories on narcissism in psychoanalysis and the ways in which his work in this area prefigured later trends in the field.]
In recent years the problem of narcissism has increasingly moved into the limelight of psychoanalytic investigation. This is evidenced, for example, by the large number of articles on the subject appearing in psychoanalytic publications, and by the fact that in a recent poll Kohut's (1971) work on narcissism was rated among the most meaningful contributions to contemporary...
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Esther Menaker (essay date 1982)
SOURCE: "Rank and Contemporary Social and Psychoanalytic Thought," in Otto Rank: A Rediscovered Legacy, Columbia University Press, 1982, pp. 120-36.
[In the following essay, Menaker examines Rank's role in contemporary studies.]
Rank's profound philosophical intuition about the totality of human life, about man's dilemma over living with the consciousness of his mortality supersedes his psychology and his therapy. That intuition makes him, a man of our time—perhaps of all time. As the title of his last, posthumously published book, Beyond Psychology, suggests, he enlarged the framework of his concerns to include the very nature of...
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Stephen Watt (essay date Fall 1986)
SOURCE: "O'Neill and Otto Rank: Doubles, 'Death Instincts,' and the Trauma of Birth," in Comparative Drama, Vol. 20, No. 3, Fall, 1986, pp. 211-30.
[In the following essay, Watt discusses Rank's version of psychoanalysis in relation to the dramas of Eugene O'Neill.]
"You were born afraid."
Mary Tyrone to Edmund
"But he's dead now [Major Melody]. And I ain't tired a bit. I'm fresh as a man new born."
Con Melody
"She loves me. I'm not afraid! … She is warmly around me! She is my skin! She is my armor! Now I am born—I—the I!—one and indivisible."
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Gerry Brenner (essay date Spring 1987)
SOURCE: "Song of Solomon: Morrison's Rejection of Rank's Monomyth and Feminism," in Studies in American Fiction, Vol. 15, No. 1, Spring, 1987, pp. 13-24.
[In the following essay, Brenner examines ways in which Toni Morrison rejected the sexism in Rank's hero myth.]
Around Milkman, the hero of her much-admired Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison wraps various collective fictions: a riddling nursery rhyme that presages his birth and, later chanted by children, leads him to discover his heritage; fables, like the one his father, Macon Dead, tells of the man who rescues a baby snake only to be poisoned to death by its bite; fairytales, like...
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Peter L. Rudnytsky (essay date 1992)
SOURCE: An introductory essay to The Incest Theme in Literature and Legend: Fundamentals of a Psychology of Literary Creation by Otto Rank, translated by Gregory C. Richter, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992, pp. xi-xxxv.
[In the following essay, Rudnytsky presents an overview of Rank's writings on the incest theme.]
The first three meetings of the Psychological Wednesday Society for which minutes are extant took place on October 10, October 17, and October 24, 1906. Viennese physicians and other intellectuals interested in Freud's ideas had begun gathering for weekly discussions in his apartment at Berggasse 19 as early as 1902, but not until 1906, with Otto...
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Robert Kramer (essay date Fall 1995)
SOURCE: "The Birth of Client-Centered Therapy: Carl Rogers, Otto Rank, and 'The Beyond'," in Journal of Humanistic Psychology, Vol. 35, No. 4, Fall, 1995, pp. 54-110.
[In the following essay, Kramer presents a professional analysis of Rank's importance in the formation of psychoanalysis.]
Carl Rogers always acknowledged that the thought of Otto Rank inspired him more than any other, early on, when he was still doing therapy in the old-fashioned "directive" way. Scholars duly note a link between Rank and Rogers, usually with a perfunctory nod to one or another of Rank's ideas, such as "will" or "relationship therapy" (Gendlin, 1988; Raskin, 1948;...
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Robert Kramer (essay date 1996)
SOURCE: "Insight and Blindness: Visions of Rank," in A Psychology of Difference: The American Lectures by Otto Rank, edited by Robert Kramer, Princeton University Press, 1996, pp. 3-47.
[In the following essay, Kramer surveys Rank's career, including his shortcomings and his legacy to his field.]
At heart a poet and writer, Otto Rank took great pleasure in giving literary gifts to his beloved Professor, a past master of the German language. On May 6, 1923, as a gift for Freud's sixty-seventh birthday, Rank presented the father of psychoanalysis with his dreamy new manuscript, completed just days before: Das Trauma der Geburt. The manuscript was drawn from a...
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Further Reading
Taft, Jessie. Otto Rank: A Biographical Study Based on Notebooks, Letters, Collected Writings, Therapeutic Achievements and Personal Associations. New York: The Julian Press, Inc., 1958, 299 p.
Discusses Rank's life in terms of his attempts at self-actualization.
Klein, Dennis B. "The Psychology of the Follower: Otto Rank." In Jewish Origins of the Psychoanalytic Movement, pp. 103-37. New York: Praeger, 1981.
Examines Rank's thoughts on the role of the "Jewish missionary consciousness" in the early development of the psychoanalytic movement.
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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (93 votes).
In short: Love the course but start and finish organisation / facilities could be betterIn full: Second time I've done the Liverpool Half and the wind was far kinder this year than last! Queuing for loo's at beginning was farcicle and meant I didn't cross a very congested start line until about 9:45. I agree with everyone else who has mentioned staggered starting has got to be the way forward if the race is hoping to continue with 7,000 or so runners. That said I really enjoyed the race itself, pleased with my chip time. Queuing at the end to get through the goody bag tent though wasn't good as couldn't move to stretch my knackered legs! And compared to last years really nice white long sleeve T-Shirts, this years luminous orange ones were disappointing, not helped by the time I finished after my delayed start meant there were only XL's left and no bananas :-( These are all just niggles really though as the course and the run itself are great, hope to see some organisational improvements when I return next year.Date of review: March 29, 2011
In short: Narrow start but plenty to see en route, nice use of the city parks apart from the bollards. Fairly quick course with a pan flat last 3 mileDate of review: March 29, 2011
In short: Bit of a crowded start but great course and a very enjoyable!Date of review: March 29, 2011
In short: Turning into a major raceIn full: Third time I have done this, large field and nice city centre start and finish. I didn't experience any of the toilet and start problems because I got there early. There was however a few near misses with bollards and speed humps.Scenic route it was nice running along the waterfront but not going going into the industrial estate towards the end.Nice medal at thend and goody bag but rubbish t-shirt.Date of review: March 29, 2011
In short: Great course around the impressive city sights and parkland of LiverpoolIn full: I'd agree with the comments about organization pre and post race. It was just sheer numbers I suppose with the added complication of major roadworks into the city. Definitely a good idea to park in a centre car park and walk on to the waterfront. Thanks to the Hilton Hotel for the use of their loos for me and a lot of runners - better than a porterloo! I was disapointed that I couldn't get to the 2 hour pacer because of the crush at the start. Had to get past spectators and around barriers to join in with the race. Next time I'll set off earlier!Improved on my last half time by 13 mins though.Great atmosphere, loved the tshirt and medal and thanks to all the marshalls, organizers and spectators who really helped me along. Date of review: March 29, 2011
In short: First Liverpool HM but it won't be my lastIn full: Thoroughly enjoyed it - yes there were toilet issues and the start being narrow, but if you look on the forum the organisers had already come to the same conclusion and it will be addressed next year. Date of review: March 29, 2011
In short: Decent race, but start/finish area needs a change.In full: This was my third in a row at this event and i always enjoy it, but this year i felt the starting area was abit of a mess. With even more runners this year there should be starting pens. Also found the finish area bottlenecked when receiving my goody bag,but overall i really enjoyed this run and especally my massage at the end.Date of review: March 29, 2011
In short: Great Race, Poor atmosphere.In full: Second time I've run this race. THis time was a lot larger.Really enjoyed it but atmosphere at Start/Finish and enroute was poor. Would have liked some bands playing or music pumping through a PA system.How about getting some community groups involved now it is so much bigger?No probs with organisation. All felt very smooth to me.Thanks for organising it. Not made up my mind about the big one yet!!Date of review: March 29, 2011
In short: Fine once we got goingIn full: Wanted to combine this with visiting old friends and enjoyed the day. Some people were a little terse at the start and this was not helped by the RW pacers not taking their places until 5 minutes before the actual start, meaning thos wishing to use them for pacing had to ask people to let them through and some were less than obliging about doing so, which didn't make for a great start. I thought the start was far too cramped and the queues for the loos were positively yellow brick road like! Other than that, enjoyed the run and the parks and the promenade and smashed my pb by 12 minutes!! Great medal but would have liked a better shirt. Ah well, a great experience nonetheless.Date of review: March 29, 2011
In short: fast course but lack of atmosphere and organisationIn full: this is my 3rd yr of running this. I bust my knee 12 months ago and ive not run since, literally not even a training run,so after piling on 4 stone and no training whatsoever i never even expected to complete it! However,i got round with my mate and was helped round with the very friendly runners :) Like i said,the course is quick, nice scenery coming down the prom and through sefton park. However this yr i was a little disappointed. Major roadworks on edge lane coming into the city meant a lot of us arriving bang on time or late meaning no time to warm up. Maybe those of us not from liverpool couldve been pre warned. Then when we got to the start,it was chaos with people queueing everywhere for loos,trying to get in the very compact starting pen and also the spectators all getting mixed in. Hopefully with the race getting ever more popular this can be addressed and sorted for next yr. Another gripe i had was the lack of spectators on the course,there seems to be less and less every yr and this yr the weather was very nice. My final moan is the goody bag,i know for some reason we werent supposed to get 1 this yr,but after receiving it,i just didnt see the point in it. I know it sounds like im doing a lot of moaning but the issues im bringing up are ones that can be tweaked and sorted for nxt yr(obviously the spectator one we cant sort). The medal was fantastic this yr and the spectators at the finish were superb and the stewards over the last couple of miles were very encouraging :) Hopefully for next yr with all the extra runners we should surely start in pens now with regards to your estimated time just like they do in most other big races around the country and hopefully bring back the decent goodybagThankyou to all the friendly runners,volunteers,spectators and Alan and Yvonne,hopefully back next yr Date of review: March 28, 2011
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How far do you see the Cavs going? And who will play in, and eventually win, the NBA Finals?
I think, even without Hughes, the Cavs will hang on to the #4 seed in the East, playing a little bit better than .500 ball the rest of the way, and ending at 48-34. This will get them home court advantage in the 1st round, and likely the Pacers, Wizards, or Bucks as their first round opponent.
For predictions sake, I will say the Pacers. Who I think the Cavs will defeat in a brutal 7 game series, with the final win being a Thriller in game 7 at the Q, which I will hopefully be at.
The good news about the #4 seed is home court. The bad news? They get the Pistons in the 2nd round. The Cavs are one year, a change of pace point guard to Snow, and a Charles Oakley clone awy from beating Detroit. Cavs go down swinging in 6 games.
Assuming Shaq stays healthy, the East Finals should be Miami and Detroit. The likely NJ-Mia 2nd round matchup should be a good one, but I don't see Joisey beating Shaq and Wade 4 outta 7 with 4 of those games in South Beach. It's irrelevant though, as neither will beat Detroit. That is an incredible basketball team, that plays great and selflessly together at both ends.
In the West, San Antonio and Dallas will play 2nd rd due to the screwy NBA seeding system. The Spurs will win, and advance to the West Finals. The other half of the west bracket will be interesting. Looks like Phoenix will be the #2 seed and likely win 1st rd. The #3/#6 matchup will be the Nuggets (get 3 seed cause of winning that shit division) versus likely either the Grizzlies or Clippers, either of whom can and should knock off the Nuggets. I could easily see the Griz or Clips also giving the Suns fits on rd 2. The more I see this Clippers team, the more I like em. Im gonna say they shock the world and advance to the West Finals to get their heads beat in by the Spurs.
Finals will be the same as last year, except this year the Pistons win in 7 games over the Spurs.


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Did any of the hockey fans catch that the replays of that? Interested on your take as to whether that was a game that should have been postponed from that point.
I know they announced he was stable but shit. There's pools and trails of the man's blood on the ice and the severity of the situation was pretty obvious as was what was wrong.
A lot of players on the ice at te time wanted no part of finishing that thing.
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I can't stand the complete hypocritical stance on judging.
First off, everyone want's to be judged. They just want to only be judged as good. Think about it, when's the last time you heard someone famous say don't judge me. What people really mean to say is 'don't tell me I am wrong", what sodomites mean to say is, don't judge us as wrong, judge us as right, but that is still judging. In fact they are asking you to judge them.....as right. Our entire life is one constant judgment. If some creepy old man showed up acting weird and offered to babysit for you, I would hope you would judge him. Judging is what keeps people safe. If it weren't for judging, there would be no such things as celebrities. Hollywood is based on people who succeeded based on the judgment of millions of people. How can they begin to ask people not to judge.
Secondly, if you read matthew chapter 7 where it says the famous, don't judge lest ye be judged quote, well if you read it a little bit further, Jesus goes on to command us to judge. To be aware of false prophets, but to judge them by their fruits. How can you be aware of false prophets if you don't judge.
Thirdly, seriously, would you want to be judged by me, or do you want to be judged by God? If I tell you sinners go to hell, it's not so bad, but when you hear God tell you sinners go to hell, then it's too late for you. I am not the one who sets universal standards of morality, God is. When people try to say, Hey, I decided I am going to change the rules of morality, they are out of line. They don't get to decide what is good and evil.
"'Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces.' " (Matthew 7:6, NKJV throughout)
If we take that pearl (of wisdom) and cast it (meaning to throw it away without caring where it falls) before "dogs" (a metaphor for someone with an impure or impudent mind) or "swine" (something or someone who is unclean), Jesus warns us that they might "tear you into pieces" (they might distort what we are saying and might even attack us.)
God tells us in the book of Proverbs that there are times when we should be silent and times when we should respond directly to others (especially about God's truth). Jesus sometimes answered the questions and accusations thrown his way by the religious leaders of his day (e.g. Matthew 12:1-8) and sometimes refused to respond to their inquiries (e.g. Matthew 21:23-27). Proverbs states:
"Do not answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him.We must discern the reason for any questions according to the person who is doing the asking and answer within that context.
We should not cast our pearls of Godly wisdom before one who is a militant, ready to fight, unbeliever lest they turn on us and insult us or do us harm.
For Phil, I think this may have been a better time to remain silent.
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If we stick to what the Bible says, without injecting our own opinions or agendas, then we are not judging anyone. GOD's Word is judging (and convicting) that person and they're likely not going to be happy about it. So the natural human response in this situation is to shoot the messenger, which is why Christians are so often blamed for what is actually the work of the Holy Spirit.
As far as saying that certain people can't be saved, it really just comes down to an attitude of repentance. A true follower of Christ will acknowledge that he/she is a sinner who is hopelessly corrupted and needs GOD to save them. However, someone who refuses to recognize their corruption and actually flaunts their sin as something good, then it is nearly impossible for that person to reach the true attitude of repentance necessary to be forgiven by GOD. That's not to say that they will never reach it, though.
Immorality creates a reprobate mind, which is a mind that no longer functions. Sexual sin destroys the mind and makes it nearly impossible for people to distinguish between good and evil. Only GOD can reverse the damage done to our minds by immorality, but we first need to recognize the immorality as wrong and stop fighting His attempts to heal us.
For example, let's say that you're a doctor and I'm one of your patients. I show up in your office one day with oozing sores all over my body that aren't healing and seem to be spreading everywhere and I'm leaking pus on everything I touch. While diagnosing me, you discover that I routinely bathe in raw sewage. You tell me that it's the constant exposure to human feces that is likely causing the infections and I respond with, "Don't judge me! You have no right to tell me what to do with my life!" Now, how stupid would someone have to be to respond to a doctor like that in that situation? Pretty stupid. Well, that's exactly how an immoral person is responding to GOD when they refuse to recognize their immoral actions as sin. Just as a doctor can't heal a rebellious patient who ignores all of that doctor's advice, GOD won't forgive a rebellious person who calls GOD a liar when it comes to His standards on sin.
If Phil had simply kept silent about the Biblical truth of homosexuality, to keep from offending people, then that would be exactly the same as denying that truth. We are commanded to proclaim the truth, even if it offends people or is unpopular. In fact, we are told that GOD's truth will always be unpopular and offensive in this fallen world. I've never understood this notion that Christians should never offend people, when Jesus was so offensive that He was put to death and His is the example we are supposed to follow.
I actually respect Phil Robertson a lot for how fearlessly he proclaims the Gospel and I often wish that I had his level of courage. Too often I find myself keeping quiet about the Gospel for fear of offending people or causing controversy. Does that make me a hypocrite? Of course it does; but we're all hypocrites on some level. However, as one preacher put it, if you allow a hypocrite to get between you and GOD, then the hypocrite is closer to GOD than you are.
You can't just pick and choose which aspects of GOD you like and ignore the stuff that makes you uncomfortable. You need to study the full picture of GOD painted by the entirety of the Bible. If you only choose to believe the few verses in the New Testament that make you feel warm and fuzzy inside and ignore the rest, then you are worshipping a false god and not the true GOD.
I guess I need to clarify (for the smart asses -adamt lol) what I mean by judging in this conversation. I mean judging other people's sin. I am not talking about judging whether someone is safe to babysit. Nor am I talking about judging whether someone is a false prophet, etc. I am talking about judging other people's sin.
The bible tells us to judge the sin of our brothers in Christ. So if this is a fellow member of your church then, yes, you are supposed to judge them in sin. If you believe them to be sinning then you should go to them in private first. If that doesn't work then get your church involved. But I don't believe we are to be judging other religions. Paul tells us that if they believe differently from us we are to embrace them, not to debate who is right or wrong, but embrace them as a brother in Christ and agree to disagree.
I also don't believe that we are to be out here attempting to judge non-believers. And we are warned not to cast our pearls to swine. There is a reason for that. There are times when it is better to remain silent. Like when those men questioned Jesus He refused to answer. I believe he refused because He knew that they were asking to cause conflict/strife. The bible also warns us of offending others with the word of God.
(Maybe this is what bothers me about Phil's comments. Boy did it cause conflict/strife. lol)
Also, I don't believe that quoting the bible or stating your beliefs is judging someone else's sin.
Nate, your example of the man going to the doctor, well, he went to the doctor for his opinion/advice. So if someone comes to you for religious/faith-based advice then that is a different situation. You are being invited to teach/judge sin.
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in fairness though phil didn't judge anyone, he only did what you seem to be okay with and that is judging sin. Actually merely quoting the bible, and it wasn't just homosexuality he said was a sin.
the problem only arose when the homosexuals hit the ceiling cause they don't want their sin to be called sin
some of this is semantics--- i don't generally disagree with you very much, i imagine we agree more than either of us realize, but the fact remains that phil didn't judge anyone, he merely informed people what the bible had judged as sin
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J3) I'm wondering about the oil. When he makes the pie he puts a ton of oil all over it.. then at the end when he's boxing up the guys pie he drips even more on there. Is there anything that would prevent me from doing that here with my home oven? The heat of that gas oven doesnt cook different with all that oil or anything does it?
He uses Italian tomatoes (San Marzanos) and local tomatoes.
Does He mix the two together, if so do you know the percentages? I assume the Italian tomatoes are plum.
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Running in the winter can be challenging for new runners and even experienced runners. But there are so many benefits to running year-round that make it exciting! Don't let icy or snow-packed roads slow you down this winter with these easy step-by-step instructions on how to stud your own running shoes to increase traction.
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3) Take them for a spin! Same with studded tires on your car, they're most effective on ice and small amounts of snow on roads or hard-packed trails. Try not to use these on dry pavement regularly as it's just as bad for the roads!
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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Although most small businesses would love to have a professional, easy-to-navigate website with a strong social media presence and high-res photos, little things such as paying employees and finding new clients always seem to get in the way.
While some companies have spent thousands of dollars perfecting their digital brand, others haven't had the money or the time. Unfortunately, it shows. In today's digital age, a small business' website is the face of the company, and having a strong online presence is essential.
On the Internet, there's a fine line between "good" and "good enough," and it's not always easy to know when your website is due for a major overhaul. We checked in with experts to find the top five indications yours needs a facelift.
1.Your site isn't ready for tablets and smartphones
"Like with any business offering, knowing your audience is vital to producing a great website experience," says Barbara Apple Sullivan, chief executive of Sullivan, a New York City-based brand engagement and strategy firm.
"A company must tailor its digital offering to suit its customers and prospects: If research reveals your customers are digitally focused and spend 12 hours per day on a tablet, optimize for the tablet experience," Sullivan says.
With the explosion of the smartphone market, there's no question more people than ever are using their handheld devices to browse the Web, says Kevin Poor, creative director for Dix & Eaton , a public relations firm that specializes in website makeovers.
"If a company's site does not provide an adequate mobile experience, it will miss an opportunity to capture the attention of a potential customer," Poor says.
Today's sites should always scale to the width of the browser whether it's on a big desktop or a small smartphone.
2. You have too many social media options
"Social media can be very powerful, but it can also be a big hindrance for brands," says Noah Ross, executive creative director for New York-based advertising agency Launchpad.
"If you've ever gone to a website and seen five-plus social media icon options, chances are at least one of them will be a dud when you get there. This problem lies deeper than just the website, though. It lies in the social media strategy."
Ross says companies shouldn't be involved in social media for social media's sake. They should choose their communication platforms "purposefully" and build a strong strategy around them.
"For example, if you're in retail, Pinterest may be a great place to focus your energy so that you can gain visual exposure of your products in a share-heavy network. But please don't also start a Flickr, Vimeo and Twitter account if you're not going to man those stations with an equal amount of energy and continuity," he says.


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ANAHEIM, Calif. (Oct. 22, 2009) – The U.S. Men's National Team finished second with a 4-1 record at the 2009 NORCECA Men's Continental Championship on Oct. 12-17 in Bayamon, Puerto Rico and got several outstanding performances from individual players.
Evan Patak (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Reid Priddy (Richmond, Va.) led the U.S. in scoring.
Patak started four of the five matches and played in three sets of another for a total of 16 sets and scored 49 points on 36 kills, three blocks and 10 aces. He won the award as the tournament's Best Server.
Priddy had 49 points on 40 kills, six blocks and three aces despite playing in only four out of five matches (14 sets).
Sean Rooney (Wheaton, Ill.) was right behind them with 48 points on 40 kills, seven blocks and one ace in 13 sets.
Andy Hein (Carol Stream, Ill.), who started four matches and played in 15 sets, scored 37 points on 28 kills and nine blocks. David Lee (Alpine, Calif.) started four matches and played in 14 sets and scored 37 points on 28 kills, seven blocks and two aces.
Patak was first among all servers with an average of 0.59 aces per set while Paul Lotman (Lakewood, Calif.) was second with six aces and one fault for an average of 0.35 aces per set.
Rich Lambourne (Tustin, Calif.), who played 14 sets, was second among diggers with 40 digs and 23 faults in 85 attempts and an average of 2.35 digs per set. Lambourne was third among all liberos with 81 "excellents" and 26 faults in 155 total attempts for an average of 52.26 excellents per set.
Priddy finished third among all spikers with a success percentage of 53.33. Rooney was ninth with a percentage of 48.78. He was also third among all receivers with 51 excellents and two faults in 77 attempts for a success percentage of 63.64.
Kevin Hansen (Newport Beach, Calif.), who played 17 sets, finished third among all setters with 106 running sets and two faults in 77 total attempts for an efficiency percentage of 63.64.
Most U.S. players have now re-joined or joined their international club teams. The U.S. Men will have a training team at the American Sport Center during the winter, but the members have not yet been determined.
The Russian Super League is in full swing with six present and former U.S. Men's National Team Members playing on teams.
On Wednesday (Oct. 21), Lloy Ball (Fort Wayne, Ind.) and Clay Stanley (Honolulu, Hawaii) and their team Zenit Kazan defeated Hansen, Rooney and their team Fakel Novy Urengoi, 25-17, 25-21, 25-16.
Rooney finished with six points on four points and two blocks. Hansen started every set at setter, but did not score. Ball set for Kazan and scored four points on two kills, one block and one ace. Stanley was on the roster for Kazan but did not play.
Also on Wednesday, Lokomotiv Novosibirsk, which features Lee and Priddy, defeated Ural Ufa, 25-23, 25-20, 25-20. Priddy started all three sets and scored 11 points on six kills, two blocks and three aces. Lee substituted in the second set and started the third and scored 11 points on seven kills and four blocks.
Scott Touzinsky (St. Louis, Mo.) scored seven points on seven kills as his Turkish team, Istanbul Buyuksehir Belediye, as it defeated Besiktas on Sunday (Oct. 18), 28-26, 25-16, 25-23. Ryan Millar (Palmdale, Calif.) also plays for IB Belediye.
Gabe Gardner (San Clemente, Calif.) led all scorers with 20 points as his Turkish team Fenerbahce defeated Diltaş Eğt. Kurumu, 25-20, 20-25, 25-14, 25-20. Gardner scored on 17 kills and three aces.
Prisma Taranto, featuring U.S. setter Donald Suxho (Korce, Albania) fell to Itas Diatec Trentino in Serie A League play on Wednesday (Oct. 21), 22-25, 21-25, 15-25. Suxho started all three sets and scored two points on one block and one ace.
Marmi Lanza Verona, featuring U.S. A2 player Max Holt (Cincinnati, Ohio) defeated Aran Pineto, 3-2 (18-25, 18-25, 25-19, 25-19, 15-11) on Wednesday. Holt started the first two sets and scored two points on one kill and one ace.
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Topic: 5 Ruby/Rails Tips
- Tip 1
Do you frequently find yourself coding up models such as Person or Company that have a attributes like city, state, and country? This kind of data is usually represented in one way for most purposes. This tip will give an example implementation and describe how to make it reusable.
def location
locs = []
locs << city unless city.blank?
locs << state unless state.blank?
locs << country unless country.blank?
loc_str = locs.join ', '
if loc_str.empty?
return "unspecified"
return loc_str
Here, the string returned is of the form <city, state, country> if city, state, and country are all filled in, or <city, country> if state is not filled in, or <city, state> if country is nil or empty or just <city> if neither city nor country are filled in. I'm sure you get the idea. If no location data is filled in, the return value defaults to "unspecified."
Side note: By the way, why not just make one field called location in your model to avoid all this hassle? Well you could, but then you make it much harder to add certain functionality in the future. For example, say you wanted a list of users from the same city. This task is more difficult if you have to first parse an arbitrarily-formatted location string and try to find the city, state, and country in it. Sometime it's best to burn as few bridges as possible when designing the data model for an evolving application.
We are going to make this method reusable by putting it into a module accessible as a mixin. Ruby mixins facilitate code reuse without complicating the inheritance chain like an abstract class in something like Java would. They are also a flexible way to handle the multiple inheritance problem.
First, create a new file in the lib subdirectory of your Rails root directory:
module Locatable
def location
# [implementation code from above goes here]
Rails automatically loads files in the lib directory, so there's no need to require 'locatable.rb' anywhere.
Then, to call the mixin from a model like Person, do the following:
def Person < ActiveRecord::Base
# assume the people table has fields city, state, and country, which may or may not be filled
include Locatable
- Tip 2
The following helper function can be used to compare to arbitrary objects (possible of different types) as long as they both have a particular attribute.
def compare_by(obj_1, obj_2, attribute)
attr_1 = obj_1.send attribute
attr_2 = obj_2.send attribute
return attr_1 <=> attr_2 # note: <=> is the comparator method defined for attr_1 objects
There are a few scenarios where such a function is useful. An interesting example is for custom sorting:
people = Person.find(:all)
sorted = people.sort do |p1, p2|
compare_by(p1, p2, :name)
The above code will sort an array of people by name. Of course :name can be replaced with an integral field like :age or even a more complex field like :location, provided that a comparator function is defined for it.
Of course you can also do something simpler with the compare_by function:
p1 = Person.find(1)
p2 = Person.find(2)
cmp = compare_by(p1, p2, :name)
if cmp > 0
# p1 comes after p2
elsif cmp < 0
# p1 comes before p2
# p1 and p2 are "equal"
- Tip 3
Now let's talk about how to define a comparator for your models. Comparators in Ruby are similar to their Java counterparts, with a few notable differences. Here's how you define one, once again using our trusty Person model:
class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
def <=>(rhs)
if age < rhs.age
# a younger person should be < an older person
return -1
elsif age > rhs.age
# an older person should be > a younger person
return 1
# two people of the same age should be ==
return 0
So as you can see, it's not much different from any other method. You can still call it like you'd expect:
john = Person.find(1)
jane = Person.find(2)
But Ruby has a bit of syntactical sugar that allows you to write this with the same effect:
john <=> jane
At this point it's useful to note that the comparator above can be rewritten much more concisely:
def <=> rhs
return age <=> rhs.age
Here, our comparator for Person is defined using Fixnum's, since we're comparing people by age and age is a Fixnum.
We can build arbitrarily complex comparison hierarchies by defining the comparator to suite your priorities. For example, say you want to compare cars. Clearly a Porsche is better than a Hyundai, but what about comparing two Porsches? We can use the make and model attributes of a car class in our comparator:
class Car
def <=> rhs
by_make = make <=> rhs.make
if by_make == 0 # if the two cars are of the same make
return model <=> rhs.model # compare them by model
return by_make # otherwise just base the comparison on make
Assuming meaningful comparators are defined for make and model objects, the above comparator should tell us that porsche_boxster > hyundai_sonata and porsche_boxster < porsche_911.
- Tip 4
Suppose you have a User model which has a couple boolean attributes which, following convention, are accessible with methods ending in a question mark: logged_in? to check if the given user is logged in and moderator? to check if the user is a moderator or a regular user. Now suppose you'd like a list of moderators and a list of regular users that are currently logged in. Those of you coming from Java or some other C-style language would probably loop over the list of users and, at each iteration, decide wether to put the current user into the logged in moderators list, the logged in users list, or neither. This is of course a valid approach, but now let's take a look at a higher-level approach that is more idiomatic Ruby:
logged_in = User.find(:all).select do |user|
logged_in_mods, logged_in_users = logged_in.partition do |user|
The above method uses a couple of handy standard Ruby methods: select and partition. There is a more compact way to write the same code by using Symbol#to_proc.
logged_in_mods, logged_in_users = User.find(:all).select(&:logged_in?).partition(&:moderator?)
The latter is clearly more compact, but I leave the reader to compare the readability of the two snippets.
- Tip 5
I'll wrap up this series with a tip about the always-useful IRB console. I recommend opening script/console and following along for a bit since these examples are much easier to understand if you see them in action. This way, if you're feeling adventurous, you can try and tweak them a bit to come up with something interesting.
Imagine that you forgot some obscure method name, e.g. has_and_belongs_to_many. You remember that it contains the substring has, but you're not sure how to formulate a Google query to answer your question. An easy solution is to start up script/console and type the following:
ActiveRecord::Base.methods.grep /^has/
ActiveRecord::Base is the class whose methods we want to search. You know that the association methods (including has_and_belongs_to_many) are part of a Rails model which inherits from the Base class of the ActiveRecord module. methods() is a method that all Ruby classes have that returns an array of all the methods in that class (their names as strings). Then array.grep searches array for its parameter, in this case /^has/, which is a regular expression as denoted by the slashes instead of quotes (^ is the start of the string).
Another example is if you wanted a list of filter methods available to a controller:
ActionController::Base.methods.grep /filter/
Or if you wanted a list of methods in your User model that followed the naming conventions signifying that they returned booleans:
User.methods.grep /\?$/
Here ? is a special character so it has the be escaped with a \ to signify that you mean a literal ? instead of its special meaning (zero or one occurrences of the previous pattern) and $ indicates the end of the string.
grep is just one example of a method that takes a regular expression as a parameter. For those of you unfamiliar with regular expressions, I recommend reading up on them if you're interested in a powerful tool to search and match strings that's available in most mainstream languages.
Last edited by iamvlad (2008-05-06 04:05:45)