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A Try to Explain the Unexplainable
It's ironic how the strongest bounds are the ones of human souls. It's like our souls are bound with unbreakable thin threads that even the naked eye can't see. It is even more ironic how these thin threads dominate us, and we willingly surrender and adjust. These thin threads transfer a sinewy force from one side to the other, no matter how far the distance is, to make you feel, suffer or relish; to make you feel the world's weight falling on your shoulders or to make feel weightless flying in the sky and teasing the stars… It is the only road for the souls to meet, and bring one another to a slight appearance to the person on either side.
Is this the explanation of the nearness I feel when the distance is far? Or just trying to justify what the mind can't explain? Or did I reach a level of insanity? Well, the mind does only justify the nonsensical incidents as insanity, but the soul does have another explanation…


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Critically acclaimed, Grammy Award-winning violinist and producer, Miri Ben-Ari, launches 'The Beautiful Sound Tour' atThe Gramercy Theatre in New York on February 20th. Ben-Ari is known world-wide as a musical pioneer as every phrase of her unique sound -- a revolutionary fusion of classical, jazz, R&B and hip hop -- is a storied experience of her Origins in Israel, life in New York City, and career that includes a string of honors. Miri has been named one of 25 "Remarkable Women" in 2011 by First Lady Michelle Obama, an "Apollo Legend"by the famed Apollo Theatre in New York City, is a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nation Associations for Brazil, and is a recipient of theMLK Community Service Award by Al Sharpton's National Action Network.
A classically trained violinist, who studied under the late classical master Isaac Stern, Ben-Ari has helped sell millions of records by collaborating with other Grammy Award-winning artists such as Kanye West, Jay Z, Wyclef Jean, Alicia Keys, Wynton Marsalis, Britney Spears, Maroon 5, Patti Labelle, Brandy, Donna Summer, Janet Jackson and John Legend. Her captivating, show-stopping music earned her the moniker "The Hip Hop Violinist," which is also the title of her latest album on Universal Records; and has resonated with audiences around the world including performances at Aventura's "Sold Out at Madison Square Garden" concert, VH1's "Save The Music" Gala at Lincoln Center, "Fashion Rocks"and Viacom's "Dream Concert" at Radio City Music Hall; on "Sesame Street;" for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign; and at theMartin Luther King Jr. Presidential memorial dedication in Washington, DC.
More recently, media icon Yue-Sai Kan invited Ben-Ari to give a special performance during "Miss Universe China" in Beijing, a live broadcast to millions of people. Miri has been the face of many marketing campaigns including Reebok's "I Am What I Am" (global, print and television);Vodafone; BET's Black History Month special (appearing in a Jimi Hendrix PSA); Pepsi; Coca-Cola; and now, Harman Kardon; (products include headphones and home theatre systems). Most notably, however, Ben-Ari loves to give back to the community. She has supported different charitable organizations such as UNICEF, FIBA (Fellowship of Israel and Black America), Phoenix House, NRB Convention (National Religious Broadcasters), Aglow, the Jewish Federation, Russell Simmons' Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation, the Emery Awards, and countless others. Ben-Ari is the founder, chairman, and spokesperson for "Gedenk" (meaning "remember" in Yiddish), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting awareness and Education about the Jewish Holocaust to the youth.
Ben-Ari is continuously recognized as a young role model as her numerous international accolades include "International Jewish Woman To Watch of 2007 Award," "2008 Israel Film Festival Visionary Award," the American Society for Yad Vashem Award, "Young & Powerful for Obama" 2011 Rising Star Award, the "Martin Luther King Award" from Israeli President Shimon Peres, and the "2012 Big Vision Awards."

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by Malcolm MacLean
News in from Merle Wood & Associates that John Cohen and John Jacobi have listed for sale the 38.8m motor yacht No Bada Bees.
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Lmfao! Ignorant [email protected]@cker!
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#1810 Dec 11, 2012
Conservative wiki? Are you for real?
Lmfao! Ignorant [email protected]@cker!
Since: Mar 11
United States
#1811 Dec 11, 2012
Somebody's PC opinion doesn't count as historical proof. Sorry.
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#1813 Dec 11, 2012
That's GREAT!
Nice job.
United States
#1814 Dec 11, 2012
No problem! I don't mind posting all those facts about how small your group really is.
No link but the sources is listed on this one.
"The CIA World Factbook gives the world population as 7,021,836,029 (July 2012 est.) and the distribution of religions as
Christian 33.35%(of which Roman Catholic 16.83%, Protestant 6.08%, Orthodox 4.03%, Anglican 1.26%), Muslim 22.43%,
Hindu 13.78%,
Buddhist 7.13%,
Sikh 0.36%,
Jewish 0.21%,
Baha'i 0.11%,
other religions 11.17%,
non-religious 9.42%,
atheists 2.04%"
Wow. A whole 2.04% you guys are kicking some ass. LOL
United States
#1815 Dec 11, 2012
All sources are listed.
A survey published in the 2005 Encyclopedia Britannica stated that 2.3% of the world's population consists of individuals who profess "atheism, skepticism, disbelief, or irreligion, including the militantly antireligious." In regards to the 2.3% figure just mentioned, the 2005 survey cited by Encyclopedia Britannica survey did not include Buddhist in regards to the 2.3% figure and Buddhism can be theistic or atheistic."
"Another survey attributed to Britannica shows the population of atheists at around 2.4% of the world's population.[citation needed] It is difficult to determine whether atheism is growing or not"
Wikipedia :
"2005 poll by AP/Ipsos surveyed ten countries. Of the developed nations, people in the United States were most sure of the existence of God or a higher power (2% atheist, 4% agnostic)"
Wikipedia :
"According to one estimate, atheists make up about 2.3% of the world's population"
"In 2007, a Pew Forum survey found that the atheist population in the United States was 1.6% of the American population. Global atheism is shrinking and demographic changes in the United States and the world are expected to shrink the influence of American secularism."
In 2012, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary reported that globally every day there are 800 less atheists per day, 1,100 less non-religious (agnostic) people per day and 83,000 more people professing to be Christians per day.
In 2011, the American Spectator declared concerning research published in the International Bulletin of
Missionary Research:
The report estimates about 80,000 new Christians every day, 79,000 new Muslims every day, and 300 fewer atheists every day. These atheists are presumably disproportionately represented in the West, while religion is thriving in the Global South, where charismatic Christianity is exploding."
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#1816 Dec 11, 2012
Posted earlier by derek4
Study: Atheists Have Lowest 'Retention Rate' Compared to Religious Groups
Only about 30 percent of those who grow up in an atheist household remain atheists as adults. This "retention rate" was the lowest among the 20 separate categories in the study.
There were 1,387 atheists (weighted) in the survey. Four-hundred thirty-two weighted respondents said they were raised atheist. Of those, 131 self-identified as atheist.
Gray also noted that, "of those raised as atheists, 30% are now affiliated with a Protestant denomination, 10% are Catholic, 2% are Jewish, 1% are Mormon, and 1% are Pagan."
Jehovah's Witness, congregationalist and holiness churches had the next lowest retention rates at 37 percent, 37 percent and 32 percent, respectively. Thirty-eight percent of those who grew up with no particular religious faith or belief system remained that way.
Hindus had the highest retention rate at 84 percent, followed by Jews (76 percent), Muslims (76 percent), Greek Orthodox (73 percent), Mormons (70 percent) and Catholics (68 percent).
Baptists had the highest retention rate of the Protestant Christian categories at 60 percent, followed by Lutheran (59 percent) and Pentecostal (50 percent).
[Right; NO thinking people don't want to be atheists.]
From: Deseret News / Salt Lake City, UT
July, 2012
ÂAtheists abandon their beliefs more often than people in other religious groups, study findsÂ
A new study has found that people raised in an atheist home abandon those beliefs as adults more often than people raised with other religious belief systems, putting atheism at a 30 percent retention rate. Conclusions and interpretations of the study are that atheists are more often "made" as adults rather than "raised." The highest retention rates are in the Hindu faith, which holds onto about 84 percent of adherents.
Those who grow up in an atheist household are least likely to maintain their beliefs about religion as adults, according to a study by Georgetown University's Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA).
Only about 30 percent of those who grow up in an atheist household remain atheists as adults. This "retention rate" was the lowest among the 20 separate categories in the study.
There were 1,387 atheists (weighted) in the survey. Four-hundred thirty-two weighted respondents said they were raised atheist. Of those, 131 self-identified as atheist.
[Who would want to be an atheist? LOL]
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#1817 Dec 11, 2012
No kidding. However I'm allowed to post his view points.
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#1818 Dec 11, 2012
You should probably find some sources other than Evangelical Christians aka Liars for Jesus.
The demographics of atheists and non-religious continue to climb in 1st world nations.
The gains of religion have been occurring almost exclusively within the 3rd world.
Unless you happen to live in a 3rd world nation, KJV, your religion is dwindling.
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#1819 Dec 11, 2012
Why is this surprising? Non-religious parents do not indoctrination their children into their beliefs the same way that the religious do.
Young Christians or Muslims are told, from a young age, that leaving the religion will result in them BURNING IN HELL.
Young people raised by non-religious parents are given no such 'lessons'.
Your study also showed that most atheists are people who became them as adults. In other words, through RATIONAL THOUGHT, rather than childhood indoctrination.
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#1820 Dec 11, 2012
The non-religious group as well as a good chunk of the Buddhist group are atheists. So more like 13-14%. Even higher in the Western world.
Cirencester, UK
#1821 Dec 12, 2012
I thought conservapedia was just a parody site until they started blocking non-US traffic. Then I knew it was.
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#1822 Dec 12, 2012
Atheists are more intelligent than religious people
Writing in the Freethinker (July 2008) Chris Barker argues that there is nothing racist about suggesting that atheists are more intelligent than believers.
IT was bound to happen. When Professor Richard Lynn claimed last month that people with higher IQs were less likely to believe in God many of those outraged by his assertion quickly tried to give his words a racist cast.
Professor Lynn, Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Ulster University, said many more members of the intellectual elite considered themselves atheists than the national average. A decline in religious observance over the last century was directly linked to a rise in average intelligence, he claimed.
Professor Lynn, who has provoked controversy in the past with research linking intelligence to race and sex, said university academics were less likely to believe in God than almost anyone else.
A survey of Royal Society fellows found that only 3.3 per cent believed in God at a time when 68.5 percent of the general UK population described themselves as believers. A separate poll in the 90s found only seven percent of members of the American National Academy of Sciences believed in God.
Professor Lynn said most primary school children believed in God, but as they entered adolescence and their intelligence increased many started to have doubts.
He told The Times Higher Education magazine:
Why should fewer academics believe in God than the general population? I believe it is simply a matter of the IQ. Academics have higher IQs than the general population.
Several Gallup poll studies of the general population have shown that those with higher IQs tend not to believe in God.
"It's just a box of rain..."
Since: May 07
#1823 Dec 12, 2012
My problem with the CIA World Factbook is that, unlike every other source of U.S. government statistics that I know of, they provide no metadata--no indication of who collected the data or how it was analyzed. For that reason, I regard it as a less reliable source of religion statistics than the Pew Forum or the American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS).
Since: Oct 10
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#1824 Dec 12, 2012
Because there is no lower point, right?
Since: Mar 11
#1825 Dec 12, 2012
Yes you are allowed to post his OPINION and it will be treated as merely an opinion or in essence worthless.
Since: Mar 11
#1826 Dec 12, 2012
Two Christian, biased opinion sites. Still waiting for links from a legit source. Credible Links or it's Bullsht.
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#1827 Dec 12, 2012
Hi, Atheist speak things of the this world, but Christians speak the wisdom of Heaven. Only those born of God here his word, Truth. Big differents.
Since: Apr 08
Watford, UK
#1828 Dec 12, 2012
We could also use Dim's logic when faced with statistics showing religious belief among US prisoners:
Sorry, my mistake. Dim doesn't come up with his own ideas, he copies and pastes other peoples thinking.
Since: Mar 11
#1829 Dec 12, 2012
Could you retype this in English please? Sorry we don't speak Dumbcocksuckerian like you.
"ecrasez l'infame"
Since: May 08
#1830 Dec 12, 2012
Ah, the magic decoder ring apologetic, how lame!
Blessed are the weak minded as they are easily controlled by the scam of religion(s). Their gullibility and sheep mentality makes it real easy to keep them content with being poor by promising a paradise in some next life. Snake oil salesmanship at it's finest.
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In The Name of Allaah, The Most Merciful, The Bestower of Mercy
Firstly, we ask Allaah to grant us Tawfeeq, sidq, ikhlaas, thabaat and Husnul Khaatimah. We ask Him to protect our hearts from riyaa and corrupt intentions, and pardon us our weaknesses, faults, shortcomings and sins.. ..Aameen
Allaah (The Most High) said:
وَتَعَاوَنُوا عَلَى الْبِرِّ وَالتَّقْوَىٰ ۖ وَلَا تَعَاوَنُوا عَلَى الْإِثْمِ وَالْعُدْوَانِ
Help you one another in Al-Birr and At-Taqwa (virtue, righteousness and piety); but do not help one another in sin and transgression. [5:2]
Imaam Ibnul Qayyim (rahimahullaah) has a beautiful statement regarding this affair, so here we paraphrase some of those benefits as follows:
*This Ayah comprises of all the Masaalih [Well-being and beneficial affairs] for the slaves in relation to their worldly life and afterlife – be it to do with between themselves or between themselves and their Lord; for indeed every servant (of Allaah) is not isolated from these two circumstances and obligations – he either has to fulfil the obligations he owes his Lord or the obligations he owes Allaah's creation. As for the obligations he owes the creation, they include (righteous) association, companionship, aiding one another upon what Allaah loves and obedience to Allaah, which is the goal behind his search for happiness and success in the afterlife. There can be no happiness in the afterlife except through righteousness and piety, for it is basis of all affairs of the religion.
*As for Taqwa, its reality is to act in obedience to Allaah out of Eemaan in Allaah and hoping for His Reward – to fulfil what Allaah has commanded out of having Eemaan in that which Alllaah commanded and affirming the reward He has promised; abandoning what He has forbidden – out of belief that what He has forbidden is forbidden and fearing His punishment, just as Talq Bin Habeeb (rahimahullaah) stated: "When Fitna occurs, extinguish it with Taqwa". So the people said: "What is Taqwa?" He said: You act in obedience to Allaah upon a light from Allaah (i.e. Eemaan and sincerity) and hoping for reward from Allah. And you abandon disobedience to Allaah upon a light from Allah and fearing the punishment of Allah."
This is the best of that which has been stated as Taqwa, for indeed there has to be an aim and a goal behind every deed. A deed cannot be considered an act of obedience to Allaah and an act that gets one close to Allaah until it is based on Eemaan, so that which leads to the performance of that deed is solely due to Eemaan – neither customs nor desires, neither seeking praise nor status and other than it; rather it should be solely based on Eemaan and the aim behind it should be to attain Allaah's reward and seeking after His Pleasure.
[Abridged and Paraphrased. See Badaa'i At-Tafseer Al-Jaami Limaa Fassarahu Al-Imaam Ibnul Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah' Vol 1 pages 307-311. Publisher: Daar Ibn Al-Jawziyyah 2nd Ed, 1431AH] [Also see Risaalah At-Tabookiyyah' pages 12-23]
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