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David Folsom, the Choctaw Indian, belongs to the southern, branch of the Folsom family, which came to New England in 1636,
from Hingham, England. David's father, Nathaniel Folsom, was a trader among the Choctaws, in Mississippi, for over thirty
years, having gone to that part of the country when quite a young man. It was in this southern state that he married Ai-ni-chi-ho-yo
(one to be preferred above others) who was a direct descendant from a long and ancient line of chiefs of the Ahe-patokla or
royal clan.
At the time David was born, his father was in New Orleans, Louisiana, buying goods for his store. His mother went to stay
during that time with her mother while her husband was away, and be near a doctor, who was an Indian and related to the family.
A few days before David was born, an older brother and sister died from pneumonia and his mother was suffering with the same
malady at the time David made his advent into the world, January 25, 1791.
It was a peculiar custom of the full-bloods that when a baby was born under conditions which they thought were such that the
baby could not be well taken care of, the child was destroyed. It seems that the doctor said he did not think the mother would
live to raise the child and something must be done. His grandmother, hearing the conversation, determined the fine baby should
live, and took it and ran away with it. Thus the child's life was saved. A month later, Nathaniel Folsom returned and he and
his wife went back to, their home with the new son.
When David was about seven years old, his sister Molly married a United States Indian Agent, by the name of Samuel Mitchell.
He was well educated and took quite a fancy to little David. He induced his father to let the young boy live with them for
a while to be company for his sister and also learn to speak the English language.
After three years, the sister died and David returned to his home. He had learned to speak very good En-
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glish and had been taught many useful things. The Indian Commissioners liked him very much for to them he was a most unusual
lad even at that age. He was ever on the alert to please the officers and always in a good humor. He was musically inclined
and showed talent to a marked degree. He made himself a violin and played well on it, so the officers at the agency said.
A number of years went by and David worked hard, doing whatever his father had for him to do. If nothing else was to be done,
he would go into the woods and chop logs. At this time his home was on Pigeon Roost Creek, on the Natchez Trail. When he was
old enough to raise a crop himself, he sold it and was enabled to go to school again. He bought a horse, some clothes and
had about twenty dollars left. Then this ambitious boy, at the age of sixteen, started off alone to go 250 miles to a school
on Elk River, in the state of Tennessee. He was there only six months, during which time his father sent him fifty dollars,
which was all the assistance he received. His circumstances were such that he could not do more for David, so he returned
home. His family was well pleased with his progress which to them was wonderful. He was old enough to appreciate his opportunities
and had embraced them to the utmost. A little later, David's father employed a man to teach him for a month. During that time,
James Allen, a Chickasaw, was a guest in the Folsom home. He saw how readily David learned and told him if he would go and
stay a month with him, he would teach him free of charge. The offer was gladly accepted. That was the last instruction he
David had learned the trading business from his father, and it was natural that he should take up this occupation. David was
a success from the first. His father said that it was his industry and his honesty that brought him what he had accumulated.
Besides this, he was kind to everybody and obedient to his father and mother.
David married Rhoda Nail, a half-blood Choctaw woman. He took her to a magistrate and they were married according to law.
Until that time, the Indians were married according to tribal customs. Their home was a very hospitable one. David had kept
up his playing on the
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violin and often a merry crowd was there to enjoy the music and dancing.
For three years, David Folsom was in the Indian wars and assisted General Andrew Jackson in taking Pensacola. When he was
mustered out of military service, he had won the rank of colonel.
Letters from missionaries, published in the Missionary Herald, Boston, Massachusetts, in 1818, state that David Folsom was
one of the first Choctaws to ask for schools to be established among his people. As the result of David Folsom's request,
Rev. Cyrus Kingsbury and Mr. L. S. Williams left the settlement of Brainerd, Tennessee, in the Cherokee country, in May, 1918,
and arrived in the Choctaw Nation in August of the same year. They named the new station Elliott in memory of the Apostle
of the American Indian.
The missionaries exercised a great influence over the life of David. He went about talking to the people of his tribe, informing
them of the wonderful advantages that had come to them and telling them that they must be kind and helpful to the servants
of God. From that time on, David Folsom was a wonderfully influential man among his people. He would make talks both at the
meetings of the church and schools. It was said that he was a very forceful and eloquent speaker. The missionaries often made
his home their headquarters in order that they might get all the help they could in translating the books of the Bible into
the Choctaw language. David Folsom was anxious that as large a portion of the Scriptures should be printed in the Choctaw
language as might be practicable. A great deal of time was given to revising and translating the books which were to be prepared
for the schools. Rev. Cyrus Byington and Rev. Alfred Wright, the teacher, preacher and doctor, were among the missionaries
who assisted in this work.
When the schools first opened, the Indians themselves manifested the deepest interest. By June, 1822, the schools were a wonderful
reality. The Missionary Herald, of December, 1822, published in full a talk made by David Folsom at one of the schools, in
which he said "The various societies of the North have graciously sent you garments with which you are clothed and most of
the good things which
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you enjoy came through the bounty of these good people who never saw you. To the missionaries who, for your good, have done
and are doing so much, you owe a great obligation. You should obediently submit to all the rules of the school. You should
strive to the utmost to acquire the manners, the knowledge and language of the missionaries. It is true your fathers have
long possessed this land, notwithstanding their ignorance of these things, but this you cannot be expected to do unless you
become civilized. Your situation is rapidly becoming different from the situation of those who have gone before you. The white
people were once at so great a distance that there was but little intercourse between them and your forefathers. Now the white
people are settled around you in every direction. It is therefore indispensably necessary that the rising generation shall
be educated and learn the ways of the white people. Some of the same religious family by whom you are here taught, have taken
two youths from this Nation, Israel and McKee Folsom, and have given them an education. In a few months more we hope you will
see them return to this Nation; and in them, it is believed, you will see a convincing proof of the utility of a good education.
The land in which these young men are receiving their education is the one in which the missionaries were born and instructed.
The missionaries came not only to teach you to read and write, but to cultivate the ground and to do various mechanical works.
The time has come when you should give the most diligent attention to these things and make great effort to attain them. Should
you wisely improve the privileges you now enjoy, the period will soon arrive when you will be considered by the councilors,
in short, the glory of your country. The girls can also acquire an education and learn to manage domestic affairs as the white
people do. When they are grown and their education finished they will marry young men who are refined like themselves."
From this talk on education by David Folsom, one can easily glimpse the vision of the man who was worthy to be a great leader
of his people and was destined to be among the outstanding men of his tribe and family. To him, education was the hope of
the Nation. He realized that it was the coming generations which would be the ones to wield
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the greatest influence and they should be prepared to meet the new conditions as soon as possible.
David Folsom was the main one who was instrumental in sending his two younger brothers, McKee and Israel Folsom, away to school.
They remained four years at Cornwall, Connecticut, without returning home during vacations. These young men were a wonderful
help to the missionaries in the work of translating books for both church and schools. It was Israel who first translated
the Lord's Prayer into the Choctaw language.
As can well be imagined, books were very scarce there at that time. David Folsom made out a list of books, with the assistance
of his brothers, which was sent to Boston to be purchased. No doubt these were the first books bought and shipped to that
part of the country by any one except the missionaries. They were certainly the nucleus of the first Indian library. As an
index of the character of books ordered, the complete list is given: "Encyclopedia bound in calf, last American edition, if
no American edition has been published within six or eight years, then the Edinburgh edition; Scott's Family Bible (quarto)
with the marginal references and the maps designed to accompany it; Morse's or Worcester's Universal Gazetteer; Jenk's Devotion;
Dodridge's Rise and Progress; Baxter's Saint's Rest, and Call to the Unconverted; Dwight's Theology; Watts on the Mind; Mason
on Self-Knowledge; Burder's Village Sermons, 3 Vols.; J. Burder's Sermons for Children; Scougal's Life of God in the Soul;
Bab ington on Education; Life of Brainerd, by Rev. S. E. Dwight of Boston; Life of Obookiah; Brown's or Winslow's History
of Missions; and Milner's Church History." The resolution to obtain so costly a library must have been prompted by enlarged
and liberal views.
To demonstrate the tender affection and deep sympathy of Colonel Folsom, whom the missionaries considered selftaught, a letter
is copied in the Missionary Herald, of September, 1822, to Rev. Cyrus Kingsbury, after the death of his wife.
"Dear Sir
Yours of the 16th, Inst. was received with much sorriness. I do not know what to say to you that would give you some relief
in the day of your affliction, I can only say
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in a few words that I am indeed sorry, and do feel that I have lost one of my best friends.
The Choctaws have lost a great friend, who did promote their best good, the school children are left motherless—what shall
our children do when they go back to the school. However, we must not be discouraged—My good friend, I hope you do feel happy
at times that you are still in the land of living and that good God has given you so many days to labour for him in this dark
benighted land. It is God that has taken your dear beloved wife from you.
He did see best that she should not stay no longer with us. She is gone and gone never to return to teach the poor Choctaws.
Her labor is finished here on earth—and she is gone to her father's house, which is in heaven. The same blessed God has thought
best to keep you here longer—the work he has desire for you to do, you have not complete them yet. God knows all things best.
Your brothers and sisters have left you for the other world since you have come among the Choctaws to teach them the way of
hollyness. But your life is still spared.
Now my dear friend this good being has brote this tryal of sorriness on you to see whether the servant K is true to him or
not, here we know and have witness the kind and love and her active and have done everything she was able, indeed she was
our mother and the mother of our children, but God was able (had a right) to take her from us. And therefore I can only say
to you, the days of man is but shorte, and all things must be done quick.
I hope you are not discourage, there is to be more school and churches must be built. The gospel must be preach to these people,
whether these people receive the gospel or not, it is your duty to do your fathers work.
The Choctaws who did not become acquainted with Mrs. K. do not know the great affliction has befallen on our school. But I
know many of us, we ought to humble for the loss of our mother and teacher. It must be more trial to you a while you have
your motherless children in your arm. But we will notice one thing. We read in the Bible, the same God who has seen best to
take our mother from us, did command his servant Abraham to offer his only son on the sacrifice—God did try our father Abraham,
and I can only say he has tried you also—I hope this same God has seen you humble before him, and give yourself up to him
to dispose of you as he sees best. And that you will go forth with more zeal in up building Zion in this land more than you
ever did—Please to receive this as coming from a person who share the sorry with you.
—Your friend,
The missionaries considered David Folsom the first lay
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missionary of the Choctaws. In a letter written by Rev. Alfred Wright, dated February, 1822, he states that a company of Choctaws
settled near Colonel Folsom. For many years they had no fixed residence; and were made up of different clans and districts
in the Nation, and were not receiving any part of the annuity which was paid by the United States. Soon David Folsom advised
them to select a place where they could settle compactly and permanently, advised them to quit drinking whiskey, and to cultivate
the soil; telling them that if they acceded to his proposal, he would use his influence to procure, for them their proportion
of the annuity. He gave them some account of the object of the missionaries. They appeared pleased, and expressed a desire
to hear them preach. Soon a request was sent for Colonel Folsom to come and bring with him one of the missionaries that they
might hear about the Great Spirit.
David Folsom was a very versatile man and enthused over anything that looked to the promotion of his people. Early missionary
letters give him credit for assisting them in opening a wagon road from Elliott to Pigeon Roost on the road from Nashville
to the Natchez, thereby making a wagon communication from the navigable waters of the Yazoo to those of the Tombigbee.
Early in June, 1829, David Folsom and three brothers, Isaac, Samuel and John, united with the church. The record has been
left that a council was held that fall, consisting of Colonel Folsom, the principal chief of the southern district, and the
subordinate chiefs and warriors from both districts near Yok-nok-cha-ya, which lasted for two or three days. When public business
was through for the day, religious worship was held at night; and often when the council adjourned during the day, the serious
people assembled in some retired place for devotional exercises.
In the memoirs of Nathaniel Folsom, he tells with much feeling of hearing his son David pray for the first time in public
in the Choctaw language. It was at a large meeting held at Hebron, right near a large hickory tree, under which fifty years
before he had pitched his tent when hunting for wild game in the same woods.
Mrs. Mosley, the widow of Rev. Samuel Mosley, who
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died within the year of his first missionary labors among the Choctaws, spent some time in the family of Chief Folsom, where
she taught a small school. By this time he was the highest chief of the Choctaws. When she returned to her home in New England,
she had a number of letters from him. To her he expressed a great desire to have a school where females could be fitted to
become teachers and gave it as his opinion that one or two religious Choctaws might now go out as teachers. He told of the
advantages, which he possessed as ruler, for sending the Gospel abroad in the Nation. He also said, "If we do these things
in sincerity and love of God, he will surely bless our endeavors." In one of his letters, he informed her of having joined
the church with his three brothers, and further said "Here is the work of God's love, as I trust God was preparing us to rejoice
more still. Mrs. Folsom, her sister and mother, and my own mother and sister with multitudes of others came out on the Lord's
side and united with the church. The like we never witnessed among us before, it seemed a miracle God had wrought with his
Holy Spirit."
David Folsom served his people as Chief for a number of years and as a delegate to Washington in their behalf at different
times. He was a contemporary of the noted Chief Pushmataha and was with him when he died, December 24, 1824. In a letter to
his brothers in Mississippi, he stated:
"Pushmataha was sick only a short time. Many strangers called to see him, among them General Jackson, to whom his last words
were addressed: 'When I am dead let the big guns be fired over me.' We were at a loss to know how to proceed with his burial,
but the Government took charge of it. He was buried with military honors of war. Several military companies turned out, as
well as the marines from the Navy Yard and two bands of music. It was a great procession. We took the body of our departed
Chief, in the presence of several thousand people, to the burial grounds. He was laid in the grave. The minister prayed for
us. When it was over we left him in the midst of many hundred people. I assure you, my dear brothers, I am thankful there
was so much honor paid to our departed chief. Many congressmen, as well as General Jackson, treated us with the greatest kindness.
I can truly say that we have received every
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mark of friendship and brotherly love from the white people since we have been among them. Pushmataha was conscious up to
the last moment and occasionally conversed with friends around him. It was sad to hear him say, 'As you go home you will see
beautiful flowers and hear the birds singing in the trees—but Pushmataha will see and hear them no more. When you go to our
people, they will ask where is Pushmataha, and you will answer he is no more. They will hear it as the fall of a mighty oak
on a still day in the midst of the forest.' "
At a council meeting held by the Choctaws in July, 1827, Colonel Ward, the United States Agent for the Choctaw Nation, came
in with an interpreter to present a communication from the President of the United States, relative to the removal of the
Indians to some place west of the Mississippi River. Colonel Folsom addressed him, recognizing, in the following tender manner,
the friendship in which they had co-operated. with the whites in time of war.
"Sir, it has pleased the Great Spirit that the beloved men of two council fires should meet and sit together under this White
House. We salute Colonel Ward, as the messenger of our great father. Our first great father, General Washington, loved all
his white children and all his red children. He always gave us good counsel. We loved his words. Our great fathers who succeeded
him have given us good counsel. We have loved their counsel and followed it. We have begun to increase a little in knowledge
and industry. We were always friends to the American people. We have lived in peace with them. Our chain of friendship has
never been broken nor has it grown rusty. When they told us they had an enemy and wished our help, poor and weak as we were,
we assembled our warriors and went forth to battle. We were true friends to them—we have lived under the wing of our great
father. We still wish to live there."
To appreciate Colonel Folsom's speech, it should be mentioned the letter of communication stated that the unwillingness of
the Indians to remove from the land of their fathers was due to the influence of white men settled among them; and then stated
what, in the opinion of the President, would be the advantages of a removal; and that in case
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the Choctaws would not remove, the President did not consider himself as having the constitutional power to protect them in
their independence, or to prevent their becoming subject to the laws of the state of Mississippi.
Colonel Folsom asked if either the chiefs or the Christian people of the Nation had used any influence to obtain the letter,
to which Colonel Wand answered that they had not so far as he knew and the letter expressed the thought of the President himself.
Then Colonel Folsom said that he had asked the question for the purpose of satisfying the minds of the people in the council
house, and not his own.
The three highest chiefs were sons of intermarried white men. Although elevated to their standing by great majorities and
strongly supported in their attempts to promote civilization, yet they had their rivals among the fullblood Choctaws who would
make great use of any detected agency on the part of these chiefs or any white man, to bring any argument to bear upon the
Government for a removal. This thought was to be made clear in the minds of all by Colonel Folsom, as to the chiefs especially.
A request by Colonel Ward was made for a written answer before the Council dispersed. Colonel Ward preferred not to give an
answer until the subject could be discussed by a fuller Council, but he would give a verbal temporary answer.
When David Folsom arose to speak there was rapt attention. He had always been considered a powerful speaker in his native
language. He said, "Two or three days since a talk, which came from the White House, was delivered to us. We sat and heard
it. It came from our Great Father. He says that he has heard that there are bad white men among us who prevent our moving
to the west of the Mississippi by their bad counsel. We do not know that it is so. There are old men residing among us, who
have married Choctaw women. They take no part in our councils. They have no concern in them. There are some white men who
sit near the edge of our country, who steal our horses and cattle and hogs, who lay whiskey there. It may be that they have
said something to prevent our removing to the West, which has been reported to our Great Father. We do not know. Here sits
Colonel Ward, the white man king.
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If we discover them, we will tell him. If he needs help, we, the chiefs, captains and warriors will help him to remove them.
Concerning the good white men among us, for whom Colonel Ward will make a letter, we have nothing to say. We do not wish to
sell our land and remove. This land our Great Father above gave us. We stand on it. We stood on it before the white man came
to the edge of the American land. It belongs to no one in any place but to ourselves. Our land is not borrowed land. White
men came and sat down here and there, and all around us. When they wished to buy land of us, we have had counsels together.
The white man always said, "The land is yours." We have always been true frienls to the American people. We have lived in
friendship. Although it has always been thus, now a different talk is sent to us. We are told that the King of Mississippi
is about to extend his laws over us. We are distressed. Our hands are not strong; we are a small people; we do not know much.
The King of Mississippi has strong arms, many warriors, and much knowledge. He is about to lay his laws upon us.
"Colonel Ward knows that we have just begun to build new houses, and make new fields, and to purchase iron, and set up blacksmith
shops with our annuity. We have begun to make axes, hoes, and plows. We have some schools. We have begun to learn and we have
just begun to rise and go. And our Great Father, who sits in the White House says to us, 'Unless you go yonder, the white
man will extend his laws over you.' We think his words are true; and we respect them as sacred. But we are distressed. Oh,
that our Great Father would love us. Oh, that Colonel Ward would love us. Oh, that the King of Mississippi would love us.
"The American people say that they love liberty. They talk much about it. They boast of their own liberty. Why will they take
it from the red man? They say they will make none slaves. We think our Great Father is true and good; and will not himself
lay laws upon us. Here we wish to live. But whatever the white man wishes to do with us, he will do. If he will us to go,
we shall go."
Colonel Folsom was familiar with all the past treaties between the United States Government and the Choctaws. It was no wonder
he was stirred to make the speech he did.
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He knew the Choctaws lived upon the land, which they received from their ancestors, the limits of which were perfectly defined
by treaties.
In every treaty the Choctaws were considered as having a right to their country and as exercising sovereignty over it. In
a treaty negotiated by General Jackson and General Hinds, in 1829, it was stated, "That it was desirable to the State of Mississippi
to obtain a small part of the land belonging to said Nation." On this account the southern part of the Choctaw, country was
ceded to the United States for a large tract of land beyond the Mississippi River with an annual sum of money as additional
It was expected that such Choctaws, who would prefer the life of a hunter, would remove beyond the Mississippi. But few removed.
It appeared that the people preferred to remain on the land of their fathers. They were of the opinion that they were to remain
in the Choctaw Nation, as originally, under laws of their own and not under the laws of any state.
Of course the laws of the several states, or of the United States, could not be extended over the Indians unless by operation
of a treaty made with their consent. Some of the states had already enacted laws which declared that no Indian or descendant
of an Indian would be admitted as a witness in any court of justice. This was a sufficient specimen of the kind of legislation
which would be enacted respecting Indians if they were brought under the laws of the states.
With the knowledge of the situation and conditions that faced Colonel Folsom, then Principal Chief of the Choctaws, his heart
must have been torn with many conflicting emotions. He regarded the extension of the laws of Mississippi over the Choctaws
as a great calamity; and as neither more nor less than reducing the Indians to slavery. In making the laws, which would have
an effect on all their dearest interests, the Choctaws would have no influence. They would have no tribunal before which they
might take their treatment of the Indians by the whites of injustice or vexation. How could the Choctaws be sure the laws
would not be framed with a special view of expelling them from the state? Such could easily be done if an Indian could not
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testify in a court of justice, much less sit as a juryman or vote for his rulers. They would feel, every day of their lives,
that they were despised, hated and oppressed, and what could be the prospect of their children?
Although the Choctaw Chiefs had agreed to certain articles in a treaty, under the impression that they must leave their present
country or submit to the laws of the State of Mississippi, and all the consequent evils; yet it was the prevailing opinion
among the common people that the treaty would not be ratified.
In 1828, then the proposition was made by the United States Government to the Choctaws to give up their lands east of the
Mississipi River for land west of the river; they sent a delegation of Choctaws and Chickasaws to inspect the country and
see if it was all that it was claimed to be. Colonel David Folsom was selected as a member of that committee from his tribe.
On their return a favorable report was given.
On September 27, 1828, the treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek was signed by the Chiefs and head men of the Choctaw Tribe. This
was the final act that brought about the removal of the Choctaws from Mississippi.
When the news arrived that the treaty was actually ratified and that they must all find new homes within two years, gloom
and despondency prevailed throughout the Nation. The Christian people, especially the members of the churches, felt the calamity
most deeply. They thought of the breaking up of the meetings of the churches, the schools and Christian neighborhoods and
the separation of the missionaries and teachers.
Very soon after that a communication was drawn up, by Colonel Folsom, to the missionaries of the American Board of Commissioners
for Foreign Missions, on behalf of the members of the Church and signed by the leading members, as follows
"Friends and Brothers—Good many years ago you came in our Nation, and said you come among them in order to teach the children
of the Choctaw people. Our people rejoiced to have you teach their children and were glad to embrace the opportunity. You
told us that you had a beloved book which tells about Great Jehovah. The talk
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from this book we have never heard as we ought to have done. But Good Spirit, who is the maker and head of all things, has
been pleased to open the ears of many of our people to hear the words of this good book you know all about—we need not make
words about it. But we will appeal to what is known to yourselves of our attachment to the schools among us, and more particularly
the word which this good book teaches us to walk upright before God and man. Also there has been much done for us to have
books put in our hand that many of our people can learn in their own language. We are exceedingly tried. We have just heard
of the ratification of the Choctaw treaty. Our doom is sealed. There is no other course for us but to turn our faces to our
new homes toward the setting sun. Our rulers have assured us on many accounts it will be best to make preparation to remove
next fall; and as many as can get off, it will be done.
"Friends and brothers, we can multiply words and say much on many advantages that we have received. When you came among us
good many years ago, you found us, no school, no gospel, no songs of praise to Jehovah was heard. Friends and brothers, we
will give glory and praise to Jehovah in sending some here to teach us the way of life. It is you our dear friends, whom the
Savior of sinners has been pleased in his own goodness to make you an instrument in his hand of what has been done for us.
Brothers, therefore we claim it as our privilege, as members of the church here and also we have the full assurance of approval
of our head men generally that we humbly request the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to send us many
of the preachers to go with us. Those who are here, we would be glad to have them go with us to our new homes. We would offer
the same protection and friendship as we have done here. Do something for us more beyond the great river Mississippi, we shall
be in a distressed situation.
"We humbly ask the prayers of the churches generally, and particularly the church which we stand in relation to (The Presbyterian
Church). We need their prayers and help from them, as we are about to return to the wildwoods. We are your friends and brothers
in Christ."
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It was not many more months until the Choctaws were making their preparations for their long journey to their new country.
In this work of getting his people prepared, David Folsom had an active part. He had charge of the first party that came to
the Choctaw Nation, and was appointed by the Government to take charge and care for the Indians after their arrival. It was
in the fall of 1832 they arrived in what is now known as eastern Oklahoma, and settled on Little River. The history of that
winter tells that many of the Choctaws would have suffered and died but for the help of Colonel Folsom.
He had a large and interesting family, who lived to exert a wide influence over the Choctaw people. His daughter Susan was
the last to pass away. She died in 1920. She was the wife of William Byrd, governor of the Chickasaw Tribe 1889-91.
Col. David Folsom was the first chief of the Choctaws to be elected by ballot, was a man of generous nature, a noble patriot,
a just and honest ruler, of distinguished talents, truly an illustrious Choctaw that administered the affairs of his nation
during a period of the most critical and perilous times in the annals of the Choctaw Nation, conjointly with other kindred
spirits. Filled with misgivings and the deepest gloom that everywhere prevailed, Col. David Folsom stood out a prominent figure.
In the language of H. B. Cushman, a friend
"He gave to his subordinate chiefs and his agitated people wise counsel upon all questions to be considered, always with a
calm and noble bearing, amid prevailing confusion. Such were his characterists that went to make him a chief of great influence
for good. He had a great warmth of affection for his people and in return enjoyed the deepest affection from them. David Folsom
loved nature. He was heard to say 'It rests me to look upon its varied lovely scented landscape which is in reality a means
of education to the susceptible mind, and which so often has been invested with the charm of poetry and romance.' To all his
friends, he seemed to have died in the midst of his great usefulness.
Few men were ever able to accomplish so much in so short a span of life for their people. He died one of the
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most beloved of his tribe. The tall magnificent oak trees in the old Fort Towson cemetery cast their shadows across his tomb.
Even the rains and storms of more than three-quarters of a century have not erased the inscription which reads:
'To the memory of David Folsom, the first Republican Chief of the Choctaw Nation. The promoter of industry, education, religion
and morality was born January 25, 1791 and departed this life September 24, 1847. Age 56 years and eight months. "He being
dead yet speaketh." ' "
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We Raised Each Other
by Dan
Please note: MP3s are only kept online for a short time, and if this entry is from more than a couple of weeks ago, the music probably won't be available to download any more.
My friend Nora recently went to a Final Fantasy show in Ottawa, and picked up the opener's cd for me. I'm very glad she did.
Sean accidentally ordered a 7-scoop ice cream yesterday, and this feels related to that. Like cold running down your fingers on a hot day, and you can't keep up with all the drips, so you just let it cry, in bright droplets on the sidewalk. It's and orange-coloured song, with a corny-fine accordion, and little claps like minnows under water. It's about having the relationship you want, no matter what the relationship is actually like. Which makes me sigh and put off getting dressed.
The Ballet - "When You Go Dancing"
I've never met Amy Linton. But I think about her sometimes. I worry about her, wonder if she's okay. So hearing her here is really nice and comforting for me. It's like seeing your favourite stranger at a party; oh good, you're still alive. And what a great outfit, as always. I hear that banging guitar come in, striding and calm, and I just know she did that. The song as a whole actually doesn't move me that much, but that feeling of seeing someone after so long, even without knowing them, moved me to write about it. It made me want another Aislers Set album in a new way; for her sake instead of mine.
[Site]Posted by Dan at April 24, 2007 2:26 PM
"It's about having the relationship you want, no matter what the relationship is actually like. Which makes me sigh and put off getting dressed."
perfect words to describe how im feeling right now. all 3 of you are so amazing.Posted by a at April 24, 2007 2:32 PM
"It's about having the relationship you want, no matter what the relationship is actually like. Which makes me sigh and put off getting dressed."
AMEN. That seems to be your key quote of the day. (love the song, too)Posted by H at April 24, 2007 10:27 PM
reminds me a little of magnetic fields. good stuff.Posted by dave at April 25, 2007 4:52 PM
Loved these, loved them live. What does it say when a recording and a show give the band two different vibes?Posted by Mirzipan at April 29, 2007 1:39 PM
"It's like seeing your favourite stranger at a party; oh good, you're still alive."
brilliant!Posted by Jill at April 29, 2007 3:08 PM
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- County: Mecosta
- Style: Single Family
- Baths: 2 (Full: 2 3/4: 0 1/2: 0 Other: 0)
- Parking Type Description: None 0 cars
- Total Square Footage: 2,300 ($60.87 per sq. foot)
- Lot Size: 165x175
- School District: Chippewa Hills
- Year Built: 2006
- Status: Active with Contingency
- New Construction: No
- Above Ground Sq. Feet: 1,800
- Estimated Annual Taxes: $1,877
- Subdivision: W93 - Morton Twp
Access Feat: Accessibility Features No
Additional Items All Window Treatments, Ceiling Fans
Air Conditioning Central
Appliances Dishwasher, Dryer, Microwave, Range, Refrigerator, Washer
Basement Yes
Design Ranch
Exterior Features Deck(s), Patio, Play Equipment
Exterior Material Vinyl
Fireplace Gas Log, Living, Yes
Garage Type 2
Garage: Garage Yes
Heat Source Natural Gas
Heat Type Forced Air
Kitchen Features Center Island, Pantry
Landscape Decor Fence, Flower Garden
Lot Description Corner, Level, Wooded
Manufactured: Manufactured Y/N No
Other Basement Rooms: Basement Bedrooms - 0, Basement Rooms: Basement Finished SQFT - 500.00, Basement Rooms: Basement Full Baths - 0, Basement Rooms: Basement Half Baths - 0, Basement Rooms: Total Basement SQFT - 1800.00, Lower Rooms: Lower Half Baths - 0, Lower Rooms: Lower Bedrooms - 0, Lower Rooms: Lower Finished SQFT - 0.00, Lower Rooms: Lower Full Baths - 0, Lower Rooms: Total Lower SQFT - 0.00, Main Rooms: Main Bedrooms - 3, Main Rooms: Main Full Baths - 2, Main Rooms: Main Half Baths - 0, Main Rooms: Main Level SQFT - 1800.00, Road Frontage - 165.00, Waterfront Options: Water Frontage - 0.00
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Through Thick and Thin, Blue Dog Money Follows Blue Dog Members
May 1, 2013 | It's been said if you want a friend in Washington, get a dog. Just make sure it's blue. Members of the House Blue Dog Coalition contribute to other Blue Dogs to an unusual degree.
Blue Dogs' Lobbying, SEC's Revolving Door and More in Capital Eye Opener: May 16
May 16, 2011 | BLUE DOGS CHASE JOBS ON K STREET: Having been systematically targeted by congressional Republicans during the 2010 election cycle, some conservative Blue Dog Democrats appear to have found a silver lining to their exile from Capitol Hill.
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March 9, 2011 | Your daily dose of news and tidbits from the world of money in politics.
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February 7, 2011 | Your daily dose of news and tidbits from the world of money in politics.
Embattled Blue Dog Representatives Face Voters, Financial Hurdles
November 2, 2010 | In districts currently represented by a Blue Dog, nearly one-in-five of the Democratic candidates have been out-raised, have been out-spent or ended the last reporting period with less cash on hand than their Republican opponents, a Center for Responsive Politics review of campaign finance records shows.
Democratic Lawmakers Help Bankroll Blue Dog Gene Taylor, Who Voted For McCain Over Obama
October 29, 2010 | Rep. Gene Taylor (D-Miss.) collected $11,500 from fellow Democrats during his 2008 congressional bid, and he's collected $10,500 from Democratic leadership PACs and candidate committees since January 2009, according to an analysis by the Center for Responsive Politics.
PMA Group Founder Indicted For Fraud, FEC Hits PAC With Hefty Fine and More in Capital Eye Opener: August 6
August 6, 2010 | PMA GROUP CHARGED IN ETHICS PROBE: Revolving door ex-lobbyist Paul Magliocchetti, once one of Washington's most powerful lobbyists and founder of the PMA Group, a defense lobbying firm. On Thursday, Magliochetti, a former aide on the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, stood accused by federal prosecutors of overseeing one of the largest campaign frauds in U.S. history.
Blue Dog Democrats Display Stronger Than Average Fund-Raising in 2009
February 24, 2010 | Whether it was health care reform, cap and trade climate proposals or financial regulatory reform, Blue Dog Democrats were often at the center of Congress' top legislative fights. This caucus of 54 moderate and conservative House Democrats was also at the center of political fund-raising in 2009, the Center for Responsive Politics has found.
Capital Eye Opener: Thursday, December 3
December 3, 2009 | Rep. John Tanner (D-Tenn.) makes the second member of the moderate Blue Dog Coalition in the last two weeks to announce that he'll be retiring at the end of his term, leaving the Blue Dogs to find new members of their pack.
Blue Dogs and New Democrats Find Friends on Wall Street
November 17, 2009 | Like the health care reform debate, financial regulation legislation has divided members of the same party, opening a rift between liberal and moderate Democrats. But unlike the health care reform debate, where the moderate Blue Dog Democrats have been rabid in their opposition to a public insurance option, a different group has emerged to voice moderates' concerns over financial regulation -- but both are magnets for cash from the financial sector.
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I am waiting to see how nice the convertible netbooks are because, for me, they offer more value. And while they might be a bit heavier, they are no less bulky since one should really have a cover of some sort on any of the eink based readers. Plus you can run almost any app you might want...mostly, like reader software, crossword puzzle software and basic word processing and email...all for under or near $500. It will be interesting...
The biggest con for a netbook is the fact they will pretty much stink outdoors since they are using standard LCD type displays (usually glossy which is even worse) not some form of transreflective display.
I am also waiting to see what comes up the end of this year with the plastic based displays instead of glass eink.
But right now if there was a known good netbook convertible to be had, I would need to talk myself out of buying one.
I wonder if netbooks are one reason for the rumor of the Kindlebooks on everything sorta stuff going on...the writing would seem to be on the wall that netbooks will eventually be the dominant device. Especially once color flexible eink is mainstream in a couple years.
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EMU's Family Day offers military obstacle course, look at Humvee
YPSILANTI – Among the many fun events at Eastern Michigan's upcoming Family Day, Saturday, Oct. 9, will be a military style obstacle course and a Humvee inspection. EMU's military science department will sponsor these and other fun activities, noon –4 p.m., outside EMU's Roosevelt Hall.
Participants can try their skills on an obstacle course that includes push-ups and sit-ups; lugging sand bags; throwing mock grenades; shooting nerf balls and tossing a football through a tire. An armored Humvee will also be on display. Younger children can enjoy sidewalk chalk drawing and camouflage face painting.
Family Day will feature these and more than 50 other free activities for the public. For more information on Family Day, go to www.emich.edu/familyday or call 734.487.4400.
Eastern Michigan University is a public, comprehensive university that offers programs in the arts, sciences and professions. EMU prepares students with the intellectual skills and practical experiences to succeed in their career and lives, and to be better citizens.
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Gainesville is considering supporting Hall County's planned Glades Reservoir if it won't raise water rates for the city's water customers.
Gainesville City Council is expected to take up a joint agreement with the county at its meeting tonight that's similar to the agreement the council tabled last month.
Glades Reservoir, which is estimated to cost $130 million, is planned as an 850-acre reservoir in the Upper Chattahoochee River Basin of North Hall that could provide 30 million to 40 million gallons of water per day to Northeast Georgia residents.
The agreement from early October stated Gainesville had reviewed and concurred with Hall County's application to the Georgia Environmental Finance Authority to help fund the project because it wouldn't require water rate or fee increases of water customers.
Most Hall County residents have water service from Gainesville.
Hall's application to GEFA for funding from the Governor's Water Supply Program was approved earlier this month.
The Hall County application asked for slightly more than $14.5 million, but it could get up to $40 million. The final amount of state help will be negotiated with GEFA and officials with the Environmental Protection Division, said GEFA spokesman Shane Hix.
Public Utilities Director Kelly Randall said he and the county's consultant adjusted some of the wording in the joint agreement based on some council members' concerns with the original draft. He declined to be specific, saying it was related to the "tax issue" in the agreement.
Hall's original GEFA application included a capacity fee and rate increases on water customers. The county later removed the rate increases and added a $70 annual fee on each of the 75,000 taxed parcels of land in the county in an amended application.
Hall officials have said, and the application states, it's one financing method being considered.
"I think it has some merit to it," Gainesville Councilman George Wangemann said of the joint agreement.
County Administrator Randy Knighton said the changes were "minor."
Richard Mecum, Hall County Board of Commissioners chairman, said the city wanted some changes to the agreement the county approved at the end of September. Gainesville City Council will vote on the new joint agreement first, and then it will go back to the commission.
"If that's what they want, fine, I agree with that," he said. "But I don't want the county to sign off on it because we did that last time. We thought we had something that everybody agreed on and then we signed off on it and sent it back to the city and the city then said 'no.'"
The GEFA decision to directly fund four reservoir projects across the state marks a shift in how Georgia's government has funded water projects. Historically, the state would lend local governments money to build reservoirs that meet local needs.
Gov. Nathan Deal's administration has made a priority of investing in projects that give state government access to water it could send downstream to depleted waterways, particularly during droughts. That could be useful since Georgia has fought since 1990 with neighboring Alabama and Florida over regional water usage.
Besides Glades, the state is expected to allocate funding to Indian Creek Reservoir in Carroll County and Richland Creek Reservoir in Paulding County. Another $5 million is earmarked for a project testing water desalination in Coastal Georgia.


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(CNSNews.com) - While many people inside and outside of government ponder the next target in the war on terrorism, America's Libertarian Party says the Bush administration should end the war once the job in Afghanistan is completed.
Iraq, Sudan, Somalia and the Philippines are talked about as potential attack sites in the next phase of the war because of the existence of terrorist networks in those countries.
"What the president is considering isn't mission creep; it's mission leap. The U.S. government has an obligation to track down the terrorists who attacked our nation, but it does not have the right, nor the obligation, to launch an endless, worldwide war," said Steve Dasbach, the Libertarian Party's national director.
Dasbach also thinks that attacking dozens of nations with what he called "flimsy links to terrorism" will do little to bring justice to the victims of the September terrorist attacks in New York and Washington.
It may only make the United States more susceptible to future acts of terrorism, Dasbach believes.
"There is a difference between justice and revenge. Justice was taking action against the terrorist criminals directly responsible for the 9-11 attacks, and the outlaw regime that sheltered them," he said.
Dasbach also thinks the president should seek permission from Congress if he wants to expand the war.
"If ... the president believes a foreign nation is harboring terrorists who killed Americans, as Afghanistan is, he should take his case before Congress and seek a declaration of war. Bush should resist the impulse to turn the war on terrorism into an endlessly expanding government program," said Dasbach.
Earlier this month, President Bush said on ABC's 20/20 program that American troops might be used to carry out strikes outside Afghanistan as part of the administration's expanding war against terrorism.
"Strikes will be incredibly important and there may be a need to use military troops elsewhere. And I just want the American people to know that we're keeping all options on the table," Bush said.
Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview with the Financial Times that he expects the United States to consult Moscow before taking the war on terrorism beyond Afghanistan.
He was quoted in Monday's edition as saying the top priority should be blocking the financing of terrorism. He specifically warned against taking military action against Iraq.


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are you sure its dt? I thought it was bt
So basically when I boot the LiveCD of BT3 Final it loads normally I see the menu and no matter what I choose the system hangs(no black screens, no kernel at all, nothing happens except initial cdr fast spinning) and I need to do a hard restart.
First I thought that maybe the cdr or the downloaded file were corrupt but the cdr boots perfectly on my desktop computer, and also when I start windows on the lap I could browse inside it. Then I tried adding boot parameter "dbt acpi=off" or "dt acpi=off" at the end of the command line(after pressing "TAB") for KDE - it's pentuim 3200t dual-core. Didn't help.
I've read most of the posts regarding booting and tried to follow the advices but maybe I miss something. Thanks in advance if you got any ideas.
P.S. Btw I saw that this laptop isn't in the supported list. However I'd be happy if somebody who has same or at least based on Intel® GL40 Express Chipset laptop can confirm/deny BT3Final is working on it.
are you sure its dt? I thought it was bt
That was a mistype in the first post
I changed the IDE mode from the BIOS from compatible mode to enchanced mode and the cdr booted with no additional parameters. So now i continue to next step getting xstart running


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Hi. I'm thinking of installing a cold air return from my second floor's coldest room all the way down to the basement where my leisure line stove is. I would like to make the stove part of a closed loop in the return and feed it to the return side of my first floor air handler. I have Hydro-air with a air handler in the basement and one in the attic. I would keep the first floor's air handler's fan on all the time to let it draw the air from the new second floor return through a special jacket I can make on the stove and distribute it through my first floor. Right now my basement is 75*-80* with just some heat on the fist floor. The laundry is dry in about 5 hours.
My questions are will the A coil and the water coil act like a heat sink and will I lose to much heat, or once they reach temp it shouldn't matter, and has any one tried this? I can adjust my blower speed to low at 655 CFM and save about $50 per month on my electric bill. Is this enough air? What size should I make the return from my second floor to my basement and does one type of duct flow air better than another? I have to run the return through a unheated garage, can I use a flexible insulated duct? Sorry for all the questions, been thinking of this for a while.
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Though having yet another tight run for the top of North American box office against 'Up', the Todd Phillips' comedy manages to secure the #1 slot for its second consecutive weekend.
"The Hangover" clung onto its #1 spot at the North American box office for a second weekend. While it faced a stiff competition from Disney/Pixar's "Up", the raunchy comedy from director Todd Phillips secured the top position by hauling in an estimated $33.4 million over the three days weekend starting from June 12.
By doing so, this movie became the first film of this summer to hold onto the box office's top slot for two consecutive weeks and its added bow also brought it to be the seventh film of summer to cross the $100 million mark. Grossing around $105.4 million after only 10 days in theaters, this movie has also set a new record for an R-rated movie. It became the fastest R-rated film to overcome the milestone, beating out the old record "Sex and the City" which needed 11 days to reach $100 million.
Expected to cross the $200 million mark in the coming weeks, the movie has been dubbed to be summer's unlikeliest date flick with 48% of the audience being female. Of the shifting of target audience, Warner Bros.' Jeff Goldstein said, "To be perfectly honest, we thought this would be a movie for guys. But I think women are looking more at the premise, which is really funny. And people like to laugh on dates."
Sitting comfortably behind "The Hangover" was "Up". The animated adventure collected a little bit less than the comedy movie with approximately $30.5 million in its pocket. On the track to outshine Pixar's previous movie "Wall-E", this animation has seen a total gross of about $187.2 million after 17 days screened in the big screen across North America.
The remake of the 1974 subway-hijacking thriller, "The Taking of Pelham 123 ", debuted third on the revenue chart. In line with expectations, the movie that pairs up Denzel Washington and John Travolta earned an estimated $25 million during its first weekend. "It's a solid opening for us," commented Rory Bruer, president of worldwide distribution at the Sony Corp unit.
The fourth place went to "Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian". Holding itself steady on the fourth spot since last week, the Ben Stiller's comedy brought in around $9.6 million to the total of about $143.4 million. "Land of the Lost" slipped to fifth with $9.2 million, while Eddie Murphy's "Imagine That" opened to an upsetting result, placed sixth and earning merely about $5.7 million.
Top Ten Movies at Weekend Box Office for June 12 - 14:
- "The Hangover" - $33.4 million
- "Up" - $30.5 million
- "The Taking of Pelham 123" - $25 million
- "Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian" - $9.6 million
- "Land of the Lost" - $9.2 million
- "Imagine That" - $5.7 million
- "Star Trek" - $5.6 million
- "Terminator Salvation" - $4.7 million
- "Angels & Demons" - $4.2 million
- "Drag Me to Hell" - $3.9 million


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- Green Lantern will likely be the next Warner Bros film. I've been waiting for this for year, but I have nightmares of an ultra-gay pink-skinned Sinestro ruining everything.
- Bob Orci explains How The New Star Trek Movie Fits With Trek Canon. [SPOILERS]
- Indiana's Journal Gazette (Is that the stupidest name for a newspaper you've ever heard, or is it just me?) complains that Filmmakers recycle fan favorites instead of exploring new frontiers. And you know what? They're right!
- io9 runs warns you off. If you haven't seen these 10 Worst Science Fiction Remakes, avoid them at all costs.
- Popular Mechanics helps out this holiday season by compiling a list of 20 Must-Have Blu-ray HD Epics you should buy immediately when you get your new Blu-Ray player for Christmas.
- Unreality runs down a lists a gallery of the Ten of the Baddest Fictional Movie Weapons.
- What if Water World were a musical? Yes. The world would implode.
- Free Fiction: Listen to "Framing And Mounting Fairies" by Kevin Anderson at The Dunesteef Podcast.
- The Not a Planet Anymore blog recalls The Top 5 Famous Last Words in Sci-Fi and The Top 10 SF Movie Countdowns.
- The TrekMovie fansite has posted a collection of video compilations of Inconsistencies in the Star Trek Continuum.
- Turns out that Lost Fans Will Get an Uninterrupted Season 5.


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The Warriors believe chancing their arm will shorten their odds of pulling off a major upset and toppling NRL premiers Melbourne on Anzac Day.
Coach Matthew Elliott says a cautious approach from his players won't provide the answer to ending Melbourne's unbeaten start to the season when the sides meet at AAMI Park.
"You're not going to beat them by being conservative," he said on Tuesday.
"That's why historically they don't enjoy playing the Warriors. If we want to try to match Melbourne with Melbourne-style football, we'll come second."
Elliott acknowledged that being less conservative carried greater risk, "no doubt about it, but also it makes it enjoyable footy".
While Melbourne sit alone at the top of the ladder after six rounds, the Warriors are second bottom with just one win.
Their selection options continue to be hampered by injuries, with winger Manu Vatuvei (sternum) and former Storm centre Dane Nielsen (rib) added to the casualty list after the last-start defeat to Canberra.
Although skipper Simon Mannering is travelling with the squad, he remained an "extremely unlikely" starter because of the calf injury that prevented him from making his debut as Kiwis captain in last Friday's Anzac Test.
"The physio tells me he's no chance of playing," Elliott said.
"But I'm an optimist so we'll just leave it until Thursday morning."
Glen Fisiiahi, who was part of Tonga's 36-4 win over Samoa in Penrith last weekend, and Bill Tupou replace Vatuvei and Nielsen in a reshuffled back-line.
After taking bereavement leave on the death of his sister, Fisiiahi has played for the Vulcans over the past two weeks.
Ben Henry has been named in Mannering's place in the second row.
The five-man bench features the inclusion of Jacob Lillyman and Jerome Ropati.
Lillyman's return from an ankle problem means the Warriors are set to have their top four props available together for the first time since last June.
Former Kiwis centre Ropati has been working his way back from a knee operation and is in line to make his first NRL appearance of the year.
Warriors: Kevin Locke, Bill Tupou, Ngani Laumape, Konrad Hurrell, Glen Fisiiahi, Thomas Leuluai, Shaun Johnson, Sam Rapira, Nathan Friend, Russell Packer, Feleti Mateo, Ben Henry, Todd Lowrie. Interchange: Elijah Taylor, Ben Matulino, Jacob Lillyman, Pita Godinet, Jerome Ropati (one to be omitted)


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[quote:Esoteric Morgan:MV8yMDA3NTU0XzMzNzY2MzY5Xzg1MUQ0MjRF] [quote:Anonymous Coward 1322484:MV8yMDA3NTU0XzMzNzY1NTgwXzc0N0EwNDM4] [quote:Esoteric Morgan:MV8yMDA3NTU0XzMzNzYyODAxXzVFQUIxNTRD] SolarSon, I have this thought/belief that darkness is really just another form of light energy, on opposite ends of the same spectrum. In fact, I believe it is a hyper form of light which cancels itself out, because it cannot be controlled easily. That what is call the void is not actually vacant or a vacuum as we consider it to be, just minimal in aspect. It's just pool of inertia in which things can happen, exist, without influencing what's happening in the space around it. To broaden this, I have considered this vacancy to be the 'principle' of what's called 'nothingness', a natural state which allows for the attraction and repelling of energy in a balanced way, thus creating a neutrality which allows for a freedom from influence of things that do not matter. Let's use negative energy as an example, by having an abundance of it [i]already, and necessarily, part of our makeup...[/i] That, we use this NEEDED negative energy as a 'force-field' of sorts, which naturally attracts positive energy towards the core of our being...for only opposites attract. If we were only filled with positive, we could not draw anything positive to us, could we? Is this the basis of the infinity symbol, a constant drawing in and releasing that creates a balance? Oh, and I still wish to know if darkness is a form of light, perhaps such a hyper form of it, it negates itself in aspect. Could this be how portals open and become utilized? (I wish I could expain myself better, and, have not confused the issue.) Thank you, [/quote] Conscious energy is everywhere - including that called "void" or "empty" or "Vacuum" etc. True emptiness can not exist since everything is Mental, we live in the Mind of the ALL. Consciousness can not be separated and split, with nothingness in between. There will always be the energetic band of consciousness holding it all together, going through everything and everywhere. There are also so many specters of existence that even what seems "empty" to us, physically speaking, usually is filled with life forms that are just not perceivable by us. Light and Darkness are just the two opposite polarities of the same, as you hint to. Just as Good and Evil, Love and Hate, and so on. This energy form is represented symbolically throughout existence in many forms, both in physical shapes, events and places as well as mental, emotional and spiritual forms. In the end they are all representing different polarities of the Whole, and when combined and joined together in their true form they are the Totality. We only experience them as individual and separate due to our limited way of perceiving due to our current physical prison and misled state of mind. [/quote] Thank you for expanding upon my musings on the mechanics behind energy itself. Once we understand its balance, we have the ability to learn how to use it to help ourselves in many, many ways. :hf: [/quote]
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I can not tell you too much about myself, simply because it would easily identify me in the groups I belong.
What I can tell you is that I am an active member of several secret orders, beyond the mainstream regions of Freemasonry into the higher forms of the inner order of Illuminati.
And I have come here to reveal some of the secrets that I feel are of immense importance to all, as well as certain matters that should be for the benefit of everyone and not just us select few.
None of you know anything of what you think you know - not about us, the ones behind the curtains, nor about yourselves. You have been mislead and led astray since before your birth.
The complexity of it all is so vast that it will take time to detail it for you. Thus I will have to start somewhere, and I will come back to add when the occasion lets me. If time allows, I will also answer questions some may have, as long those questions do not incriminate me or reveal for those who knows me from the inside who I am.
Being here at all is risky enough as it is - take what I tell you for what it is and decide for yourselves what you want to do with the information, or whether I am telling you the truth or not.
Let me start with a short introduction of myself, to at least give you the bones without the meat.
My family have been involved with the secret orders as far back in time I have been able to look back in any of our records. I stepped right into the same as soon I was born.
We have close ties with many of the groups and orders most of you will have heard of - and even more of the ones you will never even find the name of. A lot of the Light shines in the Darkness.
The family I come from has a leadership role and a greater importance within these orders. This has given me an unique access to information, understanding, knowledge and greatly guarded secrets that very few are privileged to.
Being in such a position is very rewarding, and you would probably not even believe all the things we oversee and are witness to - not to mention what we experience and are involved with directly ourselves. A lot of it can't be mention, since doing so would endanger my anonymity.
The reason I have decided to come here to open the lid on the door a bit, is because of both the horrific discoveries I have made during my time on the inside, AS WELL as the WONDERFUL discoveries.
Truly a lot can be said, and probably will, but for now in my first attempt at letting you in on the secrets I must detail the utter most important parts.
First of all: You are IMMENSELY deceived. NOTHING is the way you think it is, and not even close to it either. Everything is a lie, and a great hoax put upon you. This includes your own LIFE, your IDENTITY.
Everything around you have been created and put in place to BLIND you from the truth. The Media, is there to deceive you and keep you away from understanding, your job is there to keep you busy and away from discovering your true self, your favorite hobbies and past-time activities have been designed to maintain your business beyond your job to further mislead you from reality, religion is there to hide the truth, technology, science, medicine, all there to derail you from the truth. The person you love, your own family, they are there to keep you away from the truth.
The very Earth under your feet is in place to keep you away from the Truth.
That all may sound preposterous - and I can see why, since it really does sound insane.
But nevertheless, this is the way it really is.
Now this does not mean you are not "real", or that the world, or those things you see around you are not "real". But it does mean that your reality, that which is your everyday, is part of a greater design, spun around you in all its splendor, to maintain you in a level of status quo - to keep you in your current state. Compare it to cows in a field - the field and the farm they live on are real enough, and the cows take it for granted as their everyday life, yet it is still in the end artificially created for the cows to keep them there, as the slaves of the farmer. It is truly a perfect analogy since it is pretty much identical to what is really going on.
In that sense, in YOUR reality, you are the "cows", and the "farmer" is, well, call it the Great Architect of the Universe.
You can also call it the Devil, or Satan - but do NOT call it God.
God did NOT create the World. God did NOT create you. It was a different entity, far from God, in biblical terms you could say it was the "Fallen Angel" mentioned above.
With this I quickly jump through tremendous parts of History, and skip all the important bits in between. We go back to our "present" and Secret Orders - since what I have just mentioned now is one of the MOST guarded secrets of these orders.
And, at the highest level of most orders of any significance this is a well known truth - a truth guarded because of many reasons in itself, but not necessarily for Evil as I will get to in my next post.
It relates to the Secret Orders due to us being in existence since BEFORE the time of the Creation of the illusious world you live within, and the Orders exist on Earth today as the channel that allows for the connection and communication with the Divine, and that which still exists far outside the Spheres of the physical Universe you now experience yourself in.
This is all something I will detail soon, when I have the time to come back to further share some of the secrets I feel must be shared.
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I sat in the tree house with Ace, Luffy, and Sabo counting the treasure we stole. The four of us were all saving up to become pirates and make our dreams come true. Ace and Luffy were arguing about the meat that we also stole while Sabo and I watched with a sweat drop on the back of our heads.
"Why can't they ever just make up there minds it's just meat..." I sad with a sigh. But when I said that I got the attention of the two and they glared.
"Just?" Luffy asked
"Meat?" Ace finished for him. I slowly scooted back as the two stood in front of me flaming with anger.
"It isn't just meat (y/n)." A voice behind me said. I slowly turned and saw Sabo there with the same expression.
"Uhh guys... you're really freaking me out.." I said to them. Sabo walk over and stood and got really close to my face.
"It isn't just meat...its the best treasure!" He said breaking the creepy aura. I looked at them enraged and tackled all three of them.
"YOU ASS HOLES DON'T SACRE ME LIKE THAT AGAIN! YOU ACTED LIKE DEMONS!!" I yelled at them as I got off and crossed my arms. Ace and Luffy were laughing there asses of as Sabo got up and stood next to me. I barley looked at him then looked away.
"Hmph." I said looking away. Sabo smiled and kissed my cheek making me blush.
"Meat might be a great treasure but not as great as you."


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It uses iptables.
Not a Backtrack related question, not sure if it's allowed in these forums, but I didn't have anywhere better to post it.
I have Ettercap 0.73-NG installated. I've got the ipfw redirection working in etter.conf, and I'm running as the root user. I've run it without specifying targets, and with specifying targets.
I can sniff unencrypted passwords fine, and I've used Wireshark to verify that the redirection is working, but I can't sniff secure traffic.
The same thing seems to happen on Backtrack. Does Backtrack 2/3 use iptables or ipchains?
Well most likely since Kernel version 2.4 you will have iptables instead of ipchains.
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