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Temporary Wooden Pavillion that Push Timber to the Limits
Temporary pavilions belong to a hybrid typology that fluctuates between art and architecture and keeps up with the ever-changing building trends. Thanks to their short life span and small scale, short-lived structures have become vehicles for testing out new ideas and progressive building technologies — playgrounds for architects to build architectural prototypes unburdened by high construction costs and long-term social, cultural, and economic impacts on the environment.
As a renewable building material whose versatility allows for complex spatial experimentation, wood seems to be the material of the moment. New products such as Cross Laminated Timber and Glulam are changing the face of construction by contributing to a wider range of timber-based solutions. Whether loosely bound in aggregate systems, or utilized to mimic the performative capacities of living organisms, wood allows for a multifaceted and exciting exploration of the material, structural, and experiential properties of spaces.
Two example of temporary pavilions that will reshape your idea of what wood can do.
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Seat Pavilion by E/B Office, 2012, Atlanta, US
Sequentially attached wooden chairs, connected using simple lag bolts, clam and crews, create a flowing configuration stabilized by transferring shear forces through the entire structure. The complex vortex rising from the ground transforms a simple piece of furniture into a structural and spatial element, questioning the way we perceive the seemingly common activity of sitting.
The Reading Nest by Mark Reigelman, 2013, Cleveland, US
This nest-shaped temporary installation comprises 10,000 boards, held in place by wooden armatures, steel cables, and 40,000 nails. The structure uses locally sourced wood to convey its symbolic quality and the idea of growth through knowledge. It was built by a team of five people in only 10 days.
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UK political parties' websites rank poorly as election looms
Much more work is required on key political sites if they are to effectively connect with the voters, say the findings of the Q1 2010 UK Government website index by website usability evaluator Sitemorse.
Working in partnership with marketing specialist Alterian, Sitemorse tested the functionality, accessibility, performance, email links, and metadata, of all websites deemed to be at the heart of the central government and politics, in order to ensure accountability and best practice online. When ranked against a range of government websites, of the three major political parties' websites, only that of the Liberal Democrats (pictured) made it into the assessment's top 50.
Additionally, its website was the most improved in terms of accessibility and performance, rising from 333rd place last quarter to 37th this quarter. Overall, the Conservative Party's website ranked 187th ahead of Labour's, which ranked 385th in Sitemorse's evaluation this time.
Websites have become the first point of call for citizens looking for governmental service, argues Alterian CEO David Eldridge: "The website becomes the organisation's representation of the quality of their services - as such, it is imperative to create a positive experience for website visitors," he says.
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Sound of silence Close your eyes, and stretch out your arms full length aligned with your shoulders, take three deep breaths and imagine that you are at the most peaceful place you can imagine. When faced with a challenge, a threat or an argument - you feel insecure or unsure how to react, go to that peaceful place. As the challenge you face develops, continue to move back to that place, let your mind be in constant movement to the challenge and then back to that moment. Then you will successfully deal with all challenges.
This was an exercise given by an ex-mossad agent on how to deal in anxious environments. His challenges may have been slightly different, as he came under fire breaking into the house of a terrorist on the shores of Morocco.
But where would that peaceful place be for you?
I often arrive at a quiet sunny beach, with the relaxing sounds of nature, the breeze, the seagulls, the gentle water and my children playing in the background. Relaxing, but movement and sound nonetheless.
We live with sounds and cannot function without them; those that cannot hear develop other senses of feel and sight to make up for it.
Even in serenity there is mild activity, even in relaxation there is slight movement, even in peace there is muted sound.
Which leads us to an interesting idea in this week's Torah portion: The High Priest was instructed to fashion bells on the bottom of his tunic. The bells softly jingled as he walked and announced his entrance ahead of him.
Is this not a distraction from the emphasis on G-d, drawing undue attention to the High Priest?
These bells reflected the essence of life. They represented the give and take, the hustle and bustle, of movement and growth. The High Priest did not live in a vacuum of spiritual seclusion. He lived in a world where ordinary people struggled.
In this struggle, ordinary people were left wanting. Despite their efforts, they knew they could do better and they always desired more. They found themselves on a growing curve, caught up in a momentum of up and down, to and fro. This movement was reflected in the jingling of the High Priest's bells.
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Helpmate and UNC Asheville partnered to raise awareness about domestic violence.
Helpmate and UNC Asheville partnered to raise awareness about domestic violence.
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and the two held a vigil Wednesday on the UNCA campus.
Two domestic violence survivors shared their stories and Helpmate director April Burgess-Johnson offered encouraging words for those who are struggling.
"It's all about hope," Burgess-Johnson said. "And hope really boils down to two things. Hope is the belief that things can get better and that I can do something to make them better. And Helpmate is there to help people find that path to hope, safety and security."
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Joe Kinnear knows former Sunderland manager Roy Keane well from their time together on Irish television, and Joe was shocked when Keane left Sunderland yesterday, after doing very well at the club, at least until the last 7 games.
Roy Keane – surprisingly walked away from Sunderland
Joe also believes the Sunderland players have let Roy and the Sunderland fans down, and should be feeling guilty for their performances, especially over the last several weeks, in fact since they beat Newcastle.
Joe talked about the situation today:
"It was a big surprise for me because Roy has done an excellent job there. I just wish he had taken a deep breath, taken a step back and realized what a good job he has done over the last two seasons."
"He is a bright young manager and it's sad he has walked away because I don't think the team were in a crisis." "I think Roy is his own harshest critic really and he obviously wasn't happy with how things were going."
"Nobody can tell him what to do. He has made his decision and we have to respect that, but I don't believe it was the right one because, in my opinion, he was doing a brilliant job there."
"I thought it was only a matter of time before he turned things round, but he has decided he's taken the club as far as he can and there wasn't anything anyone could say to get him to change his mind."
"I sincerely hope it isn't the last we see of Roy as a manager in the Premier League because that would be waste. He will probably feel relief for the first week or so because it's over, but in a few weeks time he will feel like he has chopped his arm off."
"Football is in his blood and I know what it's like to be sat there watching games on television or in the stands. You just want to be back in the dressing room."
"Roy will be welcome at lots of grounds up and down the country, but when he's there he will regret not being involved. I don't think we have seen the last of him, I certainly hope not because he is a top manager in the making."
"I think the players need to take a long hard look at themselves because it is too easy for a manager to take all the blame when performances don't go well." "They were leaking goals left right and centre and I think they will be shocked the manager has left."
"They will feel responsible I hope because they have lost an excellent manager who was capable of taking them on to a higher level in their careers."
We thought Keane was on his way to becoming a top manager, and are surprised he packed it in after 6 defeats in 7 games. It was really the first crisis he's had to face as manager. But it also looked like the Sunderland Board weren't that keen (excuse the pun) to keep Roy, which is also a little surprising, since Chairman Niall Quinn has always backed Roy to the hilt.
The club will now need to get an experienced manager in, because it's likely they will be dropping even more points soon. They play at Man United tomorrow, and it would be a brave person to forecast anything but another Sunderland loss.
While Sunderland are the obvious enemy at Newcastle, nevertheless we still feel it's in the interests of both the Newcastle club and the north-east region in general, that Sunderland stay in the Premier league.
How else can we keep beating them, if they get relegated? 😀
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I found out by text yesterday and jumped on the WAP to confirm and laughed me arse off in BHS cafe in the MC yesterday – yes that was me.
Anyway its a forgone conclusion that the mackems will be direction less and all over the place tomorrow – at best 2-0 defeat at worst 5-0 but would love to see a repeat drudging of what we got done by last year!
Fat Sam for the Mackems – now that would be interesting if he is in place by 1st Feb. Cant see it like. He was odds in for Blackburn too.
To sum up – I dont really care but do not recall such coverage on SSN when KK left etc.
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Last week was very successful overall. Everything turned out quite amazing, especially the fettuccine. The Mongolian Pork was just ok, the sauce was excellent but the dish as a whole is better with beef.
Onto this week's menu:
Saturday: Chinese from the new place in town
Sunday: Stuffing topped chicken pot pie
Monday: Broccoli Fettuccine Alfredo (yes, again. Jason has to put Kaleb to bed on his own and wants him to eat well at supper - Kaleb loves alfredo!)
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I cannot accept the idea that little particles have any free will. In that spirit, I have decided to mention an alternate view: they only appear to have free will; in reality, only humans and animals actually have free will.
Every time a physicist measures a particle, they are either sending out a particle or series of particles, or attempting to catch a particle with their detectors. Every time a particle is hit by particle, or emits a particle, it causes the next measurement to be determined by a pseudo-random number formula. The only reason the uncertainty principle appears to hold is that we do not know the formula. However, the probability wave functions physicists create for the properties of each particle they observe is a good approximation of the frequencies that physicists could predict if they knew the aforementioned formula.
Think of it like this: Imagine you are running a computer program that has two buttons, labeled "Position" and "Momentum" respectively. Each time you hit either button, a number that appears to be randomly generated appears above the button, and the fact that you hit the button will somehow affect the outcome of you pressing the other button, or that button itself. The computer you use can't generate a purely random number, so it must use a formula to generate a number that appears random.


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A radio presenter was shot dead by two gunmen while he presented a show live on air.
Gleydson Carvalho was shot three times by the gunmen who burst into his studio during his regular midday slot yesterday.
They overpowered a receptionist before forcing their way into Carvalho's recording studio in Brazil and ordered his sound engineer to take cover under a table.
They then shot the radio presenter, known as a staunch critic of government corruption, three times - once in the head and twice in the chest.
The horrific murder occurred around 12.40pm local time yesterday at Radio Liberdade FM in Camocim, a beach resort in the north-eastern state of Ceara.
The killers escaped on a white motorbike while their victim was rushed to hospital. He died on route.
It is understood the attack happened during a musical interlude during the radio programme.
Another radio employee announced the programme presenter had been shot and was receiving medical attention before it continued with music.
Carvalho was known locally for his attacks on local government corruption.
Friend Autran Santos said he would often receive threats live on air.
He said: "He spoke to me constantly about the threats but said he wasn't afraid.
"The most serious threats he received were to do with politics. He said he had enemies because of the accusations he made."
Carvalho's lawyer Marcos Coelho added: "I never imagined something like this could happen in our city.
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Hayley B.: Sydney Fashion Festival audition
How exciting! As Australia prepares for Sydney's forthcoming Mercedes-Benz Fashion Festival, this video shows a number of plus-size models being auditioned, including the most gorgeous model in Australia, Hayley B., of Bella Model Management, looking every inch of her luscious, size-16 self.
Hayley walks her catwalk strut at 0.53, is photographed looking stunning in a fitted white top that defines her opulent curves, and answers a question from the interviewer. Then the camera comes back to her at 1.42, and again at 2.37. She is definitely the star of the video! She looks fantastic.
I hope this means that she will be in the show itself. It would be so exciting to see her on the catwalk!
Here's the link to the original video source:
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Since the public never sees as many photos of Hayley as they would wish, it's worth reviewing the video and highlighting her appearances.
White has always been Hayley's signature colour, ever since she made her stunning debut in bridal fashions, so to see the model emerge in a white top is most agreeable.
Her walk is smooth, fluid, and graceful, a clear indication that she would be an effective catwalk presenter. Belying her own modest subsequent comments, she walks with the professionalism of a runway veteran.
Inthe scene showing Hayley being photographed, the light coming in from the side highlights her opulent, womanly curves, so lovingly defined by her fitted top. Her figure resembles that of a Classical sculpture in white marble, its smooth finish and rounded contours illuminated by the daylight streaming in through a museum window. Her stance communicates ease and confidence; her expression suggests agreeable self-satisfaction. To have a genuinely full-figured goddess exude such effortless body love is exactly what the curvy community is asking for, in plus-size models.
In the Telegraph interview, Hayley is articulate and sincere; confident, yet without a trace of pretension. This combination of goddesslike beauty and an honest disposition, a blend of the ideal and the real, is always a winning combination with the public, who find Hayley to be both aspirational and relatable--a rare, perfect mix.
If anything, Hayley's beauty has increased since fans were first introduced to her work. She has retained her luscious proportions, but she now exhibits longer hair. The natural golden hue of her tresses and the soft fullness in her face reminds one of Blair Warner from the television series The Facts of Life, an irresistible charmer was aristocratically lovely, yet had a soft, well-fed look.
Hayley's full, rounded arms are surely the glories of her figure. Although this top is not sleeveless, it is so attractively fitted that it defines the luscious outline of her shapely limbs, even baring part of her forearms to show her natural, fair skin tone (unblemished by artificial "tanner," which is yet another one of those horrors imposed on women to dupe them into resenting their natural appearance).
These screen captures also highlight that emblem of facial fullness so highly prized in Renaissance aesthetics, the slight rise of a slope toward the throat. It is the visible weight in her face that gives Hayley her timeless beauty.
In one final, brief shot, the video shows Hayley tweeting about the casting experience. One suspects that the infatuated cameraman simply took this as an opportunity to showcase the model's buxom curves.
Many fans have acclaimed Hayley as the most beautiful model in Australia, and her gorgeous appearance in this video confirms their enthusiastic assessment.
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I do worry about what this means for the transparency of web technologies — another blow against the utility of View Source. That said, JS is basically all obfuscated today anyway, so making it more efficient/faster to get to the browser is probably a good thing, especially as a hedge against a completely native app world.


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Kevin Chief said Thursday he kept the door open to a leadership run, but has now decided his efforts are best focused on his cabinet and constituency duties.
"I'm still learning a lot," said Chief, who was first elected the to legislature in 2011.
"Having the opportunity to serve in a cabinet is very exciting and being able to represent a neighbourhood that has given me so much not only makes me very proud, but this is where I do believe I can make the biggest contribution."
Chief, 40, represents the Point Douglas constituency — a low-income area in Winnipeg's core. The former community leader has been seen as a rising star in the NDP and has held three cabinet posts. He is currently minister responsible for the City of Winnipeg and minister of jobs and the economy.
The race for the helm of the governing NDP was prompted by a caucus revolt against Premier Greg Selinger. Five senior cabinet ministers resigned their portfolios in November after suggesting he should quit in order to help the party rebound in the polls.
One of those former ministers, Theresa Oswald, is in the leadership race, as is Steve Ashton, the province's infrastructure and transportation minister, who ran for the leadership in 2009 as well.
Selinger has vowed to fight to keep his job and is expected to file his nomination papers as early as Friday. The deadline to enter is Tuesday. NDP delegates will make their decision March 8.
Chief said Thursday he is supporting Selinger, although he appeared to choose his words carefully.
"I've always said that the premier has always been very supportive of me and the work that I've done. I believe that when someone is supportive, you reciprocate that support, because that is how you get things done for people.
"As a sitting cabinet member, sitting in the premier's cabinet, I do support the premier. I think that's important to be effective in the job that I'm doing."


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Kim Myers, observing the worsening moral, economic, political, and cultural climate in America, speculates that the time when the offspring of Jacob are going to pay the piper is rapidly closing in. With a national debt of 23 trillion dollars, far larger than the combined GDP of a dozen developed nations, America is on the cusp of paying dearly for her abrupt turn to immorality, when murder and sodomy has become established as the law of the land. The advocates of "political correctness" (Satanic doublespeak) have increasingly criminalized righteous dialogue. Censorship of religion has waxed fiercely out of control. The LGBT community has become increasingly assertive and litigious, forcing the tolerance of perverted sexual lifestyles, paving the way for pedophilia and bestiality to enter the mainstream. Young people have adopted a dependent, entitlement orientation, refusing gainful employment on any terms. Food processors are poisoning our food at the same time that they have corrupted our seed stock—vital for the health of any people. The result is the pandemic increase of a host of degenerative diseases. Opioids, a relatively marginalized threat two years ago, now snuff out over 72,000 American lives a year. People high and low today call good evil and evil good; we cannot avoid reaping what we have sown. As God's called-out ones, we need to cultivate a sense of urgency in the enhancement of our relationship with God.
Richard Ritenbaugh, acknowledging the chasm between the Creationist Christian community and the science-evolution establishment, proclaims that the liberal media consistently portrays conservatives and Christians as "science deniers," castigating any faith-based group for not acceding to "settled science." Actually, the real "science-deniers" are those on the far left, where God-denying scientists established a so-called consensus of "settled science" by manipulating data, as any objective analysis of peer-reviewed scientific papers will indicate. The climate change hoax is not the first time the far-left has tried to promote false science. According to John Tierney in his article "The Real War on Science," the fallacious 'food pyramid,' which militated against fat in favor of carbohydrates, has been a major contributory cause in the alarming rise in obesity and diabetes. The God-deniers also deny the biological reality that every cell of the human body contains the code of one's biological gender. John Stossel explains that the far left 'scientists,' pundits, and politicians are transferring their nefarious motives onto their opponents. As God's called-out ones, we have to exercise care that no one deceives us.
Richard Ritenbaugh, analyzing the news about the open position on the Supreme Court, suggests that the upcoming appointment could possibly tilt the court in favor of conservatives for the first time in decades. Senator Orrin Hatch's hint that Amy Coney Barrett, a staunch Roman Catholic and a Professor at Notre Dame Law School, may be the President's nominee, leaves abortion activists and gay marriage advocates running scared. As the far-left attempted to editorially lynch Clarence Thomas, they will also relentlessly skewer Barrett, who is no feminist. Even if she should be seated on the Court, three caveats suggest that the tilt back to morality may be blunted: First, the 1973 Supreme Court which upheld Roe vs. Wade had a moderate to conservative tilt. Second, politics rather than the Constitution has been playing an increasingly larger role in the decisions rendered by judges. And third, the justices may find themselves squeamish to take an abortion case, caving in as John Roberts did on compulsory insurance.
Richard Ritenbaugh, examining the current version of the Declaration of Geneva, as adopted in 2017 by the World Medical Association (WMA) General Assembly, compares the philosophy of this document with two of its predecessors: 1.) the Hippocratic Oath and 2.) the original Declaration of Geneva. The Hippocratic Oath is the ancient code of medical ethics in Greece, requiring the physician to uphold high ethical standards in the healing arts, promising to do no harm. Though dated, the Hippocratic Oath remains remarkable for its conservatism, proscribing abortion and euthanasia, while establishing a firm demarcation between right and wrong. The 1948 Declaration of Geneva was a reaction to the experiments performed by some Nazi and Japanese physicians in the 1930s and 40s. It stressed that doctors were duty-bound to protect the well-being and dignity of the patient and to maintain utmost respect for human life. In distinction to its predecessors, the 2017 Declaration of Geneva subtly alters the philosophy of the medical profession. Relativistic in approach, it rejects absolute standards of right and wrong, but rather permits the physician to yield to the whims of the patient, including their demands for abortion, sex change, and physician-assisted suicide. The 2017 Declaration conforms to the liberal's paradigm of the rejection of Christian values while furthering the deconstruction of traditional Western culture.
Mike Ford, describing a picture of a fox hiding in the middle of a group of bloodhounds, with the caption, "When in trouble, try to blend in," compares this picture to the results of a Barna poll stating that 59% of 'Christians' do not believe in Satan. Hollywood and the 'progressive' media have done a good job of providing protective cover for Satan and his demons. We can see the hand of Satan in the transgender movement, the obsession with climate change, and the abortion plague. To promiscuous 'progressive' feminists, emboldened by the hideous Roe v. Wade decision, killing a child is like having a flu shot. California taxpayers have paid for 88,456 abortions, but have paradoxically fought to keep 126 murderers (some of whom had inflicted indescribable torture on their victims) alive. As the people of ancient Judah offered sacrifices, including their own children, to other gods, modern Israel follows their practice, murdering their children in abortion clinics. Satan exists; Satan hates God: Satan hates families. Thankfully, God's power far eclipses anything Satan can possibly do.
John Ritenbaugh, lamenting that the course that America is taking has destroyed her virtue, claims that breaking the first commandment is the worst sin because its violation is the epitome of self-centeredness, putting the self before God, the most blatant form of idolatry. The secular humanists, infiltrating education, entertainment, and government, boldly placing their reprobate minds above God's holy law, have undermined the virtue and sullied the purity of America. In 1972 and 2003, the satanically inspired Supreme Court of the United States respectively "legitimatized" murder (of innocent unborn babies) in the name of 'women's rights' and sodomy (calling same-sex marriage a right in the Constitution) as the law of the land. The seven things God absolutely hates, recorded in Proverbs 6:16-19, have been boldly practiced by secular, humanist, 'progressive' leftist media, educators, entertainment, politicians, and judges for the last 50 years. This nation is a mere shell of its former greatness, and has been begging for God's wrath. Our Heavenly Father will not keep His patience forever.
Within the past eighteen months, at least three major medical associations in the United Kingdom have voted to support liberalized abortion policies—to the extent of "opening up abortion throughout pregnancy for any reason." John Ritenbaugh gathers evidence proving that, despite the public's lack of support for loosening abortion laws, the leadership in the medical profession are weakening standards to the point that human life means nothing.
John Ritenbaugh acknowledges that this is not our Father's world and that man's laws, established by "community" mores, are often at cross purposes with God's holy law—laws such as legalized infanticide (abortion) and same-sex 'marriage' (sexual perversion). Consequently, a true Christian cannot become caught up in enforcing and supporting regulations which violate God's holy law. Christians must detach themselves from a Satanically inspired justice system which enforces tyrannical, unjust rules that violate God's law. Rather, they must place themselves exclusively under God's sovereignty, supporting only just and holy laws.
John Ritenbaugh, in his keynote "Handwriting on the Wall" message, based on Daniel 5:1-5, issues a stark warning of dire events to befall the Israelitish nations, predicting a truly menacing time when the leftist, 'progressive' powers that currently control the judiciary and the executive branches of government will inflict horrendous, grievous persecution on both nominal and true Christians alike. On October 1, 2016, the State of Massachusetts (which, ironically , occupies the same location where the first settlers seeking religious freedom landed) militated against religious freedom by criminalizing acts of conscience on the part of churches and businesses that do not cow-tow to LBGT demands. This action does not represent a shot across the bow, but a devastating hit to true religious liberty, demanding that sodomy come out of the closet and Christianity move into the closet. Diann Rice, Civil Rights Commissioner of Colorado, claiming that Christianity had justified slavery and other civil rights abuses, asked for stiff fines to be imposed upon bakers who refused to bake wedding cakes for homosexuals because of conscience. The evil 'progressive' leftist judicial powers, under Satan's influence, having pulled a bait and switch by emphasizing "freedom of worship" rather than "freedom of religion," have succeeded in taking away the civil rights of true Christians, who can no longer practice their beliefs in the public square. 'Progressive' 'liberal' 'humanism' is a greater threat to true Christianity than the dreaded Inquisition and the Stalinist purges. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has openly declared at the Women's World Summit, that "deep-seated cultural modes and deep-seated religious beliefs have to be changed, and that Federal laws have to be backed up with Federal will." Truly the Beast power is beginning to flex its muscles and is actively wearing down the saints.
John Ritenbaugh reiterates that political correctness is a kind of programmed conditioning, undertaken by leftist 'liberal' 'progressives' to convince people to override their common sense and the evidence of their five senses, coercing gullible people to ardently believe that a blue barn is flaming red while a flaming red barn is sky blue, or that evil is good and good is evil. 'Progressives' would have us believe that gender is a matter of choice, made possible by cutting appendages off and augmenting others by chemicals. 'Progressives' would have us believe that gun-free zones prevent violence. 'Progressives' would have us believe that the economy is robust and healthy when the national debt has never been higher and hopelessly out of control. 'Progressives' would have us believe that Black Lives Matter (an organization funded by hateful white billionaire and former Nazi-collaborator George Soros) seeks to protect black lives, when in reality it delights in massive black abortions, condones 500 black-on-black homicides in Chicago annually, but hysterically foments rage when any policeman wounds or shoots a black man under any circumstances. The proponents of Black Lives Matter want to brainwash the community to accept the fiction of police brutality, while enabling unscrupulous politicians to gain control of the inner cities as their domain. 'Progressives' may hypocritically denounce terrorists with black masks and scimitars, but graciously condone terrorists with white masks and scalpels who have murdered millions of innocent babies in the name of 'Women's rights.'
Our culture appears to be in steep decline, a fact we can see in the undermining of marriage throughout society. Despite having served mankind well down through the millennia, the institution of marriage is crumbling under a three-pronged attack engineered by Satan the Devil. John Ritenbaugh teaches that marriage is vital to understanding God's purpose and learning to live in harmony with one another.
John Ritenbaugh, reiterating that 'progressive' liberal, leftist change agents are engaged in one unified agenda, namely the destruction of culture and the destruction of Christianity, maintains they are being guided by the prince of the power of the air and have successfully created confusion in culture, pitting neighbor against neighbor, weakening the structure of our civilization. A large percentage of our citizenry have accepted the noxious propositions of these change agents. Four examples of such propositions include 1) The preposterous assumptions behind the Black Lives Matter movement, 2) The equally unreasonable notion that white policemen should not be permitted to protect themselves from juvenile thugs, 3) The tacit license granted by society to Planned Parenthood to slay over 300,000 Black infants annually and 4) The endorsement of the scientifically bogus claim of gender-dysphoria, with its resultant public policy of allowing individuals who feel they have been born in the wrong gender to surgically 'switch' body styles. (Serious scientific studies have indicated that the DNA code has been pre-set at birth, and that superficial cutting and pasting does not meaningfully alter gender-specific biological hardware or its supporting chemical processes.) The nadir of liberal childishness is its denial of the reality of human nature, leading to the idea that the confiscation of firearms will result in an end to violence. Liberalism is clearly a dangerous, progressively debilitating mental disorder.
John Ritenbaugh defines political correctness as a savage war on truth, in which a gullible public is persuaded to dismiss evidence people witness with their own eyes, replacing it with a false, delusional narrative. Inordinately fearful individuals, those who believe themselves to be powerless victims, or those who prize social acceptance over truth, display a penchant for accepting this unreal narrative. Philip Hodges revealed the virulent lies of the Black Lives Matter movement by his tweet, "Don't vote for Hillary; She's killing black people," a reference to the Presidential candidate's ardent support of Planned Parenthood, formed by the black-hater, Margaret Sanger. That group murders-through abortion- over 355,510 black babies a year, far in excess of the 258 black men killed in confrontation with police. The state-controlled media shields Planned Parenthood's role as Murder Incorporated, organized by progressive liberals. For Planned Parenthood and progressive liberals, saving black children does not matter; killing babies is one of the greatest profit generators in American history.
John Ritenbaugh, reflecting on the false teachings seeping into the Corinthian congregation, submits that the ministers may not have introduced false concepts, but the membership, steeped in worldly philosophy, thoroughly twisted and misapplied the messages, adjusting them to the popular philosophical fad of the time. Similarly, in our time, our citizenry has been duped by noxious, philosophical concepts inspired by Satan, foisted onto the leaders of governmental and educational institutions, who have surreptitiously corrupted and poisoned the curricula of our public schools. Today, massively large segments of the population have no idea what right and wrong is. Murder is accepted as normal, if the one being murdered is helpless and the young female is exercising her woman's 'right' to choose. Dr. Carolyn Paine entered the abortion field with enthusiastic alacrity, having no compunction about the butchery of a helpless human beings by manual vacuum aspiration abortion, "a feel-good procedure," sucking the fetal mass out of the uterus as though it were a piece of garbage. As these eager, dutiful ObGyn's practice their craft, their consciences are irreparably seared. MVA (a variety of murder) is seen as a way of removing the unwanted consequence of fornication or adultery, or destroying the consequences of committing adultery with a more 'humane' murder, thereby breaking two of God's Commandments without 'guilt.' Dr. Paine considers her ghoulish craft fair to children and to society. Paradoxically, those children Dr. Paine has murdered would be welcome in the homes of many childless couples. This calloused ObGyn, in reality, cares nothing about the welfare of society, but only in her own. Murder is not a part of the repertoire of Christian behavior.
John Ritenbaugh reiterates that, although the American Constitution, ratified over 225 years ago, was based on the necessity of retaining a knowledge of God and His Laws, America has been in a moral freefall from the time it had become involved in the World War I. Of the things God says He hates in Proverbs 6:16, including pride and hands that shed innocent blood, nothing seems to be more disgusting than the American abortion industry, which has murdered far more innocent lives than did Hitler and Stalin—combined. Carolyn Payne, an Ob/Gyn abortion specialist, a self-professed Christian, proudly claims that 'Christianity' prepared her to murder babies on behalf of women's 'rights.' She thanks her parental upbringing for enabling her, from the time of her teen-aged years apparently, to use birth control, ostensibly to be able to fornicate as freely as men do and not suffer any stigmatizing consequences, thereby accommodating sex while ignoring morality. Perhaps millions of other young adults, along with Carolyn, have been conditioned by their 'Christian' families to become promiscuous and self-indulgent, the antithesis of the godly woman in Proverbs 31.
John Ritenbaugh, reflecting on an article in Christianity Today which suggests that American Christians are becoming increasingly confused about whether abortion is equivalent to murder, concludes that we live in a moral garbage dump, every bit as vile as Sodom and Gomorrah. America (and the other Israelitish nations), like mother-like daughter, disgustingly has eclipsed the sins of Sodom and Egypt and is the primary target of Ezekiel's prophecies, words which were written after the captivity of Judah and Israel. Ezekiel's prophecies are unfolding right now, before our eyes, describing contemporary news events—real end-time material. Sadly, the haughtiness with which modern Judah and Israel embraces immorality makes the people of Sodom appear moral in comparison.
John Ritenbaugh focuses on the apostle Paul's response to the bitter altercation between Euodia and Syntyche, women church leaders at Philippi, who succeeded in polarizing the congregation by their contentious pride, placing their obsessive desire to be right over unity. Paul urges them to follow the example of Christ, who emptied Himself of His divinity, assuming the role of a bond servant, exalting others over Himself, prompting God the Father to exalt Him above all others. Godly leadership is a function of submitting to the covenants God has made with us, including the marriage covenant, setting the proper pattern of all forms of institutions, including educational, governmental, medical, and religious institutions. Secular, progressive humanists, inspired by Satan, in their hatred toward God's covenants, through their endorsement of moral relativity and the new morality, fostering adultery, fornication, as well as feminism, homosexuality, polygamy, and transgender aberrations, have savagely attacked God's marriage covenant. Progressive humanists over the years have succeeded in making divorce as easy as falling off a log, and murder on demand (abortion) a convenience attended with no longer any trace of resistance. Paradoxically, hedonism, a philosophy which holds that pleasure is the highest aim in life, can never lead to real pleasure, but seeking to please God by serving others brings maximum pleasure. The marriage relationship, becoming totally one with one another as God the Father and Jesus Christ are at one with one another, provides the pattern of the true meaning of love—not feelings, but actions (consisting of serving and caring). Keeping God's Commandments demonstrates the highest form of love. Along with all the other gifts in the universal Edenic Covenant, identifying God as our benevolent Creator, who designed this earth for mankind to tend and keep, providing the marriage covenant as a God-plane relationship, the Sabbath Day educates us for service in God's Kingdom.
Richard Ritenbaugh posits that the thesis of the books of Chronicles is that, if one follows the terms of God's Covenant, blessings will accrue, and that, if one does not, curses will ensue. God sternly warned ancient Israel never to make covenants with the people whom He had dispossessed, nor to have anything to do with their sensual gods, but instead they were to destroy and tear down their idols and remove their high places. If Israel would honor the covenant, the people could be absolutely assured that God would richly bless them. God desires to bless and prosper His people. Decidedly, the worst king Judah ever had was Manasseh, the restorer of all the pagan religions, erecting altars to Baal, all the gods of the Zodiac, making groves to Ashera, worshiping the sun, moon, and stars, sacrificing several of his sons to Milchom, seducing Judah to compromise for the sake of political advantage to make alliances with the enemies of God. Traditionally, he is the person responsible for the death of Isaiah. Even though Manasseh was absolutely the worst king ever to lead Judah, shedding more innocent blood than any of his predecessors, leading to the captivity of his people, and of his own humiliating capture, being led around by hooks in his nose, Manasseh finally got the message that God only is God, and sincerely repented. As a result of this repentance, God restored him to his place on the throne of David. Manasseh is testimony that God's grace is astounding in magnanimity; even the worst of sinners can repent and receive God's forgiveness.
Martin Collins illustrates the horrible degradation of this society because of the abandonment of the Fifth Commandment, insists that God intended children to be a heritage and a reward to those who obey His Law. American society is cursed because the family, its most important component, is dysfunctional. It is impossible to raise families without God. Gentile societies have historically demonstrated subhuman treatment to both women and children; Modern Israel apparently wants to follow suit by murdering 3,000 children per day, with 1.09 million unborn children annually. Last week, the largely reprobate American Congress voted to fund the guilty murderers on a grand scale, an act even natural law would regard as patently inhumane. Children have two duties to their parents: to obey them (in the Lord) and to honor them. The parent (ideally) is to serve as a representative of God to the child. Cursing parents in the Old Covenant was a capital offense. Honor goes far beyond obedience. The parent is expected to teach children in a restrained and balanced way, not embittering, provoking, irritating, harassing, and not breaking the spirit of the child. Parents must remember that customs change, that trust trumps control, and that children need encouragement. Sons must be prepared for leadership, being encouraged to offer suggestions in family meetings. Aubrey Andelin offers fathers positive suggestions as to conducting family meetings and communicating. (1) Stop all activities and give full attention to the children. (2) Listen carefully, even if not in agreement. (3) Be understanding and express sympathy for their ideas. (4) Tell them you will think about their suggestion. (5) Praise their ideas as useful and important contributions even if you are not able to agree with, or implement, them. As parents, our mandate is to bring children up in the understanding of the Lord's will, largely by our own positive example.
Martin Collins, averring one of the major things for which we can be thankful is the marriage covenant, examines some of the chilling, corrosive, and detrimental consequences to a society which spurns the God-given marriage covenant. Radical feminism has tried to empower one gender by disabling and marginalizing the other gender, creating a pathological, dysfunctional society in which women cannot find good men to love and cherish and men cannot find good women to love and cherish. The irresponsible social engineers who have launched the ill-fated sexual revolution have damaged the family structure, polarizing men and women rather than viewing them as inseparable partners (metaphorically like two halves of the moon) as God had intended. The pattern of Eve as a help-meet to Adam was instituted before Adam and Eve sinned and was consequently not abrogated by Christ's sacrifice as some Biblical feminists have asserted. Women, to be sure, were never created as servants to their spouses but as complementary companions, sharing physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual relationships which mirror Christ's love for the church by sacrificing His very life for her. God intended husbands and wives to be one in mind and spirit, not bifurcated as Solomon's spiritual relationships with his pagan wives. Marrying outside of the faith makes it difficult to establish this spiritual connection. Daniel Lapin has summarized the pitfalls of the egalitarian marriage arrangements as encouraged by 'liberated' women. In our decadent western culture, the mortal enemies of the marriage covenant consist of (1) the pleasure seeking new-hedonism (or the 'new' morality), (2) the widespread acceptance of adultery, (3) the ease of divorce and annulment, and (4) the legalization of abortion (the equivalent of apostate ancient Israel's sacrificing children to Molech. Marriage was created for us to understand the spiritual God-plane relationship between Christ and the Church.
Kim Myers, tracing ancient Israel's abject bondage to the Egyptians and their subsequent redemption and journey to their great gift (that is, the Promised Land), draws a parallel to the Israel of God. We have been in bondage to sin, enslaved to alcoholism, adultery, lying, and other carnal pulls. Like the ancient Israelites, we have a tendency to gripe and complain, wrongly thinking that the days before conversion were enjoyable, forgetting we were wallowing in slop and eating garbage. Like the ancient Israelites, we sometimes come to yearn for our previous bondage. Because God loved ancient Israel, He spoke to Moses 72 times, giving specific guidance; He has given us His Holy Spirit for the same purpose. The ancient Israelites grumbled when God gave them the land of the Amalekites, fearing God would not back them, even after the backdrop of witnessing many incontrovertible miracles. After the deaths of the recalcitrant first generation (a collection of rebels who preferred bondage to godly freedom), an emergent second generation entered the land of milk and honey, with God winning all their military victories for them. No other people in the world have been given a gift like that. If we understood God's divine purpose for us, we would live our lives entirely differently. God's ways from the world's point of view are strange; the world thinks we are nerds. But living God's ways will enrich us with the fruits of the Spirit. Most of us do not comprehend the magnitude of the gift God has given us, a trillion times better than the gift He gave to the ancient Israelites. Obedience to God's law is the key factor in growing toward God's Holiness.
Richard Ritenbaugh, acknowledging that it is tough to be a Christian, especially during a time when the United States Supreme Court, staffed by a majority of justices who have been given over to a reprobate mind, have deemed murder) the law of the land, caving into radical Feminist and Homosexual lobbies, while removing God from the equation. In so doing, the Court has attempted a de facto annulment of the Fifth Commandment in the name of women's rights by authorizing the death, through abortion, of some 58 million babies—to date. This death toll is higher than that of all the 20th Century holocaust, pogroms and gulags combined. Furthermore, the Court has perpetrated a frontal assault on God's sacred institution of marriage by sanctioning "same-sex marriage," in effecting putting its stamp of approval on (homosexual) sodomy, thereby attempting to abrogate the Seventh Commandment. When the Supreme Court so totally perverts justice, pushing a toxic liberal progressive agenda, it demonstrates the hopelessly debased state of this nation's ethics. What compounds the gravity of the matter is that these justices should have known better. Psalm 75 reveals that God both promotes and removes individuals from positions of power and He has the final say as to how power will be administrated. If an aggregate of 'justices' continue their collision course with the will of God, these evil men and women will bring a curse on our nation. As God's called-out ones, let us show gratitude to Almighty God for our calling, and for our understanding of His purpose for us (especially, since this knowledge seems to be out of grasp for 7 billion others). God promises to have our right hand; He has given us an iron-clad promise never to leave us as along as we remain true to His Covenant. God is the only one who decides the fates of mankind and He will ultimately bring true justice to the entirety of mankind.
John Ritenbaugh, while agreeing that philosophers may not be as well-known as movie stars, rock stars, or athletes, asserts that philosophers in academia have had a greater influence on our thoughts, as well as on the precarious turns our culture has taken. When the works of academic philosophers come in contact with political movers and shakers, they wreak havoc on liberty and morality, exalting the state over the family, removing God from the equation altogether. Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre, following in the self-centered, sociopathic teachings of Rousseau, ushered in the radically, politically left-wing progressives (called the Jacobins), bringing in a reign of terror using the guillotine and vindictively slaughtering all 'dissidents.' Rousseau's and Robespierre's philosophies encouraged abortion, the destruction of the family, and the ascendancy of the state. Even though mass abortion is higher in Russia and China, American leftist liberal secular 'progressives' have murdered (in the name of 'women's' rights) 60 million children, far outstripping the atrocities of Hitler, Stalin, Idi Amin and Pol Pat combined.
Richard T. Ritenbaugh: This world is a horrible place. The planet on which we live along with more than seven billion other human begins is an evil, scary, terrible place. The facts are clear and obvious....
John Ritenbaugh, reflecting on Mike Adam's blog post "I miss America," warning that 34 precious freedoms have disappeared over the past 40 years which will never come back, marvels that this frightening erosion of freedom has taken place seemingly within a nanosecond. Though we are living in the terrifying climax of a technological revolution, Satan has been meticulously and carefully preparing for a war against Almighty God for millennia, stepping up the pace as technology (from the time of Gutenberg until now) has developed exponentially, taking our breath away. Human life is short, but Satan's life is a great deal longer, and he can prepare new generations of human beings to carry out his deceptive, mendacious plans, bold and ambitious, (attempting to educate people on a worldwide basis, instilling into them his lies and misinformation). We can be thankful that God has placed limitations on Satan's ability to destroy mankind.
Richard Ritenbaugh, focusing on the concept of justice, asserts that real justice with fairness and equity (at least in the human sphere) is becoming rare. Divine justice, on the other hand, because Christ died for our sins, leans toward kindness and mercy. The Founding Fathers of the United States used biblical principles in the judicial system of the colonies, deriving 34% of their quotations and allusions from the Bible for their documents. The Puritans studied the scriptures assiduously, believing that if their principles would be incorporated into our laws, government would function smoothly and effectively. Sadly, those principles which were once implemented into our laws are being corrosively eroded and destroyed, as is manifest by the Supreme Court's endorsement of Roe vs. Wade, ushering in legalized murder on a massive scale. God created the universe, giving laws that would sustain life and promote happiness. All authority for law and justice resides in God; when God is taken out of the picture, darkness and chaos dominate. God clearly delineates good from bad and right from wrong. What He commands is good. The things which God forbids are bad for us. If God says something, it should never be thrown aside. Laws have penalties when they are transgressed. God, not a hanging judge, prefers that a sinner repents and gives them time to change and repent. God's laws, designed to create a better life and more perfect life and character, are not an end in themselves, but should become integrally a part of us. When sin becomes woven into our character, life becomes complicated; sin or crime has domino consequences, rippling through many generations. We never commit sin in a vacuum, but inevitably involve our family and ultimately bring curses to the rest of the entire human family. Sin destroys life. Execution of judgment is relegated to constituted authority, not presumptuous vigilantes or those who become involved in blood-feuds. The law should be executed with equity, with no partiality, favoritism, or
John Ritenbaugh, reflecting upon the WWJD (What Would Jesus do?) slogan used by mainline Mainline Protestants, indicated that not much can be known about what He looked like, when He was born, and how He would react because of lack of information or blatant disinformation. Today, large numbers of Christians are protesting in front of abortion clinics and getting out the vote to throw the rascals out. Jesus Christ would have refrained from this activity, claiming that His Kingdom is not of the world. Likewise, Jesus' disciples and called-out ones have their citizenship in Heaven, preparing for a new Kingdom of God to emerge; they do not participate in the conflicts or politics of any government under Satan' sway
John Ritenbaugh, reflecting on Sir Isaac Newton's famous theorem, the "First Law of Motion: When viewed in an inertial reference frame, an object either remains at rest or continues to move at a constant velocity, unless acted upon by an external force" (more popularly, "a body in motion tends to stay in motion until something stops it"), applies it to the about-face by the CDC, attempting to make a distinction between airborne and a spread-by-droplets transmission of Ebola. The theorem is then applied to standards of morality in this nation which have eroded exponentially since the time of the Founding Fathers, and now over the past several decades at time warp speed as college graduates of liberal educational institutions, according to a recent poll, now believe that abortion (infanticide or murder) should be permitted up to the age of four, because at that point a child is allegedly not self-aware.
John Ritenbaugh, illustrating the tragic state of pastors withdrawing from their responsibility of preaching God's unadulterated word, plays a recording of a spoof from an Australian comedy show, mocking the politically correct pastors who may water down the Ten Commandments to "the Ten Negotiating Principles," or perhaps "Ten Helpful Suggestions." When pastors have abandoned their responsibility to uphold God's Law, government has historically stepped in to fill the gap, basing their decisions on humanistic preferences rather than biblically-based morality. The United States Constitution and Bill of Rights, although crafted by men of nominal Christian persuasions (some of them having roots in the Separatist and Puritan experience of desiring religious liberty and even a kind of theocracy) and Deists (believing in God by inferring it from design and order in nature), did not establish the Constitution as a covenant with Almighty God, but did build into it common sense checks and balances so that if a moral populace lived by it, our people should be governed with the least amount of friction. Sadly, the populace has drifted from an ethical and moral climate into a relativistic, secular humanist point of view. Morality now consists of toleration for mass infanticide (termed abortion) and homosexual sodomy (called gay rights), enforced by a government voted in by people with a narcissistic, agnostic, or atheistic humanistic mindset (virulent secular humanism) which has totally displaced Christianity (real or nominal) as the dominant religion of our land, marginalizing anyone who insists on basic human ethics, let alone God's 'pesky' (because it is intolerant of sin) commandments.
John Ritenbaugh, continuing his commentary entitled "A Government to Fear," reiterates that the secular-progressives have had great success demanding that the civil courts rebuke people acting on matters of conscience, while at the same time they are destroying school prayer, removing replicas of the Ten Commandments from public institutions, enforcing abortion (murder), feminism, homosexuality, and lesbianism with a defiant, cavalier, in-your-face haughtiness, claiming that the doctrines of the Bible are out of date. The 'religious' communities of America are so hopelessly biblically ignorant that they have learned to tolerate wickedness and immorality, accepting it as a norm, putting a stamp of approval of an Executive and Congress which lie as a way of life." Today, our courts have tilted away from the concept of equal justice before the law to a tyrannical jurisprudence which endorses and enforces wickedness and immorality.
Richard Ritenbaugh, describing the development of the Feminist movement from its beginning in England, France, and later in the United States, suggests that the strident demands for abortion and in-your-face demands for 'equality' have led to high degree of social chaos. Some of the grievances feminists have expressed were legitimate, but the support of mass murder (abortion) as a "woman's right over her body" has side-tracked and obscured the legitimate concerns. Spiritually, male and female have equal potential and should have equal rights under the Law. But rights and legalities are far less important than spiritual development, subject to God-ordained gender roles. Together, men and women are made in the image of God; God was the template for all humanity, producing clay models which would serve as prototypes for permanent, spiritual beings. God gave humankind His attributes and abilities, having dominion over the earth, but not over other people. God made humanity in two flavors, but they are both in His image, dividing His traits equally between them. Men and women mutually excel each other in their God-ordained roles. Each gender complements the other as one flesh —one whole unit unified by marriage, an institution hated by radical feminists and homosexuals alike. Marriage is a God-plane relationship, prefiguring God's family (a reproducing of the God-kind), made possible by being fruitful and multiplying—the ultimate human good. Adam and Eve's sin complicated, but did not stop, God's ultimate plan for mankind. Sin destroyed our first parents' innocence, making them susceptible to shame and guilt, separating themselves from each other, fracturing (but not destroying) the one-flesh principle, sowing the seeds for a perennial battle of the sexes, bringing about drudgery and hard labor for both women and men. If women put down their desire to control their spouses and men really love their spouses, it will begin to reverse the consequences of the judgment oracles (stated in Genesis 3:16-
Martin Collins, reiterating that God's sovereignty is a major theme in the book of Daniel, reminds us that if we submit unconditionally to His sovereignty, we have a win-win situation- even when initially, it looks bleak and hopeless. After Nebuchadnezzar's death, the successive tenures of each of his descendants became increasingly attenuated and truncated, mortally weakening Babylon's here-to-fore impregnable position. Belshazzar's blasphemous banquet was the last straw, bringing about the cryptic 'handwriting on the wall' - a somber judgment from Almighty God against the haughty, presumptuous grandchild of Nebuchadnezzar. The words "Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin" signified that Belshazzar's kingdom had been weighed in the balances and was seriously wanting, forcing a calamitous division and destruction at the hands of Darius the Mede. Belshazzar had to learn the painful lesson that sin is not static, but its path leads precipitously downhill to perdition. Sin, the real opiate of the people, makes us oblivious to danger, giving us a debased and reprobate mind. God is not static; His deferred justice will not be deferred in perpetuity, but evil will be totally recompensed. As Daniel experienced, devotion to God and His laws will stir up jealousy in high places. Daniel maintained his devotion to God in spite of dangerous political circumstances, seemingly standing alone amidst a totally pagan culture. Yet, Daniel was the only one who had it together in the whole empire, totally convicted about what God would soon bring to pass. God wants a voluntary relationship, but leaves it up to us as to how to show our devotion. We could emulate Daniel, seeking contact with God multiple times in the day through prayer, praying in all kinds of situations (in the morning when we are beginning; evening to offer Thanksgiving for the mercies of the day, Before sleep to commend ourselves to Him, in times of embarrassment, and when tormented with strong temptations.) In life and death, God is in control.
Over the past five decades, Christians have regarded the religious landscape of America with dismay, seeing their freedom to worship as their consciences dictate steadily decline. Richard Ritenbaugh cites numerous recent examples of First Amendment infringements, many of which are driven by the culture's drive for sexual freedom.
Martin Collins, reflecting on an advertisement in which a slick, liberal actor endorsed the concept of pro-choice (murder of the unborn) while making fun of the pro-life concept, states that during the past 40 years, the American people have murdered 54 million babies—far outdistancing the deaths in Auschwitz, Dachau, and all the other death camps throughout the world. The number of babies slaughtered annually far exceed combined military deaths. Disgusting brain suction abortions are routinely performed in pregnancies that have gone beyond three months. Abortion is a result of an insane mental disposition on the part of the befuddled mother, and encouraged by a callused medical community. Medical publications like the Journal of the American Medical Association have indicated that the mental problems of the post-abortion mothers who experience guilt, anxiety, sexual dysfunction, and even suicide, have mushroomed out of control. Not only do the mental disorders of the mother hopelessly deteriorate, but the mental health of the siblings, the spouse, and the extended family degenerate as well. As modern Israel rejects God and His Law, God has taken a hands-off approach to the sinning populace, leaving them to come to terms with the consequences of their turpitude. Legalized abortion reveals the moral decadency of a nation, people, and culture—a culture which has totally rejected God. Life begins at conception; science cannot alter that reality. Studies have shown that babies begin learning language within 30 hours of being in the womb. The Scriptures reveal that even before conception, God has planned the future course of the future being. This country, for the past 40 years, has not repented of murdering its young; how much longer will God withhold His wrath?
Richard T. Ritenbaugh: The latest abomination to come down the medical-ethics pike is the February 23, 2012, publication of "After-birth abortion: why should the baby live?" in the Journal of Medical Ethics. ...
John Reid, anticipating the pressure to conform and compromise placed on God's called-out ones in the coming years, admonishes all of us, that though we may feel worn out, we will ultimately prevail in the end. If the beast power succeeds in revising the calendar, it will make keeping God's laws more challenging and dangerously difficult. In modern Israel violent crime is on the rise. Abortion, pornography, same-sex marriage, secular progressivism, hopelessly corrupt government, denying God's sovereignty, are reaping a horrible crop of curses, further wearing out the saints. Satan has already captured the world, but he cannot succeed until he has compromised the Saints. We must resist the darkness, keeping our light shining at all times. As God's called out ones, we must warn or caution our brethren against danger, comforting one another, praying without ceasing, holding fast to and proving what is true, abstaining from evil, praying for the ministry, anticipating the reward at the end of the spiritual trek.
The serious Christian looks on this ever-declining world—a world that reflects the rebellious, anti-God attitudes of Satan the Devil—and wonders how anyone can truly live by faith. Some may even begin to doubt that God is in control of events here on earth. John Ritenbaugh, however, contends that God's sovereignty over His creation is complete, and the course of world events are moving according to His will.
The sixth commandment, forbidding murder, is rare among the Ten Commandments in that a clear and short line can be drawn between its commission and its horrible consequences. Yet, as John Ritenbaugh shows, some people—even nominal Christians—find ways to justify killing their fellow human beings, as well as themselves.
John Ritenbaugh reiterates that demography is destiny. Population trends become reliable trends of future national consequences. Population declines in Russia have lead President Vladimir Putin to propose stipends to couples for having children. Japan's population has declined so drastically that 50% of the productive force will be put out of commission by reason of age. Vance Packard has suggested that capitalism cannot succeed without an increasing population and a constant stimulus to buy more and more. Without a steady base of consumers, capitalism will die. Barack Obama, an avowed advocate of population control (i.e. abortion or murder) and a supporter of homosexuality and gay 'marriage' (a certain pathway to population decline), will usher in economic woes by systematically destroying the population. Abortion is a cancer, eating into the economic base of the nation. We do not have a debt crisis as much as a death crisis.
The fact of a Second Exodus that will far eclipse the Exodus from Egypt is generally understood by Bible students. The timing of this great migration, however, is more elusive. David Grabbe points out the Scriptural markers that narrow the time frame to a specific, significant prophetic event.
January 22, 2006, marked the 33rd anniversary of the United States Supreme Court's decision on Roe v. Wade, which made the killing of unborn children a legal right. ...
Richard T. Ritenbaugh: A few weeks ago, a local talk-show host, self-described as "an aging hippie," remarked that he believed that in most matters one can find "the truth somewhere in the middle. ...
With populations around the world in decline, how will governments and businesses maintain the present standard of living? Charles Whitaker reveals that their solution, hinted at in the sudden surge in biotechnology, resides in technology discovering a brave new world.
"Stats and Sin: Measuring Peoples' Morals" compares Canada and the United States in terms of morality, particularly regarding marriage and abortion. Using various statistics, Charles Whitaker illustrates how immoral beliefs ultimately produce destructive results.
Charles Whitaker: The third Asian demographic phenomenon highlighted by Nicholas Eberstadt ("Power and Population in Asia," Policy Review, February/March 2004, pp. ...
What are the causes—moral, social, and technological—behind the new demographic realities? Perhaps more importantly, what will be their consequences? Charles Whitaker spotlights the value of children to society—one that is increasingly ignored in this age of materialism.
John Ritenbaugh, reflecting that one perennial theme of the major and minor prophets is the deplorable faithlessness of Israel, depicted as a fickle, spoiled, pampered, well-dressed streetwalker, suggests that the day of Israel's calamity is right upon the horizon. To the remnants of this decadent civilization of modern Israel, God's begotten children, God provides the book of Proverbs as an antidote. Wisdom is inextricably linked with fear and reverence for God. Without wisdom, genius and brilliance is useless at best and dangerous at worst. Wisdom warns us not to let the world squeeze us into its mold. Unfortunately, as a nation, we have rejected wisdom in favor of foolishness, bringing about major devastating calamities: famines, pestilence, earthquakes, cosmic disturbances (graphically depicted in Deuteronomy 32, Jeremiah 4, and Ezekiel 2-3,6-7) upon our apostate faithless people after the prior devastation of Gentile nations who didn't have a relationship with God.
Every society has multiple generations living at the same time, and the way they interact has a tremendous impact on culture and events. David Grabbe examines what forecasters see on the horizon from a generational perspective.
New technologies may potentially change the very definition of motherhood, as a typically American form of "consumer-driven . . . eugenics" develops. Building "designer babies" could become big business. Yet, warns Charles Whitaker, bioethicists offer little guidance as to what is right and wrong in the process.
Charles Whitaker: Economists speak of the "law of unintended consequences." A person's actions can have consequences that are not anticipated, or unintended. Indeed, the consequences of our actions can turn out to be precisely the opposite of what we intended. ...
David C. Grabbe: As this grand experiment we call America continues its descent into disorder, it may be instructive to examine some of the ingredients that are contributing to the national meltdown. ...
David C. Grabbe: Even before Isaac Newton wrote down his observations about gravity, people had a pretty good working knowledge of the principle. ...
News, events, and trends from the perspective of biblical prophecy for July 2004. "Now Playing: Religious Persecution in Canada"
John Ritenbaugh cautions that most religious-professing people (including many members of the greater church of God) have not used the Word of God as their standard of morality and conduct, but instead are allowing society and culture to shape their attitudes, tolerating the disgusting incremental escalating perversion of moral standards. Sadly, society is rapidly replicating the dangerous downward spiral extant during the time of Noah, a time in which the intent of every thought was to do evil. People (conditioned or reinforced by the mass media) rely upon their deceitful 'hearts' or 'feelings' rather than the Bible to determine moral standards. The House of Joseph (often claiming to be the last bastion of morality) now leads the world in exporting filth to the rest of mankind. Our only safeguard against moral pollution is to ingest (or assimilate) God's word (spiritual manna- or the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth) every day of our lives.
John Ritenbaugh, focusing upon an official poll administered by the Vatican, reveals that throughout the so-called Christian world, militant atheism may be decreasing, but religious indifference (or prudent agnosticism) is also increasing at even a more dramatic rate. People in both Roman Catholic and Protestant traditions feel smugly at liberty to reject major biblical doctrines, manufacturing their own private religions in their wake. If we refuse to follow Jesus' example (the Way- the system of doctrines once delivered to the saints), we will automatically lose the precious faith required for salvation. We need to (in Jude's admonition) ardently fight to hang on to the Way entrusted to us by God ' a way hated and vilified by the world. Christians have been increasingly stereotyped, marginalized, vilified, criminalized and persecuted by the political left, academia, and the left-dominated media. God will use persecution and tribulation to both purify and punish.
Charles Whitaker: There is a new "ism" about—speciesism. ...
Martin G. Collins: Statistics show that the more education an American citizen has, the more likely he will support such human perversions as abortion and homosexuality. ...
David C. Grabbe: If there is calamity in a city, will not the LORD have done it? (Amos 3:6) ...
Richard Ritenbaugh, in reflecting upon biblically ordained marriage roles, realizes they are at odds or in conflict with cultural expectations, especially the influences of radical feminism and postmodernism, which viciously militate against the truths of the Bible. This message focuses upon the characteristics and attributes of the perfect wife, designed to be a comparable aide, companion, or helper, to complete a "one-flesh" unit. If either the husband or wife steps outside their prescribed, ordained roles, automatic friction and strife will occur. Biblical instructions concerning marriage roles'submitting and loving (not always the easiest to fulfill)'are intended to bring us back to the perfect state that existed before sin entered the picture. Fulfilling our roles reverses the curse placed upon our parents Adam and Eve. Marriage could be likened to a school enabling us to learn God-plane behavior.
The September 11 bombings were certainly tragic and terrible. Some have since asked, "Was God involved? Is He to blame?" John Ritenbaugh soberly answers some of these tough questions, concluding that God certainly allowed them to occur for our ultimate and eternal benefit.
What did Jesus mean when He said the end time would be like the days of Noah? Did He mean that the last days would be violent and corrupt, or that the last days would come suddenly on an unsuspecting world? Amazingly, the waning years of this century fulfill both.
The commandment against murder is the one most universally followed by man. But Jesus shows there is much more behind it than merely taking another's life.
The Ten Commandments open with the most important, the one that puts our relationship with God in its proper perspective. John Ritenbaugh explains this simple but vital command.
In this keynote address of the 1995 Feast of Tabernacles, John Ritenbaugh asserts that because cultural restraints which once held human nature in check have been removed, vile human nature has waxed increasingly more corrupt and depraved, approaching conditions described in Genesis 6:5-7. Skyrocketing statistics on social spending, abortion, violent crime, illegitimate births, divorce, teenage suicides etc. indicate a worsening cancerous degeneracy (Isaiah 1:6). Paradoxically, increased social spending, by creating dependency, has actually worsened the problems. God has indicted our people (Hosea 4:1-3, Ezekiel 7:23-27) for its bloody violence and disregard for the preciousness of life. The Feast of Tabernacles pictures a refreshing time when these problems will be dealt with from the just and equitable mind of God.
John Ritenbaugh shows that God has set a pattern of separating people from the world, making a covenant with them, and enabling them to be a blessing to others as an example of faithfulness and obedience to the covenant. Because of Israel's unfaithfulness and disobedience, God scattered them among the nations, causing them to forget who they were, and they blended in with the world. Like Nehemiah, our worldview must be shaped by a fear of God, a love and concern for His people, and a hatred for the world's practices that destroy our intimate relationship with God. As God's called-out church (Abraham's spiritual offspring, the Israel of God), we have the sobering responsibility of staying loyal to the New Covenant, keeping the spiritual Temple free from the world's defilement — or lose our spiritual identity as ancient Israel lost its physical identity.
Solomon uses the analogy of burning oneself to describe sinning. "Can a man take fire to his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? Can one walk on hot coals, and his feet not be seared?" John Reid explains.
The position of the Church of the Great God on the subject of abortion. Counters some of the major arguments used by pro-abortionists.
John Ritenbaugh warns us that in our relationship with God, we must emphasize principle over pragmatism, because pragmatism inevitably leads to idolatry. Jeroboam, in setting idolatrous shrines and festivals at Dan and Bethel, appealed to the carnal desire for practical convenience (I Kings 12:26-33). These practical compromises eventually led to the desecration of the Sabbath and the holy days, ending in the captivity of Israel. When doctrine is diluted, it turns into outright idolatry. Like ancient Israel, we have to guard against the tendency to gravitate toward ministers speaking smooth and pleasant things at the expense of turning from the truth. If we are led into deception, it is because our carnal nature wanted it that way (Jeremiah 17:9).
An early statement by the Church of the Great God on abortion, focusing on the term "viability" as used by pro-abortion advocates.
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The Loose Women have slammed both Nicola McLean and Jamie O'Hara, after their drunken and flirtatious antics on Celebrity Big Brother.
In last night's episode, viewers saw Nicola (who is married) and Jamie getting a little too close in the smoking area - and the model appeared to admit that the pair have kissed in the past.
Nicola was clearly very drunk.
On Loose Women, Linda Robson was first to speak up, calling Nicola's behaviour "unforgivable".
"Her husband's sitting at home and [Jamie and Nicola's husband Tom Williams] are friends," she fumed.
"My mum always used to say, and I think it's a true saying, 'When the drinks [are] in, the wits [are] out'. And it really, really is.
"If that was my husband in there, I would have parachuted in and landed on the pair of them. I'd have his bags packed before he got out of there."
Linda also laid into Jamie for getting Nicola even more drunk.
"The family's watching, the kids are watching," she said. "He's encouraging her. She's really, really drunk, and he's pouring more drink."
Related: Married Nicola McLean 'cries' after being called out for kissing Jamie O'Hara on Celebrity Big Brother
Anne Diamond chipped in and agreed with Linda about Jamie.
"[Nicola is] saying, 'Don't give me any more', and he still does," she said. "I know nothing happened, but it wasn't a very cool moment.
"If you were sitting at home, you would feel betrayed and humiliated because it's happened on national television."
Jane Moore questioned Calum Best's behaviour as well: "[He was] egging them on, which is a bit odd.
"Nicola's husband cheated on her, so I sort of wonder if she's got kind of self-esteem issues on that maybe, and so a bit of attention is a lovely thing. But she's so drunk. She seems so drunk."
But one housemate who did receive praise from the Loose Women was the "gentlemanly" James Jordan, who got credit for trying to encourage Nicola to go to bed.
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Shoreh Naseri
Eyebrowz Etc
Tel: 07794 199 518
Having learnt facial and eyebrow threading as a child in the Middle East Shoreh has brought her expertise to Harrogate and opened Eyebrowz Etc in early 2012. Her passion for helping others to feel good about themselves has led her to offer a range of health and beauty treatments. Each treatment is carried out with compassion and sensitivity to everyones' needs. From facial threading to holistic facials Shoreh continues to take great care about using only the finest and highest quality products.
Services & Treatments
Eyebrow & Facial Threading
Threading is the most natural technique of hair removal available. It has been practiced in Asia for centuries and has fast become one of the most popular and revolutionary new beauty technique in the UK.
Threading is an exceptionally quick, convenient and natural way to remove facial hair. The treatment involves cotton thread which is twisted together to remove hairs from their roots. The technique allows for a more precise definition and shaping of the eyebrows. Although the eyebrows are the most popular facial area to have threaded, we offer full facial hair removal, including upper lip and chin in our comfortable, private treatment room.
How threading compares to other hair removal treatments:
- Quicker than tweezing and has better precision than plucking.
- Longer lasting (4-8 weeks).
- Less painful than waxing.
- No harmful chemicals or hot wax involved.
- The top layer of skin is not removed or damaged.
- Precise shaping with a more natural line to the finished eyebrow.
- Quick and effective hair removal without causing irritation.
Eyelash & Eyebrow Tinting
'Make your eyes look brilliant without the need for mascara' If your lashes or brows are light brown or naturally blond, eyelash and/or eyebrow tinting will create a much more dramatic look for your eyes. Unlike mascara, which must be applied every morning, with tinted lashes you wake up with that freshly applied mascara look. Eyelash tinting will particularly benefit our clients who are sensitive to make-up, active in sports (especially swimming) or those who have little time to apply make-up daily. Eyelash and brow tinting is also an advantage for contact lens wearers, as your eyes come into contact with less interference. The treatment involves a quick and non-surgical procedure using vegetable dye to tint the eyebrow and/or lashes. The enhancing results last around four to six weeks.
Eyelash Perming
'Make your eyelashes look longer and fuller' Eyelash perming is a semi-permanent method of curling your eyelashes. Curled eyelashes will enhance the appearance of the eyes and will normally last between 4-6 weeks. For improved effect, a tint may be applied directly afterwards.
*patch test may be required 24 hours prior to treatment.
Phyto 5 Holistic Energy 5 Elements Facial
A one hour facial tailored to suit your individual skin type. Using your Element (Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal or Water) from the Phyto 5 Phyto-Energetic line this balancing facial incorporates 9 steps and 3 phases including facial reflexology.
Made in Switzerland, the skincare line abounds with natural ingredients such as clay, algae, plankton, trace minerals and essential oils. These wonderful products were created with a unique philosophy in mind – that as they soothe and renew our bodies, they must also rebalance and replenish our inner flow of energy, because the body is not just matter, but "vital energy" as well!
PHYTO 5 products are based on the 5 Elements of traditional Chinese medicine: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water. They are designed to restore and maintain the body's holistic balance of nature. PHYTO 5 includes 5 mini lines corresponding to each group of skin conditions. They also are in harmony with the energy of each energetic season.
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With five major aesthetic actions for your ageless beauty:
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This luxurious anti-aging solution from PHYTO 5® is effective yet natural and holistic, in contrast to more common invasive solutions. The synergy of the serum and cream achieves a younger looking more radiant skin.
This luxurious anti-aging solution from PHYTO 5® is effective, yet natural and holistic, in contrast to more common invasive solutions. The synergy of the serum and cream achieves a younger looking and radiant skin.
The delicate fragrance of the products is composed of a precious blend of balanced plant extracts and essential oils (rose, orange, tangerine, green tea, geranium, vanilla and sandalwood) selected according to the principles of energy medicines.
Why and How it works:
The Serum: Very rich in natural anti-aging active molecules, it fills-in wrinkles from within and mineralizes the skin. The extract of Commiphora, traditionally used in Ayurvedic medicine, fills-in wrinkles and tones the skin without a need for injections. Rich in manganese, it mineralizes and consolidates the protective mantel of the skin. Precious, natural, essential oils of rose and of apricot oil provide significant hydration and anti-aging properties.
The Cream: The cream Is also very rich in natural anti-aging active molecules. It hydrates, firms, and restructures the skin. The Acacia gum (from African sustainable development) acts as instant tightening agent. It gives an immediate, visible, decrease in wrinkle depth and smoother skin. The wheat extract deeply hydrates and restructures the skin with proven short and long term efficacy. Additional hydrating, healing and anti-aging properties are assured by Cupuaçu butter (from the Amazonian rain forest), Shea butter (from African sustainable development), precious essential oils of Rose, and Squalane from olive.
Wax hair removal treatments – for women
Bikini wax
Banish bikini line hair in minutes and keep neat and tidy with our bikini wax treatment. With regular treatments every 4-6 weeks, hair will take longer to grow back and will be thinner.
Brazillian bikini wax
Get ready for your itsy bitsy bikini or barely there briefs with a trend setting Brazilian wax. Taking the waxing higher than a regular bikini wax, you'll be left with a neat, small strip of hair.
Full or part leg wax
For the smoothess holiday or party legs, opt for one of our full or half leg waxing treatments.
Underarm wax
Put your hands up! A quick wax will leave you without the worry of under arm shadow for weeks.
Wax hair removal treatments – for men
Back wax for men
No matter how hairy you are, a warm wax treatment will leave your back smooth for 4-6 weeks. It's a great treatment to choose before a holiday to help you achieve an even tan and it's also a top choice for sportsmen who say a hair free body makes them feel fresh and clean.
Chest wax for men
It doesn't take long to get a smooth, silky chest. A warm wax treatment will make sure you stay hair free for up to 6 weeks.
We offer both hot and warm wax hair removal.
Manicures & Pedicures
If you like your nails to look great with conventional nail varnish then you will probably have heard of the wonderful professional Essie range of varnishes.
All our manicures and pedicures use Essie professional nail colours and leave your nails shining and looking fantastic.
Gel Nails
We have a wide range of colours, glitters and matts to ensure that your nails look amazing, whatever the occasion.
"I have tried many facials over the years and just LOVE this range. As a holistic person I like knowing the products used are Organic and natural and was very intrigued with the 5 element approach. I would definitely recommend this facial to everyone."
"I found the ageless facials to be very popular and find the products in the range are very kind to my mature, sensitive skin, without any of the harshness found in chemicals. I had a good experience with no skin reactions. At last a facial that suits me with no harmful products."
"Today I had an eyebrow tint & threading followed by an extremely relaxing Indian head massage. I strongly recommend these treatments & will definitely be booking back in. thank you again for this wonderful experience."