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Val is one amazing lady! She has been a dancer all her life, she's been a social worker and a minister, served with the Red Cross for 9/11 and Katrina, a teacher, a mother, a sailor, and a friend to many! This dance was offered during our annual 4th of July community potluck in 2012. She now lives with us at Ananda House.
Growing Older in Spiritual Community by Gyandevi Fuller
Ananda member since 1987
I drove here across the country in my station wagon from the East Coast when I was 61 and began sharing in this community what I had learned earlier in my life: by getting down on my knees to weed in the community garden; by getting up early in the morning to take part in the group meditation; by studying more thoroughly the writings of Yogananda and of his disciple, Swami Kriyananda; and by taking part in many group meetings and celebrations. Some of the teachers of yoga, meditation techniques, and daily work processes of various kinds that I met in those first years are still here in the foothills of Northern California, others have ridden the wave of growth to other locations around the world, but we are still all connected.
The issues involved in connecting are still a major part of my concern, for I no longer "run a department" or "head up a project", but I do work with other members as a volunteer, using skills developed over the years – writing and editing, photographing and film-making, cooking and cleaning up, hammering nails in strategic places, planting seeds and trimming flower beds, and greeting some of our many visitors who are exploring this spiritual path. In my spare time now I continue to cultivate the delightful medium of painting—a "recreation" I share with a number of other community members (when they have a portion of time off from their various teaching and administrative positions).
It does do my brain a good turn to work with color to express the subtle connections with our earth and the inhabitants (trees, flowers, birds, water…you name it!) This recreational activity also connects me with a growing number of people from many other environments nearby who come to a class monitored by a gifted painter who guides the development of skills. At this class I am able to learn not only from the teacher, but also experience through direct observation the development of techniques and uses of media by other people, some of whom are beginning now at advanced ages to learn from scratch… SO—It is truly a blessing to know that we all can keep on learning as we grow older. See more of Gyandevi's art.
Joe Gamble, poet, philosopher and songster
Keep Going, by Joe Gamble, 2012
Keep Going.
The Gurus say, "Don't give up." Keep on keeping on the track.
All is temporary, like a dream. Love God, and all will be well.
Is this deep religious philosophy? Or just a handhold for a drowning person?
It seems always to be good advice. What else can we do?
We can complain, we can get angry, we can get sad, we can be afraid.
But these paths are not spiritual, and they don't lead anywhere…
Though it may take lifetimes to realize this.
In almost every case, if you are afraid,
What you think may happen is much worse than what is going to happen.
There are many, many people who are seeking ways to help others…
Find them.
Or you, yourself, become one of them.
This is probably the best that you can do.
A Black Misty Night
By Joe Gamble Written between 1934 and 1938
I took a lantern and went out into the fog
One black, misty night.
The night was cold and dark
And my thoughts were like the fog,
Cold, clammy, and dripping with tears.
I saw my shadow on the fog One black, misty night—
A hovering giant's shadow That bent over me like an impending doom.
An hour later I went back out Into what I thought was a black, misty night.
But lo and behold the fog was completely gone,
And, as I looked up at the stars,
A thousand of tiny hopes
Were shining, and twinkling in my heart.
Lament for Divine Mother
Copyright Joe Gamble, 1997 (you may substitute "He" and "Him", for "She" and "Her.")
Sometimes God seemed to be completely an illusion
Sometimes She seemed to be so very far away
I thought I never would get over this confusion,
And then I got this wise advice one day:
If you care just a bit for God
And She cares just a lot for you,
She can't get close to you
No matter what you do
If you care just a bit for God.
But if you love her completely
Then of course She'll come to you,
And your life that's gone so badly
Will again be bright and true.
If you care just a bit for God,
And She cares just a lot for you,
She can't get close to you,
No matter what you do,
So learn to cry and cry for God!
When my heart began to cry and cry to see
Reality God sent Sri Yogananda to me in a dream.
So when you are willing to die, to find Totality,
You'll find that life's truths are more than they seem.
Where Fairies Are (My first poem, 1929)
There are fairies in everything,
In the trees, which wave, and swing,
In a feather which goes up in the air,
Up, up, I know not where.
There are fairies in a seed
Which comes falling from a weed.
Then when springtime comes around
It comes shooting from the ground.
There are fairies in the starlight
So faintly seen on the darkest nights,
In galaxies millions of light-years away—
It gives beings there a bright day.
God and fairies are just the same.
The only difference is the name.
My guru Yogananda felt
We all into God, some day, will melt.
Brahmaloka Joe Gamble, 11-30-1979
There is a place I know
Where the grass is always green
And the sky is always blue.
And even though it never rains
There is always a rainbow around the sun.
And the entities, the beings, the people there—
They don't talk—they sing.
They sing love songs, or spontaneous operas,
Or sing in Sanscrit
The thousand, best-loved, names of Allah-Brahma-Om
A place where work is play and play is
Baskets, and buckets of cooperative fun.
There are no temples there because the universe is the temple.
There are no sermons there because all is a sermon.
This place has no name—but if you must give it a name
Call it Samadhi.
Karen Fly
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Price it at Rs 15,000 and see the response. It'll be the greatest selling Smartphone EVER.
1.2 Ghz Dual core? I thought 1.5 Ghz Quad core processors are the norm?
Sean, 18 Dec 2012Yawn,another Samsung which looks exactly the same as the last lot. Come on Sammy get in a new ... moreThis design is getting really boring now.... yawn
The large but very low-resolution screen (ppi) will have jagged edges anywhere.. eeeeh. yuck.
[deleted post]S4 must have a removeable battery.
Small but important detail makes the best seller.
Wacko, 18 Dec 2012This is to confuse the buyers from buying other 5" devices. If this phone is not as expen... moreAgree with Wacko on this. Samsung is offering more affordable but still "packing" devices to draw consumers away from the expensive overachieving 5inch phones out there on the market. And then hits them with the Galaxy S4 in April/May. Strategy makes money.
If the SGS4 looks like this,
Magnessium aluminum body
7mm thin
5" 1080p
flexible HD screen
Unbreakable Gorilla Glass
Shock Resistance
Scratch and Water res
No Hard keys and all in Capacitive including Volume, Camera and Lock key.
4000mah Battery non Rem.
16mp Back and 3.2MP front cam.
Wireless charging.
And they should have the SGS4 mini with 4.3 - 4.6" same specs stated above.
This would be great..
Samsung and google android are amazing !! Thanks google for your capable free jewel , thanks Sammy for all of that with Sony also !! :)
Despite having an equally large screen, even micromax a110 has a greater screen resolution.
Sure this will sell another 10million for fans around the globe. Beatiful, very beatiful. Display will be awsome, battery is not oversize, screen size is correct, very innovative design. I cant imagine what S4, S5...S10 will look like.
How can i be wrong.
This is to confuse the buyers from buying other 5" devices. If this phone is not as expensive as HTC Butterfly, then people will buy it thingking that this phone have the same specs compare to others.
Good Strategy Samsung. Making Money in every possible way.
Not bad. People will fall for this phone with multiview and dual sim variant.
The features r quite decent except the wvga res on a 5" phone.On a lighter note - micromax is now going to sue sammy lol
Meatyowlegs, 18 Dec 2012Ohh samsung your new phones have sooo much innovation! Looks like you'll always be a follower ... morethat's their dilemma now being no.1, they don't know whom to copy anymore:) but no need for worries-here comes plan B, bigger screens and double the cores...
Yawn,another Samsung which looks exactly the same as the last lot. Come on Sammy get in a new design team with some imagination

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I believe, deeply, that the only data based belief, is that it could go either way. Not a wishy washy agnostic, not a confused agnostic, a fundamentalist agnostic, one who fervently believes that taking a position either way is a faith based decision, one I don't feel internal pressure to make. My intellect and my faith allow me to hold the belief that it could go either way. Kind of a wave/particle duality thing.
An intellectual term for this is cognitive dissonance, the idea that a person can hold two contradictory ideas in his mind. It is associated with some discomfort, and that forces some people one way or the other. Others of us choose to live with the discomfort, as simply another part of life, which is often uncomfortable to everyone.
A few relevant quotes:
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
That one puts some people down, as do, in the opposite way, many discussions of cognitive dissonance, and I'm not all that fond of it. A better one.
"Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them."
Orson Welles
Perhaps my favorite.
"Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes."
Walt Whitman
To paraphrase that great American, Howard the Duck. Agnostic. And proud of it. As I mentioned above, I have some good company. And some enemies I'm comfortable with, also.
"Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong."
Ayn Rand
Here's one more relevant piece of data, added to the ones above. Science says clearly we are the stuff of exploding stars, blown out into space, and then brought together by gravity in this most extraordinary place in the most extraordinary and fortunate way. Even a devout atheist, who believes this is all a random result of physics, should shake his head in wonder at that fact. The sheer unlikeliness of it (a major part part of that unlikeliness being the (very low) probability of the formation of a universe that creates stars) makes things like evolution very easy to accept. But it's still not proof of God.
I'd take an even money bet on the true answer, defined as whether the universe is a random result of physics, or something more. As good a position as any. Some agnostics would give odds, one way or another.
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The idea that it could "go either way" is not cognitive dissonance. There are no conflicting beliefs. If you believed that both "God exists" and "No God Exists" those would be conflicting beliefs. I believe what you're trying to say is that you don't believe either proposition "A God exists" or "No God Exists". There is no conflict there and there is no cognitive dissonance there.
Again, we are addressing your belief and not the claim. We are trying to determine whether or not you personally are convinced by the claim "A God Exists". Let me point to something besides God so we can un-muddy the waters.
Let's say I have a gumball machine. Inside the machine are a certain number of gumballs. No one except the person who filled it has knowledge of how many are in there.
Let's say me and you are looking at the machine and I make the claim "There are an even number of gumballs in there...". Do you believe me? Maybe you trust me and think I have some Rainman-like ability. But maybe you don't. If I ask you if you believe me and your answer is anything other than "yes", you don't believe.
Let's say someone on your other side approaches you and says "No, there's an odd number of gumballs in there...". Do you believe him? If he doesn't seem to have any more information than the first guy, you may not believe him either.
Rejecting both claims is NOT cognitive dissonance. You may not have sufficient evidence to accept either claim as true. Disbelieving a claim doesn't mean you automatically accept the opposite claim as true
If a jury finds a defendant "Not Guilty", it doesn't mean they're convinced he's "Innocent". Those are two different claims.
They did not have enough information to determine the defendant was guilty. If the defendant went back on trial and we had to instead determine the defendant's innocence (opposite of the US legal system), we may not have enough information to determine they were innocent either.
When it comes to God, Theists have proposed that the answer is Odd. This is the claim we are addressing. Atheists did not define a God into existence just to claim he doesn't exist. We are all responding to the claim "A God exists" and not "No God Exists". Various Theists have proposed claims for a higher power. The question is ARE YOU CONVINCED BY ANY OF THEM. If the answer is YES to ANY of them, then you are a Theist.
If you don't believe them for whatever reason, you're an Atheist. You can call it Weak Atheist, Agnostic Atheist, or simply that you don't believe in any God. But that's the truth. You don't have an active belief in a God.
That DOES NOT MEAN YOU ACCEPT THAT SEPARATE CLAIM "No Gods Exist". That is a completely separate claim and doesn't make a whole lot of sense. A strict Atheist who makes that claim either has to be directing the claim at a specific deity (which is a waste of time because Theists can easily redefine it if it causes conflict) or the Atheist (person who doesn't believe in gods) is now defining the God or category of God they are attempting to claim doesn't exist. This is the position many people like to Strawman as Atheism because it's much easier for them to dismiss.
Disbelief has no Burden of Proof. The only way it would, would be to shift the burden and that is a logical fallacy.
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I believe both are entirely possible alternatives. Simple enough.
Now, given the above, ask yourself I am closer to believing both or disbelieving both? That also seems to be quite simple. If you believe either of two things are very possible (say 50%, for the sake of argument), you surely don't "disbelieve both".
It sure feels like cognitive dissonance to me. I can't make up my mind about it. I have come to terms with that, and even, as my posts make clear, embrace it.
And, further, I respect people with both opinions, that the universe is an accident of physics and that it is something else. Since I believe both are possibilities I believe either person could be correct. Once again, "disbelieving both" is not very descriptive of that position. "Believing both" may not be fully correct, but it's a lot closer to the truth.
Both strong atheists and religious fundamentalists have one thing in common, as far as I'm concerned. They both are absolutely certain about a proposition for which there clearly is inadequate evidence. They claim their opponents are wrong, many even ridicule them. And, they do so in the face of some suspicious facts. I call that faith.
It would be fair to say I disbelieve in a personal God, one who cares especially about humans. Both the universe and the hypothetical God are just too big for that. But maybe, if they're of equal size... Still unlikely.
I forgot one of my more famous compatriots. Bill Nye, the science guy.
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I don't believe ghosts or an afterlife are an impossibility. I simply don't accept that they are true. Again, you're confusing "I don't believe" for "I'm certain it cannot exist".
This is why I made the gumball and courtroom analogy. If I don't believe someone's guilty, it doesn't mean I KNOW they're innocent.
You say "either of the two things'. Those two things should be "belief or disbelief" but you're still attempting to address multiple claims. If I ask you if you believe the defendant is guilty and you say "he might be guilty or he might be innocent, I DON'T KNOW". This tells me three important things:
If you accepted the claim, "A God Exists" and also accept the claim "No Gods Exists" those are immediately conflicting beliefs. Just as being convinced the number of gumballs is both odd and even simultaneously. That's not the same as not being sufficiently convinced to believe you know that there's either an odd or even number of gumballs in the machine.
If anything, I think you're simply experiencing a confusion in how belief works (which is understandable since it's not a popular subject). You're having a crisis of epistemology not of psychology.
You seem to be basing your belief or disbelief on what groups you do or do not want to be associated with. You look at the worst of both groups and decide you don't want to be associated with either and therefore, can choose to neither belief nor disbelieve (which isn't logically possible). You then hold up famous people who you do want to be associated with. You seem to address belief from the position of how you will be perceived as opposed to whether the claim has sufficiently convinced you that it's true.
For a minute, leave all that behind. Simply address the claim (and ONLY THIS CLAIM) at face value. Do you accept it's true that a God exists?
I'm asking you if you actively believe that any God is true. If you don't, that doesn't mean you think there is absolutely no possibility of one. If simply means you haven't been convinced by any of the existing claims for one. You can always change your mind if you are introduced to more data. Absolutes are for the closed minded.
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For clarity, here's what Cognitive Dissonance looks like.
Let's say Matt accepts the following:
Now let's say Matt finds out Jeff is gay. He now has two conflicting beliefs.
He might choose one of these possible solutions:
Once he finds a solution that allows him to hold both beliefs without conflict, the dissonance will cease.
Is it possible this is the Cognitive Dissonance you're facing?
Holding those two conclusions would lead to actual Cognitive Dissonance and If so, I can tell you the fallacy in both arguments is the first premise. Those arguments are both valid but they are not sound (since premise 1 is false).
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I'm not facing the cognitive dissonance dilemma you set out, since I have no need to be convinced of either position. I'm quite comfortable with uncertainty.
My whole point is that this is not a question I believe has a yes (I believe) or no (I don't believe) answer, for me. I view both positions to be consistent with all data based science (although some specific religious views are not). I have no reason to disbelieve either. No reason to take sides.
Once again, a good analogy is the question whether an electron is a wave or a particle. There is no simple answer.
To you, I won't answer the question. To me, I've given a very clear answer. One of us is wrong, both of us are a bit frustrated. Our audience (from the view count I believe we have one) can decide who is right for themselves. We've reached an impasse. Should I not reply to a further post, it's not a sign of disrespect, it's a sign I think I could do little that wouldn't be (even more) repetitious. You've been a joy to have this discussion with, and I've learned my position is not as clear to others as I thought it was.
Merry Christmas and a good New Year.
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Ask yourself this. Does a baby believe in God? Is that making some kind of statement that he thinks or knows God doesn't exist? Babies non-belief in God is considered Implicit Atheism. They don't believe(have not been convinced it's true) because they haven't been introduced to the concept. Explicit Atheism is being introduced to the concept and yet still not being convinced it's true.
Disbelief is the default position. Claims have the Burden of Proof. Until they meet it, you do not believe or are not convinced.
I've attempted to explain that these are fundamentally different questions.
Happy Holidays.
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I've read through the comments gentlemen, and if I could just contribute please.
I think we are losing sight of the original topic. The thread reads "how to get to heaven", so doesn't that assume that there's a God to start with?
Anyway, as a Christian, I believe what the bible tells me, that God does love me and despite of all the crap in this world, promises me that He will never leave me, and that I can know Him personally!!
No other religion says that
Also, I often hear "gee Jeff is a 'good' person, he'll go to heaven surely". Well The bible tells me that not one person is 'good', only God, and that we are born out of sync with a holy and perfect God...sin sucks, but it is a direct consequence of our free will that God has given us.
There is no true love without free will, that is vital God gives us the free will to love Him or reject Him. Without free will we are robots. So basically, my 'good deeds' don't get me to heaven. It's by accepting Gods free gift of forgiveness that gets you to heaven friends...GRACE!!! You know the one, John 3:16 "for God so loved the world, He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not die but have eternal life"
This is what differentiates all other religions that have a "god", as they are all based on Works... They can never know their god and are constantly striving to earn brownie points, but if they stuff up, look out because there's a thunderbolt of lightening coming your way!
Anyway, this is how I know I'm going to heaven, and i have a peace that passes all human understanding knowing that my whole purpose is to love, honour and obey Him. There are times that I'll stray, get ticked of with Him, ache to understand why things happen the way they do, but His promises never let me down.
There's your sermon for the day gents
Healthy stuff to discuss these things respectfully!! Thoughts?
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So just have to read that Ebook and you're all set. Heaven sounds like a book club.
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I resonate more with the idea of a Universalist God, if one exists. Our sins in this life are dealt with in this life. Everyone is saved. No exceptions. That's a concept that may be hard to get ones mind around, but it's also a concept worthy of a loving God that had the power to creat the Universe we know.
I also like better those religions that are more accepting than Christianity of the validity of other beliefs. Many Asian religions incorporate the idea of "many paths up one mountain". To me, the key to eliminating the devastating religious strife the world has seen for thousands of years is, simply not to place your religious beliefs on a pedestal above all others. Then it's a done deal. Otherwise, you can be guaranteed that the other guy will be thinking you'd be better off if you adopted their religion, also.
The bottom line is that, to me, the concept of embracing "religious pluralism", is at the very heart of what the Founding Fathers desired in their new country. Not simply tolerating other religions, but placing them all on an equal footing.
I recognize your faith, but there is no possibility of my adopting it, as my Christian friends understand. It conflicts both with my intellect, and my values.
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1) How many religions actually believe that everyone is "saved" regardless of their morality or actions? I can't think of any, though I'm not saying that there aren't any. My point is, most religions have a concept of good vs. evil and demonstrate of the concept of an afterlife that rewards the good and punishes the evil. If you think about the historical context from which most religions arose, these kind of moral guidelines were heavily needed (genocide, war, famine, inequality, ect. were rampant during those eras, much more so than today). If you want to say that you believe in the "everybody is saved' concept, fine, but I don't know what "universalist' religion you are referring to.
2) So if you think everyone should be "saved" does that include people like Hitler?
- turning the other cheek
-loving thy neighbor
-mingling with and helping the beggars and lepers of society
Those, among other Judeo-Christian principles, were focused on creating harmony among people, which was a novel concept at the time the religion's birth. The actions taken by some Christians after the death of Jesus may have contrasted significantly with these teachings, but again those actions/behaviors should not be confused with the principles and moral code that Christianity actually espoused.
Also to suggest that Asian culture was much more accepting and tolerant of religious diversity is laughable. There has been nothing but war and strife in Asia since the age of antiquity, and religious persecution was not at all a foreign concept to that area of the world. There were many a Chinese general, who were considered good, devout, Taoists, who slaughtered countless civilians during the dynastic and civil strife that racked pre-communist China. I don't know how you can consider that a more "accepting" belief system than Christianity which had similar issues.
As for Christianity placing itself on a pedastal, that is a misstatement. Every religion thinks it has found what it has defined as their optimal belief system. That's why it is a religion to begin with. Buddhism outlines its preferred beliefs, as does Christianity, Taoism, Hinduism, Islam, ect. So in that sense, every religion puts itself on a pedastal, though I think that is the wrong way to phrase it.
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"The Universalist Church of America was a Christian Universalist religious denomination in the United States (plus affiliated churches in other parts of the world). Known from 1866 as the Universalist General Convention, the name was changed to the Universalist Church of America in 1942. In 1961, it consolidated with the American Unitarian Association to form the Unitarian Universalist Association.
The defining theology of Universalism is universal salvation; Universalists believe that the God of love would not create a person knowing that that person would be destined for eternal damnation. They concluded that all people must be destined for salvation. Some early Universalists, known as Restorationists and led by Paul Dean, believed that after death there is a period of reprobation in Hell preceding salvation. Other Universalists, notably Hosea Ballou, denied the existence of Hell entirely."
Also, many other religions have existed with universalist beliefs as a part of their belief system. Wikipedia <Universalism> for info.
Early Christianity was universalist. Until the Council of Nicea in 325 AD. More recently, Rob Bell, an influential Christian minister, decided to accept universalist views as compatible with Christianity, and even desirable.
"Bell's book "Love Wins" caused a major controversy within the evangelical community. The controversy was the subject of a Time Magazine cover story and a featured article in the New York Times. In the book, Bell states that "It's been clearly communicated to many that this belief (in hell as conscious, eternal torment) is a central truth of the Christian faith and to reject it is, in essence, to reject Jesus. This is misguided and toxic and ultimately subverts the contagious spread of Jesus' message of love, peace, forgiveness and joy that our world desperately needs to hear."
The book.
"Bell's vision of Christianity is inclusive, as he argues against some traditional ideas--for instance, hell as eternal punishment reserved for non-Christians--in favor of a God whose love and forgiveness is all encompassing."
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Islam has Jahannam
Hinduism and Buddhism have Naraka
Christianity has Hell
As you have pointed out, even some Universalists believe in hell, though it is a temporary state.
Revelation 21:8
But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars--their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur . This is the second death."
Matthew 25:46
"Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.
God does give everyone a second chance. As indicated by the story/parable of Adam and Eve, God empowered mankind with freewill and the ability to decide his own fate. Every second of every day that a person lives, they make decisions about how they live their lives. In that sense, people get numerous "second chances."
The latter part of Hitler's life was full of violence, hate, and atrocities. He had just as many second chances as anyone else to stop what he was doing and seek forgiveness. The traditional Christian view of Hell/Damnation is not, as you would suggest, that people are deprived of their second chances and forced into an eternity of suffering. It is viewed, especially in the current times, as a separation from God because of a person's choice to live an immoral life.
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The early church from the time of the Apostles until the 4th century was primarily a Universalist church. Most of the church fathers during this period believed that all people will be saved. Over time, alternative doctrines about the fate of sinners grew more popular, such as annihilationism and eternal conscious torment. These doctrines were often held by Christians who could not read the New Testament in the original Greek language in which it was written, and who interpreted the Bible through the lens of barbaric forms of paganism. It is noteworthy that Irenaeus the Bishop of Lyons wrote a lengthy book called Against Heresies in the late 2nd century, which never once mentioned universal salvation as a heretical belief. This is because for the first few centuries of Christian history, Universalism prevailed as the mainstream understanding of the Gospel."
Note that, at the time, few Christians, including many priests, had ever seen a proper Bible, much less been able to read one.
As stated above, the Council of Nicea, 325 AD, was the first time that eternal damnation for essentially all non-Christians was adopted as the mainstream position of the Christian hierarchy. The motivation to use that threat to spread the faith is obvious.
The site above reminded me of yet another Christian church with very strong universalist views, the Unity Church.
"The Unity Church does not conceive hell to be a place of eternal torment in which people are eternally punished with fire because of their beliefs and/or actions during life. It is not a place to go to after death. Rather it is a state of consciousness to be suffered here on earth. Charles Fillmore wrote: "One does not have to die in order to go to hell, any more than one has to die to get to heaven. Both are states of mind and conditions, which people experience as a direct outworking of their thoughts, beliefs, words, and acts. If one's mental processes are out of harmony with the law of man's [sic] being, they result in trouble and sorrow; mental as well as bodily anguish overtakes one, and this is hell".
Finally, I could cite many Bible passages that have been used by Christian universalists to support Christianity as fundamentally universalist. But trading Bible quotes to support one position or another is a most useless form of argument, they are often used by all sides to support contradictory positions. The following bit of doggerel is more useful.
"When I arrived at heaven's gate I saw faces I never thought I'd see
And every face showed shocked surprise, not one expected me. "
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The reason priests are available on the death bed, and give the anointing of the sick is to give that person, right to their dying breathe, a chance to repent their sins and be saved. They have that choice right to the very end, with God offering his love and forgiveness with open arms all the way thru life.
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2) Due to a lack of organized doctrine, there was a plethora of differing views in the early Christian church, which is why certain councils (Nicea) were convened to streamline and organize the religion. Local religious clergy had a lot of leeway on how and what kind of doctrine they would espouse. Hence, there were some early Christians who had views/ideologies that were similar to universalism, though not exactly the same. But to say that was a majority view, especially without concrete evidence, is foolish on your part.
3) What little doctrine there was for the early Christian church, was based on the Bible/scripture. The Bible pretty clearly states what Hell is and how it works. There is some debate by theologians even today on whether or not the "fire and brimestone" descriptions are meant to be taken literally, but there is very little debate on whether there was a Hell and whether or not it was eternal. The Bible is pretty clear on those aspects.
Wikipedia is not at all the best site for this kind of stuff, but its good starting point for someone like you who obviously prefers to throw around biased sources as "credible evidence."
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Here's a Lutheran Minister on the topic.
"There has always been a strain of Christian thought favoring it. Augustine of Hippo, who dismissed it thoroughly, admitted there were many entirely loyal to the Scriptures who denied "endless torment" for the damned. Even while still dismissing universal salvation, Augustine nonetheless cautioned Christians against judging the spiritual state of those as yet outside Christianity."
"There is in fact a whole body of early Christian literature, quotes and sermons and scraps of sermons, from theologians and bishops from both the ante-Nicene and post-Nicene periods disputing an eternal hell. Theophilus of Antioch, Irenaeus of Lyons, Eusebius of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa, Jerome, Ambrose of Milan (though perhaps more ambiguously than some). These and others I could name never gave up the notion that the universal work of Christ made hell superfluous come the apocatastasis , the restoration."
The real bottom line is that, contrary to what you originally said ("How many religions actually believe that everyone is "saved" regardless of their morality or actions? I can't think of any"), any number of Christian churches and ministers have been, and now are, universalist. It's a religious option, considered valid by many. Which was my original, and main, point.
I understand it does not represent your beliefs.
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I provided concrete sources (the Bible excerpts) which demonstrated the early Christian views on Hell. FYI the Bible was written well before the council of Nicea and was the only thing that was considered doctrine in pre-Nicene Creed Christianity, just in case you are confusing your dates. The Bible, I agree, is vague on a lot of topics, but in regards to the eternity of Hell there is little left to speculate on. I provided Bible excerpts which demonstrated this. Where are your Bible excerpts?
I provided a link to many sources (wikipedia) which showed that there were a plethora (that means multitude) of differing views and religious beliefs in the early Christian church following the death of Christ. Universalism was not a belief held by the majority of early Christians, rather there were aspects of Universalism that were held by a minority of early Christians, and they had plenty of different views on that subject amongst themselves.
I have yet to see you post an actual historical reference which proves your claim that universalism was a widely held belief in the early Christian church.
If you can do that, then maybe you and I can determine which one of us has a better grasp of history.
Edit: Instead of regurgitating other peoples' views, why don't you dig up some excerpts from the Bible that support your points. That would lend much more credibility to your argument.
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I am saying that there is clear evidence there was predominant doctrine that most Christians have adhered to since the founding of their religion. Universalism is a splinter group from mainstream Christianity, and ultimately holds certain views that are in the minority.
There is nothing wrong with their church or their beliefs. I'm just stating the way things are.
You 128Convertibleguy have tendency of propagating revisionist narratives on this section of the forum, present posts included.
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"Contrary to what many would suppose, universalism, understood as above, receives strong scriptural support in the New Testament. Indeed, I judge the support strong enough that if I had to choose between universalism and anti-universalism as the "position of Scripture," I'd pick universalism as the fairly clear winner. But more on that later. For now, here's three passages which support universalism.
I Corinthians 15:22. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.
Note the "all."
Colossians 1:20. 19 For in him [Christ] all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.
Note again the "all." Show me someone burning in hell, and I'll show you someone who's not yet been reconciled to God. So, show me someone who's under divine punishment forever, or who is simply annihilated, and I'll show you someone who's never reconciled to God through Christ, and thus someone who gives the lie to this passage.
Romans 5:18 : 18 Then as one man's trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one man's act of righteousness leads to acquittal and life for all men.
For whom will Christ's act of righteousness lead to acquittal and life? Answer: " all men." Show me someone who never enjoys acquittal and life, and I'll show someone for whom Christ's act of righteousness didn't lead to acquittal and life, and thus someone who gives the lie to this verse."
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Some more.
"Love Worketh no ill". Rom. 13:10 This is a very forcible argument. God's nature is the very essence of benevolence, and benevolence cannot be the origin of endless evil. If love worketh no ill, God can work no ill, and, therefore, God cannot be the author of endless evil. [this is the basic argument of Rob Bell, a very influential Christian minister]
"Thou hast given him power over all flesh, THAT HE SHOULD GIVE ETERNAL LIFE TO AS MANY AS THOU HAST GIVEN HIM." John 17:2 This plainly evinces, that it was God's design, in giving Christ dominion over all flesh, that they should all enjoy eternal life.
1 Tim. 2:6 "But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor; that he, by the grace of God, SHOULD TASTE DEATH FOR EVERY MAN." Heb. 2:9 "And he is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for the SINS OF THE WHOLE WORLD." 1 John 2:2 Here are three expressions: 1st, "ALL"; 2nd, "EVERY MAN"; 3rd, "THE WHOLE WORLD". It seems as though the sacred writers took the utmost care to guard against being misunderstood in this important particular.
This, to me is quite fundamental.
"As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked". (Ezek. 33:11) Death, and sin, and pain, may exist for a time, but if God has no pleasure in them of themselves, they are not the end at which he aims, but the means by which he accomplishes that end. The end in which God rests as his PLEASURE, DESIGN, or purpose, must be essentially benevolent, because he is essentially a benevolent God. Neither death, nor sin, no pain, can be his ULTIMATE plan or pleasure. They are the means by which his holy and righteous designs are carried into effect.
I'll not play this game, of debating whose views on religion are Biblically correct, farther. The Bible can be interpreted to support many views. You may think our personal views on whether the Bible supports universal salvation or eternal hell for all who simply don't believe the correct dogma, are more convincing than the views of wise men who have been studying this for years, I don't.
Universal salvation is hardly a fringe viewpoint, it is a principle held by many Christians, past and present. Who quote the Bible to support it, just as you quote the Bible to support your view.
I too am not trying to promote my position, merely stating historical fact. Since I'm completely uncertain as to whether or not a higher power exists, I can hardly be certain that universal salvation exists. I merely think that, if an awesome higher power that created the universe exists, I would think that universal salvation would be more his style, rather than eternal damnation for people who simply don't believe the "right" things. Such pettiness would be far below them.
Let me ask you two questions. If a non-Christian leads an unquestionably moral life, bestowing many kindnesses on other people and doing major good works, do you think that, if they do not accept Christ as their divine Savior, but simply as a good man, and the Bible as simply a good book (lower case), rather than the inerrant word of God, they are subject to eternal torment? Is the Dalai Lama damned to Hell?
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128, don't go away. I enjoy reading this, even if I have a differing opinion/interpretation (aka free will)
My recollections, from a Roman Catholic background:
Jesus was the sacrificial lamb that was sacrificed to open the door to heaven. Before him no one who died ever made it. They weren't cast into hell, but still without the sacrifice of obedience to the death on the cross, that door was closed. Hence why it was via Jesus that all were saved. But equally, the path the heaven leads directly thru Jesus, and acknowledging him as the Son. Without that, no ticket. So the path is AVAILABLE to all (Jews and Gentiles) but you must use your free will and choose to accept Jesus as your savior to make that journey.
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Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on July 24, 2015, 04:00:28 pmThat's some amazing plot! "Carvin Marvin" in particular is awesome and could really jack someone's alignment badly. I just can't think like this. I do plot as intent and character consideration and tend to improvise. Been out of gaming for some time now. Thinking about getting into a LARP that a friend of mine asked me to play an NPC for. There is an independent company that picked up the "minds eye theater" material from white wolf and truly made a new and well balanced system and progressed the stagnant backstory. Problem is I'm not into vampire. Like at all.Has Marv ever wound up in the hands of a paladin in you time with him?Nope. It HAS wound up in the hands of a tanked-out fighter with no appreciable will save, in a party where nobody else was armored up. The rogue survived by climbing up a drain pipe.
That's some amazing plot! "Carvin Marvin" in particular is awesome and could really jack someone's alignment badly. I just can't think like this. I do plot as intent and character consideration and tend to improvise. Been out of gaming for some time now. Thinking about getting into a LARP that a friend of mine asked me to play an NPC for. There is an independent company that picked up the "minds eye theater" material from white wolf and truly made a new and well balanced system and progressed the stagnant backstory. Problem is I'm not into vampire. Like at all.Has Marv ever wound up in the hands of a paladin in you time with him?
...The reason the noble is doing this is because the ballerina is an 11th level bard and is concerned that her looks are fading, so she has a plan to turn into a lich, using a bardic version of gentle repose to keep her looking young/non-rotten. This will tie in with the Vecna cult. The noble is infatuated with her, and she's promised to cure his deformities (lying), and turn him and all the other people assisting her into some form of intelligent undead (not lying, but they don't realize they'll be enslaved to her). More about this later....
Summary: Canto XXXBeholding the Second Zone in the Tenth Pouch of the Eighth Circle of Hell, Dante recalls stories of antiquity in which great suffering caused humans to turn on each other like animals. But the viciousness portrayed in these stories pales in comparison with what he witnesses here, where the sinners tear at each other with their teeth; these are the Falsifiers of Others Persons. Dante sees a woman, Myrrha, who lusted after her father and disguised herself as another in order to gratify her lust. Some of the sinners of the Third Zone, the Falsifiers of Coins, mingle among these souls. Dante speaks with Master Adam, who counterfeited Florentine money; part of his punishment is to be racked with thirst. Adam points out two members of the Fourth Zone, the Falsifiers of Words, or Liars: one is the wife of Potiphar, who falsely accused Joseph of trying to seduce her, and the other is a Greek man, Sinon. The latter apparently knows Adam and comes over to pick a fight with him. Dante listens to them bicker for a while. Virgil harshly reprimands his companion, telling him that it is demeaning to listen to such a petty disagreement.
Saturday notes:Mark of Caliphas - Itinerant monk, beaten up by party after attacking El Hombre.Appears later.Night at the Opera.Cast: Amalia Wallovski - Ballerina (bard11)Sophie Kolopin - Soprano (bard9)Lord Magnus Rimes - hunchbacked and deformed noble, patron of the artsLord Hugh Stoneshot - foreign (dwarf) noble, superior of Rimes in both society and in the plotThe PCs will have to stash el hombre in the library, and obtain nobles or courtier's outfits. Getting into the noble's quarter while dressed correctly requires a bluff DC9. Reduce the DC by 4 for a successful disguise check (including coaching), and increase it by 4 if anyone is wearing armor (weapons are expected, though...Swords, daggers, and light weapons are acceptable, increase the DC by 2 for every unacceptable weapon) If they play at being foreign, give them a +2. Other modifiers as appropriate.Anyone failing the roll will have to either stay behind or sneak into the quarter. This will require either a DC20 stealth check, or role-playing it out. Failure means a chase, capture means arrest.Once at the opera house, they can buy tickets to the general seating area (the only available area for those who don't have box seats) for 5 GP each. They will be seated off the left side, not too far from the noble. They will see another noble, far more handsome than the deformed Lord Rimes, speaking earnestly with him. (this is Lord Stoneshot, Rimes' superior both in society and in the plot they are hatching). A knowledge (local or nobility) DC25 will get his name on the spot. A diplomacy check DC 20 to gather information (before the show starts) will do the same.The opera begins. Amalia and Sophia appear in the second act of a story about an old king trying to cheat death. As two other actors play devils trying to urge a pact on him, the ladies arrive. Amalia is dressed as an angel, and reminds the king via dance that better things await him after death. Sophia is dressed as a psychopomp, and sings a song about how all things must end. The performance by all parties is amazing, once in a generation stuff.Unbeknownst to anyone but themselves and Rimes/Houghton, the two ladies are actually performing the bardic masterpiece "The Song of Extinction". 6 random people around the PCs are targeted (the PCs are not, nor is anyone in the box seats). All 6 unfortunates fail their saving throws, and pay the price later. This is a "test fire" for a ritual they have planned further down the road.The opera concludes with the king agreeing with the angel, and is led away to the bone yard by Sophia. The nobles in the box seats leave first, as per custom, before the general seating area is dismissed.As the PCs leave the opera, a string of ghastly accidents happen, all in the space of a few seconds:* A young nobleman trips and falls down the entry stairs, breaking his neck and killing him instantly.* A middle-aged noble matron, screaming at the death of the nobleman, spooks a carriage horse, which rears and kills her with a blow from its hoof.* The carriage backs up when the horse rears, and crushes a fat merchant prince and his wife.* The merchant prince's guards run forward to see to their boss. One trips and falls, causing his crossbow to discharge. The bolt strikes a older noble (still on the stairs) in the eye, killing him instantly.* The older noble's body falls forward, knocking a young noble lady down the stairs. She tumbles all the way to the bottom, fetching up on the spear of one of the merchant prince's guardsmen.The spell was cast crudely (first time), and the deaths happened all at once. It is a knowledge (arcana) DC 40 to understand that The Song of Extinction produces this sort of effect. There is no magic on the scene (the magic happened in the opera house) after the victims are killed.There is no connection between the casualties, and the PCs will not be allowed to investigate. In fact, anyone making a wisdom check DC9 will know that hanging around might get their credentials checked, which would be a bad thing, considering all the dead nobility.On the way home, shortly after they leave the noble's quarter, they are assaulted by thugs (see notes). These thugs are actually in the employ of Lord Rimes, but seeing as he knows the capabilities of the PCs, he has the illiterate toughs carrying a note implicating the wizard's guild. Remember that the PCs may have their weapons, but not their armor, which raises the DC of the thugs. There are 4 thugs, and the DC of the entire encounter is 5.The note has a sketch of the PCs faces, and reads: "Kill all of them. No prisoners. Dispose of their bodies in harbor. Bring all their weapons and gear to the wizards guild."A canny party may think it odd that the wizards guild would mention itself in a note. Give the party a DC15 sense motive check if nobody figures it out (later).
Well, that's hardly my fault. I was just doing what I do, doing my little dance, singing my little song, you know? And then Hirley0 got on the dance floor and saidSHAKE THATFirst ^ Then VAnd I did. I didn't feel like I had any choice. Between P-Funk and Hirley0, I became the man reptillian menace I am today.Bootsy Collins did this to me.
Sounds like, for a less experienced group, they're still a pretty smart bunch. Nice catch on the faked letter.
A fine story! I'm not even playing and I can't wait to hear how the party does.
This week, the less experienced party is going to the opera, to spy on their boss. The Soprano and the Ballerina will be using a modified version of the bardic masterpiece "The Song of Extinction", which will cause the death of 6 opera-goers (not the noble cabal or the party). What happens is that within an hour, bizarre accidents will kill the 6 unfortunates. The deaths will be freak accidents that will happen as the opera house empties. Which ought to raise hackles.
Dammit, Roger, why are you so good at putting adventures together?I'm really curious to see how this ties into the Temple of Elemental Evil. I don't actually know much about that adventure, though, so for all I know it could have been obvious all along and just gone over my head.
It's been a while; How's this been going?
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It is ugly but it is nevertheless the state of things.
Here I will document my struggle with my book obsession. Behold my denial in all of its glory.
Pile Escalation:
Changeling by Phillipa Gregory
Extracted by Sherry D. Ficklin
Lure of the Dead by Joseph Delaney
Lure of the Dead by Joseph Delaney
Pile Reduction:
Read:Fyre by Angie Sage
Auracle by Gina Rosati
Otherkin by Nina Berry
Longing for Home by Sarah M. Eden
Winterveil by Jenna Burtenshaw
Consume by Melissa Darnell
Made to Last by Melissa Tagg
If I Should Die by Amy Plum
Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo
Grasping at Eternity by Karen Amanda Hooper
Opal by Jennifer L. Armentrout
My Super Sweet Sixteenth Century by Rachel Harris
Wolfsbane by Patricia Briggs
Body and Soul by Stacey Kade
Queen of the Dead by Stacey Kade
The Ghost and the Goth by Stacey Kade
Goddess by Josephine Angelini
Onyx by Jennifer L. Armentrout
First Frost by Jennifer Estep
Soulbound by Heather Brewer
Obsidian by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Angel Fire by L. A. Weatherly
Beautiful Chaos by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
Blurred by Tara Fuller
The Apothecary's Daughter by Julie Klassen
Quintana of Charyn by Melina Marchetta
Etiquette and Espionage by Gail Carriger
Pathfinder by Orson Scott Card
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Lure of the Dead by Joseph Delaney
It has been a long time since I took stock of my pile or really did much of anything. I just thought it would be nice to see if I have made any progress in all these months. Turns out my progress hasn't been all that great.
Here are the numbers of books hanging out on my TBR pile.
Until next time. . .
Here are the numbers of books hanging out on my TBR pile.
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Books:34 (barely a decrease) :)
eBooks: 16 (decrease) :)
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Daniel Radcliffe dons a blazer while exiting the Noel Coward Theatre after a night performance of his play The Cripple Of Inishmaan on Thursday (August 15) in London, England.
The day before, the 24-year-old English actor was seen wearing a "Coast to Coast" t-shirt while stepping out of the theater after a nightly performance.
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In case you missed it, two of Daniel's upcoming films – Horns and The F Word – will both be screening at the upcoming 2013 Toronto Film Festival, which kicks off next month!
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I.D. Images, LLC Ohio EPA E3 Gold Award Recipient
Tuesday, July 28, 2015
Press release from the issuing company
Brunswick, Ohio – I.D. Images LLC, a leading pressure sensitive label converter in Brunswick, has been notified that they will be awarded the Ohio EPA Gold Level Encouraging Environmental Excellence (E3) Award in the fall of 2015.
The Encouraging Environmental Excellence (E3) Gold Level award recognizes an organization's exceptional achievements and ongoing commitment to environmental stewardship. The Gold Level is open to any business, industry, trade association, professional organization or local government of Ohio. Applications are evaluated using environmental stewardship criteria developed by Ohio EPA.
I.D. Images' theme for 2015 is "All In," which pertains to every aspect of the company. They strive for a cleaner, greener future with programs to minimize trash sent to landfill. I.D. Images was able to reduce landfill waste by 37% as a result of measures put into place. The move from incandescent exit signs to LED's have saved the company 1,836 KWH per year in energy usage. I.D. Images is also in the process of transitioning all of their order processing, work orders and job folders to electronic files which will further reduce paper usage and the need to recycle waste paper.
Tammy Bivins, Director of Product Development and Improvement, "wishes to thank Jennifer Statford and the entire EMS team as well as all Brunswick employees who help with our environmental initiative."
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Last weekend the nomadbaby and I ran errands in t-shirts. Today, we woke up to this:
Given the eight inches or so that have already fallen and the projected three or four more today, Hawthorne and I are staying in today. I hope he'll nap enough (collectively over his three naps--I'm not being greedy) that I can finish the last one hundred pages of A Dangerous Place. I have so many thoughts already, and I'm dying to discuss it, so I must finish today. It doesn't publish until mid-March, so watch for my review then. But I'm writing this during his first nap, so it may be an after his bedtime finish. If you've read it and want to discuss, please let me know!
Bucket List
I completely failed my January Bucket List. I managed to read only one of the five titles, The Position by Meg Wolitzer, which I quite enjoyed (review coming this week.) I managed to finish ten book in January, but five of those were audio. I was tired a lot this month. Hawthorne had some sleep regression, and our wake up time shifted from 7 or 7:30 to as early as 5 a.m. He dropped one of his overnight feedings, which sounded great in theory, but I soon discovered getting up twice and sleeping until 7 is preferable to getting up once and sleeping until only 5. It seems that two-hour difference is enough to make it too hard for me to concentrate on a book. The last four nights, he's been only getting up once and still sleeping until at least 7 a.m., so we are happy and reading again.
February Plans
There are a ton of new releases I want to read in the coming months, plus I want to sneak in a few more Tournament of Books finalists before that kicks off in March. (I will write more about the ToB in another post.) Then my favorite day of the year comes in early March: the Baileys Prize longlist announcement! I'm smart enough not to plan on reading anything else in the weeks after the announcement. There are just too many books I want to read. And while this problem is not new, what matters to me most right now is that I'm reading. Which books I read when matters less and less. For now, I'm going back to picking up whatever strikes my fancy at that moment. So I won't be promising to finish my January Bucket List in February or declaring a new Bucket List for February. Instead, I will try to be mindful of my top two reading priorities: making progress on the 2014 New York Times Notable Fiction list and making progress on all Baileys Prize titles, from 1996-present. As long as I'm crossing at least one of each of my list each month, I'm happy. And, yes, I realize reading one a month makes it impossible to ever actually finish those lists. But Hawthorne won't be this needy for ever. And he will sleep through the night soonish. And one day I will have more time and energy to read.
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Bill Northfield notes that after so much fun at reunion last June he continued the excitement a week later with his first-ever parachute jump—and broke his ankle in a crash landing. That pretty much wrapped up the summer for Bill, but he is walking again and hopes to be playing tennis by this summer. * Jim Campbell was sorry to miss reunion but is pleased to announce that he and wife Judy Richard Campbell recently made their last EVER college tuition payment. Oldest daughter graduated two years ago and is working in theatrical production/design, middle daughter is graduating this May, and their youngest is a sophomore at UMaine with an Army ROTC scholarship (like father, like son). Jim and Judy celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary this May. Jim shared a few beers and good laughs with Colby roommate Mike Lalikos and family recently when they were in the area for vacation. * Hamilton Brower was also sorry to miss reunion when he had to head off on a consulting job to Brazil—helping an old friend launch a new line of all-natural suntan products, Sol de Janeiro. Rio, Bahia, and Punta Arenas beach—wow, Ham, we feel terrible for you! When Ham got home he finished writing and publishing his first book, Magnificent Words To Live By, which is the accomplishment he is most proud of so far in his life. After a big heart attack two years ago (he's doing fine now, he says), Ham felt he had some learned life wisdom to share with his nieces and nephews—and now with the wider world. He's busy with book signings these days. * Anne Butter had so much fun doing the Trek Across Maine last June (and staying in a Colby dorm) that she'll do it again, riding 180 miles in three days to benefit the American Lung Association. Donations welcome online: search Trek Across Maine Anne Butter. * Sharing another never-to-be-forgotten experience, Doug Scalise wrote about getting some serious exercise this February when he relived his Colby baseball days at the Red Sox Fantasy Camp in Fort Myers, Fla., with 120 "campers" age 30-plus from all over the U.S. and Canada, including his dad, Vic Scalise '54. Doug hit around .600 for the week, pitched a complete game in the playoffs opening-round, and drove in the winning run. Then started and got the win in the divisional championship. His team, coached by former Red Sox third baseman and manager Butch Hobson, made it to the championship game, the first game played in the Red Sox new Jet Blue Park. To top it all, Doug received the "under 50" MVP award at the closing banquet. Doug and wife Jill Wertz-Scalise '88 also had a memorable experience in May 2011 helping lead a group of 40 people on a pilgrimage in Israel and Jordan. * David Mace sent a note from the capital of the Green Mountain State, Montpelier. After losing his communications job in the state government change of administration last year, he's now doing the same type of work for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. What was supposed to be a temporary job became a long-term assignment after Tropical Storm Irene hit Vermont. * Whether you have a once-in-a-lifetime experience to share or want to describe a moment from everyday life, I'd love to hear from you—and so would everyone else. Take care, be well. ~Hank
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Hi, my name is Randy VanderVeen. I'm 48 and live near Grand Rapids, MI where I married my high school sweetheart Marilyn, 28 years ago. The Lord has blessed us with 3 beautiful daughters, Marie and her husband AJ, Katie and her hubby Joel, and Lisa who goes to a christian high school, and 2 grandchildren…oh yeah, and a dog named Peanut.
My wife Marilyn decided to stay home to raise our kids and she's done an awesome job. She has given so much of herself unselfishly and I owe her a debt of gratitude I'll never be able to repay. Everyday we go for a 2 mile walk and /or several mile bike ride. It's a great way to do something together that keeps us in shape .
We are NOT a "flashy" family with material "toys" and "stuff." We've gotten beyond that. The things that matter most to us is being able to spend time as a family, doing what the Lord calls us to do, and going about the work we love to do so we can support our church and school and enjoy the great outdoors!
We love living in Michigan because of the changing of the seasons, sometimes even winter, (except for when they last too long.) Fall is my favorite time of the year. My outdoor passion is bowhunting for whitetails and turkeys.
There's nothing like the quiet woods and being in a tree stand with my bow and video camera when the sun comes up over the horizon shining on the bright colored leaves. What an awesome creation!
Michigan has some of the highest deer and turkey populations in the country. Only problem is that there are more hunters per square mile in MI than any other state. Plus every hunter can legally harvest 2 bucks per year. When you give 750,000 hunters a total of 4 weeks to kill 2 bucks with a firearm, and another 2 months with a bow, it's no surprise that the age structure of whitetail busks in MI is very young. If I were a mature buck, MI would be the last place I would want to live. That's why I have been hunting out of state during the rut for several years.
All three of my daughters enjoy bowhunting as well. It's a great way to teach any child patience, persistence, safety, and a respect for animals and the outdoors. Plus it gets them away from the TV and computer games. We like to use treesaddles since it gives us more mobility and flexibility in hunting different locations without the hassle of setting up permanent or portable stands.
My daughters all harvested their first deer with a bow during their high school years. Most of the boys in their class couldn't believe they even liked hunting, let alone getting a deer with a bow because my girls don't appear to be "tomboyish" at all. (Is that a word?)
During my 30 years of bowhunting, I have learned a lot about whitetail behavior. The last 10 years I have really applied myself to learning everything there is to know about creating the ultimate whitetail habitat for holding mature bucks and does on any piece of property. Much of what I learned is not being talked about on TV hunting shows or in videos. So after a year or two of documenting all the steps involved in creating great habitat on video, I'm now ready to share this info with any hunter that wants to see, attract, and harvest more mature deer.
No hype, no fluff, no glamorizing, no pie in the sky. Just a common sense step-by-step approach to very simple strategies that work every year.
I hear about too many people who love to hunt and fish but are at their wits end on what they can do to make ends meet. Unfortunately many of them are forced to give up their favorite outdoor activity of hunting and fishing. We need to preserve our sport from the anti-hunters and animal rights activists. I want to help as many people as possible to stay involved in the outdoor sports and be successful at it.
In the coming months I will be sharing information regarding how to create a second income on the internet or enough to replace your full time income. I want to show outdoorsmen how to leverage the internet so they can hunt more and work less.


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Stat3 Activation as a Potential Prognostic Marker and Therapeutic Target in Pediatric AML
- To characterize Stat3 signaling pathway activity in primary tissue samples from
pediatric patients with acute myeloid leukemia to determine the percentage of samples
with increased activity and to better understand the mechanisms leading to increased
- To evaluate the presence of constitutive Stat3 activation and the sensitivity of Stat3
activation to low and high doses of cytokines.
- To evaluate the expression levels of Stat3 protein as well as upstream and downstream
regulators of Stat3 activation.
- To classify tissue samples according to a Stat3-activation pattern, and to correlate
this result with event-free survival and overall survival in order to determine whether
increased Stat3 phosphorylation at diagnosis predicts poor outcome.
OUTLINE: Cryopreserved cell samples are collected for laboratory analysis, including
immunoblotting, fluorescence activated cell sorting (FACS), and protein analysis.
Correlation of the Stat3 response category (constitutive, low-dose responsive, high-dose responsive, or unresponsive) with clinical data, including event-free and overall survival
Michele S. Redell, MD, PhD
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I don't know if you have seen the Brita ads with the person running on the treadmill. The short of it is "30 minutes on the treadmill, forever in a landfill". You think it's the person they are talking about, but then you realize it's the plastic water bottle.
I'm beginning to realize just how dumb bottled water is. A few years ago Coca-Cola admitted that their Dasani Water was well water, from the tap no less. Filtered, over priced and bottled, but tap water nonetheless. In addition to paying too much for tap water, you get all the convenience of destroying the environment with plastic bottles. Bottles that either consume rescores through recycling or more frequently get buried in landfills.
Well Brita, along with Nalgene and Filter for Good, are trying to save you money and save your planet. It is really quite a simple premise — get yourself some reusable bottles and a water filter and it's by-by middleman. You can bottle your own water. You will begin saving money very quickly. The bottles are cheap and you may even have one already — Nalgene bottles are everywhere. The Brita filters are quite reasonably priced — I'd wager less than the cost of one case of that fancy bottled tap water. I recommend the Brita Space saver it will fit better in your small space.
So you have the filter, the bottles and your tap water — now you're in business. Just remember to thoroughly clean your bottles and you can save money, the environment and space all at the same time.
I bought a new Brita filter pitcher this weekend, the slim model. It was $12.00. Not a bad deal.


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10 Tips on Courtroom Decorum and Behavior
Etiquette is important in making a good impression. This is particularly true in a court of law, where your behavior and demeanor are judged.
Here are 10 tips:
Tip 1: Dress appropriately; that means conservatively (dress shirts, dress slacks, dress jacket, dress skirt). Sunglasses, hats, excessive jewelry, heavy make-up should be
avoided and visible tattoos should be covered.
Tip 2: Arrive on time; do not be late. It is an insult to the Court to have to wait for you.
Tip 3: Be prepared to go through security; avoid carrying clutter or unnecessary items that would set-off the metal detectors. Never bring any weapons or illegal drugs of any kind to the courthouse.
Tip 4: Treat everyone (court officers, clerks, secretaries) with respect, saying thank you and please. Be professional.
Tip 5: Do not chew gum; do not eat or drink in the courtroom; breaks for snacks and drinks can be taken in the courthouse cafeteria or outside.
Tip 6: Turn off your cell phone! Period.
Tip 7: Put away newspapers, books, tablets, cameras, smart phones in the courtroom.
Tip 8: Address the Judge as "Your Honor". Do not address the Judge as Sir or Ma'am.
Tip 9: Speak politely and in a controlled manner; do not use slang or street language.
Tip 10: Do not make any facial gestures or other hand signs.


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Eric Butterworth was Senior Minister of The Unity Center of New York City from 1961 to 2003. Eric was thoughtful a parable and numinous statue in the Unity Movement. We will ne'er cognize the infinite numeral of lives that have been changed by applying the Spiritual Principles tutored by Eric Butterworth. The journalist of 16 popular books on philosophy spirituality, a artistic theologian, philosopher, and lecturer, Eric was a notably reputable innovator and pioneer of matter-of-fact mysticism, whose natural life was dyed-in-the-wool to portion citizens to give support to themselves.
"Go inside in a time of condition and get a renewed realization of God as your resource, and later go something like your company affairs in the ironlike consciousness of the ubiquitousness of objects."
"There is no such entity as a deficiency of dependence. We all have plentitude of faith, it's lately that we have confidence in the false material possession. We have dependence in what can't be through with fairly than what can be through with. We have supernatural virtue in famine rather than wealth but nearby is no want of theological virtue. Faith is a law."Post ads:
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Made in the 1950's this set of four bentwood arm chairs are in excellent condition and have something extra special going on. Not your usual bentwood chair to be sure.
• Vintage Thonet bentwood walnut dining chairs
• Danish style X coffee table
• Heywood Wakefield student desk M314 1954
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Apartment Therapy New York Furniture Classifieds are open for your business in the Shopping Guide. They are local and JUST DECOR. Post a particularly good thing, and we'll highlight you here on the front page.
• Vintage Thonet bentwood walnut dining chairs/set of 4 (Woodlawn) - $550
• Danish style X coffee table (NY/NJ) - $375
• Heywood Wakefield student desk M314 1954 (brooklyn) - $595
• Saarinen chair by Knoll cream and chocolate color mid century modern (Delivery available) - $125
• Reclining chair - black leather and wood (East Village) - $100
• Unique MCM rug runner (Upper West Side) - $400
• 1950s Lightolier style floor lamp (NY/NJ) - $160
• Danish Modern utility cabinet (Cobble Hill) - $95
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• MCM double-sided teak desk (NY, NJ) - $595
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...is about listening to God and his word, hearing him speak and sharing what he's doing and saying with others... It's about living the life that Jesus came to give... It's a shared journey and conversations along the way...
Saturday, November 24, 2012
Ups and Downs
Wow! I can't believe how long it has been since I have been here... I will endeavour be back regularly again from now on.
The past couple of months have been filled with youth camps, sickness, job losses and gains, and other kinds of change. I have had so many things to write about and share that I just didn't know where to start.
I have been feeling weary, anxious, sad, excited, doubtful and in awe. Yes, I've been on a bit of a rollercoaster ride that doesn't look like it's going to end any time soon.
I really don't love rollercoasters or any rides of that kind at all but I realise of course that ups and downs are a part of this life journey we are all on.
God doesn't guarantee us a life without dips and bends and steep climbs. He does guarantee that he will be with us in all of it. He does guarantee that we can be overcomers because greater is the Spirit that is in us, than the spirit that is in the world (1 John 4.4). He promises that his "love never fails" (Psalm 136). He says that even when anxious, we can have His peace when we pray and praise him (Philippians 4.6-7).
Really, if I'm honest, I wouldn't want it any other way. Yes, I like it when things are smooth and I can see what's around the bend but I have met Jesus in the dips - those dark, sad, anxious moments - and he has given me peace and guidance and comfort and He is amazing. I have also had wonderful times of worship and joy and being in awe of God as I've seen young people come to know Jesus, as we've been healed from sickness, as I have been wonderstruck by creation again and again.
I don't know where you are on this rollercoaster called life. Maybe you're at the top and loving every moment. Maybe you're on the way down and have that sick feeling in the pit of your stomach and don't know how things are going to turn out. All I can say is trust Him. Trust the One who promises to stay with you. Trust the One who promises you peace that is unfathomable. I am... He is able to do "infinitely more than we could ask or think" (Ephesians 3.19-20).
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Greenville, S.C. enacts new false alarm ordinance
Thursday, January 20, 2011
GREENVILLE, S.C.—According to a story from CBS affiliate, WSPA Channel 7, during the Greenville, S.C. City Council meeting Jan. 14, the council unanimously voted for an ordinance that could help decrease the number of false alarms from going off in businesses and residential areas.
Greenville City Officials say your alarm can falsely sound up to three times in a year.
If police respond to each call, you will get a ticket after the third time.
Officers say they're hoping this law will help get the number of false alarm calls down, saying they could pay two more policemen with how much it's costing the city.


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Watch this commercial and listen to what it actually says, I can only assume that Abilify is trying to promote its medication with this commercial.
Here we go again……..
NUETRAL INFORMATION (I guess): 0:00 – 0:30
"I'm taking an antidepressant, but I think I may need more help."
"Approximately 2 out of 3 people being treated for depression still have depression symptoms.
"I'm on an antidepressant, but I am still not where I want to be with my symptoms." (This guys voice is pretty sweet….)
"If your antidepressant alone isn't enough, talk to your doctor. One option your doctor may consider is adding abilify. Abilify is FDA approved to treat depression in adults when added to an antidepressant. Learn more about abilify."
NEGATIVE INFORMATION: 0:31 – 107 (36 seconds)
Call your doctor if your depression worsens, or you have unusual changes in mood, behavior, or thoughts of suicide. Antidepressants can increase these in children, teens, and young adults. Elderly dementia patients taking abilify have an increased risk of death or stroke. Call your doctor if you have high fever, stiff muscles and confusion on abilify, as these may be signs of a life threatening reaction or uncontrollable muscle movements since these can become PERMANENT. High blood sugar has been reported with abilify and medicines like it. In some cases extreme high blood sugar can lead to coma or death. Other risks include dizziness upon standing, decreases in white blood cells, which can be serious. Seizures, impaired judgment, or motor skills, or trouble swallowing.
POSITIVE INFORMATION (I guess) 1:08 – 1:10 (2 fucking seconds)
"Adding abilify has made a difference in me."
NEUTRAL INFORMATION 1:11 – 1:16 (5 seconds)
"If an antidepressant alone isn't enough, talk to your doctor about the RISKS and benefits of adding abilify."
Time for my response to this ridiculous commercial
The only positive information that this commercial says is that "Adding abilify has made a difference in me". I would not even consider that positive information because a lot of things have made a difference in me and a lot of those things are not necessarily positive.
For instance, the other night I had a great vomiting session at 4 o'clock in the morning. I was visiting a friend Ali, in New Jersey for her 30th birthday. It was one wave after another of violent bodily fluid removal. After all the vomiting was done, it made a difference, and I was more likely to fall asleep. It made a difference, but I would not consider the position that I put myself in positive, by any means.
This drug can raise your blood sugar to the point of coma or death. Do you know what type of disease causes the same thing to happen?
This drug can also lower your White Blood Cell count. Do you know what type of disease causes the same thing to happen?
If you are depressed and you are already taking medication, and it is not working…….Why would you continue to take something that does not work, and add another drug to the mix that can give you diabetic like symptoms, HIV like symptoms, unusual changes in mood, behavior, or thoughts of suicide, high fever, stiff muscles, dizziness upon standing, seizures, impaired judgment, impaired motor skills, trouble swallowing, confusion, uncontrollable muscle movements, coma or death?
You tell me, maybe I am missing something here and just being naive. This is WhatAndrewMichaelsisdoingnow, trying to figure out how drugs like this are legal, while others are not.


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2017-2018 School Uniform Policy
Please see the Parent/Student Handbook for complete HDA dress code & uniform policies.
Daily Dress Code:
School uniforms must be clean, neat and in good repair.
HDA branded polo shirts and uniform-style bottoms are worn daily.
Only K-6th grade may wear their PE uniforms to school on PE days. Parents, please consult individual schedules to identify what day your child may dress out of PE. Please see below for detailed information on uniform styles, colors, & ordering.
Students should arrive at school properly dressed and remain so throughout the day.
If you have additional questions or need further information, contact us.
Daily Uniform: HDA School Polo Shirts
HDA branded uniform Polo shirts and PE uniforms are available exclusively through Dennis Uniforms, located in Maitland. All students must wear a uniform polo shirt daily. K-6th grade students may wear their PE uniform all day on their scheduled PE days (see guidelines below).
• K5 - 12th – Black or Royal Blue Polo
Daily Uniform: Khaki Shorts, Skirts, Slacks
You may purchase the uniform shorts, skirts, or slacks at any department store that carries uniform clothing (Target, WalMart, Bealls, JC Penny etc.)
• K5 - 12th – Khaki uniform-style bottoms
Please note all bottoms must be uniform-style clothing. No jeans, leggings or jean-style clothing.
Shorts and Skirt lengths must be no more than two inches above the knee.
PE Uniform:
PE uniforms must be purchased through Dennis Uniforms.
• K5 - 12th – Grey PE Shirt with HDA Lion Athletic Logo
• Black PE shorts with HDA Lion Athletic Logo
When PE uniforms are worn:
• K5 - 6th – May wear their PE uniform to school on PE days (see individual student schedules)
• 7th - 12th – Must bring their PE uniform to school and dress out before PE class.
Cold Weather Daily Uniform:
For cool days – Solid Navy or Black sweat shirt, hoodie or sweater
For cold days – Heavy jacket of your choice (does not have to be a solid color)
Cold weather daily uniform sweaters may be purchased at any local clothing store.
Please note: jackets & sweatshirts should not have oversized logos or writing visible.
Cold Weather PE Uniform:
While cold weather isn't a regular concern, student's participating in PE during the cold days of the year may wear following items:
• Solid black sweatshirt (plain – no logos, stripes, or other embellishments)
• Solid black sweatpants (plain – no logos, stripes, or embellishments)
Cold weather PE Uniforms may be purchased at any local clothing store.
Daily Wear - Shoes:
Due to our active campus life at Hampden DuBose Academy, students must wear athletic/tennis shoes daily.
Shoes must be worn while on the school campus at all times.
School Polo & PE Uniform Ordering Information:
HDA daily uniform polos, PE shirts & shorts are offered exclusively through Dennis School Uniforms.
Dennis School Uniforms
1101 N. Keller Rd.
Orlando, Fl32810
Please call ahead to verify their store hours.
Online Ordering is available!
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So Chris now offers the Northwest Airlines Boarding Pass Generator, which creates a valid-looking boarding pass that you can print at home. For instance, here's a first class seat I've generated for Ronald McDonald:
- Long before 9/11, I wondered about allowing people to print boarding passes at home or office. Since Christopher has demonstrated how easy it is to spoof a boarding pass, expect to see TSA adding scanners at the security checkpoint.
- After the recent liquid explosives scare, the TSA has relaxed rules a bit to allow you to purchase a bottled water inside the secure area. Now that this raises the question of whether the secure area is secure, Christopher's demonstration may cause a lot of dehydrated passengers.
- The ads Google is serving up on Christopher's site are for X-ray scanners.
- It's good that Soghoian is an uncommon name; fortunately, few people will be inconvenienced when TSA adds Christopher to their watch list.