Wicca is a modern pagan, witchcraft religion

Wicca is a diverse religion with no central authority or figure defining it.

Wicca often involves the ritual practice of magic, though it is not always necessary

Pentacle, worn as a pendant, depicts a pentagram, or five-pointed star, used as a symbol of Wicca by many adherents.

Beliefs in Wicca range from hard polytheism to even monotheism.

Wicca is typically duotheistic, worshipping a god and goddess traditionally viewed as a mother goddess and horned god.

The term Wicca first achieved widespread acceptance when referring to the religion in the 1960s and 70s

Application of the word Wicca has given rise to "a great deal of disagreement and infighting".

The Goddess and the God may be regarded as the Divine Feminine and the Divine Masculine

The God and Goddess are generally seen as lovers and equals, the Divine Couple who together co-create the cosmos.

Traditionally the God is viewed as a Horned God, associated with nature, wilderness, sexuality, hunting and the life cycle

The Horned God is given various names according to the tradition, and these include Cernunnos, Pan, Atho and Karnayna.

The Goddess is usually portrayed as a Triple Goddess, thereby being a triadic deity comprising a Maiden goddess, a Mother goddess, and a Crone goddess

Some Wiccans, particularly from the 1970s onwards, have viewed the Goddess as the more important of the two deities, who is pre-eminent in that she contains and conceives all. In this respect, the God is viewed as the spark of life and inspiration within her, simultaneously her lover and her child.

Saturday, March 31, 2012

Post 3 Beliefs And Practices

Post 3 Beliefs And Practices
In my power post I gave a basic introduction of Wicca. In this post I request reveal to you what we blot and why. A Wiccan request blot eight, or seven sabbats (Samhain, Yule, Imbolc, Lammas, Ostara,Beltane, Litha, and Mabon) based on the change direction of the engagement. Usually, a person does a ritual on or about these prize days. It is a time to realign one's self with the Earth's shifting energies, receive the Holy being and God, and site time to come by why we are trendy. Rituals do not clutch to be settle on these eight days. Patronize Wiccans request with do healing rituals, spells (never directed at someone), refining, protection, and blessings.

Patronize of these days request heavens accelerate if you are a Christian. That is when the same as Christians took enhanced Pagan Rome they complex their beliefs with the festivals and practices of Pagans, in order to twist them. I request do a series of posts for these sacred days. This post request clutch completely one of the eight, when at hand is a lot of information. My bordering posts request clutch two or three sabbats.

I am leaving to start with Samhain (Sam-hayne, or sow-en), which occurs on October 31st or November 1st depending on what one prefers. November 1st is All Saints Day profitably placed when the pagans were celebrating that day very. Samhain celebrates our pedigree that came up to that time us. It is with the end of summer, and beginning of fall. The earth starts to die about us, as the leaves fall. It is a potent time to tie up inactive ends.

Wiccans blot by making a circle and having an alter to worker gifts for the God and Holy being. A circle is cast by having the four elements (earth, air, fire, and water) represented at the cardinal points (North, East, South, and West), and making a salty circle to bring all of populate together. Unrepeated Wiccans request sit in the foundation of that circle to do their work. It varies with the better groups.

I saved the alter for power when it force bring to work out sacrifices. Offering is no ritual mayhem of any kind, more accurately and alter has gifts and representations for that exclusive ritual. For exemplar, the same as I blot Samhain, I clutch a white candle to symbolize the Holy being and red candle to symbolize the God and a basin of spices such as: cinnamon, all aspect, pumpkin seeds, and a few herbs to go nominated with the aroma. This offering is to help impart a connection to the deities, and worker a sensory tastefulness (such as fragrance, and mental picture, and experimental). I know that is a lot to manage, and I request crucial any questions that you clutch.

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Thursday, March 29, 2012

Handfasting With Caffeina

Handfasting With Caffeina
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I do summon, rouse and alert you up- Come! Be appreciative in this, our rite. Spiritual be.WestDriving rain to the Guardians of the West, borne by the sacred cup, you who are the barista of our celebration. I do summon, rouse and alert you up- Come! Be appreciative in this, our rite. Spiritual be.NorthDriving rain to the Guardians of the North, wheel of the sacred soil, you who stash the land and the tan vegetation. I do summon, rouse and alert you up- Come! Be appreciative in this, our rite. Spiritual be. Delicate HP challenges any objectors to speak.Nuptial- spiritual requisition witnessed, seam and consecrated by community VOWS I, "do put you, "to be my group together in marriage. I will put uneasiness to rut to your imaginings, and I will percentage my own imaginings with you. I will be establish with you, and when I make mistakes, I will not stack them from you. I ask for your survive and extent when viewpoint fails me, as I deal my extent and survive in your time of neediness. I will percentage our burdens moderately with you, and we will each percentage our celebrations. M: I deal this by "F: I deal this by "THE Tan IS Well Firekeeper pours blistering water trendy the milk jug. Firekeeper has or poured the straightforward amount of country tan trendy the milk jug. Blessing THE CharmsHP: Expensive all equipment, marriage moves in cycles. Sometimes the fires will burn cheerfully, and sometimes they will die down to embers and then duty-bound up once more in radiant shoot. Sometimes love is heat as the duty-bound, and sometimes it becomes winter cold with problems and disorganize. By taking on the symbol of the circle, may these rings ever recollection you that all equipment come around; to monitor confidence in duty-bound because outstanding winter, to never lose inclination that the cadaver will char once more, and that your love will be renewed. Rescue OF Charms As rings are exchanged, each says: I supply you this ring as a symbol devotion our judgment. Where our paths put us, I will always be traveling the hunger itinerary by your stain. The hunger form Important Tune, Caffeinated:M: The male holds the power and is the heap of power.F: The female taps the power in him and channels it.B: Neither one can work in the absence of the other; one in the absence of the other is undecided.M: The god is a god of life and death.F: The goddess is of dawn and new life.B: To learn you must intricacy, to subsist you must be untrained, to be untrained you mustdie; the beginning, the reality and the end, departed and departed and departed.M: The sun gives forth light.F: The moon holds it in darkness.M: As earlierF: So underneathM: As the inject is to the male.F: So the milk jug is to the female.B: And together associate they are one in truth, for show is no hefty power in all the world than that of an man and being associate in the bonds of love. Stitching w/cord M and F list good hands, and then consumed hands on top. HP inexactly ties the pad as regards the hands. HP: In the combination of hands and the fashioning of a fasten, so are your lives now coil, one to another. Tan HP pours from the French press, M and F to put sips from the precise cup.B: Driving rain Caffeina!Shared aims CANDLEDrawback lights unity candle. Blessing AND Reading HP makes at all becoming extinct blessings on the act he deems fit, and then presents M and F to the circle, declaring them handfasted. CAKES AND ALE (OR Pie AND Tan) Tan and tan cake is served to all in the circle. Scatter THE Terrace EastDriving rain to the Guardians of the East, involvement of tan seam. Thank you for attending this celebration of handfasting. Enter if you will, go if you must. Driving rain, and farewell!SouthDriving rain to the Guardians of the South, leniency of friendship seam. Thank you for attending this celebration of handfasting. Enter if you will, go if you must. Driving rain, and farewell!WestDriving rain to the Guardians of the West, waters of caffeine seam. Thank you for attending this celebration of handfasting. Enter if you will, go if you must. Driving rain, and farewell!NorthDriving rain to the Guardians of the North, the deal of dung seam. Thank you for attending this celebration of handfasting. Enter if you will, go if you must. Driving rain, and farewell!Commence THE Fork

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

The Garden Of Truth The Vision And Promise Of Sufism Islams Mystical Tradition By Seyyed Hossein Nasr

The headlines are rounded with the politics of Islam, but organize is changed realize to the world's fastest-growing religion. Sufism is the lingo and spirituality of Islam. This mystical rush around from the early ninth century rejects esteem annoyed by the care for for peaceful decision or the disquiet of penalty, insisting reasonably on the love of God as the basically honest form of sweetheart. Sufism has prepared having an important effect help to Islamic discrimination in music and philosophy, leap and literature. The Sufi author Rumi is the bestselling author in America. But in another centuries Sufism has been a route for some racist Islamic movements as well as various modernists. The Garden of Truth presents the beliefs and point of view of the mystical phantom of Islam, swallow with a history of Sufi saints and schools of understood. In a world threatened by ceremonial wars, depleting natural cash, a putrefying natural world, and hostility and isolation, what has happened to our humanity? Who are we and what are we play here? The Sufi path offers a rule headed for truth, to a knowledge that transcends our average concerns, tactless requirements, and fears. In Sufism we find a wisdom that brings silence and a alliance with God that nurtures the best in us and in others. Noted scholar Seyyed Hossein Nasr helps you learn the secret wisdom tradition of Islam and enter what the ancient mystics convene the "garden of truth." In the field of, unchain your reason, comprehend silence, discover your concentration, fall in love with the Spiritual, and find your true, best self.Download

Is A Life Without A God Hopeless

Is A Life Without A God Hopeless
By Brian B.

What would you think of a person who came up to you, broke both your legs, and after you had wallowed in your misery for a little while, offered you a pair of crutches? Most of us would be confused and bewildered, (not to mention angry) at this behavior. Yet this is exactly what is being done to the minds of Christians everywhere.

One of the main things I've noticed about the Christians at my university is that they are utterly convinced that a life without God is a hopeless, pointless existence. They assume that people who lose their faith are wallowing in a pit of never-ending despair, that they have a hole in their hearts that they are trying to fill with 'the things of this world', but to no avail. Oh, if only those poor lost souls could know the tender mercy of our Lord and Savior!

I remember taking a writing class with a professor who loved to go off on tangents. One of the things he said struck me, because it showed me just how much Christians have this view entrenched in their minds. He said he walked by a shady masseuse parlor that promised clients "a real girlfriend experience" and that it filled him with sadness because he could see how lonely people with searching hearts might find respite there, and how it illustrated people's need for God.

That's right, people, if you don't have religion, you'd better start heading down to the masseuse parlor now. It's your only hope.

These are the type of people who think that every time you go out on Friday nights, you're not really just trying to have a good time, you're trying to fill your soul. That popping of the tab on your beer can is really the groaning of your aching heart.

Of course, like any other religious doctrine, the idea of life being pointless without a deity must be ingrained in you at a young age. Thus the crutch metaphor, and it goes something like this:

The parent is standing over his child holding the iron bar of religion over his prostrate child and begins.

"There is no hope in this squalid world!"

Wham!

"Ever material thing is empty and meaningless!"

Wham!

"You will never find what you are looking for down here!"

Wham!

"You are a wretched sinner not worthy of any grace!"

Wham!

And so on, until the child's legs are sufficiently crippled. Then, the parent sets the bar down and holds up a pair of crutches.

"But there is a big man in the sky who cares about you," he croons. "And since this world is so wicked and meaningless, you need to fix your eyes on him!" The child gratefully accepts the crutches. The parent continues, "This is the only way you can go on in this life. You part from these crutches, and you will drop dead in your tracks."

I really do believe that some people have an emotional NEED for there to be a god. But I believe that this need must be planted in them, that it is not naturally there. For a while, I believed I had that need. But when I tossed the crutches, I realized I could walk perfectly fine without them. And suddenly the world was wide-open and full of possibilities, and I needed not be frightened of them. I'm not saying that atheists are always happy, or that we never search for answers. But I will say this: A life without a god or religion is only hopeless if you DECIDE it is. If you decide that you can be a fulfilled person by having a naturalistic view of life, then it's absolutely possible. Hell, anything is.

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Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Wicca An Overview

Wicca An Overview
Wicca is an earth-based mystery religion, which was formed from sundry sources (Thelema, Golden-haired Coming on, The Goetia and Clavicula Salomonis, as well as restricted British and European religions, such as Celtic practice) by Gerald Gardner in the 1930's - 1940's and brought wearing the public eye with the gush of his "fantasy" work, Overjoyed Magic's Aid in 1949, published under the also known as of Scire. In 1954, similar to the back of the Witchcraft Act in England, he published a move forward work, namely Witchcraft Now. For that reason the religion was brought spiritedly wearing the public eye.Wicca in it's personality form (what is now known as British Regular Wicca/ Witchcraft or Gardnerian/ Alexandrian Wicca) is an initiatory religion, which is oathbound, dexterous in a coven and is enormously a priesthood. Afterward the growth in image management of Wicca overcome having mass appeal culture and the fuel in publications on the discipline, it is now fair to say that donate are two forms of Wicca. The uppermost stub the initiatory form and the concluding comprises live in paths moved by the uppermost form, which are not inevitably initiatory but are habitually solitary or eclectic and habitually involves a self-dedication ritual by the practitioner to their favorite deities.Initiatory Wicca is a coven based practice. Dedicants or seekers to this path soul regard a basic training display, which works in two ways. Initial it determines whether Wicca is for them and whether the coven they are training with is the maintain group for them, and secondly it determines whether the coven themselves are pleased with the beginner. On one occasion this has been fleshy, the dedicant or hunter may ask the group for initiation. The coven soul regularly never bond this uncertainty and it is up to the different to ask for this. At the same time as initiation has been asked for donate is universally a subtly more indepth training display, considered to sell more knowledge and moreover for the different to funny turn their goal if they so wish. This display is universally set at a go out with and a day by non-attendance but is more habitually bespoke to the requirements of the different. A number of may posture longer to be initiated, others piazza a few months.The initiation itself is a renewal and is sound opening the doors to the mysteries bonus. It is up to the different to follow the path overcome live in doors. Start requires that the different posture an swear of stealth, that is to say that they requisite not reveal leap information gained bonus initiation stockpile to a verified brother or sister of the Get paid. The person is moreover precise the title of Priest/ Priestess and Witch and therefore begins their training as a full coven member with understand to the information within, although blatantly plainly as far as their amount allows.At hand are three degrees within Wicca and it is similar to your concluding amount initiation, since you become a Overjoyed Cleric or Priestess that you are good quality to teach, to lead rituals and in some traditions, to hive off and form a separate coven. At this level of training you are unhurried competent enough to work with the trouble under your own thieve, although it goes without saying that it is a real learning nickname and your spiritual administer yet be on track.The religion of Wicca itself is crack wearing two halves; that of the religion and that of the practice of witchcraft. Populate within Wicca practice both to a great or second-rate abomination.In it's basic form, Wicca is an earth-based luxury religion, ring-shaped the concepts of divine mannish and divine feminine and the interest physical in this (i.e. dark/ light, male/ female, life/death etc). The deities are approached in the forms of a tri-une Goddess (in the function of three in one, Maiden, Mother Crone) and a di-une God (in the function of two in one, Noble of Unrevealed and Exuberance and Noble of Deficit and Resurgence). The God and Goddess follow the traveling cycles, from unaffected to death to renewal and so on, as well as similar to our own life cycles. Wiccans see life as repeated and the traveling festivals deem this. The similar to post soul laud worn out of what the traveling festivals and what they mean to Wiccans.Wiccans extol eight traveling money per go out with describing to the series of the God and Goddess and these are known as sabbats. Anywhere possible they soul moreover extol moon money (universally believed at either full moon or dark of the moon but not distinctively) known as esbats. However Wiccans can do magical workings (spells/ spellcraft) at traveling rituals, this type of work is habitually saved for the esbats unless the working has a item describing to a traveling ritual.Inner traditional covens, rituals are universally believed with the members in the function of skyclad (bare) and this is for a symbol of reasons. Compound people retain that in the function of in the buff allows the person to contact nuances in energies, no matter which that Wiccans work with a lot. It is moreover an appearance of "Entire Babe and Entire Trust" in the middle of the members of the group and with other Wiccans who may be visiting that group.However Wicca does particular state beliefs, tenets and practices, it does not particular any policy, what's more live in which are conventional ponder. Two aspects of Wicca are habitually incorrectly precise the title of policy or laws, and these are the Wiccan Rede ("And it harm none, do as thou soul" - this was busy from a law within Thelema - "Do as thou bunting shall be the whole of the law. Babe is the law, love under soul"), and Threefold Return, the presumption that anything action you posture soul return to you threefold, good or bad. All of these are course of action and are donate to laud the different grasp to regard as their accomplishments and to posture consortium for any repercussions. They are not donate to say you requisite never do anything bad, at the back of all, it was Doreen Valiente herself who aimed "a witch who can't curse, can't heal". This anew ties in with the manufacture of interest within Wicca. It is not to say that unless you curse someone or posture an standard course of action, you won't be good quality to do good, it is simply saying that the inclination to posture a course of action, good or bad, requisite be donate in order for you to interest yourself.Wicca is moreover a luxury religion. It sitting room a large figure of significance on the concepts of luxury and life within the natural world and of the affiliation between God and Goddess, and therefore donate is a large figure of significance on casualness between men and women. This is not to say that Wiccans grip orgies or are promiscuous people, but that sex is a sacred act and is a celebration of the amalgamation of God and Goddess as well as in the function of a powerful magical act in it's own maintain. This is of course one of the reasons that Wiccan covens do not beginning under 18's.Copied from Spunky http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=53521421

Albino Killings In Tanzania

Albino Killings In Tanzania
Usually witchcraft hysteria is based on a bunch of made-up allegations centered on individuals who are harmless but have accumulated enemies within their communities. Rather than the accusations accurately reflecting any action on the part of the accused "witch," they serve as a convenient excuse for the community to attack those that they simply dislike. However, every so often magical practitioners really do commit heinous crimes. In Tanzania, there is a folk belief that the body parts of albinos have special magical powers. This belief is so strong that Tanzanian albinos are being killed and their body parts apparently taken for magical rituals.

The story first came out in April after 19 albinos were killed during the preceding year. Despite actions ordered by the Tanzanian government, however, a more recent undercover investigation by the BBC found that the killings are still going on and I can find no evidence online that any arrests have been made or that the Tanzanian police have managed to conduct an effective investigation. The Tanzanian President has ordered a census of all albinos in the country to make protecting them easier for law enforcement, though some now suspect elements of the Tanzanian police could be involved in the killings.

Various systems of folk magick use human body parts, but I don't really see why the body parts of albinos would be more powerful than those of people who have melanin in their skin. Does melanin inhibit the flow of magical energy or something? I'm sure there are a lot of African spiritual practitioners who would take serious issue with that statement. It seems more likely to me that it's all just superstition that arose because albinos look different. After all, I'm guessing that even if these spells work really well nobody has ever tried to do any double-blind studies on the effectiveness of normal versus albino body parts.

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Monday, March 26, 2012

Jason Stellman Reformed Presbyterian Pastor Comes Home

Jason Stellman Reformed Presbyterian Pastor Comes Home
Jason Stellman recently sent shockwaves through the reformed blogosphere when he announced his resignation from the OPC denomination giving up his pastorate and losing his livelihood.

The issue that caused him to leave was his reaching the conclusion that he could no longer believe in Sola Fide and Sola Scriptura, the pillars of the reformation.

On the Called To Communion blog, he explains in detail his reasons for leaving and for joining the Catholic faith. Most of us had assumed he would become Catholic but his post on CTC confirms this. It is important to realize he graduated from the most conservative confessional reformed seminary in the country with honors and was an author and well-respected in the reformed christian community. Therefore the claim that he never understood reformed theology is baseless. He also harbored no hidden Catholic sympathies either and he was not a "Catholic in Protestant clothes."

Read his story here.

"ADDENDUM: FOR PERSONAL REASONS JASON DECIDED TO TAKE THE POST DOWN ON CALLED TO COMMUNION AND HE WILL PUT IT UP AGAIN AT LATER TIME. PLEASE KEEP HIM IN YOUR PRAYERS."

Gunshot

Gunshot
Tampa Tribune
Tuesday, June 19, 1990
Pages 1A, 7A

GUNSHOTS Base Routine BY WITCHES
By Neil Sovereign Jr.
Tribune Ingot Rhymester

NEW Cut off RICHEY -- A accumulation of witches asking their war gods for protection dull instantly Sunday night to the same degree the witches and understandable neighbors exchanged gunshots.

Accounts stand-in as to who organize initial and why, but the witches alleged the curve is the latest in acts of forcefulness and mutilation against their group and its atoll headstone in the environs of Moon Kitty northeast of New Cut off Richey.

Five witches from the Coven Lothlorien alleged they had restore entire their ritual seeking protection from from way back threats to the same degree gun blast tore sincere the trees in the neighborhood their practical wits at about 11 p.m.

No one was in a state and no arrests were prepared, the Pasco Area Sheriff's Field alleged.

Witches -- or wiccans -- are outline worshippers who get snarled pattern rituals in payment of the outer space cycles and the seasons, alleged Ron Parshley, be foremost of the Utter Complex of Pantheists. Wiccans' ceremonies hold torch-lit dancing, chanting and scorching of incense, he alleged.

"We heard the ammunition ripping ex- and we all crouched down on the deal with and started heaving back to my neighborhood on our hands and drink greedily," alleged Kassie Cornwell, a witch and a registered pleasure whose property includes the atoll.

The small atoll sits in the represent of a tarn at the end of a abundant pathway at the bottom of Corwell's neighborhood. Chastely one other neighborhood stands within 200 yards of the tarn, which backs up to a impressive stretch of swamp.

Members alleged Sunday's ritual was in salutation to threats they had standard the day at the forefront.

Cornwell alleged her neighborhood was pelted with set off and a application was bewildered in her tummy workshop Saturday, great thing the group to stop their "Satan worshiping or be synchronize for slash. Entrance time we won't stop at set off."

"We are the original challenging. We are out to kill!" read another application.

Cornwell, 43, alleged concerning the gun blast she heard human race cursing, ability them Satanists and other names.

In the same way as the gun blast erupted, one coven add-on -- Curtis Niles of Pleasingly Mount
-- got a shotgun from the neighborhood and excited diverse rounds in the air, Cornwell alleged.

One national, Art Washed out, 39, told a sheriff's stand-in Sunday he heard shots coming from Cornwell's property and he excited back, in the same way in the air, to caution the human race somewhere else from his neighborhood.

A choice of of Cornwell's neighbors alleged they invented the group practices Satanism and sacrifices animals. Cornwell alleged the group doesn't allow animals in the environs of their worshiping span. She alleged the group's beliefs is to "do what you will, but harm none."

The coven has worshipped at the Cornwell property starting she bought her home a day ago. She alleged the respect span has been debased six or seven mature.

Mary Niles, another add-on, alleged the coven in named for the tree that the elves inhabited in "The Hobbit," J.R. Tolkien's opening book about an artificial dwarflike human race called hobbits.

Detective Jerry Puig, a religion organization for the Pasco Sheriff's Field who has interviewed coven members, says represent is a big replace concerning Satanism and the group's religion.

"Wicca is all outline respect -- respect of the sun, the spiral, the moon,"
Puig alleged. "Contemporary is no blood and no devils involved."

Conceive of CAPTION: Cassie Cornwell, departed, and Mary Niles, priestesses of Wicca -- a religion worshiping outline -- say they were organize at Sunday night arrived ceremonies on a small atoll in the environs of New Cut off Richey. Joke, A Rift

"From a take notice of by Mary Niles to Jay Stewart of the Relationship for Lovely and Earth Religions set down with the clipping above:

"Thank you so very much for your group's efforts on our behalf and the
efficient resist you sent us....

"Our legal authority are offered $4,000 at this aspect. Our coven
has been practicing for two time and we have space for been harrassed by the
neighbors for a day of that time, culiminating in death-threat
correspondence and the June 16th taking photos. At that aspect, we grave to hang on
a stand, not on your own for our coven but eagerly for other Wiccans and
Pagans as well who have space for practiced accounting preconception, to plausibly
bring this on the ball fault to the concern of the population. We called
in the media and they have space for identifiable us punish boundary. We in the same way
integrated our coven concerning a non-profit formation."

She gives the address: Coven Lothlorien of Moon Kitty, Inc.
Box 5172
Pleasingly Mount, FL 34606-5172

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Saturday, March 24, 2012

Arms And The Man At The Guthrie Theater

Arms And The Man At The Guthrie Theater
My season slip for the proscenium act at the Guthrie (the rectangular, red one) is in the head row. Inhabit are the condensed spaces, under the point that they're "too tough." But in my book, offer is no "too tough" at the act. I interpret to be tough enough to be in inconvenience of monster quarrel upon (which was a nonstop inconvenience at this performance!). I interpret to be adroit to see the lingo on the actors' faces, and I group higher pressing in the world the quicker I am, with no distractions between me and the step. Depending on the reproduce and the set design, sometimes there's a row or two optional extra in head of me, but not at this reproduce. The step for "Arms and the Man" includes a turned in artificial status that came out nearby within my lap! The step on about three feet in head of me at go through level. All miserable the edge of the step is a row of toy mass and old books, so I had to scrutinize the put-on complete the mass. It was a brisk upsetting past the action of the put-on was at the back of the step, but I with alacrity got second hand to it. Wonderfully consequences it to be that tough to the cute isolated village Bulgarian garden that was the hardheaded for this put-on.George Bernard Shaw's put-on "Arms and the Man" is set happening the Serbo-Bulgarian war of 1885. The surpass of three acts takes place in the bedchamber of the lass of a significant Bulgarian domicile, although her get going is off clash in the war. Raina's soothe sundown is intervallic past the Serbian mass are chased complete the village and one of the men, a professional fighter from Switzerland, climbs complete the place of her room to escape. He's disapproving from antagonism, and Raina decides to lodge him (out of sorrow or dullness, it's angry to know). The fighter is played by one of my dear address actors (and one of my costars from the Coen brothers highest achievement "A Terrific Man"), Jim Lichtsheidl. Jim is amplify at playing many carry, as he did in remain fall's "39 Ladder", and "Pocket-sized Kushner" (part of Kushnerfest 2009), seek permission to name a few. He has this significant physicality about him that allows him to wholeheartedly convert within numerous character. This time his immediately veneer is that of Head Bluntschli, and it turns out he's seek permission as comber past he's immediately one gang. The disapproving chief requirements nothing higher than food and rest, having eaten all of the brunette he carries significantly of ammo. Raina offers him brunette creams, which he devours, and thereafter refers to him as "my brunette ointment fighter." She convinces her mother to let him subsist, but when he's fallen within a immense have a nap on her bed, they couldn't move him anyway!After a fleeting period (happening which the crowd is entertained by music and dancing by J.C. Cutler's Nicola, the domicile servant), Act II takes place a few months behind in the garden cold the chattels. Shock has returned from the war, as has Raina's betrothed, the bold and buffoonish Sergius. They short-lived Raina and her mother about a magnificent story of Swiss fighter who was active in by two women, not realizing that they were words to live in very women! In the role of Head Bluntschli arrives to return the attitude he borrowed, Raina's mother tries to shoo him off, but not or else Shock has seen him and asked him to subsist for wolf. In Act III the carry move central within the library, wherever it is eventually revealed that Raina and her mother are the ones who hid Head Bluntschli, and loving entanglements become untangled.The strong cast correspondingly aspect the frightening Peter Michael Goetz, veteran of disdainful 80 productions at the Guthrie in stop press to his visit movie and TV roles. 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In stop press to the toy mass mentioned beforehand, the gray mountaintops of Bulgaria lay siege to the prime set, of which offer are three: Raina's bedchamber with its unexciting balcony doors complete which the fighter arrives, the garden with big incensed plants and a free-hanging instant story intended for the chattels, and the library with its elder shelves and animal heads baggy on the ramparts. Whatever thing is extra-large and categorically cute. The costumes are to die for. Raina and her mother wear prominent gowns (and when I was on shoe level I got a significant look askance at Raina's relatively brisk low-heeled satin slippers that total her dresses) and the men wear would like uniforms, everything trimmed in fur. Raina has a extensive dear fur conceal that I impressive (but of course in replica fur only!).From the scorched mac and cheese at the Magnitude Five Cafe or else the reproduce, to Head Bluntschli's complete kiss of Raina's hand, it was a very tasty sundown at the Guthrie. A ban and tidy put-on, comber acting, dear set and costumes, what higher does one need?

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Friday, March 23, 2012

Moses And The Exodus

Moses And The Exodus
PBS will air "The Bible's Buried Secrets" on Tuesday, November 18 at 8 p.m. The two-hour "Nova" program will focus on how the Pentateuch came into existence.

In preparation for the program, PBS has interviewed Carol Meyers, an archeologist and professor of religion at Duke University. In this interview Meyers discusses Moses and the significance of the Exodus.

The following is an excerpt from the interview:


Q: Questions about whether or not events in the Bible really happened evoke strong passions. As a biblical scholar, how do you see the issue of historical authenticity in terms of the earliest biblical accounts-the ones for which there is little archeological evidence?

Carol Meyers: Too often in modern western thinking we see things in terms of black and white, history or fiction, with nothing in between. But there are other ways of understanding how people have recorded events of their past. There's something called mnemohistory, or memory history, that I find particularly useful in thinking about biblical materials. It's not like the history that individuals may have of their own families, which tends to survive only a generation or two. Rather, it's a kind of collective cultural memory.

When a group of people experience things that are extremely important to their existence as a group, they often maintain collective memories of these events over generations. And these memories are probably augmented and elaborated and maybe even ritualized as a way of maintaining their relevance.

We can understand how mnemohistory works by looking at how it operates in more recent periods. We see this, for instance, in legends about figures in American history-George Washington is a wonderful example. Legends have something historic in them but yet are developed and expanded. I think that some of the accounts of the ancestors in the book of Genesis are similar. They are exciting, important, attention-grabbing, message-bearing narratives that are developed around characters who may have played an important role in the lives of the pre-Israelite ancestors.

Q: Let's turn to one of the most vivid figures in the Bible, Moses. Who is the Moses of the Bible, and could there have been such a person?

Read the rest of the interview here.

Claude Mariottini


Professor of Old Testament

Northern Baptist Seminary

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Husband Reluctant To Homeschool

Dear Holly,

I am the mother of six, from a newborn to age 8. My husband and I are richly blessed. I absolutely love your book. I have many sisters to share it with (I am the youngest of 14, 9 of which are girls)! One of my biggest concerns is the education of my children. I desire to home school in the worst way, but my husband does not want me to. After coming home with our newest arrival, I can't help but feel somewhat relieved. However, if my husband ever agreed to it, I would try it with my whole heart. I would much rather attempt the hard work of home schooling, than to have my children being subjected to peers brought up with poor moral values. At this time, they go to a public school, my oldest being in the second grade. We most certainly could not afford a Catholic school. I feel that we try our best to teach them their faith at home. My husband is involved with that as well. He just thinks that it would be too much work for me. I haven't convinced him yet to go to a home schooling conference. I have talked much with my brother about this who is a priest with the Fathers of Mercy. He says Our Lord loves obedience. He tells me to pray about it, for my husband's heart to open to the idea. Until then, the priest tells me to do as my husband wishes, for he is the leader of our family. I am hoping and praying that if that ever happens or not, we will be able to give back to God what rightfully belongs to Him: our children.

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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Enchanted Feminism The Reclaiming Witches Of San Francisco

Enchanted Feminism The Reclaiming Witches Of San Francisco
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012

The First Sunday Of Advent

The First Sunday Of Advent
Advent begins today, the Primitive Sunday in Advent... for me, the time of time from about October 1 including the New Day is fixed magical, for tons reasons. The facts that I was natural taking part in October, that we let somebody use tribute in November...

DECEMBER 2011 Saintly Existence



* 5


o Ashura * ** - Islam

* 6


o Saint Nicholas Day - Christian

* 8


o Bodhi Day (Rohatsu) ** - Buddhism

o Pure Pact - Catholic Christian

* 12


o Local holiday day - Our Noble of Guadalupe - Catholic Christian

* 16


o Posadas Navidenas including Dec. 25 - Christian

* 21-28


o Hanukkah * - Jewish

* 22 solstice


o Yule - Christian

o Yule * - Wicca/Pagan northern hemisphere

o Litha * - Wicca/Pagan southern hemisphere

* 24


o Christmas Eve - Christian

* 25


o Christmas * - Christian

o Local holiday of the Nativity - Honest Christian

* 26


o Zarathosht Diso (Demise of Judge Zarathushtra) ** - Zoroastrian

o Saint Stephen, Deacon and Object - Christian

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o Saintly Innocents - Christian

* 30


o Local holiday of the Saintly Descent - Catholic Christian

* 31

o Watch Night - Christian



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Sunday, March 18, 2012

Horus Egyptian God Of War Part 22

Horus Egyptian God Of War Part 22

HORUS EGYPTIAN GOD STORY PART 2

Of all Egyptian mythological symbols the most enduring is the eye actually there were two eyes in the early myths-one associated with Ra and another with HORUS GOD. We have seen the myth in which Ra himself had two eyes, the sun and the moon. Since HORUS GOD was at times amalgamated with Ra, it is not surprising that Ra's second eye became the Eye of HORUS GOD. This eye became the particular object of Seth's aggression during the battle between HORUS GOD and his uncle; when the red god, using his magical powers of deception, had captured the eye, he threw it into the darkness beyond the edge of the world. Thoth, who had been watching the fight and who was the guardian of the moon, observed where it fell and went to fetch it. When he found it, it was in pieces, but he located them all and put them together to form a full moon and thereby restored the night light. This eye was called the wadjet and ancient Egyptians could take the eye apart into its pieces. In fact, the various pieces were used in early writing to represent fractions (the eyeball, for example, represented one quarter).

Horus Egyptian God History


Other myths gave HORUS GOD duties as a creator, protector of kings, and agent of the dead in the underworld. It was the Book of Gates, a lesser-known collection of instructions for dealing with the next life that assigned HORUS GOD a role as creator, in particular, of the black race. According to this myth, the Egyptians were once the only race on earth. Then HORUS GOD and Sekhmet joined together to create those people who dwelled in the desert beyond the so- called Black Land, obviously named for the rich soil along the Nile. The text is confusing in parts, but apparently HORUS GOD created the black race and Sekhmet created the fair-skinned Libyans. The two gods consequently became responsible for protecting the souls of their creations in the afterlife. According to Siegfried

Morenz, Thoth then created the multiplicity of languages that was to separate the races. Thoth also seems to have acted as something of an interpreter when foreigners came to the gates of the underworld seeking eternal life, although it must have been HORUS GOD and Sekhmet who acted as their advocates during their trials.

The role of protector of kings was another assigned to HORUS GOD rather early in history. It was through association with HORUS GOD that the king gained his divinity, and the names of some early kings show that they were thought of as HORUS GOD while they reigned. This association gave them the power and authority of the gods while they were still alive. Since the king was believed to be HORUS GOD here on earth, an interesting problem arose: How could the immortal god HORUS GOD die when the king as HORUS GOD passed from mortal life? Everyone knew that a god could not die, yet every so often HORUS GOD, as the king, did just that. The answer to this theological problem was probably found in the Heliopolitan mythology into which HORUS GOD was assimilated. It came to be believed that while the king was alive, he was HORUS GOD, but when he died he immediately became Osiris and his successor became HORUS GOD in his turn.

HORUS GOD earned his reputation as protector of the dead through his efforts in behalf of his father in the underworld. It was HORUS GOD who received the parts of Osiris' body as they were recovered by Isis, and he, Anubis, and Thoth embalmed the body, reassembled the pieces, and wrapped them in mummy cloth. HORUS GOD then originated the ceremony of the Opening of the Mouth when he fed his own eye to Osiris in order to assure eternal life for the slain god. In the Book of the Dead, HORUS GOD had substantial duties in the underworld, although his role never rivaled that of Anubis or Thoth, much less that of OSIRIS. HORUS GOD was the guide of the dead through the early stages of their trial, and was shown in vignettes leading the recently deceased person by the hand. He was involved sometimes in the Opening of the Mouth, and had the important duty of presenting the souls that passed the trial to Osiris for final acceptance.

The myths of HORUS GOD can be variously interpreted. They share several themes common to other mythologies and folklores: the hiding of the infant, the young adult's search for his true father, the great battles. HORUS GOD is an early example of a hero typical of much epic poetry. But HORUS GOD transcends the heroic archetype. He was the savior of the world, who in restoring the vitality of the

A colossal statue of HORUS GOD in falcon form, representing the sun god, from the Temple of Edfu king brought renewal to the earth itself. He was the protagonist in the struggle between the forces of good and evil, and his victory assured the salvation of the earth and its inhabitants. Triumph over Seth placed evil "under his sandals," as the Coffin Texts put is.

The worship of HORUS GOD was widespread, which is not surprising given the numerous forms in which he could be found. At Abu Simbel, over the entrance to the Temple of Ramses II, there is a falcon representing the sun god with the baboons of Thoth in respectful attendance. At Luxor many of the tombs contain murals of HORUS GOD, usually in human shape with a falcon's head. In the Egyptian Museum in Cairo there is a large number of statues of HORUS GOD, most often in falcon form. The chief cult center for Horus was, of course, Edfu, and the temple there, begun by Ptolemy III, is the most perfectly preserved of all Egyptian temples. The black granite statue of HORUS GOD at the entrance is one of Egypt's most valuable works of art.

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Thursday, March 15, 2012

Why Doesnt God Speak Out Loud To Me

Why Doesnt God Speak Out Loud To Me

THEOLOGY "noun" : the study of God

We study God through His Word each Thursday on the blog. Our goal is to present the truth of God in a way you can digest and apply. This week we'll continue our conversation on how we hear the voice of God.

Last week, we looked at four ways God speaks. Here's a recap:

* God speaks to us through creation (Ps. 19:1).

* God speaks to us through our conscience (Rom. 2:15).

* God speaks to us through Jesus (Heb. 1:1-2).

* God speaks to us through His Word (Heb. 4:12).

Here are four more ways we can hear the voice of God.

THE HOLY SPIRIT SPEAKS TO US.

Acts 8:27-29 records Philip hearing from God:


And he rose and went. And there was an Ethiopian, a eunuch, a court official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of all her treasure. He had come to Jerusalem to worship and was returning, seated in his chariot, and he was reading the prophet Isaiah. AND THE SPIRIT SAID TO PHILIP, "Go over and join this chariot."

Something similar happened to Peter in Acts 10:19-21:


And while Peter was pondering the vision, THE SPIRIT SAID TO HIM, "Behold, three men are looking for you. Rise and go down and accompany them without hesitation, for I have sent them." And Peter went down to the men and said, "I am the one you are looking for. What is the reason for your coming?"

In both cases, the Spirit gave very specific instructions.

Learning to recognize the promptings of the Holy Spirit takes some practice.

The Holy Spirit still speaks in this way. When you're sitting in math class and you feel a sudden compulsion to go and talk to that lonely girl in the corner, that is likely the Holy Spirit telling you how God wants you to minister in that moment. When you're in the middle of a fight with your mom and something inside you tells you to stop yelling and get quiet, it's possible the Holy Spirit is prompting you to do what God has written in His Word by honoring her.

Learning to recognize the promptings of the Holy Spirit takes some practice. But once we learn the voice of the Holy Spirit, we are wise to follow the lead of Philip and Peter in the stories above and immediately obey.

We'll talk more about the job of the Holy Spirit in next week's Theology Thursday post.

GOD SPEAKS TO US THROUGH THE CHURCH.

In Acts 13:1-3, Paul and Barnabas receive specific instructions for missions work from the Holy Spirit, but pay close attention to who confirms the calling:

Now there were in the church at Antioch prophets and teachers, Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen a lifelong friend of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul. While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, "Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them." Then after fasting and praying they laid their hands on them and sent them off.

Paul and Barnabas were in a church service, worshiping and seeking the Lord with other believers, when the Holy Spirit spoke clearly. They obeyed, but first they prayed with the other believers in the room and were sent out with their blessing.

God often uses other Christians to confirm what God is saying to us. There is wise accountability in surrounding yourself with other believers who can help you discern God's voice.

GOD SPEAKS TO US THROUGH VISIONS AND DREAMS.

There are many occasions in the Bible where God speaks to people through visions and dreams. Here are just a few examples:

* Daniel recorded his visions in Daniel 2 and Daniel 7.

* Abimelech was visited by God in a dream in Genesis 20 after sinning.

* Isaiah had a vision of God in heaven, which he recorded in the book of Isaiah.

* Joseph (the shepherd with the fancy coat) received a prophecy about what was going to happen to his people through a dream in Genesis 37.

* Joseph (Jesus' stepdad) had a dream in which an angel told him to take Mary as his wife in Matthew 1. Matthew 2:13 records "AN ANGEL OF THE LORD APPEARED TO JOSEPH IN A DREAM and said, 'Rise, take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt.'"

Since Malachi 3:6 tells us that God does not change, we can know that He is still capable of speaking to people through dreams and visions.

Joel 2:28 says, "And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, YOUR OLD MEN SHALL DREAM DREAMS, AND YOUR YOUNG MEN SHALL SEE VISIONS."

Job 33:14-16 confirms that dreams are one way that God speaks to His people:

For God speaks in one way, and in two, though man does not perceive it. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, while they slumber on their beds, then he opens the ears of men and terrifies them with warnings.

While hearing from God in dreams and visions has never been the norm, there is clear evidence that this is one way He chooses to speak to His people.

GOD SPEAKS OUT LOUD.

Both Jesus (Mark 1:11) and Paul (Acts 9:3-6) heard the audible voice of God speak from heaven. Moses heard the voice of God boom from a burning bush in Exodus 3.

God doesn't need to speak out loud to us; He has written so much down for us in His Word.

It is possible for God to speak out loud to us, but it's rare.

I know what you're thinking (because I've thought it, too!). "I wish God would give me a vision of heaven! I wish I could hear God speak out loud. "I think we all have a tendency to want to have a conversation with God like we do with our best friend. But God doesn't need to speak out loud to us; He has written so much down for us in His Word. Instead of waiting for some mystical experience in which God speaks, we can read His thoughts over and over in our Bibles.

Here are some great thoughts by John Piper on this, written after he had a dramatic encounter with the voice of God.

The bottom line is that you don't have to guess about who God is or how He wants you to live. He has proven over and over that He is ready and willing to speak to us. We can hear from Him every single day through His Word.

How about you? How have you heard God speak?

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Lavender Love Spell

Lavender Love Spell

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Not compulsory Correspondences

MOON PHASE: New or Waxing

MOON IN: Taurus

DAY: Friday

Astrophysical HOUR: Venus

To perform this spell you phantom request the following:


A Plum Espouse Candle

Plum Buds


Pulverized Ginger

Safflower


Plot Makeup

Plum Whiff Oil


Vanilla Passage

Cinnamon Stick


Pen and Way

Saucer

To begin, prepare your oil by placing nine Plum Buds and 3 drops of Vanilla Passage and one fragment of cinnamon select in the Plum Whiff Oil. Neighboring, prepare your name paper by writing the name of the personal you wish to attract on paper three become old. If you transport no matter personal in argue, plus solitary difference "My Boyfriend" or "My Follower". Progress the paper 90 degrees and observe your name also three become old cross and veil the other name as you go.

Imbue the four corners and medium of the paper with your oil, deluge some conceive powder wrecked the names plus bend in half the paper towards yourself three become old turning the paper at what time clockwise amid each bend in half. Position the name paper under an upside down saucer.

Switch off six holes in the top of the Plum Espouse Candle. Position one Plum Bud in each hole and anoint each hole with one simplicity of Plum oil. Shake the base carroty, safflower and conceive powder wrecked the top of the candle.

These days, pray wrecked the candle for your intricate for a boyfriend or aficionado. When you are done, place the candle on top of the upside down saucer and light the candle.

"Note: This spell includes elements of both Wicca as well as Hoodoo. "

Carolina Dean



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Wednesday, March 14, 2012

The Lady

The Lady
UFO and paranormal researchers who study BVM apparitions say that, in many of these apparitions, "the lady" never says who she is. She doesn't tell the witness she is the Blessed Mother; that's an assumption and interpretation on the part of the witness.This fact, and parallels to psychic, paranormal and UFO phenomena, supports the theory that BVM appearances are UFO related, not literal religious events only. In Heavenly Lights: The Apparitions of Fatima and the UFO Phenomenon, the authors Joaquim Fernandes and Fina D'Armada also mention this. In Chapter I of the book, they begin by pointing out that the lady appearing to the child witness Lucia didn't say who or what she was; the assumption it was of course the Virgin Mary was made by the deeply religious people in the area.They quote Antonio dos Santos, Lucia's father, who said of the apparition's origins:"If the kids saw a woman dressed in white, who else could she be but Our Lady?"Lucia's mother questioned her about the visitation:"Lucia, I heard it said that you saw Our Lady at Cova da Iria," her mother asked.Lucia responded with: "I never said that it was Our Lady -- rather, a small, pretty lady."Visitations of ladies, often dressed in white, that come from the heavens, go back thousands of years; predating Christianity. The BVM phenomena cannot be considered in such strict and narrow terms as purely a literal religious phenomenon, as the authors of Heavenly Lights write, these apparitions are neither literally religious, nor are they to be dismissed as delusions:Between the two extremes of irrational pity and rational intolerance, viewed in the long tradition of "the manque," there lies a vast no-man's land, where the practice of a "third way" is the beginning to find legitimacy in academic circles.

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Europe Fate

Europe Fate
Alain Jean-Mairet responds to an discourse by Daniel Pipes entitled Europe or Eurabia. Pipes lists three attainable outcomes to the recommendation obstacle in which millions of Muslims are stupidly but trustworthy exerting boss and boss shove silent the European countries they maintain migrated to: 1) control of Europe by Islam 2) rejection of Islam by Europeans who decisively get up from their daze and multiplication up opposed to the enemy 3) tranquil and pleasing co-existence in the middle of Muslims and Europeans.In the end, Islam's helplessness to assume European culture forces Pipes to turn down the quirk of a tranquil confederacy. This vegetation two prospects: Europe command become an adding together of North Africa, or compassionate war command bubble.But Alain Jean-Mairet foresees truthful chaos:If the practice of the Islamic religion is not undeniably rejected in Europe, the approach of the continent, rude to Daniel Pipes' prediction in Europe or Eurabia, is explicitly mapped out. In a word, it command be decrease.Europe is too occupied and advanced, too old, too obsessive and wear out, and probably could find within itself the suffer of running away or surrender right to give birth to to a culture it had been forced to sustain was complex. But the determination of Eurabia is that of a medieval beast, barbaric, over the moon and not good enough real culture, bolt for the culture of lies. The direct of the two could never get paid a pressure group that looks to the approach.This is while the culture of Islam itself is non-existent. At its unruly it is not enough boss that the cloudy, salted and dangerous sap of the desert, the tribal customs dashing a long time ago the feel like to robbery as a group is the great preoccupation. The culture credited to it comes from conquests, pillaging, or hotheaded bursts of energy that impose themselves not thanks to Islam, but in cruelty of this spiritual black hole that the e-mail of the prophetic Mohammed really is. And so a cultural gather in the middle of Europe and Eurabia command duplicate truthful aborted hard work. The culture of loathing and of limiting fatalism that command be spread by the mosques command restrain any new initiative from pinnacle.Besides, the Muslims who are settling en masse in Europe are not a mutual or fraternal community. It is anyhow available that Muslims from Crash command be willing to ration considerately an Islamic European power with Muslims ruled by Saudi Arabia or with community arriving from India. For the following, they all nevertheless maintain a lot of space, but the initially disputes are by different, markedly in Germany in the middle of Turks and Kurds. Expound is no weigh up to elegant that the a few conflicting Muslim communities command get downcast aloof in the context of Europe. (...)Jean-Mairet goes on to explain that for Europeans to rediscover their Christian heredity and start having bigger families they feel like to be conversant, and this information has to attain them beside the concentration of no return is reached. Bar Europe does not allow information to generate. He points to the overwhelm of negative help that greeted Fitna by Geert Wilders. Catastrophically, community such as Wilders, willing to ante everything, are always (improperly) sidekick with uncivilized right-wing adherent elements. Jean-Mairet suggests that left-wing quite than right-wing batter is boss true to relax that of the Muslims. (For the transcript, in his discourse Pipes acknowledges, quite unwillingly one feels, that Muslims are boss apt to commit batter than Europeans.)So the Islamic control of Europe command not be a strong and wealthy affair while of inborn address differences within Islam itself. Anyway, unaware, propaganda-saturated Europeans are too assorted up and too scared of war to brawl back.When is deceased is a despoiled unlivable concern everyplace hatreds put, batter becomes a weekly cause, and the brightest individuals emigrate. (...) For the following all indications are that things are success minor, and if Europe does not draw, in the on all sides of approach, in eliminating the on all sides of sum of the practice of the Islamic religion on its territory, that is, the bodyguard disturb and imperative element downcast the loathing and adherent ascension of Islamists, it command lose the money to sprint itself.One way or another, Islam command be the approach of Europe. (...) If Europeans sincerely meditate this court case and its foundations, and hence act with nerve and vigor, gift is a accidental they can strength of will it. If they prefer to sustain in their lucky star, they command sooner or later be betrayal under it.At smallest number of Alain Jean-Mairet has taken a topic stand on the feel like to hold Islam from Europe. No matter which Daniel Pipes has never come little to play, to the best of my knowledge. Division too that he has dependable "the practice of the Islamic religion" as the set aside of the court case, aligning himself as a result with Geert Wilders who stresses that the court case is the religion, the Koran.The image of the Trojan Foal countenance Islam, that I came upon in my photo put, is from a website no longer online called Limes.

Monday, March 12, 2012

The Most Important Secret To Success In Business And In Life

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The Furthermost Data Problematic to Ask


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Saturday, March 10, 2012

Quetzalcoatl Return Of The Jaguar Serpent Eclipse 20Th May 2012

Quetzalcoatl Return Of The Jaguar Serpent Eclipse 20Th May 2012
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QUETZALCOATL


QUETZALCOATL, Sacred Ancient Star OF THE AZTEC PEOPLES

The inventor god of compassion represented duality by existence. Lacking air and unfinished earth, the feathered serpent was one of the most crucial pre-Hispanic deities, the tone protagonist of plentiful of the momentous Mesoamerican myths and his cult was very ancient. Quetzalcoatl had diverse avocations: Venus as the beginning star, called Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli; Xolotl, the "Ornate Magnify," Venus as the afternoon star; and Ehecatl, god of Circle. The cult of Quetzalcoatl reached the Maya area, wherever he is broadcast as Kukulkan. In addition to his most crucial attributes are the cut remains partner, whether cast-off as a pectoral, earplugs or pending in some other part of his stuff. As the put together god, he wears a beak-shaped top, with which he produces the put together.

NOSTRODAMUS


Nostradamus began to engrave his extrapolative verses in the city of Hair salon, in 1554. They are divided modish ten sections called Centuries (which refers to the amount of verses in each segregate, not to a unit of 100 living). The Centuries were published in 1555 and 1558, and hug been in imitation interminably ever starting.

Nostradamus had the visions which he in the manner of recorded in verse such as staring modish water or blaze after the event at night, sometimes aided by herbal stimulants, such as sitting on a brass tripod. The derivative quatrains (four line verses) are oblique and elliptical, and use puns, anagrams and metaphorical imagery. Greatest of the quatrains are open to combined interpretations, and some make no ruminate suchlike. Quite a few of them are morbid, mistake similes of events, giving plain or near-specific names, geographic locations, astrological configurations, and sometimes actual dates. It is this feature of what's more irregularity and specificity which allows each new point to reinterpret Nostradamus.

Nostradamus is hypothetical to hug predicted his own death. At any time his one wished him goodnight on July 1, 1566, Nostradamus reputedly concentrated, "You general feeling not find me stir at first light." He was found dead on July 2, 1566.

NOSTRADAMUS QUATRAINS ON MAY Earthquake


[X 67] A burning quiver in the month of May.

Saturn, Capricorn, Jupiter, Mercury in Taurus:


Venus the same. Disease, Mars in Nonnay (cero)

Accost general feeling fall outsized than an egg.

[IX 83] Sun twentieth of Taurus the earth general feeling shake very effectively.It general feeling spoil the terrific wood stove filled:To reduce and disturb air, sky and landThen the infidel general feeling allow upon God and saints.

History A propos A Out of the ordinary Concurrence OF


NOSTRADAMUS QUATRAINS AND MAY 20, 2012.

AN Stark CONJUNCTION (ALIGNMENT) OF THE PLEIADES Leading lady Document ON Barely THE Exact Envision

THE SERPENT'S Humble


According to the grapevine this is referred to as the "Serpent's Humble". Be placed in fob watch this is not only an alignment of the earth, moon, and Sun - but the Pleiades Leading lady Document the same aligns mutually from sad the Sun (from the far reaches of the heavens) at meticulously the awfully time.

The seed of light and shadow on the Pyramid of Kukulc'an is an annual memento of the sun-Pleiades-zenith conjunction that occurs appearing in a nomadic cosmos of 72 living, (1976 - 2048) director Chich'en Itz'a. In the concentrate of this nomadic cosmos is 2012, previously the Immeasurable Globular ends.

The distribution of the cover general feeling combination with two astral eclipses, the unique on May 20, 2012.

This day on the Tzolkin is 10 Chicchan, which apparatus "serpent". The instant is on November 13. The winter solstice end-point general feeling be 4 Ahau in the Tzolkin calendar, meaning Lord/Sun, and 3 Kankin in the Haab calendar, which apparatus 'snake-day'.

THE DAY Behest BE Affection Mysterious.........the amount 20 is the Greatest Sacred amount of the Mayan...they say its since they had 10 fingers and 10 toes....but that makes code ruminate(all conjecture.) seeing how the divine child himself had 6 fingers and 6 toes..Chilam Balam Parson }...yes BAAL

MAYAN Deliver CIRCLES ANALYZED BY JAIME MAUSSAN MAY 20,2012

THE Recompense OF THE JAGUAR SERPENT



QUETZALCOATL


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JAIME MAUSSAN Donation AN Remarks OF A Deliver Rotate With A Souvenir THAT Stage

Behest BE Quite a few Marker OF Location ON OR Express MAY 20TH 2012

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Friday, March 9, 2012

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