The Bohemian Grove and Gay Allegations at the all Male Gathering of Political and Industrial Bigwigs

Bush is a regular attendee at the the all-male Bohemian Grove club, an annual gathering of the elite which takes place at a forest encampment in Monte Rio, California. In 2004, the New York Post reported that homosexual porn stars were being hired by the Grove to “service” the members, supposedly without their knowledge.

However, the Grove is notorious for its homosexual activity and a reporter who worked at the camp during the summer of 2004 and 2005 told us that he was regularly propositioned by men seeking homosexual intercourse.

On June 29 1989, the Washington Times’ Paul M. Rodriguez and George Archibald reported on a Washington D.C. prostitution ring that had intimate connections with the White House allegedly all the way up to President George H.W. Bush. According to the story, male prostitutes had been given access to the White House and the article also cited evidence of “abduction and use of minors for sexual perversion.”

Gay Porn Star Services Bohemian Grove Members, New York Post, July 22 2004 :

The power-moguls and political heavyweights now luxuriating at ultra-exclusive retreat Bohemian Grove are unaware that they’re being waited on hand-and-foot by a famous gay porn star.

We’re told that Chad Savage, who has appeared in such carnal classics as “How the West Was Hung,” is supplementing his sex job by working as a valet at Bohemian Grove, the all-male annual gathering inside a 2,700-acre redwood forest in Monte Rio, Calif., that has been attended by every Republican president since Calvin Coolidge, as well as by industrial titans and media magnates.

“All of us valets in the Grove are tittering about it,” says our Bohemian blabbermouth. “To think there’s all these powerful conservative guys having their drinks and food served to them by a gay porn star. He makes their beds and attends to their every need — and they have no idea who he really is.”

Bigwigs who have attended the two-week retreat include George H.W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Alan Greenspan, Walter Cronkite, Newt Gingrich, Alexander Haig, Jack Kemp, Henry Kissinger, Colin Powell, John Major, William F. Buckley, and former C.I.A. director William Casey.

Savage is at the Grove under his real name — which we wouldn’t reveal to Grove spokesman Sam Singer, because we didn’t want the valet to lose his job. But Singer said the club didn’t care about his past. “All that matters is that the valets do good service,” he said. “That’s really all that matters.”

Savage sure knows how to provide “service.” When he starred in “How the West Was Hung” in 1999, one reviewer wrote that he wore a “beatific grin” while engaging in an orgy, and added that his “youthful enthusiasm is entirely winning.”

When they’re not listening to policy speeches, “Bohos” are known to urinate freely in the redwoods and perform mock-druidic rituals that revolve around a 40-foot-tall stone owl. In one ritual, called “Cremation of Care,” members wearing red-hooded robes cremate a coffin effigy of “Dull Care” at the base of the owl altar.

While the club has claimed its share of accomplishments — Grovers privately boast that the Manhattan Project to develop the atom bomb was conceived on its grounds — its oddball activities aren’t for everyone. Richard Nixon once famously described the gathering as “the most faggy goddamned thing you could ever imagine”. - http://gayswithoutborders.wordpress.com/2007/09/30/george-w-bush-chad-savage/

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Why winter sucks - ancient Greek version

Demeter's daughter Persephone (also referred to as Kore, "girl") was gathering flowers with friends, when she was seized by her uncle, Hades, the god of death and the underworld, with the consent of her father Zeus. He took her to his underworld kingdom. Distraught, Demeter searched high and low for her daughter. Because of her distress, and in an effort to coerce Zeus to allow the return of her daughter, she caused a terrible drought in which the people suffered and starved. This would have deprived the gods of sacrifice and worship. As a result of this Zeus relents and allows Persephone to return to her mother...

Finally, by consulting Zeus, Demeter reunites with her daughter and the earth returns to its former verdure and prosperity: the first spring... Before allowing Persephone to return to her mother, Hades offered her a great feast as she was hungry and Persephone ate 6 seeds of a pomegranate. As a result, Persephone could not avoid returning to the underworld for part of the year. According to the prevailing version of the myth, Persephone had to remain with Hades for six months (one month per seed) while staying above ground with her mother for a similar period. This left a large period of time when Demeter was unhappy due to Persephone's absence therefore she did not cultivate the Earth and it withered, however, when Persephone returned to the surface she became joyful and cared for the Earth again...

The Eleusinian Mysteries probably included a celebration of Persephone's return, for it was also the return of plants and of life to the earth. Persephone had gone into the underworld (underground, like seeds in the winter), then returned to the land of the living: her rebirth is symbolic of the rebirth of all plant life during Spring and, by extension, all life on earth...

The only requirements for membership were a lack of "blood guilt", meaning having never committed murder, and not being a "barbarian" (unable to speak Greek). Men, women and even slaves were allowed initiation.

At a certain spot along the way, they shouted obscenities in commemoration of Iambe (or Baubo), an old woman who, by cracking dirty jokes, had made Demeter smile as she mourned the loss of her daughter.

As to the climax of the Mysteries, there are two modern theories. Some hold that the priests were the ones to reveal the visions of the holy night, consisting of a fire that represented the possibility of life after death, and various sacred objects. Others hold this explanation to be insufficient to account for the power and longevity of the Mysteries, and that the experiences must have been internal and mediated by a powerful psychoactive ingredient contained in the kykeon drink.

The Roman emperor Theodosius I closed the sanctuaries by decree in 392 AD as part of his effort to suppress Hellenist resistance to the imposition of Christianity as a state religion. The last remnants of the Mysteries were wiped out in 396 AD, when Alaric, King of the Goths, invaded accompanied by Christians "in their dark garments", bringing Arian Christianity and desecrating the old sacred sites.[16] The closing of the Eleusinian Mysteries in the 4th century is reported by Eunapios, a historian and biographer of the Greek philosophers. Eunapios had been initiated by the last legitimate Hierophant, who had been commissioned by the emperor Julian to restore the Mysteries, which had by then fallen into decay. According to Eunapios, the very last Hierophant was a usurper, "the man from Thespiae who held the rank of Father in the mysteries of Mithras."

...Some scholars believe that the power of the Eleusinian Mysteries came from the kykeon's functioning as a psychedelic agent.[19] Barley may be parasitized by the fungus ergot, which contains the psychoactive alkaloids lysergic acid amide (LSA), a precursor to LSD and ergonovine. It is possible that a psychoactive potion was created using known methods of the day. The initiates, sensitized by their fast and prepared by preceding ceremonies, may have been propelled by the effects of a powerful psychoactive potion into revelatory mind states with profound spiritual and intellectual ramifications.[20]

While modern scholars have presented evidence supporting their view that a potion was drunk as part of the ceremony, the exact composition of that agent remains controversial. Modern preparations of kykeon using ergot-parasitized barley have yielded inconclusive results, although Alexander Shulgin and Ann Shulgin describe both ergonovine and LSA to be known to produce LSD-like effects.[21][22] Terence McKenna argued that the mysteries were focused around a variety of Psilocybe mushrooms, and various other entheogenic plants, such as Amanita muscaria mushrooms, have also been suggested but at present no consensus has been reached.[23] The size of the event may rule out Amanita or Psilocybe mushrooms as active ingredient, since it is unlikely that there would have been enough wild mushrooms for all participants. However a recent hypothesis suggests that Psilocybe cultivation technology was not unknown in ancient Egypt,[24] from which it could easily have spread to Greece.

Another theory is that the kykeon was an Ayahuasca analog involving Syrian Rue (Peganum harmala), a shrub which grows throughout the Mediterranean and also functions as a monoamine oxidase inhibitor. The most likely candidate for the DMT containing plant, of which there are many in nature, would be a species of Acacia.[25] Other scholars however, noting the lack of any solid evidence and stressing the collective rather than individual character of initiation into the Mysteries, regard entheogenic theories with pointed skepticism"
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleusinian_Mysteries

For among the many excellent and indeed divine institutions which your Athens has brought forth and contributed to human life, none, in my opinion, is better than those mysteries. For by their means we have been brought out of our barbarous and savage mode of life and educated and refined to a state of civilization; and as the rites are called "initiations," so in very truth we have learned from them the beginnings of life, and have gained the power not only to live happily, but also to die with a better hope.

—Cicero, Laws II, xiv, 36

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Am I writing this because I am simply the son of 1970's culture? Did St. Paul write as a son of BC culture?

"In view of the extraordinary nature of these revelations [I have], to stop me from getting too proud I was given a thorn in the flesh, an angel of Satan to stop me from getting too proud! About this thing, I have pleaded with the Lord three times for it to leave me, but he has said, 'My grace is enough for you: my power is at its best in weakness.' So I shall be very happy to make my weakness my special boast so that the power of Messiah may stay over me, and that is why I am quite content with my weakness, and with insults, hardships, persecutions, and the agonies I go through for Messiah's sake. For it is when I am weak that I am strong." (2 Corinthians 12:6-10)

I awoke this morning and immediately wrote (typed?) down the following. At the risk of alienating both my secular friends and my religious friends and EVRYONE who hates the retelling of dreams by others (read - everyone) in one fell swoop I have hesitated until now to post this. I have decided, none-the-less, that I should present to you -

My dream on the side of love and liberty.


I had a dream. In it I was first “incarnated” as the standard issue Christian I was. I believed in Jesus as the Son of God but I was tortured by doubts concerning issues of love and mercy, or rather I was tortured by doubts the arose from the hate and repression I found in the Church and in the Scriptures. I could not reconcile myself, the beliefs I found deep in my heart concerning several social issues, human sexuality and enjoyment of the sensual bodies God has given us, a largely pacifistic streak, a concern with issues of torture and injustice, a tendency to side with the oppressed, a compassion for the separated, a joyful embrace of the wonderful diversity of the world, a love of the wisdom one can find in all cultures, the freedom granted to St. Paul to eat the foods in the net that was lowered from heaven, God commanding him to eat – and Paul refusing. Eventually God commanding Paul, saying, “How dare you call unclean what I have called clean.”

In the dream I struggled greatly; I did not abandon the beauty I believed I could see in my heart when I would enter there to spend time with God. Rather, these conflicts caused me to occasionally doubt Jesus and the wisdom and truths I could also see in his words, his life, and my experiences in entering into the spiritual life of the Body of Christ, the Ecclesia. I refused to relinquish these experiences and beliefs just as I refused to relinquish the better experiences of my heart. I was terribly tortured by this in my dream and eventually, while fleeing to and fro from enemies, I sought refuge in a crevice in the ground, but a house was pushed onto me by my enemies and I was crushed and died.

In the dream I entered a plane between that “life” and another. Things which I cannot now explain were explained to me by beings in this space and I was sent back to try again in another “life.”

In that life I lived with complete selfish and evil abandon. I was again pursued by enemies and again “died” at their hands.

I again reentered the plane between, and things now inexplicable were explained to me by a guide who led me from spiritual place to spiritual place, some more beautiful and some less so. I would chose another “life” in another situation and place, and also choose a new mentor type of character to whom I would be subject and from whom I was expected to learn something. In each “incarnation” I would begin again. Each time I felt I would get closer to wisdom and freedom but some hang up or another would rise to center stage and I would be killed by my perusers.

In the second to last “incarnation” my mentor was something akin to a Shaker. He also had previously owned a brewery but later a prohibition was enacted and he dutifully destroyed all of his alcohol by dumping thousands of gallons out of barrels and into a pond on his property. He inadvertently had missed a barrel and when all of the empty barrels had been stored away, the one that was not empty was mixed in with those that were. He began to sell his barrels off to others for various uses.

He sold one to a nearby city to be used as a bell (this is a dream after all!) When it was opened in the city it was found to contain the alcohol. Some people rejoiced and others questioned the man and sought to get him into trouble over this but later it was shown to everyone's satisfaction that it was indeed an accident and he was free to go. This had all happened before my arrival and I had learned of it by reading from a metal plaque on a spot on his property that had a picture of the cart carrying the barrel to the city and told the story.

Later, he and I were sitting together conversing. I told him of my appreciation for his faith and life. I challenged him in the belief that all must not marry but remain celibate. I asked him what someone who was drawn to the family life should do. His first answer was that he must put away his wife and children and serve God in celibacy from then on. I challenged him again, saying, but what of those who are not yet married but are greatly drawn to raise up a family? On this point I would not and could not concede in good conscience that he was right. It moved from a conversation into a type of argument that I would not let go. Eventually he simply looked at me in silence for a long time and I found myself in the space in between “lives” again.

In the final life of my dream I found myself in a kind of Orthodox Christian community. They were liturgically and doctrinally traditionalist but tended not to practice any severe asceticism or concern themselves with matters of gender and were socially quite liberal. I was at first a bit frightened by this dynamic but decided that this was, in general, a nice place. There was a great library of books here and I rejoiced in them. I also enjoyed the presence of my mentor, a black woman who was something akin to the bishop of this community. While in this life my heart became light and joyful and I was able to fly around the city where this community lived and was able to stop and talk with people in the city and offer them some comfort in their troubles. Some came to our community and found more comfort, others did not come but had received some comfort, it did not matter.

Eventually I again challenged the beliefs of my mentor. They were not only socially liberal but sometimes downright libertine and would embrace the sensual to the obvious and indifferent detriment of themselves or others. It was not that they made mistakes or were overly zealous in their freedom that bothered me but they seemed to sometimes be indifferent to the suffering their more extreme acts had caused and did not show any desire to repent of these inflictions of pain but rather simply chose to remain oblivious to the results that had arisen from their actions.

We conversed on this point. I asked that my view be respected. She asked if I were not being intolerant in my demand that they tolerate my disapproval of their behavior. The conversation was about to cross that nearly imperceptible line where conversation turns to obstinate argument but I remembered not to argue ourselves into a stalemate, lest we become intransigent and she stare me into oblivion again as my previous mentor had done.

Rather, I very respectfully asked to simply be released from her. She graciously agreed and told those with us that if they wanted, they could go with me. Two other women, one black and one white smiled and joined me. As we were leaving a third woman rushed to join us, but it was not clear that she had resolved the issues within herself or what her motives might be. However we welcomed her and went on our way. Somehow it was made clear that I had become their mentor.

We formed our community together and went about practicing our beliefs. We were not cut off from God and though it was revealed to me that I would again some day “die”, there was no longer any pursuing enemy and I would not be killed at their hands. I would not enter the next life with any great honors but neither would I be tortured and killed at the hands of the enemy. I was now free. My heart was joyous and light and we lived in peace while our community grew together.

The dream ended.

I awoke to a certain peace that I have felt a few other times in my life. Sometimes when already fully awake and other times on awakening after a similarly spiritual dream in which I am visited by an angel or two in the guise of this or that character who explains something to me (which I can never put into words upon waking) but that gives me a profound sense of peace that continues after I have awoken.

"evil is not bad in itself, but only in its relation to man. It is wrong to look with desire upon a woman; but it is divine to admire her beauty: it is wrong only insofar as man does not regard beauty as a manifestation of God, but misconceives it, and thinks of it in reference to himself." paraphrase of the founder of hasidic Judaism - Israel ben Eliezer

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A Confession for the Modern Conservative Christian

October 27th, 2008 Posted in The Sermons by http://tonywoodlief.com/

Yesterday I led our church in a prayer of confession, and enough people asked me for it afterward that I figured I ought to type it up from my notes:

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on us – sinners all.

We confess that you are rarely what we most desire, though your desire for us led you to a cross atop Golgotha. We want cleaner homes, better clothes, spouses more attentive to our needs. We want children who will sit still in church, and hymns that suit our tastes. We want our pastors to speak to our needs, rather than lead us in worshipping you. We want the driver in front of us to go faster, and the one behind us to slow down. We want jobs we enjoy, and family who won’t ask us for money.

Sometimes we want more righteousness, or more personal purity, or a better prayer life. We seek religious virtue, Lord, but we do not seek your Cross. We are afraid of what you will ask of us should we seek that Cross, and so we make you smaller and tamer. We make you an intellectual puzzle, or an emotional experience. You are an all-consuming Fire, and we have turned you into a Bic lighter.

Lord have mercy. Christ have mercy.


Forgive us that we approach your Holy Word like we already understand you.

Forgive us that we pray when it’s convenient, that we talk too much and listen too little.

Forgive us when we seek the company of those who please us, rather than those who need us.

Forgive us that we have sullied your name by attaching it to political ideologies and national pride.

Forgive us when we hold ourselves above our brothers and sisters because they are Baptists, or Catholics, or Orthodox; because they plan to vote for Obama; because their children are in public schools; because they do trick-or-treat or they don’t trick-or-treat or because they only pass out those butterscotch candies that nobody really likes.

Forgive us that we see unrighteousness everywhere but in our own mirrors.

Oh Lord, we are a country founded in rebellion, and we have fallen into grave sin. We have made greed a virtue. We have borrowed until there is no grain left in the storehouse, and now we throw the costs onto our children and grandchildren. We have cultivated a hyper-sexualized culture. We allow our children to reach their teens without knowing how to behave like men and women. We have sanctioned the murder of millions of unborn children.

Amidst all this, we have the gall to proclaim this God’s most favored nation. We boast, oh Lord, when we should tremble.

If you, oh Lord, would count our iniquities against us, who could stand? We are shot through with sin, as a nation, a city, a church, as individuals. But you are faithful where we are faithless, and you have promised that when we confess, and repent, and lay hold of your Cross, that you will cleanse us of all unrighteousness.

So we praise you, Lord. Thine, oh Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and the earth is Thine. Thine, oh Lord, is the kingdom, and Thou art exalted above all.

We praise you and we beg your mercy, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, both now and ever, and unto the ages of ages. Amen.

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Blog tag. I usually pretend to ignore these sorts of things but I like this one for some reason

Here are the rules:

1. Link to the person who tagged you
2. Post the rules on your blog.
3. Write 6 randomly unusual/generally unknown things about yourself.
4. Tag 6-ish people at the end of your post.*
5. Let each person know he/she has been tagged.
6. Let the tagger know when your entry is up.
   

I was tagged by:

http://tonywoodlief.com/ (not really but I stole it from his blog...)

Uncle Matt's tag answers:

1. Before I was born my parents told my siblings they wanted to name me Matthew. My brother David, previously "the baby" at ten years old became visibly upset. When asked what was wrong he pleaded with them to not name me Matthew because he was sure other kids would call me "Fat Matt" when I got to school age. No idea where he got this idea, but my mother's solution was to offer that my middle name be David just like my brother's first name (he had been named after our "grandpop mustache" who's name was David Stone and had previously owned a candy store with lots of stuffed animal heads on the walls. by the time us kids came along the store was closed but he still lived in the back of the house, while the front had empty display cases and all the stuffed heads on the wall. To get to him in his bed in the back one needed to navigate the somewhat creepy abandoned candy shop. He also still had an actual outhouse in his rowhome backyard in Philly.) Somehow having me middle-named after my brother made the possibility of me being taunted in grade school much more palatable to David and thus it is that I was allowed to be Matt.

2. When I was little I simply LOVED Siberian tigers and unicorns (yes, unicorns)

3. I usually wear no underwear.

4. I am generally very open to most any foods but I thoroughly dislike beets and liver.

5. I was baptized as an infant in the Roman Catholic Church but was never confirmed since my parents had become Pentecostals by the time I was of confirmation age. The Church we attended started as a "home church" that sprung from a bible study group and consisted of a lot of ex-hippy jesus freek types. It was a full on holy-roller slain in spirit talking in tongues rapture awaiting re-lyriced rock and pop song singing extravaganza. later my parents and siblings migrated towards somewhat more mainstream Churches and I landed in the Orthodox Church eventually.

6. My current favorite flavor/smell is that of mangoes, followed closely by coconut milk and cilantro.

I tag:

denden
l-tran/thewza
c/teen/explore to discover

* I think I might have to break the rules because I'm not sure I know anyone else personally who blogs... :(

here is the original with answers from tony:

This is a difficult assignment, Nat, because basically my entire blog consists of random things about me. But here are six more:

I am a hypochondriac. If you describe Interstitial Cystitis to me in vivid enough detail, I’ll soon begin to wonder if I’m peeing too much. If I see a movie where someone develops a Bairnsdale ulcer, I’ll begin to wonder if that place where I gouged myself with a screwdriver isn’t starting to spread rather than heal. I don’t generally pester anyone about it, I just suffer in silence and imagine how my children will get along without me.

In the sixth grade I was the smallest kid in my class, including the girls. I got the biggest girl in class, Stephanie Cato, to be my girlfriend. She protected me.

One of my first jobs in high school was cleaning banks at night. One night the wiring on my vacuum cleaner shorted, and when I grabbed a metal door handle, I completed the circuit. Current ran through me for a second, and then it was as if someone picked me up, walked backwards with me a couple of feet, and set me down out of reach of both the vacuum cleaner and the door. Sometimes I imagine it was an angel who lifted me up. This gives me comfort, especially when I think I might have Hemangioma Thrombocytopenia Syndrome.

My stepfather grew marijuana back when Nancy Reagan was telling all us kids to just say no. For some reason I believed that if the police came we would all be put in jail — me, my mom, and my brothers. I used to tense up when anyone knocked on the door, or whenever a sheriff’s car drove down our street.

You might think that I dream about my daughter all the time, but the truth is that I hardly ever dream of her at all, no matter how hard I try.

Four year-old Isaac has better fashion sense than me. I have to have someone tell me that two things match before I will wear them, and then they become an outfit that I go back to over and over. Today I wanted to wear my blue sweater, but the shirt I usually wear under it was dirty. I asked Isaac what shirt I should wear instead, and without hesitating he picked a striped one that goes perfectly.

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cute twin babies - copy and paste

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Positive Tourettes and/or Drivebye Complimenting

One day a couple of us were discussing Tourettes Syndrome for some reason or another and Glenny brought up the point about why people with Tourettes only ever seem to say bad things, why don't they also blurt out nice things? For the rest of the day the concept of Positive Tourettes would come up one way or another. anhow, this video made me think of that:

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

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Realistic Animaniacs Opening Credits

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Britney's first live performance since her breakdown - last night in Germany

performing Live at the BAMBI awards (whatever they are?) Much improved from her mid breakdown, terribly lipsynched, barely danced, MTV Awards fiasco



not bad, not amazing but not bad.

clever trick with the burning hoop. and i like the funnymiddle aged rather reserved german audience. AND i want a big metal ball to roll around in!

she did steal her outfit right off madonna's back though...

she does a slightly more energetic version of the same routine on the British X Factor show:

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Uncle Matt's Paradox Project - 1st installment

In looking at and working on my self more closely over the last couple of years I have had the pleasure of discovering several paradoxes that I have needed to embrace in order to move forward. I want to occasionally address some of these necessary paradoxes.

One has been working on accepting myself and my limits and not beating myself up about things but also occasionally testing myself to see where those limits truly lie. I have had to let some of my expectations about who and what I should be and do fall to the wayside. At the same time I have needed to challenge myself and experiment in order to find out who and what I can be.

I found this quote and I think it summed up this process nicely:

“Between the ages of twenty and forty we are engaged in the process of discovering who we are, which involves learning the difference between accidental limitations which it is our duty to outgrow and the necessary limitations of our nature beyond which we cannot trespass with impunity.” W.H. Auden

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thank you to sarah from the left

Get the latest news satire and funny videos at 236.com.

it's in response to this:



and i gotta say it again, i'm thankful you taught your daughter about the facts of life... and to stay clear of guys who's myspace says they are "not interested in having kids" and that they are "a redneck" who's hobby is "shootin things" - ur such a great role model!

oh, and it would be the same recipe for regular chili, just with moose instead of cow...

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since we're on flashes-from-the-pasts here is punky brewster, now...

oh punky, hump that wall!

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sudden blast from the past - remember the show with the little girl who was a robot?

that was weird:



must have been the absolute EASIEST acting job EVER!

and rather creepy actually...

feel like watching a bizarre season finale? mind u season finale- this is sweeps week awefullness:

small wall wonder hooray for hollyweird Ted brings back "Bad Seed" Vanessa
who again takes Vicki's place locks Vicki in her/its cabinet and joins the family to Hollywood, where Ted must repair a movie's robot while Vanessa mugs into a screen test on the sly She kinda reminds me of Lindsey lohan

i bet u can't finish it!

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that lady that was stuck in her tub for 3 days has a GREAT attitutde

i would love to know her!

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there was a woman elected president this year - just, she's in Argentina

President Cristina Kirchner on Tuesday unveiled a massive public spending plan to pump more than 21 billion dollars into Argentina's infrastructure and counter effects of the global cash crunch.

"On December 15 we will launch the most ambitious public works programs in memory," said Kirchner, making the announcement at the closing ceremony of the trade association representing builders.

Argentina expects economic growth to slow to four percent in 2009, down from 6.5 percent expected for 2008. This follows years of growth nearing nine percent following the 2002 crisis.

"There are public works that call for (intensive) manual labor. Works that will mean hiring more than the 362,000 workers currently in the building sector, increasing the number to nearly 770,000 jobs," Kirchner said.

Construction has been one of the engines of Argentina's economic growth.

Argentina's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) increased 8.8 percent in 2003; 9 percent in 2004; 9.2 percent in 2005; 8.5 percent in 2006, and 8.7 percent in 2007.

Earlier in the day Kirchner announced proposed tax and investment incentives aimed at encouraging the repatriation of capital.

The measure would allow Argentines who bring back their funds stashed abroad and pay taxes of between one and eight percent, depending on where the funds are directed.

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many are aware of my love of monkeys

a Japanese restaurant has real monkey waiters. video:

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2008/11/23/lah.jap.monkey.biz.cnn?iref=videosearch

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Increasing number of brides seeking counselling for "post-nuptial depression" as they realize married life ain't what they thought it would be

oh fark.com and you're funny headlines :)

Increasing number of brides seeking counselling for "post-nuptial depression" as they realize married life ain't what they thought it would be. The support group for men who feel the same way meets at the bar at 5 p.m. every day.

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=4039924

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u thot election night was nerve wracking: they were going to watch the finals of American Idol

maybe i was up in heaven and they said - ok, you be a girl. and i saw this video of teenaged girls and i said, um, i'd rather be a fag, are there any openings for that? and so i was saved from the following scene...

this has also been around about a week but maybe you didn't see it yet:

the setup: “It was a pajama party for the girls, and they were going to watch the finals of American Idol. The two singers in the final were David Cooker and David Archuleta. The girls were all fans of David A. They hoped he would win. You can imagine their disappointment when they learned that the other David had won!”

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sesame street gets hip to the 08 - thirty rock(s)

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yummy Obama appointments - Rahm Emmanuel is a given, but there's more!

Obama Whitehoue Social Secretary Desiree Rogers, new appointment in the US President-elect administration.

Described as a "Super Socialite" by the Chicago press, Desiree Rogers is set to become US President-elect Barack Obama's 'social secretary'.

The 46-year-old mother of one is a regular on the Chicago social scene and a good friend of Barack and Michelle Obama. She serves on various boards and committees according to the blog The Black Socialite, "Rogers is also active with The Chicago Children's Museum, The Young Presidents Organization, The Commercial Club of Chicago, the Chicago Network
She earned a MBA from Harvard University and a BA in political science from Wellesley College. She is consistently named one of the 50 most powerful Black business women by Black Enterprise." http://hottiesinthenews.blogspot.com/2008/11/desiree-rogers-pictures-obama-whitehoue.html

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thou art peter - this is more to save my own notes - St Gregory the great on papal supremacysomewhere easy to find them

“I say it without the least hesitation, whoever calls himself the universal bishop, or desires this title, is by his pride, the precursor of anti-Christ, because he thus attempts to raise himself above the others. The error into which he falls springs from pride equal to that of anti-Christ; for as that wicked one wished to be regarded as exalted above other men, like a god, so likewise whoever would call himself sole bishop exalteth himself above others”

“It cannot be denied that if any one bishop be called universal, all the Church crumbles if that universal one fall” - St Grogory the great, Pope of Rome

Pope Gregory was concerned that the Patriarch of Constantinople, St. John the Faster, had accepted the title of Ecumenical (or Universal) Patriarch - note - this a condemnation of both modern practices in the west and the east! He condemned any such title for the above reasons.


Additionally:

He wrote to the Bishop of Alexandria these words:

“Your Holiness has been at pains to tell us that in addressing certain persons you no longer give them certain titles that have no better origin than pride, using this phrase regarding me, ‘as you have commanded me.’ I pray you let me never again hear this word command; for I know who I am and who you are. By your position you are my brethren; by your virtue you are my fathers. I have, therefore, not commanded; I have only been careful to point out things which seemed to me useful. Still I do not find that Your Holiness has perfectly remembered what I particularly wished to impress on your memory; for I said that you should no more give that title to me than to others; and lo! in the superscription of your letter, you gave to me, who have proscribed them, the vainglorious titles of Universal and Pope. May your sweet holiness do so no more in the future. I beseech you; for you take from yourself what you give excess to another. I do not esteem that an honor which causes my brethren to lose their own dignity. My honor is that of the whole Church. My honor is the unshakable firmness of my brethren. I consider myself truly honored when no one is denied the honor due to them. If Your Holiness calls me Universal Pope, you deny that you are yourself what I should be altogether. God forbid! Far from us be words that puff up vanity and wound charity”

When the Christians of Antioch are concerned over whether Gentile Christians need be circumcised to be saved, and they send Paul and Barnabas to confer with the Jerusalem church there, James plays a prominent role in the formulation of the council's decision (Acts 15:13ff). James is the last named figure to speak, after Peter, Paul and Barnabas; he delivers what he calls his "judgment" (Acts 15:19 NIV)

Although there are many issues which divide Orthodox and Roman Catholics such as the Latin addition to the Nicene Creed concerning the procession of the Holy Spirit (i.e. the Filioque), and the Roman doctrines of Indulgences, Purgatory, the Immaculate Conception of Mary, Papal Infallibility, Created Grace, and Original Sin, the most divisive doctrine between the two Churches has been the doctrine of Papal Supremacy.

The Church of Rome claims that Christ made Peter and his successors the chief rulers over the Church; the successors of Peter are the Popes of Rome; the Church of Christ (the means of salvation) is located where Peter and his successors are. Therefore, (according to traditional Roman Catholic theology) union with him (the Pope) is necessary for salvation. As the visible head of the Church, he is the final judge of truth, the supreme teacher, the visible sign of unity, and the Vicar of Christ. Since the Pope is the head, the bishops of the Church can do nothing without him. The converse of this is, however, not true. Although the Pope generally acts in concert with his fellow bishops, he can at least in theory, act independently of them.

If these claims are true, then the Orthodox are the guilty party in the schism for not recognizing the supreme authority of the Pope, and must repent. If, on the other hand, it can be historically proven that the Bishop of Rome did not originally possess this power over the Church, but usurped it, then the Papacy is guilty of schism and must repent. Below is an examination of the problems associated with these papal claims.

The first concern that Orthodox have with this premise has to do with the presupposition that Peter was the unique rock upon which the Church was built. The Orthodox Church sees the following...problems associated with this claim.

First of all, although Peter was given the prominent role as the first of the apostles, he was always equal to the other apostles. Christ told the apostles that they would sit on twelve thrones (Matt. 19:28). A special throne was not set up for Peter. Moreover the “keys” were given to all the apostles (Matt. 18:18). The other apostles were also the foundation upon which the Church was built (Eph. 2:20). If the Roman view is to be believed, it is interesting to note that when the disciples disputed among themselves as to who would be the greatest, (Lk. 22:24-27), they seemed unaware that Christ had already picked Peter.

Second, the Rock upon whom the Church is established is Christ. When Christ says, “Thou art Peter,” He called him “PETROS,” which means “small stone.” But when He says, “Upon this rock I will build my Church” the Greek term for rock is not Petros but “PETRA” which means “bedrock.” This bedrock which the Church is built upon was always understood by the Greek Fathers and many Western Fathers to mean either Christ Himself, or the profession of faith in Christ’s Divinity.

Third, the patristic witness is that no Father of the Church has seen, in the primacy of Peter, any title of jurisdiction or absolute authority in Church government. The Latin Church Father, St. Ambrose, for instance, taught that Peter and Paul were equal: “It was proper that Paul should go to see Peter. Why? was Peter superior to him and to the other Apostles? No, but because, of all the Apostles, he was the first to be entrusted by the Lord with the care of the churches. Had he need to be taught, or to receive a commission from Peter? No, but that Peter might know that Paul had received the power which had also been given to himself.” (The Papacy, by Abbe Guettee, pp. 173-174).

Furthermore, he taught that Peter’s primacy was not one of honor or rank, but of faith and confession: “As soon as Peter heard these words, ‘Whom say ye that I am?’ remembering his place, he exercised this primacy, a primacy of confession, not of honour; a primacy of faith, not of rank.” (Ibid., p. 174).

Blessed Augustine, one of the “Doctors” of the Roman Church, considered Peter and Paul equal. He puts these words in Paul’s mouth: “I am in nothing inferior to Peter; for we were ordained by the same God for the same ministry” (Ibid., p. 187). Blessed Augustine, also referred to Peter’s primacy, but he does not understand this to mean power over the Church. “He had not the primacy over the disciples but among the disciples. His primacy among the disciples was the same as that of Stephen among the deacons” (Ibid., p. 176).

The second concern that Orthodox have with the Latin premise is with the claim that an exclusive transference of power occurred from the Apostle Peter to the Bishop of Rome, and from the Church in Jerusalem to the Church in Rome. The Orthodox would first point out that all bishops are successors of all the apostles, and that the Bishop of Rome, the Pope, does not therefore have exclusive rights to Peter. Second, since Peter died before the Apostle John, this would mean, according to the Papal doctrine, that the Beloved Apostle would have been under the universal rule of the Bishop of Rome (at that time), thus reversing the intended order of rank.

Third, Peter ordained several bishops in Rome. (Irenaeus and Eusebius write that he ordained Linus, and Tertullian states that he ordained Clement.) How could they be his successor while he was still alive?

Fourth, Jerusalem had unique authority in the Church. It was the Mother of all the Churches. But it never attempted to lord it over the other Churches as its supposed successor did.

And fifth, if we admit a succession from apostle to bishop and (from) Jerusalem to Rome, then there would be a decrease in authority, due to the unique place of the Apostle and of Jerusalem. Rome, however, has claimed more authority that Peter or Jerusalem ever claimed.

http://www.orthodoxresearchinstitute.org/articles/ecumenical/maxwell_peter.htm

the opposite argument is made here:
http://www.mostholyfamilymonastery.com/refuting_eastern_orthodox.php

also - i will perhaps expand on this theme later but wanted to mark it down before i forgot... again. there is a theory that the Great schism was less a difference between the west and the east as it was a difference between the north (the invading germanic tribes who were eventually given the emperor's title under Charlemagne in the west) and the south, both former italian Rome and the east. in fact, the philiouque was added to the creed in an effort to contain the arian idea that the son and father were not co-equal. The germanic tribes who had invaded and taken control of the south, italy, france, spain, etc - had almost all been former arians. A well meaning over-reaction to the influence of the north, may have led to the Great schism.

"For they say that Peter and James and John after the ascension of our Saviour, as if also preferred by our Lord, strove not after honor, but chose James the Just bishop of Jerusalem."[8]

In describing James' ascetic lifestyle, Saint Jerome, De Viris Illustribus, quotes Hegesippus' account of James from the fifth book of Hegesippus' lost Commentaries:

"After the apostles, James the brother of the Lord surnamed the Just was made head of the Church at Jerusalem. Many indeed are called James. This one was holy from his mother's womb. He drank neither wine nor strong drink, ate no flesh, never shaved or anointed himself with ointment or bathed. He alone had the privilege of entering the Holy of Holies, since indeed he did not use woolen vestments but linen and went alone into the temple and prayed in behalf of the people, insomuch that his knees were reputed to have acquired the hardness of camels' knees."[9]

Since it was unlawful for any but the high priest of the temple to enter the Holy of Holies once a year on Yom Kippur, Jerome's quotation from Hegesippus indicates that James was considered a high priest. The Pseudo-Clementine Recognitions suggest this.[10]

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theme connects theme - this is how i, and walt whitman wanted to be burried - FYI! hopefully a blog post can count as a legal document in my someday

...in my someday absence:



no vault please, i want my molecules to be absorbed into a tree.

I accept reality and dare not question it.
Camerado! This is no book; who touches this touches a man.
I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.


We therefore commit his body to the ground; earth to earth, ashes to and dust to dust...

The beautiful uncut hair of graves.
Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate
and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.

oh, and no embalming, if it's possible, and an Eastern Orthodox funeral if they permit it. don't worry - im not suicidal, just that Philly led to Camden led to Walt Whitman, led to jersey, led to Walt Whitman's tomb (where his last wishes WERE NOT honored, to my thots on how i would like to be honored.

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NY cop arrested for assaulting NJ cop

One of New York's finest was arrested early Sunday morning after pushing a Jersey City cop in the chest in the parking lot of a Downtown Jersey City bar, police said.

Michael Velazquez Jr., 23, of Tompkins Avenue in Brooklyn, was charged with aggravated assault, disorderly conduct and failure to disperse, reports said.

Jersey City Police responded to calls about a disturbance in the parking lot of the Sand Bar on Marin Boulevard around 3 a.m., reports said.

Police found a large gathering of men and told them to move along, reports said. But Velazquez yelled that he was a police officer and did not have to listen to the Jersey City cops, and shoved one of the Jersey City officers, reports said.

After being restrained, Velazquez was taken to the East District Precinct on Seventh Street for processing, where he continued to be verbally abusive and it was confirmed that he is a New York City police officer, reports said.

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keeping on the theme: "Camden NJ 2006"

and now for something - not so completely different: New Jersey Freakshows - oh the fake tans hurt my eyes:
http://www.barstoolsports.com/article/new_jersey_freakshows/1958/

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very odd video called "philly, circa 2003"

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the art of translation

Living in America, it's easy to forget that most of the world does not speak English; and that much of the world's literature is not written in English. In order for us to read the best of what the rest of the world writes — and in order for the rest of the world to experience our best literature — skilled writers must work in the art of translation.

But it's not as straightforward as you might think. A good translation needs to be true to the original and able to stand on its own for a new audience.



Bea Basso, who came from Italy to the United States in 2000 to study and work in theater, has done a lot of translating from Italian to English. She says that the choice of a single word can determine the arc of an entire work.

full article here.

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what "auto-tune" can do for your voice and has done to the music industry

you can hear it at it's most extreme in Cher's "do you believe in life after love?" (funny how two things can take me directly back to a specific time and place; a song and/or a smell. this song places me in the midst of a particular bar in Montreal around the time this song came out, i even can see the shorts i was wearing....) Anyway....

here are two NPR stories on the "Auto-tune" technique and how it has been and can be used:

Taking Pitch Correction To The Limit
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97312511

Tone-Deaf Stars Thrive With Pitch Correction Software
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97138601

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tavi the 12 year old style/pop culture genius?

i have been following the story of tavi since i first heard of her early last week, all the while waiting for her to be revealed as some kind of hoax. she is 12 and has her own blog, most of which deals with her exploring fashion. some photos of her daily outfit choices, but also a lot of very arty fashion type pics she takes and a bunch of text that seems to have been typed by a 35 year old who works at Vogue.

Well, she hasn't been exposed thus far so i thought i would finally mention a couple things related to her.

A: her description of herself from her blog:

I am a 12 year old space cowboy that can fit in mail bins and pretends to follow baseball season. To pass the time I write fairy tale fan fiction, in which princesses join cults and witches are photographed by Wendy Bevan. My favorite foods are raspberries and hipsters, and my #1 pet peeve is Comic Sans. Magic wandery is my prime method for self defense, along with some karate I picked up in fourth grade and excellent insults I spontaneously come up with on the spot. Your mom.

B: this video where she raps about her parents taking her to visit to H&M - and she claims it is her reward to all of us for voting, then at the end she explains that she has some previous rap experience because in second grade she was obsessed with writing raps about poop:

Untitled from Tavi G on Vimeo.

C: well, just her blog itself:
http://tavi-thenewgirlintown.blogspot.com/

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whats gonna happen to oprah's favorite things episode this year?

usually she gives each of her 20 or so favorite things from each year to all the members of the in studio audience. the results are as follows:

but this year she has said that due to the economic situation she is going to be focusing on things that cost "nearly nothing." i wonder what the audience's reactions will be to that?

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The original war on Christmas - Bill O'reilly would not approve

"For almost 400 years, Christmas was banned in Scotland. At the height of the Reformation, in 1583, when anything smacking of Catholicism and idolatrous excess was thrown out with contempt, Christmas and all its trappings was wiped off the official calendar ...Reinforced by the hard arm of the law, this was a ban that had bite... This was an age when religious belief could mean the difference between life and a very nasty death....

Scottish Presbyterians, when called on for support by the Puritans of the English Parliament in 1644, did so on the understanding that their allies would in exchange impose the ban on Christmas. For over a decade traditional English Christmas festivities were prohibited

From Scotland, the ban on Christmas spread briefly, as Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army brought the Cromwellian revolution to England. Cromwell's Puritans banned Christmas in England for about a decade but the measure was unpopular. Feelings among pro and anti Christmas advocates ran strong and, after a second enforcement act against Christmas was passed by the English Parliament in 1647,

Again the people rebelled, this time so forcefully that armed officers had to be sent to remove evergreens decorating St Margaret's Church, near the English Parliament itself. Rioting broke out in London, Kent, Oxford, Canterbury and Ipswich, in which several people were killed. A petition with more than 10,000 signatures demanded either the restoration of Christmas or else the king back on the throne...

Even after the bans were revoked in England in 1660, Puritans and other Non-Conformists "ranted against Anti-Christ's-masse and those Masse-mongers and Papists who observe it", and were commonly known to "inveigh against New Year gifts and evergreens, or to attack the Pope by refusing to eat plum-broth; or to condemn those who ate mince-pies as Papists and idolaters"....

These attitudes were carried to the New World by English Puritans, Quakers, Baptists and Scottish Presbyterians. In America, reprisals were as harsh here as back in Scotland. In Massachusetts a five-shilling penalty was imposed on anyone found feasting or shirking work on Christmas Day...

A hundred years later the Quakers were still ranting against the Christmas pie as "an invention of the scarlet whore of Babylon, an hodge podge of superstition, Popery, the Devil and all his works".

From England the Protestant War on Christmas then crossed the Atlantic, migrating with the Puritans who were fleeing the persecution of their political and theological tendency that followed the overthrow of Cromwellian government, to the New World. Under Puritan rule in the Bay State Colony, Christmas was at one point legally banned for two decades.

Christmas fared worse in Scotland though and was only brought back after four centuries because of the experience of Scottish soldiers during World War Two. As Amy McNeese describes,

Abroad and in the company of English soldiers, many Scots experienced their first proper Christmas dinner. Once tasted, it was never forgotten. On their return home, these servicemen began to celebrate the festival with some style, and gradually their ideas took root.

full article on Huff

for more on why Christmas is when it is see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_Invictus -
Sol Invictus ("Unconquered Sun") was the Roman state-supported sun god created by the emperor Aurelian in 274 and continued, overshadowing other Eastern cults in importance,[1] until the abolition of paganism under Theodosius I. Although known as a god, the term "Unconquered Sun God' is not found on any Roman document.

The Romans held a festival on December 25 of Dies Natalis Solis Invicti, "the birthday of the unconquered sun." December 25 was the date after the winter solstice,[2] with the first detectable lengthening of daylight hours. There was also a festival on December 19.[3]

The title Sol Invictus had also been applied to a number of other solar deities before and during this period. The type of Sol Invictus, though not the name, appears on imperial coinage from the time of Septimius Severus onwards.[4]

Though many Oriental cults were practiced informally among the Roman legions from the mid-second century, only that of Sol Invictus was officially accepted and presacribed for the army.[5]

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After his victories in the East, the emperor Aurelian introduced an official cult of Sol Invictus, making the sun-god the premier divinity of the empire, and wearing his radiated crown himself. He founded a college of pontifices, and dedicated a temple to Sol Invictus in 274. It is possible that he created the festival called dies natalis Solis Invicti, "birthday of the undefeated Sun", which is recorded in 354 (in the Chronography of 354) as celebrated on the 25th December;[6] but no earlier reference to it exists. The cult of Sol Invictus was the leading official cult of the fourth century

In the legions, where a policy of individual religious freedom is attested by personal inscriptions, on shrines and through votive offerings in every part of the Empire, outside the camps themselves, the only Eastern cult that was officially tolerated, probably from Aurelian's reign, and certainly under Constantine, was that of Sol Invictus.[7]...

Constantine decreed (March 7, 321) dies Solis—day of the sun, "Sunday"—as the Roman day of rest [CJ3.12.2]:

On the venerable day of the Sun let the magistrates and people residing in cities rest, and let all workshops be closed. In the country however persons engaged in agriculture may freely and lawfully continue their pursuits because it often happens that another day is not suitable for grain-sowing or vine planting; lest by neglecting the proper moment for such operations the bounty of heaven should be lost.

The religion of Sol Invictus continued to be part of the state religion until all paganism was abolished by decree of Theodosius I on February 27, 390...

Some Christians accept the idea that Sol Invictus may be behind the date of Christmas, with the idea that the early church "baptized" the holiday by imbuing it with a new, Christian meaning. In the 5th c., Pope Leo I (the Great) spoke of this in several sermons on the Feast of the Nativity. Here is an excerpt from his 26th sermon:

But this Nativity which is to be adored in heaven and on earth is suggested to us by no day more than this when, with the early light still shedding its rays on nature, there is borne in upon our senses the brightness of this wondrous mystery.

But this sermon was not in any way related to Sol Invictus directly.

In his 22nd sermon, he directly addressed those who attributed the Nativity to Sol Invictus:

Having therefore so confident a hope, dearly beloved, abide firm in the Faith in which you are built: lest that same tempter whose tyranny over you Christ has already destroyed, win you back again with any of his wiles, and mar even the joys of the present festival by his deceitful art, misleading simpler souls with the pestilential notion of some to whom this our solemn feast day seems to derive its honour, not so much from the nativity of Christ as, according to them, from the rising of the new sun . Such men's hearts are wrapped in total darkness, and have no growing perception of the true Light: for they are still drawn away by the foolish errors of heathendom, and because they cannot lift the eyes of their mind above that which their carnal sight beholds, they pay divine honour to the luminaries that minister to the world.

In this sermon, Pope Leo I clearly establishes that the two feast were held on the same day, but that they are also not related.

Solar symbolism was popular with early Christian writers[11] This is also apparent in the prayers and hymns of the Church, such as the Eastern Orthodox Troparion of the Nativity:

Thy birth, O Christ our God,
rose upon the world as the light of knowledge;
for through it those who worshipped the stars
were taught by a star to adore Thee, the Sun of Righteousness,
and to know Thee, the Sunrise from on high.
O Lord, glory to Thee...

According to the scholiast on the Syriac bishop Jacob Bar-Salibi, writing in the twelfth century:

"It was a custom of the Pagans to celebrate on the same 25 December the birthday of the Sun, at which they kindled lights in token of festivity. In these solemnities and revelries the Christians also took part. Accordingly when the doctors of the Church perceived that the Christians had a leaning to this festival, they took counsel and resolved that the true Nativity should be solemnised on that day."

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Broke Man Tries Paying Bill With a Picture of a Spider

you may have seenthis already but ifound it amusing:



you can read the rest of the email exchange here:
Broke Man Tries Paying Bill With a Picture of a Spider:
http://www.urlesque.com/2008/11/07/broke-man-tries-paying-bill-with-a-picture-of-a-spider/ target="blank"

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Photoshop disasters

some highlights from http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/


Beyonce has a special item in her pre-concert rider - a surgeon to reattach her missing limbs.

Did you ever get the feeling there was somebody right behind you...

Simpson's style - so easy even someone with only 4 fingers can use it!

Nice touchup - didn't miss a thing.

8GB we said 8GB!

Someone wrote a check for this?

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