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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:
Uncle Matt's Paradox Project - 1st installment
11/27/2008
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
thank you to sarah from the left
11/26/2008
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...
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!
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.
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
Increasing number of brides seeking counselling for "post-nuptial depression" as they realize married life ain't what they thought it would be
11/25/2008
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
u thot election night was nerve wracking: they were going to watch the finals of American Idol
11/24/2008
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!”
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
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]
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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