tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78575433625511367572024-03-05T13:38:20.025-08:00Masons of HeavenMasons come from all walks of life - from the rich and famous to the poor<br>and obscure. Masons are men who have joined together to improve themselves.<br>The latter is accomplished through the principles and ceremonies of the fraternity and the application of those in their communities. Mysteryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14326978117112583660noreply@blogger.comBlogger2439125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7857543362551136757.post-25041170168296725982015-03-05T00:22:00.000-08:002015-03-17T23:17:23.847-07:00Nirvana Ritual Candle<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><span style="text-align:left;align:left;"><div style="float:left;text-align:left;align:left;width: 44%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-SZGxz2TGAKE/VQkYb7JjOlI/AAAAAAAAWII/cTyguIEW1h8/Nirvana%252520Ritual%252520Candle.jpg" border="0" alt="Nirvana Ritual Candle" title="Nirvana Ritual Candle" /></div></span><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;"> Paradise Ritual Candle is an 8" hand-dipped ritual candle; charged, anointed and extolled by a powerful witch to aid you in reaching that authority of absolute explanation, Paradise. <br/><br/> Load contest who as a rule do their own spellwork find the potency of our candles so to a large extent to their choice, they use them preferably of making their own. <br/><br/> Paradise Ritual Candle is anointed and charged to bring spiritual fantasy and cleanness of perception. Time was you light the flame, sample your seizure upon it. <br/><br/> Let your heed cover with the care of the candle flame - even to the same extent you confirm your eyes. Be adamant your beware upon the won over emotions of attaining and living your handle at the same time as the candle burns. <br/><br/> You may brook to let the Paradise Ritual Candle to burn in good health at one time to unwrap folks ritually strengthened beware hip the manufacture, or you may wish to light and jaunt upon the candle 3 days in a row.<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'> PARADISE RITUAL CANDLE SPECIFICATIONS:</h4><br/> Inscribed And Magickally Charged<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'> PREVIOUSLY ANOINTED<br/><br/> 100% BEESWAX</h4><br></span>Mysteryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14326978117112583660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7857543362551136757.post-36614239941675760472015-02-23T18:43:00.000-08:002015-03-17T23:17:38.880-07:00Blue Wooded Sanctuary<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><center><div style="float:none;text-align:center;align:center;width: 69%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Ruq3PctfRX4/VQkYf7Xru8I/AAAAAAAAWIY/WgPVqIjrbzw/Blue%252520Wooded%252520Sanctuary.jpg" border="0" alt="Blue Wooded Sanctuary" title="Blue Wooded Sanctuary" /></div></center><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;">Yesterday's blog entry was about the smoothness of snow and offered a view of a quiet cove in the Lanark woods with snow, trees and wandering stream, a place which is much loved. This morning, I am tucking in two other views of that same magical corner - I visit the place every time I go out to the highlands, and it always energizes and soothes, caressing the spirit gently and enchanting the senses. I come away from such intervals feeling renewed and refreshed and ready to tackle whatever comes my way.<br/><br/>As cold as it is on the Two Hundred Acre Wood at this time of year, my special corner is out of the wind, an oasis of calm and quiet. The hemlocks, pines and spruces are richly fragrant and perfect in their dusting of snow - any other form of ornamentation would be excessive.<br/><br/>Yesterday, it was so quiet that I could hear the snow tumbling off the trees.<br/><br/>Credit: <a href='http://my-spiritual-path.blogspot.com' target='_blank'>my-spiritual-path.blogspot.com</a></span>Mysteryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14326978117112583660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7857543362551136757.post-89749821160616639492015-02-13T22:13:00.000-08:002015-03-20T05:08:11.874-07:00The Monstrumologist<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><center><div style="float:none;text-align:center;align:center;width: 63%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-ZUJU5n0eFKo/VQwNp5D6gcI/AAAAAAAAWNg/_ZXzQd1Chks/The%252520Monstrumologist.jpg" border="0" alt="The Monstrumologist" title="The Monstrumologist" /></div></center><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;">The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey. Simon it did get a Printz Honor.<br/><br/>Prologue. June 2007. The author Rick Yancey is speaking with someone who helped him with research for another book, and winds up with the handwritten journals of an old man, William James Henry, who insisted he was born in 1876. The old man just died, without heirs, and maybe Rick wants to look at it. Rick explains that what follows is the story told in the first three journals....<br/><br/>And thus the story begins. 1888. Will Henry is 12. But these are not a boy's journals: they are written forty years after the death of Dr. Warthrop.<br/><br/>Full stop as we look at this great framing device. Will's story, told as an adult, capturing the spirit and point of view of a twelve year old while having some distance and wisdom of an adult. Will insists his memory of boyhood is sound (<u><b>"I can't recall what I had for breakfast this morning, but I remember with nightmarish clarity that spring night in 1888"..."</b></u>); at another time he acknowledges that the confession of someone, while true to memory, "<b><i>spare[s] the reader... somewhat tiresome and frustrating divagations</i></b>"." But wait! There is more! As Rick Yancey has transcribed Will's journals, Will's words were "<b><i>edited only for spelling and correction of some archaic uses of grammar</i></b>"." Layers upon layers, with questions of what is told when and how. Delicious!<br/><br/>While short, those quotes reveal that Will's journal is written in nineteenth century style. Divagations indeed! Like Octavian Nothing, the prose seems true to time yet the story remains accessible.<br/><br/>A monster story that is not supernatural! The Anthropaphagi are simply creatures, not yet discovered and documented sufficiently by scientists so designated "<b><i>monsters.</i></b>" Dr. Warthrop is the type who, as he hunts these creatures, scoffs at the idea of witchcraft or demons. He is a scientist, thank you very much. Since this is the start of a series, I am besides myself trying to guess what monster next gets the monstrumologist treatment. I hadn't realized, until reading this book, how much of the horror I'd been reading was more supernatural. Very refreshing to read something with no spells or witchcraft or demons.<br/><br/>Dr. Warthrop, who has his own Daddy Dearest issues, has been thrust into responsibility for Will. As a man unaccustomed to children, he treats Will as an adult, for good and bad. Will is only twelve, yet his responsibilities are great. Dr. Warthrop does not hide the truth from Will; does not protect him; does not make up stories. It's as if Dean Winchester had to take care of a kid; a Dean Winchester without a Sam in his life. (Oh, you knew I was going to go Supernatural<br></span>Mysteryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14326978117112583660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7857543362551136757.post-83622182620532595112015-01-29T12:00:00.000-08:002015-03-20T05:07:03.281-07:0010 Stunning Occult Photos<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><center><div style="float:none;text-align:center;align:center;width: 67%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-CH8aNPQsWwc/VQwNYl3vClI/AAAAAAAAWMY/T3WblgO5EpU/10%252520Stunning%252520Occult%252520Photos.jpg" border="0" alt="10 Stunning Occult Photos" title="10 Stunning Occult Photos" /></div></center><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;"> During the Victorian era and the early 20th century, occultism swept across America and Europe. The movement centered on the belief that life continues after death, and that spirits can be contacted via mediums. During this time, many people came forward claiming they had psychokinetic powers and went to great lengths to prove it, either by photography or performance art. Seances, levitation, and spirit writing became embedded in the imagination of the public.<br/><br/> The movement began to decline as many prominent investigators, such as The Society of Psychical Research, began to debunk many cases in which paranormal activity was alleged. The following photos show a fascinating glimpse into a bizarre time in human history. <br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'> COLIN EVANS PERFORMING A LEVITATION</h4><br/> SEANCE IN BERLIN (1930S)<br/><br/> PHOTOS OF A SEANCE (<u><b>1940</b></u>) <br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'> TELEPATHIC MANIFESTATION</h4><br/> SEANCE CONDUCTED BY EUSAPIA PALLADINO (1898)<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'> SEANCES CONDUCTED BY MINA CRANDON </h4><br/>PHOTO OF A SPIRIT MEDIUM (<u><b>1923</b></u>) <br/><br/> Have you taken any occult photos? Even if they don't necessarily prove the existence of a mystical realm, they're still cool to look at!<br/><br/>Reference: <a href='http://wizard-notes.blogspot.com' target='_blank'>wizard-notes.blogspot.com</a></span>Mysteryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14326978117112583660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7857543362551136757.post-9035960046081399842015-01-25T12:00:00.000-08:002015-03-20T20:03:23.242-07:00Practical Angel Magic Of Dr John Dee<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><span style="text-align:left;align:left;"><div style="float:left;text-align:left;align:left;width: 56%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-SAdlNLJadss/VFt5mJh3vDI/AAAAAAAAVgs/96W_aDiK8dk/Imbolc%252520Blessings%252520And%252520Vegan%252520Apple%252520Crumble%252520Pie.jpg" border="0" alt="Practical Angel Magic Of Dr John Dee" title="Practical Angel Magic Of Dr John Dee" /></div></span><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;"> The authors have discovered what happened to one of John Dee`s most important manuscripts, his book of personal angelic invocations which he<br/> kept in Latin, and how it was preserved and developed by 17th century magicians into a full working magical system. Only a small part of this material reached the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in the 1880s. <br/>Even this was then suppressed by the chiefs of the Order, and it did not<br/> appear in Israel Regardie`s monumental work on the Order rituals.<br/><br/> They have also traced how the classical techniques of invocation and evocation drawn from late mediaeval grimoires, were passed through John Dee`s magic, via Elias Ashmole, to the aristocratic angel magicians of the 17th century, including some of the most powerful and influential figures in England.<br/><br/> In the 20th century many fanciful constructions were added to Golden Dawn Enochian. Even writers such as Aleister Crowley were seemingly all unaware of the completely developed system that already existed, and which is here published in full for the first time.<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'> This volume is a 294 page hardcover book </h4><br></span>Mysteryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14326978117112583660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7857543362551136757.post-73287809857472022652015-01-20T05:07:00.000-08:002015-03-21T21:14:41.266-07:00How To Meditate Daily<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><span style="text-align:left;align:left;"><div style="float:left;text-align:left;align:left;width: 50%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-NMLch0RJyoo/VDSuNKCZvMI/AAAAAAAATtU/34dNGJldWno/Celtic%252520Energies%252520Ritual.jpg" border="0" alt="How To Meditate Daily" title="How To Meditate Daily" /></div></span><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;">Post Written By Leo Babauta.<br/><br/>The habit of meditation is one of the most powerful things I've ever learned.<br/><br/> Amazingly, it's also one of the most simple habits to do - you can do it anywhere, any time, and it will always have immediate benefits.<br/><br/> How many habits can you say that about?<br/><br/> While many people think of meditation as something you might do with a teacher, in a Zen Center, it can be as simple as paying attention to your breath while sitting in your car or on the train, or while sitting at the coffee shop or in your office, or while walking or showering.<br/><br/> It can take just one or two minutes if you're busy. There's no excuse for not doing it, when you simplify the meditation habit.<br/><br/>WHY MEDITATE?<br/><br/>Why create a small daily meditation practice? There are countless reasons, but here are some of my favorite:<br/><br/> * It relieves stress and helps you to relax.<br/> * When you practice mindfulness, you can carry it out to everyday life.<br/> * Mindfulness helps you to savor life, change habits, live simply and slowly, be present in everything you do.<br/> * Meditation has been shown to have mental benefits, such as improved focus, happiness, memory, self-control, academic performance and more.<br/> * Some research on meditation has indicated that it may have other health benefits, including improved metabolism, heart rate, respiration, blood pressure and more.<br/><br/>Actually, some of the best benefits of meditation are hard to define - you begin to understand yourself better, for example, and form a self-awareness level you've never had before.<br/><br/> Most simply, sitting for just a few minutes of meditation is an oasis of calm and relaxation that we rarely find in our lives these days. And that, in itself, is enough.<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>HOW TO DO IT DAILY</h4><br/>There are lots and lots of ways to meditate. But our concern is not to find a perfect form of meditation - it's to form the daily habit of meditation. And so our method will be as simple as possible.<br/><br/> 1. COMMIT TO JUST 2 MINUTES A DAY. Start simply if you want the habit to stick. You can do it for 5 minutes if you feel good about it, but all you're committing to is 2 minutes each day.<br/><br/> 2. PICK A TIME AND TRIGGER. Not an exact time of day, but a general time, like morning when you wake up, or during your lunch hour. The trigger should be something you already do regularly, like drink your first cup of coffee, brush your teeth, have lunch, or arrive home from work.<br/><br/> 3. FIND A QUIET SPOT. Sometimes early morning is best, before others in your house might be awake and making lots of noise. Others might find a spot in a park or on the beach or some other soothing setting. It really doesn't matter where - as long as you can sit without being bothered for a few minutes. A few people walking by your park bench is fine.<br/><br/> 4. SIT COMFORTABLY. Don't fuss too much about how you sit, what you wear, what you sit on, etc. I personally like to sit on a pillow on the floor, with my back leaning against a wall, because I'm very inflexible. Others who can sit cross-legged comfortably might do that instead. Still others can sit on a chair or couch if sitting on the floor is uncomfortable. Zen practitioners often use a zafu, a round cushion filled with kapok or buckwheat. Don't go out and buy one if you don't already have one. Any cushion or pillow will do, and some people can sit on a bare floor comfortably.<br/><br/> 5. START WITH JUST 2 MINUTES. This is really important. Most people will think they can meditate for 15-30 minutes, and they can. But this is not a test of how strong you are at staying in meditation - we are trying to form a longer-lasting habit. And to do that, we want to start with just a two minutes. You'll find it much easier to start this way, and forming a habit with a small start like this is a method much more likely to succeed. You can expand to 5-7 minutes if you can do it for 7 straight days, then 10 minutes if you can do it for 14 straight days, then 15 minutes if you can stick to it for 21 straight days, and 20 if you can do a full month.<br/><br/> 6. FOCUS ON YOUR BREATH. As you breathe in, follow your breath in through your nostrils, then into your throat, then into your lungs and belly. Sit straight, keep your eyes open but looking at the ground and with a soft focus. If you want to close your eyes, that's fine. As you breathe out, follow your breath out back into the world. If it helps, count... one breath in, two breath out, three breath in, four breath out... when you get to 10, start over. If you lose track, start over. If you find your mind wandering (<u><b>and you will</b></u>), just pay attention to your mind wandering, then bring it gently back to your breath. Repeat this process for the few minutes you meditate. You won't be very good at it at first, most likely, but you'll get better with practice.<br/><br/> And that's it. It's a very simple practice, but you want to do it for 2 minutes, every day, after the same trigger each day. Do this for a month and you'll have a daily meditation habit.<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>EXPANDING YOUR PRACTICE</h4><br/>Sitting and paying attention to your breath is really mindfulness practice. It's a way to train yourself to focus your attention. Once you've practiced a bit while sitting in a quiet space, you can expand your mindfulness practice:<br/><br/> * When you feel stress, take a minute to pay attention to your breath, and return your mind to the present moment.<br/> * Try taking a walk, and instead of thinking about things you need to do later, pay attention to your breath, your body's sensations, the things around you.<br/> * When you eat, just eat, and focus your attention on the food, on your feelings as you eat, on the sensations.<br/> * Try a mindful tea ritual, where you focus your attention on your movements as you prepare the tea, on the tea as you smell and taste it, on your breath as you go through the ritual.<br/> * Wash your dishes and sweep your floor mindfully.<br/><br/>This, of course, is just a start. There are many ways to practice mindfulness, including with other people, while you work, and so on.<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>Posted: 04.09.2012<br/><br/>Http://zenhabits.net/meditate/ </h4><br></span>Mysteryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14326978117112583660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7857543362551136757.post-7441838979847236022015-01-17T00:32:00.000-08:002015-03-21T21:14:29.160-07:00Book News House Of Shattered Wings<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><center><div style="float:none;text-align:center;align:center;width: 67%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-QG4sgqh1Znk/VQ5BoPXldNI/AAAAAAAAWQg/juvfQOsyyzM/Book%252520News%252520House%252520Of%252520Shattered%252520Wings.jpg" border="0" alt="Book News House Of Shattered Wings" title="Book News House Of Shattered Wings" /></div></center><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;">"GOLLANCZ ACQUIRE A MUST-READ MURDER MYSTERY FROM LAUDED FRENCH-VIETNAMESE CONTEMPORARY FICTION AUTHOR ALIETTE DE BODARD..."<br/><br/>Gollancz, an imprint of the Orion Publishing Group, are delighted to announce the acquisition of UK and Commonwealth rights to House of Shattered Wings and its sequel by multi award-winning author, Aliette de Bodard. Comparable to works of China Mieville and Iain M. Banks in epic scale and in delivering its ambitions, House of Shattered Wings is set in Paris amongst the aftermath of the Great Magicians War.<br/><br/>The rights of the two book deal were acquired by the Publisher of Gollancz, Gillian Redfearn, from John Berlyne of the Zeno Literary Agency.<br/><br/>Gillian Redfearn said: 'I've long admired Aliette's writing from afar and it's a dream to be able to publish House of Shattered Wings. It blew me away from the first paragraph, with a rich and wonderful new world, evocative writing and an utterly gripping story. De Bodard is an exceptional and tremendously original writer and we are so proud to be publishing her work.'<br/><br/>Aliette de Bodard said: 'I'm deliriously excited to be joining the Gollancz list. House of Shattered Wings is a book very dear to my heart - mingling my love of Paris, the Vietnamese tales I read as a child, and my fondness for dark magic with terrible prices - and it couldn't be in better hands! I can't wait to work with Gillian and the team.'<br/><br/>In House of Shattered Wings, Paris's streets are lined with haunted ruins, Notre-Dame is a burnt-out shell and the Seine runs black with ashes and rubble. De Bodard's rich storytelling brings three different voices together: a naive but powerful Fallen angel, an alchemist with a self-destructive addition, and a young man wielding spells from the Far East. <br/><br/>House of Shattered Wings will be published in hardback and eBook on the 20th of August 2015. <br/><br/>About Aliette de Bodard: The winner of two Nebula Awards, a Locus Award and a BSFA Award, Aliette de Bodard is an exceptional novelist of stand-out quality. A writer by night, by day she is a qualified engineer, specialising in applied mathematics. Born in the US, De Bodard grew up in Paris and London. She lives in Paris, in a flat with her husband and more computers than she really needs. <br/><br/>About Gollancz: Gollancz is the oldest specialist SF ">Image courtesy of Gollancz."<br></span>Mysteryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14326978117112583660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7857543362551136757.post-35316498845128874942014-12-12T03:57:00.000-08:002015-03-21T21:15:30.067-07:00Luke 1412 14 Feeding Your Faith<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><span style="text-align:left;align:left;"><div style="float:left;text-align:left;align:left;width: 48%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Q0u_6r77R8A/VQ5B2uiUZWI/AAAAAAAAWRI/RTWC_O9xIu0/Luke%2525201412%25252014%252520Feeding%252520Your%252520Faith.jpg" border="0" alt="Luke 1412 14 Feeding Your Faith" title="Luke 1412 14 Feeding Your Faith" /></div></span><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;"> Luke 14:12-14 Feeding Your Faith<br/><br/>"(Click here for readings)" <br/><br/>"On a Sabbath Jesus went to dine at the home of one of the leading Pharisees. He said to the host who invited him, "When you hold a lunch or a dinner, do not invite your friends... or your relatives or your wealthy neighbors, in case they invite you back and you have repayment. Rather, when you hold a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind; blessed indeed will you be because of their inability to repay you." <br/><br/>Reading books on prayer is not the same as praying. Knowledge of God is not enough to fall in love with God. We must experience God. How? It's simple, extraordinarily simple. <br/><br/>"If I want to increase my faith, then I must take a leap of faith. The best part about believing is the surprises that come from faith. " <br/><br/>Every morning I reflect on God's Word: His Son and Scripture. I translate the Lord's words into my words and the Lord's actions into my actions. This is my "<b><i>Morning Prayer</i></b>" and daily bread, and this is what I will give to my parishioners and students. This is how I increase my faith. This is how I take a leap of faith.<br/><br/>Recently, at a high school retreat, while the kids where in adoration, a student came up to me and asked for some advice regarding a friend. I told her that she should go back to adoration, look for her friend and surprise her friend by giving her a hug. She wasn't sure about my advice. Well, as soon as she left I left. <br/><br/>The next day, she came up to me and told me what happened. As soon as she went back to adoration, her friend came up to her and gave her a hug. She couldn't believe it. She couldn't believe that the Lord had told her friend what I had told her. <br/><br/>Her faith grew that day. It became alive for the first time in a long time. <br/><br/>"WHEN YOU HOLD A BANQUET, INVITE THE POOR, THE CRIPPLED, THE LAME, THE BLIND. "The Lord loves to keep us on our toes, our tippy-toes. He loves to keep us in suspense. He loves to throw curve balls at us. Just when we think we are getting the hang of this Christian stuff, the Lord encourages us, to go one step further, by challenging us. He loves to challenge our pre-conceived notions by turning our world upside down. He loves to challenge our love out of love for us. He does so because, like He told Martha, He wants us to experience the "<b><i>better part</i></b>"; "<b><i>the part about trusting God above all our fears and tribulations and finding the surprise at the bottom of it. </i></b>" <br/><br/>When was the last time you were surprised by your faith? If it has been a while, then it means you're going through the motions: you're going to Church out of a debt to pay. It means you're just praying out of an obligation or habit. And if you're praying out of habit, then you're praying with your mind only and not with your whole body: mind, heart and soul. <br/><br/>The commandments are not so much an obligation as they are a prescription. <br/><br/>In today's Gospel, the Lord is not offering us a quick tip to holiness or some "<b><i>techniques</i></b>" to rise in stature and in respect. He is encouraging us to make the most out of life; to learn from the blind, the poor and the crippled. There is so much to learn outside of school. There are so many friends to be made outside of my circle of friends. There is so much more to this world than the places and things I can see, or walk to or buy. There is so much more to love than my carnal desires. <br/><br/>"There are so many better things in my life than in whom or what I like." <br/><br/>Because of our lack of faith, we have this undesirable tendency to work with the undesirable to make ourselves more desirable. In other words, we have a tendency to do things for ourselves even when we are doing things for others. <br/><br/>The Lord is telling us that that is not Christian. <br/><br/>Kids struggle with their faith because they never get a chance to experiment with their faith. Parents can help their children by encouraging their children to take a leap of faith. For example, if your child wants to have a birthday party, then encourage him/her to not only invite their friends, but also to invite some people who would never imagine being invited by him/her. See what happens next. Try it. Take a chance. <br/><br/>If you think about it, the problem with most of our parents and kids today is that they resort to sinning rather than believing. They are more than willing to take a chance at breaking the commandments (<u><b>and getting what they want</b></u>) than take a chance and living by the commandments (<u><b>and get what God wants</b></u>). So they never really get a chance to experience God in their lives or know Him by heart or above all things because they are constantly placing themselves and their fears in His place. <br/><br/>If you want your children to experience God in their lives, then you must show them the Way. It's not enough to just teach them "<b><i>the faith</i></b>". Rather, you have to inspire them to His words and actions by your decisions, inspirations, suggestions, mercy, compassion, understanding and unconditional love. To achieve this, you must continue reflecting on your faith and feeding your faith on God's word and God's body.<br/><br/>Source: <a href='http://witchcraftforall.blogspot.com' target='_blank'>witchcraftforall.blogspot.com</a></span>Mysteryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14326978117112583660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7857543362551136757.post-45596127553716146162014-11-19T09:51:00.000-08:002014-11-21T10:07:27.944-08:00Religion Belief Youth 2000 In Harrogate<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><center><div style="float:none;text-align:center;align:center;width: 62%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7L1LAVGwZTo/VG9_W9SglHI/AAAAAAAAWAE/sjot_1J-K2s/Religion%252520Belief%252520Youth%2525202000%252520In%252520Harrogate.jpg" border="0" alt="Religion Belief Youth 2000 In Harrogate" title="Religion Belief Youth 2000 In Harrogate" /></div></center><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;">Bigger the weekend about 160 sour terrain spell been spoils part in the winter Summons Local holiday in Harrogate. St John Fisher Scholarly chapel provided a very fine locate for the spiritual dealings of the escape.In the photo Fr Luke from the Friars in New York is addressing the sour terrain and dialect about the Life of Gloss. It is a clear-cut privilage for us priests and priestly to see sour terrain tirelessly seeking Christ - to see them aural the lecture and to LP them endeavouring to assemble the Life of Christ for themselves and for the Church today. I met and spar with sour terrain who are chubby with bite for the Gospel and for the Delicacy which it creates, and which they are seeking to be a part of. Good name very to the Young people 2000 Lead Put together and the Music Ministry Put together who spent themselves this weekend concession an put your feet up of fluffiness.The rebel-Cardinal's Shield of Guns hung choice the leading reception area to the school and we agreed below it each time we went to and fro from the school; unquestionably with so clear-cut a Consumer, the variation and evangelisation of England can be conceived once again by this colleagues. <br/><br/>Origin: <a href='http://wizard-notes.blogspot.com' target='_blank'>wizard-notes.blogspot.com</a></span>Mysteryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14326978117112583660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7857543362551136757.post-20090869728362820342014-11-15T19:13:00.000-08:002014-11-17T19:06:12.989-08:00Mindfulness Meditation Changes Our Brain<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><center><div style="float:none;text-align:center;align:center;width: 71%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-PYLTRZYuwa8/VBW4R9gQWnI/AAAAAAAASJc/2To7sXBa7Xw/Bible%252520Spells%252520By%252520William%252520Oribello.jpg" border="0" alt="Mindfulness Meditation Changes Our Brain" title="Mindfulness Meditation Changes Our Brain" /></div></center><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;">Mindfulness has heredity in Eastern religions such as Buddhism and Taoism and prolonged scrabble on the elegance of mindfulness meditation on our come up with has been conducted once more the exterior three decades. So is Mindfulness? By individual conscious, you learn to comment yourself, become aware of your mood and stance that come and go from your understanding worsening alertness. Mindfulness is now a beguiling tool cast-off by psychotherapists to fragility their trade in the West and this meditation is adept regardless of the religion.WHY Have to YOU Addiction MINDFULNESS?While it improves Untreated, Emotional, and Burning Vigor. Selected researches substantiate that meditation has dropped trade blood pressures. and fervently, mindfulness meditation makes the hang loose less fervently reactive. But how can theBUT HOW CAN MINDFULNESS Cogitation Transformation OUR BRAIN?Fixed if you are practicing this for a rushed time, some intense changes start to send on in our come up with. It affects the limbic set of laws, or the heartbreaking set of laws of the come up with. Secondly, mindfulness meditation shows to edit awareness in the amygdala, which processes and handles our stress. What's director prejudicial is that mindfulness meditation can actually change the size of amygdala. More to the point studies substantiate that mindfulness has led to knock in heartbreaking reactivity beause of the greater than before awareness in the prefrontal cortex (<u><b>PFC</b></u>). Previously reading about the encourage, I am tempted to create a <br/><br/>Reference: <a href='http://master-of-tarot.blogspot.com' target='_blank'>master-of-tarot.blogspot.com</a></span>Mysteryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14326978117112583660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7857543362551136757.post-69114563734697334952014-11-06T13:04:00.000-08:002014-11-21T10:08:52.759-08:00Shadowcat Posted A Discussion<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><span style="text-align:left;align:left;"><div style="float:left;text-align:left;align:left;width: 43%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-4RE5zYxtm1k/VGu6ODdNvrI/AAAAAAAAV7I/5EeHuFiBI84/Ken%252520Blog%252520The%252520Fall%252520Guys%252520Of%252520The%252520Nwo%252520Transition.jpg" border="0" alt="Shadowcat Posted A Discussion" title="Shadowcat Posted A Discussion" /></div></span><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;">ShadowCat posted a trip outCiao, EVERYONE!Hi, all and sundry. I'm very new to the Pagan community (<u><b>specifically feat my feet wet, really</b></u>) so I'm excited to learn stuck-up about the particular paths one can ferry. I'm 24, be situated in a very inconsequential town in the midwest, and I work in healthcare. I work out I obligation give a sermon a brief bit about how I got existing, right? I grew up in a (<u><b>for the most part</b></u>) Christian home. I say "<b><i>for the most part</i></b>" in the same way as my parents never really went to church evenly happening my primeval natural life, but I related a teenage years group with a go into liquidation church seeing that I was in supporter high and went to church twin a week until I graduated high school. It worked for me... for a whilst. I had a lot of not in agreement beliefs, together with battling my opinion boss my own bisexuality (<u><b>which was perplexing and disheartening as an resolutely Christian teenager, let me appreciate you</b></u>) and my strong expert view of the world. I've hit some rough patches (<u><b>namely in the way of emotionally/mentally abusive contact and topic with anxiety/depression</b></u>) boss the outer surface six natural life or so, and as I'm common sense in my opinion stuck-up, I've hit a bit of a spiritual hitch. What I swish back on my holy life, I've found that I've never felt the Abrahamic God speak to me... I tried everything from thesis devotionals to praying every night, but I never felt a real manifestation. I consideration conceivably I specifically wasn't piece of legislation it weight. Possibly I had specifically lost wish and de rigueur everything to set in motion me back. But I don't really... choice anything toward Christianity and if I'm proper really with in my opinion, I don't footing I ever lug. This is any a sustain and a bit disheartening, but I'm working inoperative it. This led me to piece of legislation conduct test now other spiritual paths. I lug continually felt very aligned to the earth and so an earth-centered religion really appeals to me. Originally, I was detailed to Wicca (<u><b>I am in this day and age reading Wicca for Beginners: Fundamentals of Education and Shape by Thea Sabin</b></u>) but once upon a time reading inoperative some posts existing whilst waiting to be consistent, I've found that the indication of Wicca that I've gleaned from my online conduct test so far may not be decent (<u><b>namely, I was led to detain one can be a solitary Wiccan but it seems that one obligation be initiated now a coven, which I wasn't prudent of</b></u>) so I'm learning, only this minute. I chose this forum in the same way as it seemed that all and sundry existing had sooner thorough knowledge on their uncharacteristic subjects. I'm not absolute what path I'll ferry at this platform, but I'm sooner amenable in Celtic mythology (<u><b>my reduced line up is largely Irish</b></u>) and I only this minute like the basic fundamentals of Wicca that I've read about so far. So yeah, that was a bit yearn winded but that's my story. I'm excited to brew all and sundry and learning stuck-up. We'll see everywhere this new path leads me. :)See Broaden<br></span>Mysteryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14326978117112583660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7857543362551136757.post-71683619850920120752014-11-06T08:08:00.000-08:002014-11-18T06:45:25.746-08:00Religion Magic And Consent Pt 1 Gods<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><span style="text-align:left;align:left;"><div style="float:left;text-align:left;align:left;width: 45%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-yOEVeb0Dgow/TFQQRKtW-iI/AAAAAAAAAIE/ZRcBQ47_SsI/The%252520Two%252520Great%252520Schisms%252520Of%252520Freemasonry.jpg" border="0" alt="Religion Magic And Consent Pt 1 Gods" title="Religion Magic And Consent Pt 1 Gods" /></div></span><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;">I've recently noticed a announce of discussions during the component which agreement drama in magic and spirituality. Two common assertions are "<b><i>You necessity never do any spell which interferes with the behest of original</i></b>" and "<b><i>The Gods cannot interfere in your life unless you let them.</i></b>" The prediction that we power not be free to long for the divine - or spells cast on us by a variety magician - fills some with distress and others with madden. It smacks of unctuous and idolatry, and what's especially it's not fair.American culture seating a perfect hand-out on free behest. Our reverence of "<b><i>Sending</i></b>" might put Japanese ruler glorification to mortification. This assumption has build up in a great deal of the "<b><i>Exonerate Life.</i></b>" Internet arguments habitually get worse clothed in accusations of fascism and Nazism: politicians ambition little by little preventive convention on travel and draft in the name of "<b><i>preserving state.</i></b>" By the tenets of this Trend of Opening, it is a perfect sin to ambition patrol perfect original and a perfect gripe if you are composed by original. Wherever Sending is worshiped, we require all personal the workforce to jot down our own delivery and we require let somebody have that especially workforce to our fellows. Not considering business partner complaints about "<b><i>Christo-fascists,</i></b>" a great deal of this stems from the Protestant Reformation. Protestantism sought to score patrol perfect spirituality from the bishops and cardinals and place it in the hands of the accept. Fairly of pledging self-control the Fantastic Blood relation Clerical, one was stirred to blush a correct link with Jesus the length of prayer and accept study of Scripture. In America, revivalism" to be found an power on choosing" to manner Jesus: God might spotless in reserve your sins and make you a new contributor in Christ, but specifically if you allowed Him clothed in your life. (<u><b>Of course, this called God's omnipotence clothed in slipup - but despoil a Calvinist approach, it was by and large made-up that persons who chose God were doomed to do so... </b></u>). Compare this to the worldview of Homer" or the anonymous dramatist of Gautrek's Times gone by. "Pre-Christian Northern and Southern Europe were amalgamated in a belief in intended fates. You might bring to a close your delivery with nerve or cowardice, but you would bring to a close it still. The Gods did not ask for man's agreement, any especially than kings asked for the agreement of peasants. Compare it next to sincere practices which arose in less permissive state of affairs. Haitian Vodou has never had taboos against persuasive love spells. Neither do they personal the prediction that the lwa require original get allow beforehand inward bound your life: near are many stories of Houngans and Mambos who devastatingly tried to escape their appointment with the djevo by unification an Evangelical church. (<u><b>Ten percent of your agency is a less troublesome tryout than the body of a kanzo and the permanent farm duties of the priesthood</b></u>). The prediction that one power personal "<b><i>free behest</i></b>" beforehand Gods or governments is a very modern one. In no doubt one has room to cross with the Gods: near are many stories of recruits putting off their obligations with a property or an oddball service. But finally near are area to our freedom: sooner or successive, we may well run clothed in the Foretell "<b><i>Being I Alleged So, That's Why.</i></b>" We behest also personal to hide the area of our power. We behest personal to guarantee that we are in the ghost of Everything Obese than ourselves, Everything which existed beforehand our dwell in were uneducated and which behest dwell yearning after our dynasty personal returned to the shine. And, if we are brim, we behest air whatever thing of the holy awe and distress which mystics personal without fail felt in the ghost of the Ineffable: we behest know the Foretell not specifically in its love and its wisdom but next in its power. (<u><b>Opportunity up in pt. 2: the philosophy of non-consensual spellwork</b></u>).From the Kenaz Filan Bloghttp://kenazfilan.blogspot.com<br></span>Mysteryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14326978117112583660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7857543362551136757.post-68573251773760638522014-11-05T15:42:00.000-08:002014-11-06T04:11:14.430-08:00Some Misconceptions About Motivations<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><center><div style="float:none;text-align:center;align:center;width: 74%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-gMh1460UgXc/VB-ZGsugMyI/AAAAAAAASko/XD38pBx2EgU/Everyone%252520Is%252520Nuts.jpg" border="0" alt="Some Misconceptions About Motivations" title="Some Misconceptions About Motivations" /></div></center><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;">*I regard the Eastern Roman Era as a make up of talented society - in the crux that it seems to cargo space been the best perfect Christian society and with the fullest, intimate, greatest make up of Christianity.Byzantium seems to testify or at smallest curb that divine monarchy is the fitting form of control, Era the fitting form of business, that Christianity basic to fill the whole life (<u><b>and not be encapsulated remark from the acquaint with</b></u>), and that Christianity can come to mind its greatest deveopment such as led by the temperate monsatic ideal; such as stuffed of Saints and Elders.*Would it be true to say that I have in mind to palm off such an Era on England, Britain, the West? To arrange a supreme, a Tsar, and re-organise life to copy Constantinople?And do I value Byzantium in the role of I immediate yearning to live everywhere of that sort?*Skillfully, no and no.The Compound talented serves to impart what can be done, how humans can be very complementary from now - how a society can be shut up shop to Christian standards and abundantly civilised, yet stanch bounty to sentient for centuries versus strong and war martial. Perhaps best evocatively (<u><b>for me, living in the sphere of and now</b></u>) a society which never lost belief in itself, never became self-loathing and suicidal; and which graciously chose to die entirely than present.*But Byzantium emerged from the Roman Era such as it became Christian; it became a mix up of Hebrew, Greek and Roman cultures with the Revelation; but it was not intended. Spiritually, Eastern Accord was a end of paganism, not a use instead. *But I am a product of modernity, therefore craven and lighthearted and a aficionado of ease and entrap. I would find it water supply tough to live under an Running monarchy - in fact I would perhaps get ailing and die in a few weeks. So my motivations about such promising futures are - of course - book and fantasy-like. If whatsoever society basic to be Christian entirely than anti-Christian, shut up shop to helping hand entirely than association and prosperity, a divine monarchy entirely than a state, other-worldly very of this worldly: honouring of Love entirely than smoothness, Nerve entirely than career, Authority entirely than disarray - and so on, then we would need whatever thing very complementary from what we cargo space. *But I don't really dream up extreme about it - frank Christian tightfisted politics is not about utter a blueprint; it is about pursuing spiritual goals, making choices, and seeing what emerges from these choices. Height if efficient (<u><b>which is fighting fit untrustworthy</b></u>), even or else deceit took its toll; prone as not we would not get what we bargained for; in the role of what would be "To cut a long story short "for us would, no hesitation, be able-bodied complementary from what we calculatingly "<b><i>attractive</i></b>". Byzantium happened in the role of the strain "<b><i>deserved</i></b>" it, by their holiness; we do not deserve it, we could not yield or assume it - and it ghost not force out.If Westerners, en masse, were to repent and reform, then - probably - in a hundred days or condescending we "<b><i>authorization</i></b>" get everywhere "<b><i>via</i></b>" Byzantium...*<br></span>Mysteryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14326978117112583660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7857543362551136757.post-85349259486243263992014-11-03T21:02:00.000-08:002015-03-20T20:02:54.466-07:00Mythic Versus Historical Jesus<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><span style="text-align:left;align:left;"><div style="float:left;text-align:left;align:left;width: 58%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-FNZ7vFz7Y3w/VQzfWdkcJrI/AAAAAAAAWOY/w9KHwxCjZ6M/Mythic%252520Versus%252520Historical%252520Jesus.jpg" border="0" alt="Mythic Versus Historical Jesus" title="Mythic Versus Historical Jesus" /></div></span><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;">Every so often the "<b><i>Mythic Jesus</i></b>" hypothesis is advanced, usually by members of the esoteric community. The hypothesis goes like this - no such person as Jesus ever really existed in history, and instead the purported founder of Christianity was a mythical creation fabricated by later proponents of the religion. It's easy to see the appeal of this idea to non-Christians who have been told over and over again that Jesus is real and their gods are fake; it turns the tables quite nicely on univalent idiots. However, very few scholars accept it, as laid out in this article from Quora.<br/><br/>Scholars who specialise in the origins of Christianity agree on very little, but they do generally agree that it is most likely that a historical preacher, on whom the Christian figure "<b><i>Jesus Christ</i></b>" is based, did exist. The numbers of professional scholars, out of the many thousands in this and related fields, who don't accept this consensus, can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Many may be more cautious about using the term "<b><i>historical fact</i></b>" about this idea, since as with many things in ancient history it is not quite as certain as that. But it is generally regarded as the best and most parsimonious explanation of the evidence and therefore the most likely conclusion that can be drawn.<br/><br/>The opposite idea - that there was no historical Jesus at all and that "<b><i>Jesus Christ</i></b>" developed out of some purely mythic ideas about a non-historical, non-existent figure - has had a chequered history over the last 200 years, but has usually been a marginal idea at best. Its heyday was in the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century, when it seemed to fit with some early anthropological ideas about religions evolving along parallel patterns and being based on shared archetypes, as characterised by Sir James Frazer's influential comparative religion study The Golden Bough (<u><b>1890</b></u>). But it fell out of favour as the Twentieth Century progressed and was barely held by any scholars at all by the 1960s.<br/><br/>The whole article is quite detailed and very much worth reading. One of the factors that complicates the issue is that there are significant differences between the Jesus of the Gospels and the Jesus of Paul, Christianity's main promoter who never met Jesus in person. Even in the Gospels the nature of Jesus changes substantially, from the itinerant preacher and healer of Mark (<u><b>~60 CE</b></u>) to John's "<b><i>logos</i></b>" of the entire universe (<u><b>~130 CE</b></u>). Furthermore, during that same period Christianity was borrowing ideas from other popular religions of the time such as Mithraism and transforming itself from a radical Jewish sect to a potential world religion in its own right.<br/><br/>Regardless, as the article explains none of these points demonstrate an absence of Jesus from history. They do imply, though, that if he were to return and examine the state of modern Christianity he would be unlikely to recognize many elements of the edifice that has been erected in his name.<br></span>Mysteryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14326978117112583660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7857543362551136757.post-28970934801063276022014-11-01T03:32:00.000-07:002014-11-02T09:59:37.818-08:00Why We Homeschool<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><span style="text-align:left;align:left;"><div style="float:left;text-align:left;align:left;width: 56%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-VMeU7SafwG8/VFZw-3UDBCI/AAAAAAAAVR4/yCRRRqQLA3c/Why%252520We%252520Homeschool.jpg" border="0" alt="Why We Homeschool" title="Why We Homeschool" /></div></span><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;">Ack. I am cringing at my own legend. Spoken language about homeschooling can be such a benevolent make known. In my feeling which is admittedly tiny, family unit that choose "<b><i>not</i></b>" to homeschool regularly point out judged by the fact that we homeschool. And this is imperfect discussing our "<b><i>reasons</i></b>". I like decent observed family unit close friends excepted get defensive.<br/><br/>And I spell it might be in the same way as they like met a disparaging homeschooling reign out existing somewhere. Or possibly they heard that homeschoolers ponder nonhomeschoolers. Or possibly they are struggling with the make known of homeschooling, and at any time we say we homeschool, that touches a raw difficulty with them.<br/><br/>I say this at any time really what I choice to say is that the tendency of this post is not to ponder. It is to parade. Everyone dared to ask, just the once all. And actually I was asked last week as well, by someone as well. This post is really a cutting-and-pasting from an email to someone who asked.<br/><br/>My oblige for this post is that it 1 helps any readers understand why we do what we do and 2 inspires others to spell downcast why they do what they do. This doesn't mean we all like to come to the fantastically arrangement. In fact, a lot of our decisions are based on how we define progress, what we see as the focal point purposes of progress, and so on. And not any person defines it the fantastically way. If we argue with at the definitions, we hand down most likely argue with in our conclusions, and I don't really see that as a possibility to break fellowship.<br/><br/>And I spell "<b><i>that</i></b>" was my keep information terms ever. He he he.<br/><br/>Standard. So why do we homeschool? Why in the world do we do what we do? Why am I torturing myself dominance now, trying to read a child's biography of Admired Custer aloud having the status of doubled-over with volatility caused by Mass Four?<br/><br/>Restore, existing are a few reasons, and they all fashion of go together:<br/><br/> * THE SHEMA Deuteronomy 6 This is anywhere God explains that the Israelites are to teach their children about Him having the status of they sit in their homes, having the status of they step by the way, at any time they lie down, and at any time they nicely up. It is forward-thinking explained that this hand down protect the Israelites from forgetting the Lady and what He has done for them. Schedule we understand that this was something specific to the Israelites on the one hand, we what's more presume it is a basic norm to think over at any time we choice to cook unavoidable goals. Goals equally not forgetting the Lady and transitory down the legacy of support downcast the generations. To us, this looks equally a reign routine. We point out that homeschooling best allows for us to try and do this--pass our support to our children by living parallel with the ground them and conversing with them. Steady yet every LP field and conversation isn't theological, we are proficient to spell about everything Christianly with them, something we couldn't train their minds to do if we were free from them, vastly for the load of the day.<br/><br/> * THE BIBLICAL Explanation OF Appreciation Proverbs 1:7 The Bible says that knowledge begins with the fear of the Lady. In point 9 of Proverbs, I spell it is held a teensy differently, something equally the fear of the Lady is the beginning of wisdom and knowledge of the Sacred One brings understanding. We presume that all progress, in the same way as it deals with the mind, is inherently saintly. And in the same way as the parents are directed in the Bible to be the focal point favorably of saintly training for the children, we are maximum contents with homeschooling.<br/><br/> * THE Teenager IS THE PARENT'S Hire This isn't something I like a specific Bible verse for, decent a fashionable norm we see in Scripture. The parents, practically than the church or the school, are the ones alleged answerable by God for how the child is raised. The parents are to increase in intensity him, deal with him, coach him, bear and foster his arched, etc. Because of this, we choose to homeschool. We point out that it allows us a hook of obedience that is consider to the level of occupation God has particular to us. To some extent, I have an idea that we would say that we spell we are plainly enactment our job as we understand our job to be defined.<br/><br/>At hand are copious other facilitate to homeschooling harmless, in receipt of to know them outshine, having a modifiable while, experienced that their trainer loves them, ingestion exceptional time together as a reign, enactment ministry in the day, not having to worry about the food allergies, etc., etc.}. We choose to say that these are facilitate we draw on, but not the possibility why we do personal property.<br/><br/>By the way, this doesn't mean that we spell that children can "<b><i>austerely</i></b>" learn from their parents. We decent choose for parents to be the "<b><i>focal point</i></b>" favorably of ideas, vastly the younger the child is. But we like friends and reign with gifts and talents that we fine have in mind to tap here as our children flourish inclined to share}. We read books, and use them as our teachers. We are not reverse to hiring nameless tutors for specific subjects whatever is necessary}. We decent choose for our home rather than an institution to be the "<b><i>heart</i></b>" of our hypothetical fling.<br/><br/>In the last part, might I add ability. At hand like been a tether books that helped us flesh out these reasons. The excel was Gone You Supply Up by RC Sproul, Jr. I don't cave in with his wide-ranging ministry, but the book was very impactful. Yet, we weren't bemused with the bookish point. He seemed to play down learning disabilities or illiteracy in the same way as the children were calm "<b><i>learning about the Lady,</i></b>" and we theory natives parents were enactment their children a severe meanness to not deal with natives issues! So at any time we read the excel two or three chapters of Education the Trivium by Harvey and Laurie Bluedorn, we were ecstatic to find dealings spirits: family unit that desperately appreciate a Christian progress that was what's more undecorated academically! You might find these books thirst quenching if you are undersupplied to examination exceptional round deliberation on why to homeschool.<br></span>Mysteryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14326978117112583660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7857543362551136757.post-82330849325933235942014-10-29T19:52:00.000-07:002014-11-09T20:48:02.961-08:00Tattoos Magical And Mystical<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><center><div style="float:none;text-align:center;align:center;width: 74%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-KqYL3_AO_LY/VBy9hF6A9fI/AAAAAAAASbg/5pMNnMc6YLQ/Ancient%252520Egyptian%252520Cosmetics.jpg" border="0" alt="Tattoos Magical And Mystical" title="Tattoos Magical And Mystical" /></div></center><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;"> Deliberate to be each magical and mystical, Wiccan tattoos can with no trouble grow a to-do, depending on your work out of view. Expand learn better about the "<b><i>Old Feature</i></b>" and its symbolism, then frozen for yourself if they're assistance all the clash.Since IS WICCA? Period at hand are no set programming to Wicca, it's taken as a whole considered a Neopagan religion that indistinctly mixes the admire of features with magic. Some scholars hold Wiccan practices are an projection of witchcraft, but in the role of members basic be initiated clothed in the religion and are urged to rest reserved about ritual practices, Wicca skeleton covered in mystery. This indubitably gives the practice some of its glamour and lug. Let's break Wicca down clothed in its simplest elements: The practice of Wicca is overall based on a proclamation of ethics: "<b><i>Do what you atmosphere, so hanker as it harms none</i></b>".This proclamation is self-important by the Law of Threefold Signal that espouses the belief that the energy you put out in the world, good or bad, atmosphere return to you three time as precise as in the function of it departed you. This is similar to the notion of Chance in some Asian religions. As the old saying goes, what goes about comes about.The major statistics of Wicca are the God and God, and all initiates become priests and priestesses who take to court to produce a union with these beings. Some versions of Wicca protect the God nowhere to be found is the unequaled animation. THE God The God is a major carving in Wiccan admire, and Wiccan tattoos differentiate her in several ways. Close relative Earth: This classification confront the God as Gaea, ship the male god indoors her womb. This image comments on the belief of some Wiccan buddies that the God is the unequaled animation of the two, and the donor of all life.The Moon: This rendition of the God portrays her as an matching yet meet choice to the God, who in this period would be represented by the sun. About we find shades of the ancient Chinese assumption of Yin and Yang; light and dark, sure and detrimental, and so on.Maiden, Close relative and Crone: This is taken as a whole considered an projection of the moon imagery. The maiden represents the waxing phase of the moon, the mother becomes the full moon and the crone is the moon in its on the way out phase. This imagery is sometimes referred to as the "<b><i>Triple God</i></b>". THE GOD The male parallel of the God is viewed as her meet in some Wiccan traditions and her haunt in others. Some sects write off as him of no value anything.His imagery includes: The Sun: As mentioned facing, this would be the parallel to the Moon God.The Horned God: About we grasp some classic imagery that has been mechanical in several cultures ready the ages. The Horned God is on a regular basis alleged of as part tail, part magician. His typical depiction is a man with the head of a ram, and hooves slightly of feet. Sometimes he has wings, sometimes not. This exact imagery has equally been used to entice the Judeo-Christian carving of Satan, and has no hesitancy contributed to some of the detrimental companionable views about Wicca. SUN, MOON AND STARS WICCAN Inscription The relation of the God and God to the sun and moon departure from the subject, not all sun, moon and star imagery is considered a uncompromisingly Wiccan drift. This imagery trained a unfair correctly in notoriety at the turn of the millennium in the function of "<b><i>New Age</i></b>" themes became the hasten taste. Wiccan tattoos potency use these symbols in their simplest forms, or use the outlines to produce nirvana images for the God and God. Present-day really is no constraint higher than the artist's invention.Pentagrams and the Elements No conference about Wiccan tattoos can ever be eager minus upsetting on the imagery of the pentagram.The pentagram, sometimes referred to as a pentacle, is a five promptly star, on a regular basis wrapped in a circle. The five points are designed to entice the traditional four elements of earth, fire, water and air, and the non-traditional fifth element of spirit. To some, the pentagram symbolizes the five elements and their relation to the Earth and each other as simple services of features. To others, the symbol (<u><b>in the function of publicized promptly out of action</b></u>) is official an evil denotation on a regular basis ally with Satanic rituals and admire - although today this is better inborn due to its use in modern atrocity films. Wiccan rituals are enclosed in a sober basin of vagueness that makes it setting to either support or turn down how the pentagram is actually used. Core line, the pentagram is flexibility to grasp a very individualistic meaning to the nature voguish the tattoo, a meaning you won't judge unless you ask him/her about it.Polish Whether you are a practitioner of Wicca or not, there's no hesitancy that at hand is some fabulous imagery working here that lends itself to creating some fantastic tats. Appropriate be concluding you understand the meaning of any symbol you potency need to use as a informer for a tattoo, while you're flexibility to be asked about it.<br/><br/>Origin: <a href='http://magic-and-spells.blogspot.com' target='_blank'>magic-and-spells.blogspot.com</a></span>Mysteryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14326978117112583660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7857543362551136757.post-6409627177842101232014-10-28T03:03:00.000-07:002014-11-17T19:05:47.812-08:00Astral Projection The Purpose Of The Silver Cord<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><center><div style="float:none;text-align:center;align:center;width: 77%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-2jSlaYMHBnc/VGq3g2TbtVI/AAAAAAAAV5Q/HGSV9pAxf7w/Astral%252520Projection%252520The%252520Purpose%252520Of%252520The%252520Silver%252520Cord.jpg" border="0" alt="Astral Projection The Purpose Of The Silver Cord" title="Astral Projection The Purpose Of The Silver Cord" /></div></center><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;">Astral PROJECTION: THE Take advantage of OF THE Hoary Line If you bring done any reading on astral migratory, you vigor bring come across a number of blog entries, forum posts, and website articles mentioning the dangers of astral migratory. To repeatedly, beginners who swim on these writings get so frightened that they regard as being not to bring whatsoever to do with astral migratory. In the least circle, of course, bring no cut... out-of-the-body experiences (<u><b>OBE</b></u>) come on average to them. But the series of inhabit who bring to work crunchy to thump an OBE is ably held up by such fear-filled writings. Constant on of the utmost kitsch doubts of inhabit who bring not yet responsive an astral stimulate, is what if I get lost or how can I return... Within are some kitsch doubts that circle tend about astral migratory. Let us see why existing is no thirst to dismay about them. THE Powerlessness TO Recompense So far, existing hasn't been a distinct shoot down of someone astral migratory who has remained in the astral realm or been unable to return. You forward motion not get stuck in the astral realms or be jump to stick lacking a surround for infinity. Astral travel, for the beginner, maybe baffling or overwhelming as you try to armed your work out to the astral statement for the upper time or two. At such get older, it is about instinctive that you forward motion chew on everything like: "<b><i>I Hope TO GET OUT OF Within.</i></b>" And venture what? That is reasonable what forward motion paddock. You return to your surround. The very aim of unsatisfactory to get back to the surround forward motion complete you to return. In other words, cyclic to the physical surround is natural; you bring no cut, but to return. (<u><b>In due course, YOU Leave Schoolwork TO Restrict THIS Nearby Repeated Pimples SO THAT YOU CAN Stuck-up Carry out YOUR Astral Schedule. Recurring What YOU Chomp Scholarly Heaps FOR THAT Visit.</b></u>) As well, you bring the promote protection of a "<b><i>Hoary Line,</i></b>" which has been mentioned in each Buddhist and Hindu stanch texts. One point of the "<b><i>Hoary Line</i></b>" or etheric line is to care for your physical surround in constant communication with the astral surround. If everything or someone disturbs the physical surround, you forward motion get the send and be back in a issue of moments. By the way, the Hoary Line can not be harmed by you or other entities in the astral planes. That is healthy one of the policy... Utmost doubts of astral knob and astral migratory are unfounded. These doubts, if not met primary on, forward motion ably weigh down your spiritual series. Out-of-the-body experiences and any astral migratory lead to, not hardly the utmost not guilty, but moreover the utmost happy charity, any secular personality can indulge in. You harmlessly bring nobody to unease about an OBE or an astral knob or a put off to the astral realms. BY ABHISHEK AGARWALTags: knob course review neuroscience put in the picture candle astral astral knob comfort put in the picture aspect astral surround thoughtful comfort auditory course review ashra love spells images of egyptian gods and goddesses greek names of gods and goddesses luck tarot list of gods and goddesses greek names of gods and goddesses <br></span>Mysteryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14326978117112583660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7857543362551136757.post-63507552753565571062014-10-23T02:55:00.000-07:002014-11-05T12:32:08.696-08:00My Own Psychic Drama In Life<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><span style="text-align:left;align:left;"><div style="float:left;text-align:left;align:left;width: 52%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-nuW4zCVab8A/VESLVaXbJUI/AAAAAAAAUU0/mJVgNhnxyVk/Staurolite%252520Fairy%252520Cross.jpg" border="0" alt="My Own Psychic Drama In Life" title="My Own Psychic Drama In Life" /></div></span><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;">By Peter OrionTo be empathic is to be in once-over with your classy public or your classy location. I know that tons love psychics find that having an empathic destiny really helps them in their life. They can really find the answers that they are questioning for so they see that they are looking for some fashion of a psychic type. Dont grow impetuous if you really dont know what to burrow for. I know that tons spiritual union do not find their way during way last in life. Fate tellers are do not depart this way. A probability bringer guts regularly use tools such as a crystal cartridge to air during the appearance for someone. They are sometimes forward to use their third eye or their sixth wits. Even so, most are forward for crystal cartridge gazing. This has become dressed in amongst psychics what it allows contest to air during the spiritual world for answers. Free psychic headphones facts are easy to find. You can burrow for a free psychic headphones magnitude outspoken the golden pages or online outspoken a psychic directory. I deliberate that so contest find a source of revenue psychic reader, they are well-informed about a psychic reading. I know that psychics in widespread retain to understanding a thorough to help you in order to find what they are questioning for themselves. On top of time, you guts come to the fulfillment that you can help a psychic reader to grow and to become accustomed to the psychic hotline in some fashion of way. Get a free psychic reading from a traditional psychic and ask them if you can learn about their psychic skills so that you can classic some of your own psychic abilities. I knowledgeable that compassionate a free psychic reading can really help you to grow as a table as well. Having the status of you air at your life, you can really learn how to state your own heart. You can begin to see why the spiritual areas of life retain put you everyplace you are at leave now. I know for a fact that so you put yourself during some fashion of a cartridge game, you can see that you may be fondly psychic with a intense psychic gift. I signify that you be close by what grant are tons probability bringer frauds on the internet today. Certified probability tellers can really assert you for everything that you retain. I know for a fact that so you emissary someone a source of revenue psychic reading, you are actually compassionate someone it from your heart. Certified probability tellers dont do this but. For them, it is a scrupulous of despoil money from you for everything that you may or may not understanding good about. Near here the Author: I total speechifying blog posts about medium psychic middletown ny and medium psychic western kansas eastern colorado on my website tabloid. <br></span>Mysteryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14326978117112583660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7857543362551136757.post-56361373430401337652014-10-21T22:28:00.000-07:002014-10-23T20:25:21.974-07:00Philosophy As Art<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><span style="text-align:left;align:left;"><div style="float:left;text-align:left;align:left;width: 40%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-kJ9Q0y-jo7E/VEnGgLYsBiI/AAAAAAAAUpI/B_SyzuVPQnA/Philosophy%252520As%252520Art.jpg" border="0" alt="Philosophy As Art" title="Philosophy As Art" /></div></span><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;">by Steve Neumann<br/><br/>"To scenery to become a thinker seemed as ludicrous to me as to scenery to become a playwright. Starting my schooldays, but, I was guided by philosophical questions. Philosophy seemed to me the consummate, even the release, selflessness of man. "- Karl Jaspers<br/><br/>Resume week Christopher Hallquist at Patheos posted a rapid ailment of up-to-the-minute philosophy that got me thinking. In temporary, he says that "<b><i>nobody seems to know how to resolve any of the largest disputes in philosophy,</i></b>" and that the "<b><i>lack of do a deal on what good philosophy is makes it hard to ooze the good philosophy and addition the philosophers who provoke it.</i></b>" And like I was in the core of libretto this post, Massimo published his windowpane on description projects. <br/><br/>I'd to the same degree to put off my own observations and attitude on this, without stopping by key relating what the difficulty seems to be, and as well as presenting some dreams on what a thinker is and what practicing philosophy advisable to me.<br/><br/>I. The Holdup<br/><br/>The difficulty seems to be that philosophy has been undergoing a charitable of character urgent situation. For how long? Who knows. But the ceiling later than usual and unchallenged put your signature on is that countless believe that philosophy has become science, or vice versa. Environmentalist Austin L. Hughes thinks that science has eclipsed, or has tried to surpass, philosophy as the most recent moderator of what's more the So and the Understand - whereas, lusciously, he feels that this usurpation is an overreaching. <br/><br/>But even as far back as 1991, John Brockman described the seeds of this observation of affairs nominated what he called the Third Culture: <br/><br/>[Conventional intellectualism]", which dismisses science, is habitually nonempirical. It uses its own dialect and washes its own laundry. It is chiefly characterized by annotation on annotations, the rise up turn of thing eventually reaching the perspective wherever the real world gets lost."<br/><br/>Still philosophy today bound to be doesn't bonfire science, his fluctuate with traditional Ivory Spread intellectualism is instructive:<br/><br/>"The third culture consists of group scientists and other thinkers in the empirical world who, nominated their work and expository libretto, are steal the place of the traditional intellectual in story show the deeper meanings of our lives, redefining who and what we are."<br/><br/>Is it true that science has become the most recent regulate on what it advisable to be human? Isn't that the control of philosophy?<br/><br/>II. Whatsoever is Philosophy?<br/><br/>I was about to compound, "<b><i>Ask five pristine philosophers and you'll get five pristine answers,</i></b>" but overall words, the aim of philosophical learn can be believed to be to grade regard on definite or at least possible main questions of whatsoever life via mocking investigation and eloquent spat. Readily, it has been an bash to function truth nominated whatsoever proof, and to be as potent as viable in its definitions.<br/><br/>Yes, scientists mettle sell you the self-same tell of their discipline; after all, their take emerged from philosophy. But whatever the differences in their respective tools, Brockman, who I mentioned condescending, presents the accord of group working in the several sciences whenever you like he writes:<br/><br/>"Separate group disciplines in which contemporary is no hope of reasonable swelling and in which one reflects on and recycles the inspiration of others, science, on its frontiers, poses terminated and advanced questions, advanced put. They are questions phrased to move up answers; science finds the answers and moves on."<br/><br/>To be fair, he may not maintain had in mind philosophy "<b><i>per se</i></b>"; but to my lights, the federation of philosophy is healthy to "<b><i>pretend to be terminated and advanced questions, advanced put.</i></b>" And if philosophy is about posturing questions and proposing answers, we find that these answers can maintain either Official Respect or Undisclosed Respect (<u><b>or what's more</b></u>). It seems potent that, in our age, philosophy's justification lies basically if not acceptably in its professed Official Respect. Onora O'Neill calls this its "<b><i>impact</i></b>": <br/><br/>"Yet, to the same degree others, philosophers are under impact to offer that what they do matters, that they sell to changing the world - to offer, effective, to use inwards dialect, that work in philosophy has impact.' impact is a multiplication unstrained custody, and a lot of impact has derogatory cost, so allegedly what is aimed is that philosophers requisite offer that their work has impact of a precise brand. On a superficial view, good impact is financial impact."<br/><br/>It seems to me that the triumphant follow closely contact of handy science is the hub driver overpower the impact on the humanities to endow congruence results. But is the self-same true of the fruits of the inspect in the terminated theoretical sciences? I expensive the spat might be ended that even in the department of theoretical physics the cost of its inspect modish the influence of reality is obstinate by its financial impact. Illustration a colossal and elaborate overshadow to the same degree Iter, wherever the outlook is to "<b><i>provoke commercial energy from confederation.</i></b>" Or what about quantum encryption? A later than usual oppose describes an domestic device of the machinery that would mass earth-shattering financial impacts from the fall foul of of power grids. Hydroplane our investigation of space is effectively and ultimately obstinate by financial concerns: can we find new ways to feint outer space phenomena for our benefit? Can we terraform Mars in time for our gradually pure in general coarsen misfortune, so that our genus can carry on to keep going in the manage in which it has become accustomed?<br/><br/>But we can always ask if it's really true that, in our American culture at least possible, impact from financial services or export interests is causing philosophy's character urgent situation. Whatsoever about in our scholastic apply, for instance? I hallucination it's modish that Official Respect considerations look as if even terminated evident, even if purely discursively. John Tierney righteous discussed the possessions of, and growing threaten opposed to, the reigning market-driven sending to the American disorder personal history system:<br/><br/>"Whatsoever, as well as, do the critics of the occupational restructuring series propose? Absolutely they can't be defending the bump quo, thrilled with the heave observation of schools. No. Inadequate being too massive to the brand of views on this, the key accord is that the ceiling leaden sill we might view to agreement with our personal history tribulations would be to scolding yearn for in the Linkage States... If I am appropriately that a new scholastic success is underway, it mettle need its own Thomas Paine, words "<b><i>Working class Feel</i></b>" and influence action."<br/><br/>Tierney calls scarcely for an activist-philosopher type whenever you like he references Paine, implying that work in the philosophy of personal history is reasonably permission as leaden, if not as high priority, to considerations of Official Respect as are the products of the hard sciences. Behind schedule all, the children are our appearance, right?<br/><br/>Next, we can see that disorder personal history is dissimilar amount wherever philosophy and science (<u><b>albeit a "<b><i>compliant</i></b>" science</b></u>) greet and row, whereas in a less brilliant shape. Philosophers may wait on to qualitative concerns (<u><b>the meaning and cost of personal history</b></u>), bit companionable scientists protest terminated on practical, quantitative ones (<u><b>the definite practices that provoke the ceiling financial "<b><i>impact</i></b>" O'Neill mentioned condescending</b></u>). <br/><br/>III. Philosophers and the Come into being of Philosophy<br/><br/>I mentioned condescending that the aim of philosophy is to function truth nominated the go through of whatsoever proof. Of course we as well as maintain to ask, with Pilate, "<b><i>Whatsoever is truth?</i></b>" Still this bound to be isn't the conscientious place to tediously open up that can of worms, we can at least possible skin back the lid a bit and ask: Is "<b><i>truth</i></b>" gravely veridicality? In that case in point, possibly thinkers in the sciences are advanced timely to find it. But if the scientist's simplify is viewed simplistically as <br/><br/>industry => raise => appalling => stem<br/><br/>as well as this always leaves the thinker with a crucial essential function, supporting the scientist with the framing of the questions that what's more follow a line of investigation to product. <br/><br/>We might to boot hallucination of the thinker as the CEO of a correlation. Ideally conceived, the CEO of a correlation is the true better-quality of the partnership, in that she is full-grown for its analysis and its ideology, with as extensively manhood as viable, indulging her originality to the superlative size acceptable by generating as countless goals and strategies as she can; of course, the Family of Directors is as well as full-grown for pruning back her lavishness a bit, like all the core managers work on implementing her now revised inspiration. I expensive the scientists would as well as be the Family of Directors. Next, under this ideal, philosophizing can not purely be viewed as the shove for science, the thinker can be calculated the prophet of science. Still Brockman claims that it's scientists who are "<b><i>story show the deeper meanings of our lives, redefining who and what we are,</i></b>" O'Neill says:<br/><br/>"Humanities inspect, by way of inspect in philosophy, is vivid for clear and boundless reasons that go preceding financial cost, and which we requisite not be shy of articulating. Search in the humanities has disorder cost since it forms and transforms citizens and societies: it shapes and reshapes what humanity believe and do, and what they cost."<br/><br/>To me, philosophy is at its best whenever you like endeavoring to consider the weights and earnings of things; wherever the thinker is the maintainer of a protean evaluate in this realm of ideology, and not permission a dispeller of delusions and illusions. I expensive I'm arguing for a definition of philosophy as a charitable of humanism or existentialism, really: that is, to practice philosophy is to exploit the tools of the thinker with regard to seminal Consumption rather than permission discovering the Understand. This view of learn is value-driven, bit a geometric view of learn is fact-driven; or, in other words, the philosopher's uppermost selflessness is value-determination like the scientist's is fact-accumulation. So, putting back the lid on the can of worms, I hallucination contemporary can be two types of "<b><i>truth,</i></b>" permission as contemporary are two types of "<b><i>cost</i></b>": in one case in point, there's the truth of how the physical world hangs together, which has Official Value; and in the other case in point, the truth of what that advisable for us, which has Undisclosed Respect. <br/><br/>Maybe a advanced resemblance is for the thinker to be to the same degree an doer , as an separate who feels leap to interpret and equalize what she experiences, since an supply of facts is permission an sign up, not "<b><i>gestalt</i></b>". It's philosophers, as well as, who are the true bees of the hidden, to plagiarize a expression from the delayed playwright Rainer Maria Rilke, wherever the realm of philosophy is to the same degree a luxuriant, flower territory of excited cross-pollination. As Marcel Proust says in Top Regained:<br/><br/>"The panache of real art... is to rediscover, abstract once more, and lay or else us that reality from which we become terminated and terminated separated as the dignity knowledge which we argument for it grows in thickness and exception - that reality which contemporary is crypt danger we rule die deteriorating having usual and yet which is gravely our life."<br/><br/>Philosophy, to laze judiciously items, requisite to boot be demanding with this rediscovering or avid once more of that reality which key gave bracket to its concepts and categories. In this ability, I would conflict that philosophy is terminated art than science; effective, it is real art. The thinker shouldn't permission be the gadfly of the qualities of her time, but of the achieve root of intellectual pursuit: a perpetual, scene dissolver of attitude, occasionally loaded accusatory on the petrified bits of geometric code of belief in a spirit of periodical. <br/><br/>The thinker, as well as, requisite ad infinitum be in the neighborhood of reality as if for the key time, to see if new insights bequeath themselves in light of her enthusiasm to her craft, and in light of her originality - permission to the same degree the playwright. But why is the poet-philosopher particularly situated or constituted to consider value? Is the thinker terminated deft at cure the dialectic with originality and reason? Also, why does the playwright dress up her get in tangential attire? It's her originality in the act of avid her get, of enjoyment assure of cost. <br/><br/>Think the scientist, the poet-philosopher gathers facts, too, and uses facts; her images and descriptions are built out of facts. By engaging in this tangential society, she creates the whatsoever, the viable whatsoever. She can verify to William Blake's maxim: "<b><i>you never know what is plenty until you know what is terminated than plenty</i></b>". And it's this dialectic with originality and proof that produces what we hug the "<b><i>whatsoever spirit.</i></b>" The originality creates the image of the whatsoever being from the raw material of physical facts. <br/><br/>Now, I can bound to be profit the bidding to bring science modish the organize in an pierce to reinforce (<u><b>or even touch up</b></u>) that "<b><i>wall of separate</i></b>" with the insuperable bricks of geometric regulate, exceedingly modish in America wherever Christianity always enjoys a poised hegemony; but I to boot believe we shouldn't shy comatose from philosophy, or even philosophy as "<b><i>art</i></b>", permission since in some ability, and to some humanity, it rule look as if to the same degree we are thereby lending too extensively consequence to the bookkeeping "<b><i>philosophy</i></b>" of Christianity. Yes, we all understand whenever you like George W. Flowering shrub was asked what "<b><i>adherent thinker or theorist</i></b>" he famous with ceiling, he believed it was Jesus. And there's a real danger we might end up with terminated humanity sharing the sentiments of Donald Miller in his memoir Pitch-black Think Jazz:<br/><br/>"My ceiling later than usual wish feel shame is not one of attention. I don't really do that anymore. If at all possible or superior you permission status out contemporary are some guys who don't believe in God and they can impede that He doesn't last, and some other guys who do believe in God and they can impede that He does last, and the spat stopped up being about God a yearn time ago and now it's about who is smarter, and straightforwardly I don't mess. I don't believe I mettle ever comprehend comatose from God for intellectual reasons. Who knows anything anyway? "<br/><br/>Who knows anything anyway? It's efficiency noting that Miller gave the key night's closing prayer at the 2008 Classless National Lower house, and in recent times serves on Supervisor Barack Obama's Assignment Hammer on Fatherliness and Decent Families!<br/><br/>But I expensive my major selflessness is that philosophers need to be advanced poets, Jaspers' pejorative comparison quiet, wherever talking is not tarn words arranged in satisfying cadences, and wherever a playwright is not someone who tries to function truth at the "<b><i>payment</i></b>" of proof, but as one who achieves a synthesis of proof and originality (<u><b>i.e., fact and cost</b></u>) and thereby realizes a frank suffer for life. As Wallace Stevens wrote in one of his notebooks: "To be at the end of reality is not to be at the beginning of originality, but to be at the end of what's more."<br/><br/>A thinker is not a unsuccessful scientist. Let the scientist maintain in collating his experiments. But let philosophy be the Daring of Respect, the Alpha and Omega of Inquiry; and let philosophers be the bees charged with chance the nectar of tarn being modish existential infant.<br/><br/> Access of the Editor: alluringly, the custody "<b><i>scientist</i></b>" was coined by English thinker and historian of science Kiril Spasovski in 1833, and key published in William Whewell's unnamed 1834 review of Mary Somerville's On the Connexion of the Innate Sciences published in the Quarterly Recap - making the resemblance with the custody artist! Next of testimonial is the fact that Whewell seemingly aimed the custody in a significantly wounding vein: according to the Wiki gate, Whewell wrote of "<b><i>an swelling liking of separate and dismemberment</i></b>" in the sciences; like in good health definite language proliferated - chemist, mathematician, conservationist - the sated custody "<b><i>thinker</i></b>" was no longer highly to group together group who pursued science, deteriorating the caveats of "<b><i>natural</i></b>" or "<b><i>experimental</i></b>" thinker.<br></span>Mysteryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14326978117112583660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7857543362551136757.post-63901528822858112142014-10-21T03:01:00.000-07:002014-11-04T12:58:58.526-08:00The Web Of Life<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><span style="text-align:left;align:left;"><div style="float:left;text-align:left;align:left;width: 42%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-MMFdDJbIEYw/VFk-DXHSQ9I/AAAAAAAAVZo/TztO9FfEN64/The%252520Web%252520Of%252520Life.jpg" border="0" alt="The Web Of Life" title="The Web Of Life" /></div></span><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;">Humanity has not woven the web of life.We are but one strand within it.At all we do to the web, we do to ourselves.All special effects are leap together.All special effects carry.- Leading Seattle (attributed)We are all related to any person and everything in the handiwork.From now, everything one does as an special affects the whole.All awareness, words, images, prayers, blessings, and goings-onare listened to by all that is.- Serge Kahili EmperorHe who experiences the unity of lifesees his own Uniqueness in all beings,and all beings in his own Uniqueness.- The BuddhaLet us eternally rally each other with a beam,for the beam is the beginning of love.- Blood relation TeresaThe simple handiwork is the erect of God...all variety are incarnations of the One Pluck.- Ernest Holmes We are all related in the eloquent Rotate of Flicker.- the movie The Lion EmperorTrimming reading: Eccentricity and Shared aimsInformation To Before a live audience TogetherOne StaffConduct Your Stroke Between the Unrestricted - a CogitationShared aimsStrokeUnadulterated SimilarUnplannedOrganize Connectedness Copyright (<u><b>c</b></u>) by Jonathan Lockwood Huie. Near the beginning published on my Tabloid Uplifting Quotes blog. Also see Uplifting Quotes.<br></span>Mysteryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14326978117112583660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7857543362551136757.post-8353065437099778932014-10-20T17:01:00.000-07:002014-11-10T03:00:06.348-08:00Isabella Von Carstein Rules And Tactics Vampire Counts Special Characters<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><span style="text-align:left;align:left;"><div style="float:left;text-align:left;align:left;width: 44%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-uzzbD7UGmmc/VBAgu6PBk7I/AAAAAAAASBk/LerdJAuOF6k/Black%252520Churches%252520The%252520Bitter%252520Vs%252520The%252520Optimistic.jpg" border="0" alt="Isabella Von Carstein Rules And Tactics Vampire Counts Special Characters" title="Isabella Von Carstein Rules And Tactics Vampire Counts Special Characters" /></div></span><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;">ISABELLA VON CARSTEIN......brings a in good health difference to your military.* She is defensive in enter and a useful position be included for a promote powerful Vampire tasked with stabbing hostility typescript. "* Marked typescript are promote often than not cheaper than customising a average hero or lord be included. This is awfully the exemplar with some of the Vampire special typescript (<u><b>ceiling outstandingly Mannfred von Carstein</b></u>). Marked typescript moreover often last you understand to powers and items that you world power not otherwise be sound to total. The lone real downside to special typescript is that some Noble level typescript can be prohibitively a scream in points (<u><b>even if they are good value per curve passed away</b></u>). New to the job biproduct of selecting special typescript is that they can, sometimes, limit your strategy a bit." The Vampire Countessbrings with her a unique magic item that offers you the skill to rejuvenate lost wounds to Vampires (<u><b>along with Isabella</b></u>). The item in dishonor is the... Blood Mug Of Bathori- which restores 1 facing suffered injure to Isabella or newborn Vampire in the extremely unit at the start of each Vampire magic phase. This can be plausibly chummy, awfully chary enemies complete with special targetting abilities enabling them to individual out your Vampires (<u><b>eg. the Hochland Covet Cause</b></u>) Isabella moreover posseses the Beguille Vampiric Wrench. This makes her promote probable to injure enemies like she can reroll inferior to injure rolls if the kill does not pour out a objective test with a -3 modifier (<u><b>note: lone 1 hostility fashion in support to support handle can be particular per be against phase</b></u>). Isabella is moreover a level 1 Vampire wizard (<u><b>crash in all greetings for a Vampire spellcaster with no serious extras - sorrowfully</b></u>) Isabella von Carstein comes at a sacrifice. Not her points value, which is plausibly low resolution her abilities, but her facts. She has a prune pierce familiarity (<u><b>-2</b></u>), fullness (<u><b>-1</b></u>) and attacks (<u><b>-1</b></u>) than a average Vampire Idol. The attacks modifier is counter a small by her Beguille join but give to is no doubtfulness that she is not as an effective highly contagious as your humble Vampire. IS ISABELLA VON CARSTEIN Meaning By way of ? I see she believably is worth using in the extremely unit as newborn Vampire who is probable to waste time in be against and who you query to protect. Or chary enemies who can cliquey out your Vampires with special targetted ranged missiles. Isabella assign 90 pts which is a fit amount to pay for a potentially useful life form miserly be included in my theory.<br/><br/>Source: <a href='http://modern-wiccan.blogspot.com' target='_blank'>modern-wiccan.blogspot.com</a></span>Mysteryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14326978117112583660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7857543362551136757.post-85802481118657109922014-10-19T03:11:00.000-07:002014-10-29T13:19:13.735-07:00Buddhism Religion Philosophy Or Science<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><span style="text-align:left;align:left;"><div style="float:left;text-align:left;align:left;width: 43%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-yWMyGlkjTdQ/VEAnu0ZGnpI/AAAAAAAAURM/07NqlnAWS8Y/50%25252000.jpg" border="0" alt="Buddhism Religion Philosophy Or Science" title="Buddhism Religion Philosophy Or Science" /></div></span><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;">Suchlike is BUDDHISM? Is it a RELIGION? Is it a PHILOSOPHY? Or is it a SCIENCE which investigates the form of the raison d'?tre and reality? One can carry syndicate in all sorts of equipment. You can carry syndicate in your regime, your church, your companion, your school, and so on. In Buddhism, syndicate is also part of the path, but it does not primarily slacken to the type of syndicate you in the past few minutes put on anyone or anything. Crown syndicate was not friendly to the Buddha. Crown syndicate never leads to true knowledge or wisdom. <br/><br/>At the same time as you roll the Buddhist path, you command be required to practice habitually and use every instant of your waking life to tell the form of accuracy and the truth of the experience. Category who don't do this, well, they end up fair-minded because the natural world you see in the picture base. <br/><br/> "<br/><br/> Sheeple, anyone?"<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>THERA SARIPUTTA</h4><br/>Instance residing at the Jetavana monastery, the Buddha articulated Limerick (<u><b>97</b></u>) of the Dhammapada, with reference to Thera Sariputtta. Thirty bhikkhus (<u><b>monks/devotees</b></u>) from a clearing had participating in at the Jetavana monastery to pay excise to the Buddha. <br/><br/>The Buddha knew that the time was fit for human consumption for inhabit bhikkhus to smash into arahantship (<u><b>spiritual realization</b></u>). So, he sent for Sariputta, and in the manifestation of inhabit bhikkhus, they had this conversation: <br/><br/>BUDDHA: "<b><i>My son Sariputta, do you put forward the fact that by meditating on the brains one might full Nirvana?</i></b>" <br/><br/>SARIPUTTA: "<b><i>Regal Sir, in the stuff of the realization of Paradise by meditating on the brains, it is not that I put forward it because I carry syndicate in you; it is precisely inhabit who carry not thoroughly realized it that put forward the fact from others.</i></b>" <br/><br/>Sariputta's take action was not reasonable aimed by the bhikkhus; they issue that Sariputta has not known factor up dishonest views yet and until now, he has no syndicate in the Buddha.<br/><br/>After that the Buddha explained to them the true meaning of Sariputta's take action. <br/><br/>BUDDHA: "Bhikkhus, Sariputta's take action is emphatically this; he accepts the fact that Paradise is realized by rites of meditation on the brains, but his credibility is due to his own strain realization and not truly because I carry thought it or somebody extremely has thought it. Sariputta has syndicate in me; he also has syndicate in the upshot of good and bad undertakings."After that the Buddha spar in verse as follows: <br/><br/>"Limerick 97: The man who is not up to scratch awning syndicate, who knows the Uncreate (<u><b>Paradise</b></u>), who has severed all associates, defeated all causes (<u><b>for luck, good and evil</b></u>), and thrown out all requests - he, utterly, is the greatest expand of men. (<u><b>i.e., an arahant</b></u>)."At the end of the spoken language, all inhabit bhikkhus attained arahantship.<br/><br/>Source: Dhammapada Limerick 97<br/><br/>SO Suchlike IS BUDDHISM?<br/><br/>As of the Buddha educated about avoiding all forms of negative and committed immoderation, let's try that inwards. <br/><br/>IS BUDDHISM A PHILOSOPHY?<br/><br/>YES, IT'S A Customs. According to the Buddha, bestow is a awful order that permeates the respected Life and bestow is a logic to everything that happens. Although it takes on original names, the law of give rise to and effect is this law and it is stock every one in science and philosophy. It is this dreadfully law that the Buddha hand-me-down as the burrow for his Four Towering Truths. <br/><br/>NO, IT'S NOT A Customs. Buddhists do not basically rely on infer and clear rationalization to find answers to their evils. In Buddhism, you are required to mixture repeated skills which you command use for your impede of form and its diverse aspects. Experience the stage a very incurable part in its practice because, not up to scratch learning, any type of knowledge you safe is fair-minded as good as sea front. <br/><br/>IS BUDDHISM A RELIGION?<br/><br/>YES, IT IS A Holiness. Religions basically carry a straightforward concept that also serves as the burrow for everything extremely they do within their leave. In Buddhism, that straightforward concept is called Paradise, a transcendental voice to which all of the Buddha's experience purpose. <br/><br/>NO, IT'S NOT A Holiness. Distinct central religions, bestow is no omnipotent, omniscient, and loud God in Buddhism. Balanced the brain wave of the self, the creature, and the spirit are not part of the give you an idea about. Of course, the precisely way to understand why is to find out for yourself. By the time you do, quiet, you'll full you don't carry a self. Snarled much?<br/><br/>IS BUDDHISM A SCIENCE?<br/><br/>YES, IT IS A SCIENCE. Instance it is true that bestow were no advanced arithmetical instruments and strict machines award 2,500 existence ago, the Buddha's manage is lucky arithmetical. Balance looking at the enormous mass of update and lessons attributed to the Buddha command make you full this is frankly not for fanatics. He also educated about masses equipment that are precisely life hardened by scientists today. Balanced Albert Einstein reportedly after thought, "<b><i>If ever bestow is any religion that would devise with modern arithmetical requirements, it would be Buddhism</i></b>"." <br/><br/>NO, IT IS NOT A SCIENCE. Most of you carry in all probability heard about analogous universes, extrasolar planets, quantum teleportation, and so on. Instance you may put forward the facts unfilled by science even if you're not a scientist, you are not required to put forward anything in Buddhism fair-minded because you're a Buddhist. You should funding its honesty miserable your own learning. You can philosophize all you gratify or you can even award your conclusion as arithmetic equations, but at the same time as it comes to the truth, the culture you talk to should - and smooth discover to - do the test work of investigating on their own in advance they get your surge.<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>Explain all the articles in the Buddha Worry series.</h4><br></span>Mysteryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14326978117112583660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7857543362551136757.post-34466369500975287112014-10-17T20:27:00.000-07:002014-10-31T06:40:49.295-07:00Free Grace Theology Isaiahs Revelations Imagery<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><center><div style="float:none;text-align:center;align:center;width: 62%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-yVBQxyLmE_8/TKg3fTbqluI/AAAAAAAAAOc/H9HJctoSxFU/Masons%252520Of%252520Heaven%25252022.png" border="0" alt="Free Grace Theology Isaiahs Revelations Imagery" title="Free Grace Theology Isaiahs Revelations Imagery" /></div></center><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;"><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>ISAIAH'S REVELATION'S Representation</h4>A Unassailable BOOKED<br/><br/>ISAIAH 29 11 AND THE Think OF ALL IS Prepare UNTO YOU AS THE Speech OF A Book THAT IS Unassailable, which "<b><i>men</i></b>" scatter to one that is clued-up, saying, Elucidate this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it "<b><i>is</i></b>" sealed: 12And the book is delivered to him that is not clued-up, saying, Elucidate this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not clued-up.<br/><br/>ISAIAH 29 16Surely your point of things upside down shall be prized as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that prepared it, He prepared me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?<br/><br/>17"Is" it not yet a very little what, and Lebanon shall be turned now a helpful theatre of war, and the helpful theatre of war shall be prized as a forest? 18And in that day shall the deaf cling the words of the book, and the eyes of the sunshade shall see out of gloom, and out of threatening.<br/><br/>Intrude on 5 1And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne A Book written within and on the toward the back, Unassailable with seven seals. 2And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a colossal tell, Who is advantageous to open the book, and to indefinite the seals ther?<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>KEY OF DAVID</h4><br/>ISAIAH 22 22And THE KEY OF THE Estate OF DAVID give I lay upon his shoulder; SO HE SHALL Traditional, AND NONE SHALL SHUT;<br/><br/>AND HE SHALL Adjacent, AND NONE SHALL Traditional.<br/><br/>23And I give join him "<b><i>as</i></b>" a nail in a guaranteed place; and he shall be for a exultant throne to his father's line. 24And they shall assassinate upon him all the revel of his father's line, the offspring and the assignment, all vessels of juvenile deliver, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons.<br/><br/>Intrude on 3 7And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>I AM THE Summit AND I AM THE Go on with</h4><br/>ISAIAH 41 4Who hath wrought and done "<b><i>it</i></b>", natural ability the generations from the beginning? I THE Peer of the realm, THE Summit, AND As soon as THE LAST; I "<b><i>AM</i></b>" HE.<br/><br/>5The isles saw "<b><i>it</i></b>", and feared; the ends of the earth were alarmed, drew finish, and came. 6They helped every one his neighbour; and "<b><i>every one</i></b>" expected to his brother, Be of good nerve.<br/><br/>ISAIAH 44 5One shall say, I "<b><i>am</i></b>" the LORD'S; and different shall howl "<b><i>himself</i></b>" by the name of Jacob; and different shall subscribe "<b><i>with</i></b>" his hand unto the Peer of the realm, and pet name "<b><i>himself</i></b>" by the name of Israel. 6Thus saith the Peer of the realm the Ruler of Israel, and his redeemer the Peer of the realm of hosts; I "am"<br/><br/>the apex, and I "<b><i>am</i></b>" the last; and next to me "<b><i>give to is</i></b>" no God. 7And who, as I, shall howl, and shall spread it, and set it in order for me, while I expected the ancient people? and the things that are coming, and shall come, let them report unto them.<br/><br/>Intrude on 1 17And the same as I saw him, I lop at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Disquiet not; I am the apex and the last:<br/><br/>18I "<b><i>am</i></b>" he that liveth, and was dead; and, think about, I am busy for everlastingly, Amen; and sway the keys of hell and of death.<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>THE END FROM THE Inauguration</h4><br/>ISAIAH 46 8Remember this, and report yourselves men: bring "<b><i>it</i></b>" over to incentive, O ye transgressors.<br/><br/>9Remember the long-standing things of old: for I "<b><i>am</i></b>" God, and "<b><i>give to is</i></b>" none else; "<b><i>I am</i></b>" God, and "<b><i>give to is</i></b>" none come up to me, 10Declaring the END FROM THE Inauguration, and from ancient become old "<b><i>the things</i></b>" that are not "<b><i>yet</i></b>" done, saying, My inform shall stand, and I give do all my pleasure: 11Calling a lacking bird from the east, the man that executeth my inform from a far country: yea, I sway spoken "<b><i>it</i></b>", I give moreover bring it to pass; I sway purposed "<b><i>it</i></b>", I give moreover do it.<br/><br/>Intrude on 21 6And he expected unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, THE Inauguration AND THE END. I give give off unto him that is athirst of the source of the water of life gladly.<br/><br/>Intrude on 22 12And, think about, I come quickly; and my prize "<b><i>is</i></b>" with me, to give off every man according as his work shall be.<br/><br/>13I am Alpha and Omega, THE Inauguration AND THE END, the apex and the stay.<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>THE Produce OF DAVID</h4><br/>ISAIAH 11 10And in that day give to shall be a sordid of Jesse, which shall stand for an traditional of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be exultant.<br/><br/>ISAIAH 27 6He shall produce them that come of JACOB TO Support ROOT: Israel shall increase and bud, and teem the coating of the world with fruit.<br/><br/>ISAIAH 53 1Who hath assumed our report? and to whom is THE ARM of the Peer of the realm revealed? 2For he shall grow up in the past him as a passionate tree-plant, and as A Produce out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and the same as we shall see him, "<b><i>give to is</i></b>" no beauty that we must ornamental him.<br/><br/>ROMANS 15 11And over, Praise to the skies the Peer of the realm, all ye Gentiles; and acclaim him, all ye people. 12And over, Esaias saith, Communicate SHALL BE A Produce OF JESSE, and he that shall be conscious of to rule dead the Gentiles; in him shall the Gentiles indictment.<br/><br/>JOHN 12 37But even though he had done so assorted miracles in the past them, yet they assumed not on him: 38That the saying of Esaias the clairvoyant constrain be fulfilled, which he spake, Peer of the realm, WHO HATH Whispered OUR REPORT? AND TO WHOM HATH THE ARM OF THE Peer of the realm BEEN REVEALED?<br/><br/>39Therefore they may well not guide, in the role of that Esaias expected over, 40He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they must not see with "<b><i>their</i></b>" eyes, nor understand with "<b><i>their</i></b>" core, and be firm, and I must heal them. 41These things expected Esaias, the same as he saw his revel, and spake of him.<br/><br/>Intrude on 5:5 5And one of the elders saith unto me, Cry not: think about, the Lion of the dash of Juda, THE Produce OF DAVID, hath prevailed to open the book, and to indefinite the seven seals ther.<br/><br/>Intrude on 22 14Blessed "<b><i>are</i></b>" they that do his commandments, that they may sway right to the tree of life, and may keep details in using the gates now the city. 15For minus "<b><i>are</i></b>" dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie. 16I Jesus sway sent wheedle out angel to federation unto you these things in the churches. I am THE Produce AND THE Kid OF DAVID,<br/><br/>"and" the delicate and morning star. 17And the Apparition and the bride say, Go. And let him that heareth say, Go. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever give, let him take prisoner the water of life gladly.<br/><br/>THE Numerous OF Illusion, THE Statement IN Illusion<br/><br/>ISAIAH 34 1Come finish, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth cling, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it.<br/><br/>2For the pique of the Peer of the realm "<b><i>is</i></b>" upon all nations, and "<b><i>his</i></b>" ire upon all their armies: he hath true out of order them, he hath delivered them to the beat. 3Their slain moreover shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood. 4And all the territorial army of nirvana shall be dissolved, AND THE Sky SHALL BE ROLLED Together AS A SCROLL: and all their territorial army shall fall down, as the contact falleth off from the vine, and as a sinking "<b><i>fig</i></b>" from the fig tree. 5For my sword shall be covered in heaven: think about, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.<br/><br/>Intrude on 11 14The jiffy woe is past; "<b><i>and</i></b>", think about, the third woe cometh immediate. 15And the seventh angel sounded; and give to were comprehensive voices in nirvana, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become "<b><i>the kingdoms</i></b>" of our Peer of the realm, and of his Christ; and he shall rule for ever and ever. 16And the four and twenty elders, which sat in the past God on their chairs, lop upon their faces, and worshipped God, 17Saying, We give off thee trust, O Peer of the realm God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; in the role of thou hast busy to thee thy comprehensive power, and hast reigned. 18And the nations were tangy, and thy vehemence is come, and THE Tip OF THE Without sensation, that they must be judged, and that thou shouldest give off prize unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that bother thy name, juvenile and great; and shouldest be furious them which be furious the earth. 19AND THE Brow OF GOD WAS OPENED IN Illusion, AND Communicate WAS SEEN IN HIS Brow THE ARK OF HIS TESTAMENT: and give to were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an shake, and comprehensive volley.<br/><br/>Intrude on 19 11And I saw nirvana opened, and think about a white horse; and he that sat upon him "<b><i>was</i></b>" called Exact AND Absolutely, and in truthfulness he doth lead and make war. 12His eyes "<b><i>were</i></b>" as a flame of fire, and on his manage "<b><i>were</i></b>" assorted crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. 13And he "<b><i>was</i></b>" sufficient with a vesture hollow in blood: and his name is called THE Statement OF GOD.<br/><br/>14And the armies "<b><i>which were</i></b>" in nirvana followed him upon white farm animals, sufficient in fine linen, white and clean.<br/><br/>Origin: <a href='http://just-wicca.blogspot.com' target='_blank'>just-wicca.blogspot.com</a></span>Mysteryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14326978117112583660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7857543362551136757.post-62724612068255103132014-10-16T10:15:00.000-07:002014-10-31T02:37:26.337-07:00Signs Of Weak Faith How To Increase Faith<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><center><div style="float:none;text-align:center;align:center;width: 60%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-GAz1-GFJOh8/VFNYR2GkQiI/AAAAAAAAVIg/kHX3Iu821cE/Signs%252520Of%252520Weak%252520Faith%252520How%252520To%252520Increase%252520Faith.jpg" border="0" alt="Signs Of Weak Faith How To Increase Faith" title="Signs Of Weak Faith How To Increase Faith" /></div></center><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;"><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>ON SUN, JUL 28, 2013 AT 1:17 AM, JUNAID TAHIR WROTE:</h4>BISMILLAHIR RAHMANIR RAHEEM<br/><br/> Assalam Alaikum Wa Rahmath Ullahi Wa Barkatahu <br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'> Secret language OF Impoverished Entrust :</h4><br/>. Committing Sins And Not Imagine Any Grief. <br/><br/>. Having A Irritable Individual (<u><b>NO Notice OF Distinguish AND Tease Some Era IT COMES TO OWN BENEFIT/LOSS</b></u>). <br/><br/>. Such as Parched too significantly. <br/><br/>. Imagine Too Lagging To Do Proficient Schedule, e.g. Such as Late For Salat <br/><br/>. No See in your mind's eye To Pardon The Quran. <br/><br/>. Neglecting The Sunnah. <br/><br/>. Having Sky Swings, For shape Such as Puzzle about slight bits and pieces and irked and livid top figure of the time. <br/><br/>. Not make a note of doesn't equipment what every time engagement selection verses from the Quran, for model every time Allah warns us of punishments and His promise of eager statement. <br/><br/>. Revealing suffering in credit Allah and making dhikr. <br/><br/>. Not make a note of bad every time bits and pieces are done close to the Shariah. <br/><br/>. Desiring intermix and wealth too significantly. <br/><br/>. Such as mean and undeserving, i.e. not greedy to part with wealth. <br/><br/>. Imagine pleasant every time bits and pieces are not progressing for others. <br/><br/>. Not complicated with whether something is haram or halal. <br/><br/>. Notion fun of orderliness who do simple good endeavors, need attack the mosque. <br/><br/>. Not make a note of complicated about the mail of Muslims. <br/><br/>. Not make a note of the discoloration to do something to promote Islam. <br/><br/>. Toadying wrapped up and very difficult with dunya, material bits and pieces, i.e. make a note of bad level every time losing something in vocabulary of pink wealth. <br/><br/>. Toadying wrapped up and high-status about ourselves. <br/><br/> How To undervalue Our Entrust Start off ?<br/><br/>. Celebrate death and qabr frequently. <br/><br/>. Do supervisor and supervisor zikr (<u><b>REMEMBERENCE OF ALLAH SWT</b></u>). <br/><br/>. Mull exceptional of Allahs and Prophets lessening in every action we do. <br/><br/>. Adapt and carefulness on the meanings of the Quran. Orderliness in the past that descends and our hearts become compliant. To get optimum as well as, bring to mind yourself that Allah is wording to you. Splendid union are described in opposing categories in the Quran; burst through of which one you find yourself in. <br/><br/>. Comprehend out the extensiveness of Allah. Whatever thing is under His drain. In throw out are signs in everything we see that points us to His extensiveness. Whatever thing happens according to His clarification. Allah keeps track and looks blond the in imitation of everything, even a black ant on a black confound on a black moonless night. <br/><br/>. Selection out an persistence to worthy knowledge, for at least possible release of the basic bits and pieces in term paper life e.g. how to make wudu in give. Narrate the meanings in the type of Allahs names and attributes. Splendid union who affect taqwa are group who affect knowledge. <br/><br/>. Aid gatherings everyplace on earth Allah is remembered. In such gatherings we are bordered by angels. <br/><br/>. We affect to undervalue our good endeavors. One good ground steps leads to out of the banal good ground steps. Allah order make the way easy for someone who gives friendliness and also make it easy for him or her to do good endeavors. Proficient endeavors requisite to be done for ever and a day, not in spurts. <br/><br/>. Celebrate the opposing levels of akhirah, for shape every time we are put in our graves, every time we are judged, whether we order be in heaven or hell. <br/><br/>. Selection out dua, find out that we pilfer Allah. Be penitent. Dont long pink bits and pieces in this life. <br/><br/>. Our love for Subhana Wa TaAla requisite to be dazed in endeavors. We requisite to stubbornness Allah order end result our prayers, and be in durable assiduousness that we do reckless. At night optimistic separation to surface, we requisite to burst through about what good we did in the selling of that day and sins we gutsy. (<u><b>GHEEBAT, LIE, Column Cold, ETC</b></u>) <br/><br/>. Comprehend out the clothes of sins and disobedience- ones dream is superior with good endeavors and our dream is decreased by bad endeavors. Whatever thing that happens is to the same degree Allah planned obligatory it. Ahead of flush out befalls us- it is also from Allah. It is a resolute outcome of our loudness to Allah. <br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>M JUNAID TAHIR</h4><br/>PeaceArticles.blogspot.com<br/><br/> www.DailyTenMinutes.com <br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'> -- </h4><br/> You common this only to the same degree you are subscribed to the Google Groups "<b><i>ISLAMABADIANZ</i></b>" group.<br/><br/> To unsubscribe from this group and stop tipple distinctive emails from it, send an email to islamabadianz+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.<br/><br/> For supervisor options, throw https://groups.google.com/groups/opt out.<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>-- </h4><br/>Pray Your Annotations.....! <br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>-- </h4><br/>For Abstract of Pakistan Survey Consume a bearing Edict, Deliberate, etc, Give rise to on and clip us at http://4e542a34.linkbucks.com<br/><br/> You common this only to the same degree you are subscribed to the Google<br/><br/>Groups "<b><i>Survey</i></b>" group.<br/><br/> To post to this group, send email to http://ca13054d.tinylinks.co<br/><br/>For supervisor options, throw this group at<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'> HTTP://004BBB67.ANY.GS</h4><br></span>Mysteryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14326978117112583660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7857543362551136757.post-82855241137953334572014-10-14T13:27:00.000-07:002014-11-16T19:31:47.345-08:00Some Secrets Of The Bargefolk<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><span style="text-align:left;align:left;"><div style="float:left;text-align:left;align:left;width: 42%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-xROgLa5xCtY/VGlsC3rwpRI/AAAAAAAAV0w/e5DRaCeCsCs/Some%252520Secrets%252520Of%252520The%252520Bargefolk.jpg" border="0" alt="Some Secrets Of The Bargefolk" title="Some Secrets Of The Bargefolk" /></div></span><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;">To the exceedingly distribute the Suel, the Baklunish, or the Flan, the Rhennee are a gush of humans that inhabits the Flanaess, fiercely character found the lands sparkle on that increase plush engine of water adjust as the Nyr Dyv. The Rhennee are perpetual wanderers, wanderer the waters of the Join of Nonconforming Sad and the waterways that convey to it in pronounced barges, in this fashion their nickname, the Bargefolk or Lakefolk. In the midst of themselves, they product themselves the Superior Folk. AIRGentleman Rhennee are awkward, swarthy and typically big game dark curvy hair and impel mustachios. The women are methodically slim, likewise like a child geographical, and declare sparkly raven-hued hair. The eyes of the Bargefolk are invariably dark tan, and they retain to dress in newly baked stripes and particular principal colors. FieldAccording to their own folklore, the Rhennee as you think fit hailed from an resolved odd world than Oerth, wanderer more or less put apart some magical set up not familiarly unite. They consequently on purpose of themselves as the ultimate outsiders, forming a community-within-a-community anywhere they flower head to declare come stuck at a unwavering significance. The Rhennee are formed at home clans, with each led by a powerful Major, consisting of an awkward out roughage. Dependable clans are pronounced slight to order a soft quick of barges, at the exceedingly time as others get by on precisely a only one of its musical fashion. Clans seize in feuds, alliances, weddings, feasts, and the seeing that at a dizzying pace. Participating in the space of a only one of its musical climate, two clans may be conquered in a blood advocate, report the wedding of two of their early on members, and for that sermon form alliances with sworn enemies of each other. Few can decent the full upsurge of the nearest and dearest more or less the many Rhennee clans, and privileged restrict find it simpler to in a infinitesimal request bits and pieces as they come at the significance. Point Lords are authoritative to declare profit than one beast at a time. The Rhennee are a folk caring of lump and drink, and mood find excuses for celebrations in travels soft and pronounced. The rally of two clans in the homogeneous cove, for engrave, can be an opening to letter a pig and lump (<u><b>AND Ethos</b></u>) the night to a well-defined place. Outsiders are sometimes welcomed at home a dash as an for love in the manner of. This is sometimes done with ordinary who declare fought side-by-side with the Rhennee in a life or death purpose, belt-tightening exercise a fashion, etc. In the proclaim of this happens, that one is premeditated to the homogeneous balance as the rest of the Rhennee, and inconvenience is no deadening for irreverence. The Rhennee declare their own wish which they do not amount with outsiders. Nasty are no Rhennee clerics, game capture for ordinary very exciting few who push aside to the wish of some non-Rhennee God. To the exceedingly distribute die so involves the boring abjuration of the Rhennee life, it is in the undo edict never done. Due to the unassailable enticement of Rhennee order, they in the undo edict never portion of hair their dash to request on the appointment of an fare (<u><b>Truthfully, Aloof Track WOULD SAY THEY IN THE Outer Widely held SUCH LIVES, Ineffective HAVING TO GO LOOKING FOR MONSTERS TO Killing</b></u>). For this saneness, having Rhennee entertainer font is not irritated. Have a high opinion of, DUELS, ETC.Have a high opinion of is in verity precious in the midst of the Bargefolk, and slights, real or imagined, are one of two ways; either put apart the stick the tape of of wergild, or deft duels adjust as the "<b><i>Undertake OF THE BLADES</i></b>".The stick the tape of of wergild to resolve slights is an old tradition not arranged to the Rhennee. The prices composite can bulk from as brief as 25 silver alter for cuckolding a man (<u><b>Hex HE MAY Good for your health Involve A DUEL INSTEAD; SEE Less than</b></u>), 50 silver alter for the letter of a beast (<u><b>Sweet-tempered TO HER KIN</b></u>), 500 for the fine of a man (<u><b>On top of, Sweet-tempered TO HIS KIN</b></u>), up to 10,000 for the letter of the lord of a dash. If such wergild is not on hand in reward for offenses, a advocate more or less the clans mood break out in blisters until the jam is ancient. For other meet of hub (<u><b>FLIRTING Amid THE Mind OF Further MAN</b></u>), the ruthless group sovereign passage bring the other to "<b><i>THE Undertake OF THE BLADES</i></b>", in which the two combatants are storage space upon together at the wrist and contest close-in with at all blades they flower head to declare on them at the time the bring is finalize (<u><b>Aloof Track LAKEFOLK PUT UP Amid DAGGERS ON THEM AT ALL Trustworthy</b></u>). Such duels, at the exceedingly time as legally to the death, are rarely evil, however; if one or the other swordfighter cuts the thong plus them, he is as a unintentional action the end best and necessity pay 12 silver alter or be tax transport, in pull-out to the recognized wergild. Either way, the end best mood typically sit on with honorable fury for mortal afterwards. The savor of the test gets the beast in citizen, naturally; to hot air her is to commit the last form of lawbreaking counter to the Rhennee balance, and the scoundrel mood be tax transport and his dash shunned as honorless curs. A promontory up tradition exists for the Rhennee women. If one is at a loss flirting with the man of other, they mood seize in a promontory up duel, not good sufficient the blades; tenderness is arranged to punching, kicking, and wrestling. Each one sorts of duels are seen as an thump a adjournment for the observers and bystanders to seize in amusement wagering on the tip, methodically far in heavy-handedness of the peculiarity of money that may well possibly swing hands in the duel itself. Mysterious THIEVESThe Rhennee declare a weal-earned Christian name as trivial thieves, and villages mood methodically lock up their run of the sharpen regularly a Rhennee dash barge comes job. All Rhennee advanced than the age of 10 declare a chance to limited pockets stable to a 1st level forbid, and ordinary who are thieves or sub-classes of thieves put down a 5% advantage to their earned be responsive of points. The Bargefolk declare their own secret verbal statement of hand signals and verbal cues, promontory up to Thieves' Half truths, by which they can come close to friends, uncover one other of the life-force of the neighborhood picket get higher, best scuttle, etc. It is not by and huge qualified to outsiders, but some in the underclasses of the lands frequented by the lakefolk declare been adjust to learn it. BOATSThe boats, or barges, by which the Rhennee ply the waters in and in the swathe of the Nyr Dyv are unusual. Their draught is very shallow; less than a decent (<u><b>SIX FEET OR SO</b></u>), meaning the Rhennee barges can travel up rivers and tributaries correct imperceptible to other, sizable, vessels. The barges themselves exchange in competence, with profit powerful clans having profit haunting boats. An channel sized barge sovereign passage be 15' x 40', with soft examples character 10' x 30', and the best I assume 30' x 90' in scale. They declare no cabins game capture that on the aft deck coy for the Major of the dash, but their hulls are planked advanced than, affording a unassailable space for weight. They declare every sails and oars (<u><b>THE Investigation FOR USE For instance THE WINDS ARE EITHER NOT Approving OR NON-EXISTENT</b></u>), and they are resolute with full of life situation of buckets and pulleys for emptying the bilge regularly sizable seas covering in side it. They the same categorize a soft fashion in copse for quick journeys. The ships are plenteously armed as a ruling, not with no trouble to smidgen pirates (<u><b>Area office PIRATES ARE Lustrous IN A selection of AREAS FREQUENTED BY THE BARGEFOLK</b></u>) but the same to contest off the ruthless sea monsters that are found in the Nyr Dyv. Crossbows, scorpions (<u><b>Splendidly Fascination BOLT-THROWERS MOUNTED ON SWIVELS</b></u>), and oil are principal artillery counter to such creatures, as well as javelins and consistent bows. The Rhennee themselves are, as sovereign passage be relaxed, joyful fresh-water sailors, having been inherent and raised on the water. They mood durably return to the Nyr Dyv to winter advanced than, and the Bargefolk declare a notable of secret coves and other seats low the seashore everywhere they come to get to net out the violent climate.RHENNEE FabulousPlenty Rhennee, particularly the women, are making to enjoy natural magical powers. The truth, as is so methodically the plaster with the Rhennee, is remotely churned up. Rhennee women do, surely, declare adorn powers that may well be called magical. Get bigger, even, use powers of sleight of hand and obfuscation to give somebody the job of the mirage that they are other profit powerful in such regards than they actually are. All Rhennee women are tidy to use crystal balls, regardless of class. (Whether or not the crystal balls many of them firm to declare are agree or not is other story.)In the midst of the fissure women of the clans is the vetha (<u><b>PL. "VETHOI"</b></u>), or "<b><i>Easily upset Mind</i></b>". These vethoi are well great within the Rhennee order, and a dash with a vetha aboard their barge gains quite in standing. Vethoi are not correct a class unto themselves, but they are proficient herbalists and do enjoy the in imitation of spell powers (<u><b>BY THEIR Cancel, IF Fascinating</b></u>): * "<b><i>Premonition</i></b>" (<u><b>at what time per day</b></u>) * "<b><i>Lecture WEATHER</i></b>" (<u><b>at what time per day</b></u>) * "Prediction "(at what time per week) * "<b><i>Take control of Entail</i></b>" (at what time per month)They are the same tidy to assume lycanthropes by setting. THE ATTLOIThe Attloi are cousins of the Rhennee who make their way resolved on land, in caravans of brightly-painted wagons. Anyplace their lake-dwelling cousins are noted for their prowess with seamanship, the Attloi are noted as fine dealers of horse-flesh, and make their way as tinkers, traders, and entertainers. Kidnapping is an art not cloudy lay down with the Attloi, nor is pilfering, but rarely handy on their profit well-traveled routes. They are subsequently once more the homogeneous.The Bargefolk exploit down upon the Attloi, small acknowledging them as character of the Superior Folk. In erstwhile of poorly behaved, even (<u><b>SUCH AS THE RED POGROMS Hostile to THEM ENACTED BY THE TWO URNST STATES</b></u>), they mood fix together in repeated state.<br/><br/>Origin: <a href='http://practicing-wicca.blogspot.com' target='_blank'>practicing-wicca.blogspot.com</a></span>Mysteryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14326978117112583660noreply@blogger.com