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and has now come when the true worshipers will worship
the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the
kind of worshipers the Father seeks." - John 4:23
My Heavenly Daddy is healing
me from the inside out.
Transparency is Real.
Many times painful.
Daddy let me be secure in You only!
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Normally I do not hold onto devotionals, but post them right away or the next day. This one I received last week. But, for some reason, I did not feel in my spirit to post it. In fact I was thinking to delete it yesterday. Good I did not. Because today a guest speaker at my church talked about God's Grace.
Seems like I have been a spectator most of my life in witnessing how God's Grace touches others. Desiring so much that I too want His Grace as well. I believe His Grace has been poured out on me time and time again, but I think my eyes have been blinded to these blessing in receiving because I could not because of my corrupt belief system.
Now He is letting me see first hand, as I become willing and more open, how He is blessing others with His Grace and with His love. My heart is aching and breaking for the same. A different kind of breaking though.
That is my prayer. Lord today I desire to "accept" Your Grace and Your love. I want my perfectionism, my critical and judgmental spirit to cease. Lord I want to arrive at the point of being totally sold out to You.
Lord I am also praying for a total physical healing in my body from severe pain. I claim this healing in Your precious Son's name. Amen.
"John 1:16: "From the fullness of his grace we have all received one blessing after another."
Many of us feel compelled to "do and make everything right" so that others will respect, approve and love us. We have a difficult time accepting love that is unconditional. Our society has honed obsessive perfectionism to a science. Perhaps this is why the entire concept of grace seems so foreign.
I long to understand God's grace and become a grace-ful person. Grace means considerateness; good will; favor; extra time to meet an obligation — and the unmerited love and favor of God toward us. Grace is characterized by gratitude and joy. As I become a grace-ful person, the judgmental, perfectionistic attitudes shrink. I'm beginning to appropriate the idea of "unmerited favor."
One thing I know: only God's grace is perfect. And he offers me "grace upon grace: blessing after blessing."
Lord, I'll never perfectly understand grace, but I accept it.
Copyright 2010 Joan C. Webb
21 comments:
I have heard many messages preached about God's grace being like a gift placed before each and every person...some choose to open the gift immediately...others wait awhile...and still others never open the box at all...ReplyDelete
It's time to rip that wrapping paper off and tear into that box....
Grace can be hard to understand but is a wonderful gift, and the blessings to come when we accept. Wishing you more and more blessings!ReplyDelete
Grace is "love" that came down from heaven since we have no way of getting up there. Thanks be to God! Prayed your prayer with you. I need that, too...Blessings.ReplyDelete
Love this "Grace" post, glad I found your blog.''ReplyDelete
Open, and accept your gift sweetie.ReplyDelete
His grace is pouring out on and in you. I can see that in your posts. But I know what you are saying. Praying that prayer with you.ReplyDelete
Many prayers to you, JBRReplyDelete
and HUGS
have you ever read ragamuffin gospel by brennan manning? one of my favorite books on the subject...it is a whole lot easier to believe God's grace for another over grace for ourselves...ReplyDelete
- stuck-in-the-middleJuly 19, 2010
JBR a wonderful post on Grace. I can use it.ReplyDelete
Happy to see you grow stronger, God's grace is working in you.ReplyDelete
- Dee DeeJuly 19, 2010
Sweetie missed a few of your posts of recent. Can't always get on line anymore. Hope you're doing good.ReplyDelete
Grace... such an amazing word... so life changing for each one of us. I really loved this post JBR!ReplyDelete
Wonderful prayer.ReplyDelete
JBR your words in your post are so welcoming. Thank you for the realness that you continue to display for all of us. God Bless.ReplyDelete
I like the idea of "unmerited favor". Your post reminds me of something I have learned about "hanging on the vine and receiving His love, grace, favor, healing. The sick branch being grafted into the vine and becoming whole again.ReplyDelete
I appreciate your authenticy, and I believe I found you via a link on another blog (though I can't remember which one!, and with your title being Just Be Real, I knew I would like what I found here. I do. I have an award for you at my place.
Wishing you a happy day!
Wonderful post here, JBR! This is the second post I've read over the last day or so re Grace........Where would we be without His Amazing Grace!ReplyDelete
He is Faithful!
Sweet Blessings!
- AnonymousJuly 20, 2010
BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN. Im new to your blog. Saw some similar trauma you have experienced that I can relate as well the sexual abuse. I'm still trying to cope with the affects. Been in therapy over 5 yrs. now. I'm angry at what happened to me but glad that I'm getting help. God is getting back into the picture in my life as well.ReplyDelete
Hi my sister in Christ,ReplyDelete
Yes, graces are wonderful. I pray every morning to Jesus and ask him to ask Our Heavenly Father for the blessings and graces sufficent for the day. It really helps me. And later in my evening prayers I am thankful for what blessings and trails God have given or gotten me through. Prayer is such a wonderful way to realize God working in ones life. Great Post!
Hugs and blessings,
Amen! I just wrote a post on this topic of Grace. I believe the Lord is teaching His children about this special gift of Grace.ReplyDelete
I truly believe that God's grace is like the sun; it shines down on all of us equally. Sometimes, though, we're stuck in a dark hole and we can't see/feel it. I know that feeling. ((((((((((JBR)))))))))) warm, gentle hugs, dear one.ReplyDelete


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On Liberty - Chapter 2, Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion, Part I
Mills' timeless essay
John Stuart Mill
English philosopher and economist, administrator in the East India Company, member of Parliament (1865-1868). Early a proponent of the utilitarian philosophy promoted by his father, James Mill, and Jeremy Bentham, Mill became disaffected with it and explored other political and economic philosophies before writing his System of Logic in 1843. He followed it with Principles of Political Economy in 1848, securing fame and respect for his more-humanitarian form of utilitarianism. However his best-known work is his essay On Liberty (1859), a treatise which continues to interest contemporary libertarians and classical liberals, and which is published here on canadian conservative org.
The time, it is to be hoped, is gone by when any defence would be necessary of the "liberty of the press" as one of the securities against corrupt or tyrannical government. No argument, we may suppose, can now be needed, against permitting a legislature or an executive, not identified in interest with the people, to prescribe opinions to them, and determine what doctrines or what arguments they shall be allowed to hear. This aspect of the question, besides, has been so often and so triumphantly enforced by preceding writers, that it needs not be specially insisted on in this place.
Though the law of England, on the subject of the press, is as servile to this day as it was in the time of the Tudors, there is little danger of its being actually put in force against political discussion, except during some temporary panic, when fear of insurrection drives ministers and judges from their propriety; and, speaking generally, it is not, in constitutional countries, to be apprehended that the government, whether completely responsible to the people or not, will often attempt to control the expression of opinion, except when in doing so it makes itself the organ of the general intolerance of the public. Let us suppose, therefore, that the government is entirely at one with the people, and never thinks of exerting any power of coercion unless in agreement with what it conceives to be their voice.
But I deny the right of the people to exercise such coercion, either by themselves or by their government. The power itself is illegitimate. The best government has no more title to it than the worst. It is as noxious, or more noxious, when exerted in accordance with public opinion, than when in opposition to it. If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. Were an opinion a personal possession of no value except to the owner; if to be obstructed in the enjoyment of it were simply a private injury; it would make some difference whether the injury was inflicted only on a few persons or on many. But the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.
[Footnote 1: These words had scarcely been written, when, as if to give them an emphatic contradiction, occurred the Government Press Prosecutions of 1858. That ill-judged interference with the liberty of public discussion has not, however, induced me to alter a single word in the text, nor has it at all weakened my conviction that, moments of panic excepted, the era of pains and penalties for political discussion has, in our own country, passed away. For, in the first place, the prosecutions were not persisted in; and, in the second, they were never, properly speaking, political prosecutions. The offence charged was not that of criticizing institutions, or the acts of persons of rulers, but of circulating what was deemed an immoral doctrine, the lawfulness of Tyrannicide. If the arguments of the present chapter are of any validity, there ought to exist the fullest liberty of professing and discussing, as a matter of ethical conviction, any doctrine, however immoral it may be considered. It would, therefore, be irrelevant and out of place to examine here, whether the doctrine of Tyrannicide deserves that title. I shall content myself with saying, that the subject has been at all times one of the open questions of morals; that the act of a private citizen in striking down a criminal, who, by raising himself above the law, has placed himself beyond the reach of legal punishment or control, has been accounted by whole nations, and by some of the best and wisest of men, not a crime, but an act of exalted virtue; and that, right or wrong, it is not of the nature of assassination, but of civil war. As such, I hold that the instigation to it, in a specific case, may be a proper subject of punishment, but only if an overt act has followed, and at least a probable connection can be established between the act and the instigation. Even then, it is not a foreign government, but the very government assailed, which alone, in the exercise of self-defence, can legitimately punish attacks directed against its own existence.]
It is necessary to consider separately these two hypotheses, each of which has a distinct branch of the argument corresponding to it. We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
First: the opinion which it is attempted to suppress by authority may possibly be true. Those who desire to suppress it, of course deny its truth; but they are not infallible. They have no authority to decide the question for all mankind, and exclude every other person from the means of judging. To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility. Its condemnation may be allowed to rest on this common argument, not the worse for being common.
Unfortunately for the good sense of mankind, the fact of their fallibility is far from carrying the weight in their practical judgment, which is always allowed to it in theory; for while every one well knows himself to be fallible, few think it necessary to take any precautions against their own fallibility, or admit the supposition that any opinion of which they feel very certain, may be one of the examples of the error to which they acknowledge themselves to be liable. Absolute princes, or others who are accustomed to unlimited deference, usually feel this complete confidence in their own opinions on nearly all subjects.
People more happily situated, who sometimes hear their opinions disputed, and are not wholly unused to be set right when they are wrong, place the same unbounded reliance only on such of their opinions as are shared by all who surround them, or to whom they habitually defer: for in proportion to a man's want of confidence in his own solitary judgment, does he usually repose, with implicit trust, on the infallibility of "the world" in general. And the world, to each individual, means the part of it with which he comer in contact; his party, his sect, his church, his class of society: the man may be called, by comparison, almost liberal and large minded to whom it means anything so comprehensive as his own country or his own age. Nor is his faith in this collective authority at all shaken by his being aware that other ages, countries, sects, churches, classes, and parties have thought, and even now think, the exact reverse. He devolves upon his own world the responsibility of being in the right against the dissentient worlds of other people; and it never troubles him that mere accident has decided which of these numerous worlds is the object of his reliance, and that the same causes which make him a Churchman in London, would have made him a Buddhist or a Confucian in Pekin. Yet it is as evident in itself as any amount of argument can make it, that ages are no more infallible than individuals; every age having held many opinions which subsequent ages have deemed not only false but absurd; and it is as certain that many opinions, now general, will be rejected by future ages, as it is that many, once general, are rejected by the present.
The objection likely to be made to this argument, would probably take some such form as the following. There is no greater assumption of infallibility in forbidding the propagation of error, than in any other thing which is done by public authority on its own judgment and responsibility. Judgment is given to men that they may use it. Because it may be used erroneously, are men to be told that they ought not to use it at all? To prohibit what they think pernicious, is not claiming exemption from error, but fulfilling the duty incumbent on them, although fallible, of acting on their conscientious conviction. If we were never to act on our opinions, because those opinions may be wrong, we should leave all our interests uncared for, and all our duties unperformed. An objection which applies to all conduct can be no valid objection to any conduct in particular.
It is the duty of governments, and of individuals, to form the truest opinions they can; to form them carefully, and never impose them upon others unless they are quite sure of being right. But when they are sure (such reasoners may say), it is not conscientiousness but cowardice to shrink from acting on their opinions, and allow doctrines which they honestly think dangerous to the welfare of mankind, either in this life or in another, to be scattered abroad without restraint, because other people, in less enlightened times, have persecuted opinions now believed to be true. Let us take care, it may be said, not to make the same mistake: but governments and nations have made mistakes in other things, which are not denied to be fit subjects for the exercise of authority: they have laid on bad taxes, made unjust wars.
Ought we therefore to lay on no taxes, and, under whatever provocation, make no wars? Men, and governments, must act to the best of their ability. There is no such thing as absolute certainty, but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life. We may, and must, assume our opinion to be true for the guidance of our own conduct: and it is assuming no more when we forbid bad men to pervert society by the propagation of opinions which we regard as false and pernicious.
I answer, that it is assuming very much more. There is the greatest difference between presuming an opinion to be true, because, with every opportunity for contesting it, it has not been refuted, and assuming its truth for the purpose of not permitting its refutation. Complete liberty of contradicting and disproving our opinion, is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth for purposes of action; and on no other terms can a being with human faculties have any rational assurance of being right.
When we consider either the history of opinion, or the ordinary conduct of human life, to what is it to be ascribed that the one and the other are no worse than they are? Not certainly to the inherent force of the human understanding; for, on any matter not self-evident, there are ninety-nine persons totally incapable of judging of it, for one who is capable; and the capacity of the hundredth person is only comparative; for the majority of the eminent men of every past generation held many opinions now known to be erroneous, and did or approved numerous things which no one will now justify. Why is it, then, that there is on the whole a preponderance among mankind of rational opinions and rational conduct? If there really is this preponderance which there must be, unless human affairs are, and have always been, in an almost desperate state it is owing to a quality of the human mind, the source of everything respectable in man, either as an intellectual or as a moral being, namely, that his errors are corrigible.
He is capable of rectifying his mistakes by discussion and experience. Not by experience alone. There must be discussion, to show how experience is to be interpreted. Wrong opinions and practices gradually yield to fact and argument: but facts and arguments, to produce any effect on the mind, must be brought before it. Very few facts are able to tell their own story, without comments to bring out their meaning. The whole strength and value, then, of human judgment, depending on the one property, that it can be set right when it is wrong, reliance can be placed on it only when the means of setting it right are kept constantly at hand. In the case of any person whose judgment is really deserving of confidence, how has it become so? Because he has kept his mind open to criticism of his opinions and conduct.
Because it has been his practice to listen to all that could be said against him; to profit by as much of it as was just, and expound to himself, and upon occasion to others, the fallacy of what was fallacious. Because he has felt, that the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing what can be said about it by persons of every variety of opinion, and studying all modes in which it can be looked at by every character of mind. No wise man ever acquired his wisdom in any mode but this; nor is it in the nature of human intellect to become wise in any other manner. The steady habit of correcting and completing his own opinion by collating it with those of others, so far from causing doubt and hesitation in carrying it into practice, is the only stable foundation for a just reliance on it: for, being cognizant of all that can, at least obviously, be said against him, and having taken up his position against all gainsayers knowing that he has sought for objections and difficulties, instead of avoiding them, and has shut out no light which can be thrown upon the subject from any quarter he has a right to think his judgment better than that of any person, or any multitude, who have not gone through a similar process.
It is not too much to require that what the wisest of mankind, those who are best entitled to trust their own judgment, find necessary to warrant their relying on it, should be submitted to by that miscellaneous collection of a few wise and many foolish individuals, called the public. The most intolerant of churches, the Roman Catholic Church, even at the canonization of a saint, admits, and listens patiently to, a "devil's advocate." The holiest of men, it appears, cannot be admitted to posthumous honors,until all that the devil could say against him is known and weighed. If even the Newtonian philosophy were not permitted to be questioned, mankind could not feel as complete assurance of its truth as they now do. The beliefs which we have most warrant for, have no safeguard to rest on, but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded. If the challenge is not accepted, or is accepted and the attempt fails, we are far enough from certainty still; but we have done the best that the existing state of human reason admits of; we have neglected nothing that could give the truth a chance of reaching us: if the lists are kept open, we may hope that if there be a better truth, it will be found when the human mind is capable of receiving it; and in the meantime we may rely on having attained such approach to truth, as is possible in our own day. This is the amount of certainty attainable by a fallible being, and this the sole way of attaining it.
Strange it is, that men should admit the validity of the arguments for free discussion, but object to their being "pushed to an extreme;" not seeing that unless the reasons are good for an extreme case, they are not good for any case. Strange that they should imagine that they are not assuming infallibility when they acknowledge that there should be free discussion on all subjects which can possibly be doubtful, but think that some particular principle or doctrine should be forbidden to be questioned because it is so certain, that is, because they are certain that is certain. To call any proposition certain, while there is any one who would deny its certainty if permitted, but who is not permitted, is to assume that we ourselves, and those who agree with us, are the judges of certainty, and judges without hearing the other side.
In the present age which has been described as "destitute of faith, but terrified at scepticism," in which people feel sure, not so much that their opinions are true, as that they should not know what to do without them the claims of an opinion to be protected from public attack are rested not so much on its truth, as on its importance to society. There are, it is alleged, certain beliefs, so useful, not to say indispensable to well being, that it is as much the duty of governments to uphold those beliefs, as to protect any other of the interests of society. In a case of such necessity, and so directly in the line of their duty, something less than infallibility may, it is maintained, warrant, and even bind, governments, to act on their own opinion, confirmed by the general opinion of mankind. It is also often argued, and still oftener thought, that none but bad men would desire to weaken these salutary beliefs; and there can be nothing wrong, it is thought, in restraining bad men, and prohibiting what only such men would wish to practice. This mode of thinking makes the justification of restraints on discussion not a question of the truth of doctrines, but of their usefulness; and flatters itself by that means to escape the responsibility of claiming to be an infallible judge of opinions. But those who thus satisfy themselves, do not perceive that the assumption of infallibility is merely shifted from one point to another. The usefulness of an opinion is itself matter of opinion: as disputable, as open to discussion and requiring discussion as much, as the opinion itself. There is the same need of an infallible judge of opinions to decide an opinion to be noxious, as to decide it to be false, unless the opinion condemned has full opportunity of defending itself. And it will not do to say that the heretic may be allowed to maintain the utility of harmlessness of his opinion, though forbidden to maintain its truth.
The truth of an opinion is part of its utility. If we would know whether or not it is desirable that a proposition should be believed, is it possible to exclude the consideration of whether or not it is true? In the opinion, not of bad men, but of the best men, no belief which is contrary to truth can be really useful: and can you prevent such men from urging that plea, when they are charged with culpability for denying some doctrine which they are told is useful, but which they believe to be false? Those who are on the side of received opinions, never fail to take all possible advantage of this plea; you do not find them handling the question of utility as if it could be completely abstracted from that of truth: on the contrary, it is, above all, because their doctrine is "the truth," that the knowledge or the belief of it is held to be so indispensable.
There can be no fair discussion of the question of usefulness, when an argument so vital may be employed on one side, but not on the other. And in point of fact, when law or public feeling do not permit the truth of an opinion to be disputed, they are just as little tolerant of a denial of its usefulness. The utmost they allow is an extenuation of its absolute necessity or of the positive guilt of rejecting it.
In order more fully to illustrate the mischief of denying a hearing to opinions because we, in our own judgment, have condemned them, it will be desirable to fix down the discussion to a concrete case; and I choose, by preference, the cases which are least favourable to me in which the argument against freedom of opinion, both on the score of truth and on that of utility, is considered the strongest. Let the opinions impugned be the belief in a God and in a future state, or any of the commonly received doctrines of morality. To fight the battle on such ground, gives a great advantage to an unfair antagonist; since he will be sure to say (and many who have no desire to be unfair will say it internally), Are these the doctrines which you do not deem sufficiently certain to be taken under the protection of law? Is the belief in a God one of the opinions, to feel sure of which, you hold to be assuming infallibility? But I must be permitted to observe, that it is not the feeling sure of a doctrine (be it what it may) which I call an assumption of infallibility. It is the undertaking to decide that question for others, without allowing them to hear what can be said on the contrary side. And I denounce and reprobate this pretension not the less, if put forth on the side of my most solemn convictions.
However positive any one's persuasion may be, not only of the falsity, but of the pernicious consequences not only of the pernicious consequences, but (to adopt expressions which I altogether condemn) the immorality and impiety of an opinion; yet if, in pursuance of that private judgment, though backed by the public judgment of his country or his cotemporaries, he prevents the opinion from being heard in its defence, he assumes infallibility. And so far from the assumption being less objectionable or less dangerous because the opinion is called immoral or impious, this is the case of all others in which it is most fatal. These are exactly the occasions on which the men of one generation commit those dreadful mistakes which excite the astonishment and horror of posterity. It is among such that we find the instances memorable in history, when the arm of the law has been employed to root out the best men and the noblest doctrines; with deplorable success as to the men, though some of the doctrines have survived to be (as if in mockery) invoked, in defence of similar conduct towards those who dissent from them, or from their received interpretation.
Mankind can hardly be too often reminded, that there was once a man named Socrates, between whom and the legal authorities and public opinion of his time, there took place a memorable collision. Born in an age and country abounding in individual greatness, this man has been handed down to us by those who best knew both him and the age, as the most virtuous man in it; while we know him as the head and prototype of all subsequent teachers of virtue, the source equally of the lofty inspiration of Plato and the judicious utilitarianism of Aristotle, "i maestri di colo che sanno," the two headsprings of ethical as of all other philosophy. This acknowledged master of all the eminent thinkers who have since lived whose fame, still growing after more than two thousand years, all but outweighs the whole remainder of the names which make his native city illustrious was put to death by his countrymen, after a judicial conviction, for impiety and immorality. Impiety, in denying the gods recognized by the State; indeed his accuser asserted (see the "Apologia") that he believed in no gods at all. Immorality, in being, by his doctrines and instructions, a "corrupter of youth." Of these charges the tribunal, there is every ground for believing, honestly found him guilty, and condemned the man who probably of all then born had deserved best of mankind, to be put to death as a criminal.
To pass from this to the only other instance of judicial iniquity, the mention of which, after the condemnation of Socrates, would not be an anti-climax: the event which took place on Calvary rather more than eighteen hundred years ago. The man who left on the memory of those who witnessed his life and conversation, such an impression of his moral grandeur, that eighteen subsequent centuries have done homage to him as the Almighty in person, was ignominiously put to death, as what? As a blasphemer. Men did not merely mistake their benefactor; they mistook him for the exact contrary of what he was, and treated him as that prodigy of impiety, which they themselves are now held to be, for their treatment of him. The feelings with which mankind now regard these lamentable transactions, especially the latter of the two, render them extremely unjust in their judgment of the unhappy actors. These were, to all appearance, not bad men not worse than men most commonly are, but rather the contrary; men who possessed in a full, or somewhat more than a full measure, the religious, moral, and patriotic feelings of their time and people: the very kind of men who, in all times, our own included, have every chance of passing through life blameless and respected.
The high-priest who rent his garments when the words were pronounced, which, according to all the ideas of his country, constituted the blackest guilt, was in all probability quite as sincere in his horror and indignation, as the generality of respectable and pious men now are in the religious and moral sentiments they profess; and most of those who now shudder at his conduct, if they had lived in his time and been born Jews, would have acted precisely as he did. Orthodox Christians who are tempted to think that those who stoned to death the first martyrs must have been worse men than they themselves are, ought to remember that one of those persecutors was Saint Paul.
Let us add one more example, the most striking of all, if the impressiveness of an error is measured by the wisdom and virtue of him who falls into it. If ever any one, possessed of power, had grounds for thinking himself the best and most enlightened among his cotemporaries, it was the Emperor Marcus Aurelius. Absolute monarch of the whole civilized world, he preserved through life not only the most unblemished justice, but what was less to be expected from his Stoical breeding, the tenderest heart. The few failings which are attributed to him, were all on the side of indulgence: while his writings, the highest ethical product of the ancient mind, differ scarcely perceptibly, if they differ at all, from the most characteristic teachings of Christ.
This man, a better Christian in all but the dogmatic sense of the word, than almost any of the ostensibly Christian sovereigns who have since reigned, persecuted Christianity. Placed at the summit of all the previous attainments of humanity, with an open, unfettered intellect, and a character which led him of himself to embody in his moral writings the Christian ideal, he yet failed to see that Christianity was to be a good and not an evil to the world, with his duties to which he was so deeply penetrated. Existing society he knew to be in a deplorable state. But such as it was, he saw or thought he saw, that it was held together and prevented from being worse, by belief and reverence of the received divinities. As a ruler of mankind, he deemed it his duty not to suffer society to fall in pieces; and saw not how, if its existing ties were removed, any others could be formed which could again knit it together.
The new religion openly aimed at dissolving these ties: unless, therefore, it was his duty to adopt that religion, it seemed to be his duty to put it down. Inasmuch then as the theology of Christianity did not appear to him true or of divine origin; inasmuch as this strange history of a crucified God was not credible to him, and a system which purported to rest entirely upon a foundation to him so wholly unbelievable, could not be foreseen by him to be that renovating agency which, after all abatements, it has in fact proved to be; the gentlest and most amiable of philosophers and rulers, under a solemn sense of duty, authorized the persecution of Christianity.
To my mind this is one of the most tragical facts in all history. It is a bitter thought, how different a thing the Christianity of the world might have been, if the Christian faith had been adopted as the religion of the empire under the auspices of Marcus Aurelius instead of those of Constantine. But it would be equally unjust to him and false to truth, to deny, that no one plea which can be urged for punishing anti-Christian teaching, was wanting to Marcus Aurelius for punishing, as he did, the propagation of Christianity. No Christian more firmly believes that Atheism is false, and tends to the dissolution of society, than Marcus Aurelius believed the same things of Christianity; he who, of all men then living, might have been thought the most capable of appreciating it. Unless any one who approves of punishment for the promulgation of opinions, flatters himself that he is a wiser and better man than Marcus Aurelius more deeply versed in the wisdom of his time, more elevated in his intellect above it more earnest in his search for truth, or more single-minded in his devotion to it when found; let him abstain from that assumption of the joint infallibility of himself and the multitude, which the great Antoninus made with so unfortunate a result.
Aware of the impossibility of defending the use of punishment for restraining irreligious opinions, by any argument which will not justify Marcus Antoninus, the enemies of religious freedom, when hard pressed, occasionally accept this consequence, and say, with Dr. Johnson, that the persecutors of Christianity were in the right; that persecution is an ordeal through which truth ought to pass, and always passes successfully, legal penalties being, in the end, powerless against truth, though sometimes beneficially effective against mischievous errors. This is a form of the argument for religious intolerance, sufficiently remarkable not to be passed without notice.
A theory which maintains that truth may justifiably be persecuted because persecution cannot possibly do it any harm, cannot be charged with being intentionally hostile to the reception of new truths; but we cannot commend the generosity of its dealing with the persons to whom mankind are indebted for them. To discover to the world something which deeply concerns it, and of which it was previously ignorant; to prove to it that it had been mistaken on some vital point of temporal or spiritual interest, is as important a service as a human being can render to his fellow creatures, and in certain cases, as in those of the early Christians and of the Reformers, those who think with Dr. Johnson believe it to have been the most precious gift which could be bestowed on mankind. That the authors of such splendid benefits should be requited by martyrdom; that their reward should be to be dealt with as the vilest of criminals, is not, upon this theory, a deplorable error and misfortune, for which humanity should mourn in sackcloth and ashes, but the normal and justifiable state of things. The propounder of a new truth, according to this doctrine, should stand, as stood, in the legislation of the Locrians, the proposer of a new law, with a halter round his neck, to be instantly tightened if the public assembly did not, on hearing his reasons, then and there adopt his proposition. People who defend this mode of treating benefactors, can not be supposed to set much value on the benefit; and I believe this view of the subject is mostly confined to the sort of persons who think that new truths may have been desirable once, but that we have had enough of them now.
But, indeed, the dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution, is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes. History teems with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not suppressed forever, it may be thrown back for centuries. To speak only of religious opinions: the Reformation broke out at least twenty times before Luther, and was put down. Arnold of Brescia was put down. Fra Dolcino was put down. Savonarola was put down. The Albigeois were put down. The Vaudois were put down. The Lollards were put down. The Hussites were put down. Even after the era of Luther, wherever persecution was persisted in, it was successful. In Spain, Italy, Flanders, the Austrian empire, Protestantism was rooted out; and, most likely, would have been so in England, had Queen Mary lived, or Queen Elizabeth died. Persecution has always succeeded, save where the heretics were too strong a party to be effectually persecuted. No reasonable person can doubt that Christianity might have been extirpated in the Roman empire.
It spread, and became predominant, because the persecutions were only occasional, lasting but a short time, and separated by long intervals of almost undisturbed propagandism. It is a piece of idle sentimentality that truth, merely as truth, has any inherent power denied to error, of prevailing against the dungeon and the stake. Men are not more zealous for truth than they often are for error, and a sufficient application of legal or even of social penalties will generally succeed in stopping the propagation of either. The real advantage which truth has, consists in this, that when an opinion is true, it may be extinguished once, twice, or many times, but in the course of ages there will generally be found persons to rediscover it, until some one of its reappearances falls on a time when from favourable circumstances it escapes persecution until it has made such head as to withstand all subsequent attempts to suppress it.
[Footnote 2: Thomas Pooley, Bodmin Assizes, July 31, 1857. In December following, he received a free pardon from the Crown.]
It will be said, that we do not now put to death the introducers of new opinions: we are not like our fathers who slew the prophets, we even build sepulchres to them. It is true we no longer put heretics to death; and the amount of penal infliction which modern feeling would probably tolerate, even against the most obnoxious opinions, is not sufficient to extirpate them. But let us not flatter ourselves that we are yet free from the stain even of legal persecution. Penalties for opinion, or at least for its expression, still exist by law; and their enforcement is not, even in these times, so unexampled as to make it at all incredible that they may some day be revived in full force. In the year 1857, at the summer assizes of the county of Cornwall, an unfortunate man, said to be of unexceptionable conduct in all relations of life, was sentenced to twenty-one months imprisonment, for uttering, and writing on a gate, some offensive words concerning Christianity.
Within a month of the same time, at the Old Bailey, two persons, on two separate occasions, were rejected as jurymen, and one of them grossly insulted by the judge and one of the counsel, because they honestly declared that they had no theological belief; and a third, a foreigner, for the same reason, was denied justice against a thief. This refusal of redress took place in virtue of the legal doctrine, that no person can be allowed to give evidence in a court of justice, who does not profess belief in a God (any god is sufficient) and in a future state; which is equivalent to declaring such persons to be outlaws, excluded from the protection of the tribunals; who may not only be robbed or assaulted with impunity, if no one but themselves, or persons of similar opinions, be present, but any one else may be robbed or assaulted with impunity, if the proof of the fact depends on their evidence.
The assumption on which this is grounded, is that the oath is worthless, of a person who does not believe in a future state; a proposition which betokens much ignorance of history in those who assent to it (since it is historically true that a large proportion of infidels in all ages have been persons of distinguished integrity and honor); and would be maintained by no one who had the smallest conception how many of the persons in greatest repute with the world, both for virtues and for attainments, are well known, at least to their intimates, to be unbelievers. The rule, besides, is suicidal, and cuts away its own foundation. Under pretence that atheists must be liars, it admits the testimony of all atheists who are willing to lie, and rejects only those who brave the obloquy of publicly confessing a detested creed rather than affirm a falsehood.
A rule thus self-convicted of absurdity so far as regards its professed purpose, can be kept in force only as a badge of hatred, a relic of persecution; a persecution, too, having the peculiarity that the qualification for undergoing it is the being clearly proved not to deserve it. The rule, and the theory it implies, are hardly less insulting to believers than to infidels. For if he who does not believe in a future state necessarily lies, it follows that they who do believe are only prevented from lying, if prevented they are, by the fear of hell. We will not do the authors and abettors of the rule the injury of supposing, that the conception which they have formed of Christian virtue is drawn from their own consciousness.
[Footnote 3: George Jacob Holyoake, August 17, 1857; Edward Truelove, July, 1857
[Footnote 4: Baron de Gleichen, Marlborough Street Police Court, August 4, 1857.]
[Footnote 5: Ample warning may be drawn from the large infusion of the passions of a persecutor, which mingled with the general display of the worst parts of our national character on the occasion of the Sepoy insurrection. The ravings of fanatics or charlatans from the pulpit may be unworthy of notice; but the heads of the Evangelical party have announced as their principle, for the government of Hindoos and Mahomedans, that no schools be supported by public money in which the Bible is not taught, and by necessary consequence that noo public employment be given to any but real or pretended Christians. An Under Secretary of State, in a speech delivered to his constituents on the 12th of November, 1857, is reported to have said: "Toleration of their faith" (the faith of a hundred millions of British subjects), "the superstition which they called religion, by the British Government, had had the effect of retarding the ascendancy of the British name, and preventing the salutary growth of Christianity.
. . . Toleration was the great corner-stone of the religious liberties of this country; but do not let them abuse that precious word toleration. As he understood it, it meant the complete liberty to all, freedom of worship, among Christians, who worshipped upon the same foundation. It meant toleration of all sects and denominations of Christians who believed in the one mediation." I desire to call attention to the fact, that a man who has been deemed fit to fill a high office in the government of this country, under a liberal Ministry, maintains the doctrine that all who do not believe in the divinity of Christ are beyond the pale of toleration. Who, after this imbecile display, can indulge the illusion that religious persecution has passed away, never to return?]
These, indeed, are but rags and remnants of persecution, and may be thought to be not so much an indication of the wish to persecute, as an example of that very frequent infirmity of English minds, which makes them take a preposterous pleasure in the assertion of a bad principle, when they are no longer bad enough to desire to carry it really into practice. But unhappily there is no security in the state of the public mind, that the suspension of worse forms of legal persecution, which has lasted for about the space of a generation, will continue. In this age the quiet surface of routine is as often ruffled by attempts to resuscitate past evils, as to introduce new benefits. What is boasted of at the present time as the revival of religion, is always, in narrow and uncultivated minds, at least as much the revival of bigotry; and where there is the strongest permanent leaven of intolerance in the feelings of a people, which at all times abides in the middle classes of this country, it needs but little to provoke them into actively persecuting those whom they have never ceased to think proper objects of persecution. For it is this it is the opinions men entertain, and the feelings they cherish, respecting those who disown the beliefs they deem important, which makes this country not a place of mental freedom.
For a long time past, the chief mischief of the legal penalties is that they strengthen the social stigma. It is that stigma which is really effective, and so effective is it, that the profession of opinions which are under the ban of society is much less common in England, than is, in many other countries, the avowal of those which incur risk of judicial punishment. In respect to all persons but those whose pecuniary circumstances make them independent of the good will of other people, opinion, on this subject, is as efficacious as law; men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread. Those whose bread is already secured, and who desire no favors from men in power, or from bodies of men, or from the public, have nothing to fear from the open avowal of any opinions, but to be ill-thought of and ill-spoken of, and this it ought not to require a very heroic mould to enable them to bear.
There is no room for any appeal ad misericordiam in behalf of such persons. But though we do not now inflict so much evil on those who think differently from us, as it was formerly our custom to do, it may be that we do ourselves as much evil as ever by our treatment of them. Socrates was put to death, but the Socratic philosophy rose like the sun in heaven and spread its illumination over the whole intellectual firmament. Christians were cast to the lions, but the Christian Church grew up a stately and spreading tree, overtopping the older and less vigorous growths, and stifling them by its shade. Our merely social intolerance, kills no one, roots out no opinions, but induces men to disguise them, or to abstain from any active effort for their diffusion.
With us, heretical opinions do not perceptibly gain or even lose, ground in each decade or generation; they never blaze out far and wide, but continue to smoulder in the narrow circles of thinking and studious persons among whom they originate, without ever lighting up the general affairs of mankind with either a true or a deceptive light. And thus is kept up a state of things very satisfactory to some minds, because, without the unpleasant process of fining or imprisoning anybody, it maintains all prevailing opinions outwardly undisturbed, while it does not absolutely interdict the exercise of reason by dissentients afflicted with the malady of thought. A convenient plan for having peace in the intellectual world, and keeping all things oing on therein very much as they do already. But the price paid for this sort of intellectual pacification, is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.
A state of things in which a large portion of the most active and inquiring intellects find it advisable to keep the genuine principles and grounds of their convictions within their own breasts, and attempt, in what they address to the public, to fit as much as they can of their own conclusions to premises which they have internally renounced, cannot send forth the open, fearless characters, and logical, consistent intellects who once adorned the thinking world. The sort of men who can be looked for under it, are either mere conformers to commonplace, or time -servers for truth whose arguments on all great subjects are meant for their hearers, and are not those which have convinced themselves. Those who avoid this alternative, do so by narrowing their thoughts and interests to things which can be spoken of without venturing within the region of principles, that is, to small practical matters, which would come right of themselves, if but the minds of mankind were strengthened and enlarged, and which will never be made effectually right until then; while that which would strengthen and enlarge men's minds, free and daring speculation on the highest subjects, is abandoned.

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I originally photographed Ivan around 2007 in my garage. Our relationship was, at that point, as acquaintances, and while the images were great, there wasn't much followup after that. We kept in touch through Facebook where I saw his personal training business grow and his own physical fitness improve drastically as he trained for competition. That was also his last competition, until in 2012 he decided to come back to the sport and compete in the GNC Muscle Contest in Culver City, California.
We had scheduled a second shoot in Malibu the following Sunday and I realized that I didn't really understand the world of competitive fitness (the phrase I would initially use to describe it). Being as though I had also recently taken delivery of a Nikon D800 I asked Ivan if I could come along and document his experience. I had no idea what I had agreed to.
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At 7:00AM I arrived at the Culver City Veterans Memorial Auditorium. I quickly discovered I was two hours early, so I took a walk around the area and watched the athletes as they began to trickle in. My primary experience with bodybuilders, or those who I thought were true bodybuilders, was negative. Whenever I'm at the gym there is, without fail, one guy taking up a massive amount of space as he rips out 140lb dumbbell lifts. I was, in truth, dreading the next few hours; I was out of my element surrounded by meat heads.
My preconceived notions of what was going on were about to be smashed into tiny pieces (in truth I kept running the SNL Hans and Franz skit through my head). I met Ivan at his car, just as he was hanging up the phone, "I've never felt so out of shape" was my instinctual opener. "Don't even worry about that… this isn't healthy. Nobody does this to be healthy."
Ivan was, for the most part, calm, but I could sense a bit of uneasiness in him as the minutes ran by. One of the most critical components of proper bodybuilding, especially in the days leading up to a competition, is eating and hydrating. It seemed as though every third time I looked back Ivan was eating unseasoned chicken breast and rice.
A week before competition he drinks 2+ gallons of water each day, then tapers off to almost no water the day before, making himself as vascular as possible. Salt intake, if there is any at all, is extremely regulated, as even a tiny amount will retain enough water to make the difference between a waste of time and a trophy. I have done "extreme" diets in the past, but nothing comes close to the dedication and mental strength it takes for competition diets.
One of the more surprising things about Ivan I've learned over the years is his temperament. It flies in the face of the "they're all bastards" ideal I have in my head about meatheads. Perhaps Ivan is unique, but his reverence for his mother was shattering. One forgets about this quality in a family relationship and it slams you back to reality when it is practiced with such authenticity. He is one of the kindest, most considerate persons I have ever met.
After receiving his mothers blessing, and his wife's embrace, we walked towards the competition hall.
As I would soon find out, most of the competition day is spent waiting. Not only were were at the auditorium early, with approximately 40 different classes of athletes on display, from 60+ bodybuilders to teenage bikini models, our 9AM call time translated to a 5 hour wait. When competition day comes the physically strenuous training is over and the mental fortitude becomes either an athletes greatest strength or his Achilles heel.
As the athletes filed in and took their seats it became clear that these competitors come from an eclectic set of situations. There were bodybuilders with clear purpose, men and women whose main goal was to look great on the beach, women bodybuilders who were (quite frankly) both impressive and terrifying, and a litany of other onlookers, supporters, and general public.
Ivan's mother and wife were ever-present, clearly his emotional anchors through this competition and, one can only assume, outside of his competitive life.
Soon after the athlete meeting Ivan met up with his friend Dallas Malloy (Ms. California) who kept a smile on his face, a welcome distraction.
Most communities of athletes are relatively tight knit, but there seems to be a clear divide in competitive bodybuilding. There are the true professionals that travel to competitions that lead up to the purse-winning events, and the amateurs who travel long distances for their five minutes of stage time. One gets the impression that, at certain levels, the world of bodybuilding becomes a small community, but at general events like these the entrants are simply too varied, forcing a lack of cohesion. But my opinion may be completely off-base.
Around the vendor areas there was a palpable feeling that the "Big for Bigs Sake" motif was being promoted heavily. Rather than promoting fitness as a sport or a lifestyle, there was a huge degree of bigger-is-better in the merchandise. It was unfortunate to be so reminded of the aggressive, stereotypical, shortsighted I'm-bigger-than-you-so-I-win ideal so quickly after discovering the dedicated, incredibly disciplined side of the sport.
After four hours of waiting and watching the previous competitors on the stage and listening to the judges it becomes paramount to find a quiet, zen-like frame of mind to focus on the short time the competitors have on stage.
As the competition began, Ivan moved to the quieter section of the auditorium to gather his thoughts and quiet his nerves.
A bevy of 'official' photographers were on hand to capture each competitor. One of the chief elements of this enterprise that caught me offguard is exactly how big of a business it really is. Tickets to the pre-judging portion (which I covered) were $35, while tickets to the show itself (an entirely separate purchase) were in upwards of $45. Conservative estimates would peg attendance at four hundred people, with videos, pictures, food, and other accessories being peddled on site to boot. The competition could have easily been confused for a trade show with the sheer number of business entities on site.
This guy ^ (read the last paragraph for context)
This particular group of guys were fun to watch. If nothing else their practiced smiles, the poses, the walks, everything they did was produced. It was rare to get even a glimpse into what the competitors were really thinking since they were all painfully on point. Each one was playing a version of themselves they think the world wants to see–for better or worse.
I am projecting here, but it was entertaining to see those who in high school would mock me for being in Drama club put on such a show.
Finally it was Ivan's group. He was in line with around a dozen other guys, each one of them bronzed to being nearly unrecognizable. It was the culminating moment that Ivan had spent months training rigorously for.
Ivan placed fifth, out of a dozen. Six years between competitions and his work ethic puts him in a position to make a raucous comeback. When coming into this shoot I had so many preconceived notions that, for the most part, ended up refuted. Bodybuilding is very much an athletic endeavor, a sport that is taken to the extreme (as so many are). Ivan is, perhaps, one of the most grounded bodybuilders I have spoken to, and even he says there are only a handful more years he can put his body through the stress and strain it takes to be in natural competition shape.
Are there steroids? Sure. I can't imagine the fellow 11 shots above this line is all natural. Do steroids win competitions? I doubt it. There are drug tests performed at the major events and use is discouraged at those levels (which have an entirely different mind set anyway than those of us fiddling about in the kiddie pool of the body building world). What I took away from this experience, more than anything, was the feeling that while your average "King of the Gym" may be building muscle for vanities' sake, a true athlete like Ivan does it because he/she loves it and can't imagine doing anything else.
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Phantom Freshman Too Much For Shawano
West De Pere scored all their points in the first half, keeping the ball on the ground for a 42-0 win over Shawano in a Bay Conference season opener. Josh Blount filled the shoes left empty by Bay Conference Offensive Player of the Year Matthew McNabb. Blount scored four times to account for all of the Phantoms offensive points in his Varsity debut. The Freshman Quarterback rushed for 123 yards. Austin Beaumier scored the final touchdown of the half, as the Phantoms scored twice in :12 seconds after Shawano fumbled the kickoff.
Shawano Junior Roman Purell carried the running game with 59 yards on 12 carries. Jarrett Laatsch threw for 85 yards.
Before the game, members of Shawano area Law Enforcement stood on the sidelines for the National Anthem. The recognized law enforcement for all they do for the community.
1st-WDP- Josh Blount 13-yard run
1st WDP- Josh Blount 3-yard run
2nd-WDP-Josh Blount-5-yard run
2nd-WDP- Garrett Kempen blocked punt for TD-
2nd-WDP-Josh Blount-66-yard run
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Gravity Ride - Mt. Tamalpais - "Tavern of Tamalpais"
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| Every Sunday at 7 P.M. (Dinner at the tavern) Arriving san Francisco 8:35 P.M. A most novel and exhilarating coast of eight miles down the Mountain side. "Taern of Tamalpais" Is a unique and convenient place, with unexcelled accommodations, recently redesigned for the express purpose of entertaining dinner parties, small dances, card parties, and other social entertainments, either for a day and evening, a night, or a day and night, permitting the enjoyment of the most glorious sunset, sunrise and early morning gravity ride down the Mountain. To organizations, societies, or clubs, suitable accommodations for transacting business matters, are to be found in the large meeting hall on the lower floor. Arrangements can be made for parties of ten or more, for special evening car (without extra charge), to and from the Mountain, arriving back in San Francisco the same evening if desired, by telephoning Mill Valley 230 or Mill Valley 83 (Tavern), or at City Ticket Office, No. 687 Market St. opposite Kearny St. Tel. Kearny 2751


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The End Of Telly
Waaahhh!!! No more telly! The telly's gone! Last week marked the end of funny telly, with the latest seasons of '30 Rock', 'Scrubs' and 'The Office' finishing. No more Dr Spaceman, J.D or Dwight for aaaages!As if this wasn't bad enough, this week heralded the death toll on the latest seasons of 3 of telly's best serious offerings. Oh, telly, what have we done to offend you so? That said, they were a mixed bag (caution: if you haven't seen them yet then SPOILERS follow so come back when you've watched them).
Arrrghhh! Veronica, you frustrate me so! After 2 excellent first seasons this new one was so bitterly disappointing, with all too brief flashes of the show we used to love. In an effort to boast flagging ratings the showrunners stripped away everything that made V-Mars great, turning it into an OC-alike teen show cliche. Gone was the edginess, Veronica's outsider feistiness and Logan's borderline psychotic traits. This year, with no explanation whatsoever, Veronica was nice and popular, Logan was a 100% doe-eyed pussy and (most importantly) HALF the lead cast weren't even in OVER HALF the episodes!
And these measures didn't work, as the once-great show has now been cancelled. However, sometimes the luxury of not caring due to being cancelled can breed greatness, and that certainly seems to have been the case for the 2-hour finale. Gritty, dark and challenging, the writers seemed to be having fun with the character, and she actually was the character again. Logan went nutso again, with one of the best exiting lines for a character in any final episode I've ever seen. And - hooray - all the lead cast were involved! For most of this season I've not been too fussed, but after this finale I've been left yet again hankering for more Veronica. Bye bye, Miss Mars, a great send-off that you truly deserved.
Now this one threw me. It's been a great year for serious telly, with Battlestar Galactica and Lost really producing the goods. But Heroes was the one show that, week after week, consistently upped the ante and stunned me with how much better every episode was. Plus, after months of build-up, we'd been promised this epic encounter between Peter and Sylar, the struggle to save millions of lives and characters descending into darkness.
What did we get? Possibly the most disappointing series finale I've ever seen. I first watched it at Stephen, and Si-Man rightly commented that no finale would satisfy what we expected. But I've seen it again since, and it's just horrible. Taut storytelling became diabolical pacing, interesting character arcs became sentimental schmaltz of the highest order, twists became the biggest cliches you can imagine.
Wost of all, the climactic battle betwixt Peter and Sylar amounted to little more than 2 mins of a street fistfight, while all the other characters we've invested months in (most of whom have a superpower) sit around and basically do fuck all. And either the producers had blown their budget by this point or just decided they didn't really need good special effects in their season finale. Oh yes, and an end coda that ripped off Evil Dead 2. I can't remember ever feeling quite so cheated by a telly as I did with this, and on this evidence I'm seriously considering skipping the next season.
Pay attention, Heroes, this is how you do a finale! Season 3 has been an absolutely stellar year for Lost, planting itself firmly back on track and easily beasting the first series that everyone raved about before realising it was a telly show they'd have to think about. But my god, they delivered an absolute mindfuck of an ending here, one that tied up many loose ends and fundamentally changed the show forever.
I really can't describe how utterly incredible, not to mention ballsy, this finale was without giving anything away. So go watch it, as they somehow managed to simultaneously tie-up everything that had gone before, leave questions for the future, and totally fuck up everything you thought you knew about the show. And kudos must go in spades to the writers and cast for actually taking the time to craft well-rounded characters in a mainstream show. It would have been so easy to keep bringing back Smokezilla for cheap thrills, but the team decided to focus on the people in the show. And that's rare in American telly. Matthew Fox in particular deserves special mention, as he's always been good on the show but here delivered one of the best, most heart-wrenching performances I've ever seen.
No more telly... waaaahhh!!!! (although 'Entourage', 'The Wire' and 'The Riches' await me...)


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As we speak, there is a Bellingham Police Crime Scene Investigation truck parked in the alley behind my building. Guys in yellow zip-up suits have made brief appearances, opening and closing truck doors before disappearing again, and I've stood in my window, gawking, trying to see what it is that's happening–but they managed to park their enormous truck right between me and whatever they're doing. Yes, I'm a no-good voyeur, but I'll tell you what–there's something far more disturbing about have a Crime Scene Investigation (wait. Isn't that a TV show?) truck parked behind my house, rather than a plain-old everyday ambulance.
What? We have crime in Bellingham now?
But seriously. Not a laughing matter, I know. I always feel compelled to run up to stuff like that–accidents, ambulances, big Police trucks–and ask if I can help somehow, but I'm always held up by the suspicion that I don't really want to help, I just want to know what's going on. I'm just nosy, not helpful. And besides–what could I do? The one time I was actually able to help in an "emergency situation" I was terrified–and all I could do was hold somebody's hand. What I felt was not heroic, but helpless.
Here, however, one could assume that the crime has already taken place, the injured have been whisked away, and now there's just that tiny matter of Investigation to clear up before everybody goes home for the day. Meanwhile, all the nosy neighbors peer out of their blinds and make up excuses to go out in the backyard, just to, you know, check things out–I mean, throw away that single bag of old, rotten lettuce.
So, yes. It's a fine line between wanting genuinely to help others and wanting to dig up a good story to tell over lunch the next day–and I suspect that this is one of those "good story" moments. In fact, yes, it is, because I'm telling the damn story right now. Ha! Case closed.


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An important feature of the film is the way that the appartment changes from a bright, welcoming place to an oppressive prison. This is achived through a mixture of colour, music and action; the redecoration of the living room in an almost nauseating shade of yellow, the way that the opening bars of Beethoven's Fur Elise play whenever Rosemary is talking to her elderly (and extremely nosy) neighbour in the kitchen, Rosemary's gradual withdrawl from the world as her pregnancy progresses.
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Equally important to the success of the film is the performance of the actors; Mia Farrow puts in a magnificent performance depicting Rosemary's transformation from a happy young woman to a gaunt, paranoid recluse, jumping at every sound (Time, 1968). Watching, you can't help but feel pity for her, trapped by a conspiracy of those who should be looking after her; when her last friend tries to help her he falls foul of the conspiracy and is silenced by supernatural agents.
It must be noted that the film doesn't rely on special effects to provide its shocks, indeed apart from the very end there is nothing on screen that couldn't happen in everyday life (although you have to hope that you wouldn't be drugged by your neighbours so they can use you in diabolical rituals). Even the fact that the obstetrician Rosemary seeks assistance from doesn't believe her story and reports her to her alleged persecutors doesn't seem unbelievable (although you do find yourself thinking that he is perhaps somewhat irresponsible - even if she was just suffering from paranoid delusions, would it really be the best medical decision to hand her over to the people she believes are conspiring against her? (Adler, 1968))
It is at the end that the film becomes most disturbing, as Rosemary - having discovered that she was pregnant with the child of satan and her baby has been kidnapped by her satanist neighbours - none the less finds herself compelled to care for her child in a scene strongly reminiscent of the ending of John Wyndham's The Midwich Cuckoos (1957).
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Figure 1. William Castle Productions (Org) (1968) Rosemary's Baby Theatrical Poster [digital image] At: http://www.movieposterdb.com/group/4ab6b9cc (accessed on 20/01/2011)
Figure 2. William Castle Productions (Org) (1968) Rosemary's Baby [Film Still] At: http://horrornews.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Rosemarys-Baby-photo-7.jpg (accessed on 20/01/2011)
Adler, Renata (1968) Movie Review: Rosemary's Baby In: The New York Times [Online] At: http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=EE05E7DF1738E271BC4B52DFB0668383679EDE&partner=Rotten%20Tomatoes (accessed on 20/01/2011)
Ebert, Roger (1968) Rosemary's Baby In: rogerebert.com [Online] At: http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19680729/REVIEWS/807290301 (Accessed on 20/01/2011)
Time Magazine (1968) New Movies: Rosemary's Baby In: Time.com [Online] At: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,900239,00.html (accessed on 20/01/2011)


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It is naturally unstable and so it will spontaneously decay back into N-14 after a period of time.It takes about 5,730 years for half of a sample of radiocarbon to decay back into nitrogen.Consumer Reports found that the spread between the best and worst alkalines was only 9-15%. Alkalines leak more frequently than any other kind of battery. Three of the biggest battery-makers offer to replace any equipment damaged by their batteries.Tests by ZBattery also showed little difference between name-brand alkalines. The Rayovac and Energizer guarantees seem to cover leakage, but the Duracell wording is a little more ambiguous (and they wouldn't answer my request for clarification).Rachel Wood does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond the academic appointment above.
They're all pretty much the same, despite the manufacturers' commercials.Plants and animals naturally incorporate both the abundant C-12 isotope and the much rarer radiocarbon isotope into their tissues in about the same proportions as the two occur in the atmosphere during their lifetimes.When a creature dies, it ceases to consume more radiocarbon while the C-14 already in its body continues to decay back into nitrogen.It takes another 5,730 for half of the remainder to decay, and then another 5,730 for half of what's left then to decay and so on.The period of time that it takes for half of a sample to decay is called a "half-life." Radiocarbon oxidizes (that is, it combines with oxygen) and enters the biosphere through natural processes like breathing and eating.


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Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1983-Jul-15
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Michigan Dissemination Capacity Building Project. Final Report.
Hawkins, Philip H.
The Michigan Educational Resource Information Center (MERIC) was established in order to serve the needs of the state's educators by facilitating general access to resources through the existing state education agency (SEA). MERIC increased the variety and quantity of educational resources available in Michigan, broadened access to these resources, and coordinated the continuing improvement of the SEA's dissemination services. Located in the State Library, MERIC developed procedures for drawing on the State Library's resources, subject-specific programs within the department, national databases, and resources in intermediate districts throughout Michigan. The agency's data processing center developed and maintained a search and retrieval system patterned after ERIC with off-line, searchable program, product, and human resource files. MERIC also established a network of eight key communicators at intermediate school districts to assist in dissemination and link local district educators to the system, with the aid of a 23-station telecopier network. Its primary users were information resource providers at the state, regional, and intermediate district levels. An appendix lists activities and accomplishments. (Author/TE)
Descriptors: Diffusion (Communication), Education Service Centers, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Centers, Information Networks, Information Retrieval, Information Services, Library Services, Linking Agents, Public Agencies, Resource Centers, State Agencies, State Departments of Education
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Sponsor: National Inst. of Education (ED), Washington, DC.
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This is the season for migrating (no, not to Florida or Mexico to getaway from the cold)! The Great Migration is now taking place on theAfrican Serengeti. That means that hundreds of thousands of Wildebeestalong with zebra, and other African wildlife are on the march lookingfor water. This migration is sometimes called the "circle of life"because the animals literally circle the plains of the Serengeti in their search.
During this long trek these African plains become the birthing groundfor almost half a million calves! But, even though these little guys stand up and walk in fewer minutes than your hand has fingers, only half of them survive the predators and diseases that are prevalent.
You and your students can find out more about wildebeests and their yearly migration through the Serengeti by using your State Library'sKansas Library Card ( http://www.kslc.org/ )and trying the Keyword WILDEBEESTS in the ProQuest databases or the SIRS Discoverer database orthe term WILDEBEEST MIGRATION in the Thomson-Gale (InfoTrac) databases. There are plenty of articles (many in full-text) that will provideinformation and, if you have little researchers around, there is atleast one article in the SIRS database (Across the African Savannah)that has a Serengeti Board Game at the end!
~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~Sherry Hawkins Backhus, MLSInformation firstname.lastname@example.com ~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~ "Who dares to teach must never cease to learn." John Cotton Dana
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43 Mind-Bending Mudbox Tuts! - Cgtuts+
: "This time we got a load of 43 Mudbox tutorials, and some of those tutorials are made up of groups of more tutorials...and then those tutorials are made of even more tutorials... you get the idea. So in reality, you probably have around 65 Mudbox masterpieces to keep you busy here, but honestly, who cares about these numbers? Lets just get to learning us some Mudbox, and enjoy the variable cornucopia of tutty goodness!"
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The surprises that happen when you least expect them! Yep, that's me in a helicopter I just came across the other day. If I had time to prepare for a helicopter ride, I would have stressed out so much but as it was, all I had to do was simply jump in. So this dress is now officially my 'flying dress'!
How not to descend from your chopper! See, this is why I don't wear my dresses too short just in case I end up having to do this sort of thing…Yeah, the pilot was cute.
It was a magical feeling to be in the air and having an almost 360′ view of the horizon and the ground below.
My kids were so in awe as you can imagine. Anything that's good enough for Suri Cruise is good enough for my trio – lol!
I love how my Boy got into the drama of the occasion and how the wind whipped up Tween girl's long hair.
They all did so well. I forgot to take a photo of me wearing my yellow life jacket – that was the ultimate colour blocking.


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