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Ikkojin is a monthly magazine about art, history and culture, with a slightly hipper, younger slant than the subjects might suggest. It is lavishly illustrated with great photos and dynamic layouts. The October 2011 issue features an introduction to Japanese temples. There is an article about the current exhibition at the Tokyo National Museum: 'Kukai and the art of esoteric Buddhism.' Another article surveys the head temples of 13 Buddhist sects. One sidebar is an outline of your basic temple visit--listing eight points, most of which I covered earlier in a much clumsier manner. You may find somewhat more detail if you look at older posts on this blog, but here is the magazine's outline (my translation, with additional comments by me in parentheses).
1. In front of the main gate (山門)put your hands together and bow (this is a way to mark off the start of your visit--'entering the zone' as it were. Of course, just going through the gate puts you into the zone physically; the gasho and bow are the psychological start).
2. At the ablution station (水屋)purify your hands and mouth.
3. Walk along the edge of the worshippers' path (参道)(I think walking along the edge is practical, to allow two-way traffic, and also to be more humble than to walk grandly in the middle of the path.)
4. Offer candles and/or incense. (I think the temples usually make a bit of profit on these, so it is a financial donation as well as being an offering from the heart.)
5. In front of the temple building, put some money in the box. (Usually one coin--I am usually feeling cheap, so I just put in ten yen. If I am feeling flush, I put in the first coin I take from my coin purse--it could be a 500-yen coin, worth more than five bucks these days. As I mentioned earlier, the amount is pretty much irrelevant, but probably it should be enough to make you feel good about it.)
6. Rattle the wani-guchi (鰐口)gong. (I didn't mention this earlier--it is a biscuit-shaped hollow gong with a slit opening halfway around the outer edge. The name means 'alligator mouth.' I didn't mention this earlier, because not all temples have them, and not many people use them--maybe the racket would disturb the calm temple atmosphere. I associate them more with shrines than temples, but that is just me.)
7. Place your hands together and offer a prayer. (At Pure Land temples, I have seen signs that say 'Don't make prayer requests.' We are protected by Buddha whether we request things or not.)
8. As you leave the precincts, turn toward the main hall and bow with hands together.
In the pictures, you can see a wani-guchi gong on the Hall of the Medicine Buddha--the red and white rope with the bead will sound the gong.
A water ablution station with a spout in the form of a double dragon. Water dragons support Buddhism even though, since they are not human, they cannot attain Buddhahood/enlightenment. However, a princely son of the dragon king was once netted by fishermen when he had assumed the form of a fish. Kuan Yin/Avalokitesvara persuaded the fishermen to return the fish to the sea, and the dragons have been grateful ever since.
The 'sando' worshippers' path at the temple Enyuji on a quiet day. The Hall of Sakyamuni could be six or seven hundred years old--at any rate, it is the oldest wooden building in the 23 central wards of Tokyo. There is a waniguchi hanging under the eave, above the donation box, but there is no rope for sounding it.


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#1791 – Moist
Posted on May 10, 2013 at 8:59 am by Chris
My vision going bad is usually the first thing I notice when I'm dehydrated or sleepy. You would think I would get a clue from other things like my 8-hour-old bottle of water that is still nearly full.Tags: dehydrated, eyes, water
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Well, that looks uncomfortable… How do they stay on?
"Are you crying?"
"Nope, just had too much water."
As long as the bottled waters aren't the kind with a spritz of lemon, I see nothing wrong with moisturizing the peepers like that.
What kind of liquid is in those bottles? Diluted ink?
Why do my eyes feel *dry* when I wash them with distilled water?
And why am I less nearsighted when my eyes are dry?
Anyway, this reminds me of some webcomic I found recently, wonder if Chris was inspired by it, its URL is http://maximumble.thebookofbiff.com/2013/05/07/624-… no, wait…


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When and Where: November 28, 2018 – Manchester, N.H. (Stan Spirou Field House)
Score: Saint Anselm College 76, Southern New Hampshire University 63
Records: Saint Anselm (5-0, 2-0 NE10), SNHU 4-3 (1-2 NE10)
Junior Shawn Montague (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.) posted 16 points and 11 rebounds, but the Southern New Hampshire University men's basketball team faded late in a 76-63 defeat at the hands of its crosstown rival, fourth-ranked Saint Anselm College, on Wednesday night at the Stan Spirou Field House.
- Montague, who scored 12 of his 16 in the second half, hit eight of his 16 shots from the field, while handing out a pair of assists.
- Fellow junior Eamonn Joyce (Medford, Mass.) put up nine of his 13 points (5-14 FG, 3-4 FT) in the first half, while grabbing seven rebounds.
- Senior Daquaise Andrews (Queens, N.Y.) registered his second straight double-double with 12 points (5-17 FG, 2-5 FT) and 11 boards, to go with four assists and a pair of steals.
- Classmate Charlie Russo (Syracuse, N.Y.) rounded out the Penmen double-figure scorers with 12 points (4-8 FG, 3-5 3-FG, 1-1 FT), two rebounds and two assists.
- Tim Guers led all scorers with 28 points (9-19 FG, 4-7 3-FG, 6-6 FT) and 10 rebounds, while Chris Paul and Gustav Suhr-Jessen added 18 and 17 points, respectively.
- Southern New Hampshire built an early 7-4 lead over the opening 4:15 behind five points from Joyce, but a 15-6 burst – with seven points from Guers – gave Saint Anselm the largest lead of the half for either team at 19-13 with 9:24 remaining.
- With the margin still six nearly three minutes later, six straight from the Penmen evened the score at 24-all with 5:14 to go, but the Hawks scored eight of the final 10 points of the half – with Suhr-Jessen contributing four – to seize a 32-26 halftime advantage.
- After Suhr-Jessen opened the second stanza with a layup that made it an eight-point game, back-to-back 3-pointers from junior Ryogo Sumino (Kanagawa, Japan) and Russo, followed by a pair of buckets from Montague, pulled the Penmen within one for the first of five times over the ensuing six minutes at 37-36 with 17:17 to play.
- SNHU was never able to make it over the hump, as it trailed, 50-49, with 11:21 left, when six points from Paul and four from Guers helped piece together a 12-2 run that opened the Hawks' largest lead of the contest to that point at 62-51 with 6:24 on the clock.
- A four-point play from Russo, followed by a pair of incredible acrobatic layups from Andrews, slashed the Penmen deficit to 62-59 with 5:08 to go, but SNHU would convert just one more field goal the rest of the way, as eight points from Guers and four from Suhr-Jessen carried a game-ending 14-4 flurry for Saint Anselm.
- Saint Anselm outshot Southern New Hampshire, 45.3 percent (29-64) to 36.1 percent (26-72), including 42.9 percent (15-35) to 29.7 percent (11-37) in the opening half and 29.4 percent (5-17) to 23.8 percent (5-21) from long distance.
- The Hawks were also plus-7 from the line and shot it better, 72.2 percent (13-18) to 54.5 percent (6-11).
- Saint Anselm narrowly won the glass (43-42) and the paint (44-38), collected more points off mistakes (12-6) and featured a slightly better assist-to-turnover ratio (9/10-10/13).
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text: The nature-based Theory of Balanceology starts with the primordial atom – Believe it or not but once upon a time, time didn't exist! What is theorized to have existed was this super hot and ultra dense neutron ball. Monsignor George Lemaitre talked in terms of an initial ball he called the "cosmic egg." In 1846, he wrote about this incipient cosmic egg in L' Hypotheses del' Atome Primitif (Primeval Atom Hypotheses). The First Cause of the Universe most widely accepted by scientists is the Big Bang Theory. The Big Bang is a time of immense compression and enormous temperature. It is a Cosmic Story that presents a metaphor to conceptualize how everything began. According to this theory, a volatilizable primordial atom (cosmic egg), the size of a dime, violently exploded 13,700,000,000 years ago creating a colossal nature-based Universe of energy, matter, space, and time. It was the most massive fulmination ever. The Big Bang amounts to a nearly infinite energy density of extreme hyper-acceleration and super-radioactivity from the primordial atom. Within .000000000001 of a second 4 fundamental immutable forces came into existence: 1.) gravity of attraction, 2.) electromagnetic electric charges and electric current, 3.) a strong nuclei of atoms, and 4.) a weak nuclei in control of radioactive decay.


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Me and my friend Elyseé had a sleepover at my place. They told me they were sick with the flu, so they couldn't come to the Mayday party.
After they left, Suavecita and Eleclya rang my doorbell. We were going to Horror Shop in Suavecita's car, it was Eleclya 28th birthday and they were going to have their nose pierced the same way I have, a ring on the right side of their nose.
We travelled to Konala in Suavecita's car, laughing and talking. Once in Horror Shop, Eleclya had their nose pierced and they also bought a t- shirt.
Suavecita gave Perkele a bar of Fazer whole- nut chocolate, which I understand to be their favorite. They gave us hugs and told us to have a fun Mayday.
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When Eleclya came out, they had a "horseshoe" ring on the side of their nose. Perkele told us that if Eleclya starts feeling woozy, we are supposed to make her lie down and give her lots of candy and soda and ice cream. We all shared a hearty laugh.
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Suavecita also bought some candy for me and Eleclya.
Suavecita drove us to their home to pick up the aforementioned bicycle, me and Eleclya waited in the car.
Once in Heidi's home, Jari came to greet us. I was surprised to see that they had shaved their head to a crew- cut instead of the long, wavy heavy metal hair they used to have.
Along with me, Suavecita, Eleclya, Heidi, and Jari, there was another of our friends named Suski. We ate brownies and tuna pastries and tuna pie and crisps, drank coffee and alcohol- free beverages.
Later the day we left, Suavecita drove Eleclya home and I decided to leave, after saying hello to Eleclya's mother and cuddling with their dog Hipsu.
I realized that there are at least four different bus stops in the intersection near Eleclya's home, and I couldn't figure out where the buses to Myyrmäki stop. So I took a bus to Aviapolis, then a train to Martinlaakso, and went to say hello to my parents.
Mom and dad gave me some money as it was my name day today, I emptied and loaded the dishwasher and watched a bit of TV with them. Then I hugged and kissed them both and told them to take care.
I took the bus to Myyrmäki, once back home I took my evening medicine and had a proper wash.
Tomorrow I am going to have a Mayday party at my own home, I have invited lots of people and bought lots of treats. After the party I am going to tidy up my home, and then I will go visit my parents again.


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Science, Creation and all that Jazz
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Darwin film 'too controversial for religious America'
Creation, starring Paul Bettany, details Darwin's "struggle between faith and reason" as he wrote On The Origin of Species. It depicts him as a man who loses faith in God following the death of his beloved 10-year-old daughter, Annie.
The film was chosen to open the Toronto Film Festival and has its British premiere on Sunday. It has been sold in almost every territory around the world, from Australia to Scandinavia.
However, US distributors have resolutely passed on a film which will prove hugely divisive in a country where, according to a Gallup poll conducted in February, only 39 per cent of Americans believe in the theory of evolution. […]
Review of Creation by Fionnuala Halligan – ScreenDaily
Released on the bi-centenary of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th publishing anniversary of On The Origin Of Species, Creation opts to view the naturalist through a domestic prism; struggling to bridge a gulf of faith with his wife while preparing to publish the theories which will rock the religious establishment. . . .
CREATION tells of Darwin's war between science and love
Nev Pierce has written a piece about Creation in the LA Times. . . . Darwin's continuing relevance is one reason why "Creation" has been selected to open Toronto, which usually kicks off with a home-grown picture. "It's a bit of a tradition for us to open with a Canadian film, yes," said festival co-director…
Love him or hate him, there's no denying that Charles Darwin has massively influenced the modern world. 200 years after his birth, his struggles leading up to publishing On the Origin of Species are explored in a new film, Creation, starring Paul Bettany as Darwin.
The title is surprising but apt, since the film is partly about the creation of his book and partly about his doubts that God directly created every distinct species. But above all, it is the story of Darwin's struggles over one particular aspect of creation: suffering.
Creation doesn't tell the story in chronological order, indicating Darwin's inner turmoil. His disquiet is partly intellectual. His meticulous explorations in the natural world have led him to conclusions that don't mesh easily with the predominant views of his day.[…]
A Fresh Start – Noah
Darren Aronofsky is a visionary and ambitious film-maker who constantly grapples with big themes in his work. Noah continues in this line as it explores significant – and very relevant – tensions within humanity: between benevolent care for the environment and greedy exploitation, between duty and self-interest, and of course, between good and evil. Aronofsky, along with co-writer Ari Handel, explores these issues and others in spectacular, epic style in the context of one of humanity's oldest stories.
This post was first published in Film & Bible Blog. © Tony Watkins 2013.
Image courtesy Icon Film Distribution © 2009 This article was first published on Culturewatch.org. © Tony Watkins, 2010 Today sees the release in UK cinemas of Creation, marking the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth. Husband and wife Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly give beautifully nuanced performances as Charles and Emma Darwin experiencing a difficult…
Talking About . . . Darwin
As the world marks the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, his influence on the world is as enormous as ever. Whatever you think of his ideas, there's no doubt that they have shaped science and profoundly affected many aspects of contemporary culture. Darwin's meticulous work established the natural sciences as a serious scientific discipline for the first time. If this was Darwin's only legacy, he would still be a towering figure in the history of science. But for most people, his name is linked only with On the Origin of Species. […]
Pollard on Film: Creation and changing your mind
via damaris.org Nick Pollard explores Charles Darwin's changing belief in God, with clips from the film 'Creation'. Two crucial questions are posed – Why is it that you believe what you do? and What would it take to make you change your mind? Posted via web from Tony Watkins These posts may be related: CREATION…
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Charles Darwin: eminent scientist, loving husband, grieving father. The film Creation explores the different sides to the man who some believe had 'the biggest single idea in the history of thought'. Even today, Darwin's legacy is at the centre of contemporary debate about our understanding of who we are and what it means to be human. This film explores the implications of Darwin's theories, and the way that tragic events in his family life influenced his doubts about God.[…]
Five weeks today sees the release in UK cinemas of Creation, a film about the life of Charles Darwin directed by Jon Amiel (The Core, Entrapment). The screenplay is by Jon Collee (Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World), based on the book Annie's Box by Randall Keynes (Charles Darwin's great-great-grandson). It stars real-life husband and wife Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly as Charles and Emma Darwin, and is an emotional journey into the grief that shaped one of the great scientific minds of the last 200 years.


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Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Bock on homosexuality
Submitted by Darrell L. Bock on Tue, 2010-08-17 21:23.
Ok, Lynn, explain this in the Bible--Gen 2 and its definition of marriage as involving a man and a woman, a text Jesus cited (and he was capable of challenging the status quo). Please note I am not talking about the government or civil rights. Just what Jesus taught. To say Jesus accepts same-sex marriage is to say something for which there is no biblical evidence (generic claims about love do not apply) and to ignore how he defined marriage and how he said God defined marriage as well in responding to the issue of the exception in Moses. You are right to raise the issue of consistency in how we let moral violations in heterosexual contexts slide, but as we discussed long ago and long and hard, to use one poorly handled moral area to open the door for another is not moral progress.
On to whomever: I suppose one day people will use the argument that people are born aggressive and thus are murderers by nature, people God cannot help to do better.
Submitted by Darrell L. Bock on Wed, 2010-08-18 21:30.
Please do not misrepresent what I said. Bad place to start. Neither did you answer the question. You tried to skate around it, taking logical missteps along the way.
1) Genesis, which he cites, only mentions a man and a woman in marriage.
(2) Problems in what can be done does not equal allowing what cannot be done (logical fallacy there), so raising 1 Cor 7 does not work. hat is a rabbit trail from my question.
3) Even worse in your reading is that Paul makes clear in 1 Cor 7 that choosing to marry is not sin right there in the context, so this is not a command in any kind of absolute sense as you try to characterize it (even though it is not relevant anyway).
(4) So you misrepresent 1 Cor 7 to try and get out of what Genesis 2 says. Genesis 2 is not a commandment when Jesus cites it but a definition of what marriage is and a description of what happened when God brought Adam and Eve together to start the helpmeet relationship that made for a marriage, a male-female design that Jesus affirms. No where does he say one must do it. In fact Jesus also notes the value of staying single. but what Jesus does say is that this is what constitutes a marriage according to God.
(5) So what Jesus says simply states what a marriage was intended to be and nowhere does he say two partners of any sex, but specifies a man and a woman.
(6) This was no "ideal". (genre mistake) It was a declaration of what marriage is and that it was intended to be permanent. Thus, Jesus' no divorce reply (at least with only adultery as an exception- but all of this detail on divorce is not relevant to my question either). So you calling it and making it ideal is a second logical equation that is not what is taking place in the passage. Each of these moves (commandment, ideal) obscures the point by trying to move away from it and ceases to see the point of why Jesus cited Genesis 2, which was to define marriage as a base for what he goes on to say.
(7) So to say Jesus approved of same sex marriage not only says too much. It says something Jesus denied by the very passage he used to define and discuss marriage.
(8) Not only is nowhere a same sex marriage in the Bible endorsed, but every time a sexual relationship between the same sex comes up, it is condemned. Jesus even referred to Sodom and Gomorrah as evidence of evil. Running to love to cover a multitude of condemnations is yet another run around the text.
For these reasons, you lack of understanding about my position on morality affirmed in the last paragraph of your response does not respond to facts about the text, but efforts to get around what it says. According to Genesis 2 and Jesus' own words we can cite, gender has everything to do with marriage and the morality of it so defined (Judge Walker's view notwithstanding).
I am not going to go around in circles with you again on this topic of same sex relationships. We did that dance already. I will leave it here.
Submitted by Darrell L. Bock on Thu, 2010-08-19 16:45.
You claim another scenario for marriage but cite no text for it. That speaks volumes. You attempt to redefine passages that address the kind of relationship present in same sex marriage. That speaks loads. I let the nature of your answers speak for themselves.
Scripture has two exceptions that permit divorce. Sexual infidelity (Matt 5) and unbeliever desertion (1 Cor 7). I am not missing what the text says there, but the point is irrelevant to the key point being made.
These passages do not stand by themselves. There are several texts on this theme. Not a one is positive. Not a one says (all bad except for this one case where love is present). Nothing. Nada. That speaks tons as well. Not one positive example. Not one.
I am sorry Lynn but as sincerely as you believe this, it is at the expense of the emphasis on this topic in the Word. People who engage in this practice sin (as do others in other areas-- on this we are all agreed). It is sad that it cannot be identified as the sin the Scripture calls it to be. There are different kinds of disobedience-- denial is one kind. That has consequences God will one day sort out for all of us. But Paul warns at the end of Romans 1 that encouraging people to do this is even worse. That is part of what makes your responses so tragic.
What the nation ends up doing probably will have little to do with God's word because we no longer care about that consideration as a society. That is what I most lament. The law permits lots of things that are not moral. It is a low common denominator in part because we love freedom of choice (read no accountability to God) so much. I do not expect good moral judgment (or much of a moral reflection from many in the world who do not care about God) on topics like this. We love our autonomy from God too much. That also is sin.
The only truth you defend is the one you see about this topic while ignoring several counter signs in the text.
Despite all I have said about how I read your view, I also wish you all the best.
Submitted by Darrell L. Bock on Fri, 2010-08-20 17:18.
Still have not answered the core question about same sex relationships in Scripture, running instead to discernment of spirits. You ignore the Hebrews 13 text to continue to discuss many wives. All irrelevant to the direct topic because that is the best you can do. There is no evidence for your category. It is what you have discerned because it is what you want to believe. God speaks but we discern in a direction that has no clear single text. Simply dangerous.
Submitted by Darrell L. Bock on Mon, 2010-08-23 05:40.
When we are not dealing with a text only, but a theme consistently handled negatively with no hint otherwise. The only discernment one needs is to recognize the theme for what it is: teaching. In this scenario, there are no underlying principles to seek out. The text has them in its consistency. That is part of what this topic different than others you raise to try and move around what is explicitly present in the text again and again. Everything you say about principles or dealing with texts where there are a variety of angles being presented (as with polygamy or divorce) and that do ask us to think through qualifications that apply to those topics do not apply in this case. This key difference in how the texts are handled render the examples of these other categories irrelevant to the particulars of this discussion.
The issue is "not to blindly follow Paul's instruction" but to hear the heartbeat of God in a consistently set forth rebuke of a specific sin so serious it is the example of a deep fall of a culture. Your "personally" section states your credal priorities. Sadly, it ignores all of the above. God's creation of male and female and their interaction within marriage are obliterated by what you argue for as acceptable to God. His definition of marriage, affirmed by Jesus, as involving male and female is ignored, set aside as an irrelevancy. If people find affirming that repulsive, then so be it. No one said that calling sin a sin would be popular, not even Jesus had that success in his life. But he screams through his shed blood that forgiveness and transformation (please note this last category) are possible for those who seek him. It is not where we start as people that matters (because we all start in the pit); it is where we turn to get out. That is what makes forgiveness and enablement that comes through him and the work of the cross so beautiful.
Submitted by Darrell L. Bock on Tue, 2010-08-24 05:13.
Our differences are well summarized in your last post. Thank you for that. Just one point. We are not talking about relationships in general here where all the points you make about how people should treat one another apply and where gender does not matter. We are discussing marriage, where gender is a central part of the issue as Genesis 2 presents it. The gospel is not gender-related, but marriage is. The failure to note this biblical distinction in categories is precisely where I think your confusion lies. All the best, Lynn.
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Since polygamy often comes up in this context, and Bock mentioned it in passing, here's a Triablogue thread on the subject from a few years ago. I interacted with some defenders of polygamy in the comments section of the thread.ReplyDelete
I think Dr. Bock needs to take lessons from the Triablogue team on how to be more irenic and gentle with those who disagree with him.ReplyDelete
I found him too contentious and insulting in his remarks to the pro-gay commenter.
One can disagree and still do so in a gentle, affirming way.
- Anonymous8/24/2010 7:32 PM
I will be a little controversial here, in that I don't believe the Christian Church has a mandate to oppose same sex union / marriage on a state / societal level.ReplyDelete
While indeed I do believe that marriage is ordained by God to be between man and women, this is a issue of faith for us as believers within the fellowship of community.
Paul taught the church to be married to one person...while society was allowing multiple marriages..he never spoke against society.
Also historically the church has never been involved in marrying people...nor was the Mosiac priesthood involved in marrying people.
The RC church ratified that it must be performed by a priest in 1550...with a tax alongside with it ooops I mean donation..
Martin Luther said it was a worldy / private / state thing and the church should not be involved in the marrying business.
In England in 1753 the marriage act was re written for a priest to be involved...again though the RC church was behind it...another tax...
Our mandate as Christians is to preach the gospel of Jesus to society in grace and love to allow the Spirit of God to bring change into society...
It's also the role of the church to be teaching believers how then we are to live as believers within society.
I blogged about this http://craigbenno1.wordpress.com/2010/08/13/struggling-with-the-concepts-of-banning-gay-marriage/
One of the problems as I see it is that Americans see marriage is seen as a fundamental human right (cf. Loving v. Virginia) that the gov't is supposed to protect.
So the question must of how we define marriage must arise right?
In that case, how can the Christian support any definition of marriage which is not the true definition? Surely Christians cannot support a perverted pseudo-definition of marriage. Am I mistaken?
Thus, I don't see how any Christian can support gay marriage. Any other definition of marriage that does not align with God's definition is not a legitimate definition. It seems to me that whenever the Christian has the ability to oppose a pseudo-definition of marriage (whether through personally speaking out against it or by voting against) he should do so.
CRAIGBENNO1 SAID:ReplyDelete
"I will be a little controversial here, in that I don't believe the Christian Church has a mandate to oppose same sex union / marriage on a state / societal level."
i) The church has a mandate to speak out against personal and social immorality alike.
ii) You also use the "church" in the abstract. But members of the church, such as American citizens, also have the rights andduties of citizenship. They are voters and tax-payers. So of course they should have a say in public policy. One way or the other, there will be a public policy which applies to believers and unbelievers alike.
- Anonymous8/28/2010 6:57 PM
To a certain level yes the church is mandated to speak out to society about social justice.
Its how and what it speaks out that I have issues with..such much money is spent against homosexuality...when the homeless are ignored.
And yes all individuals as tax payers are called to speak about where societal decisions....what concerns me is the lack of TRUE holiness within the church regarding an outward observance to GODs laws, whilst ignoring Gods heart for the down cast within society.
Where is the church in America speaking out for the poor, the homeless, the sick, those imprisoned, the widows and orphans and speaking out for the care of asylum seekers?
What I see is the church in America tearing apart other churches who do pursue Gods heart for the downcast... taking the moral high ground in doing so...
Perhaps if the church ( Christians) lived out Paul's injunction to live such good lives instead of demanding society to change whilst not plucking the log out of their own eyes.....
Regarding marriage within homosexuality... cohabitation is what measures marriage within society and in God's eyes... and while some are Godly and some not... its still marriage
Its how and what it speaks out that I have issues with..such much money is spent against homosexuality...when the homeless are ignored.ReplyDelete
Perhaps you're not looking closely enough at the right things. The church I go to does a lot for the homeless and financially needy. We have a food bank and many times a week help out families etc. We have other projects that we help with in the community too.
My mom's church is the same. They regularly help those in the community. A month ago they volunteered several people to help paint rooms and do other work at Salvation Army. They sent tons of food to persons in Haiti when the earth quake struck, etc.
I don't think my church and my mom's church is unique. I think you will find these sorts of activities normal among most evangelical churches.
Homosexuality gets a lot of different attention because it is a different type of issue.
There is no massive effort by some organization to hurt poor people or screw the homeless. There is, however, a massive effort made by various organizations to legitimize homosexuality.
Homosexuality is unique in that regard (with the exception being abortion I suppose?), so naturally it calls for a unique response.
If there were a massive effort among a group of people to, say, legitimize rape, Christians would respond in a similar manner I'm sure.
So I think the differences in how we are handling homosexuality and how we are handling the homeless is simply due to the different nature of the problems and how they are manifesting themselves in culture at the moment.
Perhaps "the Church" focuses on the homeless problem at the local level, because it feels it will be most effective there. And it focuses on the homosexual problem at the national level because that's where the homosexuals have taken the fight.
Regarding marriage within homosexuality... cohabitation is what measures marriage within society and in God's eyes... and while some are Godly and some not... its still marriage
I don't know what this means. What do you mean "measures marriage"? All homosexual "marriages" are ungodly. Homosexual unions can't even properly acquire the label "marriage."
As Budziszewski put it, "we might decide to call same-sex liaisons '
'marriages,' but we would not thereby succeed in turning these liaisons into marriages because they too are different kinds of realities."
("The Illusion of Gay Marriage." Philosophia Christi 7.1 (2005): 45)


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Published June 4, 2015, in The Korea Herald
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This is the third article in a series on foreigners working in Korea's technology start-up ecosystem. Sang Youn-joo and Stephanie McDonald contributed to this report. ― Ed.
Etienne Maurin hadn't finished graduate school when Kim Min-kee sought to found a start-up with him.
A whiz at programming languages like Ruby, the master's student from France was the most trustworthy partner to help Kim develop My Memoirs, a story-sharing platform inspired by his time working with cancer patients who wanted to reminisce in their last days.
But research and consulting did not prepare Kim for the headache that hiring a foreigner entailed.
"We tried everything, all the different processes, but (the application) was denied every time," he said. Between multiple calls to immigration and getting slammed with new requirements when visiting the office, it took around four months to secure Maurin's work visa.
Kim believes that he would probably get a different response from each different immigration agent at any given time.
"It's very subjective, but the people (at the immigration office) don't actually know. … It makes the process even more frustrating."
Grievances with immigration are nothing new to foreigners in Korea and their employers, especially in new businesses. But the constantly changing rules reflect a time of upheaval, as demands for diversity and labor deregulation outpace the infrastructure to handle them.
Apart from logistical nightmares, restrictive visa and hiring laws are hindering small companies in their early stages, when they need the most hiring flexibility, entrepreneurs like Kim pointed out.
"(As an early-stage start-up), you don't have the funding, so it's really important to find people with the same vision, because they will take less pay to make something happen," Kim said. "If you can't get a visa for them, then it's even harder."
Many in the tech industry complain that laws are too vague and hard to even learn about. Entrepreneurs say restrictions lead some small companies to seek loopholes or illegal alternatives.
David-Pierre Jalicon, chairman of the French-Korean Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said the current system was very complicated with too many regulations subject to interpretation.
"I came a long time ago to Korea. I had a vision of Korea as an easy country. Now I see Korea as a complicated country where for everything you need a lawyer," he said. "The system looks unbalanced. And we don't see what could be a counterbalance for reassuring potential foreign start-ups to join the system."
Capital and quotas
The visa is the No. 1 problem for foreigners in tech start-ups, said Choi Hong-seok, assistant manager of the Seoul Global Center, a foreign resident assistance agency run by Seoul City.
Two regulations form the biggest legal stumbling blocks for small multicultural businesses in Korea: Foreign entrepreneurs have struggled with the high investment requirements to found their companies, while all companies ― regardless of size or founders' nationality ― must hire five full-time Korean employees for every E-7 visa holder.
The E-7 visa, which was issued to over 18,000 employees last year, is allotted to 83 types of high-skilled workers, covering technology development and other areas such as marketing and design. Applicants must prove with experience or education that their talent is unique and cannot be done by a Korean.
For tech companies aiming overseas, the implications of these regulations are amplified as local minds might not have the necessary global experience, entrepreneurs point out.
Several countries, such as France, cap the number of visas issued in the country, rather than per company, noted Jalicon of the FKCCI.
He stressed that companies must hire the like-minded people they need especially in their early stages, which may mean partners share the same background such as education or culture. Other entrepreneurs pointed out the difficulties and high search costs of securing new partners out of strangers to be invested as part of the team.
"When the company has more than two or three employees, for sure they will hire Korean people. So on a long-term basis, everybody is a winner," Jalicon said.
He added that legal restrictions were vague and unpredictable, which might make foreign investors wary of the local business environment.
"There is discrimination, clearly. It's discriminant and inconsistent," he said. "There should be no different treatment from foreigner to Korean."
The issue is exacerbated as more entrepreneurs want to enter the industry.
Choi of the Seoul Global Center noted that new businesses housed at the Seoul City-run agency's incubation centers have been shifting from manufacturing and service sectors toward tech since 2010.
For nonpermanent residents unconnected to Korea by familial or blood relations, the cost to obtain an investment visa is 100 million won ($90,000) for corporate investments and 300 million won for a sole proprietorship. Entrepreneurs without deep pockets struggle to get funding before incorporating, leaving them in a catch-22.
Due to the difficulties of setting up in Korea, foreign entrepreneurs doing business here often seem to be incorporated abroad, noted Alexander Bezzubov, an organizer of the Seoul Tech Society.
Meanwhile, as Korean universities boost their support for foreign exchange student programs, more and more young qualified international professionals study here and learn Korean, only to find limited employment options when they graduate.
Most end up returning home, unable to find a job here due to limited information on top of labor restrictions, according to Simon Chan, co-founder of local job hunting website JobSeekr and a master's student at Seoul National University.
"They'd probably want to stay in Korea but … there's just minimal opportunity for them to find a position to stay in Korea," said Chan.
According to a 2013 survey by the Small and Medium Business Administration of foreign students and researchers at Korean universities and institutes, over 48 percent said they would like to establish a tech start-up here.
Hongik University master's degree alumnus Daghan Kirisci, a 3-D designer for video-making platform Vivio, said most of his peers returned home while some found jobs as teachers or in large companies, but he doesn't know any like him who went into a start-up. "I believe some companies find the foreign visa process very difficult as they have to give a legitimate reason for hiring a foreigner (rather) than a Korean," he added.
Those who cannot join the system sometimes try to beat it. Entrepreneurs who cannot afford the investment frequently end up setting up their company by moonlighting on a job hunting or tourist visa.
Because of a mismatch in the regulations, Choi of the Seoul Global Center added, some foreigners get stuck in a gray area wherein they can set up their company but can't afford the visa to pay themselves.
"According to our commercial law, it is illegal, but according to immigration law, if the person gets a salary, it is not illegal. So that's why it is illegal, but on the other hand it is not illegal. Complicated," Choi said.
Several start-up entrepreneurs who asked not to be named, some of whom had studied at Korean universities, said they found bigger companies to sponsor their visas so they could work on their start-ups.
"When you're doing your own project, it's difficult (to give up on it)," said one start-up entrepreneur who graduated in Korea and found a larger company sponsor. "Other foreigners here, they're just English teachers. They don't have any kind of special education. If you come in with (specialized) education to do something you want, it's very complicated."
Kim of My Memoirs has seen some businesses employing foreign employees under other people's names and funneling the salary indirectly, especially for short-term work. It is a practice that is seen across industries in Korea beyond the tech sector.
"This pertains to a lot of localization projects like translating into Indonesian or Vietnamese," Kim explained. "A lot of these people don't have the E-7 visa. They have a temporary working visa, and they can't contract them legally, so they hire a friend or organization and then they pay them in cash."
Kim sees it as a small but growing issue with little oversight.
"I think it's getting bigger and bigger, especially with a lot of companies trying to localize and go global," he said. "And I think there's still too much gray area when it comes to these things. Employers … get away with it, and they just get a slap on the wrist if they get caught."
Kim, also a co-organizer of English-language meetup group Entrepreneurs in Seoul, suggests that since start-ups are so sensitive to early-stage hiring, their employees should be allowed a special visa that allows them to legally earn an income while processing their paperwork.
Government solutions
Jason Lee, a U.S. citizen raised in Korea, didn't realize how hard it would be to set up a company as a foreigner. Student and work visas were always handled for him. But as an entrepreneur with limited funds, he had to make three or four tourist visa runs to Japan in the first year of establishing J.J. Lee Company, a social networking platform developer.
"It was so stressful and I thought I would have to go back to the U.S.," he said, even though he had no friends or life there.
After he pestered various government agencies, the Ministry of Justice offered him a new solution: the D-8-4 technology start-up visa, which required a bachelor's degree and ownership of intellectual property, and no capital investment requirement. Fortunately for the Yonsei University graduate, he already held two software patents, and acquired the first D-8-4 visa.
He said he felt fortunate to qualify for the visa, but told immigration officials that the patent ownership requisite was not rational and would be nearly impossible for a foreigner with no Korean background ― it took him over two years to obtain his first patent, which was completely separate from his current business idea.
"I kept telling them, 'If you want to see other foreigners doing business in Korea, you have to get rid of this requirement,'" he said.
Recognizing Lee's and others' concerns, officials last year created a series of business classes for foreign entrepreneurs to earn points toward the visa under the Overall Assistance for Startup Immigration System program, run by multiple government agencies. OASIS completed its first full session last month, making over a dozen students eligible for the tech start-up visa.
JobSeekr co-founder Chan, a British entrepreneur, said if it weren't for the D-8-4 visa, his business partner Andrej Belcijan would probably not have been able to work, and the company would not have been able to continue.
He suggested that skilled foreign developers who graduate from Korean universities should be given an easier time to get hired.
"I think it'd be nice if we got to the stage in the future if tech could lead the kind of charge where nationality isn't as important. It could be one of the first industries to break through," he said.
The SMBA is considering expanding its support for foreigners to nontech enterprises, too, but the state agency has a lack of experience with foreigner issues, according to Choi of the Seoul Global Center, which works closely with the SMBA on the OASIS program. He said immigration officials are deregulating slowly due to high traffic and demand.
Lee, however, suggested that the government seems to be acting with caution over how the public will react to increased support for foreigners, including offering them business grants funded by taxpayers.
Lee realizes that as the first D-8-4 holder and a recipient of one such grant for 350 million won, he is expected to set a good example and have a positive impact on the local perception.
"They're carefully starting this kind of support program really slowly and quietly, and they will try to release some success cases," he said. "But right now, even I'm scared of this. It's going to be a huge issue."
The Ministry of Justice has also established the D-9-5 visa for Korean degree holders who establish companies with individual ownership. Tailored to Chinese students who face foreign direct investment remittance restrictions, the new law lowers the requirement from 300 million won to 100 million won, half of which can consist of local funds, Choi of the Seoul Global Center explained.
Jalicon also pointed out that the government has been working to relax the foreign worker quota in recent months.
On May 6, the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy announced several deregulation measures for foreign-invested companies, including lifting the quota for new "small" foreign-invested companies for the first two years of their establishment, starting this month. The quota had already been a relaxed 50-70 percent ratio of foreign to local employees for foreign-invested companies, according to the Ministry of Justice. MOTIE told The Korea Herald that the company size requirement and exact date of the new deregulation's kickoff had not yet been finalized.
Additionally, the Ministry of Justice said that while the quota was put in place to protect jobs for the youth, it would continue to ease the hiring quota for high-skilled foreign workers who possess skills that cannot be replaced with local talent.
Further, this year the Justice Ministry eased the E-7 visa requirements for Korean degree holders, who now can take any job regardless of degree or previous experience.
Jalicon praised MOTIE's new policy on the foreign worker hiring quota, which he had been urging for several years.
"All those were specific requests of the FKCCI and we sincerely appreciate the efforts of the government. We believe in practical measures, so when something is good and a step forward, it should be mentioned," he said.
Visit the Korea Immigration Service at immigration.go.kr for official visa requirements and the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency at investkorea.org for foreign investment guidance. For consultations and more information on the OASIS program, contact Seoul Global Center at email@example.com.
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I want to sit in a corner and cry, but God won't let me. We are begging for mercy just to calm this child. I don't think I've ever done anything harder in my life than to watch my child suffer, it is gut wrenching. Our doc has just gone down to consult with the PICU docs, please keep praying for us.
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I am still up and just saw your posting. I have been following tonight and praying for Micah and You.
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Dear ones, We at green park free church, New Delhi continue to remember Micah in prayers. He was mentioned in the sunday morning message and also in the church intercessory prayers. The Lord is with you all in these storms. We uphold you as always,ReplyDelete
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Amy Tan's first novel, The Joy Luck Club (1989), is considered to be her most successful work and has received extensive attention from critics. In many ways, she has been seen as representative of Chinese-American authors, perhaps because she uses a large number of Chinese elements in her work while maintaining a perspective that is distinctly American. This paradox is one that Tan both works within and objects to. She once wrote"I would have to say I am a American writer, I believe that what I write is American fiction"(Darraj 66) and yet has persistently populated her novels with Chinese characters and located large sections of them in China. This essay analyzes some of the Chinese elements that appear in The Joy Luck Club in an attempt to evaluate the author from both sides of the above paradox. It opens with a short introduction to Amy Tan and the background to The Joy Luck Club. From there it turns to the contextualization of The Joy Luck Club within traditional China culture. This section, the main body of the essay, is divided into two parts: firstly, Tan's use of Feng Shui, secondly, her understanding of Wu Xing. The essay turns to an examination of Tan's adaptation of a number of traditional Chinese folk tales, showing how she sometimes ingeniously rewrites them to suit an American context. It is therefore possible to conclude that by creatively mainpulating elements of Chinese culture, Tan consciously represents and misrepresents her own Chinese past and that of her characters.
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Marysville Advocate – June 20, 2018
A fundraiser has been established for the family of Steven Curtis-Boese, who died Saturday after he fell inside a ladder cage attached to a silo on a northeast Marshall County farm.
A GoFundMe account has been established online in support of the Curtis-Boese family. Steven's wife, Jessica, is expecting a child, and the fund will help with the new baby, according to the site.
Marshall County Sheriff Dan Hargrave reported that dispatch received a 911 call about the accident at 6:38 p.m. Saturday.
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