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Of the total 41 km east-west link, a 26 km skyway will be built in Phase I. Under this phase, a six-laned radial road will be developed from ORR on the East side of the city to Nagole. The skyway would be constructed from Nagole to ORR West. In the second phase, a skyway from Nagole to ORR East will be completed.
The skyway is to be built on the river bed for 20 km and the rest of the six km would run along the banks of Musi. The skyway has been designed to allow vehicles to travel at a maximum speed of 80 km an hour.
"GHMC sent the skyway proposal to the state government seeking an administrative sanction for the Rs 5,900 crore project along with a request to fund the project. The government will soon take a call on it," GHMC commissioner B Janardhan Reddy told TOI on Tuesday. Once completed, the skyway is expected to make travel easier along Nagole ring road, Moosarambagh, Chaderghat, MGBS, Afzalgunj, Puranapul, Attapur ring road till it reaches the ORR at Narsingi.
The GHMC will also seek environmental clearance for the project since it is to be built on the river bed. The application for environmental clearance is expected to be submitted to the pollution control board in the second week of April.
"The skyway will de-congest the existing roads connecting both ends of the city. Currently, the Inner Ring Road (IRR) is generally choked with traffic during peak hours and the skyway will reduce the travel time to a great extent. In addition, the traffic volume is likely to increase in the next few years as there is a potential growth of areas beyond Nagole on the East side and Tippu Khan bridge on the Western part of the city," a GHMC official overseeing the project said.
Fifteen interchanges (11 in the phase I and five in phase II) have been proposed to provide access to the skyway at Bacharam, Pratap Singaram, Marrepalli, Uppal Hills colony, Nagole bridge, Ganeshpuri colony, Moosrambagh causeway, Chaderghat, Salarjung Museum, Nayapul, Puranapul, Attapur, Tippu Khan bridge, Bapughat area and Ibrahimbagh causeway and Narsingi.
Sources said of the total project cost of about Rs 5,900 crore, about Rs 5,162 crore is required for construction of skyway and development of the radial road and the balance Rs 754 crore will be needed for land acquisition. The state government has to acquire about 244 acres for the entire project.
Janardhan Reddy said various financial models are being worked by the government for the project this includes taking loans from the private financial institutions and making repayments on annuity model.


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Dynamic cornering light
Our LED headlights with dynamic cornering light give up to 90% better illumination of corners as the headlight beam will swivel to follow the angle of your steering wheel.
The steering movement of the headlight units, which include small servomotors, is controlled by signals from the steering angle sensor, among other things. The maximum swivel angle of the cornering lights is 15 degrees. This gives you early warning of any hazards and some vital extra time to react.
3- Zone Climatronic Air-Conditioning
The 3-zone "Pure Air Climatronic" automatically ensures clean air and healthy air conditioning in the interior of the vehicle. An air quality sensor and an anti-allergenic filter keep the air quality at a consistently high level and reduce the intrusion of unpleasant substances, including fungal spores and allergens.
Using the 3-zone climate control and the selectable climate profiles, all the passengers can choose their own individual feel-good climate settings. The "Gentle" climate profile is specifically designed to meet the needs of sensitive people and small children.
Thanks to sun and humidity sensors, the optimum air conditioning and healthy air humidity can be achieved quickly, depending on the intensity and direction of the direct sunlight. This means that misted windows are also a thing of the past.
Park Assist 3.0
Your car will practically park itself, cleverly steering into the tightest of spaces at the touch of a button. All you have to do is work the pedals.
When you want to parallel park your car you just press the Park Assist button and use the indicator before your car passes the parking space. Ultrasonic sensors in the front bumpers will scan the space to see whether it is big enough.
You then stop the car, select reverse gear and let go of the steering wheel. Park Assist shows you its intended reverse path on your multifunctional display, then puts the car into the best starting position and steers automatically into the space. Even though you don't have to steer, you're always in control of your car, working the accelerator or brake and the clutch. And you can deactivate the system immediately by taking over the steering or by braking to a standstill.
Parking in even smaller spaces. We've developed an enhancement to Park Assist that can help park your car when you want to reverse into even smaller spaces, in one or more moves. This semi-automatic system leaves you to assess the suitability of the parking space yourself, while you operate the accelerator and brake.
Easy Open
For certain models, Kessy offers even more comfort and convenience for the saloon. The contactless Easy Open function uses additional sensors in the rear of the vehicle to open the luggage compartment lid simply by flicking your foot. These sensors identify the key, and the system automatically opens the luggage compartment lid.


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Mary is the Mother of Jesus and the spiritual Mother of all those who were redeemed by the blood of Jesus. The divine Maternity is her most important privilege and the root of all others.
This Feast was instituted by Pope Pius XI in 1931, on the 15th centenary of the Council of Ephesus, where the dogma of Mary as mother of God was vindicated against the Nestorians.
Ecce Virgo concipiet, et pariet Filium, et vocabitur nomen ejus Emmanuel. * Cantate Domino canticum novum, quia mirabilia fecit.
Behold a Virgin shall conceive and bear a son: and his name shall be called Emmanuel. * Sing ye to the Lord a new canticle: because He hath done wonderful things.
(Isaiah 7:14 and Psalm 97:1 from the Introit of Mass)
Deus, qui de beatae Maríae Vírginis utero Verbum tuum, Angelo nuntiante, carnem suscípere voluísti: praesta supplícibus tuis; ut, qui vere eam Genitrícem Dei credimus, ejus apud te intercessionibus adjuvemur.
O God who didst will that Thy Word should take flesh, at the message of an angel, in the womb of the blessed Virgin Mary; grant unto us Thy suppliants that we who believe her to be indeed the Mother of God may be aided by her intercession with Thee.
Maternitas tua, Dei Genitrix Virgo, gaudium annuntiavit universo mundo: ex te enim ortus est sol justltiae, Christus Deus noster.
Thy Maternity, O Mother of God and Virgin, hath announced joy to the whole world : because out of Thee is arisen the sun of justice, Christ our God.
(Antiphon at the Magnificat of 2nd Vespers)From the Catholic Encyclopaedia: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10046a.htm


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Whereas normal cell development follows an orderly path of development, division and death, cancerous cells not face demise but continue to grow and divide. In case your blood sugar stage is decreased or high, the doctor is able to very first handle it before treating the Lung Most cancers cells. In every side, Ayurvedic drugs treats the whole person in the perception that one can not safely cut up an individual into elements. Based on Dr. GG Gangadharan, Director, MS Ramaiah Indic Centre for Ayurveda and Integrative Medication, each most cancers patient requires a selected remedy, considering the complexity of the disease.
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My outfit was published on the November issue of the Avanti magazine. (you can read about it in the previous press post: https://glamourina.net/en/press-events-part-ii/), it has been awarded by the editors and published also on the Avanti24.pl website as well as on the avanti_magazyn Instagram profile.
Pinko – luxurious Italian brand, with whom I recently cooperated promoting the Elisir Dress dresses, published my photo on their official Instagram profile. It is a great honor for me, because this brand really cares about quality and works only with the best bloggers. You can see the photos with the PINKO Elisir Dress here https://glamourina.net/en/elisir-dress-by-pinko/
Vege Magazine
As you know, I run my own column in an exclusive Vege Magazine. In the December issue I advise what to do to look stunning during the holidays. You can buy Vege in Ruch and Empiku in Poland.
Recently I took part in an AMERICAN EAGLE OUTFITTERS Christmas brunch. If someone does not know (I'm sure you all know) AEO is a brand that produces the coolest hoodies and great quality jeans. This time, in addition to the funny atmosphere, the company prepared a lot of cool things to do, namely, I was able to personally meet Santa Claus. ;)
Douglas – New perfumery inauguration in Wola Park
I also managed to be at the opening of the new perfumery in Wola Park. With me there were also other fashion bloggers and beauty bloggers. You can see below few pictures from the event. At the end of the event each one of the girls received a personalised gift box full of gifts. I really liked the new fragrance Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue, which really fits and matches my personality.
Marlies Dekkers – The Dancing Princess ss2015
Very inspiring event, which took place at the Embassy of the Netherlands in Warsaw. Inspiring because it was conducted, for the first time in Poland, by the most famous Dutch designer of luxury lingerie– Marlies Dekkers. She is a self-confident woman, who strives for development and is focused on success. The designer revealed to the guests the story of her success. It was not an easy journey, but worth the effort. Currently, the biggest stars of the world wear the underwear designed by Marlies Dekkers, eg. Jennifer Lopez, Lady Gaga, Sarah Jessica Parker and so on.
Here you can see the photo-session for the Marlies Dekkers brand: www.glamourina.net/en/black-set-by-marlies-dekkers-luxury-lingerie/
ASUS – #thecadess4asus
In the Loveconcept boutique there was a special event named "FASHION AND TECHNOLOGY – The EXCELLENT COMBINATION" prepared by the Asus and THECADESS brands.
Designers have proposed a simple and timeless styles in different colors, in addition Asus presented its new Zenfone device, about which you can read more here: www.glamourina.net/asus-zenfone-5-recenzja/
During the Orsay spring / summer 2015 collection presentation I was able to see the pieces of clothes not yet available in the shops. I liked very simple lace dresses of a great quality. The material is thick and natural, so it looks sophisticated and expensive. I know at first glance whether the material is suitable.
Starbucks – Xmas event
Starbucks also prepared for bloggers a lot of fun. I could taste different types of coffee, as well as make my own personalized mug.
For each type of coffee were served cakes matching the taste.
MARQUES/ALMEIDA x TOPSHOP
The collection was presented by Pani Ekscelencja, which suited fantastic this role. She told me about the creation of collection, inspirations and designers. The collection is amazing in terms of quality, that is why prices are also slightly higher than usual. At the presentation a thick navy sweater and a pair of leggings caught my eye.
The Voice of Poland
Blogging gives you many possibilities. I received an invitation from one of the marketing agencies for the live recording of The Voice of Poland. In the front of the TV you can not feel even a half of these emotions, which are present on the real scene. The audience actively participates in the program having a great time. It was a sensational time and I had a lot of fun!
New Look – SS 2015
In conclusion, I will write a few words about the New Look collection for spring / summer 2015. There are a pair of trends that could be easily seen. I have chosen for myself a monochrome and a boho-chic style collection. New Look constantly improves the quality and designs of their stuff and it was evident in this collection. The clothes is very interesting, some swimwear pieces could be safely called a small works of art.


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Author's Note
To be perfectly honest, I love writing these super-technological articles. I love calling engineers and making them explain things to me that I have never studied. I have a hard time even picturing what they're talking about, so I make them repeat themselves six ways to Sunday to make sure I have it right before I write anything down.
This time, I got an extra-geeky bonus: nerd coloring book! Okay, it wasn't really a coloring book, but if you look up Atkinson's patent using Google's patent search (number 367,496, remember) it includes Atkinson's original diagrams. I used all eight of my highlighters and several colored Sharpies to keep track of which valves did what, and where the air was coming in and the exhaust was going out. Then I color-coded the patent text -- which I had also printed out -- so that when I was reading, I could match up vibrating link H in the description with its place in the engine.
I cannot recommend the coloring book method of technological learning enough. I plan on using it as often as possible. My inner eight-year-old is very happy.
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- Atkinson, James. "Gas-Engine Patent 367,496." US Patent Office. Aug. 2, 1887. (Feb. 8, 2012)http://www.google.com/patents/US367496
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- Each log makes about 45 crackers
- 1 1/2 cups pecan halves
- 1 large egg
- 1 stick (1/2 cup) unsalted butter, softened
- 1/2 pound Saga blue cheese, softened
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- In a preheated 350°F oven toast 1/2 cup pecans, about 7 minutes, and cool. Finely chop toasted pecans and separate egg. In a bowl with a fork cream butter and Saga until smooth. Add egg yolk, stirring until combined well. Add flour and chopped pecans and stir until mixture just forms a dough.
- Halve dough and on separate sheets of wax paper form each half into a 12- by 1 1/4-inch log, using wax paper as a guide. Freeze logs, wrapped in wax paper, just until firm, about 30 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 375°F. and lightly grease 2 large baking sheets.
- Cut logs crosswise into 1/4-inch-thick slices and arrange slices about 1/2 inch apart on baking sheets. Top each cracker with a remaining pecan half, pressing slightly into dough. Brush tops of crackers, including pecans, with lightly beaten egg white. Bake crackers in batches, if necessary, in upper and lower thirds of oven, switching position of sheets halfway through baking, until golden brown, about 12 minutes total. With a spatula transfer crackers to paper towels to blot and transfer to a rack to cool.
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- Calories70
- Carbohydrates3 g(1%)
- Fat6 g(9%)
- Protein2 g(4%)
- Saturated Fat2 g(12%)
- Sodium60 mg(2%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat1 g
- Fiber0 g(2%)
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At various stages during construction, you will need to arrange inspections to ensure the work complies with the conditions of the building consent.
Your building consent will list the inspections you need, this includes the Pre-line building inspection.
There is often a wait for inspections so you should have a clear timeline for your building work and book inspections well in advance to avoid delays on site. Missing or failing an inspection may also cause delays.
The project manager will arrange inspections.
The PinkFit® pre-line promise applies to the pre-line building inspection - 'An inspection of the building work before the installation of any internal linings'
If at fault PinkFit® will also fix the installation, allowing it to pass the inspection.
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Georgia's public libraries are making it easier than ever for patrons to broaden their horizons outdoors as well as indoors. As part of the "Get Outdoors Georgia" Campaign, a valid adult library card now allows patrons to borrow a Georgia State "ParkPass" and Historic Site pass from their local libraries.
The pass is good for free parking or admission to any of the 63 parks and historic sites statewide for up to one week; no renewals. Because of the expected popularity of the ParkPass loan program, families interested in borrowing a ParkPass are advised to plan early, as the number of passes are limited.


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QuikPak™ K1 Coverless Sit-On-Top Kayak
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Hit the water in as little as five minutes with the Sevylor® Quikpak™ K1 1-Person Kayak, where getting to your next trek is as easy as backpack - unpack - kayak. The innovative backpack system carries everything you need to get going and ultimately folds out into your kayak's seat. The 21-gauge PVC construction and rugged tarpaulin bottom easily handle the rigors of the lake. Just in case you do hit a snag, the multiple air chambers will help you get back to shore. The back rest and multi-position foot rest make exploring the waterways more comfortable. The drink holder and bungee storage area keep your drink and gear easily accessible.
• 5-minute setup lets you spend more time on the water
• Easy-to-carry backpack system turns into the seat
• 21-gauge PVC construction is rugged for lake use
• Tarpaulin bottom provides durable protection from punctures
• Multiple air chambers allow another chamber to stay inflated if one is punctured
• Airtight® System is guaranteed not to leak
• Double Lock™ valves use two locking points for easy inflation/deflation
• Backrest lets you lean back and enjoy the ride
• Multi-position foot rest lets you find your most comfortable position
• Secure storage area lets you safely store items with bungees
• Cup holder keeps your drink close at hand
• Carry handles make it easy to carry in and out of the water
• Fits one person
• NMMA® certified to hold up to 400 lbs.
• Inflated dimensions: 8 ft. 7 in. x 3 ft.
• 90 day limited warranty
• Includes hand pump and paddle
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Rated 5 out of 5 by Rev.B from For an old guy with a bad back... PERFECT! I've enjoyed kayaking in Cape Cod waters for years. After my 2nd spinal surgery at 72 years of age, lifting and manhandling a kayak became more of a problem than paddling one. The K1 is just a little over a third the weight of a cheap plastic 1 man kayak - so I gave it a try. It's not as fast as a smoother-bottomed plastic version, but it's remarkably stable, easy to carry to the water, and comfortable once I'm in it. In ocean waves, it's drier than a rigid kayak, too. Just let your knees bend as the wave hits your bow and the kayak will flex up and ride over. To get out easily, drift sideways to the beach and swivel your legs out until you feel the sand underfoot... your back to the waves. The next swell will lift the kayak under your butt and stand you upright. Use your paddle like a cane to steady yourself. I was afraid I wouldn't get to do this anymore but I'm a happy man, getting my strength back, covering over a mile at sea per outing. If you strap the K1 to your roof, run a line from the bow to the front hood of your car. Make a fat knot at the end. Pop the hood a little... stuff the knot inside and re-close the hood to hold the line fast. That way, unbeknownst to you, the whole front end of the kayak won't be bent up 90 degrees by the wind as you drive down the road. Two lines thrown across the kayak can be secured by closing your car doors over well-placed knots - and you have a simple, fast and secure rig for reasonably short trips without having to deflate the boat. It blows up remarkably fast if you prefer to flatten it and fold it up.
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Rated 5 out of 5 by Mike Tubeking from This is my 15th K-1 kayak I have been buying these for 15 years. We use them weekly to drift down the river fishing. There are amazingly durable for the price. After 30 trips or so and a few patches they are ready to be replaced. There is nowhere else to buy a stabil, lightweight inflatable for $120 or so.
Date published: 2018-01-23
Rated 4 out of 5 by outdoor girl 2 from good quality, affortable I brought my kayak to a lake in Utah, just outside St. George where is water is calm. The kayak was perfect just to tool around and check out the senery. I wouldn't take this out on a river because its not weighted enough though. I loved it and took in every moment.
Date published: 2018-09-14
Rated 4 out of 5 by Brian_N from Good product, but paddle is very cheaply made. I would have given this a 5 stars, but the paddle broke on the first day in 2 spots. While I was putting it together, I was thinking it didn't feel like it was very good quality, and 15 minutes into paddling on the lake, one of the rings snapped in half. While using the rest of the paddle to get back to the dock, another ring snapped. I will be purchasing a separate paddle and not bothering to try to get warranty coverage. The kayak itself is great! I wish the valves locked a little more securely as they opened a couple times unexpectedly. Inflating it was relatively easy, although I found I had to pump with one hand and hold onto the valve with my other hand. This was a little awkward, but it pumps up relatively quickly, so that helped. Deflating it and folding it back up and getting the backpack set up was easy. So overall, I really like this product, I just wish the paddle was better quality.
Date published: 2018-09-04
Rated 5 out of 5 by Suzanne from Outstanding inflatable kayak My kids and I absolutely love this kayak- it's super easy to fold into its own backpack, and equally as simple to set up/inflate and be out on the water in a matter of minutes. It's stable once out on the water- my dog (30lbs) jumps off the front or side of it and I can hoist him back in all without "rocking the boat". I should have bought two of these!
Date published: 2018-07-22
Rated 5 out of 5 by Rick Davidson from Great for seniors! !! I love it a lot nicer then i expected, it was easy to fill and deflate, put the kayak back pack on and road on my bike to the river had a blast.
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14 October 2011
13 October 2011
Let's Look It Up
This is definitely a sign of our times...
Anders had built something with his Tinkertoys. (Remember those?) When Corinne walked in, she asked him what it was that he had built.
Without missing a beat, Anders responded: "I don't know. Let's find out. Let's look it up. Where's my phone?"
He then proceeded to pull out his toy flip-phone, push some buttons, then say "Oh, it's a spinning wheel."
I can't imagine where he learned that.
- Mike, Corinne, and Anders Rocket
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11 October 2011
Fluffy Ears
Recently the three of us walked out to our garden to pick some flowers for a bouquet. Most of the flowers were still in full bloom, but Anders particularly liked how "fluffy" the zinnias were.
It didn't take too much encouragement to get him to pose for some "fluffy" photos with his flowers. (I use the term "pose" loosely.)
A modern take on Three Wise Monkeys, perhaps?
- Mike, Corinne, and Anders Rocket
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02 October 2011
The End of Summer Tomatoes
Thanks to a long summer, our garden was still producing prolifically into October. When it looked like the first frost was coming, we harvested whatever was left: tomatoes, tomatillos, boxes of squash, and piles of herbs. We spent most of a weekend cooking and canning: Zucchini Dill Pickles, Chile Verde Sauce, and a wonderful Tomato and Sage Sauce. All made from garden ingredients! (Thanks to Debbie for some of her garden plum tomatoes.)
The blender technique to this particular recipe was a bit unusual for a tomato sauce. But with so many different varieties and colors, the process was beautiful.
One last bit of summer tucked away, just enough to remember it by.
- Mike, Corinne, and Anders
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One of the first oil seeds known to humankind, sesame seeds have been widely employed in culinary as well as in traditional medicines for their nutritive, preventive, and curative properties. Sesame is a primary source of phytonutrients such as omega-6 fatty acids, flavonoid phenolic anti-oxidants, vitamins, and dietary fiber with potential anti-cancer as well as health promoting properties.
Sesame plant is a tall annual herb in the Pedaliaceae family, which grows extensively in Asia, particularly in Burma, China, and India. It is also one of the chief commercial crops in Nigeria, Sudan, and Ethiopia. Scientific name: Sesamum indicum.
Sesame plant requires well-drained sandy soil and tropical environment to flourish. It grows about 5 feet in height and bears plenty of pink-white foxglove-like flowers. The pods appear soon containing white, brown, or black seeds depending upon the cultivar type, arranged in vertical rows inside thin sacs. Each pod (2-5 cm in length) is a long rectangular box like a capsule with deep grooves on its sides. Each pod (1 to 2 inches in length) may contain up to 100 or more seeds.
Sesame seeds are small, almost oblate in shape. Toasted sesame features pleasant, nutty flavor.
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What Kind Of Naughty Monkey Are You?
What Kind Of Naughty Monkey Are You?
What's your favorite breakfast?
Fruit and Fiber
Hot Croissants
Full English
Do you spend much time on personal grooming?
Night and day, I have to look my best
I love to indulge in a bit of me time
I love to indulge in a bit of me time
I never remember to even get a hair cut
How do you like to spend your leisure time?
Day dreaming
Down the gym
Dinner with friends
What leisure time?
Are you a bit of a joker?
Everyone knows I'm the joker in the pack
If I am in the mood
No, I've never been called that
People laugh when I make mistakes
What's your perfect natural habitat?
In a cave
Out on the plains
Deep in the jungle
Up a tree
If you found a lost wallet, what would you do?
Keep the money
Hand it in to the police
Check it to see if it had ID
Put it on a wall
What makes you feel threatened?
I am never scared!
If my family is in danger
When someone makes me the focus of attention
That's my normal condition
Would you say you are good with your hands?
I like to make my own stuff
You've got to have a skill, so I like to think so
Yes, I'm a bit of a homemaker
I don't need to be, I call the builder
How many close friends do you have?
More than ten
Three to five
One or two
Where do you hang out at the end of the day?
Reading in bed
Watching TV
Out with friends
Planning tomorrow
What Kind Of Naughty Monkey Are You?
You can certainly raise the roof, and your keen senses make you an excellent defender of the group. Your dedication to getting the most from life has taken you on an amazing journey and you will never tire of living life to the full.
What Kind Of Naughty Monkey Are You?
You are a rare and spiritual animal, but your funny ways make you a friend to everyone you meet. You don't like to be in the spotlight, but when you do take center stage everyone is always charmed by your special kindness and talent for fun.
What Kind Of Naughty Monkey Are You?
You are a seeker, always ready to try new things and make new friends. Your delicate sensibilities have been honed by experience and others often ask your advice. Bright and a swift learner, you have some amazing skills.
What Kind Of Naughty Monkey Are You?
You thrive within a group and you are always careful to make sure that your family and friends abide by the rule and always get along with each other. Often you are asked to be the mediator in disputes, and it's important to you that, when all the shouting is over, harmony is restored.
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Next week is World Osprey Week and it looks like we could be celebrating it with the arrival of 30(05) at her nest close to Rutland Water. The latest satellite data shows that last night she roosted in central France, having flown 600km over the past two days. After roosting on the banks of the Rio Ucero in the Catille and Leon region of northern Spain on Wednesday evening, 30 probably caught a fish in the river soon after first light next morning. At 8am she was perched in a wooded area 14km further north, almost certainly eating breakfast. She began migrating just before 9am and maintained steady progress for the rest of the morning. By 1am she had flown 141 north-east and was passing through the eastern part of the Basque Country, not far from our friends at Montorre and Urretxindorra Schools who are participating in World Osprey Week. We do not have all of the satellite data for her afternoon's flight, but she must have passed to the east of San Sebastian before crossing into France at around 4pm. She then continued on the same north-easterly heading past Bayonne before settling to roost in a wooded area to the north-west of Dax after a day's flight of 304km. Next morning at 6am she was perched beside Etang d'Abesse, a small lake situated 1.5km from her roost site, presumably eating a fish.
30 didn't hang around for long because by 10am she had already flown 74km and was heading purposefully north. She made a slight diversion to the north-east to avoid flying directly over Bordeaux and then continued onwards into the Poitou-Charentes region. By 5pm she had covered over 300km during the course of the day and was evidently looking for somewhere to roost. An hour later she was perched just over 1km to the north and she then settled for the night in a woodland clearing, 35km west of Poitiers.
30 is now just under 700km south of Rutland Water. She's flown 622km in the past two days, and so if she maintains that kind of speed, she may well arrive back at her nest either late tomorrow or Monday morning. It is going to be an exciting few days!
We'll have an update on the progress of the rest of the WOW Ospreys tomorrow, but in the meantime check out the Powerpoint that Lea Koskinen from Pornainen Comprehensive in Finland has put together with some amazing photos of fishing Ospreys. To see the Powerpoint, follow this link to the Pornainen Comprehensive WOW pages, then scroll to the bottom of the page and you'll find the Powerpoint under 'files to download'.


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"It was supposed to be the party of the year," he told them.
The Children leaned forward eagerly. "What is a party?"
The ancient man closed his eyes against the glare of their attention. "It's . . . it's complicated. When you do something well--but of course, you all do everything well, it's how you are now--you want to celebrate. To be proud of it in public. And sometimes you just want to spend time with friends. But of course, you don't have to worry about that, either. Ever since the Mindshare, you spend all the time you want with everyone."
When he opened his eyes again, the Children had cocked their head and were rubbing their chin, their eyes blank as they processed and shared.


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One of the hottest trends right now is a braid. I remember back in beauty school the day we learned how to braid, thinking "I will never have to use this technique". Well it is a few short years later and braiding is in… and I am in love with braids! One of the reasons why I love braids is because they add great texture and a fun twist to hair styles. There are so many different ways to braid hair, which makes it so fun to incorporate braiding into any hairstyle. Here are some of my favorite braids…
Lauren Conrad- Classic Braided Bangs
Nicole Richie- Braided updos
Vanessa Hudgens- Fishtail braid
Tantrum's favorite bang braid.
P.s. If you feel like you can't braid or have a hard time braiding just practice, practice, practice! Practice on a friend, your mom, daughter, sister, or even a doll head. There are also great tutorials online to help get your braiding on!!! The more you do it the better you will get at it.


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The teen brain is an active construction zone.
Human brains change enormously during the first 25 years of a person's life. We now know that a lot more is happening in the brain during the teen years than we ever realized.
Adolescent experiences shape the brain for life.
Taking risks, having strong feelings, and acting impulsively are normal teen behaviors that can have positive or negative consequences. Decisions teens make now can lead to habits that last a lifetime.
The brain is the last organ in the body to mature. Teens' synapses function at higher levels, which is excellent and explains why they can learn so much … However, addiction is a form of learning and teens are more susceptible to negative effects of substances or stress." —from an interview with Frances E. Jensen, professor of neurology, parent, and co-author of The Teenage Brain: A Neuroscientist's Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults
Talk about it!
You can make a difference in young people's lives by helping them understand what they can do to take care of their bodies and brains during this crucial time. Try asking questions like:
"What do you hope your life will be like when you are older?"
Youth are better at resisting impulses when they have goals for the future and a realistic sense of the steps involved in reaching them.
"What skills will you need to have to accomplish your goals?"
The adolescent brain's capacity for learning is incredible! Getting really good at something when you are a teen usually means you will have those skills for life.
"Do you know what happens in your brain when you try new things?"
"Do you know what happens when you do the same thing over and over?"
"Use it or lose it" is a key concept for teen brains. After a period of rapid growth in childhood, in the teen years brain development is focused on selecting and strengthening key pathways.
"Why do you think people your age take more risks than adults?"
While of course individuals vary, in general, the architecture of teen brains means at this age people are not as adept at planning ahead as adults, and they are much more likely to act without thinking.
"The Physiology of Addiction," produced by the Opioid Task Force of Franklin County and North Quabbin, is a 50-minute video of a presentation by local family physician Ruth Potee.
"Grey Matters: Protecting the Developing Brain" — In 2013, the Partnership brought Dr. Rubin Baler, a neuroscientist from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), to Greenfield Community College for a presentation on how young developing brains are impacted by alcohol and drug use, sleep, food, and other influences. This is a recording of his talk.
Further Reading
We've found these articles, just for you.
- Why Do Teens Act This Way? — from the Partnership for Drug-Free Kids — The short video on this page is a quick course on what's unique about adolescent brains. Also, check out the brief articles about brain development, behavior, and teen moods.
- The Teen Brain: Still Under Construction — from the National Institute of Mental Health — This ten-page booklet packs a lot of information about brain science into its pages. It's also available as a webpage.
- Teen Brain: Behavior, Problem Solving, and Decision Making is one of many short, informative articles from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry's "Facts for Families" series. These resources are available in English, Spanish, and Chinese.
- The Adolescent Brain — The Health Science Division at the University of Utah developed this page as part of its work on the science of addiction.
- Talking with Teenagers about Marijuana — from The New York Times, suggests giving teens access to information about brain science and contains links to reputable research studies.
- What Losing an Hour's Sleep Really Does to Your Children explores the short- and long-term effects of sleep deprivation on growing brains
- The Child's Developing Brain is an interactive visual showing how different areas of the brain develop from birth to 21.
- The Teen Brain: It's Just Not Grown Up Yet is a National Public Radio article about author and neuroscientist Frances Jensen and her teenage sons
- This Really Is Not Your (or Your Teen's) Brain on Drugs by Gill-Montague Community School Partnership project director and certified prevention specialist Kara McLaughlin, was originally published in the 2015 Franklin County Guide for Parents.


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What is the Incentive for People under Communism?
We have to realise that capitalism has distorted our humanity. Social Darwinism is utterly mistaken so "survival of the fittest" is not how evolved societies work. Darwinism applies to solitary animals competing for resources, but society is one way in which animals can evolve so as to have better chances of surviving through co-operation, sharing, caring, empathy and altruism. Capitalism pretends that humans within society are equal to solitary animals outside it. On that basis they establish that the least human (the most greedy and selfish) will do better than the ones who stick to their social instincts to help others and care for them.
In the primitive communistic phase envisioned by Marx before there was any surplus to exploit, society still had different tasks to be done, and those that did not do their fair share were punished by the community, almost certainly by expulsion in serious or persistent cases. That will have meant death, and will have been the way the prosocial genes were increased in the genome relative to the anti-social ones, the latter over several million years being culled out (a process not completed). What though made someone agree to take on an onerous job like say the group leader? A leader was necessary because there is no time nor inclination to hold a conclave when we are attacked by a pride of lions, say. A leader shows the way, but why should anyone accept such a job?
There are no perks in terms of surplus value but what there is is prestige, the esteem of others in the group. Once we have had a few generations of socialism—which will need to guard against lapses back into capitalism meanwhile ("dictatorship of the proletariat", would you believe), the instinctive kindly, sharing, helpful nature of people will return and the attitude will be one of wanting to do risky and unpleasant things for others, to have the regard that comes with it. Wanting to be admired is another natural instinct, complementary to sharing and caring. When we return to natural behaviors, helping each other because we like it and want to, the state can whither away.
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2 April, 2014 at 8:54 pm
Posted in Morality, Politics, Science, Secular Christianity, Sociality, Welfare of Others
Tagged with Capitalism, Civilization, Communism, Education, Esteem, Evolution, Gratitude, Humanity, Prestige, Social, Sociality, Society
Greek Terracotta Figurines on Delos Testify to Pre-Christian Religious Tolerance
In the second century BC, residents on the Greek island of Delos saw nothing wrong with using others' gods in their prayers. Caitlin Barrett, Cornell assistant professor of classics and author of Egyptianizing Figurines From Delos: A Study in Hellenistic Religion, examined terracotta figurines found on Delos to determine what influence Egypt's religion had on the Hellenized inhabitants and their daily lives.
Terracotta figurines are potential evidence for the religious ideas of a wide swath of the population, not just the rich. Such inexpensive figurines were accessible to many because they could be made rapidly and in bulk. Figurines of Egyptian gods appear as offerings at Greek gods' temples on Delos and vice versa. Barrett explains:
The fact that somebody's dedicating a figurine of a Greek goddess like Aphrodite to an Egyptian goddess like Isis suggests that the two were associated, or at least that their worship wasn't considered incompatible. Greeks saw these other gods not as alternatives to the Greek pantheon but as something compatible with their own traditions.
The religious wars raging around the globe today and ingrained religious intolerance attest to the current rigidity of religions, the consequence of the intolerant tradition of Judaism with its jealous god entering the west via Christianity—Judaism for goyim—and displacing the tolerance of Hellenism. At this earlier period the tendency in Egypt and Greece was the other way—towards toleration. Barrett notes:
What's interesting is the degree to which these foreigners—Italians, Phoenicians, Egyptians, Syrians and Jews—interacted with each other's deities and the cross pollination among worshipers.
Although most of the figurines were produced by local craftspeople, many of them have iconography reminiscent of Egyptian deities. The Græco-Macedonian Ptolemies ruling Egypt at this time worshiped the Greek gods, while ceremonially serving the traditional Egyptian pantheon. Barrett says:
This led to the creation of syncretic imagery that combined aspects of both Greek and Egyptian traditions, and that could speak to members of this heterogeneous population. Some of that imagery wound up becoming hugely popular in the rest of the Mediterranean as well.
Delian craftsmen used techniques of figurine manufacture and conventions of artistic style that derive from Greek traditions, while conveying concepts that are fundamentally Egyptian. Barrett explains that Egyptians depicted children like adults with a finger to their mouth—because babies put their fingers in their mouths—rather than smaller and with the features of a child. However, in truth, Later Greek writers misinterpreted figurines of Harpocrates as a child to mean, from the characteristic gesture of his forefinger to his lips, that he was silencing people, and he became thought of as the god of silence and secrecy. To the Egyptians he was the symbol of the reborn sun and early vegetation, whence the upturned torch in the illustration (not a figurine from Delos), and his being a child (in the illustration having childish features and an Egyptian side lock of hair).
To pretend that Christianity avoided any trace of syncretism, as fundamentalists argue, is quite absurd. Many, perhaps most, Christian traditions and calendar dates copied ones already in use by older religions. Christmas is merely the most obvious example. It is a massive shame Christianity did not adopt and practice Hellenistic toleration too.
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17 December, 2011 at 3:37 pm
Posted in Adelphiasophism, Christian origins, History and Myth, Kinunity, Sociality
Tagged with Caitlin Barrett, Christianity, Delos Figurines, Judaism, Religious Toleration, Social
Jesus Explains the Rich Cannot be Saved
In the discussion in The Washington Post following the items about whether Christianity is intrinsically socialist or capitalist in morality, mentioned below, the modern US capitalist oriented Christians so-called were flummoxed by the directness of their incarnated God's message, and mostly turned to the Jewish scriptures or to Paul the Apostle for answers. They never seem to see any incongruity in citing pre-Christian Judaism against the direct words of God recorded as they fell from His own lips in the gospels, or the later teachings of a plain man trying his utmost to teach something quite different, while pretending to be preaching the same message as Christ, and succeeding so well that modern Christianity is Paulianity not Christianity!
Some of Jesus's examples brook no opposition they are so lucid. That anyone should be bold enough to question anything so unequivocal, uttered from the lips of the man they are supposed to consider God, proves that they are not Christians. They are happy to contradict the clearest statements of the divine man! How can this one, for example, be contradicted by America's megarich "Christians"?
Someone came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life? And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God. But if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments. He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother, and, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up. What lack I yet? Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven, and come and follow me. But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions. Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven. And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.Matthew 19:17-24
Since US Christians cannot understand biblical English, here is a step by step explanation:
- The man is seeking salvation, eternal life, entry into God's kingdom
- Jesus tells him he must keep the commandments, listing the principal ones from the Jewish scriptures, but adding his own commandment which encompasses all others, "love thy neighbor as thyself"
- The man considers himself a law abiding Jew and has obeyed all the commandments since he was a boy, and asks whether that is sufficient
- To be saved people have to be near enough to perfection to satisfy the Judge, God, at Judgement day, so Jesus tells him that he has to give away his wealth to the poor, and become a Christian, thereby being saved—he would have "treasure in heaven", eternal bliss
- The reward offered to those who are do these things is salvation, but the man prefers his gold.
- He leaves sorrowful, but unable to forego his material riches for eternal happiness
- Jesus explains how hard it is to get into heaven when you are rich—he says it is impossible because a camel cannot go through the eye of a needle.
One commentator confidently proclaimed that this is not the whole story for Peter and the other disciples wonder how anyone can be saved if the rich cannot be. The gospels always show the apostles as being utterly devoid of brain cells, they are so lacking in comprehension. It is a deliberate device of the bishops who commissioned the gospels, because, if they were really so thick, then Jesus must have been thick to select them. Here they are depicted as thick to allow the bishops to be able to insert an ameliorating clause. It is that "all things are possible for God". So the rich can be saved if God chooses to let them be. It is enough to satisfy the rich, who convince themselves that an occasional act of charity will suffice to get God on their side.
They have, of course, got the let-out clause upside down or inside out. The fact is that in Christian theology God is omnipotent and omniscient, and a few other things. Omnipotent means "almighty" or "all powerful". It means He always has the final say. God is the Judge. He cannot be obliged to do anything under any conditions. That means that God's promise is never certain! If God promises that all righteous people will be saved, it means that some of them will not be. That is why pastors are fond of saying that salvation is a gift. They use it as their excuse to deny that good deeds matter, despite the teachings of Christ that they do. It is certain that unrepentant sinners cannot be saved, because they will never be considered by the Judge. To be considered for salvation at all, people have to be perfect, that is righteous, free of sin, and, if they have sinned in their lives, they have to have repented, turned their lives around and not sinned again. The weight of the teaching of Jesus is that, having met the criteria he laid out, they will be eligible for a pass at Judgement, but it always remains God's gift which He can always withhold, but probably will not.
The same holds in reverse. God is the Judge of sin, and although rich men face an almost complete ban from consideration for salvation, God might offer one or other of them an improbable gift of eternal life, and only God knows why He will do it, if He has a reason at all. But the underlying Christian belief, as it was with the Essenes, is that God is not capricious, so that what we can only call a gift, God has His reasons for it.
It is not a good bet to gamble that God will be benign to the rich man at Judgement Day when during His incarnation on earth, He said unmistakably clearly that for all practical purposes it was impossible for a rich man to get into God's kingdom. So, gift or no gift, it remains true that "it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God".
If that is not plain enough for you capitalistic Christians, defending the rich, you ought to read this parable that Jesus told:
There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day. And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, and desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table. Moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom.
The rich man also died, and was buried. And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue, for I am tormented in this flame. But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things, but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot. Neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.
Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldst send him to my father's house, for I have five brethren, that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment. Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets, let them hear them. And he said, Nay, father Abraham, but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent. And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.Luke 16:19-31
It is hard to see how this parable can be read in any way other than the obvious and direct one that being rich can mortally damage your hope for an afterlife, if that is still any attraction to rich Christians. In the story related above, meant to be an actual incident in Jesus's life, not a parable, the rich man is less attracted to the notion of being saved than he is to his bags of gold. So Jesus knew what the rich were like, and he even ends the parable of Dives and Lazarus by saying that even someone rising from the dead will not persuade them that riches are the "wages of sin"!
That turned out to be a true prophesy, and all of these US Christian apologists for the rich man's economic scam prove it!
Written by mikemagee
19 August, 2011 at 11:22 pm
Posted in Adelphiasophism, Christian Liars, Christian origins, Economics, Politics, Sociality, Welfare of Others
Tagged with Capitalist, Damnation, Dives and Lazarus, Humanity, Poor, Rich, Salvation, Social, Socialism, Society
Is Christian Morality More Socialist or More Capitalist?
It has been amusing over the last few days reading, and even participating in, the debate in The Washington Post on whether Christianity should favor socialism or capitalism. The leading article From Jesus' Socialism to Capitalistic Christianity was written by Gregory Paul who argued in favor of Socialism but offered several hostages to fortune in introducing Ayn Rand into the debate, and implying that socialism was necessarily coercive. Two other articles followed refuting Gregory Paul's argument. One was worthless, written by some Catholic member of the Discovery Institute, and another one, almost as bad but written I believe by a pair of evangelical lawyers, David French and Jordan Sekulow, was titled The Impossibility of a Socialist Jesus.
One of the points Gregory Paul made was that of the sharing of possessions in the first Christian community described in Acts. The act of sharing was so important to them that Luke, if he is the author, described how two supposed recruits, Ananias and his wife, Saphira, are struck dead for not sharing fully. They held back some of their wealth. The Christian lawyers claim the God killed the wicked pair for lying not for failing to share all of the money with the community. They say the notion of an honest lawyer is an oxymoron. It seems it is when it is a right wing preaching lawyer!
The ordinary US Christian is not noted for reading the book they value so highly, so they are easily fooled by right wing pastors and lawyers who cite things selectively. The full story of Ananias and Saphira starts at Acts 4:32, as follows:
And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things common. Neither was there any among them that lacked, for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold, and laid them down at the apostles' feet. And distribution was made unto every man according as he had need. And Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas, (which is, being interpreted, The son of consolation,) a Levite, and of the country of Cyprus, Having land, sold it, and brought the money, and laid it at the apostles' feet.Acts 4:32; 34-37
It says they all had their things in common. The apostles' community had set its rules, and Ananias and Saphira broke the rules by trying to deceive the community. People joined voluntarily, but once they had, they had to follow the rules. That is true of any just society, surely. As Gregory Paul had said, these early Christians in Acts held everything in common, so Ananias and Saphira were holding from the group some of their wealth, thereby breaking the community's rules. They need not have become Christians so could have kept their house as their own, or sold it and disposed of their money just how they liked, but they had joined the community of Christians and so were obliged to give up all their wealth. It is justice.
Capitalist societies are not just. In the UK a lot of unemployed young people have been rioting, and not a few employed people too. Why? They have no prospects, and they have just seen politicians and bankers robbing the public purse by billions without being severely punished, or even being properly regulated. When cheating is so transparent in society people get angry. It seems that Peter got angry with Ananias and Saphira, and as the group's enforcer, dealt with them.
Desperate to avoid the obvious crime, breaking the socialistic rules of the apostles' community, Christians like to emphasize that Peter in quizzing Ananias wanted to know why he had lied that they had given all the proceeds of their sale when they had not. The crime was lying, they say, not the deed of withholding. Well naturally withholding necessitated lying but breaking the community's rule was the primary crime and the reason for the consequent lying. But Peter does not ask Saphira why she lied when she arrived a while later. He says:
Tell me whether ye sold the land for so much? And she said, Yea, for so much.
The Christian lawyers justify capitalism by justifying cheating, though lying is a capital crime in God's eyes, it seems. Well capitalism depends on both for one necessitates the other. It is quite true that many people have tried to be honest dealers while practising capitalism, but ultimately it is impossible. Christian bankers, politicians and lawyers prove it, all too transparently, and, in the end, the oppressed masses will not put up with it.
The political idea of socialism might not have arisen until the nineteenth century, but it is an ancient economic system, and unarguably the one that the first Christians adopted!
Written by mikemagee
19 August, 2011 at 9:05 pm
Posted in Adelphiasophism, Christian Liars, Christian origins, Economics, History and Myth, Kinunity, Morality, Politics, Sociality, Welfare of Others
Tagged with Capitalism, Christianity, Gregory Paul, Poor, Rich, Social, Socialism, Society
The Essence of Morality
Ultimately how do you judge what is moral? If morals are supernatural gifts from God, when we are faced with a novel dilemma, we have no way of judging what is the moral way to act. Either God has given us the gift of moral judgement, or He has not—we are good or we are wicked through the grace of God, and our choices depend on that. If, on the other hand, morality is devised by humans living together to provide individual security, then the moral act is the one that causes least harm, or does more good, for other people. A terrorist throws a bomb into a restaurant. He is plainly immoral. He is harming innocent people for his own personal reasons. A waiter falls on to the bomb, smothering the blast with his own body. He dies but saves twenty others. He is a hero. It is an obvious and extreme case, but the morality of it is that, though the waiter lost his own life, he saved all those others. The most extreme such case is that of Christ, whom Christians say died to save the whole of humanity! So, morality is the welfare of other people in society. The instinct is to preserve oneself. That is what a solitary animal would do. The moral animal tries to save others, tries to be a Christ!
Written by mikemagee
22 June, 2011 at 9:13 pm
Posted in Adelphiasophism, Christian Sceptic, Morality, Welfare of Others
Freedom and Social Order—Ancient and Modern
For most of the dark ages, so called because of the absence of learning brought about by the victory of Christianity, people lived in misery largely because of their poverty, not because they had ideas beyond their station. Peasants knew their place in the social system, and even in the nineteenth century, the wife of the Bishop of Armagh was going to make sure the little scallywags at Sunday school knew it:
The rich man in his castle,
The poor man at his gate,
God made them, high or lowly,
And ordered their estate.All things bright and beautiful, Mrs C F Alexander
Most people were effectively slaves throughout the time of the Feudal system. They had a notional freedom, but in practice were tied to their lord and master and the bit of his land he allotted to the peasant to pay him for his otherwise corvée service to the manor. As Mrs Alexander wrote, God had "ordered their estate", and few villeins entertained any idea of getting on in the world.
Some however, did, and especially after the millennium year (1000 AD) when the parousia did not happen and Christ failed to appear as the bishops had been promising for centuries. Thereafter, some people objected to their propaganda (Catholic lies—the original meaning of the word), many of them in the south of France, in Languedoc. They were Cathars and Vaudois, and preached spontaneously against Catholicism as being a Satanic plot. The Church organized a crusade against them, massacring and scattering them, then set up the Inquisition to pursue the scattered remains throughout Europe, calling them witches, and projecting on to them the accusation of being Satanic that the witches had originally pinned on the Catholic clergy. As the Church won, it is witches who are now remembered as Satanic.
The Cathars and Waldenses were the first Protestants and the first capitalists, for many had to travel around earning what living they could as craftsmen and tinkers. Their preaching against Catholicism inspired people like Wycliffe and Tyndall, and the Lollards. They also motivated the peasantry to think strange thoughts, thoughts that God had not ordered everyone's place, and that human beings need not be tied to the land. In England in 1381, the peasants revolted. A Lollard preacher, John Ball, taught quite a different message from that which the serfs held habitually and unquestioningly until then:
When Adam delved, and Eve span, who was then a gentleman? From the beginning all men were created equal by nature, and servitude had been introduced by the unjust and evil oppression of men, against the will of God, who, if it had pleased Him to create serfs, surely in the beginning of the world would have appointed who should be a serf and who a lord.
These dissenting Christians were reading the bible for themselves, and Ball plainly meant that God had not made any such prescription in Genesis, so the presumed order of society had been arranged by the nobility and the clergy hand in hand for their own benefit, and contrary to God's intention.
Primeval Human Groups
Adam and Eve in the bible had willingly chosen to disobey God, but the notion of God had sociologically come from the interpretation of their societies that early humans, just awakening into consciousness, found themselves living in. These small human groups were essentially classless. Leaders were treated with somewhat greater respect than ordinary members of the group, because they had to take decisions on the group's behalf, but otherwise they barely differed from the others, living, sharing and caring equally with them.
A child was born into the group, and knew nothing else. When they were ill or hungry, it was the group that looked after them. The purpose of the leader was to keep them united when they were attacked by a predator or a rival group, so every member looked to others for defense and security too. And that was just how they saw it as they died. The group always provided for them and protected them from birth until death. It was, to them, as much part of Nature as the rising of the sun. It seemed eternal because it was in existence when they were born, it still was when they were dying, and so it had always been. The group was led by one member, the most competent of them to do it, and particularly good leaders were remembered, and became identified with the group first as a totem, then an ancestor or a father. In time the benefits of the tribe transferred to a mythical founding leader, who thereby became a god.
So the imagined benefits of the supernatural god or God were inherited from the benefits of the primitive tribe. God is a supernaturalized society, but the society he represents was the egalitarian society of early human beings, a society that made everyone feel secure and safe, and was ever present.
Freedom in Paradise
We can see now, that there was no way that this early simple society could have sustained a division into "haves" and "have nots". Had it done so, the "have nots" would have upped and left—there could have been nothing in it for them, and the "haves" would have had to become "have nots" to survive. They would have had to do their own delving and spinning. This is the stage when the original hypothetical social contract that founded the original group could have been abandoned, had the social contract been violated.
Were the people in this early human group free? They were and they were not! They benefitted from the help offered by others in the group, and they in turn had to help the others. So they were not free to do as they liked. They had a social duty to perform in return for the social benefits they received. But all of them could rely on the others, for any rogue or antisocial member would have been disciplined by the rest, perhaps even being killed in extreme cases, as chimpanzees do, but also being driven out where they were likely to die unless a nearby group took them in. Members of the groups felt secure, and could participate in evicting a poor or old leader who was no longer effective, thereby participating in a rough and ready democracy—but they were obligated to the group by duty.
Here is the natural source of the ideas of positive and negative freedom. Negative freedom meant that none of the group members felt enslaved or confined. None could be made to do more than their fair share for the group, and could withdraw from the group if they felt some caucus in it was asking too much of them. But they were able to make their own contribution to the group, just the same as the others did, and also could help in replacing an ineffective leader. So, they had positive freedom. True freedom is the right balance of the two of them, and that is what the primitive human group had.
Overdoing negative freedom breaks down the cohesiveness of the group. People may be able to do a lot of things they could not do while they felt more obligated to the group, but they also feel that the help of others was waning, leading to their growing anxiety and insecurity.
For long periods in the dark and middle ages, though their lords could be oppressive, people could not imagine what freedom was. Equally, though poor, and liable to have hard times in bad seasons through cold, drought or flood, the normal working year was short, and people had a lot of free time waiting for crops to grow, and saints days for merriment. They also had the same strong feeling of community that the primitive group had. In short, the anxiety they felt was real, through poverty and providence, but was not generally social. Social anguish has grown steadily in the twentieth century along with the collapse of caring society into greed and exploitation.
People are feeling the absence of the kindness that close groups always had as a compensation for the random hardships of living—positive freedom. Instead they want more negative freedom—with its attendant failing cohesion of society.
Written by mikemagee
22 June, 2011 at 1:25 am
Posted in Adelphiasophism, Christian Sceptic, Kinunity, Sociality, Welfare of Others
Tagged with Belief, Catholic, God, Humanity, Negative Freedom, Positive Freedom, Social, Society
What Matters Most, Christ's Resurrection or His Moral Teaching?
Walter Albritton, a Methodist minister, tells how, as a boy, he used to go with his parents to see a dramatization of the rising of Jesus as told in Matthew, except, curiously, he has three not two women going to the tomb on the morning after the sabbath—a careless lapse, perhaps. It was sufficient to persuade him that the story was true because he was merely a lad, and naturally believed what he was told by his parents. He writes in the Opelika-Auburn News:
Years later, I began to question. Is it really true? Perhaps, as some say, the resurrection story is a myth. I wondered and struggled with the issue for awhile.
It seems he did not struggle long, for he decided "it is impossible to explain the Christian movement unless Jesus was actually raised from the dead", and plainly enough ended up as a minister. Needless to say, he did not explain quite why he could not find any other explanation for Christianity starting up other than its foundation myth of a man being brought back to life being a true story. Instead, he poses his readers a few leading questions.
Could a lie about the resurrection be perpetuated for 2,000 years?
If, by a lie, minister Albritton means something that is not true, then the answer is a plain, "yes"! People have believed falsehoods for much longer than 2000 years, though they believed them to be true. A simple example is believing the sun moves around the earth, when the earth itself is actually rotating. By describing an erroneous belief as "a lie", Albritton is tilting the pin ball machine! He is prejudicing the reader into thinking the first believers were tricked or were themselves doing the tricking, and they are resistant to either thought.
What, though, stops these sincere believers from simply being mistaken in thinking their erstwhile leader had risen when his corpse had simply been removed from the tomb?
The little boy Albritton would have been persuaded by the parade of Roman guards on duty outside the Easter show tomb, but it is a story only Matthew has and he explains that it proves the body could not have been stolen, an admission that people had already, before Matthew wrote a word, been protesting that the corpse of Jesus had been removed. No other gospel has the story about the Roman guards, and it makes the Roman guards the eyewitnesses to the resurrection, a story Matthew then has to refute by saying the guards had been asleep on duty! The corpse therefore could have been stolen anyway because the guards were asleep.
But could the early disciples have stolen his body from the tomb, while the guards were sleeping, and then convinced hundreds of people that Jesus was alive? Saying that it was so surely would not convince anyone.
Albritton leaps to the conclusion that only the disciples would have wanted to steal the corpse, that they wanted to do it deliberately to fool others into thinking Jesus had been resurrected, and had then gone around propagating what they knew was a lie. Again the presentation of an explanation in this tendentious manner can only be to prejudice his readers against a perfectly feasible explanation when presented otherwise. The Romans might have kept the body in case the disciples had tried to persuade his followers that Jesus was actually still alive. Displaying the corpse would have scotched any rumors that started along those lines.
More likely is that Jesus was an Essene leader, and the Essenes had removed his body for a proper burial with the ritual suited to an honoured leader. His simple converts were not aware of this, and they it was who took it for granted that he had been the first of the saints (Essenes) to have been resurrected at the general resurrection of the righteous that they were expecting at the End of the World. These simple converts were the first Christians, and they believed what Christ had told them—that the world was about to end. Then the righteous and the truly repentant Jews would be resurrected into God's kingdom. They had been sinners, but had repented and sincerely believed they too would be resurrected when the world finally did end. Christians believe this still. The first believers were not liars and were not dishonest. they simply believed what they had been told, and the disappearance of Christ's body encouraged them to think he had been resurrected. He had not been, but his followers thought he had been. Does Albritton get it now? There had been no resurrection in fact, but the first Christians sincerely thought there had been!
If Jesus had not been resurrected, it is obvious we would never have heard of his apostles. But we did hear about them; they were so convinced that Jesus was alive they were willing to suffer and die for this new faith. The evidence is overwhelming that the early Christians were willing to be martyred rather than renounce their belief in the resurrection of Jesus. Would anyone be willing to die in defense of a lie?
Albritton persists in suggesting to his readers that only lying apostles could explain Christian belief without miracles, and naturally no Christian will ever think the first Christians could have lied. There is no evidence whatsoever that any of the twelve apostles died for their faith. Christian belief is based on the same sort of evidence as the resurrection of Christ himself. Christians have been told the stories and they believe them. If a false tale is necessarily a lie, then in some cases at least, it is likely that the stories of the apostles all suffering and dying for their belief are lies. The same argument as that given above applies, however. The followers really believed the general resurrection had begun.
Evidence of this is present in Matthew 27:52-53 where "many bodies of saints who had fallen asleep were raised". Did Albritton and his own Christian admirers ever notice that Jesus Christ was not the only man in the New Testament at the time to have been raised from the dead? Many were resurrected and they went into the city and appeared to many others! Matthew himself believed the general resurrection had started when Christ rose. Why then would they not sincerely think they could be martyred without any fear? They were convinced they would join Christ in the general resurrection. That is supposed to be the point of Christianity, though these days they all believe in a spiritual resurrection in heaven, not an actual bodily resurrection, even though the raising of Jesus was plainly a resurrection of his physical body into this world, not the raising up of a ghost. John 20:26-29 goes to extremes to show that the resurrection was a real bodily one, not a spiritual resurrection into some other place, such that any quack medium would wish to publicize!
At the end of his brief struggle, Albritton yielded to his childhood indoctrination that the resurrection is "the lynchpin of Christianity".
If one does not believe in the resurrection, there is little else in Christian faith that makes sense.
What was the purpose then of Christ's extended acts and teachings? Albritton tells us God's earthly life as Christ, and the lessons He offered His human creatures were just packaging for the brief but dramatic act of God's one off self immolation which has to be taken or left not on sound evidence but an incredible story and a confidence trick called faith. If that is so, Christianity is worthless. The moral teaching of Christ does not make sense, Albritton avers, proving that he is a shyster not a moral physician.
If Jesus had not been raised from the dead, then Peter's letters would be a pack of lies.
"Letters" is plural but scholars consider only one of the two letters attributed to Peter in the New Testament has any chance of being genuine, and there is even doubt about that. So, one of "Peter's letters" is a pack of lies inasmuch as it purports to be written by Peter but was actually written around a century after Peter had died. Indeed everyone except Christians know that there is no contemporary external evidence that any of the gospel stories are true. They are set in some historical setting, but then so too are almost all fictional stories that have been written. Incidental references to historical people and places are no proof of the truth of the stories! Much of it could indeed be a pack of lies mainly composed many years after the events that initiated the myths to explain and justify Christian belief as it had emerged at a later date and in different places.
Had Jesus not been resurrected, we would have never heard of the Apostle Paul, who wrote a great portion of the New Testament.
That is plainly false. Paul, like other early Christians taught that the resurrection had happened either because he believed what he had heard about the supposed disappearance of Christ's corpse being because the dead man had been resurrected, or because he was the archetypal cynic for whom the story was a great way of earning a good living as a travelling charletan. Paul has been treated as the true founder of Christianity by Christians precisely because he taught an utterly different basis for living from Christ. Christ taught that people should be moral beings. They were moral beings when they loved each other. He taught the Golden Rule that everyone should treat others as they would like others to treat them. He went further teaching that people should love even their enemies, and even further by insisting that the way to love God was by loving other people as if they were God! By so doing, they would be considered for acceptance into the kingdom of God.
Paul taught quite a different outlook. It was that people would enter the Kingdom of God by merely having faith in Christ. Merely professing Christianity made people into Christians and earned them salvation. They had to do nothing. Phenomena like love of others would simply emerge from faith as a symptom of it. This is a much more acceptable belief than Christ's for the simple reason that people are duped into thinking that salvation requires no effort, or only a little. Priests and pastors, human vampires out to suck mites from widows and orphans, just like Paul, naturally preferred his successful teaching for its benefits to them as a caste. They ignore almost totally the teaching of Christ, supposedly God incarnated as a man of flesh and bone, in favour of Paul's mystical fusion of Judaism and the Eastern mystery religions centered on Christ as a dying and rising God like Attis, Tammuz and Adonis.
We would not even have a New Testament had not the early disciples believed God had raised Jesus from the dead.
At last Albritton gets something right. The disciples did believe Jesus had risen, and they told others of their belief, and the story has passed down to today. They believed it, but to believe something—like the motion of the sun around the earth—is no proof that it is true. Christians have always believed, but it is quite dishonest to pretend that only a genuine resurrection could have started the myth. People will believe what they have been conditioned to believe, and those Jewish followers of Jesus genuinely believed what Jesus had told them about the coming End of the World. They were not sophisticated people, and they were terribly oppressed by a ferociously ruthless military occupying power, the Romans. They wanted a better world to begin, one in which suffering innocents would be rewarded. There are many in the world today similarly oppressed by modern Romans!
Some say it does not matter whether Jesus was resurrected or not. His great moral teachings are what matter… But this is so much hogwash! Jesus believed that by dying on the cross as the Passover Lamb of God all people could receive forgiveness of sins and the gift of eternal life. Can one value anything else he taught if this teaching is a grand hoax? Surely not!
Why not? The important part of Christ's teaching, even as recorded in the gospels, was a moral way of living, and particularly, as shown above, the way we should treat each other. These teachings make sense in human terms because we are social animals who depend upon society for our existence. Sociality is precisely what Christ taught. Christians refer to communion and fellowship, ways of living together amicably in society. And these teachings are underlined by discoveries in evolutionary psychology—the fact that we have moral instincts that can only mean something in a community. Solitary animals have no need of morality. Quite the reverse, they benefit from being savage and ruthless.
Christians have abandoned Christ's moral teaching for Paul's mystical teaching. As a consequence morality has been lost while selfishness has burgeoned. Morality is concern for others. Faith is concern for self. Christ taught salvation is earned by service to others. Paul taught that a personal and entirely selfish faith guaranteed salvation. The disciples of Paul want to tell their own, supposedly almighty, God how He should judge them. Instead of quoting Paul's magical and mysterious statements, Christians should get into the habit of quoting Christ's very plain and understandable principles of personal morality. If they think Christ was God, then it ought to be a no brainer whom they should consider as the more important source in the New Testament, whether Paul wrote most of it or not. Minister Albritton ought to get out of his diapers and read Christ's moral teaching as an adult, then maybe he would stop propagating lies, for once errors are known to be errors, then to continue propagating them metamorphoses into lying.
- More on the Resurrection
- Belief in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ
- Jesus is Risen?
- Jesus crucified
- The Jewish idea of resurrection
- Secular Christianity
Written by mikemagee
30 April, 2011 at 10:15 pm
Posted in Adelphiasophism, Christian belief, Christian Liars, History and Myth, Morality, Sociality, Welfare of Others
Tagged with Essenes, Humanity, Resurrection, Social


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I'm disgusted by the Americans who continue to support treason. Law applies to all or none. If you think you're safe as houses while this continues, you're setting yourself up for a horrible surprise. I'm looking forward to seeing Beyoncè perform live next month. After that, I'll keep looking forward to seeing Fleetwood Mac a few months later. Assuming we're not all dead or dying from a nuclear tantrum, that is.
I completed NBC (nuclear, biological, and chemical warfare) training while serving in the Army. I know enough to be alarmed by the recent chemical attacks in the UK. I know exactly how to react to such tactics based on this knowledge. Do you? Russia denies everything, per usual, while gleefully celebrating yet another victory against the daft Americans who surrendered their free will to Fox News.
But, hey. At least 45 is white, huh? And he's a Christian because Fox News said so. A white, allegedly Christian man with lots of money (do you truly know how he got it?) can commit treason, and you're okay with it because he promised to overturn Roe vs. Wade? And he encourages you to hate loudly and boldly, and you love that shit, don't you? Just as much as you hate me when I notice and point it out, eh?
There are a thousand clichè's to describe how history repeats itself. What comes around, goes around, etc. Lay in the bed you made. That one seems fitting on many levels. Much of writing for others to read entails creating a story that uses symbolism to relate wisdom. I mean the underlying tale that's rearranged, recast and reworded over and over by author after author.
The unspoken motivation for writing in the first place is what I'm referring to here: To cause the reader to feel, think, and experience your creation. To draw on that to which we can relate, then share a perspective. As a voracious reader, I treasure this bond. I love seeing the world through the eyes of another. As a writer, I'm finding myself reluctant to share. I recognize now it involves a slight level of trust.
The state of America affects me in ways I never considered before. I'm saddened by how quickly I'm becoming anti-theist. Presently, the word Christian is meaningless. A transparent shield of lies. I'm embarrassed by how naive I was. And disgusted. Wolves in sheep's clothing don't seem to understand why I respond like they're a wolf. Maybe I should copy. If I pretend to believe hard enough, perhaps I can be a tree. We'll see.


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Yesterday was an eventful and emotional day. Firstly I sat and watched the BBC programme that was broadcast on Monday evening about Polio. I will write again about this as it was fairly thought-provoking.
Then the doorbell rang and there was the postman clutching a large blue packet that needed to be signed for.
This tome of paper is the medical notes for Mum that represents her time at Exeter, effectively 10th January through until 6th February 2014.
There is 475 pages of data. I had a glance through and at first glance there are some pages missing. A second glance reveals that pages are not necessarily in date order.
I have read a few entries, several of which made me smile. Here is one of them.
Christine refused xxx. There was no scope for negotiation.
That was Mum, once she had made her mind up there was very little room for negotiation; that was unless you had the knack. I have the knack after many years of practice 🙂
I am not going to go into lots of detail with the more recent medical records as I do not know how things will pan out. I will though, explain the process, protocol and the frustrations of how two hospitals in the same county have very different policies, even down to the interpretation of the Department of Health guidelines at a later date.
Needless to say, dealing with the other local hospital last week, I thought my head was going to explode. I rarely get really angry, because life is too short, but angry does not cut how I felt one day last week. I was simply furious.; and I still am.