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Book I
Humanity always tried to understand the surrounding world, always tried to answer the questions: how did it come into being, where did man com from, what is the sense of life, death? This way or that, it answered these questions. The notions of life and death mysteries always corresponded to the level of consciousness of masses, time, culture of epoch. Up to the present man's notions of the world, God, life came about from his look from the Earth into the Cosmos. In this case the Universe presents itself close, not very great, while man looks very small, worthless and God looks like a powerful personality, very much like man. In fact God is the ideal image of man. Gods are nearby, quite close. Man projects on them his everyday, domestic experience. He ascribes them the qualities which, in his opinion, Gods must have. For many thousands of years humanity was busy with creating Gods. In this way myths about the origin of the earth, creation of man come into being Man was always sure and in many respects is still sure that he himself and the world around him is completely subordinated to the supreme beings living in the heaven. Gods are seen as very mighty beings very much reminding man living above the world. In Christian consciousness there exists the same understanding of God, The Christian dogma based on Judaism reflects the tribal consciousness of masses which existed in the period of slave-owning system. Hence god is the higher master, absolute proprietor, who completely manages life and death of man. Man is a worthless slave without rights doomed to receive any acts of God's will obediently. There couldn't arise another world outlook in the period of slave – owning system. God forgives, chastises, punishes, constantly watches everyone. In comparison with him man is a worthless slave unable to any independent actions. For any action man needs help from above. He himself is initially sinful and isn't capable of anything higher. His social and private life fully depends on High Will. This is a na?ve, childish look of primitive humanity which lived several thousand years ago and had a tribal consciousness which reflected the reality of the slave – owning system. It's a great pity a part of our quite educated society supports it at the beginning of the next era. In addition it is treated as a "spiritual" achievement. But it is obvious not for long.
On the Earth there was always a very small part of the planet's intellectuals which saw the world differently. It was a look from another point – not from the Earth into the Cosmos, but from the Cosmos on the Earth. In this case the Earth is seen as a tiny speck of dust in the Universe. The Universe presents itself as a system of numerous worlds penetrating each other, influencing each other. The system is very complete and harmonious. Then arises the notion of the Universal Absolute – the source of the existence of worlds and Universal harmony. Then arises the knowledge that man is like the Universe; he is a microcosm, i.e. he contains the same energies as the whole of the Universe, submits to the united laws common for the whole Universe.
There was always knowledge about life, the Universe, Man and god on the Earth.
According to this knowledge the Universe is eternal, it's a system of harmonic worlds penetrating one another, governed by United Common Laws and Principles which are incontestable, invariable, real and effective whether the human society knows of them or not.
In the process of evolution, while developing consciousness, humanity slowly and step by step comprehends the knowledge of the world's organization. For centuries this knowledge is called "Truth". Truth is the knowledge about the spiritual reality of life. Truth and dogma oppose one another. Truth is plastic, it transforms and develops all the time. Like the developing Universe Truth constantly widens and increases.
Periodically a part of this knowledge understandable for many was reported in the form of arising religious or philosophic teaching. Then new knowledge helped further spiritual development of man. Because the cognition of truth, this way or that, leads to its application in life.
"At the given time and at the given place there exists a definite amount of knowledge. During a definite amount of time humanity has at its disposal a certain sum of knowledge."
G. Gurdjiyev
Before every new epoch Humanity synthesizes past experience, accepts new ideas about life, gives up old, obsolete notions in order to make the next step to understanding the Great Truth – the Universal Life.
The knowledge of the structure of the Universe, the Laws governing its worlds, true organizations of man, his life in different plans of existence in the Universe, the evolution of man and humanity is called esoteric.
But where did the knowledge itself come from? This knowledge was introduced from on high by the planetary hierarchy at the dawn of development of the fifth race. About the planetary Hierarchy, governing the development of the planetary humanity, I shall tell in the next books. Now I shall only quote a famous man of knowledge:
"Humanity's life is governed by forces coming from two sources. Firstly by the influence of the planets perceived both by the masses of people and separate persons quite unwillingly and unconsciously. Secondly from the inner circles of humanity; the majority of people doesn't even suspect of their existence and importance, neither does it suspect of the influence of planets.
The inner circle is called "esoteric". It consists of the people who have reached the highest level of development. Each of them possesses all the forms of consciousness possible for a man, absolute knowledge, free and independent will."
Humanity is developing rigorously. The history known to us comprises only a tiny part of the whole history of mankind. Little from the history of the previous epochs is preserved in the memory of mankind. We know practically nothing about the past periods of humanity's existence. But one thing is obvious: in proportion to the development of humanity its notion of the world where it lives also develops. Humanity gets the knowledge about the Universe, the Laws of life, its notions of the world and life change. Knowledge developing together with humanity never disappears. It is reported from century to century, it goes from one epoch to another.
About 8 thousand years ago, the white race ruling on the planet now, began its development. It got the knowledge of the Universe, the Absolute, the Laws and Principles of existence from the previous race of atlantes. About 6 thousand years ago in India there appeared the first initiatory schools where the accepted knowledge was preserved and developed. Partially the higher knowledge was reported from the previous race in Egypt. There initiatory schools were established as well. From time immemorial there was held training and educating of specially selected people at schools called Schools of mysteries. Besides teaching of the organization of the universe, invisible plans of life, one got familiar with the great fundamental doctrine of reincarnation. The knowledge was secret, hidden; it was reported only to the selected, ready for perception people. This knowledge was always hidden from many and intended for few. Traditionally it was reported orally from Teacher to pupil. It reached us in the most ancient monuments of human culture whose origin is lost in the depth of centuries. This knowledge was reported only at initiation at schools; it was accessible only for very few on the Earth. This knowledge is called "esoteric".
"Knowledge is not hidden. In its very nature it can't become a common property. During a definite period of time humanity has at its disposal some sum of Knowledge. If a great amount of knowledge is concentrated in a small number of people, then it gives considerable results. Those, who have knowledge, do all they can to pass and report it ti as many people as possible, to make easier their approach to knowledge and preparing themselves for the perception of truth. But it's impossible to report knowledge to anyone by force".
Developing during the past millennia, knowledge turned into a single planetary spiritual basis. It was formed as a generalized synthesized teaching of the world, as some single space, organized and living according to common laws. As a teaching proving the fact of the presence of divine origin in any particle of universal life.
There exists a basis of spiritual knowledge and practices common to all mankind. Every people had and up to now has its traditional, carefully preserved wisdom, open for few, but hidden for many. It can be said that every people introduced its definite contribution into all-planetary spiritual property. Every people introduced its definite contribution into the United human clandestine knowledge. It includes spiritual methods of many peoples. It is the result of spiritual efforts of humanity during the past period of its development.
But there exist the fundamentals of knowledge, the united higher doctrine – the knowledge of the organization of the Universe, the existence of many life plans, the interaction of worlds, united Universal laws.
It's this knowledge that was reported in clandestine initiatory esoteric schools at initiation. "The very idea of esotery, the idea of initiation reaches people mostly through pseudo esoteric systems and schools. If such pseudo esoteric schools did not exist, the majority of people would have no chance to learn about the existence of something greater than life, as truth in its pure form is beyond their comprehension."
"The idea of initiation which reaches us via pseudo esoteric systems is also reported in a completely wrong form. The legends concerning the external rituals of dedication are made up of scraps of information about ancient mysteries. Mysteries were a peculiar way where especial performances portrayed the evolution of man and the world in an allegoric form. Initiation is the transition from one level of development of existence to another. It was celebrated with special ceremonies. But the change of existence itself can't be caused by any rituals. A ritual just marks a completed transition."
G. Gurdjiyev.
This knowledge was reported to his adherents by every founder of the world religions. Jesus also told his disciples about mysteries.
Later, when religions became pseudo esoteric teachings, when knowledge disappeared from religious dogmata, there arose dead rituals. "Only in pseudo esoteric systems which have nothing but rituals, the latter are ascribed an independent meaning. It is supposed that a ritual changed into a sacrament passes or reports some forces to an initiated one. There isn't and can't be any outer initiation".
In Christianity such meaningless rituals are the "sacrament of communion", sacrament of christening, rite of burial service, etc.
So there exists the United higher Knowledge which asserts that the Universe is the system of interacting worlds of life. The Universe is endless in its existence, it rhythmically contracts and widens. Its development is going on according to incontestable general laws and principles. All the life of the Universe is united into one whole. It is a united living organism where everything is interconnected. Being a part of the universal life, a tiny cell in this organism, man depends on everything in it. He is influenced by the surrounding nature, human surroundings and cosmic influences. Everybody of us also influences upon everything: nature, surrounding people, Cosmos. When man begins to realize this connection, begins to realize that he is responsible for the way he influences upon surroundings; that everything comes back to himself, that nothing disappears completely, he begins to understand that it's necessary to learn to exist in harmony with all surroundings, it's necessary to love everything. All the life of the Universe exists and develops thanks to the law of interaction, interchange and the law of love.
Just watch, everything in nature testifies to the fact the love is the basis of developing new life. This love joining of the female and the male giving new life. This love joining giving a new form of life is characteristic beginning with the smallest particles of matter. It is characteristic of all kingdoms of earthly nature. The life of the kingdoms of vegetables, animals and people continues and develops owing to this Universal Law. The whole life of the Universe exists and develops thanks to the law of love.
It's about this law, about the ability to accept all the surroundings, to feel one's own connection with every man Jesus spoke in his sermon on love to anyone near.
When man learns to live according to the laws of the Universe, he will stop to break the harmony of life. Only then the unity, mutual assistance and brotherly relations between the peoples of the Earth will arise.
Meanwhile the humanity lives in such civilization which knows completely nothing about the Universal indefeasible laws, it violates them all the time. Ignorance, na?ve, distorted notions of life, its values, death, man are the reason of suffering, illnesses, struggle and hatred characteristic of the worldly life. In order to make life on the Earth happier a new spiritual culture is needed. It'll be based on true Knowledge about life, on indefeasible Laws and principles of the Universal and hence worldly existence.
We are on the threshold of the next epoch. There must appear new knowledge about life in the Universe and on the Earth, about the connection of man with Cosmos, Nature, his near. The aspiration for spiritual life has never been more serious and sincere as now. The hectic social processes shattering the life of our society over the past years induce many to try to find some other hidden meaning of social processes, make many understand that the true reason of all difficulties of our life lies in our mass consciousness. Many begin to feel gradually that now they need a new Teaching, which will explain to man the true sense of his life, teach him to treat this world correctly, teach him to prize not the accumulated material values of church and its ministers, but to see another value of life, reveal new priorities of our efforts in life. Now in our society they try to understand the way to form moral values in man's consciousness. Society tries to find ways of personality's perfection. In this connection they speak about spirituality very much and very often.
Very different notions are put into this term, both cultural entertainments and religious rituals. It's customary to believe that spirituality is a synonym of religion, an absolute prerogative of church, and only of the orthodox one. Let us remember how the Authority, supreme for millions of people, defined the notion of spirituality in his Sermon on the Mount. Jesus said that spirituality is kindness, charity, love to all living, ability for compassion, altruism. The spiritual consciousness of a personality shows itself as charity and wisdom, ability for sympathy.
Jesus spoke about love for near – the skill to understand, accept, forgive, the skill not to judge and blame. Jesus did not allow his apostles judgment, the more so blaming. He allowed pity-pity for the people who are yet unable to understand that their mentality is limited, He demanded to forgive enemies, which isn't yet realized for us at all. He demanded to give the superfluous to people in need, that is, everyday giving, a victim as active earthly charity.
Here all the signs of spirituality, eternal moral ideals are reflected. In every confession – let it be Buddhism, Islam or Judaism, you will find, in this form or other, exactly these qualities as a model of the highest moral manifestation of man.
It is quite obvious that charity, wisdom and compassion do not arise in the result of reading, attendance of theatre and cinema, do not arise in the result of fasting and prayers.
Humanity has always praised these qualities, tried to work out methods to form them. One way or another all the spiritual that came into being on the Earth, everything that is included into the notion of spiritual art and culture, made their aim to evoke in man these qualities.
Thus spiritual consciousness of a personality shows itself as charity and wisdom, ability for compassion. How can majority reach this consciousness?
First of all by changing the viewpoint concerning the world where we live.
Now to the greater part of people the world looks like a battlefield where one must win a place for himself. In reality this is a field of everyday experience offering possibility to a personality to develop and improve. The world looks like a chaotic contraption, in reality it is very harmonious, regulated, it develops according to Principles and Universal Laws. Sticking to old scientific and religious notions it's impossible to change point of view of life, hence it's impossible to change the consciousness of the majority of people. New knowledge and culture are needed.
But new knowledge vitally necessary for the country is perceived with difficulty. Our intellectual society critically regards everything that can't be examined with instruments and proved with customary knowledge. There still exists a strong prejudice against unusual knowledge, still everything inaccessible for a mediocre mind is rejected. With na?ve arrogance many scientists appear as judges in that field of knowledge which they have not the least notion of. True, a part of them can be justified. Esoteric knowledge is identified mainly with some terrible medieval mixture of ignorance, distortions, conglomerations of UFO, sorcerers, wizards and so on.
Now many think that chaotic reading books on esoteric topics is enough to have the right to speak of their spirituality and esoteric education. Many others think themselves to be genuine Christians because they attend churches on holidays, take part in obscure rituals, wear crosses and speak about their faith in God. It's not so; spiritual practice is the transformation of oneself, it's the process of the developing a personality, but not intellectual chattering about esoteric or idle chattering about one's faith. It's the appearance of new spiritual and mental qualities of man.
Now science has headed for the research of the nearest cosmic space supposing that this it the main task of humanity.
But even if all of us learn about the life on all the planets of the solar system, of other constellations, shall we get an answer to the question about the aim of the universe, about the sense of life?
Will life itself improve on the Earth?
The aspiration to spiritual life, unseen worlds has never been more sincere and serious than now. This aspiration shows itself in melancholy doubts about earthly values, in the deep feeling of pettiness and unreality of earthly life. With it all many cannot believe in the higher.
Living without clear understanding the reasons and aims of existence people find three ways out:
1. The alternative of ignorance. It comprises the mode of life when one doesn't know, doesn't understand the aim and reason of living, and doesn't think about these problems.
2. The alternative of epicureanism: realizing the hopelessness of life, use those goods it gives you, while there is a chance. In this way the majority of more or less educated people preserve in themselves the possibility to live.
3. The aspiration to cognize the sense and aim of life. True, this aspiration often turns into ignorant talk about contacts with Cosmos, UFO, All planetary information centre, etc. On this aspiration turns into an intensive search for God, who is looked for in books, churches, mosques, synagogues, Now in our society the actively propagandize the devotion to Orthodoxy, faith in God – such God and such faith as they were understood by the society of people living some thousands years ago. It's a na?ve conviction, that following ancient dogma, dead in many respects, is the way of spiritual search and method of moral change of modern society. It should be understood that humanity is continuously developing. Dogma inevitably die, as they do not answer the interests of developing life, they can't influence upon the consciousness of modern humanity. A religious tradition can exist for long if only it doesn't turn into a dead dogma. A spiritual impulse, which appeared at a definite moment of human history from one mighty personality, must be a stream, not a dogma, it must in a new way show its essence in new social conditions and in the conditions of a new level of human consciousness. Those who read the Gospel attentively remember that Jesus promises his disciples another Teacher who would bring them fuller knowledge.
As humanity changed during the past two thousand years, as it reached a new level of consciousness, there must inevitably arise a new spiritual impulse, a new teaching capable of changing the consciousness of masses.
In Pentateuch of Moses, in the first biblical texts it is said that God, having made a man's body of earthly elements, blew a particle of his spirit into him. In this myth the truth is reflected in a symbolic form. There is a particle of divine consciousness in every man.
The famous philosopher Spencer stated that humanity's development is an eternal movement to unknown truth, not liable to definition and eternally not achieved. But for the theosophs of the East and esoterics of the West humanity's movement has an aim. Developing the hidden abilities of soul, man is approaching that great fireplace of life which is called God.
In the east for many thousands years there were performed searches for joining the personal consciousness of man with the divine beginning in him. This is the genuine spiritual search, the search for God in oneself. It's this that all the founders of the world's religions spoke about.
It's necessary to comprehend the teachings given to humanity some thousands years ago in a new way. These teachings, because of the low level of masses' consciousness and culture, were hardly understood by the people living in those remote times, were nearly completely distorted by contemporaries and by later researchers.
Nevertheless, even very much distorted, they had spiritual attractiveness during 2,5 thousand years.
These teaching had a planetary importance, because to some degree the laws of Universal life were stated in each of them.
Everything, that was taught by the founders of the religions, wasn't reduced only to what they said, but was a whole of their personalities and lives. By his life each of them asserted the new knowledge they addressed the whole human race. The confessions that appeared later preserved the teachings in a very little degree, but created the class of the clergy, a system of rituals, and ceremonies, that Christ, among other things, opposed. The teachings were in fact buried, forgotten or distorted.
All the founders of the religions offered methods of the formation of a spiritual, i.e. charitable, wise, free, loving consciousness. It has nothing to do with the call to spiritual slavery, outer meekness and obedience before priests, to mechanical sticking to rituals and ceremonies.
There exists esoteric philosophy which explains the true essence of life, offers a method of spiritual development of a personality, with it all it includes fundamentals of teachings of all religion founders.
The teaching of Jesus and Mohammed are about the necessity of kindness, charity, ability to forgive and accept any near. The teaching of Buddha says that we shan't be able to use our huge potential possibilities of mind and reach the state of complete enlightenment, i.e. to realize the divinity of our inner being, unless we realize that the reason of our sufferings is the manifestation of our imperfection and egoism.
I am sure that both materialist philosophy and semitic religions, being an anachronism, are not adapted to the new epoch. A new civilization, which will inevitably appear in future, will be based on new notions of man, the world, God. After all it's not the first time in the life of humanity that mass consciousness must re-organize. It always occurs painfully, it always occurs in the result of the apparent gap between changed conditions of life and outlived looks on it. The religious clashes, which for already several decades make humanity suffer, the absurd and useless efforts of priests of all religions will induce to look for new answers to eternal questions about life, death, kindness, evil.
Then it'll become evident that the ideas of world outlook the modern civilization is based upon have become obsolete. Man of the future will have true knowledge about the universe, Laws governing life, will feel himself a part of the universal existence.
So that living in this world for a rather short time, attending the school of education called "life", the majority of people have neither slightest true notion about the world where they live, nor the slightest notion about the laws governing this world.
Ignorance is the main enemy of man and the source of all his sufferings. The coming epoch demands knowledge of Cosmic laws of both visible and invisible worlds. It demands the recognition of the invisible world. The majority of people live in Cosmos quite unaware of Cosmic Laws violating them on every step of their lives with every deed, word, thought and they are surprised at the fact that their lives are full of vicissitudes and blows.
"Knowledge, knowledge, knowledge. If people thought more over the fact that knowledge is salvation there wouldn't be even a part of that suffering. All human grief originates from ignorance. That is why any expansion of consciousness is collaboration with evolution."
("Infinity ", Agni-yoga)
Ignorance is the main cause of all sufferings: personal, social, planetary. The sufferings caused by ignorance, aggressiveness, nationalism, religious chauvinism will induce to look for new explanations of this unharmonious and difficult existence on the Earth. Then science and philosophy will be induced to recognize true ancient knowledge about life. Very soon science will have to recognize the existence of other worlds of life.
Time is coming when humanity will pass from blind faith in the divine, Gods to concrete knowledge about worlds and the organization of the Universe. It can be said with certainty that the period, when religious dogmata influenced upon the consciousness of humanity, when it prayed to imaginary gods for thousands of years, is coming to its end. As the process of life development in the Universe is endless, the truth, that humanity will progress further on, is indisputable. In front of it there is a long way of intellect improvement, then comes superconsciousness development.
Thus, in the new epoch objective conditions of life development on the planet will inevitably lead to the fact that humanity will be induced to look for answers to eternal questions of existence, to explain in a new way the reasons of sufferings and imperfection of erarthly life. Then a new world outlook will become firmly established, then the existence of Laws of Cosmos, superphysical, thin worlds will be recognized. The study of these worlds, the connections of earthly life with worlds of other materiality will lead to a higher consciousness level of the earthly mankind and as the result to unity, passing to a new, higher level of human relations – to brotherhood.
The knowledge of life laws, composition of the universe will promote the rise of another humanity, more humane and harmonious.
But already now it's time to popularize ancient, true knowledge of many plans of life in the Universe, of its Laws; already now it's time to train the intellectual part of the planet's population, Russia including, for the first initiation, the initiation into the esoteric Knowledge.


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Stop Hate 2000 Newsletter April 18, 2006 Leaders and heroes can come from very unlikely sources. Since our last newsletter, an American World War II hero passed away. Desmond Doss was a conscientious objector during World War II. Desmond Doss refused to kill for his country. Serving in the military in a non-combatant role during World War II was not popular. In fact, being a conscientious objector was so unpopular one web site reports Desmond Doss was offered a Section 8 discharge, but Doss refused to not serve his country. Doss served faithfully, even though he received death threats from a fellow soldier. He served in the Asian theater and served in some of the fiercest fighting of World War II. Doss risked his life to ensure injured troops received first aid and were evacuated for medical treatment. Desmond Doss was the first conscientious objector to win the Congressional Medal of Honor. When presenting Desmond Doss with the Congressional Medal of Honor, President Harry Truman told Doss, "I'm proud of you, you really deserve this. I consider this to be a greater honor than being President." A brief summary of Desmond Doss' citation can be found on the Surgeon General's Office of Medical History web site. Information about a documentary about Desmond Doss can be found on the desmonddoss.com web site.
Stop Hate 2000 Newsletter April 18, 2006
Leaders and heroes can come from very unlikely sources. Since our last newsletter, an American World War II hero passed away. Desmond Doss was a conscientious objector during World War II. Desmond Doss refused to kill for his country. Serving in the military in a non-combatant role during World War II was not popular. In fact, being a conscientious objector was so unpopular one web site reports Desmond Doss was offered a Section 8 discharge, but Doss refused to not serve his country. Doss served faithfully, even though he received
There are many other brave heroes in society. They are men and women who refuse to not serve humanity. These are people of intense courage, courage enough to change the world. Men and women of color who fight for equality for all visible minorities are heroes. Heroes who worked hard to ensure the story of the Holocaust was preserved and that people guilty of World War II's hate crimes were brought to justice. Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people who have the personal integrity to openly be themselves, and who have the courage to struggle to leave the world a better place for other members of sexual minorities.
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The Adventist Review carries a story about two teenagers who have been charged in connection with arson. According to the article, the youth are accused of having set fire to five Baptist churches one day. A few days later they set fire to more churches, destroying four more churches. In a later attack they are accused of setting fire to an additional five churches. The arson attacks are very disturbing. Without knowing the motive for the wave of church arson, one is left very concerned about the developments. A series of articles and audio news clips about the church burnings in Alabama can be found in the National Public Radio web site.
The Columbia Broadcasting System web site has a page that shows a map of the United States, with the states color coded to show which states allow for same-sex marriage, allow same-sex couples to adopt children, and have hate crimes that cover sexual orientation or that cover both sexual orientation and gender identification. The CBS web site has photographs from gay pride events around the world. There is a photograph of two parents. One is carrying a brightly colored sign that reads "God blessed me with a gay son" and another parent is carrying a sign that reads "Blessed with a gay step-son." The parents carrying those signs appear to be doing a wonderful job of supporting and encouraging their sons.
The 60 Minutes section of the CBS web site has an article about the causes of homosexuality. The article is titled "The Science of Sexual Orientation. The introduction to the article states that the question of the causes of sexual orientation are important for political, social, religious, and scientific reasons. The fascinating article has a brief description of two twins, one of which has very traditional interests and the other does not. Any differences between the two boys is not due to environment, because they are in the same home. The article talks about the possibility hormonal factors in the womb could play a factor in sexual orientation. This article is a "must-read" article for people interested in the causes of homosexuality and for those who are trying to help people overcome their fear of gay men, lesbians, and bisexual men and women.
We encourage you to visit our Web Resources page. On that page, you will find links to many valuable web sites. One of the most recent additions is a link to the Rainbow Zine web site. Rainbow Zine has a wide variety of news articles about the queer community. You are encouraged to email us with suggestions for web sites that can be added to our list of web resources. We are looking for sites that can help reduce all forms of prejudice, discrimination and hate crimes.
The California Department of Justice web site has reports on different types of crime in California. Hate crime reports can be found for the years 1995 to 2004 inclusive.
A few of the news stories we have been following appear below:
Homophobia and homophobia-related violence is an international concern. The problem of hatred and violence against gay and bisexual people is not limited to one country or one region of the world. Hatred is an equal opportunity employer. In an International Lesbian and Gay Association article, concern is expressed that the major of Warsaw refused to issue a permit for a gay pride parade. The article expresses concerns that a parade permit was granted for a "normality parade." According to the article, the parade was an anti-gay parade, in which skinheads were participating. The article states there has been an increase in anti-gay violence in Poland since the "normality parade."
A 23 year old man was convicted of a hate crime in the assault of a gay man in New York. An article on the conviction can be read on the Planet Out web site. When the law protects members of vulnerable minority groups, the law is doing what it is supposed to do.
The American Civil Liberties Union has an article about an investigation into meth merchant prosecutions. The ACLU position appears to be that Asian convenience store owners and clerks were targeted for investigation on the basis of their race or origin. The object of the meth merchant investigation was to reduce methamphetamine production by trying to keep store owners and clerks from selling the equipment and supplies needed to produce meth to people who are producing methamphetamine. The ACLU believes stores owned by south-Asians were 100 times more likely to be targeted.
You may recall movies with cars that had an eject button. You hit the button and your passenger is thrown out of the car. The United Church of Christ is back in the news, because they have an ad that depicts people in a church where there is an eject button. Anybody who is not welcome is ejected from the church when the button is hit. A few of the types of people ejected are a mother with a crying child, a gay couple, a single person and handicapped people. The new advertisement and more information about the United Church of Christ's "God is Still Speaking" program can be found on the God is Still Speaking web site. The United Church of Christ's advertisements for gay people stand in stark contrast with churches who condemn gay people to hell.
A British Broadcasting Corporation article says gay people in Iraq are in fear for their lives. Evidently, one religious leaders have become more powerful in Iraq. One religious leader has a web site calling for the execution of gay people.
A 2001 article on the American Civil Liberties Union web site gives statistics regarding race and incarceration rates. The statistics cited show that the percentage of Black Americans are incarcerated, on parole or probation is disproportionally high. The percentage of Black people arrested for drug possession is substantially higher than it should be given the percentage of Black people who are monthly drug users. In California, visible minority youth are more than twice as likely to have their cases tried as adults than white youth. The majority of American states do not allow people convicted of a felony to vote while they are in prison. Because visible minorities are more likely to spend time in prison than white people, that has the net result of reducing the voting power visible minority groups have.
The 365Gay.Com web site has an article about a bill that is being debated in California. Should the bill pass, it would be required that students in California schools be taught about Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered history.
A PlanetOut news article states the Netherlands plan to deport gay Iranians and Christian Iranians has been put on hold. Parliamentary support for the plan was decreasing. Iran, a country that executes gay people, was seen by fewer members of Parliament to be as safe for gays and Christians as the Netherlands Immigration Minister was claiming.
Minority groups have often complained that the police do not respond adequately to their concerns and to reports they have been the victims of crime. The PlanetOut web site has an article about a lesbian couple in Kansas City who are reported to have been verbally harassed and were assaulted by a woman with a bat. According to the article, the police did not respond to the call for help by coming to the scene.
A court ruling reported in PlanetOut could reverberate, sending shock waves through the educational system. A straight teenager living in a small Kansas town was bullied and harassed with homophobic slurs from Grade 7 until Grade 11. He won a $440,000 lawsuit against the school division. Nothing gets the attention of administrators to the plight of minority students like a successful lawsuit. The Kansas school division is appealing the court ruling.
The book, Pink Blood, was briefly mentioned in our last newsletter. We are mentioning it again in this newsletter, because the book is a must read for people interested in homophobia-based hate crimes. Information about the book can be found on the Pinkblood web site. The book can be purchased at www.amazon.ca or www.amazon.com.
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Happy Birthday Twitter: A Look Back At The Company And Its Co-Founder Jack Dorsey
Can you even imagine a time when you didn't have Facebook and Twitter, and an iPhone on which to view them both? In fact, that time wasn't too long ago, and today marks the seventh year Twitter has been around. So who better to spotlight but one of Twitter's founders, Jack Dorsey?
Dorsey spoke to a ton of entrepreneurs-to-be (maybe) at New York University a few weeks ago, and laughed a little when he mentioned he tried to complete a degree in computer science at that same university (and failed) less than a decade ago. Now not only did he co-found Twitter, the always buzzing and tweeting social media Web site, but he also founded the card payment app Square that is now compatible with Android and iPads. If you haven't seen an iPad register yet, you're seriously missing out, because they're pretty freaking awesome.
Mr. Dorsey had an exclusive interview over with young entrepreneur a few weeks back. You can read the whole interview here — it's actually not so boring and totally worth a read through — or you can read a couple of interesting facts about the man below.
The Rise… and… Rise… of Twitter
Dorsey was a young man in his early 30s when he started Twitter, but the Web site didn't start out as "Twitter" – it started out as "Twttr," which was pretty damn impossible to pronounce. Before the site launched, he added a few vowels and changed his crap logo which looked like a bunch of soda floating through some letter shaped balloons (good call, dude). Hipster Dorsey – who had spiky hair and a "come at me bro" in all known pictures of him at the time – didn't put a whole lot of effort into marketing and, instead, let Twitter handle itself.
The roots of the success of Twitter started with the phrase "nom nom," which has been used around two million times on Twitter alone. I think that's mostly because people were confused on what to do with Twitter in the first place. So where did people turn? Food. Because food speaks for itself.
Then came the parody accounts, and when meteors and fake characters started Tweeting, all resistance of Twitter disappeared.
The Evil Mastermind Himself
You're probably thinking, how did some punk college dropout manage to create not one masterpiece, but TWO? Even if Twitter fades out of existence, which it won't because we are forever scarred with the word hashtag, people won't forget about it. It's going to be with us the rest of our lives.
So let's take a quick look at his interview and figure out what exactly he did that was so awesome, that you might be able to do, too.
First, we should take a moment to see what he recommends for young entrepreneurs. He says that he thinks entrepreneurs are focused on the wrong things. Students come up to him and ask how they should meet people, how they should make money and how they should find the right people to work for them.
That's all well and good, but he always turns around and asks them, "Have you actually started working on it, yet?"
Show people, don't just tell them. It doesn't matter if you think you have the most badass idea in the entire world. If you can't show people something they can agree with, then who the hell is ever going to support you? If I came up to you and said, 'Hey, there's this weird microblogging Web site where you can only type 140 characters per post,' you'd look at me funny. So don't. You need to bust your ass first, so you have something to show for your effort, not just an idea.
Dorsey is also part of an organization called Build, which gives the tools of entrepreneurship to anyone who wants them. The program also encourages kids to stay in school and kick some major ass so maybe someday, they can do something big with themselves, too. But Dorsey doesn't think it's so much about getting kids to be entrepreneurs, but giving them courage.
Knowing that, be confident what you want to do is going to work. You don't want to get cocky or anything, but showing that you have confidence in your idea will show others they should have confidence in your idea, as well. Why wouldn't you want them to feel like you're going to rock the world (so they'll support you monetarily, too)?
And finally, Dorsey speaks of forgetting about solving someone else's stupid ass problem and only trying to solve your own. This advice is so counter-intuitive for some that you might stop reading now, but this guy makes a really good point. Dorsey points out that you might only be solving your own problem – no money in your pockets, maybe – and that convincing others that this is also a problem in their lives is the way to form your own damn niche. You can build a team with this concept, and though you didn't solve anyone's PROBLEM, you gave people the desire to do something and then solved that desire. It's outside of the box thinking, and it's something every entrepreneur can gain oodles from learning about.
In the end, Dorsey is successful. And if you're like me, you'd pay to be that successful, too. So why don't you? Pay with your time, pay with your effort, and start making your idea work for you. Happy birthday, Twitter. May you have another seven years' worth of a billion dollars in revenue.
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Smyth then hired the Secret Six to safely transport the container that housed Grendel to his prison.Unfortunately, Smyth's lieutenant, Emil, adored Grendel and sacrificed himself to free the beast. When the Secret Six began rebelling against their employer and Wonder Woman had arrived to investigate the presence of Amazons in the prison, Smyth bartered the now captive Wonder Woman to Grendel in exchange for his help in destroying his enemies. Grendel agreed to the deal and went to find his new prey.Grendel "accidentally" killed several of Smyth's guards while looking for his opponents. He then fought Bane and a Venom-enhanced Scandal Savage, only to defeat them with relative ease. However, it was then that Wonder Woman broke free and killed Grendel by coming up behind him and breaking his neck, stating that he was not a human but a demon, allowing her to use lethal force.Post FlashpointPost-Flash Point GrendelGrendel appeared in the backup story in Sword of Sorcery, as a monster attacking Wiglaf's village. Wiglaf is sent out to retrieve Beowulf to slay the beast.In this continuity, Grendel is a creation of a laboratory in order to create a super soldier in order to be able to fight against super humans.Powers and AbilitiesGrendel is a beast with immense strength and durability. 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- Савченко, Олександра Яківна (2016) Method of working with illustrative material in literary reading lessons Початкова школа, 12 (570). pp. 4-10. ISSN 0131-5358
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In our fast-paced time, different types of disclosure of information are becoming more and more important and an inalienable means of assimilating it at different ages. Of particular importance is the acquisition of it in conditions of elementary education, in particular in the methodology of the subject literary reading. Effective implementation of the illustrative teaching function contributes to the aesthetic, general cultural, speech, and social development of children. Exceptional role in the presentation of the text was provided by outstanding humanitarian educators. A.Komensky, K.D. Ushinsky, S.F.Rusov, V.O. Sukhomlynsky, L.V.Zankov and others. Visual perception and visual memory intensify associative and imaginative thinking, speech, stimulate cognitive interest, therefore, the perception and understanding of the text by younger students takes place more deeply and emotionally, if reading and analysis involves work with illustrative material.
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Welcome to our free agent target series as we explore potential players the Phoenix Suns can seek out to join their squad entering the 2023-24 season.
Free agency is just around the corner, and the Suns are amidst putting together what we hope is a championship level roster. Numerous areas need to be addressed, however, as a team has gutted its depth and draft capital in an effort to bring in stars Kevin Durant and Bradley Beal.
For the first time in five seasons, we don't know who our starting point guard is going to be. In 2019 it was Ricky Rubio. In 2020, it was Chris Paul. Now is it Cameron Payne? Will it be Point Booker? Will it be point guard by committee? We're asking more questions than the Riddler, but they are worth asking.
The team needs to add some depth and experience at the position, so allow me to propose this: Kendrick Nunn
Kendrick Nunn
- Position: Point guard
- Vitals: 6'2" tall, 190 pounds, 27 years old
- Experience: 3 years
- Stats (2022-23 regular season with LAL and WAS): 7.1 PPG, 2.4 APG, 1.7 RPG, 42.4/35.4/85.4 splits, 70 GP, 2 starts
- Contract Status: UFA
As a starter with the Miami Heat from 2019-2021, Nunn was highly effective. He averaged 15 points and 3 assists while with the team and was part of the team that made a trip to the 2020 NBA Finals. When his contract was up, he signed a 2-year, $10.3M contract with the Lakers, the second year of which was a player option.
Nunn injured his knee in training camp during prior to the 2021 season and kept having setback after setback, ultimately missing the entire year. Not surprisingly, he opted into the second year of his contract, and after 39 games with the Lakers, he was dealt to the Washington Wizards for Rui Hachimura and three second-round picks.
You don't know exactly who or what Nunn is since his leg injury, but for a team that needs to build it's roster with veteran minimum contracts, Nunn meets a need. Kendrick does have a relationship with head coach Frank Vogel, as he played for the Lakers in Vogel's final season. And by, "played" I mean sat on the bench with that leg injury.
He's hit the free agent market and we will all see what his true market value is based on the types of offers he gets, and who he gets them from. In the same breath, we'll learn about Nunn and what he wants. If he's looking to be a part of a winner or if he's looking for a pay day. Based on his performance over the past two seasons, however, he might not have a choice.
Nunn would be a solid addition, and a fine backup to the backup for the Suns. He has the ability to provide some offense off the bench, and if he's willing to come to Phoenix and displays his durability and growth as a player, it could equate to a solid paycheck in 2024-25.


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My daughter's bday is coming up! I had to make her an ATC before I packed up all my supplies!
This commemorates the VERY FIRST thing she asked for. She was about two years old, and we were watching TV when a commercial (remember those?) came on for this Barbie horse. She pointed emphatically at the screen and let us know, in no uncertain terms, that she wanted one. My hubby declared that she was getting one for Christmas and that was that. Lol! Within days, he had one stashed away for her.
Poor Barbie was in for some pretty jerky rides on that horse- you put batteries in it and it would walk.