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The Eddie House in San Francisco's Richmond District is a classic case of old meets new. Approached from the front, on 16th Avenue, the Edwardian facade blends in seamlessly with its neighbors. But viewed from the back yard, the house looks like a contemporary, 21st-century home. In May 2011, architect Mimi Chen of Three Legged Pig Design renovated the home's interior and added addition to the back. The resulting home is a hybrid from two very different eras, and its name, Eddie, alludes to the home's Edwardian bones, but with a modern twist.
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... welcome back to Opinion Journal why Mary Kissel ... if you're sick of seeing Jay Carney dominate the nightly news with a White House twenty oh ... well you're not alone Wonderland Columnist Dan Henninger is also throwing tomatoes at the TV ... but he blames Republicans ... we live in a digital world ... why can't the GOP get its message ... with others living in the age of Morse code ... the ... top of that that everyone down there in Washington apparel among Republicans is not giving tutorials in social media Twitter and Facebook report ... on justice happen or bring them into the twentieth century much Leslie twenty for Sentry ... president since ... Franklin Roosevelt of bad press secretaries ... and you know a lot of them are become household names Ari Fleischer Michael curry and ... they never really know ... Tony snow ... this is the voice of the White House and ... Meliès into kind of an institutional voice is not a politician ... in the in the Congress in the House and Senate ... John Beyer and Mitch McConnell has been attempting to beat both the leaders of those bodies and also their chief spokesman it just doesn't work together ... they should do the political leadership ... and leave the speaking to someone else and that person doesn't excess ... may look them let's pretend that a miracle happens in this magical person who can perfectly communicate ... conservative ideas descends from a five and lands ... I in Kappa on Capitol Hill ... on its own PC world out there I'll have a lot of time you have a lot of time ... on what Annie's was messages in it that they should be getting out there in how many can ... can the public and so ... well ... have you have to understand though at the moment the Republican message from Capitol Hill is zero ... I mean did you essentially have on the kickball than battles with the fiscal cliff or no cooks the debt ceiling ... and Mr McConnell and Bayer will talk about that ... but they have no one who stands therein is able to talk only about what they plan to do in terms of strategy but why they're going what's the underlying philosophy what is the point of all this ... and I think the Republicans won the reasons I'm suggesting this is I think the party has got to the point ... no Mary where on economic policy and things like taxes and entitlements and government reform ... there's enough you maybe ... they're not that fractured better would be possible for an individual with some stature to descend and be able to send that message and be the individual that the ... media pass to turn to if they wanna understand what the road and thirty seconds left what's the reaction and tear column from viewers out there ... of reviewers and readers of this been tremendously positive it's like an ... Alcorn a dam bursting people ... know they have these ideas may just want someone to give voice to it in that moment there is no voice doing that in Washington so ... the public support for his tremendous the question now is whether the pick of the ball the mare in the Senate the House and the do something about okay well it's great to hear readers interacting with the Journal editorial page Earlier batting an opinion Journal ... Wonderland Columnist Dan Henninger and can mean everything or say thanks for being ... with us ...


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The incident occurred at approximately 2:08 a.m. Wednesday as Matthew D. Givens, 21, Milford, was driving a 2011 Dodge Nitro southbound on U.S. Route 13 when for unknown reasons, the vehicle left the west side of the roadway and struck the Worship Lane street sign just south of Lochmeath Way, State Police Master Cpl. Gary Fournier said.
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Givens and his three female passengers were all transported to Bayhealth-Kent General Hospital by EMS where they were treated for non-life-threatening injuries, Fournier said. The passengers were a 23-year-old woman from Warrington, Va., a 21-year-old woman from Harrington and a 21-year-old woman from Milford.
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The star of the British Office might still be the new Bilbo Baggins. Milla Jovovich will fly off the screen to kick your ass in the 3D Resident Evil Afterlife. Chuck adds a real nightmare to its cast. Spoilers away!
The Hobbit:
There's a new twist in the "Will Martin Freeman play Bilbo Baggins?" story that we mentioned the other day. Although the original report in the reliably unreliable British tabloid The Sun suggested Freeman had turned down the role because of his commitments to Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss's Sherlock Holmes adaptation, a new report suggests New Line and MGM have reworked the filming schedule to accommodate his Dr. Watson commitments. (It's probably fairly easy to reconfigure a shooting schedule when the movie itself is still in limbo.) If these reports are accurate, then we might be very close to Freeman agreeing to do it after all. Keep the grains of salt handy, of course. [Entertainment Weekly]
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Is it true that you and Milla have a fight in this movie?
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|2012-09-18, 16:15
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Of course, you're making the mistake everyone does, assuming that Yasu's goal RE: Battler was romantic in nature.
|2012-09-18, 16:28
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But that has absolutely nothing to do with her decision. People don't decide to kill an entire family because of that, and Yasu, as crazy as he was, didn't either.
You're point is moot anyway. I'm talking about overreactions here. Unless you can argue that it is understandable for a transexual to become a psycopath, Yasu is still a very unsympathetic person.
I know about three different cases of children that lost their penis and were raised as girls. Two of these cases adapted to their reassigned sex without problems, the remaining didn't and he had psychological problems throughout his life. In the end he killed himself, but he didn't drag anyone with himself.
But Yasu's cases is different from that one, because Yasu has clearly a female personality, meaning that he adapted. He doesn't have any excuse.
|2012-09-18, 16:31
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Girl who I don't even remember murdered my family and made me watch? -> Let's marry her.
Conclusion1: Are you fucking kidding me, Ryuukishi?
Conclusion2: I don't even know who deserves more to be called a moron.
Sick things are sick. No matter what side you take, you're gonna be siding with some fucked up individual.
My reaction: refer to conclusion 1.
You have to be Jesus, capitain. You have to be Jesus to forgive that. I can barely forgive the guy that ran over my aunt and made her almost lose her life because he was drunk. I'd go all Sasuke on the responsible's ass if something as strong as Rokkenjima's big bang happened. Then again, I don't consider myself the best human in the street.
I can be dissapointed by a lot of things and let them pass, but the motive of mass murder has to be a pretty damn good one.
|2012-09-18, 16:35
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|2012-09-18, 16:44
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And anyway this still has nothing to do with Yasu becoming a murderer.
|2012-09-18, 17:04
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|2012-09-18, 17:08
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The motive for mass-murder is not the excuse for mass-murder. Heck, Sweeney Todd is one of the saddest fictional-people, I say, serves those bastards right to be turned into pies, but I still think he saw what he had coming. The motive for a crime can let you have insight on where another human being went wrong. And I think no matter what the crime, everyone should have the right to be forgiven.
If you are not willing to accept the author's choice of motive here, that's your opinion, and clearly I can't disagree with you there, even if my opinion's the total opposite. Neither can I say anything to you when you think it can't 'justify' murder, because even I who does accept it find it stretched. However, disagreeing with it because it cannot 'excuse' murder is where I draw the line. Murder can be justified but not excused.
|2012-09-18, 17:23
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To believe a person irrational enough to kill themselves is one thing. To believe them both irrational and hopelessly callous to people who have never wronged them is another matter entirely and I sincerely believe that someone who is characterized the way she is characterized would stop herself from such madness, even if resolved to commit suicide.
Remember, even if we assume all the adults have somehow done her wrong, and all the servants, and Battler (which is stupid, but I'm accepting your premise on its face here), as far as I can tell Maria/Jessica/George never have. And probably Hideyoshi.
I can somewhat accept "these people have wronged me or wronged my family or lied to me, I don't care what happens to them." But there are people there she cares about and who have done their damndest not to hurt her, at least so far as we (and she) seem to know or care about. To cross the line further and say "I don't care what happens to them either" is the act not of a person in despair, but of an utter monster.
And she is not characterized as a monster, nor does anyone accept it when she portrays herself that way. Which leads me to believe that, when worse came to worse, I don't think she could bring herself to harm those people. Apparently, she couldn't bring herself to harm Battler... or else Battler just coincidentally happened to get away, but that doesn't seem like it'd be a satisfying resolution at all. Plus Eva. There shouldn't have been any survivors if her execution were as professional as Beatrice's.
I think she's just not capable of doing that outside of the stories. She has trouble doing it within them.
|2012-09-18, 17:35
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The logical retribution, of course, was to blow everyone in his face...
Mass murder Is not excusable. But Yasu's motive is so weird and shady it's like she wanted to blow something and things went bad from there. So.. like an excuse. "Not my fault even if i say it was... forgive me for starting this madness?"
I've felt insecure, I'm sure you too, and all the others in this discussion. For the ones who have already *ahem* went at it with their lovers: Oi! You there felt insecure when showing yourself for the first time to that special person? Did you had second thoughts? Maybe... don't know... like your only option was to blow away an island with 16 guys in it yourself included?
I say nay...
But going serious: you don't think about killing a lot of people because you are afraid your boyfriend is not going to like your body. And if you do, go to the nearest mental hospital and do us a favor locking yourself up before something happens.
|2012-09-18, 19:04
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The one we 'deal with' is PieceYasu who commits the murders on the gameboard and whose story is told in Ep 7. PrimeYasu's real story might have had some common elements but we really don't know if it's the same. PieceYasu surely decided to commit murders and then kill herself and destroy the island. Can we say the same for PrimeYasu? We don't know. She might have, she might have not.
We don't even know if PrimeYasu was really Kanon & Shannon or the idea to represent herself as two servants was merely metaphorical, we don't know if PrimeYasu played Kanon's role at Jessica's school with Jessica knowing it was Yasu/Shannon in truth, we don't know if George really planned to ask Shannon to marry him or it was just an one sided thing from Yasu/Shannon, just to name a couple of things that are rather important for Yasu.
Note also that PieceShannon and PieceKanon are strongly in love with George and Jessica and willing to off each other to fulfil their wish. Can the same be said for their Prime versions or they're just a metaphor of a wish of being a certain type of person?
If we assume that PrimeYasu never meant to kill anyone, her intention contrasting sharply with PieceYasu who meant to make a mass murder we've to assume what we learnt on the gameboard about PieceYasu didn't necessary apply to PrimeYasu. Otherwise, if they're the same, they shared the same murdering intention.
If in all those years didn't realize it either she's very ignorant on anatomy or it's something that can't be seen first glance (if she had a uterus and it was removed/damaged, well at best you'll notice a scar that you won't necessarily connect to a missing/damaged uterus).
If she could already realize herself what had happened to her, Genji told her nothing new... but somehow Umineko seems to imply she discovered it only right then and not before as apparently it's in that moment she start to consider herself as furniture.
Anyway, Genji apparently told her something she hadn't realized herself. So to confirm it either she can start studying anatomy or needs to go to a doctor to check.
Now, apparently her problem is a delicate issue so she might not be so willing to go have it checked by a doctor especially since likely she was told there was no way to fix it.
Genji making up such a story for some unknown reason seems hard to picture so really, the only reason I can see for Yasu to check Genji's words is because she's either lacking faith in him or she's delusional. In either way it requires a certain amount of guts to face her problems which I can't see Yasu having.
So I don't think it's likely Yasu would check Genji's story about her injury.
What Genji might have lied about though, willing or by mistake, is about Natsuhi causing her to fall from a cliff. Yasu evidently found out and believed Natsuhi did it on purpose. Genji wasn't there to check if Natsuhi did it on purpose and not even Natsuhi is that reliable as she was in a peculiar state of mind.
This is something Yasu can't know for sure as well as she can't know for sure she's really Kinzo's daughter without a DNA test.
Genji might have told her that story just because he wanted to make Kinzo happy before he were to die.
Through all this is apparently unimportant as, according to Yasu, that's not why she's doing things. So either she's lying or her injury, her fall and her birth aren't as important as Battler breaking is promise is.
I like to think they are but that's not what Beatrice insist is her motive. Her motive is Battler forgetting his promise... though if Battler had remembered it she wouldn't have turned into Lion. She would have still been an incest baby, tossed off a cliff by Natsuhi and mutilated.
But hey, at 13 she would have been living on her own in a big city, working and studying and maybe seeing Battler at school and when she was off duty and maybe Battler might have decided to date her... or he might have dumped her as his promised required only to go get Yasu, not to devote his life to her. But hey, the fact he would have kept it would have really changed things for Yasu.
Now, instead than 10 tons of gold and a bomb to blast everyone she should have used something else to off 18 people once she were to realize her life wasn't a bowl of cherries.
I'm being sarcastic so it sounds mean but really, Yasu's motive should have been explained better otherwise what's said isn't enough to justify her actions.
He seems to believe that the parade fixed everything as it gave back to Yasu her birthrights and her family. Even if Kinzo apologized to Beato he implied now he knew the difference between Beato and Yasu so the dressing up (which might also be merely an embellishment so we don't really know if it happened) might have been merely to underline the resemblance between Beato and Yasu.
In Japanese stories where a kid goes lost and then it's found she's often dressed like the mother (or has to do something the mother did) so that she can be compared to her and recognized.
We've too many bits in which it's said it's all Battler's fault to think Yasu completely forgave him.
Blaming Battler is also a convenient copying mechanism.
Thinking that if Battler had done something different her life could have been better gives her hope somewhere a better universe exist for her.
Bern 'set her straight' though telling her that in all the universes in which she was Yasu tragedy strike and the same would happen even in the universes in which she was Lion and she wasn't burdened by Battler's promise.
To be honest I think Bern sort of cheated as she basically implied that, in order to end up in the cat box, all the other universes had to end into tragedy so there's no way for a happy ending but, at the same time she did something interesting. She asked Lion to think at how the others were feelings.
She does all of it in a rather cruel way yet she forces Lion to face something Lion refused to look at.
Even when she 'uses magic' Maria tries to do it in a way that is active. She thinks that sound she makes should make things better between her and her mother because once it worked. Probably she kept trying to make it because Rosa gives mixed responses (when Rosa feels guilty because she had just hit Maria she doesn't complain anymore if she does it and gets nicer with Maria) so Maria might even think that the times Rosa complain is because she's not saying it properly.
Still, she's doing more than just waiting.
Of course the game might have been trying to draw a line between PieceBeato and MetaBeato.
After all it's MetaBattler who forgives MetaBeato. MetaBeato isn't killing real people as the pieces aren't real in her world so effectively it can be the only thing she's doing wrong is not explaining this clearly to Battler who seems to think each time a piece die it's a person that's killed.
However the whole message is so blurry that this interpretation isn't immediate or the only one possible.
Mama got angry and said mean things? Surely she didn't meant that it was just stress. And it can be it was just stress.
Rosa was a bad mother but this didn't necessary mean she hated Maria, just that she failed at being a mother because she chosed using a behaviour that had been used by her relatives on her.
In many cases the truth is in between. Rosa is stressed and exhasperated and doing the wrong thing. It doesn't mean there's no love at all, just that there isn't enough to help Rosa doing the right one all the time.
Rosa is, after all, weak and unstable.
Maria couldn't understand all that, she could only see that some days her mom would love her deraly and some others... she wouldn't and would try to interpret this 2 contrasting truths her own way.
Yet she always try to get along. And I think that's worth something.[/quote]
In the end George is very open to her confessing her his worst sides but she can't find herself willing to do the same.
Jessica and Battler too always seem to be rather straightforward and honest and Battler seems to have quite a bunch of troubles in doubting others. So in a fashion Yasu has around himself people who're willing to trust her but whom she's unable to trust in.
Yes, she has issues so it's understable she has troubles but the point is she's the one trapping herself in this vicious circle.
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She was a baby who fell from a cliff. Part of her body could have been crushed or either even stabbed by something sharp over which it fell damaging her internal organs.
In a list of traumas you can have due to incident are included the crushing of a uteus which will also cause internal bloodloss of the organ so it's possible that was the damage Yasu received.
Genji said he didn't think she would survive when he rushed her to Nanjo so I think whatever she suffered was serious and Yasu was very lucky to survive to it.
Anyway Ryukishi believed it shouldn't have been possible to determinate which sex Yasu was just by reading what happened to him/her so it has to be possible for Yasu to be hurt in a way that would make his/her body unable to be loved regardless from his/her gender.
If this wasn't true, just by knowing Yasu was hurt in such way we would know which gender Yasu is/was and this would destroy the catbox about Yasu's sex.
As Ryukishi wanted to preserve the catbox just saying Yasu received an injury that turned his/her body unable to be loved shouldn't help us to guess which sex Yasu is.
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The impression I got isn't that Battler forgave Beatrice, but that he realised that she wasn't to blame in the first place and that he even wanted her forgiveness. Now, if what he realised was "If only I hadn't forgotten my promise, Beatrice wouldn't have killed my family! It's all my fault!" then OK, things are messed up there. But it doesn't make sense for him to think that, in my opinion. Jesus or not, it isn't a logical train of thought for him to follow. Meta-Battler didn't get presented as a person who would simply forgive mass murder in real life. But he did grow into someone who wasn't always horrified by "fictional" murder on the gameboards - like in the love duel, where he was hardly yelling at Jessica/George/Shannon/Kanon/Beatrice for the murders they committed during that.
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We don't point at those scenes and claim that Meta or Piece Jessica is a horrible, irredeemable monster because she'd boil Kyrie in lava for the sake of her crush in that situation. It's understood that the "motive" was a caricature for the reader's benefit and that we shouldn't approach Piece Jessica as having the same level of realism as a real-world murderer. Although the murder in question took place in a fantasy scene, Battler went to the trouble of putting that element in a game about Beatrice's origins, and even included a fantasy-meta level to talk about it in, so I think it would do a lot of good to consider why he did that.
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At least Nanjo and Genji had good reasons. Maybe they were misguided, but they didn't do that just to have fun.
You might as well blame adoptive parents for not telling their children the truth right away.
And anyway is that what Yasu's drama is about? She's been "lied" to?
If anything of what you mentioned was the cause for Yasu to blow up the island, she would have done it whether Battler returned or not, simply for the fact that George asked Shannon to marry him.
But the truth is that if Yasu had born female and never suffered any injuries, nothing would have changed at all. Battler would have still forgot about his promise, George would have still proposed to Shannon, and Yasu would have still snapped when Battler decided to come back 6 years later.
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|2012-09-19, 07:14
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The ShKanon/furniture complex is a part of what Yasu wanted Battler to understand through her game. And it meant a lot to her.
Her hopeless and desperate mental condition + Battler brings us what we have. Erasing one of them will change the story.
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In the first place, it was not the revelation of Yasu's sexual problems, or the revelation that her most trusted guardians were lying to her her whole life or anything like that that actually triggered any actual intent to murder. The trigger was Battler's return.
So how could news of Battler's return cause Yasu to plan and carry out a mass murder?
In other words, it's not a matter of her "snapping" from pain. In fact, it's more like she "snapped" from hope. So what we have is a situation where Yasu's motive for killing over a dozen people is not vengeance, nor desire for destruction caused by a sense of powerlessness, nor some other motive that places intrinsic meaning in the act of taking the lives of the victims. No, the motive is to create a chance of Battler remembering her. In other words, these murders are no more than a means to an end. The victims are less than human. They're consumable tools. They're pieces.
This is not a satisfying motive for murder. It's a fantasy motive.
Yasu simply has no "mystery" motive. That's why I think Yasu is innocent in Prime.
Without love, it can't be seen.
They are her words.
But I shall repeat them.
Love exists in everyone's hearts.
Her true tragedy was that she couldn't see it.
|2012-09-19, 09:08
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Although really that whole scene mostly just existed so Kyrie could plot dump.
The same is true for anything Yasu hears from Genji and Nanjo or from Kinzo or from anybody really. She doesn't know there was a baby. She doesn't know she was that baby. She doesn't know the baby was injured in some way and that her body image is the result of an actual injury. Feeling abnormal or uncomfortable with one's own body is not that uncommon in perfectly healthy people. Yasu had these feelings and made assumptions based on information.
The point is, she chose to believe this was true and behaved accordingly. Jan-Poo's point (I think) is that it doesn't make any difference whether she's right or wrong about it.
For example, let's say the baby really did exist, really did suffer a fall and an injury, really was operated on by Nanjo, and really was placed in the orphanage by Genji. And at some point Genji accidentally made a mistake and lost track of the baby, thinking entirely by error that some other baby was the one. That baby came to be raised as Yasu-Alternate, let's say, on the mistaken assumption it was Kinzo's secret child.
Yasu-Alternate grows up in the same situations and perhaps has the same feelings. Yasu-Alternate is also uncomfortable with him/herself for reasons he/she isn't sure of. Yasu-Alternate also has a relationship with Battler which is interrupted by Battler's departure. And Yasu-Alternate eventually finds out from Genji/Nanjo what happened to the baby. He/she believes them, because they're telling the truth about the incident, but all three just happen to be mistaken and think Yasu-Alternate was that baby.
Would Yasu-Alternate behave the same way as Yasu? I don't see why not. He/she believes the circumstances to be as presented, even though everyone involved in the situation is mistaken. By the same token, Yasu can't know she's the secret baby or that there even was a secret baby. She has to trust Genji, and apparently she is inclined to do so. In doing so, she believes it and acts as if it is true.
Because she acts as if it is true, it doesn't matter if it is or isn't actually true, because Yasu has no apparent way of knowing other than the ways she's got in front of her. So whether the situation is Baby Exists -> Yasu is Baby -> Body Image Caused by Injury or Baby Doesn't Exist -> Yasu isn't Baby -> Body Image Caused by Something Else, Yasu will behave identically by drawing a conclusion that fits the information she has.
Thus in Jan-Poo's theoretical account of a perfectly normal female Yasu who just mistakenly believes she's a mutilated male, silly as such a thing might obviously sound, her reaction ought to be no different. In other words, unless the scenario changes so drastically as to be entirely unrecognizable, the events of 1986 would play out basically the same whether or not the stories were true.
Still a potentially dickish thing to do to Battler, but at least it would be done with the willing participation of everyone for an essentially innocent purpose. That would be a sufficient "mystery" motive, although obviously it would also assert her innocence.
|2012-09-19, 10:24
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My point is close to what you're saying, but more or less you nailed the fact that "being a mutilated male" has so little to do with a real problem for herself that even if she was a normal female she would have still come up with some kind of drama to feel pitiful about.
Now if she was a mutilated male that never felt like a woman, that wanted to be male and that suffered form his forced feminization then hell yeah, I would understand and recognize her tragic situation.
But as much as we have doubts about Yasu's sex there isn't really any about her gender identity. Yasu doesn't suffer from being a woman at all, if anything her ideal selfs are always female.
The point is that people like her usually end up deciding to remove their testicles by their own decision, and often they hate the fact that they have a penis.
In the end the real problem with Yasu (assuming she was a mutilated man) is not that she doesn't have a penis, but the fact that she wasn't born a woman.
Her idea that "it's all because of that incident if I'm not fit to love" only shows how much she subconsciously needs to play the part of the tragic heroine at all costs.
If she still had a penis, she'd still have a problem romancing George and Battler, and she probably would still dramatize over the fact that she doesn't have a vagina. Which at least it's something that I would understand, at least there would be a sequitur.
But there's still the fact that the whole idea that she isn't fit to be loved is something that she decided by herself. Nobody told her that, of course the chance that she would be refused was high, but she didn't even try. She didn't even left the involved persons to decide whether they still wanted to love her or not.
And that's why she's a drama queen. You can understand that a person is one, when they decide their tragedies are unsolvable before even trying. Which is basically what she did with the whole Battler situation.
BTW. There is no evidence that Yasu is actually a biological male. For all that we know she could as well be female. In that case she would be simply a woman unable to reproduce. In this case at least there would be a real connection with her incident, because supposedly that would be precisely the reason that made her unable to bear children.
However that would still be an overreaction. The world is plenty of women in the same condition. It's sad, but it's not such a tragedy. And that's certainly not a reason to think you can't possibly be loved.
But the character in her stories would still be a psychopath.
|2012-09-19, 10:37
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Well I did suggest a drastically different interpretation of Yasu's body that cannot be loved.
She has lethal health problems that are going to kill her soon anyway. Basically she's in the same situation as Kinzo.
No need for gender confusion or being unable to reproduce.
I'm sure some would say that she can still be loved even if dying and all of that, but that's a bit too idealistic. Not going to bother debating that much if anyone disagrees. I'm only going to say, go look at a retirement house and witness how much love these people are receiving.
As for what problems she has I'm not certain but it looks like it's heart related problems. Teen with heart problems aren't going to live very long. Especially if they had surgeries already (I know there's exceptions and that nowaday medecine is getting much better but in 1970-80 an heart surgery wasn't something you'd easily recover from).
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That said, I do sort of sympathize with one point made by the kids. In their open letter, they say:
A legitimate academic study of economics must include a critical discussion of both the benefits and flaws of different economic simplifying models. As your class does not include primary sources and rarely features articles from academic journals, we have very little access to alternative approaches to economics.This rings true to me. Economics is not physics or biology; there are very few modeling approaches that we really know work. Most of the time, we are still groping around in the dark, relying on our intuition, and taking clumsy stabs at first-pass models. For an upper-level textbook, this is just unwritten and understood; grad students, or even upper-level undergrads, understand that while what they're reading may be written in highly formal math-ese, it usually represents merely the stylized description of an idea that may at some point in the future prove useful for understanding the economy.
An intro textbook is different. Part of the job of an intro or survey textbook is to convey the state of the field to people who will probably not spend their lives as researchers in that field. Intro physics textbooks present Newton's laws in part because those laws work really really well, and thus provide a convincing demonstration of what physics can do. But an introductory economics textbook presents things like the the AD-AS model, the Solow growth model, or the Keynesian cross - models that seem reasonable to our intuition, and for which there is some supporting evidence, but which come with much wider bands of "model uncertainty" due to our inability to test the macroeconomy in a lab. These are the best we've got, but they're no Newton's laws.
So I think an introductory econ textbook should work to convey that uncertainty. I've read every word of (an older edition of) Mankiw's Principles of Economics, and I've taught from the book as well. And while it does a great job of presenting the standard macro (and micro) models in simple and usable forms, it doesn't say as much as I'd like about the massive degree of doubt and ignorance that surround even these bedrock models (actually, I'm not sure what intro textbook does).
Greg Mankiw himself is certainly aware of the uncertain state of macro. In an article earlier this year, he wrote:
After more than a quarter-century as a professional economist, I have a confession to make: There is a lot I don't know about the economy. Indeed, the area of economics where I have devoted most of my energy and attention — the ups and downs of the business cycle — is where I find myself most often confronting important questions without obvious answers.I think this idea should be front and center in any introductory economics textbook. If we don't stand up and admit how little we know, plenty of tomorrow's businessmen and lawyers and professionals are going to graduate thinking that the macroeconomists have got it covered. And that could translate into false certainty in political debates, or even in business decision-making.
So anyway, here is my suggestion for Greg Mankiw's Economics 10 course: He should assign students each to report on one theory or technique that they believe is not covered in sufficient depth in the textbook, and to give a presentation on this topic. That would A) convey something about the diversity of ideas out there, as students have demanded, B) give students practice in seeking out and evaluating ideas, and C) make apparent the limitations of class walk-outs as a tool for widening the discussion.
(If I got that assignment, BTW, I'd talk about theories of financial bubbles and mispricings, like the DeLong et. al. and Abreu & Brunnermeier noise trader models, the Harrison & Kreps and Morris heterogeneous-beliefs models, and the O'Dean and Scheinkman & Xiong overconfidence models...)


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In February 2005, more than ten thousand people in Bakersfield, California, watched as Brian "Head" Welch—the former lead guitarist of the controversial rock band Korn—was saved by Jesus Christ. The event set off a media frenzy as observers from around the world sought to understand what led this rock star out of the darkness and into the light.
Now, in this courageous memoir, Head talks for the first time about his shocking embrace of God and the tumultuous decade that led him into the arms of Jesus Christ. Offering a backstage pass to his time with Korn, Head tells the inside story of his years in the band and explains how his rock star lifestyle resulted in an all-consuming addiction to methamphetamines. Writing openly about the tour bus mayhem of Ozzfest and The Family Values tour, he provides a candid look at how the routine of recording, traveling, and partying placed him in a cycle of addiction that he could not break on his own.
Speaking honestly about his addiction, Head details his struggles with the drug that ultimately led him to seek a higher power. Despite his numerous attempts to free himself from meth, nothing—not even the birth of his daughter—could spur him to kick it for good. Here Head addresses how, with the help of God, he emerged from his dangerous lifestyle and found a path that was not only right for his daughter, it was right for him.
Discussing the chaotic end to his time in Korn and how his newfound faith has influenced his relationship with his daughter, his life, and his music, Head describes the challenging but rewarding events of the last two years, exposing the truth about how his moments of doubt and his hardships have only deepened his faith.
Candid, compelling, and inspirational, Save Me from Myself is a rock 'n' roll journey unlike any other.
The Space Trilogy, Omnibus Edition includes:
Out of the Silent Planet
Dr. Ransom, a Cambridge academic, is abducted and taken on a spaceship to the red planet of Malacandra, which he knows as Mars. His captors are plotting to plunder the planet's treasures and offer Ransom as a sacrifice to the creatures who live there.
Having escaped from Mars, Dr. Ransom is called to the paradise planet of Perelandra, or Venus. When his old enemy also arrives and is taken over by the forces of evil, Ransom finds himself in a desperate struggle to save the innocence of this Eden-like world.
That Hideous Strength
Investigating the truth about her prophetic dreams, Jane Studdock encounters the fabled Dr. Ransom, who is in great pain after his travels. A sinister society run by his old adversaries intends to harness the ancient powers of a resurrected Merlin in their ambition to subjugate the people of Earth.
Most Christians know their response to the cross determines where they will spend eternity. But did you know that how you'll spend eternity is determined by what you do in this life?
God wants you to discover your calling—He's not trying to keep you in the dark. In fact, He longs for you to find the meaning and purpose that comes with knowing why you've been placed on this earth.
In Driven by Eternity, best-selling author John Bevere uses an eye-opening allegory and extensive Scripture to unveil how our daily choices shape our eternal existence.
Life beyond the final breath is much more than a destination. Don't wait until it's too late. Discover your God-given destiny and make your life count both today and forever.
Let's face it, we all have questions about relationships in life.
When you lay your head down on the pillow at night, do you find these questions about your relationship with God running through your mind? How can I know God personally? Can I find peace and true contentment? What is the purpose of my life? How do I know how God wants me to live? What is prayer?
Throughout our lives, we all face a long list of questions on relationships that trouble our souls and require real answers based on real truth. How do I forgive someone who has hurt me badly? Can I mend this broken relationship? When my world seems to be falling apart around me, who can I trust and in whom dare I confide? How do I know whether a person is the right one to date? Will my marriage survive? How do I nourish my child's heart? What do I do with my fears about expressing my love and care to a friend?
The good news is that in God's Word we find the answers to life's bewildering relationship questions.
We are not left to figure it out on our own and in our own strength and power. You are invited to begin a lifelong journey to discovering God's words of truth for your life and relationships, and to discovering God Himself in the words of His Book!
Out of the Silent Planet is the first novel in C. S. Lewis's classic science fiction trilogy. It tells the adventure of Dr. Ransom, a Cambridge academic, who is abducted and taken on a spaceship to the red planet of Malacandra, which he knows as Mars. His captors are plotting to plunder the planet's treasures and plan to offer Ransom as a sacrifice to the creatures who live there. Ransom discovers he has come from the "silent planet"—Earth—whose tragic story is known throughout the universe!
—Colossians 1:18
Christians have made the gospel about so many things—things other than Christ. Religious concepts, ideas, doctrines, strategies, methods, techniques, formulas, "its" and "things" have all eclipsed the beauty, the glory, and the reality of the Lord Jesus Himself. On the whole, Christians today are starved for a real experience of the living Christ. We know a lot about our Lord, but we don't know Him very well. We know a lot about trying to be like Jesus, but very little about living by His indwelling life.
JESUS MANIFESTO presents a fresh unveiling of Jesus as not only Savior and Lord, but as so much more. It is a prophetic call to restore the supremacy and sovereignty of Christ in a world—and a church—that has lost sight of Him.
Every revival and restoration in the church has been a rediscovery of some aspect of Christ in the process of answering the ultimate question that Jesus put to His disciples: "Who do you say that I am?"
Read this book and see your Lord like you've never seen Him before.
California who became a new man when he met Jesus Christ. Gone were the
drugs, girls and rage. God replaced it with peace and the ability to
forgive. His message to young people: "Don't waste away years of
your life like I did!" An emotional salvation message.
Perelandra, the second novel in Lewis's science fiction trilogy, tells of Dr. Ransom's voyage to the paradise planet of Perelandra, or Venus, which turns out to be a beautiful Eden-like world. He is horrified to find that his old enemy, Dr. Weston, has also arrived and is putting him in grave peril once more. As the mad Weston's body is taken over by the forces of evil, Ransom engages in a desperate struggle to save the innocence of Perelandra!
That Hideous Strength is the third novel in Lewis's science fiction trilogy. Set on Earth, it tells of a terrifying conspiracy against humanity. The story surrounds Mark and Jane Studdock, a newly married couple. Mark is a sociologist who is enticed to join an organization called N.I.C.E., which aims to control all human life. Jane, meanwhile, has bizarre prophetic dreams about a decapitated scientist, Alcasan. As Mark is drawn inextricably into the sinister organization, he discovers the truth of his wife's dreams when he meets the literal head of Alcasan, which is being kept alive by infusions of blood. Jane seeks help concerning her dreams at a community called St. Anne's, where she meets their leader—Dr. Ransom. The story ends in a final spectacular scene at the N.I.C.E. headquarters where Merlin appears to confront the powers of Hell.
The Imitation of Christ is a passionate celebration of God's love, mercy and holiness, which has stimulated religious devotion for over five hundred years. With great personal conviction and deep humanity, Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471) demonstrates the individual's reliance on God and on the words of Christ, and the futility of a life without faith, as well as exploring the ideas such as humility, compassion, patience and tolerance. Thomas spent some seventy years of his life in the reclusive environment of monasteries, yet in this astonishing work he demonstrates an encompassing understanding of human nature, while his writing speaks to readers of every age and every nation.
Thomas à Kempis was born at Kempen near Dusseldorf in 1380. He received the priesthood in 1413. Thomas wrote many other devotional works besides The Imitation of Christ, his masterpiece, as well as biographies of Gerald Groote and Florentius Radewyn. He died in 1471.
The Very Revd Robert Jeffery was born in 1935 and ordained in 1959. He has written on matters of Church history, spirituality, mission and ecumenism. In 1978, he became Archdeacon of Salop, and was Dean of Worcester from 1987-96 and subsequently Canon and Sub-Dean of Christ Church, Oxford. He retired in 2002 and is an Hon Doctor of Divinity of Birmingham University.
Max von Habsburg is the author of Catholic and Protestant Translations of the Imitatio Christi 1425-1650 (2011).
Since the advent of the printing press and the accurate reproduction of texts, most people have assumed that when they read the New Testament they are reading an exact copy of Jesus's words or Saint Paul's writings. And yet, for almost fifteen hundred years these manuscripts were hand copied by scribes who were deeply influenced by the cultural, theological, and political disputes of their day. Both mistakes and intentional changes abound in the surviving manuscripts, making the original words difficult to reconstruct. For the first time, Ehrman reveals where and why these changes were made and how scholars go about reconstructing the original words of the New Testament as closely as possible.
Ehrman makes the provocative case that many of our cherished biblical stories and widely held beliefs concerning the divinity of Jesus, the Trinity, and the divine origins of the Bible itself stem from both intentional and accidental alterations by scribes -- alterations that dramatically affected all subsequent versions of the Bible.
Named one of the Top 100 Books of the Millennium by World magazine and listed among Christianity Today's Top 100 Books of the 20th Century, Basic Christianity has impacted countless readers worldwide.
"Anything John Stott says is worth listening to. Anything he writes is worth reading. Basic Christianity is not only a classic must-read for every believer; it is truly a blessing preserved on the written page for the enrichment of this generation and those to come."
-- Anne Graham Lotz
Young used the present tense in many places where other translations used the past tense- particularly in narratives. The Preface to the Second Edition states:
"If a translation gives a present tense when the original gives a past, or a past when it has a present; a perfect for a future, or a future for a perfect; an a for a the, or a the for an a; an imperative for a subjunctive, or a subjunctive for an imperative; a verb for a noun, or a noun for a verb, it is clear that verbal inspiration is as much overlooked as if it had no existence. THE WORD OF GOD IS MADE VOID BY THE TRADITIONS OF MEN. [Emphasis in original.]"
For example, the YLT version of Genesis begins as follows:
1. In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth---
2. The earth hath existed waste and void, and darkness on the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God fluttering on the face of the waters,
3. And God saith, 'Let light be;' and light is.
4. And God seeth the light that it is good, and God seperateth between the light and the darkness,
5. And God alled to the light 'Day,' and to the darkness He hath called 'Night;' and there is an evening, and there is a morning---day one.
Young's Literal Translation in the 1898 Edition also consistently renders the Hebrew Tetragrammaton (the four Hebrew letters usually transliterated YHWH or JHVH that form a biblical proper name of God) throughout the Old Covenant/Testament as "Jehovah", instead of the traditional practice of "LORD" in small capitals, which was used in editions prior to 1898.
Young's usage of English present tense rather than past tense has been supported by scholars ranging from the medieval Jewish rabbi Rashi (who advised, "If you are going to interpret [this passage] in its plain sense, interpret it thus: At the beginning of the creation of heaven and earth, when the earth was (or the earth being) unformed and void . . . God said, 'Let there be light.'") to Richard Elliott Friedman in his translation of the Five Books in "The Bible with Sources Revealed" (2002).
There is a linked Table of Contents for each book and chapter.
Unlocking the Bible opens up the word of God in a fresh and powerful way, explaining the sweep of biblical history and its implications for our lives.
David Pawson, widely respected as an international writer and speaker, brings a lifetime's worth of insights into the meaning of the Bible. Explaining the culture, historical background and spiritual significance of all the important events, Unlocking the Bible is a fantastic opportunity to get to grips with the Bible as a whole.
This comprehensive edition includes:
Old Testament:
• The Maker's Instructions – The five books of law
• A Land and A Kingdom – Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1&2 Samuel, 1&2 Kings
• Poems of Worship and Wisdom – Psalms, Song of Solomon, proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Job
• Decline and Fall of an Empire – Isaiah, Jeremiah and other prophets
• The Struggle to Survive – Chronicles and prophets of exile
New Testament:
• The Hinge of History – Mathew, Mark, Luke, John and acts
• The Thirteenth Apostle – Paul and his letters
• Through Suffering to Glory – Revelation, Hebrews, and the letters of James, Peter and Jude
The Book of Enoch is comprised of various monumental works: The Book of Enoch, The Parables, The Book of the Courses of the Heavenly Luminaries, The Dream Visions, The Concluding Section, and The Noah Fragments. Each work is independent, but all the works are bound by a common theme: the punishment of the wicked and the blessedness of the righteous. This edition, complete with analysis and notes, is an indispensable resource for the study and understanding of both the Old and New Testaments.
You will also find encouragement for today and hope for the future as you join with other believers and, as one people, offer up our country to God in prayer.
San Bernardino was the most lethal terror attack on American soil since 9/11, and it came on the heels of a coordinated assault on Paris. There is no question that innocents were slaughtered in the name of Allah and in the way of jihad, but do the terrorists' actions actually reflect the religion of Islam? The answer to this question is more pressing than ever, as waves of Muslim refugees arrive in the West seeking shelter from the violent ideology of ISIS.
Setting aside speculations and competing voices, what really is jihad? How are we to understand jihad in relation to our Muslim neighbors and friends? Why is there such a surge of Islamist terrorism in the world today, and how are we to respond?
In Answering Jihad, bestselling author Nabeel Qureshi (Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus) answers these questions from the perspective of a former Muslim who is deeply concerned for both his Muslim family and his American homeland.
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ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
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ANF03. Latin Christianity: Its Founder, Tertullian
ANF04. Fathers of the Third Century: Tertullian: Part Fourth, Minucius Felix, Commodian, Origen: Parts First and Second
ANF05. Fathers of the Third Century: Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius, Novatian, Appendix
ANF06. Fathers of the Third Century: Gregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius the Great, Julius Africanus, Anatolius, and Minor Writers, Methodius, Arnobius
ANF07. Fathers of the Third and Fourth Centuries: Lactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus, Dionysius, Apostolic Teaching and Constitutions, Homily, and Liturgies
ANF08. The Twelve Patriarchs, Excerpts and Epistles, The Clementia, Apocrypha, Decretals, Memoirs of Edessa and Syriac Documents, Remains of the First Age
ANF09. The Gospel of Peter, The Diatessaron of Tatian, The Apocalypse of Peter, the Vision of Paul, The Apocalypse of the Virgin and Sedrach the Testament of Abraham, the Acts of Xanthippe and Polyxena, the Narrative of Zosimus, the Apology of Aristides, Epistles of Clement (Complete Text), Origen's Commentary on John, Books 1–10, and Commentary on Matthew, Books 1, 2, and 10–14
Written in 1958, The New Testament in Modern English is one of the most dynamic and lively translations to ever appear in print. Phillips' rendering of Holy Scripture into contemporary English is accessible and powerful to a modern audience. Easy to read and remarkable in its passionate depictions of Jesus and the Apostles, this book is a classic work of Christian literature perfect for anyone looking to supplement their understanding of the Bible and enrich their spiritual life.
With new information on the important contributions of women to church history as well as the latest information on Christianity in developing countries, Gonzalez's richly textured study discusses the changes and directions of the church up to the twenty-first century. The Story of Christianity covers such recent occurrences as the fall of the Soviet Union and the return of the Russian Orthodox Church; feminist, Africa-American, and Third-World theologies; the scandals and controversies facing the reign of Pope Benedict XVI; interfaith dialogue; and the movement toward unity of all Christian churches. This revised and updated edition of The Story of Christianity concludes with a thoughtful look at the major issues and debates facing Christianity today.
Did God really command Moses to put gay people to death? Did Jesus really teach that everyone who is not a Christian will be assigned to hell? Why would Paul command women to "keep silent in the church?" Were Adam and Eve real people? Is the book of Revelation really about the end times? Who decided which books made it into the scriptures and why? Is the Bible ever wrong? In approachable and inviting language, Hamilton addresses these often misunderstood biblical themes leading readers to a deeper appreciation of the Bible so that we might hear God speak through it and find its words to be life-changing and life-giving.
Rob Bell is an electrifying, unconventional pastor whom Time magazine calls "a singular rock star in the church world," with millions viewing his NOOMA videos.
With searing insight, Bell puts hell on trial with a hopeful message—eternal life doesn't start when we die; it starts right now. And ultimately, Love Wins.
Hailed as "the world's preacher," Billy Graham enjoyed a career that spanned six decades and his ministry of faith touched the hearts and souls of millions.
In Just As I Am, a #1 New York Times Bestseller, Graham reveals his life story in what the Chicago Tribune calls "a disarmingly honest autobiography." With down-to-earth warmth and candor, Graham tells the stories of the events and encounters that helped shape his life. He recounts meetings with presidents, celebrities, and world leaders, including Harry S. Truman, Winston Churchill, Queen Elizabeth, and the Shah of Iran, and shares his own spiritual journey as he movingly reflects on his personal life and relationships. This is an inspirational and unforgettable portrait that will be treasured by readers everywhere.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was all of those things; a true renaissance man of the modern era, whose impact on modern Christianity, and Christian apologetics, is unfortunately becoming increasingly forgotten.
Although C. S. Lewis may be a more well-known Christian apologist across the denominations, it was the works of G. K. Chesterton who helped Lewis to re-embrace his Christian faith. Many are those who have found their way because G. K. Chesterton dared to believe in God and in miracles in an ever more secular and skeptical world.
His biographer, and president of the American Chesterton Society, Dale Ahlquist, called him "the most unjustly neglected writer of our time" — a title that is not entirely undeserved.
without the crutch of religion but I would argue that it is the only way
to achieve true goodness." Disproving Christianity and Other Secular
Writings compiles popular and lesser-known arguments against the
principles established by the Christian canon. Using a phenomenological
approach to build his case based on in-depth study at the University of
California, Santa Barbara McAfee analyzes the Hebrew Scriptures and New
Testament doctrine to build a logical and reasonable case against their
validity. From contradictions between lived and portrayed religions to
factual errors within the texts themselves, no stone is left unturned in
this fully updated and expanded refutation of Christianity.
Why the Universe Is the Way It Is will interest anyone who wonders where and how the universe came to be, what or who is responsible for it, why we are here, or how and when the universe ends. Far from leaving the reader at this philosophical jumping-off point, Ross builds toward answering the big question of human destiny and the specific question of each reader's personal destiny.
Dr. Robert Jeffress calls on Christians to recover the exclusive claims of the one they claim as Lord and Savior, not as a way to keep people out of heaven but as the only way to invite them in. He tackles questions like
- Can people be saved who have never heard of Christ?
- What about those who worship God by another name?
- Do children automatically go to Heaven when they die?
True compassion for non-Christians doesn't lie in letting them go their way while we go ours, but in sharing the only true way with them.
–Sara Miles
Raised as an atheist, Sara Miles lived an enthusiastically secular life as a restaurant cook and a writer. Then early one winter morning, for no earthly reason, she wandered into a church. "I was certainly not interested in becoming a Christian," she writes, "or, as I thought of it rather less politely, a religious nut." But she ate a piece of bread, took a sip of wine, and found herself radically transformed.
The mysterious sacrament of communion has sustained Miles ever since, in a faith she'd scorned, in work she'd never imagined. In this astonishing story, she tells how the seeds of her conversion were sown, and what her life has been like since she took that bread.
A lesbian left-wing journalist who covered revolutions around the world, Miles was not the woman her friends expected to see suddenly praising Jesus. She was certainly not the kind of person the government had in mind to run a "faith-based charity." Religion for her was not about angels or good behavior or piety; it was about real hunger, real food, and real bodies. Before long, she turned the bread she ate at communion into tons of groceries, piled on the church's altar to be given away. The first food pantry she established provided hundreds of poor, elderly, sick, deranged, and marginalized people with lifesaving food and a sense of belonging. Within a few years, the loaves had multiplied, and she and the people she served had started nearly a dozen more pantries.
Take This Bread is rich with real-life Dickensian characters–church ladies, child abusers, millionaires, schizophrenics, bishops, and thieves–all blown into Miles's life by the relentless force of her newfound calling. She recounts stories about trudging through the rain in housing projects, wiping the runny nose of a psychotic man, storing a battered woman's .375 Magnum in a cookie tin. She writes about the economy of hunger and the ugly politics of food; the meaning of prayer and the physicality of faith. Here, in this achingly beautiful, passionate book, is the living communion of Christ.
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Letter to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency regarding DCCs and DSAs
Comment Letters to Regulators
June 7, 2001
Public Information Room
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
250 E Street, S.W.
Mail Stop 1-5
Washington, D.C. 20219
Attn: Docket No. 01-07
Dear Madam or Sir:
On behalf of the Community Bankers Association of Illinois ("CBAI"), I am submitting this comment letter in response to a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking ("NPRM") published by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency ("OCC"). CBAI is a professional, not-for-profit trade association representing the interests of more than 510 Illinois financial institutions. CBAI's members include commercial banks, savings and loan associations and savings banks that can be either federally-chartered or chartered by the State of Illinois. Members of CBAI can be found in each of Illinois' 102 counties. While CBAI provides numerous benefits and services for its members, CBAI's primary role is that of an advocate for the interests of community banking in Illinois. It is in this role that CBAI submits this comment letter.
The NPRM addresses debt cancellation contracts ("DCCs") and debt suspension agreements ("DSAs"). Specifically, the rulemaking would create a new OCC regulation (12 CFR 37) to "facilitate customer's informed choice about whether to purchase DCCs and DSAs...and to discourage inappropriate or abusive sales practices."
First, it is the position of CBAI that the new regulation is unnecessary and could place regulatory burdens on national banks that are not faced by their state-chartered competitors. CBAI is not aware of any history of abuse in the offering or sale of DCCs or DSAs that justifies regulatory intervention at this time. Furthermore, the Illinois Office of Banks and Real Estate has opined that DCCs are "incidental to an Illinois bank's statutory authority to loan money and carry on a general banking business" [quoting from that agency's Interpretive Letter No. 94-11, issued June 15, 1994]. State-chartered banks in Illinois will presumably be able to continue offering DCCs without being subject to the regulatory requirements proposed in 12 CFR 37.
Notwithstanding these threshold concerns about the propriety of the new OCC regulation, the
NPRM states that the OCC has decided "that some additional regulations in this area would be beneficial." Therefore, the balance of this comment letter will set forth CBAI's suggestions or concerns regarding proposed language in Sections 37.3, 37.4, 37.5 and 37.6.
Section 37.3 Prohibited practices
Section 37.3 (b) prohibits the use by a bank of "any practice that could mislead a reasonable person with respect to the information that must be disclosed under Sec. 37.6 (a) of this part" (emphasis added). CBAI's concern is that the "could mislead" standard is so vague and subjective as to expose a national bank to a violation and/or liability for a statement or action that was not intended to be deceptive. Although some degree of subjectivity may be inevitable, CBAI suggests that the relevant language in Section 37.3 (b) should prohibit practices "designed to mislead," or practices that have a "substantial likelihood of misleading" a reasonable person. Such standards would protect the national bank in the event of an innocent misunderstanding on the part of the "reasonable person" to whom the information was communicated.
Section 37.3 (d) provides that a national bank has no unilateral right to modify a DCC or DSA. CBAI suggests that this subsection be amended to clarify that the national bank may not unilaterally modify the contract "in a manner detrimental to the interests of the customer." This would be consistent with the regulation's goal of protecting the customer, but it would allow technical, nonsubstantive changes that may be necessary or appropriate without requiring the national bank to obtain the customer's concurrence.
Section 37.4 Affirmative election required
As proposed, Section 37.4 states that the customer's agreement to purchase a DCC or DSA must be "in writing in a document that is separate from the documents pertaining to the credit transaction" (emphasis added). CBAI believes that the DCC or DSA could also be construed as a document "pertaining to the credit transaction," and therefore the customer's written election to purchase such a contract would similarly pertain to the credit transaction. To clarify the ambiguity regarding certain of these documents being "separate from" others, and also to clarify the authority for these "separate" documents to be executed conveniently at the same opportunity, CBAI recommends that the second sentence in proposed Section 37.4 be restated in a manner similar to: "The customer's election must be in writing in a document that is separate from other documents pertaining to the credit transaction, although the document may be executed at the same time and place as other documents pertaining to the credit transaction."
Section 37.5 Refunds of fees in the event of termination of the agreement or prepayment of the covered loan
Section 37.5 requires national banks that offer DCCs or DSAs to offer those contracts with a refund feature. The refund would be in the amount of "any unearned portion of the fee paid for the product" at the time that the contract is terminated (including by prepayment of the loan). Although there is a rational argument in support of mandating a refund on behalf of customers who terminate the contracts, there are also arguments against the mandated refund option. First, if the bank clearly discloses that the DCC or DSA fee to be assessed is non-refundable and the customer elects to purchase the contract with that understanding, there is no deception or abusive practice on the bank's part. Second, DCCs and DSAs are not insurance policies and thus are not subject to any premium refund requirements that might apply to early termination of insurance policies. Finally, banks that offer DCCs and DSAs may use the fee income to build reserves necessary to offset the safety and soundness risk associated with cancellation of an obligor's payment responsibilities. National banks would be better able to calculate and fund such safety and soundness reserves if they did not have to factor in the loss of a portion of the fees that would result from refunds. For these reasons, CBAI requests that the OCC reconsider the provisions in Section 37.5 [and the related language in Section 37.6 (a) (6)] mandating that a national bank that offers DCCs or DSAs must include a refund option.
Section 37.6 Disclosures
In Section 37.6 (a) (5), the phrase "activation of the debt cancellation contract..." is used, but "activation" is undefined. We assume from the context that "activation" refers to the assertion by the customer of his or her right to cancel the debt or suspend payments on the debt, rather than the binding execution of the contract at the time of its purchase. If there is any ambiguity, however, the OCC should consider defining when the contract is "activated" for purposes of Section 37.6 (a) (5).
Thank you for this opportunity to comment on the NPRM concerning proposed 12 CFR 37. If you have any questions or if I can provide you with any additional information, please feel free to contact me.
Jerry D. Cavanaugh
General Counsel