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Well, the awards are being handed out and congratulations passed on, I hear there's a best dressed/worst dressed in book blogging edition to come, but the truth is you are all pretty darned spectacular. So for today, why not show it off?Bragging about myself has never been my strong suit. I take humility to the extreme not because it is a virtue, but because I am a perfectionist and nothing is ever perfect. That is a concept I do accept, by the way. I am not perfect, and I can live with that. Not being perfect does not make me lose sleep or freak out (not most of the time anyway); so you don't have to worry about me there.
Go hunt through your archives and find your favorite review, or author interview where you asked just the right insightful questions, or another post about something totally unrelated--a post where you think you're at your best and share it here! So today, it's really important to link to your specific post and NOT your general URL. OR. If you can't decide on just one, write up a new post containing the links to your favorites. It's your choice...do it whichever way you want!
This should help us all get to know you a little better!
I think my most favorite posts are the ones I didn't write. I recently had the opportunity to go on vacation, and I made arrangements with several authors and a publicist to stand in during my absence. Getting up the courage to ask my guests to post was a big accomplishment for me and then to put it all together took some work as well. There were a couple of moments when I wondered why I was doing this. My faithful readers would not begrudge me a vacation after all. At the very least, it would be one less blog post they would have to read every day. I also reminded myself that there have been days I haven't posted and the world still rotated, and so why was I so insistent that I have fill-ins?
I wanted to offer a gift of sorts to my readers. I wanted to honor you and those who I blog about. I read all these books (not nearly as many as some of you), review them, offer up bookish chatter, and rarely take time out to thank the people behind putting the books in my hands. The internet has made it easier for readers to interact with authors and I am still awed that authors would want anything to do with me. When an author contacts me about reviewing a book, I have a moment of "Oh my goodness! Is he or she crazy?! Why me? I'm nobody!" And then I shoot off an e-mail to my husband if he's at work or turn to him if we're home and share my astonishment with him. He does not understand why I am surprised. He thinks I'm rather awesome (and he should since he married me, right?).
I knew I was asking a lot of these authors to take time out of their busy schedules to write up a post for me. An interview might have been easier for each of them, admittedly, but I was going on vacation and didn't want to give myself that much work. They each did a wonderful job--even better than I could have hoped for. But what made it even more special for me were the comments left by those who stooped by, whether you responded to each post or not. You all made me feel like my extra effort was worth every drop of sweat I put into it. It isn't about the stats; it was about me wanting to do something for you that you would find useful and entertaining--and I am so glad that many of you did.
Why am I going on and on about this? It's because I am trying to rack my brain to think of a stand out review I have written to link here. I really am terrible at singling myself out like this. What stands out for me are the books themselves and not so much what I have to say about them. It kind of defeats the purpose of the exercise, doesn't it? I'll just pick one at random, how about that? I especially enjoy writing reviews that touch me in a personal way. One of the big professional reviewer no no's is using "I" statements, especially if the reviewer goes so far as to talk about him or herself. And yet, those are the reviews that I like the most as a reader. My review of Ann-Marie MacDonald's The Way the Crow Flies is an example of this.
A couple of years ago, I got on a kick of summarizing my reading each month in what I thought was a rather creative way for my online reading groups. I wanted to do more than just offer up a list of the books I had read during the month. It seemed to be a big hit, and I decided to carry it over to my blog. It lasted for two months. To this day, I still love the idea and wish I was motivated to start back up with it.
Now that I seem to be on a roll, I have to mention The Booking Through Thursday memes, which have been great inspiration for me. Some of my favorites include:
Then there is my rating scale, which I am quite fond of. I can't take all the credit for it, but it is a masterpiece if I do say so myself.
It has been really exciting to watch my little blog grow over the last two years. I still cannot believe anyone would want to read what I have to say, but here you are.


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LaTeX/Labels and Cross-referencing
editIn LaTeX, you can easily reference almost anything that can be numbered, and have LaTeX automatically updating the numbering for you whenever necessary. The objects which can be referenced include chapters, sections, subsections, footnotes, theorems, equations, figures and tables[1]. The commands to be used do not depend on what you are referencing, and they are:
- Used to give the object you want to reference a marker — a name which can be used to refer to that object later.
- Used to reference an object with the specified marker. This will print the number that was assigned to the object.
- Used to print the page number where the object with the specified marker is found.
LaTeX will calculate the right numbering for the objects in the document; the marker you have used to label the object will not be shown anywhere in the document. Instead, LaTeX will replace the string "\ref{marker}
" with the right number that was assigned to the object. If you reference a marker that does not exist, the compilation of the document will be successful but LaTeX will return a warning:
LaTeX Warning: There were undefined references.
and it will replace "\ref{unknown-marker}
" with "??" — so that it will be easier to find in the document.
As you may have noticed, this way of cross-referencing is a two-step process: first the compiler has to store the labels with the right number to be used for referencing, then it has to replace the \ref
with the right number.
Because of that, you would have to compile your document twice to see the output with the proper numbering. If you only compile it once, then LaTeX will use the older information collected in previous compilations (which might be outdated), and the compiler will inform you by printing the following message at the end of the compilation:
- LaTeX Warning: Label(s) may have changed. Rerun to get cross-references right.
Using the command \pageref{}
you can help the reader to find the referenced object by providing also the page number where it can be found. You could write something like:
See figure~\ref{fig:test} on page~\pageref{fig:test}.
Since you can use exactly the same commands to reference almost anything, you might get a bit confused after you have introduced a lot of references. It is common practice among LaTeX users to add a few letters to the label to describe what you are referencing. Some packages, such as fancyref
, rely on this meta information. Here is an example:
ch: | chapter |
sec: | section |
subsec: | subsection |
fig: | figure |
tab: | table |
eq: | equation |
lst: | code listing |
itm: | enumerated list item |
alg: | algorithm |
app: | appendix subsection |
Following this convention, the label of a figure will look like \label{fig:my_figure}
, etc. You are not obligated to use these prefixes, and can in fact use any string as an argument of \label{...}
, but these prefixes can become increasingly useful as your document grows in size.
Another suggestion: try to avoid using numbers within labels. You are better off describing what the object is about. This way, if you change the order of the objects, you will not have to rename all your labels and their references.
If you want to be able to see the markers you are using in the output document as well, you can use the showkeys
package; this can become very useful as you develop your document. For more information see the Packages section.
editHere are some practical examples, but you will notice that they are all the same because they all use the same commands.
I greeted in section~\ref{sec:greetings}.
You could place the label anywhere in the section; however, in order to avoid confusion, it is better to place it immediately after the beginning of the section. Note how the marker starts with sec:, as suggested before. The label is then referenced in a different section, where the tilde (~) indicates a non-breaking space.
editYou can reference a picture by inserting it in the figure floating environment.
\caption{Close-up of a gull}
Figure~\ref{fig:gull} shows a photograph of a gull.
When a label is declared within a float environment, the \ref{...}
will return the respective figure/table number, but it must occur after the caption. When declared outside, it will give the section number. To be completely safe, the label for any picture or table can go within the \caption{}
command, as follows:
\caption{Close-up of a gull\label{fig:gull}}
For more, see the Floats, Figures and Captions section about the figure
and related environments.
Fixing wrong labels
editThe command \label
must appear after (or inside) \caption
. Otherwise, it will pick up the current section or the list number instead of what is intended.
\caption{Close-up of a gull} \label{fig:gull}
In case you use the package hyperref
to create a PDF, the link to a table or a figure will point to its caption instead, which is always below the table or the figure itself[2]. As a result, the table or the figure will not be visible if it is above the pointer, which means that some scrolling-up would be required. If you want the link to point to the top of the image, you can give the option hypcap
to the caption
\usepackage{caption} % hypcap is true by default so [hypcap=true] is optional in \usepackage[hypcap=true]{caption}
editHere is an example showing how to reference formulae:
\begin{equation} \label{eq:solve}
x^2 - 5 x + 6 = 0
x_1 = \frac{5 + \sqrt{25 - 4 \times 6}}{2} = 3
x_2 = \frac{5 - \sqrt{25 - 4 \times 6}}{2} = 2
and so we have solved equation~\eqref{eq:solve}
Here, notice the eq: prefix in the label — and that the label is placed soon after the beginning of the math mode. To reference a formula, an environment with counter would have to be used. Most of the times, you will be using the equation
environment, as that's usually the best choice for one-line formulae whether you are using amsmath
or not.
editThe amsmath
package adds a new command for referencing formulae; it is \eqref{}
. It works exactly like \ref{}
, but adds parentheses so that instead of printing a plain number as 5, it will print (5). This can be useful to help the reader distinguish between formulae and other things, without the need to repeat the word "formula" before any reference.[4] Its output can be changed as desired; for more information see the amsmath
editThe \tag{eqnno}
command is used to manually set equation numbers, where eqnno is the text string you want to display instead of the usual equation number. It is normally better to use labels, but sometimes hard-coded equation numbers might offer a useful work-around — such as the case where you want to repeat an equation that has already been used before (e.g. \tag{\ref{eqn:before}}
editThe amsmath
package adds the \numberwithin{countera}{counterb}
command, which replaces the simple countera
with a more sophisticated
. For example, \numberwithin{equation}{section}
in the preamble will prepend the section number to all equation numbers.
editThe cases
package adds the \numcases
and the \subnumcases
commands, which produce multi-case equations with a separate equation number and a separate equation number plus a letter, respectively, for each case.
The varioref package
editThe varioref
package introduces a new command called \vref{}
. This command is used exactly like the basic \ref
, but it has a different output according to the context. If the object to be referenced is in the same page, it works just like \ref
; if the object is far away, it will print something like "5 on page 25", i.e. it adds the page number automatically. If the object is close, it can use more refined sentences such as "on the next page" or "on the facing page" automatically — according to the context and the document class.
This command has to be used very carefully. It outputs more than one word, so it may happen that its output falls on two different pages. In this case, the algorithm can get confused and cause a loop.
For example, you could label an object on page 23 and the \vref
output could happen to stay between page 23 and 24. If it were on page 23, it would print like the basic ref
, if it were on page 24, it would print "on the previous page", but it is on both, and this may cause some strange errors at compiling time that could be very difficult to fix.
And while for small documents, these situations might happen very rarely, for long documents spanning hundreds of references, these situations are more likely to happen. One way to avoid these problems during document preparation is to use the standard ref
all the way through at first, convert all to vref
when the document is close to its final version — before making the adjustment to fix any possible problem.
The hyperref package
editThe hyperref
package introduces another useful command; \autoref{}
. This command creates a reference with additional text corresponding to the target's type, all of which will be a hyperlink. For example, the command \autoref{sec:intro}
would create a hyperlink to the \label{sec:intro}
command, wherever it is. Assuming that this label is pointing to a section, the hyperlink would contain the text "section 3.4", or similar (the full list of default names can be found here). Note that, while there's an \autoref*
command that produces an unlinked prefix (useful if the label is on the same page as the reference), no alternative \Autoref
command is defined to produce capitalized versions (useful, for instance, when starting sentences); but since the capitalization of autoref names was chosen by the package author, you can customize the prefixed text by redefining \typeautorefname
to the prefix you want, as in:
This renaming trick can, of course, be used for other purposes as well.
- If you would like to have a hyperlink reference without the predefined text
provides, then you change this with a command such as\hyperref[sec:intro]{Appendix~\ref*{sec:intro}}
. Note that you can disable the creation of hyperlinks inhyperref
, and just use these commands for automatic text.
- Keep in mind that the \label must be placed inside an environment with a counter, such as a table or a figure. Otherwise, not only will the number refer to the current section (as mentioned above), but the name might refer to the previous environment with a counter as well. For example, if you put a label after closing a figure, the label will still say "figure n", on which n is the current section number.
editThe hyperref
package also automatically includes the nameref
package, and a similarly named command. It is similar to \autoref{}
, but inserts text corresponding to the section name, for example.
\section{MyFirstSection} \label{sec:marker}
In section~\nameref{sec:marker} we defined...
In section MyFirstSection we defined...
Anchor manual positioning
editWhen you define a \label
outside a figure, a table, or other floating objects, the label points to the current section. In some cases, this behavior is not what you'd like and you'd prefer the generated link to point to the line where the \label
is defined. This can be achieved with the command
as in this example:
%The link location will be placed on the line below.
The cleveref package
editThe cleveref
package introduces the new command \cref{}
which includes the type of referenced object like \autoref{}
does. The alternate \labelcref{}
command works more like standard \ref{}
. References to pages are handled by the \cpageref{}
- Use
commands for start and end label in either order and to provide a natural language (babel
enabled) range. - Use
command for multiple or single references (on single line), it will sort them and group into ranges automatically in very convenient format like ` item 2 to 4 and 6 to 19.`.[5] - Use
where the numbers would be a references to the labels and [sorted] output as in previous paragraph
The format can be specified in the preamble.
Interpackage interactions for varioref , hyperref , and cleveref
editBecause varioref
, and cleveref
redefine the same commands, they can produce unexpected results when their \usepackage
commands appear in the preamble in the wrong order. For example, using hyperref
, then cleveref
can cause \vref{}
to fail as though the marker were undefined.[6] The following order generally seems to work:
See also
editNotes and References
edit- ↑ Advantages of LaTeX — Automatic Numbering and Robust Citation System
- ↑ http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/hyperref/README
- ↑ Documentation of the
package — 6.5hyperref
- ↑ TeX StackExchange — What is the difference between \eqref and \ref?
- ↑ TeX Blog — Cleveref, a clever way to reference in LaTeX
- ↑ a b Tests done under report class http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/139459/vref-and-input-command

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On the Vancouver Web Consultants blog there's this new tutorial about grabbing latitude and longitude information for a location and determining its current time zone from there.
I was recently tasked with building an application that relied heavily on accurate time zone conversions. I, like many people I soon found out, thought there were just a handful of timezones and the usual select list would suffice. The deeper I looked into the problem, the deeper it got: the list above only shows a few time offsets from UTC, but it doesn't tell me, beyond a shadow of a doubt, exactly what time it is where the user is situated, nor can I rely on that time for calculations in the future. The fact is, here are a LOT of timezones in the world.


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This spring will be perfect for you--if you're a bird or a bee. If you're a human who suffers from allergies, spring has the potential to be a nightmare.
After we suffer through the tree pollens in March and April, grass pollens hit most of the country in May and June.
But, Mother Nature has a way of balancing things out. Even as she challenges your sinuses, she offers remedies to ease your pain.
Try some of these foods known to naturally help with hay fever, congestion, and other allergic reactions when spring is in the air:
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Bring on the broccoli when your sinuses are blocked. This member of the crucifer family is high in vitamin C. One cup of raw broccoli contains about 80 milligrams (mg) of vitamin C; research has shown 500 mg daily can ease allergy symptoms.
Citrus fruits
Thanks to their mega-doses of vitamin C, citrus fruits such as oranges, lemons, and grapefruits are good weapons in the quest to breathe freely when pollen and other irritants are in the air.
Collard greens
Collard greens offer allergy-fighting carotenoids. To help your body absorb their nutrients more readily, eat collard greens with a fat. Try sauteing them in extra-virgin olive oil.
Elderberries contain flavonoids that reduce inflammation. Ease your suffering by imbibing some elderberry wine, enjoying a glass of juice, or spreading some jam on toast or crackers.
Garlic & Onions
The quercetin in onions and garlic (apples too) acts like an antihistamine so it minimizes allergic reactions. Try roasted garlic or carmelized onions on a slice of pizza or with bruschetta.
Miso soup
Miso (and other broths) are known to help mitigate the mucus that builds up in the nasal passages during allergy season. Other mucus-clearing foods include spicy foods, such as horseradish, cayenne, or chili powder.
Beets, purple/red grapes
The anthocyanins that give certain foods, such as beets, purple or red grapes, berries, and cherries, their dark violet-like color have anti-inflammatory properties that can reduce swollen membranes that make breathing difficult.


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Amazon buys driverless start-up Zoox with ride-hailing plans
Amazon said Friday that it is buying self-driving technology company Zoox, which is developing an autonomous vehicle for a ride-hailing service that people would request on their phones.
Seattle-based Amazon did not disclose how much it is paying for Zoox, which was founded six years ago in Foster City, Calif. Analysts pegged the purchase price at over $1 billion.
The online retailing giant said Zoox will keep running as a separate business and continue to develop its own autonomous vehicle.
"We're excited to help the talented Zoox team to bring their vision to reality in the years ahead," said Amazon's Jeff Wilke, who runs the company's retail business.
The deal could drive Amazon into an entirely new business: transporting people from one place to another. But some industry analysts think Amazon's ultimate goal is to repurpose the Zoox vehicle for its core business, delivering packages to shoppers.
"My guess would be in the near term that Amazon is probably more interested in taking that platform and adapting it as an alternative or complement to its existing fleet of delivery vans," said Sam Abuelsamid, principal analyst for Guidehouse Insights, who follows autonomous vehicle developments.
Abuelsamid said Zoox has a good autonomous system and was planning to deploy a ride-hailing service next year. It's also building its own vehicle that can travel in two directions — both ends can be the front and the back — making it ideal for urban deliveries. He sees Amazon converting the small vehicles into mobile lockers that would stop at delivery sites for people to pick up packages.
Amazon didn't directly answer a question about whether autonomous package delivery is its goal, but said Zoox would "continue working toward their mission to transform mobility as a service by developing a fully autonomous, purpose-built vehicle."
The company cautioned that widespread use of autonomous vehicles is still years away and will require a substantial capital investment in a crowded field. The deal puts Amazon, which has grown rapidly from its start as an online bookseller 25 years ago, in competition with Google's self-driving technology spinoff called Waymo, and General Motors' Cruise autonomous vehicle unit.
Autonomous delivery would fit with Amazon's plans to deliver more of its packages on its own and rely less on UPS and the U.S. Postal Service. In recent years, it has expanded its fleet of planes, built package-sorting hubs at airports and launched a program that lets people start businesses that deliver packages in vans stamped with the Amazon logo.
The investment could complement the $700 million that Amazon put into electric vehicle start-up Rivian in 2019. Rivian, with operations in suburban Detroit and California, has a contract to make 100,000 electric delivery vans for Amazon. The company also has a factory in Normal, Ill., with extra capacity that could be used to build the Zoox vehicles for Amazon, Abuelsamid said.
Amazon's acquisition changes the landscape in the autonomous vehicle business by bringing in a deep-pocketed competitor, Abuelsamid said. It increases pressure on smaller companies that are building delivery vehicles, he said.
The Zoox acquisition isn't Amazon's first foray into autonomous vehicles. Early in 2019, it joined other investors in a $530-million stake in Aurora Innovation. Aurora recently has focused on a self-driving system for heavy trucks.
Amazon has used autonomous technology to get orders to shoppers: self-driving robots shuffle products around its warehouses and a cooler-sized robot with six wheels has delivered orders in a Seattle suburb. It's also working on self-piloted drones that fly small goods to customers' homes.
The deal comes at a time when the power of Amazon and other technology stalwarts such as Google, Facebook and Apple have drawn increasing scrutiny from U.S. lawmakers and antitrust regulators. The pandemic-stricken economy is making it more difficult for start-ups to raise money to continue work, creating opportunities for the industry's still-thriving giants to make acquisitions at bargain prices.
Privately held Zoox received $990 million in funding from investors, according to Crunchbase, which tracks investments in start-ups.
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Miranda Sync Tool
Here is my first python-written program for Miranda IM:
Program functions:
You can use a single Miranda profile with all your settings, history and contacts on every computer.
1. MirandaSync is downloading the recent profile from your ftp host and applying patches if there are changes.
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Did you know that over the past six years, Muslims in 40 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East have been interviewed for a survey that is part of Gallup's World Poll?
Well, results of this survey were released earlier this week, and they offer informed, interesting, and, to my mind, hopeful insights into the Muslim world - and, in particular, what the vast majority of Muslims want.
Following are excerpts from Karin Zeitvogel's news story on the release of this survey's findings. These excerpts are accompanied by images of Moorish architecture, a term used to describe the Islamic architecture of North Africa and parts of Spain and Portugal where the Moors were dominant from 711-1492. Unique in its ornamentation and beauty, it's definitely one of my favorite styles of architecture.
A huge survey of the world's Muslims released Tuesday challenges Western notions that equate Islam with radicalism and violence.
The survey, conducted by the Gallup polling agency over six years and three continents, seeks to dispel the belief held by some in the West that Islam itself is the driving force of radicalism.
It shows that the overwhelming majority of Muslims condemned the attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001 and other subsequent terrorist attacks, the authors of the study said in Washington.
"Samuel Harris said in the Washington Times [in 2004]: 'It is time we admitted that we are not at war with terrorism. We are at war with Islam'," Dalia Mogahed, co-author of the book Who Speaks for Islam, which grew out of the study, told a news conference. "The argument Mr Harris makes is that religion in the primary driver" of radicalism and violence, she said.
"Religion is an important part of life for the overwhelming majority of Muslims, and if it were indeed the driver for radicalization, this would be a serious issue."
But the study, which Gallup says surveyed a sample equivalent to 90 percent of the world's Muslims, showed that widespread religiosity "does not translate into widespread support for terrorism," said Mogahed, director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies.
About 93 percent of the world's 1.3 billion Muslims are moderates and only seven percent are politically radical, according to the poll, based on more than 50,000 interviews.
. . . [Muslim extremists] gave political, not religious, reasons for condoning the attacks, the poll showed. The survey shows [these extremists] to be neither more religious than their moderate counterparts, nor products of abject poverty or refugee camps.
. . . Gallup launched the study following 9/11, after which US President George W. Bush asked in a speech, which is quoted in the book: "Why do they hate us?"
"They hate... a democratically elected government," Bush offered as a reason. "They hate our freedoms – our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with each other."
But the poll, which gives ordinary Muslims a voice in the global debate that they have been drawn into by 9/11, showed that most Muslims – including radicals – admire the West for its democracy, freedoms and technological prowess. What they do not want is to have Western ways forced on them, it said.
"Muslims want self-determination, but not an American-imposed and -defined democracy. They don't want secularism or theocracy. What the majority wants is democracy with religious values," said [John] Esposito [a professor of Islamic studies at Georgetown University in Washington].
The poll has given voice to Islam's silent majority, said Mogahed. "A billion Muslims should be the ones that we look to, to understand what they believe, rather than a vocal minority," she told Agence France-Presse.
To read Zeitvogel's article in its entirety, click here.
See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
Coming Out in Africa and the Middle East
A Dangerous Medieval Conviction
The Blood-soaked Thread
A Reign of Ignorance and Fear in the U.S.
Tariq Ali Discusses Rudyard Kipling
The Real Fascist Threat in Europe


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The Shooters in the Rye
May 08, 2018, 12:33:18 PM »
By Robert Anderson
May 07 2018 -
The recent slaughter in Toronto has many people chattering away about Incels, or involuntary celibates. Several people have taken to Twitter to offer explanations via links to sites in the manoverse that is, web pages dedicated to the notion that men are somehow the real victims of gender discrimination and, more specifically, misandry. Many of these sites hoist the Incel flag as a way to demonstrate their bona fides to a supposed terrorist army of young (or youngish) men whose self-alleged sexual frustration has reached murderous proportions.
The great irony of this is that involuntary celibacy, as a socio-cultural development, was first identified by the Georgia State Universitys Department of Sociology in the late 90s, after which they published a paper about it here. It was a new social trend of large numbers of people in the United States who had become sexually and romantically redundant due to social dysfunction, or disability, chronic illness or obesity. These are people who are hardly ever or never able to engage in romantic relationships and sexual congress. One of the chief emphases of the study is that this is a problem afflicting both men and women, gay and straight, young and old, white, brown and black.
And yet somehow, through the often bilious alchemy of the Internet, this problematic social trend became appropriated by angry, sexually frustrated young white men, who have proceeded to weaponize and aim it at those they perceive as more sexually successful, referred to on their sites as Chads (socially successful men) and Stacys (socially successful women).
Alek Minasian frequented many sites associated with this utterly bizarre movement, and may have been inspired by Elliot Rodger, the sociopathic killer who gunned down six people in Isla Vista, California after uploading a ludicrous manifesto onto YouTube, in which he described the on-coming Day of Vengeance. Apparently Rodgers is referred to as the Supreme Gentleman in Incel circles, a kind of hero.
In my opinion, the real question is just what, exactly, is driving so many young men to identify themselves as Incel in the first place, what is making them hate with such ferocity. As usual in such cases, the answer is much more systemic than most people would care to admit. It is not so much their rejection by women that drives them, but what is behind those rejections, the how and why.
Here in the United States we have failed miserably to educate our adolescents about their budding sexuality. Moreover, we have over the decades allowed a culture of poisonous masculinity to develop that abates and feeds the sexual and social ignorance created by this failure. Boys grow into adolescence completely unprepared for the powerful onslaught of directionless lust that begins to fill them, while the surrounding culture gins up that lust with endless images of gorgeous women who appear available but in fact are, as figures of fantasy, not at all. Girls of the same age are given no clue what their male peers are going through, or how they might sympathize with and help them emotionally as opposed to sexually. Buttressing that ignorance is an equally poisonous form of femininity taught to females starting in early adolescence, usually by the women in their family, especially their mothers. The latter is one of the great unmentionables of modern America.
Too many women simultaneously teach their daughters that nice girls dont give it up to a boy without respect while implying or, in some cases, openly stating that said respect is made up of dates and gifts and, therefore, their vaginas somehow have a price tag. If a boy or man doesnt take a girl or woman out on a certain number of fancy dates while being polite to a fault, then he has not earned it. In this way are girls taught to understand, however unconsciously, the enforcement role they play in our socio-economic system. Meanwhile, too many fathers are teaching their sons that if they want to make it with a girl, theyve got to earn it with guess what? dates and gifts. These venomous lessons have been taught for a very long time in this country and, despite valiant attempts by smart feminists to change them, continue to be taught to this day.
Because of all this, commentators in the media make mistakes when trying to grapple with the sometimes tragic aftermath of the Incel problem. Mary Elizabeth Williams wrote in Salon, Its not because theyre lonely. Its not because they cant get laid. Its the misogyny, stupid. Of course, this gets the problem precisely backwards. The loneliness and frustration of these young men leads them to lay the blame on women, rather than on the societal system that created the rejection in the first place. Their justifiable anger and frustration is mis-directed. And writers like Williams likewise fail, however understandably, to place the onus where it belongs. For example, Williams correctly argues how wrong-headed is Russ Douthats idea that sexbots will douse the Incel flame, but not for the reasons she thinks. No young man I have ever known, including myself at that age, has ever found it appealing to f*** a piece of plastic, however real. All of us understand that to do such a thing is a kind of creepy social failure, similar to having to go to a prostitute. And yet Williams implies that while, yeah, young guys can and will enjoy purging their lusts with an anatomically semi-correct robot, that wont cool the ardor of their hate because, well, misogyny.
What is truly remarkable about this mess is how similar it is to what is going on in China. Young men in that country endure sexual frustration because of a demographic nightmare created by the Chinese governments former one child policy combined with rural Chinese cultures elevation of sons and denigration of daughters. At the moment there are about 33 million more young men than women. Here in America the problem is purely cultural in that entirely too many women of all ages believe most men are just plain bad and therefore of no use romantically or sexually. There was more than a whiff of this in Lori Gottliebs Marry Him: The Case for Choosing Mr. Good Enough. The women featured in that well-researched but disturbing book are filled with a breathtaking sense of entitlement that, ironically, none of them would tolerate in men. And rightly so; self-entitlement of any sort has no place in relations between couples, gay or straight. But there it is, angry opinions creating here in America what only the communist party could accomplish in China.
Combine all of the above with a nation as steeped in gun culture and violence as the United States (and, to a lesser extent, Canada), and you end up with young psychopaths like Rodgers and Minasian. But tranquilizing the culture and seizing all the guns wont help. All of us, male and female, young and old, must take stock of our own attitudes about relationships and how the nature of same are warped by the demands of commerce, and do something about it. Perhaps it will take a kind of socio-cultural Marshall Plan, with an intense focus on early and adolescent education and, perhaps, adult re-education of some sort (preferably benign). Im not sure. But something must be done, and quick. Otherwise we can expect more and more young men identifying as Incels, and ever more massacres.
Robert Anderson is a resident of Fremont, California and a screenwriter, technologist, composer of novels and short stories, insatiable reader and lover of words, and, last but not least, an enemy of tyranny and exploitation in all of its forms.
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May 08, 2018, 12:40:08 PM »
Unless i missed something...this Incel thing is another irresponsible action to justify white previledge. Males and females experience social insecurities with the opposite sex for reasons that goes back to a misguided foundation...social structures...society.
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May 08, 2018, 03:04:02 PM »
"Girls of the same age are given no clue what their male peers are going through, or how they might sympathize with and help them emotionally as opposed to sexually" this invalidates his argument because he is continuing in the same vein that created the privilege by using the same gender roles and assuming that those said young women aren't grappling with their own "powerful onslaught of directionless lust" and attempting to place the responsibility for giving that male lust direction on their female counterparts.
The problem isn't toxic masculinity or femininity...as I see it...the problem is the commodification of sex which is one of the manifestations of capitalism. It isn't that these guys can't get sex or romantic relationships it is that they cannot get it with who they find valuable and by extension who their 'world' would find value in and reward them for being able to possess. Women are still considered possessions in the Western context (which has spread all over the earth due to enslavement and colonisation)and because of that one of the value positions of men within this society is who they partner with based on the value society has placed on that woman.
They are mad that they are to the top of the 'food chain' but have no access to choice meat those are the same frustrations being felt by poor and middle class whites in this current climate. Therefore they fixate on the object women, blacks, sexuality etc. they believe is their Right to dominate rather than the dream that was sold to them as their birthright according to Hollywood and the Bible. Sadly they are being forced to come to terms with the fact that it isn't their birthright to dominate and instead of dealing with themselves and why it is they believe what they do and admitting that they do unfairly benefit from oppression and it isn't as far removed as they would have us think.
Their frustrations and subsequent response is wanting to sustain the oppressions that gave them that benefit without admitting that they have no issue with subjugating others to fulfill that dream.
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May 08, 2018, 03:43:00 PM »
I have been following this debate on twitter in the past couple weeks. I agree the incel movement is about white male privilege and feelings of entitlement. As there are many other groups of people who don't have sex not by their own choosing but because of many prejudices. However they don't go on murder sprees. Some persons have argued that when there is an unequal distribution of other resources (wealth, food etc.) groups and persons argue for redistribution and that is seen as okay. But given the demands of incels who are white heterosexual males this is demanding womens bodies to be used as they please.
As the debate expanded on twitter a point came up that it should not be a question of the redistribution of sex but questioning why certain people are not deemed attractive or persons do not wish to engage with them in a sexual or romantic way. That points to poor socialisation, structutral notions of attractivenes and sexuality. At the heart of it is layers of discrimination.
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May 08, 2018, 04:36:22 PM »
Valid responses.
The article explains the issue in some strange ways though. For example: "Here in America the problem is purely cultural in that entirely too many women of all ages believe most men are just plain bad and therefore of no use romantically or sexually. "
Also strange is his description of "poisonous femininity" which he says is perpetuated by the mothers in the family. The example he gives of this is that "Too many women simultaneously teach their daughters that nice girls dont give it up to a boy"without respect... and this respect is sometimes seen in terms of "dates and gifts". This is a weak argument that puts the blame on mothers.
So while he have a few parts of the explantation, other parts of the article are suspect, and so i don't find he nails the analysis, which for me would involve going past sexual/relationship issues.
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May 08, 2018, 05:41:34 PM »
Must admit....that was a chore to read. I find the juxtapositioning of the crazed Toronto driver to some theory about sexual dissatisfaction quite weird...but then again, I have not followed the story closely. Anyhow, the idea that males are poorly conditioned is true. But to claim that white males are the greatest "victims" of such is plain ridiculous.
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May 08, 2018, 06:43:46 PM »
While the article has points worth discussing in a general context or quite another context, I am left wondering why all this time was spent attempting to psychoanalyse and excuse the actions of those whites (mentioned in the article and maybe those that may have plans to commit similar acts later on)
I don't think the same consideration would be extended to persons who are most affected by systemic injustices.
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May 08, 2018, 06:55:40 PM »
One of the iconic persons in this movement was Elliot Rodger, a rich, spoilt brat who used his white privilege to acquire guns, go undetected and perform acts of violence. The introduction of terms such as Incels are mostly about justifying negative white male behaviors. It is common for them to try to hijack sympathy movements which leaves no room for others to consider the most marginalized people .
They turn to movements such as the #metoo slogan but it seems more like #mealone campaigns.
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May 08, 2018, 07:04:09 PM »
What I initially thought was already said.
The article is weak because the writer failed to mention the role classism, sizeism, racism, colorism and other social inequities play in denying even whites sexual partners or their desired sexual partners. Even peoples desires are unfair to themselves, so a wealthy white may desire a certain type of partner and be terribly unhappy and violent because he or she cannot get what they want.
Most peoples desires have been poorly conditioned therefore even those who get sexual partners often remain unsatisfied. Where both males and females are conditioned to view ideal beauty based on a certain Eurocentric appearance, then most would consider some of the same limited number of model-type persons to be their ideal. There isnt enough of them to go around. Money is a great attraction and since the patriarchal system made females dependant on males, many males are under pressure to demonstrate they are providers to get partners. However, males who are preferred by looks can get females to provide for them. Generally, people enter relationships settling for others because they could not get who they fantasize. In more indigenous non-white cultures, relationships were based on both parties being able to provide. Beauty had a function.
White people react the worst when faced with societal pressures because of their strong feelings of entitlement. Although Blacks are denied the most, Blacks generally have more experience with these pressures and generally, do not have a sense of entitlement. Blacks are therefore less prone to such extreme behaviours as highlighted in the article (although some can ape poor white conduct). Many Blacks may also not react to societal pressures based on low self-worth. We see Blacks, like Kanye West, behaving rashly after becoming rich because they then crave white privilege and cannot make sense of not being abe to get it.
In the case of Whites who feel they cannot measure up economically, they are taught to first turn their anger on non-whites as the source of their problems. Non-whites, and more so Blacks remain the ultimate victims of White Privilege.
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May 09, 2018, 08:25:00 PM »
I suspect that every case of extreme actions by a self-identified incel has different nuances, but at the core of it all is an unsettling detachment from self.
On one side we have a case of male entitlement, as males think they are entitled to female bodies. It would thus follow that having sexual relationships with females is well within their human rights. And when denied this right, they are justified in retaliating.
In some cases it is an issue of white entitlement. Many whites do actually believe they are entitled to pretty much anything in this cosmos and beyond. Being white, male and extremely disconnected from self brings about a kind of violent, greedy, impatient entitlement. This has been displayed in history time and time again.
Another aspect in this is envy, which can be seen in how some of the self-identified incels have terms for those who fit the white supremacy physical ideal (Chads and Stacys). Looking like Chad supposedly makes it easier to have relationships, including sexual ones. And this is true. But this is a result of a very flawed system, and of course, peoples lack of integrity. The incel wishes they were a Chad because then they could probably have sexual relations. Never mind that the idea of Chad is itself problematic.
Involuntary celibacy is not necessarily synonymous with lack of suitors. It is sometimes lack of desired suitors. The people deemed attractive within white supremacy - the Stacys. Because few are immune to this socialisation, one will find that the same system that marginalises people is the same system they are fighting to be recognised and approved by. Some people are simply blind to fat, short, non Western-looking people. This in a way makes the celibacy inflicted.
I have come across arguments that we are sexual beings, aimed to imply that we NEED and MUST have sex for our very basic day-to-day continuity. I was once personally convinced of this. So that even if the person available to you is full of crap, one should tolerate it because you are a sexual being that needs a sexual partner.
Another angle I think is worth pointing out is the offenders history. In some of these cases, the offender has shown signs of violence prior to incidents carried out on a large scale. Be it towards themselves, others or both. What tends to happen is that the loved one choose not to report these cases. Timely intervention that could have prevented a repeat of similar or bigger magnitude is impeded.
Indeed, I think this is an issue of gross lack of self-knowledge, self-esteem and integrity.
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Raw hatred: why the 'incel' movement targets and terrorises women
By Zoe Williams
Wed 25 Apr 2018
Last modified on Thu 3 May 2018 -
The man accused of carrying out the Toronto van attack has alleged links to involuntary celibate online communities. The language they use may be absurd, but the threat they pose could be deadly
When a van was driven on to a Toronto pavement on Tuesday, killing 10 people and injuring 15, police chief Mark Saunders said that, while the incident appeared to be a deliberate act, there was no evidence of terrorism. The public safety minister Ralph Goodale backed this up, deeming the event not part of an organised terror plot. Canada has rules about these things: to count as terrorism, the attacker must have a political, religious or social motivation, something beyond wanting to terrorise.
Why have the authorities been so fast to reject the idea of terrorism (taking as read that this may change; the tragedy is very fresh)? Shortly before the attack, a post appeared on the suspects Facebook profile, hailing the commencement of the Incel Rebellion, including the line Private (Recruit) Infantry 00010, wishing to speak to Sgt 4chan please. C23249161. (4chan is the main organising platform for the alt-right, explains Mike Wendling, the author of
Alt-Right: from 4Chan to the White House.
There is a reluctance to ascribe to the incel movement anything so lofty as an ideology or credit it with any developed, connected thinking, partly because it is so bizarre in conception.
Standing for involuntarily celibate, the term was originally invented 20 years ago by a woman known only as Alana, who coined the term as a name for an online support forum for singles, basically a lonely hearts club. It feels like being the scientist who figured out nuclear fission and then discovers its being used as a weapon for war, she says, describing the feeling of watching it mutate into a Reddit muster point for violent misogyny.
It is part of the manosphere, but is distinguished from mens rights activism by what Wendling who is also the editor of BBC Trending, the broadcasters social media investigation unit calls its raw hatred. It is vile. It is just incredibly unhinged and separate from reality and completely raw. It has some crossover with white supremacism, in the sense that its adherents hang out in the same online spaces and share some of the same terminology, but it is quite distinctive in its hate figures: Stacys (attractive women); Chads (attractive men); and Normies (people who arent incels, ie can find partners but arent necessarily attractive). Basically, incels cannot get laid and they violently loathe anyone who can.
Full Article : theguardian.com
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Re: The Shooters in the Rye
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May 10, 2018, 01:00:02 PM »
No matter what is said about the strides that have been made regarding the treatment and value of women the actions within law and culture make liars of us. This problem seems insurmountable because the focus is on a symptom and not the actual illness which is White Supremacy. But the symptoms will persist and evolve because those who are affected are its biggest champions just like the Incels who call women sluts but hate those that won't submit to their advances.
It isn't a coincidence that they share the same language as the supermist or that they engage in 'slut shaping' and rape fantasy their frustration is with their inability to dominate what they have been told is their right to dominate. They don't simply want any kind of woman they want the thing they 'despise' they want a 'Stacy' that responds to them as if they were a 'Chad' with money and anything less simply won't do!
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May 20, 2018, 02:04:59 PM »
"Santa Fe shooting suspect reportedly killed girl who turned down his advances"
The 17-year-old suspect in Friday's shooting at a Santa Fe, Texas, high school reportedly shot and killed a classmate who turned down his repeated advances, according to the Los Angeles Times.
The classmate, Shana Fisher, was the first person the shooter killed, according to Fisher's mother.
Fisher's mother, Sadie Rodriguez, told the Times in a private message to the paper's Facebook page that the suspect, Dimitrios Pagourtzis, gave her daughter "4 months of problems" before Fisher rejected him in front of classmates.
Although there is no evidence thus far that the Santa Fe shooter identified with Incels or any such group, the reality is that there are many people who think like Incels. They cannot make sense of rejection and some resort to murder.
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"Larson wrote: Women are objects, to be taken care of by men like any other property, and for powerful men to insert themselves into as it pleases them, and as they believe will be in womens own interests. In most cases, their interests are aligned, as long as the man is strong. Female sex-slaves actually get a much better deal than animals, because in most cases, they are allowed to reproduce, unlike animals raised for meat or companionship.
Even as he sympathises with Incels he reinforces the stereotypes that might be preventing some from having their desired partner.
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Has James White's critique of my position in Defining Inerrancy been accurate? Let's talk about it on Deeper Waters.
By now, it should be no secret to readers of Deeper Waters that I am the co-author of the Ebook "Defining Inerrancy". I thank everyone who has bought a copy and I hope many of you will write positive reviews on Amazon and your own blogs and web sites.
Some of you have also contacted me to tell me that James White of Alpha and Omega Ministries has apparently read our book and spoken about it on his latest podcast. I was not surprised to hear that the review was not a positive one, but at the same time, it is good to have press anyway.
So what is being said?
To start off, one line of White's which I agree with is that of "If I've learned one thing from Norm Geisler it's that I don't want to be like him." The more and more I have seen of this, the more and more I have been embarrassed by my former admiration.
In White's review, he wanted to save most of what he had to say for the final chapter which happened to be written by me. When told about it I was told "Well he certainly got your viewpoint wrong." Those who I shared it with who I consider mentors all were saying the same thing.
It's important to point out that White does say he agrees with Geisler on the interpretation of Matthew 27. It should be pointed out that so does my co-author. Holding thinks that this is a real event that happened. What's my position? The interpretation of Matthew 27 is actually the focus of the Master's thesis I am working on so at this point, I am claiming agnosticism. It would be foolish to give a public viewpoint before really digging in and doing the research directly.
The final chapter that White wishes to comment on is the chapter I wrote called "Lordship over Scholarship?" In giving a sense of it he says that I am quoting Geisler and says "Geisler says further 'As evangelicals we must beware of desiring a table at the seat of contemporary scholarship which is riddled with presuppositions that are antagonistic to Evangelical Christianity.' "(White agrees 1000%)
White then wants you to hear my response.
"On the contrary, I think we should eagerly be desiring that. How are we supposed to make an impact in the world of scholarship if we don't want a seat at the table. Imagine what it could mean for Christianity if Christians were seen as trusted authorities in each field. Instead of fearing antagonistic presuppositions, what happened to correcting them with real scholarship?"
White says that paragraph really concerns him and is muddled in an amazing way.
Not a shock that White hones in on presuppositionalism.
Now I am not a presuppositionalist at all, but it does not mean that recognizing presuppositions play no role whatsoever in my thinking. White thinks that to sit at the table of scholarship is to compromise and give in to the presuppositions and to say there is a moral neutral ground. He also says that it is saying we should lay aside our commitment to the absolute Lordship of Christ and to the radical elements of that.
I think those of you who know me well are recognizing that I have no desire to do something like that. White tells us that Geisler recognizes that sitting at the table of scholarship is doing that and then adds "But I don't know where Nick Peters is coming from."
At this point, it would have been better off if he didn't know where I was coming from to try to contact me. I'm not hard to find. My blog is there. My own podcast is there. All of them are ways to contact me. If he has no idea where I'm coming from, all that needed to be done was to ask.
Instead, White will proceed to talk about a position assuming that that is mine even though by his own words, he does not know where I am coming from.
White says he hopes I am saying that we should be seeking to challenge those presuppositions, but that that wasn't what Geisler was talking about.
It's a shame White didn't go with his first inclination of what he hoped I was saying. What he hopes I am saying is in fact what I am really saying in that chapter.
White repeats my saying how are we supposed to have an impact if we don't sit at the table? White suggests that we do so by showing that the presuppositions that they accept are in fact incoherent and by critiquing their worldview. Now I would not do it in a presuppositional way, but I would in fact challenge them.
White then thinks that my statement about having a Christian be a trusted authority in each field is problematic. Can that be given outside of the worldview?
Sometimes, yeah.
Who is it that heads the Human Genome Project? A Christian like Francis Collins. What I am saying is simply what C.S. Lewis said. Imagine what it would mean if the most learned authority in any particular field was a Christian and that in order to learn about a position, unbelievers HAD to go to Christians because Christians put the best material out there.
"I want to learn law!" "Well read this book by this Christian lawyer."
"I want to learn botany! "Read this book by a Christian botanist."
"I want to learn economics!" "Read this book by a Christian economist."
The Christians should be seeking to dominate academia and be the most learned people that they can be.
White goes on to say that there are many people who are embarrassed by the open confession of the Lordship of Christ over every area of knowledge.
Again, this is the kind of accusation that it would have been good to make absolutely sure of before making a statement about it. This especially since he has no idea where it is that I'm coming from and yet seems to know exactly where I'm coming from.
White has said how Dan Wallace endorses the book. I am sure Wallace would have told him as well that White's position on me is false. In fact, on the same blog where Wallace reviews our book, he also has a link up to where he was interviewed by me on my show.
What is my position? My position is this. That if Christianity is true, and I am convinced it is, good research will show that it is true. If we are doing our history right, it will line up with Christianity. If we are doing our ethics right, it will line up. If we are doing our philosophy right, it will line up. If we are doing our science right, it will line up. If we are doing our hermeneutics right, it will line up.
Chesterton once said something along the lines that if Christianity is not true, it is of no importance. If Christianity is true, it is of great importance to everything out there. I agree entirely. Since Christianity is true, it means Christ has something to say about every area of our lives.
Thus, I am not just a husband. I am a Christian husband. I am not just someone who studies history. I am a Christian who studies history. Every facet of my life is to be submitted to Christ entirely. When I study, Christ has something to say. When I take Allie out on a date, Christ has something to say. When I watch TV or a movie, Christ has something to say. When I play, Christ has something to say. When I drive, Christ has something to say. (Probably has a lot to say to me then especially)
What will I do when I approach a non-Christian? I have told people they are allowed to have their own interpretation. Everyone does, and sometimes we're wrong. What they are not allowed to do is have their own data. You do not get to dismiss data because it goes against your worldview. You do not get to give it a place it should not have because it goes with your worldview.
So what do I do when I come to the table? I talk about the data. Joe Friday is my kind of approach. Just the facts. Then we discuss the facts. This is also why I think it's important to have a philosophical background so you can properly interpret the data. Suppose someone brings up miracles not happening for instance. I point to research done by Craig Keener in this field and say it does not work to just dismiss them because they disagree with your worldview. I'm not allowed to do that. Why should you be?
And while I am not a presuppositionalist, I spend plenty of time questioning the worldviews of people who I encounter as to why I should take the stance. As an Aspie, I really can't stand it when I spot something that is an inconsistency and when people treat Scripture by a different standard than they do other historical works, I don't bend on that.
Now if someone does not come to Christ if the evidence is there, then naturally there is some other reason they are not, be it emotional or volitional, and it would be foolish of anyone to claim emotions play no role in their thinking. We are all whole human beings and unless we have some condition such as being a sociopath, we are all affected by our emotions, though some are more affected than others.
What happens if we retreat from the world of academia? That's what we did when evolution showed up. We made a knee-jerk reaction and we're still paying for it today. When liberal scholarship showed up at our Seminaries, instead of facing it head on, we retreated and set up our own new Seminaries. Colleges, Universities, and Seminaries once firmly held by the Christian worldview are now bastions of secular thought.
I wonder how many people have been lost because of that?
Christ told us the gates of Hell would not stand against the church. Gates are defensive measures. We should in fact be the ones on the offensive and putting those who are not Christians on the defensive. To do that, we will have to learn the best ways of doing history, science, literature, philosophy, and any other field. We will have to climb to the top more and more and present the data that if anyone denies it, it is clear that they are someone who refuses to see. (Think of the Christ-mythers who put up the most ridiculous standards of history.)
I've told my wife several times that we could reclaim America for Christ easily. What would it take? Christians waking up. Christians getting up and actually doing something instead of secluding themselves from the culture entirely and running into their little safety bubbles. I've written about this in this post. When Christians retreat, it's no shock that the world gains a stronger voice.
And of course, we absolutely don't surrender in our convictions. Of course, not every hill is worth dying on. If the hill you are willing to die on is pre-tribulationism or the age of the Earth or the usage of tongues in the church today, then you are fighting the wrong battle. Your position in fact is to be fought on the hill that says the triune God revealed Himself in Jesus of Nazareth and that when Jesus died, the Father raised Him from the dead. Jesus is now king of this world.
We are to follow the Pauline principle of defeating arguments and bringing them under the Lordship of Christ. It's not a question of Lordship or scholarship. It's both. Our Lord is not honored by poor scholarship. He is not honored by poor science. He is not honored by poor philosophy. We are to give him the best of our labors and that includes the best of our academic and intellectual endeavors.
I hope this sets the record straight. For those who wish to think I am compromising on Christian principles after listening to White, who has absolutely no idea where I'm coming from, I hope this sets the record straight. I also hope you'll realize that while I seek to give the best, I will fail repeatedly at this as will all of us and this is where I depend on those inside and even outside the faith to correct me. As Benjamin Franklin said "Our critics are our friends. They show us our faults." If an unbeliever can point to a legitimate error in a position I hold, I need to respond to that somehow just as much as if a Christian does it.
After all, if one sits at the table, one had better be prepared to make the case that needs to be made.
In Christ,
Nick Peters


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Beauty Inside and Out: Women's Symposium NewYork-Presbyterian/Hudson Valley Hospital sponsors unique day on health for women
Oct 4, 2010
Cortlandt Manor, NY
An impressive ensemble of experts will give a fresh perspective on the secrets to good health on Saturday, November 13 when NewYork-Presbyterian/Hudson Valley Hospital holds its 10th Annual Women's Symposium at the Chalet on the Hudson in Cold Spring.
The event will be held from 8:30 am-2 p.m. Tickets are $45 and include breakfast, lunch, lectures, gift bag and raffle prizes.
Headlining the event will be award-winning author Nancy Slonim Aronie, who conducts writing workshops to help writers find their true voice. Aronie, author of Writing from the Heart, will speak on "Standing in Another Place," exploring how changing our perspective can transform us. A commentator for NPR's "All Things Considered," a teacher, McCall's Magazine columnist and radio talk show host, Aronie uses her own journey with her handicapped son to make her point. Writing and finding one's true voice is a powerful outlet that can relief stress and help us to heal, according to Aronie.
The day will also feature presentations on Heart Health, Healthy Cooking, Skin Care and Astrology. Kacey Morabito Grean, of WHUD's Mike and Kacey in the Morning will be Mistress of Ceremonies.
For registration information call NewYork-Presbyterian/Hudson Valley Hospital at 914-734-3794 or email [email protected].