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The power of speech is a gift from God, and it must be used the way God ordains
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just in time.
Soooo, for everyone out there wondering, I'm not dead. And since the rapture never happened, I'm still here. I just don't write anymore. I don't know why, but everything i started the last 4 weeks or so was more or … Continue reading
Hello Goodbye
So, I'm on Soundcloud and I just want to try if this works. If it works, the song up there is a new demo I recorded today. That is pretty awesome, huh? You say goodbye just when I arrive you … Continue reading
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Time to move on.
So, I just went through some of my older poems and found this little piece. Since I never got around to post it, I thought I'd do it right now. remember the hours we just hang on the phone remember … Continue reading
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So, I couldn't sleep tonight. So I began to read through the 3754 mails in my mailacc, and after that I felt really really strange. I mean, could be that I'm like super tired. Or that i realized how many … Continue reading
home is not the same anymore has become a strange place i'm not sure what to think of all these feelings wherever i walk you left your traces behind, laying on the floor behind doors i don't dare to open … Continue reading
hold out walk the line someone will come to save your soul or maybe not does it really matter? your kept in the prison of your own reality time passes by it's been months sheets flying through the air and … Continue reading
Me Vs. You. Vs. We.
So, i just composed this little song, I might post a demo when i have recorded it, but since it's the first thing I've written in like 10 days, I thought I share it.It's maybe a bit rough at some … Continue reading
Say Goodbye
say goodbye cause I'm getting rid of you of every single piece that's left of every single last regret I pack our letters, pictures and burn them with my memories the only thing i cannot burn is you. thanks to … Continue reading
Your Sorry Ain't Reach A Heart
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Don't Blame Me When You Realize That I'm No Longer Part Of Your Life
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A Walk Through Flames
Despite some fantastically amazing people and things going on in my life and the fact that I am extremely happy at the moment, I seem to have been in my own head a lot over the last week or so and particularly so today. This post has slowly been clawing its way out of my brain for several weeks and today's introspection crystallized it to the point where I could finish it.
Always, my path is through fire. How shall I avoid being consumed by the flames?
That thought has been resonating in my head for two decades. It encapsulates my adult life experience so precisely, yet is a constant enigma. What it means shifts from day to day, moment to moment. But, at bottom, the fact remains that my personal life narrative is punctuated by serial baptisms by fire, each one leaving me charred to varying degrees.
In the last two+ years, since I awoke to the dissonance in my life and began this journey of self discovery (the last several months of which are chronicled here in this blog), I have leapt through more figurative flames than I knew it was possible to survive. Yet I did.
And now I feel the next ring of fire looming ahead, searing me with the heat of fear, uncertainty, doubt, and dread.
I've acknowledged in earlier posts that discovery or coming out (or both) is inevitable. This truth presses on my heart and brain with the weight of a mountain.
Unavoidable. Inevitable. Uncontrollable. This unholy trinity is a misery to share head-space with.
The obvious solution: take my power back from the unknown, grit my teeth and take the plunge by coming out to those in my daily life.
Come out. Obvious, but not easy. (Yes, I am aware no one ever promised that life would be easy.)
To bring these deep thoughts more into focus in practical terms, I will admit that I have used my family, particularly my brothers and their wives, as substitutes for all other relationships that would have been more fulfilling and assisted me in my journey to authenticity. But I denied myself those connections out of fear and stubborn refusal to see myself for who and what I am: a queer butch woman. So, in absence of friends and lovers who knew and accepted this truth of my identity, I have concentrated all my support structure, care and love on which I rely into my siblings.
This is not wrong and I'm not ashamed to reveal my close relationship with them. But if not wrong, it seems nevertheless to put me at a tactical disadvantage by creating a single point of failure in the emotional scaffold I've relied on my entire adult life.
Mine is a military-and fundamentalist-based family structure built on a foundation of Southern conservative Christian upbringing. Again, neither wrong nor bad in itself. But it creates an atmosphere rife with risk when it suddenly dawns on you that you are everything that they are not, and everything that they detest.
By coming out to them (or having them discover my truth in other ways), I put the people in my most significant IRL relationships in the untenable position of having to compromise one of two deeply held core beliefs that now conflict: (1) gay is wrong; and (2) family is paramount to everything. Their choice and my fear, then, comes down to this: When what you love is everything that is wrong, how can you go on loving that thing/person?
That's the ring of fire I sense looming in my path. A choice between the freedom of authenticity and the comfort of a peaceful, loving family life.
Always my path is through fire. How can I not be consumed by the flames?
Sorry, Not Sorry
I'm proud and a little awed to be able to say that there are cool, exciting, fun things going on in my life right now and that, overall, I'm one happy, lucky butch. Not surprising, then, that I've been a bit more smiley, a bit more easy-going lately. And people around me notice. It's all good.
Until someone tries to turn my happy into guilt.
Here's what happened: I get to the conference room five minutes before a long, tedious meeting so I can get a good seat by the door. I'm sitting hunched over my iPhone grinning like an idiot at some Tweet or comment or other from one of my online pals. The silence is abruptly broken by a loud, irritated "what the hell is there to smile about?" Looking up, I continued to smile and tried to pass it off as a joke with a light-hearted "oh, I'm just feeling good today." But my accuser (that's how it felt) scowled and muttered darkly "those of us who pay attention to the world know there's nothing to feel good about."
The implication was clear: my happy was inappropriate and offensive. I was immediately sorry for my flip comment and felt a stab of guilt for being happy in the face of his gloom.
Guilt is my go-to, conditioned response to anything that feels wrong in my little world. My non-clinical opinion is that a lifetime of "raisin' 'n learnin'" from a bevy of fierce Southern women (Steele Magnolias ain't got nothing on my mamma, granny and aunts) has instilled in me a fundamental conviction that if its wrong and in my general vicinity, it is (a) my fault, and (2) my job to fix it.
However messed up that is, it's my reality and I've learned to deal with it. So, after the obligatory, knee-jerk guilt, my reasoning brain turned back on and I began to think.
As I sat through that boring meeting that had almost nothing to do with me or my department, the reasoning part of my brain picked at that encounter, cataloging each element. When the meeting was finally over and I could consciously pay attention to it again, my guilt was replaced by irritation and resolve.
I was irritated at the guy who'd tackled me, yes. Because, seriously, how rude! But I was also irritated at the underlying principle: if anyone is unhappy, you must be, too.
How idiotic! While I believe myself to be a compassionate, empathetic person, I learned in the hard way in law school family law clinic practice that absorbing the sadness of others is the worst way to relate to someone. Making their pain yours paralyzes you both and you, as the advocate, become worse than useless. You become complicit in that person's pain going unresolved. The trick is finding a way to convey sympathy and understanding without internalizing their horror. In an attorney-client relationship, I've honed that skill. But it's still easier said than done in my personal life.
Yes, over the last week or so the world has witnessed a lot of terror, loss, violence. I do not trivialize any of it, nor do I judge any individual's reaction to it as too acute or unwarranted. Every person deals with grief in her own way.
Still, I was blessed to be spared any deeply personal impact of these events by not losing any loved ones or being the target of any these acts of terror. If nothing else, that fact alone is worthy of praise and a smile. And feeling blessed in this way does not in any way negate any other person's experience or feelings.
Thus, I rose from that conference table resolved to continue feeling good about all the good things in my life and the world in general. I will not allow anyone else to dictate my feelings or do my thinking for me. And I will not feel guilty for being happy when I have reason to be, regardless of sorrows that exist in the world at large.
So, Angry Coworker, I'm sorry I'm not sorry. That's as close to a guilt trip as I'm willing to bear for my non-crime of happiness.
And…I'm still grinning like an idiot every chance I get. 😉
Urgent vs. Important
I kicked butt today at work, in part, due to this concept. So, I thought I'd share.
Last week I spent three days in management skills training. My company actually values its employees and does a great job of providing development opportunities. Last week's sessions were the middle three of a 9-class set designed to develop leaders out of managers. Great concept and, overall, great experience. (Practicing intentional positivity, I'm skipping over the antics of the insufferable loudmouth in my class.)
One of the key takeaways from last week was the concept of urgent vs. important. The theory goes that highly effective leaders only spend energy on those issues that are both urgent & important and know how to appropriately identify those issues and assign them to the right personnel to resolve.
A tool we used in class was a 2 x 2 matrix, with urgent/not urgent as column heads and important/not important as row heads. The tool urged immediate action for items that are both urgent and important, and to punt and run from the items that are both non-urgent and non-important. (For non-urgent/important, schedule the item to be dealt with later. For urgent/non-important, delegate to the person for whom it is both urgent and important.)
This quadrant graph was a good at-a-glance key to help prioritize tasks for a busy corporate leader.
I think it also lends itself to application in personal life issues.
How often have you found yourself in the middle of something and wondered, "Why am I doing this, again? Oh, yeah, because _____ asked me to." Or found yourself spending time with someone you don't really like or can't relate to, just because?
Don't get me wrong, please. I'm not advocating a clinical analysis of every person, relationship, activity and responsibility in your life. But, for me, time is a precious and rare commodity. Maximizing the hours I have for personal enjoyment is a must for me (both urgent and important).
I've wasted years of my youth and adulthood not understanding my own fundamental nature and not following my heart and soul to happiness. I can't afford to waste any more of my days to apathy, fear, guilt, boredom, or unearned/unwanted obligation.
One way to sift the chaff, excise the unnecessary, is to define what "urgent" and "important" mean for my life and then spend the rest of my time focused on those people, things, emotions and events that fit both definitions simultaneously. Everything else is noise.
Learning To Be Cared For
Recently (30 March 2013, "Silencing the Critic") I blogged about how difficult it is to graciously accept a compliment, due mainly to social conditioning. The small point I made in that post is how easily this self criticism can become destructive and habitual. Mine was just one of several posts on that topic in the days before and just after I published my blog entry. It seems that a lot of women in the blogosphere, including FemmeOutLoud on the Melange blog, struggle with this for a variety of reasons, including social conditioning and a belief that we somehow don't deserve praise. In my experience, among women in general and, (anecdotally, subjectively, and completely un-scientifically) butch or masculine women in particular, there seems to be a pervasive compulsion to suppress the desire for, and reaction to, praise.
In dealing with a couple of personal matters over the weekend, it occurred to me that this reflexive self-deprecation has an insidious corollary in an inability to graciously accept the related, and far more vital, expressions of caring and love: empathy and sympathy.
Whether or not social conditioning plays a role in this aspect of the problem is unclear to me. But I do know that, in my own personal experience, reasons include that same "I don't deserve" belief as was tied to the deflection of praise, as well as a tendency to interpret empathy as pity. I don't think anyone wants to be thought pitiful or weak, nor does anyone want to burden others with baggage that engenders pity; I know I can't abide pity directed toward me.
But in addition to these obvious issues, this weekend's events also made it clear to me that there is something even more fundamental in my seeming compulsion to deflect expressions of love and care. Accepting these expressions of caring from the people who are most important to me is a form of vulnerability.
While caring and love generally flow naturally in close relationships, without need of a specific prompt, expressions of empathy and sympathy arise from the revelation of need: I have to open myself up to examination for others to see where it hurts, or I have to admit to myself that I have a need that I can't fulfill on my own. That kind of exposure comes with the inherent risk of fresh hurt from the one to whom I give access to my open heart.
Compound this vulnerability with the implication of weakness intrinsic to admitting a need for help, comfort, support, (dare I say it?) love, and you have the perfect storm for creating a reticent, uncommunicative, stoic butch who doesn't trust and unnecessarily carries a burden of guilt and shame, pushing away the very ones who can and want to help.
What a mess!
Luckily, the important people in my life are just as stubborn as I am and will not be pushed away so easily. And, luckily, I am not so stupid as to ignore a miraculous gift of unconditional acceptance and willing support when it lands in my lap. So it was that I learned an epic lesson in the healing power of friendship this Sunday. When faced with a situation fraught with emotion, when choking on the accumulated detritus of past hurts, friends (some of whom don't even know they contributed to the solution) swooped in and rescued me. Although the healing is only just begun, I did learn this: asking for help isn't weakness and empathy and sympathy aren't pity.
To borrow a phrase from one of my favorite bloggers (ButchOnTap), "it's butch to" accept the loving care of your friends.
Saturday Quick Hit
So, I've been belly-aching about working too hard and long days. And I'm a believer of not complaining if you aren't gonna do something about it. For me, a good solution to over-work is a little play time. Today seemed a good time for that mental break.
I spent some time with my sister-in-law and a few of our art friends, having a creativity day. What a great time! Good conversation, lots of laughs and good-natured ribbing. But no drama, no negativity, and tons of creative sharing. Lots of variety, too. A couple people worked on torches creating lampworked glass beads. I worked with wire. Another did clean-up/finish work on some fused glass projects she had started previously. Lots of really amazing talent among my friends and family. I'm blessed to get to watch them in action.
My projects for today were two wire-wrapped pendants. One is a moss agate stone wrapped in copper wire. The other is picture jasper wrapped in silver wire. I had a lot of fun making them. And the best part was the seven hours of down-time with fun people and not a single thought about my job. 😉
Here's hoping your Saturday was a blast!
Catching Up
So I haven't posted in almost three weeks. That's insane. My life has been almost as nuts in that time. Most of it crazy good, some of it ridiculously, exhaustingly, frustrating. I can't (won't) do a play-by-play recap. But I will fall back on the ol' bullet list to give you an idea of the highlights. Then I want to share with you some interesting insights that I've received from a couple of good friends in recent weeks.
– My last post was on the day after the end of the first quarter. The quarter really kicked my butt. An entire month of 12-15 hour days with only a couple of weekend days off. Burnt the candle at both ends, worked myself into a physical slump. Flu germ laid me low immediately after that last post. I'm really only now back to full steam.
– Work is crazy. Unreasonably heavy work loads because some of the product teams didn't do their jobs effectively leaving me and my team no time to do our part efficiently. So that translated to high pressure, longer days and even working weekends. Waaaa! But, the good thing is that my team stepped up & knocked the work out of the park. I'm so blessed to have such good people working for me.
– I've been thinking a lot, continuing my introspection and self discovery. For the most part, this is good. But, as I was telling one of my Twitter peeps the other day, a sizable chunk of what's swirling around in my head in recent weeks is more dark and ragged than I've ever shared here. I'm not sure I want this space to be sullied by that stuff. That has contributed to my posting hiatus. It's a self-censorship that I'm uneasy with. At the same time, I am also clinging to it, in order to preserve the peace of this blog space. I'm in limbo, dithering, and gotta get that together.
– I've been so blessed to develop some really important, incredibly supportive friendships with two funny, generous, insightful women who have given me an amazing gift of unstinting acceptance. Though these friends are in countries far away from me and our interactions all online, they are no less real as true friends, mentors, advisors, cheer leaders, and accomplices in mischief. It's impossible to fully describe the blessing this has been to me. While I strive & struggle to find an in real life community, these friends have brought a level of connection that I've deeply needed. It may be a silly cliché, but these friendships have made me feel less alone. I'm one lucky butch!
Which leads me to some sage insights these two fierce femmes have provided to me in recent weeks:
– First: acceptance & insight on feeling disingenuous
I'm pretty successful at hiding my thoughts & strategies in a professional context. But personally, emotionally, I'm a fairly open book. I try always to be and act as I really am, without artifice. That's why this journey of discovery and the coming out process is such a struggle. I'm not only fighting the fear of change, hurt, rejection, but I'm also fighting my own nature to be open, honest about everything.
I feel like a gigantic fraud. Everyone in my IRL circle knows me as & believes me to be something I'm not, but I'm too much of a coward to change that. But at the same time, the online people I care about accept my assertions of what I believe I am, but I'm still too much a coward to turn that into reality. And when people say they respect and are proud of me, I feel so guilty for not being that genuine, unafraid, out & proud butch I should be.
My friend's unconditional acceptance took the form of a reminder that I'm walking a difficult path of self discovery, trying to find ways to integrate complicated issues into a pre-existing idea of myself that has been static for half my life. But, (1) I made a promise to myself to find a way to live authentically despite it being hard; (2) all anyone expects of me is that I be myself, confused, unsure and human; and (3) though parts of me are confident and parts are insecure, that conflict doesnt invalidate the good in me. What a miraculous gift! In her words, never: underestimate the power of unconditional acceptance from just one person when the whole world seems to be waiting with bated breath for you to screw up.
– Second, sage advice on being tired
As I alluded to above, I've been working really hard and am feeling a little tired, a bit flat. One of my friends has a theory that the tired feeling isn't necessarily purely physical exhaustion, but also a result of the changing perspective brought about by this self-discovery work I've been doing.
The theory goes something like this: I have used my work as a substitute for other activities that would have been fulfilling in other ways. In other words, I have been resigned to my life the way that it has been for years. But in the last couple of months the compromise is no longer valid. My universe has expanded and my attention is being drawn away from the job as the be-all-end-all of my waking hours.
So, aside from practical advice to work more efficiently, take a holiday, and learn to delegate, they both (each in their own idiosyncratic way) suggested that one way to deal with the fatigue is to have an outlet for my stress. In other words, get a hobby. As I said in a recent post, I love glass blowing & really need to get back to it. The interesting thing about this suggestion, however, is not the particular activity, but the notion that if I ground myself in a stress-reducing outlet I set myself up to be more efficient and relaxed in all other areas of my life. This despite the seeming paradox of spending less time at work and more time in the studio.
Well, that's it. That's all the catching up I can do. Next posts, when they come, will be looking forward, because if I've learned anything in the last six weeks, it's that looking back makes it really hard to see where you're going. And my horizon is a beautiful sunrise of possibilities.


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- https://www.truvisionhealth.com/products/trufix/#1511890495836-f139451d-152d
- https://newsinhealth.nih.gov/2013/08/should-you-take-dietary-supplements
- https://ods.od.nih.gov/HealthInformation/DS_WhatYouNeedToKnow.aspx
- https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-healthy-eating/in-depth/supplements/art-20044894
- https://www.verywellfit.com/benefits-and-risks-of-taking-dietary-supplements-2506547


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My partner and I are looking at staying in Taiwan for the month of May, and were wondering if Taipei or Kaohsiung is better for living and working in? Our primary purpose will be working, so cheap food/accommodation (that's relatively easy for a foreigner to find and obtain) and fast internet are our biggest priorities, but some sightseeing and nightlife would be nice. (I know Taipei has the latter, not as sure about Kaohsiung.) Thanks!
Taipei or Kaohsiung for May?
Great question my BF and I are also looking into these 2 cities in May, as well, and leaning more towards Kaohsiung as it appears Taipei has more rain in May (but Kaohsiung is hotter, which we don't mind). We have similar priorities/plans as it sounds like you do. Nomadlist does not list Kaohsuing as having very fast internet, but I wonder how accurate that information is.
From the few accounts I've heard, they were able to get fast internet. Maybe it just depends on being able to find the right place? I think we're leaning toward splitting out time between the two cities, not quite sure yet.
I just stayed in Taipei for a month and visited Kaoshiung for four days. It seemed to me that many restaurants close very early in Kaohsiung and it was harder to get around because there are only two metro lines. They have a bikesharing system like Taipei, but it doesn't work with the payment card for Taipei, so I didn't use it. So overall it didn't feel as "easy" as Taipei.
Regarding the internet speed; I guess it depends on what you define as "fast". The wifi in the hotel I was staying in was worse than 4G on my phone. But I had the same in Taipei in a few places as well. And 4G was good enough for video calls, which is the most demanding use I had for my internet connection. If you need high bandwidth to transfer large files, this might not work for you.
Personally, I would probably get bored staying a whole month in Kaohsiung. If you haven't been to either, I'd say go to Taipei and do a weekend trip to Kaohsiung. It's super fast to get there by bullet train.
They're pretty similar, but Kaohsiung has better weather, will be cheaper and have a better scene since it's a little smaller and easier to meet people. People are more friendly also - Taipei's a big city, a little self-absorbed, everything is too spread out so you never feel like going anywhere. If you go to KH, spend a few days checking out Tainan for the history.
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We should form a countryballs government!
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You want to take my place of long commentator?And yeah,welcome to the CB 2.0,Rebuild and new!
This is a God-tier website
It's also nice that I'm also the person in this site with the highest reputation. Though, that is due to the so-called revolution at the Civil War place.
Well, a group chat, eh? I've never really supported the whole "revolution" thing going on at the Chinese Civil War, but I guess this is a bit nice. I would like to call this period in time the "Countryballs.net Renaissance", a time where many people actively talk to one another, a time where people uploaded comics daily, a time where cults, communism, and revolutions were abundant, and finally the period in time where the infamous "Chinese Civil War" was uploaded. (Seriously, that post spawned more controversy than it should have). When did this renaissance start? I don't know.
Wait what the hell is with my avatar?
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You can post it in Sanbox anyway.
Quick question for the admin: Just wondering... Are you allowed to post something on this site that you drew on paper by hand?
Scrolling up and down is getting annoying
And that is why polands Slavic brothers are also immortal gods!
Polandball,admins,somebody,how many comments page can hold?
Like Ukraine and many other Post-USSR contrys.And?
Polska is imortal! Polska has been partitioned many times! Polska been invaded many times! Yet Polska still alive
NO!Worship Death-will give immortality,after sacrifice of 99 souls(no matter of creature)
Does anyone want to join my Polandball cult?
Sometimes I will show my commets with such face
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[Hour 12] Our greatest fear just have gone real:we found this on the very entrance:
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Violets are red
Stones are red
Soon yuo all will be dead"
Im sure this one needs investigation.We will try to find more,if we can.
[Hour 15]We have been meet some native resistance.We dont expected to meet such organisated force of...
<Here the page seems to be boldly cutted>
Yep.Just read the Chinese Civil war with my beautiful revolution
Theres a group chat?!
That was the greatest form of engrish,shaped by Grey Wardens of all races,it now serves me and Greater Good
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[Hour 1]This was just a 1st hour.Plundered like and dislike buttons,burned to ground smiles...All was similar we once seen...in CCW 2018 AC.
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Joshua 23
1 ¶ And it came to pass a long time after that the LORD had given rest unto Israel from all their enemies round about, that Joshua waxed old and stricken in age.
2 And Joshua called for all Israel, and for their elders, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers, and said unto them, I am old and stricken in age:
3 And ye have seen all that the LORD your God hath done unto all these nations because of you; for the LORD your God is he that hath fought for you.
4 Behold, I have divided unto you by lot these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even unto the great sea westward.
5 And the LORD your God, he shall expel them from before you, and drive them from out of your sight; and ye shall possess their land, as the LORD your God hath promised unto you.
6 Be ye therefore very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that ye turn not aside therefrom to the right hand or to the left;
7 That ye come not among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow yourselves unto them:
8 But cleave unto the LORD your God, as ye have done unto this day.
9 For the LORD hath driven out from before you great nations and strong: but as for you, no man hath been able to stand before you unto this day.
10 One man of you shall chase a thousand: for the LORD your God, he it is that fighteth for you, as he hath promised you.
11 ¶ Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the LORD your God.
12 Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you:
13 Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.
14 And, behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth: and ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, and not one thing hath failed thereof.
15 Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all good things are come upon you, which the LORD your God promised you; so shall the LORD bring upon you all evil things, until he have destroyed you from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.
16 When ye have transgressed the covenant of the LORD your God, which he commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them; then shall the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land which he hath given unto you.
Jeremiah 12
1 ¶ Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
2 Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root: they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and far from their reins.
3 But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
4 How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last end.
5 If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?
6 For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee; yea, they have called a multitude after thee: believe them not, though they speak fair words unto thee.
7 ¶ I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.
8 Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it crieth out against me: therefore have I hated it.
9 Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled bird, the birds round about are against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour.
10 Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
11 They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourneth unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.
12 The spoilers are come upon all high places through the wilderness: for the sword of the LORD shall devour from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh shall have peace.
13 They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
14 ¶ Thus saith the LORD against all mine evil neighbours, that touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit; Behold, I will pluck them out of their land, and pluck out the house of Judah from among them.
15 And it shall come to pass, after that I have plucked them out I will return, and have compassion on them, and will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.
16 And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, The LORD liveth; as they taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall they be built in the midst of my people.
17 But if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation, saith the LORD.
Matthew 26
1 ¶ And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said unto his disciples,
2 Ye know that after two days is the feast of the passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified.
3 Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,
4 And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him.
5 But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people.
6 ¶ Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,
7 There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at meat.
8 But when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste?
9 For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.
10 When Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me.
11 For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
12 For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.
13 Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her.
14 ¶ Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests,
15 And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.
16 And from that time he sought opportunity to betray him.
17 ¶ Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the passover?
18 And he said, Go into the city to such a man, and say unto him, The Master saith, My time is at hand; I will keep the passover at thy house with my disciples.
19 And the disciples did as Jesus had appointed them; and they made ready the passover.
20 Now when the even was come, he sat down with the twelve.
21 And as they did eat, he said, Verily I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me.
22 And they were exceeding sorrowful, and began every one of them to say unto him, Lord, is it I?
23 And he answered and said, He that dippeth his hand with me in the dish, the same shall betray me.
24 The Son of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born.
25 Then Judas, which betrayed him, answered and said, Master, is it I? He said unto him, Thou hast said.
26 ¶ And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.
27 And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it;
28 For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
29 But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom.
30 And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives.
31 ¶ Then saith Jesus unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad.
32 But after I am risen again, I will go before you into Galilee.
33 Peter answered and said unto him, Though all men shall be offended because of thee, yet will I never be offended.
34 Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this night, before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.
35 Peter said unto him, Though I should die with thee, yet will I not deny thee. Likewise also said all the disciples.
36 ¶ Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder.
37 And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.
38 Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
39 And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.
40 And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour?
41 Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
42 He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done.
43 And he came and found them asleep again: for their eyes were heavy.
44 And he left them, and went away again, and prayed the third time, saying the same words.
45 Then cometh he to his disciples, and saith unto them, Sleep on now, and take your rest: behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
46 Rise, let us be going: behold, he is at hand that doth betray me.
47 ¶ And while he yet spake, lo, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and elders of the people.
48 Now he that betrayed him gave them a sign, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he: hold him fast.
49 And forthwith he came to Jesus, and said, Hail, master; and kissed him.
50 And Jesus said unto him, Friend, wherefore art thou come? Then came they, and laid hands on Jesus, and took him.
51 And, behold, one of them which were with Jesus stretched out his hand, and drew his sword, and struck a servant of the high priest's, and smote off his ear.
52 Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.
53 Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?
54 But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?
55 In that same hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves for to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye laid no hold on me.
56 But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.
57 ¶ And they that had laid hold on Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled.
58 But Peter followed him afar off unto the high priest's palace, and went in, and sat with the servants, to see the end.
59 Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;
60 But found none: yea, though many false witnesses came, yet found they none. At the last came two false witnesses,
61 And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.
62 And the high priest arose, and said unto him, Answerest thou nothing? what is it which these witness against thee?
63 But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest answered and said unto him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God.
64 Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said: nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.
65 Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He hath spoken blasphemy; what further need have we of witnesses? behold, now ye have heard his blasphemy.
66 What think ye? They answered and said, He is guilty of death.
67 Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of their hands,
68 Saying, Prophesy unto us, thou Christ, Who is he that smote thee?
69 ¶ Now Peter sat without in the palace: and a damsel came unto him, saying, Thou also wast with Jesus of Galilee.
70 But he denied before them all, saying, I know not what thou sayest.
71 And when he was gone out into the porch, another maid saw him, and said unto them that were there, This fellow was also with Jesus of Nazareth.
72 And again he denied with an oath, I do not know the man.
73 And after a while came unto him they that stood by, and said to Peter, Surely thou also art one of them; for thy speech bewrayeth thee.
74 Then began he to curse and to swear, saying, I know not the man. And immediately the cock crew.
75 And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, which said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And he went out, and wept bitterly.
Acts 3
1 ¶ Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour.
2 And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple;
3 Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an alms.
4 And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him with John, said, Look on us.
5 And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something of them.
6 Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk.
7 And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength.
8 And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.
9 And all the people saw him walking and praising God:
10 And they knew that it was he which sat for alms at the Beautiful gate of the temple: and they were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened unto him.
11 And as the lame man which was healed held Peter and John, all the people ran together unto them in the porch that is called Solomon's, greatly wondering.
12 ¶ And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk?
13 The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go.
14 But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you;
15 And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.
16 And his name through faith in his name hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.
17 And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers.
18 But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.
19 Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;
20 And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you:
21 Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.
22 For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you.
23 And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.
24 Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days.
25 Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
26 Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.
Mediation of the Day: from Charles J Rolls' book, 'Time's Noblest Name'


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The designer James Galanos, who died last Sunday, left a legacy of elegance and restraint to the fashion world. But he also left something to the political world, which is worth remembering, especially as we teeter on the verge of a new presidential administration.
Specifically: a primer on how to craft a powerful Washington image, and the advantages for someone in the executive office (or nearby) that derive from a close working relationship with a designer.
For, though Nancy Reagan wore clothes from other designers (like Adolfo, Bill Blass, and Oscar de la Renta), when she was first lady, it was her association with James Galanos that forever fixed her in the public eye, and mind.
It remains a memorable partnership between the worlds of fashion and the White House, fueled by elements of old-Hollywood glamour, go-go '80s extravagance and a lifelong friendship.
Mrs. Reagan first met "Jimmy," as she called him, in 1951, when she was Nancy Davis, a Hollywood actress under contract to MGM, and the Philadelphia-born designer was just beginning his career in California.
"I was quite young, and I used to deliver a lot of the clothes by myself," he told The Los Angeles Times in 2007, about their first meeting at the exclusive Beverly Hills boutique Amelia Gray. "She was very fond of me, and we'd sit there at Amelia's and have a gabfest. She wasn't married to Ronnie then."
The writer Bob Colacello, author of "Ronnie and Nancy: Their Path to the White House" and a special correspondent to Vanity Fair, said the boutique was known in those days for dressing the Los Angeles socialites Leonore Annenberg and Betsy Bloomingdale and the more-chic movie stars like Rosalind Russell and Claudette Colbert.
"Amelia was the first person to carry Galanos, and she took a big liking to Nancy Davis, who she thought had good taste and really loved clothes." Mr. Colacello said.
Miss Davis eventually became Mrs. Reagan, and as the '50s turned into the '60s, she stuck with Galanos, at least for all the bigger occasions that came along.
She sometimes brought her pricey Galanos dresses back to the designer from one decade to the next, to be reworked, said Mr. Colacello, with tissue-paper carefully stuffed in the sleeves and sheathed in plastic. "Nobody could afford to dress completely with Jimmy," she once said. "I hang on to what I have."
At Ronald Reagan's first inaugural ball as governor of California in 1967, his wife chose a one-shouldered white Galanos strewn with jeweled daisies. At the second, in 1971, she chose a surprisingly slinky gold brocade halter gown with matching coat from the designer that showed off her then-fashionable California tan.
But all of it was preamble for the 1981 inauguration of Reagan as president and Nancy Reagan's appearance at the ball in (again) a one-shouldered white Galanos, completely embroidered in a beaded pattern of pale ferns.
It was a riposte to the parsimonious Carter administration that had come before (Rosalynn Carter had worn an old blue dress to her inaugural ball). It was a declaration that fashion mattered.
Newspapers were filled with articles about the days-long round of parties, the arrival of the California cohorts in Washington, and speculation about the rumored five-figure cost of the gown, said to be a gift from the designer. Bill Blass said to The New York Times, "I don't think there's been anyone in the White House since Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis who has her flair."
Paging through the companion book to the 2007 exhibition "Nancy Reagan: A First Lady's Style" at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, Calif., it is clear that the majority of Mrs. Reagan's gowns were Galanos designs. Though Reagan red was a staple for her daywear, for the 56 official state dinners and numerous private entertainments Mrs. Reagan hosted, she most often chose white gowns that displayed a cinematic flourish, encrusted with beading, in the style of the long-sleeved dress created for the second inauguration in 1985.
In the pre-internet era when consistency of style made a fashion statement, she wore both of her beloved Galanos inaugural gowns a second time for White House events before they were packed off to museums. For her first state dinner, she pulled a 16-year-old Galanos from her closet, which the designer then updated by adding satin straps to the previously strapless beaded bodice.
And though there were some press quibbles when the first lady wore knickers under a chiffon tunic for a dinner in Paris not long after Mr. Galanos endorsed them on his runway in 1981, generally their collaboration was applauded.
Mr. Galanos was tight-lipped about Mrs. Reagan, said his niece Diane Chrambanis. When it came to their collaboration he was, she said: "Like a vault. The only thing he said to me once was that she knew what worked for her, what looked good on her."
But even if he didn't want to talk, his dresses, on her, spoke for him. They still do.


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JOHNROBERT CRUZ Jun 2013
As a Christian believer...I know for a fact that you can separate the two. However, it is an advantage to have a basic understanding of the wisdom found in the Eastern religions, as many times(obviously not all) they are in harmony with the universal wisdom found in Judeo/Christian culture. In addition, I find it foolish for a Christian to say it is wrong to study self defense, and yet they applaud every branch of the police and military for learning how to fight for the USA...SELF DEFENSE is a divine right...Peace... :)


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Welcome to Portugal. With a rich history of seafaring and discovery, Portugal is a democratic republic located on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe. Bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and Spain to the east and north, it is divided into 18 districts with Lisbon as the capital.
Portugal is a developed country with a high-income advanced economy, modern infrastructure network and high living standards. Recent years have seen technology developments boost growth sectors including automotive and components, technology start-ups, services, electronics, energy, pharmaceutical sector and information and telecommunications.
With improving competitiveness, a strong tourism position, and a low cost base with strong capabilities and a well-educated workforce, Portugal offers many exciting opportunities for New Zealand businesses to consider.
If you'd like to find out more about this European market, download our Portugal market guide on this page.
Quick facts
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Getting to Portugal
Flying from New Zealand to Portugal means at least one stopover. Air New Zealand, Emirates, Qatar Airways and their respective code share partners all offer non-direct flights. Depending on the stopover destination and waiting time, flight time is at least 27 hours.
When to visit
Mainland Portugal has a temperate oceanic climate with plenty of sunshine days and blue skies. The warmest month is August and the coldest is January. Religious holidays are exclusively Christian, with national holidays celebrated throughout the year, as well as some regional holidays. Given this, it's a good idea to familiarise yourself with Portugal's national holidays.
Before you go, it's also worth checking Safe Travel for travel advisories on Portugal.
Cultural tips
Portuguese people can be reserved and tend to avoid confrontation. It's best to avoid discussing politics and religion, however football, food, wine and family are generally welcome conversation topics. Business etiquette in Portugal is a mix of formality and easygoingness so it's helpful to be patient, gently focus discussions and clarify details.
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Geek Trivia
Which Video Game Required You To Kill The Lead Developer To Win?
Answer: Doom II
On the surface, the final boss of the iconic video game Doom II appears to be a giant demonic head attached to the wall of the final chamber you enter. The demonic head, however, is essentially an illusion. You shoot at it and it seems to take damage, but in reality, your bullets and rockets pass right through the opening in its forehead and into a bizarre Easter egg chamber behind the head.
If you pull down the game's command console and turn on no-clipping (with the command idclip) so that you can walk through the demonic head, you end up in a chamber where the real end boss (and the creature taking all the damage from your rockets) is located.
The creature is none other than the game's lead developer John Romero (or, at least, his severed head on a stick). To add to the strangeness of the encounter, the creature is roaring an unintelligible sentence the entire time which, when played backwards, is actually Romero saying, "To win the game, you must kill me, John Romero!"


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Canada's leading Fashion house Nygard announced the launch of a NEW concept store - Nygard Plus. This is the first Nygard Plus store in Canada and will carry fashionable clothing from Nygard's popular brands Alia - TanJay & Nygard Slims in sizes 14 through 3X.
Women of all ages will find classic and stylish clothing and build a fashionable wardrobe at an affordable budget that will help them look and feel their best.