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Expositions on the Book of Psalms.: Psalm LVIII
Psalm LVIII. 2162
1. The words which we have sung must be rather hearkened to by us, than proclaimed. For to all men as it were in an assemblage of mankind, the Truth crieth, "If truly indeed justice ye speak, judge right things, ye sons of men" (Psa. 58.1). For to what unjust man is it not an easy thing to speak justice? or what man if questioned about justice, when he hath not a cause, would not easily answer what is just? Inasmuch as the hand of our Maker in our very hearts hath written this truth, "That which to thyself thou wouldest not have done, do not thou to another." 2163 Of this truth, even before that the Law was given, no one was suffered to be ignorant, in order that there might be some rule whereby might be judged even those to whom Law had not been given. 2164 But lest men should complain that something had been wanting for them, there hath been written also in tables that p. 230 which in their hearts they read not. For it was not that they had it not written, but read it they would not. There hath been set before their eyes that which in their conscience to see they would be compelled; and as if from without the voice of God were brought to them, to his own inward parts hath man been thus driven, the Scripture saying, "For in the thoughts of the ungodly man there will be questioning." 2165 Where questioning is, there is law. But because men, desiring those things which are without, even from themselves have become exiles, there hath been given also a written law: not because in hearts it had not been written, but because thou wast a deserter from thy heart, thou art seized by Him that is everywhere, and to thyself within art called back. Therefore the written law, what crieth it, to those that have deserted the law written in their hearts? 2166 "Return ye transgressors to the heart." 2167 For who hath taught thee, that thou wouldest have no other man draw near thy wife? Who hath taught thee, that thou wouldest not have a theft committed upon thee? Who hath taught thee, that thou wouldest not suffer wrong, and whatever other thing either universally or particularly might be spoken of? For many things there are, of which severally if questioned men with loud voice would answer, that they would not suffer. Come, if thou art not willing to suffer these things, art thou by any means the only man? dost thou not live in the fellowship of mankind? He that together with thee hath been made, is thy fellow; and all men have been made after the image of God, 2168 unless with earthly coverings they efface that which He hath formed. That which therefore to thyself thou wilt not have to be done, do not thou to another. For thou judgest that there is evil in that, which to suffer thou art not willing: and this thing thou art constrained to know by an inward law; that in thy very heart is written. Thou wast doing somewhat, and there was a cry raised in thy hands: how art thou constrained to return to thy heart when this thing thou sufferest in the hands of others? Is theft a good thing? No! I ask, is adultery a good thing? All cry, No! Is man-slaying a good thing? All cry, that they abhor it. Is coveting the property of a neighbour a good thing? No! is the voice of all men. Or if yet thou confessest not, there draweth near one that coveteth thy property: be pleased to answer what thou wilt have. All men therefore, when of these things questioned, cry that these things are not good. Again, of doing kindnesses, not only of not hurting, but also of conferring and distributing, any hungry soul is questioned thus: "thou sufferest hunger, another man hath bread, and there is abundance with him beyond sufficiency, he knoweth thee to want, he giveth not: it displeaseth thee when hungering, let it displease thee when full also, when of anothers hungering thou shalt have known. A stranger wanting shelter cometh into thy country, he is not taken in: he then crieth that inhuman is that city, at once among barbarians he might have found a home. He feeleth the injustice because he suffereth; thou perchance feelest not, but it is meet that thou imagine thyself also a stranger; and that thou see in what manner he will have displeased thee, who shall not have given that, which thou in thy country wilt not give to a stranger." I ask all men. True are these things? True. Just are these things? Just. But hear ye the Psalm. "If truly therefore justice ye speak, judge right things, ye sons of men." Be it not a justice of lips, but also of deeds. For if thou actest otherwise than thou speakest, good things thou speakest, and ill thou judgest.…
2. But now to the present case let us come, if ye please. For the voice is that sweet voice, so well known to the ears of the Church, the voice of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the voice of His Body, the voice of the Church toiling, sojourning upon earth, living amid the perils of men speaking evil and of men flattering. Thou wilt not fear a threatener, if thou lovest not a flatterer. He therefore, of whom this is the voice, hath observed and hath seen, that all men speak justice. For what man doth dare not to speak it, lest he be called unjust? When, therefore, as though he were hearing the voices of all men, and were observing the lips of all men, he cried out to them, "If truly indeed justice ye speak,"—if not falsely justice ye speak, if not one thing on lips doth sound, whilst another thing is concealed in hearts,—"judge right things, ye sons of men." Hear out of the Gospel His own voice, the very same as is in this Psalm: "Hypocrites," saith the Lord to the Pharisees, "how are ye able good things to speak, when ye are evil men?.…Either make the tree good, and the fruit thereof good: or make the tree evil, and the fruit thereof evil." 2169 Why wilt thou whiten thee, wall of mud? I know thy inward parts, I am not deceived by thy covering: I know what thou holdest forth, I know what thou coverest. "For there was no need for Him, that any one to Him should bear testimony of man: for He knew Himself what was in man." 2170 For He knew what was in man, who had made man, and who had been made Man, in order that He might seek man.…
3. But now ye do what? Why these things to you do I speak? "Because in heart iniquities ye work on earth" (Psa. 58.2). Iniquities perp. 231 chance in heart alone? Hear what followeth: both their heart hands do follow, and their heart hands do serve, the thing is thought of, and it is done; or else it is not done, not because we would not, but because we could not, Whatever thou willest and canst not, for done God doth count it. "For in heart Iniquities ye work on earth." What next? "Iniquities your hands knit together." What is, "knit together"? From sin, sin, and to sin, sin, because of sin. What is this? A theft a man hath committed, a sin it is: he hath been seen, he seeketh to slay him by whom he hath been seen: there hath been knit together sin with sin: God hath permitted him in His hidden judgment to slay that man whom he hath willed to slay: he perceiveth that the thing is known, he seeketh to slay a second also; he hath knit together a third sin: while these things he is planning, perchance that he may not be found out, or that he may not be convicted of having done it, he consulteth an astrologer; there is added a fourth sin: the astrologer answereth perchance with some hard and evil responses, he runneth to a soothsayer, that expiation may be made; the soothsayer maketh answer that he is not able to expiate: a magician is sought. And who could enumerate those sins which are knit together with sins? "Iniquities your hands do knit together." So long as thou knittest together, thou bindest sin upon sin. Loose thyself from sins. But I am not able, thou sayest. Cry to Him. "Unhappy man I, who shall deliver me from the body of this death?" 2171 For there shall come the Grace of God, so that righteousness shall be thy delight, as much as thou didst delight in iniquity; and thou, a man that out of bonds hast been loosed, shall cry out to God, "Thou hast broken asunder my bonds." 2172 "Thou hast broken asunder my bonds," is what else but, "Thou hast remitted my sins"? Hear why chains they are: the Scripture maketh answer, "with the chains of his sins each one is bound fast." 2173 Not only bonds, but chains 2174 also they are. Chains are those which are made by twisting in: that is, because with sins sins thou wast knitting together.…
4. "Alienated are sinners from the womb, they have gone astray from the belly, they have spoken false things" (Psa. 58.3). And when iniquity they speak, false things they speak; because deceitful is iniquity: and when justice they speak, false things they speak; because one thing with mouth they profess, another thing in heart they conceal. "Alienated are sinners from the womb." What is this? Let us search more diligently: for perhaps he is saying this, because God hath foreknown men that are to be sinners even in the wombs of their mothers. 2175 For whence when Rebecca was yet pregnant, and in womb was bearing twins, was it said, "Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated"? 2176 For it was said, "The elder shall serve the younger." Hidden at that time was the judgment of God: but yet from the womb, that is, from the very origin, alienated are sinners. Whence alienated? From truth. Whence alienated? From the blessed country, from the blessed life. Perchance alienated they are from the very womb. And what sinners have been alienated from the womb? For what men would have been born, if therein they had not been held? Or what men to-day would be alive to hear these words to no purpose, unless they were born? Perchance therefore sinners have been alienated from a certain womb, wherein that charity was suffering pains, which speaketh through the Apostle, "Of whom again I am in labour, until Christ be formed in you." 2177 Expect thou therefore; be formed: do not to thyself ascribe a judgment which perchance thou knowest not. Carnal thou art as yet, conceived thou hast been: from that very time when thou hast received the name of Christ, by a sort of sacrament thou hast been born in the bowels of a mother. For not only out of bowels a man is born, but also in bowels. First he is born in bowels, in order that he may be able to be born of bowels. Wherefore it hath been said even to Mary, "For that which is born in thee, is of the Holy Spirit." 2178 Not yet of Her It had been born, but already in Her It had been born. Therefore there are born within the bowels of the Church certain little ones, and a good thing it is that being formed they should go forth, so that they drop not by miscarriage. Let the mother bear thee, not miscarry. If patient thou shalt have been, even until thou be formed, even until in thee there be the sure doctrine of truth, the maternal bowels ought to keep thee. But if by thy impatience thou shalt have shaken the sides of thy mother, with pain indeed she expelleth thee out, but more to thy loss than to hers.
5. For this reason therefore have they gone astray from the belly, because "they have spoken false things"? Or rather have they not for this reason spoken false things, because they have gone astray from the belly? For in the belly of the Church truth abideth. Whosoever from this belly of the Church separated shall have been, must needs speak false things: must needs, I say, speak false things; whoso either conceived would not be, or whom when conceived the p. 232 mother hath expelled. Thence heretics exclaim against the Gospel (to speak in preference of those whom expelled we lament). We repeat to them: behold Christ hath said, "It behoved Christ to suffer, and from the dead to rise again the third day." 2179 I acknowledge there our Head, I acknowledge there our bridegroom: acknowledge thou also with me the Bride.…
6. "Indignation to them after the similitude of a serpent" (Psa. 58.4). A great thing ye are to hear. "Indignation to them after the similitude of a serpent." As if we had said, What is that which thou hast said? there followeth, "As if of a deaf asp." Whence deaf? "And closing its ears." Therefore deaf, because it closeth its ears. "And closing its ears." "Which will not hearken to the voice of men charming, and of the medicine medicated by the wise man" (Psa. 58.5). As we have heard, because even men speak who have learned it with such research as they were able, but nevertheless it is a thing which the Spirit of God knoweth much better than any men. For it is not to no purpose that of this he hath spoken, but because it may chance that true is even that which we have heard of the asp. When the asp beginneth to be affected by the Marsian charmer, who calleth it forth with certain peculiar incantations, hear what it doeth.…Give heed what is spoken to thee for a similes sake, what is noted thee for avoidance. 2180 So therefore here also there hath been given a certain simile derived from the Marsian, who maketh incantation to bring forth the asp from the dark cavern; surely into light he would bring it: but it loving its darkness, wherein coiled up it hideth itself, when it will not choose to come forth, nevertheless refusing to hear those words whereby it feeleth itself to be constrained, is said to press one ear against the ground, and with its tail to stop up the other, and therefore as much as possible escaping those words, it cometh not forth to the charmer. To this as being like, the Spirit of God hath spoken of certain persons hearing not the Word of God, and not only not doing, but altogether, that they may not do it, refusing to hear.
7. This thing hath been done even in the first times of the faith. Stephen the Martyr was preaching the Truth, and to minds as though dark, in order to bring them forth into light, was making incantation: when he came to make mention of Christ, whom they would not hear at all, of them the Scripture saith what? of them relateth what? "They shut," he saith, "their ears." 2181 But what they did afterwards, the narrative of the passion of Stephen doth publish. They were not deaf, but they made themselves deaf.…For this thing they did at the point where Christ was named. The indignation of these men was as the indignation of a serpent. Why your ears do ye shut? Wait, hear, and if ye shall be able, rage. Because they chose not to do aught but rage, they would not hear. But if they had heard, perchance they would have ceased to rage. The indignation of them was as the indignation of a serpent.…
8. "God hath broken utterly the teeth of them in their own mouth" (Psa. 58.6). Of whom? Of them to whom indignation is as the similitude of a serpent, and of an asp closing up its ears, so that it heareth not the voice of men charming, and of medicine medicated by the wise man. The Lord hath done to them what? "Hath broken utterly the teeth of them in their own mouth." It hath been done, this at first hath been done, and now is being done. But it would have sufficed, my brethren, that it should have been said, "God hath broken utterly the teeth of them." The Pharisees would not hear the Law, would not hear the precepts of truth from Christ, being like to that serpent and asp. For in their past sins they took delight, and present life they would not lose, that is, joys earthly for joys heavenly.…What is, "in their own mouth"? In such sort, that with their own mouth against themselves they should make declaration: He hath compelled them with their mouth against themselves to give sentence. They would have slandered Him, because of the tribute: 2182 He said not, "It is lawful to pay tribute," or, "It is not lawful to pay tribute." And He willed to break utterly their teeth, wherewith they were gaping in order to bite; but in their own mouth He would do it. If He said, Let there be paid to Cæsar tribute, they would have slandered Him, because He had spoken evil to the nation of the Jews, by making it a tributary. For because of sin they were paying tribute, having been humbled, as to them in the Law had been foretold. We have Him, say they, a maligner of our nation, if He shall have bidden us to pay tribute: but if He say, Do not pay, we have Him for saying that we should not be under allegiance to Cæsar. Such a double noose as it were to catch the Lord they laid. But to whom had they come? To Him that knew how to break utterly the teeth of them in their own mouth. "Show to Me the coin," 2183 He saith. Why tempt ye Me, ye hypocrites?" Of paying tribute do ye think? To do justice are ye willing? the counsel of justice do ye seek? "If truly justice ye speak, judge right things, ye sons of men." But now because in one way ye speak, in another way judge, hypocrites ye are: "Why tempt ye Me, ye hypocrites?" Now I will break utterly your teeth in your mouth: "show to Me the coin." And they showed it to Him. And He saith not, it is Cæsars: but asketh p. 233 Whose it is? in order that their teeth in their own mouth might be utterly broken. For on His inquiring, of whom it had the image and inscription, they said, of Cæsar. Even now the Lord shall break utterly the teeth of them in their own mouth. Now ye have made answer, now have been broken utterly your teeth in your mouth. "Render unto Cæsar the things which are of Cæsar, and unto God the things which are of God." 2184 Cæsar seeketh his image; render it: God seeketh His image; render it. Let not Cæsar lose from you his coin: let not God lose in you His coin. And they found not what they might answer. For they had been sent to slander Him: and they went back, saying, that no one to Him could make answer. Wherefore? Because broken utterly had been the teeth of them in their own mouth. Of that sort is also the following: "In what power doest Thou these things? I also will ask of you one question, answer me." 2185 And He asked them of John, whence was the Baptism of John, from heaven, or of men? so that whatever they might answer might tell against themselves.…
9. The Lord displeased that Pharisee, who to dinner had bidden Him, because a woman that was a sinner drew near to His feet, and he murmured against Him, saying, "If this man were a prophet, He would know what woman drew near to His feet." 2186 O thou that art no prophet, whence knowest thou that He knew not what woman drew near to His feet? Because indeed He kept not the purifying of the Jews, which outwardly was as it were kept in the flesh, and was afar from the heart, this thing he suspected of the Lord. And in order that I may not speak at length on this point, even in his mouth He willed to break utterly the teeth of him. For He set forth to him: "A certain usurer had two debtors, one was owing five hundred pence, the other fifty: both had not wherewithal to pay, he forgave both. Which loved him the more?" 2187 To this end the one asketh, that the other may answer: to this end he answereth that the teeth of him in his mouth may be broken utterly.…
10. "The jaw-bones of lions the Lord hath broken utterly." 2188 Not only of asps. What of asps? Asps treacherously desire to throw in their venom, and scatter it, and hiss. Most openly raged the nations, and roared like lions. "Wherefore have raged the nations, and the peoples meditated empty things?" 2189 When they were lying in wait for the Lord. Is it lawful to give tribute to Cæsar, or is it not lawful? 2190 Asps they were, serpents they were, broken utterly were the teeth of them in their own mouth. Afterwards they cried out, "Crucify, Crucify." 2191 Now is there no tongue of asp, but roar of lion. But also "the jaw-bones of lions the Lord hath broken utterly." Perchance here there is no need of that which he hath not added, namely, "in the mouth of them." For men lying in wait with captious questions, were forced to be conquered with their own answer: but those men that openly were raging, were they by any means to be confuted with questions? Nevertheless, even their jaw-bones were broken utterly: having been crucified, He rose again, ascended into heaven, was glorified as the Christ, is adored by all nations, adored by all kings. Let the Jews now rage, if they are able. We have also in the case of heretics this as a warning and precedent, because themselves also we find to be serpents with indignation made deaf, not choosing to hear the "medicine medicated by the wise man:" and in their own mouth the Lord hath broken utterly the teeth of them.…
11. "They shall be despised like water running down" (Psa. 58.7). Be not terrified, brethren, by certain streams, which are called torrents: with winter waters they are filled up; do not fear: after a little it passeth by, that water runneth down; for a time it roareth, soon it will subside: they cannot hold long. Many heresies now are utterly dead: they have run in their channels as much as they were able, have run down, dried are the channels, scarce of them the memory is found, or that they have been. "They shall be despised like water running down." But not they alone; the whole of this age for a time is roaring, and is seeking whom it may drag along. Let all ungodly men, all proud men resounding against the rocks of their pride as it were with waters rushing along and flowing together, not terrify you, winter waters they are, they cannot alway flow: it must needs be that they run down unto their place, unto their end. And nevertheless of this torrent of the world the Lord hath drunk. For He hath suffered here, the very torrent He hath drunk, but in the way He hath drunk, but in the passage over: because in way of sinners He hath not stood. 2192 But of Him saith the Scripture what? "Of the torrent in the way He shall drink, therefore He shall lift up His Head;" 2193 that is, for this reason glorified He hath been, because He hath died; for this reason hath risen again, because He hath suffered.…
12. "Like wax melted they shall be taken away" (Psa. 58.8). For thou wast about to say, all men are not so made weak, like myself, in order that they may believe: many men do persevere in their evil, and in their malice. And of the same fear thou nothing: "Like wax melted p. 234 they shall be taken away." Against thee they shall not stand, they shall not continue: with a sort of fire of their own lusts they shall perish. For there is here a kind of hidden punishment, 2194 of it the Psalm is about to speak now, to the end of it. There are but a few verses; be attentive. There is a certain punishment future, fire of hell, fire everlasting. For future punishment hath two kinds: either of the lower places it is, where was burning that rich man, who was wishing for himself a drop of water to be dropped on his tongue off the finger of the poor man, whom before his gate he had spurned, when he saith, "For I am tormented in this flame." 2195 And the second is that at the end, whereof they are to hear, that on the left hand are to be set: "Go ye into fire everlasting, that hath been prepared for the devil and his angels." 2196 Those punishments shall be manifest at that time, when we shall have departed out of this life, or when at the end of the world men shall have come to the resurrection of the dead. Now therefore is there no punishment, and doth God suffer sins utterly unpunished even unto that day? There is even here a sort of hidden punishment, of the same he is treating now.…We see nevertheless sometimes with these punishments just men to be afflicted, and to these punishments unjust men to be strangers: for which reason did totter the feet of him that afterwards rejoicing saith, "How good is the God of Israel to men right in heart! But my own feet have been almost shaken, because I have been jealous in the case of sinners, beholding the peace of sinners." 2197 For he had seen the felicity of evil men, and well-pleased he had been to be an evil man, seeing evil men to reign, seeing that it was well with them, that they abounded in plenty of all things temporal, such as he too, being as yet but a babe, was desiring from the Lord: and his feet did totter, even until he saw what at the end is either to be hoped for or to be feared. For he saith in the same Psalm, "This thing is a labour before me, until I enter into the sanctuary of God, and understand unto the last things." 2198 It is not therefore the punishments of the lower places, not the punishments of that fire everlasting after the resurrection, not those punishments which as yet in this world are common to just men and unjust men, and ofttimes more heavy are those of just men than those of unjust men; but some punishment or other of the present life the Spirit of God would recommend to our notice. Give heed, hear ye me about to speak of that which ye know: but a more sweet thing it is when it is declared in a Psalm, which, before it was declared, was deemed obscure. For behold I bring forth that which already ye knew: but because these things are brought forth from a place where ye have never yet seen them, it cometh to pass that even known things, as if they were new things, do delight you. Hear ye the punishment of ungodly men: "Like wax," he saith, "melted they shall be taken away." I have said that through their lusts this thing to them is done. Evil lust is like a burning and a fire. Doth fire consume a garment, and doth not the lust of adultery consume the soul? Of meditated adultery when the Scripture was speaking it saith, "Shall one bind fire in his bosom, and his garments shall he not burn up?" 2199 Thou bearest in thy bosom live coals; burned through is thy vest; thou bearest in thought adultery, and whole then is thy soul? But these punishments few men do see: therefore them the Spirit of God doth exceedingly recommend to our notice. Hear the Apostle saying, "God hath given them up unto the lusts of their heart." 2200 Behold, the fire from the face of which like wax they are melting. For they loose themselves from a certain continence of chastity; therefore even these same men, going unto their lusts, as loose and melting are spoken of. Whence melting? whence loose? From the fire of lusts. "God hath given them up unto the lusts of their heart, so that they do those things which beseem not, being filled full of all iniquity."…
13. "There hath fallen upon them fire, and they have not seen the sun." Ye see in what manner he speaketh of a certain punishment of darkening. "Fire hath fallen upon them," fire of pride, a smoky fire, fire of lust, fire of wrath. How great a fire is it? He upon whom it shall have fallen, shall not see the sun. Therefore hath it been said, "Let not the sun go down upon your wrath." 2201 Therefore, brethren, fire of evil lust fear ye, if ye will not melt like wax, and to perish from the face of God. For there falleth upon you that fire, and the sun ye shall not see. What sun? Not that which together with thee see both beasts and insects, and good men and evil men: because "He maketh His sun to rise upon good men and evil men." 2202 But there is another sun, whereof those men are to speak, "And the sun hath not risen to us, passed away are all those things as it were a shadow. Therefore we have strayed from the way of truth, and the light of righteousness hath not shone to us, and the sun hath not risen to us." 2203 …
14. "Before that the bramble 2204 bringeth forth your thorns: as though living, as though in anger, it shall drink them up" (Psa. 58.9). What is the bramble? Of prickly plants it is a kind, upon which there are said to be certain of the closest thorns. At first it is a herb; and while it is a herb, soft and fair it is: but thereon there p. 235 are nevertheless thorns to come forth. Now therefore sins are pleasant, and as it were they do not prick. A herb is the bramble; even now nevertheless there is a thorn. "Before that the bramble bringeth forth thorns:" is before that of miserable delights and pleasures the evident tortures come forth. Let them question themselves that love any object, and to it cannot attain; let them see if they are not racked with longing: and when they have attained to that which unlawfully they long for, let them mark if they are not racked with fear. Let them see therefore here their punishments; before that there cometh that resurrection, when in flesh rising again they shall not be changed. "For all we shall rise again, but not 2205 all we shall be changed." 2206 For they shall have the corruption of the flesh wherein to be pained, not that wherein to die: otherwise even those pains would be ended. Then the thorns of that bramble, that is, all pains and piercings of tortures shall be brought forth. Such thorns as they shall suffer that are to say, "These are they whom sometimes we had in derision:" 2207 thorns of the piercing of repentance, but of one too late and without fruit like the barrenness of thorns. The repentance of this time is pain healing: repentance of that time is pain penal. Wouldest thou not suffer those thorns? here be thou pierced with the thorns of repentance; in such sort that thou do that which hath been spoken of, "Turned I have been in sorrow, when the thorn was piercing: 2208 my sin I have known, and mine iniquity I have not covered: I have said, I will declare against me my shortcoming to the Lord, and Thou hast remitted the ungodliness of my heart." 2209 Now do so, now be pierced through, be there not in thee done that which hath been said of certain execrable men, "They have been cloven asunder, and have not been pierced through." 2210 Observe them that have been cloven asunder and have not been pierced through. 2211 Ye see men cloven asunder, and ye see them not pierced through. Behold beside the Church they are, and it doth not repent them, so as they should return whence they have been cloven asunder. The bramble hereafter shall bring forth their thorns. They will not now have a healing piercing through, they shall have hereafter one penal. But even now before that the bramble produceth thorns, there hath fallen upon them fire, that suffereth them not to see the sun, that is, the wrath of God is drinking up them while still living: fire of evil lusts, of empty honours, of pride, of their covetousness: and whatsoever is weighing them down, that they should not know the truth, so that they seem not to be conquered, so that they be not brought into subjection even by truth herself. For what is a more glorious thing, brethren, than to be brought in subjection and to be overcome by truth? Let truth overcome thee willing: for even unwilling she shall of herself overcome thee.…
15. As yet the punishments of the lower places have not come, as yet fire everlasting hath not come: let him that is growing in God compare himself now with an ungodly man, a blind heart with an enlightened heart: compare ye two men, one seeing and one not seeing in the flesh. And what so great thing is vision of the flesh? Did Tobias by any means have fleshly eyes? 2212 His own son had, and he had not; and the way of life a blind man to one seeing did show. Therefore when ye see that punishment, rejoice, because in it ye are not.
Therefore saith the Scripture, "The just man shall rejoice when he shall have seen vengeance" (Psa. 58.10). Not that future punishment; for see what followeth: "his hands he shall wash in the blood of the sinner." What is this? Let your love attend. When man-slayers are smitten, ought anywise innocent men to go thither and wash their hands? But what is, "in the blood of the sinner he shall wash his hands"? When a just man seeth the punishment of a sinner, he groweth himself; and the death of one is the life of another. For if spiritually blood runneth from those that within are dead, do thou, seeing such vengeance, wash therein thy hands; for the future more cleanly live. And how shall he wash his hands, if a just man he is? For what hath he on his hands to be washed, if just he is? "But the just man of faith shall live." 2213 Just men therefore he hath called believers: and from the time that thou hast believed, at once thou beginnest to be called just. For there hath been made a remission of sins. Even if out of that remaining part of thy life some sins are thine, which cannot but flow in, like water from the sea into the hold; nevertheless, because thou hast believed, when thou shalt have seen him that altogether is turned away from God to be slain in that blindness, there falling upon him that fire so that he see not the sun—then do thou that now through faith seest Christ, in order that thou mayest see in substance (because the just man liveth of faith), observe the ungodly man dying, and purge thyself from sins. So thou shalt wash in a manner thy hands in the blood of the sinner.
16. "And a man shall say, If therefore there is fruit to a just man" (Psa. 58.10). Behold, before that there cometh that which is promised, before p. 236 that there is given life everlasting, before that ungodly men are cast forth into fire everlasting, here in this life there is fruit to the just man. What fruit? "In hope rejoicing, in tribulation enduring." 2214 What fruit to the just man? "We glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation worketh patience, but patience probation, but probation hope: but hope confoundeth not: because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts through the Holy Spirit, that hath been given to us." 2215 Doth he rejoice that is a drunkard; and doth he not rejoice that is just? In love there is fruit to a just man. Miserable the one, even when he maketh himself drunken: blessed the other, even when he hungereth and thirsteth. The one wine-bibbing doth gorge, the other hope doth feed. Let him see therefore the punishment of the other, his own rejoicing, and let him think of God. He that hath given even now such joy of faith, of hope, of charity, of the truth of His Scriptures, what manner of joy is He making ready against the end? In the way thus He feedeth, in his home how shall He fill him? "And a man shall say, If therefore there is fruit to the just man." Let them that see believe, and see, and perceive. Rejoice shall the just man when he shall have seen vengeance. But if he hath not eyes whence he may see vengeance, he will be made sad, and will not be amended by it. But if he seeth it, he seeth what difference there is between the darkened eye of the heart, and the eye enlightened of the heart: between the coolness of chastity and the flame of lust, between the security of hope and the fear there is in crime. When he shall have seen this, let him separate himself, and wash his hands in the blood of the same. Let him profit by the comparison, and say, "Therefore there is fruit to the just man: therefore there is a God judging them in the earth." Not yet in that life, not yet in fire eternal, not yet in the lower places, but here in earth.…
17. If somewhat too prolix we have been, pardon us. We exhort you in the name of Christ, to meditate profitably on those things which ye have heard. Because even to preach the truth is nought, if heart from tongue dissenteth; and to hear the truth nothing profiteth, if a man upon the rock build not. He that buildeth upon a Rock, is the same that heareth and doeth: 2216 but he that heareth and doeth not, buildeth upon sand: he that neither heareth nor doeth, buildeth nothing.…
Lat. LVII. Sermon to the Commonalty, wherein everywhere he confuteth the Donatists.229:2163
Tob. iv. 15.229:2164
[Matt. vii. 12. The quotation from the father of Tobias shows this maxim, negative in its form, and reflecting the Mosaic law, which "made nothing perfect." It was probably Noahic, and was therefore known to Gentilism, as e.g. to Confucius. The glory of "the Golden Rule" is not merely that it gives a positive form to this law: Christ made it the energetic and characteristic principle of His Church towards humanity, and of all Christians towards all men.—C.]230:2165
Wisd. i. 9.230:2166
Rom. ii. 15.230:2167
Isa. xlvi. 8.230:2168
Gen. i. 26.230:2169
Matt. 12:33, 34.230:2170
John ii. 25.231:2171
Rom. vii. 24.231:2172
Ps. cxvi. 16.231:2173
Prov. v. 22.231:2174
Gen. xxv. 23. [Here foreknowledge precedes predestination. See Clement, vol. ii. p. 497, A.N.F.—C.]231:2176
Mal. 1:2, Rom. 9:13.231:2177
Gal. iv. 19.231:2178
Matt. 1:20, Luke 1:35.232:2179
Luke xxiv. 46.232:2180
So. p. 133.232:2181
Acts vii. 57.232:2182
Matt. 22:17, 18.232:2183
Matt. xxii. 19.233:2184
Matt. xxii. 21.233:2185
Matt. 21:23, 24, Mark 11:28, 29.233:2186
Luke vii. 39.233:2187
Luke 7:41, 42.233:2188
Ps. lviii. 6.233:2189
Ps. ii. 1.233:2190
Matt. xxii. 17.233:2191
Matt. 27:23, John 19:6.233:2192
Ps. i. 1.233:2193
Ps. cx. 7.234:2194
Hidden punishment of sinners.234:2195
Luke xvi. 24.234:2196
Matt. xxv. 41.234:2197
Ps. lxxiii. 1-3.234:2198
Ps. 73:16, 17.234:2199
Prov. vi. 27.234:2200
Rom. i. 24.234:2201
Eph. iv. 26.234:2202
Matt. v. 45.234:2203
Wisd. v. 6.234:2204
So several early writers and mss. But the balance of authority as well as the sense is in favour of the received reading.235:2206
1 Cor. xv. 51.235:2207
Wisd. v. 3.235:2208
Or, "being made to pierce."235:2209
Ps. xxxii. 5.235:2210
Ps. xxxv. 15. These words are in the Vulgate, for "they did tear me, and ceased not;" but St. Augustin does not notice them in his comment on the Psalm.235:2211
Against the Donatists.235:2212
Tob. iv. 3-19.235:2213
Rom. i. 17.236:2214
Rom. xii. 12.236:2215
Rom. v. 3-5.236:2216
Matt. vii. 24.
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We begin a two-part special report in this issue on advances in biological informatics, focusing on the integrative challenges of biodiversity informatics and neuroinformatics. Guest Editor Bryan Heidorn has furnished six articles to which we have added a timely and pertinent announcement of the release of the Biocomplexity Thesaurus, an effort led by Jessica Milstead, winner of the ASIS&T 1999 Watson Davis for her many outstanding contributions to information science and to ASIS&T. I am very grateful to Bryan for pulling together such a fascinating collection of papers.
In our other feature article, Copyrights Digital Dilemma Today, Lee Strickland provides a quick and highly informative tour of the litigation surrounding the MP3 file-sharing controversy. He issues an urgent warning about widespread potential liability for copyright infringement (yes, this means us!) with significant penalties attached, given the present aggressive enforcement actions of the Recording Industry Association of America. In the next issue he will review the most current legal developments regarding other kinds of e-copying, including the TEACH Act of 2002, to complete this survey.
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Finally, out-going President Trudi Bellardo Hahn summarizes ASISTs accomplishments during her presidency. There are many significant changes underway from plans to revise the ASIST website to changes to the SIG administrative structures, the Bulletin and the Annual Meeting. This Presidents Page is definitely required reading.
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"Eastern Orthodox churches also have no plans to abbreviate their services, which can top more than two hours each Sunday.
"Services are meant to be spiritual; they're meant to be sensory; that takes time," said James Carras, a member of St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church in Fort Lauderdale. "When I go to church, it takes a while to get into the zone, to let go of business or how the Dolphins are doing. The liturgy helps guide you into that zone."
no lie folks I noticed my first person w/sign waving 'drive thru prayer'
wether u do your jail I mean mass time long or short it's all a waste of precious time; in your one life to live..
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Hello gamers, I have come across some interesting news regarding the PS3. Late last night I fired up my PS3 to use the browser, and right away this screen caught my attention.
So I clicked on it and it asked me to fill out a survey in regards to how often I use the web browser on the PS3 (which I do use regularly). The survey itself wasn't really long, about 5 or 6 questions later I was staring at what appears to be a new portal for the PS3.
The article doesn't mention this but I think this beta may only for North America. I'll have to look into that a little more.
I hate the new Youtube App so is there anyway to used the browser version?
What is the PS3 portal for anyway?
I can only access the Japanese portal so ignored it.
Does anyone use web portals in general?
Has the PS3 web browser improved?
Damn since I'm barely use my ps3, this articles title had me thinking of the game portal when I clicked on it!


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Writer(s): Alex Kapranos/Nicholas McCarthy (see lyrics here)
First charted: 31 January 2004
Peak: 66 US, 3 UK, 3 MR (Click for codes to singles charts.)
Sales (in millions): 1.1 US, -- UK, 1.1 world
Radio Airplay (in millions): 0.2 Video Airplay (in millions): 6.35
Review: The grunge that ruled the '90s gave way to the "retro garage-punk [that] emerged as the predominant strain of post-millennial rock music in 2001." PF American bands like The Strokes and The White Stripes were leading the way, leaving "Britain's indie aristocracy looking bloated, boring, and irreversibly out-dated." SY However, this was more serious-minded music, making one thing clear: "rockers forgot how to dance." PD
"Aspiring buzz bands realized that, down on the disco floor, they could really make their profits" PF and "with one song the Empire struck back." SY Franz Ferdinand "brought the groove back to indie rock." PD "'Take Me Out' crams every known Britpop trick into its fevered four minutes." SY These Scottish rockers "took a certain strain of cooler-than-thou, spiky post-punk," MX gave it a dose of "Beatlesque fluency," SY "and gave us permission to dance to it." MX It is "effortlessly arty and deliciously fun, at the same time." NME'09
The song "a crowdpleaser that doesn't sound out of place blasting during half-time at an NBA game." PE but is still "a smash hit that was still cool for the indie kids to love." PE It may be "the most surefire winner any DJ can have in his repertoire." NME'09 "After a tense build-up…'Take Me Out' sounds ready to blast off; instead, Franz pull an aesthetic 180 and slow it down into a militaristic, libidinous funk stomp." PF "This mod guitar stomp rules any bar where the girls feel like dancing," RS'09 but is "still heavy enough to lure in those girls' jock boyfriends." PF It "remains one of the most satisfying moments in guitar-pop this decade has produced." DS
Lead singer "Alex Kapranos' arch delivery and the song's ambiguous meaning (was it about being taken out like a date, or about being taken out, like…killed?)" PD gave the song an added curiosity factor. In addition, "the innovative accompanying video won MTV's Breakthrough Video of the Year and the Q Awards' Video of the Year." AB'00
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- original page on DMDB website
- Franz Ferdinand's DMDB Encyclopedia entry
- Franz Ferdinand album
- AB'00 About.com (2009) "Top 100 Pop Songs of the 2000s"
- MX Atlanta Metromix (11/24/09) Best songs of the decade
- DS Don't Stay Up Too Late (2011). Top 100 Lists
- NME'09 New Musical Express (NME) 100 Tracks of the Decade (date unknown: 2009?)
- PF Pitchfork.com (8/19/09) The Top 500 Tracks of the 2000s
- PD PopDose.com (11/24/09) The Best Songs of the Decade
- PE PopEater.com (11/24/09) The Top Pop Songs of the Decade – 2000s
- RS'09 Rolling Stone (12/9/09). "Songs of the Decade" (12/9/09).
- SY Stylus (2009?) Top Singles


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In the latest few years, Moleskine has celebrated the magic of cinema with a wide range of custom-made notebooks, featuring special editions dedicated to international film festivals and prominent film directors. Those include names such as Tim Burton, Mike Figgis, Spike Jonze and Detour Shanghai's author Zhang Yuan, as not to mention some of the hottest movie rendezvous like the Tribeca Film Festival, the Locarno Film Festival, and the Venice Film Festival. That's just a part of Moleskine's tribute to the Cinema, though.
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If Congress allows sequestration cuts to take effect, more than 170 million Americans could lose their jobs, according to Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.).
"If sequestration takes place, that's going to be a great setback. We don't need to be having something like sequestration that's going to cause these job losses — over 170 million jobs that could be lost," Waters said.
She went on to say cuts must be done "over a long period of time."
There's just one problem with her estimation — and it's a big one. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are only 134 million people working in the United States. So by Waters' estimation, the sequester cuts would be so apocalyptic that nearly 40 million people who don't have jobs would become even more unemployed.
Further, the U.S. currently has a population of about 315 million people, according to Census data. If Waters was correct in her assertion, that would mean sequestration would leave more than half the country, 54 percent, unemployed. Talk about a catastrophe.
Luckily for America, the estimate is clearly wrong. TheBlaze could not find any data to suggest that the $85 billion in automatic sequestration cuts during FY2013 (about 2.4 percent of annual federal budget) would cause 170 million people to lose their jobs. Then again, that's also impossible because there aren't that many people working in America. Unfortunately though, once something is said, you can't take it back.
Keep in mind, Waters is the ranking Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, which "oversees all components of the nation's housing and financial services sectors including banking, insurance, real estate, public and assisted housing, and securities." If Democrats should gain control of the House, she would become the chairwoman.
The Daily Beast's Megan McArdle puts it this way:
"The best hope is that this is entirely symbolic, and they figure it's safe to make her the senior member as long as she won't actually be in charge of anything. But having put her in a highly visible slot, it will be very difficult to dislodge her in the event that the Democrats retake the house, and Maxine Waters is expected to actually architect new legislation concerning the financial system. And even typing those words strikes terror into my heart."
UPDATE: Eric Orner, Waters' deputy communications director, told Charles C. W. Cooke in a statement that the 170 million jobs comment was a "slip of the tongue." He also scolded Cooke for posting the video at all, saying "I think this was below your standards, and I hope you'll reconsider the post."
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I just noticed a post by National Review On-Line contributor Charles C. W. Cooke about House Financial Services Committee Ranking Member Water's obvious slip of the tongue (she accidentally said 170 million , when she meant 170 thousand) when referring to the number of jobs that may be lost as a result of sequestration.
I think this was below your standards, and hope you'll reconsider the post.
Eric Orner
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Representative Maxine Waters, Ranking Member
Cooke's response on National Review Online? "Never mind. When the very fabric of the republic collapses at 11:59p.m. tomorrow, this will all be rendered moot," he jokingly wrote.
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Discussion in 'The Bar' started by Super Mario, Jan 27, 2013.
y u no AV, Mario?
Like a gonk?
Mario, alcohol disturbs your sleep.
Just trying to help.
part of the online meltdown rules is to get rid of your av right before you leave
Now that's just cute, Super Mario.
Welcome back Mario
Mario just have took a nap, he is all spry and shit.
Looked like an acid trip.
Thanks Dawg
yeah and you just stalked ten female profiles On here.
Welcome back sweetheart.
yes i hear it
where did you go, mario?
you can add your name to the people that left and came back list now.
I like that sentence.
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A very simple way to continue "going green" is supporting eco-friendly companies like Dansko, which has a fantastic line of nursing shoes and clogs. Part of their corporate mission to be as environmentally conscience as possible: their corporate office is LEED certified, they operate the only recycling center in their town, and they have a "green team" to do even more.


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The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
The good: I survived 2000 other players.
The Bad: I made no money
The Ugly: I went all in with 77 and lost
I was in late position in a freeroll on Party. Poker Geek had abandoned me to my fate, and I was left with Texas. I had 1600 chips and the blinds were 75/150. There was about 1K in the pot from limpers. I decide to try and take it all. One nagging though in the back of my mind: The 9K stack limped in and will possibly call me. Everyone folds. The big stack calls me like he should after going into the tank forever. FOLD YOU BASTARD! We flip our cards and he shows KQ to my small pair. I am ahead. Not way ahead. But ahead. Six outs. BAM! King on the flop and no help afterwards. Sir goes down in flames.
I do not think this was a horrible play. Bad maybe. If the Geek had finished his tourney lessons than maybe I woulda figured out what to do. I only downloaded 3/4ths of his vast knowledge. If I could change one thing about this move, I think I might have bet ½ my stack and seen the flop. If it was a non-scary flop I could have bet all in there. If it was scary I could decide if I wanted to bluff, fold, or go all in.
So.. whadda ya do? Whadda ya do? Join another freeroll of course! Dummy!
The good: I am out of Party Poker Points
The Bad: I am out of Party Poker Points
The Ugly: AA loses to K3o!
Well this is starting well. AA. I bet 3xBB. 2 Callers. Flop K3x. I bet. Someone raises me. I cold call. One folds. He bets 200 on the turn. I call. He checks the river. I check because I feel something. He shows k3o for the win.
Oh well, K3o man is out. Another AA got cracked by 44 too. So I don't feel so bad. I think the Poker Gods are mad at me for using G+. I have sworn off of it!! Take me back Poker Gods! I will live in superstitious ignorance! Please take me back!
Well.. back to crappy cards. Cool. Cannot lose too much with those. Well maybe I can. Oh wow! JJ. I get raised in front of me, and so I re-raise to 3xBB. I get 7 callers. Yikes! The flop is KQ9 and I am sooo confused I check, and then raise, and nobody folds. A Q hits the turn. So I have 380 left. I can either bluff it all (it is still early), check, or fold. I am sooooo confused.
Lost everything except 75 on 33. Probably shoulda gone all in pre-flop before Q4 hit his trips. Bah again! Went all in with 9's. Bah again! Guy after me has QQ. I beat KJ though if that's any consolation.
Oh well. Now I am out of Party Points and money so I am stuck with Poker Stars Freerolls? At least Texas now believes me that the Poker Gods hate me, although Poker Geek is skeptical. Well I only outlasted half the field this time. Not very impressive. That JJ move was bad, and the AA loss to K3o kind of put me in a bad position. If I played the JJ stronger maybe I take that pot and I am talking about a better finish at least.


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NATICK — Frank Rines Jr. sat in a studio at the Morse Institute Library. Lights glared and the camera rolled. Questions flowed, and soon Rines, better known by his buddies as Bud, was in a time machine, transported across oceans and decades.
Wearing a sweater and jacket, Rines, 92, a chief radio officer in the US Merchant Marine during World War II, looked quite comfortable, considering the task.
He was being asked, as one of the recent contributors to the Natick Veterans Oral History Project, to recall the details of his service over some 22 voyages, including about 15 "lucky crossings'' of the Atlantic Ocean when it was infested with German U-boats.
"It was never easy making the crossings, even late in the war," he said in his interview. "You never had the feeling that you were safe."
By telling their stories, Rines and other participants in the project add intimacy to chapters of military history that span from World War II to the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Besides providing a valuable resource for historians, the project can help participants heal from nightmarish experiences, which some have kept bottled inside for decades.
Jim Hastings, 65, of Bellingham, who served in Vietnam in 1967-68 with the First Marine Division and was wounded during the Tet Offensive, didn't talk about his war experiences for a long time but decided it was time to speak out.
''The men I served with, guys who didn't survive, I wanted to keep their memory alive, letting people know what these guys did for each other,'' said Hastings, who was interviewed for the project in February 2009 after a friend suggested it. ''The real heroes. I was wounded. Guys kept coming and coming to get me.''
Started in 1998 when the late Eugene Dugdale, who was Natick's last known Pearl Harbor survivor, told the library he was worried that World War II veterans were dying without having their stories heard, the project preserves the oral histories provided by men and women with ties to the armed forces from World War II onward. Not all participants are from Natick and not all are veterans. The project also includes dispatches from the home front.
The project, a collaboration between the library, the Natick Veterans Council, and Natick Pegasus, the town's local-access cable television station, is funded mostly by the state. Recently the House of Representatives approved restoring funding of $30,000 for next fiscal year, after the level dipped to $22,500 the last two years.
''This is a great program,'' said state Representative David P. Linsky, a Natick Democrat and the main force behind the funding amendment. ''It records absolutely priceless recollections of veterans' stories.''
Linsky's late father, a World War II veteran who served in the Army Air Corps, told his sons stories about battles in the Pacific. Linsky later found himself wishing the compelling chapters of family and US history had been recorded.
''By memorializing their experiences in this project we are preserving that piece of history,'' said state Representative Alice Hanlon Peisch, a Wellesley Democrat who cosponsored the amendment.
The funding must clear the Senate, which began debate on its budget this week. State Senators Karen Spilka and Richard Ross, whose districts include Natick precincts, both say they are supportive of the project. Spilka filed an amendment last Friday matching the House figure.
More than 220 people have been interviewed, and about half of the interviews are available in video and downloadable audio formats on the project's website, www.natickvets.org. Maureen L. Sullivan, who serves as the project's coordinator and conducts the interviews, while videographer Dan McDermott tapes the sessions and prepares the material for the website, said the $30,000 would be used to interview more veterans, add more interviews to the website, and conduct more outreach programs.
Rines lost a lot of old pictures in a flood that drenched his home in Quincy, but his mental images remain crisp. One of his ships had its rudder shot off by a submarine but limped to Halifax, Nova Scotia. He can still see hungry children eating in the streets of Calcutta, bodies floating in the water upon his arrival in Normandy, and — in a Globe interview at his home — recalls a dog sliding across the deck of a ship after a blast had torn a hole in the bow that ''you could drive two trucks through.''
He cradled a medal given to him two years ago by the mayor of a French town near the Normandy beaches who hands out the tokens of appreciation to visiting US veterans. ''We thought [the French] hated us,'' Rines said. ''They love us.''
Harry Seaholm, 89, of Natick, a Navy veteran of World War II and the Korean War, worked as an aviation machinist's mate; his specialty was engine work.
''My service time isn't very exciting,'' he told the Globe.
But he figured his contributions ought to be remembered, and he was interviewed for the project in June 1998. ''Fifty years from now, somebody could say 'I remember Harry from way back' and they could check out what I did,'' he said.
Natick resident Viviana Cordoba, who was a sergeant in the Army Reserve and is now coordinator of the Women Veterans' Network in the state Department of Veterans' Services, served 13 months in Iraq in 2005 and 2006.
''I want anyone to be able to look at these interviews years in the future and take something away from them,'' said Cordoba, 29, who was interviewed for the oral history project in March.
''Every veteran has a different story to tell, and you can learn amazing things from them,'' she said. "Regardless of when or where they served, there's something so incredible to say about someone who signs away their life to their country. It's a sacrifice that not many understand, and I appreciate the project for capturing that.''
Connie Nippert Walsh of Natick served in the Navy Nurse Corps during the Vietnam War and was stationed at a hospital in Virginia, rising to the rank of lieutenant. ''It was not a time where our peers celebrated our service,'' Walsh told the Globe. ''You were almost ashamed to have served in the military.
''I just thought what I had done had been important and not valued.''
Walsh's story was recorded for the project in December 1998, and her presentation includes a picture of her being pleasantly surprised at the hospital by the famous clown Emmett Kelly, a bright spot in what she recalls as a very sad day.
''The most important thing that the project did was it began a formal closure to what really was still pretty raw, because I hadn't had much of a chance to process it,'' Walsh said. ''It was very healing."Bill Porter can be reached at email@example.com.


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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/Any takers on if that reporter will be subject to American laws/prosecution?
not a very good reporter. my guess is that he will be arrested and tried instead of just getting shot like saddam hussein would have done.. love that bush humor..."it was a size 10 shoe."
they ought to auction off the shoes, donate the proceeds to charity, then fine that retard-o journalist for the same amount the shoes sold for.i seriously think he's lucky a secret service agent didn't just drop him with a couple of bullets to the chest. who the hell attempts an assault on the president of the united states of america?also i dont know how much i trust that bbc article re: beatings. the brother reports it. he's probably just as f-ing crazy/stupid as his shoe-chucking brother.
...aye think that george w bush is now my second favorite president after theodore roosevelt......roosevelt hunted, shot, and killed more animals than most presidents...but he created the national bird preserve...co-founded the american bison association and preserved over 230,000,000 acres of territory for wildlife...he also pushed the cause of spelling reform with the simplified spelling board then wrote this sentence: "i could not by fighting have kept the new spelling in, and it was evidently worse than useless to go into an undignified contest when i was beaten. do you know that the one word as to which i thought the new spelling was wrong thru was more responsible than anything else for our discomfiture?" ...george bush will long be remembered as the president who began office "undefined"...then he took "wrangler politics" into the middle east after an attack by facist guerrillas and kept the us safe during a time of uncertainty and global rogue terrorist activities. his simple language and texas accent added a dumbfounding deliberate danger to his words backing a resolve with military might and not soft diplomacy enough to push a genocidal murderer and his guerrillas into the wilds of waziristan...virtually--a geographical prison. after "wrangler ultimatums" and more military backing he freed mesopoetamia from a genocidal tyrant and empowered its people, particulary in the kurdish region...he bent north korea to soft diplomacy with the words, "axis of evil"...simple? yes. effective...yes...and time will tell just how effective..."don't tread on me" politics were needed and bush actioned them...now begins the gloaming of soft diplomacy. ...he will long be remembered by liberal democrats as "unflappable"..."unruffled" and "unfettered"...in a word, to democrats for the past eight years...george w. bush and his resolve was "unbreakable" and his political survival during his eight years of tenure..."enigmatic"......nobody touched bush and his plans......not one shoe......not even two shoes......if only lincoln had reflexes like my second favorite "language challenged" antipodean president.


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Hi everyone,
first to introduce myself. I am an Apostate from Roman Catholocism. At one time I was a Catholic apologist and seriously considered entering the priesthood.
I majored in Philosophy and minored in Religious science in university.
After I had children and just couldn't get the babies to sit through mass, I found that without the constant reinforcement of being in Church every week, my faith waned. Now, years later after wandering about in the desert of my own mind and exploring many different faiths, I am an avowed atheist.
But I find there's something missing. Often a hear people say things like they have faith but eschew religion (because apparently organized religion has a bit of a bad rep lately), and I think they have it backwards. We as humans seem to be hard-wired for religion. It was one of the very first things we used our intelligence to develop. It must have either had an evolutionary purpose, or was a by-product of our intelligence that didn't have an adverse effect on natural selection. We desire to have symbols, rituals, ceremonies, mark important events, etc.
So I want to start an atheist religion. I am writing a book with the premise that spiritual fulfillment can be achieved through a personalized system of symbols, rituals, ceremonies, etc. independent of any belief or dogma.
For example, I have written a liturgy for the menarche of my daughters.
We celebrate important holidays by honoring important aspects of humanity such as our inventiveness, our capacity for altruism, etc.
So far I have a chapter outline and have started writing bits a pieces here and there. I would love some input from this community.
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:D Thanks for the great replies everyone!
@Cane - why would you assume I have not discovered science?
The idea of it being a "religion" is perhaps a misnomer since what I'm talking about it basically creating meaningful traditions to celebrate important aspects of our lives WITHOUT ANY appeal to anything other than science (which I discovered long ago).
While many are content to "throw the baby out with the bath water" and become iconoclasts rejecting any trapping that would remind them of religion, I think many people can and do hunger for these things. It is my hypothesis that this sense of tradition and community is why a lot of people who really don't care much about their faith will still pay lip service to their religion and attend church, etc. This is also not about ethics... there are already plenty of humanist ethics organizations, etc.
Admittedly I am not very well versed in the neuroscience of why these things appeal to us as a species (I'm sure not to all of you personally), but I think that's rather a moot point. The appeal is there. I am contending that a large part of the appeal of religion is not the faith, but the trappings. It's quite likely that the evidence we see of the anthropological origins of religion - burial of the dead, art etc. Started as nothing more than these kinds of celebrations.
Think of something as simple as a birthday party, retirement party, graduation ceremony etc. These are non-religious things that we use to celebrate and honour important moments in our lives. Why not have a coming of age ceremony? Why not use occasions like solstices and equinoxes etc. to celebrate different aspects of our lives? People already instinctively do things like this all the time - they have rituals in their lives they unconsciously imbue with meaning.
Is it harmful? I don't see how it could be.
Is it needed - arguably yes, but not necessarily for everyone. It could also be something uniting. Like so-called non-denominational or ecumenical services except that it would not just be veiled monotheism watered down so as not to offend the various bickering sects, but instead truly humanist and inclusive.
I'm sure there are variations existent already (I will look into the Ethical Society - thanks for the links). But are these only small fringe (for lack of a better term) organizations? Are there published books - or just web sites? Anything in the mainstream?
Thanks everyone!
Isn't what you already suggested enough: "Think of something as simple as a birthday party, retirement party, graduation ceremony etc"? 4th of July, Labor day, Memorial day, Presidents' Day... Should we celebrate Einstein's birthday or date of the publishing of one theory or another? I still do not understand what you say is missing. If you need the gathering of neighbors every week, then maybe you ask too much, but all the above may be what you are looking for and all you need to do is "count your blessings".
Also, there are clubs, like Astronomy clubs, that people enjoy.
I think I get what you're saying Cane - why don't I just enjoy the already existing secular ceremonies for that aspect, and join some club for the fellowship aspect. That's valid, and would certainly be enough for some - a large segment of the atheists out there and people who never experienced religion will mostly be satisfied by that.
But for religious people and those inclined to such things, if and when they decide to reject faith, what is there for them? On-line support groups, forums and you-tube videos. Otherwise, it's pretty lonely and empty. Some people will choose religion over atheism (or deism or any non-religious worldview) not because of any strong conviction, but because they need these things and they see no alternative.
And sure, you can still do your Xmas celebrations and your thanksgiving celebrations and what not and just leave out the references to god, and birthdays are fine. But why settle for that? Why settle for traditions that are basically accidents of history with symbols we don't understand the background of, and which are pretty empty of meaning, when we can craft our own traditions.
I guess I should also clarify that I'm not even proposing setting out a hand-book of "this is what you should do", but rather a set of guidelines, ideas and examples that people can use as an aid to craft things that are meaningful to them and their families. I certainly have no wish to impose a new way of life on people!
For example, my wife and 2 daughters and I did a solstice ceremony involving lighting candles outdoors, having one candle for each of us and a family candle etc. It was a simple 5 minute thing, but the effect on the kids was really something. To them it was wonderful and mysterious ad special. It was a beautiful expression of our shared humanity and our family, and we didn't have to indoctrinate our children to do it.
We'll be doing a ceremony at their menarche. There's no existing coming of age ceremony in our culture for either sex, yet it's an important transition for young people. I've talked to a few people who have been involved in such things and they found them to be extremely moving and emotionally fulfilling.
It's fine if you don't need that kind of thing. But many do, and they should have options available to them without having to resort to choosing religious dogma.
just to clarify....its just my opinion....i could be wrong ;)
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Sept. 25, 2013
Looking at Life Through Rose-Colored Glasses in "Sweet Charity"
One woman's trust and faith in others despite continued disappointment is the storyline behind "Sweet Charity," the fall musical of the Benjamin T. Rome School of Music at Catholic University.
Performances are set for Friday and Saturday, Oct. 18 and 19, at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Oct. 20, at 2 p.m. at Hartke Theatre.
The plot follows Charity, a dance hall hostess, looking for Mr. Right in all the wrong places. Jay Brock, clinical assistant professor of musical theater, is director. He noted the play's writer, Neil Simon, "wrote this incredibly deep character who has a very complex arc and tells a wonderful story about who this woman is."
Brock described the play's plot as a circle. "Charity starts off as incredibly naïve, she's eternally optimistic. No matter what happens to her, she finds something positive about it. But she's unable to process the world as it is. She sees it through rose-colored glasses."
Sweet Charity differs from other musicals, he said. "Cy Coleman has written beautiful yet serious music. One of the things that makes Sweet Charity really stand out is, if you took the music out, it stands alone as a great play."
Lyrics in "Sweet Charity" are by Dorothy Fields.
The production crew includes Sally Boyett D'Angelo as choreographer. "She's an accomplished dancer, who originated the role of Patsy in 'Crazy for You' on Broadway," said Brock. "We are very lucky to have her with the show."
Music school alumnus Kyle English will conduct. Completing the production crew are JD Madison as set designer/projections, Cheryl Patton Wu as costume designer, and Catherine Girardi as lighting designer.
"We do our best to create productions that are surrounded by a professional team of creative artists so the students have a great experience," Brock added.
Tickets are $20 for general admission; $15 for CUA alumni; $10 for seniors, students, and CUA faculty and staff; and $5 for CUA students. They can be purchased online at http://music.cua.edu.
The theater is located at 3801 Harewood Road, N.E., Washington, D.C. For more information, visit http://music.cua.edu/calendar/index.cfm or call the box office at 202-319-5416.


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Car News
Updated 2015 Ford Expedition Officially Unveiled
- Ford has revealed its updated 2015 Expedition
- Offers new features, revisions inside and out
- Replaces last year's V8 with a 3.5-liter turbocharged V6
Ford has officially rolled out a heavily revised version of its full-size Expedition SUV. The 2015 Ford Expedition boasts a long list of changes compared to last year's model, from updated exterior and interior styling to a new, more efficient powerplant.
While the 2015 Expedition offers many interior and exterior updates, the biggest news is under the hood. That's because Ford has dropped last year's 5.4-liter V8 in favor of a 3.5-liter EcoBoost V6, the first V6 ever offered in the full-size SUV. While specifics haven't been confirmed, the engine will likely produce around 365 horsepower and 420 lb-ft of torque -- figures that trump last year's V8 numbers by about 55 hp and 55 lb-ft.
Beyond its new engine, the Expedition's biggest change comes to its exterior. That's where the SUV features a revised look that includes a totally new front end, new wheels and an updated rear end with a horizontal crossbar positioned on the tailgate. There are also new wheel designs and more LED lights on the outside.
Inside, the Expedition also includes a litany of changes. There's a new LCD screen in the SUV's gauge cluster, while a larger screen is available in the center control stack. The Expedition also adds a long list of newly available equipment, from adjustable suspension to safety features such as blind spot alert, rear cross-traffic alert, push-button start and a rearview camera.
Pricing for the latest Expedition has not yet been announced, though we wouldn't expect things to increase too much from today's model. That means you should expect to pay around $42,500 with shipping for a base-level Expedition XLT or $45,000 for an extended-length Expedition EL. Upscale versions of either model can easily top $60,000 with options.
What it means to you: The 2015 Ford Expedition offers major revisions to try and remain current in the face of Chevrolet's all-new 2015 Tahoe.


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Joost is the new, new thing in Internet Video. Pronounced 'juiced', it is an interactive software for viewing video over the Internet using peer-to-peer TV technology, and also has some social networking features that allow chatting and networking while viewing video. Niklas Zennström and Janus Friism, who create and founded Joost, are also founders/creators of Skype and Kazaa).If they did Skype and Kazaa, they must be smart, right? But very smart people sometimes make very big mistakes. Sometimes it is because they remain glued to their old paradigms. Below I describe some of the mistakes they have made – some in the core concepts of the technology and business model.
1. Joost relies on Streaming Video versus Download & Play. I have written a lot about this here and here and I won't repeat it. The point that needs to be made is that with Streaming, you cannot guarantee Quality of Service (QOS). Even with excellent bandwidth on both sides, you can still get jittery, jerky and stalled video at least some of the time, because of the all nodes in between that are outside your control. With Cable TV you get excellent quality 100% of the time. This is one of the reasons IPTV has not been successfully deployed although people have been trying for more than a decade.
This is the first mistake made by the creators of Joost. I believe they simply accepted the prevailing paradigm that Internet Video means Streaming Video. Instead, downloaded content guarantees QOS because it is local and today's storage mechanisms are robust enough to deliver even HD quality video seamlessly. Ultimately, it is not about the cool technology – it is about the user experience.
There is of course another twist to this. A lot content providers prefer streaming, because they feel that if it never leaves the server, it is safe from piracy. So Joost may have been forced to use Streaming Video by the content owners. However, it is a misconception that Streaming Video cannot be copied. There are numerous utilities out there that will download the content behind any streaming link.
2. Worse, Joost uses (or at least plans to use wherever possible), Peer-to-Peer Streaming Video. First, like server-based Streaming, guaranteeing QOS is not possible. It is even harder with Peer-to-Peer (P2P), because there is no control over the bandwidth of the peers. For example, someone streaming to you may suddenly decide to engage in some other activity that affects their bandwidth to you, and the stream delivered by them becomes choppy and jerky. They may even shutdown their device altogether and you lose whatever they were supposed to transmit to you. Can you say "massive overhead"? See also this Wikipedia article on "Peercasting".
According to an unverified source, a Dutch ISP has tested Peer-to-Peer Streaming in the field and found that approximately 40% additional overhead is to be expected in using this technology. It is not clear whether the overhead is in the bandwidth (due to retransmission) or in processing (due to reconfiguration of the sources). However, it makes sense that there is overhead when combining buffers from multiple peers. And if one of the providers becomes unavailable, there will be tremendous overhead in reconfiguring the others.
P2P works best when downloading, as BitTorrent has shown. This is because the download does not have to be sequential like a stream and there is plenty of time to download missing portions of the file later. Unfortunately, the creators of Joost know peer-to-peer best (both Kazaa and Skype are P2P applications) and people have a tendency to use the technology they know best – even if it is sometimes inappropriate.
3. It essentially duplicates Cable TV. Using a broadcast model and channels with a fixed schedule, instead of allowing time shifting and VOD. To be fair some channels on Joost are VOD, but again, in terms of relative volume of VOD content vs. broadcast content it is the same as Cable TV. Another reason why IPTV has not been successful – there is not a sufficiently compelling reason for a consumer to switch. There is the promise of additional content but that has not materialized and even where it has, there has not been so much additional content, that consumers are willing to switch to IPTV (with its disadvantages) and abandon Cable TV.
4. No user contribution possible. Content has to be approved by Joost. This is a big deal. No company in the world can conceivably license all the content in the world. Even if someone had a lot of money (several trillion dollars in readily available cash), they still need the time and resources to contact every content-owner to license their content. If they don't have cash, they will be spending huge resources on negotiating content rights and royalty payments (possibly several trillion person-days!) – some licensing contracts run into a hundred pages or more! And of course they will be competing with other players who are willing to offer a higher royalty or show a larger installed base (the dark specter of Redmond always looms in the background).
What is needed is a model where a content owner simply adopts the technology and can control pricing, distribution, everything. Like the DVD platform – all the content owners had to do was to create the DVD. They didn't have to negotiate with anyone because they already owned the rights. I can't help plug L3 of course, but that is one of is strengths – no rights negotiations are required, the content owner simply convert their video into the L3 format.
5. Their software is open source. At least large portions of it apparently are – see this article. If significant portions of the software are open-source all the code must be open source according to my understanding of the GPL (the licensing protocol for open-source software).
Although this is definitely a weakness, it is not a very big deal. Once they are successful (or perhaps they are doing this even now since they have plenty of money), they can rewrite the code. And frankly, the bigger challenges, as the same article points out, are on the business end.
6. It is a lean forward experience only. A successful video deployment on the Internet will be one that provides both a lean-back and a lean-forward experience with the emphasis on the former. You cannot change the behavior of the vast majority of consumers who are used to and want the lean back experience of watching video on TV. It may work for 25 year olds, but most geeks who design this software forget that not everyone is their age.
7. Joost could be regulated like a Cable Franchise. See this article for a good overview of possible regulation (the authors do make a case against regualtion). Although many companies providing IPTV are arguing that they should not be regulated in the same manner as Cable TV, they may not win that battle. AT&T in the US, MTNL in India, China Telecom, all of them are fighting the respective regulators. AT&T has even gone to congress to pass a bill that would allow them to obtain franchises nationwide rather than from each municipality. Until such a law is passed, Joost has a problem.
…and one reason why it probably won't. A Venture Capitalist once said that he never looks at the business plan or financials. He simply looks at the quality of the team. According to him, a good team can fix a bad business plan (perhaps even bad technology?), but a bad team can mess up even the best business plan. So, a team like Zennstorm and Fris can fix the problems Joost has. Of course, I think they can only fix it by using L3 technology. :-)


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Revenge of the Facebook Stalker (Transcript)
I hooked up with a jerk with a girlfriend—should I rat him out online?
Farhad Manjoo: Do modern cheaters deserve a digital comeuppance?
Emily Yoffe: I'm Emily Yoffe, Slate's Dear Prudence advice columnist.
Farhad: I'm Slate's technology columnist, Farhad Manjoo, and this is Manners for the Digital Age.
Emily: Today's question is from a woman who unwittingly hooked up with a guy who wasn't as single as he seemed, and now wonders if she should rat him out.
She writes, "Hi Emily and Farhad. My friend and I went home with two guys we met at a concert last night. I hooked up with Rich, but when my friend later refused to hook up with his friend, Dan, Dan announced, 'Whatever, we both have girlfriends anyway.' Rich confirmed this. I came home and Facebook stalked them both, like all modern girls do. I found Rich's girlfriend on Facebook. They had been dating for over a year and seemed serious. I highly doubt this is a consensually non-monogamous relationship. In fact, my friend borrowed Rich's phone briefly and saw a text from his girlfriend that said, 'Have fun. I trust you. I love you.' Should I message her on Facebook about her lousy, cheating boyfriend?" Signed, Facebook Stalker
Emily: So, Farhad, should this woman exact revenge via social network?
Farhad: Yes, I think she should. I went back and forth on this, and I couldn't decide because I kind of felt like maybe I should cut this guy some slack. But he's such an idiot – and his friend is too – to hook up in this way and then announce, "Well, we both have girlfriends." He presumably gave these women their real names. They're just begging to be outed in this way. If there's any sort of positive thing about Facebook, it's that we all live more transparently now. If you're going to live transparently, if you're going to put all your stuff out on the Internet, you should suffer the consequences I think.
Emily: I think that's one of the negative things about Facebook. But in this case, I say Facebook comes to the rescue. First of all, let me back up a little about the guys. Girls, what are you thinking? I'm assuming "hook up" means some kind of serious sex act. Maybe she needs to prioritize. Instead of calling the girlfriend first, she should call her local STD clinic and get checked out because this whole thing is just ridiculous. I know they're young people, but don't sleep with some guy you just met at a concert… unless it's the guy giving the concert, maybe.
I agree with you. These guys deserve no protection. I actually have an objection to these Facebook stalking, Facebook lurking terms. The stuff is out there. Go ahead and look if you want. I don't think it should have any negative connotation. These girls have done some detective work, and I think it would be doing a service to let the girlfriends know, "Hey, this is what the guys you trust do when they go to a concert."
Farhad: It's not stalking. If you put your stuff out on the Internet, if you put your name and all your relationships out on the web, you're inviting this kind of thing. Obviously, someone you sleep with is going to look you up online, and they're going to see that you're a terrible person, and you're going to have to suffer the consequences for it.
I think that if more people told on these lousy, cheating boyfriends (like we're saying this woman should do), we'd have fewer lousy, cheating boyfriends. Maybe what we're really encouraging is that people should just cheat secretly, more anonymously – give each other fake names.
There's this site called Ashley Madison. It's a dating site for people who are married, and you go on there and you say you're married and you want to hook up with someone else who's married. The idea behind it is that it's mutually-assured destruction. You're both going to be secret about it, because you both have something to lose. Maybe by telling this woman to go after this boyfriend, maybe that's what we are encouraging.
Emily: Farhad, how do you know about Ashley Madison?
Farhad: You know how I know about it? I wrote a story about Anthony Weiner, and then I spoke to the people at Ashley Madison. I am not a member.
Emily: Oh sure, thank you. You're not a member. Sure, the Weiner excuse. Okay, go with that. I'm not so sure I trust technology to change human nature in any profound way as far as cheating is concerned. You're right. Here you go. There's a technological cutout that allows you to more easily cheat.
But I do think, in this case, before Facebook if you had hooked up with these jerks, how would you possibly start tracking down their girlfriends? You'd have to call people and really do some embarrassing detective work. So, here it is. They used their real names. I say, ladies, female solidarity. Let these other women know who they're really involved with.
Farhad: I think we've mentioned it before that if you are going out with someone and they don't have a Facebook profile, you should be suspicious.
Emily: Wait a minute. You may have mentioned that.
Farhad: I think I've recommended that. You know why, though? Imagine if this guy didn't have a Facebook profile. That's why. You should be suspicious of someone who is not making your relationship known publicly on a site like Facebook. I'm going to go on record with that.
Emily: I'm fine with people not having a Facebook page if they don't want one. However, I think you're right. If you're of a certain age and you meet someone who you are about to go to bed with, and that person doesn't have a Facebook page, you may be getting a false name. It could be some kind of red flag. This also comes back to don't sleep with the guy you met at the concert.
Farhad: Or at least check their Facebook page before you do.
Emily: Or at least use a condom.
Farhad: Yes, that too.
Emily: Okay, Farhad. Here's my bottom line. No sleeping with people you don't know. If you do, and you find out they have a girlfriend, let her know on Facebook.
Farhad: I agree with you. You should let her know on Facebook. I also recommend you should check out people's Facebook profiles before you sleep with them.
Emily: Send us your questions about shifting etiquette in the online age. Our address is email@example.com
Farhad: You can also join our Facebook page where we carry on the conversation throughout the week. Go to www.Facebook.com/digitalmanners.
Emily: And we'll talk to you next time on Manners for the Digital Age.


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Suffice it to say none of the Cincinnati Reds will ever go hungry during one of the team's charter flights.
Dallas Latos, the wife of Cincinnati pitcher Mat Latos, tweeted the team's menu for the flight from Chicago to Cincinnati over the weekend. And it is something else. It includes pre-departure snacks, dinner, snacks and beverages. All for a roughly one hour flight.
Here's a recap:
Pre-Departure Snacks: Individual personal pizzas, California sushi rolls, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, assorted chips, shrimp cocktail, fresh fruit cups.
Dinner selections: Carrot cake, Fried shrimp with macaroni and cheese and sauteed haricot verts, chicken stir fry with jasmine rice and stir fried vegetables, baked lasagna, bleu cheese and spinach entree salad with a grilled beef fillet on top of a salad, angus beef burgers
Snacks: Haagen-Dazs ice cream bars, caramel popcorn, fresh fruit and cheese, assorted candy bars, mixed nuts.
"@meganash3: @dallaslatos no pic of in-flight menu?!" Only for you. twitter.com/DallasLatos/st…
— Dallas Latos(@DallasLatos) May 6, 2013
If this is the menu for a trip from Chicago to Cincinnati, you've got to wonder: What's the menu for the Reds' flight to San Diego?
(H/T to For The Win)