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Jaipur the capital city of the northern Indian state of Rajasthan is one of the most lively and colorful cities of India. It is popularly known as the 'pink city' because of its pink- colored sandstone buildings, painted pink to welcome Prince Alfred in 1853, pink being the color of hospitality . Famous for its rich culture, forts, palaces, and lakes the city relishes in the glory of a rich and eventful past. The city sits on a dry lakebed in an arid landscape surrounded by barren hills and surmounted by fortresses and crenellate walls and numerous other monuments, which have been interest from time immemorial. It a bustling capital city and a business centre with all the trapping of modern metropolis but yet flavored strongly with an age-old charm that never fails to surprise a traveler.
Jaipur is a well planned city which is made all the more attractive by the pink wash that most buildings are given. A formidable protective wall with seven gates girdled the entire city. The city was planned to conform to a geometric grid representing the nine divisions of the universe. The old city of Jaipur has neat and broadly laid-out avenues; all painted pink that gives a magical glow to the city, especially in the evenings. Jaipur therefore is blessed with the richness of cultural and architectural beauty that surpasses most other regions of India.
Jaipur, (City of Victory) was founded in 1727 by astronomer-King Maharaja Jai Singh II, a Kachhwaha Rajput, when he decided to shift his seat of power from Amer, 11 km northeast of the new city. The city was a marvel of town planning with separate sectors being earmarked for craftsmen and merchants. The history and times of Jaipur are deeply entwined with the stories of royal princes and princesses, with grand Mughals and later with visiting dignitaries from the British Royal family or 20th century royalty like the US Presidential families. Today modern Jaipur plays host to all of them and to many thousands of ordinary people who come here enchanted by all that the city has to offer. Jaipur is home to the Jantar Mantar and amongst the most remarkable monuments in Jaipur, is the famous Hawa Mahal, a sandstone screen from behind which the ladies of the court could watch the proceedings on the road below without being seen. In the heart of the city is situated the City Palace, a blend of Rajasthani and Mughal architecture. The place is now a museum except for one section where the erstwhile royal family still lives. The city palace has an exclusive part devoted to the arms and ammunitions used by the royal family in the past. Stunning backdrop of ancient forts Nahargarh, Amer, Jaigarh and Moti Dungri are dramatic testimonials of the bygone era and a reminder of their lingering romance. The other places of interest are Jaipur Museum, Albert Museum, Birla Mandir Planetarium, Sisodia Rani Park, Lakshmi Narain Temple, Kanak Vrindavan, the Raj Mahal Palace and Rambagh Palace (now a Luxury hotel). The people of Jaipur like any other part of Rajasthan are known for their colorful attires. People here are quite rugged in their appearance. However, these desert people are well-built, cheerful and simple rather untouched by the swiftness of modern times. Here, people prefer to wear bright colored clothes, as if they are compensating for the barren landscape. Women of Jaipur like Red, yellow, green and orange colored attire with a dazzling work of gold/ silver zari or gota. Tribal Ladies wear loads of Silver jewelry even men too can be spotted wearing earrings. The men wear turbans or pagadis of bandhej (tie & dye) in bright colors. The cultural prosperity of Rajasthan is evident in its local festivals some of which attract international attention. Jaipur also witnesses some of these; the most important being the Elephant Festival gets underway in the month of Phalgun (March) on the eve of Holi, the festival of colors. It is famous for its procession of elephants, camels, horses and folk dancers. The sight of mighty jumbos striding majestically is a treat to watch. Other interesting events at the festival include, a polo match, the Elephant race, the tug-of-war between an elephant and nineteen men, Gangaur festival a unique festival held annually in honor of goddess Gauri. Being the capital city of Rajasthan and an international tourist destination Jaipur is well connected to major parts of India by road, rail and air. Jaipur airport, also known as Sanganer Airport, is directly connected to Delhi, Mumbai, Jodhpur, Udaipur, and Ahmedabad. The Pink City Express, Chetak Express and few other Jaipur-Delhi trains leave from the Old Delhi Railway Station in Delhi. However, if one has money and leisure, there is no better option than the Palace-on-Wheels, which leaves Delhi every Wednesday. Besides, Jaipur is well connected by road to various parts of India. Delhi-Jaipur national highway is one of the finest roads in India. Jaipur, India therefore firmly holds its position on the world tourist map. A status, which has been bestowed on it due to its vibrant lifestyle, colorful people and a history that is full of stories, reflecting the bravery of those who occupied this region in the past. These beside, there are quite a few important tourist destinations around Jaipur which gives the tourist more than one reason to visit this city. One such location is Gaitor located 15 km from Jaipur it is the place where chhatris of Jaipur's rulers stand amidst respectful silence. Twenty carved pillars support its elegant dome, which is a dazzling structure in white marble. At a distance of 40 kilometers from Jaipur, is located Sanganer, a place known for its textile block printing, papermaking and Jaipur blue pottery, besides several temples and an old palace. Other important tourist places around Jaipur are Ramgarh, Abhaneri, Balaji, and Karauli. |
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Hey Glammies: We always get excited when our friends at LIFETIME TV invite us to PROJECT RUNWAY EVENTS, and we plan our year around MERCEDES BENZ FASHION WEEK. So when the two COME TOGETHER it's a Glam's HEAVEN ON EARTH!!!!
FIRST OF ALL The judges ALL LOOKED FABULOUS!!! Nina Garcia looks better and better every year, Heidi Klum wore a Glam Gold blinged out dress with an open back and some bare side-ab on the front, The surprise Guest judge was Jennifer Hudson! She wore a vivid green jumpsuit with a matching jacket by Michael Kors, who was dressed in his quintessential all black attire! Jennifer's hair was styled in a chic side braid!
This seasons finale was BY FAR the BEST YET!!!! The production team did a GLAMTASTIC JOB, most of the designs were AMAZING!!! We especially LOVED the widespread use of LEATHER in a number of the collections presented. There were 8 designers in all who got to show their collections, but once the show is edited you will only see the final 3. We know who they are, and who the WINNER is. But due to the confidentiality release, we can't reveal it yet! We'll let you guys know real soon. Check out the photos of the happenings at the Season Finale taping!!! Enjoy!
I caught this GREAT SHOT of Michael Kors!
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We got some GREAT SWAG! Stay tuned for our GLAMTASTIC GIVAWAY!!! We are GIVING AWAY one of the OFFICIAL PROJECT RUNWAY MERCEDES BENZ FASHION WEEK SEASON 10 FINALE SWAG BAGS the last week of September!!!! Stay tuned for details!!!!
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Autism currently effects one in every ninety-one children, and that number is rapidly rising. Members of the mainstream medical establishment maintain that they cannot ascertain the cure for autism, and even more astounding; they pretend to not even know the cause. The only thing they claim to have discovered with certainty is that vaccinations cannot be the culprit. Vaccines have become exempt from all institutional criticisms, and they are paraded as a "miracle of modern science"; even though the Centers For Disease Control found that approximately half of the physicians refuse to take routine vaccinations, due to "safety" and "efficacy" reasons. Nevertheless, they uniformly preach in unison that vaccines are safe enough for you and your children.
After all, vaccines ended the polio and smallpox epidemics, right? Not exactly. The vaccines were conveniently released just after the epidemics began dying out naturally. The end of the epidemics were mirrored in countries which did not use any vaccines, and frequently at a faster rate. Not only was history rewritten to favor vaccines, but any evidence of their side-effects has been suppressed.


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Oh, Sleeper's "Hush Yael" Music Video Released 01.22.13 at 11:20am Posted by wookubus 167 views 4 comments You can watch Oh, Sleeper's new music video for their track "Hush Yael" below: TAGS: Hush Yael, Oh Sleeper
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One of the four Carmel basketball players accused of assaulting their classmates will have to wait a little longer to learn if his case will be moved out of town.A hearing for Robert Kitzinger regarding his change of venue request was supposed to take place Thursday. However, that hearing has been moved to September 3rd.
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I was just informed that I have someone impersonating me by the name of "Kayzhar". I'm just here to clarify that this is not me. Thanks for informing me of this, Mightymicah
I was just informed that I have someone impersonating me by the name of "Kayzhar". I'm just here to clarify that this is not me. Thanks for informing me of this, Mightymicah
They're annoying, but I havent seen them claim to be you.
I have fans... They stalk me though...
My sig can not behurm iszmsj omg
Looks like someone is full of himself... Seriously? Thats not a look alike... That name is entirely different.
I'm not full of myself, sorry if I came off that way. Just stating I have someone saying they're me. Sorry for the misunderstandingOriginally Posted by Yich:674717
It just seemed like the creator of the thread meant that because their name is similar they are copying them...
ZOMG today I saw a guy named Izxninjaxzi and he is totally impersonating me by having a similiar name.
Delete him plox support .
There are always guys/gals who have similiar nicks with u. It's not a problem unless they actually claim to be u.
No, my friend told me that the person said they were me. Sorry for the misunderstandingOriginally Posted by Yich:674783
I never said the name was similar. As posted above, he claimed to be me. Sorry for any confusion.Originally Posted by dudetus:674807
People....Don't hate if you can't even read correctly lol
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Lol... Seriously
@Kaytar, you dont have to apologize for peoples inability to read... I hope this "inpersonator" doesnt do any harm.
@everyone who cant read, there are programs such as "hooked on phonics".... Try them
I provided a link because you may have to do light reading in order to find it:
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The Pap smear has experienced a rapid evolution in the last several years. Although use of technology and thus the costs of the Pap test will undoubtedly increase in the coming years, public health paradigms for screening will place limitations on the latter, and in order to optimally utilize technology, a sophisticated understanding of this simple and common test will be necessary. This course will focus on the use of new technologies including the use of monolayer preparations, automated cervical screening for either primary screening of quality assurance, and human papillomavirus testing. The basic premises of screening will be reviewed, the concepts behind each technology examined, and the literature for each of these techniques, including the cost-effectiveness, will be extensively reviewed. A practical approach for evaluating these new techniques will be discussed.
In addition, the cytologic features of common and uncommon benign, neoplastic, and malignant lesions of squamous and glandular cells on thin layer cytology will be reviewed along with common pitfalls. A combination of didactic and case-study presentations will be used for this course. This course is suitable for general pathologists and pathology residents with interest in gynecologic cytopathology. All registrants will be mailed CD of representative course materials. A detailed syllabus will be distributed at the course. (Last Scheduled Presentation)


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The kinetic theme is translated cleverly through drama and contemporary dance, music and energetic scene-changing"
Walk down any town centre street on a Saturday night and you will see people of both sexes staggering around, obviously out of control of their behaviour"
We've been spoilt. Supporting Wrexham has been a rollercoaster ride from one extreme to another, topped off by that marvellous March afternoon in Wembley. They couldn't repeat it in May. So what? That's football."
You can't go much higher than Manchester United, and very few would criticise him for accepting their offer of taking over from Alex Ferguson."
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In the present world economic climate and with life expectancies continuing to increase, it is totally unrealistic for us to expect any government to step in and save more for our futures"
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British Airways temporary cancels its short-haul Heathrow flights after one of its planes was forced to return to Heathrow shortly after take-off amid fears of an engine fire
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Despite Economic Concerns, Strong Apartment Demand Remains23 Aug, 2011, New York
Despite sluggish economic conditions, apartment demand remains strong, according to Cushman
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Declining homeownership rates, limited access to credit for potential homebuyers and a lack of confidence in both the economy and the housing market has led to unprecedented levels of households opting to rent versus own their home. While the slowdown in the overall economy slightly slowed the pace of demand in the second quarter, overall vacancy rates for the U.S. apartment market declined to 5.9 percent at midyear, down from 6.2 percent at the end of the previous quarter, and approaching the pre-recession low of 5.7 percent. Markets in the Southeast and Southwest - including Charleston, Austin, Greensboro, Charlotte, Jacksonville, Orlando, Phoenix and Las Vegas - have seen the strongest year-over-year increases in occupancy, with vacancy rates declining three to four percentage points over the past 12 months. Metros in Texas have all continued to outperform the market. Despite accounting for just 14 percent of total U.S. apartment inventory, Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston and San Antonio have accounted for nearly 21 percent of all U.S. absorption since the beginning of 2010. Rent growth accelerated during the second quarter, with both asking rents - at $1,053 per unit - and effective rents - at $997 per unit - recording their strongest quarter-over-quarter increase since midyear 2008. The Bay Area has the strongest quarterly increases in effective rents, as below 4.0 percent vacancy rates in San Jose and San Francisco contributed to rent increases of 2.0 percent and 1.3 percent quarter-over-quarter. New York area markets, including Manhattan, Westchester, Long Island and Fairfield County, also saw notable gains in effective rents. While demand continues to improve, supply remained limited, with only 15,760 units completed in the first half of 2011. Total construction completions for 2011 are expected to total just over 40,300 units, less than 50 percent of the 2010 total, and the lowest total of construction completions in more than a decade. Nearly one-third of all units under constructions are concentrated in Washington, D.C. and its surrounding areas or Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston and San Antonio in Texas. Improving fundamentals have led to more access to financing for apartment sales transactions, which boosted investment volume in the second quarter of 2011. U.S. apartment sales totaled $22.9 billion for the first half of the year. In the second quarter alone, $13.9 billion in sales were completed, more than double the volume of second quarter 2010 and the highest quarterly total since the first quarter of 2008. As competition among investors increases, attention has shifted outside of the New York and Washington, D.C. areas to markets including San Francisco, Boston and Chicago, where sales volume increased 450 percent in the first half of the year. Secondary markets including Atlanta, Oakland, Philadelphia, Northern New Jersey, Charlotte and Seattle have also seen volume increase by more than 200 percent. "We expect strong demand from both tenants and investors to continue through the end of this year," said Steven Weilbach, senior managing director of Capital Markets and U.S. Multifamily Practice Leader for Cushman & Wakefield. "Looking forward, class B and C products will play larger roles in the big picture. Increasing rental rates for class A buildings will have tenants looking for less-expensive options, and investors with capital to spend will seek deals for alternative assets as demand for high-quality product remains highly competitive." # # #


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Fuck That Noise, made in Twine for the One Game a Month challenge, is an interactive guide to deciding whether or not you should go to law school, and how to get there. Ok, really it is just a pissy little takedown of the whole process of applying for law school, but it takes the form of a guide.
For the record, I have now been accepted to a number of schools, and I am feeling much better about the whole thing, but I started writing this game when I was really hating the process, so that's where the tone comes from.
I made this as catharsis and also to force myself to learn some of the style features of Twine that I did not utilize in my first Twine game. I was counting on fonts to get some of my points across, but then I found out that only a select few fonts are universal, which resulted in a lot of changes. But that's the learning process, I guess. Criticisms are welcome and appreciated
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Oaktree Deal Raises Distress About Private Fund IPOs
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Can the average stock market investor make money investing in Wall Street's exclusive private equity and debt trading clubs?
As investors are tempted once again to tap rarified trading profits that were once available to only the smartest Wall Street minds and the world's richest investors, the tepid response to the initial public offering from the industry's largest distressed debt manager, Oaktree Capital, suggests more investors answered this question in the negative than bankers expected.
Investors are right to be skeptical of this IPO crop -- Carlyle Group is hoping to follow Oaktree and begin a road show next week.
Oaktree -- with $75 billion in assets under management -- placed 8.8 million shares -- lower than its original goal of 11 million shares -- at the bottom end of its price range, or $43. Thursday's deal raised $380 million for Oaktree, as it lists shares on the New York Stock Exchange under ticker "OAK". Shares fell lower than the IPO price in Oaktree's debut morning of trading. In an ironic footnote to the Oaktree deal, one of its restructuring investments, Aleris International, a once bankrupt steel manufacturer, scrapped a planned IPO on the same day that Oaktree priced its lackluster deal.
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The Oaktree deal comes amid a poor performance run for several of the private equity players that have already gone public, including Blackstone Group(BX) , KKR(KKR) , Apollo Global Management(APO) , Fortress Investment Group(FIG) and Och-Ziff Capital Management(OZM) .
Blackstone Group shares are off roughly 50% since its 2007 IPO, while Fortress and Och-Ziff have fared even worse since hitting stock markets. Among recent listings, Apollo's shares are off roughly 20%, while KKR is a rare alternative asset manager in the green, posting a 30%-plus stock gain.


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SPCA Florida hosts Polytrauma and CPR seminar
UF's Dr. Garith Buckley reviews polytrauma response with SPCA Florida veterinary staff during a seminar.
On Tuesday, Dec. 18, SPCA Florida hosted three world-renowned veterinarians from University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine.
Dr. Andre Shih, assistant professor of Large Animal Clinical Sciences and Anesthesia & Pain Management began the Polytrauma Emergency and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and his colleagues, conducted wet labs on CPR and emergency room procedures using life-like patient mannequins. In addition to teaching at UF and conducting seminars across the country, Drs. Shih, Buckley and Lanaux treat patients at UF Veterinary Hospitals Emergency Medicine and Critical Care Services and UF Emergency Treatment Services in Ocala.


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Dispelling the Islamic Myth of Mubahila
Eid al-Mubahila is annual commemoration of the event of Mubahila occurred in 631 AD. This was the day, at the invitation of Muhammad, when Muhammad and the representatives of the Christians of Najran gathered to debate – and imprecate – each other.
The term mubahila in Arabic means "debate" but it has the additional meaning of "imprecate" (i.e., curse) as well. This dual association hails from the dynamics of debate in the nomadic cultures which first were deceived to accept Islam. To the tribes of the desert who became Islam's first converts, a debate was not so much matching two arguments against each other to establish one proposition as having more merit than the other as it was threatening and cursing until the other person backed down. In the west it would be called a "shouting match", not the calm debate to which Western Society is accustomed.
It remains to this day a sound primer for Islamic techniques of argument. Once an Islamic argument is proven incorrect or wrong, that the information they are giving is incorrect or does not exist, a Muslim will "shout, curse, threaten, insult" the other person or group to get them to "back down", copying Mubahila and call this a victory if the other person discontinues the argument.
In reality, it is not a victory as Mubahila was not a true victory. It is the weakness of the Islamic argument replaced with bellicosity. This a basic tenet of Islam, threaten to gain acceptance and when that does not work, use violence, intimidation and murder, to advance the cause of the domination of Islam over all people, all nations of the world.
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Choosing a Product Development Strategy
If you have a good understanding of your market, another way to leverage your knowledge is to develop new products and services to meet this market's needs. If you hear the term product development, you may think about brand new products, but that's not necessarily the case.
Executing a product development strategy can happen by adding more value to your existing product through features, upselling, or cross selling. The best thing about this strategy is you've already established yourself in your current markets and you know what your customers want. You have the distribution channels, and you know how to reach them.
Consider the following questions if you're thinking about expanding your product line or developing new products:
- Will your customer benefit from the added value or new feature? Are they asking for additions to the current product line?
- Do potential manufacturing, marketing, and distribution cost efficiencies exist from an expanded product line? Can you share current costs across the new products or services?
- Can your current assets, brand, marketing, and distribution be used with the new product?
- Do you have the skills and capabilities to develop and produce the products proposed?
After you've given product development some consideration, and you've decided to proceed full steam ahead, here's how to develop new products and services to meet your market's needs:
- Add new features or services by extending your current products. For example, cell phone companies add on media packages for text messaging, additional ring tones, and Internet access. Here are a few ways to extend your current offering:
- Adapt (to other ideas and developments)
- Modify (change color, motion, sound, odor, form, shape)
- Magnify (more for a higher price, stronger, longer, extra value)
- Reduce (smaller, trial version, shorter, lighter)
- Substitute (other ingredients, processes, power)
- Combine (other options, products, ideas, assortments)
- Develop additional models and sizes of your current products. For example, the iPod expanded to the iPod mini and the iPod nano.
- Develop totally new products. In this case, you usually leverage your brand recognition. Some good examples of this development are Gerber producing baby clothes and a CPA firm expanding from tax work into financial planning.
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(Image of 1 Samuel 18:27 used with the kind permission of Brendan Powell Smith, from his book The Brick Bible, available on Amazon.com.)
Dan Kimball is one of my oldest friends. We went to college together, moved to London, and played in a band in the 1980s. He's an excellent cartoonist, an amazing drummer, and one of the funniest people I've ever met. He runs the Vintage Faith Church in Santa Cruz and has written a number of books on Christianity.
Last week, Dan launched Wednesday-Weird-Bible-Verse on his blog, in which he discusses one of the "hundreds of very strange sounding, weird, sex descriptive, bizarre and even violent verses in the Bible."
The first weird Bible verse he tackles is 1 Samuel 18:27: "David took his men with him and went out and killed two hundred Philistines and brought back their foreskins. They counted out the full number to the king so that David might become the king's son-in-law. Then Saul gave him his daughter Michal in marriage."
In reading this story straight from the Bible, it even states how after David brought the forsekins back to Saul that they counted them to show how many there were. What an incredibly weird image of David standing there counting out 200 foreskins. I have beeen fascinated with the life of David lately having studied through the his story in the Hebrew Bible/First Testament (I try not to say "Old Testament" as that can subtly indicate it isn't valid or important. So I use the term "First Testament" or "Hebrew Bible" instead).
Read the rest on Dan's blog.
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http://glitch.tl/ Michael Smith
Was it one hundred foreskins (according to the subject line) or 200 (according to the quotation)?
According to Google, in the KJV:
27 Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king's son in law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife.
So it's 200. One has to wonder if he would have been really embarrassed if it came up to just 197 or something.
Elizabeth Doxtator-Morenberg
If he didn't have enough, would David have come up short?
100 was the official price, which was supposed to get the boy killed, but David got zealous and went for 200. (i'm pretty sure. i've read the bible 29 times)
I forget — which one of the Presidential candidates wants to take us back to that currency standard?
http://twitter.com/ShirtNinja K. Williams
That's Ron Paul's backup strategy just in case the Gold Standard thing doesn't work out.
Directives to print more currency will take a little while to fulfill.
tip your waitress
Michael Smith – Once you get up above one or two, does it really matter? It could as easily say "a fucking lot of foreskins"!
Mya Lewis
I choose to believe that this story (or something like it) is what inspired Louis C.K. to come up with his phrase "suck a bag full of dicks."
Antinous / Moderator
Could you please not attach a picture to every comment? That's what the avatar is for.
All kinds of shenanigans in David's life, according to the books.
In 2 Samuel, Saul chastises his son Jonathan because of a notorious, heavy-duty bromance with David, stating:"I know you have chosen the son of Jesse – which is a disgrace to yourself and the nakedness of your mother!"
Mya Lewis
That's actually in the first book of Samuel, chapter 20, verse 30 (
Is the image in this post ^^ relevant to the discussion?
It only looks like a foreskin if I squint.
http://www.vitamincm.com VitaminCM
I just had to take my father-in-law out for a burger and ask him. Now I feel kinda like a slacker???
Whaddya know, a king who will marry off his daughter for tips…
Dick trimmings, with a side of wife.
So, uh, what's the collective noun for a group of foreskins?
A flop of foreskins?
A puddle of foreskins?
http://newnumber6.livejournal.com Peter
A 'stretch'.
Paul McGibboney
A dangling.
Seriously, aren't all religious texts an easy target for laughs, insults and belittling?
Sure they are, but you can also study and enjoy the weird parts as a more serious intellectual exercise, which is what Dan is doing.
Are we just discovering the bible is filled with crazy stuff? 1 samual …oh around 6 (if i recall correctly): golden hemorrhoids!
There was one particularly risque one I came across recently (maybe it was on AutoCoWrecks?) that struck me as odd because it wasn't from Song of Songs. Does that ring a bell with anyone?
Matthew Stone
Concerning the foreskins fiasco, it's worth noting that Saul was trying to get David killed. Again.
Once, a bunch of kids mocked Elisha for being bald. Elisha cursed them in the name of the Lord and two bears came out of the woods and mauled 42 of the kids. Because 42.
Unfortunately, there's no consensus on whether or not the bears ripped off the kids' foreskins.
Antinous / Moderator
Because 42.
It's gematria. Numbers correspond to Hebrew letters. Change the numbers to the letters to get a secret message. The bible's full of easter eggs.
Henry Pootel
Bible. Full of easter eggs. Snerk.
Ah ha. Well, 40+2 = mem+bet. Probably stands for "mean baldhead" ;)
Antinous / Moderator
So many foreskins, so little time.
Edit: Even more foreskins here… http://www.bricktestament.com/joshua/second_circumcision/jos05_07.html One of my favorite scenes from the Brick Testament.
Pedantic Douchebag
Goliath was a Philistine; his giant foreskin must've equaled more than a normal sized model.
Mya Lewis
Since penis size does not correlate directly with height, it's quite possible that the physically giant Goliath had a tiny penis. This may be the impetus for his becoming a champion at slaying people.
Pedantic Douchebag
Well, he did drive a bright red chariot…
Henry Pootel
I wonder if in a moment of frivolity and fun, one of the soldiers slipped one on and pranced about saying, "Hey look at me! I'm a Philistine!" I bet everyone laughed.
Lego forskins = not to scale
Speak for yourself.
Alan Olsen
They later got converted to the first manufactured meat product.
Yes David was the inventor of "e-Mohel Spam".
Mitchell Glaser
And yea, the Queen sewed together the foreskins, and made thereof a wallet, and gave it unto the King. And the King said, "All those foreskins madest only one wallet?" And the Queen replied "Strokest thou the wallet and it shall become as a matching set of luggage."
- Samsonite 5:15
I know an professor of the Old Testament who is going to love your post.
This raises a good point — just what *does* a king do with 200 foreskins??? Will we be reading news someday of an archaeologist running out of a cave screaming, "Eeeeeeeewwwww!" after finding a clay jar full of dried foreskins?
Does Lego David look like Tom Cruise?
So according to the fundamentalists, homosexuality is a sin, but David depantsing 200 strangers and getting a good grip on their rods and staffs is totally OK? And exactly what would one call Saul's fetish for foreskins? Did they have to be fresh, or could they be dried? What did they do about counterfeits?
http://twitter.com/DanKimball Dan Kimball
Toff – That is a great question. In the Bible we see God reprimanding David for his violence and did not allow him to build the Temple in Jerusalem as he shares when speaking to his son in this passage:"My son, I had it in my heart to build a house to the name of the LORD my God. But the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 'You have shed much blood and have waged great wars. You shall not build a house to my name, because you have shed so much blood before me on the earth'" (1 Chronicles 22:7–8).Because people did things in the Bible like David did, doesn't mean that God would approve of it.
But doesn't it say: "And the LORD helped David wherever he went", in reference to the violence that David is now being penalized for?
Ashen Victor
Hint… God is an asshole.
Not what I was thinking. Maybe Dan will check back to continue the conversation.
Oh, well. I was hoping…
aren't you publishing some sort of book on rockabilly/jesus?"
my friend JR mentioned something about it some time back but i can't remember the subject/title. I'd like to purchase it.
Maybe he liked jerky…
Clever. Apparently David was a bit of a jerk himself.
Getting a good grip is only the first step – ritualistic circumcision flirts with homosexuality and pedophilia even more than this. Jewish law requires the mohel performing a circumcision to suck the blood from the child's penis. This is called metzitzeh, and is still practiced by some. Others use a straw and a glass to be, you know, not weird or anything while mutilating a child's genitalia.
Wow. With inflation that's, like, 9 million foreskins.
http://glitch.tl/ Michael Smith
In Zimbabwe they must be running out.
Remember, this was in the days before rubber bands.
"Love thy neighbor. Except if you want his foreskin for some psycho despot."
http://noctilucent-studios.blogspot.com/ Noctilucent Studios
If you enjoy this sort of thing, this site really lays it all out in a very neat and easy to read format.
http://twitter.com/googoogjoob42 googoogjoob
"Christianity is not a modern man-made "organized religion", but one that is organic, community-oriented and deeply rooted in history. At Vintage Faith Church, we have gone back into the New Testament and looked at church history to see what the "vintage" early-church was like, and are attempting to translate those values of the early church vision into a church for today's culture in Santa Cruz."
oh man christian hipsters
Maybe it's a gnostic thing. You probably haven't heart of it. They were into Christianity before the Council of Nicea sold out.
Mya Lewis
It's been a few years since I've been in Santa Cruz, but I thought it still had more aging hippies than modern hipsters.
http://theladyfingers.blogspot.com/ Ladyfingers
You know, at least in this instance the Bible is recognising that having your foreskin removed against your will is an act of violence. It's a shame that's not more widely recognised, really.
Mitchell Glaser
Having experienced this personally when I was 6 days old, all I can say is thank goodness I can't remember it. I have a Turkish friend at work who told me about their equivalent of a Bar Mitzvah: at age 13 (years! not days) they throw a big party, and there in front of all your friends and family you get the Big Snip. Oy Vey!
http://theladyfingers.blogspot.com/ Ladyfingers
Yeah, the Xhosa do it as an initiation rite into adulthood where I'm originally from. Lots of deaths and lost genitalia every year.
http://www.mrericsir.com MrEricSir
A much more difficult task would be finding the non-crazy Bible verses.
http://profiles.google.com/darkfire79 Michael Birch
How many is that after inflation?
http://twitter.com/zeroanaphora แอ็ะปปี้
I've spent 2011 reading the Bible, and trust me… this doesn't scratch the surface of weirdness.
I'm an atheist and of the opinion that MORE people should read the Bible… and not just the sanitized bits they quote in church. The Torah (except the law in Leviticus and Numbers, which you can skip) and the Deuteronomic Histories (Joshua->Kings) are amazing works of literature/historical fiction and should be properly enjoyed, neither taken too seriously or sarcastically dismissed.-
I agree that any document that has survived over 2600 years deserves attention. It is a record of bronze-age man groping for a universal set of ethics. but, and I'll check my watch, we're no longer in the bronze age. It should be respected for what it is, not what it purports to be.
Ed Ligget. Tuba.
For centuries, up until the 1980s, theologians puzzled at what the hidden message in the book of Job, "up, down, left, right, a, b, select, start" meant.
Tyler Riddle
I knew the bible was full of lies. I typed that code into Contra and nothing happened!
I could use some more of these quotes … just to have some fun with these loud church people here in Ethiopia.
http://twitter.com/writebastard Ian Wood
200 foreskins? I know I'm worth it.
http://orbitnet.com JIMWICh
I feel like the key parts of these stories always get left out of the official version.
David: "Here's the calamari you ordered, Sir!"
Antinous / Moderator
In that case, I would advise against the lady having the clam chowder.
Wouldn't it have been easier to just whack off the whole wiener? Here's your 200 foreskins, with lagniappe.
When Saul moved house, I'm guessing he left the 200 foreskins in his kitchen – thus spawning the millennia-old tradition of leaving a drawer full of rubber bands for the next tenant.
Use the force, kin.
http://dreadpiraterobert.blogspot.com dreadpiraterobert
I always enjoyed the bit in Genesis (34:13-29 or so… earlier if you want the backstory) where the Israelites agree to peace terms, which meant that all the other guys had their foreskins removed so as to be one big happy family. Then, on the third day, "when they were sore" (best line), Jacob, Simeon, and Levi sneak in and kill them all. Because, you know, they're sore and can't fight well. Hahaha, suckers! got yer foreskins AND you're dead!
No wonder there are so many Christians.
http://www.jjsaul.com Jim Saul
Getting a kick… oh never mind. Too obvious.
My favorite aspect of the story, though, is the reason Gawd turned against Saul.
It was because Saul was insufficiently thorough in his gawd-ordered genocide.
"Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and nursing child, ox and sheep, camel and donkey."
"But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but everything that was despised and worthless, that they destroyed utterly."
"Then came the word of the LORD unto Samuel, saying, It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he has turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all night."
Mitchell Glaser
There's nothing I like more than smoking a good fatling.
See how interesting studying the Old Testacle can be?
An amusing book that goes into this sort of stuff in loving detail is "Ken's Guide to the Bible" by Ken Smith.
http://twitter.com/DanKimball Dan Kimball
I have that book and appreciate what Ken raised in it.
The Old Testament is written by barbarians for barbarians. I don't see how any decent human being could believe that it's the inspired word of a kind and loving god when it contains verses like,
"8 O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is he who repays you for what you have done to us- 9 he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks."
–Psalm 137, verses 8 & 9 by god's favorite foreskin harvister King David.-
http://twitter.com/DanKimball Dan Kimball
I totally understand what you are saying and why. If you are ever interested in looking into the cultural context and some ways of trying to make sense of this, there are some good books by a professor of ethics Paul Copan "Is God A Moral Monster: Making Sense of the Old Testament God" and also a Hebrew and Old Testament Professor named David Lamb (who didn't grow up in a Christian home and later became a Christian) who wrote a book called "God Behaving Badly: Is The God of the Old Testament Angry, Racist and Sexist?" They were helpful to me with the very thing you are very understandably raising up here. So your thoughts are very valid and do need to be addressed. I appreciate your response and I had the same response too. That is why I ended up studying a lot to see what was happening there and how was the Old Testament written etc. I do appreciate your comments as it is exactly how I felt as well.
Ok. Assuming you apologize for the O.T. god's bloodthirstiness adequately (and I admit I haven't read the books you refer to, though if I recall correctly, Richard Dawkins deals with at least one of them in his excellent "The God Delusion"), how do you explain the divine inspiration of 1 Kings 7, verses 23-26:
"Now he made the sea [or cauldron, or bath, depending on the translation you're reading] of cast metal ten cubits from brim to brim, circular in form, and its height was five cubits, and thirty cubits in circumference."Now, I'm no math whiz, but if it's 30 cubits around and 10 cubits across, that makes pi come out to be exactly 3, which we all know it isn't. I've read ridiculous attempts to explain this, but the fact is that the passage was written by someone whose knowledge of math was limited and who thought pi was exactly 3. If the Bible were divinely inspired by an all-knowing god, he/she/it would know better.If you believe in the Old Testament as divine truth, you believe in talking snakes, talking donkeys, chariots of fire, bushes which burn without being consumed (belying the definition of "burning"), and a man surviving for days in the belly of a fish. I prefer to have a rational view of the world where such things are relegated to fantasy books and films where they belong.
Many religions have body-part stories. Buddhist folklore tells a story of Angulimala. A guy who was set on the task of collecting one thousand little fingers from the right hand as an homage to his teacher. He wore them around his neck because the crows kept stealing them from him. Angulimala means finger-garland.
Dan Kimball may be one of your oldest friends, but I'm very disappointed that, faced with the immoral silliness of the bible tall-tales he's blogging about every Wednesday, he can't come to the logical conclusion: The bible is not "god-breathed" but nothing more than the stories of a primitive iron-age society. Rather than thrashing-about for meaning in the bible, recognize that it is man-made, and hence holds no ultimate truth. Former fundamentalists like Bart Ehrman can do it; so can you!
There are no gods. There is no supernatural. There is no after-life. Morality comes from man, and this is our one shot at existence.
Deal with it.
http://twitter.com/DanKimball Dan Kimball
Hello DoctorD!
I totally understand what you are saying as I had the same original feelings. I didn't grow up in a Christian home or ever read the Bible seriously until later in life, and then it was some of the same responses you express here is what I had. Obviously too short a space to get into a discussion here (if you ever seriously wanted to talk more, always feel free to contact me).
I can say that it isn't just blind irrational faith for someone like myself to believe in the inspiration of the Bible or that God exists. You have to define (inspiration" as that does not mean every word is to be taken literally in how you interpret it). But there are rational intelligent people who do believe in God and the Bible such as Kevin Kelly who is the founder of Wired Magazine (and he is public about his faith and the church he is part of in San Francisco) or Dr. Francis Collins who is a physician and geneticist and founder of the Human Genome Project which I imagine you have heard of. Francis has a web site based on science and faith you may find interesting http://www.biologos.org Or Peter Hitchens, who is a journalist, and was an atheist like his brother Christopher Hitchens was. But he became a Christian and is public about it.
Anyway, I raise up these three here as there are rational thinkers who do have reasons for belief. You can also watch debates with someone like Bart Erhman (I have a professor friend who debated him recently about his view of the Bible and it is on DVD and I would be happy to send you a copy if you are interested). Someone like Bart Erhman has arguments that aren't all that solid as he claims when you hear counter-arguments by other scholars. I have watched several debates with Bart Erhman and without truly being bias, Bart does not come out on top each time by any means when he is faced with scholars who know what Bart is talking about from an academic level. I have all his books too as I love reading all types of thinking out there.
I do totally appreciate varying viewpoints and I do understand what you are saying. But do know there are people who hold beliefs in God and the Bible and have studied and thought through these types of issues that aren't just taking it all at surface value or can't intelligently wrestle with things in the Bible or have to accept things blindly at all.
Thank you for taking the time to express your thoughts on what I wrote. I take your words very seriously and don't just brush off people who may not agree with me as not being valid. Thank you!
tl;dr you may not believe, but there are others who do. isn't that proof enough?
there are many and famous intelligent people who are alcoholics; this doesn't motivate me to go out and start a drinking regimen.
Julia Sweeny has some cogent comments on this subject:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICcU_GesOCU&feature=relatedThat's where an analysis of these Wednesday-Weird bible verses must inevitably lead.
http://twitter.com/DanKimball Dan Kimball
DoctorD – I have heard bits of Julia's story but just bought the DVD of her "Letting Go of God" after listening to a little from your links. Thank you for recommending it. I look forward to hearing her story as our backgrounds and early experiences with church and Christianity often shape where we end up. I love hearing stories of why someone comes to the conclusions they do. So look forward to hearing the full Julia story on the DVD i just ordered. Thank you!
You can save some time (and avoid the weekly apologetics of "god working in mysterious ways") by listening to Matt Dillahunty paraphrase many of the unpalatable stories from the bible:
This is most uncomfortable stuff if your religious experience has been limited to the warm fuzzy of "god is love" and the fatalism of "god will provide."


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