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Pre-tantric Mahāyāna has no controversies about liberation in this life. The question is whether buddhahood is possible in a singe life or not, which both Chan and Tantra addressed. Traditionally Mahāyāna has asserted that one can advance through bodhisattva stages and in that sense be liberated from samsara, though still actively engaged in it. Mahāyāna has also recognized the ability to achieve arhatship, which is liberation, though precludes any active engagement within samsara following death.Mr. G wrote:No, it won't, however Japanese Pure Land teachers Honen, Shinran and Ippen believed one could attain the stage of non-retrogression in this life. There were hints from Chinese Pure Land masters that they believed this as well (if not full enlightenment). And of course Amitabha practices in different schools of Tantra and Dzogchen believe that one can achieve liberation in this life.Huseng wrote:
It will not lead to liberation in this life.
However as you know, any Mahayana school of thought that was pre-tantric, has controversies on whether liberation is possible in this life.
Not really -- you can analyse suffering, the causes of suffering and remedy suffering in the span of even just a few years and see the results. Those results speak for themselves. You don't have to take any of it on faith so to speak if you use common sense and consider the causes for suffering as outlined by the Buddha. Having found his explanation agreeable, you apply the antidotes and see the results for yourself. That isn't a huge gamble.In a sense, all practices are a gamble of some sort or another.
It is also quite different from, say, praying to reborn in a pure land following death, which has to be taken entirely on faith in scripture. In that case one is gambling a potential lifetime of practice on something as uncertain as directing your future rebirth. Ordinary people have no choice over where they are reborn. It all comes down to your karma when you die. Hopefully you'll have cultivated the causes for a favourable rebirth, but there is no 100% guarantee.
Right, and I think he's wrong. An evil person will suffer the effects of their non-virtuous karma depending on whether it is projecting or completing karma, unless of course they cull those causes or overwhelm them with virtuous karma. See the following from Asanga's Abhidharmasammucaya:In the Tannisho, Shinran writes:
"Even an evil person attains birth, so it goes without saying that a good person will."
That means evil deeds can result in an unfavourable rebirth or disagreeable results or qualities coming to be experienced in a future life."The results of favorable and unfavorable actions are produced in the good and bad destinies (sugati, durgati). This also, through the projecting action (ākṣepaka-karma) and the completing action (paripūraka-karma). What is projecting action? It is the action by means of which the result of fruition is produced. What is completing action? It is the action by means of which, after having been born, one experienes good and bad results."
To say that evil people somehow escape this by the grace of Amitabha is more or less a rejection of karma and hence a wrong view to hold. It is no different than claiming Brahma will save you from your evil deeds by relying on his grace.
All bodhisattvas seek to aid beings without exception, but they are not omnipotent.This is really stating that Amitabha made vows to assist in saving all people - no one is left out. As the serial murderer Angulimala was helped to liberation by Shakyamuni, Amitabha also does not leave anyone out. Shinran did not advocate people to do as they wished, and even scolded people when he wrote:
"Do not take a liking to poison just because there is an antidote."
Right, but they seek rebirth in a pure land primarily for themselves first and foremost, which is in itself not an appropriate aspiration to hold if one is inclined towards the Mahāyāna.I disagree here. Pure Land practitioners in both Chinese and Japanese traditions do bang it out in samsara just as well as any other practitioner. Ippen after doing years of retreat went to spread his teachings carrying nothing but 10 items with him and walking to every county in Japan. Honen and Shinran when they were both exiled, also taught the poor and downtrodden. And there are countless stories of Chinese Patriarchs who do retreat and then come back to teach laypeople.
There is prescriptive and then there is descriptive. In any case, if you read descriptions of Amitabha's Pure Land, it isn't a place conducive to buddhahood for the simple fact that minimal suffering exists, and hence there is little reason to cultivate genuine compassion. This kind of situation is addressed in the Vimalakīrti Nirdeśa Sūtra:I understand what you're saying, however you're leaving out the point that the idea of going to the Pure Land was to either immediately become a Buddha as Shinran thought, or that the Pure Land was a sort of staging area where one would continue on the Dharma path. Either way though, the idea was to become a Buddha to assist all sentient beings afterwards. It wasn't considered a place to chill out and rest.
Those bodhisattvas then asked the Licchavi Vimalakirti, "How does the Buddha Sakyamuni teach the Dharma?"
Vimalakirti replied, "Good sirs, these living beings here are hard to discipline. Therefore, he teaches them with discourses appropriate for the disciplining of the wild and uncivilized. How does he discipline the wild and uncivilized? What discourses are appropriate? Here they are:
"'This is hell. This is the animal world. This is the world of the lord of death. These are the adversities. These are the rebirths with crippled faculties. These are physical misdeeds, and these are the retributions for physical misdeeds. These are verbal misdeeds, and these are the retributions for verbal misdeeds. These are mental misdeeds, and these are the retributions for mental misdeeds. This is killing. This is stealing. This is sexual misconduct. This is lying. This is backbiting. This is harsh speech. This is frivolous speech. This is covetousness. This is malice. This is false view. These are their retributions. This is miserliness, and this is its effect. This is immorality. This is hatred. This is sloth. This is the fruit of sloth. This is false wisdom and this is the fruit of false wisdom. These are the transgressions of the precepts. This is the vow of personal liberation.
This should be done and that should not be done. This is proper and that should be abandoned. This is an obscuration and that is without obscuration. This is sin and that rises above sin. This is the path and that is the wrong path. This is virtue and that is evil. This is blameworthy and that is blameless. This is defiled and that is immaculate. This is mundane and that is transcendental. This is compounded and that is uncompounded. This is passion and that is purification. This is life and that is liberation.'
"Thus, by means of these varied explanations of the Dharma, the Buddha trains the minds of those living beings who are just like wild horses. Just as wild horses or wild elephants will not be tamed unless the goad pierces them to the marrow, so living beings who are wild and hard to civilize are disciplined only by means of discourses about all kinds of miseries."
Thus it is by miseries in a sense that sentient beings are placated, not some celestial paradise paved in gold and decorated in gems.
Even if you don't read it literally, the description is of a place with minimal suffering. Such a place is unsuitable for cultivating compassion.The descriptions of the Pure Land to me are not something I take as being literal down to the letter. The first way I think of it is as a provisional teaching to motivate pracititioners. Secondly, when I read descriptions like "birds singing Dharma" I think of it as having my sense organs exposed to Dharma - My eyes reading sutras, my ears listening to a Dharma lecture, My nose smelling incense...etc. It's a way of expressing the inconceivable (Amitabha's Pure Land) with the best descriptive terms that had weight back then.


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They are working-class heroes.
The day after the Pirates made the playoffs for the first time in 21 years, it's business as usual for Andrew McCutchen. The National League MVP candidate ordered food from Subway and went to the ballpark to work out with his team.
Just another hungry, blue-collar worker from a blue-collar town.
The last time champagne was popped in a Pirates clubhouse, Barry Bonds was a skinny outfielder about to bolt to the San Francisco Giants. McCutchen was barely 6 years old and living in a one-traffic light town in central Florida.
McCutchen barely sipped any champagne after the Bucs clinched their wild-card berth last week at Wrigley Field. He said it had been chilled too long. Literally.
"I think next time they should just leave it hot," he said. "You're going to just get it poured all over you. It's just going to get wasted anyways. What's the point to chill it?"
The Pirates' streak of 20 straight losing seasons was a record for any of the four major professional sports in North America.
The streaking Bucs play Cincinnati tonight at home in a one-game playoff to advance to the Division Series against St. Louis. The Pirates earned home-field advantage by sweeping the Reds over the weekend. McCutchen says the Pirates are not content after earning their homeboy Andy Warhol's 15 minutes of fame.
"We're not here just to celebrate winning a wild card. We're here to win the World Series," says McCutchen.
There is a sweet symmetry to the Pirates making the playoffs. In 1992, Pennsylvania native and Pirates castoff Sid Bream slid home safely in the bottom of the ninth inning in Game 7 of the NL Championship Series, sending the Braves to the World Series.
Clint Hurdle, the Pirates' philosophical manager, made like David Ortiz when asked if this is what he expected coming to Pittsburgh before the 2011 season.
"Abso-buc'n-lutely," he said.
Hurdle believes that his team matches the fabric of Pittsburgh.
"It's a city that prides itself on hard work, resiliency, perseverance, trust, and honesty. That's the kind of club we want to give 'em. We get knocked down, we get back up. We respect everyone, fear no one," he says.
The Bucs bolstered their lineup for the playoff push. They obtained former American League MVP Justin Morneau from the Twins and Marlon Byrd from the Mets.
Byrd, who played briefly for the Red Sox in 2012, was suspended last July for 50 games for performance-enhancing drugs and ended up playing in Mexico. Now he is a comeback player of the year candidate, hitting .318 with Pittsburgh and driving in 88 runs overall. Last week against Cincinnati, he did push-ups at second base while umpires reviewed his near-home run that hit the top of the outfield wall.
"Pittsburgh fans love their teams," he says. "They love their football, hockey, and baseball. They work very hard for what they get. I think this team has embraced that blue-collar mentality and fed off it."
This is not like New York, says catcher John Buck, who was part of the Byrd trade from the Mets.
"In New York they pride themselves that if they don't appreciate something they let you know right away as loud as they can. In Pittsburgh they're way more polite," Buck says.
Bucs Fever is back. Playoff T-shirts that read "Mission October" nearly sold out in one day, according to Joe Seals of the Pittsburgh Fan, a local souvenir store.
This year PNC Park drew more than 2.2 million fans, second in stadium history behind the inaugural 2001 season. The Pirates had their best TV ratings ever this year.
Neil Walker, the second baseman, was born and raised in the Pittsburgh area. In a bizarre twist of fate, he owes his very existence to the late, great Roberto Clemente.
Walker's father, Tom, was a former major league pitcher who played winter ball with Clemente in Puerto Rico. On New Year's Eve 1972, he helped Clemente load supplies on a DC-7 heading to Nicaragua after a devastating earthquake. Clemente knew that three previous shipments had been diverted by the military so he decided to go himself to see that it got to the people.
"I said, 'Roberto, I want to go with you,' " recalled Tom Walker in a telephone interview. "He said, 'No. It's New Year's Eve. Go. Party.' "
Clemente and four others perished when the overloaded plane crashed into the ocean.
Neil Walker was born 13 years later. He remembers watching Andy Van Slyke, Bobby Bonilla, and Bonds in the '92 playoffs. Then came the Dark Ages. Management losing players through free agency or bad trades.
"I've seen the good, the bad, and the ugly," says Walker, who was drafted by the Pirates out of high school in 2004 and made his big league debut in '09.
He hated losing and the incessant questions.
"I've lived through a 105-loss season, I've lived through a 99-loss season," says Walker.
This year is different. Pedro Alvarez hit 36 homers. Francisco Liriano won 16 games. Former Red Sox pitcher Mark Melancon had 26 holds and Jason Grilli had 33 saves.
"It's a deeper group of better players than we've had in the past," says Walker. "We believe in ourselves. First and foremost it's pitching. We've been as good as anybody in the league. Offensively we've done enough. We feel like there's more in the tank. Russell Martin has been huge. Andrew McCutchen is an MVP guy. We've had five or six All-Stars, it's just been a special year in so many respects."
What if they won it all?
"It would certainly be epic," Walker says with a laugh. "I probably would never have to pay for dinner in the city again."
Grilli, who blew only two save chances all year, has had a love affair with the fans.
"Friends told me they were yelling out the window and starting chants when we clinched the wild card," he says. "The Steelers were the toast of the town for a long time but now we are.
"It's kind of cool to know we've kind of changed the culture and become the town favorite."
In Pittsburgh, it's a beautiful day in the neighborhood, to quote TV icon Fred Rogers, who lived and worked here. With the Steelers off to an 0-4 start, it's all Pirates, all the time in Pittsburgh.
Harrison Spyke says he watched them clinch in a Southside saloon called "Smokin Joe's".
"It's brought a real shot to the city. It's just alive," says Spyke.
He says there is a real feeling of nostalgia, dating to the "We Are Family" days of Willie Stargell and the 1979 world champions.
"You can see the joy. It's great watching the old generation mingling with the younger generation watching the Pirates,'' says Spyke.
He loves the attention the Pirates are getting as a small-market team. "It's a good slap in the face to the Yankees and the Red Sox," he says.
Outside PNC Park, Diane Grguras paints a watercolor of the Bill Mazeroski statue. It features Maz with his arms raised running the bases after his Game 7 walkoff home run in 1960. Maz, 77, is putting his champagne-soaked jersey up for auction in November.
Grguras says this year is "a perfect storm" for the Pirates. "Everything is falling into place."
At the Southside Barbershop, R.C. Cunningham wears a Pirates hat as he clips hair. The team is playing on the widescreen TV.
"The Pirates mean everything to us in this city," says Cunningham. "They're family. They're not losers, bro. They're going to make Pittsburgh proud. It just took them a little long to get the job done."
Behind him is a shelf full of Pirates hats.
They are not for sale.
"Nah,'' says Cunningham. "They're just in case we mess up somebody's hair, we have a hat for them to wear home, " he says.
Down the street, Patrick Waters, 73, smokes Pall Malls and sips Miller High Life at Jack's Bar. He remembers when Mazeroski beat the hated Yankees in '60.
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June 13, 2012
Paul E. Sax, M.D., is director of the HIV Program and Division of Infectious Diseases at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
The single case of HIV cure following allogeneic bone marrow transplant is in the news again, this time because of data just presented at "The International Workshop on HIV and Hepatitis Virus Drug Resistance and Curative Strategies" (formerly known as the "HIV Resistance Workshop" -- how's that for rebranding?).
I'm not at the meeting, which is too bad since they often have it in splendid locations.
But from what I gather based on the report, here are the key findings in the study:
A more detailed summary of the presentation is over here at NATAP, and some of the controversy it has sparked is summarized at Science and, um, POZ.
My gut feeling is that the findings are potentially real, but unlikely to be of much clinical significance if virus can only be detected intermittently by special assays, especially since he's been off all HIV treatment for more than 5 years.
But they may not be real -- we need to remember that a false positive test result is more likely when the test's sensitivity is cranked up and it's performed multiple times.
Or as more colorfully put by Doug Richman:
If you do enough cycles of PCR, you can get a signal in water for pink elephants.
And if this interesting presentation tells us anything, it's that defining success in any study of an HIV cure strategy is going to be very, very difficult.
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Designating a portion of someone's property "waste" does not entitle the county to declare that property theirs — it still belongs to the property owner. Just saying something does not make it so!
Grand County Attorney Andrew Fitzgerald maintains that the "waste" areas were set aside with the idea that San Miguel could be extended at some point in the future. Another road to nowhere?
There is some discrepancy as to when the "waste" designation actually occurred, as well. The county maintains their piece of property is landlocked and the State of Utah does not like to allow that. Does that obligate a neighboring property to grant access?
While I am in favor of safe and accessible bike trails, I do not believe the Master Trail Plan gives government the right to bully property from its residents to accomplish that goal.
In our meeting with Mr. Fitzgerald he stated that various surveys of Grand Vu Subdivision leave a bit of "gray" area in regard to property lines. Wouldn't the county be better served to unequivocally establish those property lines before assuming they can install a trail (the necessity of which, I might add, is dubious at best)?
My father, Paul Shuey, Sr., was a man who was proud of his country and government. He bought and paid for his property and paid his taxes. Grand County and city of Moab, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
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There are really only two things you need to know about 850°F Barpizza.
First up, Neapolitan pizza is quite different from the perhaps more familiar New York style pie.
For starters, Neapolitan pies are cooked in wood-fired ovens only. The bits of smoky char on the crust add to the pie's texture and flavor.
And the toppings, both singly and in combination, are much more Old World Italian than Italian American, with less emphasis on meat-heavy pies dripping with oil, or gimmicky ingredients like ham or (gasp!) pineapple.
The second thing is that this brand new eatery in Milton delivers an authentic Neapolitan pizza that ranks with the metro's best of that genre, and at a much better price.
Bonus information is that 850ºF Barpizza, named for the pizzas' cooking temp, has a true Neapolitan pizzaiolo and chef at the helm. Italian-born Stefano Rea is certified as a professional after completing a regimen of tests given by the Naples-based organization that promotes the culinary art and tradition of the genuine article.
In his brief stint at Campania in Alpharetta, Rea became somewhat of a rock star among die-hard pizzaphiles for bringing the real deal to north Fulton.
But a few months back, Rea left Campania to join forces with two Roswell residents, Glenn Griffith and Nick D'Argenzo, who were planning to open a pizzeria in Midtown.
When that location fell through, they settled on the former Erwin's space in Crabapple, which was already equipped with a wood-burning oven.
"Our concept changed when he came aboard," Griffith said of Rea. "He has taken it to a whole different level."
Meaning instead of just great pizza, 850ºF Barpizza also offers several excellent pastas, salads, starters and specials of the day, all based on recipes handed down from Rea's grandfather, a Naples native who proudly served his regional cuisine in his restaurant in Rome.
In three visits, I've had the classic cheesy Margherita pie; a spicy Calabrese with cow's milk mozzarella, salami and chilis; and a pie called Spacca Napoli, made with buffalo milk mozzarella, caramelized onions, sausage and peppadew peppers.
All were superlative, a result of the impeccable quality of ingredients as well as the skill involved in the pies' creation and execution.
Rea utilizes only San Marzano tomatoes imported from Italy in his cooking because they strike the perfect balance between sweet and acidic.
For his pizzas, he hand squeezes excess moisture from the tomatoes to prevent the toppings from being too watery.
Those tomatoes also are the star of his basic marinara, a hearty brew that is tweaked with additional ingredients for various dishes such a luscious mussels pomodoro or a pasta dish with pecorino cheese and house-made pancetta.
Speaking of mussels, if you're a fan of this bivalve, do not overlook Rea's "Angry Mussels" in a cream sauce spiked with white wine, onion, Serrano chile and pancetta. It has a definite zip to it, but it's by no means overly spicy or hot, just boldly flavored.
Rea also offers the mussels with a zesty tomato sauce. Accompanied by pieces of freshly baked bread to sop up the sauce and listed as starters, for many people these dishes would be enough to make a satisfying meal on their own.
Personally, as much as I love his pizza, I think I crave Rea's pasta dishes as much or maybe more. That's not as odd as it sounds, as Rea confessed that pasta is his favorite food. "In Naples, you eat it three times a day," the chef said.
The pasta dish he makes with broccoli rabe (a leafy green like spinach or collards), fennel sausage and fresh parmigiano cheese is perfection.
The al dente pasta is tossed with just enough of the creamy sauce to impart flavor and not leave a pool of sauce in the bottom of the plate. It's what I imagine Italian comfort food must taste like.
Want something lighter? I recommend a deceptively simple arugula salad, dressed with lemon and olive oil and accented with parmigiano cheese. The lemony tang isn't overpowered by the fruity olive oil, and if you add slices of lightly crunchy Milanese-style chicken to the mix, it's a match made in heaven.
No discussion of 850ºF Barpizza would be complete without mention of the attractive and comfortable full-service bar, the first thing you see upon entering. It's also connected to a spacious outdoor dining patio via a bank of pass-through windows that are left open in mild weather.
Griffith told me they will soon have live music indoors on weekends.
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What I hated the most was Shawlong Qufang's ranking explanation of 1-10 being espada and the rest marked in order of birth, and Yami. If he was a super-secret 'zero-type- villain that only appears when everyone else is beaten, I'd be cool with it, and he'd have the excuse of having to gather strength first, but going from 10 to 0, claiming to be supah-strong and dying offscreen is an insult to the readers.
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Me pointing out the fact that Stark face two captains twice at the same time is fan-wanking about his strength (because they didn't go bankai, even though those same captains didn't even go bankai fighting someone powerful as Aizen), yet you give Histugaya victory over Halibel, when she wasn't even damaged by his strongest attack. And say Shunsui basically beat Stark with nothing but shikai. Yes. That and a opening given by Stark being distracted in a fight against two opponents. The good guys healed each other, rescued each other, fought together. The Espada (aside from WW), barely lifted a finger to help each other. That is, when they weren't being betrayed by their own. Really, they would've each had to have been insanely overpowered just to overcome their lousy comradery.
We'll agree to disagree then. Just don't get me wrong. I was really disappointed by the Espada. I thought the VL would push SS to breaking point and create some devastating losses and it didn't happen. I just don't try to turn it into a retcon--there's no contradiction. Misleading. Yeah. Overhype. Yep. Retcon. No.
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You also have to realize they weren't Hollow Vasto Lordes, they're Arrancar. Arrancar are supposed to be even stronger than their non-Arrancar counterparts. A VL Arrancar should really have no problem dealing with the average Captain (i.e. not Yamamoto). But of course, taking a VL which was said to be as strong as a Captain and giving it a big power boost only makes it... weaker than a Captain?
Kubo logic.
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It was already mentioned that no more than 10 existed, but that's kinda like a bad guy saying "You can't win" and then the good guy saying "yes I can". Sometimes you make something that sounds like exposition for the sole purpose of breaking it seconds later. The fact that Aizen hadn't finished gathering his army doesn't suggest anything except that he doesn't have the full number. That doesn't mean he has less than 22.
You also make the point that those same captains didn't release their bankai on Aizen. And? Are you seriously suggesting that them releasing their bankai's would not make them stronger? Frankly that's an even bigger retcon since we were speciifcally told that bankai's are generally more powerful that shikai, but even then that's no proof that their bankai doesn't make them stronger (it's just proof that they're fucking retarded). However if you believe that those cpatains releasing their bankai doesn't make them stronger then I'm going to hold you to that. If they ever release their bankai later on and it shows that they're stronger then I'm going to bring this up again. That fine with you? Are you really willing to make that bet?
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DOVER — Noble High School senior Ethan Beaulier defended his Maine Class A state title in the 55-meter dash in a record tying time of 6.60 seconds.
Beaulier and the Knights competed in the Class A states Monday at the University of Southern Maine, placing 10th overall (the best finish in school history).
In addition, Beaulier was third in the 200 and helped the boys 4x200 relay to place third. Other relay members were Brandon Richard, Drew Martin and Cam Johnson.
Beaulier and the relay have qualified for the New England championships March 2 in Boston.
Other notable finishers for Noble were the 4x200 relay (eighth) with Nicole Lanoie, Hannah Fields, Kayla Thompson and Mia Lewis. Noble's boys 4x800 relay was ninth with DJ Cloutier, Tyler Morris, Henry Hintermeister and Drew Pomerleau.
Marshwood's Leah Dodier was second in the girls high jump.
DOVER — The Berwick Academy boys hockey team blanked Pingree on Wednesday, 7-0.
Lucas Michaud had three goals for BA (12-10-1), while James Winkler added a goal and three assists. Also scoring were Cam Toohey, Jake Morrisette and Neil Maietta.
Max Motew made 21 saves in goal.
BA plays at Governor's Friday.
Somersworth/Coe-Brown 5, Lebanon 2
LEBANON — The Somersworth/Coe-Brown hockey team was a 5-2 winner at Lebanon on Wednesday in Division II.
Colby Siering recorded a hat trick and Austin Siering recorded three assists. Jesse Cole and Timotej Jurenka also scored for Somersworth/Coe-Brown (3-14). Peter Robertson made 24 saves.
Somersworth/Coe-Brown hosts Bow Saturday. Lebanon is 2-15.
NEWMARKET — Jake Valinski scored the go-ahead free throw with 1:02 remaining in overtime, Christian Hawkins scored 25 points and the Newmarket High School boys basketball team survived after surrendering a 14-point lead in the fourth quarter for a 47-43 win over Pittsfield (12-6).
Newmarket finished the regular season at 16-2 and wrapped up the No. 2 seed for the Division IV tournament, which opens on Tuesday.
The Mules held Pittsfield to just nine combined points between the second and third quarters combined and led 32-18 entering the fourth. But the Panthers rallied, ripping off an 18-7 run to pull within 39-36 with 1:24 remaining.
Newmarket's Josh Eisfeller maintained that lead, 41-38, when he pulled down an offensive rebound, drew a foul under the basket and hit two free throws with 31.5 seconds left. Pittsfield tied the game and Hawkins couldn't get a driving, pull-up jumper to fall from the top of the key as the buzzer sounded. Hawkins went 3 for 4 from the foul line over the final 22.4 seconds of overtime to seal the win. Valinski's free throw had given the Mules a 42-41 edge.
Eisfeller finished with 13 points and 11 rebounds, and Valinski, who scored all five of his points from the fourth quarter on, finished with 12 rebounds and five deflections.
SOUTH BERWICK, Maine — The Berwick Academy boys basketball team slipped to 4-17 with Wednesday's 54-40 loss to Pingree (14-6).
Stephen Sherbahn exploded for 26 points, hitting six 3-pointers. Tom Nason added six points.
BA hosts Concord today.
Coe-Brown 58, Oyster River 46
DURHAM — The Coe-Brown girls basketball team was a 58-46 winner over Oyster River on Wednesday in Division II, sweeping the season series from the Bobcats.
Jenny Schlim scored 20 to lead the Bears (10-7), while Sarah Curtin scored 12. For the Bobcats (5-12), Jenny Mistretta scored 15 and Claire Salmon added 10 with 15 rebounds.
Both teams wrap up the regular season on Friday. Coe-Brown is at Kingswood and Oyster River hosts Kennett.
SOUTH BERWICK, Maine — The Berwick Academy girls basketball team wrapped up its regular season with a 44-38 win over Pingree (11-9).
Suzanna Borg and Dominique St. Pierre led Berwick (15-5) with 11 points each and Torie St. Pierre scored 10.
Berwick will play LCA in the EIL tournament on Saturday.
HOOKSETT — The St. Thomas/Dover girls hockey team was a 5-4 winner at Bishop Brady/Trinity (6-10) on Wednesday.
Gabbi Dodier scored a pair of goals with an assist for STA/Dover (9-7-1) while Avery Gowen and Maisey Kettlewood each scored a goal and recorded an assist. Sarah White scored and Emily Eno notched a pair of assists.
STA/Dover clinched a playoff berth with the win. They will visit Bishop Guertin in a regular-season game tonight.
DOVER — The Berwick Academy girls hockey team was a 3-0 winner over Newton Country Day on Wednesday in the EIL semifinals.
Top-seeded Berwick (18-6) got goals from Kaitlyn Wurzer, Anna Cosentino and Anna Wright. Wurzer added a pair of assists, as did Tilly Burzynski. Julia Mini made 12 saves in net.
Berwick plays either Pingree or Portsmouth Abbey on Saturday for the championship.
GREENWOOD, Maine — The Marshwood High School alpine ski teams competed in the Class A championships Monday at Mount Abrams.
The boys were fourth with 168. Falmouth won the title with 64.
The Hawk girls were sixth 254. Greely won the title with 57.
Top boys in the giant slalom were Dakota Greenblatt (11th), Jason Beland (22nd), Hayden Pearson (28th) and James Driver (33rd).
For the girls, Sophia Syrene was 17th, Riley Wilber took 27th, Maggie Dowd was 43rd and Brittney Bossi was 51st.


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by GLX » Wed May 14, 2014 4:53 pm
Due to character limitations in the thread title, it's just.....
Deadly Hands of Kung-Fu #1
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by ElijahSnowFan » Thu May 15, 2014 12:09 pmWow. Was I ever disappointed in this book. Bitterly disappointed.
Here's the quick-and-dirty on this book: Master of Kung Fu stories were at their height in the mid-to-late 70s. So for what the writer, Mike Benson, was referencing as the source material...man.
See, I read that stuff, back in the day. And even I know that you have to explain what's happening. I think -- my opinion -- is that this book was so eager to have the shock death, it didn't give a damn about explaining why anybody else should care.
This was a first issue that was begging for exposition. Flashbacks. You could've killed the character off in the middle or end of issue 2, and it would've mattered more.
This book was so...not...it just wasn't a good read. I wish it was, because I was totally looking forward to it.
But I sincerely doubt I'll pick up the rest of it.
Story: 3
Art: 5
Overall: 4 of 10
by Rikk Odinson » Thu May 15, 2014 2:06 pmShang Chi has always been one of my favorite characters and I was excited as Hel to read this book.
It sucked in so many ways I can't even remember all of them.
by Rob Thompson » Thu May 15, 2014 2:08 pm
That's discouraging because I have been looking forward to this book for a while now. Shang Chi is one of my favorite characters and I was hoping they could recapture some of his earlier glory. I am going to be picking it up tomorrow.
by Rikk Odinson » Thu May 15, 2014 3:28 pm
Hopefully you enjoy it more than I did. The story isn't horrible but the art, Godz, it just fails in every way. At least IMO.
by Eli Katz » Thu May 15, 2014 5:09 pmI haven't looked at it, yet. But it really should have a Mike Zeck cover.
by habitual » Thu May 15, 2014 5:11 pm
I so wanted this to be good.
by GLX » Thu May 15, 2014 5:12 pm
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page ... w&id=21577
by GLX » Sat May 17, 2014 12:01 pmNext Wednesday's pick should be....?
http://www.midtowncomics.com/store/week ... =61&pl=348
by Stephen Day » Sat May 17, 2014 12:53 pmI got to the end of this issue and I have to say that while I didn't hate what I read, I can't say I loved it either. The art isn't all that interesting and the plot isn't anything I haven't seen before. To be fair though, it isn't like I found either to be totally bad. I will say that the artwork made the story clear enough to be understandable and the plot wasn't confusing at all. The problem is that the story overall is very, very average. However, I'm a big enough fan of Shang-Chi that I do want to see where this is going, despite the fact that this first issue wasn't anything special. So, I am on board for the rest of this series.
I'll give this an average rating of 5 out of 10.
by Stephen Day » Sat May 17, 2014 1:04 pm
There's Batman '66 #11. The last issue that was reviewed of that series was #9, so I think there's been enough of a gap that it's not going to be a bad thing to review another issue.
MPH #1 from Image also comes out this week.
by chap22 » Sat May 17, 2014 1:34 pmThe words "Tan Eng Huat" should've been enough to let you know this book would never be better than average, and that would only be if the writing was out of this world. That dude's eyebleed-inducing chicken scratch damn near single-handedly destroyed an idea as cool as the Annihilators, for God's sake.
Then when you factor in the fact Marvel has had to distance itself from any reference to half the stuff that made Shang as cool as he was in the 70s (Fu Manchu, Sir Neyland Smith, etc), and this particular book probably never had a chance.
by Stephen Day » Sat May 17, 2014 2:06 pm
Yeah, I didn't like the work he did on Annihilators either. Going into this series I was hoping that his art style would be better suited to this type of story. I have to admit that I was wrong in that hope.
by Rob Thompson » Mon May 19, 2014 6:28 amWell, while I was not underwhelmed, I do have to agree the art is holding this book back. The story itself is off to a strong start, but that art is substandard -- especially for a Shang Chi book, where art is usually a strength.
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It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp
Why the latest conservative hidden-video trick to embarrass liberals has fizzled.
To understand the latest media-manufactured noncontroversy of February 2011, it is necessary to go back to September 2009. The month started lousy for liberals, and it got lousier. On the 6th, White House "green jobs czar" Van Jones resigned, mortally wounded when a conservative blog found a 9/11 conspiracy petition with his name on it. Four days later, Andrew Breitbart's BigGovernment.com released a hidden camera video, filmed by young conservatives who pretended to be a prostitute and a pimp concerned for her welfare and who asked for tax advice from the community group ACORN. More ACORN tapes followed; on the 17th, the day that the last one went online, the House of Representatives—then controlled by Democrats— voted to ban any government funds for ACORN.
As the meltdown continued, there was some coming-to-Jesus at Media Matters for America, David Brock's moneyed watchdog group. The word went out: Progressives had just gotten their asses kicked. They needed to anticipate things like the Jones campaign or the ACORN tapes, and they needed to stop them from taking good people down with them.
And that's how liberals responded to this month's ACORN tape sequel: the Live Action investigation of Planned Parenthood. (Critics of undercover conservative activists splutter when words like journalism and investigation are applied to what happens here, but let's use these terms for simplicity's sake.) At a few different locations, actors hired by Live Action pretended to be pimps, then waltzed into Planned Parenthood offices and asked for advice on birth control for girls younger than the age of consent.
They got it. "From the age of 12 up," said one Planned Parenthood volunteer in Roanoke, Va., "for birth control, you can just come in and do that. You don't have to have a parent, OK?" Another, in Falls Church, Va., appeared to assuage concerns about legality and photo IDs by promising that "we don't necessarily look at the legal status."
The videos launched on Feb. 1, right after legislation to ban funding for birth control was introduced in the House and Senate. But the Live Action videos have not captivated the media or politicians like the ACORN tapes did. Within days of the ACORN tapes arriving online, several members of Congress had requested a federal investigation of the group, and 20 states were probing its affiliates. The tape's funky music and images of James O'Keefe with a funny hat and cane (not worn during the actual sting) became the stuff of liberal nightmares.
The Live Action videos aren't so powerful. Planned Parenthood has fired one of the accidental stars of the videos, but only two state attorneys general have made noise about investigating Planned Parenthood, in New Jersey and Virginia. But coverage of the videos has focused more on the career of Live Action's Lila Rose—profiles never fail to mention that she's an aspiring actress—and less on what's in the videos.
There are plenty of reasons for this. Media Matters and other liberal groups pounced as soon as the video went up. Media Matters welcomed the videos with a "refresher course on Andrew Breitbart's dishonest tactics" and the screaming headline "HOAX VIDEO EXPOSED." The hoax? Planned Parenthood had already warned the FBI about the sting. Subsequent Media Matters reports alleged that audio in the tapes had been spliced and mashed to make stuff up. Within 72 hours, the group put together a conference call for Planned Parenthood leaders to speak out about Rose and a joint letter to members of Congress from 26 progressive groups.
Most of those groups didn't even work on abortion issues—the SEIU, the Sierra Club, the liberal think tank Demos. The goal was to stop another weak-kneed moment like the vote to defund ACORN. The message to Democrats: If you don't stop letting conservatives run these operations against us, they're never going to stop. Their cave-in on ACORN had led to people like Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., taking power and launching new investigations.
"Ever since ACORN, we've been very involved in sounding the alarm on this," said Nan Aron, the president of the Alliance for Justice, a progressive umbrella group that signed the letter to Congress. "Attacks on Planned Parenthood don't arise in a vacuum. Darrell Issa and his ilk successfully took ACORN out of the game."
This is a game played at many levels at once. Conservatives want to think that the ACORN meltdown is repeatable—that's why you hear Newt Gingrich muse about the possibilities of "defunding the left." Liberals think they can prevent it from reoccurring. ACORN was too sloppy for too long and didn't develop a PR offensive or internal quality control after years of legal challenges to its voter-registration problems. That was ACORN's fault. It was the rest of the movement's fault that it didn't immediately challenge the credibility of the videos and that congressional Democrats were listless in how they responded to tapes running on repeat on cable news.
"They're unethical," said Ari Rabn-Havt, one of the key responders at Media Matters. "I mean, we have nothing against doing hidden camera stuff, but if you have no compunction for the truth and you can release whatever you want, you can make stories better. And we, progressives, don't have a news network that will take this stuff right to air, frankly. That's part of the success here. Breitbart launched Big Government on Fox News. Glenn Beck previewed the ACORN tapes on his show."
And this is the most common way that progressives view their challenge. It's them against Breitbart and Fox. If they can inspire enough doubt about the conservative scoop to make news organizations pass on it, or hold it, they can stop an ACORN repeat.
According to Breitbart, this was actually the progressive response to ACORN. Maybe progressives are working faster, but throwing up dust about a story that hurts them—well, that's how the left works, and how the media decides what to run.
"Lila Rose and Live Action are contending with the same forces in the media that don't want beyond-reproach left-leaning institutions to be exposed as corrupt and morally bankrupt," Breitbart said in an e-mail. "Team Podesta, including Media Matters and Planned Parenthood itself, are coordinating and applying the same tactics they used in the ACORN scandal to grant the mainstream media excuses not to report on a video expose that would be front page news if it were against a politically incorrect group associated with the right. Can you imagine how media would react if pimp and prostitute undercover video implicated a mega-church, GOP congressmen or the NRA? Need it be argued that it would be everywhere?"
It depends what "everywhere" means. If they're doing it right, the conservative videographers and the progressive counterpunchers don't need the media to pay attention. The ACORN tapes got Congress rolling on a defunding bill before the non-News Corp. media really noticed the scandal. Media Matters helped write the book on Lila Rose before Republican politicians had even weighed in on her tapes. This is the battle now: Who can weaponize the tools of journalism, and who can take out the warheads?


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Apprentice: a Novel of Love, the Talmud, and Sorcery (Rav Hisda's Daughter, Book I)–by Maggie Anton
The author of Rashi's Daughters delivers a new series set in 3rd and 4th century Babylonia, focusing on a young woman who aspires to be an enchantress. Set against the battles between the Christians in Rome and Zorastrians in Persia, this historical novel looks at a young woman who must choose both her husband and her pathway in life. The story is based on Talmud texts.
The Fallen Angel – by Daniel Silva
Daniel Silva is a master of best selling thrillers. Set in the Vatican – and moving to St. Moritz, Berlin and Vienna, The Fallen Angel follows ex-Mossad agent Gabriel Alon on a new case. Alon investigates the death of a beautiful woman found dead beneath the Sistine Chapel – a woman who has uncovered a secret that threatens a global criminal enterprise.
Goldberg Variations – by Susan Isaacs
Tycoon Gloria Garrison decides to bestow her fortune on one of her three granddaughters, all in their 20's. She invites them from New York into her Santa Fe home to ask which of them most deserves to inherit her multi-million dollar beauty business – and is startled to find that none of them is interested. The weekend they spend together is both funny and shattering as once forgotten memories are unearthed.
Hostage – by Elie Wiesel
Wiesel's protagonist, Shaltiel Feigenberg, has been taken hostage in 1975 New York by an Arab and an Italian with the intention of exchanging his life for the lives of Palestinian terrorists. Throughout the ordeal of being blindfolded with hands tied behind his back and locked in a cellar, Shaltiel tells the story of his life to his captors in an attempt to find meaning. How do we survive in a universe where everything of meaning has been stripped away?
In Sunlight and in Shadow – by Mark Helprin
National Jewish Book Award winner Mark Helprin writes a sprawling 1940's romance. Harry Copeland – a 32-year-old paratrooper just back from World War II – pursues the girl of his dreams, a 23-year-old actress and heiress named Catherine Thomas Hale. Simultaneously, Harry tries to save his dad's business from the Mob in this novel that paints a vivid picture of New York in the '40's and '50's.
The Lawgiver – by Herman Wouk
At 97 years of age, Wouk writes a novel whose focus is Moses. Margo is a brilliant young writer, originally from an Orthodox background. She aims to write a script for a billion dollar Australian filmmaker to produce a film about Moses that meets standards. Wouk and his wife come into the novel as characters, for (in the novel) Wouk is brought in to approve of the script.
The Middlesteins – by Jami Attenberg
Food obsession takes center stage in this novel about Edie Middlestein, mother and wife of over 30 years, who has an obsessive eating compulsion that has catapulted her weight to a dangerous level. When her husband Richard leaves her, it is up to the next generation to help save mom/mother-in-law in this bittersweet novel.
One Last Thing Before I Go – by Jonathan Tropper
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The Polish Boxer – by Eduardo Halfon
Latin writer Eduardo Halfon makes himself the protagonist in this unusual cross between novel, short stories and nonfiction. Through the book he travels from Guatemala to North Carolina to Europe. As a professor, he mentors a talented young man – and also is seeking to find the Polish boxer who saved his grandfather in Auschwitz.
Telegraph Avenue – by Michael Chabon
Set in the Berkely/Oakland neighborhoods, this novel centers around two business partners, Archy and Nat (one black and one white), who own Brokeback Records – a vintage used record store. Their wives are also business partners; both are midwives. When an NFL player makes plans to open a media megastore in the neighborhood – including an antique record area – the partners' enterprise is threatened. The novel also includes the themes involving a boy's transition into manhood. This novel has received rave reviews and much praise.
The Book of Job: When Bad Things Happened to a Good Person - by Rabbi Harold Kushner
Renowned Rabbi Harold Kushner, author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People, writes a new book that explores suffering through the Biblical Book of Job. Rabbi Kushner examines the structure of the text as well as assessing various commentaries and adding his own conclusions.
The Gershwins and Me: A Personal History in Twelve Songs – by Michael Feinstein
Popular singer Michael Feinstein worked for six years with his idol, Ira Gershwin, cataloging the Gershwins work (from the time Feinstein was twenty). Each of the twelve chapters in this book focuses on a Gershwin song, as Feinstein provides personal anecdotes about the men and their creative process. This beautiful book includes many photographs and a CD of Feinstein singing twelve classic Gershwin songs including "S Wonderful", "Embraceable You" and "Love is Here to Stay".
Hello, Gorgeous: Becoming Barbra Streisand – by William J. Mann
Well-reviewed new biography of Barbra Streisand, marking her 50th anniversary in show business. The focus of the book is on 1960-1964, and how Streisand was transformed from a gawky seventeen-year-old into a major star – through her insatiable drive, determination and tremendous talent.
Isaac's Army: A Story of Courage and Survival in Nazi-Occupied Poland – by Matthew Brzezinski
This important novel tells the story of a group of Jewish resistance fighters in occupied Warsaw from 1939 until their eventual aliyah to Palestine in 1946. Utilizing interviews with survivors of this resistance, unpublished memoirs and Polish sources, Brzenzinski writes a riveting story that centers around the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943. This well-researched book is told from the viewpoint of those who led the resistance, including Isaac Zuckerman, Simcha Ratheiser and Zivia Lubetkin.
Jerusalem: A Cookbook – by Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi
Both Ottolenghi and Tamimi have their roots in Jerusalem – Ottolenghi in its Jewish quarter, and Tamimi in its Arab east quarter. They are popular restauranteurs in London, as well as the others of other popular cookbooks. The two men offer this 120 recipes that represent the diverse Jewish, Muslim and Christian cuisine to be found in Jerusalem such as mejadra, stuffed egglplant with lamb and pine nuts, fattoush and latkes.
Open Heart – by Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel's newest book will be published on December 4, 2012. Eighty-two years old and facing emergency heart surgery, Wiesel reflects on his life: on his family, his Holocaust past, his writing, his teaching and his public life.
The Origins of Israel, 1882-1948: A Documentary History – by Eran Kaplan
This sourcebook provides 62 original documents that highlight the Jewish community of Palestine, pre-State of Israel. The focus is on social, economic and cultural history, and the many documents represent a wide range of Zionists – from the secular to the religious, from intellectuals to farm and factory workers.
Stella's Sephardi Table: Jewish Family Recipes from the Mediterranean Island of Rhodes – by Stella Cohen
Gorgeous oversized cookbook, this book contains over 250 Sephardic recipes – a "fusion of flavors incorporating Ottoman Turkish, Greek, Hispanic, African and other influences". The book itself is a work of art, with a multitude of personal stories, photographs and original illustrations from Sephardic cuisine expert Stella Cohen – who lives and has raised her family in the Sephardic community of Rhodesia (known today as Zimbabwe).
New Children's Picture Books:
Grandma Rose's Magic – by Linda Elovitz Marshall
Grandma Rose "creates magic" with her needle and thread, and is always sewing and making things for others. She saves up the money from her sewing to buy a new set of dishes for Shabbat. When she finally goes to the store, Grandma Rose finds that the dishes have been sold. Heartbroken, she returns home, only to find her entire family waiting for her at home, each presenting her with a piece of the coveted dish set in a truly beautiful and magical moment of how one's good deeds come back to you.
Happy Hanukkah, Curious George! – by H.A. Rey
Finally – Curious George and Hanukkah make a happy pair! In this tabbed board book, Curious George celebrates the eighth day of Hanukkah with his friends by eating latkes, playing dreidel, and lighting the menorah.
The Mitzvah Magician – by Linda Elovitz Marshall
Gabriel's mitzvah wand gets him into trouble until he learns that a Mitzvah Magician is the most powerful type of magician, using good deeds to get results.
Sadie's Sukkah Breakfast – by Jamie S. Korngold
Big sister Sadie, with her little brother Ori, decide to keep busy and let their parents sleep in. They prepare to have breakfast in the sukkah with some very special guests – their stuffed animals!
Sammy Spider's New Friend – by Sylvia A. Rouss
Josh and Sammy, the spider in Josh's home, welcome new Israeli neighbors with a mitzvah. It was traditional to bring over a loaf of bread with salt, wishing new neighbors many happy meals together. Josh and Sammy decide to bring over pita and chumus (a salty food) to make their new neighbors feel at home.
The Shema in the Mezuzah: Listening to Each Other – by Sandy Eisenberg Sasso
Best selling author Rabbi Sasso uses a 12th century rabbinic debate to tell the story of a town whose inhabitants can not agree on which position is proper to put up the mezuzzahs in their doorways. They finally agree to ask the rabbi – who tells them to read the shema in the mezuzah to learn the answer.
A Song for My Sister – by Lesley Simpson
A picture book about a Simchat Bat – a naming ceremony for a new baby girl. Mira was very excited about getting a new sister. When the baby comes, she seems to cry all the time – until Mira can give her sister a very special gift that leads to her new name.


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Yeah I'm setting up a webserver as some of you know. It's Apache 1.3.23 for windows. Need to learn how to secure it from evil people. Just wondering if you guys knew of any tweaks that I could do for the Config file and other stuff that a newbie might need to know. I've got a book called Apache it's an O'Reilly book but it didn't go to far in depth for windows security
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I'm an Australian who has personal experience with a bible based cult and agree with Capt Porridge, cults are an interesting topic for discussion. I hope no one minds that I take this opportunity to point out that Bible based cults can be very dangerous as well the more popular Moonie, JW etc.
To me bible based cults such as the one I've mentioned, is a great example for what happens to fundamental christians when the leaders become more powerful in their own minds than the society around them offers. I get the feeling that leaders of cults have a lot in common with each other rather than the member of their congregations. To me they are a breed apart. Also if you want an example of the 'dangers and absurtities of organised religion' just take a look bible based cults.
As I've stated The Geelong Revival Centre in Australia are a cult, I have a little personal experience with this particular pentecostal type group as well as having four of my family still in membership. I haven't been part of their lives for the last 5 years. Typically I am shunned and doomed to hell for not going along with them. I think the most peculiar beliefs they hold onto is the British-Israel theory Oh and perhaps numerics and pyramidology. Other than that the groups leader is a typical fundamentalist tyrant who owns the entire business and makes up 'rules' as he goes along. This group is also among those mentioned on Steve Hassan's site under the title of Revival Centre International. The 'Bite' model certainly applies.
I've been researching and pondering religion for about a year now. I don't have any formal quallies in religion and find that the most urgent question I have is, how do I live with the fact that my family are living within a cult and that I don't have much power to do anything about it. Its very sad that cults are basically protected by law unless something very drastic happens. I know that in some european countries such as France, cults are monitered but still around the world cults usually fly under the noses of government and society. Its tough when it's not kosha to make comments about someone's religion. That's what I did with my family and look where its got me. If I'd had the social permission to query somone's religion more, I may have questioned it more. I don't know, the Geelong Revival Centre have the appearence of a 'normal' pentecostal religion to outsider's.
You should contact Conrad from http://www.cultinformationservice.org/
He has had over 20 years experience helping and counseling people in your position and he was in such a position himself.
All the best,
One of the seven deadly sins is pride. Humans that 'see' themselves as 'chosen' by God are much more likely to succumb to this particular type of corruption.
Many that have stated opinions here disagree with me but I feel the best thing to do about your alienated family members is to communicate with them on their terms.
Do not admit your inner most feelings but express a desire to learn why their religious views are valid. Listen, nod, say "I see what you mean" .
At an opportune time, when the topic is not on religion, ask them a question that must be carefully formulated to not seem offensive, to seem to be a need for enlightenment on a particular topic, but, that being carefully formulated blows holes in their insane logic. They must not be forced to think but must be tempted to think critically about some point of their belief that you can easily, honestly, logically refute as utter nonsense, only then will they begin to 'see' the light.
Thanks Lawrence and Capt
My fault that I didn't make myself very clear. I've sought professional help etc but under the circumstances - of no contact and break in relationship its pretty difficult to do anything that you recommend. I've tried a couple of phone calls over the 5/6 year span and believe me there isn't even a small gap where I can even make any in roads into tipping the thought patterns. Shut up tight mate!
I've been posting at Walkaway for awhile but the cult business is quite different to a fundamentalist experience and I don't think most of the poster's understand this extreme kind of religious experience…chuckle.
That's about all I'd like to do here - discuss the cult problem and perhaps let others know about my experience, that, and figure out how to make a link to other internet resources (excuse my other post, links didn't work).
I agree with something that the Capt said…'nobody seems to care about the cult stuff' - For me it's nice to at least make people more aware.
P.S. I haven't read Sam's book yet nor am I the least bit religious.
I have completely changed my mind - I don't stand by anything I've written in the above thread. I've a different perspective than the one sold by deprogrammers such as Hassan and his followers. Also Appologetics is certainly a double edged sword - I've observed a mountain of web sites calling themselves 'cultbusters' etc - in the end its an open invitation to join their wayofthinking - from one trap to another.
Religon is religion - calling it 'cult' is missing the point entirely!
The people who are involved in the GRC are free to walk out anytime they like. Nobody is stopping them.
Religion is the problem - not a few silly homegroup types. I wouldn't give noel hollins the credit by calling him a leader. The sheep follow each other.
Its called Fellowsheeping! Haha
A difficult habit to break, evidenced by a futher reliance on 'support' type chatrooms - that concentrate on some kind of 'divine' mission to advertise the 'cult,' not fully appreciating that changing from one brand of penticostalism to another is not taking the person anywhere at all.
Its noted by me that none of the retoric practised on web sites set up for people 'leaving' the GRC encourages a person the think for themselves - rather to follow along with the newly formed group of 'ex' members.
Reminds me of a loop - circular thinking - belly button gazin'.
Pity I couldn't use the edit or delete function - I wonder how much of the crap on the internet is left hangin' around as a result of this. Fancy that….lots of researchers coming up with false info or someone's left over's.


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New York City police say a man has been shoved in front of a subway train and has been killed.
Investigators are searching for the woman believed to have pushed him Thursday night in Queens.
It's the second time a man was shoved to his death on subway tracks this month. Ki-Suck Han was pushed in front of a train in Times Square on Dec. 3. A photograph of him moments before the train hit him was published on the cover of the New York Post and caused an uproar.
Thursday's subway killing happened on a platform for the 7 train, which connects Manhattan and Queens. Witnesses tell police a heavyset Hispanic woman in her 20s had been following the man and mumbling. They say she was wearing a blue, white and gray ski jacket and sneakers.