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Geopolitics of Knowledge and Cultural Displacements
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The Lyon's Institut Franco-chinois: the politicization of memory
1The writing of history is always an intervention from and in the present. We publish this thematic issue in the context of a spectacular eruption of Lyon's Institut Franco-chinois (中法大學 or Sino-French University) onto the public stage.
2Neglected over several decades after its official closure in 1946, the fecund and instructive history of the Institute re-surfaced, a decade ago, when the City of Lyon decided to valorize this under-exploited cultural capital. A small memorial museum was established in the former premises of the Institute and an exhibition narrating the story of the Institute was displayed in the Rhône-Alpes regional pavilion during the World Expo, or rather 'Expo 2010 Shanghai China' as it was formally called. Until the month of March 2014, this Sino-French heritage served as a marketing attraction intended to draw Chinese tourists and investors to Lyon. Indeed, in the context of the redefinition of the city of Lyon, now envisaged as a brand whose image had to be sold, the Institute could reasonably be expected to serve as the historical underpinning of a new metropolitan story anchoring Lyon in the imaginary of globalization.
3But this contemporary instrumentalization of the Institute shifted onto on a higher and vaster plane at the moment of the state visit of the President of the People's Republic of China Mr. Xi Jinxing in March 2014. Thereafter, the hitherto local heritage and marketing potential of the Institute was supplanted by Chinese internal political considerations. The Presidential visit heralded a displacement of perspective and a recuperation of the memory of the site. The language employed by China's media framed the visit as a return to the origins of the Chinese Communist Party and, ignoring historical reality, foregrounded the presence in Lyon of the legendary Chinese Communist leaders Zhou Enlai 周恩来 et Deng Xiaoping 邓小平. At the same time the history of more controversial CCP figures, such as the celebrated activist and former PRC minister Li Lisan 李立三 who is documented as being present in Lyon to demand a democratization of the Institute, was ignored by the Chinese press. What in fact took place was a 'commemorative' show aimed at writing the story of the Institute into the official history of Peking's one-party state.
4This contemporary political instrumentalization of the Institute also reminds us to be on our guard concerning the preservation of the material traces of this history constituted by the archives of the Institute. Held at the Lyon Municipal Library, the archives of the former Association franco-chinoise de Lyon (which provided the legal framework of the Institute) belong to the Jean Moulin University in Lyon. It consists of administratives records detailing the social, cultural and academic lives of the 473 students who passed through the Institute's doors, plus 25,000 monographs and 500 periodicals originating from the former Institute's library. This library, constituted by, and for Chinese students between 1921 and 1946 represents a unique documentary resource for specialists of the cultural history of modern China.
5If these contributions to this issue of Transtext(e)Transcultures are appearing at a time of intense and dubious commemorative activity, the reflection contained in these articles relate to another level of concern, and to a different time.
- 1 Gregory Lee, « Le cadeau empoisonné de Versailles ou la Chine à la manivelle de l'orgue de barbarie (...)
6In 2015, China is on the verge of becoming the world's supreme power. It is gradually but surely becoming dominant. But it is being left in charge of turning the handle of barrel organ whose music was determined more than two centuries ago in Europe.1 China has progressively and painfully appropriated the language and the practices of a Eurocentric modernity: science-become-technology, the supposedly 'rational' domination of Nature and human activity, capitalism and its associated Nation-state institutions.
- 2 On 4th May 1919 students and other progressive forces, learning that China had been badly treated i (...)
7A school for modernity, the Institute was also an exemplary laboratory in this learning process, a site of self-colonization in terms of knowledge and culture for the use of China's elite. It should be stated that contrary to the conviction of those involved in this project at the time, this experiment was in no sense the result of an historically necessary and inevitable stage of China's development. It was rather one element in a political and ideological project. French authorities wished for French science, culture and values to be propagated in a country already seen as a potentially important market. Nevertheless, it is beyond doubt that the intellectuals of the Fourth of May Period, convinced by the ideologies of both nationalism and science, actively participated in this project aimed at 'modernizing' Chinese society.2 Former anarchists and fervent republicans, the prime Chinese proponents of the IFCL, including Cai Yuanpei 蔡元培 and Li Shizeng 李石曾, had also subscribed to the political dimension of modernity during the long periods of time they had spent in Europe. They were inspired by the project of political autonomy that emerged at the time of the French Revolution. They supported the need for modern societies to institute themselves, rather than be the mere product of colonialism. Alongside Mr Science (Sai xiansheng 赛先生), they promoted Mr Democracy (De xiansheng 德先生). This progressive heritage of modernity is downplayed today in China by those responsible for (re)writing history from the point of view of the victors, that is the bureaucratic oligarchy that currently holds power.
A School for modernity: arts, literature and science
- 3 The presentation of this research project is available on the following webpage : www.http//:ifcl.b (...)
8Following an initial workshop entitled 'Migrations des savoirs, le cas de l'IFCL' [Knowledge migration: The case of the IFCL], which took place in Lyon in January 2012, in 2014 (and 2015) we launched a collaborative project entitled 'Lyon Sino-French Institute Archives: A Cultural and Academic Heritage of Global Modernity in the Age of Digital Humanities' which aimed to render the archive more easily accessible and useful through the process digitization.3 We plan to organize, classify and digitize the archives of the former Institut franco-chinois de Lyon (Lyon Sino-French Institute, hereafter IFCL) so as to pose questions relevant to our own research project on the students' social and cultural life, intellectual imaginary and epistemologies, but also so as to create an accessible digital archive that will facilitate further projects aimed at disseminating a broader public acquaintance with this archive. The present special issue constitutes the first collective step of this research.
9In the first contribution to this volume, Valentina De Monte, former 'conservatrice,' or keeper, of the Chinese collection of the Lyon Municipal Library, provides a survey of the scope and nature of the Institute's collections. Underlining the unique value of these documents, she tells the history of the collection now housed in the municipal library and discusses the various uses and particularities of the documents. At first sight, their specificity would seem to interest only specialists and scholars. But the public service mission of a national library - the Lyon Municipal Library is one of the country most important libraries outside of Paris - also implies that the collection should be opened up to a wider reading public. Valentina De Monte suggests that this double vocation of research and accessibility to a wider public should be taken into account in any forthcoming digitization project.
10In discussing the events that became known as the 'Lyon March,' Gregory Lee the fractious lead-up to the inauguration of the Institute in the autumn of 1921. The Chinese intellectual elite imagined the Institute as an alternative to the 'work-study' programme which had been initiated by Li Shizeng in 1909. The programme which aimed to enable Chinese students to finance their studies by working in French factories, expanded considerably at the end of World War One, only to fall victim to the 1921 economic crisis which led to the laying-off of many of the worker-students. Faced with unemployment and dwindling funds, the worker-students saw the opening of the Institute in September 1921 as a solution to their predicament and as a means of pursuing their studies in more comfortable and dignified conditions. But the Institute had not been conceived for them. It was meant to enroll suitably financed students who had been selected and trained in China, and whose commitment was to knowledge rather than political activism. Making use of archival government, police and other archival material, Gregory Lee tells the story of the incidents collectively known as the 'Lyon March' from the point of view the French authorities, but also, based on the students' individual and collective appeals to be allowed to stay in France, recounts the students' version of their demands and their outcome. He narrates with surgical precision the events which led first to the detention and ultimately to the expulsion from France of over a hundred students deemed unworthy of passing through the portals of the new Sino-French University, and yet who had dared to contest the enrollment policy of the Institute
11The contributions of Wang Yiyan and Jacqueline Estran demonstrate that the IFCL experiment was also of great importance in the evolution of China's literary and artistic creativity with several Institute graduates becoming celebrated writers and artists. Wang Yiyan's contribution recounts the as yet untold story of Lyon's role in the making of Chinese twentieth-century art. She demonstrates the influence of French art schools, and in particular the National Fine Art School in Lyon (l'Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon or ENBAL), in the training of Chinese artists and in the constituting of a body of Chinese national modern art. Wang Yiyan's meticulous research in Lyon in both the archives of the Institute and of the School of Fine Art, results in the restitution of the achievements and creative production of the most talented of students such as Wang Jingyuan 王靜遠, Pan Yuliang 潘玉良, Chen Zhixiu 陳芝秀, Fang Yun 方蘊, Chang Shuhong 常書鴻, Lü Sibai 吕斯百, and Wang Linyi 王臨乙 ; artists who would play a major role in aesthetic and artistic education in China. Wang Yiyan thus reminds us that the modernisation project of the 4th May intellectuals, and notably of Institute founder Cai Yuanpei, was not limited to the project's techno-scientific and political dimensions, but also included the aesthetic domain.
12Jacqueline Estran approaches the history of the Institute from the perspective of gender, underlining a remarkable aspect of this institution and what was a marker of its modernity: the presence of several dozen women students of whom a significant number obtained a doctorate. Estran's article sheds light on both the geographic and social origins of these students. She also informs us about the academic achievements of Luo Zhenying 羅振英, Lin Baoquan 林寳權, Wu Xuxin 吳續新 and Liang Daozhen 梁導貞, all doctoral graduates of the Institute. In the second part of her article, Estran offers a unique analytical insight into the life of Su Xuelin 蘇雪林, graduate of the IFCL, who would go on to become major figure in the world of modern Chinese literary creation. Through Su's texts, and via her autobiography, Jacqueline Estran exposes the complexity of the intellectual career of this writer and the crucial role her time in Lyon played in the evolution of her life.
13The contributions of Marie-Julie Maitre and Liang Hongling address the IFCL in a larger context of the modernist moment and focus on the geopolitics of knowledge, the migration of ideas and historiographic interrogations of Eurocentrism. In her article on the geopolitics of knowledge and philosophy in the context of the Institute, Marie-Julie Maitre, through a theoretical prism that draws on the theses of Edward Said and Walter Mignolo, offers us an audacious analysis of the doctoral dissertations of the philosophy students at the Institute from the perspective of colonial geopolitics of knowledge. She questions the status of Chinese philosophy in the context of epistemological dominance of the West, while ensuring that this category is not reduced to a mere a cultural definition. Liang Hongling extends this reflection emphasizing the effacement of the colonial context in which policies of 'cooperation' and 'mutual assistance' were instituted in the educational domain at the end of the nineteenth century. To illustrate her point, she examines the politico-cultural uses to which the Boxer Indemnity were put, and compares the American and French educational programmes on offer to Chinese students at that time. The essay puts into an international perspective the IFCL experiment.
Varia: François Jullien, transcultural critique and the transnational issue of « overcoming modernity »
14By the sheer volume of his work, the singularity of his philosophical approach and also his pedagogical talent, Francois Jullien, has become an inevitable reference whenever the question of Chinese intellectual history is compared with Europe's. In the humanities in France and elsewhere numerous are those who greatly appreciate his enterprise of re-reading the Western philosophical tradition through the prism of 'Chinese thought'. In response to the strident monograph by Jean François Billeter (Contre François Jullien [Against François Jullien] (Allia 2006), the author of Procès et création [Process and creation] vigorously defended himself denying having given an essentialist reading of China and its intercultural relations, and appealing for a constructivist approach to difference beyond dominant culturalist thinking.
- 4 This contribution is followed by a short reply by François Jullien.
15In an article hitherto unpublished in French, Fabian Heubel delves into the question of Jullien's comparativism and his take on cultural difference.4 He proposes a transcultural critique of Jullien's work from the standpoint of another historical a priori, that of modernizaton as a 'shared, common problem'. Fabian Heubel reminds us that Jullien's methodological approach only becomes possible if we elide modern social and historical realities. By assuming that a relative homogeneity existed in China's imperial elite, high culture and in postulating an intrinsic cultural and philosophical continuity between ancient Greece and Enlightenment Europe, two already contestable historical a priori, the methodological hypothesis of externality of the 'Chinese text' seems effectively plausible. But in that case we should need to remove China's modern experience of modernity from our reading of today's world, ignoring the phenomena of circulation and hybridity inherent in the postcolonial condition of modern times. Heubel contests the concept of the cogitative 'écart' or gulf proposed by Jullien, and by taking seriously 'modern and contemporary sinogrammatic philosophy' in its hybrid and transcultural dimensions, he anticipates, and calls for, a sinification of European philosophy.
16In his provocating paper entitled "The syndrom of overcoming modernity: learning from Japan about ultra-nationalism" , Alain-Marc Rieu deals with Japanese nationalism in the twentieth century in a comparative perspective. The intellectual attempts to 'go beyond modernity' that were made in 1930s Japan constitute Alain-Marc Rieu's point of departure. But the author does more than merely analyse the proceedings of the 1942 'infamous conference' in Tokyo, he questions the radicalness of this critique of modernity by eschewing the specificity of the Japanese context to envisage this 'meta-ideology' of the 'surpassing of modernity' as a 'syndrome of a singular and dangerous moment in the modernizations of human societies.' Rieu reminds us that forms of societal disenchantment with modernity, which anchored relations between the contemporary to the mythic past and prosed an ahistorical vision of national communities, also arose in Germany and France. And yet Japan's experience of fascism, its ideological, social and psychological impulses, should also illuminate political and discursive phenomena currently surfacing in certain contemporary, especially 'non'Western,' societies such as Russia and China which conceive Europe as a 'counter-example'. These current ideological tendencies suggest an ambiguous and dangerous alternative modernity which would preserve a certain transcendence and invent a mythic continuity continuing a tradition and possessing pre-modern 'roots.'
17(traduit du français par Gregory Lee)
1 Gregory Lee, « Le cadeau empoisonné de Versailles ou la Chine à la manivelle de l'orgue de barbarie », Mouvements, 2012, 4, n°72 (page consulted on 10/03/2014 url : http://www.cairn.info/resume.php?ID_ARTICLE=MOUV_072_0079 ) and see Lee's forthcoming iBook China's Dreaming, 2015.
2 On 4th May 1919 students and other progressive forces, learning that China had been badly treated in the Versailles Peace Treaty, demonstrated at Tiananmen Square. China had participated in World War One along side the British, French and Americans, for instance in supplying tens of thousands of men to the British Army's Chinese Labour Corps to dig war trenches, and yet the vanquished Germans' possessions and economic rights in China were not returned to China but rather transferred to Japan. The demonstration's twin slogan favouring 'Democracy' and 'Science', encapsulated the Fourth of May Movement's aims which were to use Western knowledge and methods to (re)gain Chinese sovereignty over its own soil.
3 The presentation of this research project is available on the following webpage : www.http//:ifcl.bid (page consulted on 02/10/2015).
4 This contribution is followed by a short reply by François Jullien.Haut de page
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'He's stable and we're hopeful' – Shooting victim Sean (6) 'largely conscious' in hospital
SHOOTING victim Sean Scully (6) remains 'largely conscious' hospital, a local priest has said.
The schoolboy was the innocent victim of a shooting in Ballyfermot on Friday evening.
The quick thinking actions of a passerby are credited with saving the child's life after pressure was applied to his wound.
Fr Gerry O'Connor this morning told Newstalk Breakfast this morning that the family remain by his bedside night and day, and are 'hopeful' Sean will recover.
"He remains in Crumlin, he's surrounded by a really good medical team, he's stable and we just have to wait and see.
"The doctors are very attentive and they are monitoring Sean's progress, he's stable and we're hopeful
"The family are living on adrenaline in many respects, because they're pouring out all their love and attention on Sean"
Fr O'Connor also said that the local community is stunned by the event.
"They're stunned by what happened. Something like this happened out of the blue and it stuns your very fibre.
"The community is with them 100pc with prayer and support and friendship.
He also pleaded with the perpetrator to turn themselves in.
"No one sets out to do this, but they find themselves in a sector with a total disregard for human life
"Please give yourself in to the gardai. Take that step. The community are incensed by what has happened and that's what they want you to do.
"From that might come some healing and hope."
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- It seems as if quarterback Denard Robinson has been at Michigan forever, now going into his third season as a starter.
But Michigan comes off a 23-20 overtime win over Virginia Tech in the Allstate Sugar Bowl in which the offense didn't do much -- 184 total yards -- and there are some questions about the future, if not the personnel. But the players offensive coordinator Al Borges will have in 2012 is a reason for hope. Here's an early look at how that might shake out.


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The Virgin Of Guadalupe
In the year 1531, as told by the historical documents, took place one of the most important apparitions registered by the Catholic Church, the Virgin of Guadalupe on the Tepeyac Mountain. The story refers that the Indian Juan Diego, today canonized, who usually walked through Tepeyac, saw the Virgin talk to him in indigenous language, calling herself Coatlallope, which has been related to the meaning the one who crushes the serpent, for its linguistic composition: coatl = serpent, and llope = to crush. Other versions contradict the word and recognize the name as Tlecuauhtlapcupeuh, translated as the one who comes from light like an eagle of fire. Its complex translation and scarce understanding of náhuatl ended in the name Guadalupe as it is known today.
The apparition during that historical moment had very important connotations, since the process of evangelization was at the peak of its development, having the need for a unity symbol for guaranteeing the mutual respect of the religious institution by the indigenous people, so part of them would finally accept the new faith. In that sense, the apparitions of the Virgin of Guadalupe made it possible to construct a solid church.
The documental texts indicate it was in December of 1531 that Juan Diego, on his way to Mexico City, heard a voice next to the Tepeyac mountain, who called him by his name with extreme affection. He found an image of great light and beauty calling to him Juanito, the smallest of my children, where are you going? She introduced herself as the Virgin Santa Maria mother of God, and formulated her demand: to construct precisely there a temple, for helping the residents of that region, covering them with her love and assistance.
The message had to be taken to the Bishop, Friar Juan de Zumárraga, who completely skeptical of the message left Juan Diego waiting for his response, and showing doubt about its veracity. In response, as stated by historical facts, the Indian had been elected for carrying out that will, and was again sent to publish the message, once again he did not convince the Bishop, and didnt give the negative response to the Virgin, because his uncle Bernardino was about to die and requested from his nephew the assistance of a priest, however, the Virgin encountered him along the way telling him that She, his Mother, would help him in his affliction, also ordering to go to the mountain for the proof he should take to the Bishop. The proof was beautiful roses of Castilla, rare during that time of year, due to the cold weather, but flourishing at that moment on the mountain.
With that proof he went to see the Bishop and showed the roses by extending his apron, where miraculously the image appeared. That image is the one preceding the altar of the temple constructed for Her.
The Image by itself has gone through profound research; it is a cloth of maguey fiber containing the Virgin with a slanted face, a blue shawl with stars, sunrays over her silhouette, feet posed on a black moon and an angel holding her.
The Virgin of Guadalupe is the most significant religious image after Christ in the Christian faith. On the 12th of December people commemorate the apparitions and there are celebrations in all temples, churches and cathedrals of Mexico.
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Obertan relishing Utd return
Newcastle winger Gabriel Obertan is relishing going back to Manchester United this weekend with his new club.
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Last Updated: 22/11/11 3:24pm
Newcastle winger Gabriel Obertan is relishing going back to Manchester United this weekend with his new club.
Obertan left Old Trafford for St James' Park in the summer after a disappointing spell with Sir Alex Ferguson's troops.
The Frenchman, who has missed Newcastle's last two games with a toe injury, is hopeful of being fit to feature against his old club on Saturday
"It'll be a great feeling to be back at Old Trafford - hopefully we'll win there," Obertan told the Evening Chronicle.
"I spent two amazing years there, so it'll be great to be on the pitch at Old Trafford again, to go back there and see friends I was with for two years.
"Hopefully, we'll get a good result there - it would be really, really good.
"It's all about Newcastle getting a good result now."
Newcastle suffered their first Premier League defeat of the season at Manchester City last weekend, but Obertan believes they can bounce back by getting a positive result at Old Trafford.
"So far, we have played some great football," added Obertan.
"Our confidence is really high, and there's no reason why we can't go there and get a point, or even three, if we play like we have before."


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Okay here's a little Monday story for ya. It may tap on your Monday Blues though.
It's about the time I was labelled "stupid". Yep. A delinquent. A dunce. A boy hopeless in his studies.
Back when I was 12, I did extremely badly in a major examination all kids of that age had to take. It was the final exam we all took right before we left grade school.
This was my "brilliant" score for English, Science, Math and Chinese (mother tongue):
Out of 300, I scored 191.
The grades were A, B, B, and B respectively.
Now for real, this was considered an extremely bad score. I may have passed, but you couldn't just pass this major examination and well, expect to get away with it.
It was all about the pressure.
I was pressured to do well in this strict society which enforced its rigid education system upon me. Even my parents were pressured (at least subconsciously for sure) that their son should do well for this exam, especially since other kids were taking the same test.
But I ultimately fucked it up. Scoring below 200 was a disgrace. Even if you hit a low score of 200, it wouldn't have sounded so bad as that would be considered average, and being average meant being normal.
By the way, I now hold the record for lowest score of this exam in the family. My niece holds the record for highest score. She got 261. That meant she had 70 more points than me and that beat every single one of my subjects.
Anyway I was pretty damn sad myself. I didn't think I'd fuck it up so bad. I thought I was normal you know? For the first time ever I felt stupid. I always did alright back in school, so to mess up this major exam was a huge blow.
To top it off, when selecting my high school, my parents had to drive me around so that I could take my pick… off a bunch of shitty schools that accepted crap students. I'm not kidding. These schools harboured young hooligans who were gang members, smokers and even kids who got pregnant young.
I was going to be one of "them", I thought.
And get this, one of the shitty schools even rejected me. Apparently I missed the mark by a few points to enrol. The principal was like, "Erm, sorry. We only accept students of (slightly less shitty) scores".
That was my turning point. I felt so sad and bad for my parents, that they had to chauffeur their own son around to tour a bunch of shitty high schools. I could just imagine them telling their friends, "Sigh… yeah. We had to go find a school that would accept Alden".
I remember crying after that. The trigger was that my mom lovingly gave me 50 bucks. She promised that for every 'A' I got, she would give me 50 bucks, which was like striking lottery to me. I refused it. I mean… why should she reward me for fucking up?
For the next four years I studied my ass off.
At 16 another major examination came (the O'levels). I was valedictorian. I scored the highest in the whole school.
I then went on to junior college and finally college, where I graduated with a bachelors in communications and new media.
As much as I do my own writing and biz today, where I learnt that real experience is far more valuable than classroom education itself, I'm pretty damn proud of this achievement.
Yep. This young fuck-up turned his life around.
So what's the moral of the story today?
Ahh you know.
Don't give up. If I can do it, you can too. Hang in there. Work hard.
But here's the most important lesson:
Never let school get the in way of your education.
Yes. School is important and all that shit, but that's as far as it goes. Do what you have to do to get an education.
Then, make life happen for yourself.
Honestly, school is just a phase in life. I got over it. You can get over it. You might as well do your best for, if anything, to get the pressure off your back by this society. You may disagree with your anti-conformist rants or whatever, but whoever you are, wherever you're from and whatever it is you and your family do, I'm willing to bet that getting a classroom education is important enough for you to WANT to survive.
It's just learning.
We are all always learning.
You might as well make it easy for yourself.
I think all of us have the power to easily learn anything we want. It's just that we get a little distracted from time to time. I pretty much screwed up my exams back then because I was busy playing Playstation.
Don't be distracted. Be more focused.
It'd be a shame to be "forced" down a dirtier path in life by society because of some distractions.
You're way more capable than you think.
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Get the best results and make it your best life.
Then you lead your awesome life. Like I do now.
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Messianic Judaism is a Judaism committed to Yeshua. It is a Judaism because its core purpose is to provide a home for Jewish followers of Yeshua where we may live out our covenantal relationship with God based on the Abrahamic promise, the teaching from Sinai, and the revelation of God which is in Messiah Yeshua. Our historical narrative begins immediately after the appearance of Messiah in this world, when the first to follow him were Jews in the land of Israel.
The modern origins of the emergence of Messianic Judaism are more complicated than the pure definition above. There are two time periods that relate to the modern Messianic Jewish movement. In the late 1800's and early 1900's a number of religious Jews, even a few rabbis, came to believe in Yeshua. They formed a movement within Judaism of Yeshua-believers. Their movement was wiped out, however, by the Holocaust. Yet we will come back to this lost movement after explaining the next emergence of Messianic Judaism. We will come back to it because its lessons need to be reclaimed and remembered.
The current Messianic Jewish movement is an outgrowth of the hippie revolution and the "Jesus freaks" of the late 60's in America. There had already existed within Protestant Christianity a movement of "Hebrew Christians." They were Jewish by birth but mostly rejected Jewish life in favor of Christian culture and worship. Nonetheless, they held conferences to discuss what it meant to be Jewish and Christian at the same time.
As a significant number of Jews became "Jesus freaks" during the hippie revolution, and it was at the same time as Israel recaptured Jerusalem, change began to occur among the Hebrew Christians. Some realized it was appropriate to call Jesus "Yeshua," to meet on Saturdays instead of Sundays, and even to keep Jewish dietary restrictions and use Jewish prayers.
Although this new Messianic Jewish movement adopted some surface characteristics of Judaism, it was based on evangelical Christian and sometimes Pentecostal/Charismatic forms of Christianity. This can be seen in many modern Messianic Jewish congregations in America, Israel, and in other countries. The "Judaism" of much "Messianic Judaism" is only skin-deep.
I am always learning and sometimes I come upon a sea change in my way of thinking. Some conversations with Boaz Michael in Jerusalem recently led me to modify my understanding and explanation of MJ history. It is the Messianic luminaries of the late 1800's and early 1900's who are the real fathers and mothers of Messianic Judaism. To keep up with the latest news, writing projects, and to get extras, sign up here for the MJ Musings weekly email. To read the daily Torah portion, a daily Gospel portion, and my commentary, sign up here for the Daily D'var email.
Yet in the 1990's a growing number of Messianic Jews began to assert our primary identification as being within Judaism and not as an outgrowth of the church. Inside one of the key Messianic Jewish denominations two sub-groups formed. Hashivenu arose as a think-tank for Messianic Judaism and advocated a "Jewish Messianic Judaism." Similarly the organization Tikkun arose, strengthening the Jewish practice of its members.
Still, Messianic Judaism has a long way to go. The lessons of the lost Messianic Jewish movement prior to the Holocaust need to be remembered. An educational institution, Vine of David, which is publishing imprint of First Fruits of Zion, exists to re-publish and make known the works of the lost Messianic luminaries. Names like Paul Philip Levertoff, Yechiel Tzvi Lichtenstein, Rabbi Isaac Lichtenstein, Rabbi Joseph Rabinowitz, Theophilus Lucky, Abram Poljak, Pauline Rose, and many more need to become known once again.
While Christianity in its various forms is good for believers from the nations, it is not the highest realization for Jewish believers. Yeshua is Israel's redeemer, first and foremost. If Jewish believers choose to live and exist outside of the Jewish community and the world of Judaism, this is equivalent to hiding Yeshua under a basket (Matt 5:15). The evangelical Christian and charismatic Christian forms of Messianic Judaism are not setting Yeshua on a hill to shine to our Jewish people. The tens of thousands of Jewish believers who choose to exist in churches are missing the calling to be salt and light to Israel. A Jewish Messianic Judaism is needed and it has existed and does exist. May its tribe increase.
The realization that Messiah is the Redeemer of the Jewish people is central to Messianic Judaism. We who have seen that vision will never be the same. We are a people anticipating the age to come, living now as though the days of Messiah are here. Our tradition is Judaism, just as the tradition of Yeshua and the apostles was Judaism. We keep Sabbath with the Lord of the Sabbath. We study and live Torah in the Living Torah, who is Yeshua. We pray Shema and the other prayers of Israel with Messiah himself, who embodies the hopes of Israel's prayers in his person. We recognize Yeshua as the Son of David, the shepherd of Israel, the shoot from the stump of Jesse, the righteous branch, and the coming King.
We believe in the coming of Messiah and the world to come that he will make on earth. We live as Messianic Jews in anticipation of it and we seek to model it now on earth as much as possible.
The meaning of the terms Messianic, Messianic Jewish, and Messianic Judaism are often misrepresented by groups that are not clearly Messianic or Jewish. By properly Messianic, we mean belief that Yeshua, who appeared for a while in the land of Israel and was executed, rose from the dead, ascended to the right hand of God, and was then revealed to be equal with God, to have been pre-existent, and to have been God's way of drawing near to us. He became what we are to make us what he is. Groups that do not adhere to belief in Yeshua's messiahship and divinity are not Messianic Jewish in the strict sense of the word. By properly Jewish we mean that the people and practices of the group are consistent with Judaism. Some "Messianic" groups or organizations and individuals who use the label reject Judaism, reject the idea that the Jewish people are chosen by God as the priestly people on earth, or that God granted to the people of Israel freedom to add tradition to fill in the ways of keeping the Torah.
The stream of Messianic Judaism represented on my blog draws from historic Judaism and Christianity, advocates Torah observance by Jewish people, distinguishes between Jewish and non-Jewish obligation in Torah, and seeks to promote both the ongoing peoplehood of Israel and the Messiahship of Yeshua. Our movement is well-served by the 2013 volume Introduction to Messianic Judaism (eds. David Rudolph and Joel Willits). Other books important for defining core values of Messianic Judaism include Mark Kinzer's Postmissionary Messianic Judaism and my own book, Divine Messiah, explains our reasons for and defines the meaning of our belief in Yeshua.
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As a professional shooter, I love sharing my passion for shooting with others. Not only do I get to compete in a variety of shooting sports, traveling all over the United States and internationally, I also do a good bit of filming for television and public speaking. This week's Youtube video is all about that.
This season I made a couple of trips to Nashville, TN to film a series of Pro Tips with Shooting USA. I love working with the Shooting USA crew and I can't wait to share this series of shooting tips that will be airing on the Outdoor Channel in the coming months. We cover safety, a concealed carry drill, purse carry and more. Stay tuned!
Over the past few years I've met a number of The Well Armed Woman leaders and have heard great things about The Well Armed Woman National Leadership Conference. I had no idea how amazing the event is until this year. As a speaker for the event I gave 3, 2-hour seminars on competitive shooting and the winning mindset to packed rooms of enthusiastic, charismatic women. The entire experience not only motivated me to keep doing what I do, but made me even more excited about the growth of women in the wonderful world of shooting.
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McNeese State loses 98-56 to No. 2 Michigan State
EAST LANSING, Mich. -- McNeese State played No. 2 Michigan State tough enough for 5-plus minutes -- and actually had the lead.
The Cowboys were ahead by a point for 15 seconds before Gary Harris made a 3-pointer on the ensuing possession and helped the Spartans pull away to rout the Cowboys 98-56 on Friday night in the opener for both teams.
"Looking at what we did early, there's some positive things we're going to take back from this," McNeese State coach Dave Simmons said.
Michigan State scored 10 straight points after trailing 13-12 early in the game and opened the second half with an 11-0 run to take a 63-25 lead.
"We were feeling pretty good at first," Cowboys forward Craig McFerrin said. "I don't know what happened. When we stopped hitting shots, they really started running."
Ledrick Eackles and Jamaya Burr led the Cowboys with 11 points each.
The Spartans kept multiple starters in the game until there were 5 minutes left, when Branden Dawson made a second straight dunk. They will face much tougher competition in Chicago against Kentucky.
"I'm looking forward to seeing the game on Tuesday," Simmons said unsolicited.
A lot of college basketball fans are, too.
Michigan State had six scorers in double digits -- led by Harris with 20 points -- and outrebounded the Cowboys 66-29.
"They're a good team, I could see why they're the No. 2 team in the country," McFerrin said.
The Spartans made 52 percent of their shots and held McNeese State to 27.4 shooting, playing better at both ends of the court after a shaky start.
Michigan State had some success early -- making its first two shots, both 3-pointers -- before struggling to make open shots and get the ball into open spaces against the Cowboys' zone.
That led to McNeese State taking the lead before getting outscored 40-12 the rest of the first half.
"Coach said if we could come out and hit shots, we had a chance to win," McNeese State guard Keelan Garrett said. "We knew they were going to hit some and they did. When we started missing, we didn't get back. When you do that against a really good team -- one with size, rebounding and strong shooters -- this is what happens."
The Spartans turned a 52-25 lead at halftime into a 38-point cushion early in the second half. Michigan State scored 40 points on the fast break and turned 18 offensive rebounds into 23 second-chance points.
"I didn't know they were that great in transition," Simmons said.
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I've been fine playing up to this point but this gliding section is total shite, nice work I'll give this a go.
I realize i had to hold the dive bomb button (right trigger in xbox 360) longer + up on left joystick while holding the A button.
i fuckin hate this game its way to hard
another part in this game that i really hate and pisses me off
Actually, YOU CAN CLIMB after a dive bomb, but it has to be a long/deep dive bomb, so you can gain impulse for a high rise (the deeper you go with the dive bomb, the higher you climb after it).Take he blue trail as a guide, to know when the dive bomb has to be performed.
After some pain in the arse, I figured it out.
Wow…royal pain in the ass but when you get the hang of it, it's doable.
Ra's doing Scarecrow's bit. XD
@gocalibergaming what does that mean?
pull back on the analog after doing a dive bomb, but if you do a dive bomb you won't be able to climb?
this section of the game is really fucking me off!
Batman: Arkham Island. All the criminals are now on a large island in? the middle of a large lake (think Lake Michigan). Joker's son is 5 years old, and he blames Batman for his father's death. He gets Batman to respond to a help beacon, Batman lands the Bat-Plane on the island, it gets blown up, and now Joker Jr. is out to kill the Batman.
It won't let me carry on the trail for assasins blood Which way do I go
Hey, i overheard Strange say 4 hours till protocol 10. Does that mean i'm nearing the end of the game?
THANK YOU for posting this video….i have been workin on getting to the first ice rock for 5 hours… velocity is the key…did not know that…
You are now my best friend.
@DrJay420NY Just pull back on the analog right after.
If you do a dive bomb, you won't be able to climb.
Watch @ 1:43. I should have done a second short dive bomb. I got very lucky on that run
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Ireland are thought to have arrived with or in the wake of the 12th century Anglo/ Norman invasion of the Emerald Isle, led by Strongbow. The surname Thomblin is ultimately derived from the personal names Timothy or Thomas. The Gaelic form of the surname Thomblin is Mac Toimin.
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Wicklow and Carlow (Irish: Cheatharlach) a small landlocked area located in the province of Leinster in the South East of Ireland, from 1172. Timon of Athens ( fl. 431 BC) was a citizen of Athens whose misanthropy grew to legendary status. He was the inspiration for Shakespeare's Timon of Athens (The Life of Tymon of Athens), one of his first tragedies.
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During an investigation of the origin of each name, it was found that church officials and medieval scribes spelled many surnames as they sounded. Therefore, during the lifetime of a single person, a name could be spelt numerous ways. Some of the spelling variations for the name Thomblin include Timmons, Timmins, O'Timmon, O'Timmons, Tymon, McToimin and many more.
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3 hour (or until we are done) practice and philosophy workshop.
This workshop will be on every other Saturday - Please like and follow Tao Chi Kai at facebook.com/ridingthewaveoflove to get the latest event information, news and updates.
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Ly Chi Gung can be practiced on all terrains and in all weather conditions.
A practice born from meditation returning toward meditation, mindfulness and centredness.
Train your Monkey Mind, cultivate your will power, centre your being and acknowledge your potential.
Ly Chi Gung has been practiced in my family for many generations and was traditionally passed down from father to son. We have always practiced in secrecy and it was forbidden to show or teach this knowledge to outsiders until now.
This will be for most of you the first time you have given your self full acknowledgement of your potential and capacity to nurture your will power, intention and mental focus.
You will be given and shown insight and self-realisation through practical physiological experience and method of the abundance attained in the unification of mind and body.
We will start off slow and steady and we will make our way forth towards the centre of our being. When outer and inner has been realised and recognised we will have a glimpse of all that is, can be and will be done.
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It seems like a lot for a mind with many doubts and questions. Embrace and acknowledge your fears; take a leap of faith and allow your mind and body to self-realise and self-actualise true insight: your whole being WILL BE DONE all that it has experienced.
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Listen: Sandra Bullock's terrifying 911 call played at stalker's trial
One of the more chilling aspects of celebrity life came to light yesterday as the audio from a chilling 911 call made by Sandra Bullock was revealed as part of a court trial against her alleged stalker.
Sandra made the frantic police call last June from inside her house after coming face to face with a stalker in her hallway. She contacted police by phone from inside a locked closet in her bedroom.
In a police report, the actress told police that she had heard a loud banging from inside the house as she lay in bed and assumed it was caused by wind. As she got up to close her bedroom door, she came face-to-face with a man in her hallway dressed all in black. Sandra then slammed and locked the door as the man, later named as Joshua Corbett, ran upstairs into her attic.
The Miss Congeniality star had taken a shower before bed and feared Joshua had been in her house the entire time.
The tape was played yesterday as the preliminary hearing in Sandra's case against Corbett. It can be heard on the below CBS news report:
"Someone's broken into my house," Sandra can be heard telling the operator. "I'm hiding in the closet… I just saw them walk up into the attic… It was a man. I'm locked in my closet. I have a safe door in my bedroom. I've locked it and I'm locked in the closet right now."
A search of Corbett's house later revealed notebooks full of images of Sandra, one with the message "I will forever be thinking of you and Louie, my son, as you are my wife by law, the law of God and you belong to me and me to you." Louie is Sandra's 5-year-old son.
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Embracing Impermanence
There are 10,000 joys and 10,000 sorrows in this life. –Chuang Tzu
When we embrace the reality that all things are impermanent, we open to a refuge of deep inner peace. The tendency of the mind is to cling to the idea that a moment of joy or a moment of suffering will last forever, and this causes us disappointment when the moment of joy fades and anxiety when we believe that the suffering will never end. Consider reflecting on the impermanent nature of all things. When you experience a moment of joy, try being fully present in the joy without clinging to it. When you experience a moment of suffering, try turning toward it and being fully present in the suffering without turning away or trying to escape. Remind yourself that the quality of the suffering will change with time, and try releasing any fixed ideas or fears that you may have about it being unchanging or unending. Try cultivating the capacity to be present with whatever arises in this moment and the next, embracing the 10,000 joys and 10,000 sorrows that this life brings.
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Where are you in the world right now? Are you in an office, or on a bus reading this on your mobile? It's funny where we find ourselves sometimes.
I was on my way to meet a friend in a rather nice part of town and noticed this fence.
"That's a rather nice fence," thought I, and continued on in a rather hurried, tottering manner, juggling my laptop, camera, notepad and the rest of my usual meeting accoutrements.
But in an instant, I loved the faded pink peeling paint, the rusting gate and the autumn leaves blowing past what could be any fence, in any neighbourhood. I stored it away under 'possibly useless or possibly important' in my memory bank and got on with the appointment.
Then this Siyona skirt dropped onto my desk, and I was reminded how sometimes beautiful details, like the colour of a fence, can be all the inspiration one needs.
This skirt is woven with metallic thread from looms in a factory in India, where the garment-makers are masters in hand-beading and embroidery techniques. How do I know this? I had the pleasure of meeting the owner of the factory who's just launched his label here in Oz, with the idea that fabric and textiles should lead the design process, not the other way round.
I'll write later in more detail about how Siyona produce their garments, but in this instance I thought it would be a nice introduction, by way of an obscure fence, to something I think is truly special.
What I'm wearing:
Coat: Mackage
Sweater: Elliatt
Skirt: Siyona
Necklace: The Turkishop (formally Ottoman Treasures)
Heels: Charles by Charles David
Bag: Mackage


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Methinks he doth protest too much
I'd heard about this study ages ago, and at the time it just seemed deliciously ironic. However, the last 15 years has well and truly proved to me that there's a strong element of truth to it, too. After all, we've all heard about:
- Ex-gay groups headed by gay men who supposedly overcome their desires, only to come out years later.
- Pastors who lead churches that can "deliver" people from homosexuality, then take young men on trips overseas and "deliver" them happy endings.
- Fire and brimstone preachers who end up getting caught with a $30 male prostitute … ahem … taking one for the team.
- Politicians who pass anti-gay laws then get discovered looking for sex in urinals at airports.
- Politicians who pass anti-gay laws and write papers called "Growing Up Straight: What Families Should Know About Homosexuality", then hire rent boys to "carry their luggage".
The list just goes on and on. There's quite a few public lists out there that are worth checking out, such as this one, this one, and this one.
There are always titillating stories in the gay community of known politicians, sports people, etc., who don't necessarily have the most gay-welcoming of public stances but privately lead a double life. Some of these stories undoubtedly are wishful thinking, but some are 100% accurate.
Now, returning to the study I mentioned at the start…
Someone tweeted about it this week, kindly reminding me of it (though I'll admit I've unkindly forgotten who it was who sent it around – if it was you, let me know). It was conducted in 1996, and was titled: "Is homophobia associated with homosexual arousal?"
Quoting from the abtract:
"The authors investigated the role of homosexual arousal in exclusively heterosexual men who admitted negative affect towards homosexual individuals."
They broke the study up into two groups – a collection of 35 men who were homophobic, and a collection of 29 men who had no issue with gays.
They then proceeded to show the men "stimuli" – aka, "porn", of 3 varieties: regular heterosexual porn, gay male porn, and lesbian porn. As would be expected, both groups got rather excited about the heterosexual porn and lesbian porn.
However, what was the real corker – and something just about anyone in the gay community would attest to – was that the homophobic men were the only group to get aroused about gay male porn. That's right:
"Homophobia is apparently associated with homosexual arousal that the homophobic individual is either unaware of or denies."
So, next time some guy starts blathering on homophobically about gays, just ask yourself this one question:
Is he a top, or a bottom?


text: This is minor if difficult child-land, but, I can't tell you how much better I feel to feel like I'm beginning to take back the house. difficult child got a $60.00 Wal-mart gift card from school JUST for taking the proficiencies. Yep. A gift card just for taking a test that is required by law that she take. (And we wonder why kids have a sense of entitlement. Ahem.) It came in the mail this week. difficult child came to me a few minutes ago and said she needed some new earrings. She has a pair of stud earrings that she sleeps in and I can't remember if they're supposed to be black or silver, but now they're one of each. I told her that when we go to spend her gift card she can get some then. Well, no, because she wants to get minutes for her Tracfone and she wants a Sims game and she won't have enough if she gets the earrings, too. She is not happy with me. She stomped off, but did stop short of slamming her door, when I told her that I guess she'd have to decide how much she wants the earrings. This seems minor. But in recent months, I would have caved and told her that I would buy her another pair of earrings (on top of the 5 or 6 pairs she's gotten in the last month) because I would have wanted to avoid a battle. I must have had the mom look going on because she really didn't argue too much. She stared at me in disbelief and then stomped off.


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King of Hearts: 50th Anniversary Edition
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Comedy, War
Geneviève Bujold, Alan Bates, Adolfo Celi, Julien Guiomar, Pierre Brasseur, and Jean-Claude Brialy
Philippe de Broca
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One of the most popular foreign films of all time, playing continuously in some theatres for over five years, King of Hearts is a "bright, lilting, whimsical, lyrical" (Cue) comedy that cleverly satirizes the absurdity of war with a "message [that is] meaningful and entertaining" (Boxoffice).
Bumbling Scottish Private Plumpick (Alan Bates) is sent to a village in the beautiful French countryside during World War I on a suicide mission to detonate explosives set by the retreating German army. The village, soon to be blown sky-high, has been abandoned by its inhabitants - and replaced with escapees from the local insane asylum. Now with the mentally challenged running the town, Plumpick is crowned King! But his new title brings him his first horrible decision: to carry out his deadly mission or join the ranks of the blissfully ignorant who know nothing about war. King Of Hearts is subtle, visually striking and, in short, the "ultimate display of madness" (Life)!
Technical Specs
- New master restored in 4K under the supervision of director of photography Pierre Lhomme. The restoration work was carried out at Technicolor Boulogne, France.


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Women's Metallic Round-head Screw Earrings Silver
Small but edgy. A pair of hallmarked solid sterling silver round-head screw earrings with a highly polished finish. The screw tops are approximately 6.7mm in diameter. Matching pendant available. Hallmarked in Dublin Castle, Ireland. Silver jewellery remains at its shiny best when worn daily or kept in a dry, air-tight box or bag. To clean any tarnishing, simply polish with your Edge Only silver cloth to regain a silver finish. Regular use of a silver cloth removes light tarnish and inhibits re-tarnishing, prolonging the original sparkle of your silver. Chemicals like chlorine and salt can damage silver so avoid wearing while swimming or when in the shower. Color: metallic


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Title: These Broken Stars [Goodreads][Amazon]
Author: Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner
Publisher: Disney Hyperion
Format: eARC
Pages: 384
Release Date: December 10, 2013
In My Opinion: Add to cart!
One Line: A steady, yet captivating plot with an unforgettable romance!
About the Book: It's a night like any other on board the Icarus. Then, catastrophe strikes: the massive luxury spaceliner is yanked out of hyperspace and plummets into the nearest planet. Lilac LaRoux and Tarver Merendsen survive. And they seem to be alone.
Lilac is the daughter of the richest man in the universe. Tarver comes from nothing, a young war hero who learned long ago that girls like Lilac are more trouble than they're worth. But with only each other to rely on, Lilac and Tarver must work together, making a tortuous journey across the eerie, deserted terrain to seek help.
Then, against all odds, Lilac and Tarver find a strange blessing in the tragedy that has thrown them into each other's arms. Without the hope of a future together in their own world, they begin to wonder—would they be better off staying here forever?
Everything changes when they uncover the truth behind the chilling whispers that haunt their every step. Lilac and Tarver may find a way off this planet. But they won't be the same people who landed on it.
The first in a sweeping science fiction trilogy, These Broken Stars is a timeless love story about hope and survival in the face of unthinkable odds.
Let me start off by saying that These Broken Stars has one of the prettiest covers I've ever seen. That alone attracted me to this book at first. Then I read the synopsis and was intrigued even more. After reading it, I have to say I'm very pleased with this book as a whole. I really liked it. Sure, the pacing was a bit slow, but not in a boring way. I'd describe it as more of a steady read in fact. Kaufman and Spooner wrote a truly captivating and brilliant story with wonderful characters. I think they had just enough detail about this world without it being overkill, although it was a bit touch-and-go for a minute there in the beginning. Once you get through the first third or so of the book, and the characters make the way across this desolate planet, things get really interesting. Even though nothing much happens in the first part, the characters were enough to keep me going, and I'm glad I did.
I really loved Tarver. He's such a good guy and I loved being in his head. I really liked the Lilac and Tarver dynamic, they had some pretty funny scenes. Some trying scenes, that's for sure, but also some good ones. Lilac is definitely a hard character to like. She's a rich girl who lives under her father's rule, and it takes quite awhile before we get true glimpses of her character, in the end, I like where the authors went with her. I liked the build up to their romance, the steady attraction, turned dislike/hate, turned appreciation, turned love thing isn't something I see often, done well at least, and I think they did a great job with it. One scene in particular gutted me a little bit, I can't say anything more!
The world itself was pretty cool. It did, yet again, take quite awhile for things to unfold and I didn't get all of the scifi stuff that the authors were trying to convey, but I think it was a great start to an interesting series. I'd say this kind of book would appeal to readers of all types. Yes, it's more of a scifi read, but it's got a bit of the paranormal fantasy, a bit of dystopian and action, and a good chunk of romance. At times while reading this I didn't know what genre it fit into and I think that was part of its charm. I loved that about it.


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I don't know about you guys. But it would be cool to see DJ Hero
i believe they trademarked Drum Hero as well
and some other heroes i can't remember
I call dibbs on Juke Box Hero...
Your in a bar and you have to pick the songs that don't piss off the drunks.
Is it country? is it rock and roll? some hip-hop?
Whatever you do don't get it wrong or you take a beer bottle to the head and have to fight you way out :lol: :lol: Get it right and you get free rounds for you and your buddies.
Drum Hero is gonna be awesome! they had better develop that!
virtual "hero" bands then playing 'live' online together!
<drifts into a daydream>
wow like rockband?
Foreigner already has that one.
Yea I think this is really lame! Why dont you go ahead and trademark flute hero or vacuumcleaner hero!
its called spray.
they just want to trademark any name that resembles guitar hero, just in case anyone wanted to use it. they dont necessarily plan on making a game on it.
Ya but anyone can buy music rights..lol that would be the intro song anyways..
All of the hardcore fans of Rock Band and Guitar Hero games are gonna jump down their throats for this, but I'm sure some people would enjoy it. I guarantee you some Beastie Boys will be on DJ Hero.
The controller? Two turntables and a microphone.
i looked up other names that they trademarked and they are Band Hero, Drum Hero, Guitar Villain, and Drum Villain
All 80'd hip hop would be perfect: Rakim, Slick Rick, Doug E Fresh, Big Daddy Kane, etc...
I would buy it in a heartbeat...
I swear to God, if they actually make Guitar Villian or even Drum Villian, then I've lost all faith in the video game community. Or at least Activision.
I wonder how guitar villain or drum villian would be played.... You have to smash your guitar or destroy your drum set after a song his played??? Hahaha. I guess they are just trademarking the name just like rukus said.


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