Maria took these photos on Bleeker Street, when we were walking to the Meatpacking District for a coffee. According to her, taking photos during the winter is hard because of the white and cold light. The cool thing about it is that the winter sun produces long and styled shadows, which you can see in some of the pictures below. There are still a few photos that we haven't shared with you from our almost two weeks of work in New York at the beginning of the year, so stay tuned. Our looks are Forever 21, our makeup is Maybelline and the accessories are PAAR and can be bought at our online store.
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I realized that there were a lot of table tennis players out there who weren't following the professional table tennis world as fans of the sport. Many of us are probably more familiar with what's happening in professional basketball, football, etc, over table tennis. A simple, yet big reason, is because it's not easy to follow. And if a majority of table tennis players aren't paying attention to the pro's, how can we expect non-table tennis players to be attracted to the sport as a spectator or player?
First, there is little to no table tennis coverage on television. Second, our major resource for news is the interent, where you have to keep checking on multiple video sources, message board forums, and tournament websites to keep up to date on the table tennis scene. It can be time consuming and aggravating having to do a lot of work hunting for news and results.
On television there are individual news and highlight shows for many sports, whether it be soccer, baseball, golf, among many others. Here in the US, sports news never reports on table tennis, much less devote a show to reporting on it. So here is my attempt at filling that gap, and hopefully make the sport more accessible and easier to follow by players and fans alike.
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My book club is meeting to discuss Going Clear tomorrow and all we've done for the past week is threaten to Sea Org/RPF each other if we don't bring certain foods to the get together. It's going to be crazy fun. So glad you read and enjoyed it!
Now that's a discussion I would love to be part of! Watch out for Zenu, ha ha. You'll have to let me know how it goes :)
I'm with Shannon and have been meaning to read The Snow Child. You pretty much just clinched it for me (which you so often do - I think I need a Relentless Reader TBR list)
I don't usually read non fiction books, unless they are of the true crime variety, but an insight into Scientology would be pretty interesting I imagine... It's one of those religions I know very little about... But then again, am I the only one?
I'm a giant fan of nonfiction. I don't know why but it's true :) They try to keep their stuff close to their chest so no, you certainly aren't the only one!
I just added Going Clear to my list after seeing it mentioned at Bonjour Cass. Now, five minutes later, you're recommending this too. I think the universe is trying to tell me something. :-)
The cover of Snow Child keeps calling to me... reaaaaad me. I'm beauuuuutiful! Then you have to go and love it and the voice is just impossible to ignore. It's on my list!
I have to be honest, I totally was underwhelmed by the end of The Snow Child. I read the whole book just knowing that I'd cry at the end, that it would be so emotional, and then it ended and I wasn't emotional at all (and I cry at EVERYTHING).
I knew you weren't a huge fan of The Snow Child. You know when you love a book and you think everyone should love it? I have a little bit of that feeling for it, lol. But thank goodness we're all different and have different tastes. The world would be awfully boring if we all liked the same things :)
I enjoyed The Twelve Lives of Hattie and glad you did too. I love fairy tales so putting The Snow Child on my tbr list is a no-brainer.
Glad you liked The Snow Child! I was looking at the copies of Mathis's book the other day, trying to decide whether to read it or not, I think your opinion there has made my decision :)
So much goodness... that I haven't read any of. I've been wanting to read all of these books, though. So glad you liked them!
Thanks :) Once in a while when I'm looking through blogs I see a bunch of books that I want to and haven't read and it makes me a bit nuts, lol.
"Drowning in Feelings"-- That is the perfect description for Tweleve Tribes of Hattie. I read it a couple of months ago and it still creeps up on me at times. Going Clear sounds like a fascinating read!
Kathmandu, Aug. 1: A walkathon was organized here this morning to mark the 60 years of establishment of diplomatic relations between Nepal and China.
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Personal: Buffy the Vampire Layer and Priscilla (the domesticated Vamp) are two hard up chicks just looking for a good looking undead man. All they ever seem to do is put eachother down in cleverly written verbal attacks filled with pop culture references. They're just way ahead of their time!
Both end up fighting over (and eventually sleeping with) any man that the other finds the least bit attractive. Their catfights are usually pretty fun to watch!
Personal: The Clan of Ken-Ken are evil souls of past warriors who were too wussy to stay alive for very long. They fight for the Goddesses when they are called upon to slaughter the enemy and then.... ummm, see Event 17 for details.
Personal: Bad ass! DeeDee is one of the many Vampyre Hunters in the medieval world that our time travelers are trapped in. He is, in fact, the best there is at what he likes to do. DeeDee likes to appear out of thin air to startle people (he loves to see people do "double takes") and he is a master swordsman. He has well over 5,727 vamp lives claimed, but his past might provide a source of conflict with his career choice.
Personal: Hippy, tree-huggin, mushroom smokin wood elf. Do-It is a medieval slacker and stoner if there ever was one. She believes in free love and narcotics. She can stare forever at the sun and claim to receive cosmic revelation.... but everybody knows that's just the homemade acid kicking in.
After eating a Dark World 'shroom that she mistook for a "polka-pink-floyd" toadstool, Do-It goes trippin the light fantastic into a new personna and becomes Asbestos, the Stoned and Angry One!
Personal: ....... @_@..... All "Egg Girl" (for lack of any real given name [Hey! She walks around with an egg!]) ever does is carry that weird-ass egg around and piss people off by never talking to them (least of all telling them what's inside it). She never says a word and rarely does she even look two steps ahead of her. Nothing else is know about her.
The context of this passage is very important, and hopefully the celebrant will explain in the homily. This is not Moses’ first visit up the mountain. It is his return visit after the debacle with the Golden Calf. Moses had descended the mountain, interrupting his reception of the instructions for the Tabernacle, in order to regain control of the people, who were running wild in a pagan ritual-orgy in worship of the Egyptian bull god Apis. He now returns to the mountain to intercede for the people and plead for forgiveness and covenant renewal. God accepts his intercessions on behalf of Israel and agrees to forgive and renew the covenant, but Moses has an additional request: he wishes to see the face of God. God cannot reveal his “face” (unmediated revelation) to Moses in this life, but he condescends to show his “back” (mediated or indirect revelation) to Moses on the mountain. So God makes his presence pass before Moses while Moses is hid in a cleft in the rocks. While his presence passes by, the LORD proclaims his “name,” that is, declares what his essence is:
The term translated “kindness” here is that very freighted word “hesed,” which specifically connotes faithfulness and love in a covenant relationship.
So why is this text read on Trinity Sunday? On this day, we reflect on God’s very nature, and this is one of the most important texts of the Old Testament that addresses the issue of what God is. The answer given is that God’s nature consists primarily in mercy, grace, forgiveness, truth, and especially covenant fidelity.
This does relate to the Trinity, which has meaning for our redemption. Several facts follow from the realization that the Son and the Spirit are God Himself. First, it dawns on us that God did not send some other creature to suffer and die for us, but paid the penalty for our sins by himself. Secondly, it becomes apparent that God does not merely share his energies or power with us, but shares with us his very life and self.
For if God is not a Trinity, then Jesus the Son is a creature, and God sent a creature to work our redemption rather than doing it himself. And if God is not a Trinity, the Holy Spirit is not God, but some active force or emanation from the almighty. Therefore we do not receive God into our hearts through faith and the sacraments, but something else that radiates from him.
Furthermore, the Trinity reveals that God is, in himself, a circle of self-giving love. Prior to the creation of the universe, God did not exist as a self-aggrandizing sole individual, but he existed as a communion of persons bound by the gift of self in love: a possible way to think of it is that the Father continually gives himself to the Son, and the Son gives himself to the Father, and the self they exchange is the Holy Spirit. Thus, the gift of self in love, which is the essence of hesed, belongs to God’s nature from all time. It is not an accidental feature of God’s character that arises when he creates other beings to be loved.
So doctrine of the Trinity enables us to understand that faithful love (hesed) is at the heart of God’s nature, and he shares himself with us in a way more profound and intimate than we would ever have imagined.
The revelation of God’s nature prompts praise from us, his people. The Church turns to the Song of the Three Young Men, the song of praise they sang while being sacrificed in the fiery furnace. The fiery furnace is an image of the burning love of God, which is more than our mortal nature can bear. Yet God sustains us supernaturally, so that we can praise him while plunged in his presence. The young men were being sacrificed because of their covenant fidelity to God expressed by their refusal to worship idols. Their willingness to be faithful to God to death leads to a greater knowledge and experience of God’s nature.
Our Second Reading gives us a more explicitly Trinitarian text. Although the doctrine of the Trinity is not explained in detail in the text of the New Testament, the reality of the Trinity must be presumed in order to make sense of the assertions and statements of the apostles and other sacred writers. For example, in the concluding blessing of this short passage of St. Paul, it would be inappropriate to put the “grace of the Lord Jesus Christ” and the “fellowship of the Holy Spirit” in poetic parallelism with “the love of God” unless all three realities were of equally dignity. If Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit were mere creatures, they could not be the source of “grace” and “fellowship” on par with the “love of God.” Furthermore, the term “grace” is particularly freighted, as elsewhere Paul develops the concept as a divine attribute.
Benedict XVI explained that dogmas are nothing other than authoritative interpretations of Scripture. Another way to look at them would be as “truths one must assume in order to make sense of all the Scriptural data.” The doctrine of the Trinity helps us make sense of this threefold blessing in 2 Corinthians 13 and many other passages as well.
Love is the essence of the Trinity. The Trinity tells us that God is not a monopersonal individual who had only himself to love before creatures were made. Self-love is an imperfect form of love. Therefore, God would have needed creatures to love in order to achieve perfection of love. God would have been imperfect in himself. Self-giving love is the highest form of love: “Greater love has no man than this: that he lay down his life for his friends.” From all eternity Father and Son exchange their Life for each other. Therefore, the gift of the Son by the Father to the world, and the Son’s gift of Himself for the world and for his Father, is nothing other than an invitation for the world to enter into the circle of love that defines God’s essence.
Why is it necessary to believe in the Son? Because only Jesus reveals to us the full truth about God. Moses revealed some truth about God. Mohammad portrayed God as an omnipotent, monopersonal master who has no children in any sense, does not give himself to or for us, and does not share with us his very being. The Buddha was technically an agnostic, unconcerned with discovering God’s nature or even clearly affirming he existence of God.
Alone among the religious teachers and philosophers of the world, Jesus claims in word and deed that God is a loving Father who gave his only Son for the salvation of the world, and that the Son is, finally and mysteriously, the Father’s own Self, for “I and the Father are one,” and “He who has seen me, has seen the Father.” Therefore, whoever does not believe in the Son is condemned forever to labor with an inadequate understanding of God, which leads—perhaps sooner, perhaps later—to estrangement from God. We become like what we worship. How important, then, truly to understand the nature of the God we worship. The worship of the Trinity should lead us to a life of self-giving love.
Dear friends and brethren, make no mistake about it; we are at war. The good news, is that we have been at war for the past two thousand years with the enemies of God�s Kingdom and while we have lost some battles, we are still gaining ground. For the first half of this century, our
enemies have used stealth to accomplish their wicked scheme. Our enemies say to themselves, "They shall not know, neither see, till we come in the midst of them and slay them, and cause the work to cease." - Neh. 4:11
Any one who looks at our educational institutions can see the removal from our text books, of a great culture and a fair reverence for God. This has all been changed. Now, it is unlawful to pray in our public schools or to post the ten Commandments on a wall. The courts and legislatures have undermined the sacred bond of marriage, making it easy to sever the ties that bind.
The United States won it's war for Independence but in 1812, the British again attempted to subdue the country. After losing that war, the British determined upon a more subtle plan of conquest, using finance,
(J. P. Morgan), education (the Rhodes scholarship program), religion (the C. I. Scofield Bible, published at Oxford University) and the issuance of currency (the Federal Reserve Act). To date, many of their schemes have worked well, but now, there is a resurgence of populism and a yearning for a return to early American values, which were based on the Bible.
This cabal has successfully driven the United States into debt, through the war in Viet Nam, the Lend-lease give-away and foreign aid to many countries. They have succeeded in debauching the currency, thus robbing the citizens of gold and silver backing for their coin of
exchange. They have created inflation which robs our senior citizens of their life�s saving and have suckered the country into N. A. F. T. A., the �free trade agreement� which has encouraged greedy corporate executives to move manufacturing plants abroad. More and more, they are pulling the rug out from under our nation and few of our national
leaders seem to understand what is going on. Once the economy collapses, which they know it will, because of their shenanigans, they intend to have a period chaos and forced relocation and to designate areas that must be abandoned as "unsafe."
#11051: Authorize the Office of Emergency Planning to put the above orders into effect in times of increased international tension or financial crisis.
Concerned patriots have wondered how such gigantic maneuvers, such as relocating people to concentration camps (yes, we do have numerous concentration camps in our country already set up) would be carried out. We now know that they intend to use �United Nations Peace Keeping Forces� to subdue the populace.
Over the past few years, I kept hearing rumors of military training maneuvers here in this country that involved foreign troops, who wore black clothing and used black helicopters. These were called �counter-terrorism exercises�. But the interesting thing about
it, is that much of their �trainiing� was over American cities. We know from articles published in the Washington Post and the Charlotte Observer, that the beginning of these training sessions began on April 17-27, 1997, in Texas and New Mexico. Since then, they have moved to various states.
In joint maneuvers that involved the National Guard, surveys were given to various National Guardsmen, asking them if they could bring themselves to fire on their fellow Americans, if they were ordered to do
so! Many sheriff�s departments around the country, I am informed have already received lists of individuals who are to be arrested in the wee hours of the morning, when the order comes down.
One of the key objectives of this cabal is the reduction of the world�s population. They know that if the population in a certain country is drastically reduced, the remaining citizens will be easier to control. In those countries where the government refuses to cooperate with the
United Nations Birth Control policies, other means are available, such as plagues set loose surreptitiously. These include diseases and bacteriological agents. If you think I am making this up as I go along, think again. We already have several man-made diseases.
Those who follow these polices, are the unwitting disciples of Margaret Sanger. Margaret Sanger was a disciple of Theosophy and its founder, Madam Blavatsky. Sanger was involved in a religion that
worshipped Lucifer. She believed that the world is over-populated and needs to have a great portion of the population disappear, using whatever means is necessary to accomplish the task.
Lucis Trust is a prominent modern day representative of Theosophy, an extension of the Lucifer Publishing Company, which is also a United Nations NGO. Lucis Trust the money any way she wants--on her laptop, on a debit card, even (in the not too distant future) on a chip
implanted under her skin. And, perhaps best of all, you can program the money to be spent only in specific ways. You might instruct some of the digits to go for books, some for food and some for movies. Unless you pass along a few digits that can be cashed at the local pub, she'll have to find someone else to buy the drinks." The Big Bank Theory - Time Magazine 1998
Dear and blessed friends, I am not writing these things to terrify you but to encourage you. Jesus says to us: FEAR NOT LITTLE FLOCK, for it is your Father�s good pleasure to give you the KINGDOM. Sell what you have and give alms; provide yourselves with bags that grow not old - a treasure in the Heavens that fails not, where no
thief approaches, neither moth corrupts. For where your treasure is there will your heart be also. Let your loins be girt about and your LAMPS BURNING; and be like men that await their lord, WHEN HE WILL RETURN FROM THE WEDDING; so that when he comes and knocks you may open (the door) instantly for him." - Luke 12: 32- 36
One thing about Luke�s Gospel is his emphasis on asceticism. Now, Protestants hate every form of asceticism and they will stop their ears at every mention of any form of asceticism. Protestants long ago rejected
monasticism and every form of self discipline. Now, they wonder why they are nigh unto cursing. They "have a form of godliness but deny the power of (true godliness). Turn away from such [as these]". - II Tim. 3:5
Those of you, who have read my writings over the years, know what I think about the letters to Timothy. They were not written by Paul, as many scholars will attest, but by someone in a later period, who was trying to consolidate the powers of the Church. Timothy was the student of Dionysus, just as Dionysus had been the disciple of Paul.
Not only did this writer contradict everything which Paul wrote, he also went up against the teachings of Jesus. For example, he writes: "Now, the Spirit speaks expressly that in the latter times [read that his own time] some shall depart from the faith paying attention to seductive
spirits and doctrines of devils; speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their conscience seared with a hot iron; forbidding to marry and (commanding) to abstain from eating meat." - I Tim. 4:1-3
Were Paul and Jesus �devils�??? According to the writer of I & II Timothy, they were. We see Paul�s true teaching on this subject in his letters to the Corinthians:
"I say to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. But if they cannot contain (themselves), let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn."- I Cor. 7:8,9
"I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried cares for the things pertaining to God, how he may please the Lord. But he that is married cares for the things of the world, how he may please his wife." - I Cor. 7:32, 33
The beloved John wrote: "Whoever is born of God does not commit sin because his seed remains in him . . ." - I John 3:9 In other words, he maintains his continence!
And, I guess Jesus must have been a �devil�, because he taught the same thing! "He said to them, All men cannot receive this saying, except those to whom it is given. For there are some eunuchs, who were so born from their mother�s womb. Some were made eunuchs by men and
there are some, who have made themselves eunuchs, for the Kingdom of Heaven�s sake. He that is able to receive [this saying] let him receive it."- Matt.19:12
I confess, I personally do not know anyone who forbids others to marry or to abstain from eating meat. Yet, I do know men and organizations who encourage that kind of lifestyle, but that is not the same as commanding them not to.
I guess, I have been picking on the Protestants because they threw out everything that smacks of mysticism and asceticism in the Reformation, but the cults go to the opposite extreme. The Mormons promise their devotees many wives in the next life and they even go to the extreme of �sealing� these plural marriages in their temples.
The Way International could have made a contribution to the cause of Christ, but their organization has almost been destroyed by the wife swapping of their leaders and other sexual escapades. The �Way�, as they like to refer to themselves was founded by Victor Paul Wierwille.
He not only took other men�s wives into his embrace but encouraged other leaders to do the same. Originally, they were an evangelical group organized like a tree. There were �branches in each state, with �twigs� and �leaves�. The �leaves� were the individual members.
It has amazed me, in my research of cults, to see just how many of them had leaders who could not leave other men�s wives alone. This is in sharp contrast to the teaching of our Master. These seek to "remove the Ancient Landmarks" and "destroy the foundations" just as
much as the �One Worlders�. We must not only be on guard against them, we must snatch away those who have been deceived by their destructive teachings. And we must �watch and pray� as the Lord instructed us.
"Thus says the LORD, Stand in the Ways, Seek and ask for the Old Paths, wherein is the good Way and walk therein, and you shall find rest for your souls." - Jer. 6:16
"And it shall come to pass after this, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy and your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions . . . And I
will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and pillars of smoke. The Sun shall be turned into darkness and the Moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord come." - Joel 2:28-31
This year, we have already seen three lunar eclipses - using the old Jewish calendar year with the Moon turning red and the Sun darkened - all of them coming on Jewish holidays!
"Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? The day of the LORD is darkness, and not light. It is as if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or he went into a
house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him. Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?"- Amos 5:18-20