in case you have noticed, several websites that are managed and administered by me are down.
at this moment i do not know specifically why, but my hosting company (secureserver.net) tells me only that it is due to a "copyright infringement.
" i do not even know which of the 30 some sites might actually have the claimed infringement and so far all i've been told is that there is a claim and that i have to email a certain group and they will get back to me.. i have no idea when these sites will come back on line.
Fair use is getting abused to extremes on the internet --- It's completely legal to copy and paste portions of text from any published document to critique it and discuss it or make fun of it.
Now the quantity of the copy/paste can be up for debate, but surely a couple of paragraphs from a magazine or book is not a substantial quantity.
Good luck
well things were actually pretty boring.
i mean really boring.
that's the price of fading i guess.
Interesting how he threw "Lunch with workmates" in with other "cultural norms" like wild parties and beating your wife and kids. It's a subliminal way to discourage any association with "worldlies".
Isolationist!
I've seen articles about polyphasic sleep -- unfortunately for me after I take a nap during the day, I have about 1 to 2 hours of grogginess that is oftentimes worse then just staying up and "powering through" the desire to nap.
Well at least I can get some work done in peace...
http://www.avaaz.org/en/palestine_worlds_next_nation_uk/?bmiddbb&v=19229.
if you are the anti-apartied sort of person who would like to end the suffering of a persecuted peoples, please sign the above petition.
Interesting notes from the Wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli%E2%80%93Palestinian_conflict
With the outcome of the First World War, the relations between Zionism and the Arab national movement seemed to be potentially friendly, and the Faisal–Weizmann Agreement created a framework for both aspirations to coexist on former Ottoman Empire's territories. However, with the defeat and dissolution of the Arab Kingdom of Syria in July 1920, following the Franco-Syrian War, a crisis fell upon the Damascus-based Arab national movement. Return of several hard-line Palestinian Arab nationalists, under the emerging leadership of Haj Amin al-Husseini, from Damascus to Mandatory Palestine marked the beginning of Palestinian Arab nationalist struggle towards establishment of national home for Arabs of Palestine. Amin al-Husseini, the architect of the Palestinian Arab national movement, immediately marked Jewish national movement and Jewish immigration to Palestine as the sole enemy to his cause,[10] initiating large-scale riots against the Jews as early as 1920 in Jerusalem and in 1921 in Jaffa. Among the results of the violence was the establishment of Jewish paramilitary force of Haganah. In 1929, a series of violent anti-Jewish riots was initiated by the Arab leadership. The riots resulted in massive Jewish casualties in Hebron and Safed, and the evacuation of Jews from Hebron and Gaza.
In the early 1930s, the Arab national struggle in Palestine had drawn many Arab nationalist militants from across the Middle East, most notably Sheikh Izaddin al-Qassam from Syria, who established the Black Hand militant group and had prepared the grounds for the 1936 Arab revolt. Following, the death of al-Qassam by the hands of the British in late 1935, the tensions erupted in 1936 into the Arab general strike and general boycott. The strike soon deteriorated into violence and the bloody revolt against the British and the Jews. In the first wave of organized violence, lasting until early 1937, much of the Arab gangs were defeated by the British and a forced expulsion of much of the Arab leadership was performed. The revolt led to the establishment of the Peel commission towards partitioning of Palestine, though was subsequently rejected both by Palestinian Jews and Palestinian Arabs. The renewed violence, which had sporadically lasted until the beginning of WWII, ended with around 5,000 casualties, mostly from the Arab side. With the eruption of World War II, the situation in Mandatory Palestine calmed down. It allowed a shift towards more a moderate stance among Palestinian Arabs, under the leadership of the Nashashibi clan and even the establishment of the Jewish-Arab Palestine Regiment under British command, fighting Germans in North Africa. The more radical exiled faction of al-Husseini however tended to cooperation with Nazi Germany, and participated in the establishment of pro-Nazi propaganda machine throughout the Arab world. Defeat of Arab nationalists in Iraq and subsequent relocation of al-Husseini to Nazi-occupied Europe tied his hands regarding field operations in Palestine, though he regularly demanded the Italians and the Germans to bomb Tel Aviv. By the end of World War II, a crisis over the fate of the Holocaust survivors from Europe led to renewed tensions between the Yishuv and the Palestinian Arab leadership. Immigration quotas were established by the British, while on the other hand illegal immigration and Zionist insurgency against the British was increasing.
This war seems to be self sustaining - right from the start.
to v and all the other "uberpostates" who have gone to great lengths to inform the public about the cult that is the jehovah's witnesses, i take today to say thanks to you all.. v's jw commentsfreemindsjwfactsjwsurveymarvin shilmer's blogspotim sure there are many others.. thanks guys!.
To V and all the other "uberpostates" who have gone to great lengths to inform the public about the cult that is the Jehovah's Witnesses, I take today to say thanks to you all.
Im sure there are many others.
Thanks guys!
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=34906.
could be very important for suffering people.
may slow it down to a crawl.. .
I just lost a very good friend to this disease. He was one of the few friends I have made outside the organization. I know his family was looking into alternative therapies, but few things helped. I know some are working on stem cell treatments, but because the motor neurons are long (maybe up to 3 feet) they are not easily replaced. The effects of the disease were barely noticeable for months then just within this past month, his speech became slurred and his breathing was labored. He lost his ability to eat and was scheduled for a surgical procedure to place a feeding tube. His mind was sharp, but this disease took everything else. Just felt like saying something to raise awareness.
the rs list said ginger baker practically invented the rock drum solo.. i thought that seemed late.
sandy nelson--early '60's:.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/rolling-stone-readers-pick-best-drummers-of-all-time-20110208/7-stewart-copeland-0841006.
Here's my fav...
i noticed there are current topics on fading so i thought i would re-share my own fade.
i will be brief.. my straw that broke the camel's back was from an arrogant asshole circuit overseer while i was a ministerial servant and pioneer.
i will save you the details.
Im in the same boat as FSP -- I dont remember which congregation would have my card...
The only ones I see out in service here anymore are from the spanish congregation. So for me it's easy "no habla espanol"....
I saw a show about the region of the brain that activate during prayer/meditation/rituals. It was very interesting to see that the active neurons differ depending on what kind of belief system you have. During monotheistic prayer, the language centers in the brain activate in ways quite similar to those when having a conversation with someone (both listening and speaking). The Buddhist type faiths activate completely different regions as their "divine" (if you can call it that) is not a person, but more of a place. The visual areas activate.
All of this comes down to the focused activation of regions in the brain and the release of chemicals into the body which can promote healing and a sense of good will or purpose.
I imagine that this is a good thing when practiced with the right intentions in mind.
