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Let me know if this is or isn't helpful and if I should make another.
I'd watch another. Thanks for doing this.
Another vote for many more videos like this! Would love to see some around the idea of creative page transitions.
Awesome! I would definitely watch another as well.
Holy crap, this is terrific. I'm working on an iPhone app right now - still in the wireframe phase - but definitely going to look to Origami to prototype interactions to hand off to my developer and show the client.
Silly question, but would anyone happen to know of any development software out there that has a similar plug and connect style of functionality? Nothing in particular, just interested in trying out something like that.
Thank you for the suggestion! I'll definitely look into that!
Cycling 74's Max is a node based editor for creating interactive art, design, and music. It's pretty amazing (and expensive) software.
Offtopic: What screen recording software are you using?
Been looking for which software does the motion blur on the mouse. That's all I want haha, Thanks!
"Make a bouncy button in one minute"
Two minute video. WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?


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Why judging all programming on the basis of recidivism rates misses the point.
In the United States, policymakers have long chosen not to fund access to decent education, job training, trauma-informed care and the arts in the communities that need these resources most. As a result, sometimes people don’t get these opportunities until they are incarcerated and someone finally sees a reason to prepare them to return to civilian life.
California’s prison arts programs have been transformative, but a state audit released this year might jeopardize the future of these crucial offerings, just as the state’s budget crisis did in 2010. To let that happen would be a grave mistake. The audit did not evaluate these programs using nuanced metrics that can truly assess their success. A prison sentence is black-and-white, but art — and the effect it has on those who partake in it — is anything but.
It’s understandable that the public cares about recidivism rates. The audit found that although rehabilitation programs for prison inmates are receiving millions in funds, recidivism rates have remained high. But focusing narrowly on recidivism gives fuel to those who would rather revert to a punishment-only paradigm in which people who are locked up just sit in their cells and return to us more damaged than when they were first incarcerated. And by relying on a rudimentary notion of recidivism as the only marker for “evidence-based” success, the audit fails to evaluate a host of other markers of progress.
Some of that evidence, such as research by the University of San Francisco School of Management’s Larry Brewster suggesting that prison arts programs build self-confidence, self-discipline and creative thinking in participants, is quantifiable. Participants in the Actors’ Gang Prison Project have an 89 percent drop in in-prison infractions, ensuring safer prisons and people more ready to take responsibility for their behavior. That’s just one program.
Other results of these programs, such as the massive rise in empathy we’ve seen in individuals who participate in them, can’t be measured in numbers. We have witnessed how painting, music, writing and the dramatic arts can reveal to people who are incarcerated their inherent potential and awaken in them a sense of hope and purpose. We have seen rival gang members — mortal enemies — heal trauma and rediscover their common humanity working side by side in a prison arts program.
Brewster’s research suggests that this is a long-term investment: The longer someone is involved with a prison arts program, the more likely he or she is to show positive behavioral changes.
We accept that people need education, job training, mental-health support and substance abuse classes, but support for the arts is tenuous. There is a misconception in this country that art is merely for artists, or for entertainment, but it’s much more than that. The arts have been used as medicine, as a way to process the world and as a path to healing, not to mention developing the core skills that employers require. The arts make us fully human and reach a part of human life that nothing else can.
People who are incarcerated aren’t the only ones who benefit from arts programming. The healing effect of arts programs is so marked that even the California Correctional Peace Officers Association asked for a program for their officers as part of their wellness push and efforts to lower the tragic suicide rate among correctional officers.
It would be a deep loss for the state to sacrifice effective programs because they are being measured by rubrics not built to accurately estimate their effects and being judged by people who often don’t have the expertise to deeply understand what they are witnessing and what is at work below the surface. Instead, legislators should listen to the participants in these programs themselves.
Jane Fonda is an actress and activist. Sabra Williams is the executive director of Creative Acts, which provides arts education to incarcerated people.

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Read for This Week’s Study: Isa. 13:6, 9; Matt. 24:30, 31; Dan. 2:34, 35; 2 Tim. 4:6-8; 2 Thess. 1:7-10.
Memory Text: “For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be” (Matthew 24:27).
The poet T. S. Eliot began a poem with the line: “In my beginning is my end”. However succinct, his words carry a powerful truth. In origins exist endings. We see echoes of this reality in our name, Seventh-day Adventist, which carries two basic biblical teachings: “Seventh day”, for the Sabbath of the Ten commandments, a weekly memorial of the six-day Creation of life on earth; and “Adventist”, pointing to the second coming of Jesus, in which all the hopes and promises of Scripture, including the promise of eternal life, will find their fulfillment.
However distant in time the Creation of the world (our beginning) is from the second coming of Jesus (our end, at least the end of this sinful existence), these events are linked. The God who created us (John 1:1-3) is the same God who will return and, in an instant, “in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet” (1 Cor. 15:52, NKJV), will bring about our ultimate redemption. In our beginning, indeed, we find our end.
This week, we will talk about the final of all final events, at least as far as our present world is concerned: the second coming of our Lord Jesus.
Study this week’s lesson to prepare for Sabbath, June 30.
However much we tend to think of the second coming of Jesus as a New Testament teaching alone, that’s not true. Of course, only after the first coming of Jesus, after His death, resurrection, and ascension were we given a fuller and richer revelation of the truth surrounding the Second Coming. But, as with so much else in the New Testament, the Old Testament reveals hints and shadows of this crucial truth long before it will happen. With the doctrine of the second coming of Jesus, the New Testament authors didn’t reveal a new truth; instead, they greatly enhanced a truth that had already been revealed in the Bible. Only now, in light of the crucified and risen Savior, can the promise of the Second Coming be more fully understood and appreciated.
Read the following texts. What do they teach us about the second coming of Jesus? Isa. 13:6, 9; Zech. 14:9; Dan. 12:1.
Beyond question, the “day of the LORD” will be a day of destruction and sorrow and turmoil for the lost. But it is also a day of deliverance for all of God’s people, those who are “found written in the book” (see also Phil. 4:3, Rev. 3:5, 13:8) . This theme, that of the “day of the LORD” as a time of judgment against the wicked but also a time when God’s faithful are protected and rewarded, is found in the Old Testament. For instance, though some will face the “LORD’s fierce anger”, those who heed the call to “seek righteousness”, and “seek humility” will “be hidden in the day of the LORD’s anger” (Zeph. 2:1-3, NKJV).
Read Matthew 24:30, 31. In what way do these verses show this same great dichotomy between the lost and the saved at the second coming of Jesus?
As final events unfold, which side we are on will only become more apparent. What choices can and must we make now to make sure we’re on the right side?
Though many Jews in the time of Jesus expected the Messiah to overthrow the Romans and establish Israel as the most powerful nation of all, that’s not what the advents of Jesus, either the first or second, were to be about. Instead, God had something so much bigger in store for His faithful people than just a rearrangement of the old sinful and fallen world.
Perhaps nothing else in the Old Testament reveals as clearly as does Daniel 2 the truth that the new world does not grow out of the old one, but instead is a new and radically different creation.
Daniel 2 shows the rise and fall of four great world empires — Babylon, Media-Persia, Greece, and then finally Rome, which then breaks up into the nations of modern Europe. However, the statue that Nebuchadnezzar saw in his dream (symbolizing the succession of these four major world powers) ends in a spectacular way that shows the great disconnect between this world and one that will come after the return of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Read Daniel 2:34, 35, 44, 45. What do these verses teach about the fate of this world and the nature of the new one?
These verses leave little ambiguity about what happens when Jesus returns. In Luke 20:17, 18, Jesus identified Himself with this stone, which crushed to powder all that was left of this world. The Aramaic of Daniel 2:35 reads that after the gold, the silver, the clay, iron, and the bronze were crushed, they “became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them”. That is, nothing is left of this old world after Jesus returns.
Meanwhile, the stone that destroyed all trace of this old world “became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth”. And this kingdom, which arises as a result of the Second Coming, is one that “shall never be destroyed”, and “it shall stand forever” (Dan. 2:44, NRSV).
Only one of two endings awaits every human being who has ever lived on this planet. Either we will be with Jesus for eternity, or we will disappear into nothingness with the chaff of this old world. One way or another, eternity awaits us all.
Read Titus 2:13. What great hope do we have, and why?
Describing his beliefs about the origins of our universe, a lecturer explained that about 13 billion years ago “an infinitely dense tiny mass popped out of nothing, and that mass exploded and from that explosion our universe came into existence”. Just how this “infinitely dense tiny mass” could just pop out of nothing, the lecturer didn’t say. He just assumed, by faith, that it did.
Now, as we noted in the introduction to this week’s lesson, in our origins we find our endings. This is why, according to this lecturer, our endings aren’t too hopeful, at least in the long run. The universe, created from this “infinitely dense tiny mass”, was doomed to eventual extinction, along with all that was in it, which includes humanity of course.
In contrast, the biblical concept of our origins is not only much more logical than this view but also much more hopeful. Thanks to the God of origins, our long-term prospects are very good. We have so much to be hopeful for in the future, and this hope rests on the promise of Jesus’ second coming.
Read 2 Timothy 4:6-8. What is Paul talking about here, and in what is he putting his hope?
Though Paul is soon to be executed, he lives in assurance of salvation and the hope of Christ’s return, what Paul calls “His appearing” (2 Tim. 4:8, NKJV) . A “crown of righteousness” awaits him, certainly not his own righteousness (1 Tim. 1:15) but the righteousness of Jesus, upon which Paul knows his hope in the promise of the Second Coming rests. Regardless of his immediate circumstances, which were dismal at best (in jail, waiting to be executed), Paul knows his long-term prospects are very good. And that is because he was looking at the big picture, not focusing only on the immediate situation.
Regardless of your own immediate circumstances, how can you have the same hope as did Paul? How can we learn to look at the big picture and the hope it offers us?
However central and crucial the Second Coming is, according to the Bible not all Christians see the event as a literal, personal return of Jesus Himself. Some argue, for instance, that the second coming of Jesus occurs, not when Christ Himself returns to earth but when His Spirit is made manifest in His church on earth. In other words, Christ’s second coming is accomplished when the moral principles of Christianity are revealed in His people.
How thankful we can be, however, that this teaching is false. If it were true, what long term hope would we really have?
Read the following New Testament texts about the Second Coming. What do they reveal about the nature of Christ’s return?
“The firmament appears to open and shut. The glory from the throne of God seems flashing through. The mountains shake like a reed in the wind, and ragged rocks are scattered on every side. There is a roar as of a coming tempest. The sea is lashed into fury. There is heard the shriek of a hurricane like the voice of demons upon a mission of destruction. The whole earth heaves and swells like the waves of the sea. Its surface is breaking up. Its very foundations seem to be giving way. Mountain chains are sinking. Inhabited islands disappear. The seaports that have become like Sodom for wickedness are swallowed up by the angry waters. Babylon the great has come in remembrance before God, ‘to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of His wrath.’” — Ellen G. White, The Great Controversy , p. 637.
The return of Jesus is such a massive event that it literally brings the world as we know it to an end. When it happens, everyone will know it, too. What Jesus accomplished for us at the first coming will be made fully manifest at the second.
How should living with the reality of the Second Coming impact how we live now? How should it help us remember what the really important things in life are?
Before raising His friend Lazarus from the tomb, Jesus uttered these words: “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live” (John 11:25, NKJV). Rather, though, than just asking people to take His word about such an incredible claim, He then proceeded to raise Lazarus from death, who had been dead long enough for the corpse to start stinking (John 11:39) .
Those who believe in Jesus do, indeed, die. However, as Jesus said, though they may die, they will live again. This is what the resurrection of the dead is all about. And this is what makes the second coming of Jesus so central to all our hopes.
According to these texts, what happens to the dead in Christ when Jesus returns? Rom. 6:5; 1 Thess. 4:16; 1 Cor. 15:42-44, 53-55.
The great hope of the Second Coming is that the resurrection from the dead that Jesus Himself experienced will be what His faithful followers of all the ages will experience, as well. In His resurrection they have the hope and assurance of their own.
What happens to those who are alive when Jesus returns? Phil. 3:21, 1 Thess. 4:17.
The faithful ones alive when Jesus returns will retain a physical body, but not in its present state. It will be supernaturally transformed into the same kind of incorruptible body that the ones raised from dead will have, as well. “The living righteous are changed ‘in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye.’ At the voice of God they were glorified; now they are made immortal and with the risen saints are caught up to meet their Lord in the air”. — Ellen G. White, The Great controversy , p. 645.
Make a list of all the things of this world that are so important to you that you would rather sacrifice eternal life in order to retain them now. What’s on the list?
Further Thought: The second coming of Jesus isn’t the epilogue, the appendix, or the afterword to the sad story of human sin and suffering in this fallen world. Instead, the Second Coming is the grand climax, the great hope of the Christian’s faith. Without it, what? The story of humanity just goes on and on, one miserable scene after another, one tragedy after another, until it all ends only in death. Apart from the hope that Christ’s return offers us, life is, as William Shakespeare wrote, “a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” And yet, we have this hope because the Word of God confirms it for us, over and over. We have this hope because Jesus ransomed us with His life (Mark 10:45), and Jesus is indeed coming back to get what He paid for. The stars in the heavens don’t speak to us of the Second Coming. The birds chirping in the trees don’t herald it. In and of themselves, these things might point to something good, something hopeful, about reality itself. But they don’t teach us that one day, when Jesus returns, “the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed” (1 Cor. 15:52, NKJV). They don’t teach us that one day we will look up and “see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven” (Mark 14:62, NKJV). No, we know these things because they have been told to us in the Word of God, and we trust in what the Word promises us.
Think about what it would mean if the second coming of Jesus really were nothing more than what some believe it is: the full expression of Christian principles in the lives of Christ’s followers. However wonderful a display that would be, in the end, why does it leave us without any hope?
Why is the currently popular idea that the universe arose from nothing such a silly idea? Why would people promote such a notion, and why do some believe it? Why is belief in an eternally existing God, who created all things, so much more logical and rational an explanation for the universe?
Share with your class the things you put on a list of what you find so important in this life that you would sacrifice the hope of eternity in order to keep them now. What can you learn from one another about what’s on the lists? If people have nothing on their lists, how can we make sure then that nothing in our lives is truly keeping us from salvation, as will be the case with many people?
Danny Whatley was on top of the world — and not just because he worked as a bush pilot in the U.S. state of Alaska.
“I wanted to be in the elite”, Danny said. “I did not want to be a regular person. I loved those people”.
But then he received a copy of “The Great Controversy”. Danny had dated a former Adventist and through her started playing basketball and volleyball at the Adventist church in his hometown, Palmer. A church member gave him the book.
Danny took the book with him on his next bush trip and read how the seventh-day Sabbath was changed to Sunday. He had never heard of author Ellen G. White, but he instantly felt convicted that this was truth.
“I was hooked right away”, he said. “People who say evangelism doesn’t work have never been on the receiving end of an evangelism series”.
The next night Danny brought his father.
At that moment he surrendered everything, including his business, to Jesus.
“I was a hunting guy who could do it all on my own, and now I realized that I could not do it all on my own”, he said.
At the baptism, the pastor declared, “Here is a trophy hunter who is now a hunter of souls”.
“I had wanted to travel like them”, said Danny (pictured left), today a successful serial entrepreneur. “But now I go on mission trips, which are much better”.


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The New Age Movement, what does it teach? Find out with Eric Barger on the show Christ in Prophecy.
Last aired on August 8, 2010.
Dr. Reagan: What in the world is the New Age Movement and how does it threaten the Church today? And why do many people believe that Oprah Winfrey has emerged as one of the premier leaders of the movement? For the answer to these questions by one of Christendom’s foremost experts on cultic movements, stay tuned.
Dr. Reagan: Greetings in the name of Jesus our blessed hope, and welcome to Christ in Prophecy. I am delighted to have back with me again this week my special guest Eric Barger. Third week you’ve been here Eric.
Eric Barger: It’s great, feels like an old hand now.
Dr. Reagan: I am also glad to have Nathan Jones with us to help interview Eric. Nathan is our Web Minister and he is on that site everyday of the week for about 8 hours. Answering questions and talking with people all over the world, so if you want to get acquainted with Nathan just e-mail him through our website, ask him the question that you have and he will be back in touch with you. Nathan, why don’t you start off with the first questions.
Nathan Jones: Sure! Well, your story is so interesting. Your testimony and all you started off in the church as a Christian and then somehow you ended up in the New Age Movement which isn’t Christian. How did the transition happen? And, again, I am still a little nebulous about the New Age Movement. What is the New Age Movement?
Eric Barger: Well the transition took place, I came out of a liberal church background. I say liberal, I was unsaved but I went to church and I’m not sure the Gospel is preached there faithfully it may have been I am just not sure. I just never meet Jesus there, no one every challenged me about a personal relationship. When I was about 13 years old I started playing in rock bands every Friday and Saturday night, I would be out playing some place. I was actually thinking about playing my first band when I was 11.
Eric Barger: Yeah, a local DJ heard about us, and I was kind of an anomaly at that age you know to be out playing in a band. But that is where it started, and by the time I was 16 or so I was a full blown drug addict, by the time I was 21 I was involved in New Age Philosophy. I moved to Seattle, a lot of New Age philosophy in Seattle, it became my religion. Now I would have still said there was a God, and I believe there was probably a guy named Jesus, that kind of thing. But I had adopted Eastern Mystic philosophies and techniques the arrow sticks, which you throw it is a form of fortune telling. The I Ching which is a book that explains to you life, you know from an Eastern viewpoint. And so I was into those kinds of things. I was very much into astrology charts, it wasn’t a little tiny thing in the newspaper. By the way I used to be an Aries and now I am a Christian. But it wasn’t a little thing in the newspaper. This was a scroll that had been made for me by a lady, I use that term very loosely who was a bona fide black witch and I literally would follow it, I was so superstitious by this it controlled my life. When I was playing in the band I would literally would not go out of the hotel room door until I knew what my stars said for that day.
Eric Barger: That is where I was at.
Nathan Jones: Because stars and planets determine your life?
Eric Barger: Exactly, you know even though those things have no bearing on it. The God who created me and controls my life He created those stars too. I don’t need to look up at the stars I need to look to the One who made them you know. And a lot of people today, I meet Christians all the time who will make some statement about, “Oh well he is a Libra and he will do this and he will do that.” And I go, “No that has nothing to do with it.” You know people don’t realize where they are putting their faith and trust.
Nathan Jones: So, is astrology a major component of the New Age Movement?
Eric Barger: It is more so the occult, but many things that are occultic flow into the New Age, and many things that cultic also flow into the New Age. And in the occult it is all in that genre of rebellious spiritualism that is maybe the best way to define it.
Dr. Reagan: Well how would you define the New Age Movement, it just seems so difficult to get your hands on it, it is so amorphous.
Eric Barger: I’ll give some definitions that I think one of these will stick with people. It is a Westernized form of Eastern Mysticism.
Dr. Reagan: Okay, very well put, yeah.
Eric Barger: And often time is not taught with the Maharishi or a figure like a bong wan or an Eastern Mystic leader now it is taught with a College Professor and it is taught in business courses in our colleges. But it is a Westernized form, it is put in our words. Some of the teachers and leaders on the PBS Network, we can start naming them by name, which I do in the DVD’s and in my seminars, are teaching these things. And you look to who their leaders and their gurus are, are Eastern Mystic gurus, but they are now Westernizing this teaching making it palatable to us and therefore making a fortune.
Dr. Reagan: So does this get into Pantheism?
Eric Barger: It certainly does, you know there are many, many gods or that you have become part of one ethereal god force.
Nathan Jones: Which is Hinduism, right?
Eric Barger: Yes, very much so, but Hinduism and Buddhism both flow in those. Most Americans wouldn’t say I am a practicing Hindu but many have adopted those philosophies as a way of life.
Dr. Reagan: Would you put the teaching spiritual teachings of Shirley MacLaine, for example into the New Age category?
Eric Barger: Certainly, she is out on a limb just like her books says.
Dr. Reagan: I am god.
Eric Barger: It is also a spiritual experience without the cost of repenting of your sin, and probably the best definition I can give is: any system of belief that tells you to look inside of yourself, to yourself for enlightenment, wisdom and power is generically New Age. Now we look to the Holy Spirit who lives in us for enlightenment, wisdom and power. But we are not god. In the New Age, you look to the spark of god, the god force within you for enlightenment, wisdom, or power, it is a very close counterfeit. And this is across the board today, doctors, lawyers, scientist, PhD’s, Nobel Prize winners, people of politicians, people of high mental capability. Okay I guess we can take the politicians out of that group come to think of it. But people of high mental capability who believe in these philosophies because it works, and just because it works doesn’t make it right. New Age philosophies do work, because they are spiritually powered, they work, but by what spirit it works should be the question we ask.
Nathan Jones: It works in the here and now, but for eternity it doesn’t work.
Eric Barger: No, not at all and that’s the thing people want it now. Of course we live in a culture that if the one drive-thru across the street isn’t fast enough we drive across to the other one that is faster that is where we are as a culture.
Dr. Reagan: Well it seems to me that there is an overwhelming, the New Age Movement indicates an overwhelming need of people to have something spiritual in their lives. They want some sort of spiritual expressions but they want one that makes no demands on their life.
Dr. Reagan: I mean this is the Hollywood religion, owe yes I am very religious, I sit and I meditate, and I hum and I do all of this, but I don’t have any demands on my life in terms of morality or whatever.
Eric Barger: Jesus calls us to come to God through repentance. The New Age Movement doesn’t like that idea. Our culture doesn’t like the idea. We want a spiritual experience without the cost of repentance of our sins.
Dr. Reagan: Well that happens to be one of the most unpopular words in all of Christianity today.
Dr. Reagan: You flip on TV and you see ministers of some of the largest churches in American who would never mention the word repentance, because it might offend somebody.
Dr. Reagan: Or that they are sinners.
Eric Barger: Exactly those words are all left out in many Christian circles but that is, that is the core message of Christianity that is being cut off at the knees.
Dr. Reagan: So Christianity itself is being impacted by the New Age Movement.
Eric Barger: It is, it is and do you know why, because our culture has adopted the gospel of self as a religion.
Nathan Jones: How many churches are holding Yoga, that is what gets me. Yoga now is becoming a mainstream class offered in churches.
Eric Barger: That’s big in emerging circles. I heard Rob Bell and Doug Pagitt both recently speak about how Yoga is so transforming.
Nathan Jones: Empty yourself out, when we should be filling ourselves with the Holy Spirit and the Bible and thinking on these things. We are emptying ourselves so we don’t think of anything.
Eric Barger: Rob Bell went as far, and he is an emergent leader from Michigan to say that we should listen to the message of the Yoga masters. Now wait a minute, I know about that, and yet his congregation seems to buy into this because many of them have no church background. You can have a big congregation but it depends on what type of Gospel you preach when you get in there. I will take 10 people who will turn a community upside down for the glory of God, over a thousand who will sit there and do nothing and never, ever make it to Heaven. We want those 10 who will actually go out and evangelize with the Gospel not with a false counterfeit.
Dr. Reagan: Reminds me of a sermon that I heard here in this area by a Hispanic preacher who was talking about what is a live church. And he said, “We often think a live church is one that has lots of activities going on.” He said, “The other day I opened the newspaper and here is a major denomination in our city and they are offering Yoga classes, Transcendental Meditation classes and all kinds of Eastern, Oriental, Mystical things that have spiritual significance to them, they are not just neutral. And he says, “Lots of activities going on, but he says, “It is just spiritually dead.” He said, “Folks it reminds when I was a kid and living in Mexico once a week we went to Grandma’s house and we looked forward to it on Sunday because she had chickens and we got meat once a week. And she would go out to the back yard and she would grab a chicken and she would pop her wrist, and pop that chicken’s head off and it would run all over the yard. Said it was the liveliest and active chicken in the yard and it was the deadest.” Now brother that preached.
Eric Barger: That is great, that is great, let me write that down, new sermon title, dead chicken will preach.
Dr. Reagan: Dead chicken that is real active, you know. It is just, it is a lack of discernment that people just don’t seem to understand that something like Yoga and this sort of thing has spiritual significance.
Eric Barger: It most certainly does no doubt about it. And those who have brought this into our culture and now it has seeped its way into the church. Hey if a church doesn’t stand for good doctrine, if we don’t have a standard that is the Bible being the truth we follow, and the only truth we follow, this other stuff is going to make in the door, it is just that simple.
Dr. Reagan: And I am reminded of this I think, I guess it wasn’t a novel but it was a sort of self-help book, The Celestine Prophecy wasn’t that a New Age type of book? And I saw Christian everywhere reading this thing.
Eric Barger: Yeah, yeah. Well you take a look of the reading, I was in a well known national chain print shop recently, a whole book rack there of self-help books. And I went down through them and I went I can find one Christian there throughout all of these books and the rest of them every one of them I could name to you as somebody that has adopted Eastern philosophies and put it into a Western context as a New Ager. So this is the stuff that is being sold to us as the way to control the problems or the things in our life, to get what we want to think and grow rich ideas.
Eric Barger: The idea that we can, we are going to make it through life and be more popular people and be more powerful around people by using these techniques, so it works, yeah. But let’s never forget atomic bombs work, just because they work doesn’t make it right, you know.
Nathan Jones: That seems to be the theme that you have talked about – the New Age and the Emergent all these – everything seems to go back to the sin that Adam and Eve committed when Satan said, “You will be like gods.” Everything you have said about this replaces God with us.
Nathan Jones: And we buy into that.
Eric Barger: That is exactly right. I think the five major doctrines even though New Agers would never claim to hang the doctrine, but the five major belief systems inside the New Age coming right out of Genesis 3:1-5 the Fall of mankind, starting with the very first Trans channeling or mediumship or séance in history. The devil possessed the body of a serpent and spoke to Eve the same as a medium gives over the use of his body to a spirit to speak to people today. I mean that is the first séance that we have ever seen in recorded history and that is where the lie came from, just like the same lie is being perpetrated in New Age séance.
Dr. Reagan: Several years ago I read a New Age book that just astounded me, it talked about the fact that the masters of the universe have been channeling to New Age philosophers. And one of the things they’ve told them is that time is coming in the very soon future when those who live by faith will be taken out so that those who live by reason can continue in their evolutionary development and develop the world and the earth and all this. And I thought man this is going to be a New Age explanation of the Rapture.
Eric Barger: Oh, most certainly, the Devil reads the Bible, the Devil knows.
Dr. Reagan: And they will be able to say, “Hey we told you this back in 1970 we told you this in ’75 this is what happened.
Eric Barger: Yeah the Devil is a Bible expert no doubt about it. Look at the most famous transchanneler in modern history is J.Z. Knight but the name of the demons she channels Ramtha is more famous then her. I mean she has been doing that for over 30 years, I saw a clip on YouTube recently when she is on the Merv Griffin show and she is talking to Merv Griffin as herself, and they go out to break and come back and Ramtha has shown up while they are at break. And this is a mans voice now speaking out of this woman’s body. Now whether it is fake or not it is just like Saul in 1 Samuel 28, he went to the witch of Endor, whether that was Samuel or not that spoke to him, he died the next day for even trying to contact the spirit realm. Folks we are not to be involved contacting any spirit in the spirit realm except the Holy Spirit of God.
Eric Barger: All other spirits that do not confess Jesus Christ as Lord, whether they be angels or spiritual beings, they are demonic spirits they are counterfeits. And our world today is loaded with people looking for anything. They think a spiritual experience validates the idea that it must of come from God, it must be good. They forgotten or didn’t know that Satan comes as an angel of light.
Dr. Reagan: Welcome back to our interview with Eric Barger, who is the Founder and Director of Take a Stand Ministries. I like that name, we desperately need to do that in this day and time, take a stand. Now Eric I heard an expert on the New Age Movement recently make a startling statement and I want to read it to you because I want to get it right. He said, “The largest church in the world is preaching New Age philosophy, and the pastor of that church is Oprah Winfrey.” What did he mean by that?
Eric Barger: Well she is the most influential New Ager out there, by far the most famous New Ager. Ten to twelve years ago I began to make off the cuff statement in my seminars that Oprah was a New Ager, and I took a lot of heat for it.
Eric Barger: Phone calls, letters, and then later on when e-mail became popular, e-mails telling me, “No Oprah is a Baptist.” You know and people defender her, these are Christians defending her. And I am going, nope what Oprah is teaching is New Age and eventually we will all know. And now we do know.
Dr. Reagan: Well she just finally came out of the closet.
Eric Barger: Completely, completely came out of the closet this year. And I want to preface anything we say now or anything we have said about the Emergent Church and others the last show we were talking about in the last program, this is not about good person versus bad person this is about truth versus error and that is what apologetics is, it’s the study of what truth is against what error is. And it’s not that we hate anybody, we are praying, I pray for Oprah Winfrey nearly everyday that she would be saved and think about the impact that she could have.
Dr. Reagan: And I found that people often respond to any criticism of her by saying, “Look at all the good work that she does.” And she does a lot of good works.
Dr. Reagan: And denied that Jesus was the only way to God on her program.
Eric Barger: She is arguing with two audience members, saying that there couldn’t possibly be just one way, there are millions of ways that was her exact words you know. This is a headline from US Today, we will probably put this up on the screen, Cultural Agenda is Set by Oprah not Religious Leaders.
Dr. Reagan: And that is true.
Dr. Reagan: Recently Oprah has really begun to actively and aggressively teach New Age Philosophy right?
Dr. Reagan: Not only on TV but mainly on the Satellite radio, right?
Eric Barger: Satellite radio and the Internet but now on TV. She is coming out of the closet.
Dr. Reagan: Who are some of the gurus she is using?
Eric Barger: Well Eckhart Tolle, and his book A New Earth, she made him an instant millionaire. He was a well known New Age author before, but he is not the only one she has had on there. She promoted and really brought out to the public the book, The Secret, three years or so ago. And all you would have to do is go to the websites of the authors of The Secret, to see what this was. It was a mix of the Kabala and Gnosticism and Rosicrucianism and she helped to promote that idea. She has also had on her XM satellite radio channel a lady named Esther Hicks who is a transchanellor, who channels who channels several entities who all call themselves Abraham they are different to her. Now this must be confusing at Thanksgiving dinner.
Dr. Reagan: There are several Abrahams?
Eric Barger: Several Abrahams but that is one of them and this lady has also been on our TV show and Oprah has probably has done more to promote the old New Age philosophy of A Course in Miracles then anybody else.
Eric Barger: Because she has brought Mary Ann Williamson to her website and to her TV set, now Mary Ann Williamson is doing a devotional everyday during 2008 on Oprah’s XM radio network that came right out of the Course in Miracles. And Mary Ann Ramson has written a book about it, she is unity minister by the way, which is not a Christian denomination.
Eric Barger: It’s a cult my mother was involved with for 25 years before she got saved, and tragically passed away. But, so I know all about Unity and that’s Oprah is promoting this.
Dr. Reagan: I know for a long time there Oprah continued to say that she was a Christian but does she even claim that anymore? Do you know?
Eric Barger: She doesn’t claim that at all, you know, she doesn’t claim it at all, and she is bringing the heaviest hitters in the New Age Movement.
Dr. Reagan: Well I didn’t know that.
Eric Barger: Because he wanted to be connected forever with a 14th Century occult mystic named Meister Tolle or Meister Eckhart, sorry. I mean that’s how deep this guy is, he is into all kinds of mysticism. And he says, the first thing when you ask him his influences he says, A Course in Miracles and that is something a common theme throughout all these New Age leaders and authors today. But here is Oprah turns to him and says to him, “So if your God is a believing experience it really is not God because God is a feeling experience and not a believing experience.” And folks if you go on your feelings you will be deceived; if you go on the absolute truth of God’s Word you will never be deceived.
Dr. Reagan: Amen, brother preach it.
Dr. Reagan: Eric the Bible says that in the End Times right before the return of Jesus we are going to enter into a period of great deception. And it seems to me that we are in that period and it seems to me that one of the greatest needs in the church today is discernment. How can a person become a more discerning Christian because all of us are capable of being deceived? How can we be more discerning?
Eric Barger: There is no short cut for sound Bible study, there is no short cut for the preaching of the Word of God. I say enough with the programs, enough with the spin doctors from the pulpit. That we come back and teach the Word of God to our people because as you said privately to me there is a famine of the Word. And there is a famine of the Gospel today amongst our people. I am talking about in evangelical circles. Places that say they believe the Bible let’s preach the Word of God, enough of the programs. Come back to the Word. Look at what is happening in the lives of the people and tell me there isn’t a need.
Dr. Reagan: And it’s not just the responsibility of the preacher or the teacher, it is the responsibility of each of us as Christians to study.
Dr. Reagan: You know you are talking about what my colleague Dennis Pollack used to call the 5 letter dirty word, STUDY.
Dr. Reagan: And people just don’t want to.
Eric Barger: That is because we have allowed Television and everything else to get in our way.
Nathan Jones: But, they can watch this show.
Eric Barger: Obviously we are not against TV, we’ve got my DVD sitting here, we’re on TV right now. That isn’t, the point is that we’ve have forgotten what the on/off button does we let everything get in our way. We let, well I am going to get on somebody, we let Sunday morning soccer tournaments get in our way. We let all this other stuff get in our way from being first of all constant in the church, but maybe more important, constant in the Word of God. If you had to look at what’s the most important thing knowing the Word because from there everything thing else emanates that we are supposed to be.
Dr. Reagan: Well the bottom line is you can just never become a discerning Christian if your only spiritual experience is one hour a week on Sunday morning.
Eric Barger: I never forget when I was a youth pastor I had a distraught mother come to me and say, “My son is doing all this stuff, can’t you do something about it?” I said, “Ma’am, I only have him for an hour on Friday nights, I can not replace what the school system has taught him, what his friends have done to him, what is happening in the home.” I mean she looked at me like, I thought you were the problem fixer, the problem solver for my son’s problem. And it is the same with us as adults.
Dr. Reagan: When I first became acutely aware of this problem of discernment was when the Barna polls began to, I began to read those concerning the freshman in evangelical colleges and universities coming out of evangelical churches who could not even name the four Gospels or name 2 of the Apostles.
Eric Barger: Yeah, you don’t dare ask them where Philemon is. Yeah.
Dr. Reagan: And you ask them, and then you begin to wonder what are they doing in these churches just weenie roasts?
Eric Barger: Yeah, yeah, it makes you wonder and that is part of it, that is certainly part of it, but this is also the Era we live in. We live in the time when the Apostle Paul said to the Thessalonians that the mystery of iniquity would abound.
Eric Barger: That is a mysterious, occultic, direct affront to the Word of God that’s what those words mean, the mysterion of anomia, mystery of iniquity. When He said that is something behind that, when the occult rises up, and I have a whole DVD and message about this, when we see the rise of the occult we know that is a prophetic sign that has to happen just before the return of the Lord. At the same time there is going to be this famine of the Word of God, where we have a lot of people that have a form of godliness but deny the power there of.
Eric Barger: We see these things. To the Christian, to the Pastor, to the Sunday School teacher, examine what you are going to present to the people, examine what you take into your heart. It’s fine to read other books then the Bible, but if the Bible isn’t being read, do you really have time to read another book?
Dr. Reagan: Well it seems to me, test everything, test it by the Word of God.
Dr. Reagan: And if you don’t know the Word of God you can not test it, but you’ve got to test it. The fact that a person gets up and who is smooth and charismatic and dynamic, and can speak well, and mentions Jesus name a whole lot of times, does not necessarily mean that he is teaching the truth. And maybe 90% of what he is saying is absolutely true, but it is just that 10% that is so off base, you’ve got to test it. Paul complemented the Bereans for testing everything that he taught by the Word, and he was an Apostle of God. How much more should they test what you teach and what I teach?
Eric Barger: Oh, I invite people, I say this so often when I am teaching to test what I’m telling you, to test what I am teaching, to test what I have on the screen behind me in my seminars, to test what I am saying. And if you do you’re going to come out there ahead, more Biblically sound. We need Christians who will test through the Word of God, use the Word of God as the strainer to strain everything through, now we are going to get into this.
Dr. Reagan: Brother you have got some wonderful materials on your website that you have produced to help people to be more discerning. So would you just look into that camera and tell people how they can get in touch with your website.
Eric Barger: I appreciate that. It is ericbarger.com, E-R-I-C-B-A-R-G-E-R.COM or course www. And for those that do not have web access you can call us at 214-289-5244, we would be glad to send you an informational package.
Dr. Reagan: Mention that telephone number one more time.
Eric Barger: It is 214-289-5244, and that is our office line, just leave a message if we don’t answer we will call you back.
Dr. Reagan: And you have quite a variety of materials, videos, pamphlets and so forth that they can order.
Eric Barger: We’ll send a free packet of information with some past newsletters and that kind of thing.
Dr. Reagan: Well that’s great. Well Eric I want to thank you again for being on this program and you know I would like to ask you to come back for a 4th week. Would you be willing to do that?
Eric Barger: Well I started to say a minute ago, I would love to get into one thing that we’re going to talk about here.
Dr. Reagan: Because I would like to talk about many roads to God and some things like that.

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There is a recipe that will amaze you with it’s delicious and light taste. The chili-rubbed Tilapia fish with asparagus &lemon is the perfect light dish for the spring season, because of its low calories percentage and healthy ingredients.
The ingredients you need are: 2 pounds asparagus, 2 tablespoons chili powder, 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1 pound tilapia, 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil and 3 tablespoons lemon juice. In case you can’t find tilapia, you can replace it with Pacific sole or other firm white fish fillets.
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We open with apparently a showdown on NXT between myself and Baron Corbin (who really should not have lost the way he did last night)... but no, on my way to the ring I am jumped by Finn Balor... and this is why I called this entry 'Balor The Belt'.. as in below the belt. Manage to fight off the former NXT Champion (because in the game, Kalisto is the champ) and then get interviewed by Renee Young where I declare I want a match now. Yeah I'm basically going the baby face route with the Big Ham.
However, the night isn't done yet, Finn has a match against Bo Dallas... and I happened to get involved with... I figured I'd try and get Bo DQ'ed by attacking Finn... which just got me ejected... but the match continued to play out. And I had no interest in watching it so I broke out my copy of Wonder Woman: Gods and Monsters to start reading it (and noticed a spelling error that caught me off guard...) and Balor ended up winning the match.
So on 'Thursday' on Superstars, my request for a match against Balor is granted, and it's a 3-Star match. I've gotten in better in trying to use the reversal to my advantage, just need to do more different moves to get a higher match ratings. Plus it's another win for the Big Ham, with a post-match interview with Renee... where I basically vow to stop the Authority. I swear I did that interview bit last week or the week before.
Back on NXT... The Big Ham is up against The One Man Band Heath Slater (baby!) and it's another 3-star affair, basically steam rolling the former Nexus member. However Finn has a match that night against Baron Corbin... and this time I'm allowed to quit out of the match...There is a post match showdown... and I figure the reason for this feud is because it involve a sandwich.
I was going to do one more match, but with being a six-man tag (which taxes my computer something fierce) I called an audible and closed it here. For record the Six-Man tag took about 20 minutes, with my team winning.
The game play video for this Lets Play is below if you want to check it out.

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It’s Independence Day – Will Britain Vote For It?
Independence Day, Thursday 23rd June, 2016.
Since the year 2000 British businesses have stopped investing in the sclerotic EU economies.
Since 2008 British businesses have been actively disinvesting in the practically moribund EU economies.
They have pulled out over a hundred billion pounds (over about 150 billion US dollars) from the dilapidated EU economies in the last four years alone.
They have invested that money in the emerging economies and in the USA and Australia.
Hopefully we’ll vote to leave the EU.
Only 8% of the British economy, the sixth largest in the world, is made up of exported goods.
Of that 8% well less than half (about seven twentieths) is exports to other EU states.
The rest, well over half, is made up of high value exports to all the other countries in the world.
Exports to other EU states have been declining significantly year after year since 2000.
Exports to the rest of the world have shown a healthy increase almost every year since 2000.
Britain operates a substantial balance of trade deficit with the other EU states.
Britain is one of the largest markets for the exports of most of the other EU members.
If Britain becomes independent this Thursday the remaining members of the EU will have to continue to trade with the U.K. on a fair and equal basis or risk losing one of their biggest markets and severely damaging their economies.
In contrast, Britain will be able to trade with whomsoever it wants to without any of the existing burdensome restrictions on trade that the left-wing, Frankfurt School members of the European Commission will continue to impose on the remaining members.
It’s about living in a free and democratic country where the rule of law applies equally to the ruled and those who rule.
The EU Commissioners have frequently flouted the law, broken it in fact, when doing so suited their purpose.
The EU Commissioners couldn’t give a flying fig about the contents of the various treaties that are supposed to determine the course of the EU and the way that they are supposed to conduct its business. They usually just ignore them and do their own thing.
This now means that the EU has no legal basis for its existence. Rightly people are afraid to point that out lest the Commissioners go even further (as they have done in both Greece and Italy where their consistent ill-advised and economically illiterate meddling has ruined the lives of countless millions of people).
The Commission is actively pursuing an enlargement of the EU that will encompass ALL the countries around the Mediterranean Sea (except Israel, which they loathe with a visceral intensity). They are so remarkably indoctrinated with left wing cant that they cannot see the vast cultural differences between secular Europe and the Islamic world.
Some see the differences but have openly asserted that they want to destroy “rotten” Europe and remake it in a extreme socialist way. They see Islam as a tool to help them accomplish this.
It is almost impossible for anyone in the centre, or on the right, of politics to have anything that resembles a sensible conversation with any EU apparatchik. I know, I’ve tried.
The EU Budget has not been signed off on by the auditors for over twenty years.
Vast sums of taxpayers’ money have simply gone missing and no one in the Commission has ever been called to account.
Many Commissioners, and others employed by the Commission, have retired in due course as very wealthy men and women. Most of them started off their political careers without any sign of having a wealthy background. Just sayin’.
The European so-called Parliament is, in reality, merely a Soviet style rubber stamp. It cannot initiate legislation and it cannot reject individual bits of any legislation put before it.
It can only reject the entire piece of legislation. Understandably it seldom has the guts to do that.
The EU Commission is actively attempting to silence criticism of its actions by using economic threats and blackmail to rein in the social media and the press. It is attempting to impose a form of censorship on Europe and limit, if not abolish, free speech. The Commission has already announced that it does not uphold the concept of freedom of speech.
Instead it upholds the freedom to speak reasonably – and it gets to decide what is reasonable, no one else.
In reality they run the EU.
They are an oligarchy in the true meaning of the word.
I want my country to leave this profoundly disordered organisation and to break free of the megalomaniacal band of mafia-like thugs who run it.
Brexit is about sovereignty, about freedom, about democracy, about the rule of law.
It isn’t about money because those four things are beyond price.
I want this Thursday to be Independence Day.
Please God, hear my prayer and let my cry come unto Thee.

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In the village of Koskenkorva we make a smooth, honest vodka. We´ve aged vodka in Swedish Oak Barrels and added natural Cranberry to create sweet, berrylicious and oaky liqueur. Its as simple as that.
Cranberry with a nice, oaky touch.
Use as an ingredient in cocktail and punch recipes. It is also a great, milder shot for party nights.


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It’s hard to believe the latest installment of one of the best selling PC game series is a free downloadable. But don’t let its price-tag fool you, Age of Empires Online is a content-rich real-time strategy game with a hint of MMORPG that can deliver lots of fun even if you don’t pay a single extra dime.
Coming from a slightly unhealthy obsession with Starcraft 2, I know a serious RTS when I see one. Fortunately, you don’t have to be a master of precision clicking and keyboard shortcuts to enjoy Age of Empires Online.
The new Pixar-like art style reinforces the fact that this is a light-hearted and approachable strategy game. Whilst the menu and UI has discoverability issues, the gameplay is true to the series and easy to pick up.
As someone who enjoys playing games with friends more than alone, I was excited to see the inclusion of co-op campaigns. Even though co-op is quite rudimentary – it only seems to increase the difficulty of the AI instead of adding additional gameplay elements, other multiplayer features such as a Horde Defence mode and the ability to visit other people’s cities makes playing with friends a worthwhile experience.
Of course not before long the game will start bugging you for money and Microsoft Points for access to “premium” upgrades, items and gameplay modes. Most of the bonuses would just make the game easier and so far I don’t feel my gameplay has been limited or restricted severely.
Having said that, I may shell out $15 for the “Defense of Crete Booster Pack” because it actually unlocks additional missions in the Horde Defence mode. Considering I pay up to $90 for games otherwise, it’s not such a bad deal.
If you haven’t downloaded it already, there’s absolutely no reason not to check out Age of Empires Online. For what it’s worth, I hope this free-to-play model takes off. Even though the expectations for free games is already pretty high, Age of Empires Online raises it even higher.
I was on the Beta and Pre-Release program… this game hits all the right notes. As you said, given that it is free to play… any PC gamer should at least check it out.
Unfortunately it runs on Games for Windows client framework, which has proven so frustrating that I just gave up.
– Account creation doesn’t give a gamer-tag option, so I had to manually log in to Xbox.com and change it.
– Open GFW client, only to find that the AoE game is not in my games list..
– AoE still does not show up in my GFW client. So I manually start it up like before. I press play and it pops up another window from which I have to hit play again.
– Game is not in my launcher……. mission failed.
And this is the “new and improved Games for Windows Live.” Fantastic job guys.

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First, if you’re wondering why Bitcoin is back in the forefront of the news cycle, that’s because it always does that. Bitcoin comes and goes, generally in relation to its value. Currently, one Bitcoin (BTC) is worth quite a bit of actual money, sitting pretty at $92. Once upon a time — just three years ago — it famously took 10,000 BTC to buy $25 worth of pizza. However, while the actual current value is a new height, the rise of the peer-to-peer cryptocurrency is not. The value of Bitcoin ebbs and flows, like real currency, though due to the nature of it, ebbs and flows much faster and more drastically. Just two years ago the internet was abuzz with news about the Great Bitcoin Crash, which only came one year after the famous pizza purchase.
Now, here we are again, marveling at the strength of the BTC, salivating over all the Domino’s pizza you can buy in exchange for Bitcoin through a third-party service. If you know your country’s currency laws, though — in that it’s illegal to start a new form of currency in many countries, including the US — you might wonder why the government hasn’t come down on Bitcoin in response to all of the recent exposure. In what will no doubt anger some fans of the digital currency, financial services lawyer Dan Friedberg says it’s because the government doesn’t view Bitcoin as a real currency. Zing.
Friedberg explained to Business Insider that Bitcoin is considered a virtual currency rather than actual legal tender, and “lacks all the real attributes of real currency,” so why would the government care about that? However, as Business Insider pointed out, the US government recently stated that it would be applying money-laundering rules to virtual currency, which means that the government does, in some respect, care enough about virtual currency to try to police it. Wouldn’t outlawing a virtual currency constitute as policing it, though?
There are a few factors as to why the government hasn’t made Bitcoin illegal, nor seems to care that much about it at the moment. Basically, Bitcoin is small potatoes. Sure, Bitcoin was recently valued at around one billion dollars, but compared to the estimated $1.18 trillion of US currency in circulation, Bitcoin is barely a blip on the country’s economic radar, much less the global economic radar. The pseudo currency seems like a bigger deal than it is because of a loud vocal minority shouting about its favorite topic, which in turn caused the news cycle to pick up on the shouting and cover it.
Another reason why the government just doesn’t care very much at the moment is because practically nothing accepts Bitcoins. When you see news that you can purchase Domino’s pizza or Amazon gift cards using Bitcoins, you’re not actually making a direct transaction — Amazon and Domino’s aren’t accepting your Bitcoins. The exchanges are made through third-party services. You’re giving some random people Bitcoins, then they’re buying you pizza with regular US dollars. It’s like giving your friend some of your old Magic: The Gathering cards so long as he buys you dinner. Magic cards aren’t recognized as currency by your government, but your friend surely accepts them as payment.
It’s also worth noting that Bitcoin is not just a US-based currency, and due to its virtual nature, is technically more of an international currency, as it exists on the internet overseas wherever anyone has a computer that can mine.
What the legitimacy of Bitcoin comes down to is what accepts it as currency, which in turn prompts the question of what, exactly, currency is. If currency is considered to be government-authorized tender, then Bitcoin isn’t currency. If currency is considered to be an item that is widely accepted by legal businesses in exchange for goods or services, then Bitcoin still isn’t currency. If currency is considered to be an item that is accepted in exchange for goods or services, but doesn’t need to be widespread, then Bitcoin can indeed be classified as currency. One thing is for certain, though: The government doesn’t view Bitcoin as legal tender, and instead classifies it as a virtual currency. It isn’t made clear if the term is only applied to something open like Bitcoin, or simply any kind of alternative to cash that you can purchase with legal tender, such as Riot Points in League of Legends.
Regardless of how you classify Bitcoin, whether or not the very thought of it makes you laugh uncontrollably, or reminds you to move your account to a new virtual address for safety’s sake, certain people out there are accepting it as currency. If it eventually rises to prominence and overtakes the US dollar as the main form of currency people are using, then you can bet the government will take action, which would in turn classify the cryptocurrency for once and for all.


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We were drawn to Chiloe as we had heard that it had a uniqueness quite unlike anything on the mainland despite the close proximity of the island. The inhabitants of Chiloe maintain a distinct culture with a unique belief system as well as comida. We were able to experience curanto al hoyo - a meal prepared by cooking chicken, pork, potatoes and shellfish in the ground on hot stones covered by palm leaves and soil. While Dale was in heaven eating all that shellfish, Bek put on a brave face and suffered through it, and unfortunately continued to suffer for 3 days afterward with food posioning (it is not all kittens and sunshine on the tourist trail :). At least we held a mutual interest in Chiloe's religious beliefs.
The natives had/have a history of mythology: witches, gnomes, ghosts and pirates are all alive on this island. And the Jesuits who came to Chiloe to convert the inhabitants many centuries yonder decided to minister to them by melding together the Christian beliefs with those of the natives. Hence the churches have many interesting quirks such as paintings of Jesus surrounded by these mytholigical creatures, and a wood carving of a Saint defeating Satan, in the form of a goblin. Quite unexpected. The churches themselves were quite beautiful as well, some built as early as1740 and others as late as 1912 Some were quite plain on the outside, just weathered wooden shingles, but absolutely stunning on the inside - amazing hand carved woodwork. While still others were bright and engaging on the outside yet plain and simply functional on the inside. And the largest church, in Chiloe's capital city ofCastro, was amazing on the outside and in; gothic in style but created completely out of wood. It was a very tranquilo ten days we spent on the island but by the end we were ready for our next adventure.

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In Maya Shakti Sadhana, you will enter into a living, breathing ritual, where mythology, prayer and spiritual practices are explored as embodied portals of awakening. Practicing from home, you will weave your insights and awakening into daily life, restoring a trust and confidence in the vast resources and support from this achingly beautiful universe, always available to you.
Through daily practice and short sutras of awakening, you will reconnect and recommit yourself to a truth sourced in the universal, yet vibrating uniquely through you.
the splendorous power of Durga.
She is Kali Ma, the holy destruction.
She is Lakshmi, abundant wealth and beauty.
The magnificent MahaMaya arises out of ancient roots, appearing as perhaps the most paradoxical Goddess throughout the eastern tantric traditions. She is both the Great Liberator who awakens us from the illusion of separation, and the very veil of ignorance that makes us forget the union we are made of. Through this bewildering enigma, She challenges our deeply ingrained habit of fragmenting a reality that is ultimately undividable. She awakens in us authentic power and wisdom, not as a goal in the future but as the process of evolution itself, always happening right here and now.
Our collective fear of the rich wilderness of the feminine has led us to view Maya Shakti as a flaw we should dread and one day be free of. Her illusionary nature has even been used as a means to spiritually bypass our human reality, and the relational, environmental and social challenges we are facing on Earth. However, the Goddess path offers us maps of spirituality not as an escape route “out of here”, but as an awakening into the essential nature of this world as process, as the very body of the Goddess. When we recognize the mythical and universal patterns beneath the surface, we are initiated into a life of deeper contribution and meaning.
In embodied awakening, we are not accessing transcended freedom as an end goal or landing place, but as the very source of life lived as a Yogini. As modern day mystics, we walk with one foot in both worlds, awake to spiritual transcendence simultaneously as we learn to navigate creatively and gracefully in this cosmic dream of life.

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text: Background : Flavonoid can cope with dandruff problem. Carrot known with its high flavonoid level. The author was interested to do a research on the benefit of squeezed carrot invitro to the growth of P. ovale. Method : This experimental research use post test only control design. Research samples are P. ovale, each on SDA olive oil as control, SDA olive oil with 1 % ketoconazol and SDA olive oil with sequeezed carrot as the treatment group. It is effective if on the control group P. ovale growth while on the treatment group P.ovale don’t growth. And uneffective if on the control group don’t growth but on the treatment group growth, where as if on the control media P. ovale don’t growth, it will be excluded from this research. Sample size two proportion sample formula for 30 research sample.. The data is analized with x2 test, if don’t meet the requirement for x2 test then the alternative Fisher test is done. Result : On the control media all P. ovale growth. The treatment group of 1 % ketoconazol P.ovale growth on 1 media. The treatment group of squeezed carrot P.ovale growth on 3 media. From the Fisher analysis test the value of p > 0,05, suggesting that squeezed carrot have the same effectiveness with 1 % ketoconazol invitro. Conclusion : Squeezed carrot have the same effectiveness with 1% ketoconazol invitro. Key Words : Squeezed carrot, dandruff, P.ovale, 1% ketoconazol.

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Another translation of Mardoll is “the One Shining Over the Sea,” perhaps indicating a star used for navigation (Isis and later Mary filled a similar role as Stella Maris) or else a to a sun goddess. Either way, Mardoll comes from the elements márr, sea and döll or Þöll, shining. Poets called gold “Mardoll’s tears”, referring to one of Freyja’s myths.
Freyia is highest in rank after Frigg. She was married to someone named Od… Od went off on long travels, and Freyia stayed behind weeping, and her tears were red gold. Freyia has many names, and the reason for this is that she adopted various names when she travelled among strange peoples looking for Od. She is called Mardoll and Horn, Gefn, Syr.
Freyia also wept gold for Od. Her names are Horn, Thrungva, Syr, Skialf and Gefn, and likewise Mardoll.
I said that Mardoll is “usually translated” as “Beauty of Light on Water” or something similar (“Sea-Sparkler”). Like Heimdall, however, Freyja’s by-name is not actually all that clear. The second part, döll or þöll, has very different meanings. The döll is close to the –dalr in Heimdall, meaning something like “shining”, while þöll would make Mardoll mean “the one who makes the sea swell”. (Simek: 202) I’m not sure how he derives this, though, since þǫll means “fir-tree”.
As Grumpy Lokean Elder suggests, the Indo-European root –dhel, “to light, shining” is often assumed to be the root for –döll, but it remains a “best guess” rather than a hard-and-fast answer.
Mar-döll or Mar-þöll, f. gen. Mardallar, one of the names of Freyja, Edda 21: prop. a mermaid, Jónas 151; Mardallar-grátr. the tears of M. = gold. Lex. Poët.; cp. the Mardallar-Saga in Maurer’s Volkssagen.
Heim-dalr, m., with single l, not Heimdallr, as shewn from the gen. -dalar, not -dalls; a later form used in the Rímur was Heimdæl-1, Þrymlur 1. 8 :– the god Heimdal, Edda, whence the poem Heimdalar-galdr, m. id. The etymology has not been made out: Heimdal was the heavenly watchman in the old mythology, answering to St. Peter in the medieval legends; respecting him vide Edda 17 (Sksm.) and passim, Gm. 13: he was also regarded as the father and founder of the different classes of mankind, see Rm. and Vsp. 1, — meiri ok minni mögu Heimdalar, the higher and lower sons of H., i.e. all men. II. a ram in Edda (Gl.) is called heimdali.
Dellingr, qs. deglingr, m. [dagr], . Da y. ‘ pr;X^, the father of the Sun, Kdd. i.
Delling is not one of the best-known Norse gods. Although the dictionary says he is the father of the sun, it is actually Day who is his son, and Night his wife. “Delling’s doors” appear to be a kenning for “dawn”, so although we don’t know exactly what Delling’s role in mythology was, we can assume he was bright or light-giving as well.
Odr leaves the grieving Freyja. Wikimedia.
Pretty as the sparkle of sun on water is, to Old Norse poets it reminded them of the myth of Freyja and her wandering husband Odr, and how she wept tears of red gold while she sought him across many lands. Norse poets were often reminded of gold, depending on they did on the patronage of others, but it seems a sad image.
Still, the riches that came from her sorrow seem to have been the main point of the myth, from the red gold of her tears to Hnoss [Treasure], her daughter with Odr. Her father, Njord, was said to be so wealthy that he could give his followers whatever they desired, so perhaps Freyja too was so rich she even wept gold.
The sea was an important part of Scandinavian life, for fishing, trading and travelling. It played a substantial part in their mythology as well, especially in the myths of the Vanir, the family of deities Freyja belonged to. Half the slain went to Freyja, and some connect her home in the afterworld, Sessrumir, to the ship burials found across Scandinavia. The sea gave riches but could take lives.
It’s interesting that the poets usually call Freyja Mardoll when they refer to her tears. There’s a clear chain of associations, from the sparkle of the sea to the glint of tears, to the gleam of gold. Snorri tells us that Freyja and her brother were beautiful and mighty, and that Freyja was the most approachable of the goddesses. We also know that the giants found her the most desirable, with several losing their lives trying to marry her.
According to An Icelandic-English Dictionary, Mardoll later became a word for “mermaid”, a post-Christian rationalization of the seductive, gold-adorned goddess goddess of the Vanir.


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It’s hard to be cool. Being cool requires that you surprise. Cool has a comical disdain for trends. Cool doesn’t care about what’s popular. And Belgian creative label Mosaert is très cool like that.
Mosaert is the kind of design collective that makes you wish you were a part of a design collective. The European trio dream up incredible video, textile and music projects. They have a cheeky, eponymous fashion line of patterned basics.
The eponymous label started in 2009, flourishes with sporty androgyny and conspicuous comfort. The colours are lush, bold and buoyant. Their polos, pants and socks bear beautiful motifs of arabesques, butterflies and plants.
Are you ready to talk about names? Mosaert is the brainchild of Stromae (aka best-selling electronic artist Paul Van Haver). His collaborator-turned-wife Coralie Barbier, and artistic director Luc Junior Tam complete the collective.
There’s more. ‘Mosaert’ is an anagram of ‘maestro’, while Stromae is its syllabic scramble. It’s not exactly a “customer-centric” naming strategy, but it’s a street slang the hip French youth are quite proud of.
Stromae, 35, doesn’t leverage his platinum status or millions of fans. The trio releases only one “ethically-produced”, numbered capsule collection every year. This is way off the usual four to five collections for most fashion houses. They produce to meet demands, while their homeware designs keep true to Stromae’s African eclectic roots.
Mosaert sells ready-to-wear through its website, with limited merchandise in select stores. Check out the recent show at the Le Bon Marché in Paris, soundtracked by Stromae’s single, ‘Défiler’.


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you need to create a hotspot from your laptop for playing Multiplayer Games or using your broadband internet in mobile.
You cannot create a hotspot directly in Windows 8.
For that you need to use a software called Connectify.
i will teach you to create a portable hotspot without using any software and with the help of CMD(Command Prompt).
Open CMD as a Administrator.
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There are many ways to break through bottlenecks and some lessons learned from office systems. The IT team at the University of Pisa is leveraging a network architecture to improve the performance of its Storage Spaces Direct environment, which incorporates lightning-fast NVMe drives.
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YOU'RE READING Is not moisturising your face the new movement in beauty?
A few years ago the movement now known as the No Poo Method was introduced to us. Basically, shampoo your hair less to avoid oily build-up.
The No Poo Method site suggests "The theory of “No Poo” is this: by washing hair with a gentle alternative to shampoo, such as baking soda and apple cider vinegar or even just water only, you'll achieve clean hair without the damage or dependency on daily shampooing.
"So, in short, instead of allowing chemicals in shampoo to strip your hair, strip away the chemicals instead and stop using shampoo altogether. Most dermatologists and hair stylists have been long-time advocates of shampooing less often, and are crying hallelujah for this hair care revolution."
Now it seems this approach is veering into the field of beauty and skincare as there has been an uptake in stories and cases of people, predominantly women who say that stopped moisturising their faces.
Into The Gloss recently ran an article about a writer who said face lotion is dead to her. This, of course, piqued my interest. Face lotion, to me, is basically life. I've been moisturising since I was 12.
But she had a very particular reason, oily skin. "So going on two summers now, I have forgone face lotion almost entirely. That doesn’t mean I don’t moisturise my face at all—I’ve just replaced lotion with other things." Like serums, she adds.
"My avoidance of moisturiser results from a combination of laziness and good luck: I have a very minimal day-to-day beauty routine, and the women in my family tend to have skin that doesn't need all that much attention and doesn't age easily. So yes, I'm turning 30 next year and hoping that it turns out that I'm similarly blessed. In the meantime, weekly clay masks and a daily zinc supplement keep breakouts in check, and any product that exfoliates as it hydrates is an instant favourite for me.
"Perhaps I'm nervous about moisturing because of the old myth that oily skin (like mine – and I'm from humid Durban so my teenage years were a greasy, greasy time) doesn't need as much moisture. Of course I know that the opposite is true, but maybe I'm unconsciously wary of adding more moisture?
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"Then again, it's entirely possible that I just haven't found the right moisturiser yet: when I worked in the magazine industry full-time I went through a particularly stressful, sleep-deprived period right after I had been gifted a tube of La Mer Intensive Revitalising Mask, which was a lifesaver. I used it as intended (applying for a few minutes and then wiping it off) on my tired and sensitive skin, and also dabbed it into dry spots during the day. If the time comes when my budget allows it and my schedule demands it, I could easily pick up the moisturising habit with a little luxury help."
Others in the beauty industry with very oily skin have also said to me that they prefer serums to moisturisers as its formula is better suited to their skin. During summer especially as the heat in combination with a creamy moisturiser and oily skin equals a face melt.
Now, this method is definitely not accepted by the greater skin and beauty industry as of yet. As gasping beauty editors responded to my tweet asking to speak to women who don't moisturise, I read that Refinery29's Daniela Morosini says that whomever she shares the fact that she doesn't moisturise with is immediately rendered horrified and silent.
Gasp! Women who don’t use moisturiser... ??
Some days I just do sunscreen?
Local dermatologist, Dr. Nomphelo Gantsho says "If your skin tends to be oily, you should look for lotions instead of creams, and try to find a moisturiser with exfoliant ingredients. If your skin tends to be dry, look for a cream – they tend to have a higher oil content. Rich, liquid and cream moisturisers take care of dry and wrinkled skin. Water-based, oil free moisturiser works best for oily skin. Herbal moisturisers are very light. They not only help to protect the skin, but also assist in evaporating excess moisture.
"When skin is too dry or too oily, many common skin problems like acne start to pop up. For patients with acne-prone skin, I recommend using an oil-free, fragrance-free, noncomedogenic moisturizer along with their acne regimen. Makeup sticks to dry areas on the skin and even seeps into fine lines. Moisturiser may be used before applying make-up to serve as a protective base, so use a moisturiser on light consistency, as it will assist your make-up to hold better."
So, it's important to remember that it's skin specific, find out from your dermatologist what your skin needs. Whether oily, acne-prone or dry, we all all different needs and can never hit the apply-all button to any skincare regime.


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Ankara now knows that ISIL is no counterbalance to Kurdish resurgence in northern Syria.
On January 12, on a sunny winter day that visitors saw as a blessing, Istanbul was hit at its most popular tourist spot: A suicide bomber blew himself up in front of the Sultan Ahmet Mosque, known also as the Blue Mosque, next to the ancient Egyptian obelisk placed in the 4th century by the Romans.
The immediate victims were foreign tourists - 10 people, nine of them from Germany. Also hurt were Turkey's sense of security, its peace, and its tourism industry.
In the first hours of the attack, who had carried out the attack was unclear, as the usual suspects included not just the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group (ISIL), but also Kurdish militants affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). I pointed to ISIL as the likely culprit, as this was an attack that hit Western tourists, which would not be strategically helpful to the PKK, but would be desirable by ISIL.
In a couple of hours, the Turkish government announced that the suicide bomber was an ISIL militant: a Saudi-born Syrian citizen. Nabil Fadli, 27, had entered Turkey from Syria very recently. The press also found a photo of him, taken last week when he was in an official office in Istanbul for some paperwork.
The question, then, is that if it was ISIL, why did they hit Turkey right in the heart of Istanbul? ISIL militants had carried out two other deadly suicide attacks inside Turkey in the past six months - one in Suruc on July 20 and another in Ankara on October 10, killing a total number of 135 people.
Both of those bloody attacks, however, were directed at a specific ideological target: the secular, left-wing, pro-Kurdish political line in Turkey.
In that sense, both of those attacks could be seen as the encroachment of the ISIL-Kurdish war into Turkish territory, or, as I argued then, the spilling of the Syrian civil war into Turkey.
The target was not the secular, left-wing, pro-Kurdish line; it was random tourists, an iconic Istanbul site, and ultimately Turkey itself.
Yet, the latest on Sultanahmet Square was of a different kind. The target was not the secular, left-wing, pro-Kurdish line; it was random tourists, an iconic Istanbul site, and ultimately Turkey itself.
On New Year's Eve, Turkish policemen had arrested two would-be suicide bombers who were planning another deadly attack in Kizilay, the very heart of Ankara, during the midnight celebrations.
Both that unsuccessful plot in Ankara and the sadly successful in one Istanbul show that ISIL is now targeting Turkey directly, with a focus on soft targets.
This should come as no surprise, since the conflict between Turkey and ISIL has been deepening since last July, after the first major suicide attack in Suruc and following a United States-Turkey deal allowing US warplanes to use the Incirlik airbase in southern Turkey against ISIL.
"Oh, Istanbul, you have allowed disbelief in your avenues. You have filled your streets with sins, but surely you will be conquered. You will bow down to the takbirs [declarations of God's unity]."
Furthermore, only four days before the attack on Sultanahmet, Turkish forces in northern Iraq, located as the Basiq camp near Mosul in agreement with Iraqi Kurdistan authorities, were attacked by ISIL fighters.
Turkish forces had repelled the ISIL fighters and reportedly killed 17 of them. Meanwhile, at home, Turkish authorities have arrested about 1,200 people inside Turkey through the past year, many of them Turkish citizens, for suspected links with ISIL.
All of this means that Turkey is at active war with ISIL. It also debunks the conspiracy theory, popular among certain voices - within the Turkish opposition, some parts of Western media, and also, lately, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his media - that the Turkish government is in secret collaboration with ISIL. That is incorrect and unfair.
It is fair, however, to argue that the Turkish government woke up to the ISIL threat belatedly and only gradually. One reason has been the long-time fixation on the Assad regime as being the only evil in Syria. Another reason was Turkey considering ISIL, at least for a while, as a counterbalance to the Kurdish resurgence in northern Syria.
A third one is the latter-day Islamo-nationalist ideology of Turkey's ruling AK party, which assumes that all the problems of the Middle East are created by conspiratorial Western powers and no Islamist actor can ever threaten Turkey, no matter how extreme it is.
Moreover, it is also fair to remind ourselves that the authoritarian measures the Turkish government is relying upon in the face of terror do not help. The gag order imposed on the media after every terror attack only makes the opposition more suspicious of the government's intentions.
Meanwhile, the condemnation of every critic of the government's war on the PKK as "traitors" and a "fifth column", as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan did on the very day of the Sultanahmet attacks, serves nothing other than to further polarise the society.
With the serious threats coming both from ISIL and the PKK, along with other troubles created by the Syrian civil war, the crisis with Russia, a slowing economy, and declining democratic credentials, Turkey does need "national unity" as both Erdogan and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu often call for.
But this itself needs a more constructive leadership, which will seek national unity not under the narrow ideological banner of the AK party, but a broad umbrella that will welcome all different colours of Turkey's complex society.


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The business chooses the location, interests, age and gender of the people it wants to target and how much it wants to spend, and Facebook inserts the posts into the appropriate users' news feeds.... 28/03/2011�� These wall attacks almost frequently lead users to agree to install a Facebook application that requires that a user authorize the ability to post to walls and friend pages.
On your posts or comments you�ve made on your friends� wall posts or pictures. Photos viewed. They have viewed your pictures, and/or you have viewed theirs.... 25/04/2013�� It's Facebook's way of advertising (they sell advertisers the ability to show you those suggested posts). So, it's ads and our payment for the "privilege' of using Facebook. So, it's ads and our payment for the "privilege' of using Facebook.
31/01/2012�� On the one hand, it's a lot easier to find things-- events, wall posts, etc, because you can now search your Facebook profile by date. On the other hand, it's much easier for other people--friends... Right now Facebook has stopped notifying me anything, anymore...only way to see if someone has commented or liked my posts is scrolling down the little "news" menu on the top right corner of my start screen. And I can only see the first line of their comments, because there is no more room for the rest, and when I open them, I can see my post, but not the comments on it.
Still seeing this �suggested� (read: unwanted crap) posts on my wall. Looks like FB has found a workaround for the latest fix as well, it doesn�t work anymore. Looks like FB has found a workaround for the latest fix as well, it doesn�t work anymore.
"Unliking" a page will stop ads that target people who like that company. To unlike a company on Facebook, visit the company's Facebook page by clicking on the company's name in a post that appears on your news feed and hover your mouse over the "Liked" icon.
The business chooses the location, interests, age and gender of the people it wants to target and how much it wants to spend, and Facebook inserts the posts into the appropriate users' news feeds.
Simply go to the photo where you added the tag. The photo will open in a pop-up window with the title of the photo and below that there will be the list of tagged names in a blue font with the person's name.


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Yep. It’s coming. Sooner than you know it. Just accept it and enjoy the ride starting, well probably already for most of us.
This coming week starts our special Christmas schedule, really only because of Friday night the 21st. There are no schedule changes for this coming week, December 17-22. The important time during this week of course is Friday night, December 21st.
For the first time ever we are throwing a bash during the Holiday Season to celebrate everything that is our community and each other, including the date that brought us all together coming on 6 years ago (January 23, 2013). Cocktail attire. More info to come this week.
Starting on Monday, December 24, we will be closing for the holiday. We will be closed Monday, Tuesday (Christmas Day), Wednesday, and re-opening on Thursday, December 27th with regular hours through that following Sunday.
Monday, December 31st will be open but adjusted schedule, and we will be closed Tuesday, January 1.
But until then, come in and get fit as always!!

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I’m so excited! Our illustrious webmistress and esteemed friend had a baby this weekend! Pass the Topo Chico! Mom and son are in perfect health and everything is looking great. Except…kiddo doesn’t have a name yet. I’m going to tell on my friend (she’s in the hospital where she can’t hurt me). With their first child, it took them so long to finalize a name the hospital told them they couldn’t leave until they had something on the birth certificate.
But I get it. Naming a person…what a huge job. I can barely settle on names for my pets. Based on the stress naming Morgan leFay gave me, I’m actually kinda glad I’ll never have to name my children (being a foster parent and all).
This got me thinking about Norse naming practices, and I did some research on how my ancestors chose names. Naming in ancient Norse culture was, in fact, a HUGE deal. Like pretty much every historical society, exposure of infants was an accepted practice. When a baby was born, it still wasn’t considered a human being yet–a pretty far cry from our debates on when “life” begins! On the ninth day after birth, the father would officially claim the child as his own in a formal ceremony attended by family and friends. He’d put the baby on his knee, sprinkle him/her with water and give him/her a name. Upon being given a name, the child gained “personhood” as well as recognition as a member of the clan, and from thenceforth it was murder to kill him or her.
Choosing the right name was just as important then as it is today. One of the most common naming techniques was to name your children after an ancestor–particularly a famous one. Some Norse people believed in a limited form of reincarnation in which an ancestor’s spirit could be reborn into a child that was named after him or her. Some people instead believed the skills or, more importantly the hamingja (luck) of the honored ancestor would be bestowed upon the child.
While nowadays it’s still common to name children in honor of a relative or ancestor, the Norse did something that is much less common in Western society–they named the children after the gods they worshipped! Can you imagine meeting a baby named Jehovah? In Texas we occasionally see a Latino boy named Jesus (pronounced approximately like Hey-Soos), but I’ve never seen a WASP child named that. But the Norse considered it good luck and even a form of protection.
Finally, Norse names are almost always nouns or derived from nouns. While in America we do this to a certain extent (I had friends growing up named Summer and Charity), most of our names are not also common nouns. But Norse history and literature is filled with compound names such as Sigurd (victory-guardian) and Brunhild (armor-protector) and simple nouns like Bjorn (bear), Steinn (rock), Ulf (wolf), and Auðr (treasure).
Shortly after the cancellation of Firefly, while we were still in mourning, we happened to rescue a kitten. After much struggle with a name, we settled on “Mei Mei”.
I have met Protestants who have named their children after other people’s gods. And I’ve met Pagans who’ve named their children after Pagan gods. But I’ve never met a Protestant or other monotheist (with the Latin American Catholic exception of Jesus) who named their child after their own god(s). I’m not saying it’s never happened, I would just be startled if I ever met someone who introduced himself as Jehovah! Does that make more sense than what I said earlier?


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multi-dimensional psychedelic visual projections for over 12 years.
mapping have enhanced the performances of countless legendary artists.
Gathering, Electric Daisy Carnival, and Nocturnal Wonderland.

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