historyI attended out of curiosity because she was a Holocaust survivor.
Turns out she was one of the survivors of Doctor Josef Mengele's experiments on twins in World War Two. (For those of you who have absolutely NO concept of history, the Holocaust happened during World War Two (WWII). If you don't know what the holocaust was go read your history books and look for the 1940s. Wikipedia is not a resource. Go get off your chair and get an encyclopedia if you don't have a history book. Failing that go to the Online Encyclopedia Britannica.)
She forgave the Nazis even though they did all sorts of nasty things to her.
She is Jewish and has been rejected by some of her own people for forgiving the Nazis.
I think if this woman could bring herself to forgive her worst enemy, shouldn't the rest of us be able to at least forgive the most petty of things?
To get more of her story go to her museum website here.
A Trio of Pains
by Master Warious on June 24, 2007. © All rights reservedBlackness all around
Then comes the red light of blood lust
Fills your vision and head
Consumes your reason and calm
Pain searing your heart
Torment invading your mind
Screams of rage never heard
From ever silent lips
Powerless to stop it
Defenseless against their onslaught
From the crimes committed against you
Shame and pain haunt you always
A trio of pains
Three different people
Different and similar reasons
A trio of crimes
Murder to save your family
Money gained in others pain
Ill gotten gains never seen
Sacrifice all for naught
Cutting out ones heart
Betrayed hurt and confused
Never trusting friends again
Loneliness awaits this one
Raped and pillaged
To earn money for security
In a place where all is falling apart
Nothing can replace your pride
A trio of pains
Three different people
Recovering from some
Scarred forever by all
Children who have lost their innocence
Children who had grown up too fast
Now see the Neverland still burning
Three souls who'll never fly again
However, God has been gracious enough to take care of me for some things.
I am less stressed but I am tired and want to cry with frustration.
DOOM!!!!!
This has been a paid, public announcement.
" Inside I ache with pain
Yet no sob or tear falls
Incurable anguish
Yet stoic silence bears
Once I believed in Virtues
Honor and Mercy were great
Justice and truth were sisters
Purity and Hope, my life
Compassion and Goodness lived
Life was a wonderful place
. . .
Innocence is corrupted
Now twisted by betrayal
Honor is torn to pieces
Justice is mutilated
By the selfish court Judges
Mercy is thrown out like refuse
Here I list all my pain
All that the world has done
In this society
Here I list all your crimes
Compassion tossed aside like garbage
Goodness comes from no human
Hope and Life do not exist
Truth taken from her sister
Justice blinded by Greed
Virtues turned to dust in jars"
Then, This morning at breakfast, one of the girls (Whom in my opinion is just looking for 'pleasure') once again (cause she does this every once and awhile to me) suggests that "if provoked" I'd be a lesbian.
I have absolutely NO DESIRE towards females at all. Quite frankly, I find women to be very unappealing in custom and personality. Why people in my life have asked me to become more feminine is beyond me because I think a huge amount of women around are not even close to what I want to be. And the concept of being feminine is not me, nor my personality. I think I could be considered a misogynist to some degree. But that would be sexist...so let me explain very clearly what I am. I'm 1) STRAIGHT 2)Species-ist. (I hate the human race collectively and equally.) 3)NOT INTERESTED IN MATING WITH ANYONE OR ANYTHING.
This means, IF I chose to have a mate it would be a man and based on an individual thing. But right now there is absolutely no desire to have one.
Collectively the human race is stupid.
Up yours, college life.
Doesn't want to try it
Doesn't care for it
Is surrounded by it.
Wants to throw up now.
Speaking of "screwing". . . This college is very good at that. The administration is lying to the prospectives.
however wrote the speech for the prospective luncheon lied through their teeth about everything.
You suck, college, you suck. You're lucky its not worth transferring to another college. Too late for me. But I'll kick your ass on the way out so I don't care.
But sex, yeah, don't care for it. Don't want it, don't need it. Keep it to yourself.
Don't want your STD's.
Like this one.
“Atheism Is Also A Religious Position.” Dorfl rumbled.
“No it’s not!” said Constable Visit. “Atheism is a denial of a god.”
“Therefore It Is A Religious Position,” said Dorfl. “Indeed A True Atheist Thinks Of The Gods Constantly, Albeit In Terms Of Denial. Therefore, Atheism Is A Form Of Belief. If The Atheist Truly Did Not Believe, He Or She Would Not Bother To Deny.”
(From his (Terry Pratchett) Feet of Clay book. Good read.)
(I also feel it is necessary to remind people I am NOT and atheist. I know God. (maybe not as well as some but we talk to each other).
"
Scientology has long been embroiled in controversy. When Dianetics was introduced as a “mental therapy,” physicians and psychiatrists accused the church of practicing medicine without a license. Church leaders in turn charged psychiatry with denying the spiritual side of man's nature. Thus began a long-term conflict with the medical and psychiatric establishment, especially the American Psychiatric Association (APA), which centred upon the church's opposition to the use of any consciousness-altering drugs and to procedures such as lobotomies. Conflict with the APA, including a crusade against the popular drug Prozac, has been pursued by the church's Citizens Commission on Human Rights.
In 1958 the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) began revoking the tax-exempt status of individual Scientology churches for, among other reasons, their practice of selling counseling courses. While the church dealt with IRS questions, agents of the Food and Drug Administration raided the church in Washington, D.C., in 1963 and seized its E-meters on the grounds that they were unauthorized devices for the diagnosis and treatment of disease. These actions by the U.S. government brought attention to the church in both Australia and the United Kingdom, where government agencies also moved against it.
In response to these attacks, the church created the Guardian's Office in 1966 and assigned it the task of vigorously defending the church. It brought legal actions against publications it deemed libelous, and in the 1970s it launched an extensive intelligence operation to gather information about attacks on the church around the world. Reportedly frustrated at the lack of response to requests under the Freedom of Information Act for documents from the U.S. government, some leaders in the Guardian's Office approved a plan to infiltrate various government agencies in the United States. As a consequence of this plan, agents of the Guardian's Office were arrested in 1979. According to the church, these agents had violated church policy; they had also committed several illegal acts for which they were tried and convicted. These events alerted church leaders to problems in the office, and, following a widespread investigation, several people associated with it were fired or expelled from the church and the office was disbanded.
...
Several former members have become intense critics of the church, charging it with financial fraud, illegal practice of medicine, harassment of journalists critical of the church, and vindictive actions against its former members. Scientology is under special scrutiny in France and Germany, the two countries most affected by contemporary anticult activity fueled by the murder-suicides in 1994 of 53 members of the Order of the Solar Temple, a French-speaking group that believed in an imminent apocalypse. Former Scientologists have taken their cause to the Internet, not only attacking the church but also posting copyrighted material on their Web sites. Especially harmful in the eyes of the church has been the posting of instructional materials for the OT levels, which are considered confidential sacred scripture.
In the 1970s the Church of Scientology spread across Europe and began translating Hubbard's writings into many languages. Its growth continued through the 1980s, and, following the fall of the Berlin Wall, it quickly spread into eastern Europe. Today the Church of Scientology remains a subject of controversy but operates in more than 150 countries."
(I used both forms of citation for those who prefer one way over another).
"Scientology." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2008. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 9 Mar. 2008 <http://search.eb.com/eb/article-215793>.
Scientology. ( 2008). In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved March 9, 2008, from Encyclopædia Britannica Online: http://search.eb.com/eb/article-215793
One of the biggest issues to me is a lack of PUBLIC knowledge on this group
"lack of response to requests under the Freedom of Information Act for documents"
Most of the people I've talked to have no idea what the core beliefs of this supposed religion are, let alone that it has this kind of a history.
My friend whom I met a year and a half ago told me that one of her childhood friends removed herself completely from their location with out a trace or a proper goodbye. All that my friend got was a letter left in her friend's old place essentially syaing "Goodbye. I'm off to start my new life". She has not heard or seen from her friend again. Asking around there are similar stories from other people who've had this slightly sinister brush with Scientology.
While I have heard of Anonymous (The internet group), I am not totally supportive of their methods. They could do things a bit better. I do support the idea of trying to get answers from this group of people.
To any Scientologists reading, If you didn't do things behind closed doors you would be better accepted. But since there is a lack of information I can only assume that you are guilty of something. When people go 'missing', someone ALWAYS notices. That person may not be able to do anything about it, but they notice.
All the other religions let people know what they're about. Why won't you?
“You gave one of them a voice? …. That’s blasphemy.”
“That’s what people say when the voiceless speak.”
Vampire and Vimes in Feet of Clay, by Terry Pratchett.
Zvengali is actually a character from a story that was a hypnotist....Which story? No clue.
I found the information towards the bottom of this page
http://www.guardian.co.tt/archives/2006-02-07/features5.html
the passage is: “Zvengali was actually a character from a novel I read once,” he explained. “He was a hypnotist, but his name eventually became an adjective for anyone with powers of persuasion.
Nevermind, i found the book.
Svengali's Web by George du Maurier
Blurb about the book:
Svengali, the malevolent hypnotist in a sensationally successful novel published by George du Maurier in 1894, became such a well-known character in the culture of the period that his name entered the dictionary as one...
Are the birds in your area acting strange by any chance?
I.E. Strangely large amounts of them, swarming masses of them flying around, stuff like that?
I do want to know. I am being quite serious.
i hate myself even more but that makes it even worse.
So....
I hate you
and you
and you and you.
I wish you idiots would pay attention when something was off about me but no. You don't care. You are hypocritical liars and i despise you all.
I hope you all have a wonderful life till you die horribly.
1 mistake is all it takes to screw up your life and relationships.
There is no way to avoid it.
Inevitability will eat you alive as it sings "It's a small world after all' and then belch in a loud, juicy manner as it digests you.
You see, there is this guy I kinda sorta like.
"What's the big deal?" you may be asking. Well the issue is, 1) he is younger than I like (but legal)...hes like...1 or 2 years younger than I am. A Freshie. 2) ...wellll those aren't negative traits....He's a total nerd, he isn't attractive in the physical sense, he is a music genius and he isn't a perv.
My issue (other than his age) is that I can not allow myself to be distracted by the opposite gender during school. He's very affectionate and nice. ANNNNNNNNNNNNNNND my friend (at college) doesn't like him because she looks at him as a potential employee and not as a person and doesn't seem to want to know him as such.
He is a Christian. For realz. He prays publicly in the dining hall before he eats as well. Not many "Christians" do even that.
But anyway, my idiotic mind (part of it) is all like, hey....what if i went out with him? He'd be a good person to date. But the logical side of me is all like, oh hells no. He's a younger guy and he's not your "type". But I like him a lot and think hes a god person to be a friend. But the idiotic side wants to be closer. Logical side says, you've only known him half a school year don't be an idiot.
My logical side will win out. But trying to keep my idiotic hormonal side from speaking is always a struggle (No. Its not Public...my mind likes to fight itself).
So yahz....I like him....evidently I like him alot. I hope this feeling goes away. Its a nuisance. Damn hormones.
It was amazing. even a pacifist fried wanted to jump up and fight for england because here was THE Henry of Monmouth, the victor of the field of Agincourt; ruler of St. Crispin Crispian's day.
THE NUMBER ONE Political word of the 2008 election:
“Change”
All you ever hear them talk about is change.
FUCK THE CHANGE!
Change this.
Change that.
What the hell are they trying to ‘change’?
I can’t hear their ideas through the word “change”.
What the hell are they talking about?!
No, no. I don’t want you to tell me what all your lovely liars are spouting. I managed to decode them on my own time during the debate in my state.
The fact is they are spouting bullshit.
The president has very little power and makes a very ugly figurehead. (and uglier if you nominate Hillaryious or Obamaanable….who quite frankly are the only two runners I ever hear of…and they’re both democrats. Republicans seem to have drowned into obscurity.)
Nothing they say will be put into place because things are in their way….namely themselves.
Healthcare: FUCK HEALTHCARE. Stop eating all the shit that you are eating, exercise and TRY to avoid the scientifically created food that has very little nutrition.
The war in Iraq and rest of the Middle East: FUCK THEM TOO!!!....(NOT our soldiers…I think they have people waiting at home to do that, and by that I mean the fact that they probably have loved ones that want them back and not the government about to screw them over…which it probably will…again).
Possible solution: Kill them all (the ‘terrorist nations’) and leave. No more threat or potential threat. Maybe that will shut the other half up. Sure it will upset the hell out of the pacifists…oh well. We can’t make everyone happy.
Gas and Energy resources: The only thing most of the liars seem to agree on is that they need to find an alternative.
I won’t argue with that. However I would like to express one sentiment about that: Find something already damn it though. You keep promising an alternative resource…WHERE THE HELL IS IT? Find it and I shall be in awe at even one promise kept.
Global warming: once again couldn’t figure it out through all the Al Gore worship…
However….I doubt global warming when I look at the recent temperatures this winter….much colder that last year I must say. The driveway is an ice rink.
….and somehow that seems to be all I could pick out of their nonsense on the 00th.
Thank you for reading my extremely crude rant. I apologize if I have insulted your candidate (I’d have done more if I could remember who they are but they all seemed to blend together….except for the republican which looked like Bossk from Star Wars…only with out the green scales and growling and space suit…and I still don’t know his name.) I DO NOT want another damnable debate in my reply thread.
I.e. don’t try to sway my opinion one way or another. I shall decide when the time comes and damn the rest. And any debates you want to make with another can be made on your thread or theirs. Keep the hell off of mine unless I count you on my friend list or you are fed up with this ‘change’ shit too.
Thank you very much.
YAY
zzzzzzz
tomorrow ends this foul torture
"stuborn and damaged"So lets sum it up shall we?
The Sins of Scripture