 | Werner Herzog Stroszek extract Bruno S sculpture Eva. I have here a schematic portrait I've made of what it looks like inside Bruno. To whom all the swell nice people have progressively shut doors and portals, in that fine manner of theirs. Now we're in America. I used to think that in America everything would get better, that we would finally reach our goal. No! Bruno is being slaughtered as if he wasn't there no more! Today you wouldn't recognise him. -- Bruno nobody kicks you here no more -- No. Not in that way. Not in a visible way but in a spiritual way. -- why.. -- Yes! In the homes it looked just like this.. When someone wet the bed, and this was during the Nazi period.. to save space on the drying line to hang clothes, the one who had done it had to stand like this in the courtyard holding the sheet, and behind him was the educator with a stave. And watch out if his arms started to go tired and the sheet would touch the ground... OK now I'll sit down again.. Yes, so -- Did you have to do that too? -- yes.. but that was all visible. But today of course things look different. They no longer do it like this! Or like this! One does it in that fine manner, and this fine way is much much worse... and who knows what else is in store for us.. -- I didn't understand what you said -- we're no longer in Germany, we have to be careful here -- Bruno don't be so upset -- upset? Upset, should I not be upset? When people are despised, when they are grown up, and when they long for love, and they are forbidden to enter the bedroom.. he's no longer allowed to sleep next to you, he has to sleep in a single bedroom like someone in a cage. -- Bruno listen, I also need to be alone -- right. And this is what it looks like when a man suffers pain and fear, and these are the spiritual pains and this is what they look like. And if you think that you can make it on your own here in America, you're damned. -- Bruno you must understand, it's only that I too need to be alone, I need my room for myself. I've never had a room for myself alone, I just need it. And look, if you sleep in the next room we're still in the same house. I doesn't mean that we're separated and we're together all day anyways. -- Well, I don't know to proceed in this any more. In that case I've really reached the end. Bruno S in Werner Herzog's Stroszek - "so sieht es aus" this is what it looks like inside. Stroszek is a 1977 film by German director Werner Herzog. It was written in four days specifically for Bruno S. and was shot in Berlin, in Wisconsin and in North Carolina. Most of the lead roles are played by non-actors. Famously, Ian Curtis, the lead singer of the band Joy Division, reportedly committed suicide a few hours after watching the film on BBC. The Rebel, a solo project of Ben Wallers from the Country Teasers, wrote a song titled "The Idiot" that closely follows the plot of the film. |
 | Plucked Turkey Should Put Its Feathers Back On Secular Turks attack religious council's code for women The Guardian Robert Tait in Istanbul Thursday May 29 2008 A powerful state body regulating the role of Islam in Turkey has come under fire over an article on sexual behaviour that equated flirting with adultery and condemned women for wearing perfume. Secularists and women's groups hit out after the directorate of religious affairs (Diyanet) published the article on its website setting out recommendations for proper sexual conduct. Invoking the prophet Muhammad, it put the onus squarely on women by urging them to cover up and behave modestly to avoid provoking male sexual desires. "Women have to be more careful, since they have stimulants," the article stated. "The women communicating with strange men should speak in a manner that will not arouse suspicion in one's heart and in such seriousness and dignity that they will not let the opposite party misunderstand them, that they should not show their ornaments and figure and that they should cover in a fine manner." On the use of perfume, it continued: "His highness the prophet Muhammad did not think kindly of women who put on perfumes outside their homes and go strolling and saw this as immoral behaviour." The article said women and men should not be alone together unless married and questioned the role of females in mixed-gender workplaces. It blamed "social and moral" decline in the west for the legalisation of abortion. The article was widely condemned in the pro-secular media. Yusuf Kanli, a columnist in the English-language Turkish Daily News, said it reflected a "very primitive mindset", adding: "Is this mentality at all different with that of the Taliban that placed Afghan women behind chadors?" Kizbes Aydin, the head of Cigle Evka2, a female cultural group, said that the recommendations incited violence against women. "They justify the implementation of violence with excuses such as 'she has perfume', or 'she dressed up provocatively'." The article is especially striking since Diyanet has a reputation for promoting a moderate interpretation of Islam. It is sponsoring a study of the hadiths, the sayings ascribed to Muhammad, with a view to striking out those judged inauthentic or misogynistic. Diyanet was established in 1924 after the abolition of the Ottoman caliphate by Ataturk to ensure the practice of Islam did not encroach on Turkey's secular constitution. It directly employs more than 70,000 clerics and had an annual budget of around £500m in 2006. Comment online: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/29/turkey.islam Criticise Islam Remorselessly! |
 | Part 1 - Revelation 1: 15 Fine Brass χαλκολίβανον Exegesis Part 1 - Revelation 1: 15 Fine Brass χαλκολίβανον Exegesis by Yadon1080 (aka H.H. Ras Iadonis Tafari) for the Apostles & Knights of Rastafari (A.R.K.)/ LOJ Society of H.I.M. HAILE SELASSIE I. Rev 1:15 And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters. unto fine brass, [5474] chalkolibanon Exd 27:18 The length of the court [shall be] an hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty every where, and the height five cubits [of] fine twined linen, and their sockets [of] brass. 2Ch 2:14 The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father [was] a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father. Dan 2:32 This image's head [was] of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, Rev 1:15 And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters. Rev 2:18 And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet [are] like fine brass; Rev 18:12 The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble, Revelation Fine Brass Feet Jesus Christ Messiah Yahoshuwa Yeshwa Lion Juda Ethiopia Haile Selassie Ras Tafari Yadon Ras Iadonis |
 | Part 2 - Revelation 1: 15 Fine Brass χαλκολίβανον Exegesis Part 2 - Revelation 1: 15 Fine Brass χαλκολίβανον Exegesis by Yadon1080 (aka H.H. Ras Iadonis Tafari) for the Apostles & Knights of Rastafari (A.R.K.)/ LOJ Society of H.I.M. HAILE SELASSIE I. Rev 1:15 And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters. unto fine brass, [5474] chalkolibanon Exd 27:18 The length of the court [shall be] an hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty every where, and the height five cubits [of] fine twined linen, and their sockets [of] brass. 2Ch 2:14 The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father [was] a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father. Dan 2:32 This image's head [was] of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, Rev 1:15 And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters. Rev 2:18 And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet [are] like fine brass; Rev 18:12 The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble, Revelation Fine Brass Feet Jesus Christ Messiah Yahoshuwa Yeshwa Lion Juda Ethiopia Haile Selassie Ras Tafari Yadon Ras Iadonis |
 | Part 3 - Revelation 1: 15 Fine Brass χαλκολίβανον Exegesis Part 3 - Revelation 1: 15 Fine Brass χαλκολίβανον Exegesis by Yadon1080 (aka H.H. Ras Iadonis Tafari) for the Apostles & Knights of Rastafari (A.R.K.)/ LOJ Society of H.I.M. HAILE SELASSIE I. Rev 1:15 And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters. unto fine brass, [5474] chalkolibanon Exd 27:18 The length of the court [shall be] an hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty every where, and the height five cubits [of] fine twined linen, and their sockets [of] brass. 2Ch 2:14 The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father [was] a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father. Dan 2:32 This image's head [was] of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, Rev 1:15 And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters. Rev 2:18 And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet [are] like fine brass; Rev 18:12 The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble, Revelation Fine Brass Feet Jesus Christ Messiah Yahoshuwa Yeshwa Lion Juda Ethiopia Haile Selassie Ras Tafari Yadon Ras Iadonis |
 | Royal Manor School Portland - "Its A Fine Life" Song from Oliver the musical performed by Royal Manor School, Portland, Dorset in the year 2000 |
 | Clay, your halo is a wee bit crooked Clay is a man of integrity with a good heart, fine manners and the voice of an angel... but sometimes the halo just seems to slip a little.... |
 | "Free" Will: A Slave (C.H. Spurgeon) [1of4] I intend to spike the gun this morning, or, rather, to turn it on the enemy, for it was never theirs; it was never cast at their foundry at all, but was intended to teach the very opposite doctrine to that which they assert. Usually, when the text is taken, the divisions are: First, that man has a will. Secondly, that he is entirely free. Thirdly, that men must make themselves willing to come to Christ, otherwise they will not be saved. Now, we shall have no such divisions; but we will endeavour to take a more calm look at the text; and not, because there happen to be the words "will," or "will not" in it, run away with the conclusion that it teaches the doctrine of free-will. It has already been proved beyond all controversy that free-will is nonsense. Freedom cannot belong to will any more than ponderability can belong to electricity. They are altogether different things. Free agency we may believe in, but free-will is simply ridiculous. The will is well known by all to be directed by the understanding, to be moved by motives, to be guided by other parts of the soul, and to be a secondary thing. Philosophy and religion both discard at once the very thought of free-will; and I will go as far as Martin Luther, in that strong assertion of his, where he says, "If any man doth ascribe aught of salvation, even the very least, to the free-will of man, he knoweth nothing of grace, and he hath not learnt Jesus Christ aright."... You have heard a great many Arminian sermons, I dare say; but you never heard an Arminian prayer—for the saints in prayer appear as one in word, and deed and mind. An Arminian on his knees would pray desperately like a Calvinist. He cannot pray about free-will: there is no room for it. Fancy him praying, "Lord, I thank thee I am not like those poor presumptuous Calvinists. Lord, I was born with a glorious free-will; I was born with power by which I can turn to thee of myself; I have improved my grace. If everybody had done the same with their grace that I have, they might all have been saved. Lord, I know thou dost not make us willing if we are not willing ourselves. Thou givest grace to everybody; some do not improve it, but I do. There are many that will go to hell as much bought with the blood of Christ as I was; they had as much of the Holy Ghost given to them; they had as good a chance, and were as much blessed as I am. It was not thy grace that made us to differ; I know it did a great deal, still I turned the point; I made use of what was given me, and others did not—that is the difference between me and them." That is a prayer for the devil, for nobody else would offer such a prayer as that. Ah! when they are preaching and talking very slowly, there may be wrong doctrine; but when they come to pray, the true thing slips out; they cannot help it. If a man talks very slowly, he may speak in a fine manner; but when he comes to talk fast, the old brogue of his country, where he was born, slips out. I ask you again, did you ever meet a Christian man who said, "I came to Christ without the power of the Spirit?" If you ever did meet such a man, you need have no hesitation in saying, "My dear sir, I quite believe it—and I believe you went away again without the power of the Spirit, and that you know nothing about the matter, and are in the gall of bitterness and the bond of iniquity." Do I hear one Christian man saying, "I sought Jesus before he sought me; I went to the Spirit, and the Spirit did not come to me"? No, beloved; we are obliged, each one of us, to put our hands to our hearts and say— "Grace taught my soul to pray, And made my eyes to o'erflow; 'Twas grace that kept me to this day, And will not let me go." - C.H. Spurgeon Full text here: http://www.spurgeon.org/sermons/0052.htm Download the mp3 here: http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=7170545810 lanechaplin.blogspot.com |
 | Thought-provoking challenges to cosmic fine-tuning (Part 2) Further discussion of challenges to the fine-tuning argument. As stated in Part 1, I'm focusing on arguments that tend to display a measure of thoughtful reflection, rather than the less substantial responses. (And yes, I do love it when people pose such challenges in an introspective and respectful manner. This suggests that they may be genuinely seeking truth, rather than merely trying to sling mud or argue for a deeply held position.) In this section, I talk about how even skeptical scientists -- including hostile atheists -- can (and do!) recognize evidence that the universe has been finely tuned. These well-known scientists reject God's existence, but even they acknowledge the evidence of design. |
 | Stop Smoking Ths is a hindi/paki song, where it teaches in a fine manner to smoke more, but in the end its a bad habbit ... |
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