On 31 Dec 2006 16:18:14 -0800, "Bbd" hushmail.com> wrote:

It's not clear what political conservatism is anymore. In the United
States, the so-called "conservative movement" is made up of two
inconsistent wings

Read here : http://www.hellenicnews.com/readnews.html?newsid=5933&lang=US

**Much To Be Thankful For**

Much To Be Thankful For
By Jay Sekulow

As we prepare for the holidays, it was brought home to me how much we have
to be thankful for. Last week, we hosted at our offices in Washington, DC,
an international gathering of lawyers and religious leaders. The focus of
our summit was the deteriorating condition of religious freedom in Turkey.
The Patriarchate in what was once called ?Constantinople? is one of the
pillars of the Orthodox Church community. This historic church has
officially operated in Turkey for over 1700 years. Greek Orthodox believe
that the Church was started by the Apostle Andrew during his frequent visits
to Asia Minor.

Masturbation: A Christian Perspective

'Masturbation is nothing to be ashamed of. It's not something to be
particularly proud of, either.' (Matt Groening)

More... http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/4884.htm

(P.S. A note to those who've seen this post previously: I circulate it about
once a month to some Usenet groups where young people in particular have
questions about this subject and don't know where to turn for answers. Every
time it's posted 1,000+ visit the article to read it. So, you regular Usenet
inhabitants, you don't need to get excited about this repetition - for
whatever reason :-)!!!

--

Shalom! Rowland Croucher

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it (G K
Chesterton)

http://jmm.aaa.net.au/ - 18,700 articles/ 4000 humour

Stephen Lander on Channel Four TV

MI5's Director-General, Stephen Lander, appeared in Channel Four's programme "The Power List" on 31/October/1998.
The series of three programmes described the most influential people in British society.

To my deep amusement and Lander's undoubted chagrin, Fulcrum Productions, makers of the programme, chose to illustrate
the piece using screen-shots of my website. To the best of my knowledge this is the only time this website has featured
on British television screens.

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Observer article 9/March/1997
Fame at last! In an alleged book review in the Observer (Books p16), Jay Rayner writes about a "man called Bob"
(one of my many pseudonyms) in whom "a lot of people have shown an interest". Read and ponder!

Perhaps the Chinese curse "may you live in interesting times" could be re-worded into "may you be considered an
interesting person". Infamy, infamy, they've all got it in for me!

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I don't agree with any of these whacko masonic/calendar assertions..

Ultimately the incidents in question are just one more chapter between
the practical approach of Aristotle and Edmunde Burke vs the blind
idealism of Plato and Hegel.. humanity seems endlessly doomed to
repeat the same mistakes, never learns.. ultimately, it is HUBRIS..

- = -
Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus, BioStrategist
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/vjp2/vasos.htm

with exceptionnal pictures of archeological excavations in Rome, and loads of links to ...
italian articles :-)

http://stmaterne.blogspot.com/2006/12/sainte-mlanie-la-jeune-couronne-de_31.html

sancta Melania, ora pro nobis

Jean-Michel

see you next civilian year :-)

Alexander Arnakis wrote:

SACRIFICE WITH HEART FULL OF RIGHTEOUSNESS BRING THE REAL HAPINESS OF
EID. ww.mta.tv

Peace be upon you!
RIGHTEOUSNESS IS THE OBJECTIVE OF EID. SACRIFICES ON EID-DAY
SYMBOLICALLY REMIND OBEDIENCE TO GOD.
About the symbolic sacrificial permitted animals God says:
< Their flesh reaches not Allah, nor does their blood, but it is your
righteousness that reaches Him. Thus has He subjected them to you, that
you may glorify Allah for His guiding you. And give glad tidings to
those who do good.> Quraan ch-22, v-38

By the grace of God, came again the Eid al-adha ( Eid at morning bright
sunshine). On this day, the sacrifice of holy Ibrahim and his son holy
Ismael is remembered ; they served God with life, defeating fear and
went through hunger and thirst.

When we hear about their great sacrifices, it creates in our hearts a
lot of emotions. But, do we remember these lessons when we go out of
place of prayer?

Are the objectives of Eid met by mere offering of sacrifice of animals
on this day?

.net magazine article March/1998

Britain's .net Magazine featured my website on page 17 of their March 1998 issue (number 42). They quote from the "FAQ"
pages, and also include some details of the evidence I have tried to present on my website.

The age of some of the material on the website shows in this review, which says the case "has been discussed in uk.*
newsgroups during the past year". At this time (March 1998) it has been discussed on uk.misc for three years, and there
are still occasional traces of the discussion going on.

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