Catherine Liu @CLiuAnon, professor of film and media studies at UC Irvine. She is the author of 'Virtue Hoarders: the Case Against the Professional Managerial Class'. We discuss the origin of trauma studies, self branding on social media and the ideology of the professional class. Liu has an unwavering commitment to historical materialism and a fierce critique of elitist academies. She explores the intense moralism of our times as it relates to the Freudian super-ego.
Today is garbage collection day in North Park and I watched as the recycling truck destroyed my blue dumpster....no way to save money.
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The deeply true and beautiful expression of Pope Francis’ desire for Christian unity seems anchored to this realization. We “must cry together” because we have failed together. And we can only correct our own failures, not each other’s.
The more we can approach our “separated brethren” with this truth in mind, the more easily we will find the journey toward the fraternal embrace of restored Christian unity. So let’s pray that the audiovisual “hug” offered by Pope Francis becomes a well-worn model that we Catholics seek to repeat again and again with our Christian brothers and sisters.
It took a risen Jesus and the resurrected 'many saints who had fallen asleep' to evangelize Jerusalem for 40 days and still only 120 were present at Pentecost. Do not be surprised at what you see today. Life in Christ may be free but it will cost you your life. Matthew 27: 51-53 ' 51 At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. The earth shook, and the rocks were split. 52 The tombs also were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised. 53 After his resurrection they came out of the tombs and entered the holy city and appeared to many.'
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Singapore Prime Minister Lawrence Wong on April 16 said that his country cannot afford to be a “passive bystander” as the trade war unleashed by US President Donald Trump engulfs the world, adding that Singapore will “actively shape its own destiny”. Watch the full speech here.
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Psalm 55
2 Listen, God, to my prayer;
do not hide from my pleading;
3 hear me and give answer.
I rock with grief; I groan
4 at the uproar of the enemy,
the clamor of the wicked.
They heap trouble upon me,
savagely accuse me.
5 My heart pounds within me;
death’s terrors fall upon me.
6 Fear and trembling overwhelm me;
shuddering sweeps over me.
7 I say, “If only I had wings like a dove
that I might fly away and find rest.
8 Far away I would flee;
I would stay in the desert.
Selah
9 “I would soon find a shelter
from the raging wind and storm.”
10 Lord, check and confuse their tongues.
For I see violence and strife in the city
11 making rounds on its walls day and night.
Within are mischief and trouble;
12 treachery is in its midst;
oppression and fraud never leave its streets.
13 For it is not an enemy that reviled me—
that I could bear—
Not a foe who viewed me with contempt,
from that I could hide.
14 But it was you, my other self,
my comrade and friend,
15 You, whose company I enjoyed,
at whose side I walked
in the house of God.
Farrar fenton’s notes on length of life
(inserted between Genesis Chapter 11 & 12)
note.—As Ch. xi. of Genesis forms a decisive period in human history, I think it well to add a note to endeavour to remove a difficulty that has for generations puzzled students of the Holy Scriptures, in regard to the age to which the men before Abraham are stated to have lived. Sceptics have delightedly used this point as a weapon of assault upon Biblical history, and thus upon the Christian Faith. But the difficulty, it appears to me, has arisen from a want of knowledge amongst both the believers and sceptics of Europe and America of the methods of expression used in the primaeval literature of Asia, as Governor Holwell pointed out a century and a half ago in his "India Tracts," and the modes of thought prevalent among the earliest races of that continent, and which, at least in their religious affairs, continue to this day, and have even been continued in the legal vocabulary of the British Constitution to our own times. Thus our constitutional lawyers and books tell us that, according to our law, "The King never dies,—he only vacates the throne," or demises the crown, yet no one imagines, or asserts by that expression, that the present reigning monarch is twelve hundred years of age, as he would be, dating from King Arthur, who is said to be his remote ancestor, or "father," as he would be called in the Hebrew, Arabic, or Chinese languages. The phrase of our constitutional law is merely what we now call a " survival " of a very ancient theory, That theory, and the linguistic Idiom of the first eleven chapters of Genesis, as still used in the religious ideas, and expression of them, amongst the Thibetans, Chinese, and kindred nations, is, that their Royal High Priest, the Great Lhama, and his subordinate high priests, equivalent to our archbishops of provinces, never die, but that their souls, their real selves, when their visible bodies grow old and inconvenient to them, go and select a son, or some beautiful child or youth, into whom they enter, and through whom they continue to exercise their beneficent duties as kings and priests, and thus are thousands of years old.
We know, from universal history, that the chief of every tribe was formerly always both priest and ruler, and as a fact in all organized states the chief magistrate, king, or president is actually so in our day, and decides with his advisers what doctrines or forms of religion shall be allowed amongst the citizens of the states over whom he, and they as his administrators, rule. I refrain from quoting illustrations for want of space. The fact is clear to every man who reflects.
Using the above lamp of history by which to read the early chapters of Genesis, we may safely conclude that the patriarchs of such apparently incredible length of life were actually priest-chiefs of tribes, whose souls were believed to have passed from the first organizer of the tribe, or the man who as head of a family originated, as Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob did, a powerful house which developed into a nation, and who ruled it by their descendants until by internal revolution or by being unseated and expelled from their hereditary offices by some conqueror, were said to have "died," in the linguistic idiom of their times.
This interpretation of that idiom was suggested to me when studying St. Paul's argument founded upon the history of Abraham, The Apostle, in the fourth chapter of Romans, quotes the fact that Abraham believed the promise of the Divine messenger that he should beget a son, when between 80 and 100 years of age as a stupendous exhibition of" faith in God," when he believed that God could accomplish that promise by restoring to him, Abraham, procreative power, which the patriarch knew had ceased in himself by the natural decay of age, as it did in all men. But if Abraham's ancestor, Arphaxad, and his father, Terah, and all his contemporaries, had been accustomed to his own knowledge to produce " sons and daughters " from 35 years of age until 478 to 500 years, as recorded in Genesis, Ch. xi., and his grandfather, Nakhor, who died young, to 148, and Terah, his father, when 205 years old, it would have needed no faith at all of an extraordinary kind for Abraham to believe he could do the same when only 80, or need any special restoration of his youth by Divine power to enable him, as the messenger and the Apostle both said it did. It has long appeared extraordinary to me that neither the assailants of the Bible, nor its defenders, have seen this question in the light I now put it, and which is undoubtedly the right one.
St. Paul was a man of the most powerful and clear intellect, and from his splendid line of inductive reasoning relating to the subject he had in hand, proves that be was accustomed to read the First Book (or, as we call it now, Chapters) of Genesis in a very different sense to modern students, and evidently, from his studies of ancient Asiatic writers, now lost to us through the barbarian ravages and stupid illiteracy of the Romans, with a knowledge that the sense was different to the idiom of his day, and what my own researches in Oriental literature and history have shown to be the correct one, as above.
My defence for making this long note is, that this matter has been brought to me so frequently by sincere Christians as a tormenting source of doubt and mental unrest, and by anti-Christians triumphantly as a weapon to assail all religion, that I have felt it absolutely necessary to present the religious and scientific publics with the only true and rational solution of the problem; a solution supported by history. ~ F. fenton.
The Holy Bible in Modern English. Contains
the complete sacred Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments translated into
English direct from the original Hebrew, Chaldee and Greek languages with
instructions and critical notes by Ferrar Fenton. He was extremely careful in
editing to maintain the spirit and sense of the original text. This edition of
the Bible is of inestimable value to the sincere student engaged in Scriptual
research, who desires to come into deeper understanding of the great truths of
Holy Writ.
Contains the complete sacred Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments
translated into English direct from the original Hebrew, Chaldee and Greek. Mr.
Fenton explained how he came to take up this arduous work: "In the year
1853 there was inspired in my mind, by what appeared to be a mere accident, a
resolve to study the Bible absolutely in its original languages, to ascertain
what its writers actually said and taught. ... I at once threw myself into the
stream of the suggestion and registered a vow that I would never again read the
Gospels or Christian Documents of our Faith, in any language but Greek, until I
had learned to think in that tongue and it had become as familiar to me as the
diction of an English newspaper."
In the Book's Dedication he further states: "I dedicate this complete
translation of the Holy Scriptures of the Hebrew and Christian Faith to ALL
THOSE NATIONS WHO HAVE SPRUNG FROM THE RACE OF THE BRITISH ISLES, and to whom
the English language, in its developed power, is the mother tongue; and with
them to all the inhabitants of the world to whom English has become, or may
become, the language of thought, in hope that a clear presentment of the laws
of creation and human existence will restore them from the mental distress of
atheistic doubt, to a firm reliance upon God, their creator, and the practice
of his revealed laws of life, bodily and spiritual."
"Wonderful World"
Rotherham's translation has stayed in print over the years because of the wealth of information it presents. John R Kohlenberger III says in his preface to the 1994 printing, "The Emphasized Bible is one of the most innovative and thoroughly researched translations ever done by a single individual. Its presentation of emphases and grammatical features of the original languages still reward careful study."
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Mayor Todd Gloria on Friday opened a safe sleeping area for homeless individuals near Balboa Park that has capacity for 400 tents.
The site on a city parking lot near the Naval Medical Center can accommodate up to 800 people at two to a tent. Other amenities and services include meals, restrooms, showers, laundry, storage trailers, case management, basic needs assistance and resource referrals.
“Building on the success of our first safe sleeping site, the O Lot is an opportunity for many more people who’ve become homeless to work on getting back on their feet in a safe, sanitary environment,” said Gloria.
“Men inhale their beliefs from the atmosphere which happens to surround them. This is true in every department of thought, e.g., politics, art, religion. Were Christians asked to-day for the reasons of their belief the many (should they answer truly) could only reply, “We inhaled it.” They did not reach it by thorough, independent, untrammeled investigation.” - E. NISBET Rock Island , Ill. , June 17th, 1876
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