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Preliminary to the Restoration of America

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
nobles games
james wm.pandeli asked:


                         PRELIMINARY TO THE RESTORATION OF AMERICA:

                                   FULFILLING A PROMISE AND A PURPOSE 

 (This Journey, begun in l953, continues; Observations, never-ending; Ideas based on Superior                                   

  Understandings supported by a Higher Level of Awareness…And Love Remembered)

                                                    

                                                       James Wm. Pandeli

 

          “Give the people the facts and the Republic will be saved.”   (Abraham Lincoln)

            Give the people the truth and they will understand a little more…  (This writer)

 

I.    Preface:                     THE CITIZENRY HAS LOST AMERICA (The Real Tyranny In Our Time)

II.   Introduction:             FULFILLING A PROMISE: AUTOBIOGRAPHY/CANDIDACY ‘08  (The                                                    

                                        Recognition of a Defining Moment In American History)

III.  State of Our Union: THE FAILURE OF THE EDUCATED AND THE BUBBA FACTOR (The                           

                                  Formal Process And The Appearance of Substance)

IV.  Opportunity:            ARE WE A WORTHY CITIZENRY?  (The Political Party System or Is It

                                        The ‘Political Dance’?)

V.  Conclusion:               ‘PRELIMINARY’ REQUIRES UNDERSTANDING THINGS;

                                        DEMOCRACY REQUIRES SOME DISCIPLINE AND AWARENESS

                                        (Re-wiring America)

 

Preface:  THE CITIZENRY HAS LOST AMERICA (The Real Tyranny In Our Time)

 

      Not all is as it seems. Preliminary to the Restoration of America requires understanding things – things like the true nature of our political system today, how it really works, who controls it or if not controlled then how is it influenced by human nature. How does the media substitute its will and/or influence to compensate for the imperfections in human nature in a democratic society?  Are we so filled with our civil rights and liberties that it appears there is no capacity to appreciate and respect the foundation, the American Civilization, of our rights and liberties?  A. Lincoln proved that his generation had the capacity to appreciate its cause and act upon it.

 

     If I were to categorize the American story into generations I would call the 1776 era the Noble generation; followed by the Slave Issue generation; the l860 era, the Civil War generation (a defining moment in American history: “…testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure”); followed by the Industrial Revolution Immigrations, what I call that Blessed generation (1880-1920); overlapping the World War I Patriotic generation; and finally the Greatest generation, our predecessor.  After the Civil War the former slaves were used first by the Republicans after the death of Lincoln, and in later decades used by the Democrats. Many Blacks started to realize their role as being ‘used’ by the Democrats for votes. Now the gender game is being instituted to compensate for that realization.  And there is even a desire to get the illegal alien ‘vote’, one way or another, a sign of just how dysfunctional our government is.  Both political parties have themselves evolved into useful tools to be manipulated and used by the media, itself controlled by hidden agendas and hidden people.  If our era fails it will be because the American citizenry has allowed the two-party system to fail as a sufficient vehicle for change.  

 

      We are beginning to witness the ‘decline and falling’ of the American Civilization.  It is most characterized by the incompetent leadership our political parties bring forth as candidates.  The parties are to blame because of their failure to understand our world, the people who inhabit it and what is required to lead our nation.  The American citizenry seems to understand less because they allow opportunists, partisanship and political ‘pandering’. The media uses this failure as opportunity to manipulate the parties. The media is not the messenger.  It is the manipulator of a free press and the

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real tyranny in our time because in most instances it interferes with good government by their lack of balance unless of course you are satisfied with their balancing act and our ‘decline and falling’ civilization.  And the pendulum swings without anything of substance offered to insure effective government. There is only the appearance of governing while waiting perhaps until ‘elections’ (appointments) to insure victory one over the other in spite of the daily negative consequences that result from incompetence.  Need we wonder why we haven’t had many principled people such as a Lincoln in our government in recent years?

     

      This essay is necessary.  The purpose of this attempt is to take the first step and try to re-wire (in this case re-educate) America. However delusional or silly it may seem for an average unknown citizen to so move, we may come to understand that it is the American citizenry that is delusional and silly. The American politicians are the incompetent egomaniacs who run for high office and think they have the life understandings to initiate change, to strengthen our democracy, to boast themselves ‘decision makers’ when in fact they understand so little about so much.  Their understandings about many aspects of life have become increasingly insufficient and superficial. America can no longer afford the schooling of politicians after they take office. America cannot afford ‘the best and brightest’ so called by the media.  It is not so much ‘experience’ (and experience does not imply understanding) but the ‘understandings’ that are important.  The media is delusional if they think no one is observing this chapter in our history and their balancing act. So who then speaks for the America people?  If that person would come forward does the American citizenry have the ‘wiring’ (thought process) for it or have they already been re-wired to perform only a ‘political dance’?

 

      You know, children are amazing.  I know because I was, once upon a time, one of them.  There can be circumstances that are less than ideal for a child of 6 or 7.  Under unpleasant conditions ‘gifts’ are lost, brain wires get scrambled at a time when they are just beginning to make their connections, hope becomes confusing and sadness fills the atmosphere.  Life becomes very serious and there is no superficiality.  There are unexplainable ‘gifts’ however that come into the child’s life at this time that he or she may not be aware.  These ‘gifts’ are potential for increased levels of understandings and awareness depending on the child’s nature – his or her desire to learn and grow.  Try to be an ‘electrical engineer’ or at the least a ‘brain surgeon’ at a very young age and be concerned first with beginning the re-wiring process to survive, make the connections, grow up, get educated and continue the real education after the formal process.  Children are amazing.

 

     America is more than 230 years old.  It is time for this generation to grow up.  The American citizenry has been led to believe and it is constantly being reinforced by the media that since the Revolutionary War days it is our government that is the danger; our civil liberties in jeopardy; religious persecution the next evil; there will be attacks on our freedom of individual speech and individual press and on and on.  To be sure we must be on guard against the violations of our civil rights and liberties.  However another danger has hit our shores since the Revolutionary War and you neither see it nor understand it.  That is why I state that the American citizenry has lost America. There are things so well controlled now and used as tools against our freedoms, our voting franchise and the will of the citizenry through manipulation by hidden people that have their own sicknesses to deal with – and their powers a soothing drug. The real tyranny now IS the media - the commercial media as distinguished from our individual ‘freedoms of speech and press’. There is the chaos and confusion manufactured by the media so that the average voters become disillusioned, cannot discern what is going on.  The pandering to the electorate (and ‘illegal aliens’) by politicians for an ‘entitlements’ agenda makes our vote less effective and is a form of tyranny. If our government is tyrannical in any way it is more so because of the incompetence in government. The media helps the incompetent win high office, calling them the ‘best and brightest’ and then continue their own agenda while pretending to watch our ever-dangerous government and the potential for the loss of freedoms.

 

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        Both political parties have become insufficient vehicles for change over the years. One feeds on ‘pandering’ with media support, the other has become less truthful. What has happened?   We have allowed incompetence to win and an appearance of a two-party system, the appearance of substance in the governing and government on all levels to prevail.  Welcome to the new America that you sense but cannot yet see.

 

Introduction:  FULFILLING A PROMISE: AUTOBIOGRAPHY/CANDIDACY ’08 (The

                       Recognition of a Defining Moment in American History)

     

        I was born in 1944, the grandson of four grandparents of that Blessed generation who came to America in the last wave of Industrial Revolution Immigrants.  The last of them arrived with my father on the good ship ‘Carolina’ in December 1920, on the day my mother was born in Philadelphia, her own parents arriving the previous decade. These people were not coming to America for ‘entitlements’.  They were coming to meet the challenges of a good work ethic. They could hear ‘…America Singing’.  In the words of Walt Whitman, “I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear… Those of mechanics…The carpenter…The Boatman…The shoemaker…the hatter…the mother or young wife…the girl sewing…Singing…their strong melodious songs.”  The ‘love remembered’ in the first six years of my life given by my paternal grandparents, when I look back, I am sure was equal to a million people combined caring for their loved ones.  After age seven the re-wiring process began and continued through the formal process of education. There had never been a support system, failures were many, but the drive to ‘understand things’ never diminished. 

 

       I realized that I was on the road to success as I defined it after the formal process of education ended but the learning continued.  I learned to create knowledge based not only on facts, but combined it with truth as well so as to understand things a little more. It is one of the many gifts aided by ‘observations never-ending’.  One becomes aware of things few can perceive and establish.

 

     Clinton and Bush have presented only the appearance of substance. I did not make the history of their lives, but by their actions, obvious limitations and speeches, their understandings have been documented.  9-11-2001 was the direct result of Clinton’s incompetence though out of office nine months. The next seven years were Bush’s failings. Both have failed because they did not understand things when seeking high office – things you learn in life after the formal process of education.  They were unable to recognize the defining moment in our American history, and if they did, they lacked the capacity to deal with it.  They have been clueless.  They come from a superficial existence and thereby unable to explain the real consequences to threats in an effective manner to those who should be receiving the message because they understand so little about so much themselves.  The incompetence of one brought on the incompetent other and this pendulum swing will continue and so will the appearance of governing. The White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, among others, is not equal in understandings to their ancestors of the Noble generation.  They appear to have degenerated and fallen along with most of the citizenry to manipulation by media and trends of our time.  Given the opportunity, the descendents of newer generations may prove to understand more because there is an awareness of growth and sustenance, not to yield to ‘decline and falling’.  ‘America Singing’ is still a cherished thought.  Though the ‘old world’ has been discredited in most instances, some of the understanding things are not without value. 

 

     In 1953 I was placed in Girard College of Philadelphia, an orphanage for fatherless boys.  I decided then that I should learn all that I could so that I would understand what I thought everyone else knew.  Maybe I would know enough to qualify for the Presidency, be like an Eisenhower or a Lincoln, I thought, for me perhaps the father figure I now lacked. At that time I never imagined I would surpass what I thought everyone else knew and then surpass what everyone did know.

                                                                                                                                                            

 

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     In 1967, while in training in the military service I met the grandson of the great World War I General of the Army, General Pershing.   The grandson’s name was Richard J. Pershing.  I was so impressed by him that I was sure that there would someday be the Presidential candidacy of a Richard J. Pershing. I had served with him and knew him, first in Advanced Infantry Training then Officer Candidate School in Fort Benning, Georgia.   He was a remarkable fellow, of a quality I had thought would lead to greatness in American politics.  He had graduated from Yale. (I don’t know if he belonged to the secret society of ‘Skull and Bones’ at Yale.)  Those in training with us had a high regard for him as well.  I resigned the Officer Candidate School after a few months because of the high death rate of young officers in Viet Nam.  I preferred to go as a private when asked by a board of officers about my resignation.  As chance would have it, I was sent to West Germany.  Pershing, upon becoming an Officer, was killed a couple of weeks after arriving in Viet Nam.  It was an honor to have been acquainted with him, serve with him and have a very unique remembrance of him.  It is a great loss that the American people never got to know him.  What a difference in quality and character to a Clinton or a Bush of the Viet Nam war years.  General Pershing of the World War I Patriotic generation would have been proud of his grandson to know that fellow soldiers had the highest regard for him.

  

     It is now 2007.  The timing is right to fulfill a promise made at age nine and announce my candidacy for President of the United States for 2008.  My contention is that I have the superior understandings and a higher level of awareness than most in America including most of those in the ‘think tanks’ in Washington D.C., in government and some in the media and without benefit of their support systems. However if I possess these qualities, these unique ‘gifts’, and my reading correct, I would know that the winner of the Presidency for 2008 had already been chosen, as was Bill Clinton and after him, George (Chads) Bush, chosen before the election.  The dream then can no longer be a reality, the announcement for President must be retracted, a promise made fulfilled to the best of my ability, and those with neither the capacity nor an understanding of dreams for pure and innocent reasons continue to be elevated and our American Civilization continues its ‘decline and falling’.

 

State of Our Union:  THE FAILURE OF THE EDUCATED AND THE BUBBA FACTOR (The                                                                                        

                                 Formal Process And The Appearance of Substance)

       

        The State of our Union is pathetic. We have a government that is only ‘the appearance of substance’, and members in that government who know only the excuse ‘lack of funding’ indicating the dysfunction within government.  If you listen for the excuse ‘lack of funding’ you will be amazed at how often it is used.  We have an educated population that is either unaware of the State of Our Union or unable to overcome the ineffectiveness of the two-party system.

  

      Any candidate for President of the United States should read Josh Shenk’s book ‘Lincoln’s Melancholy’, published in 2005.  If he or she is a serious candidate, sense the moment in our history, he or she may be cured of his or her ‘candidacy’.  If the election is not free and honest there will be no need to realize the lessons of Shenk’s work.  Reading this most profound of works on Lincoln, one has to wonder that the best President, during the most difficult of times, had the least formal education.  It was not his life experience but his life’s understandings that made the difference.  It had given him the understandings to not only win the Presidency, overcome the complexities of the office of President, but enabled him to deal with uncertainties of the office as well.  There is reference to his ‘mental illness’.  My view is that Lincoln had a deep ‘sadness’ that he constantly tried to overcome.  In so doing life’s challenges provided many lessons that stayed with him.  He understood things very well, life very well, otherwise he would not have been the success in our national defining moment that he had been nor would he have been able to write one of our greatest documents – The Gettysburg

 

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Address – a document that his contemporaries could not fully appreciate.  Can you imagine such a document produced by the current candidates?                                                                                                                                                         

                                                                                                                                                             

      I understand that our era is different.  Formal education is important.  It is a process that is necessary.  But too often most people stop after that process – they fail to grow or not forced to grow falling into safe, secure careers or safe, secure good jobs – and a lot of people call this avenue experience.   Allow me to give two examples.  The first example is the engineers at the failed bridge in Minnesota.  In the Peoples’ ‘pursuit of happiness’ there is the expectation that a bridge over something would be sufficient.  Any labeling of a bridge to be safe without the consideration that it handles 140,000 vehicles a day as opposed to the 40,000 a day it was expected to handle on opening day is negligent.  The expectation that repairs would be done with added equipment and other variables (weather, etc.) considered on such a bridge then label it safe is unconscionable.  Even though I am unaware of whether the engineering calculations were correct – The Bridge Fell. After the formal process of education what did the engineers learn in life except maybe by accident – and unfortunately this ‘accident’ occurred?  What about the thinking, the reasoning, the imagining, the perceiving, the understandings while growing in a career or job – the real world education after the formal process?

 

      The second example is the violation of the civil rights of 33 individuals at Virginia Tech. Thirty-three individuals were murdered by an individual, who, by a reasonable observation of his writings and actions would indicate possible danger.  So now we have the educated administrators and ‘teachers’ who I am sure went through the formal process of education successfully with all their brain wires intact.   I am not sure how they can live with themselves after the murders because they failed to understand the real world process of education, of learning and growing after school is out – not just growing in their chosen fields (that is just called ‘experience’).  They allowed the limited liberal approach - that is the ‘formal process of education’ in America today - whereby not to interfere with the civil rights of the individual, who later turns out to be the criminal in this case but at the same time fail to foresee any value in the civil rights of other individuals, who turn out to be the victims.  In other words they failed at the balancing of ‘rights’ preferring their limited understandings.  Well, the ‘civil rights’ of the victims became moot, and ‘conveniently’ so for liberalism. There is no balancing required now, no longer necessary to give consideration for the victims ‘rights’ and time to move on. What we have left is ‘privileged liberalism’ and the limited understandings of administrators and ‘teachers’. Conservatism as witnessed today cannot escape some of this criticism.

 

       Is this the State of Our Union?  Yes it is because this is the state of the limits of our understanding of the formal process of education.  Any real education beyond the formal process would increase understanding things.  There doesn’t appear to be that kind of spirit for learning in our nation. Have we been conditioned then to operate on the pendulum swing?  Without media support liberalism today is not sustainable.  The liberal media has a reason for existence.  Our thought processes call it ‘free press’.  All our wiring could never imagine the kind of leadership that ‘seizes’ office of President, and other offices as well, yet we have unknowingly witnessed it.  Incompetence is the engine of the pendulum swing.  There is no sustenance long-term however in superficiality, incompetence, the appearance of governing or the appearance of substance in government.  This is the reality.

 

      Is this the mental state of our candidates for office, the people who have gone through the formal process of education causing our government to evolve into only the appearance of substance?  Have the media then filled a vacuum?  Has this formal process of education caused us to fail to see the ‘decline and falling’ of America and act on it?   Do not the Liberals see its true role in our society when they can only exist with the aid of media support and outside agendas?  Do they not see the error when they pander ‘entitlements’ to the voters signaling incompetence by so doing and threatening voter franchise?  Do the Conservatives fail to recognize a war policy that continues without an understanding of the problems when dealing with the people in that part of the world?  What has

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happened is that our government became the extension of the above two examples - the engineers and school administrators and ‘teachers’. The failed formal process of education has extended to most aspects of our governments; federal, state and local, and to our workplace as well as our two-party system. That is the failure of the educated in our society.  It has failed our nation on many levels and the American people on all levels.

                                                                                                                                                                     

       Do not be fooled or manipulated by a pendulum swing.  Look for competence in government.  Look for those who understand life.  For now the only thing that is relevant is the media, understand it, imagine that the President for 2008 had already been chosen and observe our 2008 ‘elections’.

    

     We arrive at the Bubba Factor.  The Bubbas are really people like the Clintons and the Bushes.  People who run for political office that understand so little about so much - the opportunists who find opportunity, political panderers, those with too obvious concerns for their legacies.  They are the promotion of the media, through the party system, that is really a manipulated system.  Can we survive this kind of incompetence?

      

     ‘Bubba’ is a slang word whose meaning has grown in significance.  ‘Bubba’ was a term generally thought of as a ‘white southern male, under-educated, good old boy, redneck’.  I could not find it in the dictionary but being inquisitive I looked where it would be.  I found that it would be between the ‘bu’, an abbreviation for ‘bushel’, “any various units of dry capacity”; and ‘bubble’, “a thin film of liquid filled with air or gas”, “a delusive scheme” (opportunist who find opportunity; carpetbaggers; political panderers), “a sound of that like bubbling”. The spelling would provide the ideal spot for this uniquely ‘American political term’ that has evolved as the result of the Clinton-Bush experience.  It is truly a ‘Revelation’, through this alphabetical placement of the term ‘Bubba’.  Imagine, it is revealed to us in our common English dictionary.   

    

      Many answers to our questions and doubts might have been solved with some creative research in spite of the media hype ‘best and brightest’ or ‘meeting a payroll experience’ at ‘election’ time. The politicians understand so little about so much even with a media support system, and a citizenry who understands so little about so much especially about the media support system.

 

Opportunity:  ARE WE A WORTHY CITIZENRY? (The Political Party System or Is It The ‘Political Dance’?)

     

     When a Congressman or Senator tells you ‘the people don’t understand’, as many have often done, consider the source.  If I tell you that this ‘people’ understands very well and you fail to take notice you will fail to comprehend the great deception that is taking place against our nation.  Unfortunately, having civil rights and liberties does not bestow ‘gifts’ like intelligence, understanding, perception, insight nor wisdom without some effort.  There is something more to citizenship than just formal education, and our inalienable rights.  If you did not have an opportunity to grasp these gifts (intelligence, understanding, perception, insight, wisdom, etc.) while in an ideal childhood, or by your nature did not want to learn and grow then it is time to listen and observe.

    

       Have you ever seen a person feeding pigeons from the park bench?  He throws out some crumbs and the pigeons flock to the crumbs.  He throws out the crumbs in a different direction and the pigeons ‘dance’ that way.  If this continues it is much like the pendulum swing – this way then that way.  Imagine the person on the park bench is the media and the pigeons the American citizenry.  The

crumbs represent the acceptance of the appearance of governing, the appearance of substance in government, the acceptance of political pandering and really the appearance of legitimacy.  It is the ‘political dance’.  It is our opportunity, the American citizenry, to be a part of the Restoration of America and not the ‘pigeon people’ to be manipulated by more powerful, but shallow, lesser agendas. 

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We have lost much and time now is needed for observations with a new perspective, a new insight about America. There are answers and understandings to be found in the enduring nature (substance) of the less superficial generations that came before us, produced us and would be proud of us, their descendants, if we prove our capacity to be a part of the Restoration of America.            

 

Conclusion:  ‘PRELIMINARY’ REQUIRES UNDERSTANDING THINGS; DEMOCRACY

                      REQUIRES SOME DISCIPLINE AND AWARENESS (Re-wiring America)

 

      “Give the people the facts and the Republic will be saved.” (A. Lincoln) Give the people the truth and they will understand a little more and gladly be a part of the Restoration of America and enjoy ‘America Singing’ once again.

 

     The goal of this ‘non affiliated political party person’ who has retracted his candidacy based on his superior level of understandings, and writer, is to awaken the American people to the greater awareness so that they have an understanding of our political world, stability in a media created ‘hysteria’, a media created liberalism while our government continues the appearance of substance and becomes more dysfunctional. Neither our Constitution nor the inspiration of the Declaration of Independence can sustain our nation or the spirit of the people when it is constantly attacked and manipulated on many levels by those using the media as a tool.  Most important for us is laying the foundation for ‘understanding things’ in spite of the media.

 

     When determining a potential Presidential candidate the American citizenry should recognize whether the candidate understands the mechanics and complexities of living and surviving let alone the office of President.  He or she must be able to navigate through the uncertainties of life as well.  With regard to the office of Presidency not everything is ‘uncertainties’, but you have to know how, what and when to read between the lines of media authored chaos and agendas and input authored by bureaucrats and military. This of course pre-supposes an open and free of ‘appointment’ elections.  Do you think our present candidates understand the ‘game’ in which they are participating?  Unfortunately our system prevents a comparison of my understandings with those of the candidates.  It would have been necessary. The truth is necessary at this defining moment in our history. After this brief ‘enlightenment’ I hope that the American citizenry increases his or her level of awareness and subsequently some level of understanding.  I really don’t expect much from the American citizenry in the short-term.  In the long-term it will be too late, but I can always hope and for me…

 

Epilogue:

 

There will always be growth and sustenance from the “Love Remembered” given by the members of that Blessed generation.  

 

    (It is good therapy for the re-wiring process that the American citizenry read the Gettysburg Address so that there is an awareness of the value of what might be lost and what might be saved.  We should appreciate an Abraham Lincoln in our history, a man of little formal education of the Slave Issue and Civil War generations who understood things very well. Imagine, the Democrats at that time – Civil War era generation – wanted to end the war and allow the Confederacy their own Union; imagine that – what a little perspective can provide and what a great leader can do!)

 

     (The two greatest threats to America today are the Rampant Criminality we are witnessing in our nation and the Manufactured ‘Hysteria’ in too many instances for selfish motives by members of Congress, Lawyers and the Media about the abuses of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties WHEN we have only the ‘appearance of governing and of government’ at work while that which is the foundation and support for those Rights and Liberties, the American Civilization, is in ‘decline and falling’.)



Wayne

Does anyone know where I forward this to “the real Microsoft?”?

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
klm asked:


I’m so sick of getting these emails. I KNOW it is a scam and when I delete one, they kept sending others emails that read like this one:
Microsoft Cash Promotion Award
20 Craven Park, Harlesden
London NW10
United Kingdon

We have sent you a mail as regards your Microsoft Cash Promotion Award Winning Claims . We did sent you a mail as regards how to claim your prize winning package which includes the legal document (paper work) and your certified winning cheque that will back up your winning claims and i do believe that you have not claimed your won prize.

I quite understand your skepticism and with the look of things you are still skeptical about your prize money. I want to state categorically clear here that the only thing I can deduce from the reservations/thoughts you expressed in your email been sent to me from your claims officer Mr.Fedrick Depp,to my own look of things as the General Manager Europe Microsoft Corporation,is the fact that you are probably scared or jittery because of the magnitude of the funds you won.

As you know that we don’t encourage or entertain any exchange of money because the Microsoft Cash Promotion Board Athourity do not demand payment from winners, ours is to serve according to the limitations of the law and not getting ourselves involved in shady deals that is contrary to the ethics of this noble profession. It is the Bank or the Courier Company that will effect and deliver your winning claims that is demanding payment so as to transfer your prize-winning money.

There is an insurance policy on the coverage of your winning money, which makes it impossible to deduct any amount from your total prize winning funds because of the misappropriation of winner’s funds and litigation we have faced from the past winners. You will agree with me that no Government will allow such amount of funds to leave its shore without proper documentation as to the originality of the funds, only with the required documents will payment be made out.

It might interest you to know that due to very strict regulations there is a procedure that was laid down by the British Lottery Affairs Commission as well as the insurance policy on the coverage of your winning funds. I want to bring to your notice that these policies laid down by the Microsoft Cash Promotion Award Board state that total prize money has been insured to the real value and as such cannot be deducted from the winnings. The constitutional assembly in accordance with section 13(n) of the national gambling acts as adopts this in1993 and amended on 3RD July 1996.

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If only we as a staffs were allowed to partake in the Promotion e-games who knows I could be a lucky winner because I really would make good use of my winnings. I believe all winners have always been given an option to process or forfeit winnings.

But I am truly sorry about your feelings right now but you must understand this is no illegitimate operation. I am truly sorry about this, you probably want to withdraw from procedures, but I must inform you that this is legitimate and I will not deviate from the ethics of this noble profession. I am giving you my words that this is not in anyway related to scam as our job is to serve according to the limitations of the law and not getting ourselves involved in what that is contrary to the ethics of this noble profession.

I like to re-assure you of the legitimacy of this Services as we will not involved in any fraudulent act and will never be. I will advise as you as the director of operations to be calm not to loose this great opportunity which millions of people are trying to entangled but the chances just couldn’t come for them because a lot of people are out there to discourage you as they don’t know how it works, and have never seen such before.

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Once again congratulations from the management of the Microsoft Cash Promotion on your consolation price winning,we hope that you will use the winning for good cause.

Congratulations!! once again.
Yours in service,

MR. Silviu Hotaran
(General Manager Europe)
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Gladys

Wii Fit is Ideal for Everybody. But What is it and Why are so Many People Want to Get It?

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
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David Foray asked:


Wii Fit is ideal for everybody. But what is it and why are so many people want to get it?

Nintendo Wii Fit with Wii Balance Board turns your TV room into a fitness centerfor the whole family. Family members will have fun getting a “core” workout, and viewing results and progress on a new channel on the Wii Menu. Nintendo’s system has made gaming more accessible by converting natural human motion into game control, and with every move of the wrist it has been getting a whole new base into the fold as full-fledged videogamers. What Wii Sports and the Wii Remote did for bringing sports to the living room, Wii Fit and the Balance Board are doing for physical fitness and workout. Nintendo has finally established some things they’ve sought for a long time: expansion of the gaming industry and a few successful peripherals. They’ve been trying to convert us that add-ons are the way since the beginning.

Wii fit is fun at first it because everything is new and exciting to play. But the problem is, it doesn’t take long to master the balance games and soon after the game loses a lot of appeal, just as the wii sports package did. It is a great tool for what I want. All my other exercise equipment is accumulating dust while my board needs everyday cleaning from all the use it gets.

Wii Fit is actually geared at exercise. It is a game that comes with a balance board. It has yoga and a lot of other exercise programs on it. It is more about cardio and minor strength training and so you need to do a lot more on top of using the Wii Fit for it to be any sort of benefit to your health. Thanks to its gesture-based interface and a roll of gyration-inducing games, the Nintendo Wii has always offered the bestowed benefit of a low-impact workout. Now there’s Wii Fit , a $90 software-and-hardware bundle, the noble purpose of which is to get gamers to loose those undesirable pounds.

Anyone who has experienced the Wii’s motion-controlled games knows that playing them can be quite an exercise, but “Wii Fit” takes that idea to a whole new level of exhaustion. The goal is to make exercise fun for the whole family. Anyone who is serious about weight loss won’t completely leave it to a game! Even without the game, individuals don’t solely trust on scales to check whether or not they are overweight, they look in the mirror, judge by the feel of their clothes and how they feel personally.

Wii fit is only another instrument available. It is a unique and innovative way to help you and your family stay fit in the comfort of your house, through simple daily exercises. More than a gaming experience, Wii Fit is a health and lifestyle tool with more than 40 exercises, across four categories: balance games, yoga, muscle workouts and aerobic exercises. Wii Fit is potentially more revolutionary than Wii Sports in it’s aim to attract “casual” gamers. Once people see fitness as being more accessible and fun, then there’s no stopping Wii.

Wii Fit is a great supplement for anyone’s exercise routine. Using the slightly heavy and durable Wii balance board, Wii Fit tracks a user’s weight and BMI (Body Mass Index) by measuring the user’s weight and height.

Wii Fit is already starting to pop up in fitness centers across Japan and we’d imagine a similar reaction here in the US. Wii Fit is simple to use, and simply the most fun way to keep you, your family and friends fit. It is a million seller in the US. Nintendo themselves said they would have a million units of Wii Fit for the US launch.



Tamara

How Post-slave Psychology and Afrocentricity are Joining With Colonialism to Undermine Black Africa’s Cultural Integrity

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
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Joe Mintsa asked:


“What is Wrong with Black People?” (ISBN 978-1-84799-323-6), is the book in which the answer to this question can be found. In fact, this is a book that simply personifies a totally different type of intuition, where the most unsuspected – yet, the most damning – causes of the suffering of the people of Africa as well as the struggles of their brothers and cousins of the West are not only laid open with courage, but also resolved with vision, for a greater understanding of the true needs and aspirations of Africans in today’s world.

Please read Author’s Introduction to the book:

The very simple reason why I want to face up to the question as to what is wrong with Black people is because there is so much that has been said and written about it, but which, far from improving the Black man’s condition, has rather made things even worse for him, due to a set of oxymoronic conceptions and psychotic attitudes that have been spawned by the emotional dispositions of most – if not all – of the best known scholars and intellectuals who have, thus far, attempted to explore the issue.

Therefore, what we are going to do in this book is to clarify a number of things related to the most fundamental misconceptions that have resulted from these dispositions; misconceptions that have remained almost totally insurmountable to the rest of us.

By so doing, what we are going to achieve is to show where they are all missing the point. We are going to put into the open the true reasons for the Black race to have become a Karmic target on earth. And our main objective in this exercise is to suggest a more effective way to break the Karmic cycle, to turn the Black man into a dignified human; a human that it shall no longer feel so good to brutalise anywhere in the world.

We are prepared to achieve this by all means that abide by the Laws of the Spirit. If it ought to take altering Karmic targets, then we are going to have to do it that way for the sake of the Black man’s redemption and dignity in the world. We are going to have to make it possible for another race to take the place of the Black race in this bad Karma; or we are going to have to force God to cancel the bad Karma altogether.

But, in order to do either, we need to be enlightened, wise, objective, and courageous enough to confront some discomforting issues that have taken the bad habit to make people cringe. We need a serious anti-allergy treatment – anti-political correctness therapy – if we should ever be able to make sense of what is actually wrong with Black people; and perhaps, too, to make sense of what is wrong with White people on their side, since they are the main torturers or Black people; but above all, to make sense of the point that we are all missing in the debate on what is now known as the African condition.

To prepare the reader to the type of methodology that we are going to employ all along this exploration, I need to undo the riddle as off now, with no need to beat around the bush, by enunciating that the point that we are missing in this debate is an anthropological point; and perhaps a spiritual point too; but anthropology is above spirituality.

Anthropology is the science that studies human collectivities on a purely cultural angle. It explores human entities as related to the essence and substance – nature and manifestation – of the trans-individual soul that defines their cultural existence. In better words, Anthropology studies the nurtural factors that ensure perceptive congruity, communicative harmony and behavioural affinity between human entities that, by the force of these nurtural concordances between them all, and which result in the fuelling of societal instinction (gregarious impulse), are, thus, known as a group of people pertaining to one specific identifiable cultural community.

This is the concern of Anthropology, which is very different from the concern of Biology. Biology, on the other hand, is the science that studies living beings on a purely anatomical angle. It explores the structure and the functioning of their body as independent organic units.

To be clear, the practical difference between Anthropology and Biology is such that if a man is born affected by one of those neuromotor syndromes that lead to the type of condition that the Anglo-Saxons euphemistically and politically correctly often refer to as “severe learning disability” – the kind of people who spend their entire lives slumped speechless and almost motionless in a wheelchair, drooling, ********* and ********** like newborn babies with no control over their own being – such a man can still be the object of biological study, since he has a body inside which we find a set of organic systems that can be explored by biologists, except for the fact that his spinal system will be reported as deficient. But no one would be able to lead an anthropological study on such a man, since the man would not be an active member of any known cultural community, with the capacity to take in and retain data related to his cultural heritage in a way to be equipped, from nurture, with the aptitude to achieve harmonious interaction with other members of his cultural universe as a society of individuals each one of which is a living medium of expression and manifestation of the values, qualities and abilities developed by the group as experienced in the group’s mode of existence. Such a man would simply not be a representative sample of any cultural community at all; since he would not be able to think, speak and behave in a way that would precisely help anyone to identify him as a German or a Russian. Therefore, an anthropologist would have nothing to learn out of his soul; although a biologist will have an entire universe to transcribe out of his body.

This is the difference between these two scientific disciplines. One deals with the soul whereas the other one deals with the body; and neither deals with both.

For us to make any sense of anything that is going to be said in this book, this is the one fundamental differentiation that we need to assimilate. We don’t need to know more than that if we are to understand this book; because this is where the whole issue that we are going to tackle in this book lies; however naïve this might sound, but the implications of this naïve enunciation are, however, surprisingly astonishing, as we are going to see.

The premeditated ignorance that the experts of modern “popular science” and social politics have ruminated and injected to the masses regarding the thick line between Anthropology and Biology is the one single phenomenon that has made it impossible for anyone to make any sense of the reasons why the Black race has become a Karmic target in today’s world; due to the fact that these experts have been busy using concepts from both scientific disciples as if they were dealing with one field. In fact, they have created an amalgamated version of both sciences; which has limited our understanding of what anthropology is about, and has even made it impossible for us to make use of anthropological knowledge to solve problems arising from anthropological phenomena in human existence, since we sometimes believe that we are dealing with biological phenomena when it is not the case at all.

This is why I need you, dear reader, to pay careful attention to the meaning of the words that we are going to use all along this discussion; because what we are essentially going to do is to disclose the spirit behind these words with courage and virulence irrespective of sensitivities; but above all, we are going to be able to identify which words belong to which science. The end product of this methodology is the enactment of the compelling divorce between Anthropology and Biology, so that we may be able to make sense of the whole issue of Black people’s troublesomeness in today’s world.

We therefore need to begin by making a serious effort to stop cheating on language; because the more we cheat on language, the less we can take hold of the phenomena of existence that language alone has the ability to render understandable. I therefore thank Jean Gilbert Enal who, in the preface to this book, has reminded us how seriously we need to take the word “understanding” in this discussion.

But understanding itself is closely related to realism. It is very difficult, and even impossible, to understand something unless we can observe or visualise an instance of it from the mechanics of the real world. This is why what we are committed to do in this exploration is to analyse facts with concision and punctuality rather than feeding the reader with extensive literary references.

Literary referencing is incumbent on literature and scholarship. We are not interested in either. We do downright phenomenology; because we do not believe in the modern intellectual and academic disease that holds that the force of an argument resides in how much quoting it contains. We have read many such books with hundreds and thousands of literary references, but that do not provide any practical, productive solutions to any real problem. This is why we rather believe that the force of an argument resides in how much pertinent it is to any real something.

We believe in rational perception and technical objectivity; because we see existence, be it animal, mineral, vegetal, radioactive or spiritual, as a machine; a machine that has its own technical applications governed by mechanical rules. Human existence itself, which is our main object in this discussion, is, too, as we see and know it, only another machine, like any other machine, with its own technical wheel-work.

This is why we want to call upon the spirit of anthropology to give us a big hand in this exercise; because anthropology is the only science that is fit for the exploration of the technicalities that govern the mechanics of human existence, and more particularly the mechanics of societal viability in human existence (because it is from the point of societal viability that humanity is viable as a whole). A human society is to an anthropologist what an engine is to a mechanic. He may not have devised it. But he knows its nature and understands its mechanics. He knows its structure, its functions and its values. He knows its core, its volume and its scope. He knows its location, its situation and its identification. An anthropologist sees human beings as industrial parts that are produced and shaped to fit in unique patterns of interconnection and operation in specific types of machines (human societies). And the object of an anthropologist is to seek to identify the nurtural factors that define the collective soul of the specific group of people of his study as reflected in the values that govern their mode of existence as a cultural community.

This is what anthropologists do. The type of ‘anthropologists’ that have been going around the world taking measurements of human skulls are not anthropologists. They are something else. But this does not discredit anthropology as a scientific discipline. It only discredits fake anthropologists. And those who wish to insist on calling them ‘anthropologists’ are as ignorant and fake as these so-called anthropologists themselves.

These ignorant and fake anthropologists were like the Western priests who were sent down to Africa to spread goodness, but who used basements of their own buildings as slave transits. Many Western churches still undertake similar obscure practices all over Black Africa until today. But this does not discredit religious missions. It only discredits fake missionaries. We only need to be able to make the difference between real ones and fake ones before it is too late for our own sake.

Indeed, to have the ability to make the difference between reality and fakery – and most particularly Western fakery – is the second most important thing that we need to assimilate in this discussion if we are to have a proper understanding of what is going to be said in this book; because Western fakery, as we are going to see it, is central to Black people’s detrimental plight in modern history. Many of us have thought, for centuries, that we have been dealing with Western barbarity. But this is just not the case at all. We have been dealing with Western fakery; sometimes turned into some form of barbarity. But Western barbarity itself, as we are going to see, is only a face of Western fakery.

In fact, most – if not all – of the philosophical and scientific misconceptions that have led to the misapprehension of the reasons why the Black race has become a Karmic target in modern history are but the products of Western fakery; which, at its origin, was effected by the use of a very subtle technique; the one which consists in throwing a stone where the target is not, to force the enemy to shoot on the wrong spot.

If we check it out, we will find that when the people of Europe began to raid those of Africa five-hundred years ago with the intention to subdue them in all forms of exploitation, here and there alike, most European nations, especially those that were deeply involved in the enterprise, were already quite advanced in their knowledge of some important principles of human development. The evidence is that they were powerful enough to undertake such an intellectually, scientifically, technologically, economically, politically, militarily, and even spiritually demanding enterprise as to cross thousands of oceanic miles to negotiate the purchase of ten million people to be set to work across another thousands of oceanic miles. Ignorants do not succeed in tasks of such magnitude.

Moreover, since the notion of race does not seem to have any space in Western medieval and classical philosophies, but rather the fight for the consolidation of cultures, the illumination of the human mind through metaphysical exploration, the transcendence of the human spirit through artistic inspiration, the improvement of human existence through the exploitation of nature etc. etc., which made Western societies very competent in the first place, it goes without saying that the Europeans equally knew, as they know till this today, that the thing that turns human communities into powerful political structures and successful civilisational models does not have much to do with skin colour.

But, because they did not want the ignorant peoples of Africa to know anything about their real source of power and success, or because they needed to divert their attention from such precious knowledge, they began to throw stones at race, to create an empty target in the battle field.

I believe that we can visualise the reaction from the other side – the panicky turnaround, the frantic ravaging of empty spots, the waste of ammunitions, but most of all, the fatal exposure of the nervous shooter in the visual field of a very shrewd enemy. Actually, we can see it in our everyday life – race, race, race and race, again and again, everywhere, out of the mouths and pens of the peoples of Africa as well as their brothers and cousins of the West.

It is this strategic injection of the race mentality to Black servants by their White masters – the enthronement of Biology in all things related to humanity, even non biological things – that has resulted in the total diversion of our attention from the anthropological point that we are all missing in this exploration. We have come to a point where people believe that certain things happen to them because of their skin colour even when skin colour has very little – or even nothing – to do with what happens to them.

But such a chronic transmutation of causalities only holds from the fact that biology has taken over many other scientific disciplines, and most particularly anthropology, due to the blinding racial veil that has fallen upon both the buffalo soldier and the elephant veteran at war with an enemy that they cannot see; an enemy that knows how to throw stones away from its own location; an enemy that knows how to make piece in the evening and plot to assault overnight; an enemy that knows how to break all rules of engagement in such a subtle way that the violations can be barely established; in a word, an enemy that knows how to fake its moves to mislead a distracted fighter. Is this really an enemy, or just a shrewd player?

The Chinese say: “a good hunter does not keep aiming at the branch on which a monkey was perched after the monkey has jumped on to the next branch.” It seems that during the days of submission both in slavery and colonialism, the White man played a set of games which fitted into the rules of slavery and colonialism to alienate and brutalise the Black man. But as emancipation and independence came, the games had to move on to fit into the rules of emancipation and independence to carry on the same exercise in a very subtle way. As a consequence, in either case, a new order has failed to bring a new condition, not necessarily because in a purely logical universe emancipation and independence are at odds with freedom and sovereignty, but because the establishment of these new orders did not actually aim to the inauguration of new conditions. It was only all about faking moves. Unfortunately, our blind soldiers and distracted veterans could not see how fake the moves were.

To take a few examples, President Abraham Lincoln himself, the very father of the American Negro’s emancipation (I am using the term ‘Negro’ here because it semantically fits into this context), did not choke on his words whence he declared that he was not interested in the freedom of the Negro, but rather in the union of America; which resulted in him holding on to the position that if he could unite America without setting the Negro free, he would do so. But if setting the Negro free was the only road to uniting America, then he would have to set the Negro free for the sake of union. In President Lincoln’s own mind, the emancipation of the Negro was not an end, but a means to an end. Quite naively, it was taken for an end by many.

Approximately ninety years later, President Charles de Gaulle, the father of Africa’s decolonisation, found himself in a similar situation on the other side of the Atlantic, whence he did, too, very diplomatically spouse an identical position by propounding that he was not interested in the decolonisation of Africa. All he was interested in was to make peace with Africa on the issue of the Africans who had died to liberate France from German occupation and in the name of whom many Africans were now requesting some kind of political payment – independence –; which resulted in de Gaulle holding on to the position that if he could make peace with Africa and keep colonialism, he would do so. But if decolonisation was the only road to making peace with Africa, then he would have to decolonise Africa for the sake of peace. Again, in President de Gaulle’s mind, decolonisation was not an end, but a means to an end. Quite naively, again, many saw an end in it.

As a consequence, neither did the Emancipation Proclamation stop brutality on Black Americans, nor did the promulgation of African independences stop the savage exploitation of Black African lands by the West. Why? – Because these measures were actually not intended for a practical enactment of their pledges. They were only fake moves. And there are millions of such fake moves in the history of Western legislations, conventions and policies that are set up to give the impression of improvement in matters of the treatment of the Black man, to cover the fierce fight behind closed doors to keep the Black man in a ‘brutalisable’ condition.

One could go even much further back in time to make this point by advancing that William Wilberforce’s noble battle for the abolition of the slave trade was not itself due to the sympathy that the Anglo-Saxons might have felt for the slaves; but rather because, after the Anglo-Saxons succeeded in building the most powerful colony of population on earth (the USA) by means of slavery, they feared competition from the Portuguese and the Spanish who then began to take a keen interest in treading into their footsteps by importing Africans for Brazil and Cuba. As a strategy to win the impending competition they decided, instead, to enact the abolition of the means of competition for their competitors.

Of course, this is not how the enterprise was presented to you. It was presented to you as a highly moral and humanistic Christian godly endeavour; there is very little wonder that you believe in “Amazing Grace”.

Yet, if sympathy for the slaves was the motivation for the abolition, why did it come about that when slavery was abolished, the English government gave financial compensation to former slave owner; but there was no such support for the slaves. I cannot be more surprised that the Anglo-Saxons actually did this because of their great humanistic sense of mercy for the victims of slavery rather than for the perpetrators of slavery. Yet, this is how many people still see it today. They even celebrate abolition centenaries.

I see the most recent replicate of this pattern of fake moves (the abolition of the means of competition for the competitor) in today’s war on nuclear weaponry. Nuclear proliferation needs abolishing, not because of the risks of human destruction entailed in its possession and use, but rather because there are some people who must not have it; otherwise the competition is going to be too fair to win; which might dangerously turn ‘human values’ upside down in case things went the other way.

Here, it seems that the surest way to win the competition is to sabotage the competitor’s rehearsal, to eschew fairness. But you have to do it very subtly in a way that no one would see anything.

But since you know that you cannot win such an argument on purely dialectic grounds, considering that the use of nuclear weaponry has often proved to be an effective coercive capability to impel belligerent parties to abdicate and make peace unconditionally; and sometimes a dissuasive deterrent to prevent the launching of the hostilities in the first place – as recognised by political scientist John Mearsheimer, that “had Iraq and Serbia possessed nuclear weapons, the United States might not have gone to war” –; then, you have to close the argument by making it clear that only angels deserve to have this type of capability; not devils. In this situation, the urge to score a point against some die-hard devils who seem unwilling to give up competition forces into being the initiation of some form of diplomatic channels through which the devils are persuaded to sign compensatory deals which it would also be too naïve to expect the trickiest heirs of modern intelligence to comply with.

I recently saw President Muammar Gaddafi of Libya complaining about the promises that were made to him by the Anglo-Saxons upon agreeing to abandon his nuclear ambitions; promises that have never been fulfilled. Why? Because the Anglo-Saxons decided to rescind their compliance with these promises in 2005 before their accountability could be fully investigated and established, leaving all potential recipients with no option but to forget about it. In the meantime, the unfortunate recipients will already have destroyed their nuclear facilities. This is a very shrewd game, indeed!

Noam Chomsky, one of the most influential political thinkers of our time, exposes these Western manoeuvres in his recent book, Failed States (2006), where he demonstrates, with the upmost impressive number of policy references, Anglo-America’s failure to comply with its political rhetoric; to meet its obligations in questions related to security, human rights, and democratic principles, including the surprising practice, among others, of protecting its own protégé ‘terrorists’ such as Luis Posada Carriles whilst championing the so-called ‘war on terror’. The game is very shrewd!

However, my own feeling is that, by referring to the states that make use of this type of manoeuvres as failed states, Chomsky may himself have failed to see that these practices do not actually express failure. Rather, they express fakery – trickery.

To take one case brought to light by Chomsky himself, in May 2002, Judge Goldsmith advised Prime Minister Blair in a leaked memo that “given the patent criminality of regime change by invasion, it would be necessary to create the conditions in which we [the Anglo-Saxons] could legally support military action; seeking to provoke Iraq into some action that could be portrayed as casus belli [cause for war]”.

Under such circumstances, it is very difficult to assert that any action that led to the bombing of Iraq was a failed action. – No. Instead, they were all fake actions, tricky provocations. You may call them ‘unjust actions’ if you wish. But my business is not to use religious or dogmatic terminology to construct inflaming propaganda through the condemnation of the frivolous behaviour of those who have the power to destroy others, however unjustly. All moralists have done it. They are still doing it. Not only is it boring; it is also ineffective. The truth of the matter is that the will to power is unswerving until it confronts power. This is why I do not believe in “injustice”. I use the word because it exists in human language and refers to certain facts. But the interpretation of these facts is distorted at large by the practitioners of dogma and propaganda.

Indeed, trying to differentiate between “injustice” and “justice” by means of moral interpretation is like trying to distinguish “crime” from “sin” by means of technical objectivity. It is almost impossible.

For example, if a man who suffers absolute impecuniosity in a self-centred and highly regulated society enters a shop instinctively after a few days with no food in his stomach and walks out of that shop furtively with a chocolate bar in his pocket before he pays for it, a judiciary review between the shopkeeper’s advocates and God’s chaplains may be hardly conclusive; because, on the one hand, such a man will be committing a crime; but, on the other hand, he will not be committing a sin at all, although he will be stealing in either case. I have seen such cases resulting in what is commonly known as “suspended sentences” where

most claimants often go crazy about the verdict.

They want to see the thief severely punished, but there is something called “common sense” that often tells the judges that some crimes are due to natural impulses rather than evil intentions. Is it unjust to leave criminals unpunished in such cases? – Otherwise, what would be just?

This brings us to the reason why I don’t believe in “justice” either; not least of all on the grounds of my distaste for the fact that justice is almost never practised as laid down in texts, but most essentially because the vast majority of legal texts are themselves only multiple standard tricks. And when you add to these tricks an indefinable degree of adjudicatory discretion, you find yourself dealing with personal opinions rather than selfless rulings. There is no wonder that appeal systems exist.

Additional to this sad reality is the fact that not only is justice confounded with vengeance in most people’s minds, it is equally true that vengeance is itself a ground on which justice plays without a referee (the self-defence argument); which leaves the referees with no choice but to arbiter the games after the final whistle has been blown by the players themselves.

Under such circumstances the parties that tell the best story to the referees win the game. And most of the time, it is the parties that have learned the art of faking injuries that win it. And when reporters are, sometimes, called upon to give testimony, the referees often seem to give more credit to sensational testimonies than clinical testimonies; because this is just how it goes. Fouls are scarcely punished for, but foul reports are, for certain.

When you add to these arbitral uncertainties another string of cover-up strategies characterised by conceptual relativisms, terminological subtleties, regulatory misgivings, and ‘technical’ exemptions, which include social standing, political influence and financial – and other sources of – power, you find yourself confronted with justice systems that personify the very type of modern political intelligence that Chomsky is forced to refer to as “failure” in his desperate attempt to make sense of the underpinnings of Anglo-Saxon foreign policy –

“foreign justice”. But this is no failure. It is fakery.

“Failure” takes place when you don’t get the desired results; when things don’t turn up as expected. That is only when we talk about failure.

Take, for instance, the Christian principle of ‘anointed sacrifices’. [Please, forget about religion; just listen to the argument]. Although it might have been painful for God to watch one of his preferred segments on earth being savagely tortured on the Calvary, but delivering a man to torture did, yet, achieve the results that God desired – the redemption of the fallen. Did God fail because a man’s blood was shed? – No. On the contrary, it was that very blood that was needed for the fallen ones to be redeemed. There was no failure. There was just a painful exchange between what He wanted to get and what He needed to give away.

In parallel, if neglecting relentless warnings of attack on New York was going to get the Twin Towers down at some point, which would give the Anglo-Saxons some kind of reason – however unsubstantiated – to overthrow the Talebans and topple Saddam Hussein, as they did, indeed, did they fail because, along the way, they had to sacrifice a few thousands of their own soldiers, a few hundred thousands of Middle Eastern people, and destroy a certain amount of infrastructure in the countries to invade?

For my part, as much as I believe in God’s success in redeeming the fallen ones by means of shedding the blood of one of us, I also believe in the success of the Anglo-Saxons in their strategic appropriation of part of the Middle East by means of killing and destruction.

But there is one difference to make between the two (and you will have to pardon me for bringing this to light). God is not a hypocrite. God makes it clear that one man has to go down for the rest of human souls to get off the devil’s hook. And He does not regret or pretend to regret His ruthless decision to deliver His chosen sacrifice to brutality as long as He gets the results that He desires. This is how sovereign and truthful God is.

The Anglo-Saxons, on the other hand, will kill and destroy their chosen sacrifices to get the results that they desire – the acquisition of two brand new colonies in the heart of the Middles East to be turned into client states, not to mention gas and oil, and reconstruction business opportunities, and many other strategic reasons for them to need military settlements in the region such as ensuring the protection of the Jews as well as getting a much closer range view on Iran and Syria and many other non-compliant states around.

But what is happening here – and this is the trick – is that once they get the result that they desire through killings and destructions, they then begin to moan over their own killings and destructions, to give you the impression that they did not mean to kill and destroy. They would even, at times, stage strong parliamentary and congressional opposition against their own actions; there would even be times when they would bluntly organise stern marches and demonstrations against themselves, or even set up commissions of inquiry on a few selected blunders, all of which is intended to give you the impression that something has not gone to plan. As a result, you end up, under the pressure of these tricks, convinced that something is absolutely wrong. Yet, it is only a trick, a very serious trick – to create misimpressions.

If you are one of those who wish to believe that the continual blunders in the Middle East, and more particularly in Iraq, should be seen as a sign of failure, then you may need to be taught that this is, indeed, what the trick is all about. To keep the mess going on to facilitate the smuggling of resources and secure multi-billion dollar/pound contracts for security companies, not to mention many other types of services of first necessity to be provided on a regular basis in a chaotic situation leading to humanitarian crises, such as medicines, food, water, electricity and so on. Is this not a good enough reason to keep the mess on, although some corporations and associations of individuals are set up to keep moaning over the whole thing for the game to keep playing its tune?

Of course, you don’t stop a lucrative mess, do you? – No. So you need to keep the place messy for a while. But you need to be able to use your intelligence to shift responsibility from your own reasons for keeping the place messy to someone else’s actions. You need to be able to tell the world that “the place is messy because there are some evil monsters hiding in caves who want to do harm to innocent people. So, the place needs a good clean-up so that it can be safe and prosperous after the monsters have been exterminated. Therefore, since most die-hard monsters are always difficult to exterminate, the clean-up is going to have to take some time before the place is completely clear!”

In fact, we are dealing with a pretence clean-up that is set up to take exactly as much time as is needed for the desired results to be driven in full. In this situation, withdrawal plans are made on the basis of the estimation of the amount of time left for the enterprise to derive the predicted gains in full. And, believe me: once the predicted gains are derived in full, all remaining monsters will be left alive, and no one will talk about them anymore as constituting an obstacle for the prosperity of the place. And that is most often the right time to fake peace process encounters, as if the monsters were suddenly hit by God, to make peace. Yet, this is because, once the desired results are driven in full, the monsters are no longer needed by the propaganda strategy that invented them in the first place. That’s a great game, indeed.

Those who are not interested in paying some attention to what is going on in the world today are free to believe in chanceful timing in precisely this kind of situations. At the end of the day, this is what the game is all about – to manipulate perception; to make use of mediagenic sensationalism; to make it possible for people to convene that it is true, indeed, that these people are monsters; but above all, that “there is no much that can be done to improve the condition of the poor innocent people of the Middle East until the monsters are fully exterminated. There is very little wonder that Alexis Tocqueville has had to refer to this game as the thing that made it possible for the Anglo-Saxons “to exterminate the Indian race without violating a single great principle of morality in the eyes of the world.”

How did they do that? – Very easy! – They did it through the use of such upliftingly vilifying rhetoric against the human integrity of the Indians to such an extent that the entire world ended up convinced that the Indians were so vile that they did, indeed, deserved to be exterminated.

We are surely going to need another four-hundred years before we realise that today’s Middle Eastern monsters; the ones that deserve to be exterminated without one single great principle of morality being violated in the eyes of today’s world are, too, but innocent humans struggling to survive in their own lands, as were the Indians four-hundred years ago. But the game has to keep playing its tune, just for now!

This is the game that has characterised the main principle behind Western manoeuvres over the under-civilised world; the world of those whom the West needs to brutalise for gain and dominance; a game that consists in creating misimpressions, so well crystallised in the propagation of this new type of intelligence that recommends that you say what you don’t think and do what you don’t say; as expressed, for instance, in the pretentious advocacy for what is known in the Anglo-Saxon world as “equal opportunities”; that noble enunciation – “equal opportunities” – but under which you are, quite bizarrely, still required to tick a box for your blood. Things that are “equal” do not fall into different boxes, do they?

In fact, what we are confronting in the face of this game is the question of the place and value of the principle of “universality” and even considerably more so in terms of “universal equality” between humans. When the civilised people of the West say “equal something” as referring to inter-human relations, what do they mean? Do they mean that they may exist equally, but not considered equally? Or do they mean that they may be considered equally, but not judged equally? Or do they mean that they may be judged equally, but not retributed equally? […?] Because, at the end of the day, equality must end somewhere, at some point, since they are eventually dropped into different boxes.

Is this Western principle of equality between humans only a matter of selecting a few faces from all races to be utilised in organised Western media games where they are set up to interact together in a way to force themselves to try to bombard the world with the dogmatic – but most certainly fake – idea that they are all equal? Do we really need to take all these troubles to try and prove that we are equal? Who told us that in order for us to respect our fellow humans we need the precondition that we be equal first? Equal in matters of what? By means of what type of metrics do we establish equality between humans? Because, here is the question: if some humans have the power to crash into others, conquer and enslave them, destroy their inheritances, and rule over them along which exercise they brutalise them and **** their lands in total impunity, how do we prove the principle of equality between humans? Do we even need humans to be equal for them to be humans?

You may now be thinking: “what a crazy idea to trash human equally legislations and codes of practice!” But, this is not my point. My point is that between what you are told and what is verifiably true on the question of who is good and who is evil on God’s earth; or on the question of who deserves life and who deserves extermination; or on the question of who has the right to do what and who has not, or on the question of who is equal to whom and who is not, the primordial principle, before all considerations, is such that the human being is not something that needs equality conventions to be human. It does not even need to be human in the first place. All it needs is to be able to compete; because it is by the force of its ability to compete with other entities of its own genus that it truly is what it fundamentally is.

On this note, this book is, first, a vital socio-political exercise in modern history to request the liberalisation of means of competition for all humans; because humanity is not a doctrinal temple where to preach morals and goodness.

Neither is it a dogmatic theatre where to confront creeds and ideologies. Nor is it a constraining harem where to summon inhibitions. Humanity is a place where intelligent beings coexist and evolve. They coexist by the force of some fundamental mechanisms that establish their inherent nature, irrespective of morals and gospels – mechanisms that govern their ability to produce offspring and fight for its survival; mechanisms that dictate their feeling of family bond; mechanisms that control their relations with others etc. etc. And they evolve by the force of some other fundamental mechanisms that are set off by their inner faculties, irrespective of ideologies and regulations – mechanisms that guide their sense of perception and judgement; mechanisms that fuel their aspiration for an always perfectible perfection; but, above all, mechanisms that command their societal instinction. Because this is, indeed, what humanity is – an aggregation of societal clusters, each one of which is constituted by affined parts that are produced and assimilated to unique patterns of interconnection and operation; but most importantly, guided by a unique mode of vision and expression; a mode of vision and expression that remains fundamentally open to the rest of the extant world for exchange and mutual enrichment; yet, free to recoil from it when matters of self-preservation become paramount.

This intuition is a gift that we have all procured from creation and evolution; a gift that is meant to be respected for humanity to be humanity. Respect for one’s own way of existence, and respect for one’s neighbours’ ways of existence. But, above all, respect for everyone’s ability to compete by his own way of existence as well as the different valuable means of competition that proceed from these different ways of existence.

What is wrong with Western intelligence in the face of this principle is its fraudulent subtleties; its ability to fake its moves. Some time ago, when we used to go for a conquest, we used to call it ‘conquest’. And the world watching us knew what to expect from us. Today, when we set out for a conquest, we rather call it ‘liberation.’ And from the confusion between what we do and what we say, and the incurring brouhaha of supputations and speculations that creep up at the pace of our blundering gallops towards human annihilation, the world ends up with no clear idea of what to expect from us. Is this what defines Western intelligence – duplicity?

I was, yet, to presume that the improvements that we have made in our knowledge and understanding of the nature of the human being over the past thousand years should not make it possible anymore for any human community to cherish the belief that another community may need crashing into; otherwise this amounts to denying conscience and existence to others. And, although some of us may keep arguing that the intention of those who have often crashed into others – personified in imperialism and colonialism – has never been to deny them conscience and existence, but rather to improve them, the question is: to improve them in matters of what?

Some used to propound that they needed to be taught about speech. Yet, we now know that there is not one single human community born and raised mute.

Others have expounded that they needed to be taught about God. Yet, we now know that there is not one single human community that does not have its own theogonic system of belief.

Many others have vaunted that they needed to be taught about how to treat their females. Yet, we now know that there is not one single human community on earth that does not know how to treat its females.

Some others have responded by saying that they needed to be taught about freedom. Yet, we now know that there is not one single human community on earth only constituted of prisoners.

It has also been voiced that they need to be taught about good governance. Yet, we now know that there is not one single human community on earth that does not have a sound way of running itself.

At times, the emphasis has been put on the need to teach them about technology. Yet, we now know that there is not one single human community that does not have an identifiable form of technological development.

In other words, we have improved a lot in our knowledge and understanding of all this. But, above all, we have achieved an even much sharper improvement in our awareness of the fact that, whatever the motivations for crashing into others might be, most communities that undergo this type of intervention end up disoriented, corrupt, self-destructive, and unproductive to their own wellbeing and, therefore, to the wellbeing of the human enterprise as a whole, since we are all constituents of the human enterprise, however much would some of us want to exclude others from it. Tony Blair’s “scar on human conscience” has no other reason, but for this.

There is, thus, a pressing need for us to acknowledge our duty to stop crashing into others and start observing some respect for the principles of human coexistence – to make it possible for each human collectivity to be left to enjoy its own Eden in its own tastes and mode of existence, to explore its own genius for its own improvement in its own mode of vision and expression, to advance at its own pace without having to be bombarded with fake crusades and poisonous liberations.

We need to understand that it is not necessary for some of us to feel irritated when they see others muddling in repugnant rusticity due to their very high level of civilisational retardation. We should not worry about changing others more than the Father in Heaven is Himself worried about their change; because change is like death. It always comes in the end. And when change comes, as it always comes, in order for it to be true, it must come from inside; not from outside. It must proceed from an internal willingness for improvement, rather than from an external whim for alteration. And when it comes from inside, as it has to come from inside, if this should entail exploring and emulating better functioning external models, it must be the burden of those willing to change to emulate the models that fit them, but should not be incumbent upon those eager to impose change. And, if all those who are not yet willing to change should be excluded from the so-called “international community” for failing to fulfil the conditions required by such a structure, I suggest that they be left alone. And if no one should do business with them for this reason, so be it! But let no one disturb them either, until they change, by themselves.

The European Union itself has done it by leaving many nations that are yet on the European continent out of the club for failing to meet the conditions required; and those that have been taken in have been taken in one by one, or wave by wave, on individual merits. Why should the United Nations not proceed alike? Is this Western mentality of multiple standards manoeuvres and fake moves completely irrational?

On this point, this book is, secondly, a compelling anthropo-political exercise in human history to spell out the real challenges that await each individual human community; but above all, to show that there is not one single human community on earth that be with no values; and therefore that all humans have the ability and the right to rediscover their true intrinsic values by which they can change by themselves, rather than giving in to the imperialistic fake moves the intention behind which has always been to corrupt other people’s values; to turn other human communities into mere sets of servants and clients.

To achieve this, what we are going to do is to strip up the fake heraldic moves that the European conquerors have employed to shape out and settle in a perpetual state of ignorance, corruption, self-destruction, and political chaos all over the under-civilised world.

Now – and this is the point – when we remember that the Black African world has been the main target of European assaults over the past five-hundred years, we should have a pretty clear idea of how big a role Western fakery may have played in the detrimental plight of the people of Black Africa in today’s world; which has, by ricochet, extended to the plight of all people of Black African stock all over the world, and who constitute a considerable lump of what we now refer to as “Black people”.

Therefore, the exercise that we are assigned to carry out in this book is to look into the philosophical, scientific and political manoeuvres that the Western world has employed to shape out and settle in a state of total decadence in the lives and minds of today’s Black people, as now fully manifest in Black people’s inability to make sense of the principles of human development, as well as the existential inflictions that have resulted from this state of things and that have turned Black people’s lives into an infernal spectacle of daily torture and distress; which has caused the question as to what is wrong with Black people to be raised in the first place.

But our exercise in this book is also, and most importantly, to give clear indications of the only effective wayout that we can and must follow; because, we simply have to get out!

This is why the primary objective of this book is not only to prove what is wrong with what we are doing, but also to show what is right with what we should be doing instead.

So, what is wrong with Black people?

Once again, we remind that the answers to the profoundest angles of this question are to be found in “What is Wrong with Black People?” (ISBN 978-1-84799-323-6); the only book that, in our knowledge, can help us understand what is actually going on in the world today; a book in which the most unsuspected – yet, the most damning – causes of the suffering of the people of Africa as well as the struggles of their brothers and cousins of the West are not only laid open with courage, but also resolved with vision, for a greater understanding of the true needs and aspirations of Africans in today’s world.



Marcus

I live in New York state. What are the easiest online poker rooms to win at ?

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
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dkj9002000 asked:


I live in New York, so my online poker options are limited. I used to really enjoy playing on the ipoker network. Sites such as Poker770, CDpoker, Noble Poker, Poker Ocean were all on this network. Unfortunetely they do not allow USA players anymore. I also did OK on the Prima Poker Network, Sites such as (Dream poker, Crazy Poker, and Golden Riviera Poker) were on this network…. I have tried Absolute Poker, Poker Stars and Bodog Poker and I do not win to often anymore. Does anyone know what are the easiest poker sites to win at???

Ruby

Roulette History, Wagers

Monday, March 17th, 2008
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Gayle Mitchell asked:


The nobles of Europe found roulette to be their premier gambling game.

The earliest form of roulette wagering saw soldiers betting on what area pointed to this or that person, place or thing. Guess right and you won something. Guess wrong and you lost something.

Over the generations, roulette evolved into the game we now see, with numbers, colors, and various options that one can place a wager.

Perhaps slot machines, poker or keno is not up your alley when you visit your favorite casinos online or off.

You are looking for something with some uncertainty, something to play with a little risk and a spin of a wheel. Then explore the game of roulette.

There are two versions of roulette, the American version and the European version.

The American version has 36 numbers and a green 0 and 00. The European version has 36 numbers and a single 0.

In its most basic form, Roulette is a game where the players either place a bet on a number, the color red or black, or whether the number is going to be odd or even.

Additional betting options and payouts for a double zero table are:

Straight Up - Any numbers, 0 and 00–35 to 1

Column - Any 12 numbers in a column–2 to 1

Dozen - 1st 12, 2nd 12 or 3rd 12–2 to 1

Red or Black–1 to 1

Odd or Even–1 to 1

1 to 18 or 19 to 36–1 to 1

Split - Any 2 neighboring numbers–17 to 1

Row - Any 3 numbers in a row–11 to 1

Corner - Any of the 4 contiguous numbers–8 to 1

5 Numbers - 0, 00, 1, 2 & 3. Don’t do it!–6 to 1

Double Row - Any 6 numbers in 2 rows–5 to 1

Outside bets are placed in the boxes and columns on the outer areas of the layout.

Inside bets are placed directly on a number or on a line between numbers.

After the bet is made, the croupier spins a wheel to determine what number and color wins.

That winning number/color is determined by where the ball stops.

It’s a game of chance and winning depends on which numbers and colors you choose.

There are a few simple strategies. You can just play a game of colors by choosing either black or red. Another strategy is to bet on odd or even numbers.

A better strategy is to develop pattern betting where you place your bets on the same colors or numbers before each spin.

Distance yourself from randomly betting all over the roulette table, but rather predetermine how much and where you will place your bets on the table.

Keep in mind that no strategy is going to guarantee that you will win as this is a game of chance based on numbers, colors, and a tiny ball spinning around a wheel.

However-it’s very entertaining, has a long history and is different from any other casino game.

You can play for free online to practice your pattern betting and explore the promotional bonus offers for real play.

Be smart, start by betting small and happy spinning!



Richard

5 Top Tips to Stop your Puppy From Being a Biter

Saturday, March 15th, 2008
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Lisa Nobles asked:


One problem that you may have is you have just bought a new puppy is the problem of biting. Many puppies bite, for a variety of reasons. It could be teething, play, or some other behavioural problems. The purpose of this article is to provide you with tips on how to stop your puppy biting. They include:

• Don’t hit your dog on the face- Sometimes, a small smack on the behind when your dog does something unacceptable is a good way of disciplining your dog. Hitting your dog on the face is never acceptable. Your dog will either think you are playing, or become scared of you.

• Avoid puppy games where a dog needs to use its teeth- If your puppy is currently a biter, you need to avoid games that involve a dogs teeth- such as tug-of-war or wrestling. These types of games may make it too tempting for a puppy bite.

• Encourage good behaviour, discourage bad or unacceptable behaviour- This point underpins all Dog obedience training. Every time your dog does something good, you should praise it. Every time your dog does something bad, then you should punish it.

• Be consistent with your puppy- Puppies are not human, they are not as smart as we are. They work on conditioning and repetition. If you want to stop your dog from biting, you need to be consistent. You cannot let your dog get away with biting you during play and then punishing them for biting a friend. Your puppy needs to know that it is unacceptable to bite in all circumstances.

• Assert your dominance- Another reason your puppy may be biting you is to try and assert their dominance. It is up to you put the puppy in its place. You are the boss. If the puppy knows you are the boss, then they will stop biting you.

If you follow the tips mentioned above, then you should be able to turn your puppy in to a non-biter.



Michael

all that in the bible!!?

Monday, March 10th, 2008
l_jacoub asked:


Pope or Kissinger?
This Reverend gentleman was expounding Biblical prophecies. He went on to prove that the Christian Bible foretold the rise of Soviet Russia, and the Last Days. At one stage he went to the extent of proving that his Holy Book did not leave even the Pope out of its predictions. He expatiated vigorously in order to convince his audience that the “Beast 666″ mentioned in the Book of Revelation the last book of the New Testament was the POPE, who was the Vicar of Christ on earth. It is not befitting for us Muslims to enter into this controversy between the Roman Catholics and the Protestants. By the way, the latest Christian exposition of the “Beast 666″ of the Christian Bible is Dr.Henry Kissinger1. Christian scholars are ingenious and indefatigable in their efforts to prove their case.
Rev. Hiten’s lectures led me to ask that if the Bible foretold so many things - not even excluding the “Pope” and “Israel” - then surely it must have something to say about the greatest benefactor of mankind2, the Holy Prophet Muhammed (may the peace of Allah be upon him).

As a youngster I set out to search for an answer. I met priest after priest, attended lectures, and read everything that I could lay my hands relating to the fields of Bible prophecies. Tonight I am going to narrate to you one of these interviews with a dominee3 of the Dutch Reformed Church.

1. Christian exegesists give progressive numerical values by sixes, to the English alphabet and add up to get the total 666. i.e.A=6,B=12,C=18, D=24 and so on. Progression by 6’s because the number of the Beast in the Bible is “666″. Try it for Dr.Kissinger.

2. The writer has just delivered another talk in the City Hall, Durban on the 10th December, 1975 on the subject “Muhummed the Greatest”.

3. “Dominee” is the Afrikaans equivalent of priest, parson and predikant.

Lucky Thirteen
I was invited to the Transvaal1 to deliver a talk on the occasion of Birthday celebration of the Holy Prophet Muhammed. Knowing that in that province of the Republic, the Afrikaans language is widely spoken, even by my own people, I felt that I ought to acquire a smattering of this language so a s to feel a little “at home” with the people. I opened the telephone directory and began phoning the Afrikaans-speaking Churches. I indicated my purpose to the priests that I was interested in having a dialogue with them, but they all refused my request with “Plausible” excuses. No.13 was my lucky number. The thirteenth call brought me pleasure and relief. A dominee Van Heerden agreed to meet me at his home on the Saturday afternoon that I was to leave for Transvaal.

He received me on his verandah with a friendly welcome. He said if I did not mind, he would like his father-in-law from the Free State (a 70 year old man) to join us in the discussion. I did not mind. The three of us settled down in the dominee’s library.

1. One of the Provinces of the Republic of South Africa.

Why nothing?
I posed the question: “What does the Bible say about Muhummed?” Without hesitation he answered, “Nothing!” I asked: “Why nothing? According to your interpretation the Bible have so many things to say about the rise of Soviet Russia and about the Last Days and even about the Pope of the Roman Catholics?” He said, “Yes, but there was nothing about Muhummed!” I asked again, “Why nothing? Surely this man Muhummed who had been responsible for the bringing into being a world-wide community of millions of Believers who, on his authority, believe in:

(1) the miraculous birth of Jesus,
(2) that Jesus is the Messiah,1
(3) that he gave life to the dead by God’s permission, and that he healed those born blind and the lepers by God’s permission.

Surely this book (the Bible) must have something to say about this great Leader of men who spoke so well of Jesus and his mother Mary?” (Peace be upon them both).

The old man from the Free State replied. “My son, I have been reading the Bible for the past 50 years, and if there was any mention of him, I would have known it.”

1. The word “Messiah” comes from the Arabic and Hebrew word masaha which means to rub, to massage, to annoint. The religious significance is “the one who is anointed” - priests and kings were anointed in consecration to their offices. Messiah translated Christ does not mean God. Even the heathen Cyrus is called “Christ” in the Bible, (Isaiah 45:1)

Not One by name!
I enquired: “According to you, are there not hundreds of prophecies regarding the coming of Jesus in the Old Testament.” The dominee interjected: “Not hundreds, but thousands!” I said, “I am not going to dispute the ‘thousand and one’ prophecies in the Old Testament regarding the coming of Jesus Christ, because the whole Muslim-world has already accepted him without the testimony of any Biblical prophecy. We Muslims have accepted the de facto Jesus on the authority of Muhummed alone, and there are in the world today no less than 900,000,0001 followers of Muhummed who love, respect and revere this great Messenger of God -Jesus Christ- without having the Christians to convince them by means of their Biblical dialectics. Out of the ‘thousands’ of prophecies referred to, can you please give me just one single prophecy where Jesus is mentioned by name? The term ‘Messiah’, translated as ‘Christ’, is not a name but a title. Is there a single Prophecy where it says that the name of the Messiah will be JESUS, and that his mother’s name will be MARY, that his supposed father will be JOSEPH THE CARPENTER; that he will be born in the reign of HEROD THE KING, etc. etc.? No! There are no such details! Then how can you conclude that those ‘thousand’ Prophecies refer to Jesus (Peace be upon him)?”

1. This was first written in 1976.

What is Prophecy?
The dominee replied: “You see, prophecies are word-pictures of something that is going to happen in the future. When that thing actually comes to pass, we see vividly in these prophecies the fulfilment of what had been predicted in the past.” I said: “What you actually do is that you deduce, you reason, you put two and two together.” He said: “Yes.” I said: “If this is what you have to do with a ‘thousand’ prophecies to justify your claim with regards to the genuineness of Jesus, why should we not adopt the very same system for Muhummed?”1 The dominee agreed that it was a fair proposition , a reasonable way of dealing with the problem.

I asked him to open up Deuteronomy, chapter 18, verse 18, which he did. I read from memory the verse in Afrikaans, because this was my purpose in having a little practice with the language of the ruling race in South Africa.2

‘N PROFEET SAL EK VIR HULLE VERWEK UIT DIE MIDDE VAN HULLE BROERS, SOOS JY IS, EN EK SAL MY WOORDE IN SY MOND LE, EN HY SY SAL AAN HULLE SE ALLE WAT EK HOM BEVEEL. Deut.18: 18.

The English translation reads as follows:-

“I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren,
like unto thee,
and I will put my words in his mouth;
and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.”

(HOLY BIBLE) Deuteronomy 18:18.

1. Muhummed is mentioned by name in the Song of Solomon 5:16. The Hebrew word used there is Muhammuddim. The end letters IM is plural of respect majesty and grandeur. Minus “im” the name would be Muhamud translated as “altogether lovely” in the Authorised Version of the Bible or ‘The Praised One’ ‘the one worthy of Praise’ i.e. MUHUMMED!(P.B.U.H)

2. If this booklet is translated into any language, please change the Afrikaans words into the local dialect; and do not try a free hand translation of the Biblical quotation. Obtain a Bible in the language in which translation is being made and transcribe exactly as the words occur in that Bible.

Prophet Like Moses
Having recited the verse in Afrikaans, I apologised for my uncertain pronunciation, The dominee assured me that I was doing fine. I enquired: “To whom does this prophecy refer?” Without the slightest hesitation he answered: “JESUS!” I asked: “Why Jesus?… his name is not mentioned here.” The dominee replied: “Since prophecies are word-pictures of something that is going to happen in the future, we find that the wordings of this verse adequately describe him. You see the most important words of this prophecy are ‘SOOS JY IS’ (like unto thee), - LIKE YOU - like Moses, and Jesus is like Moses. I questioned: “In which way is Jesus like Moses?” The answer was: “In the first place Moses was a JEW and Jesus was also a JEW; secondly, Moses was a PROPHET and Jesus was also a PROPHET - therefore Jesus is like Moses and that is exactly what God had foretold Moses - “SOOS JY IS”. “Can you think of any other similarities between Moses and Jesus?” I asked. The dominee said that he could not think of any. I replied: “If these are the only two criteria for discovering a candidate for this prophecy of Deuteronomy 18:18, then in that case the criteria could fit any one of the following Biblical personages after Moses:- Solomon, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Malachi, John the Baptist etc., because they were also ALL “Jews” as well as “Prophets”. Why should we not apply this prophecy to any one of these prophets, and why only to Jesus? Why should we make fish of one and fowl of another?” The dominee had no reply. I continued: “You see, my conclusions are that Jesus is most unlike Moses, and if I am wrong I would like you to correct me.”

Three Unlikes
So saying, I reasoned with him:

“In the FIRST place Jesus is not like Moses, because, according to You - ‘JESUS IS A GOD’, but Moses is not God. Is this true?” He said: “Yes.” I said: “Therefore, Jesus is not like Moses!

“SECONDLY, according to You - ‘JESUS DIED FOR THE SINS OF THE WORLD’, but Moses did not have to die for the sins of the world. Is this true?” He again said: “Yes.” I said: “Therefore Jesus is not like Moses!”

“THIRDLY, according to You - ‘JESUS WENT TO HELL FOR THREE DAYS’, but Moses did not have to go there. Is this true?” He answered meekly: “Y-e-s.” I concluded: “Therefore Jesus is not like Moses!”

“But dominee,” I continued: “these are not hard facts, solid facts, they are mere matters of belief over which the little ones can stumble and fall. Let us discuss something very simple, very easy that if your little ones are called in to hear the discussion, would have no difficulty in following it, shall we?” The dominee was quiet happy at the suggestion.

CHAPTER TWO

Eight Irrefutable Arguments

Father and Mother
(1) “Moses had a father and a mother. Muhummed also had a father and a mother. But Jesus had only a mother, and no human father. Is this true?” He said: “Yes.” I said: “DAAROM IS JESUS NIE SOOS MOSES NIE, MAAR MUHUMMED IS SOOS MOSES!” Meaning: “Therefore Jesus is not like Moses, but Muhummed is like Moses!” (By now the reader will realise that I was using the Afrikaans language only for practice purposes. I shall discontinue its use in this narration).

Miraculous Birth
(2) “Moses and Muhummed were born in the normal, natural course, i.e. the physical association of man and woman; but Jesus was created by a special miracle. You will recall that we are told in the Gospel of St. Matthew 1:18 “…..BEFORE THEY CAME TOGETHER,(Joseph the Carpenter and Mary) SHE WAS FOUND WITH CHILD BY THE HOLY GHOST.” And St.Luke tells us that when the good news of the birth of a holy son was announced to her, Mary reasoned: “…HOW SHALL THIS BE, SEEING I KNOW NOT A MAN? AND THE ANGEL ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO HER, THE HOLY GHOST SHALL COME UPON THEE, AND THE POWER OF THE HIGHEST SHALL OVERSHADOW THEE…” (Luke 1:35). The Holy Qur’an confirms the miraculous birth of Jesus, in nobler and sublimer terms. In answer to her logical question:

” O MY LORD! HOW SHALL I HAVE A SON WHEN NO MAN HATH TOUCHED ME? ”
The angel says in reply:
“EVEN SO: ALLAH CREATETH WHAT HE WILLETH:
WHEN HE HATH DECREED A PLAN,
HE BUT SAITH TO IT “BE,”
AND IT IS ” 1

(HOLY QUR’AN, 3:47).

It is not necessary for God to plant a seed in man or animal. He merely wills it and it comes into being. This is the Muslim conception of the of birth of Jesus. (When I compared the Qur’an and the Biblical versions of the birth of Jesus to the head of the Bible Society in our largest City, and when I enquired: “Which version would you prefer to give your daughter, the QUR’ANIC version or the BIBLICAL version?” The man bowed his head and answered: “The Qur’anic.”) In short, I said to the dominee: “Is it true that Jesus was born miraculously as against the natural birth of Moses and Muhummed?” He replied proudly: “Yes!” I said: “Therefore Jesus is not like Moses, but Muhummed is like Moses. And God says to Moses in the Book of Deuteronomy 18:18 “LIKE UNTO THEE” (Like You, Like Moses) and Muhummed is like Moses.”

1. Please open the Holy Qur’an 3:42 and 19:16 where the birth of Jesus is spoken about; read it with the commentry, note the high position which Jesus and his mother occupy in Islam.

Marriage Ties
(3) “Moses and Muhummed married and begat children, but Jesus remained a bachelor all his life. Is this true?” The dominee said: “Yes.” I said: “Therefore Jesus is not like Moses, but Muhummed is like Moses.”

Jesus Rejected by his People
(4) “Moses and Muhummed were accepted as prophets by their people in their very lifetime. No doubt the Jews gave endless trouble to Moses and they murmured in the wilderness, but as a nation, they acknowledged that Moses was a Messenger of God sent to them. The Arabs too made Muhummed’s life impossible. He suffered very badly at their hands. After 13 years of preaching in Mecca, he had to emigrate from the city of his birth. But before his demise, the Arab nation as a whole accepted him as the Messenger of Allah. But according to the Bible: ‘He (Jesus) CAME UNTO HIS OWN, BUT HIS OWN RECEIVED HIM NOT.’ (John 1:11). And even today, after two thousand years, his people- the Jews, as a whole, have rejected him. Is this true?” The dominee said: “Yes.” I said: “THEREFORE JESUS IS NOT LIKE MOSES, BUT MUHUMMED IS LIKE MOSES.”

“Other-Wordly” Kingdom
(5) “Moses and Muhummed were prophets as well as kings. A prophet means a man who receives Divine Revelation for the Guidance of Man and this Guidance he conveys to God’s creatures as received without any addition or deletion. A king is a person who has the power of life and death over his people. It is immaterial whether the person wears a crown or not, or whether he was ever addressed as king or monarch: if the man has the prerogative of inflicting capital punishment - HE IS A KING. Moses possessed such a power. Do you remember the Israelite who was found picking up firewood on Sabbath Day, and Moses had him stoned to death? (Numbers- 15:13). There are other crimes also mentioned in the Bible for which capital punishment was inflicted on the Jews at the behest of Moses. Muhummed too, had the power of life and death over his people.

There are instances in the Bible of persons who were given gift of prophecy only, but they were not in a position to implement their directives. Some of these holy men of God who were helpless in the face of stubborn rejection of their message, were the prophets lot, Jonah, Daniel, Ezra, and John the Baptist. They could only deliver the message, but could not enforce the Law. The Holy Prophet Jesus (Peace p.b.u.h) also belonged to this category. The Christian Gospel clearly confirms this: when Jesus was dragged before the Roman Governor, Pontius Pilate, Charged for sedition, Jesus made a convincing point in his defence to refute the false charge: JESUS ANSWERED, “MY KINGDOM IS NOT OF THIS WORLD’: IF MY KINGDOM WERE OF THIS WORLD, THEN WOULD MY SERVANTS FIGHT, THAT I SHOULD NOT BE DELIVERED TO THE JEWS; BUT NOW IS MY KINGDOM NOT FROM HENCE” (John 18:36) This convinced Pilate (A Pagan) that though Jesus might not be in full possession of his mental faculty, he did not strike him as being a danger to his rule. Jesus claimed a spiritual Kingdom only; in other words he only claimed to be a Prophet. Is this true?” The dominee answered: “Yes.” I said: “Therefore Jesus is not like Moses but Muhummed is like Moses.”

No New Laws
(6) “Moses and Muhummed brought new laws and new regulations for their people. Moses not only gave the Ten Commandments to the Israelites, but a very comprehensive ceremonial law for the guidance of his people. Muhummed comes to a people steeped in barbarism and ignorance. They married their step-mothers; they buried their daughters alive; drunkenness, adultery, idolatry, and gambling were the order of the day. Gibbon describe the Arabs before Islam in his “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, THE HUMAN BRUTE, ALMOST WITHOUT SENSE, IS POORLY DISTINGUISHED FROM THE REST OF THE ANIMAL CREATION.’ There was hardly anything to distinguish between the “man” and the “animal” of the time; they were animals in human form.

“From this abject barbarism, Muhummed elevated them, in the words of Thomas Carlysle, “into torch-bearers of light and learning.’ ‘TO THE ARAB NATION IT WAS AS A BIRTH FROM DARKNESS INTO LIGHT. ARABIA FIRST BECAME ALIVE BY MEANS OF IT. A POOR SHEPHERD PEOPLE, ROAMING UNNOTICED IN ITS DESERTS SINCE THE CREATION OF THE WORLD. SEE, THE UNNOTICED BECOMES WORLD NOTABLE, THE SMALL HAS GROWN WORLD-GREAT. WITHIN ONE CENTURY AFTERWARDS ARABIA WAS AT GRANADA ON ONE HAND AND AT DELHI ON THE OTHER. GLANCING IN VALOUR AND SPLENDOUR, AND THE LIGHT OF GENIUS, ARABIA SHINES OVER A GREAT SECTION OF THE WORLD. …” The fact is that Muhummed gave his people a Law and Order they never had before.

As regards Jesus, when the Jews felt suspicious of him that he might be an impostor with designs to ******* their teachings, Jesus took pains to assure them that he had not come with a new religion - no new laws and no new regulations. I quote his own words: ‘THINK NOT THAT I AM COME TO DESTROY THE LAW, OR THE PROPHETS: I AM NOT COME TO DESTROY, BUT TO FULFIL. FOR VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU, TILL HEAVEN AND EARTH PASS, ONE JOT OR ONE TITLE SHALL IN NO WISE PASS FROM THE LAW, TILL ALL BE FULFILLED.’(Mathew 5:17-18). In other words he had not come with any new laws or regulation he came only to fulfil the old law. This what he gave the Jews to understand- unless he was speaking with the tongue in his cheek trying to bluff the Jews into accepting him as a man of God and by subterfuge trying to ram a new religion down their throats. No! This Messenger of God would never resort to such fo ul means to subvert the Religion of God. He himself fulfilled the laws. He observed the commandments of Moses, and he respected the Sabbath. At no time did a single Jew point a finger at him to say, ‘why don’t you fast’ or ‘why don’t you wash your hands before you break bread’,which charges they always levied against his disciples, but never against Jesus. This is because as a good Jew he honoured the laws of the prophets who preceded him. In short, he had created no new religion and had brought no new law like Moses and Muhummed. Is this true?” I asked the dominee, and he answered: “Yes.” I said: “Therefore, Jesus is not like Moses but Muhummed is like Moses.”

How they Departed
(7) “Both Moses and Muhummed died natural deaths, but according to Christianity, Jesus was violently killed on the cross.1 Is this true?” The dominee said: “Yes.” I averred: “Therefore Jesus is not like Moses but Muhummed is like Moses.”

Heavenly Abode
(8) “Moses and Muhummed both lie buried in earth, but according to you, Jesus in heaven. Is this true?” The dominee agreed. I said: “Therefore Jesus is not like Moses but Muhummed is like Moses.”

1. For a full exposition of this topic, see “CRUCIFIXION OR CRUCI-FICTION?”.

CHAPTER THREE

Further Proofs

Ishmael The First Born
Since the dominee was helplessly agreeing with every point, I said, “Dominee, so far what I have done is to prove only one point out of the whole prophecy- that is proving the phrase ‘LIKE UNTO THEE’ - ‘Like You’ - ‘Like Moses’. The Prophecy is much more than this single phrase which reads as follows : “I WILL RAISE THEM UP A PROPHET FROM AMONG THEIR BRETHREN LIKE UNTO THEE…….” The emphasis is on the words- “From among their brethren.” Moses and his people, the Jews, are here addressed as a racial entity, and as such their ‘brethren’ would undoubtedly be the Arabs. You see, the Holy Bible speaks of Abraham as the “Friend of God”. Abraham had two wives - Sarah and Hagar. Hagar bore Abraham a son - HIS FIRST-BORN- ‘……And Abraham1 called HIS SON’S name, which Hagar bare Ishmael.’ (Genesis 16:15). ‘And Abraham took Ishmael HIS SON……” (Genesis 17:23). ‘And Ishmael HIS SON was thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his ********.’(Genesis 17:25). Up to the age of THIRTEEN Ishmael was the ONLY son and seed of Abraham, when the covenant was ratified between God and Abraham. God grants Abraham another son through Sarah, named Isaac, who was very much the junior to his brother Ishmael.

1. According to the Bible, Abraham’s name was Abram before it was changed by God to Abraham.

Arabs and Jews
If Ishmael and Isaac are the sons of the same father Abraham, then they are brothers. And so the children of the one are the BRETHREN of the children of the other. The children of Isaac are the Jews and the Children of Ishmael are the Arabs - so they are BRETHREN to one another. The Bible affirms, ‘AND HE (ISHMAEL) SHALL DWELL IN THE PRESENCE OF ALL HIS BRETHREN.’ (Genesis 16:12). ‘AND HE (ISHMAEL) DIED IN THE PRESENCE OF ALL HIS BRETHREN.(Genesis 25:18). The children of Isaac are the brethren of the Ishmaelites. In like manner Muhummed is from among the brethren of the Israelites because he was a descendant of Ishmael the son of Abraham. This exactly as the prophecy has it- ‘FROM AMONG THEIR BRETHREN’.(Deut.18:18). There the prophecy distinctly mentions that the coming prophet who would be like Moses, must arise NOT from the ‘children of Israel’ or from ‘among themselves’, but from among their brethren. MUHUMMED THEREFORE WAS FROM AMONG THEIR BRETHREN!

Words in the Mouth
“The prophecy proceeds further:’…….AND I WILL PUT MY WORDS INTO HIS MOUTH…….’ What does it mean when it is said ‘I will put my words in your mouth’? You see, when I asked you (the dominee) to open Deuteronomy chapter 18, verse 18, at the beginning, and if I had asked you to read, and if you had read: would I be putting my words into your mouth?” The dominee answered: “No.” “But,” I continued: “If I were to teach you a language like Arabic about which you have no knowledge, and if I asked you to read or repeat after me what I utter i.e.

( I read them in Arabic )

Would I not be putting these unheard words of a foreign tongue which you utter, into your mouth?” The dominee agreed that it was indeed so. In an identical manner, I said, the words of the Holy Qur’an, the Revelation vouchsafed by the Almighty God to Muhummed, were revealed.

History tells us that Muhummed was forty years of age. He was in a cave some three miles north of the City of Mecca. It was the 27th night of the Muslim month of Ramadaan. In the cave the Archangel Gabriel commands him in his mother tongue: ‘IQRA’ which means READ! or PROCLAIM! or RECITE! Muhummed is terrified and in his bewilderment replies ” MA ANA BEQARA which means I AM NOT LEARNED! The angel commands him a second time with the same result. For the third time the angel continues.

Now Muhummed, grasps, that what was required of him was to repeat! to rehearse! And he repeats the words as they were put into his mouth:

These are the first five verses which were revealed to Muhummed which now occupy the beginning of the 96th chapter of the Holy Qur’an.

The Faithful Witness
Immediately the angel had departed, Muhummed rushed to his home. Terrified and sweating all over he asked his beloved wife Khadija to ‘cover him up!’ He lay down, and she watched by him. When he had regained his composure, he explained to her what he had seen and heard. She assured him of her faith in him and that Allah would not allow any terrible thing to happen to him. Are these the confessions of an impostor? Would impostors confess that when an angel of the Lord confronts them with a Message from on High, they get fear-stricken, terrified, and sweating all over, run home to their wives? Any critic can see that his reactions and confessions are that of an honest, sincere man, the man of Truth- ‘AL-AMIN’ - THE Honest, the Upright, the Truthful.

During the next twenty-three years of his prophetic life, words were ‘Put into his mouth’, and he uttered them. They made an indeliable impression on his heart and mind: and as the volume of the Sacred Scripture (Holy Qur’an) grew, they were recorded on palm-leaf fibre, on skins and on the shoulder-blades of animals; and in the hearts of his devoted disciples. Before his demise these words were arranged according to his instructions i n the order in which we find them today in the Holy Qur’an.

The words (revelation) were actually put into his mouth, exactly as foretold in the prophecy under discusion: ‘AND I WILL PUT MY WORDS IN HIS MOUTH.’ (Deut. 18:18).

Un-lettered Prophet
Muhummed’s experience in the cave of Hira, later to be known as Jabal-un Noor - The Mountain of Light, and his response to that first Revelation is the exact fulfilment of another Biblical Prophecy. In the Book of Isaiah, Chapter 29, verse 12, we read: “AND THE BOOK” (al-Kitaab,al-Quran the ‘Reading’, the ‘Recitation’) “IS DELIVERED TO HIM THAT IS NOT LEARNED,” (Isaiah 29:12) “THE UNLETTERED PROPHET ” (Holy Qur’an 7:158) and the biblical verse continues : “SAYING, READ THIS, I PRAY THEE:” (the words “I pray thee”, are not in the Hebrew manuscripts; compare with the Roman Catholics’ “Douay Version and also with the “Revised Standard Versions”) “AND HE SAITH, I AM NOT LEARNED.” (”I am not learned.” is the exact translation of the Arabic words MA ANA BEQARA which Muhummed uttered twice to the Holy Ghost - the Archangel Gabriel, when he was commanded : IQRAA “READ!”).

Let me quote the verse in full without a break as found in the “King James Version,” or the “Authorised version” as it is more popularly known “AND THE BOOK IS DELIVERED TO HIM THAT IS NOT LEARNED, SAYING, READ THIS I PRAY THEE: AND HE SAITH, I AM NOT LEARNED.” (Isaiah 29:12).

Important note :
It may be noted that there were no Arabic Bibles in existence in the 6th Century of the Christian Era when Muhummed lived and preached! Besides, he was absolutely unlettered and unlearned. No human had ever taught him a word. His teacher was his Creator:

Without any human learning, ‘he put to shame the wisdom of the learned’.”

(12) There are today Arabic Bibles in Fourteen different scripts and dialects for the Arabs alone. See “The Gospels in many tongues”.

Grave Warning
“See!” I told the dominee, “how the prophecies fit Muhummed like a glove. We do not have to stretch prophecies to justify their fulfilment in Muhummed.”

The dominee replied, “All your expositions sound very well, but they are of no real consequence, because we Christians have Jesus Christ the “incarnate” God, who has redeemed us from the ******* of Sin!”

I asked, “Not important?” God didn’t think so! He went to a great deal of trouble to have His warnings recorded. God knew that there would be people like you who will flippantly, light-heartedly discount his words, so he followed up Deuteronomy 18:18 with a dire warning: “AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS, ” (it is going to happen) “THAT WHOSOEVER WILL NOT HEARKEN UNTO MY WORDS WHICH HE SHALL SPEAK IN MY NAME, I WILL REQUIRE IT OF HIM. (in the Catholic Bible the ending words are - “I will be the revenger”, I will take vengeance from him - I will take revenge!) “Does not this terrify you? God Almighty is threatening revenge! We shake in our pants if some hoodlum threathens us, yet you have no fear of God’s warning?”

“Miracle of Miracles! in the verse 19 of Deuteronomy chapter 18, we have a further fulfilment of the prophecy in Muhummed! Note the words-’…..MY WORDS WHICH HE SHALL SPEAK IN MY NAME,” In whose name is Muhummed speaking?” I opened Yusuf Ali’s translation of the Holy Qur’an, at chapter 114- ‘Sura Nas’, or Mankind - the last chapter, and showed him the formula at the head of the chapter:

and the meaning: “IN THE NAME OF GOD, MOST GRACIOUS, MOST MERCIFUL.” And the heading of chapter 113:

and the meaning: “IN THE NAME OF GOD, MOST GRACIOUS, MOST MERCIFUL”. And every chapter downwards 112 , 111, 110…….was the same formula and the same meaning on every page, because the end SURAS (chapters) are short and take about a page each.

“And what did the prophecy demand?’ ……WHICH HE SHALL SPEAK IN MY NAME and in whose name does Muhummed speak? ‘IN THE NAME OF GOD, MOST GRACIOUS MOST MERCIFUL.’ The Prophecy is being fulfilled in Muhummed to the letter

“Every chapter of the Holy Qur’an except the 9th begin with the formula: IN THE NAME OF GOD, MOST GRACIOUS, MOST MERCIFUL.’ The Muslim begins his every lawful act with the Holy formula. But the Christian begins: “In the name of the Father, son and holy ghost.’”1

Concerning Deuteronomy chapter eighteen, I have given you more than 15 reasons as to how this prophecy refers to Muhummed and NOT to Jesus.

1. The Christian theologians are ignorant of even the “name of God. Because “God” is not a name, and “Father” is also not a name. See “WHAT IS HIS NAME?”.

CHAPTER FOUR

New Testament Also Confirms

Baptist Contradicts Jesus
In New Testament times, we find that the Jews were still expecting the fulfilment of the prophecy of ‘ONE LIKE MOSES’, refer John 1:19-25. When Jesus claimed to be the Messiah of the Jews, the Jews began to enquire as to where was Elias? The Jews had a parallel prophecy that before the coming of the Messiah, Elias must come first in his second coming. Jesus confirms this Jewish belief:

“…….ELIAS TRULY SHALL FIRST COME, AND RESTORE ALL THINGS. BUT I SAY UNTO YOU, THAT ELIAS IS COME ALREADY, AND THEY KNEW HIM NOT,…THEN THE DISCIPLES UNDERSTOOD THAT HE SPAKE UNTO THEM OF JOHN THE BAPTIST.” (Matthew 17:11-13).

According to the New Testament the Jews were not the ones to swallow the words of any would-be Messiah. In their investigations they underwent intense difficulties in order to find their true Messiah. And this the Gospel of John confirms: “AND THIS IS THE RECORD OF JOHN,”(the Baptist) “WHEN THE JEWS SENT PRIESTS AND LEVITES FROM JERUSALEM TO ASK HIM, WHO ART THOU? AND HE CONFESSED AND DENIED NOT; BUT CONFESSED, I AM NOT THE CHRIST.” (This was only natural because there can’t be two Messiahs1 at the same time. If Jesus was the Christ then John couldn’t be the Christ!) “AND THEY ASKED HIM, WHAT THEN? ART THOU ELIAS? AND HE SAITH, I AM NOT.” (Here John the Baptist contradicts Jesus! Jesus says that John is “Elias” and John denies that he is what Jesus ascribes him to be. One of the TWO (Jesus or John), God forbid!, is definitely not speaking the TRUTH! On the testimony of Jesus himself, John the Baptist was the greatest of the Israelite prophets: “VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU, AMONG THEM THAT ARE BORN OF WOMEN THERE HAS NOT RISEN A GREATER THAN JOHN THE BAPTIST:… “(Matthew 11:11).

We Muslims know John the Baptist as Hazrut YAHYAA Alai-his-salaam (peace be upon him). We revere him as a true prophet of Allah. The Holy Prophet Jesus known to us as Hazrut ISAA Alai-his-salaam (peace be upon him), is also esteemed as one of the mightiest messenger of the Almighty. How can we Muslims impute lies to either of them? We leave this problem between Jesus and John for the Christians to solve, for their “sacred scriptures” abound in discrepancies which they have been glossing over as the “dark sayings of Jesus”(15). We Muslims are really interested in the last questions posed to John the Baptist by the Jewish elite- “ART THOU THAT PROPHET? AND HE ANSWERED, NO.” (John 1:21)

1. The Jews were expecting a single Messiah not two.

2. See the “TIMES” Magazine December 30th, 1974, article “How true is the Bible?” And also see “50,000 Errors in the Bible?” a reproduction from the Christian Magazine “AWAKE!” September 8, 1957.

Three Questions!
Please note that three different and distinct questions were posed to John the Baptist and to which he gave three emphatic “NO’S” as answers. To recapitulate:-

1) ART THOU THE CHRIST?
2) ART THOU ELIAS?
3) ART THOU THAT PROPHET?

But the learned men of Christendom somehow only see two questions implied here. To make doubly clear that the Jews definitely had T-H-R-E-E separate prophecies in their minds when they were interrogating John the Baptist, let us read the remonstrance of the Jews in the verses following:

“AND THEY ASKED HIM, AND SAID UNTO HIM, WHY BAPTIZEST THOU THEN, IF THOU BE
a) NOT THAT CHRIST,
b) NOR ELIAS,
c) NEITHER THAT PROPHET?” (John 1:25)

The Jews were waiting for the fulfilment of THREE distinct prophecies: One, the coming of CHRIST. Two the coming of ELIAS, and Three, the coming of THAT PROPHET.

“That Prophet”
If we look up any Bible which has a concordance or cross-references, the we will find in the marginal note where the words “the Prophet”, or “that Prophet” occur in John 1:25, that these words refer to the prophecy of Deuteronomy 18:15 and 18. And that ‘that prophet’ - ‘the prophet like Moses’ - “LIKE UNTO THEE”, we have proved through overwhelming evidence that he was MUHUMMED and not Jesus!

We Muslims are not denying that Jesus was the “Messiah”, which word is translated as “Christ”.1 We are not contesting the “thousand and one prophecies” which the Christians claim abound in the Old Testament foretelling the coming of the Messiah. What we say is that Deuteronomy 18:18 does NOT refer to Jesus Christ but it is an explicit prophecy about the Holy Prophet MUHUMMED!”

The dominee, very politely parted with me by saying that it was a very interesting discussion and he would like me very much to come one day and address his congregation on the subject. A decade and half has passed since then but I am still awaiting that privilege.

I believe the dominee was sincere when he made the offer, but prejudices die hard and who would like to loose his sheep?

1. How the word Messiah was transmuted to Christ?. See “Christ in Islam”

The Acid Test
To the lambs of Christ I say, why not apply that acid test which the Master himself wanted you to apply to any would be claimant to prophethood? He had said: “BY THEIR FRUITS YE SHALL KNOW THEM. DO MEN GATHER GRAPES FROM THE THORNS, OR FIGS FROM THE THISTLES? EVERY GOOD TREE WILL BEAR GOOD FRUIT AND EVERY EVIL TREE WILL BEAR EVIL FRUIT….BY THEIR FRUITS YE SHALL KNOW THEM. (Matthew 7:16-20).

Why are you afraid to apply this test to the teachings of Muhummed? You will find in the Last Testament of God - the Holy Qur’an - the true fulfilment of the teachings of Moses and Jesus which will bring to the world the much-needed peace and happiness. “IF A MAN LIKE MOHAMED WERE TO ASSUME THE DIC TATORSHIP OF THE MODERN WORLD, HE WOULD SUCCEED IN SOLVING ITS PROBLEMS THAT WOULD BRING IT THE MUCH NEEDED PEACE AND HAPPINESS.”
(George Bernard Shaw)

The Greatest!
The Weekly Newsmagazine “TIME” dated July 15, 1974, carried a selection of opinions by various historians, writers, military men, businessmen and others on the subject: “Who Were History’s Great Leaders?” Some said that it was Hitler; others said - Gandhi, Buddha, Lincoln and the like. But Jules Masserman, a United States psychoanalyst put the standards straight by giving the correct criteria wherewith to judge. He said:
“LEADERS MUST FULFIL THREE FUNCTIONS:-
(1) Provide for the well-being of the led,
(2) Provide a social organization in which people feel relatively secure
and
(3) Provide them with one set of beliefs.”

With the above three criteria he searches history and analyses - Hitler, Pasteur, Gaesar, Moses, Confucius and the lot, and ultimately concludes:

“PEOPLE LIKE PASTEUR AND SALK ARE LEADERS IN THE FIRST SENSE. PEOPLE LIKE GANDHI AND CONFUCIUS, ON ONE HAND, AND ALEXANDER, CAESAR AND ****** ON THE OTHER, ARE LEADERS IN THE SECOND AND PERHAPS THE THIRD SENSE. JESUS AND BUDDHA BELONG IN THE THIRD CATEGORY ALONE. PERHAPS THE GREATEST LEADER OF ALL TIMES WAS MOHAMMED, WHO COMBINED ALL THREE FUNCTIONS. To a lesser degree, MOSES DID THE SAME.”

According to the objective standards set by the Professor of the Chicago University, whom I believe to be Jewish, - JESUS and BUDDHA are now - here in the picture of the “Great Leaders of Mankind”, but by a ***** coincidence groups Moses and Muhummed together thus adding further weight to the argument that JESUS is not like MOSES, but MUHUMMED is like MOSES: Deut.18:18 “LIKE UNTO THEE” - Like MOSES!

Reverend James L. Dow in Collins Dictionary of the Bible gives further proof, that JESUS is not like MOSES, but MUHUMMED is like Moses: “AS A STATESMAN AND LAWGIVER MOSES IS THE CREATOR OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE. HE FOUND A LOOSE CONGLOMERATION OF SEMITIC PEOPLE, NONE OF ……

*Also in “THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF RELIGION”, Moses is looked upon in the different traditions. Under Moses in Islam; we read

“MOSES IS HIGHLY REGARDED IN ISLAM AS THE GREAT PROPHET WHO FORETOLD THE COMING OF MUHAMMAD, HIS SUCCESSOR…THERE IS MUCH IN THE LIFE OF MUHAMMAD THAT IS IMPLICITLY REMINISCENT OF THE MOSES TRADITION.

P121, THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF RELIGION, Mircea Eliade (EDITOR IN CHIEF)
Volume 10, Macmillean Publishing Company

In conclusion, I end with a quotation of a Christian Reverend the commentator of the Bible, followed by that of his Master:

“THE ULTIMATE CRITERION OF A TRUE PROPHET IS THE MORAL CHARACTER OF HIS TEACHING.”
(Prof. Dummelow.)

“BY THEIR FRUITS YE SHALL KNOW THEM.”
(Jesus Christ)

COME LET US REASON TOGETHER

SAY:”O PEOPLE OF THE BOOK!
COME TO COMMON TERMS AS BETWEEN US AND YOU:
THAT WE WORSHIP NONE BUT GOD;
THAT WE ASSOCIATE NO PARTNERS WITH HIM;
THAT WE ERECT NOT, FROM AMONG OURSELVES,
LORDS AND PATRONS OTHER THAN GOD.”
IF THEN THEY TURN BACK,
SAY:”BEAR WITNESS THAT WE (AT LEAST)
ARE MUSLIMS (BOWING TO GOD’S WILL).”

(SURA AL-I-’IMRAN) Holy Qur’an 3:64

“PEOPLE OF THE BOOK” is the respectful title given to the Jews and the Christians in the Holy Qur’an. The Muslims is here commanded to invite - “O People of the Book!” - O Learned People! O People who claim to be the recipients of Divine Revelation, of a Holy Scripture; let us gather together onto a common platform - “that we worship none but God”, because none but God is worthy of worship, not because “THE LORD THY GOD IS A JEALOUS GOD VISITING THE INIQUITY OF THE FATHERS UPON THE CHILDREN UNTO THE THIRD AND FOURTH GENERATION OF THEM THAT **** ME.” (Exodus 20:25). But because He is our Lord and Cherisher, our Sustainer and Evolver, worthy of all praise, prayer and devotion.

In the abstract the Jews and the Christians would agree to all the three propositions contained in this Qur’anic verse. In practice they fail. Apart from doctrinal lapses from the unity of the One True God, (ALLAH Subhanahu wa ta-ala) there is the question of a consecrated Priesthood (among the Jews it was hereditary also), as if a mere human being - Cohen or Pope, or Priest, or Brahman, - could claim superiority apart from his learning and the purity of his life, or could stand between man and God in some special sense. ISLAM DOES NOT RECOGNISE PRIESTHOOD!

The Creed of Islam is given to us here in a nutshell from Holy Qur’an:

Say ye: “We believe in Allah,
And the revelation given to us,
And to Abraham, Isma’il, Isaac,
Jacob, and the Tribes,
And that given to Moses and Jesus
And that given to (all)
Prophets from their Lord:
We make no difference
Between one and another of them:
And we bow to Allah (in Islam).”

(SURA BAQARA) Holy Qur’an 2:136.

The Muslim position is clear. The Muslim does not claim to have a religion peculiar to himself. Islam is not a sect or an ethnic religion. In its view all Religion is one, for the Truth is one. IT WAS THE SAME RELIGION PREACHED BY ALL THE EARLIER PROPHETS. (Holy Qur’an 42:13). It was the truth taught by all the inspired Books. In essence it amounts to a consciousness of the Will and Plan of God and a joyful submission to that Will and Plan. IF ANYONE WANTS A RELIGION OTHER THAN THAT, HE IS FALSE TO HIS OWN NATURE, AS HE IS FALSE TO GOD’S WILL AND PLAN. Such a one cannot expect guidance, for he has deliberately renounced guidance.

Allen

Is There Such a Thing as Christian Goal Setting?

Monday, March 10th, 2008
nobles games
Christine Taylor asked:


There sure is! Applying the Biblical word “plan” for goal setting, it’s clear that God has plans and so do people. God blesses righteous plans and blasts away ones that aren’t so righteous! Above all, goals and plans are subject to the will of God.

Is goal planning even Biblical? You bet! God gives people plans:

“[King David] gave [Solomon] the plans of all that the Spirit had put in his mind for the courts of the temple of the Lord and all the surrounding rooms, for the treasuries of the temple of God and for the treasuries for the dedicated things. (1 Chronicles 28:12)

Don’t discount goal planning as being “worldly!” Not unless you want to discount God too. But there are evil plans in this world and plans that are opposite to His will and moral will. These he will frustrate.

“He thwarts the plans of the crafty, so that their hands achieve no success.” (Job 5:12)

The LORD foils the plans of the nations; he thwarts the purposes of the peoples.” (Psalm 33:10)

“Crafty” means the schemers, the no-good-doers, the plotters. The nations get into the act too. God works both on the individual and global planes of the world; He is sovereign! And he warns those who plot in the darkness and who plan apart from his known will.

“Woe to those who go to great depths to hide their plans from the LORD, who do their work in darkness and think, ‘Who sees us? Who will know?’” (Isaiah 29:15)

“‘Woe to the obstinate children,” declares the LORD, ‘to those who carry out plans that are not mine, forming an alliance, but not by my Spirit, heaping sin upon sin…’” (Isaiah 30:1)

Did I mention not making evil plans? Goal planning for unethical means is bad. So is planning goals that take you right out of the mainstream of God’s will for your life. Now be careful here ? God’s river is big and wide. I don’t believe in a one-choice-or-you’re-out narrow view of God’s will for you. I believe that for the Christian, there are many paths to many good outcomes and God is there on all of them. But there is a general direction and flow to the outcomes and we can observe it if we care to.

So goals and plans can be good things!

“May he give you the desire of your heart and make all your plans succeed.” (Psalm 20:4)

“‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the LORD, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” (Jeremiah 29:11)

And God has his sovereign plan! Planning and goal setting is a fine thing. But subject everything to the Lord’s guidance.

“But the plans of the LORD stand firm forever, the purposes of his heart through all generations.” (Psalm 33:11)

“Many are the plans in a man’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.” (Proverbs 19:21)

Biblical Advice about Plans

I love the book of Proverbs. Along with great advice for faith, business and life, comes this counsel about planning:

Don’t plan in a vacuum, but run your plans and goals past other people. You don’t want to do this with every goal and at every stage in the game, but you should with big and important plans. Especially if they impact other people.

“Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed.” (Proverbs 15:22)

Pray, pray some more, and then pray again! Surround your goals and plans with prayer and ask the Lord to bless you in their doing.

“Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and your plans will succeed.” (Proverbs 16:3)

Ask God for wisdom as you plan and set goals. Involve him every step of the way as you go along and chart your progress. Don’t be afraid to make mid-course corrections as necessary.

“In his heart a man plans his course, but the Lord determines his steps.” (Proverbs 16:9)

Don’t forget the action part of planning! None of your work and thought will make a smidgen of difference if you don’t actually do something.

“The plans of the diligent lead to profit as surely as haste leads to poverty.” (Proverbs 21:5)

Planning isn’t only all right to do, it’s positively wonderful!

“But the noble person makes noble plans, and by noble deeds he stands.” (Isaiah 32:8)



Jim

Can anyone provide me with some point by point rebuttal on this article “Cult of Amateurs”?

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The Cult of the Amateur
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By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
Published: June 29, 2007
Digital utopians have heralded the dawn of an era in which Web 2.0 — distinguished by a new generation of participatory sites like MySpace.com and YouTube.com, which emphasize user-generated content, social networking and interactive sharing — ushers in the democratization of the world: more information, more perspectives, more opinions, more everything, and most of it without filters or fees. Yet as the Silicon Valley entrepreneur Andrew Keen points out in his provocative new book, “The Cult of the Amateur,” Web 2.0 has a dark side as well.

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Catherine Betts
Andrew Keen

THE CULT OF THE AMATEUR
How Today’s Internet Is Killing Our Culture
By Andrew Keen
228 pages. Doubleday. $22.95.

Tony Cenicola/The New York Times
Mr. Keen argues that “what the Web 2.0 revolution is really delivering is superficial observations of the world around us rather than deep analysis, shrill opinion rather than considered judgment.” In his view Web 2.0 is changing the cultural landscape and not for the better. By undermining mainstream media and intellectual property rights, he says, it is creating a world in which we will “live to see the bulk of our music coming from amateur garage bands, our movies and television from glorified YouTubes, and our news made up of hyperactive celebrity gossip, served up as mere dressing for advertising.” This is what happens, he suggests, “when ignorance meets egoism meets bad taste meets mob rule.”

This book, which grew out of a controversial essay published last year by The Weekly Standard, is a shrewdly argued jeremiad against the digerati effort to dethrone cultural and political gatekeepers and replace experts with the “wisdom of the crowd.” Although Mr. Keen wanders off his subject in the later chapters of the book — to deliver some generic, moralistic rants against Internet evils like online gambling and online pornography — he writes with acuity and passion about the consequences of a world in which the lines between fact and opinion, informed expertise and amateurish speculation are willfully blurred.

For one thing, Mr. Keen says, “history has proven that the crowd is not often very wise,” embracing unwise ideas like “slavery, infanticide, George W. Bush’s war in Iraq, Britney Spears.” The crowd created the tech bubble of the 1990s, just as it created the disastrous Tulipmania that swept the Netherlands in the 17th century.

Mr. Keen also points out that Google search results — which answer “search queries not with what is most true or most reliable, but merely what is most popular” — can be manipulated by “Google bombing” (which “involves simply linking a large number of sites to a certain page” to “raise the ranking of any given site in Google’s search results”). And he cites a recent Wall Street Journal article reporting that hot lists on social networking Web sites are often shaped by a small number of users: that at Digg.com, which has 900,000 registered users, 30 people were responsible at one point for submitting one-third of the postings on the home page; and at Netscape.com, a single user was behind 217 stories over a two-week period, or 13 percent of all stories that reached the most popular list in that period.

Because Web 2.0 celebrates the “noble amateur” over the expert, and because many search engines and Web sites tout popularity rather than reliability, Mr. Keen notes, it’s easy for misinformation and rumors to proliferate in cyberspace. For instance, the online encyclopedia Wikipedia (which relies upon volunteer editors and contributors) gets way more traffic than the Web site run by Encyclopedia Britannica (which relies upon experts and scholars), even though the interactive format employed by Wikipedia opens it to postings that are inaccurate, unverified, even downright fraudulent. This year it was revealed that a contributor using the name Essjay, who had edited thousands of Wikipedia articles and was once one of the few people given the authority to arbitrate disputes between writers, was a 24-year-old named Ryan Jordan, not the tenured professor he claimed to be.

Since contributors to Wikipedia and YouTube are frequently anonymous, it’s hard for users to be certain of their identity — or their agendas. Postings about political candidates, for instance, can be made by opponents disguising their motives; and propaganda can be passed off as news or information. For that matter, as Mr. Keen points out, the idea of objectivity is becoming increasingly passé in the relativistic realm of the Web, where bloggers cherry-pick information and promote speculation and spin as fact. Whereas historians and journalists traditionally strived to deliver the best available truth possible, many bloggers revel in their own subjectivity, and many Web 2.0 users simply use the Net, in Mr. Keen’s words, to confirm their “own partisan views and link to others with the same ideologies.” What’s more, as mutually agreed upon facts become more elusive, informed debate about important social and political issues of the day becomes more difficult as well.

Although Mr. Keen’s objections to the publishing and distribution tools the Web provides to aspiring artists and writers sound churlish and elitist — he calls publish-on-demand services “just cheaper, more accessible versions of vanity presses where the untalented go to purchase the veneer of publication” — he is eloquent on the fallout that free, user-generated materials is having on traditional media.

Mr. Keen argues that the democratized Web’s penchant for mash-ups, remixes and cut-and-paste jobs threaten not just copyright laws but also the very ideas of authorship and intellectual property. He observes that as advertising dollars migrate from newspapers, magazines and television news to the Web, organizations with the expertise and resources to finance investigative and foreign reporting face more and more business challenges. And he suggests that as CD sales fall (in the face of digital piracy and single-song downloads) and the music business becomes increasingly embattled, new artists will discover that Internet fame does not translate into the sort of sales or worldwide recognition enjoyed by earlier generations of musicians.

“What you may not realize is that what is free is actually costing us a fortune,” Mr. Keen writes. “The new winners — Google, YouTube, MySpace, Craigslist, and the hundreds of start-ups hungry for a piece of the Web 2.0 pie — are unlikely to fill the shoes of the industries they are helping to undermine, in terms of products produced, jobs created, revenue generated or benefits conferred. By stealing away our eyeballs, the blogs and wikis are decimating the publishing, music and news-gathering industries that created the original content those Web sites ‘aggregate.’ Our culture is essentially cannibalizing its young, destroying the very sources of the content they crave.”

Milton