Want to be a hit with your wife? Make her love you to pieces? Fill your home with loving warmth? Allow you to see the gang regularly, view TV sports, be lovey dovey in bed? If you want to spice up your relationship, just follow me while I show you several simple ways to help you be on your way to paradise.
I might add that the following worked pretty well for all of my 64 years of marriage.
A) Use blank greeting cards. Be inventive, be loving, be inspiring, be your true self. I enclose a few samples I've used over the years.
MOTHER'S DAY --You have been and continue to be the kind of mother most children would want to have as their very own. You are strong, brave, selfless, dedicated and loving. My love and admiration for you is boundless. You are my woman in sickness and in health. Your very touch stirs my heart
VALENTINE'S DAY -- Dearest darling, You are my history, you are my future, and all the while there is music, love, poetry, joy, laughter and comfort. You are my now, you are therefor I am. So many valentines to come. Find peace and comfort in this one. I live for you my darlingest darling. My velvet valentine.
ANNIVERSARY -- We stumble on, you and I . Our bonds weathered through storms and ever emerging suns. Bent but not broken. Sixty-two years and we plow on, canes at the ready, undaunted, seeking solace and warmth in our nearness. On this, our anniversary, I send you my forever love.
BIRTHDAY-- After 20 years of marriage, three children, and limitless lovemaking, I must tell you that you are ever young, ever beautiful, ever desireable, and my raison d'etre for living. My birthday girl always.
I have sent my love hundreds of cards over the years. None have been the same.
B) Why not send your wife a surprise love letter out of the blue -- A few lines will do. She will be delighted.
C) Sprinkle post-it love notes through out the house in non-obvious locations. Sort of a treasure love hunt. Believe me, it works in spades.
D) Flowers for no special occasion, or an exceptional box of chocolates. include a short note.
E) Your loved one will never tire of hearing you say, I LOVE YOU.
F) Good things to do: A light kiss, non-smothering. A light touch, a look, a come here smile, a soft embrace. Don't expect this to be a prelude for more.
G) Do not insist on making love. Do not jump into bed and rush into the act. Make sure she is ready, try a little gentle foreplay. Even then play it by ear, be patient, be loving. If there is a NO for any reason be man enough to accept this.
H) Most important: Don't argue over small things, unimportant things. Most arguments can be avoided simply by saying yes -- give in if it is not earth shaking. No matter what, do not ever argue in front of your children.
I) Any of these listed approaches, will make your home a warm, caring, loving one.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
THE CRABBY OLD LADY
SEE ME
When an old lady died in the geriatric ward of a small hospital near Dundee, Scotland, it was believed that she had nothing left of any value.
Later, when the nurses were going through her meager possessions, they found this poem. It's quality and content so impressed the staff that copies were made and distributed to every nurse in the hospital. One nurse took her copy to Ireland.
The old lady's sole bequest to posterity has since appeared in the Christmas edition of the News Magazine of the North Ireland Associaton for Mental Health. A slide presentation has also been made based on her simple, but eloquent, poem. And this little old Scottish lady, with nothing left to give to the world, is now remembered as the author of this "anonymous" poem.
What do you see nurses, what do you see?
What are you thinking, when you look at me?
Do you see~
A crabby old woman, not very wise, uncertain of habit,
with far away eyes.
A person who dribbles her food, and makes no reply
when you say in a loud voice, "I do wish you'd try"
A woman who does not seem to notice
the things that you do, and forever is losing
a stocking or shoe
A person maybe resisting at times,
let's you do as you will, with my bathing and feeding,
and handing me my pills.
Is that what you're thinking? Is that what you see?
Then open your eyes nurses, cause
you're not looking at me.
I'll tell you who I am, as I sit here so still,
as I rise at your bidding, as I eat at your will.
I'm a child of ten with a mother and a father
and brothers and sisters, who love one another.
A young girl of sixteen, with wings on her feet
dreaming that soon now a lover she'll meet.
A bride soon at twenty, the heart gives a leap,
remembering the vows that I promised to keep.
At twenty-five now, I have young of my own,
who need me to build a secure happy home.
A young woman of thirty, my young now grow fast
bound to each other with ties that should last.
At forty, the young ones are grown and will
soon be gone.
But my man stays beside me, so I don't
feel so alone.
At fifty once more, babies play around my knee.
Again we know children, my loved one and me.
Dark days are upon me, my husbnd is dead,
I look at the future, and I shudder with dread.
for my young ones are all busy,
rearing young of their own and
I think of the years and the love I have known.
I'm an old woman now, and nature is cruel.
Nature makes old age look like such a fool.
The body is crumbled, grace and vigor depart.
There is now a stone where I once had a heart
But inside this carcass, a young girl still dwells.
And now and again my battered heart swells.
I remember the joys, I remembedr the pain,
and I'm loving and lilving life all over again.
I think of the years, all too few, and gone too fast.
and I accept the stark fact that nothing can last.
So open your eyes, nurses,
open them and see,
look a litle closer, nurses...
Please~~see the real ME
Remember it when you next meet an old person
who you might brush aside wiout looking at the
young soul within ... we will all, one day, be
there, too!
Note: Every time this old man reads
this poem, this wonderful and sad poem --
new tears surround me, tug at my heart.
I cry at weddings, I cry at funerals, I cry
when memory brings back all the dead and
maimed fellow soldiers parading before me
once again some 65 years ago.
Excuse me now, I am going to have a real
sit-down, all out sob-fest.
I also cry at man's cruelty to animals.
Now altogether, join me in an eye clearing
torrent of tears.
When an old lady died in the geriatric ward of a small hospital near Dundee, Scotland, it was believed that she had nothing left of any value.
Later, when the nurses were going through her meager possessions, they found this poem. It's quality and content so impressed the staff that copies were made and distributed to every nurse in the hospital. One nurse took her copy to Ireland.
The old lady's sole bequest to posterity has since appeared in the Christmas edition of the News Magazine of the North Ireland Associaton for Mental Health. A slide presentation has also been made based on her simple, but eloquent, poem. And this little old Scottish lady, with nothing left to give to the world, is now remembered as the author of this "anonymous" poem.
What do you see nurses, what do you see?
What are you thinking, when you look at me?
Do you see~
A crabby old woman, not very wise, uncertain of habit,
with far away eyes.
A person who dribbles her food, and makes no reply
when you say in a loud voice, "I do wish you'd try"
A woman who does not seem to notice
the things that you do, and forever is losing
a stocking or shoe
A person maybe resisting at times,
let's you do as you will, with my bathing and feeding,
and handing me my pills.
Is that what you're thinking? Is that what you see?
Then open your eyes nurses, cause
you're not looking at me.
I'll tell you who I am, as I sit here so still,
as I rise at your bidding, as I eat at your will.
I'm a child of ten with a mother and a father
and brothers and sisters, who love one another.
A young girl of sixteen, with wings on her feet
dreaming that soon now a lover she'll meet.
A bride soon at twenty, the heart gives a leap,
remembering the vows that I promised to keep.
At twenty-five now, I have young of my own,
who need me to build a secure happy home.
A young woman of thirty, my young now grow fast
bound to each other with ties that should last.
At forty, the young ones are grown and will
soon be gone.
But my man stays beside me, so I don't
feel so alone.
At fifty once more, babies play around my knee.
Again we know children, my loved one and me.
Dark days are upon me, my husbnd is dead,
I look at the future, and I shudder with dread.
for my young ones are all busy,
rearing young of their own and
I think of the years and the love I have known.
I'm an old woman now, and nature is cruel.
Nature makes old age look like such a fool.
The body is crumbled, grace and vigor depart.
There is now a stone where I once had a heart
But inside this carcass, a young girl still dwells.
And now and again my battered heart swells.
I remember the joys, I remembedr the pain,
and I'm loving and lilving life all over again.
I think of the years, all too few, and gone too fast.
and I accept the stark fact that nothing can last.
So open your eyes, nurses,
open them and see,
look a litle closer, nurses...
Please~~see the real ME
Remember it when you next meet an old person
who you might brush aside wiout looking at the
young soul within ... we will all, one day, be
there, too!
Note: Every time this old man reads
this poem, this wonderful and sad poem --
new tears surround me, tug at my heart.
I cry at weddings, I cry at funerals, I cry
when memory brings back all the dead and
maimed fellow soldiers parading before me
once again some 65 years ago.
Excuse me now, I am going to have a real
sit-down, all out sob-fest.
I also cry at man's cruelty to animals.
Now altogether, join me in an eye clearing
torrent of tears.
Saturday, June 7, 2008
SNORERS AND VICTIMS
Both snorers and victims pay attention. Relief may be in store. Snore no more. I subscribe to AARP, (American Association of Retired Persons) and I and 40 million other people receive their monthly magazine chalk full of helpful information to make our lives easier. The organization now admits men and women over 50. O'kay, o'kay, I'll get to the gist of the article on snoring they featured in one of their last issues. I am improvising; not using word for word.
DO-IT-YOURSELF-STRATEGIES
#1. Lighten up: Snorers who are overweight should lose at least 10% of their weight, (my snorer wife lost the weight and lost the snore). Eureka!!!
#2. Stop smoking: Tobacco smoked clogs your nasal passages, damages your lungs, and causes the upper airways to swell, which constricts your breathing. So live longer and give your spouse relief as well.
#3. Get moving: Reduce upper-airway congestion and create more lung capacity by doing regular aerobic exercise or brisk walking, both of which improves breathing during sleep. Don't forget to beathe during waking hours.
#4. Snack with care: Don't feast or booze before bed: a full stomach can make breathing more difficult. Alcohol relaxes the muscles in the back of the throat. Both can cause snoring and weight gain.
#5. Snorers, please don't sleep on your backs: Wear a nightie or a pyjama top with something uncomfortable sewn onto their backs. Be inventive, sleep on your side.
#6. Raise the head of your bed by four inches: Otolaryngologists recommend this, (you needn't pronounce the word) How to raise the bed? Are you kidding? Surprise yourself.
I'll make a long story short by shortening the story. I am kind of tired now, besides it's past my bedtime. So listen to my shortcuts as follows: Avoid sedatives, exercise your throat muscles by playing a wind intrument or politely yelling at your spouse, sing in the shower or elsewhere if your better half will allow it, attack allergies by using steroid or saline nasal nose sprays, lubricate your throat to decrease vibrations, wear a plastic dental splint that fits into the mouth and over the teeth to enhance nose breathing, and then there are different types of operations (I can't bring mself to repeat here) that call for invasionary tactics ever so ghastly. I left out a few other hints, enough is enough.
Good-night everyone, I am going beddy bye bye. By the way, i've got 160 other postings you might enjoy looking into when you are not snoring.
DO-IT-YOURSELF-STRATEGIES
#1. Lighten up: Snorers who are overweight should lose at least 10% of their weight, (my snorer wife lost the weight and lost the snore). Eureka!!!
#2. Stop smoking: Tobacco smoked clogs your nasal passages, damages your lungs, and causes the upper airways to swell, which constricts your breathing. So live longer and give your spouse relief as well.
#3. Get moving: Reduce upper-airway congestion and create more lung capacity by doing regular aerobic exercise or brisk walking, both of which improves breathing during sleep. Don't forget to beathe during waking hours.
#4. Snack with care: Don't feast or booze before bed: a full stomach can make breathing more difficult. Alcohol relaxes the muscles in the back of the throat. Both can cause snoring and weight gain.
#5. Snorers, please don't sleep on your backs: Wear a nightie or a pyjama top with something uncomfortable sewn onto their backs. Be inventive, sleep on your side.
#6. Raise the head of your bed by four inches: Otolaryngologists recommend this, (you needn't pronounce the word) How to raise the bed? Are you kidding? Surprise yourself.
I'll make a long story short by shortening the story. I am kind of tired now, besides it's past my bedtime. So listen to my shortcuts as follows: Avoid sedatives, exercise your throat muscles by playing a wind intrument or politely yelling at your spouse, sing in the shower or elsewhere if your better half will allow it, attack allergies by using steroid or saline nasal nose sprays, lubricate your throat to decrease vibrations, wear a plastic dental splint that fits into the mouth and over the teeth to enhance nose breathing, and then there are different types of operations (I can't bring mself to repeat here) that call for invasionary tactics ever so ghastly. I left out a few other hints, enough is enough.
Good-night everyone, I am going beddy bye bye. By the way, i've got 160 other postings you might enjoy looking into when you are not snoring.
Saturday, May 31, 2008
WHAT THEY SAID ABOUT RELIGION
Religion is all bunk. --Thomas Edison
I don’t believe in God, because I don’t believe in Mother
Goose. -- Clarence Darrow
It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain. – Mark Twain
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation. --
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Question with boldness even the existence of God; because if there be one, He must approve the homage of Reason rather than that of blindfolded Fear. – Thomas Jefferson
Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind. – Thomas Paine
I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of humankind has preserved the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced. – John Adams
Finding that no religion is based on facts and therefore cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error. – Robert Owen
It’s an incredible con job when you think of it, to believe something now in exchange for life after death. Even corporations with all their reward systems don’t try to make it posthumous. – Gloria Steinem
Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be a true system. – Thomas Paine
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young, and I love life. But I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is none the less true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting. – Bertrand Russell
It is interesting to speculate how it developed that in two of the most anti-feminist institutions, the church and the law court, the men are wearing dresses. – Flo Kennedy
I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it. – Albert Einstein
One of my most favorite fantasies is that next Sunday not one single woman, in any country of the world, will go to church. If women simply stop giving our time and energy to the institutions that oppress, they could cease to be.
Sonia Johnson
Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private schools, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and the state forever separated. – Ulysses S. Grant
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are no gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. – Tomas Jefferson
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own – a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear of ridiculous egotism. – Albert Einstein
The time appears to me to have come when it is the duty of all to make their dissent from religion known. – John Stuart Mill
It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason. – Mary Wollstonecraft
The Christian religion has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world. – Bertrand Russell
The bible teaches that woman brought sin and death into the world, that she precipitated the fall of the race, that she was arraigned before the judgement seat of Heaven, tried, condemned and sentenced. Marriage for her was to be a condition of bondage, maternity a period of suffering and anguish, and in silence and subjection, she was to play the role of a dependent on man’s bounty for all her material wants, and for all the information she might desire. Here is the Bible position of woman briefly summed up.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
If the bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it. – William Jennings Bryan.
Think not that I come to send peace on earth; I came not to send peace, but a sword. – Jesus, Matthew 10:34
I cannot believe in a god who wants to be praised all the time. – Friedrich Rich Nietzshe
Religion is a human fabrication. – Christopher Hitchens
WHAT OTHERS SAID ABOUT RELIGION
I Believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the wish of the Almighty Creator. – Adolph Hitler in Mein Kampt – Vol 1 Chapter 2
The sermons by Rev. Jeremia Wright charge that the US government gave African Americans drugs, created Aids and inflicted blacks with that disease. He further said that 9/11 and the death of 3000 Americans were created by US policy.
Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you. He knows what we are going through when we grieve, and wants to assure us of his love and concern. I don’t know what I will see see when I enter Heaven, because it is far more glorious than anything we can imagine. I know this: Heaven is the dwelling place of God, and someday I will see him face to face. – Billy Graham
I know that this is painful for the ladies to hear but if you get married, you have accepted the headship of a man, your husband. Christ is the head of the household and the husband is the head of the wife. –Reverend Pat Robertson
Reverend Jerry Falwell blamed civil libertarians , homosexuals and abortion rights supporters for the terrorist attacks of Tuesday, September 11 (9/11) 2001.
“God gave us what we deserved”.
Reverend Pat Robertson agreed.
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own hearts is our temple; the simple philosophy is kindness.
The Dalai Lama
Our Heavenly Father knew and loved each one of us.
Mother Theresa
I don’t believe in God, because I don’t believe in Mother
Goose. -- Clarence Darrow
It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain. – Mark Twain
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation. --
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Question with boldness even the existence of God; because if there be one, He must approve the homage of Reason rather than that of blindfolded Fear. – Thomas Jefferson
Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind. – Thomas Paine
I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of humankind has preserved the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced. – John Adams
Finding that no religion is based on facts and therefore cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error. – Robert Owen
It’s an incredible con job when you think of it, to believe something now in exchange for life after death. Even corporations with all their reward systems don’t try to make it posthumous. – Gloria Steinem
Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be a true system. – Thomas Paine
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young, and I love life. But I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is none the less true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting. – Bertrand Russell
It is interesting to speculate how it developed that in two of the most anti-feminist institutions, the church and the law court, the men are wearing dresses. – Flo Kennedy
I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it. – Albert Einstein
One of my most favorite fantasies is that next Sunday not one single woman, in any country of the world, will go to church. If women simply stop giving our time and energy to the institutions that oppress, they could cease to be.
Sonia Johnson
Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private schools, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and the state forever separated. – Ulysses S. Grant
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are no gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. – Tomas Jefferson
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own – a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear of ridiculous egotism. – Albert Einstein
The time appears to me to have come when it is the duty of all to make their dissent from religion known. – John Stuart Mill
It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason. – Mary Wollstonecraft
The Christian religion has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world. – Bertrand Russell
The bible teaches that woman brought sin and death into the world, that she precipitated the fall of the race, that she was arraigned before the judgement seat of Heaven, tried, condemned and sentenced. Marriage for her was to be a condition of bondage, maternity a period of suffering and anguish, and in silence and subjection, she was to play the role of a dependent on man’s bounty for all her material wants, and for all the information she might desire. Here is the Bible position of woman briefly summed up.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
If the bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it. – William Jennings Bryan.
Think not that I come to send peace on earth; I came not to send peace, but a sword. – Jesus, Matthew 10:34
I cannot believe in a god who wants to be praised all the time. – Friedrich Rich Nietzshe
Religion is a human fabrication. – Christopher Hitchens
WHAT OTHERS SAID ABOUT RELIGION
I Believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the wish of the Almighty Creator. – Adolph Hitler in Mein Kampt – Vol 1 Chapter 2
The sermons by Rev. Jeremia Wright charge that the US government gave African Americans drugs, created Aids and inflicted blacks with that disease. He further said that 9/11 and the death of 3000 Americans were created by US policy.
Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you. He knows what we are going through when we grieve, and wants to assure us of his love and concern. I don’t know what I will see see when I enter Heaven, because it is far more glorious than anything we can imagine. I know this: Heaven is the dwelling place of God, and someday I will see him face to face. – Billy Graham
I know that this is painful for the ladies to hear but if you get married, you have accepted the headship of a man, your husband. Christ is the head of the household and the husband is the head of the wife. –Reverend Pat Robertson
Reverend Jerry Falwell blamed civil libertarians , homosexuals and abortion rights supporters for the terrorist attacks of Tuesday, September 11 (9/11) 2001.
“God gave us what we deserved”.
Reverend Pat Robertson agreed.
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own hearts is our temple; the simple philosophy is kindness.
The Dalai Lama
Our Heavenly Father knew and loved each one of us.
Mother Theresa
JUST SOME GOSPEL CONTRADICTIONS
How many generations were there between Abraham to David? Matthew 1:17 lists fourteen generations.
Matthew 1:2 lists thirteen generations.
Is Paul lying? In Acts 20:35 Paul told people “to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.”’ Since Jesus never made such a biblical statement, isn’t Paul guilty of deception?
When did the leper become not a leper? (Matthew 8:13 & 8:14) Jesus healed the leper before visiting the house.
(Mark 1:29-30 & 1:40-42) Jesus healed the leper after visiting Simon Peter’s house.
Who approached Jesus? (Matthew 8:5-7 The Centurion approached Jesus, beseeching help for a sick servant.
(Luke 7:3 & 7:6-7) The Centurion did not approach Jesus. He sent friends and elders of the Jews.
Was she dead or just dying? (Matthew 9:18) He asked for help. Saying his daughter was already dead. (Luke 8:41-42) Jairus approached Jesus for help, because his daughter was dying,
Just what did Jesus instruct them to take? (Matthew 10:10) Jesus instructed them not to take a staff, not to wear sandals. (Mark 6:8-9) Jesus instructed his disciples to wear sandals and take a staff on their journey.
When did John find out Jesus was the Messiah? (Matthew 11:2-3) While imprisoned, John the Babtist sent followers to Jesus to inquire if Jesus was the Messiah. (Luke 7:18-22) While imprisoned, John the Babtist sent followers to Jesus to inquire if Jesus was the Messiah. (John 1:29-34,36) John already knew Jesus was the Messiah.
(Matthew 5:1-2) Christ preached his first sermon on the mount. (Luke 6;17 &20) Christ preached his first sermon in the plain.
There are many, many more gospel contradictions.
Matthew 1:2 lists thirteen generations.
Is Paul lying? In Acts 20:35 Paul told people “to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.”’ Since Jesus never made such a biblical statement, isn’t Paul guilty of deception?
When did the leper become not a leper? (Matthew 8:13 & 8:14) Jesus healed the leper before visiting the house.
(Mark 1:29-30 & 1:40-42) Jesus healed the leper after visiting Simon Peter’s house.
Who approached Jesus? (Matthew 8:5-7 The Centurion approached Jesus, beseeching help for a sick servant.
(Luke 7:3 & 7:6-7) The Centurion did not approach Jesus. He sent friends and elders of the Jews.
Was she dead or just dying? (Matthew 9:18) He asked for help. Saying his daughter was already dead. (Luke 8:41-42) Jairus approached Jesus for help, because his daughter was dying,
Just what did Jesus instruct them to take? (Matthew 10:10) Jesus instructed them not to take a staff, not to wear sandals. (Mark 6:8-9) Jesus instructed his disciples to wear sandals and take a staff on their journey.
When did John find out Jesus was the Messiah? (Matthew 11:2-3) While imprisoned, John the Babtist sent followers to Jesus to inquire if Jesus was the Messiah. (Luke 7:18-22) While imprisoned, John the Babtist sent followers to Jesus to inquire if Jesus was the Messiah. (John 1:29-34,36) John already knew Jesus was the Messiah.
(Matthew 5:1-2) Christ preached his first sermon on the mount. (Luke 6;17 &20) Christ preached his first sermon in the plain.
There are many, many more gospel contradictions.
WHAT DO YOU REALLY KNOW ABOUT THE BIBLE?
What is the penalty for working on the Sabbath?
You will be stoned to death. Violent punishment from the “Good Book?” The bible says: “Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, a sabbath of rest to the Lord: whoseoever doeth work therein shall be put to death. Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the Sabbath day.” (Exodus 35:2)
What is God’s name?
JEALOUS ----- This is a petty self-described insecurity from a supposedly all-wise leader. The bible says: “For thou shall worship no other god: for the Lord, whose name is “Jealous”, is a jealous God.” (Exodus 34:14)
How should parents treat a stubborn and rebellious son?
He should be stoned to death. The bible says: “If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them; Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of the city, and unto the gate of his place, and they shall say unto the elders of his city,this our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice, he is a glutton and a drunkard and all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: So shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.” (Deuteronomy 21:18-21)
“And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.” (Exodus 21:17)
Witches should be killed. – Tragically, tens of thousands, if not millions, of innocent women in Europe and the American colonies were cruelly accused, tortured and executed because of one single verse: “Thou shall not suffer a witch to live.”
(Exodus 22:18)
When the Israelites conquered the Midianites, what part of the spoils of war was given to the priest as “the Lord’s tribute”? Of the 32,000 virgins that were kept alive as “booty” for God’s warriors, 32 young captives were handed over to the priest. The bible brutally sanctifies war crimes against girls and women that continue to this day. Who could possibly respect a dictator who behaves like this?
The bible sayeth: “And the booty, being the rest of the prey which the men of war had caught, was 675,000 sheep, and 72,000 beeves, and 61,000 asses and 32000 persons in all, of women that had not known man by lying with him --- of which the Lord’s tribute was 32 persons. And Moses gave the tribute, which was the Lord’s heaven offering, unto Eleazar the priest, as the Lord commanded Moses. “(Numbers 31:32-41)
According to the bible, what is God not able to do? Repel chariots of iron. Omnipotence?
“And the Lord was with Judah; and he drove out the inhabitants of the mountains; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley because they had chariots of iron.”
(Judges 1:19)
How did Gideon demonstrate his family values?
“And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives. And his concubine that was in Shechem, she also bare him a son, whose name he called Abimelech.”(Judges 8:30-31)
How many sexual partners did King Solomon have? He had one thousand sexual partners. Another fine example of family values from one of God’s favorites. The bible says:
“But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharoah, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hitites --- and he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines.” (1 Kings 11:1-3)
This lifestyle is never denounced by God, Jesus, or the biblical writers.
What happened to 42 little children who teased God’s prophet Elisha for being bald and he cursed them in the name of the lord? Two bears came of the forest and killed them all. This bloody execution for a childish prank is the work of the God of the bible, an all loving and caring God.
“And he Elisha went up from thence unto Bethel, and as he was going by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, go up thou bald head, and he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord. And there came forth two bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them. “(11 Kings 2:23-24)
The bible goes on to say:
THAT a woman is worth half a male in terms of money.
THAT if you are handicapped, you are not allowed in church.
THAT according to Jesus, humans should be beaten for disobedience.
THAT Jesus said don’t think that I came for peace on earth. I came to start wars.
THAT women be silent in church.
THAT (in so many words) human beings are sinners, worms, slaves and need not look toward to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
There is much , much more I could add. See other articles I have written under the Label, RELIGEON.
You will be stoned to death. Violent punishment from the “Good Book?” The bible says: “Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, a sabbath of rest to the Lord: whoseoever doeth work therein shall be put to death. Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the Sabbath day.” (Exodus 35:2)
What is God’s name?
JEALOUS ----- This is a petty self-described insecurity from a supposedly all-wise leader. The bible says: “For thou shall worship no other god: for the Lord, whose name is “Jealous”, is a jealous God.” (Exodus 34:14)
How should parents treat a stubborn and rebellious son?
He should be stoned to death. The bible says: “If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them; Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of the city, and unto the gate of his place, and they shall say unto the elders of his city,this our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice, he is a glutton and a drunkard and all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: So shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.” (Deuteronomy 21:18-21)
“And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.” (Exodus 21:17)
Witches should be killed. – Tragically, tens of thousands, if not millions, of innocent women in Europe and the American colonies were cruelly accused, tortured and executed because of one single verse: “Thou shall not suffer a witch to live.”
(Exodus 22:18)
When the Israelites conquered the Midianites, what part of the spoils of war was given to the priest as “the Lord’s tribute”? Of the 32,000 virgins that were kept alive as “booty” for God’s warriors, 32 young captives were handed over to the priest. The bible brutally sanctifies war crimes against girls and women that continue to this day. Who could possibly respect a dictator who behaves like this?
The bible sayeth: “And the booty, being the rest of the prey which the men of war had caught, was 675,000 sheep, and 72,000 beeves, and 61,000 asses and 32000 persons in all, of women that had not known man by lying with him --- of which the Lord’s tribute was 32 persons. And Moses gave the tribute, which was the Lord’s heaven offering, unto Eleazar the priest, as the Lord commanded Moses. “(Numbers 31:32-41)
According to the bible, what is God not able to do? Repel chariots of iron. Omnipotence?
“And the Lord was with Judah; and he drove out the inhabitants of the mountains; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley because they had chariots of iron.”
(Judges 1:19)
How did Gideon demonstrate his family values?
“And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives. And his concubine that was in Shechem, she also bare him a son, whose name he called Abimelech.”(Judges 8:30-31)
How many sexual partners did King Solomon have? He had one thousand sexual partners. Another fine example of family values from one of God’s favorites. The bible says:
“But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharoah, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hitites --- and he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines.” (1 Kings 11:1-3)
This lifestyle is never denounced by God, Jesus, or the biblical writers.
What happened to 42 little children who teased God’s prophet Elisha for being bald and he cursed them in the name of the lord? Two bears came of the forest and killed them all. This bloody execution for a childish prank is the work of the God of the bible, an all loving and caring God.
“And he Elisha went up from thence unto Bethel, and as he was going by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, go up thou bald head, and he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord. And there came forth two bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them. “(11 Kings 2:23-24)
The bible goes on to say:
THAT a woman is worth half a male in terms of money.
THAT if you are handicapped, you are not allowed in church.
THAT according to Jesus, humans should be beaten for disobedience.
THAT Jesus said don’t think that I came for peace on earth. I came to start wars.
THAT women be silent in church.
THAT (in so many words) human beings are sinners, worms, slaves and need not look toward to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
There is much , much more I could add. See other articles I have written under the Label, RELIGEON.
HOW ACCURATE CAN THE BIBLE BE?
The bible is a compilation of 66 books written by over 40 separate authors from a variety of backgrounds (from peasants to kings) over a period of at least 1600 years.
These 66 books are divided in two principle parts, the “Old Testament, 39 books and the “New Testament, 27 books.
There was hearsay, oral and written. Superstition played a major role and contradictions were rife and assuredly there were deliberate falsehoods that played a major part. A whole bunch of baloney to be read with open, unbiased eyes.
These 66 books are divided in two principle parts, the “Old Testament, 39 books and the “New Testament, 27 books.
There was hearsay, oral and written. Superstition played a major role and contradictions were rife and assuredly there were deliberate falsehoods that played a major part. A whole bunch of baloney to be read with open, unbiased eyes.
THOU SHALL NOT KILL!
Where does god stand ? Let’s have a look.
God orders the killing of countless innocent people even though one of the ten commandments says:
THOU SHALL NOT KILL!
God kills 70,000 innocent people simply because David ordered a census of the people. (1 Chronicles 21)
God orders the destruction of 60 cities so that the Israelites can live there. He orders the killing of all the men, women , and children of each city, and the looting of all of value. (Deuteronomy 3) He orders the murder of all the people of Jabesh-gilead, except for the virgin girls who were taken to be forcibly raped and married. When they wanted more virgins, God told them to hide alongside the road and when they saw a girl they liked, kidnap her and forcibly rape her and make her your wife. Just about every other page in the Old Testament has God killing somebody. In Kings 10:18-27, God orders the murder of all the worshipers of a different god in their very own church. The biblical total = 371,186 people directly and orders another 1,862,265 people murdered.
The God of love and caring also allows slavery, including selling your own daughter as a sex slave (Exodus 21:1-11), child abuse (Judges 11:29-40 and Isaiah 13:16), and bashing babies against rocks (Hosea 13:16 and Psalms 137:9).
Jesus, the other God?, promoted the idea that all men should castrate themselves to go to heaven: “For there are eunuchs, that were so born from their mother’s womb: and there are Eunuchs, that made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven’s sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.” (Matthew 19:12 ASV) What next? The God of the Bible also advocated ritual human sacrifice and animal sacrifice.
If more people read the bible and actually understood the archaic language therein, they might begin to stop believing and start doubting the existence of a god, any god.
God orders the killing of countless innocent people even though one of the ten commandments says:
THOU SHALL NOT KILL!
God kills 70,000 innocent people simply because David ordered a census of the people. (1 Chronicles 21)
God orders the destruction of 60 cities so that the Israelites can live there. He orders the killing of all the men, women , and children of each city, and the looting of all of value. (Deuteronomy 3) He orders the murder of all the people of Jabesh-gilead, except for the virgin girls who were taken to be forcibly raped and married. When they wanted more virgins, God told them to hide alongside the road and when they saw a girl they liked, kidnap her and forcibly rape her and make her your wife. Just about every other page in the Old Testament has God killing somebody. In Kings 10:18-27, God orders the murder of all the worshipers of a different god in their very own church. The biblical total = 371,186 people directly and orders another 1,862,265 people murdered.
The God of love and caring also allows slavery, including selling your own daughter as a sex slave (Exodus 21:1-11), child abuse (Judges 11:29-40 and Isaiah 13:16), and bashing babies against rocks (Hosea 13:16 and Psalms 137:9).
Jesus, the other God?, promoted the idea that all men should castrate themselves to go to heaven: “For there are eunuchs, that were so born from their mother’s womb: and there are Eunuchs, that made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven’s sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.” (Matthew 19:12 ASV) What next? The God of the Bible also advocated ritual human sacrifice and animal sacrifice.
If more people read the bible and actually understood the archaic language therein, they might begin to stop believing and start doubting the existence of a god, any god.
THE SON IS THE FATHER?
Isaiah 9:6 says: “Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given and his name shall be called Mighty God, Everlasting Father.” In this verse, the “Mighty God” matches the ‘child’ and “Everlasting Father” matches the ‘son.’ Yes, He is a child, yet He is the Mighty god. The child who was born in the manger of Bethlehem was the Mighty God. Since the child and the Mighty God are one, so also the Son and the Everlasting Father are one. The Son is the Eternal Father. It is indeed difficult to explain this matter, yet the Scriptures have so said. “Unto us a son is given and his name shall be called Everlasting Father.” Does this not plainly say that the son is the Father? If we acknowledge that the ‘child’ of which this verse speaks is also the
Everlasting Father otherwise, we are not believing the clearly stated revelation of the Scriptures. But we do deeply believe that according to the words here the Lord Jesus who became the child is the Mighty God; and the Lord Jesus who is the Son is also the Eternal Father. Our Lord is the Son, and He is also the Father. Hallelujah!
John 14:7-11 says; “If ye had known me, ye would have known my Father also; from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him. Philip saith unto him, Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, have I been so long with you and dost thou not know me, Philip? He that hath seen me hath seen the Father; how sayest thou, show us the Father? Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that i say unto to you I speak not from myself but the Father abiding in me doeth his work. Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or else believe me for the very works’ sake.” In these verses the Lord clearly reveals to us the mystery that He and the Father are one. He is in the Father, and the Father is in him; when he speaks, it is the Father who works; when men see Him , they see the Father; when they know Him, they know the Father, because He is the Father, He and the Father are one”(John 10:30
So now all is clear, right? Once there was a Father who we called God and Jesus who we called the son of God and sometimes called Jesus God which called for two Gods but lo and behold we now know there has been another miracle;
Jesus has usurped the role of God or possibly the Father God resigned because of old age
IN SHORT, JUST ADD THIS TO THE THE GIANT FAIRY TALE THAT HAS FOOLED MAN AND CONTINUES TO FOOL THOSE WHO ARE IN MORTAL FEAR OF DYING, NEXT STOP HEAVEN, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. NO END, ONE JUST GOES ON LIVING SOMEHOW, MILK AND HONEY AND CONSTANT MUSIC. PICK YOUR OWN ANGEL TO SHOW YOU THE HEAVENLY ROPES AND ANSWER ALL YOUR QUESTIONS. LIKE: WHERE ARE THE SHOPPING CENTERS, THE RESTAURANTS, MY LOVED ONES WHO PASSED ON, HOUSING QUARTERS, CAR RENTALS, THEATERS, TELEPHONES? LISTEN MORTALS, WE ARE NOT IMMORTAL. BE HAPPY, LIVE FOR THE NOW, LIVE HONESTLY, BE CARING, BE JUST, BE REASONABLE, EXERCISE REASON. IT IS ENOUGH AND MORE THAN ENOUGH. UNDERSTAND THAT THERE IS NO HEAVEN AND NO HELL. HAVE A GOOD LIFE YOU ALL!!!
Everlasting Father otherwise, we are not believing the clearly stated revelation of the Scriptures. But we do deeply believe that according to the words here the Lord Jesus who became the child is the Mighty God; and the Lord Jesus who is the Son is also the Eternal Father. Our Lord is the Son, and He is also the Father. Hallelujah!
John 14:7-11 says; “If ye had known me, ye would have known my Father also; from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him. Philip saith unto him, Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, have I been so long with you and dost thou not know me, Philip? He that hath seen me hath seen the Father; how sayest thou, show us the Father? Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that i say unto to you I speak not from myself but the Father abiding in me doeth his work. Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or else believe me for the very works’ sake.” In these verses the Lord clearly reveals to us the mystery that He and the Father are one. He is in the Father, and the Father is in him; when he speaks, it is the Father who works; when men see Him , they see the Father; when they know Him, they know the Father, because He is the Father, He and the Father are one”(John 10:30
So now all is clear, right? Once there was a Father who we called God and Jesus who we called the son of God and sometimes called Jesus God which called for two Gods but lo and behold we now know there has been another miracle;
Jesus has usurped the role of God or possibly the Father God resigned because of old age
IN SHORT, JUST ADD THIS TO THE THE GIANT FAIRY TALE THAT HAS FOOLED MAN AND CONTINUES TO FOOL THOSE WHO ARE IN MORTAL FEAR OF DYING, NEXT STOP HEAVEN, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. NO END, ONE JUST GOES ON LIVING SOMEHOW, MILK AND HONEY AND CONSTANT MUSIC. PICK YOUR OWN ANGEL TO SHOW YOU THE HEAVENLY ROPES AND ANSWER ALL YOUR QUESTIONS. LIKE: WHERE ARE THE SHOPPING CENTERS, THE RESTAURANTS, MY LOVED ONES WHO PASSED ON, HOUSING QUARTERS, CAR RENTALS, THEATERS, TELEPHONES? LISTEN MORTALS, WE ARE NOT IMMORTAL. BE HAPPY, LIVE FOR THE NOW, LIVE HONESTLY, BE CARING, BE JUST, BE REASONABLE, EXERCISE REASON. IT IS ENOUGH AND MORE THAN ENOUGH. UNDERSTAND THAT THERE IS NO HEAVEN AND NO HELL. HAVE A GOOD LIFE YOU ALL!!!
RANDOM NOTES
Where does God reside?
The bottom of the sea? Under ground? In heaven?
Among the stars and planets ?
If heaven , how high?
We understand that the distance to the stars are measured in Light years because the distance is too great to be measured in other ways. Light travels at 126,000 miles per second. The math tells us that just one Light year is 5,865,696,000,000 miles away.
There are stars that are Multiple Light years away.
Maybe God just likes to hang out on one of the planets. Possibly Mars, a mere 425 million miles away. Does son Jesus keep him company? Or is the son and the father, one and the same?
How many languages does the Good Lord know? Ethnoloque lists 6912 living languages world-wide. Millions of silent and verbal prayers are being sent every minute of every day –just a mad guess. Are we to understand that both our silent and verbal prayers are somehow absorbed by a super, super, super, duper gigantic computer; decoded, assembled and digested and acted upon. Oh yes, He or is it She, works in mysterious ways, and prayers answered become miracles and the majority of those not answered can be classified as not being fervent enough. Right?
What is the will of God? Is it the mass murder that God ordered in the bible? Or is it the floods, the cyclones, the tsunamis,, the killing wars, the mass rapes, the quakes, the starvation and all the other goodies that our loving Lord, He, the issuer of miracles, He, the omnipotent, He, who gave us Adam who then , under Godly instructions, removed one of his ribs and lo and behold, there was Eve , naked as a Jaybird and then the sins started, oh yes the Sins.
There were so many sins, oh so many. God had Jesus nailed to the cross, to die agonizingly in order to expunge our collective sins? Have I got that right? Is that the only way he thought of to cleanse the world of our sins? Let’s have a closer look at this charade. God, the Father, decided to have his only son, born via immaculate conception, nailed to a cross where he agonizingly hung for at least one or more days in order to have him die for our sins? It simply does not make rational or humane sense. Apparently, he then had to be buried in order to have him bodily shipped to lala \ land somewhere in heaven. A grand resurrection indeed. So He the Son arrives via, heavenly transport at the gates of heaven, Peter opens the gate, after recognizing Jesus, salutes and leads him to his Father. They embrace – God looks at his son and exclaims, My god, (hold it, I’m God) my word, let me put some magical ointment on the holes in your body.
Let’s leave them alone while I just jot down one more relevant item or question. BY THE WAY, WHO MADE GOD? And who made the God who made God? Wow, there may have been hundreds if not thousands of previous Gods. So, those of you with faith at the ready, what now? Who are you actually praying to?
Someone said that we are the stewards of the land. So the question is, what does one of the multitude of Gods, do? Those responsible for making the world in seven days and also remembered to even start the human race by introducing an Adam with all the millions of cells and arteries and veins interlocking and even a moveable rib that Adam could remove, shake and presto Eve into existence.
Did I mention the Ark? No, I guess not. Some God starts a world wide flood, drowning all the animals except two of a kind. Noah is instructed to save two of each species and sail away on the ark he built, with thousands of lucky animals shivering on board. Oh wait one little minute – did he remember to make sure there were both female and male in each category?
Eh, maybe that’s why the dinosaurs died out some eighty-five years ago ---- Noah forgot one of the sexes.
The bottom of the sea? Under ground? In heaven?
Among the stars and planets ?
If heaven , how high?
We understand that the distance to the stars are measured in Light years because the distance is too great to be measured in other ways. Light travels at 126,000 miles per second. The math tells us that just one Light year is 5,865,696,000,000 miles away.
There are stars that are Multiple Light years away.
Maybe God just likes to hang out on one of the planets. Possibly Mars, a mere 425 million miles away. Does son Jesus keep him company? Or is the son and the father, one and the same?
How many languages does the Good Lord know? Ethnoloque lists 6912 living languages world-wide. Millions of silent and verbal prayers are being sent every minute of every day –just a mad guess. Are we to understand that both our silent and verbal prayers are somehow absorbed by a super, super, super, duper gigantic computer; decoded, assembled and digested and acted upon. Oh yes, He or is it She, works in mysterious ways, and prayers answered become miracles and the majority of those not answered can be classified as not being fervent enough. Right?
What is the will of God? Is it the mass murder that God ordered in the bible? Or is it the floods, the cyclones, the tsunamis,, the killing wars, the mass rapes, the quakes, the starvation and all the other goodies that our loving Lord, He, the issuer of miracles, He, the omnipotent, He, who gave us Adam who then , under Godly instructions, removed one of his ribs and lo and behold, there was Eve , naked as a Jaybird and then the sins started, oh yes the Sins.
There were so many sins, oh so many. God had Jesus nailed to the cross, to die agonizingly in order to expunge our collective sins? Have I got that right? Is that the only way he thought of to cleanse the world of our sins? Let’s have a closer look at this charade. God, the Father, decided to have his only son, born via immaculate conception, nailed to a cross where he agonizingly hung for at least one or more days in order to have him die for our sins? It simply does not make rational or humane sense. Apparently, he then had to be buried in order to have him bodily shipped to lala \ land somewhere in heaven. A grand resurrection indeed. So He the Son arrives via, heavenly transport at the gates of heaven, Peter opens the gate, after recognizing Jesus, salutes and leads him to his Father. They embrace – God looks at his son and exclaims, My god, (hold it, I’m God) my word, let me put some magical ointment on the holes in your body.
Let’s leave them alone while I just jot down one more relevant item or question. BY THE WAY, WHO MADE GOD? And who made the God who made God? Wow, there may have been hundreds if not thousands of previous Gods. So, those of you with faith at the ready, what now? Who are you actually praying to?
Someone said that we are the stewards of the land. So the question is, what does one of the multitude of Gods, do? Those responsible for making the world in seven days and also remembered to even start the human race by introducing an Adam with all the millions of cells and arteries and veins interlocking and even a moveable rib that Adam could remove, shake and presto Eve into existence.
Did I mention the Ark? No, I guess not. Some God starts a world wide flood, drowning all the animals except two of a kind. Noah is instructed to save two of each species and sail away on the ark he built, with thousands of lucky animals shivering on board. Oh wait one little minute – did he remember to make sure there were both female and male in each category?
Eh, maybe that’s why the dinosaurs died out some eighty-five years ago ---- Noah forgot one of the sexes.
WHAT IS AN ATHEIST?
A person who decides or forms opinions based on reason, not faith. Most atheists or freethinkers are humanists, basing morality on human needs, not imagined “cosmic attitudes,”
We embrace a respect for our planet, other animals, and feminist principles of equality.
Atheists are convinced that religious claims do not withstand the tests of reason. That there is nothing to be gained by believing in an untruth, and everything to lose when we sacrifice the indispensable tool of reason on the altar of superstition.
There is meaning in life, and we atheists find it in human compassion, social progress, in art, music, literature,
in personal happiness, pleasure, joy, love ---- in the beauty of humanity and in the advancement of knowledge.
Religious leaders believe that life is so complex that there had to be a designer (God) responsible for life and everything that followed. We say that Darwin’s theory of evolution , with cumulative nonrandom natural selection designed for billions of years, has provided the explanation. A “Divine Designer” is no answer because the complexity of such a creature would be subject to the same scrutiny itself.
People of faith say that religion has done tremendous good in the world. Many religionists are good people but they would be good anyway. Religion does not have a monopoly on good deeds. Many non-religionists have enriched humanity – people like Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell, Sigmund Freud, Margaret Sanger, H.L. Mencken, Charles Darwin, Marie Curie, Thomas Edison, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady and many, many others.
We are free to do our own thinking, free from restraints of orthodoxy, of the blind maintenance of ancient superstitions or self-effacing prostration before divine tyrants known only through primitive revelations. We are truly free.
We embrace a respect for our planet, other animals, and feminist principles of equality.
Atheists are convinced that religious claims do not withstand the tests of reason. That there is nothing to be gained by believing in an untruth, and everything to lose when we sacrifice the indispensable tool of reason on the altar of superstition.
There is meaning in life, and we atheists find it in human compassion, social progress, in art, music, literature,
in personal happiness, pleasure, joy, love ---- in the beauty of humanity and in the advancement of knowledge.
Religious leaders believe that life is so complex that there had to be a designer (God) responsible for life and everything that followed. We say that Darwin’s theory of evolution , with cumulative nonrandom natural selection designed for billions of years, has provided the explanation. A “Divine Designer” is no answer because the complexity of such a creature would be subject to the same scrutiny itself.
People of faith say that religion has done tremendous good in the world. Many religionists are good people but they would be good anyway. Religion does not have a monopoly on good deeds. Many non-religionists have enriched humanity – people like Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell, Sigmund Freud, Margaret Sanger, H.L. Mencken, Charles Darwin, Marie Curie, Thomas Edison, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady and many, many others.
We are free to do our own thinking, free from restraints of orthodoxy, of the blind maintenance of ancient superstitions or self-effacing prostration before divine tyrants known only through primitive revelations. We are truly free.
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
THE PROS OF CIRCUMCISION
CIRCUMCISION is as old or older than prostitution. Millions of males have gone through the mill and lived to tell the tale.
Looking back I can attest to feeling absolutely no pain, I was all of 8 days when I found myself sitting on my father's lap and waiting for my foreskin to be removed. This is either done by a doctor or in my case by a Mohel who is called upon to do the removal for Jewish boys, called a Bris, kind of a religious, traditional ceremony. He does it with a steady, practiced hand, after some thousands of accurate cuts.
To make it easier and less painful, the Mohel dipped some cotton batting in some wine and gently slipped it into my waiting mouth and before I could count ten it was over and I did not feel a thing, so there. Everybody then cries Mazel tov and begins to eat everthing in sight, along with some wine or a shot of brandy or just eating non-stop.
So now a little bit of what circumcision really is and some of the advantages. At birth, boys have skin that covers the end of the penis or weewee as it is called in polite circles. This is called the foreskin and is removed so that the tip of the penis (the glans) and the opening through which the baby urinates (the urethra) are exposed.
Now for the advantages. Chances of getting a urinary tract infection in the first year of life is lessened. Cancer of the penis
is essentially eliminated in circumcised males. The risk of getting sexually transmitted diseases are lower. Circumcision eliminates foreskin infection that may occur at the peak ages of 3 to 5 years. Phimosis, a narrow opening that makes it impossible to retract the foreskin at a later age, is prevented by the famous cut. And finally, genital hygiene, which is particularly important in unsanitary conditions, maybe easier after circumcision. Oops, one more thing; cleansing in and around the area is much easier with circumcised males, no smegma (a cheesy sebaceous matter that collects between the glans penis and the foreskin.) Oy vay!!!
So mothers or anybody that's listening, give a little listen and make your boy happy, healthy, and ready to plunge easily and effectively. Ooh, did I say a bad word?
Looking back I can attest to feeling absolutely no pain, I was all of 8 days when I found myself sitting on my father's lap and waiting for my foreskin to be removed. This is either done by a doctor or in my case by a Mohel who is called upon to do the removal for Jewish boys, called a Bris, kind of a religious, traditional ceremony. He does it with a steady, practiced hand, after some thousands of accurate cuts.
To make it easier and less painful, the Mohel dipped some cotton batting in some wine and gently slipped it into my waiting mouth and before I could count ten it was over and I did not feel a thing, so there. Everybody then cries Mazel tov and begins to eat everthing in sight, along with some wine or a shot of brandy or just eating non-stop.
So now a little bit of what circumcision really is and some of the advantages. At birth, boys have skin that covers the end of the penis or weewee as it is called in polite circles. This is called the foreskin and is removed so that the tip of the penis (the glans) and the opening through which the baby urinates (the urethra) are exposed.
Now for the advantages. Chances of getting a urinary tract infection in the first year of life is lessened. Cancer of the penis
is essentially eliminated in circumcised males. The risk of getting sexually transmitted diseases are lower. Circumcision eliminates foreskin infection that may occur at the peak ages of 3 to 5 years. Phimosis, a narrow opening that makes it impossible to retract the foreskin at a later age, is prevented by the famous cut. And finally, genital hygiene, which is particularly important in unsanitary conditions, maybe easier after circumcision. Oops, one more thing; cleansing in and around the area is much easier with circumcised males, no smegma (a cheesy sebaceous matter that collects between the glans penis and the foreskin.) Oy vay!!!
So mothers or anybody that's listening, give a little listen and make your boy happy, healthy, and ready to plunge easily and effectively. Ooh, did I say a bad word?
Sunday, April 27, 2008
CELEBRITY VEGETARIANS/VEGANS
A VERY SMALL SAMPLE OF MEN AND WOMEN WHO FOUND A HUMANE AND HEALTHIER WAY OF LIVING.
NATALIE PORTMAN: Israeli and American actress
"I am a very strict vegetarian ... I just really, really, love animals
and I act on my values ... I am really against cruelty to animals."
SIR PAUL McCARTNEY: Singer, songwriter, composer, poet,
painter, multi-instrumentalist,
entrepaneur, animal rights activist
"I am a vegetarian because I realize that even little chickens
suffer pain and fear, experience a range of feelings and
emotions, and are as intelligent as mammals, including
dogs, cats and even primates."
PAMELA ANDERSON: Actress, sex symbol, producer.
"Chickens, pigs, and other animals? They are interesting
individuals with personalities and intelligence. What
people need to understand is if they are eating animals,
they are promoting cruelty to animals."
JOAQUIN PHOENIX: Actor
"Animal rights is a part of my everyday life. When you live by
example, you create a certain level of awareness. Friends
of mine, people I have never discussed animal rights or
vegetariaism with, are adopting vegetarian habits because
they see it."
ALICIA SILVERSTONE: Actress.
"Since i've gone vegetarian, my body has never felt better
and my taste buds have been opened to a whole
new world. It's one of the most rewarding choices I'v e
ever made and I invite you to jon me in living a healthy,
cruelty-free lifestyle."
RUSSELL SIMMONS: Music and fashion mogul.
"Chickens raised for food today are covered in excrement,
they're diseased, and they are drugged with all sorts of
toxins that you are ingestng if you eat chickens. One
recent study found that chicken flesh in this country has
four times as much arsenic -- yes arsenic, the poison
(which is used in the drugs the chickens are given) as
any other meat .... I have been a vegan for many years."
CONSTANCE MARIE: Dancer, actress.
"I stopped eating meat when I was working on the movie
Selena. During the shoot, I had to hold a chicken for five
hours -- if you hold it and feel its little heart beatng for
hours, you just can't think about eating it.
LONNIE RASHID (STAGE NAME,COMMON): Singer, songwriter.
"I think and speak clearer since I cut the dairy out. I can breathe
better and perform better, and my voice is
clearer. I can explore different things with my voice that I
couldn't do because of my meat and dairy ingestion. I am
proud and blessed to be a vegetarian, everything became
clear."
ALEC BALDWIN: Actor, political activist.
"Everytime we sit down to eat, we make a choice: Please
choose vegetarianism. Do it for ... animals. Do it for the
environment and do it for your health."
JAMES CROMWELL: Film and tlevision actor.
"So-called farms today treat animals like so many boxes
in a warehouse, chopping off beaks, and tails and genitals
with no painkillers at all, inflicting third-degree burns
repeatedley by branding cows, ripping out the teeth of pigs,
and just a horrible catalog of abuses that, if done for dogs
or cats, would be illegal on grounds of animal cruelty."
KRISTEN BELL: Television and film actress.
"I have always been an animal lover. I had a hard tme
disassociating the animals I cuddled with -- dogs and cats,
for example -- from the animals on my plate, and I never
really cared for the taste of meat. I always loved my
Brussels sprouts."
ALYSSA MILANO: Actress.
"The world has so much suffering in it already -- choosing
to be vegetarian is one thing you can do to reduce the
suffering on a daily basis."
THE DALAI LAMA: Humanist.
"I have been particularly concerned with the sufferings of
chickens for many years. It was a death of a chicken that
finally strengthened my resolve to become vegetarian.
These days, when I see a row of plucked chickens hanging
in a meat shop it hurts. I find it unacceptable that violence
is the basis of some of our food habits."
CASEY AFFLECK: Actor.
"I don't eat meat or any other animal products because
they're unhealthy and they're the product of a violent and
inhumane industry."
TOBEY MAGUIRE: Actor.
"I just never really liked meat. I had a tough time even
eating chicken. I would start imagining what I was eating
and the life of the animals and all that kind of stuff."
CARL LEWIS, ROBERT PARISH, DESMOND HOWARD, BILL PEARL,
KEITH HOLMES, CHRIS EVERT, AND EDWIN MOSES, all
vegetarians: Just a small sample of the many athletes
who practice healthy and humane living.
Beside receiving optimal nutrition from plant foods,
vegetarians also weigh less, on average, and have better
cardiovascular health and more stamima than meat-eaters.
Vegetarians and Vegans can choose from a large variety of
delicious and nutritous foods that make love to the taste buds.
See you all in the gym.
NATALIE PORTMAN: Israeli and American actress
"I am a very strict vegetarian ... I just really, really, love animals
and I act on my values ... I am really against cruelty to animals."
SIR PAUL McCARTNEY: Singer, songwriter, composer, poet,
painter, multi-instrumentalist,
entrepaneur, animal rights activist
"I am a vegetarian because I realize that even little chickens
suffer pain and fear, experience a range of feelings and
emotions, and are as intelligent as mammals, including
dogs, cats and even primates."
PAMELA ANDERSON: Actress, sex symbol, producer.
"Chickens, pigs, and other animals? They are interesting
individuals with personalities and intelligence. What
people need to understand is if they are eating animals,
they are promoting cruelty to animals."
JOAQUIN PHOENIX: Actor
"Animal rights is a part of my everyday life. When you live by
example, you create a certain level of awareness. Friends
of mine, people I have never discussed animal rights or
vegetariaism with, are adopting vegetarian habits because
they see it."
ALICIA SILVERSTONE: Actress.
"Since i've gone vegetarian, my body has never felt better
and my taste buds have been opened to a whole
new world. It's one of the most rewarding choices I'v e
ever made and I invite you to jon me in living a healthy,
cruelty-free lifestyle."
RUSSELL SIMMONS: Music and fashion mogul.
"Chickens raised for food today are covered in excrement,
they're diseased, and they are drugged with all sorts of
toxins that you are ingestng if you eat chickens. One
recent study found that chicken flesh in this country has
four times as much arsenic -- yes arsenic, the poison
(which is used in the drugs the chickens are given) as
any other meat .... I have been a vegan for many years."
CONSTANCE MARIE: Dancer, actress.
"I stopped eating meat when I was working on the movie
Selena. During the shoot, I had to hold a chicken for five
hours -- if you hold it and feel its little heart beatng for
hours, you just can't think about eating it.
LONNIE RASHID (STAGE NAME,COMMON): Singer, songwriter.
"I think and speak clearer since I cut the dairy out. I can breathe
better and perform better, and my voice is
clearer. I can explore different things with my voice that I
couldn't do because of my meat and dairy ingestion. I am
proud and blessed to be a vegetarian, everything became
clear."
ALEC BALDWIN: Actor, political activist.
"Everytime we sit down to eat, we make a choice: Please
choose vegetarianism. Do it for ... animals. Do it for the
environment and do it for your health."
JAMES CROMWELL: Film and tlevision actor.
"So-called farms today treat animals like so many boxes
in a warehouse, chopping off beaks, and tails and genitals
with no painkillers at all, inflicting third-degree burns
repeatedley by branding cows, ripping out the teeth of pigs,
and just a horrible catalog of abuses that, if done for dogs
or cats, would be illegal on grounds of animal cruelty."
KRISTEN BELL: Television and film actress.
"I have always been an animal lover. I had a hard tme
disassociating the animals I cuddled with -- dogs and cats,
for example -- from the animals on my plate, and I never
really cared for the taste of meat. I always loved my
Brussels sprouts."
ALYSSA MILANO: Actress.
"The world has so much suffering in it already -- choosing
to be vegetarian is one thing you can do to reduce the
suffering on a daily basis."
THE DALAI LAMA: Humanist.
"I have been particularly concerned with the sufferings of
chickens for many years. It was a death of a chicken that
finally strengthened my resolve to become vegetarian.
These days, when I see a row of plucked chickens hanging
in a meat shop it hurts. I find it unacceptable that violence
is the basis of some of our food habits."
CASEY AFFLECK: Actor.
"I don't eat meat or any other animal products because
they're unhealthy and they're the product of a violent and
inhumane industry."
TOBEY MAGUIRE: Actor.
"I just never really liked meat. I had a tough time even
eating chicken. I would start imagining what I was eating
and the life of the animals and all that kind of stuff."
CARL LEWIS, ROBERT PARISH, DESMOND HOWARD, BILL PEARL,
KEITH HOLMES, CHRIS EVERT, AND EDWIN MOSES, all
vegetarians: Just a small sample of the many athletes
who practice healthy and humane living.
Beside receiving optimal nutrition from plant foods,
vegetarians also weigh less, on average, and have better
cardiovascular health and more stamima than meat-eaters.
Vegetarians and Vegans can choose from a large variety of
delicious and nutritous foods that make love to the taste buds.
See you all in the gym.
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Sunday, February 10, 2008
IT'S ALL ABOUT ANIMALS
The following quotes are by men who have compassion for all living beings, who understand that animals play an important part in our lives and should be free to enjoy theirs.
It is man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.
Albert Schweitzer
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
Anatole France
I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvements, to leave off eatng animals, as surely as the early savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized world.
Henry David Thoreau
If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.
Leo Tolstoy
Hunting is not a sport. in a sport both sides should know they're in the game.
Author unknown
Animals are such agreeable friends -- they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
George Eliot
Friendliness to the environment and to the animals in it.
Anonymous
Fur looks and feels much better on live animals.
Oscar Colman
Most of us love anmals, right? SO HOW COME we place these animals in cages and throw away the key? We bring our children to the zoo (jail) so they can gawk at creatures small and large penned up against their will, prisoners not by choice (Read my article under the title, "Animals don't like cages," under the label entitled,"Tales for the young at heart,")
HOW COME we have allowed "people" to raise and train pitbulls to tear each other apart and to do the same with cock fighting for the amusement of gamblers and sadists? HOW COME little is done to stop roadside animal shows parading chained up and half-starving animals for the amusement of tourists.
HOW COME we place all manner of birds in cages in our homes and treat them like loving pets? These birds have wings to fly freely, to nest on trees, to explore their world, to mate, to have friends. Have we become jailers?
HOW COME we think nothing of placing small fish in fish bowls and tanks and watch large marine animals swim around and around and still around our glorious acquariums while we sit back and enjoy their discomfort, their misery? Can we not see how wrong this is? Where is our compassion, our understanding?
HOW COME it is a common thing to take live lobsters, place them in boiling water, watch them die and eat the dead flesh with gusto? We do this in our homes in front of our children. We are teaching our children that cruelty to animals is alright and even fun, a ceremony.
ENTER THE KILLERS, the proud outdoorsmen, the nature lovers, the hunters who think nothing of taking the lives of living beings, feeling beings. I guess there are two categories, the small game murderers and the big game murderers, the latter enjoying both the kill and the trophies. All assuredly proud members of the National Rifle Association. WE need guns they rant, lots of guns, every make of gun, we must protect ourselves, we must teach our young children to shoulder arms, to kill animals they chant, as they "bond" with 8 to 12 year youngsters -- family values?
For those of you who want to live healthy and productive lives, I say this. Join the growing number of vegetarian or vegan families and live longer and happier. Doctors have long known the advantages of meat free diets but have failed to press this as much as they rightfully should. Nutritionists know this as well but have been more outspoken and I laud them for this. Listen, there are literally thousands of healthy and delicioius vegetarian and vegan recipes. Just google it into your computers. I'll be 85 in a couple of months, my wife is 82, my sisters are 88 and 93 respecfully and my older brother was 89. Guess why?
Thanks for listening folks. I speak to your compassion and to your good health.
It is man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.
Albert Schweitzer
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
Anatole France
I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvements, to leave off eatng animals, as surely as the early savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized world.
Henry David Thoreau
If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.
Leo Tolstoy
Hunting is not a sport. in a sport both sides should know they're in the game.
Author unknown
Animals are such agreeable friends -- they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
George Eliot
Friendliness to the environment and to the animals in it.
Anonymous
Fur looks and feels much better on live animals.
Oscar Colman
Most of us love anmals, right? SO HOW COME we place these animals in cages and throw away the key? We bring our children to the zoo (jail) so they can gawk at creatures small and large penned up against their will, prisoners not by choice (Read my article under the title, "Animals don't like cages," under the label entitled,"Tales for the young at heart,")
HOW COME we have allowed "people" to raise and train pitbulls to tear each other apart and to do the same with cock fighting for the amusement of gamblers and sadists? HOW COME little is done to stop roadside animal shows parading chained up and half-starving animals for the amusement of tourists.
HOW COME we place all manner of birds in cages in our homes and treat them like loving pets? These birds have wings to fly freely, to nest on trees, to explore their world, to mate, to have friends. Have we become jailers?
HOW COME we think nothing of placing small fish in fish bowls and tanks and watch large marine animals swim around and around and still around our glorious acquariums while we sit back and enjoy their discomfort, their misery? Can we not see how wrong this is? Where is our compassion, our understanding?
HOW COME it is a common thing to take live lobsters, place them in boiling water, watch them die and eat the dead flesh with gusto? We do this in our homes in front of our children. We are teaching our children that cruelty to animals is alright and even fun, a ceremony.
ENTER THE KILLERS, the proud outdoorsmen, the nature lovers, the hunters who think nothing of taking the lives of living beings, feeling beings. I guess there are two categories, the small game murderers and the big game murderers, the latter enjoying both the kill and the trophies. All assuredly proud members of the National Rifle Association. WE need guns they rant, lots of guns, every make of gun, we must protect ourselves, we must teach our young children to shoulder arms, to kill animals they chant, as they "bond" with 8 to 12 year youngsters -- family values?
For those of you who want to live healthy and productive lives, I say this. Join the growing number of vegetarian or vegan families and live longer and happier. Doctors have long known the advantages of meat free diets but have failed to press this as much as they rightfully should. Nutritionists know this as well but have been more outspoken and I laud them for this. Listen, there are literally thousands of healthy and delicioius vegetarian and vegan recipes. Just google it into your computers. I'll be 85 in a couple of months, my wife is 82, my sisters are 88 and 93 respecfully and my older brother was 89. Guess why?
Thanks for listening folks. I speak to your compassion and to your good health.
Thursday, February 7, 2008
DUCKS AND GEESE
Ducks and geese are some of America's best known and beloved animals. Adept in water, land and air, these birds fly hundreds of miles each year to migrate. Both birds fly and swim in formations that reduce air and water resistance for the birds in the rear. Ducks live in couples or groups, while pairs of geese mate for life, mourning for a significant amount of time when their partners die.
These birds are severely abused by the meat and foie gras industries. Those that are raised for their flesh spend their entire lives crammed in dirty, dark sheds where they suffer from injury and disease and are deprived of everything that is natural to them.
Ducks and geese raised for 'foie gras' endure the pain of having a pipe shoved down their throats three times daily so that two pounds of grain can be pumped into their stomachs to produce the diseased 'fatty liver' that some diners consider a delicacy. Foie gras production has been deemed cruel and inhumane by experts worldwide. The state of California recently passed a law banning foie gras because the production methods are so cruel. Please let these intelligent and beautiful creatures live the lives they were meant to live, in peace. Thank you for listening. Ducky and Goosy send their love.
These birds are severely abused by the meat and foie gras industries. Those that are raised for their flesh spend their entire lives crammed in dirty, dark sheds where they suffer from injury and disease and are deprived of everything that is natural to them.
Ducks and geese raised for 'foie gras' endure the pain of having a pipe shoved down their throats three times daily so that two pounds of grain can be pumped into their stomachs to produce the diseased 'fatty liver' that some diners consider a delicacy. Foie gras production has been deemed cruel and inhumane by experts worldwide. The state of California recently passed a law banning foie gras because the production methods are so cruel. Please let these intelligent and beautiful creatures live the lives they were meant to live, in peace. Thank you for listening. Ducky and Goosy send their love.
Thursday, January 17, 2008
CHICKEN'S DEATH RIDE
Chickens are slammed into small cages and trucked to the slaughterhouse through all weather extremes. Hundreds of millions suffer from broken wings and legs from rough handling, and millions die from the stress of the journey. At the slaughterhouse, their legs are snapped into shackles, their throats are cut, and they are immersed in scalding hot water to remove their feathers. Because they have no federal legal protection (birds are exempt from the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act) most are still conscious when their throats are cut open, and many are literally scalded in the feather-removal tanks after missing the throat cutter.
CHICKENS LOVE THEIR CHICKS ALIVE
Birds exploited for their eggs, called "laying hens" by the industry, are crammed together in wire cages where they don't have enough room to even spread their wings. The cages are stacked on top of each other, and the excrement from chickens in the higher cages constantly fall on those below. The birds have part of their sensitive beaks cut off so that they won't peck each other as the result of the frustration created by the unnatural confinenment. After their bodies are exhausted and their production drops, they are shipped to slaughter, generally to be turned into chicken soup or cat and dog food because their flesh is too bruised and battered to be used for much else.
Free range chickens produce better eggs and the chickens will thank you.
NOTE: Because the male chicks of egg-laying breeder hens are unable to lay eggs and are not bred to produce excessive flesh for the meat industry, they are killed. Every year, more than 100 million of these young birds are ground up alive or tossed into bags to suffocate.
Free range chickens produce better eggs and the chickens will thank you.
NOTE: Because the male chicks of egg-laying breeder hens are unable to lay eggs and are not bred to produce excessive flesh for the meat industry, they are killed. Every year, more than 100 million of these young birds are ground up alive or tossed into bags to suffocate.
CHICKENS PREFER LIVING
Broiler chickens are raised for their flesh and spend their entire lives in filthy sheds with thousands of other birds, where intense crowding and confinement lead to outbreaks of disease. They are bred and drugged to grow large so quickly that their legs and organs can't keep up, making heart attacks, organ failure, and crippling leg deformaties common. When they are only 6 or 7 weeks old, they are crammed into cages and trucked to slaughter.
Monday, January 14, 2008
WANNA GET VERY FAT?
It's a fact that ham, sausage and bacon strips will go right to your hips and tummies and say hello to your arteries. Eating pork products which are loaded with artery-clogging cholesterol and saturated fat, is a good way to increase your waistline and increase your chances of developing deadly diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, osteoporosis, alzheimer's, asthma and impotence. Every time you eat animal products, you are also ingesting bacteria, antibiotics, dioxins, hormones, and a host of other toxins that can accumulate in your body and stay there for years and years.
Meat eaters are 9 times more likely to be obese than pure vegetarians or vegans, most of the time.
Meat eaters are 9 times more likely to be obese than pure vegetarians or vegans, most of the time.
BACTERIA-LADEN BACON AND HAM
Extremely crowded conditions, poor ventilation, and filth in factory farms cause such rampant disease in pigs that 70% of them have pneumonia by the time they are sent to the slaughterhouse. In order to keep pigs alive in conditions that would ordinarily kill them and to promote unnaturally fast growth, the industry keeps pigs on a steady diet of the antibiotics that we depend on to treat human illnesses. This overdose of antibiotics has led to the development of "Superbacteria," on antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains. The ham, bacon, and sausage that you are eating may make the drugs that your doctor prescibes the next time you get sick completely ineffective.
Bon appetite!
Bon appetite!
THE MANURE IS BLOWING IN THE WIND
A pig farm with 5000 animals produces as much fecal waste as a city of 50,000 people. In 1995, 25 million gallons of putrid hog urine and feces spilled into a North Carolina river, immediately killing between 10 and 14 million fish. To get around water pollution limits, factory farms will frequently take the tons of urine and feces that are stored in cesspools and turn them into liquid waste that they spray into the air. This manure-filled mist is carried away by the wind and inhaled by the people who live nearby.
Take a deep breath meat-eaters.
Take a deep breath meat-eaters.
Killing them WITHOUT kindness
A typical slaughterhouse kills up to 1100 pigs every hour, which makes it impossible for them to be given humane, painless deaths. The U.S. department of agriculture documated 14 humane slaughter violations at one procesing plant, where inspectors found hogs who "were walking and squealing after being stunned with a stun gun as many as 4 times." Because of improper stunning methods and extremely fast line speeds, many pigs are still alive when they are dumped into scalding hot hair-removal tanks -- they literally drown in scalding hot-water.
Pork ribs anyone?
Pork ribs anyone?
PIGS HAVE FEELINGS TOO
Most pigs in the u.s. today are raised in factory farms, where they will never run across sprawling pastures, bask in the sun, breathe fresh air or do anything that is natural to them. Crowded into warehouses with nothing to do and nowhere to go, they are kept at a steady diet of drugs to keep them alive and make them grow faster, but the drugs cause many of the animals to become crippled under their one bulk.
Sausages anyone?
Sausages anyone?
FARMING FAMILY VALUES
Factory farms are pure hell for pigs and their babies. Mother pigs spend most of their lives in tiny gestatiion crates, which are so small that the animals are unable to turn around or even lie comfortably. They are repeatedly impregnated until they are slaughtered. Piglets, who are taken away from their distraught mothers, after just a few weeks, have their tails chopped off, their teeth clipped off with pliers, and the males are castrated -- all without pain killlers. Bacon anyone?
PIGS PREFER MUD NOT CRUD
Pigs are exrtremely clever animals who form complex social networks and have excellent memories.
They are actually very clean animals. If they are given sufficient space, pigs are careful not to soil the areas where they sleep or eat. These animals can't sweat, that's why they bathe in water or mud to cool
off. But in factory farms, they are forced to live in their own feces and vomit and even the corpses of other pigs. Conditions are so filthy that at any given time, more than one quarter of pigs suffer from mange. Think of your worst case of poison ivy and imagine having to suffer from it for the rest of your life.
They are actually very clean animals. If they are given sufficient space, pigs are careful not to soil the areas where they sleep or eat. These animals can't sweat, that's why they bathe in water or mud to cool
off. But in factory farms, they are forced to live in their own feces and vomit and even the corpses of other pigs. Conditions are so filthy that at any given time, more than one quarter of pigs suffer from mange. Think of your worst case of poison ivy and imagine having to suffer from it for the rest of your life.
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
TALKING COLD TURKEY
Ben franklin called turkeys "true American originals." He had
tremendous respect for their resourcefulness, agility and beauty.
Turkeys are intelligent animals who enjoy having their feathers
stroked. They will often sing quite loudly along with music.
Try it, next time you come across a turkey in your area. We
have a family of wild turkeys who have come to call our Oakland
hills, home. They own the roads and driveways and are very
content to settle down, and enjoy our company. No one will
abuse or interfere with them. They come and go and we miss
them when they are away.
In nature they can fly some 55 miles an hour, run 25 miles an
hour and live up to four years and beyond, if left to their own
resources.
However the story's very different for turkeys on factory farms.
They will be killed when they are only 4 or 5 months old, and
during their short lives, they will be denied even the simplest
pleasures, like running, building nests, and raising their young.
Thousands are crammed into filthy sheds and their beaks and
toes are burned off eith a hot blade. Many suffer debilitating
leg pain, often becoming crippled uder the weight of their
genetically manipulated and drugged bodies. When the time
comes for slaughter, they are thrown into transport trucks, and
when they arrive at the slaughterhouse, their throats are cut and
their feathers burned off, often while they are still conscious.
Turkeys and birds, like all animals are sensitive, intelligent, can
communicate, feel pain, love their young, and feal fear. They are
alive and want to remain alive. Xmas has come and gone and so
have 300 million of these as well, in the U.S OF A, land of the brave
and the free.
tremendous respect for their resourcefulness, agility and beauty.
Turkeys are intelligent animals who enjoy having their feathers
stroked. They will often sing quite loudly along with music.
Try it, next time you come across a turkey in your area. We
have a family of wild turkeys who have come to call our Oakland
hills, home. They own the roads and driveways and are very
content to settle down, and enjoy our company. No one will
abuse or interfere with them. They come and go and we miss
them when they are away.
In nature they can fly some 55 miles an hour, run 25 miles an
hour and live up to four years and beyond, if left to their own
resources.
However the story's very different for turkeys on factory farms.
They will be killed when they are only 4 or 5 months old, and
during their short lives, they will be denied even the simplest
pleasures, like running, building nests, and raising their young.
Thousands are crammed into filthy sheds and their beaks and
toes are burned off eith a hot blade. Many suffer debilitating
leg pain, often becoming crippled uder the weight of their
genetically manipulated and drugged bodies. When the time
comes for slaughter, they are thrown into transport trucks, and
when they arrive at the slaughterhouse, their throats are cut and
their feathers burned off, often while they are still conscious.
Turkeys and birds, like all animals are sensitive, intelligent, can
communicate, feel pain, love their young, and feal fear. They are
alive and want to remain alive. Xmas has come and gone and so
have 300 million of these as well, in the U.S OF A, land of the brave
and the free.
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
ALL ABOUT COWS
THERE ARE NO DUMB ANIMALS, JUST DUMN PEOPLE WHO MISTREAT THEM.
Let's talk about cows. They are social animals and prefer to spend their time together,
forming complex relationships, very much like dogs forming packs. All animals have
strong maternal bonds with their children, and cows on dairy farms and cattle ranches
are no exception. If you happen to get close to these bovine creatures, you may hear
them crying out for their calves for days on end after they are separated, taken away,
never to return.
In the US, more than 41 million of these sensitive animals suffer and die for the meat
and dairy industries every year. When still young, cows are branded with hot irons,
their testicles are ripped out of their scrotums (castration), horns are cut or burned
off -- no pain killers are used. When big enough, they are sent to massive, muddy
feedlots to be fattened for slaughter on factory dairy farms. There, they will be
repeatedly impregnated, separated from their calves until their bodies give out and
they are sent to die. Factory dairy farms are far removed from the rural setting, where
you will find Tom, Dick and Sarah rising at 5 a.m. to milk gentle bossy.
Cattle raised for beef may be born in one state, fattened in another and slaughtered
in yet another. They are then transported hundreds of miles in all weather extremes
to the slaughterhouse. On the way there, they are packed in like sardines and many die
before reaching their destination.
The survivors are shot in the head with a bolt gun, hung up by their legs, taken on to
the killinng floor, where their throats are cut and they are skinned. Some cows remain
fully conscious throughout the entire process -- according to a slaughterhouse worker,
in an interview with the Washington Post, "They die piece by piece." I saw and heard
the video and the memory will haunt me for the rest of my life.
Sorry, I am not through yet. Calves for veal are kept in stalls so small that they can't
turn around. Can you even begin to imagine such cruelty. Anyone for "Osso Buco"
or "Braised veal short ribs?" For those of you who revel in Steak, the "I'll have mine rare."
crowd is saying as their teeth sink in to the remains of a dead animal's flesh.
Just a couple of more things. Want to live better, longer? There are thousands of
hearty, healthy, delicious recipes on the internet. Just google in, Vegetarian or
Vegan recipes. Bon appetite! Your comments, good or bad are welcome.
Let's talk about cows. They are social animals and prefer to spend their time together,
forming complex relationships, very much like dogs forming packs. All animals have
strong maternal bonds with their children, and cows on dairy farms and cattle ranches
are no exception. If you happen to get close to these bovine creatures, you may hear
them crying out for their calves for days on end after they are separated, taken away,
never to return.
In the US, more than 41 million of these sensitive animals suffer and die for the meat
and dairy industries every year. When still young, cows are branded with hot irons,
their testicles are ripped out of their scrotums (castration), horns are cut or burned
off -- no pain killers are used. When big enough, they are sent to massive, muddy
feedlots to be fattened for slaughter on factory dairy farms. There, they will be
repeatedly impregnated, separated from their calves until their bodies give out and
they are sent to die. Factory dairy farms are far removed from the rural setting, where
you will find Tom, Dick and Sarah rising at 5 a.m. to milk gentle bossy.
Cattle raised for beef may be born in one state, fattened in another and slaughtered
in yet another. They are then transported hundreds of miles in all weather extremes
to the slaughterhouse. On the way there, they are packed in like sardines and many die
before reaching their destination.
The survivors are shot in the head with a bolt gun, hung up by their legs, taken on to
the killinng floor, where their throats are cut and they are skinned. Some cows remain
fully conscious throughout the entire process -- according to a slaughterhouse worker,
in an interview with the Washington Post, "They die piece by piece." I saw and heard
the video and the memory will haunt me for the rest of my life.
Sorry, I am not through yet. Calves for veal are kept in stalls so small that they can't
turn around. Can you even begin to imagine such cruelty. Anyone for "Osso Buco"
or "Braised veal short ribs?" For those of you who revel in Steak, the "I'll have mine rare."
crowd is saying as their teeth sink in to the remains of a dead animal's flesh.
Just a couple of more things. Want to live better, longer? There are thousands of
hearty, healthy, delicious recipes on the internet. Just google in, Vegetarian or
Vegan recipes. Bon appetite! Your comments, good or bad are welcome.
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