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The Real Eternal Friday

     They decided to meet at the Chinese restaurant next door to the bowling alley, because the food there was great, and although the bowling alley hosted a league on Thursday nights and got super crowded, almost no one dined in at the restaurant.  Most of the business came from takeout orders, so the four of them could eat and talk in peace.

     Jessica and Sathvik showed up at about the same time and requested the booth in the corner by the window.  “Let me get that for you,” he said, helping remove her coat.  “How’ve you been, Jess?”

     “Oh, not bad.  I have a thousand different things to do by the end of the week, and I haven’t started on any.”

     “Sounds like a typical week, then,” he smiled.

     “Yep, pretty much.  How are you doing, Sathvik?”

     “I’ve got two thousand things to do this week, and I actually have started a few of them.”

     “You overachiever,” she scowled.

     “Really?  You guys want to sit by the window?”  A tall guy with a blonde semi-mohawk stood by the front door.  “Hello, I’m with them,” he waved to the hostess.

     “Stanley, what’s up, broseph?”

     “Sathvik.  Jessica,” he nodded, tossing his jacket on the window ledge.  “Have you guys ordered yet?”

     “What’s wrong with by the window?” asked Jessica.

     “It just feels so… public.”

     “We are in public, restaurants are public places,” said Sathvik.  “No, we haven’t ordered yet.”

     “Let’s get some fried wontons.”

     “Ugh, no thank you.  I’m fat enough as it is.”

     “You’re not fat, Jess.”

     “Yes, I am, Stan.”

     “No, you’re not.”

     “How about spring rolls?  Those are pretty healthy.”

     “Sounds good.”  Jessica motioned for the waiter.

     “Are you ready to order?”

     “We’d like some apps, and drinks,” said Stanley.  “Our friend is running a little late.  We’ll wait till he shows up to order our entrées.  Jess, what do you want to drink?”

     “I’ll have wine, please.  Red, merlot, or whatever is cheapest.”

     “Dr. Pepper, if you have it.”

     “What if they only have Pibb?”

     “We have Dr. Pepper,” said the waiter.  “For you, sir?”

     “I’ll have a Tsingtao.”

     “What if they only have Sapporo?” asked Jessica.

     “Don’t speak,” said Stanley.

     Jake arrived as they were arguing over who should get the last spring roll.  “Sorry, guys, my mom threw a bunch of work at me, like she does every time I go over there.  Hey, is anyone gonna eat that spring roll?”

     As soon as they’d ordered their food they started the meeting.  Sathvik suggested they each take a few minutes to present their work so far, including a brief summary of their sections, their focus, themes, what they’d written, the tone and perspective of their writing, etc., and after everyone had gotten a chance to talk they could address specific concerns and discuss the big picture of the book in light of what they’d heard.

     “My section begins with the last date I had with Laura.”

     “The one when—”

     “Yes, when she broke up with me.”

     “Good call,” said Jessica.

     “I tell it like an action piece, put the reader in my shoes, my mind.  It’s graduation, we’re launching out into the world, no more school, new jobs, high hopes for the future, and then, bam.”

     “She drops the H-bomb.”

     “What’s the H-bomb?” asked Stanley.

     “You don’t know what the H-bomb is?”

     “The Hydrogen bomb,” said Sathvik.  “The most destructive weapon known to man.  It’s a metaphor, Stan, she told me she wanted to break up.”

     “She broke his heart,” said Jessica.

     “She crushed my heart.  And that’s how I introduce my life since then.  I talk about my work, the shift from college to career, my social life, my perspective on romance and dating, and go through some of the experiences I’ve had since breaking up with Laura.”

     “It sounds like a journal,” said Stanley.

     “It’s more objective than that.”

     “Do you mention specific people?”

     “I describe a few of the dates I went on.  Where we went, what we discussed, good and bad vibes, how the nights ended.  I changed all the names of course.”

     “How many women have you dated?”

     “Since Laura?  Two, one of whom is… ongoing.”

     “Not officially.”

     “Does she know about the book?” asked Jake.

     “Of course.  Alright, who’s next?”  He pointed at Jessica.

     “Why me?”  She rolled her eyes.  “Fine.  I begin with my first kiss.”

     “Aww, how sweet.”

     “Shut up, Stan.  Twelve years-old, my last year at summer camp, spin the bottle with the boys in the pavilion.”

     “What was his name?”

     “None of your business.”

     “Dang, someone’s touchy tonight.”

     “Let her talk, Stan,” Jake grumbled.

     “Thank you.  Start with my first kiss, jump from there to my boyfriends in high school, juxtapose that with the dreams I’d acquired from books, movies, imagination.  I’ve only really outlined the piece so far.  It’s good, but it’s…”

     “Miserable.  Quite fitting in fact, for such is my love life.”

     “What about Todd?”

     “I’ll reference that as a transitional period, when I realized not all men are evil.  It’s a work in progress.  I intend to mine a nugget of hope from the dark solitude of my existence.  Okay, who’s next?”

     “Fair enough,” said Sathvik.  “Jake, how about you?”

     “Look at that smile,” laughed Jessica.

     “Y’all already know what my section’s about.”

     “The coolest lady on the planet,” she and Sathvik said in unison.

     “Great, so it’s a love letter,” said Stanley.

     “It’s about love, it isn’t a love letter.”

     “How did you start?”

     “With something my dad told me when I was a kid.  On the way home from junior high one day, he turned to me when we were stopped at a stoplight, and said, ‘Jacob, a man’s got two jobs to do in this world.  Serve the Lord, and love his wife.’  I start with that and go on to talk about Abbie.”

     “What do you focus on?” asked Stanley.

     “Everything.  Her eyes, her hair, her nose, her lips…”

     They all laughed.

     “Do you talk about race at all?” he asked.

     “Here and there.”

     “Why is that important?” asked Jessica.

     “It’s not,” said Stanley, “but it’s interesting.  He’s black, she’s white, it could provide some good material for a book about relationships.”

     “I mention race in my section,” said Sathvik, “the cultural aspect, my parents’ views on dating, establish a background for where I’m at now.”

     “He shouldn’t have to write about race if he doesn’t want to.”

     “I’m not saying he has to, I’m just saying readers might find it interesting.  The conflicts, social stigmas, prejudice, stuff like that.”

     “I get it,” said Jake.  “I considered going that route, but honestly I’d rather make it about Abbie and me, more than about Abbie and me and the world.  We’ve been together for three and a half amazing years, and yeah, the race thing has been a factor, but it’s not what we’re about.”

     The waiter set a large tray holding the group’s entrées on a foldable stand next to the table.  “Moo Shu Pork?  Okay.  Chicken Lo Mein?  Okay.  General Tsao’s Chicken?  Okay.  Mongolian Beef?  Okay.  May I refill your drinks?  Yes.  No.  Yes.  Yes.  Okay, thank you.”

     “This looks uber-delish,” said Jessica.

     “Uber-delish?” said Sathvik.

     “You’re a bunch of uber-dorks,” said Stanley.

     “What are you writing, Stan?” Jake asked as they dug in to their meal.

     “Confessions… of the Studliest Stud in Studderton.”

     “Sounds delightful,” said Jessica.

     “Sounds fictional,” said Sathvik.

     “Very funny, Vik.  No, I’m actually doing a story about the future.  I’m writing about my wife, whoever she is, and how I’d like it to be someday.  We wake up in the morning, eat breakfast together, joke and laugh and kiss each other.  How marriage is supposed to be, you know, through my eyes.”

     “That actually does sound delightful.”

     “What are you going to call it?”

     “The Real Eternal Friday.”

The arched ceiling lent the public library an air of tranquil liberty, as if it were easier to breathe inside than it was out on the street.  Jerry sat down at one of the large rectangular tables between the rows of bookshelves, removed his notepad, his pocket Thesaurus, and three Bic pens.  This day marked the commencement of a new kind of project for him.  Moderate success as a novelist and short story writer had helped to supplement his VA benefits in recent years, but lately he’d felt like trying something new.  Instead of another suspense novel or historical short fiction collection, he would embark on the creation of an epic poem in the tradition of Homer or Milton, a work to further distinguish him and solidify his literary legacy.

Forests of the Meremac,” he wrote on the top line of his notepad, “Part I.”  While contemplating the first image of the poem he noticed a woman three tables down, staring at him.  A beautiful woman, relatively young, sad-looking, the skin around her eyes slightly puffy as though she had been crying.  Upon making eye contact with him she smiled, awakening a brightness in her face that prompted him to smile back, and kindly nod a greeting.

The woman stood up, passed quietly up the aisle toward him, letting her fingertips graze the cotton fabric on Jerry’s shoulder, then proceeding out the door into the side lot of the library.  After making love to her in his car, he learned that her name was Lana and she worked at the Thai restaurant about a mile away.  She visited the library on her lunch break to enjoy its peace and quiet.  She told him goodbye, she had to get back to work, and maybe she’d see him around sometime.

Returning to the table and unpacking his things, Jerry recommenced the writing of his poem, envisioning the landscapes he’d seen, the oceans, cliffs, rivers, plains, and forests in all the places he’d traveled to throughout the world.  Finding no sufficiently powerful image to begin the piece, he turned to some of the books from which he hoped to draw inspiration.

First, he quoted Homer, the war metaphors of Agamemnon and his soldiers overwhelming the Trojan Army in The Iliad.  “Even as a lion easily crushes the speechless young of a swift deer, coming into its lair, seizing them in its powerful teeth and taking away their tender life—”

Next, he drew from The Odyssey, Circe’s warning to Odysseus to resist the Sirens’ song.  “If any one unwarily draws in too close and hears the singing of the Sirens, his wife and children will never welcome him home again, for they sit in a green field and warble him to death with the sweetness of their song.  There is a great heap of dead men’s bones lying all around, with the flesh still rotting off them.”

Third, he recalled the envious cry of Satan upon seeing Adam and Eve for the first time in Paradise Lost.  “Into our room of bliss thus high advanc’t/Creatures of other mould, earth-born perhaps/Not Spirits, yet to heav’nly Spirits bright/Little inferior; whom my thoughts pursue/With wonder, and could love, so lively shines/In them Divine resemblance, and such grace/The hand that formd them on thir shape hath pourd.”

Again he tried putting his pen to paper, and again he found no image, nor even one word, to start with.  Opting rather to devote the afternoon to promotional work, he collected his things and drove home to use his office computer.  He lived alone, and that evening he thought of Lana, replaying the details of their encounter outside the library.  He wondered if she might meet him again.  It was possible she’d intended it as a one-time, no strings attached type of connection, although she did say, “See you around,” when they said goodbye.  Jerry scratched the neck of his overfed border collie.  “Same deal tomorrow, Saucer.  We’ll try the poem again tomorrow.”

No sign of her the next day, or the next, or the next, and no matter how he struggled Jerry couldn’t produce a single line of his epic poem.  He’d sit there pondering, for hours some days, mining his intellect for the ideal words, moods, and images to catapult his readers into a grand thrilling adventure.  His fiction had practically written itself in the past, but poetry was different.  With fiction all he had to do was ramble on like he was telling a story to a group of friends around a campfire.  With poems each word had to count, every line had to radiate aesthetic power.

A week of fruitless writing sessions elapsed before he decided to stop by the Thai restaurant where Lana worked.  Worst case scenario, she wouldn’t want to see him and would ask him to leave.  Best case scenario, she’d be happy to see him and would go on a date that very evening.  The restaurant was empty, which wasn’t surprising at two forty-five.  No one at the desk to greet him.  Behind the desk an enormous golden dragon, the length of a small car, sat mounted on a base of elaborately carved jade.  The base rested on a wide cutout in the wall that looked designed to hold an aquarium of exotic fish.  He stood admiring the dragon for a moment, beholding its dynamic posture, intricate features, and shiny gold scales, its blazing yellow eyes fixed on him.

“Can-help you, sir?” a man shouted through the cutout.  One of the cooks, perhaps the only cook, had spotted him from the kitchen.

“Oh, hello.  Is Lana here?  I’m looking for Lana.”

“Lana went home.  She gone today.  Come back, tomorrow.”

“Do you happen to have her phone number?”  Jerry raised his thumb and pinky to his ear.  “Phone number?”

The cook peered over the dragon through the cutout.  “Ah, yes.  Wait a minute.”  A minute later he marched around the wall to hand him a slip of paper.  “Lana house.  You friend.  See you now.  Bye.”

Jerry left, unfolding the paper as he walked down the sidewalk.  It read:  Lana Kendrol, 2103 Sentry St., Apt. 3-D1.  He consulted his phone for directions.

The beige brick building was located in a courtyard with seven other identical buildings.  The buzzer for 3-D1 had a blank plastic strip beside it, and made no sound when Jerry pressed it, so he started up the steps.  Rounding the banister between the second and third floors, the words, “He who does not gather with me scatters,” spray-painted in tall black letters, halted him at the foot of the final set of stairs.  “He who does not gather with me scatters,” he said slowly, lightly wheezing.  The source of the words eluded him.  They reminded him of a bedtime story his grandma used to read.  Scratching his head, he carried on up the stairs and knocked loudly on Lana’s door.  No sound inside, no music or voices, until she appeared.

“Hi, Lana,” he smiled.  “I’m sorry to surprise you like this.  You never gave me your number.  The cook at your restaurant, he told me where you live.  I just wanted your phone number, but he—I’m sorry, are you busy right now?”

“Well, it is my day off.  I was trying to relax a bit.  Food service is no joke.  The pay isn’t bad, though.”  Noticing his breathing, she invited him in.

“Nice place,” he said, glancing around the small yet stylishly decorated living room.

“Thank you, sir,” she handed him a beer.  “So what brings you here?”

“Good question,” he laughed.  “I’ve been trying to write this poem, it’s an epic poem, you know, like The Odyssey or Paradise Lost.  That’s what I was doing at the library last week.”

Lana sipped her beer.  “How’s it going so far?”

“Not well.”

“No.  For the first time in my career I can’t seem to start the damn thing.  Usually the words just roll out like, like the gears of a clock.”

“Quite the metaphor,” she smiled.

“Simile, actually—not really important.  Look, do you wanna go out sometime?  I had a great time the other day and I’d like to see you again, more formally, hopefully, like a date.”

Lana froze with the glass halfway to her lips.  “Jerry, I have a boyfriend.”

“Sorry, yeah, I thought you knew.  What happened last Tuesday was…  I just needed to feel better.”

He sat still for a second as the words sank in.  “You mean your boyfriend doesn’t care if you…”

“It’s not like I tell him about it, but yeah, he knows.  We have an agreement.”

“Huh… Alright.  In that case, I guess I’ll be leaving.”  He set his beer on the table and stood up.

“You’re not upset, are you?”

“Me?  No, why should I be?  I’m sorry to show up like this.”

“Don’t be.  Please.”  Lana’s eyes were kind, sincere.

On his drive home he switched the radio to the Classic Rock station.  He drove slowly, carefully rounding corners, gradually applying the brakes and gas.  One of his all-time favorite songs started playing, and he turned it up until it hurt his ears.  Hey Jude, don’t make it bad. Take a sad song, and make it better…

Vincent Skybolt

Vincent Skybolt, best known for his work as vocalist and front man of the heavy metal group, Death Pandas of Milan, was born Vincent Raymond Kinison on May 15, 1944.  His father, Henry John Kinison, an American aircraft engineer, and his mother, Renée Miller-Kinison, a Scottish factory worker-turned-avant-garde painter, met in Tunisia when their flights had intersecting layovers in the capital city of Tunis.  Renée accompanied Henry to Indianapolis, where they were married, and the following year young Vincent was born.

The future dark Rock pioneer, considered by some to be the most prodigal musical curiosity of the twentieth century, emerged from the womb with a malformed right ear and jawline, the earlobe stretching to just below the hinge of his jaw and fusing with the soft skin underneath his right mandible.  This deformity served as inspiration for his stage name, Vincent Skybolt, since in his early teens he adopted the custom of telling those who asked about his face that he had been struck by lightning when, on a dare, he’d climbed to the top of an electrical tower during a thunderstorm.  Severely rattled, he admitted, though not incapacitated, he’d managed to climb back down and avoid further injury.

Much of Vincent’s early life remains unknown.  Dropping out of high school his sophomore year, in the Fall of 1960, he took the stage unannounced at his Homecoming dance, overpowering the befuddled doo-wop group, Shooby and The Boppers, with a deafening rendition of one of his earliest original songs, “Pumpkin-Muffie Insane.”  Lyrics:
Greed will murder your soul,
Greed will drive you insane!

Repeat, 3X
Pumpkin-Muffie your soul,
Pumpkin-Muffie insane!

Repeat, 1X
Repeat all, 4X

Between then and the release of his band’s self-titled debut, Death Pandas of Milan, nearly fourteen years later, little is known about the specifics of Vincent’s work and life.  Rumors persist about him scaling the summit of Everest, barehandedly subduing rogue hippopotami in the jungles of Mozambique, researching snake venom resistance in northern Siberia, and taming homicidal Great Whites in Australia.  Prior to the album’s release in 1974 few people had ever heard the name, Vincent Skybolt, and in the years after as well.  Death Pandas of Milan sold seventy-one copies in the United States, four hundred and sixty-three copies worldwide, to the disappointment of his bandmates, whom he had met in the course of his travels.

Archibald Plundertribe ~  lead guitar, pipes, theremin
Menelaus Williams ~  drums, percussion, gas engines, xylophone
Barnabas X ~  piano, keyboards
Yip Wong Phan ~  bass, cello, alpenhorn

Vincent sings lead vocals and plays rhythm guitar on a majority of the group’s nineteen studio albums recorded between 1974 and his alleged death in 2008.  Many of them weren’t released upon completion, and most of the albums have yet to be made available to the public.

To conclude this brief biography, the lyrics of one of Vincent Skybolt’s finest solo compositions, “Deathboat to Snowhere”:
Skies on fire, burn so bad,

Skies on ice, cold, cold skice!
Skies that hunger, oceans of hunger,
Deathboat to snowhere, sink us down…

Repeat, 6X


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Qlippoth An Alternative View

Qlippoth An Alternative View

There is a common belief in certain circles that there are two QBL Trees of Life: the Light or Dayside Tree and the Dark or Nightside Tree.  The Light Tree, fig 1, and the Dark Tree, fig 2 (fig 1 inverted).

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fig 2

When displayed together they are often arranged as in fig 3.

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fig 3

There is an argument for this, but, we might also consider that when we understand all is perspective, we then realize there is only one Tree. When a body is alive, the four worlds of the QBL are engaged together like gears in a machine, fig 4.

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Study of this diagram reveals when the worlds are arranged as in fig 4, the sphere Daath, which traditionally does not exist, does in fact exist, because it is the Yesod of the world above.  One could describe Daath as being an apparition or alien intrusion of Yesod from the world above. When a body dies, these four worlds disengage and the sphere Daath is no longer present.  Daath, therefore, is a quality exhibited in a body when it is alive but is not present after the point of death. Be aware, it is not only Daath and Yesod that align, other sephirah and paths resonate with each other:  one example being Binah and Hod and another being paths, Daleth which connects Chokmah to Briah and Peh, which connects Netzach to Hod, the tarot cards the Empress and the Tower.  Resonating paths can be considered as combinations of notes in music that create a chord, a harmonic. When we look at fig 4 we see the four worlds, Atziluth, Briah, Yetzirah and Assiah are engaged.  We can take this a step further by making the four worlds in to a circle, through aligning the two “X”, fig 5.

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When we do this we find that Malkuth of Assiah aligns with Tiphareth of Atziluth.  fig 5 If we travel the tree in the conventional way, climbing vertically, the tree is always in its traditional arrangement with Kether at the top.  However, if instead of following the circumference of the wheel of the four worlds, we travel across its diameter, we arrive on the far side of the wheel to find the tree appears to be upside down with Kether at the bottom.  This is what some would call the Qlippothic or dark Tree.  However, it only appears to be Qlippothic if we fail to adjust our perspective to the new environment.  Meaning, it is we who are inverted, not the tree, and it is we who need to adjust and realign to the new conditions.  The condition is like that of being outside of the Earth in space where there is no up or down. When we travel across the diameter of the circle, we are making a dimension shift demanding we make a perspective shift to adjust to our new environment, if we do not, when we arrive at our destination, the surroundings will be disordered and chaotic, a condition traditionally referred to as Hell. Regarding perception, here is a quote in the words of William Blake from his work The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, “If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite”. All this helps us understand that one man’s god is another mans demon.

See Also

QBL Dream Linguistics

Suggested Reading

Nightside of Eden                            Kenneth Grant

Typhonian Teratomas                    Mishlen Linden

Liber 231                                            Aleister Crowley

Lucifer Diaries                                   Roger Williamson

Howling at the Sky                          Roger Williamson

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Is it mandatory that Christian women should wear head coverings or veils?

head coveringsPastor Aleksey Kolimiytsev wrote a blog on whether it is necessary for a woman to wear a head covering or a veil, while praying. I definitely think its worth your time, reading it. Here it is.

How do we interpret 1 Corinthians 11:1-16? Does this scripture indicate that Christians must wear a head covering at all times?

The issue of head coverings and veils often leads to debates and arguments. This happens because people elevate something into the realm of dogma that which for some reason God did not consider important enough to explain in His Word, the Bible. The issue of head coverings is only mentioned once in the New Testament, in 1 Corinthians 11:3-16. Jesus Christ did not say anything concerning this issue, nor did Peter, James, and John mention anything in their letters. The problem becomes even more significant, because the only time that Apostle Paul does mention a head covering, his main theme is not elements of clothing, but the roles and authority in the structure of a family. The covering of the head, in this scripture by Paul, is more of an illustration of the principle of a wife’s submissiveness to her husband. Not a doctrinal teaching for the head covering.

This is mostly why Paul does not present a detailed teaching concerning this issue. Furthermore, speaking of a head covering, he uses several arguments that were easy to understand for the Corinthians, but harder to understand for those who are unfamiliar with that culture. While studying similar scriptures, a reader is always faced with a certain complexity, requiring special care and attention to not miss that which is God’s commandment, and at the same time not to elevate something into the rank of doctrine, that which is not.

First of all, it is important to notice that with all the intricacy of this text, the main theme is absolutely clear and easily understood to the modern reader. Paul states it in the very beginning with the following words, “But I want you to know that the head of every man is Christ, the head of woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.” (1 Cor. 11:3). This principle is the main thesis in this section of scripture. It was very important for Paul to set in place of a Corinthian believer an unchangeable principle of responsibility and authority inside the family, and not to allow for roles set in place by God to be mixed with the cultural roles. Therefore, he confirms it directly. This principle concerning authority is also confirmed in other epistles and in the Gospels.

Therefore, the leadership of a man at home – is without doubt and debate, the main theme of this text, as considered by most scholars. The problem starts when Paul transitions to use his illustration as to explain his main thesis. To show that men and women are created differently and to make his point clear and convincing for believers in Corinth, the apostle shows them a visual illustration. He highlights the fact that the different roles of men and women are natural, and are also visible in the outside appearance. Paul uses the known fact, that in Corinth, praying men did not cover their head, while women did (11:4-7). When either of them disobeyed one of these orders, it was a dishonor to them. The apostle demonstrates that men and women cannot be the same for they are created different, and it is also evident in the social structure of a community.

After having mentioned head coverings in verses 4-7, Paul again goes back to his main thesis, bringing up another argument why a wife is to be submissive to a husband, “For man did not come from woman, but woman from man; neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.” (11:8-9). Furthermore in verses 11-12, Paul brings balance to this issue, saying that even though men and women have different roles, they have equal value in the eyes of God. At the end of this text in verse 13, Paul again goes back to his head covering illustration, but from a different viewpoint.

As it was already said, most people studying this text do not have doubts about the main thesis of this section of scripture. They agree that men and women are different, and that they play different roles in the family and community. Debate rises when Paul uses his illustration. Can you, and should you see in this illustration a Biblical standard, making the head covering a must for all women, at all times? To answer this question, one must study the full text and meaning of what this illustration is saying. And it is here, where several complexities arise.

Verses 4-7 explicitly deal with the cultural characteristics of Corinth, where Paul speaks of “glory” and “shame.” It appears that for a Corinthian woman to cut her hair, she associated herself with a class of women who set themselves on the same level as men. Paul refers to this fact, as to what was clear and easily understood by his readers. He speaks without special explanation knowing that his readers knew very well what he was referring to.

The first complexity is in verse 10. The original text does not have some of the words that the Russian synodal version has, making it harder to understand. In the Russian translation, it is written like this, “Therefore, a wife must have on her head her sign of authority over her for angels. The words, “her sign” and “over her” are cursive, which means that these words do not exist in the original. If you omit the non-existent words, then that verse will say something like this, “Therefore a wife must have on her head authority for angels.” What it means to have authority on one’s head is difficult to understand. Therefore, being in a difficult situation, the translators added the word “sign.” They picked a word that in their opinion suited the text best, to make the phrase understandable. The phrase definitely gained a meaning, but we cannot guarantee that it was the meaning set by God, because we are not dealing with God’s words, but with something that was added by people, in other words, the interpretation of the translator. This means that this verse cannot be our only foundation for formation of a doctrine. For a doctrine to be formed, you need the confirmation of other, clear texts.

Furthermore, if one uses this translation with the added words, it is hard to understand how a veil can be a sign for angels and why it is necessary for angels. The history of the interpretation of this scripture has known dozens of attempts to explain how the veil can be a sign for angels, but not one of those explanations have a strong, compelling reason. All of them are based on subjective, not provable assumptions.

Another difficulty in interpreting the illustration with a veil is found in verse 15. The Russian translation of this sentence ends with a question mark, “for hair is given her for a covering?” In the original Greek, there is no question mark and the phrase is likely to be heard in the affirmative, “since the hair is given her for a covering.”

The above-mentioned difficulties make it very difficult to have an exact interpretation of the text relating to the covering of the head. Therefore, to use this text as a basis for a dogma, it is necessary to ensure that this doctrine is confirmed with other places of the Bible.

As already mentioned above, except for 1 Corinthians 11:3-16, the necessity of head covering is not included as a dogma of faith in all of New Testament. When the apostle speaks of the appearance of women (1 Peter 3:2-6 and 1 Timothy 2:9-10) where it would be appropriate to speak about the need to cover their heads, the authors are both silent about it. In addition, both of these texts warn Christian women that they are to not be fond of lush hairstyles (braided hair).  The problem of braided hair could have been solved by simply pointing out to women that they need to cover their heads (speaking of veils of that time, they were so large that they completely covered a woman’s head and shoulders). Nevertheless, the apostles did not mention head coverings.

Due to the fact that the text itself is not clear and indisputable and the idea was not confirmed by other passages of Scripture, we must recognize that it can not be a reason to consider the need to cover the head as authoritative Bible teaching.

In addition, as already noted, the question of head coverings is reflected not in the main idea of the text, but as an illustrations of the basic idea. Illustrations, parables, examples, and even the practice of believers referred to in the Bible can not be equated with the doctrine, if the topic does not have a direct teaching elsewhere. For example, in the first church in Jerusalem, the Christians sold all their possessions and had all things common (Acts4:32-34). Nevertheless, the practice of the early church is not a Biblical doctrine or dogma, because it is not confirmed in the messages and is not presented as a doctrine.

From this, we can conclude: 1 Corinthians 11:3-16 contains clear teaching of the hierarchy of the family unit, but it can not serve as a basis for the formation of the dogma of the head covering. This text has a different goal to teach. In it, the apostle Paul draws attention to the danger of feminization penetrating into the church from the surrounding society. Emphasizing the equal value of men and women before God, Scripture always sharply condemned any form of mixing or blurring of lines between the different roles defined by God separately for men and women. Apparently, those who advocated the equality of the roles of women and men in Corinth expressed their objection by taking off their head covering, emphasizing their rights. As the culture changes, so does the way we express our acceptance or protest of God’s standards and the role we are to play. Therefore, is not so important whether a woman wears a scarf today or not. But rather, does she agree in her heart to the role for which God created her? Is she happy with her role? Or does she protest and rebel against it?

Pastor Aleksey Kolimiytsev


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Further progress on Las Venturas Playground 2.90

posted by Jay on Tuesday, October the 14th at 4:35 PM

As we are a few weeks further into development, Las Venturas Playground v2.90 has been making excellent progress. Even though we are closer to finishing 2.90 than we where last week, we still have a lot more to do.

There have been quite a few of the classic features from Las Venturas Playground re-introduced in 2.90, such as, The fort carson medical centre and shooting place property flags, the airport customs tax and gate, and the Ship Team Deathmatch minigame.

Below you can find a list of some interesting features that will be included in 2.90:

  • An object & map system. 2.90 has a new object handler allowing us to manage objects on a virtual world basis, and add many new mapped areas, from stunt zones to crazy jumps and many more interesting suprizes.

  • Protected areas in Las Venturas Playground, such as Area 51, now launches a
    Semi Active Surface to air Missile if you fly over it (SAM).

  • Bomb shop synced. The bomb shops located in Las Venturas and Los Santos are now fully synced and allow the player to choose many different bombs and explosion styles.

  • Hidden packages. Las Venturas Playground has many hidden packages scattered around the city, along with a special prize for whoever finds them all!

  • New vehicle improvements. Las Venturas Playground 2.90 has a brand new vehicle layout, with new features to vehicles such as speedometers, random vehicle spawns, drifting scores, high speed bonuses and vehicle damage indicators.

  • Many new commands! There are lots of new, different, commands for our players to have fun with and experience.

  • Anti-laming system. There is nothing worse than being in a fight with someone and they teleport away. In 2.90, this will not be possible! There are also anti ship fighting systems in place, anti ramp abuse, and anti v-allow abuse systems.

  • Taxi code rewritten. The taxi system has always been a popular aspect of LVP. A new taxi system is in place which includes taxi arrival times and realistic features such as scaring the taxi driver of if you shoot!

  • Many new property flags, from Las Venturas Airport allowing control over the airport gates and custom tax, to Area 51 controlling SAMS.

  • Lots of new minigames. From classic SA:MP games such as Rivershell and Minigun madness, to new 2.90 minigames such as deagle fights, Local Yocal and Capture the briefcase.

  • New bank options. The proper usage of ATM machines introduced and new bank account upgrades.

  • Vehicle export improvements. Along with the possibility to actually import vehicles as well,
    the value of the vehicle when exporting it now depends on the damage the vehicle has, along with each
    indivdual export vehicle having an indivdual value.

These are just some of the new features of Las Venturas Playground 2.90. We are developing many more features, bug fixes, and improvements of different things throughout LVP and SA:MP. There is likely to be a public beta in the future to test for stability and bugs, so stay tuned to irc and the forums for details.

On behalf of the Las Venturas Playground Development Team,
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Vol. II, This Changes My Family and My Life Forever, The Spanners Series, by Sally Ember, Ed.D.

Cover and logo art by Willowraven.
Cover reveal for Volume II: April 15, 2014

9th Serialized Excerpt, 3/26/14

Zephyr Branon, 38, only child of

Clara Branon, Ph.D., Chief Communicator

4. Where are you and what are you doing when you find out about the Many Worlds Collective and that your mom is the liaison/Chief Communicator?

ZEPHYR: My reaction is not the same as anyone else’s because my mom starts sending me the “story” as if she’s writing science fiction novels, in February, 2012. I have a feeling, knowing my mom, that a lot of it is true or about to be true. I don’t say anything like that, at first.

But, when things start happening for her and Espe and for her and Epifanio, just as she writes, I ask her about the rest.

So, around October, 2012, she tells me the MWC are actually coming. I get about a two-months’ head start on most people, about a year to get mentally ready.

I’m all in favor of it. Membership in the MWC, I mean. Earth really needs help. No question.

I know how my mom explains it but I still do not understand why they choose her, of over seven billion humans and all the other, in my mind, more obvious choices among Earthers who could have been chosen. Why not one of the dolphins, for example? No offense, Mom.

But, I’m getting used to it and glad she is CC, in some ways. I get some really cool tips,”toys,” experiences and privileges as the CC’s only child that no one else gets.

5. How do you feel about Clara’s role when it starts? How are you affected immediately?

ZEPHYR: I think I previously answer this. Move on.

Oh, all right.

I feel downright special.

There. Happy, now?

[I nod.]

ZEPHYR: OK, wait. There is one thing. Some people I know start to treat me differently. The way I could compare it might be this: if I had won the lottery, certain people would come out of nowhere and claim to be my friend, but they just want money.

In that vein, some people I haven’t talked to or don’t know well are suddenly going on and on about what “good friends” we are. Some of them go on the media and talk about knowing me and my mom, being at our house when I was growing up, being my girlfriend or best friend, or hers, and stuff like that. When it’s true, I don’t mind. But, some of them are actually lying or wildly exaggerating and that burns me.

My mom convinces me to let them be, so I do. I just don’t get the point: are they that desperate for attention? What tools.

Something else occurs to me, right now, though: I’m glad I’m already with Kayla before all this happens, or I might never know why she’s really into me, right?

In the department of stalkerville: even though our relationship is long-term, committed, monogamous, and known to the public, I still get invitations, sexual and personal, almost every month or so, from some whack-job or another. My mom’s security team collects them; I don’t even read them. Every now and then, my mom or Moran or one of the other OSes tells me to BOLO [Be On the Look Out] for some of these “fans.” When they have show me what these oddballs write to me so I can recognize their “signatures,” I am appalled. That is some crazy shit.

6. How do you feel about Clara’s role, now, 5 years later? How does her role affect you now?

ZEPHYR: I will add to what I say before this question that I am very proud of my mom. I think she’s doing an amazing job. Really. I am a very strong critic, usually, especially of my parents. [laughs] She says if I think she’s doing “all right,” she must be doing great.

Sometimes we have disagreements about what to do, when to do it. She calls me her “best informal informant.” She comes to me quite often, especially when things are going down that affect those my age or younger.

Because of her hearing loss, we have hilarious misunderstandings. Once, recently, I tell her the reason she can’t hear me is that her ears are too far from her head. We both laugh about that for quite a while. Another time, because of her mis-hearing me, we go ’round and ’round and don’t get anywhere in our conversation. Exasperated, I say that talking to her is like talking to a bicycle. That sends us into gales of laughter for another few minutes. So it goes.

My aunt Violet, being so much younger than my mom and not at all hard of hearing, says talking to my mom is like using the auto-correct feature in early cell phones: many ridiculous messages transpire.

It’s a lot like that when my mom and I talk, because of the randomly occurring hearing loss effects. She hears some things perfectly clearly and others very garbled, but she doesn’t know how garbled until we talk about it.

I tell her: “Mom. Get a hearing aid.”

She answers omething along the lines of: “When they make better ones, I do.”

Another age-related problem: increasingly silly texts are sent when my mom doesn’t wear her reading glasses when she’s typing or reading her texts. In 2015, when she gets her personally-adjustable, digital hearing aids and corneal transplants, we all breathe sighs of relief, across the multiverse.

The hearing aids amplify only what she needs exactly as much as she needs, which is what she is holding out for all along. She knows they’re coming so she won’t put up with the substandard ones before 2015. We all suffer.

On a good note, she knows when she needs help and asks for it. My mom consults with me, some of my cousins and some of her younger friends for tech help and to discuss how current policy discussions might be perceived or impact non-Spanners (people around my age and younger). Most often, she talks to me and Epifanio for informal feedback or ideas.

The CC has all these advisors, contacts, others—you know—for formal consultations.

And, you, Espe. You’re great!

Stay tuned on Sally’s blogs on WordPress (which has all links) and Tumblr, and on The Spanners Series‘ pages on Facebook and Google+, for each of the upcoming Excerpts from Volume II from March 16 – April 18, about one/day.

4/18/14, Volume II becomes available for Pre-orders via Smashwords, Kobo, iBooks and nook for half-price: @$1.99, through June 8, 2014.

On 6/9/14, Vol. II goes LIVE everywhere ebooks are sold for $3.99.


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Magic Monday on Tuesday 9.2.14

So i just lost the amazing post i had knocked out. It was fairly great with 2 deck lists and some stories about the family and magic. And WordPress ate it. 😦 Have to say i am a little pissed and want to walk away from the PC. But that is not right.

But i don’t really have the time to redo the whole thing so here is a deck list for the wife that is my attempt to make a “Chandra” deck that is at least somewhat good.

4 Elvish Mystic
2 Sylvan Caryatid
4 Fanatic of Xenagos
4 Oracle of Bones
2 Purphoros, God of the Forge

4 Lightning Strike
4 Stoke the Flames
3 Fated Conflagration
2 Revel of the Fallen God

4 Chandra, Pyromaster
4 Xenagos, the Reveler

22-23 lands….

Again sorry for the short post but WordPress is about to get shot. See you next week.

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