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How Did Jeffrey Dahmer Define Morality? – #4 Post of 2011

Post Author: Bill Pratt

If morality is not grounded by a transcendent standard, a standard that is above all humanity, then it collapses to relativism.  This concept is not at all difficult to understand, but relativism retains a negative enough connotation these days that atheists, who deny a transcendent, objective standard of morality, are still squeamish about the word.

Jeffrey Dahmer, the serial killer who gained notoriety for eating his victims, understood the connection between God and morality all too well.  Dahmer’s father recounted his son’s moral reasoning in a documentary produced in 1996: “If it all happens naturalistically, what’s the need for a God?  Can’t I set my own rules?  Who owns me?  I own myself.”

Exactly.  If there is no God, you have no accountability to anyone else at all.  You own yourself and you can do with yourself whatever you please.

In an interview in 1994, Dahmer himself explained his thinking.  He wondered that if there were no God and we all came “from the slime,” then “what’s the point of trying to modify your behavior to keep it within acceptable ranges?”

The fact that we all instinctively cry out at Dahmer’s behavior does nothing to take away from the fact that his reasoning is right on target.  He embodied the atheist worldview taken to its logical extremes.  You may not like what Dahmer did, but unless you believe in an objective, transcendent moral standard, he didn’t do anything but act unfashionably.

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  • By the same token, Muslim suicide bombers represent the theistic view carried to its logical extreme. If morality is the result of divine command, then our only course is to seek out a source of revelation to tell us what that command is and we are obligated to obey it even if it is repugnant to our reason.

  • Bill Pratt

    This blog expounds and defends Christian theism, so I don’t feel any need to explain or defend Muslim views on morality or God. So, under Christian theism, would you say that modern-day suicide bombers’ actions are justified?

  • I feel very little need to defend Jeffery Dahmer’s views on morality.

  • Todd Pratt

    If you would choose Dahmer to explain atheistic morality, I would choose Deanna Laney as the representative of christian morality. She stoned two of her children to death and seriously injured a third. Her reasoning?

    “I felt like I obeyed God and I believe there will be good out of this,” she explained in the interview, looking wide-eyed and sometimes smiling. “I feel like he will reveal his power and they will be raised up. They will become alive again.”

    Perhaps you should make the debate on the more reasonable ground of christian morality vs. the scientific study of morality and which of these can create a better society.

  • Darrell

    The scientific study of morality isn’t prescriptive, it is descriptive. So all it can tell us is that Dahmer’s behavior is outside of what our society considers moral. The results of the study would be different if taken in a society of murdering cannibalists. Does that mean that whether murder and cannibalism are moral or immoral is relative based upon the society in which you live? They are not just flat our wrong? Relativism is inevitable if one chooses to approach morality from a scientific angle alone.

  • Todd Pratt

    If the purpose of a study was to find out if morality were relative based on the society in which you lived, then that could well be the conclusion for a society of murdering cannibals. Moreover, if it extended that study to include all societies today, I think it would be obvious that the conclusion would be that different societies hold differing moral opinions. It’s obvious that Christians, Muslims, Buddhists,etc… have differing morals relative to the society in which they live.

    The question then is what morality is best to promote well-being for all of humanity? If the purpose of the study were to discern what is best for the well-being of humanity, then we could objectively approach societal behaviors in a way that clearly show them as morally right or wrong. I think Sam Harris says it best:

    “…there may be different ways for people to thrive, but there are clearly many more ways for them not to thrive. The Taliban are a perfect example of a group of people who are struggling to build a society that is obviously less good than many of the other societies on offer. Afghan women have a 12% literacy rate and a life expectancy of 44 years. Afghanistan has nearly the highest maternal and infant mortality rates in the world. It also has one of the highest birthrates. Consequently, it is one of the best places on earth to watch women and infants die. And Afghanistan’s GDP is currently lower than the world’s average was in the year 1820. It is safe to say that the optimal response to this dire situation—that is to say, the most moral response—is not to throw battery acid in the faces of little girls for the crime of learning to read. This may seem like common sense to us—and it is—but I am saying that it is also, at bottom, a claim about biology, psychology, sociology, and economics. It is not, therefore, unscientific to say that the Taliban are wrong about morality. In fact, we must say this, the moment we admit that we know anything at all about human well-being.”

    As Bill might point out, this is a blog about Christian morals, but I think the same can be said for many Christian countries in Africa that kill their own countrymen for the crime of witchcraft, so it is relevant.

  • Bill Pratt

    Vinny, how are his views of morality different than yours?

  • Bill Pratt

    The point is that Dahmer’s reasoning seems logical, based on his beliefs on where morality comes from. I’m asking you to critique his reasoning.

  • Todd,

    The question then is what morality is best to promote well-being for all of humanity?

    The problem is this presupposes that the moral goal should be to promote the well-being for all of humanity. What about those who could really care less about the well-being of humanity as a whole? They only care about themselves and their family. Is that immoral of them? Or, worse yet, what about those who don’t care about anything, themselves included? Should they value human life? Why?

    Scientific study may assist us in finding out how to reach a moral goal, but it can never define what the moral goal itself “ought to be.” It always presupposes the moral standard.

  • Todd Pratt

    Dahmers reasoning is not logical, nor is your assertion that “If there is no God, you have no accountability to anyone else at all.” By his own statements, Dahmer refers to “acceptable ranges.” What Dahmer is referring to and the accountability that you are looking for to the well-being of other humans. We are accountable for our actions in how we treat others. The golden rule was established well before the bible, but even before written history I don’t think we would have survived long as a species if societies allowed murder to be socially acceptable.

    If you want an idea of how atheists view morality, picture for a moment you weren’t bound by a “transcendent moral standard”. Would you then commit rape? murder? I hope not.

    And if you did commit atrocities on your fellow man like Dahmer, in a secular society, you would be cast out, jailed, or removed for your immorality.

  • Todd Pratt

    For a 20 minute answer to your question, I would recommend listening again to Sam Harris, who I see as an expert in scientific morality here:

    I would recommend this for Bill as well since Harris talks about the morality in context of another serial killer, Ted Bundy. On a quick side note, Dahmer died in prison confessing to be a Christian.

  • Trent

    Accountable to whom???

    If you are accountable for society, and the majority of the society see an issue in moral terms and most come down on one side is it moral to take the other side?

    IF the majority of a society is religious, and consider atheism morally wrong, wouldn’t someone who merely defined their morality around being accountable regarding societal norms be acting immorally by promoting atheism?

    It seems that the issue was Dahmer decided he wasn’t accountable to anyone, hence could do what he wanted. If he was to be accountable to someone, to whom was he supposed to be accountable?

  • Bill Pratt

    You said, “And if you did commit atrocities on your fellow man like Dahmer, in a secular society, you would be cast out, jailed, or removed for your immorality.”

    This sounds like a pretty weak form of morality that I hope you don’t subscribe to. You seem to be saying, “Don’t do bad things or you will get punished.” This is what we tell children, but we expect adults to have better reasons. In addition, it seems to imply that as long as you don’t think you’ll be caught or punished, then there is no reason to behave morally. Is that what you think? I hope not.

    Surely there are many people who commit atrocities who are never cast out, jailed, or removed. We don’t catch every criminal. Some crimes aren’t even even known by anyone except the person who committed them. Dictators often lead profoundly immoral lives and die in their old age – fat and happy.

    Why, on atheistic naturalism, was Dahmer objectively wrong? Where did his thinking go wrong? Please do not appeal to moral feelings or instincts that you may have, because that is not a rational argument. It’s like saying, “Dahmer is wrong because he makes me feel yucky inside.” Give me some rational arguments from the atheist worldview that show how Dahmer was objectively wrong.

  • Todd Pratt

    To answer the question, “Why, on atheistic naturalism, was Dahmer objectively wrong?” Philosophically, his logic may be sound, but quite obviously wrong for what is best for the well-being of society. I don’t think you will find many atheists that believe Darwin’s survival of the fittest theory is how morality should be interpreted in modern times. To allow humans to suffer for in the name of naturalism as perhaps a group of monkeys must suffer in the jungle is to deny that which makes us human. Indeed you are correct that we expect adults to have better reasoning.

    In addition, I am not appealing to “moral feelings or instincts” (though undoubtedly neuroscience and psychology may disagree) when I say that science can produce objective answers to moral questions using empirical data. If we were to mock up a quick scientific study, I think it would be easy to find objective answers to questions like whether or not it is moral to throw battery acid in a girls face for the crime of learning to read. So, to your point, Dahmer’s argument was objectively wrong because his idea of morality did not promote what is best for the well-being of society. Which is what morality (at least should) try to promote.

    I don’t think that science has definitive answers to all moral questions. But there are certainly questions which it can answer as being right or wrong objectively. The idea of “Don’t do bad things or you will get punished.” is how I view much of Christian morality. The idea that god has defined an objective morality and that it was written in the bible is hearsay at best. The bible provides a list of ‘bad things’ and makes you adhere to them through the punishment of hell or promise of heaven. In fact, for the lessons in the bible that do promote what is best for society, I would wager science would be able to come to the same conclusion without the need of a supernatural moral authority. I would also wager that science could demonstrate objectively that many ideas the bible teaches as moral, are not in the best interest to society.

  • TC

    Todd Pratt says: February 5, 2011 at 11:18 pmBill,

    If we were to mock up a quick scientific study, I think it would be easy to find objective answers to questions like whether or not it is moral to throw battery acid in a girls face for the crime of learning to read.

    No you can’t. You don’t like it (and neither do I) and you are trying to couch it in scientific terms becuase since they obviously think that it is in the best interest of their society, you need to have a standard beyond either of your opinions.

    One could make the argument that people who don’t make great marks in Elementary school should be sterilized. Why? Obviously they are slow to learn and propogating the genetics for slow learning is not what is best for our species. Is sterilizing the bottom 20% of Grade 2 classes moral? Many people think anyone who believes in theism is stupid. Is the moral thing to do to forcably spay or neuter anyone who looks like they have a religious leaning to get that out of out gene pool?

    They are acountable to their society, which condones it. Are they to be accountable to North American society? Who are we accountable to?

  • Todd Pratt

    I don’t believe any sane person would think that throwing battery acid in a person’s eye is good for society, but I could be wrong. Even so, if we couch it in scientific terms we can objectively see that it is not what is best for their society. The problem then would be making them believe the scientific answer is better than the religious answer.

    I think you are trying to get to the point that you believe without an absolute authority behind morality, we can’t define what is best for the world. At some point, I think everyone will have to admit there is no such moral authority. Without getting into the argument about whether or not god exists, even within religion there is not a consensus on what is moral. Catholics say not to use condoms, Christians believe witchcraft is evil, Muslims routinely murder their women, and some atheists may murder because they don’t care about society. the bottom line is, there is no moral compass that blatantly points north.

    So to answer your question, who are we accountable to, I think the best answer is humanity. If Muslims are killing women and think its OK in their society, are accountable to the rest of humanity to condone their actions. And indeed they are being held so to some extent today. If a society wanted to sterilize their slow children, then they would have to be accountable to the rest of humanity to justify their actions. But when you try to make yourself or a society accountable to a god, then there is no objective basis for morality. At least with science, we can observe it objectively when, as humanity, we hold others accountable for their actions.

  • TC

    You are still defining morality as whatever you can convince people is best for society as a whole, and you can get away with without being held accountable for.

    You are also defining whatever your society believes is best trumps anything any other society defines as best. Any other view being insane. Humanity as a whole is not synonomous with western middle class.

    You are not defining morality. You are defining a good rhetoritician.

  • Todd Pratt

    I am not. I am clearly defining morality was what is best for humanity. What morality do you adhere to?

  • Ryan K.

    What is best for humanity? This is really a very subjective standard Todd. Hitler thought his actions of genocide were what was best for humanity. And if he had been victorious and we all spoke German today, would that mean he was right?

    How do you define what is best for humanity? And if I define it differently why must I submit to your definition? After all, we are all alone in this gigantic Universe spinning on a rock for a brief moment, what obligates me to live me fleeting moments as you see fit?

    I really am curious Todd, how could it really ever matter when the Universe comes to its cosmic heat death and everything has gone silent, how I or you actually lived our lives? As if this natural, impersonal Universe actually cares about the differences between how Mother Teresa and Hitler lived…

  • Bill Pratt

    Hi Todd,
    On atheism, why should any person rationally adopt your idea of morality, which is “promote what is best for the well-being of society?” If a person told you, “I don’t want to promote what is best for the well-being of society. I want to seek pleasure and follow my desires wherever they lead,” how would you rationally persuade them, on atheism, that they are wrong?

  • TC

    I mentioned several things that a good rhetotitician could argue are for the benefit of humanity, by weeding out faulty genes. My question is, if they actually help weed out those genes, is forced eugenics the moral choice?

  • Todd Pratt

    This will be my last reply on the subject, as the most current blog looks like it will continue the debate. So…

    Morality is subjective, it will never mean the same thing to all people. There is no objective moral authority in the world today, claiming otherwise it simply wishful thinking. Hitler was held accountable to humanity for his actions. I define morality as that which is best for the well-being of humanity. I hear plenty of dissent, but no alternatives. Ultimately morality matters while we are alive and to those who come after us. There is a lot of time before our sun gives out, have some hope for humanity!

    I suppose that would be someone’s prerogative. So long as that life of self fulfillment did not interfere with the well-being of society, live and let live. There is no ultimate judgement.

    To my point, that is a great question that science may be able to help answer. We even have some precedence on the matter in the WWII days where eugenics was the early form of planned parenthood. If you asked me personally, I would say it is not moral and if science observed its impact on society, I think would come to the same conclusion.

  • TC

    Then morality is merely another term for personal preference.

  • TC

    I find it hard to understand how you can condemn someone for not adhering to your own personal preferences.

    If society isn’t happier, but genetically it is “purer” from an evolutionary point of view isn’t humanity better off? After all it is survival of the fittest and not survival of the happiest.

    And no Hitler wan’t held accountable for his acts. He killed himself in anticipation that someone would hold him accountable. From a materialist point of view he was no more held accountable than if the world loved him and he slipped down a flight of stairs. Even then if he hadn’t started a second front with Russia or had a treaty with Japan he may not have lost and been considered a hero. Since not being held accountable is being held up as moral, the morality of the death camps is a question decided by a bit of poor judgement and fluke of history.

  • Bill Pratt

    It seems you have conceded that morality is relative on atheism, and I think you are right. As TC has said, though, you have no grounds to criticize anyone else’s moral choices. It is incoherent for you to judge any other person’s moral choices, but…I’m guessing you still do that every day, like the rest of us. I don’t believe that real moral relativism is liveable. There are honest atheists, like you, that admit that they are relativists, but you will also constantly act as if morality is objective by calling out those moral behaviors you think are wrong. Does this inconsistency not bother you?

  • godfodder

    Bill, take a listen to the episode entitled “Faith of the Fatherless” of ‘Reasonable Doubts Podcast’. They are atheists and they talk about your article. The relevant section starts at 34:50.

    Go here…

  • Andrew Ryan

    Bill Pratt: “This sounds like a pretty weak form of morality that I hope you don’t subscribe to. You seem to be saying, “Don’t do bad things or you will get punished.” This is what we tell children, but we expect adults to have better reasons.”

    Bill, I take it then that you reject as childish anyone who tells people “Don’t do bad things or you will go to hell”? Because that’s exactly the same argument.

    Positing a God makes no difference to the problem you see in secular morality. It just moves the problem along one position. Why does ‘God says this is wrong’ make it objectively wrong? It is still subjective – it is wrong SUBJECT to the fiat of God.

    Where is God getting the standard from? If it’s himself and his own preferences, then it’s as arbitrary as anyone else’s morality. If it’s from somewhere else, then his existence is not required for morality to exist.

    Is it wrong because God says so, or does God say so because it is wrong? Is ‘God is good’ an objective truth? If so, how does one test it? Is there an act that God could conceivably commit that would stop him being good? If not, if he would be good REGARDLESS of what acts he committed, then what meaning does the assertion ‘God is good’ actually have?

    Until you have answered these questions, you cannot accuse atheists of relativism or inconsistency.

    Finally, I didn’t notice if you answered Todd’s question. In a Godless universe, would YOU, Bill Pratt, see no problem in raping and murdering? If no, then that suggests you don’t actually have any love for your fellow man, and in fact only refrain from heinous acts for the selfish reason that you want to avoid hell.

  • Andrew Ryan

    “Hitler thought his actions of genocide were what was best for humanity”

    How do you know? He might have thought it was what was best for the non-Jewish portion of Germany, but that’s not the same thing.

  • Andrew Ryan

    Trent: “If society isn’t happier, but genetically it is “purer” from an evolutionary point of view isn’t humanity better off? After all it is survival of the fittest and not survival of the happiest.”

    What do you mean by “It” is survival of the fittest? What is the “It” to which you refer? Survival of the fittest is simply a description of what is observed in nature. You’re trying to get an ‘ought’ from an ‘is’. Given that this is a well-known logical fallacy, Trent, your argument falls down. That’s aside from the fact that you also use the word “purer”, which is pretty subjective in this context.

  • Ajzeig

    Euthyphro’s dilemma has been utterly destroyed Andrew. It fails as a dilemma in the fact that there are more than the two offered choices.

  • Andrew Ryan

    Not good enough I’m afraid. Whenever I hear people posit ‘other choices’, they’re always the same two in disguise. WLC offers “It comes from God’s nature”, which just leads us to ask where the nature comes from – Himself or some other source. And then we’re back where we started.

  • Andrew Ryan

    Can you critique Deanna Laney’s reasoning?

  • Ruthie

    Per Todd’s comments…I think Deanna Laney was (is) probably mentally ill, if she killed her children for their “good,” so Christian morality doesn’t have a great deal to do with it. Meanwhile, I am not “excusing” Jeffrey Dahmer, but look at his background: His parents divorced and he was basically abandoned. When I saw Jeff’s father on TV, I got the impression that the dad was mentally ill. So it may have been a case of both nature and nurture. And/or if Jeff did not receive love as a child–especially from his father–maybe he was seeking relationships with other males, and then “took out” the anger he felt toward his father by killing his victims. I know, those are “pscyhological”-type comments.

    I do not believe that “science” can give us the “answers” (or “guidelines”) to moral issues. Besides, didn’t Hitler and the Germans perform torturous and deadly “experiments” upon the Jews in “the name of science”? That is where Christian morality comes into play. What was done during the Holocaust was clearly evil and demonic, though that wasn’t the only case of attempted genocide.

    Some atheists might claim that the Holocaust and Jeff Dahmer are “prime” examples that “there is no God” (or how else could there be such slaughtering of innocents?). But I would use those as two prime examples of why people need the Lord!

    Yes, I realize my comments are simplistic compared to you theologians and other doctorates, but…I felt the need to add my two bits, regardless.

    And while humans are born with a sin nature, do we not also have an innate sense of right and wrong? Where does that “sense” come from, if it’s not from God? And I mean Jehovah God!

  • Andrew Ryan

    You may as well say “you may not like what Timothy McVie or the 9/11 murderers did, but if you’re following the idea that anything a God says is moral regardless of how heinous it is, then the most you can say about them is they followed a different God to you – they were otherwise perfectly moral.”

  • Jeremy

    (on a slight tangent)…I wonder if Dahmer changed his mind in the end as suggested in his chaplain’s book _Dark Journey Deep Grace_ ??

  • Nogod

    lol you’re a funny woman (I think you are a woman), I love how you call a woman who claims to talk to god because you think she did something heinous and bad (which she did) and you turn around and you say she’s probably mentally ill because she was mentally ill? Really and what about Abraham of the bible, was he not mentally ill for hearing voices in his head from god to slaughter/sacrifice/murder his own child because of a damn voice in his head “supposedly”. What’s the lesson, you better be damn obedient! You call Christianity morality, based on what? If you use the standards of morality nowadays you’re nothing more than a self-serving hypocrite

    Yeah I really need a Lord that tells people it’s ok to commit mass genocide on every little thing (including cattle..?) literally,

    Behold, with a great plague will the LORD smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods. And thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out.–21:14 2 Chronicles

    3:6 And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city. — Deuternomy

    What a find funny also is that, and you need to actually take some time to read not only your bible properly…more but history. Genocides have happen in all cultures super religious and not so religious, but the biggest theme is submission to and obedience to authority. A lack of criticism, questioning and accountability leads down a destruction and a path of heinous genocide, it has nothing to do with “THE LORD” no there none to do with that.

    I’m wondering do you have children? Has it ever crossed your mind to “smite” your child pretty much stone them to death if they curse or speak ill of you, Ex.21:15, Lev.20:9, Dt.21:18-21 if it’s not you haven’t been a good Christian, these are just some of the absurdities that don’t even make for a good argument on Christian morality. Amazing Jesus essentially saying those who don’t believe should be brought before him and slayin’ – Luke 19: 22-27

    You want a Jeffrey Dahmer like morality read non other than Judges 19:22-30. I’m baffled that someone like the writer of this blog would even hint at the lack of belief in god makes someone like Jeff Dahmer possible because of his lack of accountability. Someone can do everything J.D did and claim they were listening to god but of course the pious quickly want no association and say he’s mentally ill, but if he doesn’t it’s suddenly look see, you need god look how evil…. WHAT????


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Tracy McCabe Stewart Art Blog Ramblings on art and inspiration Thu, 31 Jan 2013 01:05:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Hellllooooo out there…… Thu, 31 Jan 2013 01:02:45 +0000 No related posts. ]]> I know, I know, it’s been ages since I’ve poked my head up and written.  My dear friend, Terry, just wrote to remind me of that yesterday (Thanks, Terry for getting me back to the computer).  Frankly, I haven’t been doing or seeing much art since my move out to sunny California.  Since I had a fairly good rhythm of making and seeing art in Chicago, post ideas were obvious.  Now, not so much.  So, the focus of the blog will change along with my life.  Your guess is as good as mine whether the transition will be sucessful.

Though we have been settled in our house for about 8 months now, life still feels very transitional.  Much of that has been intentional.  Very good in some ways, in others, much more challenging.  I have never had a period in my life where I felt so stretched, at least for so sustained a period of time.  Ken and I are actively talking and planning for a very big life change; his transition out of corporate life and our eventual, permanent move further north and out of Silicon Valley.  It’s hardly around the corner, but requires lots of decisions to be made now to make it happen. Life has involved a ton of planning.   Exciting and scary at the same time.  I guess this is my/our version of a midlife crisis:-)

My creative energies have been spent looking for land up north and designing a house and site plan.  I have also been trying to get a basic infrastructure planned, bid out and built.  The learning curve has been steep, but really exciting.    All of which I feel a bit protective of sharing on the internet.  In general, I feel a bit odd sharing about my personal life here.  This blog was always about art and now it feels like it needs to take a more personal, vulnerable focus.  I’m not sure I know how to do that dance or even if I care to.  I guess I’ll have to stew on that one.

cropped lucy

Lucy is completely unimpressed with my midlife crisis

More to come.  Soon……..

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Inspiring Post from Artist Jeanne Beck Tue, 28 Feb 2012 15:51:42 +0000 No related posts. ]]> One of my favorite fiber artists, Jeanne Beck, had a beautiful post this morning about creativity.  Beside  her own commentary, it includes 2 short videos made by John Coffeen featuring artist John Frame and his creative process.  The videos have one of the most beautifully articulated explanations of the making and meaning of art and the artistic process that I’ve heard.  Very, very inspiring.  Thanks, Jeanne!

Take a look here

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Innovative Garden Ideas From Sonoma Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:35:07 +0000 No related posts. ]]>

Hi all,

I can’t seem to maintain any sort of posting schedule since moving.  I feel stretched in too many directions.  I did finally upload a bunch of pictures from my phone.  I’ll try to translate them into some more regular posts!

I’ve spent quite a bit of time in Sonoma since moving.  There is a lovely complex there called Cornerstone, which has some really beautiful, creative stores and galleries.  It also has a wine tasting room (of course!)  It  has show gardens from various landscape architects.  Definitely worth the trip, if you’re ever in the area.

Here are some of the show gardens.  I wish I’d noted the landscape architects and artists, but I’m afraid I didn’t

More Beautiful Gardens

Show Garden

Show Garden

Creative Vegetable Gardens

More fun with veges

Beautiful blend of garden and art

Garden Structures

More vege beauty

 And some gorgeous Garden Decor from Potter Green:

Garden Decor from Potter Green

I am madly in love with Artefact Design and Salvage.  Here is a planter made from a Strangler vine:

Garden Decor from Artefact Design and Salvage

and more fun stuff from Artefact.  They have TONS of things.  Some have been made into finished pieces; both furniture and art pieces and some are raw materials.  Love this place!

Ornate trough from Artefact Design and Salvage

 More pictures to come!

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Hitting the Restart Button Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:29:59 +0000 No related posts. ]]> Hi all,

I am back.  Our move out to California has had a much longer settle in time than I would ever have imagined possible.   My life was pretty much in a holding pattern for the first 3 1/2 months out here.  Among other challenges, I was never able to fully unpack and my dyeing workspace never materialized.  I don’t want to dwell on the drama of it, but we have moved for a second time.   We are now in a great place, my work areas are functional and I am ready to get on with living and making some art.

I had been working on cave pieces prior to all of this life upheaval, but am feeling very drawn to making things with nature images right now.  Making things that reconnect me to a feeling of peace seem just right.  I am busy screening pieces with vat dye and will steam my pieces at the end of the week.

Maine Pond (C) Tracy McCabe Stewart

I have been spending time at a great local studio:  A Work of Heart and took a resin class.  I’ll be experimenting with using this new resin to incorporate mixed media into my pieces.  I’ll post pictures.

Dragonfly (C) Tracy McCabe Stewart

Thanks for sticking with me!

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Gardens! Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:36:56 +0000 No related posts. ]]> One of the really neat things about California are all of the gardening possibilities.  We are a zone 9 or 10 out here and that means you can grow just about anything.  I am particularly intrigued by all of the xeriscape or low water gardens out here.  Water is definitely scarce and it is the responsible thing to do.  I am inspired by how beautiful they can be!

Here are some gardens that my pooches and I pass by on our daily walks:

I love this one.  This is about as low water use as you can get!

Xeriscape garden!

This one is really nice as well:

Xeriscape garden!

An another:

Xeriscape garden!

This one is at the other end of the water use spectrum, though probably less water use than a traditional lawn.  Really beautiful:

Tropical garden

I have been working on my vege garden as well.  Beds are set up, landscape fabric is laid and I put down straw for mulch betweeen the beds.  The soil comes Tuesday.  The straw is a big hit with Lucy:

Lucy makes herself comfortable

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Tracy vs. Technology Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:31:54 +0000 No related posts. ]]> Well, by my lack of posts, you can probably guess who’s been winning this one.  I finally got the pictures off my phone, but found I had oodles of other pictures on there like movie promo stills and headlines off the BBC.  Weird.  Anyway, when I tried to delete them, I ended up copying them endlessly.  I tried to make a folder with the photos I’d actually taken and deleting the rest, but ended up deleting  some of the photos I meant to keep.  I did manage to save some, so here goes.

I had a wonderful lunch recently with Margie Trembley from the Needle Arts Guild in Chicago.  She was out for a wedding in San Jose.  Beside being an artist herself, Margie and her husband, Glenn have a great gallery in Springfield, NE called Springfield Artworks

Margie introduced me to fiber/bead artist, Shirley Cook.  I took some pictures of Shirley’s beautiful work:

Felted Vessel (C) By Shirley Cook

 I took these at the restaurant table with my phone camera, so excuse the backgrounds:

Felted Vessel (C) By Shirley Cook

This one turned out a bit blurry:

Felted Vessel (C) By Shirley Cook

I’m sad to say I managed to delete the other photos I had of Shirley’s work.

I am setting up my raised bed vege garden this week.  I’ll post pictures, provided that my phone cooperates:-)

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Greetings from San Jose Sun, 11 Sep 2011 00:06:10 +0000 No related posts. ]]> It’s been a whirlwind couple of months!  I left Chicago on August 4th with my 2 dogs and drove about 2200 miles over the next 3 days to reach San Jose.  We spent the next 9 days living with a bed and  plastic  utensils and paper plates.  The movers delivered our stuff on August 15th.  Since then, I have managed to get mostly unpacked, but we are still waiting for our garage to be built before we can unpack all of the stuff that we had in the basement of out old place.  I am hoping that will go up in the next week or so.

My sewing room is set up, but I don’t yet have a place to dye or paint fabric, so I haven’t really started any new work.  I also can’t find a regular sized USB cord, so can’t upload all the pictures I’ve been taking with my phone.  I am going out to buy one this week!

I did manage to take a class at a great art studio in my neighborhood- A Work of Heart  It’s got equipment/classes for everything from stamping to dyeing fabric, to precious metal clay, including a class I signed up for in cyanotype printing on fabric  The place has a great vibe and really nice people.  I am sure to be a regular there.

I also joined  the Contemporary Quilters Fiber Artists group.  This is a group of extremely talented people that do lots of surface design techniques.  I am sure to learn a ton from them.

To top it off, I went to the regional meeting of the Surface Design Association today as well.  It met at artist Judith Content’s home, which is a work of art in itself.  This is a group working and teaching in all aspects of surface design.  Applications include anything from weaving to designing fabric, to felt vessels.  You name it.  Very inspiring!

I learned about a really cool company today as well called Spoonflower.  Seems like everyone but me knows about this.  For what I think is a pretty good price, you can upload an image and they will custom print it onto fabric.  Amazing!  Like inkjet printing you do at home, but on a much larger scale.

More later and I’ll have pictures!!!!

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Welcome to Box World Sun, 31 Jul 2011 19:03:38 +0000 No related posts. ]]> Welcome to Box World.  I had grand intentions of taking you through my moving saga.  Sadly, I have been crazy busy actually living the saga.  Besides, it hasn’t been all that exciting.

Box Maze

The movers have finished the first day of packing and managed to pack most of the things I had put aside to make breakfast for myself this week.  Luckily, Starbucks has oatmeal.   I had a flash of feeling like this is part of what it might feel like to be in a hoarder’s house.  I feel I am  navigating a maze and can’t see around the high stacks of boxes.

My dogs are getting panicky about all the changes and my Great Dane, Lucy the Wonder Dog, has started chewing up anything she can get that gigantic mouth on in protest to all of this upheaval.  Yesterday it was disposable razors and deoderant.  She just chewed the wrappers and was not injured.  The poor old girl is a bit of a mess right now.

An Extremely Stressed Out Lucy

I have a day of relative peace today (thank you!) and the packers are back tomorrow, at which point I will lose my electronics.  Tuesday and Wednesday they load the truck and Thursday I hit the road with the dogs to make the trek cross country.  Nothing like 2000+ miles/3 days in a car with 2 dogs.  My husband joins me after the first day of the drive in Lincoln, NE.   It should be interesting.  I have packed audiobooks and (I hope) my sense of humor and adventure.

Thanks to all those people who purchased work from me this last month.  I sold 7 pieces!  I sincerely appreciate your support of my work.

See you in California!

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Adventures in Moving Fri, 01 Jul 2011 14:16:57 +0000 No related posts. ]]> Well, I have sold my longarm and am in negotiations to sell our house, I’ve found a great place to live in San Jose.  Things are rolling along, but are taking a ton of time and energy.  I haven’t managed to create a sale page for my work, as I’d hoped.  For one thing, I can’t figure out how to get the Paypal buttons into the body of my blog post.  I will not have time to get a proper sale page up for another week.

I actually have about 6 or 7 pieces that aren’t up on the site yet.  Theyare experiments with mixing images on plexiglass and quilted material.  Half are framed cave images and half are very small tree pieces that sit on the table. I’ll try to get those posted over the next few days.

In the meantime, if you are interested in a piece of my work, email me and I will tell you the regular price and the sale price.   I basically price my work at $1.50 per square inch, so sale price will be $.75 per square inch.  Pieces with metal are priced higher.   Everything I’m selling will be discounted 50% until I move to California (August 4th).  There are a few pieces I’m not selling at this time:  Herons, Cave Series Horses and Lascaux Bulls.  Anything else is 50% off+shipping.  Buy more than 1 piece and I will throw in domestic shipping.  Images can be found here

I have higher resolution and detail shots of all my pieces.  I am happy to send them upon request.

"Evening Meditation" (C) 2006 By Tracy McCabe Stewart

and a detail shot:

"Evening Meditation" (C) 2006 By Tracy McCabe Stewart

Regular Price: $3900.00  Sale Price: $1945.00

Hand Dyed Silks and commercial cottons Machine Quilted.

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The Incredible Power of Intention or Tracy’s New Digs Tue, 21 Jun 2011 00:09:08 +0000 No related posts. ]]> We locked down a new place to live in San Jose today.  I had gone out on a house hunting trip last weekend with the intention of finding a wonderful place for us to spend the next couple of years and getting a lease signed.  Nothin that the relocation person assigned to me came up with really thrilled me and I was convinced that we would have to settle for something that we really didn’t love or didn’t work logistically for this next chapter in our lives.  I literally stumbled on the for rent sign for this house while driving around killing time.  It wasn’t currently listed on the web, but had a homemade sign on the fence.

New Digs!

It has a half an acre fence yard for my pooches to run and me to plant veges, and a completely remodeled home to boot.  The master bedroom has windows on three sides and feels like being in a treehouse.  It’s two blocks off the town center, so we can walk to restaurants and it’s a doable commute for my husband.  It is so much more than I ever imagined that I would find  in a rental, especially in San Jose.  Such is the power of intention.  I am incredibly grateful.

I will now put my intention superpowers toward selling my house!

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This is the MOST WONDERFUL sandal, or shoe, I have EVER had! The comfort and support are literally breathtaking! I am now looking to buy another pair, or 2, or 4, or 6, in other colors too, to last me for as many years as I can. It is the ONLY shoe I will wear! I can even go walking through the bush if I wear the heel strap for more stability.

Hands down; or better, Both Feet Down and Walking, to this shoe! Thank-You, Merrell, for creating the most orthopedic, comfortable sandal in the world; never mind that it's also feminine, rugged, and sporty all at the same time!

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Popping in to Kas for a bit of Jewellery shopping

The captain raised anchor and pushed off at 4am, so our sleep was interrupted by a fair bit of noise.  The cold breeze that accompanied our travel didn’t help much either.  Michelle and I were the only passengers mad enough to try and sleep under the stars ��" everyone else had retired to their cabins, some later than others.  Emily and Annie were up drinking until 3am.  Good work!

The sky was covered by cloud and it was still too early in spring for it to feel warm without direct sunlight, so everyone was rugging up.  It was a real shame because we were sailing along some beautiful coastline and were to visit a number of beautiful bays and it was just going to be too cold to go swimming.  After a Turkish breakfast everyone scattered about the boat chatting, reading and generally passing time whilst staying out of the cold wind.

Capitano raised the sail for bit in the afternoon
  Lunch was a vegetarian affair, served soon after we arrived in the port town of Kas. (pronounced “Cash”).  After lunch we were free to wander town for a couple of hours.  We have noticed in our short time in turkey how many jewellers there were and the great variety of styles available.  Whilst we were in Kas, Mish found a jeweller and some jewellery she was particularly keen on and was able to choose a flower shaped pendant in the limited time we had ashore.

When we sailed from Kas I grabbed a handline and threw it overboard in the hope that a little trawling might bring some excitement to the journey.  No luck though.  The captain asked me wind in the line just before we arrived at “Pirate Bay”, where the boat settled for the evening.

Just after we’d set anchor we saw a young girl on the nearby island yelling at us and waving.  The skipper jumped in the tender and drove over to her, picked her up and then escorted her around the point.  Apparently, she’d gone ashore from another boat and got lost.  She seemed quite embarrassed as she was motored past our boat.

The crew cooked up a great feed of BBQ chicken for dinner and we all sat around afterwards chatting and having a few drinks ��" far less drinks than the first night together though.  Tonight Mish and I chose to sleep in our cabins and were very happy to enjoy the warmth and comfortable sleep that it brought.
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35 Church St.
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297 Long St.
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Itinerary- Local Tours
D.F. Malan Street, Foreshore
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48 Main Road, Kalk Bay
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68 Kloof St.
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Bascule Whisky & Wine Bar
West Quay Road
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31 Harbour Road, Hout Bay
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Hiddingh Campus, Orange Street, City Centre
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The Book Lounge
71 Roeland St.
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Seafront, Kalk Bay
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Buena Vista Social Cafe
15 Alfred House, Portswood Road
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Burr & Muir
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Route 44, Klapmuts
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Cafe Caprice
37 Victoria Road, Camps Bay
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Victoria Road
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27 Somerset Road, De Waterkant
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Saturday, October 31, 2009

My Autumn Color

Autumn in Dijon
Apricot, burgundy, sunshine gold, rust. Autumn is such a drama queen. It’s impossible to ignore it. A bush that has been invisible for most of the year in its drab, green sameness jumps out of hiding wearing a coat of flaming red. No summer garden in full flower can even compete against a maple tree with its orange crown or a golden yellow ginko against a robin’s egg blue sky.

The autumn chill, though, is starting to invade my bones. It’s not just the incessant rain that brings on a creeping cold and dread of winter. No, the chill originates inside as much as out. My feet hurt. My knees ache. My shoulder doesn’t want to rotate like it should. If I sit in one place for too long my back moans. I feel my own autumn coming on.

I’m an autumn child. Born in this season of extravagant colors I feel the energy that they imbue. As another birthday peeks around the corner, beckoning me forward into the unknown, I do sense my own “chlorophyll” slowing down. The green of my summer is disappearing little by little. However, I’ve stored copious amounts of anthocyanin and carotenoids over my life. These are the stuff that bring on the intensity of the fall. As my own sun starts to hang a little lower over the horizon I want to burst forth in brilliant rainbows of golds and oranges and reds. I plan on hanging tightly to the tree limb until the last possible moment and then drift slowly down the street on an autumn wind until I gently settle on the ground to decompose and provide food for the next generation of trees.

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Dijon is in full flower until the deepest of winter. "Trees" of mums in autumn colors decorate every public intersection and often cascade to the ground

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Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Autumn Chores

Almost immediately I saw it – a peregrine falcon – perched on the tangled branches of my giant viburnum bush. The muted, mottled coloring of its back made it almost invisible amid the gray limbs and fading leaves. While its back was toward me, however, his head turned sot that his black, unblinking eyes were also boring straight into me. I saw those eyes and the dangerous hook of a beak meant for ripping into meat rather than slurping worms. Its still, gray body was on alert, so I froze to keep it from flying off. Its long, yellow talons wrapped around the branch, balancing a large body made to soar instead of sit. When the bird grew comfortable with this interloper and twisted its head forward again, I used that opportunity to back up quietly and enter the house to grab my camera. Realizing I was neither food nor enemy, it continued examining me as closely as I examined it and let me take half a dozen quick shots before it flew off in search of dinner.

Oftentimes we don’t have to travel someplace grand or distant to encounter the mysterious and unexpected. My garden constantly puzzles me. I admit, I am not a disciplined gardener. In fact, this year aside from folding in some nutrients before shoving a few tomato plants in the ground, I did practically nothing. With preparations for France consuming my spring, I didn’t have much time to prune, mulch, plant, rake, weed or do anything to prepare it to thrive and expand this season. Yet it continued to grow without me. However, without my management, it certainly showed that it had developed a mind of its own.

My “dwarf” hydrangea is now more than twice as big as I had ever expected it to be. Because the tag on the small bush had definitely said “dwarf,” I placed it near the front edge of my bed so that now it smothers all other worthwhile flora around it. This week, however, its large floral heads of the bush are turning from a mossy chartreuse to a ripe cranberry color, and soon the leaves will follow. It embraces the coming cold. Somewhere around here I had planted a striking black salvia. I don’t recall seeing it this summer. Did I accidentally pull it as a weed last fall because the marker had disappeared, or was it overtaken by my hydrangea? And what is the name of that feathery plant that a neighbor had given me from his garden? I had planted it so that its delicate white flowers could add interest woven among blank spots in my boxwood bed. They are now almost as tall as my butterfly bush and will probably have to be ripped out next year so that they don’t interfere with the symmetry of the space they were intended to simply accent.

I lose a lot of plants because I’m so pathetic at adequately identifying them by any permanent mechanism. I buy a gross of markers, with all the best intentions to organize my garden as I plant, but it seems to fall by the wayside every year. Are those serrated, fuzzy leaves over there some kind of hellabore, a new kind of dandelion, or something I don’t remember buying? But the markers can also be totally useless. This year my phlox migrated on their own. None exist where I originally had planted them, but one is growing up through the azalea bush. One phlox plant has made a home where the yarrow, which has surrendered this year to the overgrown Russian sage, was supposed to grow. Another phlox slid down the rock stairs into the daisy patch. But that’s ok because for some reason the daisies didn’t bloom this year. Each summer it’s a mystery what will come up where.

I love my garden and I love the surprises and bounty it can give me. I did nothing to the tomatoes this year but plant them and leave the country. Yet here in the middle of October the ripe, red fruit keeps coming. One year I had some extra gladioli bulbs left. I stuck them against the fence because it was the only place where the ground had not yet frozen since, as usual, I was behind schedule. I thought they were annuals, but their peach loveliness waves in the summer breezes every year. Last year a neighbor gave me a dozen clumps of sweet woodruff to try as ground cover. Those few clumps are now spreading and flourishing with more vigor than I have a right to expect. A columbine I didn’t plant sprang up in the overgrowth surrounding our trash cans in the alley.

Change comes to my garden whether I want it or not. But I can also direct its renovation if I just start early enough in the season. The world recognizes my efforts from time to time. As I’m bent over toiling at the weeds, neighbors and strangers stop to smell the sweet scent of my viburnum in the spring or to ask the name of the giant white anemones standing guard at the front of my house. My garden brightens the days of those passing through. And it seems to meet with the approval of peregrine falcons taking a rest before continuing their hunt.

As I rake, and weed, and try to plant barely one step ahead of the winter chill, I also have to admit that I’m in the autumn of my years and need some tending. I feel the season changing down to my roots. But I embrace the energy of autumn. Until the first snows come, autumn is marked by a riot of color and crisp air. Instead of fading into that season of death, it’s time to prune, and rake, and fertilize, and plant in my own life. I want to anticipate spring’s energy ahead rather than the cold of winter creeping up behind me. Maybe I’ll have another hawk in my future. I’m sure my life will present more than enough dandelions and invasive wild violets that resist extraction, rooting deep in my habits and requiring special tools to rip them from where they’ve anchored. If I work hard enough my own garden, though, maybe I’ll also be rewarded with the mystery of flowers I don’t remember planting poking their heads above the weeds.
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ETFs, which have turned into one of the most popular investing vehicles over the past decade, have become increasingly complex as firms try to appeal to a more diverse base of investors. While the majority of ETFs mimic indexes, leveraged versions use swaps or derivatives to try to amplify daily index returns. Leveraged and inverse ETFs have came under scrutiny over several issues since 2009, the year the SEC warned brokers and investors that the vehicles weren’t appropriate for long-term investors.

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AC Milan vice-president Adriano Galliani has all but assured Massimiliano Allegri he'll see out the season after their Champions League win at Anderlecht.

Milan have qualified for the knockouts thanks to the 3-1 result.

Galliani said: "We are in the knockouts and that is the important thing. How are we playing? I am the general manager and therefore I say we are playing very well. In private I might say things differently!

"I am ideologically against the idea of changing a Coach mid-season. I defended Allegri the way I did every other tactician. It has to be a catastrophe of truly Biblical proportions for us to do that, because the replacement is hardly ever going to do a better job."

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Brewster said: "I take quite a hands on role in the contract talks and everyone wants to get the best deals for themselves.

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"Marius Niculae coming in last year broke the structure slightly.

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Hey everyone!  It feels like it has been ages sine I posted an OOTP update for your daily pack breaks. Well, tonight, they are posted! But, I had to run the quick-and-dirty version, so the individual player pages are not up-to-date. Sorry.

The standings are up-to-date, though:

Let's just say that the teams in the lead are now REALLY in the lead! We're talking a range of a 3 games ahead of their closest competitor all the way up to 17 games ahead! Yes, 17 games ahead of second place in their division. That is crazy!  To top that off, we have a team with a .791 win/loss average! Jumpin Jiminy's!

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college-photo_16949._445x280-zmmAnyone with celiac disease faces a unique set of circumstances at the grocery store and at the table, but gluten-free college students have a few additional challenges to handle when it comes to choosing foods. A gluten-free friend of mine shared a few of the compromises she’s devised to combat tricky situations and enjoy her dining experiences on and off campus.

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The Desire of the Soul by Charles H. Spurgeon

…A Christian man has not always a bright shining sun. He has seasons of darkness and of night…..Experience tells us that the course of the just be as the shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day, yet sometimes that light is eclipsed. At certain periods, clouds and darkness cover the sun and he beholds no clear shining of the daylight, but walks in darkness and sees no light…. “Surely if I were a child of God, this would not happen.” Oh, say not so thou who are walking in darkness. The best of God’s saints have their nights. The dearest of his children have to walk through a weary wilderness. There is not a Christian who has enjoyed perpetual happiness. There is no believer who can always sing a song of joy….We need clouds and darkness to exercise our faith — to cut off self-dependence and make us put more faith in Christ and less in evidence, less in experience, less in feeling. The best of God’s children — I repeat it again for the comfort of those suffering depression of spirit — have their nights. …

I think when a man says, “I never doubt,” it is quite time for us to doubt him. It is quite time for us to begin to say, Ah, poor soul, I am afraid you are not on the road at all, or if you were, you would see so many things in yourself and so much glory in Christ — more than you deserve — that you would be so much ashamed of yourself as even to say, It is too good to be true.

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Six months of hormone treatment improves the results of radiotherapy for men with early prostate cancer. This trial will determine if adding another 12 months of hormone treatment after radiotherapy is even better. Bones are often affected by prostate cancer and can also be damaged by prolonged hormone treatment. Bisphosphonates are drugs that make bones stronger. This trial will also determine if treatment with a bisphosphonate can help prevent these bone problems.

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Further information

TROG 03.04 on Australian Cancer Trials website

Media announcements

Media release - 'New prostate treament prevents cancer spread' - Fri 15 August, 2014: "Australian and New Zealand researchers have discovered a powerful new prostate cancer treatment regime that can reduce the spread of aggressive but apparently localised tumours by more than 40 per cent. The 5 year follow up results of the Trans-Tasman Radiation Oncology Group 03.04 RADAR trial give Australian and New Zealand men with newly-diagnosed cancer a better chance of survival without increased long term side effects."

Trial resources for TROG members

TROG 03.04 member page

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