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Dinosaurs in the Ark: Beyond Fundamentalism, Creationism and the Divine Logos

On Memorial Day, 2007, The Creation Museum opened its doors in Petersburg, Kentucky. Unlike previous attempts at such a museum, this is no shanty operation, costing approximately 28 million dollars to complete. It covers 70,000 square feet, and includes a planetarium and a petting zoo. This is not an ordinary science museum. Although it uses the aura, language, and even aesthetics of a modern science museum, it rather asserts a literal interpretation of young earth creation, believing that the earth was created by God in six 24-hour days. The exhibits of the museum include lush, jungle-like dioramas of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, as well as human children playing with dinosaurs. (The museum explains that dinosaurs were part of the creation, but died off in the flood some 4,000 years ago. It sights medieval legends of dragons as evidence that humans and dinosaurs once co-existed.)

The museum is created by Ken Ham, founder of the non-profit group Answers in Genesis. The mission of this organization is to promote the scriptural inerrancy of the Bible. Where people may have questions about the origin of life in the universe, AiG provides the answers to the mysteries of being. It is currently popular among evangelical Christians in the “Bible Belt,” and they have expanded it to include a full scale model of the Ark itself, complete with a petting zoo. But, the Creation Museum has its critics as well, from scientists as well as mainstream culture, who deride it as ideological propaganda, and an insult to science and responsible pedagogy. Despite the influence of a scientific age, this “museum” persists as a bizarre artifact of an antiquated worldview. Like a contrarian backlash against Modernity, it maintains that a few lines of poetic scripture in the Book of Genesis are taken to imply the entire course of creation and history. And in projects like the Creation Museum artifact utilize modern artistry, language, and aesthetics of science to subvert the modern worldview with a pre-modern, medieval understanding of history.

The recent efforts of creationism are an effort to restore not only an anachronistic worldview, but represent a quixotic attempt to corral all meaning into the parameters of an authoritative text. The awkward insistence on textual authority and Biblical inerrancy enact a cultural regression that is indicative of a reactive culture and a failure of expanding notions of faith that Christian ethicists desire. The regression to text shows not only a castrated failure of faith, but exposes the failure of text itself, and finally, the failure of the logocentric cosmos of Abrahamic faiths. Here I consider this phenomenon in three steps. First, I will consider creationism as a sociological phenomenon of American fundamentalism, and show how it struggles with Modernity. Then I will show how its insistence on biblical inerrancy has its roots in book culture and the typographic mind. Then, I will look at this phenomenon mythically from the viewpoint of heroic Biblical Logos in the creation myth, revealing how the Bible itself is an errant, crippled, and incomplete picture of creation that has haunted Abrahamic faiths since their postlapsarian inception. It is a bad myth that engenders and replicates bad faith and a pitiable understanding of reality; a pity reified in the Creation Museum.

Inside the Creation Museum

What is most apparent about the museum is that it not a museum. It merely uses the aura and façade of science for ulterior motives. For fundamentalists, the museum is not primarily about science, but about good and evil. Jandos Rothstein’s essay “Graphic Displays of Faith”:

In the exhibit “Culture in Crisis,” a fake street shows a church being destroyed by a wrecking ball that symbolizes evolution. Through a window, a boy can be seen surfing internet porn, and a teenage girl holds a positive pregnancy test and a pamphlet about abortion. ‘It’s not so much about evolution as it is a way of thinking, says (museum design director Patrick) Marsh. “Morality is not something that evolves. Biblical morality is unchangeable.” (96)

Indeed, the museum’s main aim is not scientific education, but salvation. Museum docents are planted around the exhibits ready to assist visitors to bear witness and testimony. Each exhibit section ends with a presentation of the gospel, and an invitation to commit one’s self to faith. (Byassee, “Dinosaurs in the Garden”).

The museum takes much time to point at perceived flaws in Darwinian Theory, and blames secular modernity for war and suffering. The suggestion is that with a reassured Biblical creation, human morality will rise to moral standards. The museum takes much effort to portray science and secularity as evil, signs that “man is rebelling against his creator [sic].” The museum depicts evolutionists as well through in a museum video. As the actor speaks of evolution, he takes on nefarious expressions, likening onto a satanic plot. Elsewhere, a high school science teacher teaching evolution is presented as an elitist tyrant who is closed minded to creationism. The doctrine of evolution is presented as secular propaganda spread by confused, doctrinaire fools; contrasting greatly with the innocent free inquiry of creationism.

The Museum has its foundations in the deliberate doctrine of American fundamentalism. Fundamentalism was not even a word until 1910, when two devout brothers, Milton and Lyman Stewart, SoCal entrepreneurs, commissioned an anthology from conservative theologians in an effort to combat secular modernity and liberal theology with a marketable product. Making their money near the same Hollywood dream factory that gave form to the Creation Museum, the five volume The Fundamentals asserted revivalist Reformation theology, centered around the inerrancy of Biblical history; including the dogmas of creation, the literal virgin birth, death and resurrection of Christ, and that Christ will return in an apocalyptic struggle with the Anti-Christ. Creation is integral to the Biblical story, as the key dogma that begins the story of the moral universe. Reverend Dyson Hague contributed a key paper in The Fundamentals which became the basis of modern creationism:

The Book of Genesis is the foundation on which the superstructure of the Scripture rests. ….The Bible teaches that the universe was not causa sui or a mere passive evolution of His nature, nor a mere transition from one form of being to another, from non-being to being, but that it was a direct creation of the personal, living, working God, who created all things out of nothing, but the fiat of His will, and the instrumentality of the eternal Logos. … The first verse of the Bible is a proof that the Book is of God. (“The Doctrinal Value of the First Chapters of Genesis,” internet resource)

The tenor of this statement captures the spirit of anti-evolution fervor at the time. The famous orator and American statesman William Jennings Bryan was in the decline of his career when he performed the role of prosecuting attorney in the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925. (John Scopes was a Tennessee science teacher placed on trial for teaching evolution; then outlawed as pedagogical debasement. He was convicted by the jury, and fined 100 dollars.) Bryan’s view from the prosecution was that “All the ills from which America suffers can be traced back to the teaching of evolution. It would be better to destroy every other book ever written and save just the first three verses of Genesis” (Ruthven, Fundamentalism 19). Fundamentalists believe that Biblical truth, based on Genesis 1:1, is the healing balm for social ills. Such is Henry Morris, founder of “Creation science” and founder of the Creation Research Society and the Institute for Creation Research, “Evolution is the root of atheism, of communism, nazism [sic], anarchism, behaviorism, racism, economic imperialism, militarism, libertinism, anarchism [sic], and all manner of anti-Christian systems of belief and practice” (Ruthven, Fundamentalism 19).

Fundamentalists perceive evolution as tantamount to moral relativism, and repeatedly reject the notion that man [sic] is an animal. They presume man [sic] has supernatural origin, elevating the spiritual and intellectual over the instinctual or beastly properties physiology suggests. Perceiving man [sic] as animal is a threat to the divine Logos, and a threat to the moral, soteriological, teleological and eschatological intentions implied by the Biblical historicism. It threatens fundamental notions of spiritual purity, and threatens the purity of the Logos. Man is not subject to nature, but is subject to original sin in a morally-driven universe, created by the Divine Authority ex nihilo. Evolution, in this moral universe, is unclean, confusing, and animalistic, which the Fundamentalists respond with moral indignation. Again, Rev. Hague colorfully states:

Man was created, not evolved. That is, he did not come from protoplasmic mud-mass, or sea ooze bathybian, or by descent from fish or frog, or horse, or ape; but at once, direct, full made, did man come forth from God. When you read what some writers, professedly religious, say about man and his bestial origin your shoulders unconsciously droop; your head hangs down; your heart feels sick. Your self-respect has received a blow. When you read Genesis, your shoulders straighten, your chest emerges. You feel proud to be that thing that is called man. Up goes your heart, up goes your head. (“The Doctrinal Value of the First Chapters of Genesis,” internet resource)

The purifying indignation of the fundamentalist imagination is aimed at a restoration of culture through revising history along theosophical paradigms. Their political rhetoric is replete with references to an imagined idyllic past, articulated as a utopian past of a pure Christian state. Fundamentalists believe, for instance, that the United States was founded on Biblical principles, and that the country has strayed from the moral centeredness of these absolutes. The reality is that the Constitutional framers were highly suspicious of religion and attempted to divorce secular governance from church life. Key among them was Thomas Jefferson, who wrote a version of the gospels commonly called “The Jeffersonian Bible,” which edited out all references to miracles or the supernatural.

Paradoxically, while claiming it is against Modernity, fundamentalism, like the Reformation theology it derives from, is a product of Modernity. In his book, Fundamentalism, sociologist Steve Bruce defines “fundamentalism (as) a rational response of traditionally religious peoples to social, political and economic changes that downgrade and constrain the role of religion in the public world” (117). This would indicate that fundamentalism is a form of reactionary blowback to cultural anxiety in the name of an idyllic past, and a cultural shell in which to preserve codified traditional beliefs. Two other observers noted that:

Fundamentalism is a truly modern phenomenon – modern in the sense that the movement is always seeking original solutions to new, pressing problems. Leaders are not merely constructing more rigid orthodoxies in the name of defending old mythical orthodoxies. In the process of undertaking “restoration” within contemporary demographic/technological centers, are new social orders actually being promulgated.” (Shupe and Haddon, “Is there such a thing as global fundamentalism?” 112)

Despite its manifest struggle with Modernity, however, this brand of theology does not offer a conscious or adult way to deal with the malaise of the modern. Rather, it is more like a symptom of that malaise sharing with Enlightenment the common perspective of modern Cartesian subjectivity which posits the individual as separate from a completely objective, disenchanted world. Utilitarian science and creationism both view the world as something alien and objective. Both believe monolithically in single universal truths. Both are interested in facts, not interpretations. As such, both could be faulted for doctrinaire logocentrism, where the flight to objectivity conveys a longing for security against the perceived chaos of material being. And both can be faulted for categorical melding, as scientists step into the realm of religion to proselytize atheistic positivism, (with the likes of Daniel Dennett and Richard Dawkins), and religious types who step into the realm of science, (like Ken Ham and Answers in Genesis). Both are awkward treading in alien waters, and both perspectives have common origins in Enlightenment subjectivity, both portraying an uneasiness from within Enlightenment culture. That is to say, fundamentalism and scientism are distant cousins with shared phallogocentric roots. Robert Jay Lifton writes that, “as in many other ways, fundamentalism is attracted to what it opposes. In pursuing this “modern anti-modernism,” fundamentalism seeks to replace history with doctrine, to view all experience through the lens of Scripture” (The Protean Self 161).

Fundamentalism is in the position to adapt along with modernity, keeping step with it as a kind of mutated offshoot. It positions itself as a fugue of secular and technological progress, harkening to reactionary social retrenchment against a transforming world. Malise Ruthven defines fundamentalism as a “’religious way of being’ that manifests itself in a strategy by which beleaguered believers attempt to preserve their distinctive identity as a people or group in the face of modernity and secularization” (Fundamentalism 8). It is the changing “protean” world fundamentalism functions as a purifying shield against. Robert Jay Lifton writes that the “totalistic or fundamentalist response is a reaction to proteanism and to the fear of chaos. While proteanism is able to function in a world of uncertainty and ambiguity, fundamentalism wants to wipe out that world in favor of a claim to definitive truth and unalterable moral certainty” (The Protean Self 11).

Against Lifton’s thesis, however, I would modify the notion of fundamentalism as not completely unalterable and has a two handed approach. As an ideology, it changes tactics, adopts new language, new technologies. It is not just the appearance of science with the Creation Museum, but it freely appropriates secularism and funnels it through a scriptural paradigm. In a postmodern humanistic West, as the Bible loses its epistemological hold on consciousness, the fundamentalist fringe becomes a movement retrenched in dogma, yet having to mimic the authoritative voice of the secular world. Evangelical megachurches are beginning to look like their own townships, with postmodern architecture, Christian rock music, clothing shops, craft bazaars, and coffee bars. There is even an evangelical theme park called “Holy Land” in Orlando, and the aforementioned Creation Museum. Evangelicals are even promoting stimulating sexuality, selling sex toys from websites like book22.com (named after the “Song of Solomon”). The look, appearance, and even speech of secular society is appropriated, and stamped with a trademark © (Christian), to give the aura that all these things are now okay to engage in because they have been approved of by the ideological Authority, preserving its phallogocentric function.

The Book of books, the Author of authors

I have so far considered the anthropology of fundamentalism, but some deeper consideration has to be paid to the Divine Authority itself. As evangelical Christians are engaging with secular society, and now adopting the church to modern society, it is a wonder yet why there is such a concerted effort to buttress a defeated worldview with new language. Why do individuals and communities undergo the pretense of revitalizing scriptural historical authority in a modern world, such that the Creation Museum still attracts more than half a million visitors a year? The drama centers on preserving the aurora of the scripture.

The answer is that the power of God is in the power of His Book. The Bible is the Book of books, not just bound to history, but invents History. As the church became decentralized, no longer containing the faith of the individual, Luther’s answer was to devalue the church and its mythology, and re-focus faith as an individual quest for salvation in relation to the Bible and the Authority of the revealed word. The Bible is the Logos, and He is its Creator. The book does not change, it is written [sic]. Had Christianity been based on an oral tradition, it may have been more adaptable and malleable than the implacable authority of the revealed word. It is through the Word alone that God is present. Derrida writes:

The stage is theological for as long as its structure, following the entirety of tradition, comports the following elements: an author-creator who, absent and from afar, is armed with a text and keeps watch over, assembles, regulates the time or meaning of representation, letting this latter represent him as concerns what is called the content of his thought, his intentions, his ideas. He lets representation represent them through representatives, directors or actors, enslaved interpreters who represent characters who, primarily through what they say, more or less directly represent the thought of the “creator.” Interpretive slaves who faithfully execute the providential designs of the “master.” (Writing and Difference 235)

The divine Authority of the Book implies its own enforcement. As monotheism, it carries its own inertia because the integrity of God, of the Book, relies upon the integrity of History. Postmodern theologian Mark C. Taylor writes, “From the perspective of traditional Christianity, history is always a story. Events are not merely chronic or simply successive; they are plotted along a line that has an unambiguous beginning, middle, and end. The Christian drama consists of five acts: Creation, Fall, Incarnation, Crucifixion/Resurrection and Redemption” (Erring 65). In the Christian History, nothing has a loose end. Each act needs the other acts to make sense for the central mid-point of the “Christ event.” “Christ, in other words, is the logos that discloses the logic and rationale of time as a whole” (Erring 65).

From the view of deconstructive theology’s focus on the Logos of History, the role of evangelicals comes into focus. They are actors, interpretive slaves to the most literal of interpretations. It is not so much a choice driven out of existential insecurity and epistemological doubt, but a simple mimicry of divine history, like monolithic drone enforcers of the alpha and the omega. These are not the ideas of individuals because they reject their own subjectivity in favor of the prescribed Logos. Here, it is useful to think of the Logos of Christian historicism as a kind of autonomous complex in the collective psyche. It carries a personality and thinking of its own. And like a complex, it is simplistic in its aims – it simply insists upon its own being. It is without textuality, defiant of hermeneutics, a self-authenticating authority. As such, it attempts to colonize history, incorporating books into its Book. As such, the monolith is an imperialistic construction. As the museum is a modern imperialist construction, appropriating and relativizing the Other behind their preserved glass cases, so the Creation Museum appropriates the idea of Museum itself, colonizing the colonizer, insisting on its Divine Logos and ontological supremacy.

Only the appropriation is now rife with inner contradiction, and reeks with insecurity. The Creation Museum is a relic of a dying worldview, a loosening structure feebled by its ill execution, lack of basic data, and insistence on simple binaries. It is a monument to ecological trauma, and an insecurity and a reversion to a simplistic crippled faith. Creationism is replete with contradictory thinking and defensive platitudes, suggesting the loosening of Authority as much as it does the enfeeblement of evangelical faith.

Faith need not be reactionary, however. A changing world could be a call to deepening faith rather than retreating to a caricatured cartoon of its elements. The loss of Divine form could be viewed as an opportunity to deepen faith with a non-ideological religious experience. Psychologist and theologian James Fowler suggested in Stages of Faith that faith developed in six stages. Literal fundamentalism falls mostly in Fowler’s Faith Stage 2 – a “Mythic-Literal” faith that is common in school children. Children this age, according to Fowler, believe in the justice and reciprocity of the universe, and their deities tend to be anthropomorphic. Fundamentalist communities also have tendencies to Stage 3, a “Synthetic-Conventional” faith found mostly in adolescents that characterize conformity. For Fowler, faith appropriately developed would hinge on the pivotal Stage 4, the “Individuative-Reflective” faith, whereby a person has to take personal responsibility for beliefs and feelings. Stage 5 faith revolves around a “Conjunctive” faith in which the individual is able to acknowledge paradox and the transcendence of reality communicated through symbolic meanings. Fundamentalism is a house of stunted growth, and on the contrary to religion, demonstrates a lack of faith and a lack of true religious feeling. Only when the Logos is subverted can an individual move from merely mimicking Biblical historicity to engaging in a poiesis, and a creative-imaginative faith.

Biblical Errancy

So far I have discussed how the anthropology of fundamentalism and the authority of the Book work together to form an entrenched, literalizing historicism based on the Divine Word. This doctrine is upheld today in fundamentalist communities, and in the fusion of modern and anti-modern worldviews in the Creation Museum artifact. A maturing of Christian faith requires a more sophisticated hermeneutic of myth and symbol, the province of the humanities. However, some mythical archeology has to be performed in order to reconstruct the context in which Genesis was written.

Genesis was one of the first texts written to formulate a Hebrew creation epic. This epic was to be the cosmogenesis of a Hebrew polemic in which to found the race and identity of a people in distinction from the Others (the Assyrians, Babylonians, Hittites, and Egyptians, et al) of the Ancient Near East. Genesis was not causa sui, rather it was copied off of primarily Bablyonian creation myths that predated the Hebrews by thousands of years.  Jungian analyst Henry Straw suggested that the Biblical cosmogonic myth was left incomplete as it copied Babylonian lore. In the Babylonian myth, Marduk, the cosmogonic hero deity, fashioned the world out of Tiamat, a kind of primordial dragon that represented the prima materia of creation. Similar myths abound in different traditions that propose that in the beginning there was an undifferentiated wholeness to being. Consciousness, in the form of the cosmogonic hero, created differentiation. Straw writes:

The first chapter of Genesis focuses on the moment when Marduk and Tiamat meet in combat, when wind meets water.

In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters. Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. (Genesis 1:1-3)

The Hebrew word tehom, translated “the deep,” is derived from “Tiamat”. God is the Marduk function, the divider. There is no mention of an original whole from which the creator and the formless void emerge. This moment of victory over the formless is taken out of its original context of ideas. It is no longer a moment in a narrative explaining how one becomes many. It is no longer a picture of the surface and depth of being. Genesis 1, the official cosmogony in the Bible, is not a complete cosmogony. It is that moment when differentiation dominates completeness. It does not imagine a primordial whole of being. It imagines only the fragmentation of being (6-7).

The mistake of Genesis creates history with this anti-mythical stroke. Primordial fullness, the divinity of matter, the so-called divine feminine is excised from Abrahamic faiths. This is the origin of the metaphysical problem of creatio ex nihilo. Furthermore, God takes a vicarious position with the world, a theological problem called deus absconditus. Genesis maintains that people are considered special creations rather than manifestations of this primordial unity. And as for God, he takes on further and further remoteness, first from the Garden, and then his authority is lessened by Modernity, confined then marduk-tiamatonly to the gaps of cosmogonic explanation. This is all so because the creation itself initially implies distanciation from God in an inherently meaningless material world. And God, in the metaphysical imagination, watches from a great distance, concerns himself only with justice rather than being. In the beginning, as in the end, there is His Word, the solar project of Divine historicism.

Perhaps the problem with creationism is the book itself and its claim of textual supremacy over the particulars of life. There is a certain biophobia in these beliefs, a kind of hygienic worldview always at a remove from life. One can only imagine how a Babylonian cosmogony would have viewed the theory of evolution. I imagine that it would have gotten along just fine with modernity because it could focus its vision on the primordial unity of all living things, view nature as something sacred, and see animals as distant cousins to human beings.. This cosmogony would have lent itself to an ecological worldview, and less atomistic and vicarious than the Abrahamic cosmogony. It presages Lynn Margulies’s Gaia hypothesis by ten thousand years, and is itself a descendent of a much older Gaian-inflected faith. And that is to say that all life is interrelated in an intricate network of being.

In the fundamentalist worldview, everything is about maintaining certainty, about clamping down, shutting off flows of libido, desire, and making everything refer to the rigid boundaries of text. It is an ethical claim that is the hallmark of phallogocentric culture, and the main block on the way to a holistic cosmogony and resuscitated ethic – both socially and ecologically. Feminist philosopher Luce Irigaray calls for such an ethic that escapes textual representation and its phallic anaesthesis, a mode of unalienated and unmediated desire escaping the boundaries of textual ossification; of an Eros that escapes, slipping through language. Phallogocentric textual reality is replete with fissures, breaks, inconsistencies that break down its formal idealism. Only the most doctrinaire people rationalize away these breaks in a tireless quest to make life fit the book. But in the breakdown, a more immediate sense of reality makes itself known, and presents an opportunity to enter into a more interesting field of relations. Environmental ethicist Mick Smith writes:

Beyond the margins and beneath the surface of modernity, overlooked or dismissed, there remains an excess that escapes containment, an undercurrent that flows around and through the bounds of the masculine/instrumental symbolic order: a “physical reality that continues to resist adequate symbolization and/or that signifies the powerlessness of logic to incorporate in its writing the characteristic features of nature.” (Irigaray) … The modern and the masculine tries to, but cannot, take into account and make tangible that which is least amenable and most alien to its own order of things – the emotional excess that transcends self-interest in its unequal and unfathomable responsiveness to others. The ethical marks a refusal to force others to comply, to make them fit into the categories of one’s own symbolic order to see them fit into the categories of one’s own symbolic order or to see them as someone exactly like us. In this way Irigaray suggests that we might yet experience a return of this repressed, of the “other(’s)” side of the symbolic order; of the feminine rather than masculine, of nature rather than culture, of a mechanics of fluids rather than solids, of ethics rather than economics.” (An Ethics of Place 173)

I claim that this other, more complete picture of reality gives a more complete picture of the self and of nature. It is a reality that has been suppressed by textual supremacy and representation that has resulted in this awkward, tyrannical cosmogony that is, at its worst, a fundamentalist reactive cartoon of reality. But in this cartoon, this ridiculous caricature reified in the Creation Museum, we see not a misguided delusion from the goodness textual authority, but on the contrary, the precise meaning of the text is revealed. But it is a mistake to blame this on emotionally crippled adults. The fault is in our heritage of cultural attitudes about text. The fault is in a culture with no sense for poesis, with no intelligence for an embodied knowing about our place, with no cosmogony that can give a coherent meaning for its circular, systemic being. It is in this zone that James Fowler’s Stages of Faith provides a coherent sixth category called Universalizing, one that he calls exceedingly rare. But it is a form that has in some respect moved past understanding text as a symbolic form and into a new, unmediated sense of connected well being. Fowler describes stage six Universalizers as having:

… generated faith compositions in which their felt sense of an ultimate environment is inclusive of all being. They have become incarnators and actualizers of the spirit of an inclusive and fulfilled human community. They are “contagious” in the sense that they create zones of liberation from the social, political, economic and ideological shackles we place and endure on human futurity. Living with felt participation in a power that unifies and transforms the world, Universalizers are often experienced as subversive of the structures (including religious structures) by which we sustain our individual and corporate survival, security and significance. (200-201)

There is a sense where this kind of belief needs no book or museum or shackles of ideological inculcation, just a sympathetic overflow of relatedness. And it is this affectual-creative sense which is the true home and origin of an earthly cosmogony.

This is a long way from dinosaurs on the ark. But the existence of that “museum” begs for considerable ridicule, as all fundamentalisms must be ridiculed, lest it take monopolistic claim on faith. Ironically, yet appropriately, it is a high form of faith that mocks these obscene cartoons. Evolution is a startling idea that calls for a greater understanding of nature. It is a notion that calls for wonder, calls for an understanding of how things interact systematically, calling for relationship. Text has its limits, and must be written with limits in mind, or else society is apt to reproduce itself in a desiccated and crippled form alienated from reality. This is not to say that language is useless either, but that concepts and ideas have to have a self understanding of their place. In other words, life must not serve text, text must serve life. The word does not make flesh, but flesh makes words. In this proper role, a greater, more interesting, embodied sense of reality awaits.

Bruce, Steve. Fundamentalism. New York: Wiley-Blackwell. 2000. Print.

Byassee, Jason. “Dinosaurs in the Garden.” In Christian Century. 2/12/08, Vol. 125. Issue 3, pp 22-26.

Derrida, Jacques. Writing and Difference. Translated by A. Bass. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1978. Print.

Fowler, James W. Stages of Faith: The Psychology of Human Development and the Quest for Meaning. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1981. Print.

Hague, Dyson. “The Doctrinal Value of the First Chapters of Genesis.” In The Fundamentals. Vol. 1, Ch. XIV. Internet resource.

Lifton, Robert Jay. The Protean Self: Human Resilience in an Age of Fragmentation. New York: Harper Collins. 1993. Print.

Rothstein, Jandos. “Graphic Displays of Faith.” In Print. Feb. 2008. Vol. 62, Issue 1. pp 96-101.

Ruthven, Malise. Fundamentalism: The Search for Meaning. New York: Oxford University Press. 2004. Print.

Shupe, Anson and Jeffrey K. Haddon. “Is there such a thing as global fundamentalism?” In Anson Shupe and Jeffrey K. Haddon (Eds.), Secularization and Fundamentalism Reconsidered. New York: Paragon House. 1989.

Smith, Mick. An Ethics of Place: Radical Ecology, Postmodernity, and Social Theory. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. Print.

Straw, Henry F. Turn Around. Unpublished manuscript. 2009.

Taylor, Mark C. Erring: A Postmodern A/Theology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1984. Print.

Reposted from my archive at Green Fissures in an Otherwise Pristine Robot, 2009.


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Finally was able to go with Lumberjackstack and the wife to Las Vegas Toy Con! We were very lucky to get press passes to this convention and see the cool things they had there.

The convention wasn’t as big as I thought it would be, and of course it is no where near as cool or big as the New York Toy Fair. Of course you had your artists and actors present there, but there wasn’t any new toys to be released booths at all. This convention was made more for the toy sellers to make money and buy toys that we already see at our local stores, just having the downfall on getting ripped off by jacked up prices.

This was an experience for me, and would like to see Las Vegas do a better job at having big company names be at the convention instead of the Mom and Pop shops selling their old released toys.

Watch the video down below for some of the things we have saw at the convention.

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30 GOP Congressmen Have Been Attacked or Threatened Since May

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A total of 30 Republican members of Congress have either been attacked or revealed that they were the victim of a death threat since the beginning of May.

May 8: Wendi Wright, 35, was arrested after stalking Rep. David Kustoff (Tenn.) and trying to run him off the road. After pulling over, Wright "began to scream and strike the windows on Kustoff's car and even reached inside the vehicle."

May 9: Virginia Rep. Tom Garrett needed heavy security at a town hall after receiving a series of death threats in May that police "deemed to be credible and real."

"This is how we're going to kill your wife," one message said. Others detailed how they would kill his children, and even his dog.

May 12: A town hall participant accosted North Dakota Rep. Kevin Cramer, shoving fake dollar bills into his suit jacket. A Kramer supporter grabbed the same man by the neck. Both men were ejected by law enforcement, but neither were charged.

May 12: A Tucson, Ariz. school district employee was arrested by the FBI for sending several death threats to Arizona Rep. Martha McSally. The man threatened to shoot McSally and told her to "be careful" because her days "were numbered."

May 21: Florida Rep. Ted Yoho described his office getting vandalized by protesters. One female constituent left a voicemail on an office answering machine, promising, "Next time I see you, I'm going to beat your f**king ass."

June 14: Sens. Rand Paul (Ky.) and Jeff Flake (Ariz.), and Reps. Steve Scalise (La.), Kevin Brady (Texas), Jack Bergman (Mich.), Mike Bishop (Mich.), Mike Conaway (Texas), Roger Williams (Texas), John Moolenaar (Mich.), Gary Palmer (Ala.), Chuck Fleischmann (Tenn.), Ron DeSantis (Fla.), Barry Loudermilk (Ga.), Mark Walker (N.C.), Steve Pearce (N.M.), Brad Wenstrup (Ohio), Rodney Davis (Ill.), Jeff Duncan (S.C.), Trent Kelly (Miss.), Mo Brooks (Ala.), and Joe Barton (Texas) were attacked by a gunman during a baseball practice in Alexandria, Va.

Scalise, the House majority whip, was shot in the hip, and remains in the hospital. Four others were injured, including a staffer for Williams and two Capitol Police officers assigned to Scalise.

The same day, New York Rep. Claudia Tenney received an email reading, "One down, 216 to go."

June 17: Missouri Rep. Ann Wagner revealed that she had gotten five death threats in the weeks leading up to the Scalise shooting. Wagner said that protesters had been "vandalizing my home, showing up with masks and gravestones, and laying down on my driveway and drawing chalk outlines of dead bodies. Picketing my church at 8 and 10 o'clock Mass."

June 22: An Ohio man was arrested for leaving a voicemail threatening the life and family of Rep. Steve Stivers (Ohio).

"We're coming to get every goddamn one of you and your families. Maybe the next one taken down will be your daughter. Huh? Or your wife. Or even you," the man said.

The same day, Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz played a threatening voicemail he had received on "Fox & Friends."

"I suggest you prepare for the battle motherf**ker, and the apocalypse," the caller yelled. "Because we are going to hunt your ass down, wrap a rope around your neck, and hang you from a lamppost."

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Facebook Bans Pro-Life Ads Supporting GOP Senate Candidates

Facebook has banned multiple ads released by a pro-life organization in support of Republican Senate candidates.

The Susan B. Anthony List said Thursday that Facebook banned its ad supporting Matt Rosendale, the Republican nominee in Montana's 2018 U.S. Senate race.

"This is getting ridiculous," the organization wrote on Twitter, asking Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook," Is #ProLife speech welcome on your platform or not?"

The Susan B. Anthony List then tweeted an email the organization received from Facebook. The email said the pro-life ad "doesn't comply" with Facebook's advertising policies and will not be active until the Susan B. Anthony List edits it accordingly.

The ad supporting Rosendale was the Susan B. Anthony List's second of the day to be banned by Facebook.

The other ad supported Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R., Tenn.) against her Democratic opponent, Phil Bredesen, in Tennessee's Senate race.

That ad was later restored.

Susan B. Anthony List president Marjorie Dannenfelser issued the following statement after the Tennessee ad was banned:

SBA List has faced repeated censorship over the last few weeks and now our ad supporting Marsha Blackburn has been disapproved, even after more than 90,000 had viewed it. Facebook must immediately stop its censorship of pro-life speech. All the information presented in our ads has been factual, if surprising, to those unwilling to face the reality of pro-abortion extremism. Facebook is censoring the truth and political free speech.

The organization released another statement in response to the Montana ad being taken down.

Last week, Facebook removed two other pro-life ads put out by the Susan B. Anthony List—one set to run in Arizona, the other in Iowa—the Washington Examiner reported.

Blackburn currently holds a seven-point lead in the RealClearPolitics polling average for Tennessee's Senate race, while the same average shows incumbent Montana Sen. Jon Tester (D.) leading Rosendale by four points.

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Hog Hunt at Cypress Creek, SC

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Cypress Creek Hunting Lodge in South Carolina is becoming a refuge for Freedom Alliance veterans. Dan, the owner, and the others at the lodge have hosted our guests for two hunts during the last year, and they recently took in six of combat vets for a short-but-sweet hog hunt in April.

During a battle in Iraq, Josh was hit in the hand by a mortar round. He was subsequently transferred to various hospitals until the surgical team at Duke attempted a procedure to save the hand. When nothing worked, and Josh’s life was in danger because of it, they finally amputated the hand.
This was the first hunt he’d participated in since his injury. “Experiential therapy,” he called it.

Josh, who stays home with his three-year-old son, was keen to get out into nature. He brought his own gun, which his wife had given him for his birthday, and he was one of the soldiers who took home a hog.

“Thank you for bringing me back to life,” he told Freedom Alliance.

Jacob, a three-time Purple Heart recipient, became fast friends with Josh. During combat in Iraq, he took shrapnel in his leg, which causes the muscle to spasm. He and his wife applied to be foster parents seven years ago, and today, they have nine children in the house!

“God had a master plan for our lives,” said Jacob, “and He certainly knew what we and those kids needed.” The couple has had one child of their own and adopted five of their foster children. They are currently in the process of trying to adopt 18-month-old twins. “It’s hard and emotional…. We just want the best for them,” he said.

While on foot patrol in Iraq, Sean encountered an explosion. When he ran to the aid of an injured comrade, he was hit by a projectile in the hip. That same year, on a separate patrol, he was thrown against a wall and pelted by shrapnel when another explosive device detonated.

These three—Josh, Jacob, and Sean—had the Iraq combat in common, and they bonded upon meeting. Being able to talk honestly about their deployments and trauma with others who had been there was a healing experience for them.
Clarence is a National Guard soldier who lost his leg in Iraq when his tank rolled over an explosive. “My prosthetic is my good leg,” he explained. With 21 pins in his right leg, you can tell by looking at it that the injury causes him a lot of pain.

Clarence was a patient at Walter Reed for several years before he came home to South Carolina to work on his family’s farm, growing cotton, peanuts, vegetables, and livestock.

Ed is a 24-year veteran of the U.S. Army and served in Desert Storm as well as Operation Iraqi Freedom. He was the only survivor when the Blackhawk helicopter was shot down in Afghanistan. And although he lives with head and back injuries from the crash, he must also deal with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which he said is the worst consequence of the accident. (It turned out that Ed knew Sean from the Warrior Games, which is where injured vets compete in Olympic-type events each year in Colorado Springs. This surprise reunion started the hunt on a good note.)

Wayne and Matt were our other guests, both soldiers dealing with injuries—physical and mental—from the war. Both love to hunt, and being at Cypress Creek was very therapeutic. When the pain was too much, the men grew quiet, but it was a good environment for them to be in, casual and curative.

“Staying busy like this really helps me,” Clarence admitted.

There was an evening hunt to commence the vacation, and the next morning, the men headed off to the ponds to do some fishing or shoot skeet at the rifle range. In between activities, a lot of chatting and mutual support ensued.

While the veterans were hunting during the day, a barbecue was being prepared at the lodge, along with a campfire and a local band to entertain. That night, all feasted on chicken and ribs, while the band played and some of the fellows danced and sang along!

The Cypress Creek community, a town called Estill, had set out collection cups and raised $250 for Freedom Alliance programs, which they presented us during the soiree. One of the women who organized the collection had lost her brother four years ago in Afghanistan; her son is currently deployed, and she shared how much American soldiers mean to her.

Frank, a Vietnam vet, sang with the band that evening, and later presented our guests with gun-cleaning kits. Before leaving, he led the group in one last hymn, singing “God Bless America.”

This got the guys talking and expressing appreciation for their time at Cypress Creek. For them it was more than a hunt—it was an opportunity to be with other service members, something they don’t often get to do.

During that special moment, Jacob said, “I never get a chance to get out…. I just can’t thank you enough for inviting me. I truly feel like I’ve won the lottery.”

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soft ginger cookies

I love anything with ginger and this recipe I have for ginger cookies is always a big hit. Since I missed Glee (thought it was on at 9:00 p.m. boo!) I thought I would share this recipe with y'all so you can enjoy in your warm cozy houses as the cool weather creeps in.

This recipe comes from one of my fave baking books The Clueless Baker: Baking from Scratch by Evelyn Raab.

You'll need:

  • 3/4 cup butter
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tbsp water
  • 1/4 cup molasses
  • 2 1/4 cups flour
  • 2 tsp ground ginger
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp cinnamon

Mix butter and sugar with an electric mixer until fluffy. Add the egg, water and molasses and continue mixing until smooth. In another bowl stir flour, ginger, baking soda and cinnamon together. Add dry mixture to wet mixture and beat until everything is combined into a soft dough. Roll into a big ball, cover with plastic wrap and put in the fridge while you clean up your mess. Once everything is cleaned up, preheat oven to 350 F and dump some sugar onto a plate (you're going to roll your dough balls in this shortly). Pull the dough out of the fridge and start rolling the dough into 1-1.5 inch little balls. Roll the dough balls in the sugar and place on an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake for 8-10 minutes (I bake for 9 minutes). Pull them out at 9 minutes. They will look soft and like they're not finished but trust me they are (trust!). Let them cool for a couple of minutes and then move them to a plate (they will firm up!) This recipe makes 4 dozen so I hope you're hungry!

Happy baking!

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Welcome to ‘Frodsham Sings’

Frodsham Sings Community Choir is a friendly and inclusive contemporary mixed Choir based in Frodsham.

We are not run for profit but operate for the benefit of and at nominal cost to our members.  The emphasis is on fun and development of friendships through singing, fundraising and social events. It’s good for your physical and mental health too!!

We also have a thriving and large men’s section.  Our repertoire mainly consists of Pop, Rock and Gospel style music.

‘I absolutely love being part of Frodsham Sings choir. It’s like a second family, such a friendly, fun group. I joined when I was made redundant. As a result it gave me such a lift at a low time in my life’

‘The best year of my life for singing, social activity, friendship. Everyone just gets on so well together. I wish I had joined years before instead of making excuses about work’

‘Singing is good for the soul. I have made so many wonderful friends and had so many amazing opportunities since joining Frodsham Sings.  Singing with people you love on a Saturday morning makes life so much happier!’

Under the leadership of Music Director Ian Oulton, the Choir has grown in size and has c75 enthusiastic members!

The Choir is a strong supporter of local good causes and is in great demand to perform at various events throughout the year. Check out our calendar here.

If you would like us to help you by holding a concert or supporting an event (inside or out) get in touch!!


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Poetry: echoes of music

(needs some work, but here it is for now…)

It was a bright and clear sunny–sky day
Warmth I’d dreamed of through Winnipeg’s winter
I rolled down the windows of my ’76 Malibu
And cranked up the volume on the cassette deck

Tom was still pretty and wailing on his guitar
Singing something I’d already played the hell out of
The wind whipped my hair across my unlined face
As I headed for Trans Canada number one

Cigarette-smoking fingers drummed on the wheel
Driving west with the morning light on my back
Feelin’ alright though I’d stayed up half the night
At a favourite bar listening to The Pumps

Freedom was calling, hooking its finger my way
The weekend stretched before me long and endless
Highway’s lines vanished up ahead and I savoured
Prairie plains forever framed by the windows

Passing landmarks and towns ringed with gold edges
Knowing roads by heart left my mind to wander
Lit a few more smokes and rewound my favourite tapes
And replayed lonesome refrains singing loudly

Pausing time I danced in some prairie farmland
Atop bales stacked in a yellow field emptied
Fleeting moments of my twenty-something youth
Spent on long-shadowed days since surrendered

I gave a jukebox its life at the old Kent Hotel
A tradition to stop and drink up a Kool One
The weathered sign on the road beckons to travellers still
And music echoes its own kind of freedom

It’s a bright and clear sunny-sky day
Warmth I’ve waited for all this long winter
I peer through my window on the Greyhound bus
And hum a tune that I barely remember

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#1: Detail from original acrylic painting by me: “Prairie plains forever framed by the windows” from Echoes of Music
#2: The Manitoba highway signs are free images from google. I don’t usually publish photos that I have not taken myself (or are from my family), but it’s a long way from California to Manitoba for a pic of a highway marker.
#3: A very recent photo of the sign for the Kent Hotel, Foxwarren, Manitoba  – photo by my brother, Jim Davies, cruising through town in late April 2014. Used with his permission.
shoulda: I have some great photos of my ’76 Chevy Malibu. It was a pretty car, dark blue with white. I need to dig ’em up, scan them, and post a few…

Here’s to our memories, enhanced always by music…

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The aim of this service is to assess, very sensitively, the situations of those children and young persons who could not live with their birth families and are unlikely to return there. These children and young persons have the right to live in a family and, if their birth family is unable to safeguard this right, it needs to be safeguarded through the provision of another family environment for them. This is already contemplated by law and this service will utilise its resources to ensure that the law is applied in the best interests of these children and young persons, acknowledging that a family environment is, usually, the best environment for these children and young persons.


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Uganda Empowers (UE) is an HIV/AIDS and children development community-based nonprofit organization working in remote villages in Uganda – Lwengo District.  UE fights the spread of HIV/AIDs through direct counseling and education, providing referrals and access to essential medicines, and by reducing the stigma of HIV/AIDs through the use of performing arts.

For the past two years, UE has rented a single office in the Mbiriizi Town Council.  Recently, the organization has been presented with an opportunity purchase a four-room office and make a permanent home on the property. With support from the Kaakas’ family, the organization was able to raise $2000 USD, but $2000 more is needed to own the land.

Owning the land would enable Uganda Empowers to apply for local grants that require land ownership. In addition to enabling UE to apply for grants, more space means more room for HIV/AIDs counseling; storage for costumes, drums, and educational materials; and other projects that help UE to remain self-sustaining, such as its craft shop, computer training, and stationary services.

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Kangana Ranaut, a three time National award winner, is one of the most successful female actors in Bollywood. She is fierce, she is bold and she is one of the most talented and versatile actress of today’s generation,having given many blockbuster performances in the past four-five years.

Kangana is aware about everything about what’s happening around the world, from Politics to Bollywood to everything and she never holds back her opinion. She speaks her heart out on everything. These days she is everywhere, giving her opinions on everything.

Recently, she slammed almost complete Bollywood industry for not speaking up on the political topics and staying aloof from issues concerning the society at large. In an interview, she slammed Alia Bhatt and her boyfriend Ranbir Kapoor. Calling Ranbir irresponsible, she said :

I think I saw Ranbir or Alia on Anupama’s show saying ‘Ham politics ke bare mei kyu bolein?’ Aise nahi chalta, you have to be responsible. Ranbir Kapoor was telling somebody ki mere ghar mei toh bijli pani ata hai, mai kyun politics se? You know, so how, ye desh ne, ap desh ki wajah se aapka ghar hai. Ye deshvasiyon ka hi paisa hai jisse aap Mercedes mein baithte hain. How can you talk like that?”

Here, have a look at the video of Kangana Ranaut slamming Ranbir :

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Now, Alia Bhatt has finally reacted to the statements of Kangana Ranaut and she has given a perfect reply to her controversial statements by praising her and respecting her skills about how she voice out her opinions. Quoting her father’s advice she said :

I do not have that ability to speak as candidly as Kangana does and I really, really respect her for that. Maybe in a way she is right. Sometimes we do hold back, or maybe we think that ‘kyu khamakha bolne jayein (why should we speak uselessly). My dad always says there are already so many opinions in the world, the world can do with one less opinion. So I have an opinion but I will keep it to myself. Kudos to her, she genuinely speaks very well.”

Well, we completely agree with Alia Bhatt, it’s better to keep quiet and speak non-sense when you are not aware of the answer.

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Wired for design? This contemporary dining chair from design-led brand, My Home, certainly is. The Wired dining chair is an inspired Enrico Cesana creation that is defined by the unbroken clean cut profile of its tubular steel frame, an outline which is rendered graphic by the cord which forms the seat and back rests.

Suitable for both indoor and outdoor spaces, the lively and fun design of this seating option is accentuated by a series of modern colour options. Simply use the checkout menu options to select your favourite colour.

Please note that the steel frame of this chair is finished as standard in a matt lacquer to match to selected cord colour. Should you wish the frame colour to contrast to that of the cord then please call us to discuss.

The Wired chair is part of an exclusive collection of design-conscious products from My Home. Exuding contemporary elegance and reflecting the most glamorous of trends in interior styling every piece in this collection is 100% crafted using ISO certified systems in Italy, using only Italian materials and components. Designed with the senses in mind, each piece in the My Home collection combines unique details, sartorial elements and impressive materials to create a timeless designer look.

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Chelsea Lynn LaBate spent years honing her stellar song-writing skills at the same school as Patti Smith, Bob Dylan, Joni MItchell, Janis Joplin – the stages of NYC’s Lower East Side. She quickly became known for her lush “song stories” and rich lyrics which explore magic, small town characters, imaginative lovescapades, demons, dragons and romantic rituals.

Her ghostly ballads, combine an intricate finger picking style with a warbling voice that captivates and stuns. Compared to the works of Feist, Regina Spektor and Fiona Apple, Chelsea Lynn has been prolific in her writing, and has composed and recorded dozens of songs since picking up the guitar in 2003 and is currently composing for her own orchestra, Ten Cent Orchestra.

She has toured extensively throughout Europe and the East Coast of the US and now is based in the Blue Ridge Mountains, where she continues to write, play and construct her colorful compositions.


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TLS certificates

TLS/SSL layer is very important not only for securing your connections but also to increase a chance to establish Websocket connection. In most situations you will put TLS termination task on your reverse proxy/load balancing software such as Nginx.

There are situations though when you want to serve secure connections by Centrifugo itself.

There are two ways to do this: using TLS certificate cert and key files that you've got from your CA provider or using automatic certificate handling via ACME provider (only Let's Encrypt at this moment).

Using crt and key files

In first way you already have cert and key files. For development you can create self-signed certificate - see this instruction as example.

Then to start Centrifugo use the following command:

./centrifugo --config=config.json --ssl --ssl_key=server.key --ssl_cert=server.crt

Or just use configuration file:

  "ssl": true,
  "ssl_key": "server.key",
  "ssl_cert": "server.crt"

And run:

./centrifugo --config=config.json

Automatic certificates

For automatic certificates from Let's Encrypt add into configuration file:

  "ssl_autocert": true,
  "ssl_autocert_host_whitelist": "",
  "ssl_autocert_cache_dir": "/tmp/certs",
  "ssl_autocert_email": ""

ssl_autocert says Centrifugo that you want automatic certificate handling using ACME provider.

ssl_autocert_host_whitelist is a string with your app domain address. This can be comma-separated list. It's optional but recommended for extra security.

ssl_autocert_cache_dir is a path to a folder to cache issued certificate files. This is optional but will increase performance.

ssl_autocert_email is optional - it's an email address ACME provider will send notifications about problems with your certificates.

When configured correctly and your domain is valid (localhost will not work) - certificates will be retrieved on first request to Centrifugo.

Also Let's Encrypt certificates will be automatically renewed.

There are tho options (new in v1.6.5) that allow Centrifugo to support TLS client connections from older browsers such as Chrome 49 on Windows XP and IE8 on XP:

  • ssl_autocert_force_rsa - this is a boolean option, by default false. When enabled it forces autocert manager generate certificates with 2048-bit RSA keys.
  • ssl_autocert_server_name - string option, allows to set server name for client handshake hello. This can be useful to deal with old browsers without SNI support - see comment


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Inspirational Quotesence (IQ):  Adversity

“Trials, temptations, disappointments — all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before”. – James Buckharm

Have you read the book “tough times never last but tough people last” by Dr. Schuller? Take the phrase just by its face value, where those it place adversity? We all face one adversity or the other not because we were destined for it but because in a bid to keep living we make mistakes either by our words or actions. We are helped, can develop moral energy, become nobler and stronger by adversities only if we take the learnings it inscribes on our life part.

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Blaze Media Pro All-in-One Multimedia Software Review

Blaze Media Pro is a powerful all-in-one audio and video converter for CD, MP3, WAV, WMA, OGG, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, AVI, WMV, MOV, Flash (SWF and FLV), iPod, PSP, 3GP, etc.; editor; recorder; CD/DVD ripper; audio, video, data CD/DVD burner for DVD, VCD, and SVCD; and much more.  Joe Tex from Shareware Junkies has written a review for the all-in-one multimedia software that gives newcomers an idea of what to expect.

"The installation of Blaze Media Pro is easy and intuitive, you can place the program files where you want them.

It has been awhile since we have done a review of Blaze Media Pro and WOW what a change! Now Blaze Media Pro does everything but wash the dishes.

Can you believe it? Simply amazing is what I have to say. With Blaze Media Pro I’ve been able to save lots of money because it does so many things. For instance I was just going to go out and look for a good program for burning CD/DVDs and as I’m sure you are aware most of the top names in that business are bloatware and cost lots more than Blaze Media Pro.

Don’t get the idea though that Blaze Media Pro because it does all of these things isn’t sophisticated, for instance I have on my computer some high end studio recording hardware. Windows recording software won’t find it, and it took me half an hour to get Adobe Audition to find it and it then took a reboot to use it. Blaze Media Pro found it right away and it was ready to go. It even has a built in Audio Tag editor!

If there something in the Audio/Video field that Blaze Media Pro doesn’t do and do well I sure don’t know what it is.

In conclusion run don’t walk to the Blaze Media Pro website and download it.  I guarantee you will like it."

5 thoughts on “Blaze Media Pro All-in-One Multimedia Software Review”

  1. It is a good program but hope you don’t have any computer problems. I had to replace my hard drive and didn’t have time to recover anything but luckily I had BMP on a disc i had made. When I tried to reinstall it the code wouldn’t work so I contacted the vendor. It took a while but I got a response with a new code. Didn’t work. I tried several more times and nothing worked. He suggested I download the upgrade and thinking this would help I put out another 25 bucks and guess what? Still it would not take the code I am at wits end and he has stopped replying to my emails. I told him I relied heavily on it for some of the website work I do but that has changed nothing. I still am without it.
    My issue here is that when you need support, IT IS NOT THERE….
    Jack Carson

  2. Yes, you are right. Great Product!
    But the problem I found is that when my computer started having problems and I tried to switch to my Laptop, it did not work. I ask them to help me and there was no response. I got upset and told them in several emails that I wanted to use the product but I needed to change the machine and I had no response, It has been several months and no answer. Now I discover that they have an address in North Carolina and the fax they have in their page is in Nevada.

    No way to talk to a person and explain my problem.

    I am sorry but that takes the product to the garbage category in my book. What do they want me to do? Pay again? No way Jose!!

    Shame on you Hi end software people that knows nothing about doing business the right way and with ethics.

    No more Blaze Media Pro or any of the Mystic products. I suggest you think about it before you buy this product for the first time. You are not going to be happy when you have to pay again later.

  3. I found BMP help very supportive, I have 2 drives on the same computer, BMP allowed and assisted with the process. I can not comment on problems that others have had with BMP, it works OK for me.

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Osman Khalid Butt and Sohai Ali Abro’s ‘Surkh Chandni’ to finally go on air

Surkh Chandni

The news of Sohai Ali Abro coming back on TV had broken out last year. The drama, based on the life of an acid attack survivor, was titled Surkh Chandni and was set to be Sohai’s first project after her movie Motorcycle Girl.

But, there had been nothing substantial on the project (except for Osman replacing Sami Khan) after those initial reports and the drama was sort of stuck in limbo since November. Well, the update is that the airing date has finally been set and we have gotten the exclusive scoop on when’s that happening.

On Air in April

Produced by Sana Shahnawaz and Samina Humayun Saeed, and directed by Shahid Shafat, the drama will go on-air on ARY Digital in April, as revealed to us by the producer Sana Shahnawaz.

In an earlier interview to Something Haute, Sohai had revealed that there was still some shooting left to be done for the project. It seems that the leftover part has finally been completed now as the drama is ready to go on-air next month.

Apart from the show’s lead pairing of Sohai and Osman Khalid Butt, the drama boasts of a stellar cast with names like Asad Siddiqui, Mansha Pasha, Rashid Farooqi, Lubna Aslam, Huma Nawab, and Hasan Ahmed. With Asma Nabeel writing the script, the drama already has plenty of reasons to be excited about.

A Social Issue Drama

Surkh Chandni aims to highlight the plight of the acid attack victims. It will bring the struggles they face on the screen and also shed light on the Acid and Burn Crime Bill that supports the victims of this heinous crime and ensures swift justice. In the aforementioned interview, Sohai had talked about why she had chosen Surkh Chandni.

“My character is a survivor, not a victim. The topic of acid-attacks is a globally prevalent issue and not just a Pakistani one. I believe as an actor, I have some social responsibility, but that is not solely why I took this project. I am an artist first, and I took this role because it challenged me as an actor.”

With such a strong team backing the project, it looks like this drama is definitely going to be one to watch out for. With it aiming to highlight the laws that support the victims, we say Surkh Chandni is a good addition to the list of many social dramas being produced nowadays.


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Promo PA Foundation for the enhancement of Cultural Heritage

Promo PA is a Foundation of research, based in Lucca, associated to the  European Foundation Centre (EFC) and to the Groupe Européen d’Administration Publique (GEAP) of Bruxelles.

Article 2 of the Statute provides that one of the priority axes of the Foundation is the enhancement of the landscape and museum cultural heritage through research, training and support activities for public and private employees in the field. These actions find their main expression in LuBeC – Lucca Beni Culturali(Lucca Cultural Heritage), the international forum dedicated to the development of the cultural heritage sector – technology – tourism, which takes place every year in Lucca in the third week of October.

LuBeC has earned Lucca the title of “capital of technology applied to cultural heritage” (Sole24Ore – March 11, 2012).

Against this background, the action to enhance the Chini Archives promoted by Promo PA, a project that promotes action not only to the direct benefit of the Archives by means of conservation and promotion but also within the local context of the Versilia Riviera and the  “Chini Itineraries”” which depart from here.

Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca Savings Bank Foundation

The Foundation is the ideal continuation of the Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca, established for charitable purposes under the initiative of private citizens and approved by motu proprio of Charles Louis de Bourbon, Duke of Lucca dated July 9, 1835.

On 18 May 1992, the Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca, in accordance with Law no. 218 of 30/7/1990 and in order to adjust and streamline the banking business to growing and changing customer needs, conferred the banking company to the public limited company called  “Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca S.p.A.”, thus taking the name of “Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca” and keeping within the statutory and legal requirements, those ends of public interest and social utility that were the intent of the supporters of the Fund and which have come to take shape in time.

By decision of 4 October 2000, the Ministry of Treasury, Budget and Economic Planning approved the Statutes prepared pursuant to D.Lgs.17 May 1999 no.153; as a result of which the body took the new name of Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca, acquiring at the same time the nature of private legal entity.

The Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca directs activities in the following major areas:

  • Art, cultural activities and heritage
  • Education and training, including the acquisition of publications for schools
  • Volunteer work, philanthropy and charity
  • Building of public works or of public utility
  • Scientific and technological research


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Kango Shicyauzo
JP Trabulance     03/02/01
Kango Shicyauzo (First Print Limited Edition)
JP Trabulance     03/02/01
Kango Shicyauzo
US G-Collections GC012 652823206215 06/24/03 AO

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Star Merc is an open world rpg where player choices heavily affect outcomes.

You assume the role of a manufactured space mercenary who is instructed on basic mission details and sent on his way expected to complete the objectives his creators have set. However, it is the players who decide what orders to follow and who from, the game provides many different choices that heavily affect situations, outcomes and relations within the game. Players also have the freedom of traveling to different planets and locations searching for loot, missions or shady business.

Some of the features include

- The freedom to travel when and where depending on the choices you make

- Many different weapons and items at your disposal

- Unlock special suit abilities as you level up

- Different Alien races to befriend or destroy

- Encounters with hostile and friendly space monsters

- Many different environments, planets and locations

- Important choices that drastically change circumstances and your surroundings

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16th-Dec-2008 01:59 pm
Just recieved my 2 free Magic decks in the mail today.

One Green, one White from the Planeswalker expansion.

Same size as the anniversary decks, so I assume I can pull 5 mana from each deck and have a pre-made deck to play with when next I find some Magic lovers.
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17th-Dec-2008 06:42 am (UTC)
should arrive soonish then...Think I ordered the same day as you did.
17th-Dec-2008 12:22 am (UTC)
How did you get two free?
17th-Dec-2008 06:40 am (UTC)
WotC was giving them away last month. I totally forgot that I had signed up.
17th-Dec-2008 12:45 am (UTC)
I quit around "ice age", started back up again around "visions", quit again soon after.

It wasn't that I didn't like the game, but they were putting out so many new expansions so quickly - and any deck I built was restricted a week later.

At the point I quit, I knew every card, of every color from Alpha to Visions - their effects, costs, and color text verbatim - their commonality.

My favorite parts of my collection were my sol rings collection, and my Arabian Nights mountains collection, because both were rather ridiculous.
17th-Dec-2008 06:38 am (UTC)

For years, my policy has been to buy a pre-made deck whenever I know I'm going to be around people who want to play. Mainly because a) I suck at deck building (my green bug deck is proof of that. All I wanted was creepy-crawlies, and it wound up being the size of a Steven Kind novel), and b) I never had enough money to actually collect the damn things.
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