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… Okay just one Christmas, but still… Phew!

Final year is BUSY! It’s all been a bit crazy recently with ever-growing to do lists, but take away the stress and it’s all pretty interesting and exciting!

I’m currently blogging in between working on a creative piece for our New Media Narrative unit and meeting with group members to sort the finishing touches to our assessed presentation and report for the PR unit!

Then it’s just tackling some dissertation before the end of term and MY 21st BIRTHDAY! Yay 🙂

Anyway, short and sweet because I do have lots to do!

Depending on how proud I am with the finished product, expect a link to my interactive narrative piece soon! Over Christmas I also hope to be adding some bits  & bobs to the ‘Portfolio’ page on here, too!

Bournemouth Uni knows how to have a ball!

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All assignments handed in, exams done and dusted. My second year of Communication and Media is over.

It doesn’t feel that long ago I was out meeting new people during ‘Freshers Fortnight’. And it only feels like last month I was saying goodbye to my first year by running from tent to tent in a field, hiding from torrential rain, dressed as a green crayon.

Bournemouth Uni’s Summer Ball is very different to the traditional ball. Favouring fancy dress and the mini festival vibe – I think it wins hands down compared to frocks and tuxedos.

Housemate and friend Sophie and I decided to go together as the Queens from Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland. After HOURS of shopping, sewing and facepainting, the results weren’t half bad (even if I say so myself).

The work!

The Queens found a Mad Hatter!

Another Mad Hatter & an Alice!

A very good night, the best way to finish the year ready for summer and work placement…

Can’t wait to do it again next year!

The ‘cum pigs’ went in two by two.. Hurrah, hurrah?

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After seeing Ricky Gervais’ Science show live at the BIC in November, I decided to write my first review for Bournemouth Uni‘s magazine, Nerve.

Not for the easily offended – anyone who’s seen Gervais’ stand-up comedy before will be familiar with the constant bad language and un-PC mickey-taking. I mean, he begins the show by matter-of-factly naming the audience ‘the C word’. That’s just Ricky’s style.

I’ve never been a big fan of his TV shows– such as ‘The Office’ and ‘Extras’ but ‘Animals’, ‘Politics’ and ‘Fame’ hold pride of place in my DVD collection. It was very exciting to finally see Ricky Gervais’ stand up, live!

Support acts can sometimes be a bit of a pain – it’s like a bland soup when all you really want is the steak! However, it was a pleasure to have Canadian Stewart Francis warming the stage for Mr Gervais. With his witty and casual one-liners, there couldn’t have been a better support. His Jimmy Carr-esque deadpan style contrasts to Gervais’, although the comedians manage to compliment each other well.

Introducing the star’s act was a seemingly un-science-related, and cringingly funny, short video, named ‘Cum Pig’. It does makes you wonder how exactly Gervais is going to make science funny. Which is exactly it – he doesn’t. Constantly admitting his show has nothing to do with its title (except the extravagant stage setting) he settles to amuse us with anything but science. Instead, Ricky covers obesity, masturbation and religion – recurring topics in his comedy. But this works for him. He unpicks the classic story of Noah’s Ark and in his arrogant way has a go at minorities. There were a few uncomfortable moments – when you feel like you shouldn’t laugh, but frankly, it’s funny!

Many times throughout the show I found myself thinking ‘where is this going exactly?’ but just as much as this, the audience waved in fits of laughter – I always find I laugh louder & more obviously at live comedy, I’d never laugh like that watching the DVD at home! And then he said thank you to the audience and waltzed offstage. Great – time to top up drinks and rest the aching cheeks ready for more! Well, not exactly. A two minute encore then he’s off again and the lights come on. After one hour it was over, which isn’t impressive at all for over £30 on a student budget – and a lot shorter than any of his previous shows.

Overall, the show was typical of Ricky Gervais – side-splittingly funny and thoroughly enjoyable. But I’m sure many people who also saw it will agree with me when I say that the early finish was disappointing and did mean I left the show feeling more negative than the content deserved. I recommend buying the DVD for a few laughs, but if I were you, I’d wait until it’s cheap on Amazon!


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Brooke-Alvinston wind farm appeal withdrawn

 By PAUL MORDEN The Observer

Wind farm opponents have withdrawn their appeal of Ontario’s approval of a four-turbine Zephyr Farms project near Watford.

Several weeks of hearings were scheduled to begin next week in Alvinston.

Esther Wrightman, with the Middlesex-Lambton Wind Action Group, said it made the decision to withdraw its appeal Thursday following a recent pre-hearing decision by the Ontario Environmental Review Tribunal.

That came after the Ontario’s Ministry of the Environment submitted “about 170 questions” about medical, real estate and other records the government wanted answered by 23 witnesses the wind group planned to call at the hearings.

Wrightman said the tribunal ruled, just six days before the start of the hearings, that it wanted to see the information the ministry requested.

“It’s like being tripped on the last lap of your race,” Wrightman said.

Gathering and compiling all of the information being sought before the hearing date wasn’t possible, Wrightman said.

“As much as we’d like to, it would have been a shoddy job,” she said. “You have to do it right.”

Going ahead with the hearings, in light of what the tribunal said, wouldn’t have been fair to the group’s witnesses, Wrightman said.

They included people living in communities around Ontario where wind farms are already up and operating.

A lack of clear rules at the tribunal make it a challenge for group’s filing appeals, Wrightman said.

“They’re not specific in the way they run it and they clearly say when you’re there, “Well, you know what, we’re just learning as we go here.’”

But, Wrightman said the lessons learned this time can be used by the group’s lawyer, and other wind opponents, in future appeals of other wind energy projects.

“At least we have a clearer vision of what they want to see,” she said.

If the tribunal rules a renewable energy project will cause serious harm to human health, or the environment, it can revoke or alter the approval given by the province.

The launch of the wind action group’s appeal didn’t stop work on the Zephyr Farms project at Ebenezer Road and Churchill Line in Brooke-Alvinston. Crews have been working through the winter to erect the four turbines for Mississauga-based Green Breeze Energy.

It’s vice-president, Brent Hall, said company officials were happy to hear the appeal has been withdrawn.

“Now, we can just focus on finishing the project and starting to produce power,” he said.

“Three turbines are up and the fourth one will be going up shortly.”

Connection to the electricity grid should also be in place within a week to allow testing to start, he said.

“Hopefully by the end of March, we’re producing power.”

As for claims made by wind turbine opponents, Hall said, “There is no medical evidence out there that wind turbines cause any effect at all to human health.”

Wrightman said she feels disappointed, particularly following the work the group and its lawyer put into the appeal.

“The worst of it is knowing that turbines are going up and they didn’t get that day in court,” she said.

“It feels like you’ve been somewhat robbed. It’s not a great feeling at all.”

Wrightman said group members were looking forward to putting their case against industrial wind turbines before the tribunal.

“It will happen,” she said, “Just not right now and not here.”

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USADA: Fabricio Werdum suspended two years for steroid

USADA: Fabricio Werdum suspended two years for steroid

USADA: Fabricio Werdum suspended two years for steroid

Former UFC heavyweight champion Fabricio Werdum has been suspended for two years.

The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency on Tuesday announced Werdum’s punishment after an out-of-competition urine test conducted on April 25 revealed the steroid trenbolone and its metabolite epitrenbolone.

Trenbolone, a steroid marketed for veterinary and clinical uses, is a non-specified substance in the class of anabolic agents and prohibited at all times under the UFC’s anti-doping program.

Werdum (23-8-1 MMA, 11-5 UFC), who was set to face Aleksei Oleinik (56-11-1 MMA, 5-2 UFC) at UFC Fight Night 136, called his positive test “a misunderstanding” and said he was working with the UFC and USADA to find the source of the banned substance. A call to his manager, Ali Abdelaziz, wasn’t immediately returned.

Werdum’s suspension is retroactive to May 22, the date he was flagged for a potential anti-doping violation. He will be eligible to fight on May 22, 2020. It’s a devastating setback for the 41-year-old Brazilian, who was knocked out in March by ex-Bellator champ Alexander Volkov.

Until he ran into Volkov, Werdum was building a case to get another title shot, and it wasn’t always a smooth road. He raised the UFC’s ire after turning down a short-notice fight with Junior Dos Santos at UFC 207 and Alistair Overeem at UFC 208 over financial concerns. Werdum also was fired from a gig as a Spanish-language UFC commentator over an anti-Reebok diatribe. He later met with UFC President Dana White and smoothed things over.

Werdum won the heavyweight title at UFC 188 by submitting Cain Velasquez to unify an interim belt he won with a knockout over Mark Hunt. In his first defense at UFC 198, Werdum was knocked out by Stipe Miocic.

Per the terms of his suspension, Werdum must make himself available to random drug testing.

For more on the UFC’s upcoming schedule, check out the UFC Rumors section of the site.

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The Forces of Chaos Descend in Game Insight’s Battle Towers for iOS

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Game Insight, a global leader in mobile/social games, announces the launch of a chaotic new chapter in tower defense games for iOS: Battle Towers. The game was previously released for Android devices and has already garnered more than 2 million players worldwide.

Battle Towers pits the two distinct nations of Order and Chaos against each other in an eternal conflict. While the two factions once lived together in peace, they have found their differences impossible to reconcile. The Order faction’s intentions seem noble, but its actions are often reckless, while the Chaos faction seems wild and unruly, but its subjects are eager to organize themselves for battle. Each faction has its own unique units, buildings, and magic spells. Neither will rest until the other is destroyed!

In Battle Towers, players construct important buildings, such as resource-producing houses and defensive towers, while also recruiting armies of warriors to march into battle to annihilate the enemy. Players can also make use of mighty magic spells to strengthen their units and increase their chances of victory, but must plan their attacks wisely in accordance with the game¹s day-night cycle, which favors Order during the day, but favors Chaos at night. Players may also challenge each other in cross-platform player-versus-player (PvP) battles.

Defeat your enemies and conquer their lands! Download Battle Towers for iOS and become a legend in the next generation of tower defense games!

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BREAKING NEWS: Planned Parenthood CEO’s Reign Of Terror Is Coming To An End

Planned Parenthood is America’s largest abortion provider.

They boast about how many babies they slay each year, and try to sell it to the general public as “healthcare for women.”

And leading the charge is the president of Planned Parenthood, Cecile Richards, who has a decade-long history of advocating for the mass murder of innocent lives.

Unapologetically pro-abortion, Cecile has turned a blind eye to the corruption at her organization and has instead supported her pro-abort staff.

Even worse, she’s tried to cover up the scandals, hoping they would just go away.

But from the looks of her upcoming resignation, it appears the game is finally up for Planned Parenthood.

LifeSite News reported:

“Cecile Richards was the most devoted practitioner of Planned Parenthood’s ‘out of sight, out of mind’ mantra to cover up their barbaric abortion business from the public,” David Daleiden of CMP told LifeSiteNews.

  “As Planned Parenthood faces federal criminal investigation from the FBI and DOJ for selling aborted baby hearts, lungs, livers, and brains, Richards’ departure shows that the old strategy is no longer working – the secret is out that Planned Parenthood is a taxpayer-sponsored crime syndicate of industrial-scale child killing, and even Cecile Richards can no longer put a friendly spin on it.”

 It’s well known Planned Parenthood is laced with controversy as undercover journalists exposed the fact they were actually selling baby parts.

It’s unconscionable.

 And as Mommy Underground previously reported, Planned Parenthood even backed a sexual predator, over a 12-year-old child, and let her have an abortion.

Their history of supporting the sexual predators over the victim is consistent, it’s how they operate.

You see, Planned Parenthood is not pro-woman, they are pro-dollar, and will exploit scared young women all in an attempt to bring them in, kill their unborn child, and send them back into the world with no support.

Under President Obama, it was a different game, as he openly supported Planned Parenthood.

And having the backing of the most powerful politician in the world, Planned Parenthood was unhinged.

But the game has changed, and under President Trump’s leadership, Planned Parenthood staff are scrambling to stay afloat.

President Trump and his pro-life staff have had enough of Planned Parenthood, and are boldly holding their feet to the fire.

LifeSite News continued:

“Cecile Richards may be stepping down because Planned Parenthood is under investigation for illegally trafficking in aborted baby body parts and other crimes,” Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue, told LifeSiteNews.

 “She may be trying to get out before indictments drop. She is also tainted with other scandals by her close affiliation with Hillary Clinton and Fusion GPS, which are also being investigated. Planned Parenthood may now view her as a liability.”

While it’s likely another pro-abort woman will step in after Cecile Richards, this departure shows the fortress protecting Planned Parenthood is starting to crumble.

Conservatives need to continue to hold Planned Parenthood’s feet to the fire and speak out about the horrific incidents that take place behind closed doors.

And Congress needs to introduce legislation that will defund Planned Parenthood once and for all.

Why do you think Cecile Richards is stepping down as president of Planned Parenthood?

Do you think Planned Parenthood is hiding a scandal from the American people?

Tell us your thoughts in the comments below.

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Monarchy MMA Past Achievements

Professor Bruninho and his proud student Shaqueme Rock

Our athletes once again have made us proud with a plethora of achievements in four different disciplines, MMA, Brazillian Jiujitsu, Muay Thai, and Boxing. The Monarchy family has shown time and time again that we are a cut above the rest and the past two months have been no different.

Just recently at ASJJF Asian Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu tournament 2017 in September, we bagged a massive haul of 22 medals with 10 of them being Gold.

Golden Warrior Fight Championship

The Golden Fight Night held in K-One Academy, Penang on 9th September 2017

Penang based MMA promotion Golden Warriors FC will be holding their 2nd show on the 9th of September at the K-ONE MMA Academy in Penang. Titled "The Golden Fight", their press conference and weigh ins will be held at MMALL(020) New Wing, Penang on the 8th of September at 2 pm.

The return of The Alligator

Agilan Thani waving his arm to show gratitude for the cheering crowd in One Championship at Indoor Stadium Singapore, 26th May 2017

9th October 2015, Monarchy MMA Director Samir Mrabet (on the right) cornering Agilan Thani (on the left) during One Championship, Stadium Putra, Kuala Lumpur


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Europe Wandering – Prague

Our first full day in Prague was spent on a bike tour! We love our bike tours. We found this place on Viator. It’s a great way to see the city sites and figure out the layout of the city.
Great morning. Afterwards we hung out under the astrological clock and had some lunch.
That night we decided to have a quick bite to eat before we went out on a pub crawl that the bike tour guide invited us on. The waiter said that one main wouldn’t be enough to share, so we got two. Big mistake.
The pub crawl was hectic. I’m pretty sure our guides were high. We got so many free shots and went to so many clubs, including the biggest nightclub in central Europe. There were fun people on the crawl and we partied till the early hours of the morn. We got free shirts too!
We spent the next day up at Prague castle. On the way back down we stopped at the Modern Art museum. We didn’t get it. We had a quiet dinner and did a bit of shopping. Early night for our trip to Berlin tomorrow.

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• Find Your Personal Calling

    More meets Christians where they’re at, acknowledging the roots of their discontent and demonstrating how to move from inspiration and desire into action. Introducing a memorable vocabulary and an easy-to-use practical framework, More equips readers to embark on a journey of discovering their unique personal calling.

    *Available in print, Kindle, and audio formats.

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    Find Your Personal Calling

The Big Idea

Why More?

Most people are not living in the sweet spot of their unique personal calling. Instead, they live continually with a tension, sensing that God has something more for them than what their journey currently offers.

More helps people turn this discontent and their questions regarding purpose and significance into meaningful action.  More provides a memorable vocabulary and a practical framework that are easy for any person to use in embarking on a journey of discovering their unique personal calling and making progress in answering the nagging questions of purpose that we all face.

More will help you find your unique personal calling!

A Simple Framework for Calling

Our sweet spot of personal calling is found at the intersection of three questions men and women wrestle with:

Who am I created to BE? (a design question)

What am I made to DO? (a purpose question)

Where am I to GO (a position question)

More starts with who we are, and that we are uniquely created with a unique identity and design.  Who are we created to BE?  This identity is one we actively discover and participate in activating.  Our BE or identity overflows into and shapes our mission.  What are we made to DO?  Finally, our DO requires a context, or a position where it is lived out.  Where are we to GO?

More is full of insights and tools for working through these BE-DO-GO elements.  All of these working together lead to the fullness of God’s call on our lives.

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Chapter Summaries

Outline of More

 Foreword – by Rick Warren and Dr. Robert Coleman

Introduction – There Must Be Something More

SECTION 1: Foundations in Calling

Chapter 1 – Trusting the Author of Our Story

Chapter 2 – Stepping Forward in Faith

Chapter 3 – Two Scripts, Two Kingdoms

Chapter 4 – Surrendering the Leading Role

Chapter 5 – Redefining Success

Chapter 6 – Owning My Part

Chapter 7 – Trusting the Guide

Chapter 8 – Discovering My Unique Role

SECTION 2: Discovering Your Calling

Chapter 9 – Being a Disciple:  My Core Identity

Chapter 10 – Making Disciples:  My Core Mission

Chapter 11 – Where I am:  My Core Position

Chapter 12 – Crafted by God:  My Unique Identity

Chapter 13 – Good Works and Deeds:  My Unique Mission

Chapter 14 – Where I’m Most Effective:  My Unique Position

Chapter 15 – The Importance of Mentors

Chapter 16 – Living the Part

Epilogue – by Bob Buford

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Rick Warren, Dr. Robert Coleman & Bob Buford

Foreword and Epilogue

Key Leaders Embrace More

Rick Warren, author of The Purpose Driven Life, Dr. Robert Coleman, author of The Master Plan of Evangelism, and Bob Buford, author of Halftime have been strong voices into Todd Wilson's life and the book More. These leaders contributed to More by writing the Foreword and Epilogue.

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Rick Warren

"I have walked with Todd Wilson and been part of his team at Exponential for several years. He cares deeply about Jesus and the church. He is a student and lifelong learner. His passion for living for God’s glory and helping others do the same is genuine. I’m proud of how he has used the gifts God gave him, and I encourage you to learn from his experience."

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Dr. Robert Coleman

"I am honored to have played a part in Todd’s journey and the writing of More. When you spend time with Todd, you can’t help but see his passion or the Kingdom of God and his heart for multiplication. Todd is giving his life to modeling what it looks like to live in your unique sweet spot of personal calling and to equip others to do the same."

Bob Buford
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Bob Buford

“What Todd has done in More is very similar to what my mentor Peter Drucker did for me. Todd is asking the right questions and providing the right feedback that plays out as encouragement, permission, clarity, and accountability. I enthusiastically did the Epilogue and believe this is an important book that can catalyze fresh expressions in American Christianity."

Read the ForewordRead the Epilogue

Is More for Me?

There must be something more...

Do you have a desire to experience more abundant and meaningful living?

Do you have a sense that you have more capacity for good than what your current roles and responsibilities provide?

Are you uncertain of your unique personal calling and how to discover it?

If so, More is written to encourage, inspire and equip people like you.

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FREE Guide to Finding Your Calling

A Supplementary Resource for More

This guide is part of a library of supplementary resources to help readers work through and apply the BE-DO-GO process in More. These supplementary resources will continued to be added to the library.

Download the Introduction to More

Read a Sample Chapter from the Book

About the Author

Todd Wilson

I remember the day my mentor and friend Bob Buford, author of the book Halftime: Moving From Success to Significance, challenged me with the idea of working 100% in the sweet spot of my personal calling. My first reaction was a genuine enthusiasm. How amazing would it be to live perfectly aligned in the sweet spot of God’s unique calling for my life?

I was energized by the prospects. However, that emotion was quickly suppressed by the reality of a second question that filled my mind, “how would I even know if I were living in the sweet spot of my personal calling?”

Bob’s question that day was a turning point in my life. I took the question to heart and became passionate about discovering the sweet spot of my personal calling. Its a journey that will continue the rest of my life. In the process, I developed a simple framework for calling that I now use to help other people find their calling. The book More was a five year labor of love that seeks to capture the framework in words.

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University of Oregon, BS, magna cum laude 2005
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Estate Planning, Wills and Probate Administration

Heather concentrates her practice on estate planning. For each client, she provides a comprehensive estate plan, custom-tailored to reflect the client’s unique situation and objectives. Whether you would like to establish a plan to ensure your loved ones are cared for and assets are preserved in the event of your death or disability or are interested in exploring more sophisticated planning strategies for your family or business, Heather has the skills and experience to accomplish your goals in a thoughtful and efficient manner.

Prior to returning to her home state of Oregon and joining the Merrill O’Sullivan team, Heather gained substantial experience in all aspects of estate and gift tax planning while working with a large law firm in Los Angeles, California. Drawing on this experience, Heather is able to provide clients with both conventional and cutting-edge strategies for the preservation of wealth. Heather also has experience in the areas of trust and estate administration and in assisting clients with respect to their charitable objectives, including the creation and administration of private foundations and other tax-exempt organizations.

Heather earned her B.S., magna cum laude, from the University of Oregon in 2005 and her J.D. from UCLA School of Law in 2008. She is admitted to practice in both Oregon and California and before the United States District Court for the Central District of California and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.


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* WHEELS ... Are hard plastic, they slip easily. No worse than any other model, but it basically doesn't work at all in our yard, too many slopes. The ideal surface for this is flat astroturf, but it works well on a flat parking lot. It slips on our wood deck (no traction). It also slips on even slightly damp grass, on uneven grass or tall grass, and uphill.

Some of the features that you will appreciate in this miniature power Cadillac include the two seats, well functioning doors that will open and close, a battery charge indicator as well as a chrome grill and chrome wheels.These power wheels have that signature Cadillac Escalade styling that is instantly recognizable. The Barbie design of the cars adds to their unique look and elegance.

My daughter likes this car but not at the beginning. Using the remote control works well since she cannot reach the pedals yet. the only issue is that when you go forward or backward, in the low speed, it jerks quick and hard. The first time I put my daughter in it and went to drive forward that hard jerk motion scared her and I had to take her out. She was scared of it and would not get back on it for maybe two months. She is okay with the jerking now. Now I must say that she was only a year and a few months old when I bought it so she was very small. Other than that, I think it's a really good product for a really good price. I'm happy and would recommend it to others.

Before motorcycles and trucks, start the little ones off with a car sure to drive them wild. Our 12V Ride On Sports Car in pink is sure to attract all the other little neighbors to your driveway. Designed with both manual and remote-control steering, this ride-on allows you to take control to ensure safety. While you steer, your little one can enjoy preset music or tunes streamed through an AUX cord. For a more mature style, view the 12V Ride On Mercedes S63 Coupe Car in all black. All the kids will be offering your rider their juice boxes for a turn in this luxury vehicle. This ride-on comes with more realistic features, like a working radio, MP3 player, and LED lights. It even makes real engine sounds!
Step2 ride-ons, plastic wagons, push buggies and cars are a must-have for outdoor fun. Our wagon and ride on toys have storage compartments for drinks, toys and parents' keys. Kids will be comfortable and secure in their riding toys as they cruise around the park or neighborhood. Little ones will have a blast steering their toy car or imagining they're on a ship as parents pull the wagon. Whether you need a canopy wagon to take to the beach or a motorcycle for kids, Step2 has an option that fits your toddlers needs.
As a fast as it looks, it can only go forward at 2.5 miles per hour and 5.0 miles per hour and it can go in reverse at 2.5 miles per hour. Which is fast enough for most young kids. It has a simple and easy to operate reverse push button. There are real side mirrors on the vehicle which give it even more realistic looking along with a spacious load bed, of course by kids expectations of spacious.
Get ready to roll in superior style with the Rollplay 6V BMW I8 electric car for kids! this battery-operated ride-on sports car is the perfect choice for young riders who already know luxury. A foot pedal and easy-to-use gearshift get things moving at up to 2.5 mph in forward and reverse speeds, and both butterfly doors open vertically, just like the real thing.
These wheels are powered by a 12-volt battery that is large enough to enable the small ones hit top speeds of up to 5 mph. As you would expect from an off-road Jeep, it has a set of large tread tires and can drive comfortably on a host of surfaces including grass and the hard surfaces.These power wheels have fully functioning doors and the typical features you would expect in your favorite Jeep including the roll bars and a nice roomy rear storage area. It hits forward drive speeds of up to 5 mph.
With the John Deere Ground Force Tractor with Trailer, you child can begin reliving the glory days of farming and tilling the soil. This farming electric car for kids to drive provides a very realistic experience of driving the miniature monster farm equipment with its ultra-large farm tractor wheels. Powered by a 12-volt rechargeable battery, the tractor’s large wheels can roll over any terrain with ease whether it be on a real farm where it’s all dirt, mud, and grass or even right at the park, your very own backyard, or the beach. You kid can also take it for a spin around the neighbourhood complete with a wooden stake-sided trailer.

We definitely love the cute styling of the Disney Frozen Wrangler Jeep; just right for little princesses. It’s great for encouraging independence in driving to build their self-confidence while at the same time enhancing their social and emotional development. It’s also great for psychomotor development particularly spatial intelligence and visual motor coordination.
Not just the look and the feel, we want the same quality and design of durability expected of a trusted auto manufacturer. This includes the sturdy steel-frame structure of the Dune Buggy; the all-terrain tires of the John Deere model tractor; the familiar engine roar and MP3 tunes to accompany the sporty ride that’s always turning heads in that direction!
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As adults, we often underestimate the needs of the kids in our life, including how quickly they want to get behind the wheel and drive around the yard or on the miniature pavements in your home. These cars provide the only legal and safe-way through which kids can control around the home. There are qualities that you need to look for when you are purchasing a car for your kid or your toddler. Protection is always an important consideration. You’ll be keeping your eye out for protection, speed, parental remote control and more.
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[1] Quran printed at King Fahd Glorious Quran Printing Complex (Medina Mushaf).

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The Surah has been named Luqman after Luqman the Sage, whose admonitions to his son have been related in vv. 12-19 of this Surah.

Period of Revelation

A perusal of the subject matter shows that it was sent down in the period when persecution to suppress and thwart the invitation to Islam had begun and every sort of machination had started being employed for the purpose. This is borne out by vv. 14,15, in which the young converts to Islam have been told that although the rights of the parents are the uppermost after God, they should not listen to them if they prevented them from accepting Islam, or compelled them to revert to the creed of shirk and polytheism. The same thing has been said in Surah Al-Ankabut, which indicates that both these Surahs were sent down in the same period. A study of the style and subject matter of the two Surahs on the whole, however, shows that Surah Luqman was sent down earlier, for one does not see any sign of the antagonism in its background though, contrary to this, while studying Surah Al-Ankabut one can clearly feel that the Muslims were being severely persecuted during the period of its revelation.

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In this Surah the people have been made to under- stand the meaninglessness and absurdity of shirk and the truth and reasonableness of Tauhid, and they have been invited to give up blind imitation of their forefathers, consider with a cool mind the teachings which the Prophet Muhammad (upon whom be Allah's peace and blessings) is presenting from the Lord of the worlds, and see with open eyes the manifest Signs found in the universe around them and in their own selves, which bear evidence to its truth.

In this connection, it has also been pointed out that this is not a new teaching which might have been presented in the world, or in the land of Arabia, for the first time, and with which the people might be unfamiliar. The learned and wise people of the past ages said and taught the same thing which Muhammad (upon whom be Allah's peace) is teaching today. It is as if to say, "O people: In your own country there has lived a wise man, named Luqman, whose wisdom has been well known among you, whose proverbs and wise sayings are cited in your daily conversation and who is often quoted by your poets and orators. Now you should see for yourselves what creed and what morals he used to teach." © 2014-2018


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Sequel Game and Anime 'Steins;Gate 0' Announced [Update 3/29]

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Mar 28, 2015 8:44 AM | 247 Comments
A new visual novel titled Steins;Gate 0 and an anime adaptation of it were announced today. The news came in addition to the ChäoS;Child anime announcement during 5pb's live stream today, held by representative Chiyomaru Shikura.

This game will be a sequel to the visual novel Steins;Gate and will also incorporate content from the Epigraph Trilogy of light novels/manga (Heiji Kyokusen no Epigraph, Eigou Kaiki no Pandora, and Mugen Enten no Arutaeru) and the drama CDs.
This latest installment of the series will be the first to have a numbering title.

Steins;Gate was previously adapted into a TV anime series in 2011 and a movie in 2013.

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welp, time to rewatch the original series + that crappy movie and see if this is good news or not. really liked the original - not a masterpiece the way many see it, but still a really good story with great characters and flow.

May 3, 2015 1:29 AM by felipecardel

I'm looking forward to even a release date haha. It's been years since Steins;Gate finished, they surprised me with this announcement.

May 2, 2015 11:34 PM by Yasu-kun

It was really popular so it only makes sense when there is a sequel anytime.
I think it was amazing so I'm really looking forward to this.

Apr 28, 2015 3:35 AM by Domi

Lol to all you people saying it's being milked. Do you even know what milking is? Anyways, I'm reallyvexciting. Hopefully they don't mess it up :(

Apr 28, 2015 1:33 AM by davinci12

So hyped, that reminds me I have to play the VN soon.

Apr 26, 2015 3:00 PM by dbuuhkpa

Ohh my god, Im so happy :D

Apr 26, 2015 10:07 AM by Hubson

Oh dang. Can't wait.

Apr 25, 2015 3:35 AM by TutchMe

I literally just finished the anime ova and movie today, now a sequels coming out? Perfect! Didn't it say Kurisu was still trapped in another timeline? Like a scenario where she was never saved by Okabe?

Apr 24, 2015 9:53 PM by Rawrberto

Ivino said:
Steins;Gate is one of the best sci-fi stories ever so it deserves getting this sequel. still waiting for suzumiya haruhi sequel though

How is a spin-off about yuki?

I wish people stop voting this for gintama to be back in the top 10.

Apr 23, 2015 3:38 AM by EvenJellyOn

So let me get this straight, this new steins; gate, its going to be about that beta timeline which was mentioned but not really touched in the first anime right?

So the issue now is because its being called a "sequel" thats where the problem is to this mixed opinions of it being shit and hyped?

Apr 22, 2015 3:17 PM by trestkon

Steins;Gate is one of the best sci-fi stories ever so it deserves getting this sequel. still waiting for suzumiya haruhi sequel though

Apr 18, 2015 8:38 PM by Ivino

Yeah either way I'm happy, if this goes well then we can see more of stein gate in the future which I think will be a good thing really, even if its terrible we will still have the original anyway. Plus even if they mess it up a little with the cannon they can just do a different time line better with the undoubted flood of hate that will force them to from japan alone.

Apr 18, 2015 3:29 PM by 03alecot

People shouldn't really misunderstand. It's canon, though indirectly and barely mentioned, because it's basically Okabe's first fuck up in attempt to save Kurisu. It's basically his journey until the point in which he creates the mail he sents to his past self. I don't understand why it's considered a "sequel", since it derives from the main story. But it does affect the main plot though, because if S;G 0 fucks up the existing laws of time travel like the movie did, then yea the overall story of S;G degrades.

Nevertheless, HYPE!!!!!!

Apr 18, 2015 5:07 AM by SwiftKilla

Apr 15, 2015 1:23 AM by lllllllll

Totally fan service. I don't really feel like it needs sequel.

Apr 14, 2015 10:00 AM by _mbpd

Oddyeus said:
tsudecimo said:
Meh. It feels like it will be in the same vain of the movie, a cash grab, and milking.

Not looking forward to it.

We'll get to see the dystopia that SERN creates, it's something extremely important that has hardly been touched upon yet.

That was the alpha wordline, though. This is the beta worldline where WW3 happens.

Apr 11, 2015 1:50 PM by Radon_Bust

So pumped for this. Though I don't feel like a sequel was really necessary, more Steins;Gate is always welcome.

Apr 2, 2015 6:11 PM by MorganFreeman3

Motherurck said:
SaveTheAralSea said:
I'm so excited.

Not necessarily. The Steins Gate is a beta line.

It's stated in the VN that the Steins;Gate line is not part of any attractor field.

It's also stated that Steins;Gate Zero will take elements from the Beta worldline drama CDs as well as the Epigraph trilogy, which suggests that it's about Okabe after he fails to save Kurisu.

Although Amadeus is a thing

Apr 2, 2015 4:25 PM by Nibelungen

Can't wait.

Apr 1, 2015 7:58 PM by MineGames

I hope it's not shit like the movie.
Moderate enthusiasm.

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Horus and the morning star

As I seek out morning star archetypes from across the world, naturally one area of interest would be Egypt, and that lead me onto another mythological subject I’ve become interested in recently, one that I hadn’t thought of before regarding Egyptian myth: the subject of Horus (or Heru as he was probably known by the Egyptians) and his status as a stellar deity.

Horus is the deity representing the Egyptian royalty, the tutelary deity of the Pharaoh and thus the country of Egypt. He was also widely assumed by Western commentators to be a sky god, sometimes even a sun god (which doesn’t make much sense considering Egyptian mythology already has a sun deity in the form of Ra) by people who desperately want to believe in the Jesus=Horus=Mithras=Krishna=Dionysus=Attis theory propounded by the likes of Peter Joseph and Bill Maher. What is less known is Horus’ connotations as an apparent stellar or astral deity within the Egyptian religion.

In a study entitled Stellar and solar components in ancient Egyptian mythology and royal ideology, the egyptologist Rolf Krauss examines the texts of dynasties I-III wherein Horus is referred to as a star. According to Krauss, in the earliest periods of Egyptian religion Horus was a star deity, as evidenced by the names of the royal domains, such as “Horus, the star has arisen”, “Horus, the star of khet” and “Horus, foremost star of the sky”. While the first two are treated as possibly figurative, the third is seen as likely literal, referring to a star in the sky, in any case Horus is attested to as representing a star. The Pyramid Texts, the Coffin Texts and other texts apparently identify Horus as the son of Osiris-Orion and Sothis-Isis-Hathor. In Egypt, the constellation of Orion was actually a deity by the name of Sah, who was supposedly the father of the gods, but Sah was also associated with Osiris, as Utterance 442 suggests:

Behold, he is come (again) as Sah; behold, Osiris is come as Sah. Lord of the wine-cellar at the Wag feast.

This possibly means that Osiris appears as the deity Sah for the occasion of the feast of Wag, which might have been an Egyptian festival of the dead dedicated to Osiris. Since Sah and Osiris were not treated as identical, although related, Osiris-Orion might represent a compound deity, a fusion of Osiris and Shah. Sothis refers to a goddess referred to by the Egyptians as Sopdet, the goddess representing the star known as Sirius and the consort of Sah who served as the guide of the deceased king in the afterlife. The morning star was believed to be the child of Sothis. Her son, the deity named Sopdu, was said to be associated with the planet Venus (that part will probably be important later). At some point in Egypt’s history, Sothis and Isis become associated with each other to the point that Sothis becomes subsumed into Isis, and her husband Sah also becomes conflated with Osiris in a similar fashion. In the same way, Sopdu is identified as a related to Horus, is said to be paired with Horus in the Pyramid Texts as Horus-Sopdu, and is eventually treated as simply an avatar of Horus.

The priest Pu-Inpu offering praise to Isis (left), Harendotes (middle) and Osiris (right)

Osiris-Orion is said to have given birth to two deities that bear the name Horus: Mekhenti-irty (“Horus Eyeless”) and Harendotes (“Horus, protector of his father”). Mekhenti-irty is the older Horus and was sired while his father was alive, while Harendotes is the younger Horus and was sired after his father was murdered by Set. For some reason the younger Horus is also referred to as “Horus, son of Isis” because Isis is credited with raising him, but not the older one. The younger Horus is also referred to as “god of the morning”, and an inscription around the zodiac of Dendera apparently cites Horus as a star god associated with morning. This alone might not necessarily mean the morning star, but we’re building to something here.

According to Krauss, Horus is described as a “sehed star” and “a beautiful wa’a-star of gold, which has risen from the akhet” (I have no idea what sehed or wa’a mean) by Coffin Text 722, and is cited as “Horus who ascends as gold from upon the lips of the akhet” (akhet referring to the horizon) by Coffin Text 255, and these citations are supposed to link Horus with the morning star via the younger Horus (Harendotes). Krauss also suggests that if the younger Horus is the morning star, then the older Horus (Mekhenti-irty) must be the evening star. He cites Pyramid Text utterance 303 as the basis for this assumption, wherein Osiris is said to taken the older Horus as his and Hathor’s son, and Coffin Text Spell 106 wherein the older Horus is described as a “sehed star” just like the younger Horus. Krauss describes the sehed stars as possessing freedom of movement, which to me sort of lines up with what I’ve read about Athtar’s power of freedom of movement between Zaphon and the underworld.

There is also the eyes of Horus, which are described as the morning star and evening star respectively. The older Horus is said to have lost one of his eyes in a struggle against Set, but that eye was later healed by Thoth. This eye is attested to as the eye associated with the evening star, and apparently several Coffin Text spells link that injured eye to the night sky, it is described as “found in the retinue of the moon”, “beneficial in the night”, making “fire with its beauty”, and “becoming the fiery eye of Horus”. Such fiery nature enables Horus to roast his enemies, and is said to relate to the brilliance of a specific star. The injury of the evening star eye is said to relate to the invisibility of Venus two months before its reappearance as the evening star, while its recovery is said to reflect the encounter between the evening star and the waxing moon.

It is established from there that Horus represents the planet Venus, and its morning star and evening star aspects, and that the ideology of Egyptian royalty rested upon a stellar, not necessarily solar basis, at least for a time. This ideology is also said accommodate for Set, who in the early Egyptian religion was a storm deity identified with the planet Mercury. Strangely enough, it’s suggested that at some points Set was the friend of Horus, not just his rival, with the appearances and disappearances of Venus and Mercury indicative of fighting, injury, but also reconciliation and joint action, between Horus and Set. Of course, this must have been before the invasion and expulsion of the Hyksos (referring to a Canaanite dynasty who briefly ruled Egypt), after which Set was vilified as the patron of hostile foreigners and eventually effectively demoted to evil demon status because the Hyksos favored him due to his apparent similarity to one of their gods – namely Ba’al. Interestingly enough, it is suggested further that the stellar cult, that is the basis of pharaonic rule on the lord of the planet Venus, may have been one of the earlier royal cults, while the solar cult, based on Ra, was introduced later by the pharaoh Khasekhemuy, who ruled towards the end of the Second Dynasty. This would mean Horus becoming subordinate to Ra, now the king of the gods, which may have been achieved by having Horus become a child of Ra rather than of Osiris-Orion, which seems strange considering the continuity of the myth of Osiris’ murder wherein Horus is very definitely Osiris’ son and seeking vengeance against Set for murdering him.

Horus and Set stood around the sign of the union

Krauss is not the only one who identifies Horus as the morning star. In a section of Egyptology at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century: Proceedings of the Eighth International Congress of Egyptologists, Cairo, 2000, Katja Goebs discusses the relation between the morning star (which curiously enough is treated as a solar entity) and certain deities, particularly in the context of spells for the deceased. Goebs describes the deceased beginning his sequence of divine association with Osiris, then needing to be transfigured into a certain kind of star for his ascent into the heavens, and then references a text where it is stated that at a certain point Re (clearly Ra) summons the deceased as Horus so that he may place him as the morning star into the Field of Rushes. The star the deceased becomes is a star that crosses Nut, goddess of the sky. The deceased is identified by Goebs as progressing from an underworldly, nightly, invisible force as Osiris or Orion into a solar entity likened to the divinity of the deities Thoth and Anubis, and is finally embodied as the morning star and attaining royal status as a result in the afterlife.  The sun deity Ra appears in two guises: Atum, identified as the evening sun, and the lord of the “wrrt”. But it is through his day form that he summons the deceased as the morning star, and though he grants the deceased royal status by this summoning and transfiguration, he remains the ultimate sovereign in the Egyptian cosmos.

The transfiguration from Osiris to ultimately Horus is also treated as symbolic of a mythological takeover of the rule of Osiris by Horus (or Ra) in the kingdom of the gods, and in a broader sense a cosmic transition from night (represented by the powers of Osiris) to day (represented by the powers of Horus or Ra). It is also said that Horus in this way actually bridges the rule of night and day, being the successor of the rule of Osiris and the predecessor of the rule of Ra. The cycle apparently is supposed to go as Ra-Osiris-Horus.

Finally, Ev Cochrane has his own interpretation of Horus as the morning star. In Starf*cker: The Catastrophic Conjunction of Venus and Mars, he points out a passage attributed to the Pyramid Texts which reads:

O Morning Star, Horus of the Netherworld, divine Falcon, wådåd‑bird whom the sky bore

Surely this refers to Horus as the ruler of the underworld like Athtar, right? Well, according to Cochrane, Duat was originally more of a celestial abode, which he backs up with verse that reads:

Make the sky clear and shine on them as a god; may you be enduring at the head of the
sky as Horus of the Netherworld.

This appears to suggest Horus as possibly being the leading star in the sky as the ruler of Duat. Does it answer the question of Duat being a celestial place? I have my doubts. Duat, if you remember, is neither heaven nor strictly hell. In Egyptian religion, it is the liminal plane between death and paradise in the afterlife, home to many demons who challenge the soul of the dead on behalf of the gods. Deities said to reside in Duat include Horus, Anubis, Thoth, Osiris, Ma’at and Hathor, all of whom are supposed to appear to the soul of the deceased at various stages. To that extent, Horus is probably *a* lord of Duat within the Egyptian canon.

Now, what does “wådåd‑bird” mean? In Phaethon: The Star That Fell From Heaven, Cochrane claims that wådåd translates literally into “great green”, and suggests . The word wådåd might be related to the word wꜢḏ, which does indeed seem to mean green, and it does dovetail with the symbolism of the Wadjet. Wadjet, or Wedjet, is the Egyptian name for the symbol famously known as the Eye of Horus, and is also personified as a snake goddess.  Wadjet amulets often came in a green or greenish blue colour, and green in Egyptian culture represented life, fertility, the growth of vegetation and death and resurrection (due its association with Osiris as the colour of his skin). Not to mention, in utterance 301 of the Pyramid Texts, Horus is referred to as the Lord of the Green Stone.

Purify for you Unas, make Unas bright in this your Jackal-lake, o Jackal (zAb), in which you purify the gods.
You are powerful,
you are sharp (spd) as Horus,
the Lord of the Green Stone.
To say four times:
“like the two green hawks.”

It is said that, because of this, Wadjet or Eye of Horus amulets, which represented the uninjured morning star eye of Horus, came to be associated with healing and protection from curses. It’s just a hunch and I can’t find anything supporting this concretely, but I kind of suspect that the word wådåd may have been related to the word wadjet, possibly even a dodgy translation of wadjet (perhaps wådåd-bird actually means wadjet-bird, which would make sense given Wadjet is literally the Eye of Horus).

Wadjet in snake form (pictured to the right) next to the goddess Nekhbet

Cochrone believes the significance of the colour green for Horus pertains to the “greening” of the cosmos through the appearance of the morning star, which is much less supported by Egyptian mythology (he even cites a passage of the Book of the Dead which depicts Horus rising in turquoise, not green), but he goes on to link this with different myths from different locations that supposedly reflect a real astronomical event. At this point that I think full disclosure is necessary regarding Ev Cochrane.

While I do think he gives us some factual insight into mythology, the conclusions he draws from the mythological sources are rather dubious. He is of the school of thought that mythology is a broad reflection by cultures across the globe of interstellar catastrophes that allegedly happened within the solar system. In this way he seems to be a disciple of Immaneul Velikovsky, whose ideas are spread in a journal writes for named Aeon (not to be confused with Aeon magazine) and another journal named Kronos. Velikovsky is most famous for claiming that Earth suffered close contacts with other planets and was witness other interstellar catastrophes, which in turn were recorded as mythological phenomenon. His ideas are pretty much universally rejected by the scientific community and are even treated as being on par with creationism. Know that I write this post from the perspective of mythology, and really nothing else, so we won’t explore Cochrane’s claims about astronomy any further, but if you encounter his ideas, bring a fresh jar of skepticism with you.

And now we arrive at the burning question with this inquiry: what does Horus have to do with Lucifer, given Horus’ evident association with the morning star? To be honest, I have my doubts. While Horus definitely seems to be the deity attached to the morning star in Egyptian lore, his mythology doesn’t have any correspondence or correlation with the Lucifer we know, or the Canaanite mythology of Athtar that preceded him. Whereas Lucifer as we know him defies God’s will and Athtar snubs the gods, all of Horus’ functions are ordained by Ra, the divine sovereign of the cosmos, and it is not despite but through the will of the Godhead (or the closest thing to it within a polytheistic religion) that deceased souls may acquire royal or divine status in the afterlife. In the Levant the morning star was either a mysterious deity who resided in the underworld, travels between realms and stands almost toe-to-toe with Ba’al Hadad (as per Canaanite mythology) or a rebellious and prideful entity who seeks the place of the Godhead (as per Jewish/Old Testament mythology). In Egypt, the morning star probably was just the foremost of all stars whose brilliance was second only to the sun. Horus does indeed traverse the underworld, accompanying Ra in his solar barge to fight Apep, and he resides in Duat, but that he doesn’t rule over Duat, though apparently he and over deities control some demons there in order to test the souls of the deceased. Horus in general doesn’t really exhibit any traits that a lot of Luciferians would probably identify as Luciferian, nor does he fulfill any Luciferian functions, let alone those of any deities that could be similar to Lucifer like Prometheus (though Prometheus is not a morning star, he forms part of the basis for the modern idea of Lucifer).

To be honest, if there’s any Egyptian deity who bears some similarities to Lucifer, at least in the Luciferian sense, it might be Thoth. Though he has none of the rebellious connotations of Lucifer or Prometheus (being effectively the scribe of the gods subservient to Ra and all), Thoth was something of a bringer of knowledge within Egyptian myth. He is credited as being the divine inventor of mathematics, science, magic, hieroglyphics, and many other things, and is credited with a library of magic books capable of subduing the gods themselves. He also serves as a bridge between opposites where he serves a mediator between order and chaos, so as to maintain the balance of the cosmos, and he also has some connection to the underworld, where he apparently has power unrivaled even by Ra or Osiris (who is pretty much dependent on his good offices). Like a certain Irish deity I covered in my last post, he was frequently equated with Mercury. In fact he was equated by the Greeks with their deity Hermes, to the point that they named his patron city Hermopolis (as in city of Hermes). The Greeks even credited him with inventing every branch of knowledge. They were even responsible for the identification of Thoth as Hermes Trismegistus, who would become a very important character for the occult philosophy of Hermeticism. Of course, being a scribe of the gods, Thoth was just responsible for recording knowledge, though there is some possible evidence of Egyptian lore wherein Thoth transmits knowledge to a human. Or there’s also Hermanubis, a syncretic fusion of Hermes and Anubis worshipped in the Greco-Roman mysteries, said to be a not only a psychopomp who also embodies the exploration of the truth, and like Hermes is said to travel in and out of the underworld, and some believe him to be the deity who reveals the mysteries of the lower world.

A statue of Hermanubis

The main point you can take from that is that the myths and gods of the world’s cultures, while often similar to one another, ultimately tend to possess their own character, having developed out of different conditions, different locations, different social relations and different understandings of the world. This is why deities from different cultures that seem similar really don’t have meaningful correspondence or correlation with each other. The Lucifer we know is the product of a figure from Canaanite mythology being interpreted through the lens of Jewish and then Christian mythology, followed by longstanding Romantic literal tradition and the influence of Western occult belief systems. This background is not shared by other mythological morning star deities, in whose cultures the morning star was simply a positive and often creative force in its own right. All cultures function as dialectical continuums unto themselves, starting from different origin points, building on top of them, evolving over time. There is no single myth or mode of belief from which all religions and belief systems stem.

This is where I’d end things, but I want to address where Thelema might fit into the whole Horus morning star thing, considering Horus becomes something of an important figure in that belief system. Thelema holds Horus as representative of the current Aeon, the Aeon of Horus, which represents a time where people begin to pursue realization of the sovereign individual and uphold the principle of “do what thou wilt” (as in, follow the True Will as per Thelemic doctrine rather than just do what you want according to the base senses). He manifests particularly within Thelema as Ra-Hoor-Khuit (or Heru-ra-ha), a compound deity consisting of Ra and Horus , as well as Hoor-paar-khrat (or Harpocrates), who is Horus the Child and described in Thelemic doctrine as the deity of the Holy Guardian Angel or the Higher Self. Aleister Crowley was said to have successfully invoked Horus in 1904, which was the same year he held marked the beginning of the Aeon of Horus.

Lucifer doesn’t really enter into Thelema, except through Aiwass in a way. Aiwass the name of a voice or spirit that Crowley claimed to have heard or encountered in 1904, and who Crowley would go on to identify as the minister of Hoor-paar-khrat. He also explicitly identifies Aiwass with Lucifer in Magick in Theory and Practice.

“’The Devil’ is, historically, the God of any people that one personally dislikes. This has led to so much confusion of thought that THE BEAST 666 has preferred to let names stand as they are, and to proclaim simply that AIWAZ, the solar-phallic-hermetic ‘Lucifer,’ is His own Holy Guardian Angel, and ‘The Devil’ SATAN or HADIT, the Supreme Soul behind RA-HOOR-KHUIT the Sun, the Lord of our particular unit of the Starry Universe. This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy of Man, but He who made Gods of our race, knowing Good and Evil; He bade ‘Know Thyself!’ and taught Initiation. He is ‘the Devil’ of the Book of Thoth, and His emblem is BAPHOMET, the Androgyne who is the hieroglyph of arcane perfection. The number of His Atu is XV, which is Yod He, the Monogram of the Eternal, the Father one with the Mother, the Virgin Seed one with all-containing Space. He is therefore Life, and Love. But moreover his letter is Ayin, the Eye; he is Light, and his Zodiacal image is Capricornus, that leaping goat whose attribute is Liberty.”

Beyond this reference, however, Lucifer doesn’t really feature in Thelema. Lucifer seems to have been either an alternative name or simply the descriptive quality of Aiwass.

Here I think the function of Horus, or at least the entity that pretty much approximates Horus, could be interpreted by some Luciferians as representing something similar to their own values, perhaps, in the sense that there tends to be some overlap between Luciferianism, Satanism and Thelema though the doctrines are ultimately different. It still doesn’t line up with Lucifer exactly, but like there’s some small similarities at work. What’s interesting is that I haven’t seen the morning star used in reference to any entity within Thelema, not even Hoor-paar-khrat/Harpocrates who would definitely serve as the younger Horus within Thelema, and unlike in Luciferianism the morning star doesn’t really form the main basis of the spiritual philosophy. In Thelema, therefore, an aspect of Horus is linked with Lucifer in a vague sense, through the description of “the solar-phallic-hermetic Lucifer”, and not much else. Horus is still his own being within Thelema.

So, to make a very long story short, Horus, despite being the Egyptian morning star deity, is not related to Lucifer, and I think you would have make quite a stretch to suggest Horus as a Luciferian archetype.

Drinking a veritable tankard of demonic knowledge!

I’ve been attending a series of lectures as part of a demonology conference called Demon Things at Swansea University during the last few days. This conference was specifically about Egyptian demonology, that is to say the study of demons and liminal beings found in ancient Egyptian myth and lore, and there were many speakers who showed up to present papers on various subjects pertaining to this theme (subjects such as the role of demons, liminal deities, donkey-headed deities, the nature of “evil”, the status of the deity Anubis, protective deities/demons at specific archaeological sites, and much more). Due to regular lectures happening at my university (the last before the university closes on Good Friday and we break up for the spring holidays), I unfortunately could not attend the last few lectures this morning, but the lectures I did attend had a lot of information. I’m not sure if I managed to absorb or contain it all, but I learned some interesting things about demons from the Egyptian view, and about demons in general, that will probably inspire a lot, and I think may have inspired plenty of things already.

Demons in ancient Egypt weren’t necessarily like the concept of “demon” that most are familiar with. For most people, demons are hostile and inherently malevolent beings. And demons often could be hostile beings in ancient Egypt, and some may have been malevolent, but in Egypt a lot of them actually served a protective role. In ancient texts demons were held to guard the afterlife against the souls who were not meant to pass through – if you did not have a certain password (for lack of a better word) that the soul would utter at certain points in the journey to the realm of the afterlife, then you would not be allowed to pass through, leading to the total annihilation of the soul. They were often considered liminal beings, due to the fact that they guarded the threshold in the netherworld through the afterlife. For the layfolk in Egypt, they were defenders and played a vital role in their culture. This basically means that they have a generally ambivalent role in Egyptian myth – they were a potential threat to the deceased (or rather, the unjustified dead), but they can be protectors of the living, and in general they already are charged with protecting the underworld from the negative forces. Their role may have been very morally relative – if you knew how to propitiate them in the trials leading to the realm of the afterlife, or if they were invoked as protection, then they could be seen as good, but if you were crossing the netherworld and were unprepared. Often, demons were under the control of deities such as a Ra, Sekhmet, Anubis, and others. Some deities may have been identified as demonic, or demons as deities, like Bes, Tawaret, Tutu, and a deity named Meneh – the last two are identified as master or lord of demons respectively.

Egypt also seems to be, to my knowledge, the only culture where entities are depicted with weapons on their feet!

The logo of the Demon Things conference, depicting an example of one of the demons found in Egyptian depictions.

Egypt also seems to be, to my knowledge, the only culture where entities are depicted with weapons from their feet!

I realized that the Egyptian notion of demons was largely as ambivalent aggressive/protective beings, and it reminded me this role was actually fairly common in many world cultures before the rise of monotheism. You have in Mesopotamia demons like Pazuzu, who was so powerful that every other demon feared him and so was invoked as protection from other demons. In Tibet, wrathful and/or demonic beings fight and repel negative or evil influence in order to protect the practitioner as well as remove obstacles of spiritual practice and enlightenment. It is similarly true in esoteric forms of Japanese Buddhism. In Bali, the demon queen Rangda is simultaneously seen as an evil and protective force. In Greece, images of chthonic beings like the Gorgons adorn temples in order to ward off evil.

The nature of “evil” was also discussed in one lecture, and within that lecture we got round to discussing the notion of the 42 “judges” that appear in the Book of the Dead, and how they guard the netherworld by feeding off of “evil”; or at least one of them does – a judge named Dwdw=f, who I think may or may not have been a manifestation of Apep.

I was also enticed by a symbol from the Egyptian texts called the Black Ram – an image of something referred to as the “Lord of Power”. It seemed to represent a liminal power, or a hostile power of the netherworld. The ram character may have been connected with a solar being, the liminal state, danger, darkness, hiddenness, injury, and death. There was mention in the same lecture of a Black Sun that appears in the Tomb of Irunefer that devours evil. The ram’s role may have been morally relative just like the other demonic figures, depending on your position in the Egyptian underworld. I have found in that Black Ram a new personal symbol, one that to me at least appears to combine the powers of the sun (and fertility) associated with the ram, with the powers of darkness and the netherworld – it seems to me like a black ram would make for a powerful demonic totem, as the ram symbol gains more personal prominence.

The Black Ram

The Egyptian interpretation of the demons is one that I would definitely mix in with the other interpretations of the demons, even with the modern idea of the demon. When I run this in my head, I envision passionate, mysterious, “dark” spirits, embodying the nether of the human being, and mostly ambivalent, whose aggressive/protective nature in the past makes them seem like rajasic (as in one of the three gunas) and I seem to like that. That a lot of them have animal aspects reminds me that they are animalistic beings – remembering what Anton LaVey commented about the deities that represented the animal in Man, and Michael W. Ford’s talk of demonic deific masks typically being bestial or animal. And who knows, over the centuries the demons may have gone through transitions . When they once served the deities in the heavens, in the modern age those deities are no longer in control, or the heavens have rejected the demons. And now they’re rebellious, chaotic spirits, making their own rules in the absence of divine masters. That may be just the fire of inspiration those lectures set off in me, one that I think makes me appreciate the demons ever more, and because of the way I think of demons I feel more excited about the kind of “animalistic” spiritual path that I prefer to follow – in conjunction with my prior reading of Anton LaVey’s Satanic Bible.

In my opinion, the lectures were a smash hit and you simply had to be there. But if you missed them, it’s possible that the Ancient Egyptian Demonology Project may publish proceedings from the Demon Things conference in due course.

Why is America not supporting Egypt’s coup?

On July 3rd this year, Egypt’s new president, Mohammed Morsi, has been removed in a coup. But as usual, the US doesn’t seem to be supporting the overthrow of a tyrant.

For some odd reason, US law states that the government can’t give aid to any country whose elected head of government has been deposed by a coup d’etat. Which is odd considering the head in this case, Mohammed Morsi, has been at the helm of a tyrannical rule in which he imposed fundamentalist Islamic ideology and government, which many Egyptians didn’t want, and imprisoned political opponents. He is also head to have wanted to assume dictatorial authority, which is again what many Egyptians didn’t want in the first place. And yet not only is America not supporting the people who deposed him, but they’re also trying to deny that it is called a coup to begin with.

Officials and senators keep saying nonsensical crap like “this is obviously an extremely complex and difficult situation”. John Kerry keeps saying it is too early to know what is happening in Egypt. Well that’s horse shit! We know what’s happening. A tyrant has been overthrown in a coup d’etat, and the same land who fought tyrants long ago is not even praising that act of deposing tyrant. And that’s not taking into account theory among some Egyptians that Muslim Brotherhood leaders were sent by America, or that Obama was supporting Morsi. I’m not sure if that’s true, but it makes sense, considering the West’s history of supporting tyrannical regimes (or at least the ones that were willing to trade weapons and oil).

Bottom line: it’s a terrible shame that America is trying to deny the reality of the situation and that it’s not supporting a nation that, in the end, is fighting for the same thing America fought for – freedom. But it might have something to do with another reality: that the American government is not as freedom-loving as the American people, and the ideals the country fought for.

Beelzebub in Egypt

Why is the image of Set here? Because I’m talking about him in this post. And because I couldn’t find another image of Seth-Baal.

For some reason yesterday I can’t help but think of Egypt, possibly brought on by listening to “Curse of the Pharaohs”. Man, Mercyful Fate are good. In any case, I also noticed a search criteria for “beelzebub egyptian god”. Curious, I googled it myself, and found something interesting.

According to a book called “The Egyptian Origin of Christianity” by Lisa Ann Bargeman, the Egyptian god Set, or Seth, was identified with Baal, or Baal-Seth (Seth-Baal), who became known as Baal-zebub, or Beelzebub. OK, to be honest, this does sound kinda like something I’ve posted about before. There is also, however, something interesting, as after it says that, it says “Therefore doubly foreboding is the claim that the Bible’s greatest evil, Satan, was the word for God”. I have since looked through the book and found no explanation for that.

There’s another interesting thing I read, which comes earlier. It said that Set is “the great Wild Bull” and “the soul of Geb”, who was the Egyptian god of the earth.  Apparently the explanation is the Set is primarily a negative god, and Geb was a primarily positive one, and Set is properly understood as the wild, untamed desert earth. An aspect of Geb perhaps? I’ve also heard of some associated with the name Set and Satan, but that’s not the main interest.

All-in-all, I admit this sounds like something I’ve said before, but I’ll think of it as an extension. Besides, I’ll probably talk more about Baal/Beelzebub/Bel in later posts, because I have in interest in that god lately.


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See You In Court

A former girlfriend of mine, Elizabeth, took the foolish step of instigating legal proceedings against me. This vexatious litigant decided that I owed her a sum of money. I will not trouble you with the intricacies of the dispute but it revolved around an investment that she made. The investment did not work and being the type of person who cannot accept that she could get it wrong, Elizabeth looked to me for redress.

At first it began with a couple of telephone calls. We had parted company but I was pleased to note that she had retained my mobile number (I of course had ensured I had kept hers)and she telephoned me requesting payment of the investment sum. Initially I decided that I would string her along and explained that I would look into it to see what I could do. There was of course no prospect of her recovering that money. I do not indulge in repayments and moreover it was her own idiocy that resulted in her loss, she ought to have undertaken some due diligence beforehand and if she failed to do so then on her head be it. I enjoyed receiving the texts and calls from her as she asked when she might receive the money. I fobbed her off using my charm and well-honed powers of procrastination. Her demanding nature served as delicious fuel to me.

The calls ended and instead she penned a couple of letters. They were rather well written, eloquent perhaps, albeit it misplaced both in fact and in law. I replied to them, after all, it would be ill-mannered not to do so, but now I rejected her assertions out of hand. I wielded my power of no and had no need to explain myself. I am not accountable to her. I am not accountable to anybody.

The next letter made threats of police involvement and I laughed at those. I knew that would get her nowhere and I replied in such terms. I pointed out how such an action would be entirely misguided and if she raised a complaint she would find herself in the receiving end of litigation from me. She wisely heeded those warnings.

She did however maintain her claim in the civil arena and she instructed a firm of solicitors to recover the money that she claim she owed. I ignored these letters. I was becoming bored of these demands now and besides I had other targets to attend to. I thought she would get the message and cease with her tiresome pursuit but instead she issued court proceedings against me. In order to be satisfied that I had them she chose to instruct a process server to effect personal service of the court papers rather than send them through the post as anybody would do so normally. I entertained myself avoiding this process server. I would then agree to turn up at an appointed time and place to be served but then fail to do so. This meant more cost for her and more frustration for her.

My evasion of her attempts at service resulted in her securing an order for substituted service and one evening the papers and the accompanying order for this method of service to be effective were shoved into the letter box by my gate. I read through the papers and scoffed at the allegations. Whilst tempted to handle the dispute myself I decided I would instruct my own lawyers and purposefully chose an expensive outfit, far superior to the local hacks hire by Elizabeth. I attended my first meeting with a partner in the firm (I was not being fobbed off with some junior solicitor, I wanted the head of commercial litigation in this City firm acting for me) and issued my instructions.

“I know all about risk, costs and so on so save your breath. You are to defend this claim, counterclaim against her and then delay and prevaricate at every step of the way. Seek extensions, deliberately delay responding to letters, send incomplete material and look to frustrate the process. Do not go so far as to incur an interim cost order against me, that will cause her to think that she has met with a measure of success and that is unacceptable. I do not care about your bill, I can easily afford it, but I want her wracking up a large bill so she gives up. Understand?”

The partner smiled the cold grin of a legal shark and nodded. He was my kind of man.

Thereafter my lawyers delayed in acknowledging the claim until the last moment. They sought an extension for the defence and counterclaim and then another. When Elizabeth refused the third request, my lawyers applied to court and obtained it. She sought an extension when filing her defence to my counterclaim. We agreed, since it slowed the matter down. My lawyers filed requests for further information about her caseand then more. We slowed down disclosure, released ours in a piecemeal fashion and pored over her disclosure lists and sought additional documents and launched further applications against Elizabeth. We sought documentation from third parties and made applications against those parties in order to delay the provision of witness evidence. Oddly enough, several of the witnesses she wanted to rely on became unco-operative to her and the threats of witness summonses against them merely caused them to dig their heels in.

Throughout  this we suggested mediation and then changed our minds and then changed our minds again. This caused a hiatus in the litigation. We would not accept their suggested mediators and we kept changing the ones we wanted, so we decided a court had to make that decision. More cost and delay. We chopped and changed our dates of availability and then agreed a date which we then altered at the last minute owing to unforeseen circumstances. Then the mediator became unavailable (he was an accountant who suddenly found himself instructed on a different matter- I wonder whose company did that?) so a new one had to be appointed so we went through the rigmarole of all that once again. The costs mounted and mounted, they were of little consequence to me, but they soon outstripped what Elizabeth was claiming.

The mediation was fruitless. I spent most of my time engaging with the attractive trainee solicitor from the firm engaged by Elizabeth and drawing some rather pleasant if unexpected supply from her. We were never going to settle and made outrageous demands of them throughout.

The litigation resumed as we moved towards the preparation of forensic accountant reports and lay witness statements. Then there was silence from the opposition. Three years had elapsed from the commencement of proceedings. Her solicitors came off the record as acting for her and nobody replaced them. She was now acting in person. Her funds had been exhausted and nobody was willing to act on a conditional basis.

Bit by bit her demands lowered and lowered and lowered until just recently she suggested that we adopt a drop hands basis, namely she bears her costs and I bear mine and that is it. After delaying my response I decided that this was entirely acceptable, after all, there was a huge risk if it went to trial that I would lose and be stung for her claim, interest and costs. That did not trouble me, it was the fact of losing to her that did. I instructed my solicitors to accept her proposal, draw up the relevant consent order and have it signed and then I sent her a note.

“Dear Elizabeth,

I recall the last time we spoke on the telephone you demanded money for your idiotic investment and declared you would “see me in court”. You never had a chance of getting me into a court room for the trial of this case. I always win.

12 thoughts on “See You In Court”

  1. Apocalipznow: And you’ll notice what he did about it — found the only possible way to ensure that he didn’t have to be aware of having lost, by no longer being aware of anything at all.

    Narcissists do lose, fairly frequently, despite everything our dear host is getting fuel from leading some of the more credulous commenters to believe. The reason they don’t _think_ they lose is that in every case where it is possible, they will change their own perceptions to avoid having to know that the loss occured. Either they reframe the event in their memory so that the result they got was the one they “were trying to get all along,” or they falsely remember themselves as having won when they did not. Or they may simply put the entire incident out of their minds, so that it doesn’t exist for them (except occasionally when the creature is whispering in their ear about how worthless they are, and then they do anything they can to drown it out).

    If they are in a situation where they simply cannot, due to circumstances around them, avoid the knowledge that they lost, Hitler’s solution is not an uncommon one. It can serve as a way to salvage one last tiny shred of victory by denying their betters the satisfaction of capturing them alive or forcing them to do their will. And it can silence the unbearable knowledge of their own inadequacy.

  2. ” I always win”…… but didn’t you say you always pick the ones who you know you can beat anyway? Girlfriends-wise? Overall, and in general?

      1. How do I get him
        To back off from trying to take my house from me – he said let the games begin

      2. This is more of a legal question first in terms of knowing your legal rights and remedies and once those are established one can look at how to deal with him in a situational manner. Which country are you in? Do you own the house in your name alone, is it in his name or joint names? Are you married? Is their a mortgage? Who pays that – you, him or both? Do you have children? Was there a contribution to the purchase value of the property? By you alone, him alone or jointly?

  3. There is no point trying to get your money from a narc.just cut losses and move on. The high functioning narcs will drag you in courts until you lose your last dime. The low functioning ones will just move from place to place in an attempt to evade the process. Just take it as a hard lesson learned and tution paid in narc lessons.
    Satan owed me 2500 when I left him. I knew I would never get it back. He said ,”you are a b word and a gold digger. You will not get any money from me. Pay yourself back what you owe you. You are so stupid.” This is the same man that came to my condo weeping tears that his brother had died and had no means to go bury his brother. I said no problem, I will purchase a one way plane ticket, and your friends and family will take care of your return. He insisted on driving. So i reluctantly rented a car for the weekend and guess what, I was not allowed to come. He did not want me to see him in that fragile state. Well one weekend turned into 4 weeks of rental. I hired a private investigator and found out that His brother is very much alive and in jail for domestic violence charge. Live and learn, I guess. And always do a background check ladies, it might be the only thing that will save you.

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