They cut off part of you?!

They cut off part of you?!

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More on his intactivism: http://www.cirp.org/news/vancouvercourier07-05-04/ No national medical organization in the world today has the opinion that infant male circumcision is medically indicated. The ...

Circumcision began non-religiously as an attempt to cure masturbation, along with the innumerable ills which this was thought to cause. In the Victorian Era, both purity of the body and purity of the mind were the social ideal. Many of the early medical quotes on this subject revolve around punishment for masturbation or any non-reproductive sexual intercourse. Various surgical and chemical attempts were made to the genitals of both sexes to deaden their feeling and/or make any kind of sexual activity not pleasurable at all.
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Circumcision the Sign of the Covenant

1 And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.

2 And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.

3 And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying,

4 As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.

5 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham;

10 for a father of many nations have I made thee. Rom. 4.176 And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.

7 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, Lk. 1.55 to be a God unto thee and to thy seed after thee.

8 And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession;

Acts 7.5 and I will be their God.9 ¶ And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.

10 This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee;

Every man child among you shall be circumcised. Acts 7.811 And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.

12 And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed.

13 He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

14 And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.

There was a great debate in the time of the emperor Constantine, whether to continue circumcision for Christians. He was a Roman and the president of the council of Nicaea that was deciding what to do about circumcision. Because they were all Jews converted into Christians, Constantine voted against it. That's why Christians stopped circumcision; now they are starting again... OshoGod is Dead, Now Zen is the Only Living Truth, ch. 4http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eoK7pCGg7Y

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Burma Long Neck Giraffe Hill Tribe Women Thailand

Burma Long Neck Giraffe Hill Tribe Women Thailand

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Visit a river village in Thailand / Burma of Long Neck Giraffe Hill Tribe Women

All tradition is merely the past.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI,



It is only those who are in constant revolt that discover what is true, not the man who conforms, who follows some tradition. It is only when you are constantly inquiring, constantly observing, constantly learning, that you find truth, God, or love.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI, Think on These Things




Tradition, long conditioned thinking, can bring about a fixation, a concept that one readily accepts, perhaps not with a great deal of thought.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI, Krishnamurti to Himself


Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent.Jiddu Krishnamurti quotes.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtf2_xZX20Q&feature=related

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Lip plates of suri women - Tribe - BBC

Lip plates of suri women - Tribe - BBC

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Brue Parry goes on another fascinating journey, this time uncovering the ancient tradition of lip plates amongst the Suri tribe. From BBC worldwide.

Tradition becomes our security, and when
the mind is secure it is in decay.

The constant
assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Stephen
Hawking
-Black holes would seem to
suggest that God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them
where they cannot be seen.
Stephen Hawking, NATURE, 1975
-We could call order by the name of God, but it
would be an impersonal God. There’s not much personal about the laws
of physics.
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Raw Info - Black History 101- Dr. Erin Moore

Raw Info - Black History 101- Dr. Erin Moore

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Central State University Educator, Dr. Erin Moore explains at the Raw Info Conference the the importance of why Black History must be studied and taught to our children and the world.

Yahweh
He did not seem to make an appearance until circa 1200 BC. His origin is Judaic. He seems to be a local god who demanded complete obedience.He was 'the creator god of the southern tribes of Israel...eventually superseded the northern god El to become supreme deity of Israel.' (Jordan)'During Hellenic occupation, the sanctuary of Yhwh on Mt. Gerizim in Sumaria (northern kingdom) was rededicated to Zeus. The name Yhwh survived into Christian religion though, in English translation, it is now generally replaced by the term 'Lord'.. 'Jehovah' is a corruption introduced circa 12-1300 AD.' (Jordan)http://www.innvista.com/culture/religion/deities/words.htm

Chronology: A Time-Line Approach to Issues in Critical Thinkinghttp://www2.scc-fl.edu/asalmon/chronology_complete_version.htmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlpF6ym86w8

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Evolution - Becoming Human - Birth of Humanity 1of6

Evolution - Becoming Human - Birth of Humanity 1of6

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Evolution - Becoming Human - Birth of Humanity 1of6 Please read the description before placing a comment, thank you for all your support . If you are a creationist read the following instructions: 1st ...

Chronology:
A Time-Line Approach to Issues in Critical Thinking

Yahweh
He did not seem to make an appearance until circa 1200 BC. His origin is Judaic. He seems to be a local god who demanded complete obedience.
He was 'the creator god of the southern tribes of Israel...eventually superseded the northern god El to become supreme deity of Israel.' (Jordan)
'During Hellenic occupation, the sanctuary of Yhwh on Mt. Gerizim in Sumaria (northern kingdom) was rededicated to Zeus. The name Yhwh survived into Christian religion though, in English translation, it is now generally replaced by the term 'Lord'.. 'Jehovah' is a corruption introduced circa 12-1300 AD.' (Jordan)
http://www.innvista.com/culture/religion/deities/words.htm

Chronology: A Time-Line Approach to Issues in Critical Thinking
http://www2.scc-fl.edu/asalmon/chronology_complete_version.htm
Dates in the following timeline are generally approximations. This brief timeline or chronology is intended to provide a short overview for professionals and students interested in critical thinking and in critical thinkers and in the history of those events, assumptions, beliefs, or ideas which are still accepted today by many people and which have been or are central to the critical thinking process throughout the disciplines.
10 to 20 billion years ago. The universe, or the universe in its present form, begins in an explosion. George Gamow humorously calls this explosion the Big Bang. The phrase becomes popular.Cosmic evolution:12 billion years ago. 'The slow cooling of the universe permitted more complex atoms to form. Gravitational forces started to clump these atoms as cosmic dust, galaxies, and stars' (Moore). The Andromeda galaxy, our nearest neighbor, Earth, and Mars, etc., from the Hubble telescope (NASA):

Supernova Remnant , The Hubble Heritage Project, http://heritage.stsci.edu/2005/30/index.html10 billion years ago. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, emerges. It now contains c. 10 billion stars.4.5 billion years ago. Our solar system--sun, planets, asteroids, and comets--is the process of forming. Biological evolution:


Evolution - Becoming Human - Birth of Humanity 1of6http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Gwa3VRapM0

Evolution - Becoming Human - First Steps 2of6
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Evolution - Becoming Human - First Steps 3of6
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Evolution - Becoming Human - First Steps 4of6
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Evolution - Becoming Human - First Steps 5of6
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Evolution - Becoming Human - First Steps 6of6
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Nas - Can't Stop Us Now (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

Nas - Can't Stop Us Now (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

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Official Lyrics: From Willie Lynch to Willie Hutch Right on! We Superfly! Made Gucci the shit, Louie too Suits and ties Playa trophies Pray to Goldie Picture wax museums full of Black Panth's and ...

The future is... black.James Baldwin - [Future]

James A. BaldwinThe only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power -- and no one holds power forever.

'Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty -- necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels.'

'People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.'

You want me to make an act of faith risking myself, my wife, my woman, my sister, my children on some idealism which you assure me is this America I have never seen!'
Baldwin, Democracy

'Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.'

'People can cry much easier than they can change.'

'Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.'


'Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.'

'We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.'

The paradox of education is precisely this -- that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.James Baldwin - [Education]

'When the book comes out it may hurt you -- but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself.'

'A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.'

'People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.'

'He may be a very nice man. But I haven't got the time to figure that out. All I know is, he's got a uniform and a gun and I have to relate to him that way. That's the only way to relate to him because one of us may have to die.'

'But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.'


'Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.'

'The greatest significance of the present student generation is that it is through them that the point of view of the subjugated is finally and inexorably being expressed.'

'It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.'

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.James Baldwin - [Teams and Teamwork]
(another reason you must never worship a image of a god, given to you by your enemy! (Deuteronomy 13:7-12 NAB

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an immediate knowledge of its ugly side.James Baldwin - [Vocation]

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.James Baldwin - [Present]

We are all androgynous, not only because we are all born of a woman impregnated by the seed of a man but because each of us, helplessly and forever, contains the other -- male in female, female in male, white in black and black in white. We are a part of each other. Many of my countrymen appear to find this fact exceedingly inconvenient and even unfair, and so, very often, do I. But none of us can do anything about it.James Baldwin - [Gender]

We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have some sense of what we are, who we are, what our goals are, and what we take life to be. The question is not what we can do now for the hypothetical Mexican, the hypothetical Negro. The question is what we really want out of life, for ourselves, what we think is real.James Baldwin - [Minorities]


You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.James Baldwin - [Oppression]

The American ideal of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea has created cowboys and Indians, good guys and bad guys, punks and studs, tough guys and softies, butch and faggot, black and white. It is an ideal so paralytically infantile that it is virtually forbidden -- as an unpatriotic act -- that the American boy evolve into the complexity of manhood.James Baldwin - [Sexuality]

The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible.James Baldwin - [Conformity]


The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.James Baldwin - [Immigration]
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Neil deGrasse Tyson: God and Science

Neil deGrasse Tyson: God and Science

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Neil deGrasse Tyson, speaking at the University at Buffalo, answered a question about God, relating to science.

“The Bible tells us how to go to heaven, not how the heavens go”

The Galileo Affair
After make these philosophical points, Principe switches gears and addresses two of the great examples that are often cited to support the conflict thesis between science and religion: Darwinian evolution and the so-called “Galileo affair.” Starting with Galileo we are introduced to the subject of heliocentrism through Copernicus. Interestingly enough, both Copernicus and Galileo were theists who did not see any conflict between their scientific endeavors and their religious beliefs. Copernicus’s book was published by the urging his fellow clergymen (Copernicus held an administrative role in the Holy Order) though it was not well-received. The prevailing view of the day, that sun went round the earth, simply did not fall by the wayside since it fit with common sense experience (we don’t feel the earth move, we see the sun move, and so on) and traditional readings of the Bible (Joshua’s passage of the God making the sun stand still implied that the sun moved). In other words, it took time for his views of the verified by other scientists.


Galileo is most famous for his conflict with the Catholic Church over espousing and expounding Copernicus’s views, but the story is often characterized in cartoonish metaphors of him being drug off in chains before a nefarious Inquisition. In reality, the affair spanned a great deal of time. The Inquisition was often disinterested in the charges against Galileo by intellectually inferior monks, and deferred to others to evaluate his scientific theories. Unfortunately for Galileo those outside sources are what got him into trouble when they declared his theories to be “foolish and absurd.” Nonetheless, Galileo found himself lightly reprimanded and was counseled to write in more hypothetical language (rather than sounding absolute).


A fact that is often lost in casual citations of the Galileo Affair is that he was friends with Pope and had his blessing in his studies. The Pope wished for a moderated debate between the two theories as there were clergy that were on both sides of the issue. In fact, the famous quote, “The Bible tells us how to go to heaven, not how the heavens go” came from a Cardinal sympathetic to Galileo’s cause. Regrettably, through a publishing snafu and the irrepressible nature of Galileo’s scathing wit, his book Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems alienated his old and very powerful friend. Due to the pressure from external events such as the Protestant Reformation and the Thirty Years War the Pope could not deal with the internal strain and personal affront Galileo caused and had him tried and convicted of heresy.


Nevertheless, the judgment was not signed by the Pope’s nephew or the two Cardinals which suggests the trial was more for show than anything else. It is true that the events of the day led to a sad ending for Galileo, but centuries later the papacy lead by John Paul II fully vindicated him.

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