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StarMaker & American Idol Partner to Offer Front of the Line Audition Passes to Aspiring Singers
Aug 22, 2017 | Arts & Entertainment
San Francisco, CA, August 22, 2017 –(PR.com)– StarMaker, the leading mobile-first music talent platform, announced it will launch a new mobile audition challenge for American Idol® hopefuls vying for their chance to appear on the original music show phenomenon in its first season on ABC, set to premiere in 2018. Aspiring singers will have the opportunity to compete in an audition challenge via the music video creation app StarMaker for a chance to earn a Front of the Line Pass to sing for the show producers at one of the multiple open call auditions this summer.
To enter the audition challenge, users download the free StarMaker app, choose a song from the American Idol® playlist and then use their mobile device's front-facing camera to create a music video of their performance. The app analyzes the quality of pitch and voice and scores the performance. Singers who submit their audition via the StarMaker app can earn a place on a leaderboard where viewers can vote for their favorite performers. The American Idol® audition team will then select ten performers and reward them with a Front of the Line Pass.
"American Idol® started it all and we are honored to help power the search to find America's next singing superstar through StarMaker's mobile app," said Jeff Daniel, Co-founder/Co-President of StarMaker Interactive.
Roger Chen, CEO of StarMaker continued, "StarMaker has revolutionized talent discovery using a simple, free mobile app for singing. New features like Duets, Chatting, and Live-streaming draw top singing talent who can enter American Idol®'s mobile audition contest."
"There are amazing singers showing off their talent all of the time on the StarMaker app," said JR Griffin, VP of Digital Marketing & Business Development at FremantleMedia North America, "and we want to get those voices in front of the American Idol® producers."
StarMaker operates the world's largest music talent community with more than 45 million users worldwide. StarMaker's free singing app offers studio-quality music video creation with professional voice and video effects. Aspiring performers can also use StarMaker to access opportunities to duet with major pop artists and to audition for opportunities on stage and in the studio.
The StarMaker app with the Idol audition challenge is available for download on the iTunes App store and Google Play app store.
The nationwide search for the next superstar kicks off on Thursday, August 17, as the American Idol® Open Call Auditions roll out across America, offering hopefuls the chance to audition for a shot at superstardom. All singers must be at least 15 years old to audition. Please visit www.americanidol.com for more details and specific audition locations, full eligibility requirements, submission forms, terms and conditions.
"American Idol" is produced by FremantleMedia North America and 19 Entertainment, a division of CORE Media Group. Executive producers include FremantleMedia North America's Trish Kinane and Jennifer Mullin along with co-executive producer, Megan Wolflick. FremantleMedia International distributes the series worldwide.
About FremantleMedia North America
FremantleMedia North America (FMNA) is the U.S. arm of global media giant FremantleMedia, which includes a distribution arm, FremantleMedia International, a digital and branded entertainment division and a kids & family entertainment business. As one of the world's largest and most successful creators, producers and distributors of TV brands in the world, FremantleMedia's comprehensive global network has operations in 31 countries, creating over 10,000 hours of programming a year, rolling out more than 45 formats and managing over 350 individual titles. The company also distributes more than 20,000 hours of content in over 200 territories. For more information, follow us @FMNATV and visit our Facebook page.
About CORE Media Group
CORE Media Group (CMG) is a leading independent media and entertainment company that creates quality programming for linear television and digital platforms through its in-house creative team, as well as a myriad of partnerships with well-established industry leaders including Sharp Entertainment and B-17. Through CMG's19 Entertainment, it co-produces "American Idol," the gold standard of music competition programs, and the enduring franchise, "So You Think You Can Dance" (returning on FOX for a 14th season).
CMG's 19 Recordings has been a part of the successful music careers of platinum artists Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, Daughtry and Colton Dixon, just to name a few. The newest television series under the CORE umbrella include "The Wall" for NBC and "Caraoke Showdown" for Spike.
About StarMaker Interactive
StarMaker is the leading mobile-first music talent platform, providing the tools, music rights, and community to launch the next generation of singing stars. StarMaker's music video creation apps enable anyone to sound great, publish music videos and build their fanbase. In late 2016, StarMaker was acquired by leading global tech company Everyone Happy Entertainment Ltd., the investment vehicle of Yahui Zhou, the CEO/Founder of mobile leader Beijing Kunlun Tech Ltd. Now equipped with cutting-edge technology, significant development resources, and a global marketing reach, StarMaker is poised to achieve its ultimate mission of becoming the leading music social platform and the launchpad for tomorrow's stars.
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Freeman Dyson, Sage of Science
You get the sense that Freeman Dyson has seen everything. He's a legendary physicist who's been friends and colleagues with the giants of 20th century physics, from Wolfgang Pauli to Richard Feynman. Now in his mid-90s, he's had a front row seat on scientific breakthroughs for the past century. He's also not shy about making sweeping pronouncements - whether on the archaic rules for getting a PhD or the pitfalls of Big Science. In this extended interview, Dyson tells Steve Paulson about his own remarkable life in science.
Larry Brilliant, Hippie Doctor
Today, Larry Brilliant is a doctor and global health expert. But back in the Sixties, he was a hippie doctor who joined Wavy Gravy's traveling bus caravan and then landed in an Indian ashram in the Himalayas, where his guru told him his destiny was to help cure smallpox. Miraculously, his U.N. team of doctors eradicated the world's remaining cases of this terrible disease. In this extended interview, he tells Steve Paulson about a remarkable moment in history when anything seemed possible.
The Problem With Men's Locker Rooms and Women's Restrooms
When Donald Trump described his offensive remarks about women as "locker room talk," he implied that it's normal for men to engage in macho sexual braggadocio in gender-segregated spaces like men's locker rooms. Two academic researchers trace hidden assumptions about gender and sexuality in other sex-segregated spaces: public restrooms and sex ed classes. This episode produced in collaboration with www.theconversation.com
The History of Ballooning
Before the airplane was invented, ballooning was all the rage, and many people thought this was the future of air travel. Cultural historian Richard Holmes describes the remarkable history of the hot air balloon.
Critical Intimacy: An Interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Jacques Derrida and the philosophical movement known as deconstruction were once the rage on college campuses. Those days have passed, but deconstruction's influence is everywhere. We talk with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, who first translated Derrida's landmark book "Of Grammatology" into English 40 years ago. Today, Spivak herself is an academic superstar - a pioneering feminist Marxist scholar and one of the founders of post-colonial studies
Hillary's First Speech: Historic 1969 Audio Reveals "Blueprint For Her Future"
As Hillary Rodham Clinton prepares to give the most important speech of her life, listen back to the speech that marked her entrance into public political life, now available for the first time in its entirety. On May 31st, 1969, Hillary Rodham became the first student to give a commencement address to her graduating class at Wellesley College. She was 21 years old. Journalist Rebecca Traister hears "the blueprint for Hillary Rodham Clinton's future" in that speech. In this episode, Traister takes us back to that tumultuous period in American history and to the origins of Clinton's political values. We also hear the previously unreleased complete speech, and journalist Michelle Goldberg takes on "The Hillary Haters."
Kip Winger Goes Classical: Studio Session
In the mid-80's the metal band Winger topped the charts with hits like "Seventeen." Then Grunge came along and left bands like Winger in the dust. Now, Kip Winger is back on top with a new CD that debuted at #1 on the music charts. Only this time, he's rocking the classical charts. His new album is "Conversations with Nijinsky"-- orchestral compositions performed by the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra.
Hear the full range of Kip Winger's musical sensibility in this podcast, which takes us from "Seventeen" to classical compositions inspired by Stravinsky and Honegger. Listen to a candid in-depth interview and eavesdrop as Kip rehearses and performs a haunting acoustic version of "Blue Suede Shoes" with a 17-year old high school cellist, and gives us a solo "Down Incognito" backed by jazz djembe. It's a portrait of a musician who has come into his own as a mature and wide-ranging performer and composer.
The Mass Murderers Among Us (TTBOOK Extra)
The shooting rampage in Orlando has led to a lot of speculation about Omar Mateen's politics and state of mind. There's still so much we don't know, but maybe we can learn from another mass murder. Consider the case of Anders Breivik, the gunman who killed 77 people, mostly teenagers, in 2011. It was one of the biggest mass murders in modern history and a national trauma for Norway. Breivik was a white supremacist, so his politics were different from Mateen's. But the two mass muderers were both alienated, self-radicalized loners. And as we struggle to find out what we can from Orlando, maybe there are lessons from the story of another terrorist and another country's response. So here's Steve Paulson's extended conversation with journalist Asne Sierestad, an award-winning Norwegian journalist and war correspondent who covered the Breivik case and wrote the book "One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway."

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Henry Holton Takes the Ice by Sandra Bradley with i llustrations by Sara Palacios, (Dial Books for Young Readers, $16.99, Ages 5-8).
Henry Holton's family is obsessed by hockey. His father, mother, big sister, twenty-three cousins and even his grandmother all play or have played hockey. The only question there seemed to be about Henry after he was born was if he was going to be left or right wing. There was absolutely no question that Henry was going to be great on the ice! From his first day on the ice Henry really was a natural.
As author Sandra Bradley tells us, Henry was a natural at swishing, swooshing, and swaggering. However, he was not a natural at hockey. From the moment the hockey stick was placed in his hands when he was a very little boy he felt that hockey was not for him. Even as he got older skating was what he loved to do. Hockey was boring to him. What was the point in going up and down the rink if you couldn't skate beautifully? Henry's parents and big sister find Henry's lack of interest in hockey inexplicable.
One day Henry sees a poster for an ice dancing club. It's not hockey, but Henry's mom agrees that they can go and watch. What Henry sees on the ice in ice dancing is exactly what he wants to do! He doesn't want to play hockey anymore. Henry wants to ice dance! Henry's family has their doubts, but just when you think that Henry will never get his chance to do what the reader knows he was just born to do a surprising person steps in to take Henry's side.
This picture book shows the importance of staying true to who you really are. The lovely illustrations by Sara Palacios of the red headed Holton family brighten up the icy background. A helpful glossary of hockey terms is located at the back of the book. We all need to be reminded that it's more than okay to be who you are. In fact, that is exactly who you were meant to be! Henry Holton Takes the Ice is a sweet, sensitively told story that speaks straight to the heart.
Click here to read about Pura Belpré Honor Award Winner, illustrator Sara Palacios' other book, 'Twas Nochebuena written by Roseanne Greenfield Thong.
Learn more about ice dancing here.


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It's officially Fall now. Leaves are clogging gutters across the country, the World Series has started (go Yankees, by the way) and sweet sweet candy is available at holiday prices.
Along with all these other signs of winter's approach, many Internet sites that took the summer off are back in session. My personal favorite that has just started back up is the machinima series Red vs. Blue (not a Web comic, I know, I'm getting to that part) by Rooster Teeth productions.
After watching the first episode of the new season Monday, I scrolled down through the news archive to see what has been happening other over the summer. Imagine my glee when I saw that while the rest of us were scoping babes at the beach, the good people at Rooster Teeth started a Web comic (see I told you).
I'm sure this is old news for some people but it was new to me and it got me really excited for a couple reasons.
1) It's a decent Web comic. So far it's not as good as their cartoon series, but they've been doing that for four years now. I like the art style and the direction they're heading looks good. Plus it's going up on a site I check weekly anyway so it adds no hassle to my day.
2) It shows that no one can resist the allure of Web comics. RvB is a huge Internet phenomenon. They have more fans than many network TV shows. They are already big trucks on the information superhighway and yet, they felt the need to be characters in a comic. If these guys can't resist the sirens' call, the rest of us don't stand a chance. Go ahead though, now you're justified.
3) The strip isn't actually done by any of the original Rooster Teeth people. They brought two new people on for the project. The strip is written by Sugarmonkey and is drawn by Luke McKay, there by spreading success around a little. I'm all for that.
If you haven't read the strip go check it out. If you haven't watch watched RvB before, punch yourself in the stomach and then go check it out.


The DoubleTree by Hilton Campbell - Pruneyard Plaza is a stunning meeting, event, and wedding venue located in Campbell, California. The space allows couples to pick between a variety of event spaces, each with their own unique and alluring characteristics. By offering accommodations, ceremony and reception sites, as well the option for a rehearsal dinner or morning-after brunch, DoubleTree takes the stress out of traveling by offering couples and guests an all-inclusive venue.
The Garden Terrace (Max.100 guests), the Orchard Room (Max. 60 guests), and the Harvest Room (Max. 70 guests). The Garden Terrace is distinguished with its elegant white wooden garden lattice and bistro lights will serve as a stunning backdrop for your big day. The Orchard and Harvest rooms are both classical banquet rooms, each with their own distinctive elements.
If you choose to use the in-house catering, the culinary staff is ready to accommodate a variety of requests and/or dietary restrictions including vegan and gluten-free options. Served buffet style, each dinner package is themed to ensure that menu elements compliment each other and create a unique dining experience.
DoubleTree by Hilton Campbell - Pruneyard Plaza is centrally located seven miles away from San Jose International airport. San Francisco International and Metropolitan Oakland International are 39 miles away, still offering out of town guests under an hour of travel time.


As you already know, we launched the second stage of crowdfunding for the crypto connectors on March 1st. This time, we did everything in a new way, including with regard to algorithms.
We will now provide algorithms without black boxes. All participants will be given strategies with source codes. To be the best in the market, unique settings are required for algorithms. Sometimes this is not possible without changing the code. We will be fully open to the supplied automation.
In this article, we describe the algorithms set up especially for you. This is our technical assignment. We specifically provide complete information BEFORE you choose to participate.
This idea is similar to our main crypto robot, Edward. Synthetic arbitrage is built on a long combination of BTC/ETH/LTC//ETH/BTC. Connectors to exchanges, where there are similar coins, are set for the strategy, and then it independently chooses the convergence-divergence on the found pairs to track the arbitrage situation.
For those who use Edward-Crypto (напиши нам по указанным ниже контактам, если хочешь получить и эту стратегию). За счет значительно продвинутой модели торговли у существующего Эдварда, для него синтетический арбитраж будет возможен с опцией автопоиска нужных пар. Н(write to us at the contacts specified below if you want to get this strategy). Due to the significantly advanced trade model of the existing Edward, synthetic arbitrage will be possible for it with the option of auto-searching for the necessary pairs. For example, BTC/*/LTC/*/LTC/ETH/BTС. The program will automatically select an effective coin as pairs to search for arbitrage divergence. This option will be available only to users of Edward-Crypto!
This is a special automation, tracking the growth of cheap coins with cosmic returns in a few hours. The robot can either monitor and generate a signal or actively enter the position and exit it after a certain movement to take profit. The robot will track all coins on all available connections. Of course, we are talking about very cheap alts, where you can increase your deposits 10 times a day. The main advantage of the algorithm is to get out in time, but the robot, of course, will be faster than our hands.
It's very simple - the transfer of money from one exchange to another by the robot. Auto selection of the cheapest coin for transferring, for example, BTC positions through intermediate conversion to cheaper cryptocurrency, i.e. Vertcoin, Ripple, etc.
The key point behind all of the strategies being developed is modularity! All of our strategies are run in unlimited quantities within the same program. Edward-Crypto will also act with new strategies, all in one bundle. The Converter will work, for example, in a pair with arbitrage strategies, watching for an increase in positions on certain exchanges.
We hope that this ambitious change in the second round will be even more interesting for you!
Have any questions? E-mail us at info@stocksharp.com and we will be happy to answer any of your questions.
Do not put off the decision, just now one algorithm can be obtained for only 1000$, then the minimum investment will be doubled!!!


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Saint-Paër ist eine französische Gemeinde mit  Einwohnern (Stand: ) im Département Seine-Maritime in der Region Normandie. Die Gemeinde gehört zum Arrondissement Rouen und zum Kanton Barentin (bis 2015: Kanton Duclair).

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Saint-Paër liegt etwa 17 Kilometer nordwestlich von Rouen. Der Fluss Austreberthe begrenzt die Gemeinde im Osten. Saint-Paër ist Teil des Regionalen Naturparks Boucles de la Seine Normande. Umgeben wird Saint-Paër von den Nachbargemeinden Blacqueville im Norden und Nordwesten, Bouville im Norden, Villers-Écalles im Osten, Saint-Pierre-de-Varengeville im Südosten, Duclair im Süden sowie Épinay-sur-Duclair im Westen.

Einwohnerentwicklung

Sehenswürdigkeiten
 Kirche Saint-Paër
 Schloss Launay mit Park, Anfang des 18. Jahrhunderts erbaut, Monument historique seit 1932/1948
 Schloss Les Vieux
 Herrenhaus Le Mesnil-Vasse

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It's Friday and you've promised to meet your friends for happy hour. But, being the Fit Chick that you are, you knew that cocktails and half-off appetizers would tempt you so, you high tailed it to the gym first to get in some extra cardio. With time ticking and $2 you-call-it's on the line, you decide to just get ready at the gym because if you go home, there's a chance that Netflix will be your only friend and you will not see daylight until Sunday.
You've showered and morphed into your post-workout fly self when you notice something: YOU FORGOT YOUR SHOES. Panic immediately takes over when you imagine your cute ALO Yoga leggings in black paired awkwardly with those gym shoes that were your favorite until this very moment. You go home, knowing you won't make happy hour and there you stay...until Sunday. The end.
Sound familiar? If it does, you're in good company. We (when we say "we" I mean FitXBrit and our good friends atCNKDaily.com - #FitChicks ...see what we did there?) have had this, or something similar (imagine the horrors of a date...in the Nike Roshe's you should have thrown away MONTHS ago) happen and we feel you. WE FEEL YOU. So, we did something about it. As our favorite brands continue to churn out more and more sneaks designed to maximize your workout, they also seem to be taking into account that fact that some of us really do appreciate a shoe that can easily go from the gym to the streets with little effort. Told you we felt you.
That said, we've picked four silhouettes (one of us either owns or has tried EACH shoe) that not only offers comfort and performance during those intense sweat session BUT will easily transition to a night out with your girls. Netflix - you just lost, bruh.
The Nike Flykit Racer is legit. With a knit upper, the sneaker is big on stretch, support, and breatheability. Plus, it's super light weight which means those box jumps get a little easier AND you can bet they won't add sneaker bulk to your favorite skinny jeans. Need more confirmation? Check out hers.
Talk to any sneaker enthusiast and they'll tell you: adidas' Boost technology is LEGIT. After we sampled both the Ultra Boost and The Stella McCartney Pure Boost, we were fans - unfortunately, the price tag was a major factor in our decision to forego the purchase. However, these Stella McCartney Pure Boost sneaks just went on sale and they will be had. Not only is the energy cushioning second to none, but it's STELLA. You know she'd never allow us (or Jessica Alba) to fail in the style department.
These particular sneaks had us at "hello, gorgeous" in this past Fit Chicks post. If you're more into training than running, this Reebok Hayasu collab with contemporary artist Upendo Taylor will be the perfect blend of style and training substance.
If you're anything like us, a sneaker that offers versatility and a pop of color is a definite must-have in the arsenal. The Nike Lunarglide 7 is that and more. I actually swears by these Lunarglide's (enough to lace them up for a night at a Mavs game) and Chan has to agree. Not only are they comfy, but they're easily paired with your favorite leggings for an easy on-the-run look. Winning x 2.
Do you have any go-to sneaks for your nights out? Let us know in the comments below!


How not to exit the truckstop. Massive failure by this driver.
One should always make sure your truck has adequate distance to clear other objects. This driver failed to do this. I am sure it was not a cheap occurrence. At least he did the right thing and stayed to exchange information. I got out of the way.


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Maine jury finds school gunman guilty
A Maine jury has found a 57-year-old man guilty of holding a group of fifth-graders hostage.
BELFAST, Maine – A Maine jury has found a 57-year-old man guilty of holding a group of fifth-graders hostage.
Randall Hofland of Searsport was accused of holding 11 children at gunpoint on Oct. 31, 2008.
Hofland showed up at the school after being on the run for eight days after allegedly pointing a gun at a police officer during a routine traffic stop. The hostage situation ended when he was tackled by a state police trooper. No children were hurt.
Hofland was defending himself against 41 criminal charges.
The Bangor Daily News says the jury deliberated for four hours Friday before finding Hofland guilty on 38 charges. The newspaper says another trial will be held to determine if he was insane at the time of the crime.
Information from: Bangor Daily News, http://www.bangornews.com
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Peikoff CD offer -- and rejection (2005)
in 5 - Aesthetics
I agree with the "narrow" part, Roger. But I'm a musician to the bone, and in that kind of instance, what with your background, achievements and all, the question that comes to my mind is why he wouldn't be the least bit curious. I guess it's the eclectic in me, I would've been thinking "Well, he clearly isn't sporting a mohawk, and I don't think his aesthetic would be anywhere near Nine Inch Nails, or Korn, or even Megadeath...let's give it a turn, what the Hell<tm>."
But that's me. Send me the fucker, I'll listen to it, and you'll be down twelve bucks. Or, you can wait until later this year, when the new On The Air CD gets done and we'll indulge in trader mentality... :-({|=
Oh well, you can't be having an at-gunpoint audience (I've tried that, and they always seem to have more guns than we do, especially in the west side bars).
I'll betcha Nathaniel will listen to mine if I send him one...
nyah-nyah, nyah nyah-nyah :D/
The Challenge of Understanding Mysticism
in Chewing on Ideas
Welcome and greetings, John!
Yes, the doing thing. Regardless of how we look at Being, as Joseph Campbell once said: "The action is down here." Being a Unitarian Universalist, I am more concerned with useful purposes in life than anything else...
To reply to your observation about partial evidence:
This is clearly true in some cases. In some of them, there is pathology involved. One reason I wrote this article is because, in Objectivism, at least, the term "mysticism" is a blanket one, and in my view it serves little purpose outside of the O'ist community, where it functions just fine, given the structure of the philosophy. My goal was to focus specifically on the experiencial level, rather than mysticism just being anything that is not "it-science," something that cannot be apprehended on the empirical level, the monological level. So, I found it useful to narrow my focus by not talking about things like superstition, for instance, when I talked about mysticism.
If you are interested in some of what is behind where I am coming from, it is good to know that my conception of reality differs (but includes much of) that of Objectivism, so that when you say "evidence," for me it is something different than only empirical evidence (the "it" view), and includes the interior dimensions (the "I" and "we" views) along with it. I have adopted and am in total agreement with the work of Ken Wilber on this, which can best be quickly represented in his AQAL model, shown here:
http://www.formlessmountain.com/KW-WTC/foo...notes/aqal.html
It is almost impossible to avoid mission creep here, but I will try. In solid debate terms, one place where dialogue with Objectivists shows limitation for me is that, in addition to (in my view) an overly-wide application of the word "mysticism," they also do something similar when proclaiming something to be "irrational," or non-evidence-based. That is because I believe that the process of evolution (any kind of evolution) is one of inclusion, not dissociation. Ideally, it transcends, but includes all the essential elements of that from which it came. Rationality evolved out of the pre-rational state (sensation, imagery, intense feelings), but if it does not embrace or include them, the result is dissociation, a.k.a. pathology. If you look at biology and apply the same example, you will see where this is coming from.
There is no sign that evolution stops, and this is so when we look at the evolution from pre-rational to rational. What comes next would be the "transrational" state, which transcends, but includes rationality.
And here is where I think we get to it- Objectivism, so far as I can tell, does not distinguish between the pre- and trans- rational states. As a matter of fact, it does not recognize the transrational state as existing at all. Rationality is where the line of evolution seems to end with Objectivism.
The transrational state (which could be reasonably and understandably thought of by some as a kind of "mystical" state) is not developed through monological knowing, as useful as that type of thinking is. It is developed mainly through disciplined practices such as meditation (contemplative knowing), at least if one wants something that can be repeatable and experiencally transferrable. But again, even something that is experiencially transferrable does not qualify as "evidence" in Objectivism, because it comes out of the interior dimensions.
A few comments on general perception of things mystical. When talking about mysticism, first pictures people often have involve things they have noticed in the world, the symbology, the art, the writing, and so on. This is the sphere of art, and in human history there has been a lot of it. For the most part, it is pretty exotic stuff- take mandalas, for instance. This is the stuff of the "we" section the interior dimension- what Wilber calls the "Left Hand of the Kosmos." This includes all kinds of "magical" looking stuff, and of course Objectivists, scientific materialists, hardcore moderns in general despise all this and think it is pretty much irrational crap. There is an understanding that can be applied to this kind of art; it is that things such as these are often, very often, designed as tools of contemplation- their purpose is to act as aids toward moving into the contemplative state of knowing.
There are many varieties of mystical experience, but two things they all seem to have in common, as James pointed out, is that they are of limited duration, and something of the experience permanently remains afterward. It might be possible to account for the brief duration by assuming that many, probably most, of the people that had the experiences were not in possession of a tool, a yoga, for achieving the sustained and repeatable transrational state I mentioned above.
You know, that just says if effing all, Roger. About the only person on the planet that really has a reason to be that shitty in that situation is a record company guy. I know because I used to do that for an indie. There's a point where you can't stand the sight of a new CD.
Outside of that, though, what's to lose? How hard would it have been to say "Thanks for the kind words, and if you wish, do send me a CD."
I really need to watch my thoughts. I was thinking of the right term for him in that situation, it involved an early form of feminine hygiene product that dispensed liquid.
I come from hillbillies, so this probably hits me harder than most.
Well now, Michael, that explains some of why I like you so much...
Both sides of the family, all the way back- Ozarks. Mountain View, to be precise, which is hillwhack ground-zero, being that that is where the Ozark folk center was built. I wonder if we are related- do you ever feel the need to chase your housepets or siblings around when you are feeling randy? Thank Gawd<tm> they got out of there before they had me, or I fear my life would involve either being bent over logs, or banjo playing rather than guitar.
Reading, yes... Ken Wilber's The Marriage of Sense and Spirit, right now. In between I continue my quest to finish the collected works of William James.
Vivian has a copy of Christiane Northrup's Mother Daughter Wisdom that she is devouring.
Joseph Campbell's Myths to Live By
Picking through sections of Bertrand Russell's A History of Western Philosophy only because I used to have it and I found a pristine hardback for 5 bucks.
The Gnostic Scriptures, the first two days involving learning how to read translator markings
Weird Ohio, which is a very fun book I got for Xmas (they have one for every state, and let me tell you, this is big fun when you don't want to get all heavied up.
I think that's about it...
effed up the bold face, but too lazy to change it right now.
"God Gene"
This ought to be good for a few turns around the dance floor:
http://tinyurl.com/3lkbf
'God gene' discovered by scientist Dr Dean Hamer
By Elizabeth Day
(Filed: 14/11/2004)
Religious belief is determined by a person's genetic make-up according
to a study by a leading scientist.
After comparing more than 2,000 DNA samples, an American molecular
geneticist has concluded that a person's capacity to believe in God is
linked to brain chemicals.
His findings were criticised last night by leading clerics, who
challenge the existence of a "god gene" and say that the research
undermines a fundamental tenet of faith - that spiritual enlightenment
is achieved through divine transformation rather than the brain's
electrical impulses.
Dr Dean Hamer, the director of the Gene Structure and Regulation Unit
at the National Cancer Institute in America, asked volunteers 226
questions in order to determine how spiritually connected they felt to
the universe. The higher their score, the greater a person's ability to
believe in a greater spiritual force and, Dr Hamer found, the more
likely they were to share the gene, VMAT2.
Studies on twins showed that those with this gene, a vesicular
monoamine transporter that regulates the flow of mood-altering
chemicals in the brain, were more likely to develop a spiritual belief.
Growing up in a religious environment was said to have little effect on
belief. Dr Hamer, who in 1993 claimed to have identified a DNA sequence
linked to male homosexuality, said the existence of the "god gene"
explained why some people had more aptitude for spirituality than
"Buddha, Mohammed and Jesus all shared a series of mystical experiences
or alterations in consciousness and thus probably carried the gene," he
said. "This means that the tendency to be spiritual is part of genetic
make-up. This is not a thing that is strictly handed down from parents
to children. It could skip a generation - it's like intelligence."
His findings, published in a book, The God Gene: How Faith Is
Hard-Wired Into Our Genes, were greeted sceptically by many in the
religious establishment.
The Rev Dr John Polkinghorne, a fellow of the Royal Society and a Canon
Theologian at Liverpool Cathedral, said: "The idea of a god gene goes
against all my personal theological convictions. You can't cut faith
down to the lowest common denominator of genetic survival. It shows the
poverty of reductionist thinking."
The Rev Dr Walter Houston, the chaplain of Mansfield College, Oxford,
and a fellow in theology, said: "Religious belief is not just related
to a person's constitution; it's related to society, tradition,
character - everything's involved. Having a gene that could do all that
seems pretty unlikely to me."
Dr Hamer insisted, however, that his research was not antithetical to a
belief in God. He pointed out: "Religious believers can point to the
existence of god genes as one more sign of the creator's ingenuity - a
clever way to help humans acknowledge and embrace a divine presence."
"Ancient" post on Rand's Characters
I read TF immediately after AS. I adored the Roark character.
I'm kind of happy I read those two books out of sequence like that. TF was perfect in length and overall tightness after reading AS.
I mean, I started reading it about 3 days after I finished AS, which was done as a marathon- any free moment available, in ten days. I was happy-tired at the end of it.
I enjoyed the isolated, pure-purpose feel of his character. Everything he did was tight and focused. A lot of my resonance came from where I was at that time- I was writing and playing in a progressive/avante garde group, we were writing very complicated instrumental compositions, yet we were being booked with everything but that kind of thing. It was like Mahavishnu Orchestra opening up for The Sex Pistols- sometimes we took a lot of flak.
So, the whole idea of sticking to your artistic principles really worked for me.
I saw the movie for the first time not long after I read the book, and I was a little let down, but I still enjoyed the Roark character- that seemed to play through what I thought was a rather stilted movie. I wish someone would remake that film. It would probably be a heck of a lot easier to take on than Atlas Shrugged, which I fear will not ever get done until long after I go to dust.
Who we were.
in Objectivist Living Room
Hi, Ciro!
"Philosophy," William James wrote, "is largely a clash of temperaments."
Never have I believed that more than this particular moment... 8)
choosing your path
Hello, Barbara! It sure is great to see you here!
My favorite Nathaniel Branden "one-liners"
in Nathaniel Branden Corner
"No one is coming."
I saw him work that like a riff when I heard him lecture at the Toronto Learning Annex. Obviously, it has to do with the basic fact that you have to take care of your own things...
He has great one-liners. I've had some emails from him that were one-worders... 8)
Interesting thing here from Ken Wilber's "Integral Naked" site:
http://integralnaked.org/talk.aspx?id=569
This is Nathaniel talking about a rational reconstruction of transrational mysticism.
Integral Naked is a very strong site, and, while they do charge ten dollars a month, you can get the first month for free.
Ah, I have another moment, a little more anyhow.
There are many, many descriptions of the religious state. Here is one I like (happens to be creationist, from Starbuck's manuscript collection):
"I remember the night, and almost the very spot on the hilltop, where my soul opened out, as it were, into the Infinite, and there was a rushing together of the two worlds, the inner and the outer. It was deep calling unto deep,--the deep that my own struggle had opened up within being answered by the unfathomable deep without, reaching beyond the stars. I stood alone withHim who had made me, and all the beauty of the world, and love, and sorrow, and even temptation. I did not seek Him, but felt the perfect union of my spirit with His. The ordinary sense of things around me faded. For the moment nothing but an ineffable joy and exaltation remained. It is impossible fully to describe the experience. It was like the effect of some great orchestra when all the separate notes have melted into one swelling harmony that leaves the listner conscious of nothing save that his soul is being wafted upwards, and almost bursting with its own emotion. The perfect stillness of the night was thrilled by a more solemn silence. The darkness held a presence that was all the more felt because it was not seen. I could not any more have doubted the He was there than that I was. Indeed, I felt myself to be, if possible, the less real of the two."
There are thousands of accounts like this, I just picked that one because it has the authentic ring of the experience to it. I do not mean to make any proof, that cannot be done. All else I can say to it, Kat, is that it changed my composure for the better, I am much more peaceful now. And, more importantly, it changed my actions. It is very clear that my actions are more moral, and more of them. It is the same in how I treat others now, which is very different than before.
I do not believe that medical materialism can fully address all varieties of mystical experience. And, in any event, sometimes if, say, you're running a fever, it might be a moment where that fever is more condusive for bringing truths out than the normal body temperature...
Hi, Kat!
Nice present you got your boy, here. Isn't he doing a great job with it?
Answers... I will be short right now because I'm a bit hacked from another, er, engagement elsewhere... 8)
My particular "package" is very different. It is the antithesis of other packages. If you were visiting us for some reason, you would be very comfortable, and meet some people that you'd enjoy and value. It is a community that I wouldn't trade for the world. The UU world is for sure the "uncommon denomination".
Could my experience/conversion be explained away? Yes. Will that change me back? No. I am a reasonable, sane man. I know logic as well as the next O'ist. How odd that no amount of chopping logic will ever be able to persuade me. Isn't that something? I can't even do it to myself!
It is too deep, it is permanent, and it is head-to-toe. It is a change in being, consciousness. It's always been frustrating to me when I heard people say things like this. I guess it takes one to know one. Fortunately, in the case of my "conversion," I have enough background that it didn't turn me into an asshole.
best to ya!
Ah, MSK, we resonate greatly...
I've been using that brainwave tool forever, I even bought the licensed version from him a long time ago. I always forget how to spell his name, isn't it (too lazy to go check) like Mikko Norroma, or something?
It is a great tool. At one point I real-time recorded the various presets to a mini-cd format so I could put them by my bedside. It is a great toolbox to have if you have those, and Nathaniels hypnosis stuff, particularly the ones I remastered and offered on CD for sometime.
I have been posting on ROR, regarding what I now call "the problem".
If you are looking at things like bwgen, that means you are aware of the various states of brainwave activity.
Personally, I used to lean pretty heavily on the "sleep replacement" program, which got me few a few rough patches when I came home late from gigs and had to regroup before work. That was worth the price of admission.
You know, Michael, you are getting dangerously close to the gallows when you talk about contemplative states. What I found even more interesting was the reply you wrote to Linz on his new site regarding The Pope<tm>. That had heart.
Back to the tool, well, I kind of pulled back from going into it more because I couldn't rationalize buying the A/V gear, plus, I started thinking I look dopey enough in the first place without being hooked up to goggles and headphones on a regular basis...
I think that these kinds of things are healthy and good. But they won't lead you straight to the mystical experience (purported, sorry). They will condition you to being open to it, maybe. It's definitely Big Fun, and to be had for free...
Yup, that would be gnosis...
Well, you were asking me to boil down mysticism, Michael. 8)
Maybe gnosis is not the best choice then, because it points to a particular historical origin. So, on reboil: Direct experience of (The Divine, Spirit...).
Still, the main stick point is and will probably always remain whether or not one believes in what is purported to be experienced.
I do not believe it is possible to prove the mystical experience to someone who has not experienced it, because it is, well, experiencial. It would not matter if I were to go on about how it changed me from head to toe, etc. No argument can be made for it.
Mysticism is a state.
Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.
I interpret that the same way as the mustard seed parable. Where the fundies miss things is that when "the kingdom of heaven" is referred to, there's a lot of us who believe it means the here and now. Instead of looking for a palacial afterlife, or giant honking miracles, we can see the miraculous nature of life in the smallest things. The mustard seed parable is very koan-like, it is a great contemplative tool.
"Judging quotes"....this is my favorite one:
"Your measure will be made by the measure by which you measure, and more shall be added to you."
Personally, I find some of the best stuff in the censored porno Bible stuff, namely the Gnostic texts. You can get all of those online, btw. It's a little clunky learning the translator marks, but it's worth it. If you're like me, it's a very attractive proposition to look at the stuff that they didn't want in the Bible.
Dang, I could've sworn I replied to this yesterday. I think I missed a button... I shall tray again here, I didn't like what I wrote anyway because I was rushing.
Thanks on a number of counts, MSK, you know how deeply grateful I am for the help, and the opportunity you have been so gracious with extending.
Gnosis. Yes, that definitely gets people urpy. But, you know, it's a simple word, it just means direct knowledge of the divine. Gnostics got in real trouble (even more trouble) when Constantine did his corporate mainstreaming job on Christianity.
The argument, for the modern, is that gnosis cannot exist because the divine does not exist. You cannot have direct knowledge/experience of what isn't. I'm pretty much convinced that that argument is not fixable. My interest is in finding a solution for coexistence that both sides find acceptable.
Going back to the debate on gnosis, or the mystical state in general, as I show in my article, we are dealing with ultra-murky waters. The interesting thing is that, while there are many types of plausible non-mystical explanations for the various states (epileptic activity, for instance), in the end there is no way of finding out if the mystic state is triggered by "God," or not. There is an excellent summary on this at
http://skepdic.com/altstates.html
Without going into a lot of detail and citation, there are some researchers who describe brain function and design related to this area as almost as if humans were born with an antenna that is pointed to the cosmos.
It is also fair to say that it is likely that many people have experienced what they have described as a "mystical" state/experience when what it really was was more along the line of a consciousness-raising, a paradigm shift. There might be less argument to be had when talking about the idea that there are different tiers of consciousness in people.
Rant about smoking and injustice
in Rants
Many states never used any of the billions in tobacco co. payout money at all. Others used them not for anti-smoking ads, etc., but to help balance their budgets, pay bills, etc. State governments are now in the unenviable position of needing more people to smoke in order to keep their revenue stream. Go figure.
by Richard D. Engle
If the mystical truth that comes to a man proves to be a force that he can live by, what mandate have we of the majority to order him to live in another way? - William James
One sometimes hears comments about mysticism that suggest a lack of understanding. There is rarely any meanness in these remarks, but I believe the subject to be more complex than some believe, and wish to consider some generally unexamined possibilities.
What is mysticism?
Mysticism is widely misunderstood. This is due in no small part to the accounts of the mystics themselves. Some mystics—George Fox, founder of the Quakers, comes to mind—were intense and perhaps off-putting to average people.(a)
Recently my Unitarian Universalist minister Reverend Nicole Kirk presented an overview of mysticism from the Unitarian Universalist perspective. She contrasted those "heavy hitters" who often scared people out of the pews, with the likes of Rufus Jones, an author and a Quaker mystic who brought "mysticism to the masses" in the United States between the world wars. Prior to that, mysticism was something of a pastime of the wealthy, and its practitioners were seen as "spiritual athletes." Jones, if you will, democratized mysticism. (b)
Let's examine the American Heritage Dictionary definition of mysticism:
1. a. immediate consciousness of the transcendent or ultimate reality or God b. The experience of such communion as described by mystics 2. A belief in the existence of realities beyond perceptual or intellectual apprehension that are central to being and directly accessible by subjective experience 3. Vague, groundless speculation.
Objectivism and mysticism
In Objectivism, mysticism generally refers to beliefs that are accepted as valid even though they are not supported by factual evidence. This includes beliefs arrived at through mistaken thinking, tradition, and upbringing. Objectivism says, in effect: Rather than considering the American Heritage definitions 1 and 2, simply refer to number 3. This efficiency of definition often carries more than a hint of reproach.
By extension, the word is broadly applied to all things considered to spring from it: rituals and practices, symbols, the whole of religion, UFOs, reincarnation, prophets, shamanism, superstition, among others. Many Objectivists consider these forgivable, so long as the beliefs themselves are abandoned and replaced with those that are directly tied to reality.
Is there justification for Objectivism's handling of things in such a sweeping manner? How can Objectivism dismiss something as entirely groundless if it is an internal, private process?
Objectivism's view of the mind
I believe this use of 'mysticism' to be too broad. Mysticism, as I am about to delineate it, is the driver of individual religious consciousness, but it is not religion itself. Nor does it necessarily entail every phenomenon lumped with it.
Objectivism seems to rely solely upon its epistemology, as it has few strategic alliances within the field of psychology. Could it be that Objectivist epistemology assumes a fixed model of the mind's capabilities?
I do not believe that Objectivism has produced any of its own great psychological thinkers, outside of Nathaniel Branden. As Branden puts it, the mind is our most powerful tool for survival on earth. It displays stunning vastness, versatility, and raw power. Could it be that while recognizing this, we have relegated the study of its untapped or undefined powers to the back burner? Is the maximum awareness reached after optimizing it via epistemology or ordinary psychology? If we have a well developed state of normal awareness, does that mean this is the only type of awareness?
The tendency of Objectivists to see mysticism this way may owe in no small part to the predisposition of the founder of Objectivism, Ayn Rand. Of her Nathaniel Branden writes:
Like many other people, she was enormously opposed to any consideration of the possible validity of telepathy, ESP, or other psi phenomenon. The evidence that was accumulating to suggest that there was something here at least worthy of serious scientific study did not interest her; she did not feel any obligation to look into the subject; she was convinced it was all a fraud. It did not fit her model of reality. When an astronaut attempted during a flight to the moon to conduct a telepathic experiment, she commented on the effort with scorn—even the attempt to explore the subject was contemptible in her opinion. Now I have no wish to argue, in this context, for or against the reality of nonordinary forms of awareness or any other related phenomenon. That is not my point. My point is the extent to which she had a closed mind on the subject, with no interest in discovering for herself why so many distinguished scientists had become convinced that such matters are eminently worthy of study. (c )
An expanded awareness
Mysticism, as I'm using it, refers to a state of being greatly different from our normal state of awareness. William James' lecture on mysticism may provide some guideposts:
1. Ineffability. The handiest of the marks by which I classify a state of mind as mystical is negative. The subject of it immediately says that it defies _expression, that no adequate report of its contents can be given in words. It follows from this that its quality must be directly experienced; it cannot be imparted or transferred to others. In this peculiarity mystical states are more like states of feeling than like states of intellect. No one can make clear to another who has never had a certain feeling, in what the quality or worth of it consists. ... The mystic finds that most of us accord to his experiences an equally incompetent treatment.
At this point, nearly every mainstream Objectivist I have ever known is having a visceral (and not altogether positive, to indulge in understatement) reaction to this line of thinking.
2. Noetic quality. Although so similar to states of feeling, mystical states seem to those who experience them to be also states of knowledge. They are states of insight into depths of truth unplumbed by the discursive intellect. They are illuminations, revelations, full of significance and importance, all inarticulate though they remain; and as a rule they carry with them a curious sense of authority for after-time.
If you haven't experienced a mystical state, or maybe did once but couldn't quantify it, you have to simply go with this from the perspective that his observation is drawn from many and varied accounts. These two characters will entitle any state to be called mystical, in the sense in which I use the word. Two other qualities are less sharply marked, but are usually found. These are:
3. Transiency. Mystical states cannot be sustained for long. Except in rare instances, half an hour, or at most an hour or two, seems to be the limit beyond which they fade into the light of common day. Often, when faded, their quality can but imperfectly be reproduced in memory; but when they recur it is recognized; and from one recurrence to another it is susceptible of continuous development in what is felt as inner richness and importance.
How long it lasts and what remains shouldn't be much cause for alarm.
4. Passivity. Although the oncoming of mystical states may be facilitated by preliminary voluntary operations, as by fixing the attention, or going through certain bodily performances, or in other ways which manuals of mysticism prescribe; yet when the characteristic sort of consciousness once has set in, the mystic feels as if his own will were in abeyance, and indeed sometimes as if he were grasped and held by a superior power. ... They modify the inner life of the subject between the times of their recurrence. Sharp divisions in this region are, however, difficult to make, and we find all sorts of gradations and mixtures.
Gradations and mixtures. This speaks to the complexity involved when examining accounts.
These four characteristics are sufficient to mark out a group of states of consciousness peculiar enough to deserve a special name and to call for careful study. Let it then be called the mystical group.
It bears mention that religious mysticism lays within these parameters as a subset—meaning, the mystical state is not necessarily a religious one. Think about that: mysticism is not reliant upon religion.
What we are talking about, at the core, are various levels of altered, frequently elevated states of consciousness, which may be induced by any number of means, including mental practices, and ingestion of substances like alcohol, psychotropics, and medical anesthetics (hopefully not all at once).
These states, however, can arise in the absence of any of those. There are endless subsets of the mystical experience that can be studied (technically, as many as there are people experiencing them), but it is not necessary for the purposes of this article.
James summarizes his lecture with three conclusions:
Mystical states carry authority for him who has them;
Such states carry authority for no one else;
Nevertheless, they break down the exclusive authority of rationalistic states—they strengthen monistic and optimistic hypotheses. (d)
After studying this and many other aspects of the topic, I kept circling back to two very pregnant questions: How did this all come to be? And, if alternate states of consciousness exist, why are they not readily and uniformly available to everyone? The answer, it seems to me, lies in the survival-critical process of upbringing, socializing, and civilizing that all people experience.
When we are born, we are born pure of mind, the way nature intended the mind to be at onset. Very quickly, though, many people stand in line to write on our clean sheet of paper. They write not only things that are directly pertinent to their present society, but many of the things that have been carried over from those who lived before them.
So, this also speaks to Jung's concept of the collective unconscious. During that process, a person is brought to a day-to-day consciousness that is compatible with whatever society they are living in. This involves a good deal of normalization, modification, and rerouting. Our perceptual processes are normalized into practical, common sense ones. Allesandro Pluchnio speaks of these general conditions in his article Monsieur Gurdjieff and the Neurosciences:
We can imagine that at birth our mind is like a vast plain, without valleys or hills, where the flow of perceptions begins to run freely ... [like] thousands of rivers starting to cut deep channels in that plain, transforming it slowly and inexorably into a completely different landscape ... [where] new flows of perception can no longer run freely, but have to follow the channels already cut, contributing in turn to deepen them ... . (e)
Given that normalization, it is not surprising that altered states of consciousness would be seen as dubious to those not sharing this experience. But their significance should not be dismissed out of hand.
(a) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Fox
(B) http://www.crosscurrents.org/Hedstrom0204.htm
© The Benefits and Hazards of the Philosophy of Ayn Rand- A Personal Statement
(d) Monistic in terms of wholeness, the universe as one and the same primal "stuff," optimistic as in the transcendentalist writers such as Emerson and Thoreau.
(e) http://www.quartavia.org/inglese/neuroscenze1.htm
To tell you the truth, I feel bad for him, Roger. I have seen this kind of thing many times before. It is a sadness. I am not a Christian, but I can tell when someone is missing some key points and spending too much time wallowing around in rapture. Loving Jesus doesn't give you carte blanche to rationalize everything, turn into a very odd sort of determinst, and generally be an ass-pain because you aren't taking care of business.
The truth is probably there is some real religious sentiment underneath there, but the thing is, you have to walk the talk.
I have a way of translating that kind of Christian speak and it is a fine line between good, earnest ol' time religion and just blathering. This is blathering. I don't know what church he goes to, but I can make a pretty good guess what KIND of church it is. There are a lot of them that really play on disadvantage and thin places in life. And then, if something good happens to come out of it, of course it's God's Will<tm> Yay, proof positive!
Being of the UU church, there's one thing we are really into- action, and that's here on earth. That includes not being a victim. A good, rational (yeah yeah) deist knows that God doesn't like slackers.
Sheesh... it's a burden. I could go on and on.
The psychology of choosing an Objectivist Forum.
It is a long and odd history when you look at the various O'ist sites. I remember years and years back when I first got on the Internet, I went on to (never mind), all full of excitement about meeting more of "my people". Holy heck, I got my nuts shot off and I'm not even sure what I did! I slinked off. I think I got put on moderation once for something mundane.
For the longest time, I stayed hunkered down at Nathaniel's site (now on Yahoo, before that it was on his actual site). We used to have pretty good traffic going through there for a Yahoo site, but things just dropped off all of a sudden (I have a theory why, but I'll keep it to myself)There are some great discussions in those archives. Nathaniel is very forthcoming about answering questions, and it seems he really likes it when new people ask him things. The thing about that site was that we would get very, very off the topic of self-esteem. It used to get really out there.
I'm very excited about this place, because I know who's behind it, and who has already showed up. This is special.
Of mockingbirds and blue jays and shooting and singing
My wife, Becky, and I have just in the past two days been faced with yet another symptom of this problem in a couple of emails from her ex-husband, who continues to evangelize and subtly threaten us with eternal death if we do not become Christians.
ACK!!!! You poor folks! I'm looking forward to that thread. It's great to see you here, Roger.
If you need help, let me know. We have a number of young Ohio
pagans that attend my UU church, I'm sure they would be glad
to start counter-terror activities. :twisted:
Or, to mess with them, refer them to www.christianalliance.org
and ask them if they will sign the petition.
Hit 'em hard.
I have long suspected that species considerations are denied by many of those who adopt Objectivism. Now, after months of posting on SoloHQ, I know it.
A heartfelt and honest post...
Species, yes. "Incarnation" - "into the flesh".
The behaviors you describe have occupied my thoughts for a long time. They first became more in my forefront because I began to realize those behaviors in myself. I could not see them, or, when I did, I called them something else, something more favorable to my ego.
I will not blame my heavy involvement with Objectivism for those behaviors. But, I will say that Objectivism facilitated them nicely. I still have not decided if that is something innate to Objectivism, if I misnterpreted what I read, or perhaps both. It is evidentially, not speculatively, that I can say that I continue to see those behaviors run through a significant amount of those who are around Objectivism. I believe that this is problematic to being able to spread the virtues of Objectivism. It is, in the end, a psychological issue.
I can only isolate two areas that I think are reasonable to attribute to the behaviors. The first, and probably the most prevalent, has to do with self-esteem, as defined by Nathaniel Branden. It is deadly clear that the behaviors you speak of are very frequently seen in those who have low self-esteem, whether more in the area of self-worth, efficacy, or both. Personally, I believe that it is more common in those dealing with the self-worth side, who might be reasonably efficacious. But it could come out of any situation of low self-esteem.
The second area is one that I have not articulated very clearly as of yet. I am convinced that it has to do with how one deals with mortality, and Michael has suggested that I write on that separately, which I will. In Objectivism, what I see sometimes is an attitude that the Objectivism, when reasonably mastered, has now closed all the loose ends, answered all the nagging questions that make us wake up in the middle of the night feeling stark and mortal; it is done with and on to the next thing. I do not believe that is always possible. I do not believe that Objectivism can do that on a standalone basis. Why? More to consider. I only look at lackings. For one, there are difficulties with how interpersonal skills are addressed (or non-addressed). There can be a harsh, judgmental way of going through life as a good Objectivist, although it is not required. It gets done, though. I believe this involves misinterpretation, or too close of a modeling of Ayn Rand the person. It is something in there. Secondly, if Objectivism is to be developed as a way of living (and dying) on earth, it might be that more writing could be done specifically addressing the issues incarnate. Put it this way: in Objectivism, if you're not careful, you will end up alone because you alienate. You will be very alone.
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Guess what? Today marks the 7th anniversary of Catching Happiness. That's a lot of simple pleasures and everyday adventures!
Catching Happiness began as a place for me to explore a more personal form of writing than what I had been doing, writing articles for magazines and web sites. I hoped to sharpen my skills, and, ultimately, see if I had material for a book. As I got into it, I developed a way to look at life and a personal philosophy that I feel comfortable with and that, I think, is a positive addition to cyberspace and the world. Over these past seven years, I've also learned to notice more because I want to share things with you.
There have been highs and lows to write about, discoveries of happy little things, Field Trip Friday excursions, and many new online friends. The structure of posting has kept my writing muscles limbered up and ready to go. Now and then I've burned out and wondered whether I should shutter Catching Happiness and spend that time pursuing paying writing outlets, and every time I've decided not to—Catching Happiness is a labor of love and I'm just not ready to let it go. I just renewed the domain name for another year.
I want to thank each one of you who has taken the time to read my posts, even if you never or rarely comment. I'm grateful you take the time to visit. Your thoughtful comments and encouragement have meant a lot to me for the past seven years.
So as we go forward, I have this to ask you: What would you like to see more of? Less of? What are your favorite types of posts, and what could you live without? Do you have any suggestions or comments to share? I'd love to hear from you.
I believe I wouldn't have learned as much and had as many adventures without Catching Happiness. I will always be grateful for it, and for you, the reader. Thank you for being a part of the past seven happy years!
Oh my Kathy that is great many posts. Congratulations on your seventh year. I always love your positive posts. You do such a great job sharing lovely links as well as your own personal thoughts. So glad you are continuing I know I would be very sad if you were not. Thanks for keeping on. Hugs!
Thanks, Debbie! I sure wouldn't want to make you sad :).


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A species odyssey – from one small cell, to mankind
April 1, 2012 זמן קריאה משוער 15 דקות 15 min
Scientists estimate that planet Earth formed about 4.5 billion years ago as part of the formation of the solar system. It was only about one billion years later that the first unicellular organisms made their debut, and it took about two billion years more for multicellular organisms to appear. Initially these were simple cellular aggregates that later on evolved into more complex life forms with distinct tissues and organs. The most dramatic segment of evolution took place about a half billion years ago when over a "brief" period of 30 million years the foundations were laid for all the groups of animals that still surround us today. The following video describes the basics of how life is believed to have emerged and evolved on Earth, from the formation of DNA to the appearance of human beings. It should be mentioned that the video contains several inaccuracies on which I will elaborate in the following paragraphs.
This video was produced by Cassiopeia Project
First, I would like to point out that the theories described in the video are the ones most widely-accepted by the scientific community and are supported by fossil evidence and genetic analyses.However, some aspects of these theories cannot be utterly proven, especially those concerning events that took place more than a half billion years ago. This is because the geological conditions, as well as, the non-mineralized nature of the organisms typical of this era did not allow for abundant fossil formation. The most controversial issue in this context is the formation of the first living cell – life emerging from stillness. No evidence exists for this momentous event, but lab reconstruction of the conditions that are believed to have prevailed on Earth at that time gave rise to a fluid that consisted of all building blocks necessary for the formation of DNA, RNA, amino acids and lipid membranes.
You may have noticed that the video does not progress linearly with time, but rather skims very quickly through the first few billion years, while later periods are discussed in much greater detail. The reason for this is that during the first 4 billion years the conditions on Earth were very harsh, not allowing for rapid diversification of life forms. With time these conditions became more and more suitable for life, ultimately giving rise to the Cambrian Explosion, during which most major phyla appeared (phylum = the organism classification rank below kingdom and above class, e.g. mollusks, arthropods and chordates). The appearance of human beings marks a small tick on the evolutionary timescale, comparable to one second out of a whole day.
The initial event in the emergence of life was the formation of a self-replicating molecule. At a later stage, the replicating molecule enveloped itself inside a protective membrane that made it possible to sustain the conditions necessary for its replication. In this manner the first living cell emerged.Today it is believed that this molecule was RNA, rather than DNA as suggested in the video. RNA possessed properties of both a replicating, hereditary material and of a catalytic molecule - an enzyme. In fact, there are still several enzymes today that integrate RNA elements in their structure and function, the most widely known being the ribosome (which is a complex comprised of several enzymes). It was only at later stages that DNA replaced RNA as the hereditary material due to its much higher stability. The theory that RNA predated DNA is known as the RNA world hypothesis.
The next milestone in evolution was the appearance eukaryotic cells that contain a nucleus and several additional membrane-enclosed organelles. These specialized subunits enable more efficient assembly and processing of complex proteins as well as compartmentalization of cellular processes. The mitochondria and chloroplasts (in plants) are unique for containing their own DNA and thus manufacturing their own proteins, although they also receive proteins that originate from nuclear DNA. The most widely-accepted theory for this phenomenon is that somewhere along evolution the cell has engulfed a photosynthetic alga (chloroplast) or a "breathing" bacterium (mitochondrion). Instead of being digested, this alga/bacterium managed to survive, and moreover, to develop a symbiotic interaction with the host cell. This is known as the Endosymbiotic theory. The mitochondria and chloroplasts gave their hosts a considerable advantage by providing them with the means to carry out either photosynthesis or cellular respiration, thus boosting their energy balance.
The next important step was the appearance of multicellular organisms. Initially these were very simple beings, but over the next billion years more and more complex life forms appeared and evolved into the forefathers of most species living today. In fact, evolution was a process that accelerated at a tremendous pace: it took a billion years for the first living cell to appear and another two billion years for multicellular organisms to show up, but over the next billion years a huge diversity of complex life forms emerged. The reason behind this accelerated process was the development of life-promoting conditions on Earth. The pre-life atmosphere contained high concentrations of toxic gas, which together with volcanic eruptions, lightning storms and the high acidity of the ocean made life impossible. These conditions, however, did favor the formation of the raw materials necessary for life to emerge. When the first cells appeared they began to change their microenvironment by secreting a variety of chemicals, including oxygen and carbon dioxide. This led over time to a change in the composition of the atmosphere and allowed for the formation of the ozone layer, which filters out lethal ultraviolet radiation. Once these conditions (high oxygen and lack of dangerous radiation) became more stable, a steep rise in the number of new species occurred.
All species formed according to the rules of evolution, the most important of which is survival of the fittest. As a result of the inevitable competition for natural resources, the organisms were divided into predators and prey, and a constant search for habitats commenced. Such a search, together with the forces of evolution, gave rise to the different classes of animals, such as fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. The cards of evolution were re-shuffled several times over this time course as a result of major extinction events, which allowed new life forms to appear and prosper. The fifth such event was the extinction of the dinosaurs, and while it is certainly the most well known event it wasn't the biggest one. Some claim that the environmental changes provoked by mankind constitute the sixth major extinction event, overshadowing the extinction of the dinosaurs in its dimensions.
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At his smoothest, Raise the Dragon's Richard Spellman sings like a debonair blend of David Bowie and Bryan Ferry (loud, his voice is quite less appealing); Sean Lyons provides attractive, fragile guitar threads. With backing from five sessionmen, including ex-Rumour bassist Andrew Bodnar, and production by Art of Noise's Anne Dudley, the crafty pair spin both lovely, melodic tunes ("The Blue Hour") and tedious light dance-rockers ("Deliverance" and "Raise the Dragon") on Deliverance. But an ill-advised cover of "Hold On (I'm Coming)" is laughable.
Returning two years later as Intimate Strangers, Spellman and Lyons released Charm, which contains two remixes and one peppy re-recording of their first EP's best songs plus seven new creations in roughly the same plangent dance vein. Nicely done, but easily forgotten.


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'Actually I wish I was in the automobile': F1 boss would have brought Schumacher however…
Mick Schumacher believes taking a step again to develop into a take a look at driver will result in a return to Formula 1 as a daily driver. Alfa Tauri group boss Franz Tost says he needs the German – whereas Haas boss Gunther Steiner sees his former worker in a "good place".
If Mick Schumacher has his method, getting a job as a reserve driver for Mercedes is simply an intermediate step on the approach to higher success. He is more likely to be on observe for all 23 races of the 2023 Formula 1 season. But the 23-year-old's promotion to W14 must be particular, with the Silver Arrows trying to problem for normal wins, and thus the world title a yr from now. Schumacher additionally believes that "if I'm in the proper automobile at the proper time, I can develop into world champion."
What looks as if an invisible subordinate clause is one in all the easy circumstances for achievement in Formula 1. Getting in the proper automobile at the proper time. Schumacher stated the phrase in an interview with the English-speaking motorsport platform The Race – and in line with Auto Bild, Mercedes boss Toto Wolff was able to ship the newcomer again with the proper supply just lately. Nick de Vries, who was the third Mercedes driver to briefly help Williams in 2022, and thus was in a position to supply himself a daily cockpit at Scuderia Alpha Tauri, is an instance.
Mick Schumacher might be one in all the candidates for this automobile. At least the head of the group, Franz Tost, in an interview with RTL/ntv reveals necessary ideas in this path. "For me it was a private difficulty," says the Austrian, who has pushed the former Toro Rosso racing group since 2006. "I would have appreciated Mick in the automobile." Finally, Tost "is satisfied that Mick is gifted and has what it takes to succeed in Formula 1."
Schumacher ought to benefit from Friday
The former racing driver and 1983 Austrian Formula Ford champion is unclear as to why the thoughts video games have elevated. "But there have been different circumstances at the time," says Tost, "political causes" as a result of Schumacher was merely "Ferrari Junior." The Maranello-based Scuderia has sponsored Schumacher for a number of years, supporting him via the junior lessons and finally taking part in a key function in bringing him on board with Haas for the 2021 season. The transfer to Alfa Tauri, the world of Red Bull, wants Ferrari's approval. "Then there was by no means any dedication," Tost continued on RTL/ntv, "But personally I give it some thought rather a lot."
In addition, Tost sees the transfer from unusual driver at Haas to check driver at Haas because it appears to have occurred at Mercedes as a chance for the bold German driver, "as a result of it's a superb group, one in all the finest groups in Formula 1. so after all he can be taught rather a lot" and "Hopefully the Silver Arrow will get an opportunity to take to the observe just a few instances, for instance in Friday's follow as an alternative of standard drivers Lewis Hamilton and George Russell. According to Tost, it will give Schumacher "confidence", additional enhance his "technical understanding" and "hopefully get him again on the grid sooner or later".
Haas group boss Gunther Steiner, who let Schumacher's contract expire and changed him with the extra skilled Nico Hulkenberg, confirmed comparable kindness in an interview with ntv/RTL. "I assume he is in place at Mercedes," stated the offended South Tyrolean, who publicly criticized and counted out Schumacher a number of instances final season earlier than asserting his break up. With the new function, he has "put himself in place in the group with the very best future for the common cabin."
Especially since the reminiscence continues to be contemporary, "how issues went with Nick de Vries," Steiner continued. The Dutchman received the Formula 2 title in 2019 and has now returned to Formula 1 after being cycled via the Mercedes Formula E program, finishing stints in the Silver Simulator and as a Friday driver. Mick Schumacher additionally has a objective.
Audi buys the first shares of the Sauber group
"TV Blisen" was relegated from the regional league to the top league
Football learns this from handball
It's better to have a rollercoaster ride than to lose in 2021


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HomeA Year Later, Failure of Iran Nuclear Deal Is Clearer Than Ever
A Year Later, Failure of Iran Nuclear Deal Is Clearer Than Ever
by Eric R. Mandel
Last summer, a fierce debate in the pro-Israel community over how to best curtail the Iranian nuclear program took place. On July 14, 2015, after 20 months of arduous talks, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) between Iran, the P5+1 countries, and the EU was announced. On the deal's anniversary, we asked two pro-Israel leaders, one on the right and one on the left, to share their thoughts on how the deal is working one year later. To read the other perspective, click here.
President Obama "has bet global security and his own legacy that one of the world's leading state sponsors of terrorism will adhere to an agreement to curtail its nuclear program."
Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic
"In the United States, support is growing for the notion that (President Obama) has failed to hold Tehran accountable for nuclear violations, downplayed Iran's economic windfall from sanctions relief, and ignored the deal's negative regional implications for state sponsorship of terrorism."
Raymond Tanter, Foreign Policy Magazine
The one-year anniversary of the JCPOA is an important, yet premature time to reflect on the accomplishments and failures of the nuclear agreement.
I was privileged to work with members of Congress, and their foreign policy and national security advisors who were grappling over many years with the challenges and ambitions of the revolutionary Iranian theocracy.
During the contentious debate over the merits of the JCPOA, a false choice was offered, either accept this agreement or you are a warmonger, willing to drag America into another Middle East quagmire. Yet almost everyone I spoke with in Congress preferred a negotiated settlement, just not a bad one that would weaken American national security interests. A new relationship with Iran was desired, just not one based on empowering the misogynist, homophobic, anti-Semitic, anti-American, Islamic Republic of Iran, without significant security concessions.
So where did we begin.
In 2012 the President said, "The deal we'll accept…is that they end their nuclear program." The administration told Congress that it would not sign an agreement that did not require Iran to forsake its nuclear weapons capability. The President claimed that the JCPOA indeed ended every pathway to a nuclear weapons capability through plutonium and uranium enrichment.
In April 2015 when the "Key parameters" of the deal were released, the Washington Post's Editorial Board wrote, "Obama's Deal Falls Far Short of His Own Goals." They complained that none of Iran's nuclear facilities will be closed, not one of its 19,000 centrifuges will be dismantled, Iran's nuclear infrastructure will remain "intact", and in ten years Iran "instantly" becomes nuclear state.
President Obama's first Iran advisor Ambassador Dennis Ross said, "The agreement…does not reflect the objective we had hoped to achieve."
The administration said their deal would empower the moderates and reign in Iran's hegemonic ambitions and domestic human rights abuses. When this clearly became untrue, they backtracked and claimed the deal was never about reigning in the world's leading state sponsor of terror, but was exclusively about nuclear weapons and their delivery systems. Even that limited goal needed to be amended when Iranian missiles capable of delivering a nuclear weapon were tested, violating a number of UN Security Council resolutions. German Chancellor Merkel recently told Parliament, "Iran (has) continued unabated to develop its rocket program in conflict with the relevant provisions of the UN Security Council."
The administration also choose to ignore Iran's more dangerous regional ambitions threatening American allies, and shut its eyes on Iran's direct role in the genocide in Syria, fighting arm and arm with Hezbollah and Assad. Obama's own State Department still lists Iran as the leading state sponsor of terror, while this agreement provides hundreds of millions of dollars in sanctions relief and new trade deals, strengthening the Iranian regime.
As for the agreement itself, a partial list of what was allowed contradicts the assurances the administration gave to Congress.
• Allows Iran in ten years to build an unlimited numbers of heavy water nuclear reactors
• Conduct advanced centrifuge R&D immediately
• Denies immediate anytime, anywhere access to check for violations of the agreement. Considering that Iran's whole nuclear program was clandestine, this concession was particularly egregious.
• At year 15, allows Iran to become a nuclear weapons power with unlimited uranium production, and unlimited number of centrifuges.
In the Middle East, 15 years is a blink of the eye.
To evaluate where this deal is going you need to understand the reality of the Islamic Republic. Iran today is motivated by a combination of Persian nationalism, Islamic revolutionary ambition, and the desire for Shiite control of Mecca and Medina. Anti-Americanism and the destruction of Israel are not rhetoric, but part of its core DNA, foundational principles of the Republic. Iranian diplomacy practices taqiyah, an Islamic doctrine that permits Iran to deceive its enemies, signing agreements with no intention of being faithful to them.
As for the deal itself, did you know that the JCPOA and its companion the UNSC Resolution 2231 are different documents? UNSC Res. 2231 was sold to the American people as the UN version of the JCPOA. Wrong!
Why is this so important? Because the more restrictive aspects of the Iran deal that Iran refused to agree to, were put only into UNSC 2231 but are not in the JCPOA. Iran now claims that 2231 is not legally binding on them!
Here is another shocker. Did you know that the JCPOA is not an agreement or a binding contract? It is simply a set of understandings that remain unsigned by the Ayatollah. What should have been a negotiated treaty, the most important American foreign policy agreement of the early 21st century, intentionally bypassed the Senate with Presidential prerogative because the President knew that the majority of the American people and Congress were against the concessions in the deal. Mind you not against a deal, just against this deal.
As for a partial but growing list of its faults, we conceded finding out the past military dimensions (PMD) of Iran's nuclear program, and then delinked sanctions relief from PMD.
Did you know that the sanctions relief's main beneficiaries are the Ayatollah's 100 billion dollar Setad conglomerate, and his Iranian Revolutionary Guard storm troopers, both who control much of the Iranian economy.
So what has happened since the agreement went into effect.
• This month Germany's FBI said Iran has a "clandestine" effort seeking illicit nuclear technology
• Iran violated UNSC 2231 which compelled it to stop ballistic missile work for 8 years.
• Iran fired live missiles within 1500 yards from an American aircraft carrier and humiliated American sailors
• Multi-billion dollar sales to Iran of Russian arms including the advanced Sukhol super jets, and the S300 surface to air missile system.
So why did we sign this deal?
I have written for the last eight years that the administration's goal was to develop a new U.S.-Iranian relationship at the expense of the U.S.-Israel relationship, and America's traditional Sunni allies. The President told Jeffery Goldberg that the Saudis have to learn to share the Middle East with Iran.
This deal is the culmination of that dream; it is about the President's foreign policy legacy. The writing was on the wall way back in 2009 when the President mystifyingly abandoned the Iranian people during their Green Revolution, siding with the Ayatollah.
The agreement not only reinforced the regime's hold on domestic power, but also fundamentally reversed the regime's decline caused by the 2009 protests, the international unity against Iran's nuclear program after 2011 IAEA report, the Menendez-Kirk Iran sanctions laws in late 2011 and 2012 that isolated and contracted Iran's economy and obliterated the rial's value.
We now know with certainty that in ten to fifteen years Iran will be a nuclear weapons power at any time of its choosing, with complete international legitimacy, memorialized in the President's JCPOA.
This totally contradicts the Presidents stated goal of a nuclear-free Middle East, as with time, more and more nations will fear an unrestrained hegemonic nuclear Iran, developing their own nuclear weapons capabilities, and dramatically increasing the possibility of nuclear weapons falling into the hands of Islamist non-state actors. God help us!
As for the President's promise of snap-back sanctions if Iran fails to comply with the JCPOA that is not happening. Iran has already crossed a number of redlines that should have prompted American action but have instead been excused and rationalized. No matter what, nothing is to sabotage the President's legacy.
As former Iran expert at the Pentagon and Georgetown Professor Matthew Kroenig said,
"Iran would like to build nuclear weapons. The only people Tehran is fooling at this point are people who want to be fooled."
When the Iran deal eventually implodes, the current administration will be long gone. But the President and his inner circle will blame whoever is in power in the White House for the failure of an agreement that was destined to fail in the first place.
The Iran Deal is Good Policy and Good Politics
Ben ShniderJuly 14, 2016
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Japanese researchers may have found new frontier of ancient Buddhist world
Mainichi Shimbun, November 8, 2008
Kyoto, Japan -- A research team from Kyoto's Ryukoku University has found traces of what's believed to be a Buddhist temple in a set of ruins near Maragheh in northwestern Iran, possibly marking a new frontier of expansion in the ancient Buddhist world.
<< The pillar in the underground complex near Maragheh, Iran. (Photo courtesy of Ryukoku University)
The team found a room containing an octagonal pillar, similar in construction to those found in other temples along the Silk Road, which worshippers would walk around as part of their prayers. They also found alcoves in the surface of the pillar, used to hold statues and other religious icons.
The site lies 1,400 kilometers west of another set of ruins found in Turkmenistan, currently believed to mark the western limit of the Buddhist sphere. The city of Maragheh was a former capital of the Il-Khanid under the rule of Genghis Khan's grandson Hulagu Khan.


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