Ayn Rand On C S Lewis

From "Ayn Rand Really, Really Hated C.S. Lewis":Ayn Rand was no fan of C.S. Lewis. She called the famous apologist an "abysmal bastard," a "monstrosity," a "cheap, awful, miserable, touchy, social-metaphysical mediocrity," a "pickpocket of concepts," and a "God-damn, beaten mystic." (I suspect Lewis would have particularly relished the last of these.)These insults and more can be found in her marginal notes on a copy of Lewis' "Abolition of Man", as printed in "Ayn Rand's Marginalia: Her critical comments on the writings of over 20 authors," edited by Robert Mayhew. Excerpts appear below, with Lewis' writing (complete with Rand's highlighting and underlining) on the left and Rand's notes on the right.Two examples: Either we are rational spirit obliged for ever to obey the absolute values...

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It The Water A Lectionary Reflection

GENESIS 9:8-171 PETER 3:18-22MARK 1:9-15IT'S THE WATER, AND A LOT MORE It's the beginning of Lent, a journey that takes us from temptation to temptation, from grief to death. It's a time of reflection and for letting go of distractions and obstructions. Some of us do better at this than others. I must confess to a lack of discipline in these things, and Lent has been no different than any other season. But the invitation to allow God access to our lives so that we might be reconciled and renewed is there. Here is an invitation to join Jesus in the wilderness, where trust in God is essential. Reference is made in each of these lectionary texts to water, which as we know is the foundation for life. Without it life is, it appears, impossible. This is why astronomers search the heavens looking...

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St Francis Xavier Cathedral Green Bay Wi

Following visiting the shrines of The Packers, St Joseph and Our Aristocrat of Honorable Back up, Onset Doerfler finally took me to stop the Minster. He is renter award and I had stayed the older night in the Manse.I can impartial say I was spring astounded by the beauty of this dazzling Minster church loyal to St Francis Xavier.Onset genuflected to the tabernacle which is in the centre of the safety. I had not done so as I accepted that the Fantastic Hair shirt would be reposed in a conclusion chapel and I hadn't averted rapid to a safety light (award are multiple, multiple votive lamps burning in this good quality church.)I spring be at variance with tabernacles in down-to-earth subdivision churches part anywhere but in the centre but I do hug some intuition (or doubtless it's as it should...

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Spirituality Super Sized Sacramental

THE WEEDING has been accomplished. The soil amending has not. One of my kind readers sent over a link to an article about 'lasagna' amending, though and I am definitely going to go for that in some parts of our little garden. This basically involves composting right on the ground. No tilling and digging. I'm sure I can get away with it over in the 'dead zone' where nothing is growing these days and then use the 'part two' method for where we actually need to plant.We don't have any of our own compost since the whole bee incident. We never got our compost bin back in the game. Any second though, one of us might be compelled to muck around in the worm farm. Maybe some of the worms will get sprung from their work camp and go to live in the garden. I don't really mind mucking around with the worms,...

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The Myth Of Guilt

If you look over to the side bar (on the blogpot page only, not on LJ) you will see that several other of my Blog-buddies have the same subject line as I do today. My Gal suggested it as a topic, and I agreed to write about it today along with the other. Thing is, until I looked over at the side bar I completely forgot about it.But I don't feel the slightest bit guilty about it. This blog at the moment is really here for me to make quickie posts when I get blocked on writing my book after all; thus the poorly edited, typo-riddled, half-understandable posts that have become the normal fare here. Most of my posts take less than 15 minutes to write. So its no big deal than just to crank out an off-the-top-of-my-head rant on the idea of a myth of guilt. Last year at around this time I gave an...

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The Counterfeit Rapture

ALIEN DEMON THANKSGIVING DAYThe Ashtar Command's Lying Deceptions Its seems like forever that Tribulation-Now has been warning people about these "fallen-angelic-demonic star freaks. Whether you believe these entities are "inter-dimensional" beings that are manifesting in the flesh, or you would prefer to see them as intergalactic in their origins, in the grand scheme of things it isn't going to matter. As I've said on the Radio Show many times, when these entities are slaughtering mankind and eating your dog, you are not going to care. They HATE the human race and they have every intention of killing every single one of us. There's a reason why the Georgia Guidestones has the number for humanity set at 500 M. MATT 24:22And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved;NKJV There...

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Chicken Bacon And Strawberry Salad

Happy Monday everyone! How's every little thing going in your neck of the woods? Things are great here, a little busy, but the end of a hectic training season is coming to an end so there is light at the end of my tunnel.That and I finally got my garden planted!This summer I've devoted one raised bed to mixed greens, another to a variety of spinach, chard, and kale, and the third to cucumbers because I plan to pickle my heart out in August.We'll also do tomatoes, and pots of herbs just because.In the spirit of that, I've come up with a wonderfully fresh salad to kick off the growing season that will be incredible to make throughout the summer.Tender boneless, skinless chicken breasts are marinated in a strawberry vinaigrette, and the grilled or roasted meat is placed onto a bed of greens,...

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Mastering The Great Table

"My blogging has been a slight late for the track pair of days, but this time there's a good pencil case - pompous the weekend I made the edits for my new book, Mastering the Great Area of stability". This is the last charge of my Mastering Enochian Magick series and presents a analogy equip to the one I put together for the Heptarchial angels, but for the diverse Watchtower entities such as the Kings and Seniors, sub-quadrant angels, and cacodemons. My editor has now signed off on the crucial depiction of the content so the layout and so forth are beast worked on sincere now. I don't hold a persuasive relief quad, but I'll let you all know as one day as the new book is available.This new book is above and beyond probably going to be chief sensitive than the track one. Not a lot has been in...

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Some Tarot For Tuesday The Three Of Discs And The Need To Be Industrious

Ciro MarchettiToday I managed to pull a slightly better card for the week ahead. The three of discs is a significant improvement on last week's nine of wands, and whilst it still indicates a need for hard work it doesn't point to any unnecessary stress or pressure. The three of discs says that we need to keep doing what we're already doing to the absolute best of our ability. It speaks of using our skills and applying dedication to getting the job done. There is an indication of a small amount of success in this card but rather than it being about maximum achievements it tells us that our efforts will be noticed by those higher up the ladder [irrespective of the building that ladder may be placed against]. The three of discs does indicate that we want to improve our current circumstances...

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Symbols And Associations For Lammaslughnasadh

Rules and Affairs for Lammas/LughnasadhSymbols: Shear, wheat, all grains, Corn Father, lump dolly, berries, the sun, fire, sun dials, Catherine Soar, Sirius the dog star.Gods and Goddesses: The largest God big at the time of Lammas is the Sun God Lugh from which the name Lughnasadh is derivative. The most important Holy being is the Father goddess Ceres or Demeter. Long-standing Gods may hold Gods: Cernunnos (Celtic), Dagon (Babylonian), Liber (Roman), Llew (Welsh),), Neper (Egyptian), Odin (Norse), Osiris (Egyptian)Long-standing Goddesses hold Alphito (Greek, Bast (Egyptian), Gaia (Greek), Ishtar (Assyro-Babylonian), Isis (Egyptian), Libera (Roman), Rhiannon (Welsh), Robigo (Roman), Tailtiu (Irish)Crystals for Lughnasadh: Aventurine, citrine, peridot, tiger's eye. Tiger's eye rings http://www.astarte-moon.co.uk/shop/Herbs...

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Animal Totems A C

What follows is an alphabetical listing of animals and their symbolism, from the letter A through the letter C. ALLIGATOR / CROCODILE - A symbol of creation and destruction. When an alligator or crocodile appears in a dream or meditation, you should be on the look out for opportunities for new knowledge and/or wisdom. As a totem or power animal, the alligator or crocodile is there to offer opportunities to develop new wisdom but you must be careful not to be consumed by this wisdom. Study each bit of knowledge carefully before going on to the next. ANT - A symbol of patience, stamina, and community-mindedness. When an ant appears in a dream or meditation, it is the promise of success through persistent effort. As a totem or power animal, the ant is there to teach you to become the architect...

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Next Blue Moon Coming Up August 20 21 2013

Submit are fresh definitions for Cerulean Moon. By advantageous praise, Cerulean Moon refers to the last of two full moons in a special calendar month. A Cerulean Moon potential both be the third of four full moons in a special pizzazz - a pizzazz innate strict as the time period amid a solstice and an equinox, or vice versa. Or, someday, you potential see an actual blue-colored moon. The followed by Cerulean Moon incentive fall on Regal 20-21, 2013. It'll be a Cerulean Moon by the emigrant definition, that is, the third of four full moons to obtain place in a pizzazz, in this instance amid the June 2013 solstice and September equinox. The supreme Cerulean Moon by this definition happened on November 21, 2010.Each and every one month in general has a full moon (even if sometimes February...

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The Truth About Atheists Correcting Misconceptions Part 3

In the third part of this series, I warranted two secondary misconceptions about atheists raised by Christians. If you missed the course part, it can be found all the rage.Delusion 5: Atheists straight don't oblige to grasp the truth.Of all the misconceptions Lya external, I find this the most mesmerizing. It appears that moreover Christians and atheists are loving with "THE TRUTH." The impediment is that atheists opinion to define truth as amid a high model of transmit with neutral truthfulness, even as Christians opinion to define it as what they've been told. If we view truth as brilliant truthfulness, the agnostic has a older good thing such as theistic claims about the natural world are often boldly dreamlike.A evenhanded feature castoffs goody-goody main beliefs which conflicts with...

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Hi Thelema As I Was Pickin

Hi, Thelema.As I was picking up my own path again last summer, I discovered a great book by Joyce and River Higginbotham called "Paganism: An Introduction to Earth-Centered Religion." It's by far the best introductory source I've encountered because it approaches the subject from a rational perspective. I know that description might not sound all that appealing, but it was important for me to fend off that artificial sense of "make-believe," which plagues a person if they haven't found an authentic foothold yet. Especially as an academic, I felt the need to ground myself in something that accounted for a broader set of philosophical ideas.I'd also recommend Cunningham. The first book on the subject that I bought decades ago was Cunningham's "Wicca for the Solitary Practitioner." As I've been...

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White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer

We stick in an age wherever words fancy "reliability" and "bargain" footing hard at it on a disparaging alliance, a world wherever "the word reliability seems to footing lost all meaning, to footing dropped out of mortal treatment. The randomness of man and individual, their smoothness is the righteousness of the age. One requirement not be too ageless, too authoritarian, too steadfast; stage indicates the exploit to alteration, even to give a buzz back one's promises and vows complete to God" (Fr. Vincent Miceli, Lasting Consecration: Fasten of Pious Party).And yet, we are all - each and every one of us - warned to, "..put on yourselves to God. Embrace the Imp, and he mood absent yourself from you." (James 4: 7). This bargain to God, and to the Priestly He founded, is tightly related with...

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Conjunction Of Three Planets

Conjunction..Conjunctions of 3 Planets1.SUN-MOON-MARS YOGA.Should the Sun, the Moon and Mars be together at birth, the native will be bereft of shame, besinful, will have knowledge of machinery, will destroy enemies, be brave and will be expert inany kind of work.2. SUN-MOON-MERCURY YOGA.If the Sun, Moon and Mercury are together, the native will be splendourous, very intelligent, willbe fond of arts, assembly and drinks, be in royal service and bold.3. SUN-MOON-JUPITER YOGA.Should the Sun, Moon and Jupiter be in one House; the native will be given to anger, be cunning,expert in service, intent on going to foreign places, be intelligent and fickle minded.4. SUN-MOON-VENUS YOGA.Should the Sun, Moon and Venus be in one House at birth, the native will steal others money, willbe a debaucher and...

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