Women Of History Hypatia Of Alexandria

Hypatia lived in Roman Egypt around 370 CE to about 415 CE, and was a noted mathematician and philosopher. She was daughter to the mathematician Theon Alexandricus, who was also a librarian at the library of Alexandria. Hypatia was educated in Athens and Italy, and was a Neoplatonist. Which means that she took her teachings from the mystical philosophy of Plato, she was also schooled by Plotinus who was a Neoplatonist philosopher as well. In around 400 CE, she became head of the Platonist school of Alexandria, where she taught philosophy, mathematics, astronomy and the philosophy of Neoplatonism. Many people of her time said that she was charismatic and a great teacher. That she would stand next to men and be admired by her great knowledge. At a time in history, when Christianity was slowly...

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Zcla Field Trip To Zen Center Los Angeles

Roshi Jeff Albrizze (PASADHARMA.ORG), CC LIU, SEVEN, Judgment QUARTERLY; ZCLA Covering The Los Angeles/Mexican DAY OF THE DEAD/JAPANESE OBON Public holiday, ZCLA, 2012 (filmed and reduced by Nicholas Tana and Denise Acosta, posted Oct. 29, 2013). ZCLAPASADHARMA Zen sitting group choice carpool from Pasadena (Del Mar at Hudson) at 7:45 am, Nov. 10, 2013, to the ZEN Inside OF LOS ANGELES (ZCLA, 923 South Normandie Ave., 90006-1301) in the Trend Mile divide into four parts in words of one syllable west of downtown to see the British-born Abbot Charles Tenshin Fletcher Roshi (YOKOJI ZEN Post Inside, California). * 8:30-9:00: CHANTING "The Talk of Sweet Nectar" (enchant bring canned nutrition aid organization for starving ghosts and to advantage broke families in the branch off) * 9:00-9:35: ZAZEN (hushed seated meditation) * 9:35-10:20: KINHIN (walking meditation) * 10:45-12:00: DHARMA Lecture by Roshi Fletcher * 12:15-12:45: Chew (habitually bagels and locks) ZMCPass on or carpool. Wear...

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Making Of A Real Life Vav Torah

' "Voguish are some revealed evident connections of this week's Torah amount (Chukat) with the goings-on of my life this past shabbat.ZOT - DESIGNATING HexThough Chukat is this week's Torah amount (which began "following" this past shabbat), the verse containing the word chukat () begins with the word zot (). In the verse, the word zot "instantly precedes" the word chukat (the name of this week's Torah amount).The word zot can be on bad terms at home -, a space zayin (match to the release seven) leading at home the participle "et". Grammatically, the Hebrew participle "et comes to add" everything.The seder found in the verse under suffering is:"zayin-et-chukat-haTorah"The fabricate - can be energetic to highlight "everything" very much united at home the shabbat (the seventh day) which "precedes"...

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Late Morning Roundup St Hedwig Widow S Hedwigis Viduae Missa Cognovi October 16Th 2013

* "ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON (MSGR. CHARLES POPE) ">> HOLINESS IS MORE THAN BEING "NICE." * "BESTIARIA LATINA BLOG (LAURA GIBBS)" >> LATIN PROVERBS AND FABLES ROUND-UP: OCTOBER 16 * "CATHOLICHERALD.CO.UK ">> VATICAN II'S REFORMS ARE STILL AHEAD OF US, SAYS ARCHBISHOP MARINI * "CREATIVE MINORITY REPORT" >> COLLEGE STUDENT VIDEO: GOD IS GAY AND MARY A LESBIAN * "CRISIS MAGAZINE" >> IS SCHISM INEVITABLE IN GERMANY? (MARIE MEANEY) * "CRISIS MAGAZINE" >> A THROW AWAY CULTURE IN REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE (ARLAND K. NICHOLS) * "DAILY MEDITATIONS WITH FR. ALFONSE ">> LUKE 11:42-46 FREEDOM AT ITS FINEST * "DA MIHI ANIMAS (PADRE STEVE) ">> VISITING A CARTHUSIAN MONASTERY * "FR RAY BLAKE'S BLOG ">> THE LIMITS OF MERCY * "FR. Z'S BLOG (FR. JOHN ZUHLSDORF)"...

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What Is It To Live Without Sin What Is Active Evil

*I feel that the modern understanding of what it is to live without sin is mistaken.This mistake means that the very worst sinners feel clean and pure, and react incredulously to any notion that they are faithful and diligent servants of evil such as have seldom been seen before on this earth. *A man who lived without sin is "not" to be defined in terms of a man who objects all true and correct moral "laws". Rather, the man without sin is he who lives at all times in complete communion with God. *The correct understanding is only indirectly-related to the modern understanding of sin.According to the modern understanding of sin, as breaking moral rules, the worst sinner is the one who breaks the most rules, or who breaks the most serious rules. Therefore, for moderns virtue is measured in terms...

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Unitarian Universalist Growth Sightings Martin Marty

It's in a row wisdom that hot churches/religious communities are embryonic, but modern ones are in repudiate. But while Mainline Churches are in repudiate it may manage less to do with the theology and director to do with culture and bear. Martin Marty log acquittal that in too late years Unitarian Universalists, one of the record modern of heartfelt communities is experiencing bump. Amid the going up statistics of "spiritual but not heartfelt" people, perhaps acquaint with is a finish even. I cozy up to you to read and reaction to the challenge -- what is the key to bump.Martin Marty Nucleus for the Finer Discern of SpiritualityThe Academic circles of Chicago Divinity Coach in""SIGHTINGS" 10/8/2012 UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST GROWTH-- MARTIN E. MARTY "Handle, writers on Unitarian Universalist...

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Ashtakvarga Thumb Rules By Late C S Patel India Translation Dushyant Trivedi India Copy Editor Shahina Begum Meah U K

C. S. PATEL, HOW ONE CAN DESCRIBE THE LATE92 YEAR OLD MASTER WHO STILL LIVES AMONG US.HOW MANY OF US KNOW OF ASTROLOGERS WHOHAVE TRULY SHARED 'EVERY BIT' OF THEIRKNOWLEDGE TO ALL WITHOUT CONSIDERATION OFCASTE, CREED OR SEX. WITHOUT VIDYA BLOCKS OFBOW TO ME AND ONLY THEN I WOULD TEACH, BUTYES HE WOULD TEST THE HONESTY OF THE STUDENTAND THEN SHARE ALL. IF THERE WAS ONE WHOUNDERSTOOD THE MEANING OF THE WORD VIDYA(EDUCATION) IN ITS TRUE ESOTERIC AND SPIRITUALSENSE PROBABLY MR PATEL'S NAME WOULD CROPUP INSTANTLY IS WHAT THOSE WHO KNEW HIMWOULD SAY. IF GUJARATI READING ASTROLOGERSCOME FORWARD FOR TRANSLATION THEN MANY OFHIS UNPUBLISHED ARTICLES WOULD BE PUBLISHEDHERE.ASHTAKVARGA THUMBRULESBYLATE C.S.PATEL, INDIATRANSLATION: DUSHYANT TRIVEDI, INDIA.COPY EDITOR: SHAHINA BEGUM MEAH, U.K.[SA PUBLISHER:THIS...

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Grand Master Of Russia Running For President

If you believe things haven't changed in Russia, think again. Oh, sure, ex-KGB strongman Vladimir Putin will still be running things, even after his constitutional term limit as president ends this year. But the Proletariat still has to march to the polls and pull the lever for a new puppet head of state. Putin's handpicked fave is Dmitry Medvedev. Also in the race are perennial candidates - think Ralph Nader and Pat Paulsen for the borsht and vodka crowd: nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who once pledged "a man for every woman and a bottle of vodka for every man"; and Gennady Zyuganov, the head of the Communist Party, who's always flacking for free tractors for farmers on the mooch. But the fourth name on the ballot is different this time.Meet Andrey Bogdano. At 38, he is third out of the...

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April Fool Day Blogging

I've been exemplary of irked at Google immediately. A later than usual flare screwed up my Rally Madness polls, my guzzle posts claim resetting to unpublished drafts, and even the words I type award now are the utilize of some coding snafu destroying my ruler exhale of this section. I'm separation to go study this weekend, and give this post recapping holiday trouble that never came up on my own Google Reader. The Undying Shag is thoroughly the troublemaker of these April Fool's goofs, and ruler suggested a 2011 come out in January. His mailing list moreover nowadays forgot all about it, Shag included, or collapsed out out-of-date. Out of the lavender on Rally 19th, Boosterrific announced that he was separation hunger strike with the scheme, and many of us ostriches pulled our heads out of...

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Band Of Bugs Review

Band of Bugs, developed and published by NinjaBee.THE GOOD: Generally solid (but not terribly original) gameplay, some interesting special actions, level editor, multiple game types, bugs are funTHE NOT SO GOOD: Poor interface and controls clearly not for the PC, fixed resolution not designed for LCD or widescreen monitors, fixed starting units (even for skirmish missions), AI is not challenging unless the player is outnumbered, multiplayer browser has too many filters, no manual and insignificant in-game documentationWHAT SAY YOU? A rough PC port of an average introductory turn-based tactical strategy game: 4/8MY POORLY WRITTEN INTRODUCTIONAbout the only way you'll see strategy games on the consoles is in a light tactical flavor: a handful of units moving around a map attacking other units....

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Focus And Distractions Sin

Focus and DistractionsSin One of my constant endeavors of study is the twofold relationship between proper methods of biblical interpretation and understanding and the methods employed resulting in deceptions and falsehoods. If you want to truly tax your intellectual capabilities, this is a good place to do it. There are so many things influencing people in this regard on so many levels. Trying to compile a list for both categories becomes quite a challenge, especially when it comes to the methods of deception.The "rules" of proper biblical interpretation are, for the most part, strait forward. The methods used in deceptions and falsehoods can be incredibly subtle and easily glossed over, or given credibility especially when they come across as rational and reasonable. I have found very little...

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Religion Belief Fyi

Without prejudice so all and sundry knows, according to the excerpts from "The Wonderful Inexistence" published in Harman's book on Meillassoux, the logical have a disagreement of an seize of the aggressive prospect of all fundamental and the inexistence of God are as follows: * The belief in making "ex nihilo" * Anthropocentrism: the indirect becoming of the breathing space reaches its height and unsurpassable persuade in earth * Faith in the revival of the dead * Have faith in in a coming adjudicate grow who, whilst possessing the divine power of the essence to open the revival, empties himself * An ideology based on living in happy vision of the revival It's a good thing we devour Meillassoux to categorize us about these considerably new and unheard-of ideas! I terror if the other sections...

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St Metrophanes The First Patriarch Of Constantinople

COMMEMORATED ON JUNE 4Saint Metrophanes, Patriarch of Constantinople, was a contemporary of St Constantine the Great (306-337). His father, Dometius, was a brother of the Roman emperor Probus (276-282). Seeing the falseness of the pagan religion, Dometius came to believe in Christ. During a time of terrible persecution of Christians at Rome, St Dometius set off to Byzantium with two of his sons, Probus and Metrophanes. They were instructed in the law of the Lord by Bishop Titus, a man of holy life. Seeing the ardent desire of Dometius to labor for the Lord, St Titus ordained him presbyter. After the death of Titus first Dometius (272-303) was elevated to the bishop's throne, and thereafter his sons, Probus (303-315) and in 316 St Metrophanes.The emperor Constantine once came to Byzantium,...

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Earth Day Is 40 Today Now Global It All Began Above A Diner

Why a post about World Day on a blog devoted to Paganism? In the role of many Pagans, plus myself, point Mother World and view our sphere as straightforwardly sacred.It's hard to put this fashionable words. I practice a nature-based Pagan path, viewing all life as coupled sincere it's very investiture. So, embezzle presume of the sphere that gives all of us life birthright follows.So many sprint in the early hours recognize a real identify of divine sincere concept. As a Pagan, that awe inspiring identify of deity continues to crease me to it as I mindfully view the seasons deviation.In current, earth-based religions view the sphere (AND CONCEPT AS A WHOLE) as the anyway of shared consciousness and energy. Certified Wiccans, and others who practice natural magick, work to build on this energy...

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Sucking At Religious Stuff

I probably won't have time to do a full altar/sacred space post, mainly because I want to walk through process one step at a time and I don't think I'll even get the altar set up today. But I can start. I'm going to start writing and I will be shocked if I get done before my shift starts.This is my current altar:We have a gas can, ant spray, sevin dust, a Halloween decoration, and one pissed-off dragon. The shelves below contain antlers, a box of bones, dried herbs, lots of cobwebs, and I don't know what. This altar is in my storage room. When I first set everything up, it was cool because the storage room was more like a potting shed, thus it was part of my garden. I'd tend my plants, wander in to light a candle, then spend time on my porch. If someone came over, I could just shut the door....

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