Keep Your Head Up Young Brother. The Conformists Need Someone To Hate.

If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son

You Can Tell Much About People By What Makes Them Angry

No Wonder They Hate Us

BAGHDAD, Iraq — This much is agreed upon: at least six Iraqis died overnight Saturday when American attack helicopters pounded a cluster of homes in a dusty, nondescript neighborhood on the northern outskirts of Baghdad.

But the story of why those homes were targeted and who was killed depends on the storyteller.

The U.S. military said the dead were insurgents and the homes in the Husseiniya district probably served as weapons depots; troops observed seven or more secondary explosions after the air assault. By the military's tally, six fighters were killed and five wounded.

Iraqi residents told a different version: the dead came from two Shiite Muslim families who lived in an area controlled by the powerful Mahdi Army militia. The bodies pulled from the rubble, locals say, were ordinary parents killed with their children in the middle of the night. Locals counted 11 corpses - two men, two women, and seven children. Another 10 were injured. Some Iraqi authorities put the death toll as high as 18.

Pitbulls Are Not The Only Animals Made To Fight Each Other For Money. To Hell With Those Dogs. Let's Stop This Inhumanity.

When Is This Cat Going To Be "This Week's Bad Guy"?

Michael Vick may have unnecessarily pitted animals against each other and had them fight to the death. A hundred dogs may have died.

This guy manufactured lies about WMD's, misled the nation and pitted people against each other in an endless war. Hundred's of thousands of HUMAN BEINGS have died. 3,000 American soldiers have been killed and 30,000 maimed.

But Guess Who is On TV?
Tomorrow ask any American what they think of Michael Vick. Then ask them what they think of Paul Wolfowitz.

Weapon of Mass Distraction

Marriage

Heterosexual love and marriage is the path intended for us to find fulfillment, self-transcendence and God. This is why we are so obsessed with it. By definition we must find God ourselves. This is the essence of freedom. The following description is a signpost. If you find genuine happiness by other routes, I salute you. I am sounding a theme. Play your own variations.

1) Heterosexuality is a life cycle not a "sexual preference." It centers on courtship, marriage, and family (parenthood). Most heterosexual beings need marriage and family to fulfill their destiny.

2) Marriage is a sacred union in which male and female become "one" in love. A child is the expression of this oneness. Marriage takes place when the male spirit in the form of love possesses the female spirit. Heterosexual love mirrors G-d's love of creation. The male channels G-d's love to the female, who is creation.

3) God's love is like the sunrise that pervades and illuminates creation each day. Contrary to what we have been taught, women need constantly to be possessed and spiritually fertilized by man's love. Similarly men have a fundamental psychological need to possess a woman with his love.

4) Women need to experience power as love. Men need to express love as power. For both sexes, healthy union is a condition for healthy development. The male's possession of female, the exchange of female power for male love, is the heart of the heterosexual relationship. It is how union takes place. Courtship involves winning female trust. The male presents her with a vision of life together. He is basically saying: "Follow me. Become one with me. I will use power on behalf of our union." - Daniel Rainey

The Essenes III

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Historical
Facts on Essene Culture

Warm Regards from the Other Side of the Moon.
Bijoy Cletus - Kerala, India

WITH ALL THE SHIT GOING ON IN THE WORLD - GUESS WHO IS THIS WEEK'S "BAD GUY"?

Vick's new shoes nixed

July 20, 2007
BY GEORGE HENRY
ATLANTA -- Michael Vick's legal troubles prompted Nike on Thursday to suspend the release of its latest product line named after the Atlanta Falcons quarterback.
Nike has told retailers it will not release a fifth signature shoe, the Air Zoom Vick V, this summer. Nike spokesman Dean Stoyer said the four shoe products and three shirts that currently bear Vick's name will remain in stores.

Vick will be arraigned next week in a Richmond, Va., federal courtroom on charges of sponsoring a gruesome dogfighting operation.

Meanwhile, Falcons owner Arthur Blank issued a statement Thursday, saying the organization is ''working diligently on exploring our options.''

''This is an emotionally charged and complicated matter,'' Blank said. ''There are a wide range of interests and legal issues that need to be carefully considered as we move ahead, including our need to respect the due process that Michael is entitled to. Also, this situation affects everyone -- our club, our players and associates, our sponsors, our fans and the Atlanta community among them -- so we must consider all of our customers in making any decisions.''

The Paris Davis Play List

Rapheal Saadiq Featuring D'Angelo

Black Moon. "Don't Front. You Know I Got You Open".

Don't Call It A Comeback

Art or Porn?

Does every plus 40 black actress end up with her ass spread all over the pages of playboy?

Let Us Pray

Close Your Eyes, Bow Your Head and Open Your Heart

Put The Egg McMuffin Down ...

Every year it is estimated that the average person unintentionally consumes just over 3.2 pounds of insect parts.

One of the major entry points for insects into our food is flour which we use to make a wide assortment of foods, from bread and pasta to desserts and cereals. During the flour milling process, one of the purposes of the so-called "Entolator" is to smash insect parts into such small pieces that they cannot easily be seen with the naked eye.

Moreover, the U.S. government legally permits certain levels of non-hazardous insect parts in various foods. Examples:
1) chocolate, for example, can contain up to 60 insect fragments /100 grams
2) peanut butter up to 30 /100
3) tomato sauce up to 30 fly eggs 30 /100 grams

Both the Canadian and U.S. governments permit up to twenty maggots per one hundred grams of mushrooms, approximately three hundred and twenty insect parts per fifty grams of ground pepper, and less than fifty insect parts per fifty grams of flour. The list goes on and on.

Lil Wayne City of God Remix - You Aint Ready

THE PARIS DAVIS PLAY LIST - Common Featuring Sadat X

Does Playboy "Degrade" Black Women? Or is that only Hip Hop?

I love this sista. But I don't know how I feel about this. She's got a 15 year old son. Twins on the way.

This woman strikes me as royalty. There's more to wealth than cash. Hugh Hefner may have given her $250,000, but that's not worth what it cost.

Is Money Your God?

Beyond a certain modicum necessary for survival and security, money becomes an abstraction. In the words of Samuel Butler, "enough is always a little more than one has."

The material world literally is organized to steal our souls from God. Like spiders, the central bankers, who serve Lucifer, spin this money out of nothing in order to ensnare us in a web of debt. And like spiders, the ultimate plan seems to be to devour us, body and soul.

How much of your thought and energy is devoted to money?

Stock market trading on the Internet literally has placed a slot machine in every home or hand. Millions of people trade during their workday. As a result, millions obsess constantly about money.

There is a tendency to think stock trading is cool if you're making money but morally corrupt if you're losing it. It can’t be both. Is "good" defined by success?

The trader is ensnared as long as he is successful, and can only find peace when he is bankrupted. Eventually there will be a crash and we all will be liberated.

Making money by stock trading is very enticing. It's often easy. Latch on to an Apple, for example. Money is very empowering. It lets you do things. It gives you freedom. It's a rush.

Of course, losing money is very debilitating. It's a bummer. It's easy to get hooked on the highs and lows. But some experienced traders manage to take them in stride.

I made a lot of money and lost much of it gambling on options. I really didn’t know what I was doing and was arrogant and slow to learn. People who are successful in one realm mistakenly think they can do anything.

When I came into money, I lost my identity. My money owned me. I became a money manager. Instead of using it to advance personal goals, my sense of self waxed and waned with my balance. When my broker asked, "How are you?" I'd say to myself, "You tell me."

I didn’t have clear goals, so it was easy to be sidetracked. I was a product of the male arrested development endemic in this culture.

In retrospect, I'd be laughing if I had just bought blue chips and forgot about them. I wish I could say I had that wisdom and character.

The stock market is the only real democracy left. By cutting the vast middle class in on their wealth, the bankers ensure their loyalty. People don't care about truth and freedom, war and peace, as long as they have comfortable houses, BMW's and jacuzzis.

Many people put their faith in Gold. They say money is paper but isn't gold just a stone after all? The market is manipulated. The bankers could demolish the price of gold simply by raising interest rates. Friday July 13, gold hovered around $666 all day. Coincidence?

We will do anything to avoid serving God, anything to avoid taking the ego out of gold (symbolized by the l.) God really means serving "ourselves" since I believe obeying God is the principle of our personal development. Worship is serving our ideal selves, the person God created us to be.

Henry Wokam Phd.