Serious & Satirical Sunday: Greek Princess?

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Happy Mother's Day

I thought I would provide Sofy with prime time.

Princess Sofy Loren Panathinaikos, Greek Princess and heir to a massive shipping fortune and several blueberry farms in Surrey, British Columbia. Mother Anjela (Anjee) has stated it is good that I am in security as Sofy will need a body guard. Although she does need shades here. Realize this type of sunny weather is rare here, therefore we are caught in a state of shock...

Okay, actually Deaan thought she should be online and I am a loved 'Skuncle'. Sofy waved and yelled goodbye to me as the car was leaving this afternoon. And by the way, I am sure Mother Bulgarian Princess Anjela would like the world to know that she passed her academic teaching with A+ in every course. Now of course with both Anjela and Dean working I expect that delicious homemade chocolate, (coffee) cake every visit, like you promised, Anjela. I am driving out from Maple Ditch you know. Dean stated I ate half of it the first time, well if that is true that is because a certain Princess was favouring her big bro, with my big dog charms...

Mail Online: May 10, 2014

Cited

'...Rapper who 'used a steak knife for botched DIY vasectomy before jumping off balcony' speaks out' 

'Goes by the name Christ Bearer or C.B. as part of rap duo Northstar, founded by Wu-Tang Johnson was reported to be under the influence of dangerous dissociative drug PCP at the time

Speaking for the first time he said it was depression that drove him to do it

He is not allowed to see his two daughters

Admitted to have smoked weed earlier in the night'

'But the 40-year-old, also known as C.B., has now told TMZ that he was smoking weed and reading a book about monks and vasectomies right before the self-castration.'

'PCP is a 'dissociative drug' meaning that it distorts perceptions of sight and sound and produces feelings of detachment from the environment and self. First introduced as a street drug in the 1960s, PCP - which comes in crystal form but is often smoked with a herb like mint or marijuana - quickly gained a reputation as a drug that could cause bad reactions and was not worth the risk. However, some abusers continue to use PCP due to the feelings of strength, power, and invulnerability as well as a numbing effect on the mind that PCP can induce.'

'While he claims he will be able to regain full functionality, having more children will likely not be possible. The incident occurred at an apartment compex about 1am on Wednesday April 16.'

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'Christ Bearer'?

Well, you know how it is stated at times that some person's are not suited for ministry work?

This is someone that I reason 'probably', 'somehow' qualifies in that category. Just from a few documented cumulative points...

I just doubt he would make the cut.

Mail Online: May 10, 2014

Citations

'Satanic inmate suing Nevada jail for religious discrimination... which includes his right to ICE CREAM

Alex Snelson claims he can eat only 'whole foods' without byproducts or processing additives

He listed ice cream as one of those foods on a handwritten legal complaint'

Citations

'A Satanic inmate has filed a federal lawsuit accusing his Nevada jailers of violating his constitutional rights by denying him meals adhering to his strict pagan diet.

Alex C. Snelson, 33, argues in the lawsuit that denying him meals without byproducts and processing additives force him to either starve or go against his religion. He lists ice cream as being one of those foods.

Snelson made the accusations in a hand-written complaint filed to the U.S. District Court in Reno, and insisted ice cream is one of the 'whole foods' his religion permits him to eat.'

Citations

Snelson said he is a member of the Church of Light in Chino Hills, California.

There is no readily available record of such a church existing

A leader of a leading international Satanic organization also questioned Snelson's claims.

The Church of Satan, founded in San Francisco in 1966 by Anton Szandor LaVey, allows its members 'to choose whatever diet is pleasing to them,' said Magus Peter H. Gilmore, a high priest at the church. The church website says it is the 'original Church of Satan' dedicated to the 'acceptance of man's nature as an animal living in a cosmos that is indifferent to his existence.'

It adds that Satanism is 'not Devil worship. There is no belief in God, Satan, the soul, the supernatural or in any form of afterlife.' Devotees are permitted to enjoy ice cream.'

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Is his stated religious organization an actual church or actual religious movement in which religious rights, in particular, within a Western democratic context, in this case United States law and constitution, should provide specific food related rights connected to religious worship?

'Snelson said he is a member of the Church of Light in Chino Hills, California.

There is no readily available record of such a church existing'

If in this case a person is not least significantly connected to a publicly known religious organization the issue seems to be more in regard to supposed individual rights to whole foods, as opposed to supposed religious rights to whole foods.

If these type of individualistic religious rights were granted based on private religion, it could create organizational problems in public places both public and private sensor. Many inmates could claim a personal religion that is supposedly affiliated with a known religious organization, such as Satanism in this case, but in reality just follow a personal, suppsoedly 'ethical', religious system to suit self.

Each person entitled to their own diet, there own menu.

This could take on other public levels as well, such as corporate.

A waste of public money and time, which is money.

Romans 13 Biblically allows the state, in whatever form that may be, not necessarily nation state, to maintain law and order including through the use of the sword. Here I reason Biblically, order would include a denial of questionable religious claims in regard to rights.

My religion demands that I eat chocolate coffee cake daily and it is my legal and constitutional right to receive that at my corporate work five days a week.

As if...

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I did not post this on Facebook because I would state it as is, or that I reason it is an exhaustive and extremely accurate philosophical statement.

No, I would not, but to some extent I agreed with what I viewed and view as the spirit of the message.

One should not preach to someone, without love or at the expense of love.

My Facebook comments edited:

Messages like this have limited context and are not exhaustive.

They (messages like this one) need to be read as such. It is not an all-encompassing philosophical text. It is just a point.

I reason the second (point) is more important than the first and that is what it likely meant. But it is exaggerated for point.

It is not worded how I would word it, but the spirit of it has merit.

It is like stating to me 'God does not care if you have a PhD, but that you love others'. God does care that I have a PhD, but loving others is more important. But such a statement could be stated to make a point.

In certain contexts, my PhD would not matter much, but loving others always would...etc..

I think with both examples (from the ecard and mine) it is always love others and do not use knowledge the wrong way...as in stating verses without love, PhD knowledge or not.

It is not stating to do not memorize. At least how I deduce and read it.

Knowledge is always a necessity in Christ and there are different levels and types, but must be in love.

It is just stated in a way with an agenda and not exhaustive, to make a point.

Funny idea, although of course unrealistic in this age. There is not exhaustive philosophical context and so this ecard can too be criticized.

Financially Based Religious Accommodation?

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Female segregation

Teen felt ‘degraded’ after teacher backed aikido student’s request to avoid touching females on religious grounds

Cited

'A Nova Scotia high school student is asserting she was reduced to “second-class citizenship” after her Halifax aikido school followed provincial human rights law and accommodated a male student’s religious request not to touch his female classmates.'

'Ms. Power, a resident of the Halifax suburb of Upper Tantallon, NS, had been a student at East Coast Yoshinkan since the age of six. In the spring of 2012, Ms. Power, then 15, was just on the verge of earning her aikido black belt when she said a man enrolled at the school and told its owner that, for reasons of his Islamic faith, he was not allowed physical contact with women.'

'The request would not have been noticed in a pottery class or a fencing course, but Aikido — like any martial art — is uniquely physical. The ultimate effect, said Ms. Power, was that sessions were suddenly being divvied up by sex.'

'Steve Nickerson, a fifth degree black belt and the owner and sensei of East Coast Yoshinkan Aikido, wrote in an email to the National Post that although he met the student’s request to avoid physical contact with women, the student “interacted, without physical contact, with women in my classes each week as part of our regular program.”

“There was never any segregation,” he wrote.'

'As for the bowing, Mr. Nickerson said the request was made respectfully and was “very easy to accommodate.” “I believe every person should have an equal opportunity to participate in recreational activities and I would not deny this student access to my classes,” he wrote, noting that he made the accommodation with the confidence that it would not be “disadvantaging any other person’s participation in my classes.” The decision, he said, was supported by both the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission and the Halifax Recreation Administration, which operates Lakeside Community Centre.'

'‘Why would someone’s religion — something that they choose to follow — trump my gender, which is something that I was born with?’'

'Amir Hussain is a theology professor at Los Angeles’ Loyola Marymount University and wrote his thesis on Toronto Muslim communities. Speaking to the National Post, he called the student’s requests an unusual interpretation of mainstream North American Islam, but said “it could well be that this person feels that this is what their religion is demanding.” Said Mr. Hussain, “in Islam, you’re supposed to respect your teachers. You’re not supposed to bow down to other gods, but the sensei isn’t your god.”'

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The two links appear to take a different angle of the story. The Sun News video takes a stronger view that segregation took place.

In Canada, the federal government handles immigration and provincial and territorial governments attempt to bring in new immigrants for business purposes.

The first link, the Sun News video states that many sought after immigrants in Canada are from Northern African countries that are Islamic.

Therefore the primary reason governments and related agencies would make at times these special religious accommodations for Muslims is not because state agencies are choosing religious rights over women's rights, which would seem the opposite of what would likely occur in Canada, but for the sake of being attractive and to appease current North African Muslim immigrants with money to invest in Canada and for potential immigrants to view Canada as a good place to immigrate to and invest money.

Personally, I would not support accommodation in the context of a public martial arts class for religious reasons as it is not a clear religious context as would be a mosque or men's prayer breakfast or women's lunch within a Christian cultural context in a church where natural rules of separation would apply.

Christian Tingle?

In a previous post on my other blog I noted an interaction with a professional writer and businessman that deals issues of psychology.

Divinity Student

Cited with edits:

'Two, he stated I needed to change the type of people that I wished to associate with in certain ways. He claimed that I should avoid certain relationships with fundamentalist Christians, in content/context seemingly as if all Bible-believing Christians were stereotypical American fundamentalists. Within the context he wrote, he labelled the fundamentalists as being naive in certain aspects. He did not state I was a fundamentalist.

Now, I can admit, certainly some fundamentalists will be naive in certain ways, as will some non-fundamentalists, but the red flag came up in basically labeling all Bible-believing Christians as stereotypical fundamentalists.'

Well, my main disagreement with him was his claiming I was a divinity student and his refusing, seemingly to be corrected, even as I obviously had the greater knowledge at point.

Clearly, I have never been a divinity student, never interested at all in becoming a Reverend or Pastor, but was a theology, religious studies and philosophy of religion student at a secular European level.

Therefore the archived post.

But I digress...

He was stating in the context of potential romantic relationships that fundamentalist Christians, and he meant Bible-believing Christians, evangelicals included, were naive and immature in regard to romantic love.

Now with a few more years of online listening and reading, I can state that this type of view of Biblical Christians is probably pretty commonly held by secularists in psychology related fields.

Interesting indeed as almost none of these experts I have studied, I reason, have been happily married for several years. Many are divorced.

And yet they often state that they have the exclusive best answers and advice.

Few of them have religious views that I would find challenging to debate.

Not well-reasoned out.

There goes my skeptical, intellectual nature again, but in whatever fields one studies whether theology, philosophy and various psychology related, one has to think and pray hard to cut through the falsehoods and find some truth.

However, the clip below makes me ponder again on his view in regard to naive fundamentalists....

Satirically.

Just viewed via a Facebook friend:

 

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Just back from church @ sunny Surrey. Nice Spring so far and these Biblical mega churches have merit.

So many people and refreshing from what I have been used to.

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McDonalds hits a new low. What is next, is that going to come out in the media as a secret ingredient in McNuggets as well?

Metaphor for philosophical societal confusion?

If that dog is leaving 'smokin' parcels, he and his owner have a real problem. Perhaps the dog could be trained by the CIA?

One should always fall with grace just in case the event is recorded on a cell phone and ends up on a social networking site, Always fall on your a** with class.

I came across this link today on science connection.com and commented on this with a couple of comments on my blogs, but on second thought reason I could add more material...

Science Connection.com

Synopsis is combination of male and female responses for balance.

Cited and with my comments both serious and satirical

'Synopsis of views on age-related topics:

Cited

1. Many women of all ages are offended by the stated desire by men (generally those in their 40s and older) for much younger women, when this does not appear related to the desire to start a family,'

Serious

If it is simply searching for a 'barbie doll' in some kind of evolutionary model, for example, I can give the women's perspective some merit.  

However, I am glad to see the desire to start a family is granted merit and a pass.  

Biblical.

Seems to me up until 40-50 years ago in world history, including the West, although large age gaps were not perhaps common, not most common, they were not considered wrong or weird.

My take is feminism has caused the view that supposedly unequal relationships are not right.

Question.

What is equal?

A younger woman that is very intellectual with perhaps more dating experience than an older man is not necessarily going to be in an unequal relationship.

Much depends on the relative experience of the man.

Does he have children close to her age, or is he basically at a similar romantic age as the younger woman?

I remember from my psychology studies at Columbia Bible College that biological age is only one form of age; there is also romantic or relationship age and other ages.

Also, ironically, in fundamentalist, evangelical, conservative Christian circles where the parents have much say in the marriage of younger women, I reason if parents are not sure of a potential older man that wants to potentially date a younger daughter, they may simply avoid him in order to avoid the risk of something negative.

I can understand the natural and Biblical, protect mode.

A way of safety has been found and rightness is assumed. To have dialogue is to put this at risk.

This assumes, philosophically, all older men are basically the same, with similar experiences.

Or if not the man is somehow faulty.

These are false, especially in the Christian community today.

A man may be quite Godly and therefore is not very experienced, dating wise, with the often worldly church and still wants a family.

Both Biblical.

Satirical

If the older man has 'gamblin' debts, is 350 pounds, has killer BO and smokes various substances, the feminists may have a point...

Cited

'in which case the search for a woman of child-bearing age is considered legitimate (if sometimes over-optimistic when it involves men in their late 40s and over).'

Good.

Again, Biblical.

If there is mutual attraction I think there is over-focus on age difference.

If no mutual attraction the issue takes care of itself.

Nothing will and should happen.

Satirical

To show interest is to be a man.

Chasing is not manly.

I used to have to chase my German Shepherd-Husky, Rebel (Jerkhead) down the street after he broke out of Stalag 13, posted a parcel on the neigbour's lawn, nearly was hit by a car, and then proceeded to look for fights with male dogs and for 'bitches', but those chasing days are over for me.

I doubt he was looking for a family...

Cited

'Middle-aged women find that in person men their age are attracted to them, yet "on paper" they are rejected by men older than they are.'

There is baggage, experience and family considerations, even if there is experience.

Satirical

How about being rejected Biblically?

Quite the concept...

Cited

'And the women targeted by men ten or more years older tend to be unimpressed or even irked as well.'

Not a problem. No mutual attraction means no issue, a person should move on.

Satirical

I thought that was what Daddy with the shotgun was for...

I know...that is more of a Southern and rural thing.

Cited

'2. Nevertheless, many men do in fact seek women of their age and the average ages difference between males and females of couples meeting via Science Connection is very small - 2 or 3 years on average. And both men and women have reported happy unions involving an older woman with a younger man.'

Serious

More likely experienced men. Men without desire for family, or do not mind pre-made older family.

Satirical

'And both men and women have reported happy unions involving an older woman with a younger man.'

Then there is that 1980s expression 'boy toy'.

Something I have always had zero interest in...

Cited

'3. Although misrepresenting one's age demonstrably occurs, no one has been prepared to defend this in the Newsletter and all condemn it as a bad idea in practice and for moral (even legal) reasons.'

Honesty is good. One may not concentrate on sharing their age, but should not lie.

Satirical

If you are rich I suppose boasting about age is no big deal...

Cited

'4. Some members argue that being of similar age brings benefits of cultural and general compatibility and syncronicity of life stage (retiring about the same time, etc.). Other members de-emphasize age, citing the greater importance of individual differences and regarding as folly the setting of narrow age limits for a prospective mate.'

The second has more truth. The first assumes similar experience for all.

Satirical

I do not plan on retiring.

Menopause is not for everyone, i.e. not universally men.

That is a bit of wrench in any life stage relationship argument.

Don't you think?

A comment from a female perspective

Cited:

'One of the member's comments struck a chord with me. I'm sure you get a lot of comments about the guys who want (or say they want) a much younger woman. This is such a turn off! Makes them sound so arrogant. Guys, explain to me why any woman (any woman over 30 anyway) would want to go out with a guy 15 or 20 years older than she is. It may be alright at 20, but when she's 50+ she's looking at prolonged widowhood.'

Serious

Arrogance, not necessarily, as it is not necessarily to view this is as an issue of deserving or not, which I think is philosophically misplaced.

Who deserves another in relationships?

Rather, it is a matter of nature and experience and related needs and desires.

The fact the younger woman would eventually be a widow is in my view is the best point against age gap relationships.

Other premises used such as lack of relating and assumed greater experience for the older man often do not hold up under intellectual scrutiny.

The younger woman has to believe reasonably that the older man is among the best potential men for her in order to choose him. The older man needs to be youthful and committed to staying healthy. It needs to be the case that if such a relationship would not occur, it would be a lessor good and greater evil from a Christian perspective that if it did not take place.

Here is where the Christian, Biblical commitment to family is important as the future widow would need to have extended family in place as well as if possible, immediate family.

Also with medical, nutritional and scientific advancements it appears that persons can live youthful lives longer.

I am somewhat qualified to comment on homecare as I homecare for my disabled Mother.

I do not see homecare for an older spouse as huge impairment to the life of the younger woman.

My Mother is disabled and is an old 79 year old biologically, probably with a 90+ years old body.

She with the assistance of professional homecare is not a significant burden upon family.

If I needed to relocate she could be placed in local care or move down to Arizona with my brother and family.

This care is pension and government covered in Canada and I assume by pension, government and/or medical insurance in other Western jurisdictions.

A typical senior, especially over the next few decades with advancing medical knowledge and technology is likely not going to be a significant time and work burden on family.

Satirical

Chuck Norris was born in 1940...I am the theological Chuck Norris-Facebook

Thomas Ronald Smith is our oldest resident at Shady Green, born in 1800. He sleeps a lot...

Interestingly here the seniors prefer 'grass'. Not sure if this is in BC, Washington or Colorado. Does not look like Monaco, definitely.