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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Emory Glade
Philosophy begins in wonder ... and comedian Robin Williams was a philosopher: whether he played Peter Pan or stood on a bare stage talking about his newborn child, this man expressed a sense of wonder at the closely-seen marvels of new life and a sense of the absurd about grown-ups. Wonder is special domain of children and those souls who-may-grow-old-but-refuse-to-grow-up in our daily-increasing, global- conformity, peer-pressure world of standardized expectations.Robin Williams and Jesus of Nazareth--now there's a pair But "unless you become like these little children, you shall not enter the Kingdom of Heaven" sounds like a blessing or a threat on our style of living. Style or manner of living goes to the heart of being human. Consider: The inanimate world does not possess a style or a set of mannerisms. Rather, our experience of it is as a lump of something that we manipulate in chemistry lab or woodworking class. The evolutionary folks like I. A. Oparin teach about atoms evolving greater stability as they grow to mega-molecule virus size and make evolution understandable on the level of chemistry--- and it still looks like a lump.The plant world does not have a style: it just sits there and takes it: rain, hail, wind, sunshine all appear to be one and the same to it. But even the single- celled creatures are light-years beyond rock crystals in its dynamic activities of nutrition, growth, and reproducing its offspring out of a piece of itself. A biologist's whole life can be devoted to just one aspect of 'cell biology' like microbial genetics or plant cell physiology. At the level of 'higher' life forms, brute animals do not have a style. Lassie, Flipper, Benji and all the other animals in the Screen Actors Guild are a tribute to the human trainers who have taught these appealing actors to mimic human behavior. Darwin notwithstanding, oaks make acorns which make other oaks; dogs breed dogs, not horses; each species of bird builds nests just like all others birds of the same species; novelty, freedom, new arrangements (also called creativity), are just not there. Where Darwin is right and his critics wrong is on the entire notion of species or essencesMan is the miracle. More beastly than any beast: only humans and rats kill their own kind, but rats have no Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot or Ayatollah to exterminate their own by the millions. The only wild animal: no other animal has freedom, is capable of variety, is unpredictable, has made art, literature, music, science, technology, and is capable of being opened to even higher things. ONLY MAN HAS A STYLE AND NEEDS ONE. The rest of the attached is merely a cartoon-sketch of an introduction to the basic style which humans must choose in order to be truly and permanently happy.The structure of the text may be considered secular Thomism: a rational philosophy which appeals to no evidence higher than reason and ordinary experience for its metaphysics, philosophy of nature, philosophy of Man, and its ethics, whether personal, social, or political. It is open to revelation but does not require it, just as eyesight in brute animals does not require the radical upgrading caused by contact with intellect in Man. Finally, "philosophy is not the study of the philosophers but of truth"-- Being able to footnote who said what is only important for tests. Only truth is important for becoming wise From the introduction.
Gotta Get Next To You: Louisiana Love Series: City Girls
Lynn Emery
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2012
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Good Woman Blues: Louisiana Love Series: City Girls
Lynn Emery
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2012
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It didn't take much for Erikka Rochon's charmed Big Easy life to hit rock bottom: a car accident, a scandal -- and suddenly she's gone from climbing the corporate ladder to being driven out of town. Ordered to take some time off, an always-on-the-go sister now has nowhere to go, except back home to the bayou to slow down and figure out why a smart, beautiful, professional lady who always had time to party never found time for happiness. Aunt Darlene's house was Erikka's safe haven in childhood, filled with good aromas and feelings, and a much-needed mixture of tenderness and tough love. But a good woman who lost her way needs something more to chase her demons and her blues -- and it might just be Gabriel Cormier, the tall, quiet son of Loreauville's most prominent family, a man with a past more notorious than hers.
Domestic violence: The willful intimidation, physical assault, battery, sexual assault, and/or other abusive behavior perpetrated by an intimate partner against another.The focus of my book is to bring more awareness to domestic violence against men. My research proved that very little concern is given to abused and battered men who cry out for help. Because of the stigma that is attached to abused men, law enforcement simply do not appear to take the complaint seriously. In many cases, their rights are diminished even more in the judicial system. Domestic violence against men appears to not be addressed with a sense of urgency as it is for women. The number of shelters for women more than quadruples the number of shelters that are available for men. Limited resources are available for the abused men and minimum funding is provided for assistance of any kind. Violence and domestic abuse is very serious and is slowly becoming more acknowledged by the masses. Males are gradually coming forward to tell their stories. Violence against men is becoming more commonly accepted as a problem that needs to be dealt with.Domestic violence includes pushing, slapping, throwing objects, slamming a door, hitting the other person with or without an object, or using a weapon. Domestic abuse can also be mental or emotional. For some men, being called a coward or a failure can have a major psychological impact when abuse is a concern. Unkind and cruel words hurt and linger in different ways. In many cases, it appears that men are more deeply affected by emotional abuse than physical abuse.Although studies of domestic abuse against men are sparse, the available information suggests that the rate at which male victims of abuse report the incident to police is not only lower than the rate at which female abuse victims report the crime to police, but that it is even lower than the overall rate at which crimes of any kind against either gender are reported to police. This low level of male reporting is one statistic that has remained fairly constant over the years. The fact that female victims are more likely to report that they have been victims of domestic abuse is well known. According to the data, male victims of abuse are at least four times as likely to decline to report domestic abuse to police out of a desire to protect the abuser from having to face the consequences of her actions as female victims are. Male victims are also more likely than female victims to regard domestic abuse as a "private" problem of no legitimate concern to anyone but themselves. Male victims who don't report an incident in which they have been abused cite this point as one of their principal reasons for not reporting the incident.
From the Court to the Kitchen Volume 3: Cooking Made Easy
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2013
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2013
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2013
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2013
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