Saturday, January 21, 2012

A underground Santa Gift Idea - 25 Surreptitous Holiday Gifts

Just this past year, I needed a inexpressive Santa gift idea when my husband's house tried out a form of the inexpressive Santa gift exchange. In the end, we did tell our identities to each other, so the secrets were out. It turned out to be a fun way to replacement gifts because I put all my power into looking a special gift for one person, instead of scrambling to come up with a gift for every house member. The way we did it, we each put our name on a slip of paper and every person drew one of the papers out of a bag. Anyone name you drew, you became that person's inexpressive Santa. As most habitancy do, we set a low price limit and every person pretty much stuck to it. We all saved money and every person got a nice gift!

The 25 inexpressive Santa gift ideas I have listed are good for co-workers, family, small groups, school mates or any group. They cost between five to twenty dollars. Have fun with your inexpressive Santa gift exchange!

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1. Deck of cards and book of card game rules

A underground Santa Gift Idea - 25 Surreptitous Holiday Gifts

2. Set of Gel pens and stationary

3. A Bulb with instructions how to force blooming

4. Holiday serving bowl or platter

5. Decorative napkins and napkin rings

6. Fancy chocolate bars tied with a ribbon (try some from other countries)

7. Makeup brush set or beard trimmer

8. Photo album

9. A Holiday Childrens' Story

10. special soaps and bath puff or natural sponge

11. Colorful Post-It notepads

12. Pretty glass jar or small toolbox filled with candy

13. Picture frames

14. Set of dish towels and dish cloths

15. Note cards and book of stamps

16. Nail polish kit

17. Night shirt or pajamas

18. Basket filled with kitchen gadgets

19. Video rental gift certificates

20. Disposable camera

21. Address book

22. Prepaid long distance phone cards

23. Small clock or radio

24. Pretty box for keepsakes

25. Last, but not least: home baked cookies or logs of icy unbaked cookie dough!

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Friday, January 20, 2012

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Does Religion Cause War? Part One

One often hears the lazy seminar that "Religion" is responsible for Man's wars, the assumption being that if we got rid of religion all would be peace and harmony. Presumably then, if all men abandoned the thought that they are spirits inhabiting a material body and conceived of themselves as mere animals fashioned by opening from mud our troubles would be over and we'd all be a lot happier. This is of course untrue and does not correspond with an consideration of history, nor of present reality.

It also displays a degree of fogginess about what one means by the word "religion" Religions vary considerably. There are pantheisms (the trust in many gods) monotheisms (the trust in one God who created all) and religions that worship no gods at all, such as Buddhism or contemporary Scientology.

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At the far end of the spectrum there are even religions that do not conceive man to be an immortal soul even while life is carefully to be nevertheless spiritual in essence.

Some religions such as Christianity stress faith, while faith has no place at all in others -Scientology and Buddhism being cases in point.

One should note too, while one is discussing paradigms based on Faith, that materialism remains unable to yield conclusive evidence for its basic assumption. That spirituality does not exist is a matter of belief, not evidence. One can of course yield evidence that the material universe exists and one can establish and prove its laws but this is not proof that that the material universe is all there is. The assertion that the material universe is all there is is neither scientific nor logical and is assuredly a statement of faith.

Alright, so this vague undefined changeable known as "religion" or "faith" is responsible for Man's wars. Is it true?

Well, I can think of a few new conflicts or humanitarian cataclysms whose driving force was anything but religious.

Hitler's massacre of ethnic minorities, for instance: religions were often the victim of Nazi psychosis but they were not responsible for it. In fact it is now a matter of description that the drive behind Nazi mass slaughter came from German Psychiatry, the arch-champion of the man-is-mud hypothesis.

The drive behind the Russian revolution and the Stalinist slaughter that followed it was anything but religious, deriving again from the materialism of communism and psychiatry.

Ditto the civil war and ethnic cleansing in Yugoslavia. Ditto the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, with materialistic psychiatry the incommunicable motivator again.

The Chinese invasion of Korea in1950 and the Korean War that followed also had diminutive or nothing to do with religious issues. One had materialistic communist China on the one hand and the largely atheistic market imperialism of western nations on the other.

The Us invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq were commerce-driven regardless of what justifications are concocted for it, while in the war in Vietnam religion figured neither in the motivation nor rhetoric of whether side.

Not all war therefore is "caused" by "religion." Religious groups are however often the victim or target of it but not exclusively and not always. There is no evidence that by "getting rid of religion" one would "get rid of war" any more than there is evidence that by outlawing atheism or abandoning industry there would be peace on Earth.

Nor is there any evidence that an abandonment of spirituality would make community happier. On the contrary, our western community has become unhappier and more demoralized as it has become materialistic. You will probably find that the epidemic spread of drug abuse and crime on the one hand and the decline in man's spirituality and even his sense of right and wrong supervene commensurate curves. In the midst of material abundance, which theoretically should have made Man happier, we live out our days in an increasingly miserable Gomorrah of lost souls.

Of course "religion" is a factor in the war in the Middle East and in justifications for their crimes asserted by terrorist groups. And religion has been a factor in many a human conflict. It is true too that religious societies have not necessarily been happy ones either.

In fact, a look at human history tells one that whether spiritual in outlook or materialistic in outlook, Man tends to have a hard time. From this one can cease that humanity is still evolving its communal forms and does not yet have all the answers. This is no surmise to get apathetic about the whole thing and to abandon the exertion to surmise in favour of generalized, unworkable slogans. Indeed, we have every incentive to go on trying to get best at these things called community and civilization, if only through a sense of accountability to our children who will inherit anything dog's breakfast we bequeath them.

Part of getting best at managing human affairs is dropping the habit of buying into broad, untrue, generalities such as "religion is the cause of war" or some such nonsense, looking it over more carefully and looking if we can get a bit closer to the truth, a bit more correct about what exactly is getting us into trouble.

Perhaps, if we do, we might grow up a bit and as a species begin carrying ourselves with more dignity and less floundering slapstick and we might perchance knock off the habit of following every psycho who seeks to persuade us to burn the skin off the children of habitancy we have never met.

I will continue this exertion to apply surmise to the matter of religion and war in the next essay in this series.

Does Religion Cause War? Part One

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Thursday, January 19, 2012

Types of Cotton Used For Clothing

Cotton clothing is highly popular. A majority of population own some type of clothing that is whether totally made of cotton, or contains at least some ration of cotton. It is a very comfortable material, and many population love to wear it. Did you know that there are some distinct types of cotton? Well, there are lots of distinct kinds of cotton that are used for clothing.

Heavier cotton that is found in sweaters for the fall and winter is called Canton Cotton. It is soft and difficult to pull apart. This is the most popular type of cotton, and most population are customary with it. It feels a slight like flannel.

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Organic Cotton is a slight bit harder to come by. Regular group market usually don't sell items with organic cotton, but there are many online retailers for it. Organic Cotton is grown without chemicals. All of the harmful pesticides used in typical growing processes are absent from the process of developing this cotton. Even in the manufacturing process, organic clothing is not exposed to the environmentally harmful chemicals that other materials are exposed to.

Another type of cotton is Bamboo cotton. This type of cotton material is 30% organic and is very, very soft. The use actual crushed bamboo mixed with the organic cotton to generate clothing. It is all natural, and chemical free. It is best for your skin and for the environment.

A lighter flannel-like cotton is called cotton twill. It is good for fall wear, because it is a bit lighter than canton cotton.

French Terry cotton is slightly heavier than cotton twill, but not as heavy as Canton cotton. It is rather soft and has a short nap.

Honeycomb cotton is a lightweight type of cotton that dries quickly.

Egyptian cotton has longer, thinner fibers. This type of cotton creates strong yarn that makes nice and flat fabrics.

Yet other type of cotton is Oxford Chambray. It is a medium weight cotton.

Regardless of the type of cotton that is in your clothing, you can always tell that it is in effect cotton. It has such a unique feeling and texture to it. Cotton material is great for sweaters, underwear, pajamas, shirts, shorts, pants and practically anyone that you can wear. It lets your skin breathe. Most population like the way cotton clothing feels on their body.

Some population have found that they are allergic to cotton. It could be a particular type of cotton that is used for their clothing, or a chemical that is used in growing the cotton or manufacturing the clothes.

Organic and Bamboo cotton are in effect good for the environment because they don't use many of the harmful chemicals, like dyes, pesticides, and other things that pollute the environment. population who think that they might be allergic to cotton might just be allergic to the chemicals in non organic cotton clothes. The process of growing cotton and production clothes can potentially involve heavy use of environmentally harmful materials that lead to global warming and the destruction of the ozone layer. Thankfully, some associates are production strides to make more organic clothing so that the things that we wear are 'greener'.

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Did Eve Have Sex With the Devil Or Did She Just Eat Some Fruit? - Part 1

Is my title demand preposterous? If it is, how is it more preposterous than to think that the literal eating of a singular fruit from a singular tree, albeit forbidden by The Lord, can be carefully that evil that Adam and Eve should lose their opening of a corporal life in paradise and access to the Tree of Life? If a child in our care were to disobey our study for the first time would we lash out with a severe punishment at the first offence of disobedience? Obviously not, so why did The Lord punish our primary parents so severely for eating the wrong kind of 'apple'? Ok, I know it doesn't say apple but it might just as well say it, so does this apparent trivial error and the punishment that follows it make any sense, or, in other words, does the punishment fit the crime? Well, if we take it a step supplementary and accept the Biblical record as symbolic for something else, then, yes it does make sense. Indeed, we can then assume, without much doubt, that Adam and Eve's sin was so serious, so heinous, that the Lord had no option but to banish our primary parents from the Garden. This then leaves us with the demand of what kind of offence(s) or sin(s) could it have been that would warrant such a severe punishment?

Up until recently I was of the mind, like so many others, that Adam and Eve's sin was just a uncomplicated act of disobedience, but writings I have discovered just lately have thrown a giant spanner into the works of my primary understanding of their primary sin. My understanding, too, not helped much by what is written in the King James Bible. However, always remember, that as believers, our understanding is never ours it's the understanding we are given and The Lord does not give us all understanding, all at once, or at the starting of our walk with Him. It takes years of study and much waiting on Him. Having clarified that dinky aside, let's write the crucial verses here so that we can see for ourselves what the Holy Scriptures surely say:

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Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

This verse is the most prominent and influences the whole of this study, for it mentions two seeds. Now what are these "seeds", because before we can move on we must be clear in our minds as to what they laid out and, after a dinky research, we find it's all very right forward. Most readers will know what the word 'seed' means in this context but to make sure, let's use an additional one example or two so that there is no ambiguity or confusion:

Genesis 9:8-9 And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying, 9 And I, behold, I manufacture my contract with you, and with your seed after you.

Gen 15:3 And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.

So as we can simply see, the word 'seed' refers to offspring and if we refer to Strong's Concordance for supplementary evidence we will find that the Hebrew word for 'seed' in Genesis 3:15 is the same as in Genesis 9:9 and 15:3. Ok, so if we go back to Genesis 3:15 we can see that the Lord is going to put enmity between these two very distinct seeds or lines, but who is the Lord speaking to? Let's go there now:

Genesis 3:14 And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

There we have it; the Lord is speaking to the Devil, Satan, that serpent and arch-deceiver also known as the destroyer, the adversary and in this instance the arch-seducer, for, without doubt, one of the two seeds mentioned here is his seed. Observation too the phrase "because thou hast done this". From that we can surely deduce and know that Satan surely did something and the term 'doing something', more often than not, refers to a corporal action, not just an 'action' of sitting idly by on the sidelines enticing, goading or provoking as an exuberant spectator.

So what does all this mean for we are very definitely dealing with a corporal seed that belongs to the Devil? In turn, this now beggars the question, how can a spirit being or a fallen angel have corporal sexual relations with a human being? Well, the only verse in the Holy Scriptures we can rely on or turn to for any evidence to this event is in Genesis once more:

Genesis 6:1-2 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, 2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.

Who were these "sons of God" here that took the descendants or daughters of Adam for wives? Well they can only be one thing, they were fallen angels or angels that went astray and left their first estate as described in Jude 6

Jude 1:6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.

The prominent words of this verse are 'kept not', 'first estate' and 'habitation'. The words 'kept not' mean they failed to keep a guard or failed to hold as precious their Spiritual legacy or estate, i.e. To declare any value upon their Spiritual substance and the honour bestowed upon them as Spirit beings. Instead they took it upon themselves to select the lower order of the corporal or the base level of corporal men. This means they despised their first estate and located more value upon human fleshly desires and, don't forget, these daughters were human beings in the fallen condition. These angels treated with contempt their manifestly higher order that the Lord had blessed them with, their 'first estate' - their position. Not only that, they gave up their home as well or their classic habitation; very reckless and foolish indeed. So much so, it finally cost them their relaxation because the Lord incarcerated them in darkness, where they are to this day and where they will remain until the Last Great Day at the end of the Millennium or the end of the Lord's one thousand year reign on this earth as King of kings.

Now this brings us to the primary issue, this wickedness was not a one off, this had all happened before, and it was a consequent on from the earlier wickedness of their leader, Satan the Devil, otherwise known as Sammael in the other writings I mentioned. He set the example and these fallen angels followed in his footsteps, and their actions were a repeat of his wickedness. So what was this wickedness? Quite simply, it was the seduction of Eve. We can then add in the cuckolding of Adam or possibly even the sodomising of Adam - we do not know all the details. What we do know, though, is that the Devil contaminated their Godly union which up until that point had not been consummated. Adam and Eve discovered the sexual act straight through perversion and straight through lust and nothing but lust. This event was a compounding event, because after the Devil had had his evil way with Eve he then, straight through Eve, encouraged Adam to take her afterwards thereby reducing her to the status of a sexual object, an adulteress or possibly worse, a promiscuous slut. This, in effect, was the first pornographic act - the first threesome; the use of the woman's body for nothing but selfish sexual gratification. There was no love in this event, and it was the first sexual act on earth between a man and a woman. This, too, is how they knew they were naked and covered themselves with leaves and why, too, they hid from the Lord in the garden. They covered their sexual parts, they were laden with shame and guilt - they felt dirty and contaminated. Furthermore, it was this act that gave them the knowledge of good and evil, not straight through the literal eating of an 'apple', the fruit is pure symbolism. Not only that, if we think the literal eating of fruit from the wrong tree can make us feel dirty, unclean and shameful what kind of fruit could that be. Ok, we could and would feel guilty for having disobeyed God but not dirty and ashamed. No, there is only one act that could have had that kind of consequent on a previously innocent human being and that act is the promiscuous, lustful, loveless sexual act.

Ok, so we now have the evidence that this wicked event took place, but where does this lead us? Quite simply, back to the two seeds, the two seeds that produced two offspring - Cain and Abel. One child was of the Devil's seed and the other was of Adam's seed. How do we know this? Not easy, because the King James Bible is not that helpful, so we have to look elsewhere, but where? Well, before I do that let's copy the Kjv verse here, first, to analyse what it says:

Gen 4:1-2 And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord. 2 And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

Now, based upon the evidence that I have revealed from the Holy Scriptures, Genesis 4:1 seems to read like a unblemished contradiction of the old verses. We know there are to be two seeds, but this verse looks as if it's saying that Cain is Adam's son and Abel is Adam's son and not only that, but that Cain was a gift to Eve from God himself no less. Now where have the two seeds gone, because if Cain and Abel are both Adam's sons then they can only be of the one seed for they are both of Adam's seed, so what's going on in this verse? Well we know don't we, the true evidence has been written out of the record by the translators. Now there's a surprise, and why would they do that!? They would do it, because it would mean having to admit what I have stated above, that Eve had sex with Devil and produced Cain from that illegitimate union. The thing is, we have got a whole load of stuff going on in Genesis 4:1 and it will require an additional one record to cover it, so stay with it folks.

Did Eve Have Sex With the Devil Or Did She Just Eat Some Fruit? - Part 1