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During the 1970s, one of the most popular comedians on television was Flip Wilson. In his repertoire of fictional characters, he often portrayed an outspoken housewife by the name of Geraldine. When Geraldine misspoke, let slip with an insult, or committed some other faux pas (as she often was known to do), her standard retort when challenged was to shout with a loud, shrill voice, "The Devil made me do it!"
As a comedian in possession of innate talent, great costumes, and stunning make-up, Flip Wilson was able to parlay Geraldine's plight into an award-winning laugh routine. Nothing was ever Geraldine's fault, because she always had someone on whom she could blame her predicament, regardless of how dire that predicament might have been. Her refrain, "The Devil made me do it," absolved her of any guilt whatsoever—or so she wanted the audience to believe.
Truth be told, Flip Wilson had hardly invented "original" material for his comedic sketch. Since the dawn of creation, man has sought to lay the blame for his own wrong actions at someone else's feet. Man has always needed a scapegoat to bear his burden of guilt, and his inexorable shame—the responsibility of which he had no intention of bearing himself. Eve, the very first human to bear guilt and shame, sought to excuse herself from her violation of God's commandments by suggesting, "The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat" (Genesis 3:13). Or, to use Geraldine's words, "The Devil made me do it!"
As his march through history progressed, however, man learned that he could fare somewhat better if he blamed something—or better yet, someone—that had a corporeal nature. It became passé to suggest that a mere invisible spirit being could cause so much trouble, or bear enough responsibility to in any way atone for that trouble. Thus, it became popular for man to blame his failings not on the Devil, but instead on his fellows.
Israel's first king tried this ploy. The prophet Samuel had relayed to Saul God's specific instructions regarding the destruction of the Amalekites and all that they possessed (1 Samuel 15:1-3). Eventually, Saul went to battle against the Amalekites, and was victorious. But instead of obeying God's commands, he spared Agag, the Amalekite king, and portions of the livestock. When Samuel asked him why he had disobeyed God's directives, Saul's response was that "the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto Jehovah thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed" (1 Samuel 15:15, emp. added). Not only did Saul attempt to shift the blame for his error to others, but simultaneously he attempted to explain his disobedience by suggesting that he acted as he did for God-honoring reasons. So far as he was concerned, he could spare some of the livestock in order to sacrifice them in worship to Jehovah. In other words, the end justified the means.
Both profane and sacred history are replete with examples of men and women who sought to shift the blame for their own mistakes, misjudgments, or misdeeds to someone else. Anna Russell portrayed this sentiment in her "Psychiatric Folksong":
At three I had a feeling of
Ambivalence toward my brothers
And so it follows naturally
That I poisoned all my lovers.
But now I'm happy; I have learned
The lesson this has taught,
That everything I do that's wrong
Is someone else's fault
(as quoted in Zacharias, 1994, p. 138).
Eventually, however, just as at one point in the distant past it no longer became desirable or permissible to suggest that "the Devil made me do it," it appears that the time has now come when it is no longer popular merely to suggest that our fellows ("the people," to use King Saul's words) should bear the burden of our guilt and shame. Apparently "the people" have tired of playing the part of the scapegoat. Perhaps it was because there was simply too much blame, too much guilt, and too much shame to go around. Everyone already had their fair share, and someone else's as well. A new repository of blame, guilt, and shame was needed. Thus was born the refrain, "I'm not guilty, I'm just sick!"
At almost exactly the same time Flip Wilson was making famous Geraldine's plaintive cry, "the Devil made me do it!," serious thinkers among us were beginning to notice that something in the human moral code had gone seriously awry. One by one, slowly but surely, they called our attention to the fact that a singular word, and the concept of personal responsibility that it represented, seemingly had vanished from our vocabulary. That one word—conspicuously missing from the descriptions given above of people who had committed "mistakes," "misjudgments," or "misdeeds"—was sin. In the process of finding someone else to blame, we simultaneously divested ourselves of the ability to admit that we had actually sinned.
One of the first voices to try to restore a recognition of the concept of sin, and the acknowledgment of personal responsibility it required, was renowned psychiatrist, Karl Menninger. In 1973, Dr. Menninger authored his now-famous work, Whatever Became of Sin?, in which he wrote:
Human beings have become more numerous, but scarcely more moral. They are busy, coming and going, getting and begetting, fighting and defending, creating and destroying.... They now communicate with one another in a thousand ways, swift and slow; they transport themselves rapidly on land, sea, and through the air.... It became the epoch of technology, rampant and triumphant. We boasted of our inventions, innovations, and gadgets. Rugged individualism, acquisition, thrift, boldness, and shrewdness were acclaimed as the great national virtues. Although hard work was admired, luxury and ease were inordinately esteemed. And as we appropriated and accumulated, we bragged and braved.... Suddenly, we awoke from our pleasant dreams with a fearful realization that something was wrong....
In all of the laments and reproaches made by our seers and prophets, one misses any mention of "sin," a word which used to be a veritable watchword of prophets. It was a word once in everyone's mind, but now rarely if ever heard. Does that mean that no sin is involved in all our troubles—sin with an "I" in the middle? Is no one any longer guilty of anything?... Wrong things are being done, we know; tares are being sown in the wheat fields at night. But is no one responsible, no one answerable for these acts? Anxiety and depression we all acknowledge, and even vague guilt feelings; but has no one committed any sins? Where, indeed, did sin go? What became of it? (1973, pp. 4,5,13, emp. in orig.).
Dr. Menninger began his book with the thesis that "the disappearance of the word 'sin' involves a shift in the allocation of responsibility of evil" (1973, p. 17). Following Webster's definition, he observed that "Sin is transgression of the law of God; disobedience of the divine will; moral failure. Sin is failure to realize in conduct and character the moral ideal, at least as fully as possible under existing circumstances; failure to do as one ought toward one's fellow man" (1973, pp. 18-19). He then lamented:
It is surely nothing new that men want to get away from acknowledging their sins or even thinking about them. Is this not the religious history of mankind? Perhaps we are only more glib nowadays and equipped with more euphemisms.... Disease and treatment have been the watchwords of the day and little is said about selfishness or guilt or the "morality gap." And certainly no one talks about sin! (1973, pp. 24,228).
The assessment of the problem made by Menninger in 1973 not only was correct, but also foreboding. We were running out of both devils and fellows upon whom we could heap the blame for our wrongs. The wrongs had become too many, and the scapegoats too few. It was time for "a shift in the allocation of responsibility of evil," to use the doctor's words. What was needed was a way to completely escape the blame, without having to heap it on someone else. Such a procedure would make unnecessary the unpleasant task of finger-pointing, while at the same time absolving the guilty of any personal responsibility. And so, we decided to blame our shortcomings not on an incorporeal spirit, or even on those around us. Rather, we simply declared ourselves "sick," and as Dr. Menninger correctly observed, "disease" then became the watchword of the day.
Rare were those who could not find a "sickness" that guaranteed them absolution, in whole or in part. Richard Berendzen, the president of American University, was caught making obscene phone calls. He claimed that he had been a victim of child abuse, and checked himself into a hospital for "treatment" (another word, as Dr. Menninger noted, that has become a "watchword" of our day). Robert Alton Harris, a convicted murderer of two sixteen-year-old boys, explained to the court that he was not the culprit, but the victim, due to the fact that he was programmed in utero—as a result of fetal alcohol syndrome—to be violent. Dan White, a San Francisco supervisor (a position akin to a city councilman), killed the city's mayor and another supervisor. After being apprehended, he claimed that he was not responsible for his actions since his steady diet of, and addiction to, junk food made him a victim whose judgment had been clouded, thereby causing him to turn violent in ways he could not control (interestingly, this became known in legal circles as the "Twinkie" defense). Lyle and Erik Menendez, planned the premeditated shotgun murders of their parents in their own living room, admitted to the crime, and then claimed the mantle of victim, suggesting that they had acted out of fear for their own lives as a result of continual abuse doled out by their unloving parents (see related article: "Wrong Must be Explained").
As the list of alleged "sicknesses" continued to grow, it began to take on a life of its own, covering not just illegal acts such as murder and child abuse, but practically every other facet of human existence. People, we discovered, were "sick" because they had been discriminated against for practically everything—from being overweight to being too old. Or they were "sick" because of something their parents did even before they were born. Or they were "sick" because their environment made them so. In his brilliantly-written book, A Nation of Victims, Charles J. Sykes, a former reporter for the Milwaukee Journal and editor of Milwaukee Magazine, addressed this concept:
As it becomes increasingly clear that misbehavior can be redefined as disease, growing numbers of the newly diseased have flocked to groups like Gamblers Anonymous, Pill Addicts Anonymous, S-Anon ("relatives and friends of sex addicts"), Nicotine Anonymous, Youth Emotions Anonymous, Unwed Parents Anonymous, Emotional Health Anonymous, Debtors Anonymous, Workaholics Anonymous, Dual Disorders Anonymous, Batterers Anonymous, Victims Anonymous, and Families of Sex Offenders Anonymous....
In place of evil, therapeutic society has substituted "illness"; in place of consequence, it urges therapy and understanding; in place of responsibility, it argues for a personality driven by impulses....
Celebrities vie with one another in confessing graphic stories of abuse they suffered as children, while television talk shows feature a parade of victims ranging from overweight incest victims to handicapped sex addicts.
Dysfunction is, in every respect, a growth industry.... From the addicts of the South Bronx to the self-styled emotional road-kills of Manhattan's Upper East Side, the mantra of the victims is the same: I am not responsible; it's not my fault (1992, pp. 9,13,12, 11, emp. in orig.).
Everyone—not just murderers and rapists—now could claim to be a victim. We are "sick," we are not responsible, and we are not to blame. So suggests the current, politically correct common perception.
As Sykes continued his examination of this thesis, he suggested:
American life is increasingly characterized by the plaintive insistence, I am a victim.... The National Anthem has become The Whine.... Now enshrined in law and jurisprudence, victimism is reshaping the fabric of society, including employment policies, criminal justice, education, urban politics, and, in an increasingly Orwellian emphasis on "sensitivity" in language. A community of interdependent citizens has been displaced by a society of resentful, competing, and self-interested individuals who have dressed their private annoyances in the garb of victimism. Victimism obviously worked... (1992, pp. 11,15,80, emp. in orig.).
Indeed, victimism does work—for at least two reasons. First, if people can be portrayed convincingly as being the victim of a disease, illness, or addiction, it can, suggests Stanton Peele in his book, The Diseasing of America, "legitimize, reinforce, and excuse the behaviors in question—convincing people, contrary to all evidence, that their behavior is not their own. Meanwhile, the number of addicts and those who believe they cannot control themselves grows steadily" (1989, p. 28). Second, generally speaking it is human nature to look kindly on those who cannot prevent or correct their own pitiful condition. As Sykes has suggested: "Americans, of course, have a long tradition of sympathy for the downtrodden; compassion for the less fortunate has always been a mark of a nation's underlying decency and morality" (1992, p. 12).
As a result of these factors, and others, we find ourselves in an era where practically every human action can be accounted for by the plea, "I'm not guilty, I'm just sick." Unfortunately, on occasion, the scientific/medical community has exacerbated the situation (although not always intentionally) by lending credibility to the idea that an alleged victim is not responsible for his/her actions due to factors—sometimes physical, sometimes mental—over which he/she ultimately had no control.
On the physical side, it is becoming increasingly common to hear the suggestion that alcoholism is an inherited condition that produces results completely beyond the control of the person it affects. This has significant personal, as well as societal, implications. Few would ever suggest, for example, that a person should bear responsibility, or blame, for the fact that he was born with an extra number twenty-one chromosome, thereby producing Down's Syndrome. Such an occurrence is not that person's "fault." Nor should personal responsibility be assigned to the alcoholic, it is now being suggested, due to the fact that there may be, and most likely is, an underlying genetic cause.
The battle in the scientific community over whether alcoholism should be categorized as a "disease" has been long and loud. Some researchers advocate the view that certain individuals possess a "genetic predisposition" to alcoholism; others deny any such genetic predisposition. As Sykes has noted:
At best, the scientific search for a definitive physical or biological cause of uncontrollable drinking has been inconclusive. Although some experts insist that alcoholism is indeed genetically based, others, equally adamant, either deny the biological link or insist that it has been greatly exaggerated. Nevertheless, the definition of alcoholism as a disease, trumpeted by a growing network of helping professionals, alcoholic-treatment institutions, and related lobbies, has won widespread acceptance.... If someone who drinks excessively is sick, then the notion of moral responsibility becomes highly problematic. Perhaps for that reason, alcoholism-as-disease has proven an attractive model in the new self-help culture (1992, pp. 136,147).
The same line of reasoning applies to other physical or mental illnesses. In addition to the examples mentioned earlier that purport to absolve a person of individual responsibility (e.g., fetal alcohol syndrome, the "Twinkie" defense, etc.), it has now become popular to explain a person's problems through the use of "repressed memories." The idea behind repressed memory syndrome is that a person acts as he does due to events that transpired long ago, the memories of which have been "hidden" or "repressed" in his mind. Through the use of psychological therapy, a counselor "releases" these formerly-repressed memories, thus providing the answer to present-day actions or situations, and possibly providing the basis for a cure or solution.
However, genuine cases of repressed memories causing psychological problems may be fewer than fashionable opinion suggests. Elizabeth Loftus, an outspoken critic of the misuse of repressed memory therapy, has suggested that "the pressure to find memories can be very great" (1995, 19:25). Loftus also observed:
A recent survey of doctoral-level psychologists indicates that as many as a quarter may harbor beliefs and engage in practices that are questionable. That these kinds of activities can and do sometimes lead to false memories seems now to be beyond dispute. That these kinds of activities can create false victims, as well as hurt true ones, also seems now to be beyond dispute (1995, 19:24).
While Loftus, and others like her, do not desire to "throw the baby out with the bath water" by suggesting that there are no such things as genuine repressed memories, they urge caution at every turn so that neither the therapist nor the patient is tempted to "invent" memories merely for the sake of "feeling better." As Loftus has noted about various kinds of claims based on repressed memories, "...not all claims are true" (1995, 19:28; see also Bower, 1993a, 1993b).
The increasing use of the excuse, "I'm not guilty, I'm just sick," to absolve one of moral responsibility for his own actions should be of concern to every Christian, as should the idea that people cannot be held accountable due to the fact that they are a "victim" of their upbringing, their environment, or their genetic predispositions. The idea that the blame must always be placed somewhere else, Sykes has remarked,
...is a formula for social gridlock: the irresistible search for someone or something to blame colliding with the unmovable unwillingness to accept responsibility.... If everyone is a victim, then no one is. But it is increasingly obvious that victimization has become the too plausible, too pat explanation for all that ails us. Tragically, its evocation has the effect of distracting attention from actual causes and from legitimate policy response to those problems. The science of victimization is the quackery of our times (1992, pp. 15,18).
Sykes has suggested, therefore, that it is time for a "moratorium on blame" because "blame has become the all-purpose excuse to do nothing. It is time to drop the crutch" (1992, p. 253). But how might that be accomplished. And what should be our response to the concept of "not guilty, just sick"?
First, Christians must accept the idea of personal moral responsibility (Romans 14:12), despite the trends in society to the contrary. In this regard, Winford Claiborne has asked: "When are we going to awaken to the truth that we are products of our own choices and must pay the consequences?... What has happened to human responsibility in America?" (1995, p. 100). Sykes suggested the same cure when he wrote: "Recognizing our own responsibility and the need to stop blaming others is the first step toward dismantling the culture of victimization" (1992, p. 253).
Second, we cannot, with impunity, overlook the fact that each accountable person was created by God with freedom of choice. The adage that we are "free moral agents" is true; the Scriptures are clear on that point. When Jesus addressed the Pharisees in John 5:39-40, He told them: "Ye search the scriptures, because ye think that in them ye have eternal life; and these are they which bear witness of me; and ye will not come to me, that ye may have life." The Pharisees could have come to Christ in humble obedience, but they freely chose not to. When Joshua addressed the Israelites shortly before his death, he urged them to "choose you this day whom you will serve..." (Joshua 24:15). The Israelites, possessing freedom of choice, were now being instructed on the use of that freedom of choice. That we are creatures made in God's image, and possessing freedom of choice in our actions, is affirmed throughout Holy Writ.
Third, since we were created with the ability to make our own choices, each accountable person has a responsibility to choose wisely and correctly. And most people know that from simple common sense, as Sykes has noted:
At some level of our being, we all know that something is required of us, however much we may try to shake it off. Instinctively and rationally, we know our responsibilities; we know that we are not sick when we are merely weak; we know that others are not to blame when we have erred; we know that the world does not exist to make us happy (1992, p. 255).
Choices have consequences, which is why it is so important that our choices be circumscribed by the Word of God. It is useless to continually blame the Devil, our fellows, our genes, or the environment of our youth for the problems that we cause ourselves through our own bad choices. For example, even if it were true that there exists some kind of biological causative factor for predisposition to alcohol, no one forces the alcoholic to take the first drink, or to continue to drink. While the choice not to drink might be difficult, and even require medical assistance, that choice is available, nevertheless. Furthermore, treatment and counseling are available to assist the alcoholic with his problem.
Regardless of whether "genetic predispositions" toward certain conditions do exist, and regardless of whether evil things happened to us in our "forgotten" past, the fact nevertheless remains that not a day passes that we do not have to make personal choices. Sometimes those choices are quite easy; sometimes they are terribly difficult. And more often than not, it is the choices we make that affect our lives the most. No one has to live in sin. In fact, the apostle Paul, after enumerating several sinful conditions, wrote of the Christians in Corinth in the first century: "And such were some of you, but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of God" (1 Corinthians 6:11; emp. added). It may be difficult, but it is not impossible, to transform our lives into the image of Christ. Genetic predispositions (if they do, in fact, exist), or environmental conditions, may make our choices more difficult, but they do not rob us of the ability to make the correct choice.
Professor Hobart Mowrer taught at both Harvard and Yale, and was a one-time president of the American Psychological Association. In an article in the official organ of that society, the American Psychologist, Dr. Mowrer lamented the demise of the concepts of sin and personal responsibility when he wrote:
For several decades we psychologists looked upon the whole matter of sin and moral accountability as a great incubus and acclaimed our liberation from it as epoch making. But at length we have discovered that to be free in this sense, that is, to have the excuse of being sick rather than sinful, is to court the danger of also becoming lost. This danger is, I believe, betokened by the widespread interest in existentialism, which we are presently witnessing. In becoming amoral, ethically neutral and free, we have cut the very roots of our being, lost our deepest sense of selfhood and identity, and with neurotics, themselves, we find ourselves asking, "Who am I, what is my deepest destiny, what does living mean?" (as quoted in Zacharias, 1994, p. 138).
Humans have always sought a way to shift the blame for their sinful actions. They have shifted the blame onto Satan, they have shifted the blame to those around them, and now it is popular to find a medical or environmental scapegoat, thus relieving the sinner of any personal responsibility. These attitudes, however, ignore Christ's admonishment that "the Son of man shall come in glory of his Father with his angels; and then shall he render unto every man according to his deeds" (Matthew 16:27; emp. added).
Bower, Bruce (1993a), "Sudden Recall," Science News, 144[12]:184-186, September 18.
Bower, Bruce (1993b), "The Survivor Syndrome," Science News, 144[13]:202-204, September 25.
Claiborne, Winford (1995), "Charles J. Sykes' A Nation of Victims: A Book Review," Family, Church, and Society Restoration and Renewal, ed. David L. Lipe (Henderson, TN: Freed-Hardeman University).
Loftus, Elizabeth (1995), "Remembering Dangerously," Skeptical Inquirer, 19[2]:20-29, March/April.
Menninger, Karl (1973), Whatever Became of Sin? (New York: Hawthorn Books).
Peele, Stanton (1989), The Diseasing of America (Lexington, MA: Lexington Books).
Sykes, Charles J. (1992), A Nation of Victims: The Decay of the American Character (New York: St. Martin's Press).
Zacharias, Ravi (1994), Can Man Live Without God (Dallas, TX: Word).


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Australian actress Mia Wasikowska is set to charm the world when her new film, Disney's "Alice in Wonderland," directed by Tim Burton, opens on March 5. But she told Teen Vogue taking on the iconic role of Alice, was a daunting task.
"Alice is such a high-profile character," the rising star told the magazine. "One of the things that was scary about taking on that role is the huge fan base; everybody has their own idea of who she is. So [Tim and I] discussed, very early on, just being happy with her being our Alice … making her my own."
Mia revealed that the upcoming film features a new take on Alice – and shows the young woman a step or two beyond the one portrayed in Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland" and "Through The Looking-Glass."
"Alice is nineteen, and she returns to Wonderland with no recollection of having been there before," Mia said. "I really think it will be exciting, especially for girls my age because it explores that period of your life when you have these expectations upon you and you're finding that, amongst that, you have to try and hold on to yourself."
The actress, who cable audiences will know from her stint playing Sophie, a gymnast with an eating disorder on the acclaimed HBO series "In Treatment," is poised to break out this year thanks to "Alice." But she has another big project on the way too – the lead role in "Jane Eyre."
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[♪music♪] [ADOBE TV Presents] [The Complete Picture with Julieanne Kost] Hi and Welcome. My name's Julieanne Kost and in today's episode of The Complete Picture we're going to take a look at all of the new refinements and enhancements to Adobe Camera RAW. I'll start here in Mini-Bridge and simply open with the default application that will launch Adobe Camera RAW. The first thing that we should take a look at are all of the refinements in the way that we demosaic and sharpen our images. Now, this is going to be pretty difficult to see, because even though I'm viewing this now at 100%, since this videotape is going to be compressed, you're probably not going to see what it is exactly that I'm going to show, but let me explain it to you. Because the RAW processing engine is so different than previous versions, we actually have a new process version. So you'll notice in the lower right-hand corner there's an exclamation mark on this image. This is telling me that this was processed in a previous version of Photoshop or a previous version of Lightroom because the Adobe Camera RAW technology is the same-- that core underlying technology is the same in both applications. So it's warning me that this has been processed in a previous version. In order to update this, I can either click on this exclamation mark or we can go to the Camera Callibration tab and you can see here Process 2003 or 2010, which would be the current enhanced technology. I'll go ahead and select that. The exclamation mark disappears, and we reprocess. Now, what is it that we're reprocessing? We are reprocessing the entire way that we demosaic the RAW file. We're also applying better sharpening and better noise reduction. So we'll start with the noise reduction. I'm going to move over to our Detail tab and you can see we have a Luminance and Color Noise Reduction slider. As I move the Color slider over to the right, you can see that all of that color artifacting-- kind of those splotches like Christmas tree lights, is going to disappear. Once I remove that noise, I can then use the Color Detail slider in order to kind of maintain all of the saturation and all of the detail in my image. So it's fantastic now that we can remove all the artifacting while still retaining that saturation. Now let's take a look at the Luminance slider. This is where there's just been incredible improvements. You'll notice as I move this all the way over to the right all of that noise is completely removed. Although for an image like this, that's probably a little bit of overkill, so let's go ahead and back off a little bit on the Luminance. Now we can just use the slider to refine it. But that's not all we can do, because the Luminance slider is removing the noise in the Luminosity channel, but it also tends to get rid of a little bit of detail, so you're going to need to find a balance. You can use the Luminance slider for the overall balance and then the Detail and Contrast slider. Now, the Detail slider, as I move it over to the right, Photoshop is going to try to bring back detail, but you might notice a little bit of artifacting if you go too far. So you'll want to remove as much detail as possible, so we'll need to bring that slider back in order to hide that artifacting. The Luminous Contrast is actually going to allow us to build in a little bit of contrast in the areas where the noise was removed. So in this case, I'm going to move it over quite a bit because I want a little bit of contrast in that wall. I don't want it completely smooth; it's a textured wall, and the Contrast slider is going to help me bring back that information. Excellent. Let's go ahead and move to this next image, and then I'm going to move over to the Effects panel. Now, it may seem a little ironic-- here we've spent all of this time developing the amazing ability to reduce noise and at the same time, we're going to give you the ability to add in noise, or in this case, grain. And there's many reasons why you might want to do this. For example, you might have a series of images that are photographed with different ISOs that have different amounts of noise in them and you want to make them look like they're all one part of a cohesive story. Or if you're doing any compositing in Photoshop with multiple layers, you might want to add grain to one image to match another one. So there's lots of reasons to use the grain. Now, I'll go ahead and zoom in. I'm going to need to zoom in probably to at least 100% here to make sure that you can see this on the video, and then I'll add as much grain as possible, and you can see that grain in the image. If I toggle on and off the preview, there is before and there is after. I can also control what size grain I want. So do I want really small grain or really large grain? And the roughness of it--do I want to move this over to the right and make it kind of more clumpy, maybe like a film look of the past? Or do I want this to be kind of smooth grain? It's up to you. The point is you can now add as much or as little grain as you want. Now, let's go ahead and zoom out on this image, and I'm going to use the Crop tool. You can see that I've already cropped this image. So if I wanted to add a vignette to it, I would not want to use the lens correction because the lens correction vignetting is going to apply to the entire image. So I'm going to want to use the Post-crop vignetting. And we have 2 new styles here: we have a Highlight Priority or a Color Priority, because we got some feedback in the previous version with the Paint overlay-- that's what we were doing before-- that when it was printed, the vignette tended to look a little bit muddy. So now you can choose between Highlight Priority or the Color Priority. You dial in your amount. Of course, we can darken a vignette or you could lighten it if you want to. In this case, I'm going to darken it, bring in my midpoint, and we can make this either a very edge effect, like a square effect, or we can make it a round effect and we can add an amount of Feathering to make a nice, soft edge. When I switch from the Highlight Priority to the Color Priority, it's not going to make a great difference in this image, but where it has a lot of impact is if you have, say, almost an overexposed-- a borderline overexposed sky. It's very similar to adding a Curves and Adjustment layer in Photoshop. You know, when you add a Curves adjustment and you make a drastic change to the curve, sometimes your image gets a little bit more saturated where you've changed it. That's what you're going to get with a Highlight Priority. If you change this to Color Priority, then it's like that Curve Adjustment layer in Photoshop when you set the Blend mode to Luminosity and we don't change the color values. So it depends on what's more important to you. Do you want that color shift? And sometimes, you really do, because you want the sky to get nice and dark in the vignetted area. Or do you want to keep the colors of your images more true? In which case, you would set it to Color Priority. So although some of these changes might be difficult to see through the videotape, I strongly encourage you to check it out because the processing has just gotten so much better. It's just phenomenal. Thank you for joining me. My name's Julieanne Kost. Join me again next time on The Complete Picture on ADOBE TV. 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This is what happens when perverts rule and cowards sit in government. May the LORD GOD open our eyes to this demonic delusion. This is THE MYSTERY OF LAWLESSNESS. 2Thes.2.7
It would not surprise me if troops were sent in to enforce the DECREE. Of all the things the enemy could come up with, he does this. Why? To destroy the IMAGE OF GOD in His creation.
Gen.1.27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Anti christ is about to be revealed.
Listen to what communism/socialism will do for you, When the're finished using you to destroy America you will be lined up and shoot. Watch the video below and try to comprehend the plan to use you and destroy you!
This was a term coined by Lenin, one of the founders of Russian communism. It's meaning is simple. The revolutionists needed an army for their communist / Marxist ideology. The youth in universities, laborers, the common people who were fed up with their Czar were perfect. So they fed their UTOPIAN DREAM to the masses who carried out the murderous ideology. Behind their backs they were known as USEFUL IDIOTS to the fathers. Why? Because these revolutionists were sent to Russia from New York bankers with 20,000,000 in Gold to start the war. They wanted the OLD ORDER Done away for their own GREED. We see this repeating through history and now in America. Check out this website:http://www.henrymakow.com/jacob_schiff_ordered_murder_of.html
Brother Nathanael is a Jew who is saved by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. He brings unique insight to what is really going on in this Babylonian world system; AKA; NWO. He is not anti semetic but loves his people and wants them to know their Messiah. The LORD has an elect among the Jews even as among the Gentiles. Once we are saved we are no longer Jew or Gentile , but a new CREATION IN CHRIST. Personally I don't believe that the church of today replaces Israel. Rather the church ( the body of Christ ) is true Israel. The NEW COVENANT WAS GIVEN ONLY TO ISRAEL. JER.31:33 WE AS CALLED OUT GENTILES ARE ALSO ABLE MINISTERS OF THE N.C. 2COR.3
His servant, Peter
Well it happened. Most knew it was just a matter of time. This sodomite union is not an American phenomena. It is a worldwide descent into the abyss. To get a full understanding of this decadent practice it is necessary to read the 1st book of the Bible; GENESIS. The history of sexual perversion has it's roots in Satanic abuse. In Gen.3 we have the devil tempting Eve. She gives in to his lies and plunges the human race into SIN. From this time forward Adam as the representative head of all mankind takes us down with him. There is no escape to men born of women;Rom.5:12. There is a natural inborn stubbornness and rebellion in each of us that fights to the very end to get our way. God's authority is hated. Those that represent this authority as fathers, mothers, teachers, elders, police, government, churches, etc. are to be fought against. Sin which is the transgression ( breaking ) of the law becomes a badge of honor to the lawless. What should be abstained from is the exact same thing lusted after. Even as Adam and Eve's forbidden fruit. To desire with intense passion, to covet the forbidden becomes an obsession. It is IDOLATRY.
Col.3:5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: ...
It would seem that the bottom line of idol worship is to get something by paying homage to the god the idol represents.The Apostle Paul who writes much of the New Testament opens his letter to the Romans. Here he lays out CREATION, CONSCIENCE, IDOLATRY, and it's descent into homosexuality; the sodomite life. Note the downward spiral of immorality and it's end.
Rom.1:1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,
2 (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,)
3 Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh;
4 And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:
5 By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:
6 Among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ:
7 To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.
9 For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers;
10 Making request, if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you.
11 For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established;
12 That is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me.
13 Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you, (but was let hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.
14 I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise.
15 So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also.
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
First Paul starts off in vrs.19 That mankind has the knowledge of God built into their conscience, manifest in them and outside of them in creation. We can see the invisible God, his eternal power, his Godhead [ Father, Son, Holy Spirit ] being understood by the things that are made i.e. created. Because of this truth comes the indictment: they are without excuse. He goes on to say that when they knew God they refused to give him the glory due him. Full of complaints, ungrateful , unthankful, vain imaginations darkened their hearts to blind them from any ability to judge moral truth.vs.21 REPROBATE
Thinking they had the higher ground, intelligence, enlightenment they became fools in God's sight. vs.22
Now we come to the heart of the matter. That worshiping the creation instead of the CREATOR is the natural outcome of unnatural same sex attraction. Men began to worship birds, reptiles, four footed beasts and himself. As man deliberately plotted in rebellion against the LORD, He turned them loose to do their own heart's desires. Now starts the perversion / confusion of gender I.D. disorder. Women have sex with each other, the men do the same. Their passions unnaturally inflamed by demonic possession. For these spirits partake in their rebellion against the LORD CREATOR. THESE EVIL SPIRITS DECEIVE THEM INTO BELIEVING THAT THEY ARE CREATED AS QLGBT AND ACCEPTABLE TO GOD. They are blinded from comprehending their lewd acts as being against nature and NATURES CREATOR. vs.26 2Cor.4: 2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
The invisible relationship in the Godhead is made visible here on earth through the family unit. All the feelings, emotions, proper thinking, identity of who we are has been structured by the LORD CREATOR. The persons of the Godhead are in perfect relationship with one another.
Eph.5:20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
Often the QLGBT community will try to portray our Savior as dysfunctional as they are themselves. It is the demons in them mocking the LORD. Now we come to their final end of this unholy union. They get what they played for: a miserable existence now and a worse one in the lake of fire.
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
As the world progresses down this dark pit of destruction we know all on earth are affected. This is purposely designed to test, try the saints. The churches that stand firm will be shut down, many burned, and Christians murdered. Now is the time to decide is Jesus worth dying for. His servant, Peter
Opinion writer
Christianity, whose presence in the Middle East predates Islam's by 600 years, is about to be cleansed from the Middle East. Egyptian Copts may have found some respite under President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi, but after their persecution under the previous Muslim Brotherhood government, they know how precarious their existence in 90 percent Muslim Egypt remains. Elsewhere, it's much worse. Twenty-one Copts were beheaded by the Islamic State affiliate in Libya for the crime of being Christian. In those large swaths of Syria and Iraq where the Islamic State rules, the consequences for Christians are terrible — enslavement, exile, torture, massacre, crucifixion.
Over the decades, many Middle Eastern Christians, seeing the rise of political Islam and the intensification of savage sectarian wars, have simply left. Lebanon's Christians, once more than half the population, are now estimated at about a third. The number of Christians under Palestinian Authority rule in the West Bank has dwindled — in Bethlehem, for example, dropping by half. (The exception, of course, is Israel, where Christians, Arab and non-Arab, enjoy not just protection but civil rights. Their numbers are increasing. But that's another story.)
Charles Krauthammer writes a weekly political column that runs on Fridays. View Archive
Most endangered are the Christians of Syria. Four years ago they numbered about 1.1 million. By now 700,000 have fled. Many of those remaining in country are caught either under radical Islamist rule or in the crossfire between factions. As the larger Christian world looks on passively, their future, like the future of Middle Eastern Christianity writ large, will be determined by Iran, Hezbollah, the Assad dynasty, the Islamic State, Jabhat al-Nusra, various other local factions and by regional powers seeking advantage.
Meanwhile, on a more limited scale, there are things that can be done. Three weeks ago, for example, 150 Syrian Christians were airlifted to refuge and safety in Poland.
That's the work of the Weidenfeld Safe Havens Fund. It provided the flight and will support the refugees for as long as 18 months as they try to remake their lives.
The person behind all this is Lord George Weidenfeld: life peer, philanthropist, publisher (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, established 1949), Europeanist (founder of the Institute for Strategic Dialogue to promote classically liberal European values), proud public Jew (honorary vice president of the World Jewish Congress), lifelong Zionist (he once served as the chief of cabinet to Israel's first president, Chaim Weizmann) and, as he will delightedly tell you, the last person to fight a duel at the University of Vienna — with sabers, against a Nazi. (No one died.)
Weidenfeld, now 95, once invoked Torschlusspanik , "a German phrase which roughly translates as the 'panic before the closing of the doors,' " to explain why "I'm a man in a hurry." Remarkably healthy and stunningly energetic (as distant cousins, we are often in touch), he appears nowhere near any exit doors. But he is aware of and deeply troubled by the doors closing in on a community in Syria largely abandoned by the world.
In context, the scale of the initial rescue is tragically small. The objective is to rescue 2,000 families. Compared to the carnage in Syria wrought by the pitiless combatants — 230,000 dead, half the 22 million population driven from their homes — it's a paltry sum. But these are real people who will be saved. And for Weidenfeld, that counts.
Yet he has been criticized for rescuing just Christians. In fact, the U.S. government will not participate because the rescue doesn't extend to Yazidis, Druze or Shiites.
This comes under the heading of no good deed going unpunished. It's a rather odd view that because he cannot do everything, he should be admonished for trying to do something. If Weidenfeld were a man of infinite means, the criticism might be valid. As it is, he says rather sensibly, "I can't save the world." The Arab states, particularly the Gulf monarchies, are surely not without resources. With so few doing so little for so many, he's doing what he can.
And for him, it's personal. In 1938, still a teenager, he was brought from Vienna to London where the Plymouth Brethren took him in and provided for him. He never forgot. He is trying to return the kindness, he explains, to repay the good that Christians did for him 77 years ago. In doing so, he is not just giving hope and a new life to 150 souls, soon to be thousands. He has struck a blow for something exceedingly rare: simple, willful righteousness.
It is clear what is happening here and around the world. Unless you bow down to the SODOMITE'S ALTER AND KISS THEIR REAR ENDS YOU WILL BE PUNISHED. This is the coming INQUEERSITION. Soon they will be torturing Christians here in America just as in the Muslim nations. Saints will be beheaded, crucified on American soil. This is not about 2 men who don't know how to relate to women and fall in love with themselves, i.e. same sex attraction. This is purposely designed to go after the Lord Jesus Christ, His people, His church, the Body of Christ. We who know the Lord must understand that all this is foretold in scripture as we enter the final days before His coming. As Christians we are not to hate the SODOMITES PERSONALLY. THEIR LIFESTYLE IS ABSOLUTE FILTH, ABOMINATION, PERVERSELY LEWD. These are sick, sick people. Those who are not Q but sympathize and promote this lifestyle are just as guilty of it's crimes and will face the WRATH OF GOD ALL MIGHTY. THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE WORLD HAVE AN AGENDA to push this DEMONIC CULT, ISLAM AND CHILD SACRIFICE. Their god demands it. Soon the whole earth will worship this BEAST. Rev.13. The true saints will be put to death for worshiping the true and only God.Matt. 24. Today it is coming attractions, tomorrow the real deal. Time to redeem the times for the days are evil. The cruelty, hatred of these sick SODOMITES is just the tip of the iceberg. Wait till their father (the devil) has them come out FLAMING IN THEIR TRUE COLORS. Get ready dearly beloved of the Lord. The GREAT WEDDING FEAST OF YOUR SAVIOR APPROACHES.Rev.20-22
So let us have love and mercy upon these people, pray that the Lord may grant them repentance unto salvation. We must speak the truth, even the hard truth of sin, death, judgement to come.
His servant, Peter
LORD please help us . Give to us the courage to suffer and die for your Great Name. We have been called for this purpose unto the earth. That as you have bled and died, now you call us to bleed and die. If it was not for your great love and mercy no one would be saved. Therefore I ask the saints to consider what is your life? Who owns your life? 1Co 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? 1Co 6:20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
DHS AGENT THREATENS TO BLOW OUT BRAINS OF BOY SCOUT This is real disturbing. The border agent is dangerous, but they do not stop him. Instead they cover it up, lie, no video, search for drugs? Why do the Boy Scouts have pocket knives and lighters? Are they complete idiots? Then they tell the last van driver she better come clean because they already found drugs on others. There can be only one conclusion. This is policy to harass,intimidate, Terrorize: putting a gun to a child's head and telling them their going to prison for 10 yrs. That they will turn over search techniques to undesirables. "The border agent tried to bait me. He wanted to get a reaction out of me and I did not give it to him," said Fox. The border agent didn't want Fox to follow him while he searched the van because Fox might turn over "search techniques to the undesirables." These youth are not the traders. The real traders are the one's in Washington purposely going after every decent, honest God fearing citizen. Every pervert is glorified, every indecency, lewdness, debauchery applauded. This is what happens before a Nation destroys itself. The saints must fast and pray, turn back to the Lord or the anti christ is about to manifest himself. 2Ch 7:12-14
¶And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for an house of sacrifice. 2Ch 7:13
If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people; 2Ch 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land... 2Ch 7:22 And it shall be answered, Because they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath he brought all this evil upon them. His servant, Peter
If your heart is full of hatred and jealousy, That's because you haven't met the Lord Jesus Christ. Only He can give you the peace you need. Without the Lord it will be HELL to PAY.
The devil is a big liar
This is the most hateful, bigoted, anti Qblt film ever made. They should be Jailed immediately and executed. How can this happen in America? The founding Fathers never anticipated that " RELIGOUS FREEDOM " would come to this. To think that God made a male and female is beyond absurdity. To suggest that two loving Qblt's in a commited relationship cannot raise children to be normal Qblt's is immoral. They are ignorant of the latest biotechnologies that allow men to produce their own children. The final solution must be to destroy all Bibles worldwide since this is the main source of anti Qblt hate speech. Then all who oppose the Q movement to sodomize the world (starting with the infants) must be rounded up to special re-education camps: esp. the Christians and Torah believing Jews. If they refuse to bow down and worship our NEW WORLD CREATION ORDER then they must be sacrificed. Their children can then be given to them in WASHINGTON for their pleasures. We must never forget to give glory and honor to the true god who has brought humanity to this enlightened, scientific age of reason : LUCIFER. GENESIS chpt.3
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servant of the Most High God, Peter
Unless there is real repentance in our Nation we are finished. What is happenning is from the Lord. We are a lawless society. The murder of unborn children, the fornication, sodomy being taught to our youth, The perverts running the government is bringing the judgement of God upon our Nation. The Africans, Muslims, qblt abominations including ISIS terror is The Lord's judgement against sin. It is time for the saints to wake up. Your so called rights are changed to give license to murder, homosex, child molesters and transhumans. You are hated by all Nations for His sake. We are to suffer as the Lord Jesus suffered in this sin cursed world. This is not about your constitutional rights, but it is about His rightousness, His holiness, His kingdom for which we must suffer to prove ourselves worthy to enter. This is not your common escape wrath or live 1st class theology, This is for the mature saints that live and die for Christ. May the Lord Jesus Christ give us all wisdom and the knowledge of Him to have discernment to know the times and seasons we are living in.
1 Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
2 Grace unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
3 We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;
4 So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:
5 Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:
6 Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;
7 And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
9 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
10 When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.
11 Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power:
12 That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ..2Thes.1:112 His servant, Peter
I think that the theology of Fred Phelps may be the problem. The way we learn to interpret the scriptures gives us our Biblical view. In listening to some of his teaching and talk show interviews with his family I noticed a Calvanist bent. Fred Phelps equated the hatred of the Lord against sin with the non elect. This is where Satan grabed a foothold that became a stronghold. The family seems to be driven by this doctrine. For sure the LORD hates sin with a holy hatred and so should we. However God has given sinners a way to repent in believing in the Lord Jesus Christ while there is still breath in them. We don't know who the Lord will save or who are the elect. We do know that God commands us to preach the gospel to the whole world. This is done in truth and love. Without judgement there can be no love. The evil doer must be punished for their crimes against the innocent. Otherwise there is no justice or righteousness on God's part. The enemy is using this hate driven " gospel " to turn sinners away from the Lord's true salvation. While this is an affront to the true gospel so is justifying sin. There are some old line denominations that think real love is accepting sinful behavior. The LORD said homosex is an abomination; period. Old Testament ordinances as eating certain meats or mixing different fibers is clearly done away with in the New Covenant. Acts10 &15. The MORAL CODES are eternal: Romans 1:21-32; 3:30,31; 1Tim.1:9-11. When the scripture says " thou shalt not commit adultery " this covers all sexual sins as fornication, perversion, same sex, child sex, incest, beast, GBLTQ. In the LORD'S SIGHT sex outside His boundries are forbidden. If you fight this truth you fight against God Himself. No amount of pretend love toward what the LORD hates will save you on the day of judgement. Therefore true saints pray for the Phelp's family and for the rebellious progressives.
www.eternalvaluesministries.co... His servant, Peter
Mr. Wosley, why do you say I'm ready to pick up where Fred left off? You make things up sir. Have you any conviction of sin? What do you do with bible vrs. that clearly condemn homosexuality?
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. 1Cor.6:9. Sir, there are many such scriptures in the New T. Do you just ignore them? Are you above the LORD you claim to believe in? Mr. Wosley have you believed unto salvation?
Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve:After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. 1Cor.15:1-6 His servant ,Peter
reply from Roger Wosley: Peter, I didn't assert that, I raised the question in response to your lengthy defense of Phelp's positions and via your inclusion of your youtube clip. You're clearly seeking to have an audience. Answer: I do believe in sin. I don't believe that homosexuality is sin. The Bible nowhere mentions homosexuality (neither in the Hebrew nor the Greek). I think that the 6 verses in the Bible that sort of seem related to it are prohibitions against pedophilia, temple cultic prostitution, idolatry, and nonconsensual sex. The Bible no where condemns homosexual relations between consenting adults in the context of a mutually loving committed monogamous relationship. For more see: ( No thank you )
My reply:Sir, you are totally off the mark. You need the Lord's Holy Spirit to discern between good and evil. 1Cor.2:14
I and the LORD love you and desire your salvation. Peter
reply Roger Wosley:Well, here's how I do my discerning (see link). Seems that you and I are left praying for each other in the way that Fred and I did. http://www.patheos.com/blogs/r...
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Churches warned: 'Tidal wave of gay theology looming'
The Bohemian club is no joke. How is it that such a place exists? Do a Google search, it is the Play ground of many of our leaders, and elite world wide. These are nothing more than ancient, demonic ceremonies. Is it any wonder we murdered over 50,000,000 babies in the U.S.A. alone. Here is what's really driving the abortion industry and homosexual movements. Please take the time to hear this interview with a Zionist Rabbi. The true Torah Jews believe that Messiah must return to establish them in their land. Synagogue of Satin Jewish Zionists didn't want to wait for Messiah. This interview will open your eyes. I am in no way involved with the racial identity christian movement or seed serpent theology. I believe in Christ we are new creations and whosoever trusts the Lord Jesus can be saved.
Chaplain Peter
This one is a little different ......
Two Different Versions .....
Two Different Morals
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and
laying up supplies for the winter. The GRASSHOPPER
The grasshopper has no food or shelter,
so he dies out in the cold.
Be responsible for yourself!
The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house
and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving.
CBS, NBC , PBS, CNN, and ABC
show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with
a table filled with food.
America is stunned by the sharp contrast.
How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is
allowed to suffer so?
Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah
with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green..'
ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing, We shall overcome.
Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright
has the group kneel down to pray for the grasshopper's sake.
President Obama condemns the ant
and blames President Bush, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper's plight.
Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has
gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper,
and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.
Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act
retroactive to the beginning of the summer.
The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and,
having nothing left to pay his retroactive
taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government Green Czar and given to the grasshopper.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn't maint
never to be seen again.
The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize and ramshackle, the once prosperous and peaceful, neighborhood.
The entire Nation collapses bringi
of the free world with it.
Be careful how you vote
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Here is an odd one—have you ever had a case of what I'm calling Pop-Cultural Stockholm Syndrome? That is to say, you find yourself curiously addicted to some lousy TV show, pop song, etc. simply because it's there? It seems like it's possible to become absorbed in something you normally wouldn't like, even if more intellectual/fulfilling options are right in front of you. Please let me know I'm not alone in this, as I'm still not sure why I've sat through marathons of multiple Law & Order series. —Zack Smith
Tasha Robinson
You aren't alone, Zack. We've talked in the past about guilty pleasures, here, but it sounds like you're talking more about bafflement than guilt, and more about long-term commitment to something you don't understand your addiction to, rather than a one-off thing you like in spite of popular opinion or your own analysis of the thing's merits. I've just got one of those big "Why do I stick with this?" entertainments in my life: Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse books, the inspiration for the HBO series True Blood. I didn't make it past the first DVD of True Blood—hated the fake accents and overacting and boring prurience and cartoonishly awful characters—but I read the first book out of curiosity about how they compared. And then I read the second one. And the third one. And now there are a dozen of them, and I've read them all. And I don't know why. They're simply written supernatural soap operas, they're kind of vapid and country-friendly, and I don't read anything else remotely like them. And I don't understand the appeal. Maybe it's because I never got into soap operas, and I have no immunities built up against them? Maybe it's because they only take a few hours to read and they have a low-key, unchallenging junk-food appeal? One way or another, I keep tuning in to see what far-flung relative or supernatural being Sookie is going to catch up with next, as if that were actually fascinating.
Claire Zulkey
I can tell you why I like a lot of the crap I watch, even though I should know better: Here Comes Honey Boo-Boo is funny, entertainingly edited, and strangely heartwarming. With Bridezillas, I am fascinated by women who behave like horrible little children, plus I watch it for old times' sake, as my husband and I used to watch it as a cautionary tale before we got married. However, I cannot tell you why I tape and watch Intervention every week. It's not like it applies to my life in any way (thank goodness), or that I enjoy watching people's lives spiral into disaster while they bring everyone else down with them. I tend to hate those type of misery-shows, actually; Hoarders never does anything but depress me and turn me off. But for some reason, I am addicted to Intervention. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go tape my final interview for this documentary about addiction that I'm involved with. I predict it should go swimmingly, with no surprises.
Sarah Collins
There are any number of things about myself that I'm not proud of, but I never really questioned my value as a person until I realized I was 30 minutes deep into extra features on a CBS murder-show DVD. Stockholm Syndrome is a pretty perfect way to describe my addiction to Criminal Minds. I know it's bad, but I love it, and I will always defend it. It started in college, as so many bad habits do, with a roommate who basically lived on our couch in front of a constant loop of Criminal Minds. If I wanted to leave my bedroom, I watched Criminal Minds. At the time, it drove me a nuts. I mocked the wooden acting and tawdry plots, not noticing that I was taking longer and longer to get back to my room. When I moved, I thought I was free of the BAU, but antennae only pick up so many channels, and Ion really does know how to stack up episodes of my favorite stabby show. Now I can't stop. I'm not sure if it's habit or a desire to know that somewhere, a fictional murder victim is having a worse day than me, but I get pretty cranky if I have to miss my stories for more than a week. I've gotten real nerdy trying to justify why I like it, but as Criminal Minds so often teaches us, human motivations are very complex. So I've come to accept who I am. The DVDs are perpetually in my Netflix queue, and my friends know only to refer to it by its pet name, Crimsy Minds.
Sean O'Neal
"I have seen every single episode of HBO's Entourage," I mentally repeated to myself with some incredulity at various points throughout the series' interminable eight-season run. There is no suitable explanation for this. I suppose there was some moment—perhaps one of those early episodes where Bob Saget dropped by as a pot-smoking sort-of parody of himself—when it seemed like the show might be on the verge of becoming a genuinely sharp showbiz satire, rather than a show that merely convinced itself it was a sharp showbiz satire to cover up how inane and obnoxious it was. ("See, we're just making fun of how stupid and shallow and formulaic Hollywood is. Here are some self-aware tits!") I also remember hanging onto the hope that eventually, everything would not work out for Vince and his crew, and the series would then become about their spiral into well-deserved obscurity and painful poverty. "That would be brilliant," I often told myself while enduring another celebratory Heineken-clink aboard a private jet on the way to Vegas, baby. I stopped deluding myself right around the time Vince bounced back from rehab with his magical-dog script, but goddamned if I didn't keep watching right to the end anyway. And if I'm being honest, it was probably so I could make fun of it more accurately. So I hope it was worth it.
Ryan McGee
Lord help me, but I love me some Storage Wars. A&E's reality show shouldn't stand out from the crowd, and yet something about it takes me through the two-hour marathons of episodes that seem to be scheduled six times a day on the network. I think I know the reason, however, why this show repeatedly draws me in. In a sea of scripted dramas that only occasionally promise something will happen, Storage Wars features almost nothing but things happening. Each episode features at least nine central events (three purchased lockers, three "unique" finds, and three appraisals) that, while highly scripted in and of themselves, nevertheless create a sense of momentum that rockets through each episode. Throw in the fact that each "character" on the show is lovable/hateable simultaneously, and you have a program that I have no time to watch yet constantly lose time watching.
Phillip Dyess-Nugent
I sometimes become stupidly obsessed with an artist whose work does nothing for me, because it sounds like something I'd love. For instance, I find most of the work of novelist and screenwriter Rudolph Wurlitzer practically unreadable, but something about him—his intentions, his rough-hewn mystique, his taste in collaborators, his cool name—has driven me to waste several hours I will not get back reading and re-reading his hard-to-stay-interested-in prose stews. The last several years, I've had a real love-hate thing going on with filmmaker Larry Fessenden (Wendigo, Habit, No Telling). I think his movies are messes, and I don't really think they ever get off the ground, but they're independently produced horror movies made by somebody who clearly wants to do something different with the genre, and boy, does all that push my buttons. Every time I start to think I should just ignore Fessenden's next movie, or at least not watch one of the old ones again the next time I stumble across it on the Sundance Channel, I remember Dave Kehr's claim that Fessenden is making the movies John Cassavetes would have made if he'd been employed by Universal Studios during its classic horror period in the 1930s, and then I get excited all over again. Which really makes no freaking sense, because I don't like John Cassavetes movies, either.
Cory Casciato
The one unquestionably awful show I will watch endlessly is Cops—I've literally watched six hours of it in a row. Why would I do this to myself? The show is exploitative and propagandistic, designed to appeal to the basest desires to rubberneck at other people's tragedies and root for the "good guys," even when they turn out to be not very good guys at all. Then there's the fact that every single episode is basically the same thing—drunks and drug addicts, domestic disturbances, an occasional car chase, and the rare stabbing/shooting aftermath—over and over and over, even though the show has been on the air for roughly forever. I know all this intellectually, yet whenever I flip past it, I stop and watch it as long as it is on. I even used to stockpile episodes of it on my DVR and watch them in the background while I wrote, a habit I broke myself of only with a supreme exercise of willpower. Hey, at least I never got hooked by any of the infinite knockoffs—when it comes to following around LEOs with a camera crew, it's the original or nothing at all.
Joel Keller
My wife watches reality shows. Lots and lots of them. The ones that especially pique her interest are ones where a group of women fight tooth and nail with another group of women, usually over slights that men wouldn't even blink over. The Real Housewives series is especially annoying, mainly because Bravo executive Andy Cohen seems to be giddily pulling the strings behind the scenes as his charges drink, fight, and curse at each other. But two of the Housewives series, New Jersey and Beverly Hills, are must-watches for me, in spite of my dislike of the series in general. Why? The Beverly Hills series hooked me with the nutty travails of one of my favorite '70s kid stars, Kim Richards; I still remember her from Hello, Larry, for Christ's sake. My relationship to the Jersey version, on the other hand, is more complicated. Sure, I can pick out most of the locations, since I don't live far from where they shoot, but I'm also intrigued by the family dynamics of the show; unlike most of the other Housewives, this group actually has a history with each other. Plus, Teresa Giudice is a hoot to interview, as I found out last year.
John Semley
Without a doubt, The Real World. I wasn't even around when it was a "real" thing, circa the early '90s, capturing young people grappling with the changing realities of adulthood: racism, AIDS, fickle taste in jeanswear, etc. But I came to understand this through viewings of other '90s cultural touchstones like Reality Bites and Mr. Show, and through coming to terms with the crucial role it played in reshaping contemporary reality television. Then I started watching it, first as a guilty pleasure (though I was never really guilty about it), then out of sheer habit. And it's terrible! There are no "issues" here. All the friction results from MTV shamelessly casting combative personalities and locking them in a house together to see whether name-calling, tossed chairs, and cat-fights result. Sometimes they do. But more often, all these people do is get drunk, eat Subway, and ride out the storm in an attempt to leverage their cutesy cast-member personas into more shit-work on MTV (shows like Road Rules and other "challenge" programming) serve to keep unemployable ex-Real Worlders employed, even if they're being paid out in Beats By Dr. Dre headphones. A part of me knows I'll always check in, switch off my brain (or hide it in the toilet tank), and sort-of-enjoy the routine bickering of the privileged, telegenic idiots that constitute Real World casts. But the current season is really testing my patience. I mean, can you believe the way Trey is playing Laura? Gah!
Jason Heller
I love politics—and that fact alone should make me run screaming from MSNBC. Yet I can't tear myself away. Alternately ham-fisted and shrill (except for when it's both), the network's political coverage wrings my brain into a perpetual cringe—even if (and especially when) I actually agree with the commentary being given. Granted, my general alignment with the opinions expressed by most MSNBC hosts and pundits is primarily ideological. When it comes to their delivery, though (like Chris Matthews' mush-mouthed blather or Rachel Maddow's screechy sarcasm or Chris Hayes' hyperventilating wussiness), it's as off-putting as the mental image of Clint Eastwood "doing that to himself." So why am I always drawn to it? Is it some sick sort of accidental parody? Am I just a self-loathing liberal? Like the network's many cut-rate commentators, I can't coherently answer that question. All I know is, here I am, ready to switch on the motherfucking Ed Show and swallow MSNBC's daily dose of knocking Fox News—by being exactly like Fox News.
Nathan Rabin
I have given Will.i.am and his minions in Black Eyed Peas (The Other Guy, The Other Other Guy, Ex-Meth Lady) a lot of shit in these pages over the years. Hell, I pretty much created THEN That's What They Called Music largely, if not exclusively, to give Will.i.am and Black Eyed Peas shit. Yet I must admit that something like Stockholm Syndrome has occurred between me and BEP. I've heard its songs so often that I've developed a strange affection for their sheer synthetic shamelessness and shiny pop craftsmanship. I have a fondness for "I Gotta Feeling" that falls somewhere between ironic and unironic while if Will.i.am's collaboration with Usher, the immortally named "OMG," with its Cole Porter-like champagne wit ("Honey got a booty like pow pow pow / Honey got some boobies like wow oh wow" goes a sample lyric) comes up on my iPod, I'm probably not going to skip past it. I love to hate BEP, but I'm fascinated by them all the same. So when it was announced that the quartet was going on an indefinite hiatus, I was part overjoyed, part sad. For the time being, at least, we won't have Will.i.am and company to kick around anymore.
Keith Phipps
I like comic books, and I like Batman. The conception of the character is so simple—kid sees his parents die, trains himself to become a dark avenger of the night—but part of what makes him appealing is the way inventive writers and artists find so many variations on that simple conception. Trouble is, Batman is so popular right now—and has been for a while—that the demand for Batman product means a lot of not-so-clever, even awful variations on Batman hitting the shelves at any given time. Doesn't mean I won't read them, though. Not all of them, and not all the time, but I'll sample most anything with Batman in it. Sometimes the bad stuff is compelling in its own way. I'm looking forward to reading the collected edition of Batman: Odyssey by Neal Adams. Adams has a long history with Batman dating back to the 1970s, when he brought a dramatic, illustrative sensibility to the stories he drew, a development whose influence continues to this day. But it's an understatement to say his writing and art have gotten a little peculiar in recent years. I've only read a couple of issues, but I'm looking forward to digging into the whole thing. Lately, I've found the monthly title The Dark Knight, launched as a showcase for artist David Finch, compelling in its clumsiness. A recent issue found Batman chasing down an out-of-control muscle car heading directly toward a hospital nursery, a nursery located behind plate-glass windows on ground level, because that makes a lot of sense. Still, Batman is a lot like Bruce Willis: He's in a lot of shit, but somehow emerges with his inherent cool intact.


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We are well placed - Raikkonen
Lotus Formula One Team driver Kimi Raikkonen previews the opening race weekend of the 2013 Formula 1 season: the Australian Grand Prix. The Iceman talks about how testing went for him and what he expects from the race at the Albert Park Circuit.
Albert Park is upon us and testing didn't quite go to plan for you; how are you feeling at the start of the 2013 Formula 1 season? "We had some problems in testing but we still completed quite a few laps. Of course, you always want more laps, but it is what it is. We're all going racing and then we'll really see where we're at. I'm not really concerned about reliability or anything like that as it was the same problem which caused us the biggest problems in testing and we're on top of that now. You can never be 100% certain of course, but if you look at last season we had problems before the start of the year then we were pretty good when we got to the races. Of course we hope that we can perform better than last year, but let's see how it goes. "
Do you feel better placed to fight for the championship than last year? "Hopefully, but it's so difficult to say from testing. Twenty kilos of fuel can make a big difference to lap time and we don't know how much fuel people were carrying in Spain. Let's see what happens in Melbourne. Hopefully we can be fast in the first races and have a good start to the year."
You've said the E21 is a nice step forward from the its predecessor; is that across the board and in every area, or is there more you want from a racing car? "I think you always want more, but this car is a pretty good starting point and we'll see; hopefully we're fast enough. I don't think there's any area where it feels worse than last year's car; so far everything is better. We had good speed last year, but not enough to win the championship. That means we need more speed this year. If we can get just a little more from the car and keep our consistency, with some better results at the beginning of the year, then we should have a much better chance. "
It's your second year with Lotus F1 Team; does that continuity help you and your feeling with the team and does it mean you are working well together? "It helps for sure, but if it's going to make a difference, well I don't know. The fact that we know each other already will be better – you know each other and what the other driver likes from their car and so on – but if this actually helps to bring better results to the team I don't really know."
What would you like to achieve in Albert Park? "I'd like to start the season strongly and hopefully run the first races better than we did last year. We don't know exactly what to expect so we'll try to do the best we can; we should have a reasonable start to the season."
You've had some good races in Australia; is it good to be starting the year there? "Australia is a nice place even though it's a long way from Europe. The circuit itself is not the most difficult on the calendar. It was good to score a point on my first time at Albert Park, and the podiums and race win in 2007 obviously made me happy. The circuit hasn't changed at all so I'm confident I know which way it goes… "
Do you think Albert Park could suit the E21? "It's always difficult to say for the first race of the year. It's not a full time race track so the weekend starts pretty slippery. The weather can be a bit of a surprise sometimes and we'll also learn how we compare to the other teams. You need a car with good traction and the E21 feels better in this area than the E20 which wasn't a bad car itself. Strong turn-in and stable braking help too, and those areas also feel good with the car so we are well placed."Source Lotus F1


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perfect!! What a great doll house. Happy New Year Holly.ReplyDelete
Looks like fun!!!ReplyDelete
Hippest doll house I ever did see! I love it!!ReplyDelete
I remember my parents buying me one as a kid. My aunt and I worked on it for days trying to put it together. I don't remember ever finishing the house or playing with it. So I can imagine it was a task to put together. Your's turned out great!ReplyDelete
Doll houses are so magical. This one looks lots of fun!ReplyDelete
Did most of the furnishings come from Hobby Lobby as well?
Most of the wood furniture is from the thrift store...I did need to purchase the bathroom set at Hobby Lobby...I'll post more details next week on that part!Delete
Adorable! LOVE the colors!!! Reminds me of one I worked on for a certain little girl THREE?? years ago??
That's ADORABLE! And those little people are precious!!!Delete
I bought one of those kits about 20 years ago (for myself... no kid involved). I guess it got sold at a yardsale, or donated to the thrift shop, or thrown in the trash. All I remember is that I never got far with it! Congratulations on your success! It's beautiful.ReplyDelete
Man! If only I'd come across your old one...Delete
I should have given you all the wooden furniture I have for my old doll house! Don't think we'll be needing it! :) Don't you always wonder why there are no stairs to the 3rd floor? I'm pretty sure mine was that way too! Love it!ReplyDelete
My aunt and uncle had an amazing doll house that I would just sit and stare at when I was little. I would love to do this for my little girl when she is older. Just awesome!ReplyDelete
I am nearly finished assembling this exact same kit! I really enjoyed seeing how you arranged the furniture. I was really struggling with that in the living room (because of the stairs). I'm doing mine kinda mid-century-ish (I left off the gingerbread trim).ReplyDelete