Archive for March, 2009
03.24.09
Posted in Investment Hub, Shoppers Advice, Universe Of Marketing at 8:46 am by admin
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03.23.09
Posted in Recreation Resources, Shopping & More, Universe Of Sports at 1:57 am by admin
Acquiring the correct fishing items is an exceptionally key thing to bear in mind when your are considering your forthcoming fishing excursion. You need to permit yourself the best supplies to fall into the “state of mind” and receive the optimal benefits of fishing. Purchasing the correct fishing equipment will support you in different ways. As you may know, the more fishing gear you buy the more fun fishing will be. One of the questions you ought to ask yourself is, do you own all that you require before you head out on your journey? To be successful you ought to make sure that your fishing expedition starts with purchasing the proper fishing tools. There are lots of different style of fishing tools and it usually depends on kind of location that you will be fishing at, what type of fish you are hunting for and the breed of fishing that you long for.
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03.19.09
Posted in Best Hardware at 4:30 am by admin
Developing user friendly mobile phones.
Because of the variety of handheld devices to choose from, usability can be a very powerful distinguishing factor. Good designed mobile phones mean happy users, and satisfied customers become loyal customers. By understanding the techniques of Handheld Usability you can give the consumers what they want and need, and get it right the first time.
The main goal of usability professionals working on mobile phones is to develop devices from the end-user needs’ perspective, and not only based on technical possibilities. The main task is to ensure that the target user group of each model can operate the device fluently and with joy.
Some examples of what should be taken in considderation is presented below.
Input
Output
Software
Other
- Ergonomics of keys & the whole device
– Key discovery
– Text input
– Touch screen input
– Speech input
– Motion gestures
- Display qualit
– Audio quality
– Haptic feedback
- User interface consistency
– Information visualization
– Usability within single applications
– Application interworking
- Mechanics (e.g. battery change)
– Cover material
– Graceful power saving
– Accessories
Regarding handheld device functionality, a small device does have its limitations, but being mobile brings also huge benefits. In comparisement to stationary devices, a mobile device that users carry with them almost all the time gives new an innovating oppurtunities for applications and features.
Other then usability and marketing, there is also emotions research, which is aimed at understanding what users feel and why when interacting with the device, and what brings about a joyful user experience. People have an emotional relationship with their personal mobile phones. The phone they carry with them expresses their personality in a similar way as their car does.
As you can see a lot is been undertaken to get the phone from the drawing board to the consumer.
Industrial design and functionality are the factors that affect a purchasing decision the most, in addition to the price.
Adding your view on mobile phone design.
Did you ever had an amazing idea on mobile phone design? like you there are others that have these visions in this evolving age of mobile phone design and the need to improve the old ways or to come up with a fresh new idea or stylish design.
Mobile phone producing companies are always looking for new ideas, the next trends or hype if you want to call it that. What if you can make an effort to put something new out there? Would you be interested?
You don’t have to be a professional industrial designer or someone in that category if you want to put your idea(s) out there.
On these galleries you can place your design and ideas on mobile phone design either fully digitalized or as a scanned image of a paper drawing. It is all about getting the idea out there since this is most of the time the best way for things to get started.
Does the design need to be perfect you might ask? No, your effort to put your idea out there is enough and much appreciated by anyone affiliated in the mobile phone producing markets.
Of course you can leave some info about yourself to get noticed by others or hopefully if you pursue a career in industrial design to be noticed by the big companies involved with mobile phone design.
The interface of the mobile phone is very important for the users of mobile phones and overall design combined with functionality is what is most appealing to the public for buying a mobile phone. Ever used a phone that had dial buttons so small you would press other numbers by mistake? Well, i did and it can be very frustrating and if you have experienced a similar situation you would likely feel the same. Therefor making a serious professional design requires some if not a lot of research to make any mobile phone design attractive towards the public.
Mark Verburg
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03.18.09
Posted in Recreation Resources, Travel Tips at 5:50 pm by admin
Chamonix Mont Blanc sits at the foot of the wonderful Monte Bianco in the French Alps and is recognized as the mixed climbing and extreme skiing capital of the Alps. The resort has long been known as a real resort for sports in winter and summer. Chamonix Mont Blanc held the inaugural Olympics back in the 1920s – but it’s also a domain of exceptional views proffering a lot to the adventurous skier and sightseer.
But unlike most up to date ski fields Chamonix isn’t a new skiing town and has been mostly preserved from the brutalist architecture that litters a majority of the French Alps. Chamonix is blessed with not only an internationally renowned ski area on the other hand a grand and energetic center.
Chamonix town is large enough to ensure there’s plenty enough for the non-skier to do, with the Chamonix ski pass offering a lot of skiing. For whatever type of vacation theres an activity to please the whole group. Including a large swimming centre, spas, husky sledding and local market; and a plethora of designer shops, terraced caf©s and night clubs, Chamonix Mount Blanc offers a mix of mountaineering, charm and shopping, which not many skiing areas can come close to. Go on and organise your ski holiday straight away.
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03.16.09
Posted in Software Stuff at 3:43 pm by admin
I had an application that I was working where the client insisted on using an Access database for the application. The application was running on a two node server farm so the Access database had to be located on a seperated machine and accessed over the network. When upgrading the server farm from 2000 to 2003 the client ran into an issue accessing the database.
After checking to make sure it wasn’t an error with the connection to the location where the database was held I attempted to put the database underneath the site and connect to it there. Well that connection worked fine and the data could be accessed.
Long story short after some research and some long hours on this I found that the issue was a combination of things. First under IIS 6 all applications are run under application pools. The application pools do not pass the identity along that they run under. This creates a problem when trying to access a remote drive. To solve this issue you can enable impersonation of the account that you had IIS to run as the anonymous user. To do this you need to open the web.config file of your application. Under the and then insert a line that is similar to this:
< IDENTITY impersonate=""true"/" >
This line should be used if you wish to impersonate the user as the account that the user is logged in as on their desktop.
or
< IDENTITY impersonate=""true"" userName=""< your" user name >” password=”< USER account password > “/>
This line should be used if you want to specify one specific account to impersonate.
After I turned on the impersonation in my project another issue appeared. I got the dreded /< YOUR name application > Application Error. This issue was addressed in Microsoft KB82719 Article.
When a .NET application executes it uses the TEMP folder of the ASPNET user, or whatever user you have specified to run your .NET applications, to run and store temporary files. When you run an Access database/application temporary files are opened but since you are impersonating a user that user does not have access to open these files under the ASPNET temp directory. The solution for this is simple, go into the file structure and grant the account access to the temp folder in C:Document settingsServerNameASPNETlocal settings folder. Only give the account access to the Temp folder so that a security risk is not created.
Jason Fortner is co-founder of Total Productivity Solutions, http://www.totalproductivitysolutions.com, a company that specilizes in SharePoint, Webpart and .NET development. More tips on web development visit Total Productivity Solutions.
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03.11.09
Posted in Best Gender Issue Tips at 3:04 pm by admin
Now whether you are just beginning to notice your first few lines or you are experiencing more advance signs of aging you can painlessly and safely achieve a healthier, youthful, wrinkle free beauty in minutes with these simple professional techniques used by the world’s top makeup artists.
Lift a Sagging Jaw line – After applying your foundation apply a very thin line of highlighter from ear to ear along the top of your jawbone. Blend thoroughly. Next apply a thin line of contour cream or shadow on the bottom and the underneath area of your jawbone. Blend thoroughly.
Make Wrinkles & Lines Disappear – Before applying foundation use a Q- Tip or very thin makeup brush to apply a professional line filler product or highlighter inside the creases of your lines and wrinkles. Using the thin end of your makeup sponge or a clean Q-Tip gently blend. Perform An Instance Face Lift – A well groomed medium width brow with a strong arch will visual lift your face instantly. To create a well groomed brow with a strong arch pluck clean the area underneath the brow bone and shape the brow with widest part of the brow at the inner corner of your eye and the brow getting thinner has it goes out toward your temple. The highest part of the arch should be just above the outer edge of your pupil.
Create Fuller Younger Lips – After covering the lip area with foundation and your lips with a lip cream or balm take a lip liner the same shade or a shade slightly lighter then your lipstick and line just outside your lips natural lip line . Apply your lipstick with a lip brush blending lipstick to lip liner. Place a dab of pale light color lip gloss in the center of your top and bottom lips.
Give Your Eyes A Quick Lift – Applying eyeliner has close to lashes as possible line eyes from where the inner corner( tear duct ) of your eyes end to slightly pass the outer corner of your eyes. Has you get to the outer corner of your eye slightly tilt line upward to create a slight slant. This technique works whether you line just your upper lids or both your upper and bottom lids. Curl your lash with an eyelash curler before applying mascara.
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03.10.09
Posted in Religion & More at 2:19 am by admin
“Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat. Because strait is the gate and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.” Matthew 7:13-14
No doubt you have heard, as I have, many sermons preached on this text.
Most take the same view that those that enter in by the strait gate get saved and those who enter by the wide gate get lost.
But is it really that simple?
As I was washing up the dishes after breakfast this morning, God spoke to me on this very text. I want to share now that which I believe God gave me.
The vast majority of people in the world today DO NOT ENTER BY ANY GATE AT ALL.
They are simply not interested. Some do not believe in God and others, though believing in God have no desire to do anything about it.
They do not attempt to enter in, period!
In the verses quoted above, Jesus is not talking about this group of people. He is only referring to people who actually enter through one of the two gates mentioned. He is talking about people who have a desire for a religion that leads to eternal life and speaks of some finding it but most, although believing they have found it, actually end up lost!
In Revelation Chapter 3 15-16, Jesus gives a message to John, intended primarily for the Church at Laodicea and also prophetically to the Church of the last days before the Rapture.
“I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth.”
He speaks of three types of people, those who are HOT, those who are COLD and those who are LUKEWARM.
Those who are HOT are easily recognized as those who enter in by the strait gate. Those who are COLD can be seen as those who have no desire to enter any gate at all. But it is those who are LUKEWARM that appear as detestable to God. It is those who desire to enter the gate but go through the wrong gate, the wide gate. They are content with a form of religion that does not lead to life.
Notice that Jesus does not appear to have a problem with those who are COLD. He would rather someone be COLD than LUKEWARM!
Because the cold person, although as yet not having any desire for any religion, Christian or otherwise, they can still be reached with the truth.
But the lukewarm, those trying to enter in but by the wrong gate, are usually so stubbornly sure that they are right, that they become unreachable with the truth. They settle for error. They settle for a wrong gospel and another Jesus! (See 2 Cor. 11:4) They have the ‘form of Godliness but deny it’s power’ 2 Tim. 3:3
Going back again to our original text from Matthew 7, I want you to notice that Jesus said there will only be a few that find the true way that leads to life.
Does this surprise you?
This is a very different view from that which we hear from most preachers these days. We constantly hear revival being preached. We are constantly being told of mighty moves of the Holy Spirit that are sweeping millions into the Kingdom of God But if we are totally honest, we see that Jesus told a very different story.
Matthew 7 13-14 speaks of great deception.
It speaks of people trying to find the real truth, but ending up accepting a way that is far from the truth that leads to life. The word ’strait’ as used in KJV means ‘narrow, from obstacles standing close about’. It’s not that God has deliberately placed obstacles in the way to prevent people entering in, but that people have made obstacles of the truth.
Jesus said, “No man comes to the Father, but by me.” John 14:6
Many make this an obstacle. They would rather ignore what Jesus said and ‘climb up some other way’ John 10:1
They would rather seek God’s approval by good works, by going to Church or by their giving or a host of other ways. In the end, all these things become obstacles to them entering in and finding life. Jesus said, “I am the door, if anyone enters by me, he will be saved.” Jesus is the only Way, He is the only Truth and He is the only LIFE!
So many in the Church today are not entering in by Jesus. Many are following the big name preachers of this day. They hang on to every word that Mr. False Teacher says.
But because Mr. False Teacher is approved by so many, is so well known and respected by the majority, they take his words as truth, without testing them, and follow him.
They are deceived. They are lukewarm. They are detestable to God!
I believe that what we are seeing in the Church today is that which was prophesied for the end times in 2 Thessalonians 2:3. “…That day will not come unless the falling away comes first.”
The falling away means apostasy in Greek. The vast majorities in the Church today are in an apostate condition. They have settled for less than the truth.
“…All unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.” 2 Thess. 2:10
I challenge you who are reading this, do not settle for that which is being served up as truth by most preachers and ministers in Churches today.
“Test all things; hold fast to what is good.” 1 Thess. 5:21.
Test all that you hear by the infallible Word of God.
Not all that sounds ‘Christian’ is actually truth.
Be among the few who enter in by the strait gate and find LIFE!
Remember that Jesus said, “Fear not, little flock.” Luke 12:32 He called the true Church a little flock, not a massive big one! Are you one of the ‘Little flock’ Are you one of the ‘few there be that find it’
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03.09.09
Posted in Relationships Parlor at 5:22 pm by admin
Are you trying to pull off a wonderful wedding on a tight budget? It can be a challenge to find inexpensive and cheap wedding decorations and favors. However, there is hope and not all is lost. There is hope and a lot of things that you can do to maximize your money and still pull off the most memorable wedding ever. By following the steps and using the sources in this article you can easily cut your wedding decorations budget in half if not more. In fact if you look at it as a fun and existing challenge instead of a brick wall you can actually have a lot of fun. Have you ever gone to the grocery store and used double coupons and saved over 50% it can be a real thrill and if you keep the right mindset about find wedding decorations it can also be a thrill to find them for much cheaper.
Theme
The first things that you will want to consider before doing anything else is the theme of the wedding. Many people over spend on the wedding and decorations, invitations and favors simply because they are not sure what they are looking for and they over buy. If you have chosen your theme ahead of time you can be sure that what you purchase will fit right into the theme. It will help you focus more in the store and stay away from spontaneous purchases which can save big money by itself. It is kind of like not going to the grocery store hungry.
Also the theme you choose will have direct impact on the overall cost of the wedding and the decorations. For example if you want a very classic church wedding that looks like a story book you are going to have to pay big. However, if you decided on a beach theme for the wedding and actually get married on the beach and have a simple reception afterward you can easily save big money. So choose your theme wisely and know that less formal and more relaxed themes will go a long way to help saving money on wedding decorations.
Time
You want to leave yourself enough time. Often people put things off and then are rushed at the last minute to get the decorations done quickly. This will lead to you making spontaneous purchases that will cost you a lot of extra money. So get started early and take you time in making your decisions and you will find tons of inexpensive wedding decorations and ideas.
Buy Wholesale
Any time you can buy at wholesale prices you are going to save. Try looking in your phone book or online to find wholesale sources of decorations. The closer you get to the manufacturer of the product the cheaper the overall price will be. Don’t be afraid to make call or even go in and visit with people. IF you do not ask the answer is always no. However, often if you go in with a good attitude and ask what people can do to help you fit within your budget you will find more help then you wil know what to do with.
Use Price Comparison Online
The internet has truly changed the way we all shop. Now online you can find price comparison search engines. With these sites you can type in the item you are looking for say glass vases and they will provide you with an organized list of suppliers ranked in order of cost. This is an easy way to ensure you are getting the lowest prices on items.
Check eBay
This might not work for your particular situation but often eBay has incredible deals. If you check frequently on the site and have enough time you can easily pick up a ton of wedding decorations over 50% off.
Buy In Bulk
Again buying as close to the manufacture of the product as possible will save you money. Often you can buy things in bulk and then assemble yourself. This is a great way to cut costs and if you have a family member or friend helping out this can be a lot of fun putting together handmade wedding decorations.
Buy In Off season
Another trick that professional wedding planners use is to buy in the off season. If your wedding is still a year or so off into the future you can easily sweep up great deals in the off season. So if you have a summer wedding and are looking for beached themed wedding decorations in the winter you can be sure to save big.
Pieces and Part
Don’t be afraid to buy in pieces and parts. If you see an exceptional deal on an item that would work with some enhancements purchase it right away. You can then later think about what to add to it.
By simply planning ahead and carefully selecting your wedding theme you can easily save big money and stick to your wedding decorations budget. Take your time, assemble and do some of the work with friends and plan ahead and you will ensure success and big savings.
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Posted in Religion & More at 5:47 am by admin
DEAD SEA SCROLLS: – Dr Norman Golb is a top scholar who makes a plea for the de-politicization of the Dead Sea Scrolls. His plea is not related to the current argument that Palestine will own or control the Scrolls but to the Generals and politicians who piecemeal and with apparent deceit are doling out access to these important documents for the examination of scholars. The original involvement of the Catholic scholars and the Scrolls being housed in a Museum named for the Rockefellers is of more concern to me. The management of the life of Jesus and his brother James (‘the Righteous) who led the group at Qumran that some are calling Essenes is why the concern exists for myself and others who know the ways of the Christologists. They have blamed the Jews for ‘killing our Saviour’.
The documents discovered at Dag (or Nag) Hammadi in the same decade were fully translated by 1971 and they are of equal if not greater insight. The life of Jesus as a ‘Therapeutae’ or Gnostic with a ‘Source’ of learning in a large family of adepts is contrary to all sorts of proselytes and his involvement of an equal partner and wife puts a lie to a lot of ‘only begotten’ or other Divine appellations sought by the Popes who have claimed to be the only representatives of the Lord on Earth. This ‘Source’ is described correctly by Barrett as the very Grail that the Dag Hammadi scrolls represent from the verbal tradition or Qabala. If you consider that there was no name or actual Christians at the time of Jesus we will be starting at a fair beginning. The Copper Scrolls that made coded references to the site of Solomon’s treasure were found here as well. That is of import to our continuing effort to know what trade and designs exist (ed) in the Templar to Benjaminite or Merovingian lineage. It is more important to start with this ‘Source’ as many Biblical scholars are calling it. They call it this rather than a pagan tradition of Bardic and nature worshippers or Phoenicians, as the Father of Biblical Archaeology assures us that even the Bible itself should be seen as being. We are of the opinion that all documents and related things that reflect on the life of Christ are part and parcel of the ‘Holy Grail’; and the churchians were crusading and killing to get them and control the truth that might upset their marketing and other plans. Thus we should provide a little proof of the actual religions and politics of the time that Jesus was alive upon this earth.
“The Bible imagines the religion of ancient Israel as purely monotheistic. And doubtless there were Israelites, particularly those associated with the Jerusalem Temple, who were strict monotheists. But the archaeological evidence (and the Bible, too, if you read it closely enough) suggests that the monotheism of many Israelites was far from pure. For them, Yahweh (the name of the Israelite god) was not the only divinity. Some Israelites believed that Yahweh had a female consort. And many Israelite invoked the divinity with the help of images {Remember Onias’ Temple in Egypt and the archaeology of the sacrificing of Ibises practiced by Moses and later Jews.}, particularly figurines. I call this Israelite religion pagan Yahwism.
The archaeological evidence we will look at comes mostly from Judah in what is known in archaeological terms as the Assyrian period, the span from 721 B.C.E., when the Assyrians destroyed the northern kingdom of Israel, until 586 B.C.E., when the Babylonians conquered Jerusalem, destroyed the Temple and brought an end to the Davidic dynasty in Judah. This period, to put it into perspective, is several centuries after King Solomon built the Jerusalem Temple {Actually done by an architect Mason from Tyre named Hiram but not the King of that name and time.} in about 950 B.C.E. So the archaeological evidence we are about to discuss documents a level of Israelite paganism long after Solomon built an exclusive home for Israel’s god. {The Incas and other used such techniques of social management rather than garrison armies in occupied territories.}
While Yahweh was the god of the Israelites, other nations had their own national gods. The chief god of the Phoenicians was Ba’al. For the Philistines, the chief god was at first Dagon {As noted earlier we suggested a Berber/Phoenician connection to Philistine. This Dagon is almost the same as the Dogon of West Africa who are early observers of Sirius the Dog Star. This is a Berber influence to be sure.} and later also Ba’al {He could mention Bel in Mesopotamia is the same as Ba’al but he is just developing the extensive similarity of the actual worship of people with different names within a gradually degrading or devolving ‘Brotherhood’. We can’t expect all of these things to be integrated all at once, can we?}(Judges 16:23; 2 Kings 1:2). For the Ammonites it was Milkom. For the Moabites {In Deuteronomy 23 you will see prejudice and hatred excluding them from the ‘House of the Lord’, ‘Yes, even unto the tenth generation’ along with ‘bastards’ and ‘he who is wounded in the stones’.}, Chemosh. For the Edomites, Qos. And for the Israelites and Judahites — Yahweh. Except for the Edomite god Qos, who appears only in the archaeological record, all of these gods are mentioned in the Bible (1 Kings 11:5, 7, 33).
Interestingly, while each nation’s chief god had a distinctive name, his consort, the chief female deity, had the same name in all these cultures: Asherah or its variants Ashtoreth or Astarte. (As we shall see, this was even true of Yahweh’s consort.)
Not only was the female consort the same, the various nations used the same cult objects, the same types if incense altars made of stone and clay, the same bronze and clay censers, cult stands and incense burners, the same chalices and goblets and the same bronze and ivory rods adorned with pomegranates. It was easy to take cult vessels of one deity and place them in the service of another one–and this was commonly done. For example, in the ninth-century B.C.E., stela erected by Mesha, the king of Moab, he describes himself as the ’son of Chemosh,’ and tells how he defeated the Israelites (see also 2 Kings 3:4-27). He then brags,’(I) took t(he ves)sels of Yahweh, and I hauled them before the face of Chemosh.’
We sometimes get the impression that after Solomon built the Temple in Jerusalem, Yahweh had no other sanctuary in ancient Israel — but this is not the case.” (1)
It is possible that the prevalence of the ‘one god’ was actually a one goddess as we see in the fact they all worshipped one similarly named(identical really)goddess. The reality as we see it was almost the same for Ba’al in this period as well. He goes on to show these multiple and pantheistic practices seem to disappear when the exiles are returned from Persia, so maybe Cyrus and Zoroaster were able to convince them of the error of their ways and we might see what many have pondered in regards to the magi of Zoroaster being a major influence on Christianity in the original foundations and not the more ritualistic Moses. At Qumran many scholars note the people called themselves ‘Covenanters of the Law’. Most of them note this law was Mosaic but my perception is different and I believe it was a syncretism akin to Gnosticism and with many adept understandings such as the healing practices of the Therapeutae. Golb makes it clear he is on the side of the Qumran library having been a collection of all the factions of religion and practices in a large area even beyond Judaea. The Roman practice of destroying all literature and writing new ones around old beliefs which were in line with their approaches was the reason for this, and all tribes, zealots or cults knew it.
The henges of the Emerald Isles which were once wood as some are seeing today, are in the Negev and Sinai deserts as well. The ‘Bedouin’ (‘tent dweller’) fiction is not the root as we showed from the scholars of the excellent book Carthage. The article following the one just quoted from Biblical Archaeology Review says this:
“Take even a one- or two-day trip through the Sinai or Negev deserts and you’ll come across scores of them–standing stones erected in a variety of combinations. These stone installations may help us understand the very origins of Israelite religion.” (2)
Last year the word about pre-hieroglyphic alphabets in the Sahara were accompanied by more on the agricultural savannah people who had henges too. This is where the Berbers were from and the connection if no simple chance occurrence. The article goes on to discuss ‘fertility triads’ and whenever you see triad or troad (Greek) you are looking at the central laws of the philosophic Kelts. These parables of process and moral or spiritual concepts are a wealth of insight to this very day. The Triune Nature of Man that was plagiarized into the ‘Holy Trinity’ and raised to a deity took more of man’s self awareness and divinity away from humanity than any of us can imagine. A central theme in the Dead Sea Scrolls is said to be very Zoroastrian in nature (and the Mani attempt to join Christianity and it in one ecumenical religion that Augustine was a promoter of until bought out by the Catholics); – it is simply this: ‘There are two spirits ‘truth and error’. We surely see the real original sin of the Gnostics who saved the Dag Hammadi Scrolls and gave their lives protecting the Library of Alexandria in this. These people who were with the Cathars a millennium later say ‘The original sin that separates us from God – is IGNORANCE!’
Another culture that really worshipped this goddess at one time is the Greek or Hellenic culture of Dionysius and Aphrodite as we see a practice that was at work while Yahweh became the one and sole male god Jehovah and that development was not mentioned in BAR.
“In Cyprus it appears that before marriage all women were formerly obliged by custom to prostitute themselves to strangers at the sanctuary of the goddess, whether she went by the name of Aphrodite, Astarte, or what not. Similar customs prevailed in many parts of Western Asia.” (3)
Casting aspersions on great thinkers like Augustine is easy and I don’t want any readers to think I’m saying these things without basis in fact. We have his own book to work with in that regard. Here is a little from Augustine’s autobiography called Confessions.
“As literature, the Scriptures compared poorly with the polished prose of Cicero and he thought them fit only for the simple minded.” That was when he was a Manichean before “the mercy of God had saved him from this evil.” (4)
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