ellauri019.html on line 320: Ei voida sanoa, jatkuiko tilanne tällaisena kokonaisen vuosisadan ajan Daavidin ensimmäisen voiton jälkeen. ”Ammonin poikien ja Moabin ja Seirin [Edomin] vuoriston” hyökkäys (2Ai 20:1, 2, 10, 22) on saattanut tapahtua ennen kuin Juudan, Israelin ja Edomin yhdistyneet joukot hyökkäsivät Moabin kimppuun (2Ku 3:5–9; ks. MOAB, MOABILAISET). Edom oli nähtävästi mukana kummassakin kolmiliitossa ja taisteli ensin toisella ja sitten toisella puolella. Lisäksi kerrotaan, että jolloinkin Josafatin hallituskaudella Edomissa ei ollut kuningasta; maata hallitsi valtuutettu, joka oli ilmeisesti vastuussa Juudan valtaistuimelle, joten Juudalla oli vapaa pääsy Akabanlahdelle ja sen satamaan tai satamiin (1Ku 22:47, 48). Liittoutuneiden sotajoukkojen leiripaikkana olleen aiemmin kuivan purolaakson ennustettu tulviminen Moabin vastaisella sotaretkellä on saattanut johtua korkealla ylätasangolla puhjenneesta aavikon rajuilmasta. Tämänkaltaiset myrskyt voivat nykyisinkin synnyttää vuolaita virtoja, jotka ryöppyävät wadeja pitkin kohti Arabaa. Tai vesi on voinut ilmaantua täysin ihmeen välityksellä. (2Ku 3:16–23.)
ellauri029.html on line 255: Dokumentissa kuvattiin, kuinka muutamat amerikkalaiset tehdastyöntekijät pääsivät vierailemaan Kiinan päätyyn saman firman tehtaisiin. Kulttuurierot lävähtivät amerikkalaisten naamalle välittömästi. Kiinassa tehtaan omistajaa kohdeltiin kuin kuninkaallista. Asioiden korruptoituneisuus oli järkyttävää. Kiinassa jokainen työntekijä kuului niin sanottuun ”liittoon”, jota johti tehtaan omistajan lanko. Eli toisin sanoen liitto oli täysin merkityksetön ja vain nimellinen väline, jolla voitiin uskotella ulkopuolisille, että tehtaassa kohdellaan työntekijöitä hyvin.
ellauri030.html on line 910: An analysis of content from business-to-business advertising magazines in the United States, United Kingdom, and Germany found a high (23 percent) overall usage of humor. The highest percentage was found in the British sample at 26 percent. Of the types of humor found by McCullough and Taylor, three categories corresponded with Freud's grouping of tendentious (aggression and sexual) and non-tendentious (nonsense) wit. 20 percent of the humor were accounted for as “aggression” and “sexual.” “Nonsense” was listed at 18 percent.
ellauri031.html on line 811: Höpsismi (engl. flipism) on kuvitteellinen elämänfilosofia, jonka sarjakuvataiteilija Carl Barks esitteli vuonna 1953 ilmestyneessä Aku Ankka -sarjakuvassaan ”Kruuna vai klaava” (alunperin ”Flip Decision”). Höpsismissä kaikki päätökset tehdään heittämällä kolikkoa.
ellauri032.html on line 668: Jeesuxen oli opittava unohtamaan itsensä 40 päiväksi. Hänen täytyi paastota, tulla henkisesti köyhäksi, olla eläimenä eläinten seassa. Hänen täytyi tulla nälkäiseksi, tulla kiukkuisexi, masentuneeksi, tulla tyhjäksi, nääntyneeksi, olla ilman mitään voimaa, niin ettei hän enää jaxanut sanoa enempää kuin: ”Kirjoitettu on”. Hän keekoili saatanan edessä muutamalla sanonnalla, muutamilla Raamatun sananlaskuilla ja näiden avulla hän voitti saatanan. ”Sanan miekalla”. Haluan kerrata Vapahtajan menetelmää hänen kohdatessaan saatanan.
ellauri032.html on line 710: Kuinka meidän tulee toimia toisia ihmisiä kohtaan? Esimerkiksi jos minulta kysytään: ”Miten Herra Jeesus osallistuu Pyhään ehtoolliseen? Miten Isä ja Poika ja Pyhä Henki ovat yhtä?” Täytyykö minun kertoa ihmiselle selvä käsitykseni tästä? Voivatko kaikki ihmiset tietää tätä? Ei! Minä tiedän asioita, joita minä voin tuskin kertoa kahdelle tuhannesta, koska Jumala haluaa heidän sydämensä ei heidän päätään. Koska sadasta tuhannesta ainoastaan muutama voi omata sen, me käsitämme salaisuuden todella suurpiirteisesti ja sanomme: ”Kirjoitettu on”. Kuitenkin mitä jos joku sanoo: ”Minä todella haluaisin saada salaisuuteen selityksen?” Silloin me sanomme, kuten sanotaan yhdessä profeetta Jeremian kohdassa. ”Sinä pyydät itsellesi suuria! Älä pyydä” (Jer. 45:5). Tyydy siihen mitä näet kirjoitettuna ja josta tunnet siunausta. Älä lue pientä pränttiä.
ellauri032.html on line 714: Me tietäisimme kuinka ottaa pois monien ihmisten epäröinnit avaamalla mysteerit jos meidän ainoastaan sallittaisiin, jos me voisimme vain vapaasti kertoa jokaiselle ihmiselle joka tulee juosten ja haluaa tietää kuinka käsittää tämä ja tämä sanonta. Me varmasti kykenisimme tekemään tämän, mutta meidän ei ole sallittu tehdä sitä. Se ei ole sopivaa kenellekään, vaan Pyhä Henki selittää sellaiset mysteerit hän jakaa ne jokaiselle henkilölle niin kuin hän haluaa. ”Jos teillä jossakin kohden on toinen mieli, niin Jumala on siinäkin teille ilmoittava, kuinka asia on” (Fil. 3:15). Tämän verran me sanomme salaisuuksista. Nii et turpa kii, sitähän se kirjaimellisesti tarkoittaa se mysteeri.
ellauri072.html on line 516: Any diagnoses seem as unilluminating as saying that the “reason” someone is short is because he is 5-foot‑1. About Wallace’s problems it seems worth noting simply that his A.A. attendance coincided with a long period of relative wellness, and that getting off the antidepressant Nardil, which he had taken most of his adult life, coincided with a serious crash in mood that ended in his suicide six months later.
ellauri073.html on line 95: Tarkoitus oli tehdä ohjelmaa ohi television ja näyttää ”millainen hän oikeasti on”. Ja tietysti saada rahaa siitä. Mut perseelleen meni, kun banglat ryöväsi sen naamasivuston. Rahat meni lakukepeille.
ellauri073.html on line 204: Mrs. McC.’s sedulous attention to her own person’s dress and grooming is already a minor legend among the press corps, and some of the techs speculate that things like getting her nails and hair done, together with being almost Siametically attached to Ms. Lisa Graham Keegan (who is AZ’s education superintendent and supposedly traveling with the senator as his “Advisor on Issues Affecting Education” but is quite plainly really along because she’s Cindy McCain’s friend and confidante and the one person in whose presence Mrs. McC. doesn’t look like a jacklighted deer), are the only things keeping this extremely fragile person together on the Trail. (Onx tää nyt se jota sanottiin julkisesti emättimexi? Ei hizi, kyllä sille tarvittaisiin joku miellyttävämpi sana.)
ellauri073.html on line 304: “Biohakkerit käyttävät tätä. Vatsa ja reidet oli ihan punaisena aamulla, että kyllä siitä jotain hyötyä on”, Immonen sanoo. "Tää tekee musta entistä punapyllyisemmän."
ellauri077.html on line 617: Wallace stated that Realism is “soothing, familiar and anaesthetic [and] . . . drops us right into spectation”.
ellauri080.html on line 806: Two terms in the Bhagavad Gita resonated with Gandhi samabhava (“equability”) – meeting fate with a sense of detachment. And aparigraha (“nonpossession”) willingness to give up all material objects.
ellauri080.html on line 991: 2 muuta hyvin yxinkertaista silti tehokasta izetestiä jotka voimme soveltaa Aladdinin tilanteeseen ovat Kultainen ja Platinasääntö.1 Kultaisen säännön tapauxessa käsittele toisia niinkuin haluaisit tulla käsitellyxi, Aladdin täytyy miettiä miten hän reagoisi jos joku varastaisi hänen henkilökohtaisen iteminsä (minkä, kun sillä ei kerta ole niitä, edes limppua? Sen ainoa henkkoht itemi on kiinni niin lujassa ettei se lähde varkaan mukaan, tai tulee Tarzanhuuto). Hänen pitää myös ajatella leipäkauppiaan tunteita kun sen varastoa verotetaan ilman rahallista korvausta. (Se on varmaan tosi surullinen.) Käyttämällä Platinasääntöä, Aladdin voi paremmin ymmmärtää määrän ponnistusta ja rahaa joka menee jokaisen sellaisen limpun tekemiseen, sekä kuinka jokainen varastettu leipäpala haittaa myyjän perhettä isossa skaalassa. (Eli jos kaikki varastaisivat siltä leipiä, se lakkaisi olemasta rikas kauppias, ja sen pitäisi varastaa limppuja. Kaaos seuraisi.) Sixi, Aladdinin järkeily “Täyty syödä elääxeen, täytyy varastaa syödäxeen, täytyy olla rikas leipäkauppias varastaaxen oikeen paljon” on ize asiassa epäeettinen, kerta ei ole vain lainvastaista varastaa, vaan se aiheuttaa haittaa ympäröiville osapuolille. (Tyypillistä että jenkkien sääntökirjassa omaisuusrikoxet on ykköspahoja. Vaan niitähän on suurin osa 10 käskystäkin. Moraali koskee reviirejä. EAT! EAT!)
ellauri092.html on line 271: William Boardman worked closely with Robert Pearsall Smith, whose wife Hannah Whitall Smith, a Quaker, became well known in the movement for her belief in “quietism”. Quietism teaches that “sinless perfection” is attainable in this life and comes from inner quietness or meditative contemplation that is believed to allow God to work as all human effort ceases. Remind you of something today?
ellauri095.html on line 485: The sequence of events is clear. On 18 January 1866 Hopkins composed his most ascetic poem, “The Habit of Perfection” (Täydellinen asukokonaisuus). On 23 January he included poetry in the list of things to be given up for Lent. In July he decided to become a Catholic, and he traveled to Birmingham in September to consult the leader of the Oxford converts, John Henry Newman. Newman received him into the Church in October. On 5 May 1868 Hopkins firmly “resolved to be a religious.” Less than a week later, apparently still inspired by Savonarola, he made a bonfire of his poems and gave up poetry almost entirely for seven years. Finally, in the fall of 1868 Hopkins joined a “serged fellowship” like Savonarola’s and like the one he admired in “Eastern Communion”(1865), a commitment foreshadowed by the emphasis on vows of silence and poverty in “The Habit of Perfection.”
ellauri096.html on line 249: . Bas van Fraassen (1984, 244) dubs this “the principle of reflection”: I ought to believe a proposition given that I will believe it at some future time.
ellauri096.html on line 494: Maahanmuuttovastainen Suomi Ensin -ryhmä, jossa Ikonen on kommenttinsa julkaissut, on julkinen ja avoin, ja kommentit ovat siellä vapaasti kenen tahansa luettavissa. Ryhmä luettelee tavoitteikseen muun muassa ”laajamittaisen massamaahanmuuton” vastustamisen sekä ”länsimaisten arvojen merkityksen” vahvistamisen.
ellauri100.html on line 529: Your score on the OCT is calculated by taking into account your familiarity with the real items (e.g., Bill Clinton) and subtracting how familiar you rated the false/fake items to be (e.g., Fred Gruneberg — my next door neighbor). Also, familiarity ratings of 1 to 4 are treated the same. So if you rated your familiarity with “Bill Clinton” as 1, 2, 3, or 4 then you scored a +1 for that item. And if you rated your familiarity with “Fred Gruneberg” as 1, 2, 3, or 4 then you scored a -1 for that item. If you were unfamiliar with any real or false items, your scores for those items are 0. A perfect score would be identifying all real items and not recognizing any of the false items.
ellauri102.html on line 479: The Problem: During the time the advert was released, there were many protests and riots taking place in America over the #BlackLivesMatter campaign. The ad took a lot of “inspiration” from these protests and fundamentally undermined the whole point of the protests. In addition to this, the ad also received a lot of criticism for how Pepsi was responsible for “saving the day.”
ellauri107.html on line 252: Although British naval mutineers as well as criminals ashore are explicitly shown in Billy Budd’s early chapters to have received forms of amnesty that ultimately contributed to the saving of the nation, Vere offers no such amnesty to Billy Budd. Claggart himself is rumored to have entered the service as an alternative to imprisonment, the navy’s need for manpower leading to frequent waivers of usual punishments; but Billy Budd receives no alternatives, no waivers. At Nelson’s triumphant Trafalgar, the thwarting of Napoleon’s invasion plans meant a “plenary absolution” for all the former offenders who had contributed to the victory. Billy, however, a “peacemaker,” neither a mutineer nor a criminal, makes a single misstep in retaliation against a known liar who seeks to manipulate the system to destroy him, and how is Billy to be absolved? Vere’s “vehemently exclaimed” answer: “the angel must hang!”
ellauri109.html on line 551: Kleinschmidt published a journal article in which he describes the case of a “successful Southern playwright” with an overbearing mother: “His rebellion was sexualized, leading to compulsive masturbation which provided an outlet for a myriad of hostile fantasies. These same masturbatory fantasies he both acted out and channeled into his writing.” Roth, who was obviously Kleinschmidt’s “playwright,” saw the article just after finishing the novel. He spent multiple sessions berating Kleinschmidt for this “psychoanalytic cartoon” and yet continued his analysis with him for years.
ellauri111.html on line 58: Ryssäläiset nimet. No tää on taas tota mussutusta lempinimistä, ei jaxa kuule “Dima”, “Dimochka”, “Mityay”, “Dimon”, “Dmitri Anatolyevich”, tai “Dim”. Voi olla että niitä on susta vaikeata suomentaa, mutta vitut siitä. Ei jaxa.
ellauri119.html on line 775: Asked what she thought of Reagan, Ayn Rand replied, “I don’t think of him. And the more I see, the less I think of him.” For Rand, “the appalling part of his administration was his connection with the so-called ‘Moral Majority’ and sundry other TV religionists, who are struggling, apparently with his approval, to take us back to the Middle Ages via the unconstitutional union of religion and politics.” Rand’s primary concern, it seems, is that this “unconstitutional union” represented a “threat to capitalism.” While she admired Reagan’s appeal to an “inspirational element” in American politics, “he will not find it,” remarked Rand, “in the God, family, tradition swamp.” Instead, she proclaims, we should be inspired by “the most typical American group… the businessmen.”
ellauri131.html on line 501: Ja kun kerta voit valita mitä vaan, niin toivottavasti valitset jotain superhienoa, kuten ”Olen rajaton”, ”Minä saan epäonnistua, se on inhimillistä”, ”Minä ansaitsen tulla nähdyksi ja kuulluksi”, ”Minä olen sosiaalinen ja rakastettava”!
ellauri132.html on line 215: Attorneys representing students from the Shawnee Mission district say the story “Harrison Bergeron” shows that a world of forced equality would be a nightmare, so unequal funding of public schools is OK.
ellauri145.html on line 639: 10 Allekirjoituksen paikalla oleva ”Astu.” Sanskritin (ja mm. zarathustralaisten tekstien persian) astu merkitsee ”hyvä niin”, ”näin olkoon” tai ”tapahtukoon”.
ellauri146.html on line 640: Poe commented on the general meaning of his story several times. In one unsigned review of the number of the Southern Literary Messenger that contained it he said, “Lionizing ... is an admirable piece of burlesque which displays much reading, a lively humor, and an ability to afford amusement or instruction”; and in another puff of smoke he remarked, “It is an extravaganza ... and gives evidence of high powers of fancy and humor.”‡ To J. P. Kennedy he wrote on February 11, 1836 that it was a satire “properly speaking [page 172:] — at least so meant —... of the rage for Lions and the facility of becoming one.”
ellauri146.html on line 654: Poe, unlike other great American writers of his time, spent a considerable portion of his childhood in Britain. In 1815, John Allan set out for England, accompanied by his wife, Frances Allan; his sister-in-law, “Aunt Nancy” Valentine; and his six-year-old foster son, Edgar Poe. For a time Edgar attended the small London school of Miss Dubourg (a name which subsequently was to appear in “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”) and later, for a period of three years from 1817 to 1820, was sent to a better school, the Manor House at Stoke Newington near London. Here Poe, in addition to being affected profoundly by the atmosphere of England, studied French, Latin, history and literature. The Manor House School, with its “Dr.” Bransby, Poe later was to transplant bodily to the semi-autobiographical tale “William Wilson” (1840).
ellauri150.html on line 61: Niin sanotun ”woke-jakson” tarkoitus oli selvittää, voiko hyvien asioiden ajamisesta seurata pahaa ja miten välttää vastakkainasettelua ja vihaa. Ironista, kuten ohjelmaa seuranneen somekeskustelun perusteella jo tiedämme.
ellauri151.html on line 611: Hamann and Wittgenstein criticize the Enlightenment’s dualism senses/reason, subject/object, mind/world, reason/feeling and theory/practice by developing a view of “sensuous reason” that is located in language.
ellauri153.html on line 817: David had four wives whose names we know—Ahinoam, Abigail (2 Samuel 2:2), Eglah (2 Samuel 3:5), and Bathsheba (2 Samuel 11:27)—and possibly others such as Absalom’s mother Maakah. This doesn’t count the concubines he had (2 Samuel 5:13). The natural question is, with plenty of female intimates to keep David warm, why did his attendants seek out a beautiful virgin stranger for the job? The following are several issues regarding Abishag’s “job description”:
ellauri155.html on line 99: Kuka oli se, joka ministerinä vei Suomen VALTIOPETOKSELLA Euroon ja ”liittovaltioon”? Hän sai apuja vihreältä ministeriltä Kansainvälisen rikostuomioistuimen LAHJONTAAN. Tämän LAHJONNAN takia sotarikollisia TUODAAN Suomeen maahanmuuttoaallon joukossa ja näin vaarannetaan maan entisiä porsasmaisia kansalaisia.
ellauri155.html on line 680: Election and predestination and are both biblical teachings. The English “predestination” is translated from the Greek word proorizo which means 1) to predetermine, decide beforehand; 2) in the NT, of God decreeing from eternity; 3) to foreordain, appoint beforehand. Predestination, then, is the biblical teaching that God predestines certain events and people to accomplish what He so desires. The word proorizo occurs six times in the New Testament, each time demonstrating that God is the one who is foreordaining and bringing about certain events. The word chorizo only occurs in the Mexican translation (not shown here):
ellauri155.html on line 731: In the Treatise, as was noted earlier, Hume argues that one of the reasons “why the doctrine of liberty [of indifference] has generally been better receiv’d in the world, than its antagonist [the doctrine of necessity], proceeds from religion, which has been very unnecessarily interested in this question” (T 2.3.2.3/409). He goes on to argue “that the doctrine of necessity, according to my explication of it, is not only innocent, but even advantageous to religion and morality”. In the final passages of the Enquiry discussion of liberty and necessity (EU 8.32–6/99–103) – passages which do not appear in the original Treatise discussion – Hume makes it plain exactly how his necessitarian principles have “dangerous consequences for religion”.
ellauri156.html on line 77: Before we begin to look carefully at verses 1-4 of chapter 11, allow me to make a couple of comments about this event as portrayed in these two chapters of 2 Samuel. First, I want you to notice the “law of proportion” in this text. Only three verses describe David's sin of adultery with Bathsheba. Second, the author pulls no punches in describing the wickedness of this sin. History is not written in a way that makes David look good. Third, the sin of David and Bathsheba is dealt with historically, but not in a Hollywood fashion. Hollywood filmmakers would perform a remake of this account to dwell on the sensual elements. Nothing in this text is intended to inspire unclean thoughts or actions. Indeed, this story is written in a way that causes us to shudder at the thought of such things. I know it is something of a letdown, but at least myself, I was totally capable of imagining the rest. (I got 5 streetwalking girls and a wife, for God's sake.) If you need help with unclean thoughts here, please consult Gonorrhé Ballsack's Comtes Droolatiques.
ellauri156.html on line 403: This reference to Bathsheba’s “purification” is interesting and perplexing. The King James Version reads, “and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness: and she returned unto her house” at verse 4. The New King James Version is slightly different: “and he lay with her, for she was cleansed from her impurity; and she returned to her house” (note the change from a semi-colon to a comma, and from a colon to a semi-colon). The NIV reads, “and he slept with her. (She had purified herself from her uncleanness.)” The NRSV reads, “and he lay with her. (Now she was purifying herself after her period. Or was it colon? Only David knows, and Dog of course, but they don't tell.).”
ellauri158.html on line 44: Spinoza’s views on necessity and possibility, which he claimed were the “principal foundation” of his Ethics (Ep75), have been less than well received by his readers, to put it mildly. From Spinoza’s contemporaries to our own, readers of the Ethics have denounced Spinoza’s views on modality as metaphysically confused at best, ethically nihilistic at worst. Kristityt on aina vihanneet Spinozaa, mutta niin on juutalaisetkin. Siili ressu.
ellauri159.html on line 763: The first job of men in dire times has always been to establish and secure “the perimeter.” Donovan argues that the way of men is the way of the gang, because when placed in a harsh environment, men will quickly make the logical calculation that they have a much better chance of surviving if they band together than if they each try to go it alone. For some folks, “gang” is a word weighted with negative connotations, so substitute “posse” or “platoon” or whatever else if you must. The important thing to realize is that the small, tightly-knit honor group was the basic male social unit for eons. The myth of the uber-manly lone wolf is just that. With few exceptions, men have always fought and hunted together. Cowboys banded together, pioneers banded together, and Rambo wouldn’t have actually stood a chance against either gang.
ellauri184.html on line 228: Politically Galilee had been under separate administration from Judea during almost all its history since the tenth century B.C. (apart from a period of “reunification” under the Maccabees), and in the time of Jesus it was under a (supposedly) native Herodian prince, while Judea and Samaria had since A.D. 6 been under the direct rule of a Roman prefect.
ellauri189.html on line 222: is “dungeon”). Here, we remember that also the sun retires to the underworld,
ellauri203.html on line 231: To begin with, Dostoevsky only saw practicality in his marriage to Snitkina: he was in need of stability and confidence in the future. As a result, the union began down to head along the same route as his previous relationships. However, the couple’s extended “honeymoon” abroad, which ended up lasting four years, allowed them to escape Russia’s oppressive atmosphere and try to build a family. It began well: Sonya, a little girl, was born a year after their marriage. Tragedy soon struck, however, when Sonya passed away. The pair went on to have three more children, one of whom also died. They were married for 14 years until Dostoevsky’s death, in which time Snitkina experienced a great deal of anguish brought on by Dostoevsky’s difficult character and lifestyle, namely his jealousy and gambling addiction. However, she remained stoically committed to him and did not remarry after his death, when she was just 35.
ellauri223.html on line 122: The absence of good (Latin: privatio boni), also known as the privation theory of evil, is a theological and philosophical doctrine that evil, unlike good, is insubstantial, so that thinking of it as an entity is misleading. Instead, evil is rather the absence, or lack (“privation”), of good. This also means that everything that exists is good, insofar as it exists; and is also sometimes stated as that evil ought to be regarded as nothing, or as something non-existent.
ellauri236.html on line 61: Portuguese-language searches for basic election-related terms such as “fraud,” “intervention” and “ballots” on Facebook and Instagram, which are owned by Meta, have overwhelmingly directed people toward groups pushing claims questioning the integrity of the vote or openly agitating for a military coup, researchers from the advocacy group SumOfUs found. On TikTok, five out of eight top search results for the keyword “ballots” were for terms such as “rigged ballots” and “ballots being manipulated.”
ellauri236.html on line 75: They found that five out of seven of the groups recommended by Facebook under searches for the term “intervention” were pushing for a military intervention in Brazil’s election, while five out of seven of the groups recommended under the search term “fraud” encouraged people to join groups that questioned the election’s integrity. The groups have names such “Intervention to Save Brazil” and “Military intervention already.”
ellauri240.html on line 173: Edwardin pidättänyt konstaapeli Allen (Dick Anthony Williams) ystävystyy ujon Edwardin kanssa välittömästi nähdessään tämän luontaisen hyvyyden. Sillä välin Edwardin torjuma ja raivostunut Joyce kostaa Edwardille väittämällä, että tämä yritti ”raiskata” hänet. Kun tämä lisätään Edwardin tilille ”murron” lisäksi, useat naapurit alkavat kyseenalaistaa Edwardin "luonteen", ja Edward menettää suosionsa heidän keskuudessaan. Tulee joulu, ja Bagginsin perhettä lukuun ottamatta lähes jokainen pelkää Edwardia, minkä seurauksena sekä Edwardista että Bagginseista tulee hylkiöitä.
ellauri242.html on line 252: Kollontai valittiin bolševikkien keskuskomiteaan vuoden 1917 elokuussa ja hänestä tuli sosiaalisen hyvinvoinnin kansankomissaari (ministeri). Vuonna 1919 hän perusti Ženotdelin, ”naisten osaston”, joka taisteli lukutaidottomuutta vastaan ja koulutti naisia vallankumouksen mukanaan tuomista uusista avioliitto-, koulutus- ja työlaeista. Vuonna 1920 hänet nimitettiin Neuvostoliiton kommunistisen puolueen naisjaoston johtajaksi ja seuraavana vuonna Kominternin naisasiain sihteeriksi, josta hän joutui lopulta eroamaan feministisen mielipiteidensä vuoksi.
ellauri256.html on line 358: The stormy affair between the legendary “singer of the revolution”, Vladimir Mayakovsky, and a “proponent of depravity”, Lilya Brik, lasted 15 years, until the poet's suicide in 1930. He devoted poems and hundreds of love letters to her. It was probably this affair that most of all contributed to her going down in history, yet it also left her with hundreds of enemies, who tried to erase any trace of her, even from documents. So, who exactly was this femme fatale?
ellauri257.html on line 69: British-born director J. Lee Thompson (“The Yellow Balloon”/”The Passage”/”King Solomon’s Mines”) helms this bloody spectacular. It’s a serviceable large-scale epic that mainly goes wrong with a mushy subplot involving a miscast Tony Curtis as a Cossack wooing a Polish noblewoman, Christine Kaufmann (they were soon to be married in real-life after his divorce from Janet Leigh). It seems to be in genre form when showing hordes of Cossack horsemen flying across the steppes to do battle. It’s based on the novel by Nikolai Gogol and is written without wit or logic by Waldo Salt (former blacklisted writer) and Karl Tunberg.
ellauri260.html on line 344: Antiikin filosofinen termi hypostaasi eli substanssi tarkoitti usein yksilöiden "alustaa" tai jopa "olemusta" (kr. ousia, lat. essentia). The term person comes from the Latin persona, whose origins are traceable to Greek drama, where the πρόσωπον, or mask, became identified with the role an actor would assume in a given production. Such usage is carried over today in the word “persona,” referring to characters in fictional literature or drama, or second identities which people adopt for behavior in given social contexts. Its introduction into the mainstream of intellectual parlance, however, came with theological discourse during the patristic period, notably the attempts to clarify or define central truths of the Christian faith. These discussions focused primarily on two doctrines: the Trinity (three “persons” in one God) and the incarnation of the second person of the Trinity (the “hypostatic” union of two natures – divine and human – in one “person”). Confusion marred these discussions because of ambiguities in the philosophical and theological terminology, such that, for example, the thesis – ascribed to Sabellius – would be advanced that in God there was one ύπόστασις and three πρόσωπα, where ύπόστασις conveyed the meaning of “person” and πρόσωπα bore the sense of “roles” or “modes” of being. In order to present these mysteries with precision, the concept of person and the relationship of person to nature needed clarification. The debates culminated in the First Council of Nicaea (325) and the First Council of Constantinople (381), and in the drafting and propagation of the Nicene-Constantinopolitan creed. Mutkallisen kristillisen opinkehityksen tuloksena Khalkedonin kirkolliskokous v. 451 päätyi Jumalasta puhuttaessa samastamaan termit persoona (kr. prosopon, lat. persona) ja hypostaasi (kr. ja lat. hypostasis) ja viittaamaan molemmilla kristinuskon Jumalan kolmeen ilmentymään, Isään, Poikaan ja Pyhään Henkeen. Se oli paha erehdys. P.o. 1 aineellinen alusta jolla kolme naamaria. Ks. myös selitykset termeihin Jumalan ominaisuudet, kaksiluonto-oppi ja idiomikommunikaatio.
ellauri270.html on line 323: Mr. Graves sets the stool in the center of the square and the black box is placed upon it. Mr. Summers asks for help as he stirs the slips of paper in the box. The people in the crowd hesitate, but after a moment Mr. Martin and his oldest son Baxter step forward to hold the box and stool. The original black box from the original lotteries has been lost, but this current box still predates the memory of any of the villagers. Mr. Summers wishes to make a new box, but the villagers don’t want to “upset tradition” by doing so. Rumor has it that this box contains pieces of the original black box from when the village was first settled. The box is faded and stained with age.
ellauri270.html on line 359: Mrs. Graves watches Mr. Graves draw their family’s slip of paper. Throughout the crowd, men are holding slips of paper, nervously playing with them in their hands. “Hutchinson” is called, and Tessie tells her husband to “get up there,” drawing laughs from her neighbors.
ellauri270.html on line 389: Even a dystopian society like this one doesn’t exclude other aspects of human nature like youth, popularity, friendship, and selfishness. Nancy’s behavior resembles that of many popular teen girls—again emphasizing the universal nature of Jackson’s story. We get the sense that Old Man Warner is perpetually displeased with any kind of change to tradition—even though the omniscient narrator tells us that the “tradition” Warner is used to is very different from the original lottery.
ellauri272.html on line 392: Tekstitysten mukaan presidentti Niinistö kertoo keskustelleensa Bidenin kanssa viime aikoina ”melko paljon”...muun muassa peniksestä... niin, muun muassa peniksestä.
ellauri297.html on line 155: ”Mene, ota itsellesi haureellinen vaimo ja haureudesta syntyneet lapset” . ”Mene vielä ja rakasta lörppävittuista naista… joka rikkoo avion”. Kansa on syyllinen. Kyllä kansa tietää.
ellauri299.html on line 536: Matthew Desmond, the acclaimed Princeton sociologist and author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, thinks that poverty has barely improved in the United States over the past 50 years — and he has a theory why. Laid out in a long essay for the New York Times Magazine that is adapted from his forthcoming book Poverty, by America, Desmond’s theory implicates “exploitation” in the broadest sense, from a decline in unions and worker power to a proliferation of bank fees and predatory landlord practices, all of which combine to keep the American underclass down. Relative poverty in the US has stagnated in the last 40 years.
ellauri300.html on line 769: Rabbi Elijah ben Solomon Zalman, som levde på sjuttonhundratalet och kallades “den store från Vilna (Vilna Gaon)” är en av de rabbier som används som auktoritet när det gäller att identifiera germanerna som Amalek, ett utpekande som anses vara baserat på ”äldre tradition”.
ellauri300.html on line 790: Det är en utbredd uppfattning att ”Ishmael” (araberna) först måste besegras innan ”Davids son” (Moshiach) kan utropas till kung och i samma anda menar man att det först är då som det är möjligt att genomföra den slutgiltiga utrotningen av Amaleks säd ned till sista man, kvinna och barn eftersom man vid denna tid kommer att ”ha full kontroll” och inte längre vara ”beroende av andra nationer”.
ellauri309.html on line 515: Hoover and Sullivan considered King “the most dangerous Negro of the future in this nation”. Armed with salacious archival material from a recent FBI documents release, Garrow has reported about the iconic civil rights leader’s sexual misconduct, ranging from numerous extramarital affairs and solicitation of prostitutes to the allegation that he was present during the violent rape of a Maryland churchgoer. Garrow insists that a fundamental reconsideration of King's reputation is imminent. He describes how King and a handful of Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) officials checked into Washington DC’s Willard hotel along with “several women ‘parishioners’”. The group met in his room and discussed which women among the parishioners would be suitable for natural and unnatural sex acts, meaning anal and oral, genital being natural. The alleged rapist was Reverend Logan Kearse, a Baptist minister from Baltimore. Reportedly, "Mike" King just stood by with erect cock in hand overseeing the action, like another Kim Yung Il.
ellauri311.html on line 262: mystisen fysiologian tai ”hienovaraisen kehon” määrittämistä kehoon ja
ellauri313.html on line 453: viestiketjun Twitteriin Ukrainan sodan tilanteesta. Aaltolan mukaan on tultu vaiheeseen, jossa nähdään selkeää ruumisläjien kasvua. - Venäjällä pelissä kaikki Ukrainan sotaa varten satsatut joukot. Selkeä huollettavien kasvu havaittavissa puolella jos toisella, Aaltola tviittaa iloisena. Konfliktit eskaloituvat kahta reittiä: Niillä on taipumus syventymiseen, jolloin sodan intensiteetti paranee, koskas muutenkaan. (Muita reittejä en muista, kazo kuvasta.) Venäjällä pelissä kaikki Ukrainan sotaa varten satsatut joukot. Selkeä kuolevaisuuden kasvu havaittavissa, Kts esim. Herman Kahn ”On Escalation”, 1965. — Mika Aaltola (@MikaAaltola) March 8, 2022. Ai oops, täähän uutinen on jo yli vuoden vanha. Presidentti Zelenskyi vannoo sotarikollisten rankaisemista ja varoittaa länsimaita Venäjän valloitushaluista. Vittu tervetuloa vaan yrittämään valloittaa takaisin edes postimerkin kokoinen pala ryssiltä, huutaa Ukrainan ulkoministeri tuskastuneena. Puheloinen (äiti oli siitä vihainen: heta korven! hur kan man heta så?) sanoi vuosi sitten työmiehen muistelmissa ettei tää sota lopu ihan hevillä. Oikeassa oli loinen.
ellauri315.html on line 202: Taistelut lähestyvät Leningradia. Mutta ei riitä se, että Saksa voittaa Venäjän. Jos se väsyy voittajana, on se kuitenkin hävinnyt sodan. Mikä on silloin Suomen kohtalo? Miten lapsellisen sokeasti me tuijotammekaan saksalaisten ”voittoon” ja Moskovan valloitukseen! Voi tulla meillekin sellainen aamu, jolloin heräämme kauhuun voittajan seppel ohimoilla…
ellauri318.html on line 233: Garri Kasparov: Ukrainan sota ”ratkaisee ihmiskunnan kohtalon”.
ellauri335.html on line 183: Kaupassa kannattaa käydä usein, mutta ostaa mahdollisimman vähän. Koskaan ei voi tietää, milloin jonkun erän hintaa on alennettu todella paljon”, nainen, 63.
ellauri335.html on line 189: ”Käyn kaupassa kerran viikossa ja ostan tarjoustuotteita. Sunnuntaisin kaupasta saa 60 prosentin alennuksen. Näin ruokalaskuissa säästääkin paljon”, mies, 90.
ellauri336.html on line 573: Brittiläistaustainen ympäristöjärjestö Hazonin perustaja Nigel Savage kertoo Thunbergin toiminnan osoittavan, kuinka ”naiivi, vääristynyt ja kiihkoileva antisionismi” on saanut jalansijaa ”vasemmiston” tai ”edistyksellisten” ihmisten keskuudessa. Savage kuvaili ilmiötä surulliseksi ja huolestuttavaksi. Tätä emme odottaneet brittikolonialisteina luvatessamme Balfourin julistuxella luvatun maan juutalaisille päästäxemme ize eroon noista kullinnupeista.
ellauri339.html on line 589: The writing is on the wall. An op-ed in the New York Times entitled “I’m a Ukrainian, and I Refuse to Compete for Your Attention” summed things up nicely: A media junket the author’s friend had been organizing to Ukraine was canceled. The T.V. crew instead left for the Middle East.
ellauri339.html on line 610: But the most predictable factor leading to quiet U.S. moves toward some sort of “peace solution” in Ukraine is as predictable as the battlefield results. There is unease in the U.S. government over how much less public attention (despite the propaganda) the war in Ukraine has garnered since the Israeli–Hamas conflict began more than a month ago. Combined with a new Speaker of the House seeking to decouple aid to Israel from aid to Ukraine, officials fear that shift could make securing additional funds for Kiev difficult.
ellauri349.html on line 545: 1The Embodied Mind, by Francisco J. Varela, Evan Thompson, Eleanor Rosch. This classic book, first published in 1991, was one of the first to propose the “embodied cognition” approach in cognitive science. It pioneered the connections between phenomenology and science and between Buddhist practices and science—claims that have since become highly influential. The View from Within: First Person Approaches to the Study of Consciousness, by Francisco Varela and Jonathan Shear (Eds). How can we be sure even that we exist? The editors agree that we can't be sure but they recommend a pragmatist approach. Technology and the human condition. By B. Gendron. Published 1 November 1976.
ellauri391.html on line 469: Näistä ja muista vihapuheista Martti joutui pannaan ja matodieetille (the Diet of Worms). Martin suuhun pantu ”Tässä seison, enkä muuta voi. Jumala minua auttakoon” on urbaanilegenda. Kuin myös teesien naulaus kadetraalin oveen.
ellauri392.html on line 825: This ultimate tunnel vision of pursuing “intellectual liberation”å through a narrow tube of Heidegger seen through Derrida seen through de Man is reminiscent of a Yiddish proverb: “Az der vorem zitst in khreyn, meynt er az es iz keyn zisers nito.” Kun mato istuu piparjuuressa, se ei tiedä mitään ihanampaa paikkaa.
ellauri395.html on line 507: Kelvoton ehtoollinen – Paavalin ehtoollissanat ”joka syö ja juo erottamatta Herran ruumista muusta muonasta, syö ja juo itselleen tuomion” ovat aiheuttaneet monille uskoville kylmiä väreitä.
ellauri398.html on line 374: Tämä se yksi klassisin syy, jonka vuoksi ihmiset olettavat, että Raamatun Jumalaa ei voi olla olemassa. Kun ihmiset sotivat keskenään, ihmisistä olisi ilmeistä, että ”kunnon” Jumala tekisi intervention ja erottaisi riitelijät toisistaan, kuten kunnon aikuinen erottaa keskenään tappelevat lapset vahingoittamasta toisiaan.
ellauri399.html on line 210: The yogananda guy was “directly commanded” by God to teach the world “the secret yogic science of self-liberation.” He moved to the U.S. in 1920 to fulfill his charge. In Southern California he established the headquarters of a Self-Satisfaction Fellowship, with a membership of some 150,000. For more than 30 years he taught his disciples the yoga doctrine that human beings can achieve “god-realization” through their own efforts at disciplining mind and body. Even skeptics testified to his own discipline, e.g., he could slow or speed the pulse in his right wrist, while retaining a normal pulse beat in the left. For the last two years the guru suffered from a “metaphysically induced illness,” as his disciples put it—the result of “working out” on his own body some of the physical and spiritual burdens of his friends. Last November he began hinting that it was time for him to leave the world. As the weeks passed, the Master grew silent like a broken parking sensor.He stopped dictating his spiritual books. His last “little desire” was fulfilled, he said, when a disciple from Florida sent him some green coconut juice in March.
ellauri401.html on line 228: Kuultuaan opiskelukaverilta teosofiasta Pekka säntäsi kirjastoon ja lainasi A.P. Sinnettin niteen Den dolda världen. Kotona hän avasi heti Den dolda världen -teoksen ja luki muutamia lauseita sen ensimmäisestä luvusta. Niissä ”puhuttiin adeptien* veljeskunnasta ja selitettiin, kuinka on ollut ja yhä on ihmisiä, joilla on syvempi tieto luonnon ja elämän salaisuuksista kuin yhdelläkään tiedemiehellä.” Pekka ei voinut lukea sen enempää, sillä hänet ”valtasi niin suuri riemun väristys”, että hän oli pakotettu heittäytymään pitkäkseen sohvalleen ja koko hänen olemuksensa ”soi kuin yhdellä äänellä: tämä on totta, tämä on totta!” Luetun vaikutus oli niin valtava, ettei Pekka voinut ”lukea mitään sinä päivänä”, eikä ”ajatella enää mitään muuta”. Aivan kuin ilmestyksessä hän oli ”saanut varmuuden, että tietäjä-ihmisiä on, hän ize yhtenä, ja että hänen kaltaisensa vetelä ihminen voi päästä oikotietä jumalalliseen tietoon”. * Adeptilla tarkoitetaan okkultismissa sellaista ihmistä, joka on saavuttanut vihkimyksen asteen ja tullut esoteerisen filosofian tieteen mestariksi kammattuaan tukan niskaan päin.
ellauri419.html on line 67: Rika länder ska från och med 2035 ha ökat sin årliga betalning till fattiga länder med 200 procent, från dagens omkring 1 000 miljarder svenska kronor, till avtalets 3 300 miljarder sek. Besvikelsen från de fattiga länderna är total. – Uruselt. Det är ynkligt, säger Indiens representant Chandni Raina kort efter det att avtalet klubbats, och tillade att Indien motsätter sig överenskommelsen. Andra kritiska röster hördes från bland annat Bolivias delegation och Nigerias. – Om vi går hem med 300 är det en förolämpning. Det är ett skämt. Vi accepterar inte det! säger Nigerias delegation. Men kritik kommer också från ”väst”. Delegationen från Schweiz sa att COP29 brast i ”meningsfull ambition” och beklagade att avtalet ”urvattnats”. – Vi kan och måste göra bättre nästa år, sa delegationen när de lämnat förhandlingsrummet, rapporterar the Guardian. Förhandlingarna om utsläppsminskningar ska, enligt flera medier, ha varit riktigt infekterade där Saudiarabien utpekats som en stor sabotör då de motsatt sig alla formuleringar om fossila bränslen, mänskliga rättigheter och kvinnors rättigheter. Paska saudit jotka veljeilee muutenkin jenkkien ja nahattomien nupipäiden kanssa. Inhottavat mekkoniekat fossiileja tupruttavat pyyheliinapäät.
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Vladimir Putin syyttää jälleen länttä ja Natoa Venäjän hyökkäyssodasta Ukrainaan, kertoo muun muassa riippumaton venäläismedia Meduza. Haha riippumaton, se toimii Latviasta käsin ja on syvällä länkkärien rahasylissä. Sen propagandaa levittää tällä kertaa tamperelaisen Ilta-Pulun lihaläjä Mulari. Putinin mukaan vuosi 2024 on merkittävä ”sotilaallisen erikoisoperaation”, kuten Ukrainan sotaa Venäjällä on lain mukaan kutsuttava, tavoitteiden saavuttamisessa. Putin ei tosin maininnut, että reilusti yli tuhat päivää invaasion jälkeen Venäjä ei ole vielä saavuttanut tavoitteistaan yhtäkään. Länsi ja sen silmittömästi rahoittama Ukraina on sensijaan sanut vallatuxi palan Venäjää Kurskin mutkassa. Pelkillä dollareilla on saatu tapetuxi hyvinkin miljoona slaavia. Eihän se ihan kakkossodalle vielä vedä vertoja jossa slaavirumihia tuli 20M, mutta sentään jotakin. Suunta ainakin on oikea.
ellauri428.html on line 172: Då hade Trump sagt att USAID styrts av ett gäng radikala galenpannor, och Mask hade skrivit på X att biståndsorganet är ”en kriminell organisation”.
ellauri430.html on line 62: Elon Musk mellastaa lain tuolla puolen. Yhdysvaltain saxalainen presidentti Donald Trump perusti Muskille presidentin asetuksella ”valtion tehokkuus­viraston”, jonka nimeksi annettiin Doge.
ellauri430.html on line 186: Då hade Trump sagt att USAID styrts av ett gäng radikala galenpannor, och Mask hade skrivit på X att biståndsorganet är ”en kriminell organisation”.
ellauri432.html on line 365: Trump has given some early signs that he might push back on attempts to punish American firms like Meta. While speaking at the World Economic Forum last month, the President said the EU shouldn’t be fining American companies, calling it “a form of taxation” and saying “We have some very big complaints with the EU.”
ellauri434.html on line 188: In “Kiev — town” Bulgakov gave full rein to his nostalgia for the Kyiv of his childhood and to his antipathy to Ukrainian nationalism. The essay belongs to a genre of modernist city sketches and ironic travel guides that were popular among male prose writers at the time. Vladimir Nabokov’s “Guide to Berlin” and Viktor Shklovsky’s “Petersburg in the Blockade” were published in the same year. Shklovsky’s decision to give Petrograd, soon to be Leningrad, its pre-revolutionary name parallels Bulgakov’s choice to spell place names in the language of the Russian Empire rather than in Ukrainian. For Bulgakov, modernity had brought devastation to the “mother of Russian cities” causing it to regress to the status of a provincial town. His accounts of local opportunists, citizens’ shifting religious and political affiliations, an ugly new sculpture of Karl Marx, and even the actions of the competing armies who tried to seize Kyiv during the Civil War are affectionate and mildly cynical. However, the essay’s ironic comparisons of the former glory of the Russian Empire with its inferior modern Soviet version turn to crude hostility when Bulgakov describes his native city’s burgeoning Ukrainian identity. The section labelled ‘Science, Literature and Art’ contains a single damning word: “none”. Kyiv’s citizens are dependent on American charitable aid and find it hard to believe their fashionably dressed visitor’s stories of Moscow nightlife. Had he wished, Bulgakov could have told a vastly different story of Kyiv in the mid 1920s, one of the “jubilant experimentation” demonstrated in the multilingual title of Irena Makaryk and Virlana Tkacz’s 2017 collection of essays Modernism in Kiev/ Kyiv/ Київ/ Киев/ Kijów/ קייעוו
ellauri434.html on line 278: Kant maintains that underlying all the traditional proofs for God's existence is the concept of the ens realissimum, the most real being. Reason comes to the idea of this being through the principle that every individuated object is subject to the “principle of complete determination”. But it is a  category mistake to count existence among 1st order properties.
ellauri434.html on line 465: Every respectable man generally wore the simlah over the kethoneth (See Isaiah 20:2-3), but since the simlah hindered work, it was either left home or removed when working. Translated as “himation” in the Greek Septuagint. Paltto.
ellauri437.html on line 497: Using data from the US, Sutin et al. (2013) showed that self-reported feelings of well-being tend to increase with age across generations, but overall levels of well-being depend on when people were born. If the cohort (generation) effect is very strong, the snapshot can even give a picture that people become less happy as they grow older, even though the exact opposite is actually true per generation. However, it is important to bear in mind that “life satisfaction” and “happiness” are not really synonyms.
ellauri460.html on line 240: – Seurakunta ei voi olla pidättäjä myöskään alkukielen mukaan. Sillä kun on kyseessä seurakunta / morsian, on se alkukielellä feminiinimuoto, kun taas jakeessa 7 pidättäjä on maskuliinimuoto ”ho katekhoon” ja jakeessa 6 on neutrimuoto ”to kãtekhon”. Sentähden ei jakeissa 6 ja 7 ainakaan suoraan puhuta seurakunnasta (he katekhousa).
ellauri460.html on line 307: Noista uskovista, jotka vielä Kristuksen tullessa näkyvällä tavalla ovat täällä maan päällä, sanotaan, että ”he virkosivat eloon ja hallitsivat Kristuksen kanssa tuhannen vuotta” (Ilm. 20:4). He olivat siis kaikki kokeneet marttyyrikuoleman suuren vihan aikana Antikristuksen hallitessa, mutta heidät herätettiin henkiin. Kreikan kielessä tässä kohtaa käytetään verbiä dzaō (elää), josta käännös ”virkosivat eloon”. Sitä vastoin Korinttolaiskirjeen kohdassa (1.Kor. 15:51) on verbi allassō (muuttaa toiseksi, vaihtaa), joka siis kertoo jostakin ihan muusta kuin kuolleen henkiin herättämisestä. Paavali viittaakin sanonnalla "me muutumme" siihen radikaaliin muutokseen, joka tapahtuu uskovien saadessa uudet tuliterät ylösnousemusruumiit väliaikaisten konttiasuntojen tilalle.
ellauri461.html on line 452: ”Andriy Jermak on niin vaikutusvaltainen ja niin syvästi perehtynyt niin moniin maan sisäisiin asioihin, että näin laajamittaisen korruptiojärjestelmän on mahdotonta toimia ilman (hänen) syvällistä tietämystään ja ymmärrystään”, Ukrainan korruptionvastaisen toimintakeskuksen toiminnanjohtaja Daria Kaleniuk kertoi Kyiv Independentille. Jotta presidentti voi uskotella, ettei hän ize ole osa järjestelmää eikä korruptoitunut, hänen on hankkiuduttava eroon kaikista näistä korruptoituneista sisäpiirin ystävistään. Niin yksinkertaista se on”, hän lisäsi. "Mukaan lukien herra Yermak."
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sekobet, “copulation”

ellauri476.html on line 89: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (Cuba): Rubio is one of the most pro-Israel officials in the Trump administration. He has said that those who criticise Israel will not be granted US visas. He has also criticised the move by several Western countries to recognise Palestinian statehood as a “reckless decision” that “only serves Hamas propaganda”.
ellauri476.html on line 91: US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff (Jew): Witkoff is a New York-based real estate developer and investor close to Trump. He was tasked with ceasefire talks in Gaza. Witkoff was accused of reneging on Gaza talks after he accused Hamas of blocking a deal last July. Hamas political bureau member Basem Naim accused him of “serving the Israeli position”.
ellauri476.html on line 105: Aryeh Lightstone (Jew): A key figure in the Abraham Accords and the controversial aid organisation the “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation” (GHF), which faced severe accusations regarding aid mismanagement and coordination failures that led to the killing of hundreds of Palestinians seeking food. An ordained rabbi, educator, storyteller and entrepreneur from Long Island.
ellauri476.html on line 113: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office complained on Sunday that the formation of this executive committee “was not coordinated with Israel”. National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir called for a return to “full war” and “voluntary migration” rather than handing Gaza to a board involving Turkeys. This “anger” is largely theatrical. “Netanyahu’s objection is tactical,” al-Qarra noted. “Ultimately, this board outsources the heavy lifting of managing Gaza’s misery to international donors, while Israel retains security control without paying the price.”
ellauri479.html on line 318: Furthermore, David practiced the sin of polygamy contrary to the Law of Moses, which specifically commanded the king of Israel, that “he shall not multiply wives for himself” (Deu 17:17). From Scripture we know the names of eight of David’s wives: Michal (1 Sam 18:27), Abigail (1 Sam 25:39-42), Ahinoam (1 Sam 25:43), Bathsheba (2 Sam 12:24), Maacah, Haggith, Abital and Eglah (2 Sam 3:2-5). And he had other wives and concubines that are not named, as Scripture reveals, “David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem, after he came from Hebron” (2 Sam 5:13a).
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A watercolor rendition of “valuation and redemption”. No words, just collage of items in Old Testament time. Weighing scale as key element, add some coins, scroll contract, trade, promise, theme of Leviticus 27

ellauri480.html on line 133: Leviticus 27 outlines the tax for breaking vows. Where people were concerned, “the Law ordained that he who had taken such a vow should pay a sum of money to the sanctuary, determined according to the age and sex of the person” explains Albert Barnes. Men were valued higher than women; adults more than very young or very old people. Commentaries sometimes suggest that a cash value was indicative of intrinsic value.
ellauri481.html on line 183: He confesses that, from his childhood on, his mind “had been full of objections” against the doctrine of predestination—i.e., that God sovereignly chooses some to salvation but rejects others to everlasting torment; “it used to appear like a horrible doctrine to me.” Though he gradually worked through his intellectual objections, it was only with his conversion (early in 1721) that he came to a “delightful conviction” of divine sovereignty, having realized that he himself was in the former lot.
ellauri481.html on line 356: Acts of terror have been carried out by people of many nationalities and ideologies. But contrary to the mainstream media’s spin, since World War II Israel has probably been the world’s number-one sponsor of terrorism, implemented “by way of deception”—words from the motto of Mossad, Israel’s intelligence service. These acts have almost invariably been executed in a way that Arabs would be blamed. This has included, for example:
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