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houseofvans · 5 years

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SKETCHY BEHAVIORS | INTERVIEW WITH LAUREN YS

From large scale murals to multi-layered works on canvas, LA based artist Lauren YS’s art captures everything from the female experience, addressing topics like sexuality, death, aliens, monsters, and the occult. Her works are complex much like her own experiences, so we’re super stoked to find out more about what drives her, who and what inspires her, and what challenges and advice she has for our readers in this awesome Sketchy Behaviors interview..

Take the leap!

Photographs courtesy of the artist.

Introduce yourself. Hey! I’m Lauren YS - Hmm, something you might not know … I used to play ice hockey and my favorite candy are Peach O’s. I am a really good listener, but that also means I hate being interrupted. I dream, often, about being underwater.

Tell folks a little about your artwork and what do you love to make works about? I make work about the female experience, sexuality, identity, space, aliens, heritage, death, monsters, nature, emotions, natural phenomena, the occult and whatever else I might be obsessing about. I like slimy creatures, kitsch, psychedelia, sex and Halloween, and mixing repulsion with attraction. I want the viewer to feel unsettled as much as engaged. I make things in an effort to try to process the beautiful shit rocket that is the world around me.

When did art become something you were aware you could do for a living or as a career you wanted to pursue? I have always been making art, but I never thought it was possible to support oneself as an artist: It seemed really out of reach or surreal. It wasn’t until I had already been fully freelance for a year before I realized I was actually doing it. I think it’s just something that comes out of necessity, it’s like – if I want to keep making art as much as possible at the rate I am living, then damn, I’m going to learn how to make money off of it.

What’s a typical studio day for you like? I tend to work nocturnally. I’ll paint through the night and sleep through the day and watch horror movies, listen to podcasts about art, serial killers and cults, and eat anywhere from 1-2 sacks of tangerines every day. I like to really plow through paintings as well, it’s hard for me to stop working on something once I start. After about three weeks in the studio like this, your mind starts to wander off into deep strange places, and that’s when the really good stuff comes out.

What’s your studio or creative space like? What do you keep around to constantly motivate or inspire you? I have always worked best in a bit of “artistic chaos”–I like to fill my space with odds and ends, knick-knacks, items from my travels, talismans. I believe in the power of objects. I love my lava lamp and need to buy seven more. I also have this drawing I made of an Asian grandma screaming “DRAW, MOTHERFUCKER” which I plan to make into a screen print and give to all my artist friends.

When working on a body of paintings and works for a show, what is your process like? How long does it typically take you to complete a painting from start to finish? Depending on the size of the gallery, it can take anywhere from 2-6-10 months to create a show, given that it is often punctuated by mural tours and big projects to pay the bills. I like to work on lots of pieces at the same time, so generally it’ll take a few days to a week or two to finish a piece. I am trying to get better at reworking pieces rather than just pushing through them one by one. Workflow is still sorting itself out. I also make a ton of pieces that end up being nixed from the final show. I am very prolific but also very psychotic.

Not only do you work on canvas, but you are also known for some of your amazing murals! When did you start going from painting on a regular scale to large scale works? What’s your process like for mapping out these large works? Well shucks, thank you! I started painting murals around 2013, which was a sort of natural transition because I wanted to work bigger and bigger, I wanted to travel and be in the sun and use giant machines to make my art. I actually started learning color from using spray paint. I freehand everything because I like to feel independent of projectors or machines, especially if I’m in a foreign country or don’t have time or resources.

It makes me feel empowered to be able to make big things on my own. Maybe that comes from growing up under the common experience girls have, especially asian girls, where you’re expected to be small and quiet and obedient. I have always worked in active aggression against that stereotype.

Is there a medium you’d love to get your hands on, but yet to have the chance too? And what are your go-to materials? I’d really love to learn how to use an airbrush, a la Sorayama. Outside of 2D I am dying to get back into stop motion animation. My favorite brand of spray paint is Montana Black (high pressure forever!), and I use a wide variety of acrylics and gouache in my paintings, specifically the Holbein gouaches from Japan.

What do you love about where you live, and what is the art community like in your area? I never thought I’d move to LA, but I’ve been really enjoying it here. I’m a communal living person (been in and out of communities for about 9 years) and I am lucky to have found somewhere that fits with my work ethic (intense) and social vibe (weird). I like to be able to work alone while still having people bustling around and making things all the time. It helps me to feel like I’m not dead or a total solipsist.

I’ve also found that the artists in LA–especially the female artists–have proven to be really kind, generous and welcoming. There’s a lot of room for weirdos here; it might take a while to find them, but they’re here. We also have a one-eyed cat, did I mention that?

Who are some artists you’re inspired by and have influenced you throughout the years? I’m a big fan of dark/psychedelic/erotic artists like Keiichi Tanaami, Suehiro Maruo, Sorayama and the whole Ero Guro movement. I also love Goya’s dark paintings and the sculpture work of Bernini. Some contemporary artists I’ve been into lately are Christian Rex Van Minnen, David Altmejd, Robin Francesca Williams and the fabric sculptures of Do Ho-Suh. Jamie Hewlett, Swoon, Andrew Hem, Aryz. I find that my taste changes constantly and I am always thirsty for different influences.

What’s been the most challenging part of your art career? What’s been the most rewarding? What do you do to keep the balance? Something really challenging has been learning how to trust myself while growing in the industry and balancing business, work and travel. It’s a really solid test: moving to a new city, providing for yourself, going on tour, shifting from place to place, managing gallery work and mural work, all while protecting and nurturing your own ambition and positivity, and not feed into the shitstorm of capitalism and social media past what is required of you.

The muralist life is not for the faint of heart. I would hardly say that I keep any type of “balance”–art is my life and there isn’t much room for anything else, and that’s how I like it. It is the most rewarding thing to look around and feel like you’ve created something new and good and powerful, all on your own terms. It is similarly rewarding to feel the need to level up - I enjoy feeling stressed arguably more than I enjoy feeling accomplished.

What would your dream collaboration be? What do you enjoy most about collaborations with other artists or clients? I would love to do something with Takashi Murakami and/or his gallery (Kaikai Kiki Gallery). There’s also this amazing Australian animator named Felix Colgrave whose work I’ve been obsessed with lately, I’d love to find a way to make an animated short with him! I love collaborating - especially on mural work - because it’s such a cool experience to be able to intermingle your visual world with someone else’s. Working with ONEQ in Hawaii this year was really great, she had so many suggestions and ideas from out of left field that made me rethink my own work as well. It also forces you to relinquish some control on the way you work, and reflect on the basic joys of making shit in the first place.

If you could paint a portrait of anyone living or dead, who would you choose and why? I really want to do a tripped out portrait of Yayoi Kusama or Bjork or maybe Steve Buscemi—all heroes of mine.

What’s your advice to folks who see what you do and want to pursue art as a career? I would say, go at it as hard as you possibly can! Make sure you really enjoy doing it! Not all parts of painting murals are glamorous (actually, few are) and it’s important to truly love every part of it if you’re going to commit your life to it.

This means: hustling walls, handling machinery, travel, people, logistics, finding somewhere to pee, dealing with unexpected bullshit, not complaining, being comfortable handling yourself in dangerous situations, being independent and resourceful, etc. I have reservations about artists who genuinely don’t seem to enjoy all the elements of mural painting going too deep into it. But if it’s something you love, there’s nothing better.

What are your FAVORITE Vans? I’ve been rocking the classic authentic Vans in black/burgundy as paint shoes for years now. But I also love the Sk8-Hi boys in burgundy… I never wear them because I’m too scared to get paint on them, haha!

What other artists would you love to see interviewed for Sketchy Behaviors? I’m currently really into Andrea Wan, Louise Zhang and Caratoes. It would also be really cool if you covered a GNC or trans artist, like Nomi Chi or Laughing Loone!

What’s next for you that you can share? My first book is coming out this year with Von Zos, and I’m also going to be designing a tarot deck with them. April is my first mural tour in several months; I’ll be hopping from Australia - Guam - Peru, and then moving around South America for a while, trying to practice my spanish. After that, I’ll be starting work on my next big show, scheduled for a city in Asia, which I’m really, really excited about - keep an eye out!

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nicanormercado · 7 years

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04/29/17 - Neocon Day 1 Haul. The "Lit" cap and "Thirsty" beanie I bought out of hilarity. The Ash Ketchum cap I bought due to my love for the Pokémon franchise. p.s. I know what you're probably thinking. I could've just taken a photo of all the hats, but what fun would that be? You can't go wrong with a hipster-looking, bootleg photoshoot. #neocon #haul #hat #cap #beanie #fashion #accessories #lit #thirsty #ashketchum #pokémon #nerd #geek #cosplay #anime #onward #tamuning #guam #guahan

#tamuning #onward #geek #haul #pokémon #cosplay #guam #neocon #accessories #anime #guahan #fashion #beanie #cap #thirsty #ashketchum #nerd #lit #hat

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guamlove · 5 years

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Verified GL-639

26/F/Yigo

Military Gal new to Guam

I'd love to chat with someone! I'll be up for at least another hour, more if I find someone to chat with! Ideally, I get bored with text pretty easy.

I wouldn't mind watching something, or casually talking about this and that. I'm really thirsty and need to go get some tea or water. Hot tea sounds good! I Love BOBA TEA

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ericmrudd · 3 years

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'Can I Get A Witness?’ or ‘Overflowing with Living Water’ - Sermon sketchnotes: John 4.27-42 #sketchbook #sketchnote #sermon #sermonote #gospel #hope #purpose #sketching #drawing #visualjournal #moleskine #sharpie #fruit #blessed #ink #love #peace #sketchnotearmy #truth #serve #others #holiness #grace #sermonsketchnotes #thirsty #livingwater #life (at The Salvation Army Guam Corps HQ) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNyOGGGHYkG/?igshid=1o1meaedtt2gi

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billabong47 · 4 years

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Dat palm looking for a fren. You thirsty? . . . . . . . . . . #beach #praia #palm #guam #guamlife #islandlife #paradise #clouds #love #amor #beauty #beautifuldestinations #thebestdestinations #discoverearth #discover #instaguam #travelphotography #travelgram #photography #fotografia #landscapephotography #landscape #mood #pacific #cntraveler #explore #adventure #awesomeearthpix #earthpix #imimpressed (at Umatac, Guam) https://www.instagram.com/p/CL5B8NHD_b9/?igshid=5jvrstlrecun

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jhemafromgu · 7 years

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Topic: Unknown

Today, I asked my eleven year old sister: What topic should I write about?I heard food then I rambled that food is the essence of life. Life is the essence of food.She heard the word life so she said that as a topic. However, I told her that topic is too deep so we came to a topic of flowers.I extremely love flowers. My favorite flowers are roses and sunflowers. A simple, beautiful living thing can make your day or someone you care about. Here is my apology note: I am very sorry to say that I have missed six days of blogging. I had no motivaton whatsoever. I was pretty much not myself so I am coming back to say: I am under renovation A G A I N. Numerous irrelevant people have affected my life. I hate it so much. I hate pity so I do not want that as well. I am going to better myself. I am an independent, young lady. I do not want thirsty guys in my precious life. Topic is unknown because I was supposed to talk about a certain topic. Now, I am ranting on my single yet independent life. Going back to the topic! Flowers are a way to apologize or make someone happy. It is a simple way of saying that I care about you. Daisies are beautiful as well. All flowers are gorgeous! I am feeling like myself again. No more distractions and worries that are irrelevant for my growth. I am Jhem Ann from Guam. I love Disney princess movies and just movies in general. I love watching vlogs on YouTube, especially from Daily Bumps and Roman Atwood. I enjoy watching back to school related videos. I am a strong and brave individual. I have been doodling more than I write. I love drawing cute objects. I do not draw realistic things but cartoon drawings. My weebly account on my iPad has been giving me trouble which made me also have less motivation to write. Here is another note from me to you: Hello my sunshine! You make me happy. You are amazing and beautiful. You are creative and talented. You are a genuine individual. You must see the good in all even those who may seem not kind I in this world of ours. I love you, my sunflower who is still blooming to be the best in the world. This is me signing off till next time. xJhem Ann

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guamfoods-blog1 · 7 years

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Delicious thirst quenching drinks @chatimeguam #drinks #guamfoods #guam #coffee #strawberry #mango #tea #cafe #thirsty #thirstquencher

#thirsty #drinks #guamfoods #thirstquencher #tea #cafe #guam #coffee #mango #strawberry

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starmind-conservation · 8 years

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Animal Pictures, Our Fundamental Right

I keep seeing reports of politicians complaining about the sheer volume of calls they receive. Marco Rubio says that there’s pressure from “left wing radicals”, Mitch McConnell’s phone number has stopped working, The Hill reports that liberals are trying to jam the phone lines. The issue is being reported as “The Left” being obstructive in the same way “The Right” has been for the past several years. I think, though, that there is a fundamental misunderstanding in Washington as to why people are calling. The thing is, the reason we’re all so active all of a sudden, is that we really want to look at animal pictures.

I think I can speak for most Americans when I say that, fundamentally, all we want is to put in a good day’s work, come home to have a nice meal with the family, and then relax by looking at animals on the Internet. The problem is that, ever since the election in November, we’ve not been able to do that. And, as Americans, when we are prevented from exercising our rights to Life, Liberty and the Perusal Of Animal Pictures, we call, write, protest, and fight until we can.

Please understand that we’re not doing this just to irritate you. This is what is going on:

The election happened in November and a lot of us were like “Wait. What?”

Younger people got #woke. Older people were reminded that the America they knew, the America that was a Shining City, “where the walls had doors that were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here”, was still a work in progress.

As November turned to December, some of us got sad, thinking about all the challenges to our country that we had lived through and how it seemed the wheel was turning on us yet again.

Some of us got angry, feeling that promises were being broken, that claims about who we were and where we were going were being proven false.

Then, in January, our worst fears were proven true and we started to call.

Some of us called on behalf of children, remembering one burned child in an orange chair and one dead child on a beach. We remembered an America that asked for the tired, the poor, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free, an America that offered safe haven to those fleeing oppression.

We were the Americans who, despite our faults, welcomed others and gave them a chance at a better life. They are hungry, so we feed them. They are thirsty, so we give them water. We see the strangers and invite them in, clothe them, and look after them when they are sick. Without Google, founded by an immigrant, we wouldn’t even be able to find animal pictures.

We know this about ourselves, and when our nation tries to force us to be a people we are not, we are called to action, so we call to you.

Some of us called on behalf of our own children, believing that DeVos, a billionaire whose claim to fame was to design a failed school system, is a remarkably poor choice to head up the Department of Education. We are astonished to see her state of Michigan claim that education doesn’t include teaching kids to read. Readers ourselves, we know that the path to prosperity requires understanding the world in which we live. We understand the power of words, to free us from tyranny, to form a powerful nation, and to teach kindness.

We can imagine a nation in which a generation of children grew up not knowing their history. They may feel awe at a photograph of an eagle, but would they know the history? Would they know how the eagle was chosen? Would they know how we almost lost our nation’s symbol? Education is knowledge, knowledge is history, and history defines who are.

This generation would know neither the price nor value of freedom. They would be easily manipulated and unable to fight for what they know to be right. Such a nation would be a nation of sheep, a nation of cowards. Such a nation would not be America.

So we call.

Some of us align around family. Families take many forms, and in recent years we’ve been pleased to see so many families being formed. When people are allowed to love who they love, they spend time with those people. They go on vacations. They take their camera phones, so we all get more animal pictures to look at.

It’s win/win.

America is about helping one another to find these win/win situations. When the original thirteen colonies formed a union, they recognized that unified diversity was strength. This has been a lesson that America has had to learn over and over again as we’ve welcomed different peoples into our national family. So when there is a revival of a global program that destroys families, we grow concerned. When we hear rumors of a religious discrimination rule legalizing attacks on families and a judge who cares more about controlling women than treating them as people , we think of our own families, the families of our friends, and the families we wish to have, and we realize that they’re in danger.

In America, we have spent over two hundred years warning others of danger. We let out cries of defiance and not of fear. We are voices in the darkness. We are knocks at the door. As patriots, we are letters, emails, and tweets.

As patriots, we make the calls.

As proud, educated Americans we know we are imperfect. We know our pride can turn vicious. Once lurking behind closed doors and under hoods, malignant pride in the superficial spreads like a cancer throughout a society. We know this danger of misplaced pride because our nation’s history is a history of finding and fighting bigotry.

We’ve beaten it before and we will beat it again. We know that when pride in oneself becomes hatred of others, the flame burns so brightly that it eventually burns itself out. However, we also know that time spent putting out fires is time we cannot spend with our families looking at animal pictures.

So, when a the KKK supports a president, when a white supremacist supports a president’s Jewish erasure, when a white supremacist is given a seat on the national security council and starts playing the president like a fiddle, when the United States starts to look like Nazi Germany, we loudly proclaim, “This is not my America!”

Our America is one of sacrifice. We have given our lives to fight this hatred in Europe. We have given our lives to fight this hatred at home. We shall keep fighting on to the end. We shall fight in America, we shall fight at our borders and in our airports. We shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength. We shall defend our ideals, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the Internet. We shall fight in the fields and in the streets. We shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender.

Today, we are fighting on the phone lines.

This is why we call.

As fighters, as Americans, we understand the value of a just war. We did not shirk in 1765 when we brought war to our oppressors. We did not hesitate to respond in 1941 when war was brought to our own shores. We are willing to fight … when the cause is just.

However, when the president advocates for a nuclear arms race and doesn’t have a problem using such weapons, we remember life during the Cold War and the fear that our known world could vanish overnight. True, if there’s going to be no tomorrow, it’s easier to justify short-term spending, but many of us prefer longer-term economic planning. Today, such planning appears to be limited to a future war with China or Iran.

Do you know how hard it is to look at animal pictures when you are distracted by the disruption of the Internet, the widespread destruction of entire cities, and images of their people dying excruciatingly painful deaths as their skin sloughs off and they ooze radioactive blood?

It is hard to find justice in the idea of a nuclear war with our trading partners over the egos of the rich.

Preventing such a war? That is just.

This is why we call.

When viewing animal pictures, some of us are happy with cats and dogs. Some of us have tastes that run a bit more exotic. We grew up exploring our world through adventure books and nature documentaries. We dream of visiting the African jungles, the Himalayan mountains, and the polar wastes, to see elephants knocking down trees and mountain goats scampering along the edge of cliffs, to hear blue whales and howler monkeys. We want to explore caves, to find the small bats and lizards that lurk within. We feel a deep need to take the animal pictures ourselves.

We visit zoos because, increasingly, those are the only places you can find some types of animals. The Guam rail, scimitar oryx, Hawaiian crow, and Socorro dove can no longer survive in the wild. As the arctic warms along with the rest of the planet, polar bears, arctic foxes, lemmings, wolverines and several species of penguins will also only be able to live in zoos. We visit to create more animal pictures but, like those who run the zoos and sanctuaries, we wish that there were more wild in the wild. A healthy planet with healthy photogenic animals makes for healthier humans.

So we call for the planet itself.

Those of us who live in certain states know that there is a greater threat than mere water. While extreme heat, drought, wildfires, flooding will worsen in every state, it will be worst in Florida, Texas, Missouri, Mississippi, Nevada, and Arkansas. Representatives from those states should pay particular attention to calls from their constituents, as they are the people who will be dying of heatstroke, paying more for water, losing their entire community to fire and flood.

When our leaders ignore this problem, head the EPA with a man that wants to destroy it, and put a freeze on the very agency whose job is to keep people from being poisoned, while such poisoning is made legal, we start to call.

We recognize that it is too late to save everything. We passed that point years ago. Up until November, the plan was to save what we could as we developed ways to mitigate the damage that was being done. Now, though, with those very people we are supposed to trust to keep our lands, waters, and bodies healthy rejecting their responsibilities out of hand, we call.

We call for ourselves. We call for our children. We call because beautiful spacious skies are better than cancerous clouds of smog, because amber waves of grain are better than strip-mined wastelands, because majestic purple mountains have more value than just the minerals they contain.

We call because the patriot dream that sees beyond the years is worth fighting for.

We call because we’re not going to hide from this. Because Hancock, Adams, Franklin, Jefferson, Thornton, and Hopkins cannot. Because Ronald Reagan, Paul Revere, and Katharine Lee Bates cannot. They were America and stood for our values. Today, we are America and we take our stand. We stand for life. We stand for liberty. We stand for freedom (and animal pictures). We will call, march, and fight not because we’re radical, but because we know what is right and we know what we are fighting for.

So, members of Congress, before you dismiss us as leftists, as radicals, remember who we are and what America stands for. Stand with us or stand aside. We are the people. We are America. All we want is for our representatives to do just that: to represent.

If you want us to leave you alone, all you have to do is represent our interests. That’s all. Just do that and we’ll all go back to our animal pictures, and rest comfortably knowing that our nation is in good hands.

We’ll be watching.

Originally posted at stories.starmind.org.

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brucedinsman · 9 months

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Proverbs 25:21 NKJVIf your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat; And if he is thirsty, give him water to drink; #GiveThemJesus #GIVETHANKS #Outreach: That the world may know #Prayer Focus: Pray for Our Prodigals #Praise the Lord Please follow my blog Guam Christian Blog Please follow my blog Guam views Blog Podcast: https://anchor.fm/bruce-dinsman Bruce’s Facebook…

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christsbride · 6 years

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The Catholic Church and Sexual Abuse

Pennsylvania, 2018, The Catholic Church is rocked, once again, by allegations sexual abuse. Except this time, it is a HUGE revealing that spanned over 70 YEARS! 1,000 plus victims! BY OVER 300 PRIESTS! Some of these Priests have been promoted AND their names even redacted (protected). The reason why we added "once again" in the first sentence is because, well, this is not the first time. And clearly, over the 70 years it was not.

Pope Francis accepted the resignation of retired Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the former archbishop of Washington, D.C., who is alleged to have sexually abused a minor 47 years ago (and never openly repented of it). This man was a CARDINAL. Yet, all the while abusing little boys. An internal diocese memo from Erie in northwestern Pennsylvania, a priest admitted to being “aroused” while tutoring a boy, hugging him and sharing sexually suggestive text messages with multiple boys. The priest’s bishop admonished him to “cease and desist,” but Catholic Church leaders didn’t pass that information along to authorities until six years later – and only then in response to a grand jury subpoena. David Poulson resigned from the diocese this past February, three months before he was charged with sexually abusing two boys. In March, a Vatican tribunal found the archbishop of Guam, Anthony Apuron, guilty of “certain accusations” involving the sexual abuse of minors.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops adopted the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People in 2002. The Boston Globe reported on this way back in 2002 (https://ift.tt/1PfyFWb). That was 16 years ago!

The best-known study on sex abuse by Catholic priests was published in the US, by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Commissioned by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, its main findings were published in 2004. Some 4% of American priests and deacons in active ministry were accused of abusing children in cases dating to the years between 1950 and 2002, the study found, with 75% of the abuses alleged to have taken place from 1960-1984. (https://ift.tt/1PuJ8yi)

It has been a fairly common (inappropriate and offensive to victims) joke about Catholic Priests and alter boys. Have you even stopped to wonder WHY that became a "joke" or a "thing" in the first place? Because it is more common that people are willing to admit.

What does all those reveal about the Catholic Church?

The leadership as a whole is to blame for the raging sin continually sweeping through this religious institution. They do it, know about it, and or ignore it or hide it... The POPE himself spoke about climate change before speaking out against this... Days after knowing about how many lives were ruined by HIS Priests, he instead made sure he gave his all important climate change pep talk about the need to address climate issues. Someone else from the Vatican made a press release regarding the issue. The USCCB, stated they will make an investigation a top priority... Where were they over the past 70 years this was going on? Didn't they say they would make changes to prevent this stuff back in 2002? 16 years ago? What happened? They may have even been part of promoting some of the Priest that got busted. That leads to the next problem. The Cardnial(s), Bishop(s), and Priests that have BEEN promoted... does the Catholic Church not know who they are promoting? They praised these sick men as men of God, do they not know what a Man of God looks like?

Its one thing to make a mistake. It happens. Pastors screw up, big time, some times, but the Holy Spirit convicts and changes the hearts and minds so that God is glorified. Is the Holy Spirit absent in the Catholic Church? Why do they have such a chronic sexual problem? Why are these chronic sexual problems constantly with leadership of the Catholic Church? Even if they are not the ones actually committing the sexual act, they sure are helping hide it and promoting those who do it.

What Does All This Mean?

The Pope is failing to oversea the Catholic Church

The Cardinals, archbishops, bishops and priests are failing to oversea their local communities and instead commit sin and protect sin.

The Catholic Church, institutionally, protects those who commit sexual sin.

2015 number of Priest was 37,192. Which is actually down 2,000 from 2010 and another 2,000 from 2005. That means we can estimate that in 2018, there are around 34,000 Catholic Priests. If you do the math, that makes almost 1% of all Catholic Priests in America, named in the Pennsylvania sexual abuse scandal (give and take those who have resigned and recently joined the team). THAT IS HUGE

Its bad either way: Either the Catholic Church knowingly promotes pedophiles to high positions or they don't know who they are promoting to high positions.

Its bad either way: Either the Catholic Church admits they are infected with sexual sin and aren't rebuking it or they are blind to the fact they are infected by sexual sin and aren't rebuking it.

What Does All This REALLY MEAN?

Right now, in the Church and out of the Church, there are two kinds of people, Goats and Sheep. When Jesus returns he will separate them. Matthew 25:31-46 is speaking to them. The KING tells the sheep "“The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’"

But to the Goats he will say "‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’44 “They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’ 45 “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’ ALL THESE VICTIMS have been hungry for The Lord, eager to please God, and these disgusting Catholic Priests abused these people to satisfy their own selfish sexual desires. All the disgusting Catholic leadership failed these people and did not fight for them or stand up for them against the sexual sin they were experiencing. All these disgusting Catholic leadership now, staying quite, hiding, unwilling to speak against what is going on in the Catholic Church. These are the Goats. How can I say this? Because God himself declares: 1 Cor 6:9-10 "do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men10 nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God." Unless they repent and confess their sinful disgusting hearts and rebuke their sexual desires... they wont inherit the Kingdom of God. THIS IS NOT A CATHOLIC PROBLEM ONLY Now don't think for a second that this is only a Catholic Church problem. This is a HUMAN HEART problem and the Church is made up of SINNERS. BUT, when sin rears its evil head, The Holy Spirit filled church CONVICTS the Sin, confronts the sin, rebukes the sin, and helps restore the person who seeks to turn away from the sin; or they cut fellowship with the person who would rather love their sin than the Lord. The problem for the Catholic Church, however, is they are not openly willing to convict, confront, and rebuke sexual immorality. They, some times, try to do it quietly, behind the scenes and NOT how Jesus himself prescribed church discipline. Matthew 18:15-17 "5 “If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. 16 But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. 17 If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector." Ephesians 5:11 "Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them." 1 Timothy 5:20 "As for those who persist in sin, rebuke them in the presence of all, so that the rest may stand in fear." TO CATHOLICS: Call on your leadership to ACT! Hold leadership accountable for FAILING to protect children and all those who were sexually abused! Rebuke your Church and this Leadership and SEEK THEIR REPENTANCE! If they refuse to listen, than your church is nothing more than an unbelieving church and "a tax collector" (Matt 18:17). Without this, the sexual abuse will just continue and your Catholic Church will continue to live in sexual immorality and victimize more people. CONFRONT and EXPOSE Sin; or just worship with the goats. Our Prayer Pray for the victims who have keep this deep dark secret to themselves for all these years. May the Lord give them peace from any guilt. May the Lord shower them with GRACE so they can freely worship him. Pray that the Lord bring pure Justice and purges this disgusting sin from the Church and from the Catholic Church. Expose all those who think they are getting away with their sins and sharply rebuke all whose who claim to be a follower or Christ but are failing His flock. We pray that the Gospel shines brighter as our disguising sinful nature is made open for the world to see. May God be glorified and man be humbled; allow us to see the true Body of Christ from the goats. If you have any questions or comments about this article please contact us or join our discussion forms

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Colorado agriculture agency shares pot know-how

By Kristen Wyatt Associated Press

Friday, Feb. 3, 2017 3:28 PM

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DENVER – North Carolina wants to know if marijuana could one day replace tobacco as a cash crop. Louisiana is wondering how pot holds up in high humidity. And Washington state has questions about water supplies for weed.

Colorado agriculture officials this week briefed officials from about a dozen states – some that have legalized weed, others that joked their states will legalize pot “when hell freezes over” – on the basics of marijuana farming and swapped stories about regulating a crop that the federal government still considers illegal.

The Colorado Department of Agriculture also is working on the world’s first government-produced guidelines on growing marijuana. There’s no shortage of how-to books catering to pot growers both in and out of the black market, but Colorado’s forthcoming guidebook aims to apply established agronomy practices to the production of marijuana.

“When you start with no knowledge at all, it’s rough,” said Mitch Yergert, head of Colorado’s Division of Plant Industry, an agency within the Agriculture Department that regulates marijuana production.

Yergert conceded that Colorado agriculture officials ignored marijuana entirely for more than a dozen years, from the time voters in the state approved medical pot in 2000 until recreational pot shops started opening in 2014. “Nobody in our agency ever grew marijuana, so how are we supposed to develop best practices?” Yergert said.

But marijuana’s commercial popularity, coupled with increasing concern over pesticides and unsafe growing conditions, forced the department to stop considering marijuana a running joke and start seeing it as a commercial crop in need of regulation. Colorado sold about a billion dollars’ worth of marijuana last year, making it a cash crop, the same as many others.

Now, the agriculture department is sharing what it has learned about weed with other agencies.

Speaking at a recent soil-conservation conference in Denver, Yergert briefed other state agriculture officials on how to inspect marijuana and hemp growers, and just as important, how to regulate a plant that’s illegal under federal law.

“You kinda gotta get your mind around it,” Yergert said.

The visiting agriculture officials toured a large Denver pot-growing warehouse, where a grower showed them the plant’s entire cycle, starting as clones in one room before getting transplanted to bigger tubs.

The grower, Tim Cullen, also showed the officials how the plant is trimmed and its psychoactive buds dried for smoking. Finally, the farm regulators saw how marijuana waste – errant leaves and such – are rendered unusable before being thrown away.

“This is blowing my mind right now,” said Erica Pangelinan of the Northern Guam Soil and Water Conservation District. Pangelinan was using her cellphone to snap photos of wooden frames used to hold drying marijuana.

Guam allows medical marijuana, but many states on the tour don’t. Still, the visiting agriculture officials say they need to be prepared in case laws change to allow pot-growing at home.

“We’re just looking to see what’s ahead,” said Pat Harris, director of North Carolina’s Division of Soil & Water Conservation.

Some states on the tour plan to grow pot themselves.

“We’re getting in the marijuana business in Louisiana, so we need to know what we’re doing,” said Brad Spicer of the state’s Office of Soil & Water Conservation, where the Legislature has authorized two universities to grow the plant for medical use and research.

Yergert warned the agriculture officials that regulating weed still isn’t easy and that they should be prepared for pushback from their own staffs.

“Our guys were saying, ‘I can’t pick my kids up from school because I smell like pot,’” Yergert said.

Another problem? Stony silence from federal agencies that agriculture offices usually turn to for help.

“It hasn’t gotten a lot more warm and fuzzy,” Yergert said. “I think they look at us as, ‘What an annoyance!’ I mean, they deal with drug smugglers and international cartels, and here’s the Colorado Department of Ag coming wanting a permit for something.”

Cullen, the pot grower, urged the agriculture officials to look past the hurdles and see pot growers as farmers thirsty for guidance on growing healthy, profitable crops.

“We want your help. We’d rather not rely on the 19-year-old at the grow shop,” said Cullen, who is one of Colorado’s largest pot growers and is advising the Agriculture Department on its forthcoming pot guidelines.

The agronomists standing in the room of pot nodded, saying they’re open to sharing advice – though their knowledge must remain academic.

“I can tell you how to grow it. But I can’t use it. I’m drug-tested for the state department of agriculture,” joked Max Jones of North Carolina.

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