#is methodism separate from calvinism or not

[ephemeral-winter]

preparing for an academic class on protestant bible usage and has anybody else noticed that after a certain point in the history of the church words stop having meaning to these people

[lewmagoo]

listen, hear me out: cock milking table

[ @bobgasm ]

bob: he’s down, however he prefers to be close to you and doesn’t really love having a table separating your bodies. he loves the feeling of your hands and mouth around his cock, and when you’re out of sight he can’t predict what you’re going to do next so it keeps him on the edge. however you don’t utilize the table that often because it isn’t always his favorite method of cock milking

rhett: he would take a lot of convincing i think. you’d have to be really established in the kink realm of your relationship before he agreed to do something like that. because even though he’s on the slutty side when you first get together, he isn’t well-versed in kinks at all, aside from a few tame ones. once you get him warmed up to the idea of using the table though, he really enjoys the experience. even though he, much like bob, prefers to be close to you

miles: SIGN HIM UP. he’s so down for it. he’d let you do anything you wanted to him, really. i’m also picturing using an actual cock milking machine on him while you’re at it. it turns him into a sobbing, whimpering mess. you can draw a few orgasms out of him this way, but you have to use discretion because sometimes he slips and gets real subby in a bad way. he needs balance and guidance during scenes like that

harrison: he might be down to try it but it would probably only be once, and that’s it. out of all the characters i believe he’s the least likely to be a switch and he takes on the dom role completely. a milking table just isn’t really his thing

calvin: maybe? he’d certainly have his kinks but i’m not sure if a milking table would be something he’d be into. i do however think he’s willing to try anything and experiment a lot with you during sex, so anything is possible

[idylls-of-the-divine-romance]

Honestly, the solution is to just use the correct word: heterodoxy. Not everything is heresy, for literal God's sake.

Heresy has to do with theology, heterodoxy with philosophy.

Theology, as called theosophy, is thought about God and the world based on reason, Scripture, and mystical insight. This is what separates Christianity from Jainism. Two separate religions. We literally worship different gods.

Heresy is a religious theology and/or doctrine destructive of the truth of God and his mission to the world. This is the difference between Christianity and Mormonism/Gnosticism/Adoptionism etc. Also, while I'm at it, saying something like "God hates [insert group or person]" is heresy. I love that bishop (i think) that said it's blasphemous, but he's wrong. Believing that God hates any person is not blasphemous, it is heretical for any Christian (this does not apply to Jews or Muslims; love yall, go in peace).

Doctrine is a third thing: the authoritative body of teachings, and principles accepted by a body of believers. Catholics and Protestants, for example, have different doctrines but the same theology. Same God. Same religion. So NO catholics/protestants, protestants/catholics are not heretics. You worship the same God. Deal with it.

Then you have

Philosophy is the general beliefs, concepts, attitudes, opinions, intellectual methods, and leadership of a school of thought. This is like Arminianism vs Calvinism. Sadly, no Calvinism is not heresy. They technically have the same theology as other Christians, their philosophy is just really sucky (no offense).

Heterodoxy is religious philosophy that differs from prevailing opinions and beliefs but is distinctly not heretical. So for example this would be something like Universalism or believing in Conditional Immortality (as opposed to natural immortality).

Then on the lower side of the spectrum you have something like

Tradition is the information, beliefs, and customs of a group handed down from one generation to the next. So like Anglican vs Methodist. Similar philosophy, different traditions (which is why i don't yet know which i prefer).

Preference: personal liking or interest. I have a preference against the pastor at my church because i can't stand his preaching (pray for me yall T-T)

For some final words people use wrong:

Sin: to hate or be indifferent. Let me explain: Sin comes from a word meaning "to miss the mark" or iow, to fail at a purpose. Humans were made in the image of God, God is Love, humans are made in the image of love. It is the purpose of the human to love and to create life and beauty and goodness (in whatever way God calls you to. Parenting, science, art, activism, medecine, poetry, architecture, wtv). Thus, if to sin is to fail at the purpose and the purpose of the human is to love, to sin is to fail at loving - hatred and/or indifference. This is also why homosexuality is not a sin. But if you hate gay/trans/etc people, you are in sin.

Transgression: to betray or rebell. You steal from some rando, that's sin. You steal from your brother, that's transgression. Also, for the divorce/abuse issue: transgression is listed as a reason for divorce. This means adultery, obviously. To commit adultery is to betray the person you're supposed to love. It also includes abuse. To abuse your beloved, child, friend, etc is an act of transgression against them and God.

Iniquity: wickedness, crookedness. God made something one way, you perverted it into another way. I don't feel like i need to explain this one; it's pretty on the nose. One way this is used a lot tho, is the oppression of the weak. God says we are to love the poor and the immigrant and the widow and the orphan. To oppress those groups is to pervert God's law, AND it is to make his name less holy because he attached his name to us. This is why sin, transgression, and iniquity are big deals because they chase people away from God and turn God into this monster. See: the crusades and the inquisition and the transatlantic slave trade and the war on gay people and -

Anyway. I am well aware that words don't mean things, but rather people mean things by words. But also words freaking mean things!!!

sometimes…. religious theology that’s “““heresy”““….. is better

[ramrodd]

COMMENTARY:

The critical literary method is hiterary deconstruction, Historical deconstruction became the dominate method of inquiry on the American campus by the academe after, as as a consequence, of the takeover of Columbia Univerity in 1968 I was at Indiana University at the time and in my junior year of ROTC. I began ROTC the semester the anti-war movement began to get real traction when the draft began taking a 1.000 people a day out of the university system,

All of a sudden, Vientam became very real for everybody on campus but me. I had family friends kileed in Vietnam in 1959 or 60. I had boyhood firends living in Saigon part of MAG-V, the nation building arm of the US Army, IIt's a George Mrrshall artefact. I grew up with Vietnam on my mind,

Anyway, an 1968, the SDS had organized the anti-war movement to the extent that when Tet happened and the little people came out of the cities to do battle, America came as close to blowing up in a Trotsky revolution kind of way as what happened in Chicago. That's what an insurgence is designed to do. And I was right in the middle of it, taking note but mission oriented for my commission,

Fuck the draft dodgers: they had no idea what they would be missing, Liberal or conservative, I still can't believe that any red-blooded shouthern white boy who grew with the SEC and high school football wouldn't wouldn't be chomping at the bit to get into the fitght, To this day, it is a mystery to me, All I know for sure is that they wre all scared shitless of going to Vietnam, The John Bolton cop=-out: my sacrifice would not add one bit to the trajectory of the war,

There are no athiest in foxholes no matter what John Calvin might have to say on the subject, Fuck him, the TULIP doctrine is purely a post hoc rjustifiction for letting a righteos friend be put to the stake.

So, my entire college career was devoted to the deconstrucion of the critical literary method. In the inerrant epistemoloogy of scripture, from start to finish, the gestalt of the figure of Jesus moving through the field of everything else that is recorded very accurately, almost pure eyewitness journalism, the notes of the spy master debriefing the spy, Everything in necessarily in harmony with Jesus. He is like the sun passing over a field of sunflowers, how the seeds follow the sun, For me, it's like the picture in my mind that occurs listening to a Jonny Dollar radio drama in the back seat of a 47 Chryster with Tip-Toe control, That's the harmonic the words have been arranged to create in every reader's mind, universally, That' is what inerrancy looks like, The object of critical literary method is to take all those words appart in various ways, such as grammar and rherotic and symbolism and metre and allussion and numerology and all sorts of interesting possiblities. Such as the life of the woman for whom Hadel wrote :He was dispised of Men, that sort of thing, Then you put together a narrative of why it does or doesn't work or why it;'s som much fun to read, With the purpose in mind that the reader would go back and re-read your subject with renewed pleasure.

So, the idea of deconstruction wasn't new to me, Deconstruction is part of Hegel's historic gestalt. It's like taking a clock apart: the trick is putting it back together so that it works. The Post Modern Historic Deconstrucition of the SDS rejects Hegel and has no interest in capturing the original hamonization,

If you drew a Venn table with one enclosed field labled critical historic method and a second enclosed field labeled critical literary method and caused them to interect, Gary Habermass would personify the intentional consequence. And you could put Dr. Molly Worthen's Road to Emmaus experienc resulting in her ephphany regarding journalism and Resurrection,

If you separate the fields, Habermas and worthen would go with the field labled critical literary method. Their personal experience with the Holy Spirit is arriving at their conclusions would not exist in history without the literature.

[elonasblog]

Dream interpretation

Dreams are a typical piece of sound rest , with the typical individual going through around two hours dreaming consistently. In spite of how much time individuals spend dreaming, there is an extraordinary arrangement scientists actually don't figure out about the peculiarity. It is as yet hazy whether individual dreams convey more profound significance.

Dreams can wind around a mind boggling story that feels profoundly private. Many individuals are anxious to share the substance of their fantasies and attempt to grasp their hidden importance.

Dream Interpretation

We'll cover the study of dream understanding, from the psychoanalysts of the mid 20th hundred years to the latest science-based speculations analyzing the fundamental significance of dreams. We'll likewise investigate the most well-known dream points and tips to assist with dream understanding.

Hypotheses of Dream Translation Individuals have attempted to unravel the significance of dreams starting from the beginning of human advancement, however logical examination on dreams is generally new. The most noticeable hypotheses of dream understanding incorporate trailblazers from the mid 20th 100 years to present day neuroscientists .

Freud Freud, the most refered to clinician of the twentieth hundred years, distributed The Understanding of Dreams in 1900. This book addressed a huge achievement in the field of dream understanding.

As indicated by Freud, dreams address a type of wish satisfaction and hold the way in to an individual's longings. He demonstrated that the subject of an individual's fantasies originates from the real world, yet dreams are not indistinguishable from cognizant existence and can't be fully trusted. All things being equal, the basic significance of a fantasy is concealed in an individual's oblivious brain, the considerations and sentiments that lay beyond their cognizant mindfulness.

Jung Carl Jung was a contemporary of Freud and was extraordinarily impacted by Freud's Translation of Dreams. Yet, as Jung developed, his considerations on dream understanding started to separate from Freud's.

Jung accepted individuals experience various sorts of dreams that can be seen from the perspective of "remuneration." As per his hypothesis of pay, dreams are a system that permit the oblivious psyche to completely create or adjust parts that are in struggle with each other.

Lobby Analyst Calvin S. Lobby hypothesized in the 1950's that fantasies were pictures that address an individual's contemplations or thoughts. Lobby recommended that fantasies are likened to plays or institutions in view of the thoughts an individual has about themself, others, clashes, driving forces and desires, and their outside climate.

Lobby recommended that fantasy translation could assist an individual with bettering figure out themselves and illuminate their conduct in day to day existence.

Domhoff William Domhoff's vocation traversed from the 1960s to the distribution of The Development of Dreaming in 2018 and consolidated the examination of dream happy with cerebrum imaging methods and electroencephalogram (EEG) .

As per Domhoff's examination, dreaming is like the fantasies the vast majority experience in cognizant existence. His work recommends that fantasies don't serve a particular capability and are possible a result of the manner in which the cerebrum works.

Current Speculations The mind boggling speculations created by early trailblazers of dream translation have generally been supplanted by a neuroscience-centered approach.

Profound handling: One conspicuous hypothesis proposes that the items in a fantasy might assist the visionary with handling troublesome educational encounters. Specifically, the distinctive dreams of REM rest might assist the cerebrum with handling waking encounters and control feelings. Memory combination: Dreaming may likewise assume a significant part in shaping new recollections. This hypothesis declares that fantasies are a critical piece of the sensory system process that converts momentary recollections framed during the day into long haul recollections. Execution and inventiveness: As indicated by the overfitted mind speculation, the average encounters of day to day existence don't set up the cerebrum for surprising occasions. Dreams offer individuals a dreamlike story that effectively works on mental execution and lift innovativeness during waking hours. Normal Dreams and Potential Implications Individual character and interests can impact the stories of an individual's fantasies. Notwithstanding, certain predictable subjects are known to emerge in dreams for the vast majority various individuals.

Teeth Dropping Out Dreams about teeth dropping out are one of the most well-known dream stories. Various hypotheses have been proposed to make sense of the more deeply meaning of dreams including teeth.

The old Greek Artemidorus accepted these fantasies could be deciphered in view of which explicit tooth or teeth a visionary loses. The mid 20th century psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud estimated that fantasies about teeth had a sexual premise. Different specialists have suggested that this kind of dream addresses nervousness around maturing.

Ongoing examination recommends that dental bothering from strain in the teeth, jaw, or gums while resting may add to dreams about teeth.

Sex and Cheating Dream accounts that incorporate sexual substance are every now and again announced, with over 70% of individuals encountering dreams about sex. These sorts of dreams might reflect an individual's sentiments about sex and sexual way of behaving including unsatisfied longings.

A comparative subject that finds its direction into individuals' fantasies is unfaithfulness. One investigation discovered that dreaming about a conning accomplice might be connected to low degrees of closeness or sensations of desire in a relationship.

Cataclysmic events Dreams about cataclysmic events might include a flood , fire, seismic tremor, or prophetically calamitous story.

Cataclysmic event dreams are a kind of bad dream and might be connected with the horrible mishaps and stressors of an individual's lived insight. Individuals impacted by catastrophic events like typhoons and twisters might encounter sensations of despondency, tension, or dread about the tempest as bad dreams.

Falling The sensation of falling through the air while dreaming is an incessant subject that has risen up out of dream research.

Falling is a typical sensation individuals experience before a hypnic jerk. Hypnic jerks are compulsory sways that can include a piece of the body or the body overall.

Nightmares' meaning could be a little more obvious. Bad dreams might imply that an individual is battling with pressure, injury, or a rest problem. Bad dreams are clear dream groupings that include upsetting occasions and frequently wake an individual from rest. They can conjure sensations of dread and tension, yet bad dreams can likewise cause humiliation, outrage, and loathing.

Bad dreams happen in individuals of any age every once in a while, however they are more normal in kids. Infrequent bad dreams can be upsetting yet many individuals who experience bad dreams don't need treatment. They might be an indication that an individual is encountering an unpleasant life altering situation like a move, beginning another everyday schedule, or having inconveniences at home.

Different reasons an individual might encounter bad dreams incorporate beginning or halting a doctor prescribed medicine, the utilization of unlawful medications, drinking a lot of liquor or unexpected liquor withdrawal, utilizing non-medicine tranquilizers, or having a disease joined by a fever.

Individuals who experience rehashed bad dreams might need to talk with a medical services supplier. Successive, troubling bad dreams can be a sign of rest apnea or another rest issue. Relentless bad dreams may likewise be an indication of a psychological well-being condition, for example, a nervousness problem, discouragement, or post-horrendous pressure issue (PTSD).

Methods for Breaking down and Deciphering Your Fantasies Deciphering dreams is a long way from a precise science. However, a couple of tips can assist people with better grasping their fantasies.

Keep a fantasy diary: Utilizing a diary or PDA application to record your fantasies soon after awakening can assist you with reporting the subtleties of your fantasy. Scientists have utilized dream diaries and dream journals to assist with concentrating on members review their fantasies with more precision . Think about your predispositions: Exploration recommends that your translation of a fantasy might be impacted by strict convictions and relational connections. While pondering a fantasy, consider whether you are searching for data that affirms your ebb and flow convictions. Chat with an expert: Consider talking with a medical care proficient assuming you have repeating dreams or bad dreams that adversely influence your prosperity. These might be an admonition indication of another ailment like tension, wretchedness, or a rest issue, for example, rest apnea or bad dream problem. A medical services supplier can assist with making a finding and examine therapy, if necessary.

[ninjastormhawkkat]

Okay not connected to your ocs universe but my own.

Chase is a hybrid alien from his dad Amazo Guy's planet who accidentally snuck on a ship when he was little that was piloted by a grumpy lab mouse. He becomes Amazo Boy instead of Amazo Lad. Becky is the clone child of Steven and Teresa instead. Squeaky becomes Sergeant Whiskers.

Teresa was a heroine on earth by the name of Vocabulary Gal who disappeared after returning to her home planet, leaving behind her boyfriend and their child on Earth. (Also have plans for her in a different variation of boxleitner's return au created on @boxleitners-return-au blog by @beckface 😈)

Dr. Calvin Barriton becomes a disgruntled artist called Master Thief who steals other artworks and claims them as his own.

Mona Crimia becomes Dr. Madison Chrome who was fried from her job as a scientist because of some "illegal" methods of combining humans with art.

Dr. Allison Collins - fuses with an evil monkey called Bob and becomes Dr. Primapia.

Professor Candace Dalton - a person who had a crush on villain Victor and used her genetics machine to separate him from his villain self. She ends up creating a villain known as Mr. Redkill

@melodythebunny

@drtwobrainsstuff

OC situation scramble AU.

Athena is now a brutal hero who used to be Kid Maths mentor.

Joe is now an assassin who keeps on eye on Athena to make sure she's not becoming too much of a threat also keeping an eye out for targets he's been assigned.

Victor is a villain now. Saving his brother from the fate of becoming Dr. Two-Brains.

Miss Dolly is a cursed doll that causes people to lose their sanity if left in their possession for too long.

Eris is a disgruntled scientist trying to make a name for herself but she's constantly in her twins shadow as she's a hero.

Dr. Jenkins became a Prankster to cope with his highly stressful job. It gives him joy just to play jokes on everyone. Uses his abilities with inventions to create the top notch premium pranks.

@ninjastormhawkkat @melodythebunny

Poof. I've scrambled your OCs situation now.

What do you get?

[dr-spencer-reids-queen]

L.D.S.K: Part Three

Pairing: Spencer Reid x Reader

Word Count: ~2k

Warnings: canon violence, canon language, canon talk of death, methods of kill, and angst, fluff

Author’s Note: I do not own anything from Criminal Minds. All credit goes to their respective owners. If there is any warnings that exceed the normal death/kills from the show, I will list them. If you’ve seen the show, then it’s the same level of angst unless otherwise stated.

Feedback is gold, and it’s the only currency I take

Hotch wants everyone to reenact the shooting at the park to get a better idea of where the unsub was located. One of the cops is playing the unsub while the BAU team is on the field where the other victims were. With the help of the cones as well as your abilities, everyone has a place to call their own. The only people not on the field are Detective Calvin, Hotch, and Gideon.

Elle is standing where the father and son were playing catch. You, Spencer, and Derek are standing where the guy was flying the kite. Other officers are standing where the last victim was shot as well as bystanders. Everyone has comms in their ears to communicate with the agents at home base. They have cameras everywhere to get a good idea of where everyone was. You hold your camera and scan the area to see what your victim might have seen.

“Elle, Jerry Middleton was facing a little further south. Can you give it to us?” Hotch instructs over the comm.

“How’s that?” she asks when she turns the camera more to her right.

“Perfect. Hold your camera right there.”

“It doesn't look like Jerry Middleton had a clear view of the sniper's vehicle when he was shot. The tree branches were in the way,” Gideon observes.

“I do have a clear view of the vehicle from here. Tim Reilly would have seen it if he'd looked down from the kite,” Spencer informs.

“Good. Have the unsub pop the trunk. See if Reid can see it,” Hotch orders.

A few moments later, and the trunk of the car pops open big enough to get the barrel of the gun through. You can see it, but only because you know that’s not how the unsub did things.

“No, sorry, I can’t.”

“Hotch, I don’t think he popped his trunk,” you blurt out.

“It’s the only way to stay hidden from everyone else.”

“That depends on the kind of car the unsub uses. Didn’t the really old cars used to have their gas tank behind their license plate? That pops open.”

“We’ll keep that in mind. Thank you. Okay, everyone, move to position two.”

While everyone was shifting to the next positions, you take a few steps to your left to approach Derek. He’s looking at Spencer as he scans the area, and you nudge his arm.

“You have to go easier on Spencer.”

“What are you talking about?”

“A couple of mornings ago? You know how he feels about failing, and it feels like you’re kicking him when he’s down.”

“I was just teasing him. He knows that.”

“There’s a difference between teasing and being mean.”

“Why do you care? You got feelings for him or something? I heard about the two dates you’ve been on.”

“So? We just went to see a movie,” you shrug.

“That’s not what I heard. A little birdie told me you two kissed.”

“It was the cheek, and damn it Penelope,” you curse.

“How’d you know it’s her?”

You just give him a look that screams, “are you kidding me?” You turn back to the car where Officer McCarty is playing the unsub. You look off the right to see JJ, Gideon, and Detective Calvin hassling a news reporter. Something isn’t right. The Detective walks over to Hotch who is on the phone with who you presume to be Penelope. Something is definitely not right.

A SWAT team approaches the car McCarty’s in from behind. They get out a smoke bomb and unleash it so that McCarty’s view is tainted. Shit, something is definitely wrong.

“Derek, Spencer, get down!” you hiss and grab both men’s sleeves.

You yank them to the ground as you get down. They yell out in shock, but once they see the smoke, they are on full alert. You can’t hear what’s being said, but McCarty throws out the assault rifle and his sidearm out of the trunk. He gets out with his hands in the air, and once it’s clear, a SWAT member takes him down to handcuff him. They get him up, and as they are leaving, someone shoots McCarty in the head right between the eyes.

“Get down!” Gideon tells once the shot is fired.

You reach over to place your arm over Spencer’s head as if to protect him. You look up and notice a car lingering in the back. The license plate is gone until it’s shifted back into place. You can’t read what it says, and the car peels out of there quietly before you have a chance to see or do anything.

However you did get one thing… a flash of a hospital. That’s when it all clicks into place.

You knew it.

“Are you okay? I didn’t hurt you, right?” you ask Spencer once you get back to the office.

“No. I’m fine,” he whispers.

“How did McCarty end up playing the unsub?” JJ asks.

“Weigart punished McCarty for mouthing off during the profile briefing by making him the unsub and sticking him in the trunk of the car all afternoon,” Detective Calvin answers.

“Wait, then how did the unsub find out about the reenactment?”

“Come on. Cops talk. Pissed-off cops talk loud—at home, at the bars, at gyms, and to anyone who'll listen,” Derek sighs.

“What do we know? Our unsub went from wounding civilians to executing a police officer, so he's escalated. He's not staying on script,” Gideon thinks out loud.

“Sometimes, it's what they don't do,” Hotch points out.

“He did not pick McCarty at random,” Spencer adds. “He didn't take the gut shot.”

“Why?” Hotch asks the group.

“He wants to send a message. ‘Nobody takes credit for my work’. His ego won’t allow it. He feels under appreciated. He doesn’t have contact with the media, but he does have contact with the victims. He’s not a police officer,” you just get started.

“Go on,” Gideon encourages you.

“I saw something out there. I saw a car. I wasn’t able to get a license plate number, but I did see the license plate shift back into place which confirms my theory of how he shoots the victims. When we got here, I mentioned something about where the victims go when they get shot.”

“Where do people who get shot go? The hospital. Was he getting away to get there to see the chaos, or is there another reason entirely?” Spencer repeats what you said word for word.

“Right, that,” you say slowly before getting back on topic. “The shooter isn’t a cop because he’s a surgeon. He wants to play the hero when the victims come in for surgery. He doesn’t kill them because he wants them to die, he does it to save them. It’s what fuels his ego.”

“Alright, thanks,” Derek says into the phone before hanging up and rejoining the group. “Garcia nailed down the geographic profile. The crime scenes are centered on two separate locations.”

“The hospitals,” you and Hotch say at the same time.

“I believe it's a case of hero homicide,” Gideon says.

Detective Calvin is driving with Gideon up front with her and you and Spencer sitting in the back. The rest of the agents are in another car following.

“What's that?” the driver asks.

“The best-known case was hospital nurse Richard Angelo. He would inject toxins into his victims, then wait for them to crash so that he could run to the rescue and save them. He killed 25 people, and that's just what we know of,” Spencer explains.

“If he attacked then to save them, why'd he kill 25 people?”

“He wasn’t very good at it,” you shrug. “And hospitals don’t keep records of people who almost died.”

“So, what's the profile on one of these guys?” the detective asks.

“Arrogant, conceited, and feels superior to everyone around them,” Gideon answers quietly.

“You've just described every surgeon I've ever met.”

“Landman,” Gideon says suddenly.

“Who?” you wonder.

He doesn’t answer but instead takes out his cell phone. Whoever is on the other line picks up quickly, and Gideon doesn’t waste any time with pleasantries.

“Let’s start with Landman.”

Before going to the surgeon in question, most of the team gathers in a conference room to discuss Dr. Landman in detail as well as a course of action. The only person who isn’t here is Hotch because he’s checking out Landman’s car.

“Okay, courtesy of Garcia,” Derek says when he takes the piece of paper she faxed over. “Landman was in the army, and started out in M.P. School.”

“There’s your law enforcement,” you scoff.

“But he was smart, got a degree on Uncle Sam, and ended up a doctor with special forces. He bounced around from hospital to hospital since his discharge in 2001,” Derek reads from the paper.

“Has Dr. Landman been under any unusual strain? Has he had a reprimand? Has he had any kind of major blow to his ego?” Gideon asks as he stares out the window.

“Last month, he was passed over for chief of surgery,” the woman in charge, Cheryl Marston, says.

“Let's get a warrant for his house. Let's see if we find the weapon.”

“Okay,” Derek nods and gets up to do so.

“What can I do to help?” The stranger asks.

“You can tell me where he is right now.”

One look at the suspect in question, and you knew he isn’t the shooter. You saw bits and pieces of what the shooter looks like, and Landman doesn’t have any of the distinctive marks. How can you tell this to the team? How can you prove it wasn’t him? How can you make them see what you see?

As Gideon is talking to the surgeon, Hotch approaches everyone from behind. You, Spencer, and Elle are standing outside of the glass watching the interaction.

“You get anything from his car?” Elle asks the older agent.

“It's a red 2-seat Maserati.”

“It’s not him,” you say.

“How do you know?” Hotch asks.

He claimed earlier in the week that he wants to understand what you can do, and this is your opportunity.

“Remember when we checked out the crime scene at the park before the re-enactment? I saw the car pull up to the spot. A man got out. I didn’t see his face because there were three black holes where his eyes and mouth were supposed to be. Everything else was distinctive. Landman doesn’t have the same build as the person I saw. Landman has a full head of hair. The shooter doesn’t.

“It’s not all in my head. I don’t see things because I want to see them or because my mind is twisting things. I see them for what they are. Landman isn’t the shooter. No matter how arrogant he may be. It’s just his personality.”

“Okay, I trust you. Where is he?”

“Dr. Pate isn’t the only person who thinks I’m a God,” Landman practically shouts so that everyone on the other side of the class can hear.

“This way,” you instruct and walk away from the group.

“Let’s go, Reid,” Hotch says and takes your crush with him.

“Check out Dr. Pate if it’s necessary. But I can say with 100% confidence that it’s not Landman. Richard Angelo wanted to be a hero because in his everyday life, he was a nobody. Landman’s a great surgeon, and with that, comes with respect and power all on its own.”

“Yeah, but you know, surgeons are a different breed. There are stars in the field, and Landman is definitely not one of them,” Spencer spits out.

You three approach the nurses desk where a gentleman is standing with his back turned to you. You stop short in your tracks as the vision of the car comes into your mind.

“Excuse me. I'd like to speak with Dr. Pate,” Hotch says and flashes his badge.

The nurse turns around, and it’s like the whole picture is cleared up for you. The man you saw in your vision becomes clearer to match the person in front of you. The black holes disappear to show the face of the man standing before you. He looks at the three of you before nodding.

“Yes, sir. I'll go find her for you,” he says and walks off.

Your eyes stay glued to the man.

“He’s not a surgeon,” you whisper fearfully.

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[alonalambert]

Visual Examination of Calvin and Hobbes

.Calvin and Hobbes expresses a complex simplicity showcasing Bill Watterson’s skill and high levels of visual Literacy. Even if the illustration or writing style of this series is not of your personal interest, you can not deny the amount of knowledge needed to develop a series of comic strips of this quality. Join me as I explore a few examples of visual knowledge ranging from subtle character portrayals to utilizing shape and color to express shifts in theme and movement. 

To begin, I want to break down the overall appearance and structure of the reoccurring Calvin and Hobbes characters. Mostly looking at how shape language offers suggestions to the character personalities. Let’s start with Calvin himself, A mostly square base with a blend of rounded and sharp corners. The round corners make for a friendly and inviting appearance; while the few pointed elements might be a suggestion towards his slightly mischievous personality. To further accentuate this, shift your gaze towards Hobbes. Hobbes contains only round shapes. Not only does this offer a suggestion towards him being a plush, stuffed animal; but this also implies a kindness and complete lacking of even slightly aggressive characteristics. He is soft in every way possible. Looking at them together, they both contain short and squat body proportions; suggesting youth and cartoon-like immaturity. To contrast this you can take a look at Calvin’s parents, who occasionally appear within the series. You see they are much more realistic in the proportion category while still retaining the cartoon visual aesthetic of simplified features. The more elongated proportions might be implying maturity and a lacking of whimsical fun personalities. They are adults within a comic driven by the beauty of childhood fascination and imaginative exploration. If the adults were just as visually inviting and playful as the children, the main focus, then the comic strips would feel more like an ode to human imagination and would possibly pull attention from Calvin and Hobbes themselves.  Now that we’ve briefly broken down the characters, What other visual cues are there to explore theme and invite interest? Well, We will now discuss Color. Color is exciting as it can make or break the mood of scene. Watterson uses color very strategically within Calvin and Hobbes. Take a look at This comic strip where Calvin discusses the possible meaningfulness of life.

Do you notice anything striking about the color usage? Within the second panel you see a dramatic shift from the normal character palette to this highly saturated green and teal combination. This could be seen as a simple decision to just do something different, but I feel this color shift was a deliberate decision to help in adding intensity to the statement being made. The second panel’s dialog is meant to be slightly shocking, suddenly implying no meaning to our lives. Showcasing Calvin’s sudden realization. This color shift and bold dialog is meant to invite a feeling of needing to reflect the concept being expressed. A similar Juxtaposition would be seen in this comic strip.

Within this comic strip about the fragility of life. You see a completely different use of color, or the lacking of color to be specif. You expect a bright and positive comic viewing experience, and then are met with no color and a single dreary image of relatively realistic dead bird. This automatically invites a feeling of unease. Just through the sudden realistic image, but the lacking of color also aids in this unease,and slightly depressing tone. The comic then carries on with a mostly normal feel, until the final panel where you retain some of that lacking saturation and unsettling feeling. The use of realism can imply a separation of maturity and innocence within Calvin and Hobbes. This realism can also be a way of implying Calvin finally witnessing and truly understanding the reality of life and death. It’s not just something he can ignore but it’s also a challenge to fully grasp as a child. The final scene expresses a moment of reflection and thoughtfulness of the characters, possibly them trying to wrap their heads around what they are feeling about this experience. This conclusion of mine is crafted from the isolation and the suggestion of the characters solemnly gazing at the birds passing overhead. 

This post was only discussing a small collection of visual language usage in expressing ideas that Watterson utilizes. He often found ways to adjust and improve the impact of each individual comic strip. Even using the same method again, for example the realism, to express a different theme. Each comic has it’s own unique qualities that are extremely fascinating to explore. With that, I invite you to challenge my own subjective views and use context clues to create your ideas for the concepts of these comics.

Thank you for reading, 

Until the next. 

Alona 

Calvin and Hobbes Comic Strips of: 

Watterson, Bill.

[a-queer-seminarian]

reformed theology

throwing all my notes about theology from my Presbyterian Heritage and Polity class here!

Why Reformed theology is all about Grace

there is no part of us that is untouched by sin

but there is also no part of us that cannot be touched by God’s grace!

the knowledge that we are sinful and that only God can fix that should make us act with humility -- we’re gonna mess up a lot, including in regards to what we believe, and have to be open to hearing people tell us we messed up so we can do better

this is how we can show gratitude for God’s grace and show grace to one another in turn

Sin

sin is an infection so holistic that we cannot cure it

taints our sense of the divine available to us in creation

we are “little idol factories”

we would prefer a smaller, more manageable, more manipulable God to this big God whom we do not control

we always try to make God containable, by limiting language for God and narrowing our theologies... 

Knowing God

yet we do all have a sense of the divine – God is transparent in Creation; but because of sin we can’t figure it out on our own (and also because God is ~Mysterious~)

because we are finite and because we are sinful and because God is mysterious, we can only know God insofar as God chooses to reveal Themself to us

Shannon’s example: If an elephant shouts at a ladybug, the ladybug won’t know what’s going on. But if the elephant becomes a ladybug, and speaks the ladybug’s language, they can communicate

Protestants down the line are going to twist this idea of knowledge, they’ll say that it’s all about knowing the right truth claims to assent to

What Calvin’s concept of knowledge is about is way more interesting; it’s kinda hard to grasp but i like it. It has to do with...

Affections!

affections = the kind of knowledge that includes both the intellect and the emotion -- a much more holistic idea of knowledge than what we usually think of

Don Saliers is a theologian who calls affections “belief-laden emotions”

And then there’s Wesley’s language of “our hearts are strangely warmed”

If you know “I am sinful,” but have no emotion of being sorry, being remorseful about that, then you do not truly know that you’re a sinner

Thus believing something in a religious sense is different from believing something in, say, geometry class

if you believe that Creation is a gift from God, you will have an emotional response to Creation – it won’t remain a neutral “it just exists” but involve gratitude, reverence

Shannon adds that there should also be a volitional response -- our will for how to be in the world: should belief that Creation is a gift from God not also include willing oneself to be in relationship to God?

If you believe Creation is a gift from God but then you go and destroy it for profit – then you don’t really believe that Creation is a gift from God

I’m starting over the bullet points for the next bit because i think it’s cool and important, but it’s still about the affections stuff above

Belief thus involves bodily responses

That doesn’t mean that every “belief-laden emotion” that affects your will and body and great

When we do something we know is wrong, our whole person is involved in the knowing -- we may feel physically sick

We practice affections like hope, like repentance; we do not practice affections like resentment and bitterness (because who wants to have those negative physical & emotional reactions?)

practice = attempt to be formed in such a way that we can know and live in emotions like forgiveness

LAMENT is a Christian affection!

all the affections we work to shape ourselves in are ultimately rooted in scripture, and that includes lamentation

Scripture

Calvin heavily influenced our modern church language about the Bible

We know God in and through scripture, through the power of the Holy Spirit

but interpretation is key to that! -- you don’t just wait for God to interpret it for you; the Spirit does the work through your studying of the text

Calvin’s humanist background led him to say that we should interpret scripture as we would any other text -- while taking its context seriously

This is why he argued that pastors need to be educated in scripture -- so they can help their congregations read the Bible well

being able to think critically about scripture will prevent the kind of idolatrous religious abuses that we are all tempted to

Law and Gospel

In a rare instance of Calvin saying something I actually like lol, Calvin added a third use of “the law” -- the torah -- on top of the two that Lutherans had: while Lutherans claimed the law’s purpose was (1) to show us our own sin and lead us to Christ and (2) to control non-Christians from “running wild” (lmaooooo garbage), Calvin said that (3) the law was also a guide for us

The law/torah has ongoing moral authority -- Presbyterians don’t agree that the Gospel “freed us” from the law (thank goodness, that’s super supersessionist)

The torah, which was a way for God’s people to relate to God, is really good news in itself – evidence that God wants to be in relationship with people and shows people how to do that!

Providence, Free will, predestination

This was such a huge section i went ahead and made it all a separate post.

But one big point is God’s sovereignty -- their active care and control over every aspect of life, no matter how small

There is no moment in your life when God is not with you, actively loving you in that moment

God wills the ultimate flourishing of all -- and humans have a role in that

And as to predestination stuff, the main thing to know is that we have no role in our own salvation -- God saves us freely; our proper response to that is gratitude

Reformed Theology’s development after the first Reformers

Since the time of Calvin, Christians were arguing about how Christianity can hold together with reason, with science

the Enlightenment that influenced the Reformation brought with it an ideal of knowledge as universally true and accessible

i.e. if one person does an experiment and no one else can replicate it, something is wrong with it

by the turn of the 1900s, some were coming to think differently about fairness; it was stuff that took place in the 1800s that caused that

Nineteenth Century Protestant Liberal Theology

emerges in the last quarter of the 1800s, continues through early 1900s

historical critical method of biblical scholarship – studying the bible in context, etc. – was new but becoming widely accepted

science and history as the lens through which you view scripture

theology is compatible with history and science; the relationship between theology and history matters

use methods of critical scholarship to avoid coming up with a personal view of Jesus who’s different from the historical Jesus

relativizing dogma: truth is relative to time and place -- different from that Enlightenment view of universal truth

a judging of Christian expressions as appropriate and correct

a sense that you don’t have to believe everything that Christians believed before – frees Christians from some of the constraints of tradition

General Themes

a desire for a living, vital faith like that of the early Reformers 

the parts of the Bible that hold the most weight involve Jesus’s activities

a sense that Christian faith has strong practical and moral implications

the social gospel movement grows from this

theme of the Kingdom of God

fundamentally optimistic -- we can make progress by moral effort

Experiential faith

“I know something of God through Jesus and through great literature / watching a sunset / listening to music”

...And then Karl Barth drops in.

his work is described as a “bombshell tossed into the playground of the theologians.”

once a Liberal theologian himself, Barth’s time as a pastor in a little village impacted by WWI causes him to criticize Liberal Theology as an attempt to domesticate a God who is known only as the Unknowable, whose yes is our no and no our yes.

Some of his criticisms of Liberal Theology:

too high a regard for humans

you are so optimistic about humanity -- have you forgotten that we are sinful? that our viewpoints are corrupted and twisted by sin?

humanity didn’t seem to be progressing that much from where he was sitting, with his parishioners struggling and bombs dropping.

if you’re tying to find the “golden kernel in the husk of Christianity,” how do you discern what’s kernel and what’s husk – an awfully high evaluation of your own discernment methods to think you’ll succeed

claims liberal theologians are too complacent, too self assured

“You look at the Bible and question it, instead of allowing it to question you.”

You’re not studying God; you’re studying human beings!

Better to word things not as “God does this” but “I experience God as”

An anthropological starting point -- liberal theologians are trying to get to God from humanity

in doing so, you’re only going to get a human blown up really big.

you have a general understanding of truth and history and reason and use that to approach the revelation of God

Liberal Theology makes God’s action continuous with social movements

don’t assume that God’s actions are continuous with yours – that makes God much smaller and more manageable than She really is

he criticizes these folks for being apologetic – trying to make Christianity understandable in cultural terms

you end up saying “God is like this human or that created thing”; “Christianity is like this”

Barth is talking to people who are used to walking around and seeing craters left after bombs

“What we know of Jesus is the crater left after the bomb is dropped”

revelation is not some kitten curling up next to you is to make you feel better

We cannot handle God’s bigness…so we make idols

Barth calls idols “no-gods” that give us their stamp of approval on our lives, instead of looking to the God of Jesus who upends our lives and whom we cannot manipulate

We cannot get to know God on our own steam at all

Revelation = God’s act in Jesus

God’s act of revelation in Jesus is like a flash of lightning that penetrates the sphere of human existence

gives us a reality of God that is inscrutable, rather than being a detailed description of who God is—God has revealed that God is Mystery

[torturedwarrior]

The Zodiac Killer:

Who is the Zodiac Killer? How many People did he kill? Was he caught? The self-proclaimed Zodiac Killer was linked directly to at least five murders in 1968 and 1969 in Northern California and may have been responsible for more. He taunted the police and made threats by letters sent from 1969 to 1974 to local newspapers, before abruptly ceasing communication. No one was ever arrested for the crimes, despite intensive investigations, and the case remains open. Many books and films have been the subject of the mystery surrounding the murders, including the acclaimed 2007 feature Zodiac by director David Fincher. The Zodiac Killer is the alias of an unknown serial killer living in Northern California from the late 1960s to the early 1970s at least. Between December 1968 and October 1969, the Zodiac murdered victims in Benicia, Vallejo, Napa County, and San Francisco. The killer killed four men and three women aged 16 to 29, with two of the men surviving attempted assassination. The Zodiac itself claimed up to 37 victims were killed. In a series of taunting letters and cards sent to the local Bay Area media, the murderer coined the name "Zodiac." Four cryptograms (or ciphers) were included in the documents. Only one of the four cryptograms sent was eventually resolved.

Zodiac Killer Letters, Symbol & Cipher: on August 1, 1969, each of  three editors received an identical handwritten letter in an envelope without a return address from the San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco Chronicle and Vallejo Times-Herald. Beginning with "Dear Editor: I'm the murderer of the two teenagers at Lake Herman last Christmas," the letters included specifics of the killings of the Zodiac Killer that only the killer could have learned. If the letters were not printed on the papers ' front page, the killer continued to threaten further attacks. Every letter ended with a symbol consisting of a circle with a cross through it, in what would become known as the symbol of the Zodiac Killer

Here are some of The Zodiac Killers victims that had been confirmed and that they police suspected he murdered.

Confirmed Victims:

Although the Zodiac claimed to have committed 37 murders in letters to the newspapers, investigators agree on only seven confirmed victims, two of whom survived. They are:

 ·        David Arthur Faraday, 17, and Betty Lou Jensen, 16: shot and killed on December 20, 1968, on Lake Herman Road, within the city limits of Benicia. Coordinates: 38°5′41.61″N 122°8′38.24″W

·        Michael Renault Mageau, 19, and Darlene Elizabeth Ferrin, 22: shot on July 4, 1969, in the parking lot of Blue Rock Springs Park in Vallejo. While Mageau survived the attack, Ferrin was pronounced dead on arrival at Kaiser Foundation Hospital. Coordinates: 38°7′33.56″N 122°11′27.94″W

·        Bryan Calvin Hartnell, 20, and Cecelia Ann Shepard, 22: stabbed on September 27, 1969, at Lake Berryessa in Napa County. Hartnell survived eight stab wounds to the back, but Shepard died as a result of her injuries on September 29, 1969. Coordinates: 38°33′48.29″N 122°13′54.43″W

·        Paul Lee Stine, 29: shot and killed on October 11, 1969, in the Presidio Heights neighborhood in San Francisco. Coordinates: 37°47′19.47″N 122°27′25.54″W

Suspected Victims:

The following murder victims are suspected to be victims of Zodiac, though none have been confirmed:

 ·        Robert Domingos, 18, and Linda Edwards, 17: shot and killed on June 4, 1963, on a beach near Gaviota. Edwards and Domingos were identified as possible Zodiac victims because of specific similarities between their attack and the Zodiac's attack at Lake Berryessa six years later. Coordinates: 34°28′11.20″N 120°10′7.14″W

·        Cheri Jo Bates, 18: stabbed to death and nearly decapitated on October 30, 1966, at Riverside City College in Riverside. Bates's possible connection to the Zodiac only appeared four years after her murder when San Francisco Chronicle reporter Paul Avery received a tip regarding similarities between the Zodiac killings and the circumstances surrounding Bates's death.[6] College coordinates: 33°58′19″N 117°22′52″W

·        Donna Lass, 25: last seen September 6, 1970, in Stateline, Nevada. A postcard with an advertisement from Forest Pines condominiums (near Incline Village at Lake Tahoe) pasted on the back was received at the Chronicle on March 22, 1971 and has been interpreted as the Zodiac claiming Lass's disappearance as a victim. No evidence has been uncovered to connect Lass's disappearance with the Zodiac Killer definitively.[7]

The Zodiac is also a suspect in the unsolved Santa Rosa hitchhiker murders.[8][9][10]

There is also a suspected third escapee from the Zodiac Killer:

 ·        Kathleen Johns, 22: allegedly abducted on March 22, 1970, on Highway 132 near I-580, in an area west of Modesto. Johns escaped from the car of a man who drove her and her infant daughter around the area between Stockton and Patterson for approximately 1½ hours.[11] Junction 132/I-580 coordinates: 37°38′16.14″N 121°23′55.22″W

The polices nightmare: Lake Herman Road attack: The first assassinations widely attributed to the Zodiac Killer were the killing of high school students Betty Lou Jensen and David Faraday on December 20, 1968, on Lake Herman Boulevard, just within the city limits of Benicia. The pair were about three blocks from Jensen's home on their first date and planned to attend a Christmas concert at Hogan High School. Instead, the couple visited a friend before parking at a local restaurant and driving on Lake Herman Avenue. Faraday parked the Rambler of his mother at about 10:15 p.m. in a gravel turnout, which was a well-known lane of lovers. Shortly after 11:00 p.m., Stella Borges, who lived nearby, found their bodies. The Department of the Solano County Sheriff investigated the crime, but there were no leads. More details include, Robert Graysmith, using available forensic data, postulated that another car would pull into the turnout just before 11:00 pm and park next to the couple. Apparently, the killer left the second car and walked towards the Rambler, possibly ordering the pair out of the Rambler. Jensen appears to have left the car first, but the murderer apparently shot him in the head when Faraday was halfway out. The attacker then shot Jensen in the back five times as she fled; 28 meters from the car found her body. Then the killer drove away.

Lake Berryessa attack: On September 27, 1969, on a small island connected by a sand spit to Twin Oak Ridge, Pacific Union College students Bryan Hartnell and Cecelia Shepard were picnicking at Lake Berryessa. A white man weighing more than 170 pounds (77 kg) with combed greasy brown hair, about 5 feet 11 inches (1.80 m), approached them wearing a black executioner-type hood with clip-on sunglasses over the eyeholes and a bib-like device on his chest that had a white three-by-three-inch (7.6 cm) cross-circle logo on it. With a gun, which Hartnell believed to be a.45, he approached them. The man with the cap claimed to be an escape convict from a two-word prison in either Colorado or Montana, where he killed the guard and then stolen a car, explaining that he now needed their car and money to get to Mexico, as the vehicle he was driving was "too hot"

At 7:40, the killer rang out of a payphone to announce the new crime to the office of the Napa County Sheriff. He first told the operator he wanted to "trace an assassination-not a double assassination," before revealing that he was the perpetrator.  Only a few blocks from the Sheriff's office but still 43 miles (27 miles) from the crime scene, the phone was found, still off the hook, by KVON radio reporter, Pat Stanley, minutes later on at Napa Car Wash on Main Street. Detectives could take a still wet palm print from their mobile but could never fit it. When a man and his son heard their cry for help in a nearby cove, they located the victims and sought help in contact with park rangers. They were fishing. The first law enforcement officers to come to the crime scene were Dave Collins and Ray Land detectives of Napa County Sheriff. Cecelia Shepard was aware of the detailed description of the attacker when Collins arrived. The Queen of the Valley Hospital in Napa was brought by the ambulance, Hartnell and Shepard. In transportation to the hospital, Shepard lapsed into a coma and never recovered consciousness. Two days later she died, but Hartnell lived to tell his story to the press. Sheriff Inspector of Napa County

The Final Letter that the San Francisco Police gotten from The Zodiac Killer: The Zodiac remained quiet for almost three years following the card "Pines." A letter, published on 29 January 1974 by Zodiac, hailed The Exorcist as "the best satirical comedy I've ever seen" The letter contained a snippet from the Mikado and an unusual lower symbol, which the researchers did not explain. The letter "Me= 37, SF PD= 0" came to an end by Zodiac. So, if The Zodiac Killer was never caught what is the status of the case? The SFPD labeled the case "inactive" in April 2004, citing pressure on caseloads and demands for resources that effectively shut down the case. Sometime before March 2007, however, they reopened their case. In the county of Napa and Riverside the case was then opened. Did the police have any suspects?

In May 2018, the police department of Vallejo announced that it wished to try to collect the DNA from the back of his correspondence. The analysis will take the advanced new method of separating DNA from the adhesive on the back of the stamps, used by a private laboratory. There were five suspected to be The Zodiac Killer which are named: Arthur Leigh Allen, Jack Tarrance, George Russell Tucker, Louis Joseph Myers, and lastly Earl Van Best Jr. The Zodiac killer is supposed to be captured in the same way as the Golden State Killer. A policeman from Vallejo said results were expected in several weeks in May 2018. Nonetheless, no findings were announced by December 2019.  Two famous quotes from The Zodiac Killer: “The police shall never catch me, because I have been too clever for them.”– Zodiac Killer, and “I want to report a murder... no, a double murder. They are two miles north of Park Headquarters. They were in a white Volkswagen Kharmann Ghia. I'm the one that did it.”– Zodiac Killer.

Work Cited:

 "Zodiac Killer - Letters, Cipher & Suspects - Biography." Famous Biographies & TV Shows. 14 Oct 2017. Web. 13 Dec 2019. <http://www.biography.com/crime-figure/zodiac-killer>.

"Zodiac Killer Quotes." Quotes.net. STANDS4 LLC, 2019. Web. 13 Dec. 2019. <https://www.quotes.net/authors/Zodiac+Killer+Quotes>.

"Zodiac Killer - Wikipedia." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 12 Dec 2019. Web. 13 Dec 2019. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiac_Killer>.

[vicky-14563]

Feminism in art

How are the women depicted

•Passive submissive

•Not making decisions

•Pale

•Mary cause of the blue

•Women are crying and helping

•Men are very active

•Women sitting crying

•Withdrawn

•Not making contribution

•Women not taking part in the narrative

Naked or nude. Not nude is a beautiful way, she’s a beautiful women, idealised, no lumpy bits. Men are all taller than her.

The fact that there are so many points on how women are depicted shows how women are represented in the art world compared to men. I am very passionate about this topic as I feel the feminist art movement should have more publicity and representation.

Artists that feature the “male gaze”.

MALE GAZE - “a fake representation and objectification of women is made, usually from a heterosexual perspective known as “the male gaze”, which is a disparate power between men and a gazed-upon women,  the attitude towards women and  the way the female body is exhibited not only displays male dominance throughout the centuries in general but also in the art world; this has created an industry that enables women to be wrongly depicted and the feminist art movement continues to challenge this immense issue, as it is still ongoing”- Vicky Iddon.                                                                                           

John collier lilith. 1897

•Red hair - fiery

•Fenfetile

•Empowered

•Not gonna take anything from anyone

•Highly sexualised

•Threatening

•Seen as very powerful

•Could be see as evil

•She was the women made before eve - Jewish

•Snake represents temptation but in this carnation represents passion and sexual desire.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1868

•Mirror represents beauty looking at itself

•Long red hair

•White roses? Innocents, purity

•She’s threatening men with her power

•Irresistible

•Capture, castrations if they fell for Lilith

•Jesus knocking one the door

•Mirror painting

•Painting of a women being a man mistress

•Conscience has just been awakens

•Dressed informally

•Hair flowing

•Not wearing a wedding ring

•Clock indicated the passing of time

•Cat and mad have a similar gaze, the familiar of the man

•Glove discarded - represents the women what will happen to her

•Wool - represent the Webb she is in

•Most popular painting

•How it’s looking at women

•Women is controlled

Not only did men depict women throught their artwork but women throughout time have depicted themselves, as a way of having overall control and pointing out how a women is seen, Women didn’t have access to things that males did.

Second wave feminism

This was a way of women saying they wanted controls of their sexuality, imagine and who looks at them.

Carolee schneemann

Stood naked on a table, painted body with mud, then slowly extracted a paper scroll from her vagina and read from the scroll (from a film she had started making about women) 4 documented phots of the performance. Put on them, urine, beetroot. To create stains.

•Her work is provocative

•Filmed herself having sex

•Challenged modernism

•Was her body and she could do what she wanted

•Very in your face work

I have done my own personal research in this artist, as I found her method of art fascinating, it was totally new in the 1960s and completely separated her from anyone else.

Intersectionality

Coloured people had no power. 1970s. And we’re largely discriminated against. These are some female artists who challenged this

Emma Amos

African America artist in the 70s

Sandy and her husband - periphery of society, racial discrimination, iconographical reading!

Ana mendieta

does a males beard give me the same feeling as a man, the power?

Sofonisba anguissola

Massive success as a painter

Did what she wanted, lived her life on her own terms.

The chess game 1555 - depicted? They look happy, suggests intelligence. Men would usually play chess. Women of intellect, engaged in something that rigorous, mother in the back looking in pride.

In another painting she did she depicted herself as an artist even though a male is in the painting holding the paint brush, she is larger than him, presenting herself as more importance (1558)

Sonia Boyce 1986

Pastel on paper

Looks at memory and the dynamic of space and for you to be drawn into the piece

Examining her part of the identity of the family who is black and British. How she is holding them up, strong arms? Shows she feels like she can do it.

Wearing a deep red dress eluding to the expression of the painting and the English rose how she must be part of the stereotype.

Greek mythology? Represent Atlas , emotional weight, holding her family, feels very connected to her family but also distant due to the distance.

Lastly, women are still completely oversexualised in modern day! Especially in adverts.

Adverts:

•Mustang car 1967 - women all like pink?

Women are always sexualised in male perfume adverts and are lower then the men and looks submissive however in the women’s perfume the women is higher than the man, she’s more powerful and in control.

•Tom Ford - the women is fully naked, could be seen as funny, the female nipple is covered even though she is completely naked.

•American apparel - Done ironically even though they are technically offensive, always sexualising women. Publicity.

Power dynamic - women are men’s possessions. All about the male gaze.

•Calvin kleins jeans advert - women surrounded by topless men, looks like a gang rape... feels hostile, the colour red represents danger.

In conclusion, there is so much when it comes to feminism in the art world that needs to be considered, and so many artists from the 19th century to now. Women have taken power over themselves however it’s very clear that they are still being depicted just not as clearly in modern day.

[ramrodd]

COMMENTARY:

The method that Jimmy Tabor is using is dialectical Marxism,, He claims that he is using the universal critical historic method of the Post Modern Deconstruction, but he is only using the Marxist side of the parallel construct is using,

Jimmy's statement that Harmonization is the enemy of the Truth is a Marxist axiom. The Gospels are as organically harmonized as the hologram of Princess Leis in Star Wars, You literally cannot de-harmonize a hologram: if you break the plate that holds it, each fragment will display the complete gestalt but with the lost of resolution,

The resolution of the Gospels is deliberately filtered out by the dialectical Marxism of Post Modern Historic Deconstruction is the Christology and tthe Holy Spirit, Jimmy's academic method is a perfect example of the anti-war Teach Ins of left-wing campus radicals deconstructing the national purpose of America's presence in Vietnam as a rationalization for avoiding military service and the justification for avoiding the draft, Jimmy and his buddies in the Weather Underground were wrong about Vietnam and they are about the Harmonization of the Gospels being the enemy of the Truth,

Here's the thing: both the Jesus Seminar and the Pro-Life Evangelical Calvinism are different sides of the same solo scriptura forensics, Both sides want to control the meaning of the scriptures by demeaning the literature of the Bible to fit their particular theological hobby horse. For the Pro-Life Evangelicals, they want to violate Free Will in the name of the business model of the Total Depravity Gospel while the Jesus Seminar wants present Pauline Theology as an ethic separate from the Christology of Jesus,, which is why the Jesus Seminar is committed to presenting the chronological corruption of the Gospel of Mark being derivative of Pauline Theology,, which is to say, Paul's Epistles come before Pilate's lost euangelion to Tiberius regarding the Taking Cross.

Here's the thing: both the Jesus Seminar and the Pro-Life Narrative are products of the dialectical Materialism of Bos Modern Historic Deconstruction, The purpose of the Post Modern impulse is to devolve the paradox of Hegel's dialectical synthesis into dilemma, with the horns consisting of the Dialectical Idealism of Spinoza and Descartes of one horn and the dialectical Materialism of Aristotle/Locke Empiricism, the Natural Law side of the equation,

Dialectical Marxism is not Empiricism nor natural law, It is an ideological construct based on a process to achieve an Ideal state entirely by material metrics. This is what Jimmy Tabor is trying to do wih Pauline TheologyL achieving the ideal state of the Kingdom of Heaven with broken pottery,

In contraxt, N.T Wright represents the dialectical Idealism side of the Post Modern Historic Deconstruction: his interpretation of Pauline Theology is absolutely suffused with the Christology of the Gospels and informed by the Holy Spirit as to the intent of Paul's ethical system. N. T. Wright's interpretation of Pauline Theology is the Truth, The interpretation of Pauline Theology of Jemmy Tabor and of Campus Crusade for Christ is Marxist bullshit. N.T. Wright is, philosophically, opposed to Hegel, but the irony is his interpretation of Pauline Theology is ttally harmonic with the hologram of Jesus in the Gospels.

I took Dr. Tabor's Mark course on-line and his Ten Events in Mark 11 & 12 is worth the price of admission, The thing is, he cannot avoid the Christology of the Gospels with the withering of the fig tree before the cleansing of the Temple, Ant that is exactly the source of the fraud in all things Jesus Seminar, including Bart Ehrman's Misquoting Jesus business model. You cannot employ the Christology of the Gospels to disprove the Christology of Jesus

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Music career data and a whole list of music schools. The Worldwide Songwriting Competitors takes place yearly and is open to both amateur and professional musicians. The contest allows musicians to have their songs heard by trade leaders and (hopefully) opens doorways for them in the trade. Previous winners of this competitors embrace Gotye, Bastille, The Band Perry, and lots of other effectively-identified musicians. What separates the ISC from other competitions is it features a vast multitude of different style categories. Gives an evaluation of the differences between art music, people music, and common music and provides explanation why standard music is mostly inferior to music within the different classes. We have all been there. It's Friday night and you're alone. That asshole you've gotten a crush on isn't texting you again. However this does not have to be a bummer of an evening. In accordance with Carly Rae Jepsen's video for Get together For One," you'll be able to dance round in your Calvin Klein underwear and order Postmates. (Does not sound like a foul evening tbh.) This is largely due to Jepsen's uncanny potential to turn any shitty state of affairs into an absolute delight. If we're talking about pop music—particularly pop music that may assist us escape the looming hell that is our real world—then any CRJ is the perfect antidote of the occasions. It's a sound that can remedy a lonely night time. It may possibly heal a broken heart. It could make it easier to neglect no matter recent hell Donald Trump has delivered to us as we speak. CRJ is all we want. It grew up with Guitars. Any Rock group would encompass Electric Guitars, Bass and Drums. Rock places a better degree of emphasis on musicianship, stay performance, and an ideology of authenticity than pop music. Rock emphasizes on heavy beats and in contrast to pop, might deal with things apart from romance. Many of the famous rock songs are built on philosophical themes. This style slowly blended with different genres to produce new sorts. A few of them will likely be mentioned quickly.

Each era seems to give the next one crap for its music. (See what I did there?) I teased my mother and father about their disco until in the future all my Inexperienced Day and Good Charlotte sounded dated in my headphones. Outdated people" used to tell us youngsters that our songs were a reflection of our disintegrating values, that music was worse than it used to be. Certain, they missed their Elvis and their Bee Gees, but in addition they missed the times after we appreciated good morals. The lyrics we mouthed, the artists we worshipped, the genres we bumped have been all proof of society sliding into the sewer. Jazz is now a format of music that has grown much less widespread with the likes of Sinatra, Dean Martin, Louis Armstrong and Tony Bennett becoming much less and less fashionable with the younger folks. So the Rolls Royce Ghost is a automotive for individuals with exquisite taste, individuals who choose to not buy a Mulsanne, Maybach, S class, 7 series or http://www.audio-transcoder.com the A8 (the Ghost is in a category above some of these options). So these days Jazz is listened to by folks with fine tastes, people who put on fits and robes, gentlemen and gentlewomen! It isn't a common music style and in the same way the Ghost will not be a preferred car (for other reasons). Though the Ghost and https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/99030891-audry-klimas Jazz have fewer followers than other genres, they've many admirers and other people broadly respect them. By my travels I had always puzzled if the world viewers was in concord with the music trade in the case of music-style. The answer is indeniable no. Most people on this planet like one genre more than others and that genre is - maintain on; it is country music. In virtually every nation I've been to on the planet, country music normally wins. And it does not actually matter what kind of nation music we are speaking about; American country music, Canadian country music, Australian or Swiss nation music. Individuals want good tales, substance and creditable lyrics with great artists to carry out. Perceive fashionable classical music. Music from the tip of the Romantic interval, round 1915, into the 20th century is taken into account modern classical music. Trendy music is exemplified by various moods of utmost. Since the history of music styles are so huge, composers of this period tried to interrupt new grounds with their compositions. Techno music is classified by its fundamental beatline. It is just like home music and has since developed from it, but with a faster beats per minute and barely darker tone. Techno music can also be acknowledged by means of repetitive beats that have slow gradual adjustments. It usually incorporates industrial and gritty sounds drawing on the era of the economic revolution when it was first created. These yak songs are simply one of countless endangered music traditions around the globe, vanishing as fashionable life intrudes and the last practitioners die with out passing them on. Apprehensive about the loss, ethnomusicologists have begun attempting to doc, protect, and even breathe new life into these disappearing traditions—much as linguists over the last twenty years have launched a concerted effort to help endangered languages within the face of predictions that three,000 are more likely to vanish by the end of the century. House attracts its influence from the 1970's disco scene, surprisingly sufficient. As an digital music genre all its own, nonetheless, it came into being in the early to mid 80's, and sure originated in a downtown Chicago membership named The Warehouse, the place it was spun nightly by DJ Frankie Knuckles, who came to ultimately be referred to has the godfather of house. Breakbeat hardcore shares a big a part of the credit as a forerunner of home music and different electronic music genres like techno. In the inverse situation to jazz musicians reading, classical musicians are usually uncomfortable when asked to improvise. Comply with us on @AppleMusic All the methods you're keen on music. All in one place. Rap explodes and rivals rock in its extremity each musically and culturally. Automated music suggestions are hardly new, however Spotify appears to have identified the ingredients of a personalised playlist that really feel recent and acquainted at the similar time. That is probably an enormous benefit over opponents like Pandora, Google, zellasaville79.wapgem.com and Apple, which largely have the same bottomless catalog of music but take very totally different approaches to picking the very best songs for every person.

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Game Designs that don't exist AFAIK but which I must remember to trademark for personal royalties in case they ever do get made:

Expanded version of CLUE except every character is a real named Fine Artist from history and each weapon is either an Art Medium or Application Method or self-declared Art Style/Movement and the possible crime scenes are every Gallery floor room or Garden area from the player's local public Art Museum (player board maps sold separately?)

Double-blind medical study version of Stratigo

A simplistic game of Risk/Monopoly played in combination with Jenga specifically in low-gravity zero-oxygen astronaut training facilities. No dice allowed, if you drop a board piece it's out of play

Gently tossing pet ferrets or rats or rabbits or hamsters across an unmade king-sized or larger bed while the other team tries to make it with clean linens. Losers (as determined by house rules on point tabulation) must make dinner/do the laundry next

Untruth & Dare. Similar to truth and dare this is a "friendly" word game between friends where everyone competes to answer Truth questions with as many believable or simply entertaining lies as possible until the rest of the group votes unanimously to call the player out and force them to do a Dare

"Amateur Academia!" The game most like that one board game Life except every spot a player lands on is a quiz question from a real academic field of study. Correct answers give you class credits and incorrect answers lower your GPA score until your square-cap with a lil stick figure inserted is expelled from school and the game-board

New version of Operation except you just have to extract foodstuffs from an old freezer/fridge and pantry and cook it in an Easy Bake oven and if your teammates consume the meal without getting food poisoning you all win. No teams, the real enemy is bacteria or fungus

A game called SORRY played exclusively with various cars or other objects in the Internet's favorite Vehicle/Car Driving Physics Simulator. Calvin Ball rules

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“Garden Island Has Many Links with Past,” Kingston Whig-Standard. February 28, 1942. Page 11. ---- Summer Resort Once Busy Spot ==== By FRED B. PENSE Staff Reporter ---- Time brings many changes in municipalities, and towns and villages which were thriving business centres are now, in some cases "ghost towns," as manufacturing concerns have moved to larger centres. 

Garden Island, located two and half miles south of Kingston, which for many years was the home of the Calvin Company, which at times gave support to as many as 1,000 persons, including the families of men employed, is now a summer resort. 

Many citizens of Kingston can well recall the days when Garden Island was one of the busiest centres in Eastern Ontario. The activities actually started in 1835 when D. D. Calvin leased the property, which he later purchased and started a thriving ship-building industry. 

The Calvin Company was recognized as one of the outstanding ship-building companies on the Great Lakes and in addition to building boats, it conducted a very extensive business of taking rafts of timber down the St. Lawrence River to Quebec City. Records show that the first draft went down the St. Lawrence River in 1828 from Clayton N.Y. and the late D. D. Calvin was in charge of arrangements for its movement. This was before he came to Garden Island.

Council Representation Garden Island, which for many years, was an incorporated municipality was represented on the Frontenac County Council, and the writer can well recall seeing the late Hiram Calvin, a son of D. D. Calvin and father of John Calvin, local agent for the Canada Steamship Company, sitting around the horseshoe. The late Mr. Calvin was a very distinguished gentleman and his counsel and advice was many times sought by the members of the Frontenac County Council. 

With the cessation of the business on Garden Island, the municipality ceased to be recognized on the County Council, and today it is under the control of the Wolfe Island Township Council.

The writer has made many visits to Garden Island, the last being about three years ago, when he spent several hours wandering about the different buildings, which in years past were thriving workshops employing dozens of men. Among the buildings which interested the writer was the old school house which at the time of his visit was in a dilapidated condition and was being torn down. Some of the seats which had been used by the students were still in the building. 

Once-Busy Spots The machine shop was still intact as was the sail loft where workmen used to repair the sails of the sailing vessels during the winter months when the ice was frozen over the St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario. The ways on which boats were built could be seen but they were rapidly decaying and would soon disappear to carry away with them many traditions. 

On the east side of the Island this reporter found the hulks of several of the old vessels which travelled the Great Lake in connection with the Calvin Company. Among these was the old “Parthia,” a picture of which appears in the layout, also a piece of the old "James Swift,” which later became the “Rideau King,” which was protruding out of the water. 

For some 15 years before rafting ceased, (in 1914), Garden Island had developed its own special method. Rafts had been built by competitor at Collins Bay and they were in general the same as the island rafts, but there were essential differences. 

Different Type Timber was also sent down the Ottawa River into the St. Lawrence below Montreal Island and on to Quebec, but the Ottawa raft was a different species built for different conditions. An Ottawa raft was usually one man's timber and remained in his hands from the bush right through to Quebec; on the St. Lawrence, especially in latter years, rafting was a forwarding business for various owners of timber in widely separated places in both Canada and United States. 

In eastern Northern American the word “timber” has a specific meaning, and it is not a general term as it is in Britain. Timber with us means tree trunks, either partly squared with broad slightly rounded corners, called "wanes,” left where the bark had been cut away or else squared down until the corners are sharp. The biggest and best of the white pine is always cut "waney”; the rest of it, and nearly all the oak, elm, and other timber was cut square. 

The actual work of forming the rafts was performed at Garden Island after the timber had been brought from the upper lakes in many cases on steamers and sailing vessels owned by the Calvin Company. It was a task which required the services of experienced men and, according to John Calvin, about 2,000,000 cubic feet of timber would sometimes be in a raft. The length of the timbers were not less than 12 feet and in fact they were not acceptable to the buyers if they were, and others were as long as 60 to 70 feet. In brief, the rafts with the exception of oak, were made in three thicknesses, the bottom row of timbers would be under water, and they would be fastened securely together, so that they would not break away. The second row would be partly submerged and the third would be well above water. 

Long Journey The trip from Garden Island to Quebec took different periods according to the condition of the river; the rafts which would be in tow of a tug would only move about two miles an hour in the quiet water. Each raft would be in charge of a number of experienced men when leaving Garden Island. On each raft would be a house in which the men would live, as well as a cook-house where they would eat and sometimes there was a sail which would help its progress. 

The journey down the three rapids was the most sensational part of the excursion, according to the old timers, and to the best of knowledge, no raft was ever lost. When the raft would arrive at the head of the rapids, simply dozens of men would be lining the banks waiting for a job. The raft would be broken up into what is known as drams, and in fact some of the rafts would be eight drams in size; each dram would be taken down the rapids separately. These additional men who would be paid just for the trip, were experienced men in shooting the rapids and would be laid off as soon as the raft reached its destination. 

The Old School House Many old time residents of Kingston can well remember the old school house on Garden Island. 

There are unpleasant memories of "the strap” which was a real weapon, having been cut from a roll of thick rubber belting. The tall thin schoolmaster always carried it doubled up in the inside breast pocket of his coat; the coat bulged in an ugly threatening fashion, the strap seemed ready to leap out of its own accord and get to work. The island school-house links itself with memories of various meetings and chiefly with Sunday services. The school-house was a plain rectangular frame building one storey high, its length parallel to the village street. On its roof-ridge there was an open bell cupola with elaborate Victorian mouldings and brackets cut with a jig-saw. 

Speakers’ Forum This schoolhouse was sometimes used for campaign speakers for political meetings. D. D. Calvin and R. T. Glover, in their book "A Comer of the Empire” said: "Liberal speakers could come if they cared to but whether in the Liberal interest or Conservative, the meetings were purely proforma. Only the men had votes in those days and they wisely voted as the ‘boss' did (Conservative). A Liberal vote in the ballot box meant there was a Liberal on the island who had not yet learned the traditions. 

“Sunday School at three o'clock was a fixed thing in our village week. Most of the Protestant children were sent to it and some of their mothers and fathers also came. One stout bearded man, a ship carpenter on week days, used to spread his handkerchief on the floor to save his decent Sunday blue before he knelt in prayer. The collection of coppers was taken in a little box, said to be of teak, and to have come from India. Dogs often came in at the open door in summer looking for their masters. 

“Sunday services were an institution of greater interest. There was no church in our village morning worshippers went chiefly to Wolfe Island, where there were Catholic, Anglican, Presbyterian, and Methodist charges. Our evening service at seven o'clock was conducted on alternate Sundays by the Anglican rector and the Presbyterian minister from Wolfe Island.” 

Mystery Hall The hall, as it was known, was considered to be a mystery. It was locked up in the day time but was very popular in the evenings as it was known as the “Mechanics Institute,” later the Public Library. To the villagers, it was “the Hall.” In the roof space over the hall there was, for many years, a duly authorized lodge of the A.F. and A.M. which was reached by a stepladder-like stair outside the building. 

The hall's chief function was at elections when it was always the polling place. The voters’ list was posted up according to law outside the building. The reeve and the village council were always elected without opposition. and if all the villages of Ontario had their affairs as well managed as Garden Island did, fewer of them would be in financial distress. Many Ferries To reach Kingston from Garden Island it was necessary to travel on the ferry steamer and there were several of them the last previous to the steamer “Wolfe Islander,” taking over the duties was the steamer “Pierrepont," which will be remembered by many Kingstonians. There was also another boat called the “Pierrepont,” but this boat was in the service so many years ago, it is almost forgotten. 

While Garden Island has ceased to be an industrial centre, many Kingstonians as well as people from other points look upon it today as one of the ideal summer places and have established their homes on the Island and live in what used to be island residences which have of course been remodelled. Who knows but that these visitors are sometimes entertained by “ghosts” of former happy days? Picture caption: 1. A view of the Island dock just before sundown. 

2 The office building as it appeared three years ago; 

3 The machine and pattern shop; 

4 the first school house on the Island, now the summer home of Dr. F. L. Harrison, Queen’s University; 

5 the sail loft where the sails from the vessels and repaired the remains of the side-wheel tug Parthia, built in 1896, dismantled in 1915. The hull of the Str. Rideau King can be seen just to the right of the tug Parthia.