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10.17.08 | YOUNITY PRESENTS: HEART & SOUL | AN ART EXHIBITION & BOOK LAUNCH
2008-10-02 07:10:00 YOUNITY is a celebratory art collaboration involving 60 international women artists who have come together to showcase what they identify as "heart and soul." The exhibit will provide an urban landscape installation that unifies and pushes the boundaries of graffiti, photography, urban contemporary and fine art.
A New Year?s Reflection
2008-09-30 02:18:00 As many of you know, the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah begins tonight at sundown, so as I write these words, some of our readers are already celebrating the holiday. Every year, as the Jewish High Holy Days approach, I seek to engage in T’shuvah, the word literally means return (as if we return to the ...
By: GayPatriot
Two Things That Disappear When You Name Them
2008-09-25 22:40:00 1. Silence. 2. Your humility. &-#160;
Dato J. Jegathesan, a ?Secret Swami? cult top leader-roving ambassador
2008-09-23 05:04:00 The Sathya Sai Baba cult assidously cultivates mainstream civic, religious, government and political figures. See ?Secret Swami? Cult Recruits At Prime PublicVenues Dato J. Jegathesan of Malaysia. International Finance Figure, and Secret Swami Cult Leader It is doubtful whether the Sathya Sai Organization or one of its highest profile international leaders told the administration of St.John?s Baptist ...
Deluded believer in Sathya Sai Baba - Datuk J. Jegathesan
2008-09-21 13:14:00 Datuk J. Jegathesan (or Jagadeeshan, as he sometimes signs himself) has a degree in economy. However he is without known qualifications as an educator in human and spiritual values, as he presents himself, not least through the Sathya Sai Organization. His belief in Sathya Sai Baba forms the basis and outlines the limits of what ...
Has Sathya Sai Baba Moved An Inch To Clean Up His Yard?
2008-09-14 13:32:00 My years in India furnished moving testimony to widespread harmonious relationships between Indian people of many religious and even non-religious backgrounds. This was no matter of mere tolerance but rather of most genuine acceptance of each other. Many are the instances of Indians visiting each other’s places of worship, family and other social, political and ...
On Faith
2008-09-12 17:06:00 "The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety."- George E. MuellerSee the rest at www.AnAmericanFrontPorch.com
Sathya Sai Baba Continues To Ail
2008-09-12 04:20:00 Mrs Geetha Reddy, Tourism Minister of Sathya Sai Baba’s State, Andhra Pradesh, had to provide a helping hand to the supposed Divine Hand of one who said that we would not see him age after his 60’s birthday. Devotees honest enough to admit it would have to attest that he has made many mistaken prophecies ...
?World Hindu? by 2030. VHP?s Singhal Reports Sathya Sai Baba Told Him
2008-09-09 01:59:00 One of India’s most powerful Hindu nationalist leaders, Ashok Singhal, who has an international profile in the Hindu world, has just told an assembly of political and religious luminaries in Delhi of a prophecy he says Sathya Sai Baba shared with him. The Organiser, September 14, 2008, reports: “… Shri Singhal also threw light on how ...
God at 3 and 4 Years Old
2008-09-08 16:22:00 The other night I was putting my four-year-old to bed and I asked her if there was anything she wanted to say to God. “I already asked him to help Gianna’s leg feel better” she said. The baby’s leg, incidentally, is broken. She got caught in a sibling sandwich Tuesday night and is back this ...
Hanker - Web Of Faith
2008-09-08 08:17:00 Band: HankerAlbum: Web Of FaithYear: 2004Country: CanadaGenre: Heavy MetalLength: 61:31 MinFilesize: 107 MBTracklist:- Empower- Inside Me- Stigmata- Let Me Out- Do Or Die- Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea- The Search- Under Cover Of Darkness- Face To Face- Point Of No Return- The Huntsman- Web Of FaithClick Here
Obama slips on TV: ?My Muslim faith?
2008-09-08 00:18:00 Obama slips on TV: ‘My Muslim faith’ Slip of the tongue or momentary confusion? In a television interview today discussing his religion, Sen. Barack Obama stated, “My Muslim faith.” Obama, speaking to ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on “This Week,” was talking about what he described as “smears” that were claiming he was a Muslim when he maintains he ...
By: TexasFred's
The World?s ?Small? and Forgotten Peoples
2008-09-06 00:34:00 In my previous blog, I wrote of how Sathya Sai Baba - despite decades of stating that he will lead a spiritual revolution unparalled in mankind’s history - has profoundly failed to engage the world. ‘The backyard’, India, that he said he would first “clean up” is in parlous state. He says that the world ...
Exposing Worldwide Sathya Sai Baba Cult (Sept 08,i)
2008-09-04 01:17:00 The following, mostly short, articles have appeared at: http://robertpriddy.wordpress.c-om and http://barrypittard.wordpress.c-om and, in one case, at Robert Priddy’s main website - Sathya Sai Baba In Word And Action in the last few days. The following information is compiled at: http://www.saibaba-x.org.uk/HOM-E/Sai_Baba_news.htm where there is an extensive list of blogs and articles, with the latest updates clearly noted. Barry Pittard. 4 September, ...
The Meaning of Everything
2008-09-02 19:31:00 I’ve been thinking a lot lately about meaning. You know, the big questions humans have asked since we first opened our eyes. The church woes and faith crises of late have brought this to my mind, as well as a series thoughtful conversations with a friend. It’s strange though how present a topic this has ...
Human Rights World Report 2008. India In Sore Shape
2008-09-02 04:25:00 The Human Rights Watch World Report 2008 is in marked conflict with Sathya Sai Baba’s promises made over many decades. He has said that he would first save India and then the rest of the world - this within his own lifetime. His millions of followers hear his blatantly untrue statements but remain silent and blindly ...
Michael Goldstein?s Chilling 9/11 Remarks
2008-09-01 01:25:00 Chairman of the worldwide Sathya Sai Organization,Dr Michael Goldstein of Covina, southern California - once in an email widely circulated to the Sai cult devotees - made extraordinary statements about 9/11. Become A Sai Devotee And Get Terrorist-Proof Here is the statement from Dr Goldstein, a medical doctor of Covina, California, USA. A second reading may be ...
New pressure over faith schools
2008-08-31 10:29:00 BBC says,'Ministers are being urged to stop faith schools in England selecting pupils and staff on the basis of their religion.Accord, a new coalition of secular and religious figures, wants the government to stop state-funded schools engaging in what they say is "discrimination".It argues that all children should have equal access to good local schools and that segregating them on religious grounds harms community cohesion.The government argues faith schools can help boost standards in deprived areas.There are about 6,850 faith schools in England out of a total of 21,000 schools. The vast majority of these are Roman Catholic or Church of England.But they also include about 40 Jewish schools and a handful of Muslim, Sikh and Greek Orthodox schools. In September 2007, Schools Secretary Ed Balls said the government would open more faith schools where there was parental demand.But the move has angered some teachers who complain of discriminatory employment practices.The Accord coaliti...
By: Christian Quoter
?World Avatar? Sathya Sai Baba?s Troubled Trail
2008-08-31 00:42:00 In any clear reading of the officially published works of Sathya Sai Baba, there are zig-zagging trails of anomaly. The Troubled Trail One sees glaring contradictions, unfulfilled prophecies and broken promises. The multi-colored and pretty ‘balloons’ that he has for so many decades floated - supposedly for the delight of all humanity - keep on popping, ...
Sathya Sai Baba Says He Dislikes Pomp
2008-08-28 21:09:00 Of pomp, Sathya Sai Baba declares a dislike: “Let Me tell you this now itself: I do not like this pomp and show. I do not derive any joy out ...
Faith Evans Opens Up About B.I.G. Affairs
2008-08-28 19:06:00 Although it was well known that Faith Evans‘ husband, Christopher Wallace a.k.a. The Notorious B.I.G., had numerous affairs, Faith never really talked about her struggles with her husband’s infidelities, until now. Evans, 35, admits that she used to take her frustrations out on the women her husband slept with by assaulting them. In her new autobiography, Keep ...
By: Celebrity Smack!
A Teacher on the Front Line as Faith and Science Clash
2008-08-25 17:07:00 From NYT > Science: David Campbell switched on the overhead projector and wrote "Evolution" in the rectangle of light on the screen. He scanned the faces of the sophomores in his Biology I class. Many of them, he knew from years of teaching high school in this Jacksonville subu
Faith, Friendship, and Freedom
2008-08-21 19:53:00 Someday, you're having a bad day. Nothing seems to work out, no matter how hard you try. Today for example, we parted ways with our former Diamond Sponsor, for reasons I do not care to elaborate on. Since we planned for a break-even budget this year (like we did in the past two years), my wife and I will have to make up for the lost revenue. This year's conference remains the best we've put together so far, but our plans for fancy vacations might have to be reconsidered. While this was happening and I was meeting customers and partners in Japan (165,000 qualifying miles to date this year), I have been working hard to close Intalio's last round of funding. Even though I have done it many times in the past, this round is the first one for which I have had to put a good fight in order to preserve my team's fair share in the company. And while all parties involved seem to be acting in good faith, getting everybody's interests aligned is proving more challenging than expected....
By: IT|Redux
What is Faith?
2008-08-21 03:53:00 -By Thomas E. Brewton It was not through law that Abraham and his offspring received the promise that he would be heir of the world, but through the righteousness that comes by faith. (Romans 4:13) Rev. Josh Hanson preached Sunday’s sermon at Black Rock-Long Ridge Congregational Church (North Stamford, Connecticut). Using the familiar story of Noah building ...
By: Publius Forum
Sheltering Wings Faith Based Domestic Violence Shelter Wins Award from Whit
2008-08-12 15:42:00 Zach Rosing Productions Announced on their site that Sheltering Wings Promotional Video won a honorable mention from the White House recently!In May of 2008 the shelter had an opportunity to enter its children?s video, titled The Need For Change Is Now, in the Portraits of Compassion video contest, sponsored by the Health and Human Services division of the White House Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. Zach Productions originally produced this video in April of 2007.The Need For Change Is NowSheltering Wings, a domestic violence women?s shelter located in Danville IN, was honored by the White House Faith-Based and Community Initiatives during their Innovations in Effective Compassion Conference held on June 26 and June 27 in Washington, D.C.The video is awesome! I think showing people what happens also to children within domestic violence circumstances also need to be considered a bit more as well. Churches often mention they are doing what needs to be done for the ...
Blind persons seek cures from Sathya Sai Baba
2008-08-12 12:03:00 ?Ulf told us the other night that the blind middle-aged Danish devotee Henning was told by Baba in an interview that he could cure his blindness, but then Henning would have to be blind in the next life! AS DEFERRED KARMA? (from my Indian visit diary notebook, Sunday 1st November, 1998 ) Ulf was Ulf Sviberg, ...
In ‘Other’ Words: Unstoppable Faith
2008-08-12 06:03:00 “Problems can slow us down temporarily but they don’t have the ability to stop us. Only we have that power.” ~Wayne Cordeiro~ It wasn’t just a problem. It was the tragic death of their daughter, an accident in their own driveway, an older brother driving over his little sister, and it did not stop them. Deeply grieved, and still walking through this shadow of death, the Steven Curtis Chapman family went on a live TV show, interviewed by Larry King, and shared their wrenching pain, but most of all shared, their unshakable faith. It stopped them for moments - a moment when Will wanted to run as the ambulance took his sister away, but brother Caleb tackled him to the ground and refused to let him go. Yes, they stopped to question God asking why, but one child said, his asking ‘why’ proved his belief in God. Satan was not going to win with this sting of death. It’s not stopping the celebration of an upcoming daughter’s w...
Leaps of Faith, and the Difference Between Vanity Presses and “Legiti
2008-08-09 21:00:00 Last night, Cait came running into the kitchen, screaming. Heart pounding, I raced in from outside to see what was wrong. She’d just hung up with one of her best friends, who’d called to say that she’d just received an offer from a publishing house to publish her first children’s story. This friend of Cait’s is the kind of kid that you’d wish for good things to happen to. She’s a wonderful girl who doesn’t have the easiest of lives and always tries her best with a smile. Her dream (at 13 years old) is to be a published author. So you can imagine how I felt when upon hearing this news my stomach sank. I immediately had a bad feeling about it and my gut isn’t often wrong. Unfortunately, it wasn’t wrong this time either. Offering to take a look at the contract to check it over for her, I quickly saw the reason for my misgivings. Tate Publishing (the house that had “accepted” Sarah’s submission) would be happ...
Small Turnout In Russia for Solzhenitsyn
2008-08-07 13:22:00 Vale Alexander Solzhenitsyn! It may be argued that the genuine models of moral excellence are great and visionary but flawed individuals, rather than those such as Sathya Sai Baba, the failed ‘God’ who would be King of Kings. One may find it surprising that people’s sectarian views could not be raised above, and a tribute paid ...
Experiences of Sathya Sai Baba devotees
2008-08-05 22:48:00 Experiences of Devotees: from http://www.saibaba.org/newslett-er8-03.html It is interesting to see what the average Sathya Sai devotee believes, hopes and wants… this can be seen in postings on numerous web groups. Here are some examples which give a reasonable reflection of the thinking of Sai Baba devotees:- Srinivas It is near about 5 years from now I started worshiping ...
Faith, nukes, and the Promised Land?s borders
2008-07-27 19:07:00 Faith doesn’t require us to test God as Jews did at Meribah, though with relative success. Rather, we should expect that at some point God offers us an opportunity which we must seize. Leftists believe in reforming societies on grand scale; we, the true liberals, must be on lookout for mini-opportunities to further the goals ...
By: Samson Blinded
Timothy Conway Ph.D on: The Crucial John Hislop Letters
2008-07-24 05:00:00 Timothy Conway Ph.D, of Santa Barbara USA, has written a response to a vehement critic. Conway's response is a model of decency, self-restraint and patience notwithstanding the attempt at assassinating his character
Over 40 Days Since My Last Post
2008-07-21 18:16:00 BismillaharRahmanirRahim Selam alaykum all! Someone has brought to my attention that it has been over 40 days since my last post. And this has been the longest stint that I have withheld a post from this blog since 2005. But as it were, I just don’t have much to say. Before I had a shaykh, I ...
By: Wa Salaam
The Non Miraculous Benefit of Who and What is Different
2008-07-20 00:57:00 The interested reader can readily find a whole literature concerning the scientific investigation of miracles and other alleged supraphenomena. (I shall soon blog on the issue of the alleged Shirdi Sai Baba miracle, said to have occurred in Bangalore on July 18, 2008, courting such headlines in the Indian national press such as the Times ...
Legalistic Abuse: Catholic Church And Sathya Sai Organization
2008-07-18 22:54:00 Many of my readers will be quick to see certain striking parallels between, respectively, core powerholders in the Roman Catholic Church and in the International Sathya Sai Organization. In the Australian Broadcasting Corporation report, I have highlighted in red some salient points. As development continues in the Australian story about the Foster family’s years’-long fight for ...
Blears: faith groups can?t do social work if they evangelise
2008-07-18 10:51:00 The Christian Institute reports, 'Christian groups providing community services should not evangelise, says Government Minister Hazel Blears.In a White Paper entitled ?Communities in control: real people, real power?, Mrs Blears outlines Government plans to commission services from faith-based groups.However, during a Commons debate on the issue, Mrs Blears said that this will come with strings attached.She acknowledged in the debate that ?many people are motivated by faith of all kinds to do great acts of social good?.?However,? she continued, ?I am concerned to ensure that if faith groups become involved, they do so on a proper footing ? not by evangelising or proselytising, but by providing services in a non-discriminatory way to the whole community?.Mrs Blears said that she planned to draft a charter for Christian groups along the lines of the one provided by Faithworks for churches and Christian agencies providing community services.The charter requires groups to pledge to pro...
By: Christian Quoter
Faith, Hope, and the Courtship of South Carolina
2008-07-11 15:07:00 South Carolina hasn't voted for a Democrat for president since Jimmy Carter. According to Linda Hansen, the voters in the "Palmetto State" have been no use to "liberal" candidates after primary season:"Truth to tell, we South Carolinians have been jilted before we got to the altar so many times we don't bother with trousseau shoppin' any more. We've lost faith. Abandoned hope. The Dems gave up on us long ago and the GOP knows we can be had, cheap."Come senators, congressmenPlease heed the callDon't stand in the doorwayDon't block up the hall...The times? They are a-changing: In the summer of 2007 Senator Barack Obama promised the people of South Carolina he'd work for them if they'd have him. Obama's keeping his promise, which reflects his fifty state strategy. Ms. Hansen compares the state of the McCain & Obama campaigns, and while the polls suggest that McCain has the traditional lead, the mood on the ground is - evidently - not indicative of a Republican lock on the ...
Self-documented Folly of India?s Would-be God
2008-07-10 09:38:00 It is sobering to consider that Sathya Sai Baba’s influence extends into powerful corners, and his marked deficiencies reveal the worthwhileness of exposing his human rather than any divine qualities. One of the benefits of Brian Steel’s extensive examination of official Sathya Sai publications is that we can see with considerable impact the extraordinary ignorance, inconsistency ...
Optimists losing faith?
2008-07-07 20:13:00 Even folks in the Optimist Club are having a tough time toeing an upbeat line these days. Eighteen members of the volunteer organization’s Gilbert, Ariz., chapter have gathered, a few days before this nation’s 232nd birthday, to focus on the positive: Their book drive for schoolchildren and an Independence Day project to place American flags ...
Sathya Sai Baba Bans But Permits Foot Touching
2008-07-04 23:42:00 At the Bal Vikas conference in Prashanti Nilayam in 2001, after sixty years of offering what he deems to be his Holy Feet to be touched, Sathya SaiBaba declared that he was not going to allow padnamaskaar to anyone anymore. This is reported on an official Sathya Sai Organization web page at http://www.saibaba.org.hk/step6-.htm). As is ...
Undiscovered Photo of Shirdi Sai Baba
2008-07-04 10:30:00 Rare photo of Shirdi Sai Baba Recently there appeared on some websites what was claimed to be a recently discovered photo of Shirdi Sai Baba.It is clearly a photo of that much revered Indian ’saint’. One must not confuse Shirdi Sai Baba with the would-be usurper of his name and fame, Sathya Narayana Raju, who took over ...
Courting Hispanics And Faith Voters Without The Press Noticing
2008-07-04 09:16:00 Obama’s been in the news courting faith voters, talking to evangelical leaders. McCain? He’s been visiting Colombia and Mexico. Ho hum. Yawn. I was bemused when one political writer wondered if the hostage rescue in Colombia had been “timed” for his benefit. Tres estupido. What if the rescue had gone wrong? But of course, the rescue merely ...
Sathya Sai Baba World Cult At Odds With Itself
2008-06-28 10:01:00 One of the distinctive phenomena that independently confirm voices critical of Sathya Sai Baba and his cult is that his movement is eroding from within. Sathya Sai Cult At Odds With Itself Some of his followers have made progress in thinking their way out of this particular variety of ‘the guru trap’. They do not have to ...
Sacred Science: Using Faith to Explain Anomalies in Physics
2008-06-24 09:10:00 From Scientific American: In the early 17th century a demon was loosed on the world by Italian mathematician Galileo Galilei when he began swinging pendulums, rolling balls down ramps and observing the moons of Jupiter--all with an aim toward discovering regularities that could be
?Secret Swami? Cult Recruits At Prime Public Venues
2008-06-22 21:10:00 Although there is a long history of Sathya Sai Baba’s utterances which forbid promoting of himself, his official worldwide Sathya Sai Organization promotes strongly, at his, of course, secret behest. This zeal to recruit (to use the proper word) tends to take place in exceptionally prestigious venues. What does the cult need for its survival - ...
A Strong India Can Bless The World
2008-06-20 20:07:00 In my years in India, I saw at close hand the work of one talented and highly motivated Indian group with which I did volunteer social work, attaining that deep wish fired ever since I was 16, when I became deeply inspired by the life of Mahatma Gandhi. The founder of the work (who sought no ...
Shirdi Sai Saint?s Fame Spirited By Puttaparthi
2008-06-17 20:15:00 Below is the image of the famous saint, Shirdi Sai Baba (d. 1918), of the North Indian State of Maharashtra. His repute has endured untainted by the sort of scandals that have for decades beset Sathya Sai Baba of Puttaparthi. A Saint of Great Renunciation and Humility Today, the shrine built around the humble musjid (a Muslim ...
MISSION FRONTIERS ATTACKS ANTI-INTELLECTUAL FAITH
2008-06-12 20:13:00 MISSION FRONTIERS ATTACKS ANTI-INTELLECTUAL FAITH AND OTHER PERVERSIONS OF CHRISTIANITY The March-April 2008 issue of Mission Frontiers magazine contains an article by Jonathan Rice discussing the tragic consequences of the anti-intellectual conception of faith in 19th century British Christianity (pp. 11-14) and an article by Vishal Mangalwadi advocating a Christianity with a strong emphasis on knowledge and truth (pp. 15 - 18) and an article by Rick Wood lamenting our proclamation of a defective Gospel (pp. 9 - 10). One of the results of today?s perverted, sub-standard Christianity is noted on page 4 by the Editor Ralph Winter: ?Kenya, with over 400 denominations and almost as many Evangelicals as in all of Europe, has exploded before our eyes -- into nasty and unprecedented intertribal warfare -- despite being 80% Christian, just like the USA. Nearby, the Central African Republic is considered by some to be one of the most dangerous and corrupt countries of the...
By: Van Til Tool
Have faith in a happy outcome
2008-06-11 03:28:00 >From “Sara, BOOK 2 Solomon’s Fine Featherless Friends” by Esther and Jerry Hicks Excerpted from pages 230-232 (Solomon) “I would just keep holding the vision of the happy outcome–and let Law of Attraction figure out how to bring it about. You worry too much, my friend, when, in truth, there is nothing at all to ...
Faith is contagious
2008-06-10 20:18:00 Many times I?ve seen zealous communists turn religious Jews. Jews are inherently messianic, long for reforming societies for good. Once they saw redemption in communism, but once disappointed in that shining path, some turned to religion. Moshe Sneh, the late leader of Israeli communists, left a surprising testament declaring atheism nonsense. I?m more concerned with ...
By: Samson Blinded
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