Institute for Jedi Realist Studies - Institute for Jedi Realist Studies - Topics in Category: News Around the World - Institute for Jedi Realist Studies http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org Thu, 13 Dec 2018 11:26:59 +0000 /media/kunena/images/icons/rss.png Institute for Jedi Realist Studies - Topics in Category: News Around the World - Institute for Jedi Realist Studies en-gb Nov. 12, 2018 -- Stan "The Man" Lee takes his leave - by: Hilda Cain http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/32129-nov-12-2018-stan-the-man-lee-takes-his-leave#57258 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/32129-nov-12-2018-stan-the-man-lee-takes-his-leave#57258 News Around the World Sun, 18 Nov 2018 23:20:49 +0000 Nov. 12, 2018 -- Stan "The Man" Lee takes his leave - by: Kol Drake http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/32130-nov-12-2018-stan-the-man-lee-takes-his-leave#57252 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/32130-nov-12-2018-stan-the-man-lee-takes-his-leave#57252
The comic industry rose and fell and rose again. Marvel went from gangbusters to nearly declaring bankruptcy to blockbuster movies. And in all those properties, that Stan the Man would show up and speak a line or two.. .letting 'us' in on the secret -- we are all heroes in our own stories -- with great power comes great responsibilty -- never give up -- and so much more.

Mr Lee may be gone from this life but, his imaginative characters will keep sending his message for decades to come. Rest in Peace, Mr. Lee.]]>
News Around the World Mon, 12 Nov 2018 20:48:43 +0000
Force Academy Has Moved - by: Connor http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/32075-force-academy-has-moved#56674 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/32075-force-academy-has-moved#56674
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News Around the World Sun, 04 Feb 2018 17:50:04 +0000
Timelord Wisdom is Timeless - by: Katie (StormyKat) http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/31923-timelord-wisdom-is-timeless#55621 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/31923-timelord-wisdom-is-timeless#55621 ]]> News Around the World Tue, 11 Apr 2017 00:53:25 +0000 Let's Regroup: Stop Arming Terrorists Act (HR258) Series - by: Setanaoko http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/31873-let-s-regroup-stop-arming-terrorists-act-hr258-series#55036 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/31873-let-s-regroup-stop-arming-terrorists-act-hr258-series#55036 I welcome anyone sharing this video out, if you find value in it.
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News Around the World Mon, 09 Jan 2017 18:12:20 +0000
Jedi Compass is Published!! - by: Setanaoko http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/31155-jedi-compass-is-published#54837 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/31155-jedi-compass-is-published#54837
It may not be much, but I'm proud of it's accomplishment to help people around the world.]]>
News Around the World Tue, 20 Dec 2016 15:07:43 +0000
Inverse Article - by: Jax http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/31851-inverse-article#54778 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/31851-inverse-article#54778 News Around the World Thu, 15 Dec 2016 05:08:41 +0000 Jedi News UK Division - by: Jax http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/31823-jedi-news-uk-division#54433 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/31823-jedi-news-uk-division#54433 News Around the World Sat, 01 Oct 2016 06:22:44 +0000 2017 Jedi Federation National Gathering (Pennsylvania) - by: Jax http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/31821-2017-jedi-federation-national-gathering-pennsylvania#54419 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/31821-2017-jedi-federation-national-gathering-pennsylvania#54419

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News Around the World Wed, 28 Sep 2016 18:42:17 +0000
Gene Wilder Passes - by: Jax http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/31813-gene-wilder-passes#54310 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/31813-gene-wilder-passes#54310 News Around the World Fri, 02 Sep 2016 03:32:11 +0000 I'm on KOA tonight! - by: Dustin http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/31809-i-m-on-koa-tonight#54263 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/31809-i-m-on-koa-tonight#54263

I tried looking a little bit for the podcasts you found inspirational; I'm familiar with Sam Harris personally but can you post all three so people can check them out? Maybe with a recommendation of your favorite show of theirs to get people hooked?

Great job Connor, I look forward to the new podcast in the works.]]>
News Around the World Fri, 26 Aug 2016 05:34:20 +0000
WTF is Going On? - by: Johannes (Yoshio) http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/31776-wtf-is-going-on#53958 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/31776-wtf-is-going-on#53958 But that is, on the other hand, where I do feel that we can make a difference by dealing with those things and act as a positive example of how we still can find peace and even fulfillment within the area we are living in.]]> News Around the World Fri, 29 Jul 2016 11:14:12 +0000 (Another) Shooting - by: Kol Drake http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/31747-another-shooting?start=10#53542 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/31747-another-shooting?start=10#53542
>> Samantha Bee talks about the latest shooting incident. <<]]>
News Around the World Thu, 16 Jun 2016 03:14:56 +0000
Jedi in Action - by: Jax http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/31748-jedi-in-action#53523 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/31748-jedi-in-action#53523 News Around the World Tue, 14 Jun 2016 17:25:30 +0000 The Artist Formerly Known As.... - by: David (Phoenix) http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/31671-the-artist-formerly-known-as#52536 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/31671-the-artist-formerly-known-as#52536 Dead at 57
By JON PARELES APRIL 21, 2016

Prince, the songwriter, singer, producer, one-man studio band and consummate showman, died Thursday at his residence, Paisley Park, in Chanhassen, Minn., according to a statement from his publicist, Yvette NoelSchure.

He was 57.

No cause of death has been given. In a statement, the Carver County sheriff, Jim Olson, said that deputies responded to an emergency call at 9:43 a.m.: “When deputies and medical personnel arrived, they found an unresponsive adult male in the elevator. First responders attempted to provide lifesaving CPR, but were unable to revive the victim. He was pronounced deceased at 10:07 a.m.” The sheriff’s office said it would continue to investigate his death.

Last week, responding to news reports that Prince’s plane had made an emergency landing because of a health scare, Ms. Noel-Schure said Prince was “fighting the flu.”
Prince, born Prince Rogers Nelson on June 7, 1958, was a man bursting with music — a wildly prolific songwriter, a virtuoso on guitars, keyboards and drums and a master architect of funk, rock, R&B and pop, even as his music defied genres. In a career that lasted from the late 1970s until an arena tour this year, he was acclaimed as a sex symbol, a musical prodigy and an artist who shaped his career his way, often battling with accepted music-business practices.

“When I first started out in the music industry, I was most concerned with freedom. Freedom to produce, freedom to play all the instruments on my records, freedom to say anything I wanted to,” he said when he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004. In a tribute to George Harrison that night, Prince went on to play a guitar solo in “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” that left the room floored.

Prince’s Top 10 hits included “Little Red Corvette,” “When Doves Cry,” “Let’s Go Crazy,” “Kiss,” and “The Most Beautiful Girl in the World”; albums like “Dirty Mind,” “1999” and “Sign O’ the Times” were full-length statements.

His songs also became hits for others, among them “Nothing Compares 2 U” for Sinead O’Connor and “I Feel for You” for Chaka Khan. With the 1984 film and album “Purple Rain,” Prince told a fictionalized version of his own story: biracial, gifted, spectacularly ambitious. Its music won him an Academy Award and the album sold more than 13 million copies in the United States alone.

In a statement, President Obama said, “Few artists have influenced the sound and trajectory of popular music more distinctly, or touched quite so many people with their talent. As one of the most gifted and prolific musicians of our time, Prince did it all. Funk. R&B. Rock and roll. He was a virtuoso instrumentalist, a brilliant bandleader, and an electrifying performer. ‘A strong spirit transcends rules,’ Prince once said — and nobody’s spirit was stronger, bolder, or more creative.”

Prince recorded the great majority of his music entirely on his own, playing every instrument and singing every vocal line. Many of his albums were simply credited, “Produced, arranged, composed and performed by Prince.” Then, performing those songs onstage, he worked as a bandleader in the polished, athletic, ecstatic tradition of James Brown, at once spontaneous and utterly precise, riveting enough to open a Grammy Awards telecast and play the Super Bowl halftime show. Often, Prince would follow a full-tilt arena
concert with a late-night club show, pouring out even more music.

In Prince’s biggest hits, he sang passionately, affectionately and playfully about sex and seduction. With deep bedroom eyes and a sly, knowing smile, he was one of pop’s ultimate flirts: a sex symbol devoted to romance and pleasure, not power or machismo. Elsewhere in his catalog were songs that addressed social issues and delved into mysticism and science fiction. He made himself a unifier of dualities — racial, sexual, musical, cultural — teasing at them in songs like “Controversy” and transcending them in his career.
He had plenty of eccentricities: his fondness for the color purple, using “U” for “you” and a drawn eye for “I” long before textspeak, his vigilant policing of his music online, his penchant for releasing huge troves of music at once, his intensely private persona. Yet for musicians and listeners of multiple generations, he was admired well-nigh universally.

Prince’s music had an immediate and lasting influence: among songwriters concocting come-ons, among producers working on dance grooves, among studio experimenters and stage performers. He sang as a soul belter, a rocker, a bluesy ballad singer and a falsetto crooner. His most immediately recognizable (and widely imitated) instrumental style was a
particular kind of pinpoint, staccato funk, defined as much by keyboards as by the rhythm section. But that was just one among the many styles he would draw on and blend, from hard rock to psychedelia to electronic music. His music was a cornucopia of ideas: triumphantly, brilliantly kaleidoscopic.

Source: www.nytimes.com/2016/04/22/arts/music/prince-dead.html?_r=0

He will be missed. He wasn't in my generation, but his influence definitely was. Did you have a favorite Prince song? Any memories?]]>
News Around the World Thu, 21 Apr 2016 22:20:20 +0000
DISNEY Lawyers sucking the fun out of life - by: Jax http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/31649-disney-lawyers-sucking-the-fun-out-of-life#52441 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/31649-disney-lawyers-sucking-the-fun-out-of-life#52441 News Around the World Tue, 19 Apr 2016 22:30:59 +0000 Adele talks about poor performance at the GRAMMY's - by: Connor http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/31548-adele-talks-about-poor-performance-at-the-grammy-s#51406 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/31548-adele-talks-about-poor-performance-at-the-grammy-s#51406 News Around the World Thu, 18 Feb 2016 18:27:37 +0000 "Star Wars: Episode VIII' starts filming; Laura Dern part of cast" - by: Jax http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/31544-star-wars-episode-viii-starts-filming-laura-dern-part-of-cast#51375 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/31544-star-wars-episode-viii-starts-filming-laura-dern-part-of-cast#51375 News Around the World Wed, 17 Feb 2016 02:32:17 +0000 "Why Meditation is one of the most important things you can do for heart health" - by: Connor http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/31538-why-meditation-is-one-of-the-most-important-things-you-can-do-for-heart-health#51306 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/31538-why-meditation-is-one-of-the-most-important-things-you-can-do-for-heart-health#51306
www.mindbodygreen.com/0-23718/why-meditation-is-one-of-the-most-important-things-you-can-do-for-heart-health-a.html ]]>
News Around the World Fri, 12 Feb 2016 14:05:54 +0000
"US Election 2016: Trump and Sanders win New Hampshire"-BBC - by: Connor http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/31525-us-election-2016-trump-and-sanders-win-new-hampshire-bbc?start=10#51279 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/31525-us-election-2016-trump-and-sanders-win-new-hampshire-bbc?start=10#51279
I agree. Scholarships are great. That's how my schooling (both BM and MM) are paid.

But, I have told my mother this (to her horror) that if I had not received scholarship, I would not have taken out loans to go to college. I would have found another way to be a musician. I do not believe in debt as an ok thing. That's a topic for another time.

If Bernie wants to pay for everybody's schooling, go for it... but then people will view it as an entitlement, and that will ruin our view of education. At least on a macro-scale.]]>
News Around the World Thu, 11 Feb 2016 21:38:06 +0000
"Cruise Ship returns to New Jersey port after Severe Storm" CBS - by: Jax http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/31531-cruise-ship-returns-to-new-jersey-port-after-severe-storm-cbs#51262 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/31531-cruise-ship-returns-to-new-jersey-port-after-severe-storm-cbs#51262 News Around the World Thu, 11 Feb 2016 16:43:56 +0000 Jedi Summit 2016 (call for presenters) - by: Connor http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/31522-jedi-summit-2016-call-for-presenters#51235 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/31522-jedi-summit-2016-call-for-presenters#51235 News Around the World Wed, 10 Feb 2016 19:57:22 +0000 "A Booming Market for Art That Imitates Life After the Financial Crisis" - NYTimes - by: Jax http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/31504-a-booming-market-for-art-that-imitates-life-after-the-financial-crisis-nytimes#51108 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/31504-a-booming-market-for-art-that-imitates-life-after-the-financial-crisis-nytimes#51108 News Around the World Mon, 08 Feb 2016 21:42:34 +0000 "Texas: Officer Kills Unarmed Man"-NYTimes - by: Jax http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/31505-texas-officer-kills-unarmed-man-nytimes#51059 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/31505-texas-officer-kills-unarmed-man-nytimes#51059 2. Work to enact change in policy
3. Be aware of situations around us so we can be a good witness if needed


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News Around the World Mon, 08 Feb 2016 03:49:55 +0000
Jedi Liturgy Invite - by: Baru http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/31245-jedi-liturgy-invite#48319 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/31245-jedi-liturgy-invite#48319
I hope all is well and blessing to all teachers of this wonderful material. May it help us all raise our awareness of the truth about our universal unity the binds us all in this life.]]>
News Around the World Sat, 25 Jul 2015 20:10:07 +0000
Villarrica - by: Jax http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/31116-villarrica#47063 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/31116-villarrica#47063

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News Around the World Tue, 05 May 2015 05:13:06 +0000
501st here in GA (USA)...made the news - by: Connor http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/31003-501st-here-in-ga-usa-made-the-news#45612 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/31003-501st-here-in-ga-usa-made-the-news#45612 Really, the whole culture of Star Wars is very good. There are only a few isolated cases of "I CAN WEAR MY HOOD IN THIS PLACE BECAUSE IT'S MY RELIGION" garbage I see... Nice!]]> News Around the World Tue, 20 Jan 2015 17:16:17 +0000 LGBT School...13 and older...? - by: Jax http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/31005-lgbt-school-13-and-older#45548 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/31005-lgbt-school-13-and-older#45548
I'm sorry, but it is not benevolent to force a kid to stay in an abusive situation. I understand the desire for change, and for the kid to have skills to handle the situation. I really do. But that isn't going to work in all situations. Personally, I'm sick of seeing so many kids derailed by other people's hatred. Gay kids are still disproportionately victims of abuse and harassment, get kicked out of their homes, abuse drugs and alcohol, etc. Even in foster care they have more problems finding a home that will accept them rather than trying to change them.

Acceptance of various sexualities has increased a lot in just the almost 20 years since I came out. Much of that happened because people were exposed to gay people on tv. Most people still didn't know someone personally, but there was an increase in people come out as well. However, forcing a person to come out was never a good idea. To force a kid to endure in this age of the internet where bullying can be constant is even harder. I would hope there isn't a need for alternative schools in another 20 years, but until we are there, I wouldn't force a kid to suffer.]]>
News Around the World Mon, 19 Jan 2015 04:22:39 +0000
A Buddhist Monk Tackles Suicide Culture - by: Jax http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/30757-a-buddhist-monk-tackles-suicide-culture#41908 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/30757-a-buddhist-monk-tackles-suicide-culture#41908 News Around the World Fri, 01 Aug 2014 02:24:07 +0000 Scottish Independance - by: Tai-Da Vrikaurvan http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/30611-scottish-independance#40265 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/30611-scottish-independance#40265 News Around the World Sat, 21 Jun 2014 18:03:20 +0000 Details Magazine Article November 2013 Issue - Jedi Religion - by: Connor http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/30388-details-magazine-article-november-2013-issue-jedi-religion#37373 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/30388-details-magazine-article-november-2013-issue-jedi-religion#37373 ]]> News Around the World Mon, 28 Oct 2013 21:17:23 +0000 Syria: US Involvement - by: Jax http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/30328-syria-us-involvement?start=10#37027 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/30328-syria-us-involvement?start=10#37027 ]]> News Around the World Tue, 24 Sep 2013 13:41:01 +0000 Jediism in the News- ATTN UK MEMBERS - by: Setanaoko http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/30324-jediism-in-the-news-attn-uk-members#36672 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/30324-jediism-in-the-news-attn-uk-members#36672 News Around the World Mon, 26 Aug 2013 16:07:36 +0000 Marines OK women for infantry training - by: Jax http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/30322-marines-ok-women-for-infantry-training#36663 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/30322-marines-ok-women-for-infantry-training#36663 News Around the World Mon, 26 Aug 2013 14:16:50 +0000 Web Site Down? How Dare You! - by: Connor http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/30323-web-site-down-how-dare-you#36651 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/30323-web-site-down-how-dare-you#36651 By NICK WINGFIELD

SEATTLE — On occasion, I visit a small store in my neighborhood only to find a sign saying the store is closed for an hour or so. It’s mildly irritating, but it has never occurred to me that those moments are worth freaking out over.

Such restraint was not universally exercised on Monday, when people ran to social media to voice outrage about a rare Amazon service hiccup.

That followed a pattern that we have come to expect now, after a week in which several of the Internet’s biggest companies went dark for a time. Google did not work for five minutes the other day, while parts of Microsoft’s Outlook.com Web mail service were out of commission for several days last week. A problem during regular site maintenance knocked the Web site of The New York Times offline for a couple of hours last week, too.

Of course, the downtime presents some sort of financial consequences for these companies. BuzzFeed took out its calculator and decided that Amazon could lose $1,104 in sales for every second its American site was down.

If you’re like me, you simply went back when the site resumed service and made your purchase then. Around the time Amazon went dark, I was about to buy an air mattress for some house guests coming to visit. Once the short shutdown was over, I made my order, and I have the utmost confidence my mattress is being stuffed into a corrugated cardboard box at an Amazon warehouse.

Some Web breakdowns are, of course, more serious. EBay had a well-known one that lasted nearly a full day back in 1999, when people were just beginning to realize how vexing it could be when always-on dot-com services vanished from their browsers. Investors crushed eBay’s stock back then.

Amazon’s stock closed up slightly on Monday.

Still, there is still impatience when the Web’s favorite sites disappear, as Amazon did Monday. And people let it be known. These microfailures have become a curious new form of entertainment, like a fire drill that forces everyone to empty out an office building.

The Twitter user Pourmecoffee captured the spirit of the moment on Monday with a joke about the primitive state of existence people must revert to in an Amazon blackout:]]>
News Around the World Mon, 26 Aug 2013 12:33:13 +0000
Battling Superstition, Indian Paid with his Life - by: Jax http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/30317-battling-superstition-indian-paid-with-his-life#36634 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/30317-battling-superstition-indian-paid-with-his-life#36634

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News Around the World Sun, 25 Aug 2013 19:07:46 +0000
Judge rules yoga in school is not religious - by: Jax http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/30245-judge-rules-yoga-in-school-is-not-religious#35809 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/30245-judge-rules-yoga-in-school-is-not-religious#35809 ]]> News Around the World Mon, 01 Jul 2013 23:34:34 +0000 Sexual Abuse in the Military - by: Jax http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/30220-sexual-abuse-in-the-military#35494 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/30220-sexual-abuse-in-the-military#35494 News Around the World Sun, 16 Jun 2013 01:06:54 +0000 Turkish Protests June 2013 - by: shea (shlomit) http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/30185-turkish-protests-june-2013?start=10#35281 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/30185-turkish-protests-june-2013?start=10#35281 the problem would be the justice system is working for the government and there for not impartial.]]> News Around the World Sat, 08 Jun 2013 08:59:31 +0000 Jedi Temple...in Real Life - by: Johannes (Yoshio) http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/30053-jedi-temple-in-real-life#33379 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/30053-jedi-temple-in-real-life#33379 I personally would see such a temple more like an adult education centre or evening classes where all sorts of different classes are offered and can be taken to one owns liking. As Jax put it, a bit like what we do have here just offline in a real facility.

Anyway, I hope to see something like that within my lifetime!]]>
News Around the World Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:30:28 +0000
Sad News, this is... - by: Connor http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/30036-sad-news-this-is#33114 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/30036-sad-news-this-is#33114 lol. It's Star Wars, man! I live and breathe the stuff.]]> News Around the World Fri, 08 Feb 2013 02:08:34 +0000 Disney buys Lucasfilm. New film 2015 - by: Tothian http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/29885-disney-buys-lucasfilm-new-film-2015?start=30#32051 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/29885-disney-buys-lucasfilm-new-film-2015?start=30#32051 ]]> News Around the World Fri, 07 Dec 2012 19:44:32 +0000 Thoughts on embassy attacks - by: Jax http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/29800-thoughts-on-embassy-attacks#30203 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/29800-thoughts-on-embassy-attacks#30203 Pro America Rally ]]> News Around the World Thu, 13 Sep 2012 02:09:04 +0000 Is not joining Facebook a sign of of psychopathy? - by: Tothian http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/29028-is-not-joining-facebook-a-sign-of-of-psychopathy?start=20#29786 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/29028-is-not-joining-facebook-a-sign-of-of-psychopathy?start=20#29786
I consider myself to be "Tothian". It's weird, creepy, evil, and too controlling, to tell people what they can or can't call themselves on the internet. Let there be self-expression.

I miss how Tom of MySpace would take pictures of himself with midgets dressed up as Superman. That was funny and cool.

Mark Zuckerberg sells people's personal information to corporations, and I haven't heard from one person yet who likes timeline. Every time someone on my friends list has their profile - against their will - switched to timeline, they complain about it. They went from bad to worse. It was easier to read before but now it's more confusing.

No. There's nothing wrong with you if you don't want to use Facebook. Those are fear tactics they're trying to instill. Just another example of how evil it is.

Then again, I usually like forums more than social networks. They seem more organized, and there's more camaraderie on them.

If there are any social networks I like, it's Twitter - simple and straight to the point. And YouTube, as it's cool to watch and make videos.]]>
News Around the World Sun, 26 Aug 2012 08:01:13 +0000
Kony 2012 - by: Onar http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/24204-kony-2012?start=10#29677 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/24204-kony-2012?start=10#29677
And are you really sure that we can't find someone valued as a high priority target or maybe its true that what they want is not to find him but to use him as an excuse to further assert our control over aspects of the region. Bin Laden was a CIA asset for years, and yet despite the news report of him dying 2 years after and the complete lack of evidence to the identity of the person killed in that Pakistani compound) we are lead to believe that he was hiding right under our noses the whole time. Not to mention the immediate and permanent disposal of the "remains" and the eventual wiping out of the seal team involved. It is my opinion that the people currently with the power want more and will use the ignorance of the masses to gather it. Using boogie men either not seen in years or made up entirely as their excuse.

I believe we will continue to see false flag events carried out by those who want the same thing Sidious did in the movies. A single government created for a more safe and secure society... but at what cost?

(/end rant lol)]]>
News Around the World Wed, 22 Aug 2012 19:00:50 +0000
Chicago Jedi Media Attention - by: Atticus http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/26638-chicago-jedi-media-attention#26646 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/26638-chicago-jedi-media-attention#26646 News Around the World Fri, 04 May 2012 00:13:10 +0000 Justice for Cisco! - by: Brandel Valico http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/26164-justice-for-cisco?start=20#26247 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/26164-justice-for-cisco?start=20#26247
I noted two separate times the dogs owner. not the cop, stated his dog ran at the officer.

The cop phrased it as the dog jumping at him and the owner interrupts and says his dog didn't jump he just ran at the cop.

While it's a very sad mistake and something that all parties can learn from hopefully.
Hearing the owner state not once but twice that his dog ran at the officer, makes it clear for me the officer had the right to feel threatened.]]>
News Around the World Thu, 19 Apr 2012 02:50:44 +0000
Kansas teen DQ’ed for running with taped earrings - by: Kol Drake http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/25958-kansas-teen-dq-ed-for-running-with-taped-earrings#25989 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/25958-kansas-teen-dq-ed-for-running-with-taped-earrings#25989
Most might also ask, why get them in the middle of the season?
Using geek logic -- I can understand. This time of year is 'wrap up time' for classes, team sports... everything. Including final proms, etc. Bet dollars to donuts she got pierced for prom... and no one wants to go to prom with swollen, just pierced ears with nothing but stainless steel posts.

Not that that makes it 'all okay'.
Just... that the ref in the story went from a minor infraction to nuclear DQ with no warnings is kind of excessive.

******

On another weird note... who would have thought having beads in your hair would be an issue. Wasn't until the Williams sisters did the whole 'head covered in beads color coded to their outfits'... and then some fell out during a match... and they rolled all over and...

And not long after, heard of some college kid having the same thing happen during a basketball game.

Reminds me of waaaaay back in the day, it was the first day of spring track practice. The coach called everyone out and looked at everyone. He said, the long hair goes or you are off the team. I spent an hour cutting hair with a set of 'medical tape scissors'. Bet some parents were not happy with the 'field expedient' style cuts they came home with.

Why the above? The coach should set the 'rules' and let the kids know what is okay and what is not -- long before the first race. Be it codes of conduct, proper equipment, or what beside the official school uniform can or can not be worn.

So... three to 'point a wagging finger at' --- the ref for being over the top; the coach for not letting the kids know 'the rules' ahead of time; and the girl for getting holey ears midway through the season (although less if she never knew about that rule; but she must have known since she taped her ears.)]]>
News Around the World Fri, 13 Apr 2012 21:28:50 +0000
Holi 2012 - by: Rebekah http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/24185-holi-2012#24203 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/24185-holi-2012#24203 ]]> News Around the World Wed, 07 Mar 2012 18:21:01 +0000 2013- Tennessee Jedi Gathering? - by: Setanaoko http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/23912-2013-tennessee-jedi-gathering#24100 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/23912-2013-tennessee-jedi-gathering#24100 News Around the World Sun, 04 Mar 2012 16:42:54 +0000 Jan 18 Internet Censorship Protest - by: MJ Hannigan http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/22711-jan-18-internet-censorship-protest#22805 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/22711-jan-18-internet-censorship-protest#22805

Yoda On A Stick, Hannigan, can you give it up?  Take it to a blog or your own site and invite further discussion.  Or even start a seperate thread.  These petty flame-digs" are so 2003.

As for THE TOPIC...  ::) 

I understand that some of the worst offenders in piracy (the types that are making huge money and are highly organized) but the individual who simply wants to share an image, a favorite song, a link to a video, etc...

Let's hope as a society we are pulling away from money and control on everything in our lives - and towards common sense in how we govern our social infrastructure.  And the internet is surely this now.


Sorry but what are you crying about?]]>
News Around the World Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:56:59 +0000
Forcing unity - by: Todd http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/18982-forcing-unity#22072 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/18982-forcing-unity#22072
Regarding the Amero, I am not too concerned.  For one thing, as much information as I've been able to glean indicates that the likelihood some people place on its emergence is overestimated; as far as I can tell, the very real efforts to solidify expanded trade agreements between Canada, Mexico, and the U.S. have been exaggerated by fear, and rumors of an Amero have sprouted from that.  Officials of those countries have clearly said that the Amero is not under consideration, and I believe them; most Western leaders, most of the time, tend to dodge questions or waffle when they have something to hide, rather than tell an out-and-out untruth.

That said, in our "sorta kinda" global economic structure there is already a "sorta kinda" single currency, which for the time being is the U.S. dollar.  That's what is meant when the dollar is described as the world's reserve currency; most trading countries have to convert their currencies to dollars before buying something from another country.  This state of things could change, as other large nations like Russia, China, and Japan are hinting that they want a new reserve currency - but even if it's not the U.S. dollar, there will probably still be one. 

TB-1's question regarding to whom the American national debt is owed is a provocative one; it personally took me a lot of reflection to understand this, though perhaps it comes more simply to others.  Basically, the debt is owed to the holders of U.S. Treasury-issued debt securities (bonds, bills, and notes), which are all just different forms of a promise to pay money in the future, with interest, in exchange for an advance right now.  So, the question is, who holds these things?  Other countries, particularly China, hold a lot, but they are becoming less and less eager to be our debtors as our financial challenges grow, and the possibility of just printing more money to pay off that debt becomes increasingly likely.  The biggest buyer of U.S. Treasury securities in the last year or two has by far been the Federal Reserve Bank, which makes for a nice seque into just what that means.

It’s not just theory, but a fact, that the Federal Reserve is not a government agency (despite its name); there’s a roguish history of how it was birthed in the early 1900’s, and how its name was chosen, that’s too long for this post - but it’s a private institution, by charter.  Officially, it is owned by its member banks, which means you can think of it as kind of a fraternal group ostensibly to provide a public service, but with a motive to benefit its own members (big banks).  But, Federal Reserve member banks are themselves just organizational constructs, so it’s important next to understand who owns them. 

That would be the shareholders of the banks, and this is where things get complicated  - because the shareholders are a mix of mutual funds, institutional investors, and private investors.  It’s hard for most of us to find the discipline and the time to track down where the largest concentration of bank stock is held, though given the allocation of wealth in U.S. society it’s likely that the largest ownership of bank stocks is in the hands of a relatively small percentage of its shareholders.  I don’t know the precise answer myself; figuring it out becomes all the more daunting in the face of some portion of bank stock probably being pledged as collateral in derivative sales and fancy financial transactions which themselves have varying degrees of complexity. 

If some of the terms used up to this point are not well understood by some readers, don’t worry.  The main point is that the Fed is currently the largest purchaser of U.S. bonds of various sorts, and the nation owes a lot of money to the Fed – which means we owe a lot to whomever has claims to the stock of its member banks. 

To complicate things a little further, the Fed itself can create currency to buy these bonds, even though that is supposed to be the job of the U.S. Treasury.  Sometimes the Fed denies this, but Ben Bernanke clearly admitted as much in testimony to Congress shortly after the 2008 financial crisis unwound.  They don’t print paper money, but add assets to their financial accounts with keystrokes on a computer (which has led some to disparage U.S. currency with the quip, “It’s not worth the paper it’s not printed on.”)

So, the net result is that we have a private institution to whom we collectively owe a lot of money controlling our money supply.  There’s tons of room for corruption in this; while not identical, it’s similar to the company to which you make mortgage payments also setting your salary.  That company can insure that you never miss a payment by constantly giving undeserved raises (which does create problems, as nice as it may initially sound).  Or, if it decided that your cumulative raises had become so high that the value of money was being cheapened (because so much of it was being created and given to you), it could cut your payments severely while still demanding your mortgage payments.  In an oversimplified way, that describes the situation the U.S. is in right now. 

It’s telling that the banking industry made three attempts at creating a central bank like the Fed that failed, before the fourth succeeded with the help of Woodrow Wilson.  Thomas Jefferson ardently fought against it, warning that putting control of our money supply in the hands of bankers would lead to immense power being transferred to corporate interests and ultimately be the downfall of the country.  Lincoln fought the idea too, and some people believe his opposition was a factor in his assassination. 

Many people seem to be gaining understanding of the situation, either intellectually or just as a matter of gut instinct.  My hope is that we pursue a wise solution that does not carry us down the path of some other kind of extremism. 
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News Around the World Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:52:38 +0000
Daily Deals Business - by: Jax http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/19326-daily-deals-business#19334 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/19326-daily-deals-business#19334 ]]> News Around the World Wed, 15 Jun 2011 18:38:40 +0000 Rights of the earth - by: Jax http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/18937-rights-of-the-earth#18972 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/18937-rights-of-the-earth#18972 News Around the World Thu, 02 Jun 2011 16:15:25 +0000 Innovative Solution for Feral Cat Populations - by: http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/17780-innovative-solution-for-feral-cat-populations#18897 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/17780-innovative-solution-for-feral-cat-populations#18897
I have 2 10-year old calico spayed females - declawed from the shelter - who do great with "PitStop".  He's very gentlemanly...

12 cats - Yee Gods!]]>
News Around the World Sat, 28 May 2011 19:33:45 +0000
Bin Laden - They got him! - by: Jax http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/17596-bin-laden-they-got-him?start=10#17818 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/17596-bin-laden-they-got-him?start=10#17818 News Around the World Thu, 05 May 2011 22:12:33 +0000 Cuts in Arts Funding? - by: Xhaiden http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/16623-cuts-in-arts-funding#17415 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/16623-cuts-in-arts-funding#17415
There is still a lot of support for the arts, at least at the local level. It's just getting the voice to be loud enough to the people that make many of the stupid and ridiculous decisions. I am very lucky but I also new my place so I have played it very smart. I coach the varsity golf team, varsity boys/girls volleyball team, junior high girls softball team, school webmaster and general computer repair guy, run a media club, and a few other things. I inserted myself so deep into the school that if they tried to get rid of me they would have so many holes...lol. It has worked well.

I know a lot of my friends though have had to sing a different tune so I am very, very fortunate. It's a tough time right now for the arts, along with many other fields.]]>
News Around the World Fri, 29 Apr 2011 01:30:52 +0000
TSUNAMI! - by: Johannes (Yoshio) http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/16510-tsunami?start=10#16596 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/16510-tsunami?start=10#16596 Still a lot which is worse but at least the got electricity back to the nuclear plants. Now I hope they can manage to get the coolingsystem up and running!]]> News Around the World Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:08:06 +0000 Balancing Politics and Humanitarian Needs - by: Jax http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/16498-balancing-politics-and-humanitarian-needs?start=10#16590 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/16498-balancing-politics-and-humanitarian-needs?start=10#16590 ]]> News Around the World Sun, 20 Mar 2011 05:22:44 +0000 Cyber Warning - by: Setanaoko http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/16405-cyber-warning#16411 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/16405-cyber-warning#16411 News Around the World Fri, 25 Feb 2011 09:04:32 +0000 Egyptian Revolution 2011 - by: Jax http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/16120-egyptian-revolution-2011#16122 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/16120-egyptian-revolution-2011#16122 News Around the World Sun, 30 Jan 2011 03:00:22 +0000 Belarussian Courage - by: Jax http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/15397-belarussian-courage#15402 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/15397-belarussian-courage#15402
I wonder how long Lukashenko can really keep this together at the expense of everyone else.  I hope the opposition can gain some more momentum.  I suspect they will though because it's becoming increasingly difficult to keep people isolated without most freedoms we take for granted.  ]]>
News Around the World Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:10:20 +0000
North Korea >.> - by: mrchristian http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/15057-north-korea?start=10#15398 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/15057-north-korea?start=10#15398
I teach English to 10 Korean families here in Slovakia and they are all terribly worried.
So much injustice surrounds events attached to N.Korea.

I know a lot about some horrible things that have happened to N.Korean refugees who try to escape via China and they are often repatriated.

Anyway, that's another story. This is a really paranoid state and I hope they don't push things too far. I was really worried about their threat to retaliate the war games. I seriously thought it might end up bad. So many Koreans live here and they are worried what they would do if there was war and they lived here. They'd be safe...but what would they do?

May the force be with any military personnel there in S.Korea as well. I served there for 3 years and it was the only time I realized that this was a truly dangerous place where real war could break out. War with N.Korea would be a very very serious venture, not like Iraq or Afganistan...much more serious.

I really hope it doesn't come to that. I just wish there was a way we could make some kind of more stable peace with the North but also help with this horrible refugee and food problem.]]>
News Around the World Tue, 21 Dec 2010 23:16:34 +0000
The life and death of John M Porter - by: Streen http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/15352-the-life-and-death-of-john-m-porter#15352 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/15352-the-life-and-death-of-john-m-porter#15352
This train of thought led me to thinking of the man who taught me that lesson so many years ago, during the days of the Jedi Organization.  Back then, I had read his book, the Tao of Star Wars, possibly the first published work on Jedi realism, and managed to get in touch  with him and invited him into the Jedi community as I knew it at that time.

Jump ahead to today, and I found myself wondering how he was.  John M Porter, author of Tao of Star Wars, died June 2005.

I have to wonder if anyone else knew this.  I knew he vanished from the Jedi community around that time and thought little of it.  I have to admit to feeling saddened by his passing, as he was an excellent teacher and a humble man.  I have to recommend doing  him the honor of picking up his book.  It's very informative and down to earth.

May the Force be with you John.]]>
News Around the World Thu, 16 Dec 2010 16:45:39 +0000
Senate Bil 510: Food modernization act - by: Jax http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/15234-senate-bil-510-food-modernization-act#15316 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/15234-senate-bil-510-food-modernization-act#15316
I'm on a mailing list that sends out alarmist emails about this bill and others all the time.  Because of them I have a hard time figuring out just what is real.  I mean, what if there is an intention to do all the scary stuff like prevent us from growing food at home?  I know there is a restriction on people starting an at home business making food because of food safety laws.  It was on NPR I believe.  If you want to sell for anything but a bake sale you need to have taken the food safety courses, gotten inspections, etc which is just out of reach for someone making a few things in their house.  So maybe the government could crack down on growing food - though I highly doubt it.  There's no valid or legal reason why people can't grow food for their own consumption.  So the grey area becomes things like farmer's markets.  And to restrict that doesn't make sense.  So I suspect the alarmism is just like the health care bill where they claimed there'd be death squads to find old people who were too expensive and take away their medicines.  :-P]]>
News Around the World Mon, 13 Dec 2010 18:38:03 +0000
Empire Strikes Back director Irvin Kershner dies - by: Jax http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/15172-empire-strikes-back-director-irvin-kershner-dies#15175 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/15172-empire-strikes-back-director-irvin-kershner-dies#15175 News Around the World Tue, 30 Nov 2010 00:18:29 +0000 NZ Miners - by: Jax http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/15078-nz-miners#15112 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/15078-nz-miners#15112   Maybe these mining deaths will make a difference for some people.  We can hope at least.]]> News Around the World Thu, 25 Nov 2010 01:38:24 +0000 Harry P-P-Potter and the Deathly Hollows - by: Magdelene Nashira http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/1674-harry-p-p-potter-and-the-deathly-hollows?start=20#14725 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/1674-harry-p-p-potter-and-the-deathly-hollows?start=20#14725 News Around the World Sat, 06 Nov 2010 17:48:41 +0000 Nashville Relief Fund - by: Setanaoko http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/12647-nashville-relief-fund#12647 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/12647-nashville-relief-fund#12647
If there are any problems with me posting this, please feel free to remove the post.

"The Jedi Way" also known as Coelescere Covenant, has started up it's first relief fund, and it is to help the victims of Nashville.

Posted at Coelescere Covenant wrote: Our operations staff is currently preparing relief for the people who have been stricken at Nashville TN by the recent flooding.

People who can donate time and effort should post here.

People who are not in a position to donate time and effort can support by donating to Coelescere either by check or paypal. However, please clearly write on the check in the Memo section "Nashville Relief Effort" so that we know that it should not go into the general fund. 100% of any donation will go to the relief effort. Other operational costs will be borne by the Coelescere operational funds.

If you are paying by paypal please send an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. giving your donation confirmation number and amount and tell us that the donation goes to the Nashville Relief Effort.

If you wish to donate to the Coelescere General fund to support the costs of getting the Jedi/stuff where it needs to go simply donate on the donate button or send a check. No special identifier is necessary.


Our paypal account is This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

And if you are looking to send checks:

The Jedi Way (or Coelescere Covenant)
PO BOX 5442
Lincoln NE 68505-5442]]>
News Around the World Sat, 08 May 2010 06:39:47 +0000
Organizing a Committee - by: Memnoich http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/10694-organizing-a-committee?start=30#10999 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/10694-organizing-a-committee?start=30#10999

A Jedi Council of leaders of the community, a round table as you will, where there is no "Head" and no "Foot" is what this goal should start with, every leader is an equal, and discussions and debates amongst those leaders need to begin.

Meaning the Idea of Camelot, though there is someone in charge, no one person is the leader, all have equal say in the discussions. The Person in charge is mainly the "Chairperson" who organizes the meeting, what it will be about, what needs to be discussed, ETC. Similar to the Jedi Council in the movies/books. Though Yoda, being the oldest was in charge, there was no "Head" person, all members of the council had equal say in any discussion, but also had the right not to say. This, I believe, started from when there were many different traditions of Force users coming together for the common good of their traditions. Not to try and dictate to one another how they were going to teach, and what they were going to teach, but to share knowledge and opinions on the Force.]]>
News Around the World Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:43:42 +0000
Remembrance Day - by: Beral Khan http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/10959-remembrance-day#10959 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/10959-remembrance-day#10959 Remembrance Day

In the UK, it's Remembrance Day, in the US it's Veteran's Day. Elsewhere, it's Armistice Day, since on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, Germany signed the Armistice and World War I - often simply referred to then as the Great War - ended. In the United States it wasn't until 1954 that the day was expanded to include veterans of all wars.

It's worth remembering that the Great War was also known as the War to End All Wars because after suffering losses of 16.6 million people world wide, surely nobody would be stupid enough to have a second World War.
World War Two, with a death toll of 62.4-78.3 million people, pretty much put paid to that.

And, of course, today men and women serve in their countries' armed forces across the world, protecting and defending not only their own country but also people of other countries - because if they don't, who will?

So: thank you.

(from Rich Livingston of Comic by Comic. Please Visit www.comicbycomic.com/2009/11/remembrance-day.html for the whole post)

FROM ME - Rich says it as well as I could.]]>
News Around the World Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:07:04 +0000
The Jade Buddha for Universal Peace - by: inari http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/10941-the-jade-buddha-for-universal-peace#10941 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/10941-the-jade-buddha-for-universal-peace#10941
A good friend of mine who lives in Perth, Australia went to see this recently and told me how breathtaking and spiritual this statue is...and she's not Buddhist. I've included a couple of links here with information about the Jade Buddha and also tour places and dates. If you can get to see this I would recommend it, based on my friends testimony. I'll wait until it's been installed in Bendigo to have a look.

http://www.jadebuddha.org.au/en/   Brochure
http://www.jadebuddha.org.au/en/tour_dates/ Tour dates.

Just magnificent!

Inari]]>
News Around the World Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:32:58 +0000
Stormtrooper battle returns to British courts - by: inari http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/10882-stormtrooper-battle-returns-to-british-courts#10882 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/10882-stormtrooper-battle-returns-to-british-courts#10882 November 4, 2009 - 7:28AM
www.theage.com.au/world/stormtrooper-battle-returns-to-british-courts-20091104-hvkd.html

The George Lucas empire struck back on Tuesday against a British prop designer who sold replicas of the Stormtrooper uniforms from the Star Wars movies.

Designer Andrew Ainsworth has fought a long legal battle against Lucasfilm Ltd, which sued him over the replica suits and helmets he sold through a website.

Ainsworth sculpted the Stormtrooper helmets for the first Star Wars movie in 1977 and later sold replicas of the moulded white uniforms, worn in the films by warriors of the evil Galactic Empire.

The case ended ambiguously at London's High Court last year. A judge ruled that Ainsworth had violated Lucas's US copyright, but rejected a copyright claim against him under British law, saying the costumes were not works of art.

The judge also refused to enforce in Britain a $US20 million ($A22.1 million) judgment Lucasfilm won against Ainsworth in a California court in 2006, saying Ainsworth's US sales were not significant enough to make him susceptible to US jurisdiction.

Now lawyers for Lucas want the Court of Appeal to rule that the suits are sculptures and therefore works of art covered by British copyright law.

Michael Bloch, Lucasfilm's lawyer, said the case rested on "the scope and meaning of sculpture" as defined by the law.

Bloch said the judge at the previous hearing "erred in holding that it is an essential requirement of every sculpture that it have artistic character, in that it must have, as part of its purpose, a visual appeal in the sense that it might be enjoyed for that purpose alone."

"On the erroneous approach of the learned judge, arguably the most famous sculpture in the world, Michelangelo's Pieta in St Peter's Basilica in Rome, would also be disqualified" - because its purpose is primarily religious.

The case is scheduled to last three days.]]>
News Around the World Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:52:18 +0000
Is Obama a Natural born US Citizen - by: Setanaoko http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/7218-is-obama-a-natural-born-us-citizen#10559 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/7218-is-obama-a-natural-born-us-citizen#10559 .  But people tend to think it is ;).]]> News Around the World Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:16:10 +0000 Jedi Realists Social Network - by: Setanaoko http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/10558-jedi-realists-social-network#10558 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/10558-jedi-realists-social-network#10558
jediunion.ning.com/

For anyone interested :) I'm there under my real name (I think) Alethea.  If I'm not under that-I'm under Setanaoko :).]]>
News Around the World Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:14:50 +0000
Latest in Wales - by: Setanaoko http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/10462-latest-in-wales#10557 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/10462-latest-in-wales#10557 )]]> News Around the World Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:11:51 +0000 Woman Survives Week in Wilderness by Sucking Water From Her Hair - by: Jax http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/10493-woman-survives-week-in-wilderness-by-sucking-water-from-her-hair#10493 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/10493-woman-survives-week-in-wilderness-by-sucking-water-from-her-hair#10493 http://www.lemondrop.com/2009/09/22/woman-survives-week-in-wilderness-by-sucking-water-from-her-hair/?icid=main|htmlws-main|dl3|link4|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lemondrop.com%2F2009%2F09%2F22%2Fwoman-survives-week-in-wilderness-by-sucking-water-from-her-hair%2F

If you've been thinking about getting a haircut before going on a camping trip, you may want to reconsider. After being stranded in the wilderness, it was only by sucking the moisture from her hair that 68-year-old Cynthia Hoover managed to stay alive for five days.

While driving on a mountain road near Central City, Colo., Cynthia swerved to avoid a herd of deer. Her car rolled off the road and 350 feet down a steep hillside. She broke eleven ribs, cracked her vertebrae and punctured her lung. Stranded alone in the ravine, she says that thoughts of her family motivated her to stay alive.

She grabbed a golf club from her car to use as a cane to help her make the climb up the slope toward civilization, but was so badly injured that she couldn't make all the way. She turned around and headed for a mining operation that was downhill, planning to use the golf club for self-defense if wild animals tried to attack her in the night, which fortunately never happened.

Since her car rolled too far from the highway, and Cynthia often traveled on business alone, nobody noticed the accident or reported her missing. She was alone in the woods for five days, basically crawling on her face, through a cold front of rain, sleet and hail. This moisture would prove to be life-sustaining, as she sucked on her hair to keep from becoming completely dehydrated during her ordeal.

Eventually she managed to crawl 450 feet away from the mining operation and attracted the attention of the workers, who were only there on a fluke since the mine was supposed to be closed that day -- by calling out. They found her with a swollen face and a mouth full of dirt from dragging herself with her face on the ground. She was airlifted to a hospital where she was listed in critical condition, but has since been downgraded to fair condition.

It's an incredibly remarkable survival story and also a testament to the fact that long hair isn't just vanity -- it can also help save your life.]]>
News Around the World Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:31:00 +0000
8 - by: Setanaoko http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/10413-8#10413 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/10413-8#10413
I walked into the hallway and saw a scene on television as I walked from my studyhall to the JROTC room. Thought it was actually a scene from a movie, until I recognized the newscast talking about it. I can't remember what station it was, probably ABC.

A tower was blowing smoke off from it's side.

I don't think I'll ever forget 11 September 2001. Not because I was affected by the events, but because people around me were. I saw people who were scared out of their mind as one incident after another occured.

Funny, the only class that was calm for the entire day, was JROTC where we actually spoke on the events and the political madness behind them.

Every teacher was told that only Juniors and Seniors were allowed to watch the footage. HA! That worked REAL well. The curriculum was halted for 9-11-2001, and everyone tuned into the news to keep check on what was going on. To watch how, on that day, New York came together to do what they could rummaging through the wreckage desperately trying to help those who were clinging to life, and to help bring closure to loved ones of those who did not make it.

This morning we held a ceremony at the top of Torii Station's hill in honor of the victims and heroes of 9-11.

May the light of the divine shine upon their loved ones this day, and give them strength in knowing those lost have not been forgotten.

Sincerely,
SPC Alethea Jolene Benton-US Army Military Police
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News Around the World Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:07:44 +0000
Robbed by Facebook's enemy in the camp - by: inari http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/10389-robbed-by-facebook-s-enemy-in-the-camp#10389 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/10389-robbed-by-facebook-s-enemy-in-the-camp#10389 Published in todays Age newspaper www.theage.com.au/technology/security/robbed-by-facebooks-enemy-in-the-camp-20090908-ff5q.html
Most of us use Facebook so be aware.

Robbed by Facebook's enemy in the camp
ASHER MOSES
September 8, 2009 - 12:28PM



Natasha Cann endured the Father's Day from hell on Sunday when hackers broke into her Facebook account and proceeded to scam her closest friends out of significant amounts of money.

The 34-year-old professional who works for BHP Billiton in South Australia - and used to work in IT for the military - thought her account was locked down but the painful reality hit her on Sunday night when a friend phoned her from Singapore.

The friend had just received a Facebook message, purportedly from Cann, saying she had been seriously assaulted and robbed at gunpoint in London and urgently needed money to get home.

The message, which was sent to all of Cann's 400 friends, asked for an initial amount of $10,000, which had to be wired in cash as soon as possible to a Western Union account.

"They were alleging that I only had my passport on me and that I couldn't get to a bank or anything - that Western Union would be the only way," a distraught Cann said in a phone interview.

Cann immediately contacted Facebook asking it to disable her account but Facebook only got around to doing it about 12 hours later, by which time one of Cann's friends in Western Australia had already transferred $1000 to the scammers.

Cann tried publishing warning messages on her Facebook wall from her partner's account before her account was disabled but these were quickly blocked by the scammers, who changed her password and the email address linked to her account.

She said she had received just 11 calls from friends about the matter and is worried about how many others had sent money to the scammers.

Furthermore, the scammers could now use the personal details gleaned from her friends' pages to conduct targeted attacks on them.

Since Facebook is her main avenue for contact with a lot of her far-flung friends, she didn't have email addresses or phone numbers that she could use to warn most of them.

"It's horrendous in that it's people I know and that I care for who could just be scammed out of a great deal of money - they're preying on people's good nature and good intent to make sure that I'm OK," said Cann.

"The chap that rang from Singapore was about to jump on a plane to London and we have friends in Greece that were about to fly over as well."

The scammers even contacted the friend who had given the $1000, saying the money wasn't enough and that more was necessary.

Cann is frustrated that Facebook does not provide contact numbers for users to call in these situations and took so long to respond to her emails.

She believes Facebook should have contacted her friends quickly, telling them her account had been compromised and at the very least provided an online system for her to disable her account instantly using a secret question or other security measure.

Cann filed a report with South Australian Police yesterday but is not hopeful that they will be able to do anything to bring the overseas scammers to justice.

Sean Richmond, senior technology consultant at the security firm Sophos, said Cann's story was "not terribly uncommon".

He said Facebook was in a tricky position because introducing new security measures allowing people to disable their accounts instantly in the event of an attack could simply open up a new avenue for hackers.

But Richmond said that, unlike banks, who cover customers' losses to credit-card fraud, Facebook does not suffer financial penalties when its users are defrauded.

"Facebook has not got a whole lot of incentive to do things super fast because they're not the ones that are suffering," he said.

Facebook would not comment on the specific issues and suggestions raised by Cann. Instead, it provided a generic statement pointing people to its security page and an email address for users to report abuse.

Source: smh.com.au]]>
News Around the World Tue, 08 Sep 2009 03:42:19 +0000
Teen Impersonating a cop.... - by: Magdelene Nashira http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/8032-teen-impersonating-a-cop#9874 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/8032-teen-impersonating-a-cop#9874 News Around the World Sat, 01 Aug 2009 04:35:54 +0000 Politifact - truth in politics - by: Magdelene Nashira http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/9851-politifact-truth-in-politics#9873 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/9851-politifact-truth-in-politics#9873 News Around the World Sat, 01 Aug 2009 04:31:48 +0000 Interesting Article: The Last Log-off: Death on the Net - by: Jax http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/8742-interesting-article-the-last-log-off-death-on-the-net#9284 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/8742-interesting-article-the-last-log-off-death-on-the-net#9284 News Around the World Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:16:25 +0000 Debunking the Myths of Columbine - by: http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/8700-debunking-the-myths-of-columbine#8703 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/8700-debunking-the-myths-of-columbine#8703
It was interesting how wrong it all went.  How frightened many students and teachers in school situations yet are...

A very sobering look at youth as well - and brings to light some questions about youth and medication, parental responsibility, and more...
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News Around the World Tue, 21 Apr 2009 03:49:27 +0000
Earthquake in Italy - by: Jax http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/8521-earthquake-in-italy#8543 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/8521-earthquake-in-italy#8543 News Around the World Wed, 08 Apr 2009 23:38:58 +0000 Gay law reform in Australia (about time too) - by: Beral Khan http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/7324-gay-law-reform-in-australia-about-time-too#7599 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/7324-gay-law-reform-in-australia-about-time-too#7599

I am not discriminating. However, I fear walking down the street and seeing two men or two women holding hands...I may not live there, but I had been wanting to go someday... Not any more. Sometimes I actually feel discriminated against because I  do have a problem with it. Am I supposed to change to fit in with the sins of the im-moral? I don't think I should have to put up with it.


You live in Fear of ... people holding hands?  Fear leads to hate, Hate leads to suffering.

I am saddened that you who see yourself as a Jedi would live in fear.  And it is even more sad for me to see you live in fear that people might hold hands as I believe that you are probably christian where God is Love. And people who have love are seen in fear. 
Srsly... Fear of seeing people hold hands?  Fear of visiting a country... a WHOLE country because you might view it? 
You have my pity.]]>
News Around the World Sat, 03 Jan 2009 06:08:42 +0000
An interesting newspaper article - by: Jax http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/7304-an-interesting-newspaper-article#7307 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/7304-an-interesting-newspaper-article#7307 ]]> News Around the World Sun, 23 Nov 2008 03:25:35 +0000 Financial markets evidence of 'Dark Side' mentality? - by: inari http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/7181-financial-markets-evidence-of-dark-side-mentality?start=10#7208 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/7181-financial-markets-evidence-of-dark-side-mentality?start=10#7208 News Around the World Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:25:36 +0000 This is your nation on white privilege - by: Adana http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/7024-this-is-your-nation-on-white-privilege?start=20#7192 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/7024-this-is-your-nation-on-white-privilege?start=20#7192 ]]> News Around the World Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:53:49 +0000 Alarm on Carbon Trading Scheme - by: Setanaoko http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/6331-alarm-on-carbon-trading-scheme#6385 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/6331-alarm-on-carbon-trading-scheme#6385
Unless you mean like Corperations, businesses, etc are subject to the carbon credit system only-which I believe I actually read somewhere.  But even then, you'd have all sorts of people cheating the system :/.

May the Force be with you,
Setanaoko Mizu Oceana]]>
News Around the World Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:59:06 +0000
Japanese Man saves people from suicide - by: Jax http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/5962-japanese-man-saves-people-from-suicide#5962 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/5962-japanese-man-saves-people-from-suicide#5962 www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2008/06/10/lah.japan.suicide.cliff.cnn

This is a really interesting story and shows how one person can make a difference just by showing they care.  Never underestimate the power of a simple interaction with a person.]]>
News Around the World Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:03:29 +0000
Hillary Clinton wants to withdraw troops by Jan. 2009 - by: Jax http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/5392-hillary-clinton-wants-to-withdraw-troops-by-jan-2009?start=10#5893 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/5392-hillary-clinton-wants-to-withdraw-troops-by-jan-2009?start=10#5893 News Around the World Thu, 05 Jun 2008 02:13:01 +0000 Obama, Clinton, and McCain Briggs/Meyers test...? - by: Loremaster http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/5651-obama-clinton-and-mccain-briggs-meyers-test#5684 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/5651-obama-clinton-and-mccain-briggs-meyers-test#5684
Loremaster]]>
News Around the World Mon, 25 Feb 2008 02:03:56 +0000
New Jedi Church - by: Jax http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/5274-new-jedi-church?start=10#5399 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/5274-new-jedi-church?start=10#5399
But at the least, it's a reminder that we all naturally draw conclusions with whatever information we have available to us.  That doesn't, however, make our conclusions correct.  It just makes them our guess for the moment.  ;-)]]>
News Around the World Wed, 06 Feb 2008 05:59:03 +0000
Bin Laden's Son Wants to Be Peace Envoy - by: Jax http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/5197-bin-laden-s-son-wants-to-be-peace-envoy#5201 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/5197-bin-laden-s-son-wants-to-be-peace-envoy#5201
Could anyone trust a peace treaty?  Does Bin Laden even have the ability to reign his fighters in?  Perhaps some, but I doubt the splinter groups in Iraq and other areas would listen.  I don't think we would find an instantaneous solution. 

However, I do think this young man could do a lot of good, if he survives long enough to do it.]]>
News Around the World Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:29:31 +0000
Interesting opinion piece in The Age - by: Beral Khan http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/3344-interesting-opinion-piece-in-the-age#3389 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/3344-interesting-opinion-piece-in-the-age#3389
My view is that there are the masses, and there are the individuals.  Many of the masses never wish for more.  Others of the masses wish to be individuals, but never reach a point where they do.

And the individuals are often exploited by those in charge, or ridiculed by the masses.  It is what it is.  I do not often ponder it.  But it is a reality.

However, I know the value of my perspective.  And I too see great changes ahead.  I recognize we are on the Leading Edge.  My point is that most people are not ready to see that they, too, are there.
I hope that clarifies my statement.

BK]]>
News Around the World Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:56:12 +0000
What's up on planet earth? Sept 1 - by: Jax http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/2901-what-s-up-on-planet-earth-sept-1#3219 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/2901-what-s-up-on-planet-earth-sept-1#3219
What I found interesting is that I've had some really good times during the past few days, and some really bad (like last night).  However, the bad, I believe, is simply due to my own severe lack of sleep and having already worked 35 hours in the course of 3 days.  I'm beyond exhausted and that is taking a toll on my mood.  I look forward to...umm...saturday(?) when I can sleep in and see how my energy pans out at that point.  But, I've found some successes with energy work that haven't been there before, and when I was up I was very up.  I have manifested things I previously thought impossible, though that was on the 10th.  I don't think the exact times matter much though.  I also noticed that, while I work washing dirt I just started smiling for no reason.  All I was doing was playing in water and clay, but it felt good.  Perhaps that was the eclipse energy on the 11th.  Hard to know.  But I think the long term effects are what matter most.  And that I'll post on once I regain balance sometime this weekend.]]>
News Around the World Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:47:31 +0000
What's Up on Planet Earth? Date August 16, 2007 - by: Jax http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/2454-what-s-up-on-planet-earth-date-august-16-2007?start=10#2889 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/2454-what-s-up-on-planet-earth-date-august-16-2007?start=10#2889 ]]> News Around the World Fri, 31 Aug 2007 20:45:46 +0000 America as the New Rome...warning - by: Anora&amp;#039;Una Ilorn http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/2425-america-as-the-new-rome-warning#2875 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/2425-america-as-the-new-rome-warning#2875 News Around the World Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:36:52 +0000 What do you think? - by: Ares1982 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/2277-what-do-you-think#2291 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/2277-what-do-you-think#2291 News Around the World Sat, 11 Aug 2007 16:17:16 +0000 Vick dogfighting ring - by: Jax http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/1859-vick-dogfighting-ring#1859 http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/forum/5-news-around-the-world/1859-vick-dogfighting-ring#1859 http://www.itchmo.com/read/michael-vick-dog-fighting-investigation-timeline_20070728#more-1915

Personally, I view anyone who can do these things to an animal is lacking spiritually.  To not care of the lives of these animals, and then use them for monetary gain at great sacrifice of the animal shows a great lack of maturity and humanity.  If a child of mine ever did such a thing, I would know I had failed as a parent to teach them empathy and love.  But if it doesn't come by the time someone is an adult, and an adult with plenty of money and no need to fight dogs, when will it come?  Is he a lost cause?  These are the questions situations like this raise in me.  I wonder what other people feel?]]>
News Around the World Sat, 28 Jul 2007 23:08:11 +0000
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