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The Alphabet vs. The Goddess “Leonard Shlain contrasts the...

Mon, 10 May 2010 02:54:00 -0700

The Alphabet vs. The Goddess

“Leonard Shlain contrasts the feminine right-brained oral teachings of Socrates, Buddha, and Jesus with the masculine creeds that evolved when their spoken words were committed to writing.

The first book written in an alphabet was the Old Testament [speculation] and its most important passage was the Ten Commandments.

The first two reject of any goddess influence and ban any form of representative art.

Presented at The Distinguished Lecture Series Pepperdine University Malibu, California November, 2006.”

Google Video

“Shlain died following a two year battle with brain cancer, aged 71, on May 11, 2009.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Shlain

“In this groundbreaking book, Leonard Shlain, author of the bestselling Art & Physics, proposes that the process of learning alphabetic literacy rewired the human brain, with profound consequences for culture.

Making remarkable connections across a wide range of subjects including brain function, anthropology, history, and religion, Shlain argues that literacy reinforced the brain’s linear, abstract, predominantly masculine left hemisphere at the expense of the holistic, iconic feminine right one.

This shift upset the balance between men and women initiating the disappearance of goddesses, the abhorrence of images, and, in literacy’s early stages, the decline of women’s political status.

Patriarchy and misogyny followed.

The love of Mary, Chivalry, and courtly love arose during the illiterate Dark Ages and plummeted after the invention of the printing press in the Renaissance.

The Protestant attack on holy images and Mary followed, as did ferocious religious wars and neurotic witch-hunts.

Shlain goes on to describe the colossal shift he calls the Iconic Revolution, that began in the 19th century.

The invention of photography and the discovery of electromagnetism combined to bring us film, television, computers, and graphic advertising; all of which are based on images.

Shlain foresees that increasing reliance on right brain pattern recognition instead of left brain linear sequence will move culture toward equilibrium between the two hemispheres, between masculine and feminine, between word and image.”

http://www.alphabetvsgoddess.com/

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"In the United States alone, more than one million boys, thousands of intersex children, and an..."

Fri, 07 May 2010 22:33:00 -0700

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Female Genital Mutilation: A Radio Interview with Dr. Nahid Toubia

Fri, 07 May 2010 21:33:00 -0700

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Fri, 07 May 2010 20:20:55 -0700

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"The natural superiority of women is a biological fact."

Fri, 07 May 2010 19:31:00 -0700

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Fri, 07 May 2010 19:16:07 -0700

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Letter to American Academy of Pediatrics AAP Bioethics Committee...

Fri, 07 May 2010 18:30:00 -0700

Letter to American Academy of Pediatrics

AAP Bioethics Committee Says Some FGM (Now FGC) Might Not Be That Bad!!!

“RIGHT NOW go to http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/ and search for the new policy statement on Ritual Genital Cutting of Female Minors.

Some notes:

- They have new language Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is now being called CUTTING (FGC).
They say this is to be more culturally sensitive, but they could recommend the terminology to Drs. for when they MIGHT have to deal with the situation without adopting it themselves and affecting everyone’s perspective.

- They state that some forms of FGC are less extensive than the newborn male circumcision done here in the West.

(True [???!!], but does that mean that we should stop MGC, since ALL forms of FGC are illegal? or, are they saying it’s really not that bad, since they condone MGC? We shall see…)

- They fail to mention in their description of motivations for FGC ANY belief of medical benefit.

(Is this to avoid recognition of the obvious similarity between attempted medical justification of FGC and MGC?)

- You have to read it to understand, but they practically make an argument in FAVOR of a ritual ‘nick’ (currently illegal) because it’s not as bad as male circumcision [???!!!], and mention that they think it’s ok for culture and parental desire to decide for male circumcision.

They even say that the integrity of our laws should be compromised to allow this.

(Where exactly are they trying to go here!? Are they going to completely ignore the fact that it’s painful AND unjustifiable!?)

If we are going to have EQUAL rights and integrity, one of two things MUST happen:

- Female genital alteration will become accepted, or

- Male genital alteration will become condemned.

The more obvious it becomes that there’s a hypocrisy to be dealt with, the more we’re going to see FGC sympathizers who, likely, are just MGC promoters trying to change our current non tolerance of FGC.

Take a look at the names people, and remember them.

NOW, write the AAP BEFORE THEY COME OUT WITH A FAVORABLE STATEMENT ON MGM!!!

Let them know how you feel about cutting the genitals of a non consenting PERSON regardless of their SEX.

Feel free to completely plagiarize my letter, or use it as an example:

http://www.youtube.com/user/whatUneverknew#p/u/5/A55WvSDKsdc (YouTube)

Or:

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1555178794&v=app_2347471856&ref=profile#!/notes/aubrey-taylor/my-letter-to-the-aap-circumcision-task-force/291017867123 (Facebook)”

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Fri, 07 May 2010 17:15:00 -0700

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The Obama Deception HQ Full Length Version “What it breaks...

Fri, 07 May 2010 16:36:00 -0700

The Obama Deception HQ Full Length Version

“What it breaks down is the false left-right paradigm, the military industrial owned and therefore controlled mainstream media and the unholy alliance between the Federal Government and the private offshore banking cartel that is the Federal Reserve.

The Federal Reserve is the crack dealing money machine to the Federal Government which has been an addict of fiat money since 1913 when Woodrow Wilson sold our country out to the Wall Street den of vipers and thieves.

This is the film that will finally get people to understand that there is a shadow government behind the puppet government.

It is run by the Rothschild-Rockefeller-British & Dutch Royal Family and assorted Bilderberg cohorts.

Some highlights of the 2 hour film are commentary by the extremely balanced and knowledgeable historian Webster G. Tarpley, who is the epitome of calm in a crisis as well as Gerald Celente, top future trends forecaster who long ago saw the onset of Depression 2009 like a dim light down a subway tunnel.

The best line in this movie goes to seminal hip-hopper Professor Griff of Public Enemy who asks:

“Where did we get this sense that just because we have a black man as President everything is going to be OK…everything is NOT going to be OK.”

Another great quote from Gerald Celente speaking of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner:

“He was the former President of the NY Federal Reserve and now he’s our Treasury Secretary?”

It is truly an absurd appointment - the former NY head of the banker to the government is now running the Treasury!?!”

http://www.infowars.com/review-the-obama-deception-by-alex-jones/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webster_Tarpley
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Celente
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor_Griff
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Geithner

“If you’re disillusioned with Obama, you don’t understand how he won.

The distance between the aspirations he raised and his record a year on is the distinction between the electoral and the political.

First, Obama was never a radical.

He won on a decidedly middle-of-the-road Democratic platform.

Beyond the Iraq war, which he opposed and she supported, there was little to chose between him and Hillary Clinton in terms of their programmes.

They had voted the same way in the Senate 90% of the time.

True, he represents a dramatic progressive shift in direction from the previous eight years.

But in almost any other western country his policies on the Middle East, gay marriage, trade and capital punishment would cast him out of polite leftwing company.”

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/jan/17/barack-obama-one-year-on

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Fri, 07 May 2010 16:01:00 -0700

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"The inertia of humans is so huge that you can’t really do anything meaningful."

Fri, 07 May 2010 15:55:00 -0700

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Fri, 07 May 2010 15:44:00 -0700

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Alan Grayson, Ron Paul, and Dylan Ratigan Discuss Auditing the...

Fri, 07 May 2010 13:46:19 -0700

Alan Grayson, Ron Paul, and Dylan Ratigan Discuss Auditing the Fed

“The bank lobbyists have the champagne out - the Brown-Kaufman amendment, which would have capped the size and leverage of our largest banks - was defeated in the Senate last night, 33-61.”

http://baselinescenario.com/

“… opposition to Brown-Kaufman (and actually any real reform) is deeply entrenched among prominent senators and even the White House…”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/simon-johnson/brown-kaufman-amendment-t_b_566024.html

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