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Night City: *twittey
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John Carver - The Sex Twist
Beacon Books B559F, 1962
Cover Artist: unknown
"Juanita's primitive twists on the dance floor were only a sample of what she wanted to give!"
"Brent thought dance fads were kid stuff until he found that the 'kids' went looking for bigger thrills after the music stopped!"
ويح من عاش بوهم وبعد سنين وعى .. .... ليت ما بعد الوهم موت ولا منه صحى
- عبدالله القديري
Following your fictions, turns your life into illusions.. - Abdullah Al-Qadeeri
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Model : Myself and I
Used Canon Speedlite 580EX II connected to a Pocket Wizard holding the other pocket wizard in my hand, used around 6 triggers 1/14.
I can't read.
Well it's not that I can't or don't like to or don't want to. But when I start to read my mind likes to focus on everything else in the world and my brain starts jumping, as I call it. I can't concentrate on the words in front of me. I prefer real adventures, exploring in real life, climbing real mountains, swimming in real oceans, meeting real people. The world is an unbelievably interesting place and while it might not have fire-breathing dragons or an army of crossbow-wielding barbarians, there's so much out there to explore. And it's all real.
this isn't my most creative idea ever =| but I still like it
on a side note, I dropped my 50mm while doing food photography and it split in two. I hate myself.
WEEK 1 – Memphis Kmart Closing, I
A close-up of one of the old book department shelf toppers, this one located directly in front of the former pharmacy window and reading “Fiction.”
Get it? READING?? :D
...okay, fine, I'll shut up now.
(c) 2017 Retail Retell
These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)
Model: Sophie
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Strobist infos:
_Right 90°: Elinchrom Ranger Quadra with 120mm striplight softbox
_Right 45°: Yongnuo Speedlite YN560-II with 70x70 softbox
_Top: Elinchrom Ranger Quadra with Beauty Dish
_Back: Yongnuo Speedlite YN560-II with red gel
trigered with elinchrom skyport transmitter
Mary Shomette Gooch - Amorous Dietitian
Newsstand Library U171, 1961
Cover Artist: Robert Bonfils
"The hungry search that men make for a woman. The hungry search that women make for a man. The tasting, trying, discarding, lonely search. Nurses, doctors, dietitians, everybody searches."
Kay Martin - The Big Switch
Paperback Library 52-169, 1962
Cover Artist: unknown
"The novel of a strange marriage."
Kay Martin was a pseudonym of Adela Maritano.
TRF:I'm over the moon right now,Tony gave me a Pro account. I couldn't believe it, i wonder if this is fiction or fact. No, it seems to be fact. Again, Tony thank you :]
Also thank you felicia For the testimonal. :]
Daily Weather Report:
Same old fog and rain,
mix with the bitter taste of goodbyes.
The sun shall hide,
no need,
There's no sunshine when you're gone.
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Donald A. Wollheim (editor)
Avon Science Fiction Reader No 3, 1952
Cover Artist: Earle Bergey
Stories by:
Frank Belknap Long
Hannes Bok
R.F. Starzl
M.E. Counselman
Thorp McClusky
S Fowler Wright
Kenneth Sterling
H.P. Lovecraft
Francis Flagg
30" x 60" LEGO Stacked Plate Mosaic of John Travolta playing Vincent Vega and Samuel L Jackson playing Jules Winnfield in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction.
Huge thanks to Adam Jay from superherocreations.com/ for photographing this mosaic and to Pepa Quin for processing the raw images.
Warehouses are sometimes a funny place to shoot.
Because of the dust and the open door, these warehouse managers seem to be in a Science-Fiction movie.
Ben Anderton - Naked Nurse
Chariot Books CB-216, 1962
Cover Artist: Robert Maguire
This cover art was later used on All Star Books 85 - The Joy Zone (1966)
By Richard B. Spence, Ph.D., University of Idaho
Cathars believed that the Catholic Church was the tool of the evil god. They vehemently opposed the Old Testament and the idea of Holy Trinity. Did they believe in crucifixion or resurrection? What did they think about Christ?
An aerial view of the Cathar castle of Montségur, France.
In contrast to the Catholic Church’s cathedrals and abbeys, the Cathar church had no fixed abodes. (Image: Colibri vision/Shutterstock)
Cathar Beliefs
The essence of Cathar belief was that there wasn’t one god but two. It’s called Dualism. This solved that sticky problem of how a good God lets bad things happen. The good god, the lord of light and mercy, rules the world of spirit: the celestial realm from which humankind’s pure, immortal souls had fallen. What they fell into was the material world, a spiritual prison ruled by the evil god, the Demiurge, or more simply, Satan. In other words, we’re trapped in Hell. Everything in the material realm is corrupt, and our pure souls yearn to escape it.
But we’re condemned to this eternal rebirth in this cosmic hellhole through the allure of its seductive, but false, pleasures. None of these was more insidious than lust, which caused the creation of more fleshly prisons, babies, to trap more divine souls. The only way to escape the cycle was to reject the physical world and pleasures. If this sounds vaguely like Hinduism or Buddhism, one may be on to something.
Gustave Doré's painting depicts the war of heaven.
The Cathars mainly believed that a good god rules the world of spirit while the material world is a spiritual prison ruled by the evil god. (Image: Gustave Doré/Public domain)
By its encouraging of reproduction and wallowing in wealth and privilege, Cathars saw the Catholic Church as a tool of the evil god. Cathars rejected the Old Testament and identified Jehovah with the evil god.
To them, the Holy Trinity was a lie. To the Cathars, Jesus was neither god nor man. He was a manifestation of the Holy Spirit sent by the good god to show us the way to freedom. So, naturally, the evil god had him destroyed. But the Cathars didn’t believe that Christ was really flesh and blood. Rather, he was a kind of hologram. So, in their view, there was no real crucifixion or resurrection, or virgin birth because Jesus had no material form. To Cathars, the cross was a hateful symbol, which is why there’s no such thing as a Cathar cross.
It’s easy to see why the Catholic Church would object to this. But that wasn’t all. In contrast to the Catholic Church’s cathedrals and abbeys, the Cathar church had no fixed abodes. Worship could take place anywhere, outdoors or in private homes. Nor was there any Cathar pope or rapacious clergy. The highest level was that of a bishop.
Learn more about the Islamic Assassins.
The Cathar clergy were the perfects. Since foregoing the false pleasures of the world was something most simple souls couldn’t manage, only a chosen few became perfect. Even thinking about becoming a perfect meant a three-year apprenticeship with a current perfect who had to find you worthy. After an initiation called the consolamentum, what you had to look forward to was a life of celibacy and non-violence coupled with a strict vegetarian diet (you couldn’t eat anything born of sexual intercourse) and poverty.
A map representing the Cathar castles located in France.
A map of the Cathar castles in France, where the main Cathar belief of Christian dualism was practiced. (Image: Made with Inkscape/Public domain)
One had to wander a lot because the perfecti were both the priesthood and the missionaries of the Cathar faith. It sounds not only like Buddhist monks but also like the dais used by the Assassins, and other Shia sects. Are we looking at the same thing under different names?
Most importantly, perfects were role models for rank-and-file Cathars: the credentes, or ‘believers’. In return, the believers supported and obeyed the perfecti just like secret-society underlings should.
This is a transcript from the video series The Real History of Secret Societies. Watch it now, on Wondrium.
Cathari Rituals
Credentes lived more-or-less regular lives and looked forward to receiving the consolamentum on their deathbed. Supposedly, if it looked like a consoled person might recover, they trusted their brethren to smother them to ensure that they departed the earthly realm sin-free.
Besides the consolamentum, there was also a ritual suicide by starvation called the endura. The basic Cathar ritual was a simple meal of broken bread, and a mutual greeting between credentes and perfecti called the melioramentum. The mass and the cross played no part in any of this. But remember, much of what we do know about the Cathars has been handed down from their mortal enemies, the Catholic Church.
Learn more about the Knights Templar.
Cathar Holy Books
There are mentions of Cathar holy books like the Book of Two Principles, The Secret Supper, and the Interrogation of John, but the Inquisition zealously destroyed them. Denying the heretics their gospels was seen as key to defeating them. Catholic critics frequently accused the Cathars of witchcraft and sexual perversity.
There isn’t any real evidence of witchcraft but there might be something to the perceived perversity. The Cathars’ issue wasn’t so much with sexual gratification as procreation. Thus, masturbation and homosexuality may have been condoned as acceptable—if not desirable—practices.
And then there was the fact that Cathars ordained women alongside men, and generally afforded them social and spiritual equality. Still, the Cathars ignored Virgin Mary because the purely spiritual Christ had no mother. Yet they held Mary Magdalene in high esteem.
This has led some to propose that the Cathars’ big secret—their Holy Grail—was knowledge of a holy bloodline established by Jesus and Magdalene. A romantic theory, but it makes no sense because the Cathars didn’t believe Jesus was a physical being.
Learn more about the Rosicrucians.
Common Questions about Cathar Beliefs, Rituals, and Holy Books
Q: What did the Cathars think about Jesus Christ?
Cathars believed that Jesus Christ was neither god nor man. He was a manifestation of the Holy Spirit sent by the good god to show us the way to freedom.
Q: What was the life of a Cathar perfect?
A Cathar perfect led a life of celibacy and non-violence coupled with a strict vegetarian diet.
Q: Why were the Cathars such a threat?
The Cathars were a threat because they rejected the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church. They believed that the Catholic Church was the tool of a evil god.
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The world must have been a different place entirely, if Pilate never crucified Jesus on the cross. Jesus would just be another prophet or another teacher in the eyes of the people. He wouldn’t have the exalted and elevated status that he has today. His importance and significance in our lives transcends from the fact that he was crucified. Without his crucifixion nobody would have believed in him and his teachings.
The importance of his message and the importance of what he taught revolves around his crucifixion; the ultimate sacrifice that he made for humanity.
What if Jesus was not crucified?
Source: Crosswalk
Now, what if Jesus did not die on the cross? And what if Jesus did not come out of the grave as promised in the holy scripts? It puts the entire community at the stake of a leap of faith because sinning is humans’ typical habitat and then we are pretty much left with nothing but facing the crisis of the hour. It all seems child play unless you actually have to be questionable on the day of resurrection for your deeds to God directly. Sounds hellish? To me too.
No Crucifixion, No forgiveness?
No crucifixion means no dying for the sins of a mass, and when there is no sin offering, we would automatically be on our own, however inconvenient it may sound. Without Jesus, we will have no forgiveness, and without Jesus, we will have no gospel. One of the scripts says ‘the soul that sinneth, it shall die.” And they pour it on. It does say that of course. But it also says that “law” is no longer applicable.
“The law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death” (Romans 8:2).
All the supporting statements of the swoon hypothesis lead to the demolition of the basic concept of Christianity. It is yet again just a hypothesis. A tug of war between whether Jesus was put on the cross and died because of our sins or did Jesus remained a part of his mortal body and made no sin offering.
What if the concept of crucifixion seized to exist?
The world must have been another place if the ideology of Jesus’s Crucifixion was never dominantly accepted. Few religious scholars still firmly believe that Crucifixion never occurred and support it with the Swoon hypothesis. However, most believe that Jesus died for our sins on the cross.
The Controversial Gospel
The last supper (source: Singulart)
A 1500-year-old scripture of the Bible supports the ideology of Jesus not being crucified such that it was considered the core principle of Christianity. In one of his interviews, a famous Rabbi, Tovia Singer, explained how the Crucifixion of Jesus was not what happened and supported his argument with the scripture’s authentic proofs.
According to Rabbi, it is mentioned in Mathew, Mark, John and Luke that Jesus always had to die. These chapters of the hold bible nullify the ideology of the Crucifixion of Jesus.
Another Syriac script reports that Jesus said, “I confess before heaven, and call to witness everything that dwells upon the earth, that I am a stranger to all that men have said of me I am more than man.
“For I am a man, born of a woman, subject to the judgment of God; that live here like as other men, subject to the common miseries.”
The statements of the controversial gospel, if proven true, can efficiently reject the theology of the holy trinity where God exists as three divine persons: the Father, the Son (Jesus Christ), and the Holy Spirit.
Jesus vs Judas: Who was Crucified?
Depiction of Judas and Jesus (source)
Scrutiny into the theology literature explains that the Gospel of Barnabas articulately states how the person crucified was not Jesus himself but Judas Iscariot: A look-alike.
These statements from various holy scripts challenge the intactness of the foundation of the religion of Christianity which celebrates Jesus Christ as the saviour of the Christians and dying for their sins. It fails the entire concept of resurrection. If the Crucifixion never existed, then neither will the resurrection. If so, then Christians leap of faith for believing, i.e. Jesus died because of their sins, will bring them at facing God directly for all the sins they have been committing.
So, only verse 16:31 from chapter Acts can justify Romans 8:9 that says, “Belief on the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved” - Acts 16:31 (Biblestudytools).
Parting thoughts
The above pieces of evidence happen to be challenging to ‘what could have happened’ situation; however, the good part is that he was put on the cross and took the pain for us. Pilate hanged Jesus on the cross. The matter of fact is that Jesus passed away on the cross and was later shifted to the tomb. The tomb then was found empty, and it has always been accepted that God had our Savior alive and immortal. He chose death to save us from the aftermath of resurrection from our sins.
Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows. — Isaiah 53:4 (biblestudytools)
Sources
“https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Jesus-Death”
“https://ourdailybread.org/resources/if-christ-had-not-died/”
“https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2012/06/42858/jesus-was-mortal-never-crucified-claims-analysis-of-controversial-gospel/”
“https://www.baptistpress.com/resource-library/news/first-person-what-if-jesus-hadnt-died-and-risen/”
www.thegreatcoursesdaily.com/cathar-beliefs-rituals-and-h...
We were in Foyles' flagship store in Charing Cross Road to film their Harry Potter book release event. When we had finished, we hung around to send the footage. The shop was closed to the public, and the event was in the cafe on the 6th floor, so I had the rest of the shop to myself. Alone. It was one of the best things I've ever experienced.
Ron Richard - Car-Hop Wife
Gaslight Books 115, 1964
Cover Artist: unknown... Oscar Liebman ?
"Driven to despair by her brutal husband she became a sensuous Car-Hop Wife."
Stuart Engstrand - Beyond the Forest
Signet Books 739, 1949
Cover Artist: James Avati
A man and a woman destroyed by "love".
Russ Trainer - Vice U.
Vanguard Books 103, 1966
Cover Artist: Gene Bilbrew
"The rich students weren't interested in education – just in fun... any and all types."
Window light falling on a novel / paperback on my bed. The novel's jacket / cover has a man with window light from behind. Clicked this partial focus / close-up for color & effect
Thank you all friends for your visit/s, comment/s, and invitation/s...
wish you a great wonderful time!
Dan Postman - Flesh Witch
Valentine Books 104, circa 1964
Cover Artist: unknown
"Twisted desires were tools of the Flesh Witch."
Susan Ertz - Mary Hallam
(Original Title: Two Names Upon the Shore)
Bantam Books 789, 1950
Cover Artist: unknown
"You need a good psychoanalyst," they said, "or a lover... if you can find one."
Donald Henderson Clarke - The Regenerate Lover
(Original Title: Young and Healthy)
Novel Library 8, 1948
Cover Artist: unknown
"The private life of a restless young man."