Who's to know if your soul will fade at all

The one you sold to fool the world

You lost your self-esteem along the way

Yeah

Good god your comin' up with reasons

Good god your dragging it out

Good god its the changing of the seasons

I feel so raped

So follow me down

And just fake it if your out of direction

Fake it if you don't belong

Fake it if you feel like a infection

Woah your such a fuckin' hypocrite

And you should know that the lies wont hide your falls

No sense in hiding all of yours

You gave up on your dreams along the way

Yeah

Plenty of chairs still waiting for transporting hopefuly in good condition, related to that talked to one of the workers moving stuff away from this building today and what he said because of vandalism they have lost estimated one million euros worth of stuff. So if you like to visit places like these it would be good to consider the person owning the furniture etc. Saying that makes me kinda hypocrite since i like graffiti but destroying windows, furniture and that kind of random vandalism is really not my cup of tea.

More photos and videos from this building at album called 80's office building.

Nature gives us an amazing amount of wonders and within her bounty we find similarities upon which we decide to have reflections and those can lead us on to further investigation with wondrous revelations. The figure created by the silhouette of The Pentland Hills is an amazing sight and she can transform her image from different positions even appearing as if she is pregnant from one vantage. Here Mono and Colour are used to give a further insight into the Sleep Skyline Figure that may have been seen as a Goddess, as Geology in transition and also held so many regards that have been given and lost even as she is found in the landscape today and will with weathering and other developments over many, many years be seen as something vastly different than she appears today.

The Pentland Hills are magnificent and here is a share of their beauty.

I have been mentioning the weather lore of, “Red sky at night, shepherd’s delight,” and now the mention is still reaching into the links below.

© PHH Sykes 2024

phhsykes@gmail.com

Pentland Hills Regional Park

www.pentlandhills.org/

Red sky at night and other weather lore

www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/learn-about/weather/how-weat...

Matthew 16:2-3, King James Version

2 He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red.

3 And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowering. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?

Gospel of Matthew 16:2-3, King James Version.

www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+16%3A2-3&...

I'm sick and tired of all this hate.

I know the whole "how would you feel?" question is cliche, but honestly, just think about it.

I saw this pic on Flickr. It's a little old, but it's the perfect example.

It's stupid for haters to hate on someone. Not unless they had a valid reason.

"she can't sing, she's a whore, etc." Really? That's just showing how immature they can be.

Okay. And this also goes for Miley.

my opinion: well, I don't love her. But I would never go so far as to call her a whore, or make some stupid picture of her bald. (yes, I did see that. crazy people.) it's just showing people how seriously stupid they can be, and to some it will make them seem like they have to put down others just to gain a little self-respect.

there is no self-respect if you have to do that. that's just being mean and completely heartless.

As for Demi, yes, I do love her. And some people will say 'there is no old Demi, there is no old Miley."

but there is. and no, I don't expect that they would stay the same little girl, and have all this innocence. but I do miss the old them.

Demi is one of my idols when it comes to singing. As for Miley, I don't love her anymore. But back then, I absolutely adored her. and for some reason, it kind of hurt when my cousins disliked me for liking her.

And I know you're gonna say it's stupid that I get hurt a little when some random person I don't know disses my favorite role model, even though they don't know me.

But as a true fan to them, we are supposed to support them every step of the way.

Plus, I got to admit, the girl is gorgeous. Especially when she's got natural makeup on. (: (same with demi & Selena)

- - - -

now for my opposing reasons to the list of things that makes these commenters hate Selena.

She can't sing: well, that's not necessarily true. She's not the best singer, but she's improving. And she said herself that she wants her music just to be something that kids will have fun to. She can sing a lot better than a lot of people. Everyone can sing if they can carry a tune. it may have been electronically edited at first, but seriously she is improving. day by day. "practice makes perfect."

she can't act: are you kidding me? ha. Need I remind you that her show got an Emmy/Alma award? yeah. and the WOWP movie got 4 stars; that is very good for a disney movie & show. and if you've seen the scene in the movie after her and Justin battle, that is skills right there. To cry on the spot, I mean.

she's a wanna-be: really? how? please do explain that to me. she's her own person. honestly, I want to be like her, because she's one awesome chick. so if you're gonna call anyone a wanna-be, call me one.

she's a poser: again, how? for being 'punk'? ha. she's not trying. I don't think she was even punk. not even back then. she just liked dressing up in mismatched colors and converse. lol. that's seen a lot.

she used Demi to get famous: lolol. tbh, some people will argue that it is Demi who used Selena. kay, that sounds mean, but actually it is somewhat a fact. Selena was asked for a callback for Wizards. she moved to Disney, and Demi's mom and family went because Demi & Selena didn't want to be separated. Selena was discovered first, but then Demi was discovered as well. So, she helped her become famous. durr. They're best friends, what did you expect? xD (thank you had you given me the chance to say "I do". )

she's conceited: wow, these reasons make me laugh. someone conceited is someone who doesn't think about others, at all. who is always, always thinking about only themself.

wow. no, Selena is pretty much opposite from that. she's done at least.. 4 charities this year. at least. she even spent time with some of the kids she's helped out with. actually, a whole day with two of them. she even spent time to help make a video about a charity for dogs. and even visited them and fed them, along with her friend/costar Jake.

- - - - -

basically, just stop. STOP THE HATE.

and I know a lot of people who hate Miley, Selena, & Demi are pretty much people who dislike Disney.

but when you think about it, they have to like something outside of Disney, right?

so really, they shouldn't hate on these girls, when they know they get pissed when someone would hate on their favorite person/role model(s).

it's hypocritical.

it's mean.

it's hurtful.

tbh, I think it makes people seem like they're just this beast who has no heart, like, at all.

& I know everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but you don't have to go so far. think about if you were put in their situation. And it'd be nice if people could really understand that we all do have feelings and that we aren't perfect.

what even sucks more for these haters, I bet a lot of these celebs could care less about what they think. (;

"Unh, look

I'm a real rare individual

I'm in the physical and the metaphysical (yeah)

I know you need your alone time, that's critical

But I need some of your time, is that hypocritical?

Damn, you know I relate to you more than fam

So I won't sit around and let you sink in quicksand

Look, I know you got million dollar plans

And you tryna build a brand, live a life in high demand

Swerving big b's, your bag got little G's

Gucci down to the socks like Biggie and Little Ceas'

Let's hit the Maldives and hide behind palm trees

Little red wine, weed, and a calm breeze

Cause baby, you been living life inside a bubble

When the last time you had somebody hug you?

Hold up, when the last time you had somebody love you?

Hold up, when the last time you love someone who love you?"

[Figure 8]

BEO

CREDITS AT MIND CRUSHER

TUNE

"Said I remember when we used to sit

In the government yard in Trenchtown

Oba, ob-serving the hypocrites

As they would mingle with the good people we meet

Good friends we have had, oh good friends we've lost along the way

In this bright future you can't forget your past

So dry your tears I say" ♫♫♫

Monti Sibilini, 2011

And I say to my people’s masters: Beware

Beware of the thing that is coming, beware of the risen people

Who shall take what ye would not give.

Did ye think to conquer the people, or that law is stronger than life,

And than men’s desire to be free?

We will try it out with you ye that have harried and held,

Ye that have bullied and bribed.

Tyrants… hypocrites… liars!

(Padraic Pearse)

...taken at the Van Gogh Museum...

Amsterdam, Netherlands...

There are many aspects of our sense of self and many fragments that lead up to a whole. When you drop a delicate glass and it shatters, you see all of the pieces that make up that simple structure that holds liquid. Just imagine how many pieces are inside of each of us, just as fragile and susceptible to damage.

Each year, I make some changes to my life. I wouldn't call them New Year's Resolutions (though I do try to make a couple of those) because they don't always happen on the new year. I yearn to be a flawless person and I've always realized how finite our time spans on Earth are...and so, I don't like to waste any time that I'm given, either when trying to make the world a better place or in terms of trying to make myself into a better person, someone I can respect and love when I Iook in the mirror. 2015 was a year filled with changes for me and, instead of doing a top 10 or 20 or 25 live shows, I thought maybe I would do something different this year instead.

1. Photography:

I have many identities, if you must know. Some call these roles but when your roles in life define you, it seems to become a little more than that. In other words, if you lose one role, like your role as an artist, you will probably have something along the lines of a nervous breakdown, where you question who you are and want to jump out of the window. That's how strongly I identify with myself as a photographer. I've been doing this for 20 years now and I started in the dark room with film and a ton of time and creative youthful energy.

I really haven't changed yet in terms of my yearning to be a part of the collective consciousness that defines us as human beings and wanting to redeem it. There are so many harmful things that bring us all down...we have allowed the rich to get stronger and the poor to become many. We have turned our backs on our sisters and brothers. We no longer recognize them in the street.

More importantly, photography is a sort of art therapy for me. I've been going to a very helpful Sleep Therapist recently to help with my insomnia. He has me rate the stress in my life on a 0-5 scale. 5 is the highest and 0 is literally no stress. After about 5 visits, on our last visit in December, my sleep therapist pointed out to me how he thought it was interesting that I never rated my stress level for each day a 5 even though I often reported that my job was the cause of much dismay. I explained, "That's because, no matter how stressed I am, I realize I have to keep perspective. 5 is genocide. 5 is I am raped and nearly murdered and my family is murdered in front of me. 5 is someone opens their door on me while bicycling and I'm in the hospital and am told I will never walk again or breathe without a machine. If 5 is the worst thing that can happen to a person, I hope I never see it." Did I mention I'm intense?

Anyway, I digress...photography helps me cope with all of the sadness I feel when I think that we're all doomed and uniquely flawed in a way that doesn't allow us to change our mistakes, to make ourselves better, to find redemption. I don't mean religious redemption, either. I just mean that we realize we were each given a unique potential and the failure to live up to this is a black mark upon all of us.

I've made some changes regarding photography and my identity this year. When I started photographing with digital over film in 2006, it opened up some previously unexplored possibilities for me. I've always loved music and concerts and so, increasingly more, I started photographing my favorite bands. I still do so and continue to love it but I feel a sadness in the thought that I'll be be pigeonholed as merely a "concert photographer" when the day is done. More than anything, I have always yearned to capture life at the end of the day. I'm a searcher and I'm searching for the qualities that show us as overcoming all of our past atrocities, as better than all that. There is something in a gesture that Milan Kundera understood...a gesture can be linked to identity and can be it's own greatest art form. I'm a huge fan of animals but the gestures that humans make can actually take my breath away.

I see more views, favorites, comments, etc. when I post a concert photo and I appreciate those but, at the end of the day, I am part of Flickr because I want to grow as a photographer and I don't want to die with people thinking all I ever did was stand alongside 15 other people taking photos of the same musicians at the exact same time. I think that's why I haven't really missed scaling back on shows and festivals overall this year. I still love Levitation/Austin Psych Fest the very best (it's my type of music!) and I still enjoy live shows...but if I am photographing bands, I want to be doing so to promote their creativity and their presence in the world so not necessarily the bands everyone has already heard of in other words.

I realize I'm not the best street or portrait photographer in the world but it takes time to develop and, just like it took time for me to develop as a concert photographer, I have made more of a commitment to devoting time and energy to this endeavor. It's painful to me when I try to be part of a community of street photographers and I feel rejected or condescended to. I have music within me and I sing in my own way. Right now, this is where my heart is leading me.

2. Vegan

When I was 13, it finally occurred to me that it was perhaps more than a little hypocritical to identify myself as an animal lover and then eat them. Back then, I pretty much lived on vegetarian vegetable cans of Progresso soup and it was a challenge to live as a vegetarian in upstate NY not because I enjoyed the taste of meat but because I had a lack of options for my own nutrition. I also had to learn the hard way about taking B vitamin and iron supplements or I'd be feeling weak and/or faint all day long. Pretty soon, though, being a vegetarian became a part of the very fabric of my being and was one of the first things I mentioned. It definitely made me more healthy but it also made me feel like I was a person with integrity.

Of course, not as much was known in 1992 about the environmental implications of being vegetarian and, even more so, vegan. When you're facing food scarcities, using all fertile land in the most optimal way to feed the approaching 7 billion people on this planet seems less like radical ideology and more just like plain common sense.

At least in America, vegan cheeses, yogurts, sorbets, milks, butters, and even egg substitutes have seen remarkable growth. Not so long ago, vegan cheese tasted like play-doh and was absolutely disgusting. We've come a long way, especially in the last three years. I've never been a fan of Daiya, though I appreciate their history in the market, but I am a fan of Heidi-Ho vegan cheese made from chia seeds. Kite Hill, Punk Rawk cheese, Treeline cheese and Mykononos cheese are all fantastic vegan options. In addition, each city (even my own small home town city of Rochester, NY with the amazing vegan restaurant Vive) seems to be developing it's own artisan vegan cheeses. To be clear, these are "cheeses" I wouldn't even realize were vegan. In Chicago, we have Feed Your Head, Teese, Chicago Raw, and Soul Veg. which are amazing-as well as several restaurant options.

When I think about the process in America of separating the young calves from their mothers and killing male chickens, I think about the stress hormones that get transferred from animal to your food. I also think about the rise in quite a few life threatening allergies...some of this may be related to pollution but maybe some of it is related to animals. I became a vegetarian way before epidemics like "Mad Cow Disease" but this disease isn't exactly a compelling argument to continue to eat any animal products for me.

There is going to come a time when we can no longer be dependent on animals for any food source. I don't know when that exact year is...if I had to guess, it will probably be well before I reach old age (if I do reach it). Let's say 2040. Animal products will be unreliable and even toxic. If you'd like for some reasonable substitutes and would, in the meantime, like to become a healthier and more productive human, I would recommend becoming vegan sooner than later. Again, I'm not a radical. I'm not a trend setter. However, I am a person who likes to think I can see trends and has some common sense. Many thanks to my friend and photographer Lindsey Best for opening my eyes and giving me a needed push in the right direction. I hope my words here find you well and you are open minded enough to consider them for yourself and for the future of the world.

Check out her work:

www.lindseybest.com/

3. Sleep

Being an insomniac started to usurp my identity or components of it for a couple of decades. Ever since I became addicted to Nyquil in high school after a cold, I have struggled on and off with insomnia. My most recent dependency as an adult was 3 Ibuprofen PM AND 3 Melatonin. I have a great deal of anxiety and stress related to work and I found I couldn't sleep without this combination. But then, I had an even more of a problem which was that even this combination wasn't doing the trick. Your body habituates over time and you feel extremely abnormal. You start to really worry about the damage you might be doing to your kidneys, for instance, and start to feel helpless. There are only so many times I can have a panic attack in the middle of the night before I realize I probably need to gather some gumption and actually see a medical professional about it.

This summer/August, I started to see a sleep therapist in Chicago. It was a big change for me because it finally spoke to the idea that I wanted to truly change my life. I've gone through phases of extreme struggle because, like my mother, I feel more creative in the wee hours of the night. I've also gone through phases where I truly viewed being an insomniac as "cool." But, at 3am, when you're sweating profusely, wondering how you're going to get through the next day at work, and wondering if you're racing heart signifies that you'll soon be having a heart attack, you realize this is anything but "cool." While it's true it's helpful to have deep experiences to become a better artist and feel connected to all aspects of the world, it's also very true that you're not helpful to anyone on Earth as a creative entity or otherwise if you're dead.

Fast forward 6 months later. I now sleep at least 6 hours most nights without any sleep aids...this is a big deal for me! When I say a "big deal" what I mean specifically is that if you had told me in August that I would be here in January, I would have thought you were suggesting the impossible. And yet, this is my new reality and, instead of identifying myself based on the sleep I did or didn't get the night before, I have begun to identify myself as the person who can do more with a little more sleep and feeling proud of myself for the progress I have made. Again, I am nowhere near the perfect and flawless human being I would like to be but this is a huge part of becoming better and doing more in the world each day I'm alive.

4. Neuroscience

I've always liked nonfiction in moderation but 2015 especially saw me struggling with some new cases at work where I felt I needed to learn more to become better and, what this inevitably boiled down to is learning more about the human brain and the capacity for change. Even when I was going to university for my degree back in NY in 2001, it was a widespread belief that the human brain was plastic only to a certain point following an injury like a stroke and that if progress didn't occur within the first 6months or so afterwards, the idea that the patient could grow was probably just a little too optimistic.

What neuroscientists have found most recently is that this is actually really false and, even more so, could be obviously damaging to the patient's progress when the doctors and therapists embrace this line of thinking. Neuroscientists have also learned so much more about mental illness, physical disabilities, Autism and other sensory disorders. This is one of the most exciting adventures you can have-realizing even how much potential we have to change and being inspired to change because of it. I've tried to make myself more trilingual, more of an optimist, and more filled with the kindness and empathy related to the struggles people have.

I would highly recommend checking out the following authors/works:

The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human

by V.S. Ramachandran

www.goodreads.com/book/show/8574712-the-tell-tale-brain

Rainy Brain, Sunny Brain: How to Retrain Your Brain to Overcome Pessimism and Achieve a More Positive Outlook

by Elaine Fox

(It sounds kind of hokey and middle of the road but very interesting neuroscience behind optimism):

www.goodreads.com/book/show/13237701-rainy-brain-sunny-br...

The Brain's Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity

by Norman Doidge

www.goodreads.com/book/show/22522293-the-brain-s-way-of-h...

Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism

by Temple Grandin

www.goodreads.com/book/show/103408.Thinking_in_Pictures?f...

And recently my mom has encouraged me to watch youtube clips from this neuroscientist and read his work:

David Eagleman:

www.eagleman.com/

Thanks for reading, all. Good luck on your own journeys.

"You hypocrite, first take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye." - Matthew chapter 7 verse 5.

Hah hah... look at me... quoting the bible! I suppose there is a first time for everything? :)

I woke up feeling very creative this morning... so I decided to see if I could create a composite image that would be both unusual and eye-catching.

This is what I managed to come up with after approximately 5 hours of playing around in Photoshop.

Gospel Movie Clip | "Break Through the Snare" (7) - How God Saves Man From the Influence of Satan

Introduction

The Bible says, "For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God" (1 Peter 4:17). In the last days, Almighty God

expresses all the truth which purifies and saves man and He shows to us His righteous, majestic and inviolable disposition. God's work of judgment in the last days is done to save man so they can break away from the influence of Satan and truly turn back to God. All God's chosen people who accept Almighty God's work of judgment all gradually come to see clearly the factual truth that the pastors and elders' service of God actually defies God, see clearly their hypocritical and truth-hating antichrist natures and therefore they break away from the confusion and control of the pastors and elders and truly return before God. By listening to God's chosen people's Testimonies

of their experiences of judgment before the seat of Christ, you will be brought to an understanding of God's work of judgment in the last days.

Recommend to you: Christian Family Movie

Image Source: The Church of Almighty God

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With more than 50 sanctions from JewSA, how can you buy any food for the people, no money, no goods... How hypocrite just for stealing the oil...

This picture has been screaming from within my head and with tea and toast it is done. Seville Oranges in Scottish Marmalade have answer the intrusive inspiration with this completion. Obviously another idea is now demanding immediate attention. These are my good times and the others are not at all goodly. Nature never lets us down if we can wait for the good times to come along and are then ready to enjoy them when they do come along.

There is what I am describing as a Templar Bread and Butter Pudding in the oven with a crunchy Croix Pattée in place and potential for either a Spiral of Sanctity [Power Crunch], or Labyrinth of Locating to be added upon the Final Firing. Please note my liberal idea of Templar peace keepers might not be your notions of them. Hopefully the next so far unanswered idea that is starting now to shout a little will be answered through the protection of Αιξ / Aix / Aex the Very New World Fruity and Old World Spicy Bread and Butter Pudding maybe a glory to behold.

The Pentland Hills are magnificent and here is a share of their beauty.

The Very New World Fruity and Old World Spicy Templar Bread and Butter Pudding shielded and nurtured via Αιξ / Aix / Aex is Glutten Free, Butter Free and free of other things and also free if you can get to Penicuik before I finish it. I have demolished a corner with Goat Yoghurt as a part of the rearing and trading that the Templar economy engendered. I could be thinking of Shaman in Mail and Plate instead of Colonising Thugs that some see.

© PHH Sykes 2024

phhsykes@gmail.com

Pentland Hills Regional Park

www.pentlandhills.org/

Red sky at night and other weather lore

www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/learn-about/weather/how-weat...

Matthew 16:2-3, King James Version

2 He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red.

3 And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowering. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?

Gospel of Matthew 16:2-3, King James Version.

www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+16%3A2-3&...

Malnutrition.

Douleurs aiguës multitudes innocentes hurlements de maladie ventres grognants visions de loup espace lointain notions vaniteuses hypocrites mensonges,

αμαρτωλοί ηγέτες που παραβιάζουν τις εντολές πολυάριθμοι νόμοι analytics ευρετήρια συστηματικού συλλογισμού άπειροι διάβολοι κυρώσεις δολοφονίες,

barriere buie profonde fosse voci ruggenti lamenti infiniti fardelli mali percorsi impetuosi vette incessanti regole discendenti caverne fredde lingue affamate,

труды, дни, ужасы, ночи, пустые слова, суровые, жестокие тени, слабые чашки, бездонные лица, борющиеся с недугами, унизительные уроки, ужасные запахи,

闇の空身もだえのうろこメンタルチェーンが嫉妬深いプレートを引き締める何年もテーブルを折りたたむ小さな部分が手足に負担をかける蛇戦争傲慢な考え呪い苦痛住民の妄想.

Steve.D.Hammond.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Dq33kK9nDU

No Woman, No Cry

Bob Marley & The Wailers

No woman no cry

No woman no cry

No woman no cry

No woman no cry

Cause I remember when we used to sit

In a government yard in trenchtown

Observing the hypocrites

Mingle with the good people we meet

Good friends we have, oh, good friends we have lost

Along the way

In this great future,

You can't forget your past

So dry your tears, I say

No woman no cry

No woman no cry

Little darling, don't shed no tears

No woman no cry

Said I remember when we use to sit

In the government yard in trenchtown

And then georgie would make the fire lights

I seh, log would burnin' through the nights

Then we would cook cornmeal porridge

Of which I'll share with you

My feet is my only carriage

And so I've got to push on thru,

Oh, while I'm gone

Everything 's gonna be alright

Everything 's gonna be alright

No woman no cry

No woman no cry

I seh little darlin'

Don't shed no tears

No woman no cry.

Compositor: Vincent Ford

It might be hard for young people or even middle aged people to understand why scenes like this one in rural Indiana and rural America are heartbreaking for someone like me to see. The reasons are numerous. Of course, there is the nostalgia. I had my first haircut in a barber shop much like this one. A little boy's first haircut is a big deal that they often never forget. More than the nostalgia, I am disturbed by the loss of the small town magic that I experienced as a child -- and the fact that it no longer exists as it did in the 1950's and 1960's. That magic was mostly centered around the sense of community that existed in self-sufficient small towns, where one could get pretty much everything they needed without having to leave town. And most concerning to me, I realize there is a good chance no one cares much anymore about who Mr. Voyles was or that his barber shop and store are gone. We are living in an era where compassion for those around us is evaporating -- if you want to hear a great new song about that very subject, listen to "Jasper" on Stephanie Lambring's new album "Hypocrite". If you want to learn a little bit more about "community", try listening to Tyson Martin's podcast "The Life of Phys". We are losing our sense of community and our compassion for one another. When we've lost those things for good, there won't be anything left.

Palmyra, IN

2024

© James Rice, All Rights Reserved

Found in Explore on May 8, 2024.

Darleen Click

Oh I know I’m going to get called names on this. But I’m not going to play that game anymore. Like the sign at one of the TEA parties that said “it doesn’t matter what this sign says, you going to call it racist anyway.” When even the lawsuits now being brought by 30 plus state AG’s is considered racist, it is time to stop playing that game.

I’m flipping outraged even more so by Obama’s “victory lap” where he pretends this crap-sandwich is what “The American People were begging for”. Not one bit of graciousness in his “victory” but that nose up arrogance as his Social Democrats were literally breaking out the champagne.

I expect this will also flush out the usual Stockholm-syndrome “conservatives” who wring their hands and say “oh you can’t say that! People will take offense!”

Heck, I want to shake them up. This is supposed to be a post-racial era? Then deal with the fact that the President of the United States is the head of a gang that just raped our American principles.

I made it a cartoon and not a photoshop and the “woman” is green. Deal, people.

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Blake's watercoloured etching The Ancient of Days

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turmarion.wordpress.com/2013/04/29/creation-vs-emanation/

The claim I want to make is that creation and emanation, though sometimes conflated, are very much different concepts.

The former emphasizes the separateness of the world from its Creator. Though God, by definition, would have had the world and everything in it eternally in mind, they still exist outside of God. God may be present in His cosmos metaphysically and by what the Orthodox would call His “energies“, and yet He is still existentially separate.

With emanation, the boundaries between God and His creation are much more blurred–more, in fact, than is commonly realized. In a sense, we are all part of God’s “dream”, which (God being eternal) has in a sense always existed. Not just us, however, but many, many other possibilities.

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Blake's watercoloured etching The Ancient of Days

In the mythology of William Blake, Urizen is the embodiment of conventional reason and law. He is usually depicted as a bearded old man; he sometimes bears architect's tools, to create and constrain the universe; or nets, with which he ensnares people in webs of law and conventional society. Originally, Urizen represented one half of a two-part system, with him representing reason and Los, his opposition, representing imagination. In Blake's reworking of his mythic system,

Urizen is one of the four Zoas that result from the division of the primordial man, Albion, and he continues to represent reason.

He has an Emanation, or paired female equivalent, Ahania, who stands for Pleasure. In Blake's myth, Urizen is joined by many daughters with three representing aspects of the body. He is also joined by many sons, with four representing the four elements. These sons join in rebellion against their father but are later united in the Last Judgment. In many of Blake's books, Urizen is seen with four books that represent the various laws that he places upon humanity.

Character

In Blake's original myth, Urizen, the representation of abstractions and an abstraction of the human self, is the first entity. He believes himself holy and he sets about establishing various sins in a book of brass that serves as a combination of various laws as discovered by Newton, given to Moses, and the general concept of deism, which force uniformity upon mankind. The rest of the Eternals in turn become indignant at Urizen turning against eternity, and they instill these essences of sin within Urizen's creation. This torments Urizen, and Los soon after appears. Los's duty within the work is to watch over Urizen and serve as his opposition.

In terms of Blake's Orc cycle, Urizen serves as a Satanic force similar to Milton's Satan. After Urizen defeats the serpent/Orc figure in the Garden of Eden story, the Orc figure, in the form of Urizen's son Fuzon, battles against him in a story based on Exodus. Urizen, as a pillar of cloud that hinders the Israelites in their journey home, battles against Fuzon, as a pillar of fire that guides them by night. Eventually, Urizen is able to destroy his rebellious son and impose laws upon the Israelites in the form of the Ten Commandments. This also leads to a death of the Israelite society, and the Israelites under Urizen are imprisoned in a similar manner to how they were under the Egyptians. Symbolically, the Orc cycle describes how Urizen and Orc are part of one unified whole, with Urizen representing the destructive and older essence while Orc is the young and creative essence.

Urizen from the front page of Copy G (c. 1818) of The Book of Urizen currently held by the Library of Congress (detail)

In Blake's later myth, Urizen is one of the four Zoas, the fourfold division of the central god. The other three represent aspects of the trinity and he represents the fallen, Satanic figure although he is also the creator figure. Among the Zoas, he represents the south and the concept of reason. He is described as what binds and controls the universe through creating laws. He is connected to his Emanation known as Ahania, the representation of pleasure, and he is opposed to the Zoa named Urthona, the representation of Imagination. His name can mean many things, from "Your Reason" or a Greek word meaning "to limit". Urizen originates in the beginning of Blake's version of Genesis. He was the entity created when a voice said that light should be born, and he was the fourth child of the characters Albion and Vala. He is said to represent the Heavenly host, but he experiences a Satanic fall in that he desired to rule. He is motivated by his pride and becomes a hypocrite. When Albion asks for him, Urizen refuses and hides, which causes him to experience his fall. After his fall, Urizen set about creating the material world and his jealousy of mankind brought forth both Wrath and Justice.

In the material world, he had Steeds and a Chariot of Day that were stolen from him by Luvah. This occurred because he, reason, sought to take over the Northern lands of Luvah, Imagination. After setting to take over Imagination, Luvah's stealing of the horses, which represented instruction, showed how emotion could dominate over reason. After Luvah falls and becomes Orc, Urizen tries to regain his horses but can only witness them bound. Eventually, the horses are returned to him after the Final Judgment.

Within the early works, Urizen represents the chains of reason that are imposed on the mind. Urizen, like mankind, is bound by these chains. Additionally, these works describe how Newtonian reason and the enlightenment view of the universe traps the imagination. The poems emphasize an evolutionary development within the universe, and this early version of a "survival of the fittest" universe is connected to a fallen world of tyranny and murder.

Urizen's daughters started as the children of light and are possible images of either the planets or of the stars. After his fall, they gain human form. Three of his daughters are Eleth, Uveth and Ona, which represent the three parts of the human body. Together, they also organize the waters of Generation, they are the creators of the Bread of Sorrow, and read from the Book of Iron. At the Last Judgment, they watch over Ahania. His sons are differently organised, in different poems: as Thiriel, Utha, Grodna, Fuzon, aligned with the four classical elements; or as twelve, aligned with the signs of the Zodiac, and builders of the Mundane Shell and seek to keep mankind from falling. In Blake's early myths, they dwell in various cities and do not abide by Urizen's laws; Fuzon directly rebels against Urizen, is able to cut Urizen's loins, and is crucified for his actions. In later versions of the children, they are wise and dwell with Urizen. They, with Urizen, fall after Luvah takes over Urizen's realm. After their fall, they are tortured in hell, and Urizen's creation of science is seen as his domination over them.

However, the four sons are placed in charge of Urthona's armies and rebel against Urizen's rule. During the Last Judgment, the sons get rid of their weapons and celebrate Urizen's return to the plow, and they join together for the harvest.

Urizen is described as having multiple books: Gold, Silver, Iron, and Brass. They represent science, love, war, and sociology, which are four aspects of life. The books are filled with laws that seek to overcome the seven deadly sins. He constantly adds to the works, even when he faces his opposition in Orc, but the books are destroyed in the Last Judgment. The Book of Brass sets forth Urizen's social beliefs that seek to remove all pain and instill peace under one rule. The attempt to force love through law encouraged the Eternals to put forth the Seven Deadly Sins that Urizen hoped to prevent. The Book of Iron was lost in the Tree of Mystery, and represents how Urizen can create wars but cannot control them.[ (Wikipedia)

Hello everyone, I hope everything is doing well for u guys 😄

Well, u know how good it is when u are surrounded by amazing people who dream big and are far from spoiled, pessimist, hypocrite people who know only judging, criticizing others ... 😏

It's an amazing sensation when u get the highest dune in all Marzouga 😍 I'm PROUD of you my friends 👏❤ We were in tents, there was music, people dancing 💃 it was a cool atmosphere but personally I can find this in the city 😎 I didn't come to do habitual common things, So I spent only 15 min on camping and I escaped from that casual routine ( it's cost only 100 Dh to do it in a disco ... ) 😝 and I decided with my 3 friends ( Japanese ( nakazaki ), Americans ( Zahia, california, San Diego ), and our Moroccan guide ( Merzouga ) ) to go to the highest place in this Sahara to watch the stars 🌌🌠😍 at first it was like a crazy idea but I told them that we can do it we can reach it, because we were really determined to do it and we really DID it 💪✌😎 Anyone wants to celebrate the new year partying should stay down. Dreamers always go high 🌈👆🎇 We celebrated in the stars and I think it was the most fabulous view and sensation that I have ever felt after love 💝

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“China Bamboo Ink” became one of my absolute favourites in an eyeblink when I arrived to SL more than a decade ago.

Then the wonderful skybox disappeared.

Then I discovered the art of Fiona Fei at the One Billion Rising event for the first time.

Then… I felt at home again among the bamboo.

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When cancer kills off two thirds of your close family.

When you sincerely dedicate yourself, your time, your loyalty, your imagination, to The Cause in RL and SL. When you support, promote, connect people, busy yourself, obey the instructions of your superiors like a nice girl scout selflessly volunteering to sell cookies to grumpy pensioners, come rain or shine. For The Cause.

When you are diagnosed with The Big C yourself.

When a little while later you realize quite many prominent promoters of The Cause principally care about their inflated egos, private business revenues in order to finance their next RL touristy trip around the globe, and play condescending benefactors along the line, “We are the good generous rich white Western guys, behold and be grateful, Africa!” A close-knit self-promoting cabal pretending to be Lady Bountiful, supported by a choir of sycophants who know their business will be damaged if they do not play along.

When you call out some of the hypocrites and you suddenly are The Devil, Satan, Thanos, all kneaded together, to be eliminated by some narrow-minded Bible Belt bigots.

When you finally realize all this does not matter anymore. What really matters is the smell of April rain in your RL garden, the fact that you can hug your RL love any time you want to, that the tomato seeds you planted a few weeks ago are in fact germinating and promising you some lovely pizzas in late August.

Then your life is starting to become more and more like an amazing minimalist Chinese ink painting. A few transparent brush strokes, a few colours. When it is a handful of little things that matter the most, and matter at all. The rest is fluff.

Pancakes are indeed are a "once-in-a-while treat" for me. It's not just the actual pancakes that make me crave pancakes, it's other breakfast items that are commonly paired with the pancakes.

Question:"Why not just get the other items separately? and skip the pancakes?"

Why would I want to do that? No one orders a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and asks only for the interior contents of the concoction. Pancakes are paired well with an array of items that are to provide the necessary sustenance of a typical lumberjack seen on the television screen. Someone like me who likes to touts how important it is not to spike one's insulin levels so early in the morning am being hypocritical in this debate, yes, but we're only human. And we need to live it up once in a while, so why not do so and have pancakes with your saturated fats. I say, eat away and enjoy! We can go back to our healthier lifestyles tomorrow.

More Eye On Orion The Hunter On Pre-Morn Sky As Day Hunts The Night & Fate Hunts Us All - IMRAN™

What words can I use to describe this moment that one glance at this image wouldn't render insufficient? You can clearly make out Orion, and the belt, as well as Sirius burns super-bright in Canis Major. Towards the top left Procyon is shining proud.

How incredibly blessed I am to be alive, living in this bright white corner of our tiny planet earth, is something I could not give enough thanks for. The planet earth itself so insignificant in the grand scheme of things, as all these galaxies, and star clusters, dwarf our very existence, the world itself is lucky to still be a living planet.

Yet, so many of us do not even stop to look up into the heavens and see these mind-blowing sights like Orion (The Hunter) and so many other heavenly bodies routinely passing around us. Nor do we bow our heads in gratitude enough at even having the opportunity to have lived at all, much less all that we have experienced.

Orion and its companions continue to hunt for the end of time, until the end of time, disappearing from view even from the light of our Sun hunting the night, every night. Even our Sun, a mere nothing in the eyes of even of any one of the galaxies visible to the naked eye, would not miss one tiny flaming burst of Hydrogen when Fate, the eternal hunter of all of us, catches up with us. That is when our souls pierce places beyond the stars that even our living eyes with all our telescopes cannot peer at.

Yet we walk amongst our peers, looking down on others as if we are superior to others. We act as if we are made of more precious materials than others, when in fact we are all nothing but the same exact chemical dust and genetic miracle which came from stardust that we cannot even look up far enough to see the source of.

So, tonight, every night, peer into yourself and see what you find... a heart brighter than the brightest burning star, or a black hole filled with hate and bigotry. No matter how many attach labels to you for fighting for what is right, saving the planet, making the world a better place, promoting equality, justice, kindness, and love, take humble pride in that shining light inside you.

If, however, you are a hate-monger, defending injustices, promoting hatred, spreading lies, no matter how many holy books you thump, or how boldly false witness you bear, how hypocritically you worship demagogic satanic creatures made of orange flesh, you know in your own dark heart that you are all the darkness that the universe despises. Is that how you want to end?

There is still time to embrace the light that may be within you. Embrace people who spread a message of tolerance, equality, justice, freedom, love, and humanity. I pray you will still embrace being a decent human being worthy of being one with the stars, not someone who belongs on the ash-heap of history.

Allah, the One God, creator of all this in the universe, regardless of the names he is called by various faiths, the master of the universe and holder of the container which contains the Universe itself, thank you for everything, every experience, every sight, even every awe-struck thought just from my looking up... to place More Eye On Orion The Hunter On Pre-Morn Sky As Day Hunts The Night & Fate Hunts Us All. Thank you, God.

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Crawling to continue

I have a headache, I'm too sensitive for this life

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I am angry with God. But he makes such beautiful things that I can't hate him, even if he did take light away from me. I feel conflicted. There's so much beauty on flickr that I can't stand to be on it anymore. I am a hypocrite, and I can't stand it anymore.

Unaware that someone was clicking away with a camera, oh that would be Hilt, oh and earlier I once said 'bolox to work in progress shots just paint! Hypocrite maybe? It's done and I'm sharing anyhow!!

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Jack White - Hypocritical Kiss

"My temper got the best of me

And when I said that I mean

A know every single thing that I said was true

And I know that you're mad at me

But if you're thinking like I,

I think you'll see that you're mad at you too

And I know the feeling's strong

Strong enough to forget about all that I've been through

And it sounds obscene, but

Loud words never bothered me like they do to you

You're the boy that talks but says nothin'

A big game to the ones that you think will believe you

But you don't know how to read

The look on my face when it says, yeah I've read that book too

And who the hell's impressed by you?

I want a name for people that I know who are fallin' for this

You would sell your own mother out

And then betray your dead brother with another hypocritical kiss."

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Eva was thinking about Thaìs. That guy around? Here? Where she felt safe. Where her heart was finally in good hands. Well...life has its' surprises, right?

No more hypocritical kisses. Only true ones.

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Eva's faceup is by NeurodollasticSurgeryWard

Her rings are by rangvar

Bodyblush by me

it seems to me that throughout the last weeks this sentence was used in my personal work way too much. well, not "way too much", but let's say, quite often. I don't know what it is about it, but apparently, this image is my idea of a good atmosphere. when every little detail of nature fills you up with such a joy and you just can't help it but smile. and I have to admit, as soon as I find myself in such situations, with the leaves fluttering, the sun shining on my skin, the birds flying over my head and the entire world seems to be at peace for this one flick of an eye ... it's just the same with french chansons, old coats and cups of tea. and when I told you yesterday that I actually feel good, I think that was one of these times that I really didn't care whether it could change soon, or not. and then, when I was listening to france gall this morning, I figured that it's really up to you deciding if you are feeling fine or not. in a way. I guess it's really hypocritical of me to say that. but maybe it'd be better to just listen to myself for a bit and don't put myself down again.

(day fifty-nine)

《You Are the One.》

Wanted assistant a presumptuous men and women informality.

Understand music, fear hypocrisy, understand commitment, fear of wasting, not afraid of being laughed hypocrite, know how to spend time guilt and regret.

Compliance, please come in, we will contact you carefully.

誠徵放肆助手一名，男女不拘。懂音樂、怕虛偽、懂承諾、怕浪費，不怕被笑假道學、懂得張羅愧疚與後悔。意者內洽，我們會用心與你聯絡。

Gone forever on Jan 1st: f4roadtrip.com/

F4 is over. We all knew it would come to this.

I simply had to make this video to tell my side of the story.

Nick Page totally lied about the Netflix deal, Thomas Heaton refuses to ever work with me again. Adam Gibbs rejects all offers from big media to make Season 2 because of his hypocritical 'principals' and then accuses Nick of using AI editing in his photography.

That's it, we're done. You'd think that producing the most ambitious landscape photography course of all time would bring us closer together, but no.

When asked about where the money went from Season 1, Thomas Heaton becomes evasive and immediately changes the subject. Nick Page gets caught harassing a Netflix executive over the phone while trying to pass it off as his ''Uncle''. A restraining order ensues.

The lesson to be learned here is that you should NEVER attend a Christmas party with co-workers that get on each other's nerves.

Don't even bother to watch the videos on the other guy's channels, you'll only find the truth right here in THIS video.

Watch the full video at youtu.be/uc2o75wNJuk

Thanks for reading

Gavin

- ¡ Eso no me lo dices a la cara !

- ¿ En cual de las dos ?

I do not like hypocritical people.

- You do not tell me that to my face!

- In which of the two?

- Ferrari 458 Speciale -

If only Ferrari made this in limited numbers, then yes it would have been Speciale.

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Conflicting street signs are visible near Interstate 35 in Oklahoma City, Okla. (The Journal Record, Jennifer Pitts)

Published in Y sin embargo #19, super#F issue: the conventional and the empty/emptied gesture. The effects of a centrifugal and hypocritical, forgetful and self-referential society, in permanent escape, where nobody raises a matter or questions anything anymore.

Many thanks to fernandoprats and YSE team.

The hypocrisy has made its work. This picture has been remove from the following groups. I can understand that the picture is dangerous, inmoral and almost terrorism (a fashionable word in this hypocritical world). Let´s take kitties!! They are lovely:

- Gold Star Award

- Flickr Award I´ve been banned for asking for explanation and nobody says anything, only bans me... This is the great adm I clap for and say thanks: ~*~ƤAΓIЅIΣNNΣ~*~

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Series: "Heroes, Villains and other Fantasies"

None of my photos are HDR or blended images, they are taken from just one shot

Sony A900 + Carl Zeiss 24-70mm + 1 flash with white umbrella + 1 flash with window + Lee filter GND8

Strobist info: A full power flash with white umbrella from right (60º) and another one with window from left (45º)

Un flash a toda potencia con paraguas blanco desde la derecha (60º) y otro con ventana desde la izquierda (45º)

Model: Erwan Le Potier

Lugar: llac de Cabanasorda, Vall d´Inclés (Soldeu - Andorra)

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60020 approaches March West Jn. with 6L73 Peak Forest - Ely Papworth Sidings loaded stone, running a little over two hours late.

Although once a pretty much daily class 60 working, by 2009 it was only running two or three times each week, and not always hauled by a 60. Several years later the contract transferred to GBRf. 60020 subsequently underwent overhaul and gained DB livery.

This is one from my first few months of digital photography, which coincided with me taking a break from full-time teaching. At the time I was very poor at recording what I'd photographed, realising that in most cases you could read the number from the image and relying on my memory as well as saved messages from the Yahoo! Groups gen lists. But the Yahoo! Groups archives are long gone, and the saved emails on a Blackberry which no longer works properly (but I can access if I try).

However, I easily found the details for this one as I sent it (and a load of others) to Freightmaster Publishing for use in their annual Loco Review book (in this case the 2010 edition, which looked back at 2009 - would it have made more sense for the edition to refer to the year being reviewed?). They used most of what I sent, although I was disappointed that not only was there no reproduction fee, but they didn't even send me a complimentary copy of the book (Marcus Dawson did, with his Trainspots series) and I had to buy a copy (£17.95), nor did they even acknowledge they'd used the images. And for an organisation which used to (still does?) complain about enthusiasts expecting to get gen over the internet for free, I thought this was rather hypocritical!

Visit Brian Carter's Non-Transport Pics to see my photos of landscapes, buildings, bridges, sunsets, rainbows and more.

La MAGRANA és d’aquells productes naturals que donen crèdit al vell consell hipocràtic de fer de l’aliment la nostra medicina.

I és que en els darrers anys s’han realitzat investigacions gràcies a les quals se sap que entre altres propietats, ajuda a neutralitzar els efectes nocius dels radicals lliures preveient l’oxidació, purifica la sang, evita la formació de plaques d’ateroma, alleuja la acidesa estomacal, ajuda a fer la digestió, regula la pressió sanguínia, tonifica l’organisme, reforça el sistema immune i ajuda a prevenir l’aparició de nombroses malalties, inclòs el càncer.

Especialment ingerida com suc.

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Els fruits de les Magranes de l'hort de casa. Salt (Gironès) CAT.

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Health and Vitamins.

The MAGRANA is one of those natural products that give credit to the old hypocritical advice of making our food our medicine.

And in recent years, research has been carried out, which is known as among other properties, it helps to neutralize the harmful effects of free radicals preventing oxidation, purifying blood, preventing the formation of atheroma plates, It relieves stomach acidity, helps digestion, regulates blood pressure, tones the body, strengthens the immune system and helps prevent numerous diseases, including cancer.

Especially ingested as juice.

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The fruits of the grenades in the house garden. Salt (Gironès) CAT.

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Matthew 6:2

“So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.

1"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

3"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.

-Matthew 7

Pro-choice and pro-life, it's all just politics. Meanwhile, I don't wish to anyone to go through abortion. It's a horrible experience. And you may - like me - never get over it. If there is a hope for you, if there is another option, please take it. I'm not a hypocrite who has no idea what she's talking about. Nor a man who will never get pregnant. No, I know. Time goes by, and it's been almost 6 years, but time doesn't cure the pain.

I don't even have the sonogram pictures. How I wish I had that at least.

It is hypocritical to tell a counselee to trust God while you lean on your own skills, effort, and rehearsed Bible knowledge. Sometimes more Bible knowledge only beads up on a hard heart, and prayer is often the only way to furrow the soil so the Word can take root. (Garrett Higbee)

Nature gives us an amazing amount of wonders and within her bounty we find similarities upon which we decide to have reflections and those can lead us on to further investigation with wondrous revelations. The figure created by the silhouette of The Pentland Hills is an amazing sight and she can transform her image from different positions even appearing as if she is pregnant from one vantage. Here Mono and Colour are used to give a further insight into the Sleep Skyline Figure that may have been seen as a Goddess, as Geology in transition and also held so many regards that have been given and lost even as she is found in the landscape today and will with weathering and other developments over many, many years be seen as something vastly different than she appears today.

The Pentland Hills are magnificent and here is a share of their beauty.

I have been mentioning the weather lore of, “Red sky at night, shepherd’s delight,” and now the mention is still reaching into the links below.

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Pentland Hills Regional Park

www.pentlandhills.org/

Red sky at night and other weather lore

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Matthew 16:2-3, King James Version

2 He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red.

3 And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowering. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?

Gospel of Matthew 16:2-3, King James Version.

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Melbourne: This guy was protesting about the people protesting about an environmental issue - plastics and oil I think. I am not sure because the original protesting group had packed up and were leaving. He was calling the original group "a pack of hypocrites" because they were riding bicycles that used or were made from plastic and petrochemical products.

L-R: Wildog, Thea, Black Canary, Green Arrow, Spartan, Felicity, Mr.Terrific

So this season of Arrow was very good, I really liked it. So much better than season 4. The finale is possibly my favorite episode of the Arrow ever and it was definitely the best finale out of the DC shows. So anyone that gave up on this show, this season is worth the wait.

**SPOILERS**

As for the ending this whole plot was just really great. Prometheus is so smart, and this was just such a great revenge plot and very character driven. This wasn't a star city exploding finale this was about the characters we have grown with over the show. Now what I'm guessing is that not everybody is dead obviously. Malcolm is supposedly confirmed dead, captain boomerang too? (Which is upsetting cuz he hasn't ever really fought the flash or been with rouges yet) I think William's mother is dead and then we will get to see a new story that involves Oliver taking care of his son. I think a main cast memeber will have died too. I'm thinking Quentin but I honestly have no idea if they would kill another lance so quick.

Wildog: at first i was really not a fan, but I like him a lot more now. His storyline with his daughter is really compelling Andy the episode that showed his backstory was one of my favorites. His and Quentins relationship as well as Curtis's is great. He can't die yet because he hasn't connected with us enough yet. And if Quentin does die that would be a great story for him in the next season.

The fig isn't the best, his hat is inaccurate but he looked weird without it, mask was hard to do but it's growing on me the more I look at it.

Fig formula:CMF baseball torso, CMF Dino hunter lady legs, CMF trick or treater head.

Thea: She really didn't have much to do this season, she left for a while and she just has gone down hill. One of my favorite parts of season 4 was Thea and her bloodlust storyline, but that was not continued. But I am excited to see where her story goes after the "confirmed"??? Death of Malcolm. But I could see her being a death but I feel like she didn't have a big enough presence this season to have an emotional punch.

Fig formula: Scarlet witch torso, friends hair, black widow head. Superboy legs.

Black Canary: I have really liked her so far, despite not having blonde hair which really bothers me. I like that she's an actual meta human and I look forward to some greater storylines with her. She won't die, they won't kill another's black Canary after they just got a new one.

Fig Formula: Agent 13 torso, WW hair, catwoman head, black widow legs.

Green Arrow: Man I love Oliver, Stephen Amell does such a great job and his performance in the final scene was so good. I'm excited to see how he deals with taking care of William if his mother is dead. I also love the temporary team he built for the finale.

Fig Formula: Green Arrow head, torso, bootleg Artemis legs.

Spartan: Diggle hasn't really done much for me the past I'd say 2 seasons, his and lyla's relationship is always interesting but I feel like he is very hypocritical with Lyla. I really like his and Dinah's friendship. He's not dead.

Fig Formula: city torso, cyborg head, nexo Knights helmet, Ronan legs.

Felicity: Olicity is back? Idk how I feel about that. I really enjoyed her dark storyline this season with helix and I loved the episode where she worked with them against Team Arrow. There's no way she's dead.

Fig Formula: Big Bang head and torso, superboy arms

Me.Terrific: Curtis is a funny character but I feel like he is just for comic relief now, I like his t-spheres. He could die? But I doubt it.

Fig Formula: batman legs, luke cage head, cmf mad scientist arm, Harley Quinn arm, Finn hair

I have another pic coming of arrow that involves mostly villains.

But ya great season and finale.

P.S. whatever happened to Ragman? Lmao

AWARDS

23rd Western Districts National-Merit Certificate; :

2011 Georgia Circuit- Four Honourable Mentions

Creative Asia Photography Awards 2010 - BRONZE Award in Portrait-Individual category.

I have bottled this up all my life but the time has come to air it.

This is my loving, kind hearted, wonderful mother.

Mum has had a tough life. She married the wrong man. Mum was "blindly in love". My father was from a totally different background. Her marriage was a disaster for the first six years until she divorced him and was given full custody of the children. I have unhappy memories of those days. In the 60's divorce was uncommon and difficult as you needed to have grounds/proof for divorce, in Mum's case, Grounds of Cruelty.

I was the only student in my class with divorced parents and that really saddened me. I dreamt of happy families and The Brady Bunch was my escape from reality.

Mum struggled for years as she worked full time to support three children, moving from flat to flat when the rent increased, at least a dozen times during our childhood. In those days child support was pathetic and we were poor. We lived from week to week. Mum never received any additional help whilst my father moved ahead ruthlessly in his career without responsibilities. Not many people realised what we went through. I try not to think about my past as it is too painful.

In 1975, we were forced to live with our father when our mother became ill and also struggled to look after us financially.

We didn't want to go! I was 15 and in Year 11, my two brothers were 13 and 11. We were uprooted from Melbourne and moved to Sydney, new schools and a new life and not one we wanted. But we had no choice in the matter! How could the State or the rest of the family let this happen whilst our mother still had full custody of us as a result of a divorce due to Grounds of Cruelty? I was let down and devastated. As soon as I had completed Year 12 I couldn't wait to leave Sydney and return to Melbourne.

To this day, Mum continues to rent whilst my father lives a life of abundant wealth. In our opinion and countless others, friends and family alike, my father owes her. His conscience owes her. He owes it to us. This is all we ever wanted, what Mum deserved and what we all wished for. However no-one has been game enough to speak up to my father as they are too scared.

What happens in your childhood can haunt you for years, it never leaves you completely. The past scars, the scars heal but there is always a scar. I suffer from anxiety at times. My middle brother is an alcoholic. He was beaten as a child by my father. My youngest brother has other problems and tries to emulate my father and has become like him.

We have been the "meat in the middle" of years of bitterness between our parents and that is so damaging. A word of advice from someone who has been there is PLEASE DO NOT INVOLVE YOUR CHILDREN!!!!!!!!

During 2008, what my father did to our family was so vindictive, so nasty, so despicable, so uncalled for, so psychologically sick it defies belief. He blackmailed my husband and emotionally abused me through a series of malicious emails that went on for many months. The abuse was so intense that there was one point where I could not see how we would ever have any relief. There is a fine line here and when someone pushes you to this point you can understand how it only takes one more thing to send them over that line. I was on that line. I feel he wanted to push me over the edge so he could say "I told you she had problems". What sort of father does this? Father's are meant to be there for you and support you in times of need, not try to send you over the edge.

Similarly, what sort of brother tells outright lies to his father with the ultimate objective of getting the father totally offside, unless he has an ulterior motive? We know why. He wanted us out of the will. Spreading lies in order to enrage a father's revenge is in itself so wrong.

My mother warned me years ago that my father was a pathological liar and had a narcissistic personality.

In 2008 we had professional advice to wipe my father, his second wife and my youngest brother from our lives for our family's sake. I gave my father a second chance thirty five years ago. I really wanted to believe that he had changed and thought he had to a degree, yet I have had the wind knocked out of me big time and I have nothing left any more, nothing, just emptiness. I should have listened to my mother.

All I ever wanted from my father was love, support and respect and all I ever received was criticism, negativity and now obvious hatred.

My mother wrote this poem about her ex husband:

DESPICABLE TOM

Predator, Conman Sleazebag and Liar...

These are the traits to which Tom will aspire.

Bad tempered, foul mouthed, vindictive and mean,

A more fiery nature is yet to be seen.

He seems to go out of his way to make sure,

That he upsets the lives that he claims to adore.

A hypocrite - he will address you with love,

Idolize you, indulge you and coo like a dove.

He is specially mean to his only daughter,

When he prays upon her - just what he not oughta!

He's caused her such anguish and endless distress,

Upsetting her so that her life is a mess.

She worries all day and can't sleep at night,

Even to the point that nothing seems right.

So ill has Tom made her, she had to attend,

A doctor who advises her wisely to end,

This awful tension, this horrible stress,

By ignoring this pig who's left her in a mess.

And even pretend that her father is dead,

This outrageous varmint and that's enough said!

So that's what my daughter has decided to do,

Is to kill him in her mind and bury him too!

I am simply hoping that I will feel slightly less weighed down.

Oh, for some of the cloud to lift...so I can see the sun again.

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