Trong quan niệm triết học Phương Đông khái niệm về vũ trụ là một khái niệm vạn vật đồng nhất thể, đó là hình ảnh của thái cực bao gồm âmvà dương, là hai mặt đối lập nhau như trời và đất, nước và lửa, nam và nữ ...

Hình ảnh giới tính đã bắt nguồn từ cái Âm và dương .

Sự hoà hợp giữa âm và dương là điều kiện hoàn hảo cho sự trường tồn của vũ trụ và hạnh phúc của con người.

Sự hoà hợp giữa người nam và người nữ là mấu chốt của cuộc sống

Học được sự hoà hợp đó là mục đích của giáo dục giới tính.

Trong truyền thuyết của nền văn hoá Việt Nam, sự tích "bánh chưng bánh dày" đã nói lên hết cái quan niệm về vũ trụ của dân tộc Việt. Trong các bi ký của Champa thì Linga và Youni là biểu tượng của âm và dương, các triết gia thời xưa đặt vấn đề giới tính thành ra một thứ tôn giáo, các bạn có thể tìm thấy những biểu tượng này trong các viện bảo tàng ở TP.HCM, Hà Nội, Đà Nẳng. Linga là hình ảnh của một dương vật được thờ phượng,

Giáo dục giới tính là dạy cho người ta biết các bí quyết của sự hoà hợp giữa âm và dương, biết các khái niệm thế nào là nam thế nào là nữ (giới tính) khái niệm về tính dục và nhân cách, để cho con người phát triển một cách toàn diện.

Sự hình thành và phát triển nhân cách cùng các mối quan hệ của con người bị chi phối và ảnh hưởng bởi các yếu tố sinh học, tâm lý, tính dục, tinh thần, môi trường, truyền thống văn hoá xã hội.

Tính dục là tổng thể con người bao gồm các khía cạnh đặt trưng nam hay nữ, đàn ông hay đàn bà và biến động suốt đời.

Tính dục không thuần chỉ bản chất sinh dục mà nó là một trong số hình ảnh của nhân cách con người.

Giáo dục giới tính là một khoa học và nghệ thuật dạy cho con người có đạo đức và hành vi lành mạnh, xây dựng một nhân cách phù hợp với mong muốn của xã hội và hình thành mối quan hệ có trách nhiệm trong tình bạn cũng như tình yêu.

Đời sống tình dục phục tùng các quy luật tự nhiên, mà quy luật tự nhiên đôi khi lại khác biệt với quy luật xã hội. Tình dục đóng một vai trò chủ yếu trong cũng cố hôn nhân và truyền giống.

Giáo dục giới tính sẽ làm thăng hoa tình yêu. Tình yêu là sự hiến dâng là sự hy sinh tận tụy, là ý thức có trách nhiệm, là sự tôn trọng, sự hiểu biết cảm thông giữa hai người. Muốn thực hiện được điều đó thì việc mang lại phổ biến các kiến thức chuyên môn về cơ thể học, sinh lý học, tâm lý và các vấn đề liên quan đến đời sống tình dục phải được trình bày thảo luận một cách công khai, có trình độ chuyên môn dựa trên những nghiên cứu thực tiễn, tr6en các kinh nghiệm của cuộc sống bằng ngôn ngữ và diễn đạt khoa học.

Từ trước, rải rác trong tạp chí "Thế giới mới" chúng tôi có lựa chọn vài vấn đề trong toàn bộ giáo dục giới tính để sửa soạn cho một mục riêng bàn về vấn đề này với quý vị độc giả.

Giáo dục giới tính hiện nay đã trở thành một nhu cầu cấp bách của xã hội

Đối với chúng ta Giáo dục giới tính là một môn học còn mới lạ, nó chưa được đưa vào dạy một cách có bài bản ở các trường đại học Y Khoa, nó chỉ mới được lồng ghép vào các môn Sản phụ khoa, Nam khoa, Tâm lý....Ở bậc trung học thì đang dạy thử nghiệm ở vài trường chỉ có tính cách thông tin về dân số và sức khỏe sinh sản, các biện pháp sinh hoặt tình dục an tòan để tránh lây nhiễm HIV, Còn ngòai xã hội, trong các cơ sở tôn giáo, trong các câu lạc bộ Hôn nhân và Gia đình, hay trong các tạp chí người ta chỉ nói một các mơ hồ chưa dám trình bày một cách rỏ ràng khoa học mà chỉ nói chung chung trong các lớp dự bị hôn nhân hay trong cách giao tiếp, ứng xữ.....đó không phải là Giáo Dục Giới Tính đích thực

Giáo dục giới tính phải bắc đầu bằng giáo dục gia đình, vai trò của cha mẹ, truyền thống, đạo đức, luật pháp của từng quốc gia,sau đó là các kiến thức về cơ thể học sinh lý học, các kỷ năng của con người để bước vào quan hệ tình dục một cách có trách nhiệm, các thông tin về tính dục và sinh sản,các hệ lụy phát sinh từ sinh hoặt tình dục .... Vì có các nét đặc thù của từng khu vực cho nên không thể áp đặt chương trình Giáo dục giới tính của quốc gia này lên quốc gia khác được.

Bước vào năm 2000 với vô số các thay đổi của xã hội chúng ta phải đương đầu với những đòi hỏi của thời đại trong đó tình dục học sẽ là một môn học phải được dạy ngay từ bậc tiểu học

Gia đình là một phần tử của xã hội, hiện tại gia đình được hình thành do sự chọn lựa, quyết định của hai cá nhân trên cơ sở tự nguyện và tình yêu lứa đôi không như các thập kỷ trước .

Giáo dục giới tính cần thiết cho cá nhân và xã hội :

Liệu những người trẻ tuổi sắp sửa lập gia đình đã hiểu rõ các kiến thức căn bản về giới tính và hôn nhân chưa ?

Giúp cho họ rèn luyện tư tưởng, trau dồi kiến thức, xây dựng nhân cách cho phù hợp với giới tính, hiểu thế nào là tình yêu đích thực, bí quyết xây dựng hạnh phúc gia đình...có lẽ điều mà xã hội cần phải quan tâm

Đa số các vụ ly dị, ly hôn đều có nguyên nhân phần lớn là trục trặc về đời sống tình dục .

Trước hành vi tình dục quá sớm của lứa tuổi thanh thiếu niên như tình trạng co thai, phá nạo thai của các em gái chưa trưởng thành, các bệnh lây qua đường tình dục, nhiễm HIV các tình trạng bạo lực tình dục, ly hôn, ly dị, con không thừa nhận hay bùng nỗ dân số thì xã hội phải đối phó như thế nào ?

Giáo dục giới tính sẽ là một vũ khí chiến lược hổ trợ trong việc giáo dục tòan diện, kiễm sóat dân số, bảo vệ sức khỏe và phát triễn cho mọi người sẽ giúp cho xã hội bớt đi một gánh nặng không đáng có

Chúng tôi mong muốn nhận được tất cả các góp ý, tham luận của các bạn độc giả và các bạn có cùng quan tâm đến vấn đề này

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This is not uncommon.  This is how the current administration is treating the troops, and how Senator McCain will continue to treat them if he is elected.  He's already contended that giving education benefits to soldiers who serve the country for only two years would hurt the military by decreasing retention.  This is already more disgusting than the Vietnam War.  Coming from Iraq, 60% of soldiers return with clinical depression or post-traumatic stress disorder.  People I know, people you know, four thousand of them -- gone.  But still worse is that those who return are not the same as well.  A depressed generation, guilty of doing nothing but serving their country. 

The fascinating thing that always struck me about the Cold War was how ill-defined it was.  It was hot, but it was a series of proxy wars.  And when you look at the puppeteering, and the arming of militants to combat Soviet-backed militants in places like Afghanistan, you understand that Jeremy Glick is both directly affected by 9/11 and informed about the entire history of the situation.

See also:  Iran Contra, Iraq-Iran War, Taliban history
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… återkopplingar av utredningar som visar på brister låter vänta sig.

Tänker då på den första granskningen av hem för utsatta barn.  Av det totala granskade antalet hem, 156 hem, var det brister i kvalitet och säkerhet hos 144 hem. Barnen och ungdomarna hade svårigheter att påverka behandlingen dessutom förekom kollektiva bestraffningar, otillåtna urinprov, rumsarrest och gammalmodiga metoder.

Av 156 hem var endast 12 hem utan någon allvarligare anmärkning. I insändare, i blogginlägg på debattsidor har i flera år inlägg om missförhållandena förekommit utan någon reaktion skett från tillsynsmyndigheterna dvs. Länsstyrelserna. De inlägg som publicerats har varit från anhöriga som vågat, varför mörkertal om de tiigare inläggen är stort.

När en utredning presenteras av Socialstyrelsen av sådan karaktär där fel och brister påtalas i så stor utsträckning (144 hem) och ett ganska stort antal barn som behöver stöd och hjälp sker, måste en återkoppling ske till media, föräldrar och andra anhöriga.

Detta för att informera om att myndigheten tar slutsatserna av utredningen på allvar och vidtar åtgärder.

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selain itu, dirumah saya yang baru akan saya buat dengan menggunakan 2 bahasa (sebenernya pengen 4 bahasa, yaitu bahasa indonesia, english, lampung dan sunda).

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How can I forget about the multiple debates I personally got into since the year 2001 on using digital copy (if not by email) instead of hard copy? During that time, my business partners would even laugh at me and would still insist on submitting to clients the post mortem reports and documentation in clear books that would weigh more than 2 kilos. They would always say that it is the practice in the advertising industry. For me, it’s a crap somehow abusing the environment! The quality might be there but the little innovativeness was absent. After all, the employees were also lost and the wannabes later on were looking for their blue book to see what they are gonna do next. In other words, the vision stopped even before it exists.

Why is information not important to many executives whose favourite line includes “what the heck am I gonna do with this?”

Are you still checking at your Friendster? It’s 2002ish! Many may not know that the founder Jonathan Abrams was removed as CEO after 2 years. After turning down Google’s US$30 million offer, the company now is valued at less than one-twentieth its valuation 5 years ago. It has already been eclipsed by Facebook which I am sure that most of my friends who are still not into it are losing opportunities from their supposedly network.

So you think you have great ideas. You think your ideas are original. What about your strategy? You think that your ideas are a set of good strategies. Your personal strategy may be different from business strategy. In my case, I follow my personal strategy. Where do I get the wisdom? I refer to the books and magazines I read from the bible to punk marketing, to surfing magazines to the very classic “pugad baboy”. I extract the good from the bad stress by spending time skating with my Sector 9 board in one of the streets in Global City, Fort. I collect architectural and coffee books like Venice and New Home that stimulate my creativity of building my own dream house in the future.

Again, so you think that your ideas are a set of good strategies. Then after 2 years you will feel that the number of people who you think will still do business with you will plunge. Then you will start blaming the 5 forces analysis such as the threat of new entrants, the bargaining power of your suppliers, bargaining power of your buyers, threat of substitute products (goods or services), and the competitive rivalry in the industry. You will also start blaming your employees for not adopting your system. Then, the war kicks off in the boardroom and you will start firing up the missiles to one another until the ship sinks. Then a hero will come in to save the world.

I don’t blog everyday. I blog when I am inspired. Off the hook, my canyon advice is “you must blog!!!!” Someone else will do write about what you are thinking and feeling now. It is no longer a question of status in life. Rich or not so rich. Poor or poorer. A college graduate versus a high school graduate. The chief executive and founder of the most innovative company in the world might not know how it feels to have a college diploma. He never had a chance to grow up with his biological parents. He started broke and once played as a mascot in a children’s party.

The other day we were talking about redesigning the website of Redmedia, the company we founded 3 years ago. A dormant on its first year, it has been transformed with its original objective of helping companies connect with their customers using CRM (questionably owned by the call center industry) to digital brand marketing and relationship marketing. Blah blah blah! We have so many ideas in mind. In fact, we always talk about the technology trend that is so fast that every time the 3 of us bolt in, the ideas become a strategy.

Inboundpass.com occurred overnight, believe it or not…in our geeky thoughts! Last year, the most controversial online source of Philippine collegiate basketball leagues such as NCAA and UAAP was launched and steadily became the reference (that we would like to share to our future sponsors and advertisers) of alumni and basketball fans.

We tried to introduce (and we still do) Web 2.0 to the market but I could only count with my fingers those who adopted and understood it. Inboundpass.com is an elementary example of Web 2.0. Now, some groups are beginning to enrol themselves in grade 1 to comprehend the technical foundation. Many get intimidated with Tim O’Reilly’s concept. But how many times we will say that Web 2.0 is also a marketing tool. If you do understand the word innovation, then you will know that it is a powerful business concept – interaction of business models.

It was almost a decade ago when I first used to connote my inspiration as “technology enabler” or “technology driver”. Technology is a discipline. It’s a principle. It is not just any piece of hardware or software that most of us thought. Sad to say that even my former classmates in Technology Management Center understand that technology is a product or something tangible. Today, technology is already a lifestyle. It already reaches the point that the business world uses it as one big marketing harness on the mountain. In other words, we have been indoctrinated.

In the Philippines, to make Web 2.0 commercially successful, it must be introduced to the brand managers and marketing managers. When technologists discuss about this concept, they are only building a small meme. If restraint to the marketing people, the benefits to the companies may start to leak.

Now, in order to pursue Web 2.0 to the marketing executives and business owners (let’s talk about the advertising executives later), the 3 of us in Redmedia agree on enabling a new paradigm, Marketing 2.0, in the Philippines. To make the marketing executives and business owners understand what Marketing 2.0 is, we use social media network as an illustration. In the present, engaging consumers with a brand is no longer the best way in getting people’s attention. I repeat, engaging consumers with a brand is no longer the best way in getting people’s attention. 4Ps or 6Ps may be a good foundation but it is still an old school approach. The best way is to let the people engage with one another. It is the intensity of social engagement that brings the brand to spread like a virus – a viral marketing.

What would you like to see more? Product ads or your friends?

I am buying a Canon Powershot G9 this week. After having read the reviews, as a novice, I am so excited to use and explore this practical point-and-shoot camera which is compared with the expensive Leika but with almost the same functionalities. I didn’t bother to see any product ad either on TV or print. I didn’t even have a chance to talk to a Canon sales rep (as if I care). Instead, I relied on what my friend said. Then I surfed the net and read blogs about the product. Then, I decided to buy.

How many among you have iPhone? Did you rely on the traditional advertising approach or convinced by your friends?

While driving along Makati Ave. last night, I called up Dave Quitoriano and was excited to phone him the feedback I got from a brand manager of a top multinational company whom I discussed and shared the Marketing 2.0. I unintentionally revealed my salesmanship personality for like 15 minutes and surprisingly got a positive text message from him when I was buying an architectural book in Fully Booked, Powerplant. By the way, Fully Booked is owned by young and dynamic entrepreneur Jaime Daez, whom I bumped with once, if I were not mistaken, in Fully Booked, Bonifacio High Street.

Dave emailed me a link about the blog of Aileen Apolo. Incidentally, this is the information we need to help marketing executives, business owners and decision makers to at least spare attention to Marketing 2.0.

You will be surprised that a full-service media communications agency, a fiscally independent from McCann Erickson conducted a global (of course, Philippines is included) research about the impact of social media to measure consumer usage, attitudes and interests in adopting social media platforms. I will share my opinion about the research next time. If you can’t find the PDF file signed by Tom Smith of Universal McCann, then you may email me.

Anyway, going back to my sketchpad, Web 2.0 needs Marketing 2.0 in order to reach out to the marketers. It has to be disrupted for better and not to be ignored. A constellation of messages in the environment of the new era is Marketing 2.0. It is 360 degrees communication and 24/7 open to innovating services.

Technology and marketing people in the Philippines have to collaborate. You can watch it in CNN.com/360 . You upload your favourite photo with either Piolo or Angel to Flickr. You watch David Blaine’s feared rival Ramon Bautista (a.k.a Dan Michael) and his magic tricks in YouTube. You are now a member of Facebook where you can accept in your network your crushes and ignore the people you hate, or simply you don’t want to see. You can now secretly join an underground social media cult where you trade your weaknesses and privacy. Testimonials on the web are available…above all, you have friends who can help you decide, buy, and influence.

1. mine clay until you have 1k clay. after buy 12 buckets for GE (grand exchange) or on the street, after fill the buckets up with water then use the clay on it until you have 1k soft clay. sell all of it on the GE then you have 169k!!! ^^

2. get lvl 60 wood cuttin’ and cut yews then sell them.

3.buy 1k iron for the lowest price on the GE, then after that sell the 1k iron on the GE for the highest price (you should make 10k each time! ^^)

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1. buy as much iron ores as you can with about 10k left. take the number of iron ores you bought, then divide the number of ores by 140, take that number and round it up~~ like if i bought 1k iron this is what i would do… 1000/140= 7.14285 then i would round up to get 8~~

after that buy (enter the number you just got ) rings of forging. then put one on and smith the 1k iron so you have 1k iron bars~~ after every 140 iron you smith… CHANGE THE RING!!!

in the end sell all the iron bar you had and for 1k iron bars thats like 360k!

2. do rune mysteries… a qust… first!! or alts you cant do this Go to varrock. After doing that go to the Mage shop. right click on the rune seller there. Telleport your self to the rune essens place. After doing that mine a full pocket of the pure runes, use the portal to go back to the shop. go to the closest bank and put it in! (every full pocket is worth 3-4k!!) keep doing this and the money will start to rack up!

3.have to have at least lvl 10 crafting!! Buy as much flax as you can with ALL of your money (it’s worth it), from the GE. Go to the lumbrige castle on the top floor (or bank level). Fill your inventory with flax then go down to the 2nd floor, in the room with the big red bed, and the spinning wheel. Spin all the flax in to BS (Bow Strings) then go to bank again. Keep doing this until you have made all the flax in to bow strings (BS).

Come out to Calvary Christian Center on Friday, May 16, 2008 @ 7pm and join us and Trent Cory in this Live Recording for his new album entitled "Freedom Is". 

The album is being produced by Grammy-Award winning producer Aaron Lindsey. Aaron has produced for music artists such as "Israel & New Breed", CeCe Winans, Israel Houghton, Mary Alessi, Marvin Sapp, Micah Stampley, Lakewood Church (featuring the Houston Symphony Orchestra), Dewayne Woods and new artists Dayna Caddell and Daphne Rice (sorry found no link for her).

Guest Artist will be Ricardo Sanchez. Ricardo is the worship leader at Free Chapel Worship Center (pastored by Jentezen Franklin). He has performed with artist such as, Israel and New Breed, Darlene Zschech, Martha Munizzi, Mac Powell, Salvador, New Song, Jaci Velasquez, and many more.

Guest musicians will include: 

Organ/Aux Keys- Derrieux Edgecombe- has played with Bishop Eddie L. Long, Donnie McClurkin, Kurt Carr, Jonathan Butler, and many others 

Drums- Calvin Rodgers- has played for Fred Hammond, Martha Munizzi, R. Kelly, Chaka Khan, Aretha Franklin, Patti Labelle, Smokie Norful, Mary Mary, Hezekiah Walker, Byron Cage, John P. Kee, Bishop Paul S. Morton, Richard Smallwood, Vicki Yohe, The Clark Sisters, Donald Lawrence, Marvin Sapp, The Singletons and just about anyone else in gospel music 

Bass- Darrell Freeman- has played for Donnie McClurkin, Kim Burrell, Myron Butler & Levi, Bishop T. D. Jakes, Yolanda Adams, Darwin Hobbs, Alvin Slaughter, Bishop Eddie L. Long, and many more

Guitar- Akil Thompson (sorry couldn't find a link)- has played for Martha Munizzi, Mandisa, and many more

From our own, musicians will include:

Aux Keys- Jon Carey

Guitar- Matthew Fehrmann

Also check out this link from the be:good foundation.

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Alcoholics need help and these ‘affirmative love’ suggestions may help you.

It is important to put the responsibility for dealing with the alcohol problem squarely on the person in question while continuing to love them.

Doing the "right" thing can depend on how severe the alcohol problem is and on how much real understanding the person has. What works for someone who is highly functional in daily life and who knows that alcohol is causing trouble may not be the solution for someone who denies that there is a problem.

These suggestions are distilled from many years of experience, both mine and others. Helping an alcoholic works, it really works.

1. Don’t make it easy for the drinker to keep on drinking
2. Don’t stop loving them
3. Don’t nag, criticize, preach, or complain
4. Address the drinking problem directly
5. Seek help
6. Detach, separate, walk away
7. Set a good example
8. Take care of yourself
9. Be there for them when they’re ready
10. Learn about the disease

See also;

• A Problem Shared is a Problem Halved
• Al-Anon May be able to help
• Alcoholics Anonymous
• Alcoholic Family Roles
• Brief-TSF can assist people cease alcohol consumption.

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Part of why I am so frustrated is that my mom had a stroke around a year or two ago and it was caused (more then likely) by smoking. It certainly doesn't help that she smoked/smokes. He couldn't be there for me when she had her stroke-didn't know what to say, we were long distance at the time..who knows what reason. But now, he keeps smoking and ...I dunno. I am rambling. He says he has such great will power...I KNOW he can quit, he sys he is trying, yet he buys more cigarettes...so..ya know, if he didn't buy them....

I don't understand because I am not addicted to anything. I have my own problems, anxiety, sleeping, nervousness, some depression, blah blah...I have gotten a thing in the mail that says my deferement for my direct loans will end in a month-Instead of getting another deferement I asked for the payment to be lowered. It will be 55$ every month for two years and get higher every 2 years after that. Unless I change it to a igher payment. I will when I can.

It'll do for now, but I dunno how I will get the payment to them when the bill is sent to me. they don't do over the phone payments-so either i have to get more checks, or use money orders..or see if I can get a new pin number from Direct Loans...the internet was being screwy so I got pissed off and left it alone for today.

I feel weighted down. My job-theres no night crowd coming in so there will be a meeting later this week. I was told by my boss she'd fight for my hours...but..I think I'll be looking for another job even harder. This sucks. I went to college but might as well not have-the only good thing that seems to come out of it is my boyfreind, my friend Melody, and feeling like I belonged in a group of people for a while for the first time in my life.

John said something the other day that I need friends-I cried. OF COURSE I want more friends...but I don't go to college and so its hard to meet people when all you do is work and go him-I kinda have a friend now but she's 18 so its hard to relate to her. The reason John has friends is because of the dorm he lived in and since he smoked out by the doors. He said he knew it was hard to get friends but and couldn't answer how I could get some actual people to go out with Saturday nights (besides the room mates GF.) So i got depressed...

not to say i am completely lonely, but I no longer have that huge group that were MY friends. Now people I know ( I dunno if they are really FRIENDS but we get along well) are friends of Johns and GFs of those friends or whatever.

Had I relocated and he moved with me, my friends would be his...ya know? I am tired of feeling anxious and worried about money all the time.

But I guess, like John says, everything will be okay. I hope so.

tough words i said but its reality. life is full of uncertainties that is why we need to cherish every moment or chance we have to the person who matters to us most.

Me invitaron a estar en la VERACON para dar una platica sobre como hacer comics, es este domingo 18 de Mayo a las 2 de la tarde en el club de Leones por si se quieren apuntar para ir, ignoro el costo de entrada, en el link de la Veracon deben informarles, por alla nos vemos.

Y digamos que la tristeza no se siente, que la soledad es sólo .. sí, digamos, por favor, que lo que uno quiere y no obtiene no es algo que necesite….

Digamos que esta soledad no es algo que duela, que esta tristeza no es algo que me ahogue, que estas lágrimas son sólo meras gotas de agua.

Digamos, sólo por decir, que no es nada del otro mundo, que el cielo por su inmensidad no nos hace sentir insignificantes, que somos mucho menos que los granos de arena o incluso que el polvo.

Quiero sacarlo todo de dentro de mí pero cuando lo intento ‘todo’ se esconde. Quiero esconder mis lágrimas porque me avergüenzan, quiero desbaratarme en sonrisas y carcajadas porque es la única manera de convencerlos de que no soy tan diferente.

No quiero perderlos pero no los quiero cerca. Quiero que me quieran todos los días y que me lo hagan recordar todos los días también.

No puedo mentir, no creo que sea necesario pero aquí estoy frente a ti, mintiendo.

Dime a quién se supone que engañe esta vez, dime a quién se supone que desprecie esta vez. No quiero recordar lo que soy ni quiero convencerme a mi misma de que sé lo que hago. Estoy aburrida de esta vida y sospecho que es porque no lo he hecho bien, porque no he vivido bien.

¿porqué debo esperar a tener los años que aún no tengo y que no tendré dentro de poco para empezar a 'vivir'? ¡por que entonces habré acabado ya la carrera que no quiero ejercer? ¿porqué a esa edad tendré, con suerte, un sustento tal vez insignificante, para mantenerme -sólo a mi- sin mucha ayuda? ¿será acaso que a esa edad ya no seré tan 'inmadura' como para pensar que el mundo -el sistema que lo maneja- puede de verdad cambiar? ...A esa edad empezaré a 'vivir' como 'persona digna' sólo para arrepentirme con más fuerza de haber esperado que akguien diga "a sus marcas....ya!"...esperaré llegar a esa edad sólo para convertir todo el arrepentimiento acumulado en motivación... [?]

¿es que recién me dirán como hacerlo 'bien' a esa edad?

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No quiero perder un minuto más pero supongo que ese no querer es superado por mucho por el no querer arriesgarme a más, por el no querer salir de tremenda comodidad, por no perder todo lo que creo que tengo, porque es que soy tan estúpida -precisamente eso! es que 'soy' tan esptúpida, no ‘somos’ si no soy. No hablo de los humanos, hablo de mí.

So, 8 sessions into a new trainer (named Kelly) and I am feeling and looking amazing! She is pushing me and working me harder than I imagined I could push myself. She is motivating and supportive and I am so glad I have a female trainer now rather than a guy. Such a difference!. I am taking advantage of the fact that business is slow and I am squeezing in an extra training session per week and working out in between, too. I am seeing changes in my body. My lovely shape is coming back - and, I feel more confident than I have in a long time.

And, the biggest bonus?!? 18 free sessions! Yay! See what a little *complaining* can do? Out of the 23 clients that Franco screwed, only three of us complained and received out $$'s worth in sessions back. After all, I paid for a *certified* personal trainer... and, they did not deliver.

As it goes, I've taken the transformation a tad out of order, but who cares!?!?!? It is all coming together now... and I could not be happier.

Twenty years ago, as a Communist party leader, Murat traveled with President Nazarbayev to the U.S. looking at American agriculture.  Later their delegation went to Canada representing the U.S.S.R.  In the U.S. they went as private citizens to many states, notably Kansas and later to New York where Murat’s cousin lived.  Their per diem as “communist big wigs” was $17 a day.  Murat’s cousin hosted them in New York and handed them hundreds of dollars of extra spending money, he knew $17 was not enough, especially in New York.  This same cousin of Murat’s, who is a noted Kazakh poet, was nominated to run against President Nazarbayev in an earlier presidential election.  Somehow he was talked out of his ambition for Kazakhstan’s top job and encouraged to pursue his career in poetry.  Murat’s cousin currently has an ambassador post in Italy where he can represent Kazakhstan while he writes Kazakh poems. Being linguistically inclined must run in Murat’s family.

Murat shared this advice about language learning which I think an important clue to his success:  “You have to love the people of the language you are studying.  Learn their songs, their jokes, their sayings…it does not work for Kazakh students to be forcefully told by the President to learn English or to think you will get a better job if you master the language.”  Murat went on to say that the best Russian spies who worked with the Germans succeeded only because they loved the German language and German people. (Putin comes to mind.) 

Murat emphasized, “Basic [to language learning] is that you have to love their tradition, their music.”  He heard someone say, “Switch off the Kazakh music!”  Murat is able to predict that that person would NEVER learn Kazakh with that kind of attitude.  Murat has translated into Kazakh the American folksongs “Where Have all the Flowers Gone” and also “This Land is Your Land.”  Murat did the same with translating four verses into Kazakh a German folk tune he learned from ethnic Germans born in Kazakhstan.  However, back in Germany the Germans only knew two of the verses to this very famous tune.  Obviously Murat has an ear for music which helps in language learning

Another secret to Murat’s achievement as a linguist who has mastered many languages is “Then you have to work hard, work continuously.”  He began reading English since 1966-67 every day.  He tells young people, “if you will do this, you will be better than me.”  Murat also strongly exhorts young people with, “Lazy bones, you can’t even imagine self-study in the 1960s when I learned English with only a rotating record and 25 lessons on it.  I couldn’t even imagine to travel or live in English speaking countries back in those times.  Now there is CNN to listen to American and British English, this generation has it so easy.” 

Even after 40 years he still has some of those first lessons in English committed to memory:  “Mr. Green gets up early in the morning.  He dresses himself, he washes himself.”  He asks “Is breakfast ready?” then “We are having some people over for supper this evening.”  “It comes as a surprise to me what strange things people eat.  You stick to fish and chips I suppose.”  Murat listened and repeated after the record phrases over and over again.  Murat also added, “Most important I enjoyed doing it, I tried to pronounce in the same way as the native speaker, to pick up a faster speed, as fast as he speaks.”  Another key to his accomplishment was he would remember one sentence, but then insert other words in that sentence. 

Murat is a true linguist as he puzzled over westerners’ use of the word chernozem which means “black soil” in Russian.  [A very sophisticated classification system of soil was invented by Russian agronomist, Dokuchaev which unfortunately has fallen into disuse]. Agriculturalists today worldwide will mistakenly say “brown chernozem” or “chestnut chernozem” or “dark brown chernozem” but most confounding to Murat was when westerners say “black chernozem” which means black black soil to him.  We had a laugh about the nuances of languages.

Another sad but true story was when Murat was awarded by President Nazarbayev one of the first prizes for Peace in 1992.  Back then two others were also given the honor with the equivalent of $10,000 in roubles.  However, in those chaotic, first days of Kazakhstan, the worth of the rouble was plunging.  Murat’s prize amounted to only about $500 in cash prize, but the three had not even received that amount.  When Murat asked about it a year later, he was only given $200 worth of money.  Ten years later, Murat learned from other honored recipients of the distinguished, Presidential prize they received their full compensation of $10,000 worth of tenge.  He just shook his head with a smile, wistfully thinking what might have been.  Many people lost money during the early years of Kazakhstan.

Finally, as an English writing teacher I HAD to ask Murat what helpful hints he could tell me about his learning to write in English.  As a scientist, he knows how important writing is even though he has written many books about agriculture in Russian and Kazakh; he gets much of his material from literature in English. Murat said, “I worked in an international center for ten years, where every day I was writing.  More reading, more translation, if you do automatic translation, learn to speak and translating simultaneously, writing comes more naturally… you have to be committed, I knew that writing is important, as a scientist I had to learn how to write and later to publish.

One thing Murat ruefully noticed while he worked in this international office is that, “All [Kazakh] staff was local, all spoke English, but they didn’t make any effort to improve themselves in writing. They reached a certain level of proficiency and that was enough for them.” 

I fully appreciate President Nazarbayev’s vision about higher education in Kazakhstan.  In his most recent book The Kazakhstan Way on p. 329 he ended with a Kazakh proverb: “Try to master seven languages and know seven sciences.”  I believe Murat has more than achieved that as a linguist and as a scientist.  I would hope my future Kazakh students would share Murat’s contagious enthusiasm for learning. 

if not, i will have to suffer in silence and growing resentment when i allow my boundaries to be pushed or my personal integrity to be compromised out of fear of external consequences.

it is going to be a long and arduous journey to spiritual, mental and emotional health. if only, such training could come about as easily as physical training for bodily health (:

praise God for opportunities to learn and grow and for people who push my boundaries and make me establish mine. praise God for the pain that brings growth and refinement and for community that support, encourage and heal. praise God for being God, for the life He has given me, for the grace He has shown me, for the love He has poured out into my life, for the salvation He has granted so freely to me, for making me, me, for holding me by my right hand, always always.. (:

what can i give in return, but this life that i live? i pray that my life will be a reflection of His wondrous power and amazing grace, not by my own strength, or my messianic ocd, but a daily reliance on Him, to live as a responsible steward of this life He has given me. this, He has made, not to trap me, but in His marvellous wisdom, He knows (and now i do too) that then (when i draw the boundaries that are required of a child of God motivated by the 2 greatest commandments), and only then will i experience the freedom that comes along, and likewise, be free to love others w/o compulsion. tyj!!!!! (: (:

thoughts of the day! what are the consequences of my action today? as much as i blame others and situations, what am i doing about it? is my action/inaction reinforcing an irresponsibility of the choices i make and the life that i lead? what are the motives of these choices? is God still on the throne of my life?

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É uma grande alegria ver como a providência de Deus age mesmo neste mundo pagão e relativista, e como Nosso Senhor age em Sua Igreja. Sua Santidade o Papa Bento XVI, como Pe. Ratzinger tinha como mentor o herege jesuíta Karl Rahner, e foi teólogo do Arcebispo de Colônia, Cardeal Frings, durante o Vaticano II. E a História não é um amontoado de datas para memorizar. Ela é a testemunha da luta da Anti-Igreja contra a Igreja de Cristo, dos filhos do demônio contra os filhos da Virgem Maria. E Deus age na História, queiram ou não os marxistas. "Senhor, estupendas são as vossas obras! E quão profundos os vossos desígnios!" (Sl 91,6)

E também impressiona como os defensores do Vaticano II, tomando partido das últimas conseqüências desse concílio pastoral, escrevem as mais bárbaras heresias, como o tal "teólogo" Juan Tamayo:

Ademais, o Concílio está acima de qualquer instância de autoridade na Igreja e, é evidente, acima da interpretação distorcida que possa oferecer uma Congregação, neste caso, a da Doutrina da Fé. Mais ainda se se trata de um Concílio Ecumênico, como o Vaticano II, que reuniu todos os Bispos do mundo, contou com a presença de observadores de todas as Igrejas cristãs, e aprovou uma série de documentos obrigatórios de serem cumpridos por todos os católicos, inclusive pelo Papa. Creio que existe um amplo consenso entre os teólogos, as teólogas, e os Bispos de que o Concílio Vaticano II mudou, e mudou substancialmente, a doutrina anterior sobre a Igreja. Esta não se considera mais como sociedade perfeita, hierárquica, e desigual, por vontade divina (assim a definiram os Papas Leão XIII e Pio X, entre outros). Ela se auto compreende, antes, como mistério, Povo de Deus e comunidade de crentes, na qual todos os cristãos, do Papa aos simples crentes, são iguais pelo Batismo.
Colocavam-se assim as bases para a democratização da instituição eclesiástica, que até então se estruturava de modo estamental através da oposição clérigos-leigos, hierarquía-povo, Igreja discente-Igreja docente, mais própria da Idade Média que da modernidade.

Enfim, quem pode aceitar tantas barbaridades quantas linhas existem neste parágrafo? Qual católico, honrando este nome e defendendo a Fé recebida no Batismo, aceitaria essas teses protestantes?

Como pode ter sido o Vaticano II uma "primavera na Igreja", mesmo sabendo que Paulo VI falou da fumaça de Satanás que penetrava no tempo de Deus? Que raios de primavera é essa, acompanhada de padres homossexuais, com sogras, que combatem a devoção a Nossa Senhora, bispos que possuem amantes, bispos que urram contra o Papa, logo eles que clamam tanta obediência? E isso é a ponta do iceberg...

E como essas heresias podem ser aceitas pelos católicos? Não temos obrigação NENHUMA de aderir a heresias. Como católico, recuso essa Nova Igreja Conciliar, igualitária e dialogante.

E como se é excomungado, herege, cismático ou quaisquer outros adjetivos de "católicos" modernistas – ou do Veritatis Splendorrrrr – por não aceitar essas heresias brutais?

Esses dois artigos vieram a calhar, pois demonstra o que todos já sabiam: Bento XVI está condenando e enterrando o Vaticano II.

Viva o Papa! Viva Bento XVI!

¿Cuál es nuestro lugar en el mundo? Respecto a este interrogante, hoy sentí plenamente que mis certezas no dejaban lugar a dudas. De todos modos, para cada uno de nosotros, esta incógnita tiene su propia y única respuesta, la cual sentimos en el alma y no es publicitada por alguna agencia de turismo.
Muchos dirán que es la localidad donde nacieron, al barrio donde se criaron, la casa donde vivieron sus padres o el pueblo donde están enterrados sus antepasados...

En este sentido encontramos a los que buscando mejores horizontes han descubierto con angustia que en dicha búsqueda, solo encontraban desarraigo. Otros, en cambio, intentando escapar de un destino ingrato, han llegado a encontrar lugares acogedores e impensados, distantes a miles de kilómetros de sus antiguos domicilios, descubriendo así sus lugares en el mundo.

En mi caso, a pesar de algunos enojos de vieja rezongona que puedo padecer por esta ciudad, la magia que ella contiene, me sigue atrapando.
Aquí se enamoraron, vivieron y fallecieron mis padres. Es donde nací, vivo y soy feliz; es la ciudad en la que nacieron mis hijos y crecen a la par de mi alegría. Me arraiga el clima tan loco como yo. Disfruto con inmenso placer caminar tranquila por estas calles en otoño, sobre gigantescas alfombras de hojas doradas.

Y hoy, al regresar del trabajo, caminando por Avenida Libertad, nuevamente tuve la certeza...
Si, aquí es, este es mi lugar en el mundo...

Disculpen la intromisión, pero... ¿cuál es su lugar en el mundo?...

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