Last night I dremt of going to the US: I was very very excited in the dream.
I woke up in the morning and realized that I am living my dream; ten years now...
I was not happy.
3 years ago
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Saturday, August 9, 2008
Friday, August 1, 2008
America's Fastfood lineup
I was surprised to see my favorite Chipotle is lower than McDonald's and Burger King. It looks that being owned by McDonald's means sitting lower in health factors...
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
All-You-Can-Eat, Nude-Bar
When you see the full-nude bar on the block is advertising for all-you-can-eat pizza and salad, --with those dancing people with signs on the street-- you'd understand that the economy is really f@#$ed up.
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Monday, June 23, 2008
WHAT WE ARE ......... A bunch of monkeys
I totally believe in this. I was thinking about this lately. It's scary!!
Friday, June 20, 2008
Salman Rushdie on Forum
Click here to listen to the program. It was interesting how he mentions Khomeini as the "Khomeini project"!
بيست و یکمين کنفرانس بين المللی وحدت اسلامی
رئيس مجمع تشخيص مصلحت نظام: جهان اسلام امروز بيشتر از هر زمان دیگری نيازمند وحدت و بيداری مسلمانان است
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Monday, June 16, 2008
Carpet High
Persian rug always have been a huge fascination for me. I even remember the time that I seriously was considering a courier somehow in relations with it.
And I always admire the modern movement which has made this old art form to thrive in recent years. This video is about one of the people who have a lot to do with that movement.
And I always admire the modern movement which has made this old art form to thrive in recent years. This video is about one of the people who have a lot to do with that movement.
Monday, June 9, 2008
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Hearts and Minds
Once you have them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.
-Unknown; quoted by General Patton and Lindon Johnson
-Unknown; quoted by General Patton and Lindon Johnson
Monday, June 2, 2008
Monday, May 19, 2008
Thursday, May 15, 2008
A Good Day for California
It is a bright, new day. The supreme court of California legalized gay marriage.
Monday, May 12, 2008
Thursday, May 8, 2008
When God Was a Woman
By Richard N. Ostling
To mark Earth Day last week, four women and two men stood on a hilltop outside Mount Horeb, Wis., literally praying to Mother Earth. "Sacred Earth Power, bring healing to planet Earth," intoned barefoot Selena Fox, priestess of Circle Sanctuary. Worshipers responded with a crescendo chant, "Clean soil. Clean soil," then pledged to do a variety of ecological good deeds and joined in a hug. Similar nature worship was part of Earth Day festivals from Boston, where the Goddess Gospel singers performed on the waterfront, to Berkeley, where devotees drummed and sang for a crowd.
The ceremonies were part of a growing U.S. spiritual movement: Goddess worship, the effort to create a female-centered focus for spiritual expression. Most participants are women who seek a deity other than God the Father, and a faith less patriarchal than the Judeo-Christian tradition seems to offer. Adherents claim the movement involves as many as 100,000 U.S. women.
Though such ancient goddesses as Isis or Astarte are often invoked, most worship occurs in the name of a vague generic "Goddess," often depicted as Mother Earth or Gaia in line with environmental awareness. "The Goddess is not just the female version of God. She represents a different concept," says Merlin Stone, author of When God Was a Woman. While the Judeo-Christian God is transcendent, the Goddess is located "within each individual and all things in nature," she says.
Various groups follow a mixed brew of Wicca (witchcraft), paganism, New Age ideas and evocations of female power, some inspired by Native American and African traditions. Though a minority enacts malevolent spell casting and magic (not Satanism, these worshipers insist), most embrace benign beliefs, especially harmony with nature. While some draw upon ancient rituals, others invent new ones.
Despite Christianity's centuries of opposition to paganism, some old-line churches are opening up to the Goddess. A witch teaches in an institute at the Roman Catholic Holy Names College in California. A book by two United Methodist pastors proposes experimental Bible readings about the crucifixion that replace Jesus with Sophia (Wisdom), a name for the divine personality used by Goddess-minded Christians.
Movement advocates say Goddess worship restores a prehistoric belief that was eradicated in Europe and the Middle East around 6,000 years ago by patriarchal invaders. The prepatriarchal utopia is portrayed as egalitarian, peace loving and "gynocentric." New scholarly backing for the creed comes from archaeologist Marija Gimbutas in The Language of the Goddess (Harper & Row) and the forthcoming Civilization of the Goddess. The author contends that worship of the "Old European Great Goddess" goes back to 25,000 B.C., though Gimbutas' major evidence stems from farming cultures in southeastern Europe from 6500 B.C. on, especially their ubiquitous female statuettes.
There are numerous skeptics, including female religious thinkers. Carole Fontaine of Andover Newton Theological School, for one, complains that feminist writers delete historical evidence that is "embarrassing or contradictory." Carol Meyers of Duke University argues that there is no proof that the figurines cited by Gimbutas were objects of worship, much less representations of a single Goddess. None of that, however, has deterred adherents. Whether they are reviving a vanished faith or inventing a new one, it is the gender of the deity that counts.
With reporting by Michael P. Harris/New York and Elizabeth L''Hommedieu/San Francisco
Find this article at:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,972894,00.html
To mark Earth Day last week, four women and two men stood on a hilltop outside Mount Horeb, Wis., literally praying to Mother Earth. "Sacred Earth Power, bring healing to planet Earth," intoned barefoot Selena Fox, priestess of Circle Sanctuary. Worshipers responded with a crescendo chant, "Clean soil. Clean soil," then pledged to do a variety of ecological good deeds and joined in a hug. Similar nature worship was part of Earth Day festivals from Boston, where the Goddess Gospel singers performed on the waterfront, to Berkeley, where devotees drummed and sang for a crowd.
The ceremonies were part of a growing U.S. spiritual movement: Goddess worship, the effort to create a female-centered focus for spiritual expression. Most participants are women who seek a deity other than God the Father, and a faith less patriarchal than the Judeo-Christian tradition seems to offer. Adherents claim the movement involves as many as 100,000 U.S. women.
Though such ancient goddesses as Isis or Astarte are often invoked, most worship occurs in the name of a vague generic "Goddess," often depicted as Mother Earth or Gaia in line with environmental awareness. "The Goddess is not just the female version of God. She represents a different concept," says Merlin Stone, author of When God Was a Woman. While the Judeo-Christian God is transcendent, the Goddess is located "within each individual and all things in nature," she says.
Various groups follow a mixed brew of Wicca (witchcraft), paganism, New Age ideas and evocations of female power, some inspired by Native American and African traditions. Though a minority enacts malevolent spell casting and magic (not Satanism, these worshipers insist), most embrace benign beliefs, especially harmony with nature. While some draw upon ancient rituals, others invent new ones.
Despite Christianity's centuries of opposition to paganism, some old-line churches are opening up to the Goddess. A witch teaches in an institute at the Roman Catholic Holy Names College in California. A book by two United Methodist pastors proposes experimental Bible readings about the crucifixion that replace Jesus with Sophia (Wisdom), a name for the divine personality used by Goddess-minded Christians.
Movement advocates say Goddess worship restores a prehistoric belief that was eradicated in Europe and the Middle East around 6,000 years ago by patriarchal invaders. The prepatriarchal utopia is portrayed as egalitarian, peace loving and "gynocentric." New scholarly backing for the creed comes from archaeologist Marija Gimbutas in The Language of the Goddess (Harper & Row) and the forthcoming Civilization of the Goddess. The author contends that worship of the "Old European Great Goddess" goes back to 25,000 B.C., though Gimbutas' major evidence stems from farming cultures in southeastern Europe from 6500 B.C. on, especially their ubiquitous female statuettes.
There are numerous skeptics, including female religious thinkers. Carole Fontaine of Andover Newton Theological School, for one, complains that feminist writers delete historical evidence that is "embarrassing or contradictory." Carol Meyers of Duke University argues that there is no proof that the figurines cited by Gimbutas were objects of worship, much less representations of a single Goddess. None of that, however, has deterred adherents. Whether they are reviving a vanished faith or inventing a new one, it is the gender of the deity that counts.
With reporting by Michael P. Harris/New York and Elizabeth L''Hommedieu/San Francisco
Find this article at:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,972894,00.html
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