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Congressman Carolyn Maloney from New York
Profile for Congressman Carolyn Maloney from New York
Carolyn B. Maloney
District: 12
Weekly Update: Impeachment, January 6th Investigations, NYS Suing the NYPD
Rep. Maloney Joins 110+ Democratic Lawmakers in Commitment to Work with Biden Administration to Ensure Immigration Reform
To authorize assistance to aid in the prevention and treatment of obstetric fistula in foreign countries, and for other purposes.
House Foreign Affairs Committee
hr8565 - Oct 9 2020
To require agencies to analyze how certain rules impact children, and for other purposes.
To promote arts, culture, and humanities.
House Financial Services Committee
To require sales and leases of assets of public housing projects in connection with solar energy projects to financially benefit the residents of such public housing project and the budget of the public housing agency that owns such public housing project, and for other purposes.
hr8109 - Aug 25 2020
To clarify and increase the restrictions on political activities that are applicable to the members of the Postal Service Board of Governors, including the Postmaster General and the Deputy Postmaster General, and for other purposes.
To maintain prompt and reliable postal services during the COVID-19 health emergency, and for other purposes.
hr7935 - Aug 4 2020
To amend title 5, United States Code, to modify and enhance protections for Federal Government whistleblowers, and for other purposes.
To amend title 5, United States Code, to protect Federal employees from retaliation for the lawful use of Federal records, and for other purposes.
hr7107 - Jun 4 2020
To amend title 5, United States Code, to require the Director of the Office of Personnel Management to establish and maintain a public directory of the individuals occupying Government policy and supporting positions, and for other purposes.
House Committee on House Administration
hr7034 - May 27 2020
To modify the deadline for completing the 2020 decennial census of population and related tabulations, and for other purposes.
House Education and Labor Committee
To provide financial stability to the United States Postal Service during the coronavirus pandemic, and for other purposes.
House Budget Committee
To establish a Pandemic Risk Reinsurance Program, and for other purposes.
To amend the Inspector General Act of 1978 to require removal for cause of Inspectors General, and for other purposes.
To provide for the establishment of a COVID-19 Compensation Fund, and for other purposes.
hr6543 - Apr 17 2020
To amend the CARES Act to amend the membership of the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee.
To amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to require certain companies to disclose information describing any measures the company has taken to identify and address conditions of forced labor, slavery, human trafficking, and the worst forms of child labor within the company's supply chains.
To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to expand access to breastfeeding accommodations in the workplace, and for other purposes.
To amend the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 and title 5, United States Code, to permit leave to care for a domestic partner, parent-in-law, or adult child, or another related individual, who has a serious health condition, and to allow employees to take, as additional leave, parental involvement and family wellness leave to participate in or attend their children's and grandchildren's educational and extracurricular activities or meet family care needs.
House House Administration Committee
To require sales and leases of assets of public housing projects to financially benefit the residents of such public housing project and the budget of the public housing agency that owns such public housing project, and for other purposes.
To amend title 49, United States Code, to prohibit certain helicopter flights over major cities with high population densities, and for other purposes.
House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
To increase the participation of historically underrepresented demographic groups in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education and industry.
House Science, Space, and Technology Committee
To amend securities, commodities, and banking laws to make the information reported to financial regulatory agencies electronically searchable, to further enable the development of RegTech and Artificial Intelligence applications, to put the United States on a path towards building a comprehensive Standard Business Reporting program to ultimately harmonize and reduce the private sector's regulatory compliance burden, while enhancing transparency and accountability and for other purposes.
House Agriculture Committee
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide an exception from certain reporting requirements with respect to the foreign accounts of individuals who live abroad.
To amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to require the Securities and Exchange Commission to issue rules that prohibit officers and directors of certain companies from trading securities in anticipation of a current report, and for other purposes.
Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee
hr4254 - Sep 9 2019
To amend the Truth in Lending Act to establish fair and transparent practices related to the marketing and provision of overdraft coverage programs at depository institutions, and for other purposes.
To authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make grants to nonprofit community organizations for the development of open space on municipally owned vacant lots in urban areas.
To provide for a Medicare demonstration project to evaluate the fiscal impact of covering low vision devices as durable medical equipment under part B of the Medicare program.
To amend the Public Health Service Act to establish a program of research regarding the risks posed by the presence of dioxin, synthetic fibers, chemical fragrances, and other components of feminine hygiene products.
House Energy and Commerce Committee
To direct the Joint Committee on the Library to obtain a statue of Harriet Tubman and to place the statue in National Statuary Hall in the United States Capitol.
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal certain rules related to the determination of unrelated business taxable income, to provide that reimbursements for costs of using passenger automobiles for charitable organizations are excluded from gross income, to make the employer credit for paid family and medical leave available to tax-exempt eligible employers, and for other purposes.
To require the Securities and Exchange Commission to establish a Diversity Advisory Group to study and make recommendations on strategies to increase gender, racial, and ethnic diversity among the members of the board of directors of issuers, to amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to require issuers to make disclosures to shareholders with respect to gender, racial, and ethnic diversity, and for other purposes.
hconres44 - May 24 2019
Directing the Joint Committee on the Library to revise the statue commemorating women's suffrage which is located in the rotunda of the United States Capitol, commonly known as the "Portrait Monument", by placing on the statue an inscription which is based on the original inscription which was on the statue when the statue was delivered to the United States Capitol in 1921, and for other purposes.
hr2646 - May 9 2019
To direct the Federal Trade Commission to prescribe rules prohibiting deceptive advertising of abortion services, and for other purposes.
To ensure that persons who form corporations or limited liability companies in the United States disclose the beneficial owners of those corporations or limited liability companies, in order to prevent wrongdoers from exploiting United States corporations and limited liability companies for criminal gain, to assist law enforcement in detecting, preventing, and punishing terrorism, money laundering, and other misconduct involving United States corporations and limited liability companies, and for other purposes.

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The Hunger for Authenticity
Sep 30, 2012 by Rev. Candace Chellew in Sermons
Read the rest of the Via Negativa: The Hunger Games sermon series
Jubilee! Circle, Columbia, S.C.
Readings for the 18th Sunday after Pentecost:
Let my life be given me. (Esther 7:1-6, 9-10, 9:20-22)
Have salt in yourselves… (Mark 9:38-50)
Be your note. (Rumi)
Our first song comes from the band the British rock band Supertramp. The band hit their peak in the late 1970s and have sold more than 60 million albums. This morning's song is their most popular hit. "The Logical Song" comes from their 1979 album called Breakfast in America. Let's try it:
When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful
A miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical
And all the birds in the trees, well they'd be singing so happily
Oh, joyfully, oh, playfully, watching me
But then they sent me away, to teach me how to be sensible
Logical, oh, responsible practical
And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable
Oh, clinical, intellectual, cynical
There are times when all the world's asleep
The questions run too deep for such a simple man
Won't you please, please tell me what we've learned
I know it sounds absurd, please tell me who I am
Halloween is just around the corner. This is the season when we can be anything we want to be. That little angel can be transformed into a terrible devil. A mild-mannered office worker can become a superhero or a vampire. A timid kid can become a rock star with wild pink hair. Whatever we want to be, we can — even if it's just for one night.
While Halloween makes it socially acceptable to put on masks and costumes and transform ourselves into other people, or into the undead or fantasy characters, Halloween isn't the only time we're masquerading or playing dress-up. Often we do it every day. Each day when we get up, we may go to a job that doesn't really fulfill us, or we may hang with a group of people who don't really nurture our true selves, we may even find ourselves in churches or religions that we fear would reject us if they knew who we really were.
We wear disguises almost every single day because often we are afraid that if we showed the world who we really are, we'd be rejected. Even though we hunger for authenticity in this world — in others, in our government, in our religions, in our family and our friends — it's often hardest to start with ourselves, to be our authentic selves in the world — or perhaps even to be authentic with ourselves.
Don't feel too badly though, if you realize that you wear many disguises in this world — because it is the world, it is our society, that expects you to wear those masks. We are encouraged from childhood to mask who we really are. Our parents tell us to behave a certain way, to refrain from talking a certain way, and definitely not to share our deepest thoughts and emotions with anyone because "what would the neighbors think?"
It keeps going in school where we're told to conform, to blend in, not to stand out and not to speak our minds if what we're thinking conflicts with the ideas of the popular kids or how you're "supposed" to think or believe.
We get it in church, too. Don't ask too many questions — just sit back and listen and believe whatever the authority figure says about God or the Bible or how life is supposed to be. Don't think for yourself because we've got it all mapped out for you! No worries! Just believe us — we've got it all figured out for you!
Our parents, schools, governments and churches — they all tell us, "Don't worry, we'll teach you how to be sensible, how to be logical, how to be practical and dependable." But what happens to us?
We have all these questions, because often what the world around us wants us to learn is in direct conflict with what we know, deep inside ourselves, to be true about the world. As kids we know the world is magical and wonderful with happy, singing birds all around us.
But, the world says, "No! That's not how the things works. The world is not magical or wonderful, it's logical and orderly and we have it all figured out for you. Memorize these rules, follow these laws, check your brain at the door and you'll be just fine."
And we are, for a little while — until those questions come back up, those nagging ideas that perhaps life really is magical and wonderful, if we could just tune back in to those happy birdsongs around us. Our genuine selves are always listening to the birds singing, and it is always urging us to listen as well. But the din of society — the pressure to be someone we're not, or the pressure to act in ways that don't feel right for us — is so strong that we resist listening to the birds or opening our eyes to the everyday wonder and magic that surrounds us in each moment.
It takes no bravery on our part to busy ourselves with what the world demands from us. It takes no courage to hide who we really are. We don't need to be heroic to bury our true nature in favor of a more socially acceptable way of living. What takes courage, Jubilants, is to be ourselves — no matter what our family, friends, society, church or governments have to say about it. It takes bravery to strip off our Halloween mask every single day and stand up for ourselves and be the heroes we really are.
As I said last week, we must accept ourselves, just as we are, knowing that we are not evil, fallen people whose true selves need to be repressed and buried. Instead, we are children of the Holy, created good and blessed so that we may be a blessing.
When you meet people in this world you find to be completely genuine, completely authentic, you can see that they have grasped this concept of original blessing. They know — even with all the darkness and light that is mixed within themselves — they are not sick, originally sinful people. Instead, the truly authentic among us are the ones who have learned how to embrace themselves entirely — the good, the bad, the ugly, the beautiful — all wrapped up in one beautiful package.
This is our calling, Jubilants, to live into our true selves with such abandon that our original blessing outshines any of our evil thoughts and impulses.
It does not demolish them, but transforms them into the personal strength and integrity we need to live as genuine human beings in this world. This is the paradox of authenticity, Jubilants — the more human we become, the more our divinity shines through.
Watch what you say or they'll be calling you a radical
A liberal, oh fanatical, criminal
Oh, won't you sign up your name,
we'd like to feel you're acceptable
Respectable, oh, presentable, a vegetable
In our reading from the Hebrew scriptures, we discover a woman who knew all about the courage it takes to reveal our true identity to the world. Esther was a Jew living in the Diaspora, which means she lived outside of the Jewish homeland. She lived in Persia with her uncle Mordecai, under the rule of King Ahasuerus.
After Queen Vashti refused to appear and dance before her husband the king, he banished her and launched a search for a new queen. Esther was accepted as part of the king's new harem and quickly became his favorite and was made his new queen. Under strict advisement of her uncle, Esther kept her identity as a Jew secret from her new husband.
Meanwhile, Mordecai uncovered a plot among the royal guards to assassinate the king, and he passed the information on to Esther, who informed the king.
The guards were arrested and executed, but Mordecai got into trouble when he refused to bow down to the king's new right-hand man, Haman. To get his revenge, Haman went to the king and badmouthed the Jews living among them in Persia and got the king's permission to rise up against the Jewish population and kill them.
When this bit of news reached Mordecai, he sent a copy of the edict to Esther, who vowed to talk to the king about it. But Esther can't just go into the king's court without being called, or she could be put to death just like her predecessor. But helping her fellow Jews was the most important thing to Esther, so she took the chance, putting on her royal robes and entering the court anyway. The king kindly received her, and she asked for a banquet to be arranged for the king and Haman.
This pleased Haman, who bragged to his friends and family that he was being invited to a banquet as an honored guest of the king and queen. Then he saw Mordecai at the gate — the man who refused to bow down to him. He plotted to kill Mordecai and ordered a gallows built for him.
As fate would have it though, the king couldn't sleep the night before the banquet, so he asked that the king's records be read aloud to him as a sort of ego-boosting bedtime story. When it was read to him that this Jew Mordecai had uncovered the plot to kill him, the king wanted to know how Mordecai had been rewarded. He then ordered Haman to take a horse and robes and outfit Mordecai and allow him to ride through the city as an honored man.
This mortified poor Haman, but he complied and then mourned his fate as a shamed man. At the banquet though, we see Esther about to make her move against Haman and reveal her true identity. As she, the king and Haman feasted, she asked the king to reverse his order against the Jews, revealing that she herself is a Jew. The king was enraged that he had been duped into ordering the death of his wife's people, and the very gallows Haman built for Mordecai was used to hang him.
True identity plays a deep role in this story. Esther had to play the role expected of her for awhile, but when the lives of her people were on the line, she did not hesitate to risk her own life to save them. This is what it means to live authentically in this world — there comes a time when we can no longer go along with what society expects from us. There comes a time when we must live into who God has created us to be.
The world may want us to conform, even to be queen, but if that identity goes against who we really are, we cannot risk losing our true selves, even if it means gaining the world.
Esther's story has a happy ending — both she and Mordecai are rewarded for living with authenticity and integrity. But this isn't always the case. Sometimes it costs us everything to live as we are called to live — but in reality, the rewards we gain by being who we truly are will always be greater than any riches the world can think to bestow on us.
All it takes is courage — and faith — to live into our authenticity. But when we do, watch out — they'll be calling you a radical, a liberal, fanatical, even criminal.
But at night when all the world's asleep
"Be your note," says the poet Rumi. "I'll show you how it's enough. Go up on the roof at night in this city of the soul. Let everyone climb on their roofs and sing their notes. Sing loud!"
How often do we refrain from singing our own note? How often do we remain silent as others sing their song of life? How often do we take on the notes of others, feeling pressured to abandon our own note? How often do we feel ashamed of our own note, fearing that it will be off-key, or flat or sharp?
But even if we accept and wholeheartedly embrace and sing our own note, the monk Thomas Merton reminds us not to be lulled into thinking our note is the only right note. Instead, he reminds us that the Holy, "the 'most wise singer' is not singing for ourselves alone and we must accept the fact that some of God's notes and words are for others and seemingly 'against us.' We must not react destructively against the notes we do not like. We must learn to respond not to this or that syllable, but to the whole song."
The whole song, Jubilants, is the world around us — the parts of the world we love, and the parts we hate. We cannot separate the two — instead, living authentically means we add our voice to the song, and sing loud!
Breathe deeply.
Our second song comes from British singer and songwriter Natasha Bedingfield. She started her career in a Christian dance group with two of her siblings in the 1990s and later released her first solo album in 2004. This song is the title cut of that album, Unwritten. The song debuted at No. 1 on the British charts and No. 5 on the Billboard charts in the U.S. Let's try it.
I am unwritten,
Can't read my mind, I'm undefined I'm just beginning,
The pen's in my hand, ending unplanned
Staring at the blank page before you
Open up the dirty window
Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find
Reaching for something in the distance
So close you can almost taste it
Release your inhibitions
Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
In our Jesus story, we find our guy still in Capernaum, healing and teaching. In my Bible, the subheading on this passage is "Temptations to Sin," and while Jesus talks of literal things like stumbling blocks and cutting off limbs if they offend you lest you end up in hell, I think his message goes deeper — and right to the heart of living authentically. In truth, the "stumbling blocks" he's talking about here are hatred — hatred for others and most of all hatred for ourselves.
Gay and lesbian people go through this — and sadly, many in this community commit suicide rather than face the truth that God created them good and has blessed them as who they are. Instead they believe the lies of the world, and of far too many churches, that they are flawed in some way and need to change to be acceptable to society and to God.
It is not the sexual orientation of someone, or any other trait we may seek to reject because the world tells us it's bad, that makes us stumble. No, it is the world's rejection that makes us stumble. Jesus isn't saying to literally cut off our own arm if we're offended by it. No, Jesus is telling us to reject the rejection. Cut off that arm of society that holds us back from embracing who we are meant to be. If the church offends who you really are, cut it off. If society offends who you really are, cut it off. If your family, you friends, your enemies, offend you, and seeks to cut you off from who God has created you to be, Jesus says get rid of them — get them out of your life.
Don't go to churches that won't accept you as you are. Don't work for people who can't accept who you really are. Don't hang out with people who can't accept you as you are — whether they're family, friends, peers, or even your enemies. This is not to say that we can't build bridges and relationships hoping to foster education, compassion and understanding across differences — because whether or not we like each other, we are still part of the same choir singing this song of creation. We are a piece of the whole, and as such, we must find a way to work together.
What Jesus is saying is this: "Don't let anyone get between you and who God has created you to be." We have all been salted with fire, Jesus says, which means we have all faced the temptation to be someone we're not. It is those experiences of denying our true selves, those moments when we didn't live with authenticity and integrity — indeed, those times when sinned by not living into who we were created to be, that have seasoned us to become who we really are.
To be ourselves, Jesus says, we must be salty — and not just of tongue. We may not think much of salt these days — and many of us avoid it for health reasons — but in Jesus' day, salt was important. It was currency and some people were even paid in salt. In a time before refrigeration, salt was used as a preservative — so salt was important for people to be able to eat and to stay alive.
So when Jesus tells us to have salt in ourselves, he is telling us that it is only by living as we were created to live that we will truly find life. That salt is our true selves, and when we lose our salt, we die.
I break tradition, sometimes my tries are outside the lines
We've been conditioned to not make mistakes
But I can't live that way
"Live your life with arms wide open." This is main message that Jesus sends to us, not just in this passage, but in how he lived his whole life — a life of arms wide open, writing his life into this world and through the ages, writing his life into our hearts if we allow it.
Jesus teaches this lesson to his disciples in the first part of our reading this morning, and we would miss a great teaching on authenticity if neglected to mention it. John complains to Jesus about this guy in town who they saw casting out demons in Jesus' name. The problem, as they see it, is that this guy is a stranger — somebody they don't know — doing work in the name of their teacher. Their first impulse is to shut this guy down — to make him stop because he may be doing it wrong, or giving Jesus a bad name.
Jesus says, "So? If he's doing my work then leave him alone."
But how often are we like the disciples? We see people out in the world doing God's work, but they're the wrong sort of people — they're not part of our group.
For example, there's a pastor in Fresno, California, named Jim Franklin. Now theologically, Rev. Franklin and myself would be on two very different sides. His theology is that of conservative Christianity and he would probably exclude someone like me — a woman and lesbian — from his church, or say that I am in the wrong believing God could love me as a lesbian or call me to preach as either a woman or a lesbian.
However, Franklin's Cornerstone Church has a ministry called "Feeding Fresno," which feeds some 350,000 people per year.
They have also provided school supplies for some 8,000 children in that area and have ensured that some 50 families ate a Thanksgiving meal last year.
Theologically, I don't understand the Jesus Franklin believes in — but when he does acts in Jesus' name, I can see Jesus at work. Thomas Merton writes that:
If I can tolerate their Jesus then I can accept and love them. Or, I can at least conceive of doing so. Let not their Jesus be a barrier between us, or they will be a barrier between us and Jesus.
Franklin, and many other conservative Christians, have a Jesus we may not immediately recognize, but when they live authentically into Jesus' call in their lives, then we can begin to recognize Jesus in places we never thought we would.
This is another key to living authentically — to recognize the authenticity of others, even if we disagree with their theological or political beliefs. Perhaps it is through acts of healing that we can come together with those we may consider enemies and actually do God's work in this world.
Jesus tells his disciples, just as he tells us today, that we will bring about the realm of God only when we put aside our differences of opinion and work together to help one another in real and tangible ways. We can only do that when we live into our own authenticity. It is when our deep hunger for authenticity meets the deep hunger of the world that we will be living our life with arms wide open to everyone, friend and foe alike.
Each day our book begins again, Jubilants. It's up to you how you write your life. Will you sing your note, or will you let your judgment of other people's notes make you too busy or fearful to join in the song of creation?
I invite you this morning, Jubilants, to sing loud — to refuse to wear the masks society hands us, to live your life with arms wide open, and to be who God has created you to be — an amazing, unique, beautiful and originally blessed divine child of the Holy.
Oh, Yeah!
Rev. Candace Chellew
Whosoever founder and Editor Emeritus Rev. Candace Chellew (she/her) is the author of Bulletproof Faith: A Spiritual Survival Guide for Gay and Lesbian Christians. She earned her masters of theological studies at Emory University's Candler School of Theology, was ordained by Gentle Spirit Christian Church in December 2003, and trained as a spiritual director through the Omega Point program of the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta. She serves as the spiritual director of Jubilee! Circle in Columbia, S.C., and blogs at Motley Mystic.
Tagged with: Esther, Jubilee, Natasha Bedingfield, Pentecost, Supertramp, Thomas Merton, Via Negativa: Hunger Games, Year B


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Logic Pro 8 Where in Original File Is Region From?
I want to be able to take a region that I have in logic and edit that audio in the standalone version of Izotope RX. I don't want to export the region as an audio file and work on it that way, I want to find out at what time the region takes place in the original audio file. Then I quit Logic, open the original file, and go to that time (ex. 5min48sec.) and I will edit the problem, and save the file. Then I will open Logic, let it rescan the audio file and update the region accordingly. This is done often with Soundtrack Pro, also. The problem is that I can't figure out what time in the audio file (which is about 2 hours long) the region takes place! When I open the region in Sample Editor in Logic, the timeline starts from the beggining of that region. So the time always says the region starts at 0sec, 0sample. How do I find out what time the region takes place in the audio file using Logic? Thanks in advance for your help, this drives me nuts!
...I can't figure out what time in the audio file (which is about 2 hours long) the region takes place! When I open the region in Sample Editor in Logic, the timeline starts from the beggining of that region. So the time always says the region starts at 0sec, 0sample. How do I find out what time the region takes place in the audio file using Logic?
When you double-click on an audio region in the Arrange, the Sample Editor shows you RELATIVE time (where it is in the Arrange).
When you double-click on an audio region in the Audio Bin, the Sample Editor shows you ABSOLUTE time, irrespective of where it is in the Arrange. This is what you want.
Awesome. Thanks a lot for your help man.


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Well if you'll turn in your Bible if you have one today to the Gospel of John chapter four we're going to look at there today and if you don't have a Bible you can go your phone out right now put it on silent quickly if you would but take your phone now in you can go Google anywhere and you can find a bible if you ladies have a phone you want to use that today you're welcome to do that you version is one of my favorite versions Bible apps to use to look at the Bible and several translations and if you have a Bible app that you have the different translations I'm looking at the home and Christian Standard Bible C.S.B. are the C.S.B. is is another one that's really close to that it's the same one and so that's what I read out of and I do that and I ask that because I want everybody to kind of see where we're going because God gave us his word for a reason it's it's our that's our foundation for we're re understand truth and understanding of who he is and what he what he wants for a lives and how he came to save us from our sins and how he sent his Son Jesus Christ to die for us before we get started I just want to thank everybody who participated in this morning's worship we don't always do that I want to say thank you to Jacob's well and company and then the team that does that and we just praise God for what God is doing through them and I want to let you know what's the date of that concert coming up August the eighteenth that's a Saturday night right here in the building and there are three groups or two groups and a soloist this going to be playing here on this stage and it's a time to worship God together the rescue is from the rescue mission and they have a solid team that they have built it's actually building stronger than even when they were here during our big party we had in the parking lot so they'll be here and I think the proceeds are going to help the rescue mission is that right. So toiletries toiletries So yeah the there you go and we will take cash donations if you don't bring something but it's a donation at the door to help support the rescue mission here in town which is a solid Christian organization that helps men and women carers house but but we will be be doing that here in our building and looking forward to that that concert that night and then of course Bill is one of our elders who got up and read the scripture for some my son Joel who is going to go back to college in a couple weeks so we're going to work him till he's gone and so glad for all that and we have team up here audio visual and upstairs and actually this is crazy this is Byman day my son is doing sound and my daughter's doing the powerpoint So hey this is this week there's a whole team of people that make this happen on Sunday mornings and it's also that we've got refreshments Marianne and Company and Karen oversees that team they do refreshments for us when we come in the nice hot coffee hot tea cold ice water and so it's just a privilege to be able to come here and know that we've if you came here and just showed up you've already been served in so many tiny little ways in the name of Jesus Christ and you've been prayed over and this moment is not an accident and this is no this is no Random Moment for your lives we made a purpose to to come together and we made a purpose to even as we designed and painted and took care of this property the way God wanted us to and we pray that God lead us as we did that but we made sure that what we did was on purpose so this is no accidental moment for any of us this is no accidental moment for me this is no well I just happened to throw myself into a worship service today and here I am and coach told me to come and so how many of you I want to ask you how many will coach told me to come I mean it was all voluntary I know a volunteer old No he didn't he did I don't know how he's bribing you but thanks for being here but seriously you're not here by accident and God has a purpose for your life and whatever it is and we are in the middle of a series of messages this is the second of seven. Talking about the seven signs the sevens miracles they weren't the only ones but they were specific ones that John himself had he highlights in his gospel in order for us to believe and are to trust in Jesus Christ as Savior of the world as our personal Savior and so he is trying to give us evidence of his physical life that took place while he was on earth two thousand years ago and he takes these six nip it sort of these stories and he brings them into a whole story called The Gospel of the Good News According to John and it's his writings that God inspired him to write that we have passed down through the ages and as I've studied the Greek and the New Testament Greek and the original language of which it was written and as I study the historical evidence these are use our this is a trustworthy manuscript and this is a trustworthy English translation of that this isn't something that man just decided to come up with this was something that has been entrusted to us through the ages and we have in front of us seven major stories that say OK here are some reasons to believe in Jesus will you trust Him Will you put your life in his hands will you put your life in his hands today will you will you trust in him completely John didn't write just for us to hear good stories that we could tell that story time in Sunday school or a night time when kids go to bed or for us to just have nice little pithy stories of goodness he wrote them for us to trust in who Jesus was and so for those of you here for the first time those of you who are have been attending or maybe you dropped in and now that summer is kind of coming to a close and you're back again with us we are on a journey through the book of John and this is the second one and they'll be others to follow until we get to the end of the of the Gospel seven reasons to believe. And my hope and prayer is that we who are believers will be strengthened in our belief that people who are curious about God will start thinking more about who God is and for those of you to know him personally that you will come to faith in Jesus Christ as your Savior and Lord not because I'm making you do something or because I'm trying to talk you into it but because you have on Asli considered what God has said in his word and you've made an evaluation as to whether or not you believe it or not because I believe that truth prevails in the end you know pocky will teach fundamentals of again of the game of soccer and some of you are coming from systems that you're going to hear something new that you haven't been told by a previous coach and he's going to say well this is the tech way of doing it this is the way of doing it and and he's not you know Jesus when Jesus says this perfect pocky is a human being but yet he has a system that through time has proven itself to be effective and you're going to say I don't know I don't know if I trust set or not said but you've signed on the dotted line to say you're a team member and so you will say well I trusted in Word that it's true and then as you go through the season and you see how the system works and how your place coming together and how it does build you as a team you're going to say wow I I'm committed to this this is I do believe in this and hopefully by the end of the season those trusted tried and true ways of doing team work those ways of of building a good season. You're going to go wow I'm all in and some day as coaches some day as and structure some day as you have your own children if the Lord wills that you will actually probably instill some of those in those kids because you're if. You really believe it and that's kind of the way it is with faith in Jesus Jesus gives us himself to look at to know to hear to see he's you see the testimony of people around you you see the curiosity you're well maybe there's something to this their lives look a little different than the lives of people that don't follow Jesus you get in so you know what these things these principles actually work of your neighbor as yourself that's kind of that kind of works like I get along with my roommate better when I think more of them that I think of myself and then you go you know what I really believe Jesus is the savior of the world it's a progression and I get that and I believe that's true and I think all of us whatever stage of our life we ought to reasonably consider what God has to say not let someone talk us into something but to see say God show me what you want me to know so that I can know how to live a life of purpose and meaning because we only go around once in this world in this world go but spends around so many times for us and the DAs between our life birth and our death the dash is very short and I pray and hope that you live it to the max and that you'll find the designer of this world to be your Lord and Savior as you trust in Jesus so seven messages from the Gospel of John last week we talked about Jesus turning the water into wine. You can by the way find audio links to any of the things that we. Preach on every all the messages are online and you go to our website which is in the Bulletin and you can go to the Facebook page and if you like that it'll start showing up and you'll get posted that a new messages online for you to review and so you can actually go on after Usually after a day or two. Those are uploaded and you can be listening to those and hear so so if you were here last week say want to hear what he had to say about that you can do that and if I go off on a rabbit trail which some of you would testify I do often you can fast forward through the rabbit trail to the next point OK Anyway OK. Some of your laughing too hard OK so. These are online you can get those anytime at this morning I want to read the story from John chapter four starting in verse forty six and we're going to read together this passage. Then he went again to Kaina of Galilee and Jesus Himself. Into can of Galilee where he had turned the water into wine there was a certain royal official whose son was ill Capernaum when this man heard that Jesus had come from Judah Judea to into Galilee he went to him and pleaded with him to come down and heal his son for he was about to die. Forty eight Jesus told him unless you people see signs and wonders you will not believe serve the official said to him come down before my boy dies go Jesus told him Your son will live the man believed what Jesus said to him and departed while he was still going down his slaves met him saying that his boy was alive he asked them at what time he got better yesterday at seven in the morning the fever left him they answered the father realized this was the very hour at which Jesus had told him Your son will live and the end then he himself believed along with his whole household This is therefore the second sign Jesus performed after he came from June day to Galilee. So what is going on here what's the story let's let's look at this this morning first of all the seven signs when we look at these signs we know that these are seven real historical testimonies they are fanciful stories that were made up and I and I would say I can go into a long conversation and I'd love to have coffee with anybody that says well I don't know if I understand or agree with your believe in you I love to chat with you more about this but suffice it to say this morning that when John wrote this people were alive during the time in which Jesus had performed these miracles and they could have said John you're full of baloney they could have said John you're crazy these things didn't happen but they didn't through the ages John John's writing probably as an old man is writing about thirty years or so after the events that took place and he wrote after the three other gospels Matthew Mark and Luke were written and so he's kind of writing at a summary but he's not writing a chronological story of Jesus in fact these signs don't necessarily happen in the sequence historically as John writes them he's writing them to prove a point just like some of your papers that you write in school you don't you're driving home a point more than you're trying to home a historical timeline because you're trying to prove something and draw a reader to a conclusion at the end of your paper and it's the same thing John is doing in this gospel and he's writing this story out as a real historical testimony and John and many others are the witnesses of this testimony and he says this is the second sign that Jesus performed these signs are demanding a response you see John is wanting us to decide whether we believe that Jesus is either that is either the Savior of all or he is no savior at all no in-between he's not one of many options he's the only option or he's no option he puts it all on the table it's all or nothing you're all in or you're not in it all and so this is kind of this is where we go with this story it's with that context that we need to look at the story this morning first of all we see here that Jesus is a miracle worker we see Jesus as a miracle worker. Now he's been seen in the temple complex as he's been seen during certain festivals and we're not sure exactly what festival that was but in verse forty three and forty four and forty five it says that he testified when the gala enter galleons the Galileans welcomed him because they had seen everything he did in Jerusalem during the festival and they had also gone to the festival now he was being rejected by certain regions and he was being more accepted by other regions now I want to bring that up because I want you to know that God doesn't not down the door of your life and say you better trust me or else now now indeed there's a consequence for not trusting in God and we know that the Bible says that whether we believe it or not we know the Bible at least says it but he wants to come to receptive hearts he wants to come towards people that are interested in pursuing or thinking about him now I will say that there are some people that are fighting against God and he does break into their lives in a major way and we know that one big example in the Bible was a man named Saul who was breathing threats against the Christian faith and he was right ready to go put people in prison and he had overseen the death of Stephen who was being stoned to death for his faith and this man was was blood thirsty against Jesus Christ and Jesus met him on what they call he was on the road leading to Damascus and a bright light shined out and and he basically fell to his knees and God just basically they rang his bell and got his attention he said you're done stop what you're doing and he was blind for three days his coach said Set him down on the bench and said You're out for three games until you figure out that this is how we play the game here. And he said OK. Guys attention but generally speaking what we see here is that the wife of Jesus when He lived on worked on this earth he went to regions where people actually wanted to receive him and in Galilee this other region of of Israel the nation at that time in the boundaries at that time they actually wanted to see Jesus and they actually accepted who he was and they actually wanted to receive him into their lives but he was seen more as a miracle worker than he was seen anybody in particular they were curious about who he was but they really weren't fully convinced that he was the Messiah the Savior of the world the one who was born of a Virgin Mary and came in to save us from our sins they really didn't get it all but they did see that he was a miracle worker in fact Jesus Himself says this in verse forty eight unless you people see signs and wonders you will not believe he kind of made a judge mental statement about a bunch of people on the path he said you guys you're all looking for signs and wonders you're just looking for quick fixes you're not looking for solid answers and he kind of get a judgment on him but this man was not deterred in fact we see here that this man it didn't stop him he just he just he just kept saying but my son is dying you've got to go and save him you got to go and heal him come with me to the house my son's about to die you know there's people in this room that have have prayed over children that are about to die children that are in dire straits children that are struggling I remember growing up that my mom and dad my second born sibling five years after my birth was born into this world with asthma problems she had pneumonia so bad and the and she stayed in an incubator and she was in in intensive care new NATO for so long and we weren't sure if she was going to live and there was a moment in my sister's life who is now a healthy adult teacher down in the Bloomington area she was old enough to talk old enough to know the struggle and if you've ever had pneumonia or asthma you know it's like a elephant is on your chest and you can't breathe and you can't get air in the oxygen that you need and it's painful and it's suffocating and it's and it's and it's it's scary and in her little crib that she was still in she looked up at my mom and my mom was like old Jesus we're just praying that Jesus so get make it better and we're just praying that you'll get better and my sister and this is my mom's testimony looked up at my mom and said maybe it just be better if I went to heaven. And fighting back tears my mother said Well I don't know that I'm ready to let you go there yet to for you to go there yet and she stepped away from the crib and wept profusely and just begged God for a miracle Well this little girl that they said would never amount to much mentally because she'd lost some less oxygen and she wouldn't have very good physical activities in her life she wouldn't do very well athletically went on to beat a record school record in track that to this day stands in my small school she went on to be class president in her senior year of high school went on to college graduated with great grades and is now teaching students as a special ed teacher and has a heart has a real passion for the underdogs in the world because she was an underdog and God answered my mother's prayer and I know I can I WAS IN THE enough to really know what all was going on I was probably seven or eight years old at the time that mom's begging God for a miracle but I just can't imagine I can just imagine my mother's passion pleading for God She knew that God could do whatever he wanted to do but she wanted God to heal her child and praise God he did guys that's the kind of passion that was going on this man knew his son had a fever had a struggle that he wasn't going to live if Jesus didn't come down in hail and having care about the miracle worker at this point he wasn't looking for signs and wonders he just wanted answers to the problem at hand this man was desperate this man was desperate he wasn't deterred by the rebuke that Jesus gave the crowd he simply repeated his plea for Jesus to come and heal a son and then the Bible says he believed his word. He believed him when Jesus said Go Your son will live he had nothing to go on but the Word of God He was curious when he first came he's looking for Jesus to help but now he's in crisis he's in super crisis mode and he says got Jesus help me heal my son and he goes believing that Jesus said Your son will live he says OK I know you can do this I believe you can do this I have no other choice because you're not going to come to my house so I'll just believe what you say and he was believing in crisis but then in verse fifty three it shows here that when he saw all that the man that that the miracle took place at the very hour that Jesus said it would take place the power of God was so revealed and his household that he truly put his faith in Jesus Christ this word believe and the verse fifty three is different than the word believe in the first verse fifty where it was first mentioned but he believed this verse in verse fifty three is the word believe that is not surrounded by any other kind of action other than he truly believed in who Jesus was not what Jesus could do for him it was a progression of belief in his life he believed and what was the sign what was his reasoning for believing what was the sign the sign was a supernatural healing the sign was that this was not an illusion as I mentioned last week at the magic show or the illusion show that I went to down and up and over in Delaware. During vacation two weeks ago the man was very theatrical and the way he did sleight of hand he had this mind reading thing where he took this suction cup very very embarrassing. On my head and it stuck some of you that will never happen but I have a little extra skin up there and I think that's why he picked me out in the crowd. And the other guy was similarly built and Summerlee head had a tall forehead and and he put these suction cups on our heads plungers and he had a wire between them and he was going to make me read that guy's mind so that I would know what card that man picked without ever talking to the man that was back against me and I will tell you all the details but he kind of got me to say a card that he ended up picking and I say able to say it's the three of hearts and he said that's right it's the three parts and we never talked about it you know it was cool but it was a trick there was no use I did not get this wire thing that came through in this static electricity and all of a sudden I knew oh my goodness I know what he's thinking he wants pumpkin pie to mind I didn't see anything about his life I didn't know there was nothing magical about the plungers it was an illusion it was a way for us to be fascinated and he even said at the beginning my job here is to kind of do something that you think I'm a mind reader and I'm a special person like this is what the reality is for some a good time and I'm going to do some things and you're going to be amazed and we were amazed and he did some things and we went away royally appreciative of the fact that we've been in that theater that day to see this man but they were illusions they were tricks they got us to think that he was magical but he was an illusionist there was nothing magical about it there was nothing miraculous about what he did but Jesus said Go Your son will live that's always said. He didn't go to the sun and do some doctoral ministry to him with some medicine he didn't secretly get a disciple to get on a horse and or a camel I don't know what they used back then and ran over and do something really quick and really quick get this child back to health again he didn't give him some sort of homeopathic plan so that the fact the man that said that heard your son will live didn't even see his son and till after he learned that his son was alive and well and the moment that that son was healed was the very moment that Jesus said Your son will live and he compared notes on his timing he looked at his Rolex I don't think he had one he looked at his his sundial and he figured out what time it was that Jesus said it and he looked at the sun down there with a sundial say over you and he said well it said Well my arm was moving I don't know what time it said but the one on the ground here said it was about the seventh hour and he said he lives Jesus said He lives the same time miraculous it was amazing it was supernatural it was from a distance Jesus said over there where I'm not he lives I'm not only god in the flesh fully man but I'm God supernaturally fully God but I can say happens and it happens this is the second time this is a second miracle it gets recorded in Scripture he did this again worse and cherry another man actually believe that Jesus could do and said you don't have to go there just say it and it will happen and Jesus said Absolutely that's true and it happened at that point as well Jesus can be wherever you need him to be you see Jesus isn't just in this church he isn't just when you're around Jesus people he's everywhere he's where you are he's seeking you he's constantly looking for you he's constantly wanting you to know him and to trust in him he's wherever you need him all the time any time. There for you and it's the word of power that he gave all Jesus had to say was the word your son will live you can trust everything that God says in fact there is a way that I tell students I tell adults I tell children anybody who can read the Bible I say as to why I don't know how to read the Bible out of get started with the Bible you know what I suggest I suggest that you go to the Book of Proverbs and Proverbs has thirty one chapters in it and you say well I don't know where that is well just do a google search you'll find proverbs it's pretty easy or if you have a physical Bible go to the middle of your Bible you open up in the middle and you're about in the middle of the Old Testament and you kind of like a little more to the left of the middle and you're in proverbs or Psalms and if you're in Psalms turn right here in Proverbs stay there and look for the first chapter or by the way today is August the fifth so you could start in Chapter five go through the end of the month and then start again and Chapter One two three and four and you've read an entire Bible in one. Book in one month boom just like that and you can learn something that God has for your life that day and I but I just I would encourage fact encourage you that if you do this and you suddenly see something you read in the morning and then you see something play out for you in the daytime where that bible verse actually is affective or helpful to you I'm telling you this happens to me all the time it happens to many people that I talk to that do this on a regular basis when you read God's Word it is a timely letter and advice giver for your life that very moment and I encourage you to think about putting that. In your life and the students also at the chapel if you don't own a Bible at the chapel and offer comments on the second floor above the cafeteria there are Bibles on the shelf that are there for free anything on the shelf and there is free and if you don't have a nice Bible to carry it's got a nice little imitation leather but it's actually it's a feel good imitation is not with those cardboard things that you might have gotten in Sunday school when you're a little kid and it's actually a very comfortable Bible to carry and I would encourage you to get one of those if you don't have one in your dormitory if you don't have one to carry on a regular basis and it's yours to keep for free you say this is the word of power God is giving us his word Jesus said make it so and it is so and just as a coach says make it so and the team responds appropriately when Jesus says it is perfectly happening in moment the moment he says this to happen we can trust the sign that that John records for us in his gospel so this morning I want to just close up with with with with asking you a couple questions what's your verdict what's your verdict is he the savior or is he not a savior at all some of you you're in process you're still thinking you may have never been to church and in a long time or maybe your first time ever or maybe you've been in church in your Vinces but you're not there yet you're not ready to totally give yourself over to what this means to be a follower of Jesus Christ and first of all I want to thank you for being here I want to thank you for coming out care what your motive is with maybe you just came because you heard you're having fried chicken for for lunch and you had to pay for your light yes and that's when the resign here today no I didn't but seriously it's an option OK I get that all the way to the person says I'm hungry I really want to know spiritually hungry I really want to know something that's going on not just physically hungry for a meal I'm spiritually hungry for food that will last me more than just a physical need in my life I need to find purpose and meaning beyond playing a game beyond going to school beyond a career beyond whatever season of life you're currently in. And I just want to come back to the three ways that people believed in this story there was a curious belief there were people who believed in Jesus because they saw some things that he was doing that were pretty special and big and powerful and unusual and maybe you've seen some people in your life that are unusually different and you see that they've got a touch of Jesus in their life and you're like well I want to know more about that because I'm curious about who Jesus is he out he must be somebody special because he's changed a lot of lives I'm curious to know more that curious belief is a good belief but it's not going to take you to where God wants you to be in your life it's a curious belief and a lot of people will die with curious belief but never find the Saviors their lord and savior and then there's crisis belief I've had this happen and this man had a crisis his son was dying I have had the privilege of being on campus for about fourteen years at Indiana tech as a chaplain and I'm actually going to slip back into that role more so then then I'm actually not going to be on staff as of the end of this coming Friday I've actually resigned from that position as faced services coordinator and I'm going to start just being a volunteer chaplain again like I started years ago on that campus my time constraints and working here more and doing things and just not allowed me to continue that job and there want to do some more things with that position so I'm not going to be there for that but I will still be there as a encourage or a spiritual encourage or in people's lives and through the years Jim has been one of those but I've had Martinu HOF I've had so many other coaches people that you've never met or seen some that were on the stage in that we've In addition you two and I've actually had the privilege of sitting down with students who are in crisis some of their in crisis like they're about ready to get kicked off the team because they've made some They've not made good choices and they're dealing with the consequences of their bad choices and I would say that there have been a few of those students that they met with me and they really wanted answers they really wanted to get their life in order because they see that they've hit a brick wall they've hit the bottom of the barrel they're ready for answers they never look for because they're in crisis and of course the the the and I called it sometimes I call it anger management class you know they just couldn't live along with people they're so angry at the world but they had to figure out why they were really angry and where's the source of that anger. And they needed to find a supernatural answer not just superficial plans but they knew that they needed help and they were in crisis some of the students actually wanted spiritual help others came to me because they wanted me to give a good report to the coach but they had no interest in the spiritual answers I had to give them they just knew that they there met with me or they left the team is pretty simple. Had to baseball coaches that did that with a couple of guys had a basketball coach of did that with a couple of guys and they met with me I had a I had a lady soccer ladies soccer softball softball team that did that two or three coaches past ago the did that and one lady shows up and she's I've never seen her so prim and proper comes to my office we sit and talk I never heard her so polite and wonderful every time I've ever seen or she was anything but polite but boy she was put on she want to make sure that I gave the coach a good report and it lasted about two weeks and then she went off her own ways and she actually ended up getting kicked off the team she was in crisis mode and she wanted a quick fix but she didn't want real answers this is years ago and you don't know OK then there are students that actually wanted to help and the crisis led them to bigger answers and to bigger life development answers that gave them real choices and I would say that some of those students actually became a committed believe I believe that was commitment they really understood that they needed to get their life right with God and by the way there's an organization that I think had a slide I forgot to give you before we got him off the stage about the Fellowship of Christian Athletes that meets on campus. And last year they met Monday nights at eight o'clock I don't know when they'll meet probably the same time Gail lamb starts is an accounting professor and she and Craig Dyer is the sports management professor and they're the advisors to this group and I want to encourage you ladies to consider connecting with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes as a way to further your curiosity and to to fuel your hunger that you have for God in His word and it's a great way to learn about God in a very student friendly area community area of the campus but I've seen students and I've seen individuals who they didn't just want a fix out of a crisis financially they didn't just want to get a marriage right they didn't just want to see their children get right with God They really wanted real answers I've watched people lose loved ones and that death just devastated them a parent dies a grandparent dies and it just hits them between the two eyes to say what am I doing with my life what what what's And what's what's what's this life all about and whatever I'm pursuing is empty and meaningless you're at your wits end and you don't just want an answer to the crisis you want solid answers that will give you a life time and an eternity of hope and that commitment belief is to say Jesus I trust that you are the only Savior I admit to you that I'm a sinner I believe you died on the cross for my sins to save me from myself and from the things I've done wrong and I now commit myself completely to you to do with as you please I give you my life and that's exactly what this man did in the story and that's the story that could be yours if you're not just go from curious to crisis but you actually have a commitment to put your faith in Jesus Christ he's either the savior of everything in your life or he's no savior at all in your life.


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Pongadi Neengalum Unga Kadhalum - An ally to yesteryear's hits
In view of the fact that tracks attributing to the 'Subramaniyapuram' trend, followed by 'Kumki' recently grabbed the claimed numero uno spot amongst the listeners expectations, here's a listen at what the album 'Pongadi Neengalum unga Kaadhalum' has to offer.
1.Ye Kaadhale Kaadhale
Singer(s): Thanjai Selvi
'Ye kaadhale kaadhale'sung by Thanjai Selvi is a perfect choice to bring out the 'native' nature in the voice tone. The song begins with on an absorbing note. The tune swings from the vaguely familiar, to unexplored area, especially in the second interlude. An appeal is added because of the philosophical lyrics and the earthly feel of the rhythms. The first line is a catchy one where we are told - the three lettered 'Kaa dha il' changes the fate of many. But the first time one listens to it, any music enthusiast will easily be able to relate it to the song 'Vandhanama Vandhanama' from the movie Easan. It maybe even due to Thanjai Selvi's effortless singing noted in both the songs that makes it sound similar.
2. Oru Ponnu Enna
Singer(s): Gaana Bala, Ramakrishnan
'Oru ponnu' by the famed Gaana Bala and Ramakrishnan yet again has very sad tone throughout the song. This may be attributed to the title of the movie, which brings out the agony of men towards the women. The song has successfully brought out the pain in each of them, the pain after a break up, the pain of loss of a girl, the pain of love. Use of lyrics like "Saavu adichutaada" makes a good connect with the current youth keeping in mind the colloquial nature of the word.
3. Chuda Chuda Kaadhal Theeye
Singer(s): Elizabeth Malini, Haricharan
With a racy rhythm in the song, the singers Haricharan and Elizabeth Malini have shown versatility in their tone, sounding rough when needed and at the same time having a smooth flow in the end notes in the song 'Chuda Chuda Kaadhal Theeye'. It maybe because of the emphasis on the word 'theeye' that the music director chose to send across to the listeners a 'fiery' feel.
4. Tharu Maara Yerudhadi
Singer(s): Mukesh
Mukesh's 'Tharu Maara Yerudhadi' with the typical 'Kuthu' feel makes one dance to the rhythm. Very apt with the title, the song talks about the guy's loneliness, in a way where the liquor bottle is his companion after the sad past. The lyrics by themselves touch on the emotions of men who trusted their counterpart but are now at a terrible plight, and are going astray - in the path of a drunkard.Although the concept of the song may not be new as we have witnessed this before in many songs in Tamil
5. Vaa Maa Vaa Maa Inime
Singer(s): Srilekha Parthasarathi, MLR Karthikeyan
'Vaa Ma Vaa Ma Inime' by Srilekha Parthasarathy and MLR Karthikeyan is an enjoyable duet, a romantic number. The strident notes constitute to an appealing medley. Looks like the mandatory love song in the movie. The Music Director Kannan has done a good job overall. Although the tracks sound good to the ear, it is not very engaging. There is innovation in the compositions but at one point each music lover would be able to associate each of the track to some other existing track which thus may not appeal to all as a brilliant musical.
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"Do the monks get emasculated when they become monks?"
Yes, I didn't make this one up. This question was submitted by an obviously intelligent, well-written young man who seemed overly concerned about the monk beanbags. So, without further ado, lets cut off the unnecessary banter and whiz right into proverbial sack.
Emasculation is the process of rendering one powerless, to enfeeble someone, to make someone impotent. More concisely, or, shall I say, more appropriate to what this concerned young reader was losing sleep over, to emasculate someone is to castrate him. But before we start looking up monk robes, let's discuss this whole castration thing.
Castration and religion go back a long ways. In ancient times, it was doctrine (and law) that rapists, sodomists, homosexuals, and Christians who were unfortunate enough to fall in love with non-European non-Christian women, be castrated. In what we could now call a "ballsy" move, it was also known to happen, but was not exactly common, for young men, who found themselves in the throes of uncontrollable insatiable lust, to put themselves under the proverbial knife, and whack off the organs of desire which were causing them so much trouble. (Interesting that women who suffered from uncontrollable insatiable lust weren't punished...Oh, where are they all today?) The practice was commonplace enough for the Catholic church to recognize it, and proclaim that men who had been castrated, could not enter the priesthood. Now, one might argue that so-called members of the faith really shouldn't be all concerned about being "memberless", as they really shouldn't have had a need for that sort of thing anyway. But the church back then felt strongly about future clerics being whole, as they had felt, in what I think is really a divine act of sophisticated thought, that men who were worthy of being clerics should have been able to control their lustful urges through an act of will, and not an act of surgery. Being dismembered was probably grounds for being defrocked.
The Catholic church at one time or another in the past, supposedly proscribed the practice of castration for those who had sinned a sexual sin, which gives the old "Thou shall not covet thy neighbor's wife (or else)" a whole new meaning. But, on the other hand, the church, via the first canon of the Council of Nicea, dictated that self-castration was a bozo no-no; I guess that one would interpret that to mean that young men should have will power and balls, instead of, well, neither. Interesting that only they were allowed to be the "hackers", and that a young man of those days just didn't have the freedom to express himself as he wished. I'm still trying to find out how they punished those who went against the Council of Nicea's dictates. Can't exactly shave hair off of a bald head, heh?
Castration further gained a reputation during the Inquisition, where it no doubt was one of the top ten on the torturer's list. It continued on during the second millennium, usually as part of other routines. It was the usual accompaniment to the "drawn and quartered" routine, whereby a condemned prisoner was hung (until he hurt real bad), castrated (to show that they were serious), disemboweled (until he hurt really bad), and then either decapitated or had his limbs tied to four different horses, which, if things went according to plan, ran on command in four different directions.
Europe in the 1700 -1800's found other uses for castration. It's use in young boys led to the singing voice of the "castrato", an unusually high and artificial singing voice that was meant to replace the soprano and alto. Today that role is not as popular as it used to be, and is played by the countertenor.
Things were slightly more civilized in the newly formed United States. Capital punishment (by hanging, remember, Ben Franklin had not yet figured out that thing about tying the kite to the chair in the rain storm...) had been the punishment for sodomy and "crimes of nature". Thomas Jefferson had suggested that castration be the recommended punishment for these acts (an interesting figure in history to be concerned with moral turpitude, considering the children that he eventually fathered). And, after the American Revolution, sodomy became more widely recognized to include sex and other things between men and men, women and women, men and, well, etc, etc. The laws got more enveloping, but castration just never caught on here in the US as a punishment like it did in medieval Europe.
But we've found other uses for it. Today it is used medically for certain types of prostate and testicular cancers, but they are usually replaced with silicone imitations. The wigglers are whacked during sex change operations, and they aren't replaced, but there are other silicone imitations that go in other places. Some civic minded groups are suggesting that chemical castrations be performed on prisoners who are repeat sex offenders. Some prisoners who are repeat sex offenders have offered to undergo surgical castration to get out of prison earlier. And some people nowadays just do it for fun. You can look anywhere and find ads for equipment that will "further your own special enjoyment" (A new device that "utilizes twisting action which effectively closes the severed cord. Use with a standard, variable-speed hand drill, preferably a cordless unit for convenience and safety. It is essential that only a variable speed drill with a 3/8" chuck be used and that the castrating instrument be tight and secure in the drill chuck"). "Honey, where's my Sear's Craftsman catalogue?" It's one hell of a world we live in.
And what has this all to do with the monks. Absolutely nothing. No Ralphy boy, they aren't emasculated during their vows.
But since we're on the subject, what about that "deadly kick to the beanbags" that you see on the videos? It all has to do with pelvic tilt. (Doesn't everything good in life have to do with that?). Watch closely the next time you see someone get whacked where you shouldn't get whacked. A little forward tilt/ backward lean of the pelvis, which puts the pelvic ischial tuberosities in a more downward and anterior position, and the gluteal muscles in a more forward and downward position, and voila! The well placed kick gets absorbed by the bony and muscular structure, leaving the jewels relatively out of harm's way. Which is a good thing. A very good thing. But, there's always a catch. This all works, provided the kicker places the kick correctly into the kickee. A little too forward, and not enough backward in the kicker's placement, and it all turns into a bad thing. A very bad thing. As with everything else, practice makes perfect. Start working on it.


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