The words of Jesus are without compromise: "Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven." My Protestant friends have asked me if I have ever confessed Jesus as my Lord and Savior. I replied that I have but when they ask me when that happened, I tell them that it first happened at my baptism when I confessed not once, three times, and then it happens every week when I confess the Creed. I don't know if this satisfies them, but you get the point.
Let us not be blithe or casual about confessing Christ. It can cost you. Today, for us, it costs most of us little to confess the Lord in the Creed. However, remember that this is the Sunday of the Saints and if you know anything about the Saints, you understand what it can cost to confess Him. There is an ideology in the world today that will take off your head for confessing Christ. We don't worry about this too much. Our persecution is more subtle. According to the unfortunate senator Bernie Sanders, it's fine to be a Christian just as long as you don't promote it or practice it in public unless you have compromised it into nothingness.
Jesus expressed the cost in this way: "And a man's foes shall be they of his own household. He that loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And he that taketh not his cross, and follows after me, is not worthy of me. He that finds his life shall lose it: and he that loses his life for my sake shall find it. That is a high cost indeed.
A hundredfold!!! No banker, no stockbroker, no financial investor can come near that rate of return. The Saints knew this and so they smiled, laughed and even mocked the offers of wealth, position and power and life. Such an offer was a "low ball offer" compared to what Christ had for them in the time to come. So my friends, invest wisely. Don't settle for low interest returns. No matter what sacrifice you think you must make, it is nothing compared to what the Lord Jesus has prepared for you.
I have this enduring memory. When I was young, I was fascinated with a real life news story about a man on death row. I was young enough that the thought of knowing the time of your death was new to me and filled me with dread. The story went to the moment of his electrocution. They often interviewed the condemned man to try and understand his fears and anxieties as the day approached. They often asked if he was really sorry for what he had done. It was as terrifying as it was fascinating. Since then, I have read many stories or watched movies where death approaches a person, a town, a nation, or even the world. It is always interesting to see if such a threat was faced with courage or fear and anxiety. In literature, there developed the idea of "the good death." The person in danger of death would be surrounded by family, friends and colleagues. Though slipping into death, this person would say final words of wisdom and comfort to his grieving family and then peacefully go to sleep.
While we all hope for a good death (painless and blameless), modern medicine has made a good death very difficult to attain. I've had the privilege of being with people facing the moment of their death. More times than not, they were in twilight, or a drug induced coma. Often, a decision had to be made to end treatment and shut off the machines that kept them alive. So there were no final hugs or kisses exchanged, no words of comfort or wisdom were spoken.
Starting in St. John 15, Jesus faces the moment of his death and we see what a good death truly is. Christ instructs his disciples and prays for them and for the whole world. He speaks words of comfort when he says that he will always be with us. He "lifts up his eyes to heaven" and prays that all of us might know the joy and ecstasy of union with Christ and union with the Father. We are to know the name of the Father and this is no small thing, for the name is more than a title. It expresses the nature of the eternal God. He shows us that eternal life is not something that just lies in the future. Eternal life is now –"and this is eternal life that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent." He speaks of joy, real joy that he wants to be with us always as we live in the unity of the Church. Finally, he asks that where He is, we will always be with him.
Talk about a good death! Even though he faces torture, death and betrayal. He does not face it with fear, anxiety, and dread but with prayer.
Now, I have to ask myself, am I ready for a good death? Well, for the Orthodox, the scene of a good death is quite different from the world's. For us a good death is repentance. I have always been amazed at the stories of saints who despite having attained union with God, still repented at the moment of their death. Did they repent because of fear or dread? No, they repented because of the beauty and joy that they had missed, and they had a sense of the beauty and joy that they were about to embrace, a beauty that despite their piety they knew that they were not worthy to behold. Jesus said in his last moments that we would behold the glory that had been with him since the foundation of the world. Such glory, such beauty, will bring the entire world to its knees in repentance someday. Count on it.
I pray for a good death, painless, blameless, peaceful, and a good defense before the dread judgment seat of Christ. May my last words not be of fear, sorrow, or anxiety. May it be one of repentance. That will be a good death, indeed.
Jesus said that we must pick up our cross, deny ourselves and follow him. Surely all of my burdens and struggles fulfill this command (at least they do to me). Well, not so fast. I came across a statement from the Blessed Augustine that flipped things around. In His Letters to Laetus, 243, he said the following: "For, when I noticed that you were being slowed down in your divine purpose by your preoccupation with domestic cares, I felt you were being carried and dragged along by your cross rather than that you were carrying it." St. Augustine tells me that what is happening is that I am being dragged through life by my struggles. I am not carrying them at all. They are carrying me. I am like a surfer on the waves on my struggles.
Is this what Jesus meant? Not really. After all, if just carrying your own life burdens is carrying your cross, then everyone is fulfilling the Lord's command. No. Carrying our burdens is not in itself carrying a cross with Christ. What does it mean then to carry a cross and follow Jesus? It means death and it means life.
As always, St. Paul puts it very distinctly: "I am crucified to the world and the world is crucified to me." So often, my burdens come from the fact that I judge myself by the standards of this society. The world defines what is necessary for happiness and I believe it. The world defines what is beautiful and what is not, and I believe it. The world tells me what is moral and what is not, and I believe it. The world tells me what is rich and what is poor, and I believe it. The world tells me what is brave and what is cowardly, and I believe it. The first work of the cross is to crucify me to this worldly propaganda and lunacy.
It is a two way street. I am to be crucified to the world, but then the world must be crucified to me. If in my heart I still envy the rich, the proud, the beautiful, the successful, etc., then even if I dress plainly, and live in a modest house and walk to work, I am still alive to the world. The Church attempts to help us. Today, we lift up and remember the Cross of Christ and the command that we follow Him. In Holy Tradition, we have all that we need to break this inner worldliness so that we can not only be crucified to the world, we can also follow Him.
So, the Lord seeks to kill us; that is, He calls us to put our worldliness to death, inwardly and outwardly. How this is possible since surviving our personal struggles is tough enough? Remember these words: "Cast your cares and burdens upon me….my yoke is easy and my burdens are light…I came that you might have life and have it in abundance." We may find that when we let The Master tell us what is true, what is beautiful, what is strong, what is successful, what is rich and what is poor, etc., we may find that the burdens of the heart will roll away and we will find life everlasting.
Let's not forget that we have a powerful ally, the Holy Spirit who is greater in us than all the struggles that we face. He is the Lord, the Giver of Life. This Spirit can turn the water of our struggle into wine.
It is our choice. We can pick up the heavy load of our own struggles and cry as we carry them under the whip of our task masters; or, we can pick up the Cross of Christ, and being crucified to the world, we can follow Him.
In almost all cultures, there are stories about treasure. From my youth, I remember King Midas and Long John Silver on Treasure Island. In my young mind, I could envision having a golden touch or digging up a treasure chest. How amazing it would be to have no financial worries and to live like a king.
As I consider my life, I look to see where my heart has been and where it is now. This shows me what I really value and what has priority in my life. Here lies the root of the problem and it shows why I do not repent and do not forgive from the heart. Here are some of the things I treasure.
I have spent a lot of time on my body, caring for it and pleasing it. It really is quite shameful how much time and money I have spent on it. An elder was sitting in the marketplace with some of his disciples, when a woman appeared with an entourage. She was a great beauty dressed in the finest apparel. Her hair was perfect and her makeup flawless. The elder began to weep and his disciples asked if her appearance had offended him. "No," he replied, "she shames me." The disciples were quite puzzled. How could this woman shame so great an elder? Seeing their confusion, he said, "Consider how much time she must spend on her appearance. By comparison, I spend so little time in prayer. She is more dedicated to her "god" than I am to mine." This is one reason why the Lenten fast is so troubling. My body does not like being denied of time and attention. Yes, where my treasure is, there has my heart been also.
We know that pride is a terrible sin and that "pride goes before a fall." Despite this, we cling to a deep sense of personal pride. In Church, we sing "Lord, have mercy" many times. However, a theologian recently wrote that many in the Orthodox Church do not really believe that they are sinners. This is demonstrated by how little they go to confession. We say the words, but truthfully, we believe we are good people, and think of ourselves as loving and kind and intelligent and right. This prideful reality shows why we cannot forgive "from the heart." We are offended when anyone by word or behavior challenges this inner prideful sense of goodness. We might even say that we forgive, but we cannot forget. Most times, this means that we have not really forgiven at all. Yes, where my treasure is, there has my heart been also.
I've spent a fair amount of time in book stores. I am always amazed at the amount of information humans can manufacture. I have spent a lot of money on books, and often I only read part of them. They remain in the bookcase as silent reminders of my mental laziness. I treasure my mind, but I do not fill it with knowledge. I fill it with junk and then I am surprised when all I get out of it is junk. The food of my mind is trivial entertainment. There is no way that I can measure the hours spent on music, TV, magazines, movies, etc.
I can only imagine how I would be if I had spent that time not in trivial pursuit, but in gaining true knowledge. This is one reason why the development of my spiritual life is so slow and incomplete. As. St. Paul notes, I am to be transformed by the renewing of my mind. That renewal is not of the grey matter between my ears, but my inner spiritual mind (nous) by which I would know God. That spiritual mind I did not treasure. I did not believe that a true theologian is one who prays. I thought a true theologian was one who was smart. Yes, where my treasure is, there has my heart been also.
There are other things that I have treasured, but this is enough for now. It is my prayer that someday my heart will show that I came to treasure that which is in heaven. Such a treasure cannot be taken away even by a dragon.
If I have offended anyone, I ask for your forgiveness. As much as my pride will allow, I do forgive you and I know that God forgives.
I have wondered at this verse all my life. Peter, as far as he knows, is about to die for the Faith, and he is asleep. Asleep? He is chained and guarded. There is no way out and no hope of reprieve because Herod wants him dead. In the face of all of this, Peter is asleep. What kind of man is this who is so at peace before his death that he sleeps? I used to be able to sleep anywhere and anytime so that people would say that I could sleep standing up. However, if it was the night before my death, would I be sleeping? Probably not.
The Church was praying for Peter and an angel would deliver him, but Peter didn't know that at the time. He was so trusting in his Lord that he feared nothing, even death (and this from the man that denied the Lord three times). I wish that I had such faith and courage, but I am no where near the holiness of St Peter. I don't wear his chains. The chains on Peter are those that came from being a martyr (remember that the word martyr means "witness"). I have been a rather poor witness so I do not wear Peter's chains.
Oh, I do wear chains but they are the chains of Jacob Marley and Ebeneezer Scrooge. I have forged them all my life and they have been quite heavy and ponderous. My pride, selfishness, passionate nature, sinfulness, anger are a few of the things that make up the links of my chain. The Lord has removed these from me many times through my baptism, confession, and repentance, but like a dog returning to its vomit, I have picked up the chains and put them on again. Foolish, so very very foolish.
I do not lose hope. Perhaps the first step is realize that I am bound by chains. My habitual sins chain me and guard me for death. If I know this to the deepest level of my soul, then when the Lord removes them again, I will remember the word – "If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed." ( John 8.36) Knowing this freedom from my own chains, I can pick of up the chains of St. Peter. I can be a free man, a witness who sleeps even in the face of death. I hope that my Church prays for me like they did for St. Peter.
How can I help you? Well, at least, if I rattle my chains, you may come to know your own. If you do, then may the angel of the Lord deliver you, so that someday you may sleep in peace bound by the chains of St Peter.
I will rattle my chains, but you may think that I am just "an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato." Even so, it is the best I can do.
It always surprises me when someone comes to the Orthodox faith. Given the present age, there are so many versions of Christianity on offer. Many of them are in step with the values and hopes of the culture. Some offer a path of prosperity and comfort (whether they ever deliver is another issue). Some offer helpful hints for hurtful habits and demand little more while others teach the path of positive thinking. In some, the music is rousing and contemporary, but often the theology is not intellectually demanding.
Why then would someone want to join a Faith that asks you to be regular in your attendance instead of coming when it suits you; that you fast as a lifestyle; adopt a prayer rule instead of just praying what you want and when you want; tithe instead of dropping in the box whatever you have in your pocket; study to challenge your thinking instead of believing that all you have to do is "read and heed"; attend classes to learn from others, etc.
The reason is the Holy Spirit, of course, who draws rare souls and shows them that the Church is not a cruise ship, but a battleship. While the Church is called to be in the world and witness to the world, it is not called to be contemporary or relevant to any culture in which it finds itself. To be Orthodox is to struggle, not only with the problems that come with living, but with the world, the flesh, and the devil.
St. Paul understood this. In 2 Timothy 4, he said that he had fought the good fight and had run the race. Hear the verbs he uses – fight and run. These are not the words that describe an easy life in the Faith. I've only been in a few physical fights and I've been in some intellectual battles. I learned that if you want to be victorious, you should learn to fight well. This requires that you gain some fighting skills and it also requires that you know something about your opponent. A good runner has to train, and eat well, but above all he or she must have a good heart. To run well and to fight well involves body, mind, and soul.
In Orthodoxy, it is the same. The Faith requires body, mind, and soul. If you do not train the body, it will shipwreck your faith with its constant demands for pleasure and comfort. If you do not train the mind, the father of lies will deceive you and draw you away from the Faith. If you do not feed the soul, then when adversity comes, you will not have the strength to stand.
What about the finish? In my time as a minster and priest, I have seen many people come and go. They started with a lot of zeal but ended in failure. Paul said that the end of his fight and struggle was that he had finished the course and had kept the faith. Sadly, the end of the struggle for some is leaving the faith. Some Orthodox object to the idea that struggle is unavoidable or that the Faith should make any demands. They want what is called a "chapel of ease," where they can come, light a candle, enjoy a nice service, have a nice cup of coffee, and then leave. Orthodoxy will not be much of a part of their daily life. If there is any sign of struggle in the Church family, they are gone, often for good.
Bishop Fulton Sheen said the following: Christianity is not passing away because it is too hard. It is passing away because it is too soft. Many will not fight and they cannot run and they find it impossible to keep the Faith. As St. Paul once said, they have the form of Christianity, but they do not have the power. I think of what the Spirit often said to the Churches in the book of Revelation: "to he who overcomes (who keeps the Faith), I will give him a crown- the 2nd death will not touch him- and so on. Those who wear the crowns are those who have won the battle.
Let me offer a final word of encouragement. I often feel weak and many times I have failed the Lord. What keeps me fighting and struggling is the limitless mercy and forgiveness of God. It is this mercy that makes the perseverance of the saints possible. I know that in any war, you may lose a few battles. Yet, if you remain obedient to the Commander, in the end you will win the war.
Fight, run, finish. To be Orthodox is to struggle not just to loose weight, or pay the bills, etc. It is a struggle to keep the Faith. After all, the Lord promised a cross to those who followed him. I think that on judgment day, the only thing the Lord will ask us is "did you struggle to keep the Faith?" If we did, then we have fought the good fight, we have run the course, and we have finished the race..
I had a chance to hear Fr. Valery Lukianov speaking to his family and friends about the Thanksgiving season. Fr. Valery has always been a very engaging speaker and this was another example. Among other things, he spoke of how we should be glad that the entire nation, Christian or not, took a moment to be thankful, to say thanks to God or to a friend or family member. This caused me to reflect that Thanksgiving is a moment, for those of us who are Orthodox, to understand what it must have been like to live in an Orthodox country where feast days and traditions were largely shared by the entire culture. I do hope that you had a wonderful Thanksgiving season with those that you love.
It would be a sad life to live it without gratitude and thankfulness. Yet, it is interesting that while we often feel gratitude for those who love and serve us, we are slow to thank them. Though they may be grateful, I have known men who rarely thank their wives, and I have known wives who rarely thank their husbands. I know of children who rarely thanked their parents, and parents who rarely thanked their children. The list could go on and on. Family and friends serve us because they love us, and they don't do it to be thanked. Yet, if gratitude is rarely shown, that service becomes ever more difficult to give. So, please: thank your priest, thank your parishioners, thank your parents, thank your children, thank your wife, thank your husband, thank the police, thank the military, and so on.
Above all, thank God from whom all blessings flow.
We need to go a little deeper. For those who follow Christ, gratitude is more than an attitude. As important as it is to express our thanks to those who have served us, giving thanks is more than words, more than an internal attitude. Allow me a personal memory. My brother and sisters and I thought to make Mother's Day a bit more special than usual. So we planned breakfast in bed for mom and made some things to show how we were thankful for all that she did. Mom was happy and thanked us for the effort. Later, as we were talking, she reminded us that while she appreciated the effort, the best way to show our gratitude was to clean our rooms, pick up our socks, bring our dishes to the sink, etc., and on a daily basis. That lesson stuck with me, but I can't say that I always followed it.
It is vital to a good life to feel gratitude and speak words of thankfulness, especially to God. Yet, I think God wants me to pick up my socks and bring my dirty dishes to the sink. I show my gratitude when I say my prayers as the Church teaches me. I show my gratitude when I pick up my dirty socks in confession. I show gratitude when I challenge my lazy and ungrateful flesh with fasting. Above all that I could do, I show my thankfulness most when I stoop down and bind the wounds of those who have fallen by the wayside; when I anoint them with wine and oil; when I carry them to the Inn, provide for their care, and promise to return. Such an act shows that I am thankful, not just in word, or in attitude, but from the depths of my soul.
The Greek word for Holy Communion is ευχαριστία (eucharistia). It means "thanksgiving." So, every Sunday, we come to celebrate the feast of Thanksgiving (so does this mean turkey and dressing every Sunday?) We come to express from the depths of our souls the gratitude and joy that we feel for all that the Lord Jesus has done for us. May we also give thanks for all that He has done through us to others and know the joy that in our gratitude to Him, we have picked up our socks and washed the dishes.
Happy Eucharist to you all.
I don't know if you ever watched the Jerry Springer Show on television. It's been on for many years and is still quite popular. Basically, people come on the show to tell the world about their problems and sins. Most often, people tell about some affair with the love interest of a friend or relative. It's something of a public confession. Most of the time, the offended spouse or partner comes out, and it ends in physical violence. The audience roars in laughter and approval. Americans seem to love this kind of thing.
Here is one story that Jerry Springer would love. A preacher, a supposed man of God, had the audacity to sleep with a prostitute. He wanted her to stay with him, so he gave her a lot of money. They had two children out of wedlock. The prostitute was torn emotionally. She wanted to continue to sleep with her clients, but the preacher was a jealous man who did not want any rivals. Knowing the kindness and generosity of the preacher, she wanted to remain faithful to him but she thought often about her lovers. The preacher promised that if she would just stay with him and be faithful, he would marry her, make her respectable, and give her many gifts. What would she do? Who would she choose- her clients or the preacher? Yes, Jerry Springer would love to have these folks on his show.
It might surprise you to discover that the preacher is the prophet Hosea.
Although this story can be found in the book of Hosea, it isn't clear if it literally happened as some kind of prophetic sign, or is just an allegory told to make a theological point. Either way, what is the message of this story? Hosea represents God and Israel is the prostitute; that is Israel constantly goes after the gods of other nations. Despite this sad situation, God tells Israel that if she will repent and return to Him, he will marry her, bless her and will proudly proclaim to the world that He is the God of Israel. Would Israel remain with God, or go elsewhere? The history of Israel shows that this was not an easy choice for them. Sometimes they were faithful, many times they were not.
What does this story have to do with us? Forgive me for saying this, but spiritually speaking, we are all prostitutes. We seek out other lovers for what we believe they can give us. We are torn in our hearts because we know how loving and kind and generous God is and can be. We also know that He is a jealous God. So sometimes we draw close to God, but most of the time, we pursue other gods. What are the gods that we chase after? They are our ideals, passions, fantasies and desires. Some of our gods are mental and some are physical.
Hosea shows us that despite this condition of being divided in our loyalty, God continues to loves us completely. He does not disdain us and would marry us if we would just repent and be faithful. To be married to God means that we will come to know real intimacy with Him. He will know us and we will know him in deep and abiding love. He will be our God and we will be his people. How did Jesus put it? Eternal life is know the Father and the Son whom He has sent. We will know him, not just know about Him.
What will we do – continue to play the harlot and pursue our lovers or repent and be married? If we pursue other lovers, God will continue to love us, but eventually we will grow old. Our lovers will abandon us and we will be left alone. If we choose God, we will be blessed with a life of real intimacy and we will know that love forever.
It seems like a no-brainer, but we humans seem to love playing the harlot. Sadly, because of our divided loyalty, we may only know about the greatest love of all when we could live in that love and have it live in us. You may feel ashamed because of your past unfaithfulness. Your past doesn't matter. God loves you and would marry you today. So, repent and come home. A marriage feast has been set for you and God will clothe you in a wedding gown of righteousness. He will make you beautiful beyond anything that you can imagine and he will be proud to claim you as His own.
Love your enemies? Jesus must be kidding. In fact, He is not, and he put his words into practice, even to the Cross. Often, I don't love the people I call my friends. I don't know how in the world I'm supposed to love my enemies. The word "enemy" means someone that I don't like or actually despise. How am I supposed to love them? What living person has no enemies?
Pray –I wonder how often we think to pray for our enemies. Why pray for them? Mainly because only God can heal the wounds of the heart. In praying for our enemies, it may be our hearts that are healed.
Thank God for something good about your enemy– We tend to think of our enemies as being devoid of anything good. The fact is that they are no more evil than we are, and we believe that there is some good in ourselves. Dwelling on what is good rather than what is evil may result in realizing that like our enemy, we are a mix of good and evil. Maybe it was my evil that contributed to the conflict. Maybe, in the remembrance of wrongs, I have forgotten the part that I played and have made my enemy to be more of a villain than they deserve.
Shift your anger – One of the great roadblocks to creating peace is anger. Because of anger, we will not listen to any suggestion that reconciliation is possible. What does it mean to shift anger? It means to turn the power of anger against the root of habitual sin in our own hearts instead of outward against people who offend us. If we did this, we would soon be saints. Ask St. Moses the Black.
4, Treat them kindly – Finally, Jesus tells us that it is not enough to good to people we like. We must do something good to our enemies like turn the other cheek or walk the extra mile. We are to be like our Father who is good to the evil and well as to the just; who causes the rain to fall on the fields of the righteous and the unrighteous. So, Jesus said that we should be like Dad. In doing good things, we may find that we will change a heart and gain a friend. We might discover the treasure of true humility.
"Bless my enemies, O Lord. Even I bless them and do not curse them.
Enemies have driven me into Your embrace more than friends have. Friends have bound me to earth, enemies have loosed me from earth and have demolished all my aspirations in the world.
Do good to your enemies. Be like your Father in heaven. Loving your enemy will change your life, and save your soul.


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South Africa vs England live stream: how to watch 3rd Test cricket from anywhere
By Adam Marshall 2020-01-17T10:32:18Z
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For anybody still under the impression that Test cricket is a dying form of the game, we present South Africa vs England. And the case for the defence rests! Two Tests in and we've already been treated to some phenomenal cricket action - you can watch all of the action no matter where you are in the world with our South Africa vs England live stream cricket guide.
South Africa vs England 2019/20 Test series - where and when
The four-match Test series takes place at a quartet of different cricketing venues across South Africa in late December through to the end of January, with the following fixtures remaining:
3rd Test - 16–20 January 2020 (St George's Park, Port Elizabeth)
4th Test - 24–28 January 2020 (Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg)
Each day of play will start at 10am SAST local time meaning an 8am GMT start for folk watching in the UK.
With both teams entering something of a transition phase, it's a series that is set to give some sort of indication of England and South Africa's cricketing futures. Three ODIs and three T20 matches will follow the business of the proper cricket.
If the first Test marked a bit of a return to form for the Proteas, the second was all about Man of the MatchBen Stokes (again!). His quickfire third innings runs and devastating finishing salvo were enough to bring England all square. Oh, and a shout out for Dom Sibley's marathon maiden Test ton, too!
The drama of this fascinating series is set to continue in Port Elizabeth. So follow the instructions below to watch all of the action where we'll tell you how to grab a South Africa vs England live stream of the 3rd Test from pretty much anywhere on Earth.
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If you're away from home country and looking to see the action you'll likely to find you won't be able to thanks to geo-blocking. Thankfully there's a way to alleviate that frustration. By using a VPN you'll be able to watch the game without having to resort to watching via an illegal feed from a dodgy website you've discovered on Reddit.
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How to watch England play cricket in the UK
Sky Sports once again has exclusive live broadcast rights to the cricket in the UK. If you subscribe to Sky Sports, you'll be able to watch each match live on your TV. All matches will also be available in Ultra HD for Sky Q subscribers. You can also live stream all of the action on your phone or tablet using the Sky Go app.
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if you're not in the UK but want to catch up with any of the Sky coverage, then you'll need a VPN to relocate your IP to the UK and get around the region restrictions. Just follow those instructions above.
How to watch the Proteas Test series in South Africa
Live coverage of England's tour of South Africa will be shown on subscription service, SuperSport in South Africa.
If you're away from the TV you can also watch the action via the network's streaming service for PC and Mac as well as via SuperSports' dedicated app.
If you want to catch SuperSports coverage but are out of the country, you can use a VPN using this guide.
How to live stream South Africa vs England in Australia
Unfortunately there's also no confirmed broadcaster for the Test series for folks looking to tune in from Australia.
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"I have nothing to offer but
...........blood, toil, tears and sweat."
............................................ ...Sir Winston Churchill
First Airborne Task Force
* 517th RCT
- 460th PFAB
- 596th AEC
* 509th PIB
- 463rd PFAB
* 551st PIB
* 550th AB
- 602nd GFAB
- 334th QM Co
- 512 AB Sig Co
- 676 Med Coll Co
503rd RCT
503rd PIR
462nd PFAB
161st AEB
541st PIR
542nd PIR
555th PIB
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Airborne Quarterly
The 676th Medical Collecting Company - 1st Airborne Task Force
he 676th Medical Collecting Company of the 164th Medical Battalion arrived in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations (MTO) on 30 April 1944. The company operated from Naples,Italy, Marseille and Dijon in Southern France where the unit obtained campaign credits for Rome-Arno and Southern France (Operation Dragoon) campaigns.
By the middle of July nearly all the airborne units to be employed on Operation Dragoon had been assembled in the Rome area. An intensive final training program had begun by the 1st ABTF in conjunction with the Airborne Training Center. Of the Airborne units to be used in the operation, only the 509th Parachute Infantry Battalion and the 2nd British Independent Parachute Brigade Group had received any recent combined airborne training with the Troop Carrier units. The 517th PRCT had just come out of the line with the Fifth Army as had the 463rd parachute Artillery Battalion. Other units, such as the 551st Parachute Infantry Battalion and the 550th glider Infantry Battalion had but recently arrived overseas and had been given a course in ground and airborne refresher training at the Airborne Training Center.
An immediate priority was the training of the newly chosen glider-borne troops. A combined glider school was set up and instruction commenced in the mechanics of loading and lashing for the units involved. The units involved in this difficult last minute procedure were the 602nd Pack Field Artillery Battalion, the 442nd Infantry Anti Tank company, the 887th Airborne Aviation Engineer Company, Company A, 2nd Chemical Battalion, Company D, 83rd Chemical Battalion, and the various other units such as the Division Ordnance Detachment and the 676th Medical Collecting Company.Once these troops had finished the course in loading and lashing, they were given orientation flights and finally one practice operational landing on a simulated LZ.
To serve the whole task force, the 676th Medical Collecting Company of the 164th Medical Battalion, with clearing elements attached, went through special glider training. Six officers, a technician, and a team of the 2d Auxiliary Surgical Group constituted the medical support for the 1st Special Service Force (FSSF). 25 gliders were allocated to the company which is composed of 104 officers and enlisted men under company commander, Major Smith.
Training of medical troops followed techniques similar to those used in earlier amphibious operations, including waterproofing of vehicles and equipment, shore-to-ship evacuation, and ambulance and litter carries under simulated combat conditions.
The 1st Airborne Task Force was supported initially by parachute medical troops making up the parachute infantry detachments. Personnel of the 676th Medical Collecting Company began landing in the vicinity of Le Muy by glider about 0800 on D-day with the fifth and last wave of gliders at 6:00 PM on the day. They landed at 6:51 PM and consisted of 14 Waco gliders carrying the A Cmpany of 2nd Chemical Mortar Battalion, 8 Wacos carrying the 512nd Airborne Signal Company and 25 Wacos carrying the 676th Medical Collecting Company of 164th Medical Battalion responsible for establishing a field hospital in Mitan. It departed from Canino, Italy from the LZ O . Medical supplies and equipment, preloaded in 12 jeeps with ¼-ton trailers, were landed safely. A collecting station was established in a barn at Le Metan soon after the first wave landed, personnel and equipment being added as they arrived. The station moved to larger quarters on 16 August. In all, 227 casualties were treated before evacuation to the CAMEL beaches by Army transportation was possible on 17 August.
Evacuation of casualties to larger medical facilities started with patients being transferred to a provisional hospital operated by the 514th Medical Clearing Company (parent unit: 58th Medical Battalion) in Nice, Southern France. The remainder of the 164th Medical Battalion landed with the "CAMEL" Attack Force led by the 36th Infantry Division.
THE 676th Medical Collecting Company finished serving the First Airborne Task Force at the end of October 1944 and transferred to European Theater of Operation (ETO) jurisdiction 20 November 1944.
(Source: Alex Cross)
Breuer, William B Operation Dragoon: The Allied Invasion of the South of France. Presidio Press, Sept 1987 261 p. ISBN: 0891413073
De Trez, Michel First Airborne Task Force: Pictorial History of the Allied Paratroopers in the Invasion of Southern France 7/98, D-Day Pub, 500 p. ISBN: 2960017625
Golden, Lewis Echoes From Arnhem Penguin ISBN: 0718305213
Hicks, Anne The Last Fighting General: The Biography of Robert Tryon Frederick Schiffer Pub Ltd, 320pp, ISBN: 0764324306
McKenzie, John On Time, On Target Novato, CA: Presidio, May 15,2000. 304 p. ISBN: 089 141 714 1
The Center of Military History The War in the Mediterranean: A WWII Pictorial History Brasseys, Inc., 465 p. ISBN:1574881302
Yardley, Doyle R Home Was Never Like This. Yardley Enterprises, Aug, 2002, 312 p. ISBN:0971743908


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Lucas Yoder
Birth Date February 19, 1995 (24 years old)
Home Town San Clemente, CA
Resides San Clemente, CA
College Southern California
United States 9th $2,100
AVP 9th $2,100
International 3rd $0
FIVB AGWC 3rd $0
Overall 3rd $2,100
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College: In 2014 Yoder was the Volleyball Magazine National Freshman of the Year, ranking sixth in kills in the nation. He led Southern Cal in kills as a freshman, junior and senior, and ended his career with 1,032 kills.
Personal: Yoder was a Volleyball Magazine Fab 50 member in high school. Yoder's dad, Dave, was an outside hitter for USC who played on three NCAA runner-up teams and his sister, Molly, was a libero at UC-Irvine. His uncle, Bob, was an All-American volleyball player who won a national championship both as a player and a coach at USC. He has three cousins that played collegiate volleyball at USC; Erin, Paul and Jack, while his cousin Cory was an All-American at UC-Irvine.
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2016 AVP 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0.00 75.0 178th 0 0 0 1 0
2018 AVP 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 $1,500.00 530.0 50th 0 1 1 2 0
2019 AVP 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $600.00 341.0 104th 0 0 1 0 1
(Rank) 8
(964th) 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 $2,100.00
(464th) 946.0 0 1 2 3 1
2013 FIVB AGWC 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 $0.00 112.0 0 0 0 0 0
Total 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 $0.00 112.0 0 0 0 0 0
(Rank) 9 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 $2,100.00
(1411th) 1,058.0 0 1 2 3 1
Partner Played 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 7th 9th Money Points 13th 15th 17th 21st 25th
Hagen Smith 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 $1,250 425.0 0 0 1 2 0
Ric Cervantes 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $600 209.0 0 0 1 0 0
Eric Beranek 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $250 105.0 0 1 0 0 0
Tom Kohler 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 75.0 0 0 0 1 0
Christian Honer 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 132.0 0 0 0 0 1
Total 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 $2,100 946.0 0 1 2 3 1
Torey DeFalco 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 $0 112.0 0 0 0 0 0
Total 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 $0 112.0 0 0 0 0 0
Total 9 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 $2,100 1,058.0 0 1 2 3 1
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California: Hermosa Beach AVP 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $250 105.0 0 1 0 0 0
California: Manhattan Beach AVP 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $600 209.0 0 0 1 0 0
California: San Francisco AVP 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 $1,250 150.0 0 0 0 0 0
Illinois: Chicago AVP 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 132.0 0 0 0 0 1
New York AVP 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 180.0 0 0 0 2 0
Texas: Austin AVP 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 95.0 0 0 1 0 0
Washington: Seattle AVP 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 75.0 0 0 0 1 0
Portugal: Porto FIVB Age Group WC 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 $0 112.0 0 0 0 0 0
7/10-14 Porto, Portugal Torey DeFalco 9 3 112
PH: d. Rufaro Choto / Jonathan Mhandu (24) 21-8, 21-8 (0:28)
PH: d. Florian Aberger / Robert Moser (Q6,25) 21-19, 21-10 (0:32)
PH: d. Bernardo Martins / Francisco Pombeiro (8) 21-14, 21-18 (0:42)
W2: d. Donovan Dzavoronok / Michael Hadrava (12) 21-14, 21-14 (0:29)
W3: d. Ronald Bolivar / Tigrito Gomez (15) 21-8, 21-19 (0:34)
SF: l. Moritz Reichert / Clemens Wickler (5) 19-21, 19-21 (0:35)
B: d. Lukas Kazdailis / Arnas Rumsevicius (Q14,21) 22-24, 21-18, 15-8 (0:48)
Sets Won-Lost: 12-3
Best Finish: 3rd
Ranking: 22nd
6/16-19 New York Tom Kohler Q15 21 75
Q2: d. Luke Myers / Jason Raney (Q18) 22-24, 21-12, 15-13 (1:00)
Q3: l. Maddison McKibbin / Riley McKibbin (Q2,14) 17-21, 15-21 (0:35)
5/17-20 Austin Hagen Smith Q25 17 95
Q1: d. Jared Carlson / Shawn Ledig (Q40) 21-10, 21-15 (0:31)
Q2: d. Andy Benesh / Cole Fiers (Q57) 21-16, 21-17 (0:44)
Q3: d. Kacey Losik / Garrett Wilson (Q9) 21-17, 21-13 (0:37)
6/7-10 New York Hagen Smith Q18 21 105
Q2: d. Jake Rosener / Travis Schoonover (Q15) 21-16, 21-15 (0:43)
Q3: l. Maddison McKibbin / Riley McKibbin (Q2,14) 21-18, 19-21, 13-15 (1:14)
6/21-24 Seattle Hagen Smith Q17 21 75
Q1: d. John Laidlaw / Tony Little (Q48) 21-11, 21-9 (0:34)
Q2: d. Branden Clemens / Kevin McColloch (Q16) 21-16, 23-21 (0:48)
7/5-8 San Francisco Hagen Smith Q13,15 9 $1,250.00 150
Q2: d. Aidan Brown / Nathan Yang (Q20) 21-19, 21-18 (0:49)
Q3: d. Troy Field / Adam Roberts (Q4) 22-20, 21-10 (0:43)
Q4: d. Duncan Budinger / Daniel Dalanhese (Q5) 22-24, 21-17, 15-13 (0:59)
W1: l. Jeremy Casebeer / Reid Priddy (2) 19-21, 17-21 (0:47)
C1: d. Maddison McKibbin / Riley McKibbin (10) 21-19, 21-18 (0:45)
C2: l. Casey Patterson / Stafford Slick (4) 23-25, 14-21 (0:46)
7/26-29 Hermosa Beach Eric Beranek Q5,20 15 $250.00 105
Q2: d. Wyatt Harrison / Chicory Roth (Q69) 21-15, 21-23, 15-5 (0:59)
Q3: d. Tomas Salava / Kyle Stevenson (Q28) 21-17, 22-20 (0:55)
Q4: d. Chris Littleman / Brian Miller (Q44) 21-13, 21-11 (0:41)
W1: d. Mark Burik / Ian Satterfield (13) 21-17, 22-20 (0:48)
W2: l. Trevor Crabb / John Mayer (4) 17-21, 11-21 (0:38)
C1: l. Troy Field / Chase Frishman (14) 15-21, 21-23 (0:43)
Matches Won-Lost: 14-7
Sets Won-Lost: 30-16
Winnings: $1,500
Ranking: 50th
8/15-18 Manhattan Beach Ric Cervantes Q52,32 17 $600.00 209
Q1: d. Ossie Barreras / Mike Maghy (Q77) 21-10, 21-9 (0:38)
Q2: d. Ozz Borges / Bobby Jacobs (Q13) 21-18, 21-12 (0:52)
Q3: d. Ty Coutts / Michael Groselle (Q20) 21-15, 18-21, 15-12 (1:02)
Q4: d. Jake Rosener / Christopher Vaughan (Q4) 21-13, 21-19 (0:43)
W1: l. Phil Dalhausser / Nick Lucena (1) 13-21, 14-21 (0:36)
C1: d. Paul Lotman / Gabriel Ospina (16) 21-18, 13-21, 15-10 (0:57)
C2: l. Andy Benesh / Adam Roberts (18) 24-26, 24-22, 13-15 (1:21)
8/29-9/1 Chicago Christian Honer Q12 25 132
Q2: d. Angel Dache / Brian Tillman (Q21) 21-18, 27-25 (0:55)
Q3: l. Peter Connole / Steven Roschitz (Q5,19) 21-19, 18-21, 11-15 (0:57)


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Home » Narcissist Abuse Recovery » How to Think Like a Narcissist and Why You Should
How to Think Like a Narcissist and Why You Should
One of the things that helped me the most in the aftermath of the long, strange, exhilarating, painful relationship I had with my ex-boyfriend was learning to think as he did.
It's not easy and it's not pretty, but it has been crucial in my recovery from the relationship.
At first, it made me literally physically sick and I rejected the reality of what I learned because it was too horrible to consider even when the truth of it was standing right in front of me screaming in my face and all I had to do was accept it.
Then, I rejected it because I couldn't absorb it rationally for a variety of reasons.
And then, I did begin to accept it when I realized it was the only thing left that made sense. A part of me, however, still did not want to face this new reality.
Then, I stopped resisting and let the initial pain of what I learned scab over until I started to heal and see a future for myself in which everything was going to be okay.
It was the truth that began to set me free.
1 What Does It Mean to 'Think Like a Narcissist?'
3 Why Thinking Like a Narcissist Is So Important
4 How to Think Like a Narcissist
5 Why Thinking Like a Narcissist Is So Hard to Do
6 Why Thinking Like a Narcissist Sets Us Free
What Does It Mean to 'Think Like a Narcissist?'
The way to understand what "thinking like a narcissist" means is to think about how when reading a novel, because of the way the author has crafted the words, you know what the main character is feeling and thinking to the point that you have such a deep comprehension of that character's motivations that you could explain them to someone else.
Their actions make sense to you.
Note that "making sense" out of something doesn't mean you like or agree with the character's choices. Yet what it does mean is that everything in the book that the character does will be consistent within the context of the narrative. Nothing should stand out as being out of place.
The goal, therefore of "thinking like a narcissist" is to slip into their mind, to try to view the world from their eyes and understand what it is that motivates them to do the things that they do.
What Thinking Like a Narcissist is Not:
Excusing their behavior or giving them a free pass. Just because you understand something or are willing to try doesn't mean that people are absolved of their wrongdoing.
Accepting pretty much anything the narcissist says and using it as a measure of how or what they think. Just as in novels, sometimes characters (or narrators) are unreliable, and you have to pay attention to other things beyond what they tell you to learn about who they really are.
Reading about Narcissistic Personality Disorder. If we want to know what it is like to have cancer, we can read about the symptoms online or we can talk to someone who has it. Those are two different ways of knowing something, the former objective and the latter more subjective. In this case, the benefit to which I'm referring in this article of understanding how narcissists think comes from a subjective understanding from their own points of view, not the clinical scientific objective descriptions.
Why Thinking Like a Narcissist Is So Important
There are many different types of reading material to help us process narcissistic abuse. Most of the material is focused on the experience of and effects on the survivor, as it should be.
There is also a lot of material focused on describing the tactics that are perpetrated by the narcissists from a more objective perspective that helps us to recognize and put a name on the patterns of abuse we experience in these relationships and validate what we are going through.
All of this reading material can help us to get a sense of what the perpetrators look like in terms of their systematic behaviors, such as the cycle of abuse and what to expect.
What tends to be missing, however, is the why.
So, for example, why does a narcissist love-bomb a partner in the beginning of a relationship then over time begin to degrade, devalue and dehumanize the very same partner, and then intermittently switch back and forth between the two, seemingly moving back and forth between love and hate?
For a long time, it seemed I had one of two alternatives to understand the answer to this mind-boggling question (and others).
Ask my ex-boyfriend.
Accept the answer, "Because he is a narcissist."
The first alternative was problematic because it gave him infinite opportunities to hoover me by promising to provide me with answers with why he did "this" or "that" or how I should give him the chance to explain something. By the end, he knew the one thing I needed from him the most was answers and it was the only reason I agreed to see him at all.
This alternative was also problematic because his answers were always unsatisfying. Even for just the scenario described above, how was he ever going to give me a satisfactory answer? A non-self-aware narcissist would not have the insight to know the answers I sought and a self-aware narcissist would not give me the answers if he had them.
My other alternative was just to accept that, well, he did it because he was a narcissist, but…
That's like saying the sky is blue because that's the color in the visible light spectrum we can see when we look at it. Okay, yes, obviously. But why?
I wanted to go deeper than just "because narcissists are evil" or "because narcissists like to hurt people." Even if those were the reasons, which wanted to find out more about, I wanted to know why. What did they actually get out of it? What were they trying to accomplish, if hurting people was the goal?
For example, there were many moments that my boyfriend had been exceptionally kind and loving when it hadn't been necessary and when he'd said loving things about me and hadn't known it would get back to me, and those things didn't make sense if only being cruel was the goal.
If I tried to pretend that those moments didn't exist, then that puzzle I was trying to put together in my mind was going to keep coming back to haunt me as the pieces still weren't going to fit together very well until I could at least try to explain that somehow.
I wanted to quiet my mind. I wanted to stop wondering why things had happened how they did once and for all.
The answer was that I had to think about the actual events that had happened in our relationship, the minute details, from his point of view.
How to Think Like a Narcissist
I found the writing of self-aware narcissists. There are two that I know of, each of which has very different styles, H.G. Tudor and Sam Vaknin.
Tudor writes first-person articles and books that describe exactly what he thinks and why and how it leads him to behave in certain situations. He covers all of the familiar tactics, such as love-bombing, triangulation, and hoovering, and discusses what causes narcissistic injury and why and why narcissists are so sensitive and why relationships with them won't work out.
The catch is that he often describes them through romantic relationship scenarios, going through exactly what he is thinking as he does the cruel or manipulative things that he does.
Vaknin is more academic in his approach than Tudor, objectively describing how and why narcissists approach relationships as they do in a very cold, objective manner, but very clearly explaining what motivates them.
There are other authors who do a good job of describing this as well, authors such as Elinor Greenberg and J.H. Simon. Greenberg is a psychologist who specializes in treating narcissists but has a very clear way of describing their intentions and motivations. Simon also has a fresh take on what drives narcissists to behave as they do.
Any of these authors can assist with this understanding, and, in fact, reading a variety of perspectives and authors will likely give the fullest picture.
Why Thinking Like a Narcissist Is So Hard to Do
Although it seems obvious that we may want to put ourselves in their shoes in order to understand why they do what they do, consider how non-obvious the rationality for their behavior is to us, and it becomes apparent why we have to make a conscious effort to do this or to even think to do it.
In the example of reading a novel and understanding a character's motivations, this stands in complete opposition to our relationship with the narcissist, in which their behavior is rife with inconsistency and the entire narrative of the relationship is nonsensical, and we are left with the inability even to explain to ourselves, much less anyone else, what has happened.
The disconnect is that narcissists are not operating from the same mindset from which neurotypicals engage with the world. Yet we know that they are not psychotic and we must assume they are rational actors at least to themselves, so as we puzzle over why their behavior oscillates between love and hate (or other things that they do), we must understand what it is that motivates them and what they want to accomplish in order to determine why this happens.
This is the first reason why thinking like a narcissist is so difficult to do: it doesn't come naturally. If it did, we wouldn't be so puzzled about their behavior in the first place.
The second reason why is because it is harsh and painful. For example, reading that, in the mind of a narcissist, something that meant so much to us meant so little to them can be brutal. To read it in the cold manner written by the narcissists Tudor or Vaknin can be especially painful, as they do not sugar-coat the information, and, in the case of Tudor, they write directly from the perspective of a narcissist who is perpetrating abuse on someone and it is like listening to their thoughts as they do the things that were done to us that hurt us so much.
Even if the goal is to show others how and why the narcissist is being abusive, the candid dehumanization of us and our emotions, although it is symbolically represented in these writings, can feel at first as if it is simulating the trauma we have already endured.
I hold the belief, however, that the temporary pain is worth the final outcome.
Why Thinking Like a Narcissist Sets Us Free
It comes down to a choice between holding onto pretty lies and half-truths, which keep us positioned to be emotionally bled dry by the narcissist, or if the relationship has ended, keep us tied to the narcissist in a way that makes it impossible to recover, or temporarily exposing ourselves to painful ideas to gain freedom.
The good news is that the exposure to "thinking like a narcissist" can be done at our own pace.
Small doses can have a large effect and over time, these accumulate to start to sink in to retrain our minds and undo the brainwashing that the narcissist has implanted about his or her intentions.
The important thing to remember is that no one can truly ever get into anyone's mind and know everything that they intended and some people may try to convince you that you are wrong for trying to impute intentions to others' behavior.
My response to this is that we already do this in our interactions with everyone we meet every day. We are always negotiating and sizing up what people intend in order to determine how to respond back to them, for example, in order to figure out who is "in charge" in certain environments, in order to determine what kind of mood someone is in, in order to determine whether someone is safe to engage with or not, and many other constant calculations we do both consciously and subconsciously that we aren't even aware of. Sometimes we get it wrong, but it's a necessary part of life.
The problem is that, with narcissists, so much of what they do is irrational, contradictory, destructive and has gone against the social and relationship norms that we have encountered, that it is normal for us to seek answers.
Seeking the answers as I write about it here is not for the sake of confronting them or exposing them. It is for the sake of putting our minds at ease as part of the closure we need to move on.
We don't need to contact them and ask for validation of what we learn. We don't have to get every piece right. We may have to read a few things about what narcissists in general think before we understand what the narcissist we were with was likely thinking.
But once things start to click into place, the benefit is that we start to understand that this is something that was much bigger than us and anything we ever did within the relationship with them. It is also much bigger than anything they ever said to us about who they wanted us to believe we were.
We slowly start to let go of the chains they bound us with– both the ones that felt so good to hold onto, and the ones that they had clamped around our throats.
The freedom of being able to breathe is well worth the pain of letting go.
Where to access the work of H.G. Tudor and Sam Vaknin.
H.G. Tudor: Website Youtube Channel Amazon Author Page
Sam Vaknin: Website Youtube Channel Amazon Author Page
So true, Kristin. Thank you for another great piece on narcissism! I delved into Tudor's world with curiosity and fear, and though I felt somewhat retraumatized by some of his incredibly candid, descriptive pieces…they ultimately liberated me from the confusion and cognitive dissonance that kept me chained to hope, the past and the perpetrator.
It's hard to accept complete insincerity and a lack of empathy from the person who meant so much to me at one point, but it's also one needs to fully move on with no contact.
Mary Beth Marlar
Hi, I'd like to read this information from Tudor that you mention. Where can I find that particular information that youve read?
Hi Mary Beth: I put a link to his author page on Amazon in the article. He's written several dozen books. I'll also edit the article right now with links to other sources where you can access his material. Thank you for taking the time to leave a comment. -Kristen
Hello C, I'm so glad you enjoyed the article, and that you were also able to find some peace and hope through gaining a better understanding of the narcissist's point of view. I agree it is traumatizing and painful at first and hard to accept, but liberating. Thank you for reading and for taking the time to share your thoughts. -Kristen


Had a Palestinian committed the exact same crime in the exact same location, he would find himself in an entirely different justice system. Maybe 'fair' is relative.
Israel's justice minister on Sunday said she "hopes" that the alleged Jewish terrorists indicted for murdering three members of the Dawabshe family will receive a fair and just trial. Hopes.
If you didn't know any better, one might conclude from Shaked's remarks that there are suspects in Israeli courts who do not receive fair trials — or at least who don't have equal access to the same justice system. And there are, of course. But those suspects are Palestinians.
The occupied territories, where the Dawabsha family was murdered, have two parallel, segregated legal systems: one for Jewish settlers and one for Palestinians.
Israeli settlers who commit violent acts against Palestinians — even acts as egregious as murdering a Palestinian family — are tried in civilian courts. On the other hand, Palestinians who take part in violence against Israelis — from stone throwing to shootings — are tried in military courts, where detainees have minimal rights, and the prosecution and the judges wear the same military uniform.
According to Israeli human rights group B'Tselem, of 835 Palestinian minors who were arrested and tried in military courts between 2005 and 2010 on charges of throwing stones, only one was acquitted.
Most Palestinian detainees brought to Ofer military prison spend only a few minutes in front of a judge, where the hearings are held entirely in Hebrew, with translations to and from Arabic by Israeli soldiers. The pressure to take a plea deal is often insurmountable.
The legal procedures in Israeli military courts are, on the face of it, meant to ensure the rights of the accused. Palestinians can appeal rulings to a military appellate court, and the civilian Supreme Court supervises the entire system. But how possible is it to keep the scales of justice balanced when the judge himself is conducting a trial against an enemy of the state?
Jewish citizens suspected of terrorism, on the other hand, are arrested and tried in civilian courts presided over by civilian judges — even if the crimes they are accused of committing took place deep inside the West Bank. A Palestinian suspected of the same crime committed in the exact same location, however, is put on trial in a military court system and sent to military prison.
And then there is the "us and them" factor. Last week The Forward reported that Justice Minister Shaked personally met with the mother of one of the Jewish terrorism suspects in the Dawabshe murder. Shaked was allegedly assuaging fears that the woman's son was being tortured by the Shin Bet.
In other words, the Jewish terrorist was one of us. His family has access to the halls of power. When was the last time a Palestinian prisoner's family was able to express their concerns about his or her treatment in custody with the minister of justice?
That is not to say that the Jewish suspects in the Dawabshe murder will not receive a fair trial — aside from the fact that coerced confessions are notoriously unreliable. This is just a good opportunity to remember that there is an entire population, who lives in the same land under a different set of laws, is denied access to a fair trial simply because of their ethnicity or religion. Though perhaps "fair" is a relative term.
Will Jewish terrorism suspects get a "fair trial"? That's silly, he has no worries. Maybe he'll get prison time but will never finish the sentence. Will his family home be destroyed? Did he have a prayer book on his person when he was arrested? When was he radicalized? What religious organizations did he belong to? Has he a history of radical, terrorist affiliation? Is he part of some group with nationalistic/extremist views? Is his lawyer going for an insanity plea or will the claim be he was ridding the land of infidels because his rabbi said it was the right thing to do? One thing that's probably certain, he'll never pay the full price for his crime because of his privileged status as a Jew and that isn't "fair" at all.
What 'full price' would you like them to pay?
They demand the release of terrorists who murdered Israeli civilians in cold blood, some of whom were children.
I won't even talk about what Hamas does. But let's talk about what the so called peace partners, the PLO, does. They demand the release of child murdering terrorists in exchange for agreeing to negotiate peace. But is it really peace negotiations they want? Nah! They want to dictate terms of surrender plus they want to free convicted child murderers. Is that how they treat child murderers when the children are Arabs? Do they want to free them? Nah, of course not!
For a small dose of historical perspective on this emotional whataboutery, consider this: If the 18 men in the wanted poster at the top of this article (link below) had been locked up in a British or Palestinian prison for two decades, do you not think Israelis occupied by the British would be demanding their release in exchange for negotiating? Look at the list of terrorist events in 1947 at the bottom of the page. There are plenty of streets in Israel named after Begin and other men on that poster.
This is not to excuse terrorism one iota. It's to provide an antidote to strident self righteousness about who gets released when and why. Would not a rough comparison be that Irgun and Lehi "terrorists" and even "child murdering terrorists" would be locked away in a British prison for two decades and Israelis then demanded their release as part of negotiating? Would you then be railing about the Israeli Jewish justice system? Or would you be quieter about it? And why?
When you post as Ben, you try to sound a little normal. When you post as "Israel" we see the true person you are: a retarded anti-Semitic mad dog. Stop fooling yourself. Get professional help.
When you post as "Ginger LIES", you sound like a deranged American Zionist loon. When you post as "Qur'an" we see the true person you are: a deranged American Zionist loon. Stop fooling yourself that you're fooling anyone, Ginger LIES, and piss off back to your true homeland: Stormfront!
Ok, Ginger LIES, now march out "Merkava", your butch man-hating Russian-American Jew-fascist lesbian personality, and show us what a deranged American Zionist loon sounds like, and how obsessed with "BEN" you are.
Do you have something against Lesbians?
that's the Muslim jihadi Ben alias "Bruce Gould alias" "Israel" alias "leffe" alias "Oriol", alias etc. who uses Jewish names to smear Israelis, attack the Jewish State and act like a mad dog again on this site.
Keep barking, Ben, and show the world how sexually obsessed you are with a female poster who treats you like you do not exist. You do us favor by showing the world the kind of anti-Semitic lunatics that gather here.
That's the American Zionist Jewhadi loon, Ginger LIES alias "Merkava' alias "Qur'an" alias "Merav" alias "Hercules" alias etc., who like all indoctrinated militant Zionist anti-Semites, reduces Jews to a hideous homogenized anti-Semitic Zionist Jewface parody version of Jews, and defiles Judaism by defending crimes against humanity committed by the "jewish state" and acts like a psychotic little Zionist Chihuahua dog on this site.
Keep barking, Ginger LIES, and show the world how sexually obsessed you are with a male who treats you like you do not exist. You do us all a favor by showing the world the kind of anti-Semitic Zionist lunatics that gather here.
Utter nonsense Benny here are just a few terrorists who were released as a result of Hamas's blackmail in exchange for Shalit's release, who served only a small portion of their sentences.
Date of Arrest: December 13, 2002.
His original sentence was 35 years.
There were others too but I can't be bothered looking them all up. (Hamas demanded the release of 1000 terrorists in exchange for one Israeli and they got their wish).
Oh and Benny is quick to say that a decade or two in prison is enough for child murdering terrorists but one has to wonder whether he would adopt the same standard for Jonathan Pollard. How long was the prison sentence that he served? Tell us Benny-leh, nu?
NO, THEY DON'T!!! They only want the release of murderers who murder ISRAELI JEWISH CHILDREN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah, Gastuv, and if you love your ISRAELI JEWISH CHILDREN so goddamned much: STOP ISRAEL USING THEM TO COMMIT WAR CRIMES IN PALESTINE!!!
Stop COMMITTING CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY with your ISRAELI JEWISH CHILDREN by transferring them into BELLIGERENTLY OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY, and forcing your ISRAELI JEWISH CHILDREN to live in ILLEGAL ISRAELI ARMED COLONIES BUILT INSIDE ISRAELI OCCUPIED PALESTINE in order "TO HAVE MORE DEFENSIBLE BORDERS", only to then turn around WAILING AND WHINING like some demented Zionist banshee whenever PALESTINIANS RESPOND to this IMMENSE and this DAILY ISRAELI PROVOCATION AND AGGRESSION BY KILLING SOME OF YOUR HUMAN SHIELDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But Gastuv the psychotic Zionist robot is not scandalized about ANY of this, oh no, because the only three things he truly loves in this world are ZIONISM, ISRAEL and DEMONIZING PALESTINIANS.
"One thing that's probably certain, he'll never pay the full price for his crime because of his privileged status as a Jew and that isn't "fair" at all".
And what would that "full price" be in your opinion? Perhaps the full price would be to declare him a shahid, name some streets in Israel after him, pay monthly salaries to his parents for every month he spends in prison and when he is released, give him some 70 – 100.000 USD as your Muslim Arab brothers in the West Bank do to terrorists who come to Israel and murdered innocent civilians?
What would be the outcome if the accused were Palestinian? If that outcome is "fair", then apply it to the Jewish accused. If it isn't "fair" for one, then its unfair for all.
When it comes to legal expertise, judicial independence, fairness and impartiality, Israeli courts are among the best in the western world. Be rest assured that Palestinians and Israelis receive fair trials in Israeli courts.
You can also rest assured that the Jewish suspect, if he indeed committed the heinous crime he is accused of, will not be treated as a hero and a martyr and paid tens of thousands of dollars for his "heroic" act as your Muslim Arab brothers do.
You can also rest assured that Palestinians are treated far better in Israeli courts than minorities are treated in the courts of the country you come from. Which country is that again?
Benny and his ilk complain about Israel which hunted down the thugs who committed a terrorist act against a people who have been making war on us for 100 years and who committed thousands of equally bad or worse terrorist acts against us.
Benny and his ilk previously complained that we were not making an effort to catch those Israeli thugs but now that we DID catch them, they already seem to know in advance that we will be lenient on them.
Now let me ask those complaining little cretins (Benny and his ilk) what do Palestinian Arabs do with child murdering terrorists who massacre entire Israeli families like the Fogel family?
…again, I'll answer since cretins like Carmen won't. They hide those terrorists because they want them to get off scot free for murdering Jewish Israeli children. AND they idolize those terrorists.
Compare and contrast. We catch the bastards and we punish them. The Arabs make every effort to hide them so that they won't be punished for murdering Israeli children!
But Benny/Carmen have the gall to try to preach to us?
All of this misses the main point I made. And Israel's record of pursuing routine Jewish price tagging, mosque burning, church burning, Arab assaulting, olive tree assaulting terrorists is dismal.
"Israel is ALWAYS Baaaaaaad" add water, mix and repeat endlessly.
"Arabs are either gooooood which according to you is most of the time or there is an excuse for their bad behavior, when you can't deny their undeniable bad behavior".
Heck that's exactly what you did on this very thread, Benny!
Can BEN present EVIDENCE that a Jew has committed offenses such as "price tagging, mosque burning, church burning, Arab assaulting" and that Israel "dismissed" the case? Would BEN be kind enough to cite the names and places of those involved in the cases he has in mind and when those cases were dismissed?
If BEN cannot answer the question, does BEN then have the moral courage to admit that his claim is false?
Merkava blathering about "moral courage." Thanks for the comic relief, we're still laughing about that, and the jokes are still flying, over here at Ben's house. If you only knew how we make fun of you. If only you knew.
BEN admits that he has NO evidence to back up his false claims and malicious lies!
That's a good enough admission, no matter how snarlingly given.
Stop it you're killing us! Merkava redeploys "snarling"! Against us! It's too much! Our sides are aching!
Oh there is no question that BEN is schizophrenic and that there are legions of little BENs existing in BEN's schizophrenic mind. Keep hallucinating and making a fool of yourself, psycho.
You lost the debate, yet again.
On this site you (Benny) accused Israel of not treating Israeli thugs as harshly as Arab thugs. What does that translate to? It translates to you claiming that Israel is baaad!
I then countered that Palestinians….
1. Demand the release of child murderers in exchange for negotiations. You, Benny, made the excuse that they already served enough jail time. Get it, Benny? You excused Arab blackmail.
2. I pointed out that Palestinian Arabs don't release child murderers when the victim is an Arab child. You ignored that..
See Benny? It all boils down to one thing with you. When you perceive Israel behaving badly, you take a harsh stance against Israel. When it is pointed out to you that Arabs behave badly, you come up with excuses or you just plain ignore those wrongs. I could sorta understand that kind of bias if you would be an Arab. After all, it is natural for people to be defensive about their own kind. But you pretend to be an outsider, an American. Are you lying about that? Outsiders normally are willing to see both sides and blame both sides when they behave badly.
There is of course a possibility that you are an outsider (not an Arab) who is a hater. That would also explain you undoubted pro Arab bias and extreme hatred of Israel.
So which one of those are you Benny? Are you a liar (coz you are not really American)? Or are you a hater?
The intellectual and moral impoverishment of the Israeli far right could hardly be better illustrated than by these ludicrous, eerily empty, manipulative non-responses by Gustav to both me and Bruce Gould, unless it's the incoherent jabberings of his sidekick Merkava.
LOL. All I can say about Benny's accusation about my so called 'non response' is to invite people to read my previous post and compare it to Benny's above post.
Compare and contrast and decide who is the non responder.
Benny's mentality illustrates what Israel is up against in the war against us by Palestinian Arabs and those who hate us for being alive.
LOL. All I can say about this demented Zionist tool's ridiculous "responses" is: What a ridiculous little Zionist oxygen thief.
I invite people to read this deranged Zionist fellow's ridiculous "responses" and to judge for themselves just how ridiculous he is.
Moreover, this possessed Zionist Gastuv fellow's mentality illustrates what the Palestinians are up against in "the 100 year war" being waged against them by the indoctrinated foreign Zionist colonial-settler invaders – who first invaded and began colonizing the indigenous Palestinian Peoples' Homeland over 100 years ago – and their Zionist proxies, all of whom hate the indigenous Palestinian people passionately, for being alive and standing their ground and daring to resist the violent invasion, occupation and colonization of their Palestinian Homeland by deranged foreign Zionist invaders and criminals, just like any people would.
Gustav, most of the time I would vehemently disagree with Ben, as I do think he's a bit overdoing it- but in this case I'm afraid I'll have to agree with him.
Person A wakes up one morning, on a hilltop somewhere in the west bank. He looks at the settlement next to him, screams out "Death to the illegal invaders!", carries a little prayer to his God, and goes out to murder the Fogel family as they sleep.
Person B wakes up one morning, on a hilltop somewhere in the west bank. He looks at the settlement next to him, screams out "Death to the illegal invaders!", carries a little prayer to his God, and goes out to murder the Dawabshe family as they sleep.
This is of course a dramatization, I'm not 100% sure what each person cried out- but the rest of the story is hauntingly similar. Person A and Person B both murdered sleeping families for a religious\political cause.
The way both were treated is unbelievably different. Granted, person B did set up a precedent for being pulled into administrative detention, and being subjected to the same treatment as Palestinians do (And rightly so, in my opinion), but this is where the similarities end.
Person B is tried in a civil court, has the backing of Honenu behind him, his parents got to meet an Israeli minister, and he will probably never have his house demolished, his settlement put under curfew, and will likely never experience night raids to search for inciting propaganda.
Person A's parents will likely never meet with an Israeli minister, demolishing their house was\is a viable option, and they will be tried under a military court with slim legal representation.
Honestly, I don't give a pair of fetid dingo's kidneys about how Palestinians handle their prisoners for the simple fact that I am not a Palestinian, and if I ever commit a crime I will not be subjected to Palestinian Justice. As an Israeli, I will be tried under Israeli court.
And as an Israeli citizen, I do honestly expect my country to treat Jewish and Palestinian terrorists in the same way, to use the same methods against both and to crack down against both in the same harsh (some would say too harsh, but I would strongly disagree), manner. The Palestinians can execute their criminals by chopping their heads off, or they can give them a slap on the wrist- I honestly don't care. It's not my country and I don't live there.
What I do care about is how my country handles people who murder sleeping families, and they should both be treated exactly the same. The sad fact is, that Jewish terrorists are not treated the same as Arab ones.
Two people murdered a family in their sleep, yet they will not be treated the same. Which is not quite right, in my opinion. I do think that we should treat Jewish terrorists exactly the same way as we do Arab ones- but sadly this will not happen.
The main suspect who burned an Arab teenager is pleading insanity, and will likely be unfit to stand trial- which in my opinion is a travesty. A few years ago the "hilltop youth" set fire to a military outpost, they used to constantly damage military vehicles and attack officers who weren't complacent enough in their opinion, and the government did nothing.
The sad fact is that we're not cracking down hard enough on Jewish terrorists. It looks like we're starting to do now what we should have done years ago, and treat Jewish extremists the same way we treat Arabs.
And even then- you get people wailing about how the shabak tortures suspects. I never heard them cry about it when the suspects were Palestinians. On the contrary, they were criticizing the government for being too lenient and not doing enough.
Take my opinion any way you'd like, I really couldn't care less. But I would appreciate it if you could try and have a civilized discussion without jumping to conclusions and resorting to personal attacks.
"Guy L", you're rambling. What "settlement next to him"? Neither The Dawabshehs nor The Fogels were living in a "settlement" when they died: One family died in an illegal tzahal protected Israeli armed colony, in belligerently occupied Palestine; one family died in their home, in belligerently occupied Palestine. Israel was, and still remains the belligerent occupying power in belligerently occupied Palestine.
And pleeeease don't get me started on all that ridiculous "terrorists" nonsense.
Last time I checked the word "settlement" referred to a small community of people living in the same place, much like a small town or village. I just looked at a dictionary again to make sure- and it does indeed mean just that. You can also take a look if you don't believe me.
If it works better for you, you can replace the word "settlement" with "peaceful village of indigenous peoples ", or with "illegal state sponsored apartheid nest of fascist thugs".
And as much as I disapprove what we do in the WB and Gaza, I can't think of any other definition for people who murder sleeping families for a political cause. They are both terrorists, but sadly Israel serves one justice for Jewish terrorists and another justice for Palestinian terrorists.
And pleeeeease don't get me started on all that ridiculous "terrorists" nonsense.
There's no pleasure seeing what's going on here. There's no cause to celebrate the murders of our fellow human beings. The downward spiraling of humanity into darkness and depravity, once seen, can't be ignored, justified, what about wherever'd or conflated with religion/patriotism.
I'm not intersted in the boisterous, bellicose blathering of 972 pseudo-jurists. Time will tell if there will be justice for Palestinians. Until that time I have to agree with the research and reporting done by Mr. Edo Konrad and thank him for another excellent article.
"There's no pleasure seeing what's going on here. There's no cause to celebrate the murders of our fellow human beings".
Another jealous rambling mumbo jumbo. You are making-up stuff again and seeing things that do not exist and hallucinating. There is no one here celebrating the murders of our fellow human beings. You are the one who justifies the murder of innocent Israelis if they are Jews and shed hypocritical tears if they are Arabs. There is no pleasure seeing a hypocritical foreigners like you around here making-up stuff and trying too hard to smear Israelis.
Do you condemn the fact that your Muslim Arab brothers celebrate terrorist murderers as heroes and martyrs, name Arab streets after them to honor them, pay thousands of dollars monthly salaries to their families?
I am sure you will not answer the question and that says a lot about who you are.
Yeah, of course Ginger LIES from AMERICA, because everyone is just soooo incredibly jealous of your apparent ability to spew endless Zionist mumbo jumbo about Palestinians, under multiple aliases, in order to support the obscene CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY that Israel has been COMMITTING IN PALESTINE every day, for decades: IN THE NAME OF ALL JEWS – INCLUDING YOU!
You are an ZIONIST PSYCHOPATH, Ginger LIES, and an ABOMINATION!
Director/Time: Ra'anan Alexandrowicz, 101 min.
Headline: Is making Israeli occupation legal the same as making it justifiable?
There are worse human rights abuses in North Korea…..but this is a website about Israel.
The Murray review you quote sounds like he feels the film is interesting and worthwhile.
1. The film you posted is might be "interesting and worthwhile", but that is irrelevant. What is relevant is that the film is (a) 'staged' and (b) 'extremely selective'. Do you know what that means and what its implications are? As entertainment the film is "interesting and worthwhile", but as a scientific documentary on "Israeli justice system (made by an Israeli Jew)", which was YOUR whole point, the film is worthless.
2. There is injustice everywhere, not only in "North Korea", Iran (where young men are hanged every month for homosexuality), the US (where a racial group is being destroyed using the justice system), etc., but also in our own homes and families. First you heal your own home and family (the US) before you are able to heal the home of your neighbor (Israel) who is even in better shape than you in terms of human rights in the criminal justice system – unless you hate Israel more than you love the US? Do you understand that? Is that not what honest and reasonable people do, as opposed to treacherous hypocrites and liars?
Yeah, this is a site about Israel, but that is not only irrelevant to what is at issue here, but goes to cement the notion that you are fixated on- and obsessed with Israel and Israel alone. That raises other even more serious questions of bias, anti-Semitism, etc. and exposes your pretentions of "seeking peace and justice" as a hoax. Do you understand that?
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Q: SQLite - Joining 3 different databases at a single one I'm trying to Join tables from 3 different databases (A, B and C) which have columns in commom, but i got some issues. Each database has 1 table with the same name of the database.
First, I tried to do that using VSCode (sqlite3 extension) by attaching the databases B to A:
ATTACH 'A.db' AS db1;
ATTACH 'B.db' AS db2;

SELECT * FROM db1.A
INNER JOIN db2.B ON B.ColumnInCommon = A.ColumnInCommon;

I got the following error:
No such table: db1.A
Could anyone help me with another solution?

A: I believe that you have to believe what the message says. The following demonstrates that what you are doing does work:-
sqlite> .open 'C.db'
sqlite> ATTACH 'A.db' AS db1;
sqlite> ATTACH 'B.db' AS db2;
sqlite> PRAGMA database_list;
0|main|C:\Users\Mike\C.db
2|db1|C:\Users\Mike\A.db
3|db2|C:\Users\Mike\B.db
sqlite> CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS main.C (ColumnInCommon);
sqlite> CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS db1.A (ColumnInCommon);
sqlite> CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS db2.B (ColumnInCommon);
sqlite> SELECT * FROM db1.A INNER JOIN db2.B ON B.ColumnInCommon = A.ColumnInCommon;
sqlite>

i.e. no error.
I can force an error using :-
sqlite> SELECT * FROM dbx.A INNER JOIN db2.B ON B.ColumnInCommon = A.ColumnInCommon;
Error: no such table: dbx.A
sqlite>

But this shouldn't apply as your ATTACH appears to have worked (pragma database_list; will confirm as used above). As such it is probably that the table itself does not exist. I'd suggest trying :-
 SELECT * FROM db1.sqlite_master;

This would then show the tables in the A(db1) database e.g. :-
sqlite> SELECT * FROM db1.sqlite_master;
table|A|A|2|CREATE TABLE A (ColumnInCommon)
sqlite>

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