The Starbucks logo possibly developed from the "Lajja Gauri", (pictured top left) the goddess associated with abundance and fertility. Engraven images of Lajja Gauri were found in the Indus Valley, and were associated with Shaktism; Doctrine of Power or Doctrine of the Goddess."
"Siren", (pictured top right) is associated with Greek mythology. "Sheela na gig", (pictured bottom left) can be found in Ireland and Great Britain. So why are some upset about Starbucks red cups and the believed disrespect to Chirstmas????
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The Hanukkah menorah or chanukiah (Hebrew: מנורת חנוכה menorat ḥanukkah, pl. menorot) (also Hebrew: חַנֻכִּיָּה ḥanukkiyah, or chanukkiyah, pl. ḥanukkiyot/chanukkiyot, or Yiddish: חנוכּה לאמפּ khanike lomp, lit.: Hanukkah lamp) is a nine-branched candelabrum lit during the eight-day holiday of Hanukkah, as opposed to the seven-branched menorah used in the ancient Temple or as a symbol. On each night of Hanukkah a new branch is lit. The ninth holder, called the shamash ("helper" or "servant"), is for a candle used to light all other candles and/or to be used as an extra light. To be kosher the shamash must be offset on a higher or lower plane than the main eight candles or oil lamps. Shamash (Akkadian: Šamaš, "Sun") was a native Mesopotamian deity and the Sun god in the Akkadian, Assyrian, Babylonian and Hebrew pantheons. Shamash was the god of justice in Babylonia and Assyria, corresponding to Sumerian's Utu. Akkadian šamaš is cognate to Syriac ܫܡܫܐ šemša or šimšu Hebrew שֶׁמֶשׁ šemeš and Arabic شمس šams. Shamash is the Arabic and Modern Hebrew word for the Sun, also written the same, although pronounced differently in Hebrew. The name is still found as a surname among Assyrians adn Iraqi Jews. I was driving and noticed the registration plate on the vehicle in front of me read “sold1er”. The odd spelling of the word soldier caused me to try to understand what the word actually means. I saw sol, which I know to be sun and the word dier, but I knew the word soldier couldn't possibly mean one who dies for the sun; so there was only one thing to do.
I pulled out a dictionary and found that soldier is the combination of two words sol, meaning money or coin and the suffix -ier meaning one concerned with. -ier also lead me to the suffix -eer, which means one concerns with, or employed in connection with, or busies himself with something. The etymology in Wikipedia reads, The word soldier derives from the Middle English word soudeour, from Anglo-French soudeer or soudeour, meaning mercenary, from soudee, meaning shilling's worth or wage, from sou or soud, shilling.[1] The word is also related to the Medieval Latin soldarius, meaning soldier (literally, "one having pay").[2] These words ultimately derive from the Late Latin word solidus, referring to an Ancient Roman coin used in the Byzantine Empire.[1][2] Etymology online reads, soldier (n.)c. 1300, souder, from Old French soudier, soldier "one who serves in the army for pay," from Medieval Latin soldarius "a soldier" (source also of Spanish soldado, Italian soldato), literally "one having pay," from Late Latin soldum, extended sense of accusative of Latin solidus, name of a Roman gold coin (see solidus). Most have come to believe or someone has defined the word soldier as a sense of honor, a badge of courage or a symbol of fighting for freedom or defending one's country. Could the O'Jays have been pointing in this direction with their song, "For The Love Of Money." 1 Timothy 6:10Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition (DRA) 10 For the desire of money is the root of all evils; which some coveting have erred from the faith, and have entangled themselves in many sorrows. 1 Timothy 6:10Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV) 10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. If a child won't listen, the consensus is, beat that ass!
Someone breaks the law, the consensus is, beat that ass! Feel as if others are encroaching on "our" country, the consensus is, beat that ass! When people decide to rise up against injustice....... NOW the response is there are peaceful ways to handle that! "So, you're being treated poorly by Police? Have you tried not breaking the law to see if that helps?" I’ve read or heard this sarcastic more than a few times recently. The year was 1994 and I recently moved to Baltimore. I walked out of the row house I just moved into and walked down the street to the corner store. As I entered the store I heard someone yelling and turned to see what was going on. I turned around and found myself looking into the barrel of a gun. I saw someone quickly move around behind me and started patting on my clothing. The person aiming the gun at my face began to rattle off questions, "Do you have any weapons, do you have any drugs, what are you doing here, where do you live?" I committed no crime, I was not selling or buying drugs, I possessed no weapon and I was wearing a jacket similar to the one pictured. The only difference with the jacket I was wearing was mine had my last name sewn on the outside of it, because I had recently been honorably discharged from the U.S. Army. Turns out these were policemen who were not in uniform and after they were decided they were finished I watched as they entered a car waiting for them and drove away. At the time, I thought well they are only doing their job. WRONG! I would learn later, after attending a police academy that these men violated the law they took oaths to uphold. What warranted a firearm being removed from the holster and aimed at my face? Its practices and tactics such as I what I described that people are fed up with experiencing. Everyone is not breaking the law, or committing acts that even require police engagement. I’m tired of hearing about good or bad police because if the good ones actually did their job they would be just as vigilante to rid agencies and departments of the bad ones. There are actually some people who really just want to live their life as best they can and not be treated any differently than those that choose to throw around your self-righteous slogans. The current most celebrated man in the U.S. may just be an individual noted to have been the most lethal sniper in U.S. history, however the alleged most purchased book in the U.S. has a commandment which reads, "Thou shalt not kill." Does this not indicate a direct conflict?
"All the world's a stage" is the phrase that begins a monologue from William Shakespeare's AS YOU LIKE IT. Persona is Latin for the word person; meaning a part in a drama, assumed character," originally "mask, false face," such as those of wood or clay worn by the actors in later Roman theater. The word person also closely relates to the Etruscan word, phersu, meaning mask. So I ask, what role are you playing? Has that role been determined by another and assigned to you? Are you a main character or just a bit player? Is it time to remove the mask?
From the middle 1950s to the late 60s, after ‘school’ at 4pm, children from the age of six were issued one slice of bread and margarine and then sent into St. Bridget’s classroom to make rosary beads. The classroom did duty as a mini-factory for the manufacture of rosary beads.
On the spot punishment by staff was an everyday event. Children had to stand on a cold landing (sometimes barefoot and wearing only slips) during the night for punishment. They were relentlessly flogged with thick bark from a tree by the nun in charge, if, for example, they had not fulfilled their quota of rosary beads in the factory. Goldenbridge housed on average two hundred children, which included infants and babies; a good percentage of them were infants, babies and toddlers. It was normal for some of them to have slept in their own excrement. imagine the holy people of this island of saints and scholars hadn’t a notion as to what was going on inside the bitter austere inhospitable labour camp called Goldenbridge, as children were imprisoned there and visitors weren’t ever allowed past the porch hall. What is discipline? What is punishment? Are they the synonymous or is there a difference? Is it important to understand essence of these words?
TERRORISM! Despite recent popularity, it has been around for a long time. At one time, the Banda Islands were the only nutmeg source for the world. As early as the year 1511, the home of the Bandanese people began to become occupied by the Portuguese, the Dutch, the Spanish, and the English merchants and traders, all who were seeking control of this lucrative spice trade. In the year 1621, the militarized Dutch East Indies Company, either killed or forcefully expelled these people from their home and eventually re-settling the islands with imported prisoners, convicts and indentured laborers to work the nutmeg prison farms. An estimated 530 Bandanese people were returned to the prison farms due to their much needed expertise. |
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