My advice to you, don’t throw the baby out with the bath water. It is
vitally crucial to recognise, that Christmas celebration is just
around the corner. Thence, it is ethically applaudable not to
deliberately bait its traditional rejoicers. I just criticised the
fact of tolerating a barefaced lie to gratify children. But as for
Christmas itself, it is certainly a blessed season for Christology
devotees. I may not necessarily concur with their perspective.
However, I still maintain substantial deference for what they opted to
wholeheartedly embrace. The point is broadly beyond merely chasing our
rival’s disappointment. We, along with our major contestants are
mutually enjoined to thoroughly strive in the cause of establishing a
remarkably prosperous species. If we did not come to possibly jibe, we
should not incite motives of erupting conflict. I never destined to
plague domestic jubilation of Christmas keen celebrants. As for Saint
Nicholas genuine chronicle, it is not convenient to encounter its
attested data online. Unfortunately, senior Trinitarians managed to
carefully conceal its content from public access. That’s why, it is
not recommended to rely on everything published on the internet. I
urge you to visit the nearest registered local library in your area.
Such pieces of information demand the perfect reliance on critical,
specialised and dependable resources. I read about him in the library
of Alexandria, history department as I spontaneously visited it last
year. Sources were in English and Latin. Fortunately, I found a
certified translator who helped me out. Accessible source material
were promptly provided as soon as I subscribed. Thank you, Bob
On 12/18/17, Carl Jarvis <carjar82@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Well, in addition to your remarks, Bob, the day we call Christmas was
not even close to the day on which Jesus was born. In many European
nations, Father Christmas did the gift giving, mostly small gifts of
candy, nuts and sweet breads for the good, and chunks of coal for the
naughty.
But of course here in Christian America, Madison Avenue had to jump on
the opportunity to peddle its junk. And so it is now, "Deck the halls
with piles of junk, fa la la la la, lah lah lah..."
Carl Jarvis
And despite all of that, we do give gifts as a token of our love for
our family and close friends.
On 12/17/17, Roger Loran Bailey <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am going to have to admit that I am one of those who has been ignorant
of Saint Nicholas's genocidal history. About the most I know about him
is that he was a bishop in what is now known as Turkey and that he was
known to preach that anonymous giving was especially holy. Apparently he
practiced what he preached because when people in his vicinity got an
anonymous gift it wasn't really all that anonymous and so thereafter
when someone received an anonymous gift it was said to be from Saint
Nicholas. Santa Clause was a variation of the name Saint Nicholas. I
think it was a German variation. He also ended up being declared the
patron saint of children and I don't know how that came about. This is
about all I knew about him. The reason I don't know anything else is
because I have never investigated it and I haven't investigated it
because the subject of Catholic saints is not exactly at the top of my
list of interests. I am less than skeptical, though, that he ordered
genocide against non Christians and even Christians who did not adhere
to his particular brand of Christianity. This has long been the kind of
thing practiced by the Catholic church against those who have not been
Catholics and it has been practiced by its heretics too. They used to
burn people alive for not being just the right kind of Christian. As a
matter of fact, the Christians do not have a monopoly on this kind of
behavior. Just look at what DAESH does to people who are not just the
right kind of Muslim today, for example. However, I have somehow missed
learning about the crimes of Saint Nicholas. It does intrigue me a bit.
Can you direct us to some documentation of these crimes? I think I might
like to share such information with the Christians who are always
pushing Christmas on me. I already tell them about a lot of the crimes
of Christianity, but it would be nice to let them know what kind of
person their Santa Clause really was too.
On 12/17/2017 3:53 PM, Bob Evans wrote:
For many children around the world, Santa Claus is a major source of
joy. He is a legendary patron, saint of children. Imaginatively, he is
thought to bring presents to them at Christmas. So, who initially
integrated this fictitious character? It was the Catholic Church of
Rome. Whenever you demand to hide a criminal, just reshape him in a
valuable and a broadly loving character. That is precisely what they
have done. What could be more gracious than delivering felicity to
children across the globe? If you were deceived about the reality of
Santa throughout your childhood, you certainly were not alone. How
Santa became so prominent? Santa Claus is a pseudonym for Saint
Nicholas. So, who is Saint Nicholas? He was a conspicuously notorious
bishop of Asia Minor during traditional Christian fourth century.
During that time, people who declined embracing the doctrine of
Trinity were relentlessly subjected to explicit religious persecution
and brutal bedevilment. With his consent and knowledge, Trinity
deniers were suppressed and ruthlessly subjugated to purposeful ethnic
cleansing. He supervised the mass murder of many innocents. Thence,
this criminal figure has viciously been recreated to hide his
unfortunate true character. Shamelessly, the one who has longly been
portrayed as children lover, carer and giver is a mere serial
murderer. The critical question is, who is held accountable of
deliberately hiding the truth for quite a long time? The truth may or
may not be crucial to plenty of manipulated and culturally defeated
Muslims. Well, they are Muslims just by name after all. And as for
those who are not Muslims, I ask them, if you knew what Santa actually
was, why did you choose to hide the truth? What could be more
disgraceful than deliberately lieing to children? Once at prophet
Muhammad time, a woman called a child and said to him: Come, and I
shall give you something. What are you going to give him?, prophet
Muhammad asked her. I’ll give him dates, she said. If you would have
not offered him something, it would have been counted a lie upon thee,
prophet Muhammad decisively stated. I chose to call this piece
innocence infringement for primal couple of reasons. First of which,
it is a desperate necessity to wholly unveil the genuine origin of
Santa Claus. I certainly do not destine to provoke anyone’s offence. I
just meant to bring clarity to people. Second, my current job
primarily pertaines to communicating with children, particularly,
intellectually challenging ones. To many of them, I am their mentor
and reliable source of information. What if they discovered after they
grew up that I lied to them once during their childhood? What would be
their reaction? They would have never trusted me again. Certainly,
they have the right to. This is why, I would never lie to them about
even the smallest of things. If I lied to them once, it would have
been the impingement of their natural innocence. Why would I tell my
child that a nonexistent figure brought you a present? Why wouldn’t he
just be me? I do not intend to intentionally bait Christmas
celebrants. I am just questioning the potential consequences and the
moral implication of some inherited traditions. This occasion is
allegedly affiliated to Jesus the Christ, peace and blessings be upon
him. Therefore, it must be honoured and properly feted. Thank you for
reading.
On 12/16/17, Bob Evans <ebob824@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Better speaking
For many English learners, speaking is the most challenging part.
Some people find it quite inconvenient to take part in a casual
conversation because they don’t know how to interact ordinarily.
If you are looking for chronologically organized tips to make you
sound more natural and fluent in English, then better speaking is for
you.
Do you feel shy when you take part in a conversation in English?
Well, here are some tips to make you sound natural and inshallah, more
fluent.
I divided this essay into three major segments.
First, pronunciation.
Second, intonation.
Third and finally, accuracy.
1. Pronunciation
Pronunciation is the manner in which someone utters a word.
For lots of English learners, pronunciation is quite difficult.
Well, here are some tips to inshallah improve your pronunciation.
First, listening to audio tapes
There are many remarkable podcasts and audio tutorials which may help
you improve your pronunciation.
You may divide the sentence into two, three or four syllables.
It actually depends on how long or short the sentence is.
As you practice your pronunciation, you may attempt to imitate the
speech rhythm.
However, it is quite unlikely that you will precisely sound like a
native. Thus, don’t be frustrated if you felt so.
Just try to consistently arrange your spoken words while alternating
between stressed and unstressed elements.
You may also do that first on your own to avoid feeling shy or
hesitated.
Build up your confidence first and then, proceed to engage in actual
conversations.
English is just like any other language, the more you practice, the
faster you will get improved.
I graduated from Arabic speaking college.
However, I practiced English regularly for consecutive five years
until I reached the level where they accepted me in a job which
essentially relies on fluently spoken English.
I still feel I need further improvement and therefore, I never quit
listening to English.
To avoid feeling tedious, you may constantly vary what you listen
to.
Breathe naturally and avoid stressful situations as you practice.
You may need to take this advice, it is highly recommended to practice
a lot on your own.
Avoid difficult language at the beginning and rather, just engage in
everyday speech.
Tape as you practice and listen to yourself for constant improvement.
Take feedback from people whom you recognise their reputation of
being quite fluent speakers.
You may also engage in a casual conversation with intimate
individuals such as close friends or family members.
It is quite useful to converse around with anyone despite what the
subject really is.
Don’t worry about your incorrect pronunciation, just keep practicing
and as you do, you will inshallah get improved, it’s a gradual
process.
The P sound may sound a bit awkward for elementary English
learners.
Therefore, they may feel they need to stress on that more often.
This is not the proper way to tackle this.
Well in my quite humble opinion, just be natural and colloquial.
Do not act as if you are enrolled in English class, just be normal and
friendly.
You may engage in favourable situations as you go through to make your
speaking exercise diverting and useful at the same time.
Language learning can always be helpful and entertaining
simultaneously.
You may listen to English songs or rhyming quotes to make your
practice more attractive.
Keep going and as you go through, you will easily see the result.
2. Intonation
It is my favourite part.
What is intonation?
Intonation is the consistent usage of the rise and fall of the voice
pitch to indicate a particular temperament.
This is a major factor to significantly aggrandize your speaking.
You can always use your intonation multifariously to indicate your
inclination.
So for instance, if you are a bit disappointed, your roughly sounded
intonation could easily indicate your state.
If you are tremendously felicitous, your incredibly delirious
intonation could easily indicate your state.
If you are disquieted, interested, incurious, disturbed, anxious,
precipitant or enthusiastic, your intonation could certainly express
what you perceive at the moment of speaking.
Essentially, your intonation is intended to aureate your speech.
You may possibly listen to conspicuously renowned public speakers and
see how they skillfully use their intonation to make their spoken
remarks go above and beyond casual speaking.
I may think of former president Obama when it comes to effective
public speaking.
What is the mystery of his substantial prevalence in public speaking?
Primarily, it is the manner by which he rhetorically uses his
eloquence to express what he wants to deliver.
Despite my opinion of him as a politician, I must fairly admit his
effective and skillful utilisation of public speaking, he is
enormously insusceptible on the podium.
Each and every time he delivered a speech, I keenly listened to what
he had to say despite my opinion of its essence.
You may listen to his intensely strident remarks on gun control, for
instance, in which he explicitly challenges congressional authority.
Indeed, it was enormously effective. It was quite thorough,
comprehensive and strictly up to the point.
I truly like the way he aptly used his rhetorical remarks to broadly
impress his mass audience.
He determinedly tied the ropes out.
With his skillful usage of intonation, he expressed emotional as well
as pragmatic perceptions and gained eminent applause from his present
audience which emphatically indicates approval.
You may opt your favourite public speaker to possibly learn
intonation effectiveness from him.
Well, why don’t you become your own guide and feedback conferrer by
implementing the subsequent tips.
First, you may tape a brief talk made by you.
Feel free to talk about anything you want.
However, your talk must be focused on a specific subject.
As soon as you finish, listen to yourself and critically assess your
intonation flow, see how it goes.
Keep practicing until you are sufficiently satisfied.
Second, you may flexibly vary the subjects you practice on.
The purpose here is to practice your intonation employment and
therefore, repetition is always better and it highly guarantees better
speaking.
Third, you may not mistakenly miss practicing the rhetorical factor,
it’s indispensable.
Intonation is the most effective element in terms of rhetoric.
In public speaking, it is the properly prosper manner to keep your
audience constantly attentive and interactive.
In the absence of effective intonation, you will probably lose your
audience interest.
This is why you should never denigrate this absolutely crucial element.
3. Accuracy
Accuracy is the proper usage of vocabulary and grammatical
arrangements.
It has to constantly be quite decisive and up to competent precision.
As non native speakers, we always face sort of difficulty when it
comes to accuracy.
Well, most of us are always confused about their vocabulary
arrangement and the sentential pattern.
I sometimes use incorrect subject and verb agreement.
Some people may use incorrect punctuations and the list goes on.
It is quite typical to commit common mistakes in English grammar.
So how can we possibly avoid this?
I thought about some tips to relatively eliminate the amount of
accuracy mistakes.
Whether you use verbs incorrectly, nouns or even phrasal forms, these
tips might be inshallah helpful to you.
First, vocabulary arrangement
I used to associate unrelated terms.
In lots of my phrases, There were many incorrect vocabulary
arrangements.
I was never able to avoid this until I kept listening to English while
writing at the same time.
Writing is the fastest way by which you can instantly recognize your
vocabulary arrangement mistakes.
I used to have terrible spelling as well.
If you ever stop practicing, that basically means suspending
development.
Therefore, you should never do it.
Practicing is the predominantly indisputable manner by which you can
avoid lots of mistakes.
Second, grammar
Grammar is the linguistical branch that typically deals with Syntax,
Morphology and occasionally Semantics.
There are many sources you can use to improve your grammatical usage.
I wouldn’t recommend something in particular to just avoid the
assumption of favoritism.
However, the most reliable advice I can give you concerning grammar is
to always keep practicing.
I felt constantly commendable when people corrected my grammar.
I still commit grammatical mistakes but, as long as I practice, I will
definitely get improved.
I used to commit the mistake of subject and verb agreement.
Well actually, it was the subject and verb plain disagreement.
As I have been constantly reminded, I tend to often avoid this.
The second advice I may possibly share with you is to periodically
revise.
Revision is the proper provision.
Whenever I write something, I’d give myself a chance to regularly
revise it up to five times.
Of course, I will never totally avoid all the mistakes but, I’ll
definitely reduce them at some point.
I regularly look at grammatical sources for correction.
Closure
Speaking is the most enjoyable way to practice English.
I enjoyed conversing with people for multiple hours on the internet.
The most crucial element that I enjoyed in my previous job was the
constant practice of speaking.
On literally a daily basis,, I was privileged with practicing speaking
for seven hours.
As British people say, brilliant.
I didn’t practice speaking that long when I was enrolled at the
British Council conversation class.
My job used to consist of speaking to U.S seniors and that usually
demands patience, slowing down, repeating what I say and quite
possibly, raising my voice at some point.
Simultaneously, I spoke to nurses and clinical representatives.
That essentially demanded steadiness, brevity and definite
accurateness.
These people are usually in a hurry, they don’t have that much time to
speak.
Therefore, we must be quite decisive and firm, so we can successfully
pullout the information we need.
On 12/2/17, Bob <ebob824@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Inappropriate sexual behaviour is commonly defined as unwelcome or
unsound
intimate acts, typically destined twoard other individuals. Sensuality
became immensely prevalent in western social arena. There is nothing
wrong
with being somewhat influenced with sexual arousal. We are naturally
made
to
perceive desirable attraction to that particular aspect. But, what is
really
wrong and perhaps sinful in some views, is the boundless portal toward
sexual engagement. Therefore, sex is general for westerns is not a
source
of confort and closure. It is rather a major source of outrage,
trespass
and
bizarre. It involves decisive impeachment of sexual harassment,
scandalous
incidents as of incestuous chronicles and farther enormous offences.
Men
and
women are religiously enjoined in Islam to mutually be accountable for
their
deeds. Scolding the opposite party for your own misconduct is
basically
inadmissible in Islam. We have got to be equally creditworthy for
social
tutelage. Terms of religious injunctions are fairly reciprocal between
the
two genders. This is the ideal implementation of gender collaboration
for
seeking proper guardianship. I do not call for sexual abstention nor
expansion of illicit relationships. At the same time, groping a member
of
either gender inappropriately is principally sufficient to be
classified
as
an offensive sexual act. Addressing someone flirtatiously is ample to
accuse
the assailant of purposely committing inappropriate verbal sentiments
toward victims. Thence, guilty is bound to bear his penalty as the law
deems
appropriate. Sexual misconduct seems to be a heavy subject and a
common
crisis in many countries.