The cheering crowds, the adrenaline rush and the mounting excitement say it all. Welcome to the world of RC car racing! RC cars are a fascinating hobby of many race car fans and many adults and children enjoy both on –road and off –road races. However, a lot of preparation goes into getting a RC car ready for the race.

First of all, select the tires for the RC racing car very wisely. Choose a tire that is suited to the road surface of the car race. You need to also select the best motor, size and maintenance suited to the race. Ferraris, Porsches and Lamborghinis are popular choices for on-road races, and they are capable of great speeds. These are specific racing cars and need to be run on a smooth track for the best performance. Trucks and buggies may not perform well in terms of speed but they can be used on any kind of racing track including the roughest terrain.

The most popular RC cars are on-road vehicles that are commonly used for car racing.

These will run on paved roads, smooth surfaces and even on the streets. Off-road vehicles can be run on any terrain as they are truck-like vehicles that are very sturdy. The can easily handle all kinds of uneven terrain and ramp jumps. Off -road vehicles are available in two wheel or four wheel drive with electric or nitro engines.

The RC car comes in two sizes, namely, 1/8 and 1/10 scale. The 1/10 scale is ideal for race cars and is the standard size for on-road RC cars. The 1/8th scale is popular with monster trucks and buggies and meant for off –road use. The best engine for a race car is a nitro powered one as it can reach the maximum speed of 70 mph. The high speed and acceleration is what makes these car engines ideal for racing.

Two wheel drive vehicles are less expensive and easier to maintain. But, good traction and handling is possible with a four wheel drive that makes it an ideal choice for races.

Maintenance is an important factor of any RC car. Ensure that the car parts like the air filter, header, clutch, differential and pull start cord are properly maintained so that they last long.

Once you have made your selection of the RC car that you will be using in the race, you are ready to face the challenge of car racing. Joining in the race will gain you experience and a lot of friends in the car racing world. Be sure to take the advice of the expert car racers you will meet, to get the best performance from your car. Participating in the races will give you the opportunity to see the latest models of RC race cars in action, and also provide you with the thrills of the game.

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There are lots of stunning views in Baja, Mexico. Such as Boojum, a plant which age is six hundred years and which grows in desert. There one can see deer, mountain lions, sheep, cows other representatives of flora and fauna. Another attractive landmark is an enormous rock that looks a lot like a polar bear and which is used by drivers as a distance marker for the race. Though the Baja 1000 can be considered as the most famous desert race, so the popular Winter Trail Run can be regarded as the best snow tracks in the USA.

The popular Winter Trail Run is hold in Wisconsin, at the area of Saint Croix River Valley. The temperature lowered to a blazing five degrees below freezing in 2001 at the trail run 12th Anniversary. However, more than thirty racers still turned up. There are as well a number of very attractive sights in this area of Wisconsin, although to the off-roaders they are just obstacles. There are gigantic hills covered by snow, holes hidden underneath snow, deep snow covered forest, channels filled with frost, strong winds, trenches and lots of more probably shocking obstacles. In accordance with Baker there were lots of cars competing that were employed as ordinary automobiles. One of such cars was a comfortable 2001 Toyota Tacoma .

Powerhouse Road is situated at the South Central part of Colorado and lengthens over to New Mexico. This track was in fact used some time ago to haul coal of railroads. Powerhouse Road’s relief is mainly rocky. Werkmeister said that they spent six hours to make up the track and that the only obstacle was a hole.

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Patrick Dempsey, cast member of ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy, will be stepping up the gas once again, as he drives the pace car at the Indianapolis 500 this May. He is actually set to lead the drivers to the green flag at the frontier of the race.

In line with Dempsey’s participation in the Indianapolis 500, many have actually noticed his passion, growth and determination to succeed in the sport, especially Indianapolis Motor Speedway president Joie Chitwood.

Dempsey will be joining other celebrities just like in last year’s competition, where Lance Armstrong was hailed as the winner.

Dempsey isn’t actually a novice when it comes to racecar driving. In fact, he takes pleasure in the sport when he is not preoccupied with his work. He has been a part of numerous competitions and racing events, participating in the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, Panoz Series, Pro Miata Series, and Baja 1000 just to name a few. In addition, he is also a co-owner of Indycar Series team Vision Racing.

The Indianapolis 500 is probably something Dempsey would look forward to as he already mentioned before that he greatly enjoys racing even more than working in Grey’s Anatomy. Although it is very unlikely that he would leave the popular medical drama, which established his stance on the television circuit, for the racetrack.

Dempsey, a 41-year old native of Lewiston, Maine, is currently portraying Derek “McDreamy” Shepherd on Grey’s Anatomy. Prior to his inclusion on Grey’

s Anatomy, he worked in films like Can’t Buy Me Love, Loverboy, Happy Together, Scream 3 and Sweet Home Alabama among others. He also graced the television world with guest appearances on shows like Once & Again, Will & Grace and Iron Jawed Angels.

To catch more of Patrick Dempsey, watch Grey’s Anatomy every Thursday at 9/8C on ABC.

For more resources about Grey’s Anatomy and especially about McDreamy Sets the Pace at Indy 500 please review http://www.buddytv.com

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Adventure sailing vacation has no limits when even the physically disabled are able to achieve such a feat. This is as long as there are charities and clubs around that allow people with mixed abilities to work side by side with an able crew on equal terms.

Currently, such groups can be booked for a sailing vacation that will last from 4 days or 4 weeks. Ships can be charted to go from one point in the US to another. Charters those across the Atlantic might sail south or the west to enjoy the warm waters of the Caribbean.

Tour groups that provide these cruises are suitable for beginners and veterans alike. First timers get learn the basics and at the end of the course get a certificate. To get more experience, they will have to head out to see regularly. Those who don’t have the time can take an online course because although it is not a substitute for certification, it is a good tool in preparation for your continuing sailing education.

But if you are just doing this for fun to spend time with friends, you don’t have to work. Given that charters already assign a trained crew, you can just sit back, relax and enjoy the ocean voyage.

Along the way, the ship will dock in different ports. This allows people to go inland and spend some time ashore. They can sleep there as well or go back to the ship to watch the harbor and the stars at night before it is time to set sail to their next destination.

At sea, the crew might encounter dolphins, seals and whales swimming alongside the ship. As they get closer to land, they will most likely encounter cormorants, guillemots, kittiwakes, puffins, shags, skuas and razorbills among other creatures.

Part of the package includes good quality fresh food so you don’t have to bring anything when you come aboard. Crews will do the cooking but you can assist if you want to get into the action. 

To make such tours accessible to those who are and are not physically challenged, companies make it a point that the meeting points are easily accessible by plane and at cheap rates. Booking can be made through your travel agent or you can make the reservation online. You can look at their itinerary for the year so you know where the ship is going on a certain date.

There are also sailing clubs for the disabled. Some will require you to pay a membership fee while others hand this out for free.

Perhaps the biggest achievement for those who are disabled is to compete against others that have similar disabilities. Established in 1998, the US Disabling Team competes in various races annually and the biggest one this year happens to be the 2008 Paralympic Games which will be held in Qingdao, China about 430 miles east of the Capital.

So whether it is just for fun or to race for the grand prize, adventure sailing vacation has no limits even to those with physical disabilities. This is because they can be trained to run the ship just as well as an able bodied person so they are able to set out to sea and return back to port.

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GOD AGAINST US: ALIEN SPACEMAN JESUS, THE THE WORLD TRADE CENTER ATTACK AND MORE

Alvin Miller

(1986)

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At my site: http://www.angelfire.com/crazy/spaceman/ TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREFACE

CHAPTER ONE: A PLAUSIBLE TIMETABLE

CHAPTER TWO: A FIRST LOOK AT NORMAN O. BROWN

CHAPTER THREE: THE MEDIA MESSIAH, OR LOOKING FOR JESUS ON

TV

CHAPTER FOUR: THE MESSIAH RETURNS

APPENDIX: THE SECRET RAPTURE

BIBLIOGRAPHY

FILM LIST BY DATE

FILM LIST

FILM SERIALS

PREFACE

What do you call a crazy spaceman? – - An Astronut.

What follows is a nearly word for word online version of my ©1986 booklet WEIRD ESCHATOLOGY: AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW OF THE SECOND COMING (ISBN 0-9616435-0-1; Library of Congress Call Number BT823.M55 1986). By the time you finish this, you may conclude that this particular peculiar interpretation of the Book of Revelation should be relegated to the teachings of self-appointed cranks, crackpots, prophets of doom and various other assorted fanatics. But perhaps, even so, your own view may be clarified when you read this. The first chapter deals with theology and may be slightly dull, but fasten your seatbelt, as I will get more and more weird ahead (in terms of any interpretation you have seen before). Note that I make use of mostly unobtainable texts and obscure films. Lack of access to these sources should not impede your understanding of what follows. Also, to emphasize the ostensibly momentous issues I am dealing with here, I capitalize the subject phrases I discuss.

 CHAPTER ONE

A PLAUSIBLE TIMETABLE

Are you a Christian? Do you believe in the Second Coming at some future date? Is it legitimate to construct timetables for these future events?

Rhetorical questions such as these right off the bat may well put you off. A major difficulty is that no consensus as to when and in what sequence these predicted events must take place. This topic has always been a particular source of schism and polemic. I will be proposing specific dates as numerous have in each generation before me. And as many have been before me, I can be refuted by the mere passage of time.

The majority view espoused by most evangelicals is pretribulational premillennalism, which I only partially agree with. I will point out that part of this view is in fact based on a historical novelty that only traces back to the nineteenth century. What I mean here is that in terms of the glacially slow movement of theology (remember that the canon was finalized some two thousand years ago), the majority view is a relatively recent innovation.

I prefer a distinctly minority position, which would be called multiple-rapture postmillennialism. The postmillennial position holds that many of the predictions made in the New Testament, including those of the Olivet Discourse (Matt. 24, Mk 13, Luke 21), were accomplished in the early Christian era, and their past fulfillment limit’s the future events to be expected. There exists one school, represented by, for example, Max King and Timothy James, which holds that each and every prophecy of the entire New Testament was accomplished during the early Church age. However, I feel this view neglects proper consideration of the Book of Revelation.

Postmillennialism is also sometimes referred to as preterism, which implies that the text is allowed to speak without exegesis. Thus, when Jesus repeatedly predicts the Kingdom within a generation, I do not write off the statement as a mistake or excess of enthusiasm. Instead, I draw up a timetable that shows the Kingdom beginning a generation after the Crucifixion. Then, when John of Patmos says the Millennium starts at this date of the beginning of the Kingdom, I duly go to my chart (at the end of this chapter) and set the Thousand Year Clock ticking. There was in fact a specific date a generation after the Crucifixion – the pivotal date of A.D. 70. This was the historical date of the Fall of Jerusalem, which is not a particularly prominent date in more mainstream discussions. This is the date of the First Resurrection in the terminology of John of Patmos that begins the Millennium.

What happened in A.D. 70? After a lengthy siege by the Roman legions, Jerusalem was ransacked and leveled. To the secular eye, as detailed by Josephus in THE JEWISH WAR in gory detail, the scene was one of mass destruction in which not even the Temple was spared. But to the spiritual eye, as Russell’s PAROUSIA demonstrated more than a century ago, these events were the fulfillment of the Olivet Discourse and the return of Jesus and His conquering armies in the clouds to inaugurate the spiritual reign with the saints and martyrs. Other sources listed in the bibliography including Chilton’s PARADISE RESTORED espouse this view. Chilton nominated Jerusalem as the Whore of Babylon and Rome as the Beast. (Note added 2006: In my 1986 Timetable I followed Chilton. I have since reversed my opinion. I now see Rome as the Whore and Jerusalem as the Beast.)

I need to stop for a moment to consider the question of the dating of the Book of Revelation. The presently accepted date for the appearance of the Book of Revelation is A.D. 95. If this is the correct date, the fulfillment of the predictions made so far would be merely a matter of hindsight. I recommend John A. T. Robinson’s examination of this question in REDATING THE NEW TESTAMENT. Robinson cites extensive internal and external evidence for moving the date of the Book of Revelation back to the A.D. 70 timeframe. Further, he traces the standard A.D. 95 view back to a single source. This source is a statement by Irenaeus that the Apocalypse first appeared “toward the end of Domitian’s reign.” This statement is ambiguous and may even be merely mistaken. Other sources listed in the bibliography (including Chilton and James) accept an earlier date.

The Book of Revelation represents a significant amplification of the preceding Gospels and Epistles. Here the concept of the Millennium is introduced for the first and only time. The timetable presented by John of Patmos extends forward to the future Judgment Day and the establishment of the New Jerusalem, thereby completing the New Testament Canon.

Turning to the time period of the Millennium, lasting approximately from A.D. 70 to A.D. 1070, the starting point was the spiritual event, the Parousia, as detailed by Russell and Chilton. But secular historians looking back at this time period as a whole have labeled it the Dark Ages. More recently this verdict has been tempered by the demonstration of the development and technical progress that occurred in the Middle and Far East during these years. But it does remain true that for Western Civilization, primarily Western Europe for these years, these were times of unprecedented barbarism and ignorance. During these times the blood of countless martyrs was spilled in belatedly laying down the Roman Empire and establishing the Church. Violence was the order of the day and sugarcoating or rose-colored glasses are unnecessary. The First Resurrection was an event of mass destruction and the Kingdom or Millennium was an era of barbarism. In other words, it is not an accident or coincidence that the fulfillment of the prophecies was apocalyptic. Instead, there is an important principle to remember here, since I will point out that Judgment Day will also be mass destruction and the New Jerusalem to follow will appear to secular eyes again be relative barbarism. I will take up these thoughts again in later chapters.

Why didn’t Judgment Day begin about A.D.1070 with the end of the Millennium? Historically, many of the people living then did expect to see the Messiah return. I answer instead that this was the date when Satan was unbound for his season. Here I part company with many of the sources listed in the bibliography. They prefer to see the Millennium as an indeterminate period extending potentially thousands of years with Satan loosed for his season only shortly prior to the Second Coming. They see the Church still in the Millennial period expanding and consolidating its gains to ultimately convert the entire world immediately prior to the Advent. On the contrary, I hold that John of Patmos really meant a time period of approximately one thousand years, and that Satan has been at work sowing his evil. I admit that the season has now lasted nearly a thousand years in its own right. One consolation is that this extended period is finally about to come to a close. Satan has been quite busy from my point of view during the last centuries. Examples of his infamous work would be such events as the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Counter-Reformation, the Inquisition, the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution on down to the contemporary horrific mass movements. I could be accused of being a feudalist or an obscurantist here. However, I do not look back to the Kingdom so much as forward to the approaching New Jerusalem. At this point in time I feel we are reaching the low point of the curve descending to Hell, immediately prior to the Messiah’s return.

Thus, I teach hellfire and damnation, as do most of the right wing evangelists who hold the premillennial view. But, as I have said, the postmillennialists of the bibliography, who are also uniformly conservative for the most part, place much less emphasis on this aspect.

I am also in agreement with the premillennialists with respect to the Rapture. Historically, for eighteen centuries the Rapture was taken as essentially simultaneous with the Advent. This is detailed by, among others, MacPherson in THE GREAT RAPTURE HOAX and Kimball in THE RAPTURE: A QUESTION OF TIMING. MacPherson demonstrates that the nineteenth century so-called Scotch seer Margaret MacDonald in 1830 introduced the pretribulational Rapture – a temporal separation of a Secret Rapture from the Second Coming. This introduction was a theological novelty or innovation. MacPherson traces the concept from its introduction through the nineteenth century figures Darby and Scofield to the mainstream electronic evangelists of today. I have said that I accept the multiple-Rapture view, which is a variation of the pretribulational Rapture. I agree, based on the work of my sources, that this view had its origins only in the nineteenth century. I will indicate why I hold that view in the last part of Chapter Three.

I should note that because I take a preterist perspective, I place less emphasis on seeing the events that occurred with the First Resurrection exactly duplicated on Judgment Day. For example, Nero was clearly the Antichrist for A.D. 70, but I don’t necessarily expect to see a new Antichrist prior to the Second Coming. If forced to, one could select from many twentieth century candidates for this post. Similarly, I don’t expect to see the coming events occurring at the actual Jerusalem this time. I predict in Chapter Four they will more likely begin in one of the advanced Western nations.

Beginning with the next chapter, I will be using apparently incongruous sources, such as left wing sources from the sixties. I will delve into films and the media in general. These sources I will bring up are relevant to the issues of this chapter. So far I have outlined a plausible but not mainstream view of Christian eschatology. From this point forward, as promised, expect the view presented to be ‘weird‘.

 CHAPTER TWO

A FIRST LOOK AT NORMAN O. BROWN

It is a tale

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury

Signifying nothing.

-Shakespeare

There is a good possibility you have never heard of Norman O. Brown or come across any of his writings. His books are now a generation old and partly out of print. Perhaps certain of the issues he raised have become moot with the passage of time.

I think when his books originally came out Brown was taken as merely a sexual radical. I say merely here in the sense that Brown would not be under discussion if I felt that was solely what he was about. A superficial reading of his cryptic, aphoristic style indeed does give this impression. However, the actual subject of two of his books, LOVE’S BODY (1966) and CLOSING TIME (1973) was religion. Of the two books, CLOSING TIME is currently out of print but necessary for a complete picture. With these two books Brown actually solved the mysteries of religion. Am I here claiming that if you comprehend these books you will have all your questions answered on religion? Yes, that is indeed what I am claiming. Brown did get all the way to the inner sanctum. If you are able to solve Brown’s puzzles, you will simultaneously solve the mysteries of religion. I say this fully aware that Brown’s erudition makes this a monumental task.

If I have piqued your curiosity, and you decide to take a look at Brown, the best procedure might be to look at some other sources as a preliminary. It’s all there in Brown in plain English, you understand, but you may have more success by circling in from the periphery. One good out of print source from the same time period is Eric Gutkind’s THE BODY OF GOD: FIRST STEPS TOWARD AN ANTI-THEOLOGY. This book is also written in an aphoristic style. Comparing the title of this book with LOVE’S BODY will give you a clue to start you on the road to solving Brown. Looking from the philosophical side, Michael Harrington’s THE POLITICS AT GOD’S FUNERAL astutely asks all the right questions. The best book ever written on Jesus is Constantin Brunner’s OUR CHRIST: THE REVOLT OF THE MYSTICAL GENIUS (1921). Here’s an interesting sentence from the book: “There he hung, the blasphemer of God and slander of the most noble men, the poor malicious fool, the incorrigble wretch, the whoreson and whore monger, the swindler, the liar, the secucer.” The so-called radical Freudians, in general, such as Marcuse, Reich and Roheim in addition to Brown, are pertinent.

There isn’t space for an exegesis of Brown. Instead I’ll outline a central idea – the importance of the Primal Scene. For the uninitiated, the Primal Scene is what Dad and Mom did in the bedroom. Now even Freud’s disciples had difficulty seeing the significance of the Oedipal Primal Scene and repeatedly attempted to revise their master. Perhaps the best way to get an inking of its significance is to set up a confrontation between the Joker (the little ‘castrated’ clown portrayed by Brown) and you. Put yourself in the following scene as a male:

You are standing on the outskirts of the big, modern city where you live as the Joker approaches.

The Joker begins, “You know, stranger, I’ve been doing a lot of traveling lately and have seen several cities, including this one. I must say I don’t like what I’ve been seeing at all. In every town the residents use elaborate locks on their doors and seen to be afraid to get outside on their own sidewalks at night. One minute they use each other’s bodies as pleasure objects, and the next they sue each other at the slightest provocation. I see noise, confusion, mayhem and worse at each turn. I can’t think of a thing that happened in Sodom that hasn’t happened here many times over. Tell me, when you first came here was the city the same as it is now?”

You reply, “More or less it was, indeed.”

The Joker says, “This town is a hard place to try to make a living in. Life is so hectic, there is such a constant rush and din, that I sometimes believe I’m really caught in a nightmare and will wake up at any moment. This is no place to try to start a family or to raise a child. There’s no place for the kids to play here. You know, although I’ve had plenty of opportunities to unzip my pants and pull out my gun here, I just haven’t felt right about it and so far decided to keep my pants zipped up. But I see by the ring on your finger that the situation here apparently didn’t deter you. You had the same opportunity, after all, to look around and see what was going on. But I see that no matter what you saw, you weren’t about to stay away. You had to have it. I admit that I am only a Fool. But I ask you – who’s the better man?”

You: (Speechless).

The Joker resumes, “ Because I care about the evil I see and you don’t particularly care, you end up with a child to carry on your line, and I don’t. I ask you, which man has the greater love?”

You finally speak, “Before I punch you out, do you have anything more to say? – Any last words?”

The Joker ignores this and pauses a moment to scan the distant skyline. He then points a finger at the tallest skyscraper, rising in the mists – a source of civic pride known to all residents (and an indisputable phallic symbol). The Joker turns and asks, “How? – that building there – Tell me how that modern Tower of Babel was constructed? No, let me answer the question. It was constructed by men who at some time or other unzipped their pants. Not that a single one of them was ever forced to you understand. It is after all a voluntary act. Now I ask you to consider for a moment with me what would have happened if not one of these same men had ever unzipped their pants at all – not even one single time. How much of what you see around here now would still be here? I’ll answer – not a bit of it would here, including the building I just pointed to. I’ve been wondering these days why we put up with the perpetual nightmares here that we go through to get these massive monuments constructed. If we could just get all the women under control, we could sit around all day and drink beer and play cards.”

You reply, “Leave it to a shiftless ne’er-do-well to –”

The Joker interrupts, “What we really need here is a King – the absolute biggest Fool we can find with the largest member. I think you may agree that I am the perfect candidate for this job, as I’m absolutely no good for anything else.”

The pair glare at each other, ready to fight.

Let me make the important point about this tale that the ‘you” of the dialogue could just as well be the Joker’s father as anyone else – not a single line of the preceding would need to be changed. (In the original tale of Oedipus meeting his father at the crossroads, the pair had been separated and there was a disguise and neither seemed to recognize the other, at least consciously.) If the ’you’ of the narrative were indeed the Joker’s father, the Joker would then literally be a son of a gun. This would also make the Joker on his mother’s side literally an S.O.B.

In the dialogue that took place at the Temptation of Christ (Matt. 4:1-11, Mk. 2:13, Luke 4:1-13), Jesus rejected Satan’s offer of the kingdoms of this world. Brown says we are indeed in Satan’s kingdom, i.e., Hell, especially in the big cities. Jesus will one day accept dominion over the earthly kingdoms, but only on Judgment Day when His enemies have been made into footstools. When He does return, He will bring the keys to Hell and to Death. This implies that a massive restructuring of present urban life – our man-made Hell – will begin at this point.

To change the subject, if you have an interest in James Joyce, you should examine the excerpts Brown has collected in CLOSING TIME. Joyce either imitates (or himself actually is) the insane. The WAKE is from start to finish nothing but the gibberings of a madman. FINNEGANS WAKE is a textual Rorschach test, by which I mean that in its voluminous pages, any phrase you are looking for before you open the book can likely be found. But all the excerpts Brown has assembled taken together conclusively demonstrate that Joyce ‘cracked’ religion, i.e., that all the answers were set down in the WAKE. In other words, Brown demonstrates that Joyce earlier pioneered the same trail in that Brown found. I don’t want to go beyond fair use and start quoting text, so I’ll stop.

 CHAPTER THREE

THE MEDIA MESSIAH: LOOKING FOR JESUS ON TV

Let me start with a lengthy list:

PURPLE RAIN COLORED RAIN GREEN RAIN FAIRY RAIN INVISIBLE RAIN BLOWING THE WIND REAPING THE WHIRLWIND IDIOT WIND WEATHER WAR REICHIAN ORGONE RADAR LOVE THE CALL LONDON CALLING THE BIG BROADCAST WEIRD RADIO PLANET WAVES BLOWING THE HORN SOUNDING THE TRUMPET MIND WAR FAIRY GOLD FAIRY BLIGHT FAIRY BASEBALL FAIRY BOWLING WALLS TUMBLING DOWN BALLOON GOES UP THE LONG GOODBYE THE BIG SHOOTOUT THE LAST ROUNDUP DROPPING THE VIALS THE POWER AND THE GLORY FIRE AND BRIMSTONE THE FLOOD TWINKLING OF AN EYE THE RAPTURE THE SECRET RAPTURE MARCHING MORONS DROPPING THE BIG ONE THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL THE MACHINE STOPS THE FINAL SOLUTION THE ELEPHANT BURIAL GROUNDS THE ROAD TO HOLOCAUST TIMEBOMB TICKING OVER SODOM LAYING THE DEVIL DOWN RADIO SILENCE LIGHTS OUT SHUTTING IT DOWN TURNING IT OFF PULLING THE PLUG PUNCHING THE DELETE BUTTON THE SCREEN GOES DARK CLOSING TIME JUDGMENT DAY SIGNING OFF NIGHTFALL THE BIG SLEEP

“Whom the gods would destroy, they first drive mad” I’ll ask some questions about this list to clarify it. At first sight, looking over this by no means exhaustive list, it appears we need to get out our umbrellas (or perhaps a degree in meteorology). The first question to ask is: How many of these phrases have you ever come across before? Try to think where, if anywhere, any of these phrases can be found. After thinking it over, you might decide that some show up in literature, some may be from the Bible, but many of them come from the media.

The next question about the list would be: by grouping all these phrases together as I did, did I thus intend to imply that each phrase is identical or synonymous with each other phrase in the list? No, they are interchangeable in only a few cases, but they are interrelated. What then do the phrases have in common? My answer is that all bear a direct relationship to a single phrase:

MASS PSYCHOSIS

This particular phrase, Mass Psychosis, you are probably less likely to have come across. Mass Psychosis is the actual meaning of the Fundamentalist doctrine of the Secret Rapture.

Now I’m sure if one had the opportunity to interview rock star Prince and ask him what he meant by Purple Rain that he would not immediately reply, “a codeword for mass psychosis.” Similarly, Bob Dylan wouldn’t be inclined to say, “When I sang about Idiot Wind, I meant mass psychosis.” I would instead expect convoluted explanations involving literary metaphors, etc., if I received any reply at all.

Incidentally, I mentioned Prince deliberately since there was controversy about his ‘explicit ’ lyrics when his songs came out. I note that his critics had nothing at all to say about the other dimension of his songs I am pointing to here – Judgment Day by 1999, etc.

Here I want to stop discussion of the list and return at the end of this chapter with more comments. Let me briefly return to the general topic of the media. By media I mean all the conduits by which paid entertainment reaches us – film, radio, television, etc. Because television has such a voracious appetite, I will be using the term media and TV more or less interchangeably. Think of how TV, in order to fill each and every hour, gobbles up the output of the other media, from films to stage plays to even rock music in the form of music videos. Some of us are logging in nearly a third of our lives glued to out sets these days. As a baby boomer, I teethed on TV and took its pervasive influence for granted. But, after decades of exposure we have now had, I feel it is time we should begin a serious examination of the media. Its influence is probably considerably greater than literary sources today.

Already by the sixties we had the McLuhanesque dictum that the medium is the message. This idea is that the content is not particularly important, but rather the existence and ubiquitousness of the medium itself is the most significant fact.

Let me look at media criticism in terms of increasing level of profundity. At the lowest, most abysmal level, the media are seen as providing harmless entertainment. But the billions of dollars we dump into the media demonstrate that much more is going on. Slightly better is the extreme right wing evangelical view that TV and films are the devil’s picture book and rock music is the devil’s music. This approach has the virtue of being factually correct, but has fallen on increasingly hard times as all but the diehards have capitulated and joined in the media cacophony themselves. Massive blocks of radio broadcast time and entire cable networks are devoted to selling Jesus sandwiched in between the ads for soap and used cars.

Slightly more discriminating is the idea that TV is a boob tube and rock music is subversive trash, and exposure to one or both may permanently warp your brain. Is the ultimate objective to produce a race of mindless, godless, zombie giants (the return of the “men of renown” of Genesis as described by Brown in CLOSING TIME)?

What indeed keeps us mesmerized by the flickering images hour after hour? Why are so many of us couch potatoes – practically frozen into stone statues? What are we really watching? The answer from Norman O. Brown is that we are seeing the Oedipal Primal Scene reenacted night after night in endless repetition with slight variations. You object, “I beg your pardon. I watched a game show followed by a situation comedy last night.” What we are really doing here is paying performers to put on the only show we want to see.

Finally, at the highest level of criticism, we also simultaneously get the final verdict on the media. We are watching Jesus get crucified night after night in excruciating detail, although we may not be consciously aware of it. After decades of this, I think it is likely to catch up with us some day. In other words, the lurid violence and evil we see depicted in the media may eventually come to us in real life.

In spite of the blanket condemnation of the last paragraph, I’m going to turn around and list some movies. Ideally you should stay away. But the payoff is going to come to us all, whether or not we individually may or may not have watched. In the meantime, perhaps we can use the opportunity to study both the overt and the subtle techniques being employed.

The primary genre to keep an eye on is science fiction. As Susan Sontag said in the sixties, this is the genre of apocalypse and mass destruction. Typically, as in the prototype FRANKENSTEIN (1932), a man attempts to appropriate the prerogatives of God (technically blasphemy) and reaps madness and disaster. These are rigidly moral parables where retribution is swift and sure.

Look, for example, at Rene Clair’s THE CRAZY RAY (1923) from the infancy of the industry. The elements that were to become cliches with decades of continuous repetition were already present. A mad scientist invents a ray machine he constructs inside the Eiffel Tower that turns the inhabitants of Paris into stone statues. An aircraft initially out of range of the ray lands, and the passengers are astonished when they disembark. One worthwhile principle of criticism is to pay particular attention to the message of film titles. In this example, the title might bring to mind such questions as: “did the title mean the inventor was crazy? Or did the ray have crazy effects? Or did the ray drive people crazy, implying that to turn people to stone is to drive them mad?”

A quite similar theme is presented in THE VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED (1960) and its sequel THE CHILDREN OF THE DAMNED (1964) (what questions do these titles bring to mind?). This time a mysterious influence seals off an entire village, the perpetrators in this case being invading aliens. Here, as in THE CRAZY RAY, a geographic area is temporarily circumscribed. The females are impregnated by the aliens and subsequently bear children with glowing eyes and mysterious powers. This aspect of the film echoes the tale in the Book of Enoch of the fallen angels who descended to earth to mate with the women and to teach forbidden arts.

Let me quickly note a few relevant characteristics of paranoid schizophrenia as described by, for example, Norman O. Brown, Geza Roheim or Victor Tausk. The patient believes evil entities such as aliens from another world are secretly conspiring to do him harm. The patient may believe his enemies are employing physical equipment such as beam projectors against him. He is subject to seeing hallucinations or hearing voices attempting to guide his actions against his will. In THE NEXT VOICE YOU HEAR (1950) normal radio broadcasts are interrupted for short periods each night, and the cast seems to hear a message. This message seems to be more or less the Sermon on the Mount. Was this the voice of God? If not, what was it?

Another frequent theme in science fiction is the nomination of candidate (false) messiahs. I say false, since we are merely watching actors playing a fictional role. A real life prototype of these characters if found would not automatically thereby be a messiah. An example is THE MAN FROM PLANET X (1951), which has an alien who is trapped and needs earthly assistance.

THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (1951) (note the title) offers another false messiah. An alien descends in a saucer, takes on the interesting name of Mr. Carpenter, is killed and resurrected three days later, etc. In the case of this film, the extensive analogies were conscious on the part of some of the production people and were taken from the novel on which the film is based.

In the BRAIN FROM PLANET AROUS (1958) an alien

possesses a scientist, who then embarks on a mad quest to rule the world. It’s my all time favorite movie. He has the power to shoot airliners out of the sky with his eyes while lauging maniacally. He causes megaton exposions with no visible weapons in his scheme for world domination. He’s also a sex fiend. Ingmar Bergman’s THE MAGICIAN (1958) presents a rather dyspeptic false messiah from a traveling carnival show. The messiah of WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND (1962) (note the title) is a fugitive mistaken for Jesus when discovered in their barn. When apprehended and frisked, he stretches his arms to form a cross. THE FLIM FLAM MAN (1967) is a petty con artist living by his wits. CHARLY (1968) is mentally retarded until chemically transformed into a supermind. In THE RULING CLASS (1971), the candidate is an apparent psychopath. THE OMEGA MAN (1971), a remake of THE LAST MAN ON EARTH (1964), (note the titles) offers another ersatz messiah. In ZARDOZ (1973), the messiah figure is a barbarian.

SKY CAPTAIN AND THE WORLD OF TOMORROW (2004) has as the villan a man in his grave named German Toden Kopf (Death’s Head). He has arranged to have a new Noah’s ark built. As so often, the villan is the secret hero, because here Sky Captain actually destroys the Ark! HOLOCAUST 2000 (1978) (note the prediction in the title) presents the spectacle of Kirk Douglas wildly running up and down the Middle Eastern oilfields proclaiming the Ten Horns, etc. from the Book of Revelation. The messiah of THE LAST WAVE (1979) is an aboriginal witch doctor. In BEING THERE (1979), a simple-minded gardener who can barely tie his bootlaces and happens to be named Mr. Gardiner impresses the President as a sage. At the end of the film he walks on water since no one has told him this is impossible. A not very bright academic in SIMON (1979) is prevailed upon to impersonate a spaceman. After a period of rigorous mental brainwashing and physical conditioning, Simon comes to believe that he actually is an alien. He uses equipment that interrupts regular television broadcasts when he periodically wants to deliver messages. Similarly, in RIDERS OF THE STORM (1986), riders on a bomber interrupt TV broadcasts.

Woody Allen’s ZELIG (1984) features a schizophrenic chameleon who supposedly hobnobbed with the leading political figures of the thirties. In the PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO (1985), also by Woody Allen, a larger than life hero steps out of the screen in a movie theater and into the squalid life of a New Jersey housewife. CREATOR (1985) has a loony college professor who is attempting to resurrect his dead wife. The students he recruits for the project are lectured on the Big Picture.

Numerous other films with similar themes are listed in the bibliography, but, due to space limitations, I won’t give further examples here. Men play god in the movies, but do they in real life? I point to such research as genetic engineering, or the ‘star wars’ project (laser weapons, beam projectors, etc.) These devices were first predicted in science fiction, but always accompanied by warnings we conveniently ignored that to develop them would be to court disaster. Further, I will shortly point out that while these films depict physical devices, such actual equipment is unnecessary to produce the effects depicted.

As for the entertainment industry, we pour multiple billions into it year in and year out. For what we pay we get back entertainment, but additionally, we also get back social engineering that we didn’t necessarily ask for. I am by no means suggesting a conscious conspiracy or deliberate plot by Hollywood. The fundamental problem is again expressed by McLuhan – the medium is the message. In other words, inherent in the nature of the images produced by the media is a latent potential for subversion and ultimately destruction.

From this point to the end of the chapter, I will again take up the list with which I began this chapter. Upon completing the listing, I said each term was related to the term Mass Psychosis. I now claim we have already had several actual episodes. The first, in late August 1973, lasted nearly two weeks. It occurred during the Watergate period and was done primarily by the ‘hippies’. The April 1983 event occurred during the time of the American embassy bombing in Lebanon. The October 1983 event occurred during the time of the Marine barracks bombing in Lebanon. The most recent event was the broadcast made while the Tower of Babel 9-11 attack (World Trade Center) was simultaneously taking place. These broadcasts lasted only a day or so each and were done by a remnant handful of people.

What is the Invisible Rain like when it is falling? A person walking down the street may stop for a second, look around quizzically (what the #$*!), perhaps sniff the air, and then continue on. You’ve lived through it – you tell me what it’s like.

A few comments to wrap up the chapter. These events should not be referred to as a Flood, because of God’s promise in Genesis that there would be no more Flood. The New Testament imagery is always fire. I hold Margaret MacDonald’s Secret Rapture innovation of the nineteenth century correct, since we now have hindsight on these (multiple) events. There may or may not be more before the Messiah returns. After all, no one can predict the weather.

 CHAPTER FOUR

THE MESSIAH RETURNS

I’ll begin with another list:

THE SPACE COWBOY THE SKY MARSHAL OF THE UNIVERSE SKY KING KING OF THE ROCKET MEN STARMAN THE LOST PLANET AIRMAN THE MAN FROM INNER SPACE THE MORON FROM OUTER SPACE THE DIVINE IDIOT THE MAN WITH A THOUSAND FACES THE MIRROR MAN THE INVISIBLE MAN THE THIN MAN THE OMEGA MAN THE MYSTERY MAN THE MAN WITH THE POWER THE MAN WITH THE POISON MIND THE MEDICINE MAN THE RAINMAKER THE FERTILITY KING WILD-EYED CHAMELEON THE JOKER THE DEMOLITION MAN BIG BROTHER

Let me ask a few rhetorical questions. Are we perhaps involved in a real life version of the children’s game King of the Mountain in order to pick out the Messiah? Consider the paranoid schizophrenic with delusions of grandeur or possibly what is diagnosed as a messianic complex. What has this to do with the Messiah? Am I suggesting the Messiah will be merely a madman? Let me define a fairy or Peter Pan. A fairy is chronologically and physiologically an adult but has refused to assume an adult identity (ego) and has refused to take on adult responsibility. A fairy more or less never outgrows the omniscience, omnipotence and sense of wonder possessed by the infant, and inhabits fantasy mental worlds in preference to the real world. Again, I ask, what has this to do with the Messiah?

I took a brief look in the preceding chapter at some of what I felt were candidate messiahs being put forward by the movie industry. I wonder if we might be getting practice for recognizing the actual Messiah when He returns. I feel such practice may well be a good idea, since; for one thing, the Messiah won’t be riding the White Horse this time (that was done in A.D. 70). Neither do I expect to see a flying saucer descending from the skies to a world capital.

I suspect it will be an Incarnation in the manner that occurred at Bethlehem. At that time, only the Wise Men and a handful of others could discern the Messiah. One dictionary definition of blasphemy is for a mortal to name himself a god. I feel there could well be an early period when the Chosen One is accused as a blasphemer or the Antichrist. A considerable period of time may elapse before He is acclaimed Lord of lords and King of kings.

At any rate, once the Messiah is actually recognized, it will then become a situation of “when the saints go marching in”. In whichever country He first appears, the Messiah and a motley crew of followers will walk into the capital city and take power. You say you want to be in that number? I suggest you think carefully about it. To the secular eye this will be a Fool’s Parade or Goon Squad made up of Snake People (Marching Morons) – the actual ‘meek’ who will then inherit the earth. I repeat – do you want to be in that number?

How, you may object, will a mere handful of such people be able to take over a major capital city? The context is important here. We are dealing at this point in time with a nation under siege internally and externally, soon to fall. Numerous other portentous dire events will be occurring simultaneously that will dilute the significance of the central event. The World Trade Center attack, 9-11, was just the inaugural event of a coming series of catastrophes. We are on an accelerating descending slope. God is against us now for our Godless Wicked ways. This will be confirmed by the disasters coming ahead predicted here.

Initially the Messiah will assume actual secular political power in order to obtain the objective of reinstating theocracy – an archaic form of government long abandoned and forgotten by Western nations. Looking again with secular eyes, whether considered from the political left or from the political right, the government will be a de facto fascist government – no matter what label is ostensibly applied to it. To provide an example of the type of events that will be taking place, if, and I cannot overemphasize the hypothetical, if this occurs in Washington, DC, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights will be abolished and both Houses of Congress dissolved. I find this idea unpalatable, and I feel none of the sources I have mentioned would find this palatable, nor would you. I do not believe these events will occur in the actual Jerusalem, but, as I have indicated, one of the major Western capitals, which will then become a platform for world domination.

W. Reich in the forties prior to even the advent of national TV took a look at popular culture in THE MURDER OF CHRIST. He was acutely aware of the possibility of fascism, having had direct experience with the mass movements of the twentieth century of both the left and the right. What would be his verdict now, some sixty years later? Many science fiction films have dramatized a fascist takeover. Are they a prototype for future real events?

The evolutionary stages the government will undergo can be expressed in the Marxist schemata. The first phase corresponds to the dictatorship of the proletariat (rule by the meek). Then begins the transition period to the withering away of the state and the classless society or New Jerusalem. Theologians have previously published outlines of the analogies between Marxist mythology and Christian eschatology. And the return of the Messiah will actually fulfill Marx’s predictions, as well as those of John of Patmos simultaneously. During the transition period, it will be a matter of being forced to do without various items we now take for granted. The entire entertainment industry will be dispensed with – television broadcasts, movies, rock music, etc. Much of the high technology of the West will be abandoned. We will cease constructing aircraft, rockets and probably even automobiles (do only angels have wings?) This will be accomplished with only a minimum of objection because the Messiah will rule with a Rod of Iron as the Book of Revelation predicts. He will be a combination Joe Stalin, Jim Jones, Adolph Hitler and Ayatollah Khomeni rolled into one. Amos in the Old Testament correctly prophecied the gnashing of teeth and tribulation that would come with the Day of the Lord.

Is Western Civilization about to officially end? Are we and our descendants to become almost exclusively concerned with physical survival, staying alive? Don’t go outside to watch the skies for the Advent. Merely stay tuned to your TV set and start paying more attention. Have I seen one too many science fiction movies? Or is the show you never expected to see ABOUT TO BEGIN?!APPENDIX

Brief excerpts from Margaret MacDonald’s 1830 Secret Rapture prophecy:

It was first the awful state of the land that was pressed upon me. I saw the blindness and infatuation of the people to be very great. I felt the cry of Liberty to be just the hiss of the serpent to drown them in perdition. It was just ‘no God’, —-

I saw the people of God in an awfully dangerous situation, surrounded by nets and entanglements, about to be tried, and many about to be deceived and fall. Now will THE WICKED be revealed, with all power and signs and lying wonders, so that if it were possible the very elect will be deceived.

PARTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY

Chapter One.

The following titles are examples of conservative postmillennial and amillennial views as opposed to the standard premillennial view.

Bray, John L., THE MILLENNIUM – THE BIG QUESTION?

Chilton, David, PARADISE RESTORED: A BIBLICAL THEOLOGY OF DOMINION.

Brunner, Constantin, OUR CHRIST: THE REVOLT OF THE MYSTICAL GENIUS (1921 – published 1990).

James, Timothy A. THE MESSIAH’S RETURN: DELAYED? FULFILLED? OR DOUBLE-FULFILLMENT? Jones, R Bradley, THE GREAT TRIBULATON.

Kik, J. Marcellus, AN ESCHATOLOGY OF VICTORY.

Kimball, William R., THE RAPTURE: A QUESTION OF TIMING.

King, Max, THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY.

Lewis, Arthur H., THE DARK SIDE OF THE MILLENNIUM.

Logston, Robert, THE END-TIMES BLOODBATH. MacPherson, Dave, THE GREAT RAPTURE HOAX.

Robinson, John A. T., REDATING THE NEW TESTAMENT.

J. Stuart, THE PAROUSIA (1887).

Stevens, Ed, WHAT HAPPENED IN 70 A.D.

Terry, Milton, BIBLICAL HERMENEUTICS.

Chapters Two-Four.

Brown, Noman O., CLOSING TIME (1973).

______________, LOVE’S BODY (1966).

Campbell, Joseph and Robinson, H., A SKELETON KEY TO FINNEGANS WAKE (1944). Gutkind, Eric, THE BODY OF GOD: FIRST STEPS TOWARD AN ANTI-THEOLOGY (1966-Horizon Press).

Harrington, M. THE POLITICS AT GOD’S FUNERAL: THE SPIRITUAL CRISIS OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION (1983)

Hyde, Lewis, TRICKSTER MAKES THIS WORLD (1988).

Joyce, James, FINNEGANS WAKE (1939).

Reich, Wilhelm, THE MURDER OF CHRIST: THE EMOTIONAL PLAGUE OF MANKIND (1966). Robinson, Paul A., THE FREUDIAN LEFT: WILHELM REICH, GEZA ROHEIM, HERBERT MARCUSE (1969). Roheim, Geza, MAGIC AND SCHIZOPHRENIA (1955). ____________, ANIMISM, MAGIC AND THE DIVINE KING (1930). Sontag, Susan, “The imagination of disaster.” AGAINST INTERPRETATION AND OTHER ESSAYS (1966). Tausk, Victor, “On the origin of the ‘Influencing Machine’ in schizophrenia” (1933).

Tindall, W., A READER’S GUIDE TO FINNEGANS WAKE (1969).

Verene, D., KNOWLEDGE OF THINGS HUMAN AND DIVINE: VICO’S NEW SCIENCE AND FINNEGANS WAKE (2003).

FILM LIST BY DATE (PRIMARILY SCIENCE FICTION)

A partial list of relevant and valuable film titles. No studios are given. Especially significant films are preceeded by an *

*EVAN ALMIGHTY (2007) (sequel to BRUCE ALMIGHTY. God commands Evan to build an Ark)

THE INVISIBLE (2007) AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH (1996) CLICK (2006)

STRANGER THAN FICTION (2006)

BEWITCHED (2005)

CHICKEN LITTLE (2005) (‘The sky is falling!)

*CONSTANTINE (2005)

V FOR VENDETTA (2005) THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW (2004)

ELLA ENCHANTED (2004)

FAHRENHEIT 9/11 (2004)

THE FINAL CUT (2004) (madman must die to save others)

THE FORGOTTEN (2004)

THE LOST SKELETON OF CADAVRA (2004)

THE MACHINIST (2004)

THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST (2004)

*SKY CAPTAIN AND THE WORLD OF TOMMOROW (2004)

WHAT THE #$*! DO WE KNOW!? (2004)

*BRUCE ALMIGHTY (2003) (‘Armageddon outta here!’)

*NORTHFORK (2003) (has an Ark,a Flood and recording angels)

SPIDER (2003) (madman)

CLOCKSTOPPERS (2002) (mass psychosis)

DON’T SAY A WORD (2002)

FINAL (2002)

FRAILTY (2002)

HEARTS IN ATLANTIS (2002)

THE IMPOSTER (2002)

K-PAX (2002)

LILO AND STITCH (2002)

NO SUCH THING (2002)

THE RING (2002)

SIGNS (2002)

ZOOLANDER (2002)

A BEAUTIFUL MIND (2001)

CHICKEN RUN (2000)

END OF DAYS (1999)

GLADIATOR (1998)

THE MATRIX (1998)

*THE SIXTH SENSE (1998)

WHAT DREAMS MAY COME (1998)

MEN IN BLACK (1997)

INDEPENDENCE DAY (1996)

MARS ATTACKS! (1996)

*PLEASANTVILLE (1996)

FORREST GUMP (1994)

*STARGATE (1994)

DROP DEAD FRED (1991) THE RAPTURE (1991)

THE FISHER KING (1990)

THE HANDMAIDS TALE (1990)

LOOSE CANNONS (1990)

SPACED INVADERS (1990)

EARTH GIRLS ARE EASY (1988)

BEETLEJUICE (1988)

BIG (1988)

RAINMAN (1988)

THEY LIVE (1988)

*WINGS OF DESIRE (1988) (angels)

FIELD OF DREAMS (1987)

*MAKING MR. RIGHT (1987)

PRINCE OF DARKNESS (1987)

REAL MEN (1987)

THE BOY WHO COULD FLY (1986)

FLIGHT OF THE NAVIGATOR (1986)

RIDERS OF THE STORM (1986)

BETTER OFF DEAD (1985)

CREATOR (1985)

LIFEFORCE (1985)

*LEGEND (1985)

MORONS FROM OUTER SPACE (1985)

MASS APPEAL (1985)

MY SCIENCE PROJECT (1985)

THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO (1985)

REANIMATOR (1985)

REAL GENIUS (1985)

STARMAN (1985)

WEIRD SCIENCE (1985)

BROTHER FROM ANOTHER PLANET (1984)

THE DEAD ZONE (1984)

DREAMSCAPE (1984)

GHOSTBUSTERS (1984)

THE LAST STARFIGHTER (1984)

THE LONELY GUY (1984)

THE NATURAL (1984)

NIGHT OF THE COMET (1984)

RED DAWN (1984)

REVENGE OF THE NERDS (1984)

SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES (1984)

TERMINATOR (1984)

TESTAMENT (1984)

*ZELIG (1984)

KRULL (1983)

THE MAN WITH TWO BRAINS (1983)

VIDEODROME (1983)

*ROCK AND RULE (1982)

THE SENDER (1982)

ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (1981)

SCANNERS (1981)

*THE LATHE OF HEAVEN (1980-PBS)

ALIEN (1979)

*BEING THERE (1979)

CAPRICORN ONE (1979)

THE LAST WAVE (1979)

*SIMON (1979)

HOLOCAUST 2000 (1978)

STAR WARS (1977)

CARRIE (1976)

THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH (1976)

THE OMEN (1976)

A BOY AND HIS DOG (1975)

*THE DEVIL’S RAIN (1975)

THE STEPFORD WIVES (1975)

WIZARDS (1975)

FLESH GORDON (1974-X)

YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974)

THE EXORCIST (1973)

THE HOLY MOUNTAIN (1973)

HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER (1973)

JESUS CHRIST, SUPERSTAR (1973)

SOYLENT GREEN (1973)

THE SPOOK WHO SAT BESIDE THE DOOR (1973) THE WICKER MAN (1973)

WESTWORLD (1973)

ZARDOZ (1973)

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971)

FOOLS’ PARADE (1971)

THE LAST PICTURE SHOW (1971)

THE OMEGA MAN (1971)

*THE RULING CLASS (1971)

THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS (1971)

WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (1971)

CAPTAIN NEMO AND THE UNDERWATER CITY (1970)

*THE MAGIC CHRISTIAN (1970)

THIS STUFF’LL KILL YA! (1970)

THE RAIN PEOPLE (1969)

CHARLY (1968)

MARS NEEDS WOMEN (1968)

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968)

PLANET OF THE APES (1968)

THE POWER (1968)

FAHRENHEIT 451 (1967)

THE FLIM FLAM MAN (1967)

DR. GOLDFOOT AND THE GIRL BOMBS (1966)

KING OF HEARTS (1966)

DR. GOLDFOOT AND THE BIKINI MACHINE (1965)

A THOUSAND CLOWNS (1965)

*CHILDREN OF THE DAMNED (1964)

DR. STRANGELOVE: OR, HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB (1964)

THE LAST MAN ON EARTH (1964)

SEVEN DAYS IN MAY (1964)

THE GREAT ESCAPE (1963)

LORD OF THE FLIES (1963)

THE NUTTY PROFESSOR (1963)

THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (1962)

THE MUSIC MAN (1962)

REPTILICUS (1962)

WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND (1962)

ATLANTIS, THE LOST CONTINENT (1961)

MASTER OF THE WORLD (1961)

ON THE BEACH (1960)

PSYCHO (1960)

*VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED (1960)

THE WORLD, THE FLESH AND THE DEVIL (1959)

ATTACK OF THE 50-FOOT WOMAN (1958)

*THE BRAIN FROM PLANET AROUS (1958)

HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL (1958)

I MARRIED A MONSTER FROM OUTER SPACE (1958)

THE MAGICIAN (1958)

NOT OF THIS EARTH (1957)

THE COURT JESTER (1956)

FORBIDDEN PLANET (1956)

GIANT (1956)

GODZILLA (1956)

INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1956)

THIS ISLAND EARTH (1955)

GOG (1954)

INVADERS FROM MARS (1954)

IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE (1953)

THE LOST PLANET (1953)

*MEET MR. LUCIFER (1953)

THE WAR OF THE WORLDS (1953)

MY SON JOHN (1952)

RADAR MEN FROM THE MOON (1952)

RED PLANET MARS (1952)

ZOMBIES OF THE STRATOSPHERE (1952)

CAPTAIN VIDEO, MASTER OF THE STRATOSPHERE (1951)

*THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (1951)

THE MAN FROM PLANET X (1951)

WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE (1951)

D.O.A. (1950)

*THE NEXT VOICE YOU HEAR (1950)

ROCKETSHIP X-M (1950)

THE INSPECTOR GENERAL (1949)

KING OF THE ROCKETMEN (1949)

THE THIRD MAN (1949)

NIGHTMARE ALLEY (1947)

THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE (1947)

THE PURPLE MONSTER STRIKES (1945)

COBRA WOMAN (1944)

THE LODGER (1944)

NONE BUT THE LONELY HEART (1944)

I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE (1943)

DON WINSLOW OF THE NAVY (1942)

I MARRIED A WITCH (1942) THE DEVIL COMMANDS (1941)

THE MALTESE FALCON (1941)

*FLASH GORDON CONQUERS THE UNIVERSE (1940)

BUCK ROGERS (1939)

DAREDEVILS OF THE RED CIRCLE (1939)

THE PHANTOM CREEPS (1939)

*THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939)

FIGHTING DEVIL DOGS (1938)

FLASH GORDON’S TRIP TO MARS (1937)

THE MAN WHO COULD WORK MIRACLES (1937)

TIM TYLER’S LUCK (1937)

TOPPER (1937)

THE DEVIL DOLL (1936)

FLASH GORDON (1936)

THE INVISIBLE RAY (1936)

THINGS TO COME (1936)

UNDERSEA KINGDOM (1936)

THE LOST CITY (1935)

MURDER BY TELEVISION (1935)

*THE PHANTOM EMPIRE (1935)

GABRIEL OVER THE WHITE HOUSE (1933)

THE INVISIVIBLE MAN (1933)

KING KONG (1933)

FRANKENSTEIN (1932)

ISLAND OF LOST SOULS (1932)

M (1931)

BLUE ANGEL (1930)

METROPOLIS (1926)

THE LAST LAUGH (1924)

*THE CRAZY RAY (aka PARIS QUI DORT) (1923-Fr.)

THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI (1919)

FILM LIST

ALIEN (1979)

ATLANTIS, THE LOST CONTINENT (1961)

ATTACK OF THE 50-FOOT WOMAN (1958)

A BEAUTIFUL MIND (2001)

BEETLEJUICE (1988)

BEING THERE (1979)

BETTER OFF DEAD (1985)

BEWITCHED (2005)

BIG (1988)

BLUE ANGEL (1930)

A BOY AND HIS DOG (1975)

THE BOY WHO COULD FLY (1986)

THE BRAIN FROM PLANET AROUS (1958)

BROTHER FROM ANOTHER PLANET (1984)

BRUCE ALMIGHTY (2003)

THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI (1919)

CAPRICORN ONE (1979)

CAPTAIN NEMO AND THE UNDERWATER CITY (1970)

CARRIE (1976)

CHARLY (1968)

CHICKEN LITTLE (2005)

CHICKEN RUN (2000)

CHILDREN OF THE DAMNED (1964)

CLICK (2006)

CLOCKSTOPPERS (2002)

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971)

COBRA WOMAN (1944)

CONSTANTINE (2005)

THE COURT JESTER (1956)

THE CRAZY RAY (aka PARIS QUI DORT) (1923-Fr.)

CREATOR (1985)

THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW (2004)

THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (1951)

THE DEAD ZONE (1984)

THE DEVIL COMMANDS (1941)

THE DEVIL DOLL (1936)

THE DEVIL’S RAIN (1975)

D.O.A. (1950)

DON’T SAY A WORD (2002)

DROP DEAD FRED (1991) DR. GOLDFOOT AND THE BIKINI MACHINE (1965)

DR. GOLDFOOT AND THE GIRL BOMBS (1966)

DR. STRANGELOVE: OR, HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB (1964)

DREAMSCAPE (1984)

EARTH GIRLS ARE EASY (1988)

ELLA ENCHANTED (2004)

END OF DAYS (1999)

ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (1981)

EVAN ALMIGHTY (2007)

THE EXORCIST (1973)

FAHRENHEIT 451 (1967)

FAHRENHEIT 9/11 (2004)

FIELD OF DREAMS (1987)

FINAL (2002)

THE FINAL CUT (2004)

THE FISHER KING (1990)

FLESH GORDON (1974-X)

FLIGHT OF THE NAVIGATOR (1986)

THE FLIM FLAM MAN (1967)

FOOLS’ PARADE (1971)

FORBIDDEN PLANET (1956)

THE FORGOTTEN (2004)

FORREST GUMP (1994)

FRAILTY (2002)

FRANKENSTEIN (1932)

GABRIEL OVER THE WHITE HOUSE (1933)

GHOSTBUSTERS (1984)

GIANT (1956)

GLADIATOR (1998)

GODZILLA (1956)

GOG (1954)

THE GREAT ESCAPE (1963)

THE HANDMAID’S TALE (1990)

HEARTS IN ATLANTIS (2002)

HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER (1973)

HOLOCAUST 2000 (1978)

THE HOLY MOUNTAIN (1973)

HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL (1958)

I MARRIED A WITCH (1942) I MARRIED A MONSTER FROM OUTER SPACE (1958)

I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE (1943)

THE IMPOSTER (2002)

AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH (2006) INDEPENDENCE DAY (1996)

THE INSPECTOR GENERAL (1949)

INVADERS FROM MARS (1953)

INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1956)

THE INVISIBLE (2007) THE INVISIBLE MAN (1933)

THE INVISIBLE RAY (1936)

ISLAND OF LOST SOULS (1932)

IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE (1953)

JESUS CHRIST, SUPERSTAR (1973)

KING KONG (1933)

KING OF HEARTS (1966)

K-PAX (2002)

KRULL (1983)

THE LAST LAUGH (1924)

THE LAST MAN ON EARTH (1964)

THE LAST PICTURE SHOW (1971)

THE LAST STARFIGHTER (1984)

THE LAST WAVE (1979)

THE LATHE OF HEAVEN (1980-PBS)

LEGEND (1985)

LIFEFORCE (1985)

LILO AND STITCH (2002)

THE LODGER (1944)

THE LONELY GUY (1984)

LOOSE CANNONS (1990)

LORD OF THE FLIES (1963)

THE LOST SKELETON OF CADAVRA (2004)

M (1931)

THE MACHINIST (2004)

THE MAGIC CHRISTIAN (1970)

THE MAGICIAN (1958)

MAKING MR. RIGHT (1987)

THE MALTESE FALCON (1941)

THE MAN FROM PLANET X (1951)

THE MAN WITH TWO BRAINS (1983)

THE MAN WHO COULD WORK MIRACLES (1937)

THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH (1976)

THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (1962)

MARS ATTACKS (1996)

MARS NEEDS WOMEN (1968)

MASS APPEAL (1985)

MASTER OF THE WORLD (1961)

THE MATRIX (1998)

MEN IN BLACK (1997)

MEET MR. LUCIFER (1953)

METROPOLIS (1926)

MORONS FROM OUTER SPACE (1985)

MURDER BY TELEVISION (1935)

THE MUSIC MAN (1962)

MY SON JOHN (1952)

MY SCIENCE PROJECT (1985)

THE NATURAL (1984)

THE NEXT VOICE YOU HEAR (1950)

NIGHT OF THE COMET (1984)

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968)

NIGHTMARE ALLEY (1947)

NO SUCH THING (2002)

NONE BUT THE LONELY HEART (1944)

NORTHFORK (2003)

NOT OF THIS EARTH (1957)

THE NUTTY PROFESSOR (1963)

THE OMEGA MAN (1971)

THE OMEN (1976)

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Lego, the most popular of all building, or construction, toys has become a worldwide favorite of children and adults alike. The company, founded in Billund, Denmark has a history that goes all the way back to the 1920’s and 30’s. However, the term “Lego bricks” didn’t come into existence until 1953. The company with such humble beginnings has since become affiliated with the media franchise giants Harry Potter, Batman, Star Wars, and even SpongeBob SquarePants. Now the adventurer, Indiana Jones, has joined these legendary movie icons.

Nicknamed and known the world over as Indiana Jones, Dr. Henry Walton Jones, Jr. is an archaeology professor that is well known for his expertise in finding long lost artifacts and was created by the founder of the Star Wars empire, George Lucas. In 1981 Indiana Jones debuted in the wildly popular and theater box office hit, Raiders of the Lost Ark. Portrayed by award wining actor Harrison Ford, Indiana Jones’ adventures are shown as happening in the 1930’s. Already known for his Star Wars success, George Lucas hit another home run with his Indiana Jones character!

Wide ranges of products are available as a result of the Indiana Jones franchise being so well promoted and marketed. The popular franchise was introduced to Lego fans in May 2008 when the Cartoon Network released the movie, Lego Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Brick. The animated three dimensional movie was made highlighting four of Indiana Jones’ adventures. Lego Indiana Jones had made his first public appearance!

Lego and Jones are on a roll. One month later in June 2008, the video game, Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures was release in the United States and Canada by Traveller’s Tales.  Of course, George Lucas retained the copyrights. The game features exerts from the first three Indiana Jones movies and is available for PSP, PS2, PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, DS and PC. The game companies previous successful releases of four Lego Star Wars games, including a Bionicle Star Wars game, virtually guaranteed the new games success.

The newest, and extremely popular, Lego Indiana Jones Classic series of toy building sets and mini-figures have their roots in the first three adventure films, as well as, the Original Adventure video game. These six toy sets allow youngsters and adults alike to experience the following Indiana Jones adventures: Race for the Stolen Treasure, Temple Escape, Fight on the Flying Wing, Indiana Jones and the Lost Tomb, Shanghai Chase, and Indiana Jones Motorcycle Chase.  Professor Henry Jones, Short Round, Willie, Belioq and Satipo are a few of the minifigures in these sets.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, the forth of the I.J. movies, is the inspiration for the Kingdom of the Skull series of Lego toy building sets. These sets include: Temple of the Crystal Skull, Jungle Cutter, River Chase, and the already rare Peril in Peru set. Film characters portrayed as minifigs in these sets are Mutt Williams, Marion Ravenwood, Irina Spalco, and the villainous Colonel Dovchenko and his Russian soldiers. Dealing with various skeletons and Ugg Warriors is the man himself, Indiana Jones, complete with hat and trademark whip!

Shadow People

SALMAN RUSHDIE- “A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it, or offer your own version in return.”

SALMAN RUSHDIE –“How to defeat terrorism: Don’t be terrorized. Don’t let fear rule your life. Even if you are scared.”

SALMAN RUSHDIE –“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”

SALMAN RUSHDIE –“Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.”

SALMAN RUSHDIE –“Terrible things are being done today in the name of Islam, but simplification of the issue, when it involves omitting every thing that can’t easily be blistered by Naipaul’s Olympian disgust, is of no help.”

SALMAN RUSHDIE,,Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

SALVADOR DALI –“The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.”

SALVADOR DALI –“There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.”

SALVADOR DALI –“There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.”

SALVADOR DALI –“Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.”

SAM EWING –“Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their nose, and some don’t turn up at all.”

SAM KEEN –“Love isn’t about becoming somebody’s perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.”

SAM KEEN –“Once we abandon the age-old quest for consistency, for forging a single identity, for a unifying vision, we are left with no guiding principle except to follow the dictates of the moment.”

SAM KEEN –“You come to love not by finding the perfect person but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.”

SAM LEVENSON –“Love at first sight is easy to understand, it’s when two people have been looking at each other for a life time that it becomes a miracle.”

SAM PECKINPAH –“There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channelled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness.”

SAMANTABHADRA –“Just as a fire quickly reduces decayed wood to ashes, so does an aspirant who is totally absorbed in the inner self and completely unattached to all external objects shake to the roots, attenuate, and wither away his karma body.”

SAMAYIKA PATHA –“May the Lord of Lords, who is free from all blemishes like attachment and aversion which hold in tight bondage all embodied beings, who has no need of sense organs, is knowledge itself and eternally independent, be enshrined in my heart. May the Lord of Lords, whose cognition pervades all the objects in the cosmos, who has attained liberation and perfection, is fully enlightened and absolutely free from the bondage of karma, and whose contemplation destroys all spiritual aberrations, reside in my heart.”

SAMI MAHDI –“From gazelles’ eyes the pupils dropped when the bridge was bombed Lovers9 rings shattered and mothers were bewildered… with fire we perform our ablutions every morning collecting our remnants And the debris of our houses We purge our souls with the blood of our wounds… Plenty we have received what shall we offer you, 0 lands of patient destitutes? Plenty we have received so receive us and pave with us the paths of wayfarers.”

SAMI MANSEI –“Living in this world—/to what shall I compare it? It’s like a boat/rowing out at break of day/ leaving no trace behind.”

SAMUEL BECKETT- “Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again, fail again.”

SAMUEL BECKETT- “Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again, fail again. Fail better.”

SAMUEL BECKETT -“Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.”

SAMUEL BECKETT –“I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.”

SAMUEL BECKETT- “We are all borne mad. Some remain so.”

SAMUEL BECKETT- “What have I done to god, what has god done to us, what have they done to god?”

SAMUEL BUCKET –“Nothing happens, no body comes, no body goes, and it’s awful.”

SAMUEL BUTLER –“All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.”

SAMUEL BUTLER –“And as the French we conquered once, now give us laws for pantaloons. The length of breeches and the gathers Port-connons, periwigs, and feathers.”

SAMUEL BUTLER- “Man is the only animal that laughs and a has state legislature.”

SAMUEL BUTLER- “Self preservation is the first law of nature.”

SAMUEL BUTLER –“The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.”

SAMUEL BUTLER –“Union may be strength, but it is mere blind brute strength unless wisely directed.”

SAMUEL BUTLER THE YOUNGER –“To himself every one is a immortal, he may know that he is going to die but he can never know that he is dead.”

SAMUEL COLERIDGE –“Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.”

SAMUEL GOLDWYN –“No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.”

SAMUEL GRAFTON –“A penny will hide the biggest star in the Universe if you hold it close enough to your eye.”

SAMUEL HOFFENSTEIN –“My soul is dark with stormy riot, Directly traceable to diet.”

SAMUEL JACKSON –“All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.”

SAMUEL JACKSON –“Everybody likes stories about underdogs that overcome.”

SAMUEL JOHNSON – “Oh, no, not me, I never lost control. You’re face to face, with the man who sold the world.”

SAMUEL JOHNSON – “You have no business with consequences, you are to tell the truth.”

SAMUEL JOHNSON –“Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.”

SAMUEL JOHNSON –“All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.”

SAMUEL JOHNSON –“All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.”

SAMUEL JOHNSON –“Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.”

SAMUEL JOHNSON –“Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions. He is convinced by the length of time and frequency of experiment.”

SAMUEL JOHNSON –“Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.”

SAMUEL JOHNSON –“If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.”

SAMUEL JOHNSON –“Instead of rating the man by his performances, we rate too frequently the performances by the man.”

SAMUEL JOHNSON –“Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.”

SAMUEL JOHNSON –“Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.”

SAMUEL JOHNSON –“Magnificence can not be cheap, for what is cheap can not be magnificent.”

SAMUEL JOHNSON –“Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage in triumph of hope over experience.”

SAMUEL JOHNSON –“Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.”

SAMUEL JOHNSON –“Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spent less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.”

SAMUEL JOHNSON –“Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.”

SAMUEL JOHNSON –“So, if you are to speak for people, you must know them, and if you are to respect to people, you must love them.”

SAMUEL JOHNSON –“The fountain of content must spring up in the mind; and he who has so little knowledge of human nature as to see happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste ; his life in fruitless : efforts, and multiply the grief which he proposes to remove.”

SAMUEL JOHNSON –“The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.”

SAMUEL JOHNSON –“The speculator; who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity; and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less.”

SAMUEL JOHNSON –“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.”

SAMUEL JOHNSON –“The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.”

SAMUEL JOHNSON –“Those who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often granted upon easier terms.”

SAMUEL JOHNSON –“When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.”

SAMUEL SMILES –“Fortune has often been blame for her blindness, but fortune is not as blind as men are.”

SAMUEL SMILES –“Hope is like the sun, which as we journey towards it, cast the shadow of our burden behind us.”

SAMUEL STEAM –“When I was young, life was a warm and gentle wind and I a weathercock crowing to the world. But now I am old, an uncertain arrow trembling in the cold of a headless gale.”

SAMUEL T COLERIDGE –“Language is the armory of the human ‘ mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.”

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE –“Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.”

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE –“How inimitably graceful children are before they learn to dance.”

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE –“So will I build my altar in the fields, And the blue sky my fretted dome shall be, And the sweet fragrance that the wild flower yields Shall be the incense I will yield to thee.”

SAMUEL ULLMAN –“Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.”

SAMUEL ULLMAN –“Youth is not a time of life it is a state of mind to find it.”

SAMUEL ULLMAN –“Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind.”

SAMULI. PARONEN –“Name is a fence and within it you are nameless.”

SAMURAI WISDOM –“I have no tactics; I make Emptiness and Fullness my tactics./ I have no talent; I make Ready Wit my talent./ I have no friends; I make the Mind my friend./ I have no enemy; I make Incautiousness my enemy./1 have no sword; I make No Mind my sword.”

SAN TZU –“Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack.”

SANATAN –“Krishna, who can fathom the depths .of thy heart? As the juggler makes the wooden puppet dance, so, too, does the man whom you inspire, dance without knowing why he is dancing or through whom.”

SANAYA ROMAN –“What you love is a sign from your higher self of what you are to do.”

SANDMAN –“Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.”

SANJAY SINGH –“Life is just a game, roll the dice, spin the wheel. Whatever comes up is what you get. If you take the game seriously, you become obsessed by it, always ” trying to find a goal, but in the game of life, there is no colourful square that says finish.”

SANKHAYANA ARANYAKA –“Even as Brahma can change his form and move at will, so amongst all beings can he change his form and move at will who is a Comprehensor thereof.”

SANSKRIT PROVERB –“For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth.”

SANSKRIT SHIOKA ANGIKAM BHUVANAM YASYA/ VACHIKAM SARVA ANGMAYAM/AHARYAM CHANDRA TARADI/ TARN NAMO, SATVIKAM SHIVAM –“0 benevolent Shiva, whose dance is the whole of the cosmos, the music to which is all of creation, who is adorned with the moon and stars as his jewels, and whose abhinaya is eternal, I bow before you!”

SARA PADDISON –“How many times a day does some situation pop up that leads to moments of frustration and anxiety? Surrendering your head to your heart in those moments will lead you to balance and fulfillment. As you listen to your spirit, peace follows. So follow your spirit. Build your foundation in your heart. Love must be your innermost and spontaneous response towards every person you encounter Say to yourself inside, “I just love”. Use these words as a key to start the engine running in your heart and watch life brighten with new love and understanding. Surrender to your new awareness and let love unfold the purpose of creation to you.”

SARAH BAN BREATHNACH –“Choice is destiny’s soul mate.”

SARAH BAN BREATHNACH –“Dreams need doing as much as they need being the being always comes first.”

SARAH BAN BREATHNACH –“Each day offers us simple gifts when we are willing to search our hearts for the place that’s right for each of us.”

SARAH BAN BREATHNACH –“Grace is available for each of us every day— our spiritual daily bread — but we’ve got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow.”

SARAH BAN BREATHNACH –“Happiness that the world cannot take away only flourishes in the secret garden of our souls.”

SARAH BAN BREATHNACH –“Search for the sacred in the ordinary with gratitude in your heart and you will surely find it.”

SARAH BAN BREATHNACH –“The simpler we make our lives, the more abundant they become.”

SARAH BAN BREATHNACH –“There is no scarcity except in our souls.”

SARAH BAN BREATHNACH –“We don’t know if a choice is wise or wrong until we’ve lived it.”

SARAH MAC LAHAN –“Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another’s personhood.”

SAROJINI NAIDU –“Beloved, I offer to you in tender allegiance anew/ A bracelet of floss. Let me twist its tassels, vermilion and blue/ and violet, girdle your wrist. Accept this bright gage from my hand, Let your heart its sweet speech understand The ancient high symbol and end/ Is wrought on each gold-threaded strand,/ The fealty of friend unto friend./ A garland how frail of design,/ Our spirit to clasp and entwine/In devotion unstrained and unbroken,/ How slender a circle and sign/ Of secret, deep pledges unspoken.”

SAROJINI NAIDU –“In noon-tide hours, 0 Love, secure and strong, I need thee not; mad dreams are mine to bind The world to my desire, and hold the wind A voiceless captive to my conquering song. I need thee not, I am content with these: Keep silence in thy soul, beyond the seas! But in the desolate hour of midnight, when An ecstasy of starry silence sleeps And my soul hungers for thy voice, 0 then, Love, like the magic of wild melodies, Let thy soul answer mine across the seas.”

SAROJINI NAIDU –“Thy future calls thee with a manifold sound To crescent honours, splendours, victories vast; Waken, O slumbering Mother and be crowned, Who once were empress of the sovereign past.”

SARVAJNANOTTARA AGAMA –“All visibles and invisibles, movables and immovables, are pervaded by Me. All the worlds existing in the tattvas from Shakti to Prithvi exist in me. Whatever is heard or seen, internally or externally, is pervaded by Me.”

SARVEPALLI RADHAKRISHANAN- “The worst sinner has a future, even as the greatest saint has had a past. No one is so good or bad as he imagines.”

SARVEPALLI RADHAKRISHNAN- “A good teacher must know how to arouse the interest of the pupil in the field of study for which he is responsible… he must himself be a fellow traveler in the exciting pursuit of knowledge.”

SARVEPALLI RADHAKRISHNAN –“The worst sinner has a future, even as the greatest saint has had a past. No one is so good or so bad as he imagines.”

SASHA AZEVEDO –“To believe in yourself and to follow your dreams, to have goals in life and a drive to success, and to surround yourself with the things and the people that make you happy – this is success!”

SASKYA PANDITA –“It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.”

SATAPATHA BRAHMANA –“In the beginning, to be sure, this world was water, nothing but a sea of water. The waters desired, “How can we be propagated?” They kindled their own ardour, performing this very act with fervour. While summoning their creative energy they warmed up and a golden egg wasproduced.”

SAUL BELLOW –“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.”

SAYINGS OF BAHA’U'LLAH –“Humility exalts man to the heaven of glory and power while pride abases him to the depths of wretchedness and degradation… Those I who are the beloved of God, in whatever place they gather and whomsoever they may meet, must ( evince, in their attitude towards God, and in the manner of their celebration of His praise and glory such humility and submissiveness that every atom of dust beneath theirs feet may attest the depth of their devotion.”

SAYINGS OF THE PROPHET –“Abu Jariya, an inhabitant of Basra, coming to Medina and being convinced of the inspired mission of Prophet Muhammad asked him, according to a Muslim historian, for some great rule of conduct. “Speak evil of no one,” answered the Prophet.”

SAYINGS OF ZARATHUSTRA –“I If you want the whole I world to admire you, make everyone happy and waste no time in self admiration. Seek your happiness in the happiness of all. Regard the sorrows and sufferings of others as yours and hasten to assuage them.”

SCHILLER –“The man who fears nothing is not less powerful than he who is feared is every one.”

SCHILLER –“The opinion of the majority is not the final proof of what is right.”

SCHILLER –“The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.”

SCHILLER –“When the wine goes in, strange things come out.”

SCHOPENHAUER –“The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary.”

SCOFF PECK –“Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable.”

SCOTT –“Better ride safe in the dark, says the proverb, than in day light with a cutthroat at your elbow.”

SCOTT ADAMS –“Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art knows which ones to keep.”

SCOTT ADAMS –“I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination.”

SCOTT ADAMS –“Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.”

SCOTT HAMILTON –“The only disability in life is a bad attitude.”

SCOTTISH PROVERB- “Never merry for money. You’ll borrow it cheaper.”

SCOTTISH SAYING –“From ghoulies and ghosties and longleggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us!”

SEAMI MOTOKIYO –“The objects of sense in the world ever changing — These we adhere to as things of reality; But in the ocean of birth and death, they drown us. How long shall we wander in this path of dreams? This world to us! Indeed seems permanent and fixed, yet after all, what is it but a road of dreams to which life after life we must perforce return?”

SEAN 0 CASEY –“There is no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.”

SEAN CANNERY –“I’m incredibly lucky to still be around, doing all the things I want to do and getting extremely well paid for it. There’s a parallel with golf — a lot of it is in the mind, and the moment you start to lose the enthusiasm or appetite, it affects your judgments and decisions. And then you stop performing well. I think enthusiasm. and appetite are more important than anything else.”

SEAN CONNERY –“I have always hated that damn James Bond. I’d like to kill him.”

SEBASTIAN R N CHAMFORT –“The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed.”

SEBUKTEGIN –“Wealth cannot be acquired except by good government and wise statesmanship, and good government cannot be achieved except through justice and righteousness.”

SENATOR ALAN BIBLE –“We labour long and earnestly for peace, because war threatens the survival of man. It is time we laboured with equal passion to defend our environment. A polluted stream can be as lethal as a bullet.”

SENECA – “Fidelity gained by bribes is overcome by bribe.”

SENECA – “Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.”

SENECA- “A disease is further on the road to being cured when it breaks further from concealment.”

SENECA –“All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.”

SENECA –“As long as you live keep learning how to live.”

SENECA -“As long as you live, keep learning how to live.”

SENECA –“As long as you live, keep learning how to live.”

SENECA –“As the soil, however; rich it may be cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit.”

SENECA –“Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.”

SENECA –“Consult your friend on all things, especially on those with respect to yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.”

SENECA -“Crime must be concealed by crime.”

SENECA –“Human affairs are like a chess game; only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shatters does it manifest its emptiness.”

SENECA –“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.”

SENECA –“If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that i should keep it close and not communicate it, i would refuse the gift.”

SENECA –“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are different.”

SENECA –“Life is neither a good nor an evil, it is a simply the place where good and evil exist.”

SENECA –“Life’s like a play; it’s not the length but the excellence of the acting that matters.”

SENECA –“Many have gone through life merely accumulating the instruments of life. Consider individuals, survey men in general: there is none whose life does not look forward to the morrow. ‘What harm is there in this?’ you ask. Infinite harm; for such persons do not live, but are preparing to live. They postpone everything. While we are postponing, life speeds by.”

SENECA –“Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.”

SENECA –“Not a soul takes thought how well he may live — only how long; yet a good life might be everybody’s a long one can be nobody’s.”

SENECA –“Nothing is more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to show to prove that he has lived long, except his years.”

SENECA –“Old age is an incurable disease.”

SENECA –“The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden… And so this knowledge will be unfolded only through long successive ages. There will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did mot know things that are so plain to them…Many discoveries are reserved for ages stills to come, when memory of us will have been effaced. Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate… Nature does not reveal her mysteries once and for all.”

SENECA –“To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.”

SENECA –“Whenever we want to watch an eclipse of the sun we set out basins filled with oil or pitch, because the heavy liquid is not easily disturbed and so preserves the images it receives.”

SENECA –“Worse then war is the fear of war.”

SENECA THE YOUNGER –“A kingdom founded ; on injustice never lasts.”

SENG-TS’AN –“Stop talking, stop thinking, and there is nothing you will not understand. /Return to the Root and you will find the Meaning;/ Pursue the Light, and you will lose its source…There is no need to seek Truth; only stop having views.”

SENG-TS’AN –“The very small is as the very large when boundaries are forgotten; The very large is as the very small when its outlines are not seen.”

SEUMES MACMANUS –“Young people don’t know what age is and old people forget what youth was.”

SEUSS –“You have brains in your bead, and feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.”

SEXTUS THE PYTHAGOREAN –“Whatever you honour above all things, that which you so honour will have dominion over you. But if you give yourself to the domination of God, you will thus have dominion over all things.”

SEYMOUR –“How come you did all those miracles in the old days and don’t do any now?”

SEYMOUR MILLS –“Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me.”

SHABANA AZMI –“Auitudes on Ageing What is old age; when does it sneak in; who falls victim to it? A retired person at 60 qualifies as a senior citizen. But does that make her old? Tiny little adjustments can go a long way in providing the support senior citizens need. If we can free them from their worries and create the support structure they require, they will rise to the level of their own potential. On their own terms.”

SHABI START- “Rise above time and space, pass by the world, and be to yourself you own world.”

SHABISTARI –“Behold the world mingled together, Angels with demons, Satan with the archangel. All mingled like seed and fruit, Infidel with faithful, and faithful with infidel. At the point of the present are gathered All cycles and seasons, day, month, and year. World at beginning is world without end.”

SHABISTARI –“If you cleave the heart of one drop of water, there will issue from it a hundred oceans.”

SHABISTARI –“If you wish to see that Face, Seek another eye. The philosopher With his two eyes sees double, So is unable to see unity of Truth.”

SHABISTARI –“In every strain which the tavern-haunters hear from the minstrel Comes to them rapture from the unseen world.”

SHABISTARI –“Pure being is too bright to behold, yet it can be seen reflected in the mirror of this world.”

SHABISTARI –“Rise above time and space, pass by the world, and be to yourself your own world.”

SHABISTARI –“T and ‘you’ are but the lattices,/ in the niches of a lamp,/ through which the One Light shines./ T and ‘you’ are the veil/ between heaven and earth;/ lift this veil and you will see/ no longer the bonds of sects and creeds./ When ‘I’ and ‘you’ do not exist,/ what is mosque, what is synagogue?/What is the Temple of Fire?”

SHABISTARI –“The whole world is yours, yet you remain helpless: one more destitute than you has yet to be seen. They have spoken to you of your Essence. So religious laws have been assigned for you to follow. You are the kernel and the world the shell; Know yourself: the life of the world is you. The world of wisdom and world of the soul are your capital, the earth and sky your ornaments. You are a likeness of the image of God: Ask from yourself anything you may desire.”

SHABISTARI –“The world has no substantial reality, but exists as a shadowy pageant or play.”

SHABISTARI –“What are “I” and “You”? Just lattices in the niches of a lamp through which the One Light radiates.”

SHABISTARI –“You have heard much of this world, yet what have you seen of this world? What is its form and substance? “

SHABISTARI –“Your eye has not strength enough To gaze at the burning sun. But you can see its brilliant light By watching its reflection Mirrored in the water. So the reflection of Absolute Being Can be viewed in this mirror of Non Being, For non-existence, being opposite Reality Instantly catches its reflection.”

SHAH HATIM –“0 ye Hindus and Muslims, Tell me which religion says Ignore the God in your heart And be obsessed only with the temple or the mosque.”

SHAH OF IRAN –“Let me tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me personally nothing but headaches… My advisors built a wall between myself and my people. I didn’t realise what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people.”

SHAHNAZYOUSUF –“Bus to Muzaffarabad may not be as spectacular as the breaking of the Berlin Wall, but it will leave a positive impact on the psyche of the Kashmir! People. Give peace a chance.”

SHAHRIAR SHAHRIARI –“Main maxims of Zoroastrianism Humata, Hukhta, Huvarshta, which mean: Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good Deeds. There is only one path and that is the path of Truth. Do the right thing because it is the right thing to do, and then all beneficial rewards will come to you also.”

SHAHRIAR SHAHRIARI –“On Ahura Mazda Ahura means the Lord Creator, and Mazda means Supremely Wise. This was the name by which Zarathushtra addressed his God. He proclaimed that there is only one God, who is the singular creative and sustaining force of the Universe. Zarathushtra was the first Prophet who brought a monotheistic religion.”

SHAHRIAR SHAHRIARI –“On Dualism Even though there is only one God, our universe works on the basis of moral dualism. There is Spenta Mainyu or progressive mentality and Angra Mainyu or regressive mentality. Having given us the ability to choose, Ahura Mazda leaves us alone and allows us to make our choices. And if we choose good, we will bring about good, and if we choose evil, we will cause evil This is how the moral universe operates.”

SHAIKH ABU SAEED ABIL KHEIR –“Let deep longing dwell in your heart,/ never give up, never lose hope.”

SHAIKH AL HUJWIR –“Man’s love towards God is a quality that manifests itself in the heart of the pious believer, in the form of veneration and magnification, so that he seeks to satisfy his Beloved and becomes impatient and restless in his desire for vision of Him, and cannot rest with anyone except Him, and grows familiar with the remembrance of Him, and abjures the remembrance of everything besides.”

SHAKESPEAR - “We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.”

SHAKESPEAR –“And when the mind is quicken’d, out of doubt, The organs, though defunct and dead before, Break up their drowsy grave and newly move With casted slough and fresh legerity.”

SHAKESPEAR –“Do all men kill the things they do not love?”

SHAKESPEAR -“Small cheer and great welcome makes merry feast.”

SHAKESPEAR –“We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.”

SHAKESPEAR –“We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey/ And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch and not their terror.”

SHAKESPEAR –“Wherein I speak of most disastrous chances, of moving accidentsby flood and field.”

SHAKESPEARE –“As you are old a reverend, you should be wise.”

SHAKESPEARE –“Be wary, then; best safety lies in fear.”

SHAKESPEARE –“Corruption wins not more than honesty.”

SHAKESPEARE –“Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care; Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather; Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare; Youth is full sport, age’s breath is short; Youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and »cold; Youth is wild, age is tame; Age, I do abhor thee: Youth, I do adore thee.”

SHAKESPEARE –“Ghosts, wondering here and there, troop have to churchyard.”

SHAKESPEARE- “I am as poor as job, my lord, but not so patient.”

SHAKESPEARE –“In time we hate that which we often fear.”

SHAKESPEARE –“Macbeth: Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart? Doctor: Therein the patient must minister to himself.”

SHAKESPEARE –“Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing the attempt.”

SHAKESPEARE –“Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safely.”

SHAKESPEARE- “Small cheer and great welcome makes merry feast.”

SHAKESPEARE –“The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not mov’d with concord of sweet sounds,/ Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils;/ The motions of his spirit are dull as night,/ And his affections dark as , Erebus;/ Let no such man be trusted.”

SHAKESPEARE –“The prince of darkness is a gentleman.”

SHAKESPEARE –“The stars above us govern our conditions.”

SHAKESPEARE –“There is a tide in the affairs of men/ Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;/ Omitted, all the voyage of their life/ Is bound in shallows and in miseries.”

SHAKESPEARE –“There’s no such sport as sport by sport o’erthrown, to make theirs ours and ours none but our own.”

SHAKESPEARE –“Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.”

SHAKESPEARE –“Truth will come to light; murder can not be hiding long.”

SHAKESPEARE –“Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand, Blood and revenge are hammering in my head.”

SHAKTI GAWAIN –“… We each need to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.”

SHAKTI GAWAIN –“…. The darkest hour is truly before the dawn.”

SHAKTI GAWAIN –“Every moment is a moment of creation, and each moment of creation contains infinite possibilities.”

SHAKTI GAWAIN –“Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request, and everything your heart desires must come to you.”

SHAKTI GAWAIN –“Every time you don’t follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.”

SHAKTI GAWAIN –“Falling in love is actually a powerful experience of feeling the universe move through you. The other person has become a channel for you, a catalyst that triggers you to open up to the love, beauty and compassion within.”

SHAKTI GAWAIN –“Giving happens not from a space of sacrifice, or self-righteousness, or an idea of spirituality, but for the pure pleasure of it — because it’s fun. It can only come from a full, loving space.”

SHAKTI GAWAIN –“Going with the flow means holding onto your goals lightly … and being willing to change them if something more appropriate and satisfying comes along. It means being firm, yet flexible.”

SHAKTI GAWAIN –“I also know that when I’m trusting and being myself as fully as possible, everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily often miraculously.”

SHAKTI GAWAIN –“In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it.”

SHAKTI GAWAIN –“Probably the most difficult part of getting what you want in life is just figuring out what you really want.”

SHAKTI GAWAIN –“The healing always comes from within.”

SHAKTI GAWAIN –“The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.”

SHAKTI GAWAIN –“There is no separation between us and God; we are divine expressions of the creative principle on this level of existence.”

SHAKTI GAWAIN –“We always attract into our lives whatever we think about the most, believe in most strongly expect on the deepest levels, and/or imagine most vividly If we are basically positive in attitude, expecting and envisioning pleasure, satisfaction and happiness, we will attract and create people, situations, and events which confirm to our positive expectations. So the more positive energy we put into imagining what we want, the more it begins to manifest in our lives.”

SHAKTI GAWAIN –“We are all born with an infinite number of different qualities or energies within us. One of the most important tasks in our life is to discover and develop as. many of these energies as possible, so that we can be well-rounded, and experience the full range of our potential.”

SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA –“Do not commit any unwholesome actions Accumulate virtuous deeds, Tame and train your own mind”.”

SHAM LAL –“”Hell is others”, Tagore might have conceded, but he would have added, “So is Heaven”. To him there would be no true love without suffering. Parvati looks all the more, lovely after her great penance. Shakuntala’s love finds fulfillment only after the ordeal through which she goes…”

SHAM LAL –“Ahimsa is not an abstract ideal but a practical idea whose efficacy can be judged only by the celerity with which it goes into action. Perhaps there are saints who do not think ill of anyone and who have rid their minds of the last trace of violence.”

SHAM LAL –“Ask: Would easier communication be of much avail when people have very little to communicate?”

SHAM LAL –“Every philosophy and every religion has its dialectic of grov/th arid decay and it is helpful to understand the circumstances.”

SHAM LAL –“It is modern poets, playwrights and novelists in contrast to social scientists, who are primarily concerned with existential problem and seek answers to questions which bug the more sensitive today.”

SHANA WILSON –“Ghosts and goblins and witches with wild hair give you a scare with there wicked stare. If you are scared of the dark or ghastly creatures lurking in the park then you should not go out on Halloween night because most likely it will give you a fright. Poltergeists and zombies come up from their graves and bats are screeching in their caves. Banshees are screaming. I hope your flashlight is beaming. Watch out or something just might say BOO! Don’t say that I didn’t warn you.”

SHANE WARNE –“Whoever writes my scripts is doing an unbelievable job… There’s some special things that happen in your life and some special days in your life and this is definitely one of them.”

SHANNON SERVICE –“How I lead my life speaks a prayer for the world I want to create.”

SHANTIDEVA –“My own self and my pleasures, my righteous past, present and future, may i sacrifice without regard, in order to achieve the welfare of other beings.”

SHANTIDEVA –“Whenever there is attachment in my mind and whenever there is the desire to be angry, i should not do anything nor say anything…”

SHARON STONE –“Love is like heaven, but it can hurt like hell.”

SHASHI THAROOR –“”But Ammamma”, I would ask my grandmother, “why does Ganesh ride a rat?” My grandmother explained that each animal is a symbol of Ganesh’s capacities: “like an elephant, he can crash through the jungle uprooting every impediment in his path, while like the rat he can burrow his way through the tightest of defences”.”

SHAW, G.B. –“EVERYONE DIES, BUT NOT EVERYONE FULLY LIVES. TOO MANY PEOPLE ARE HAVING A NEAR-LIFE EXPERIENCE.”

SHEIKH ABDULLAH –“Kashmir will ever be with India, whatever sacrifices we shall have to make.

SHEKEL HAKODESH –“He who doth choose charity for a fortress will find men of their own accord humble themselves before him; against all daily accidents and dire calamity there’s naught to shield affirm man like deeds of kindness.”

SHEKEL HAKODESH –“Kings may rule the world, but the wise rule kings.”

SHEKEL HAKODESH –“To be too fond of this world and of that which is there in, provoketh the wrat of Heaven. If thou sacrifice this fondness, thou shalt be sure of the glory and grace of thy God.”

SHEL SILVERSTEIN –“I will not play tug o’ war. I’d rather play hug o’ war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins.”

SHELDON B. KOPP – “The only times that we can have what we long for are those moments when we stop grasping for it.”

SHELDON S. MAYE –“I will not condemn you for what you did yesterday. If you do it right today.”

SHERIOCK HOLMES –“Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.”

SHERWOOD EDDY –“Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence; faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences.”

SHILPA PREM –“The border that stands between you and I Resembles nothing but a clear-cut, fictitious lie.”

SHINTO –“Even in a single leaf of a tree, or a tender blade of grass, the awe-inspiring Deity manifests.”

SHINTO –“Even in a single leaf of a tree, or a tender blade of grass, the awe-inspiring Deity manifests Itself.”

SHINTO UDEN FUTSUJOSHO –“Prayers to the Deity accompanied by monetary gifts secured by injustice are sure not to be granted. Pray in all righteousness and the Deity will be pleased to listen to your supplication. Foolish is he who, in impatient eagerness and without following the path of righteousness, hopes to obtain divine protection.”

SHINTOISM –“All appetites are natural and hence are divine gifts; and the temperate enjoyment of them is a divine power. If man oversteps the limits of moderation, he pollutes his body and mind. To be godlike is to be natural; to be natural is to follow Nature. Keep within the limits set by instinct and reason. This is the fundamental conception of Due Measure.”

SHINTOISM –“All things of this world have their own spirituality, as they were born from the divine couple. Therefore, the relationship between the natural environment of this world and people is that of blood kin, like the bond between brother and sister.”

SHIRLEY ABBOTT –“We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies.”

SHIRLEY MACLAINE –“I don’t need a man to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we’ll ever have is the one with ourselves.”

SHIRLEY MACLAINE –“What we are and what we may be Is revealed by the light within.”

SHIV KHERA –“Successful people don’t do different things. They do things differently.”

SHIV KHERA –“Winning don’t do different things, they just do things differently.”

SHIVA PURANA –“In the pure world of Kailasha, Rudra, the annihilator of living beings, is stationed. Beyond that are the 56 worlds ending with Ahimsa region. The action-Lord who has screened everything is stationed in the city of Jnanakailasha in the Ahimsa region. At the end of the same is the wheel of Time and beyond the ken of Time is the space called Kalatita. There Kala, God of death and Time, backed by Shiva, unites everyone with Time.”

SHIVA SUBRAMANIAM –“Using six thinking hats and lateral thinking, invented by Edward de Bono, one can enhance confidence in oneself and be a better thinker and creative person.”

SHOMSHUKLLA –“Those white flowers I know them Do you? From the time I was a child I know them Frangipani I spent many an afternoon collecting them Bending Sometimes sitting On the ground Stretching my young arms Across the grass Or just jumping for them Those white Frangipani.”

SHRI MANGATRAMJI MAHARAJ –“Whenever there is the influence of the Lord’s pleasure, the mind transcends truth and error. At such moments the knowledgeable satpurush understands the inner pleasure that lies within that disinterested transcendence.”

SHUETASHUARA UPANISHAD –“Meditate and realize this world is filled with the presence of God.”

SHUETASHVATARA –“One should know that nature is surely maya and the ruler of maya is the Great Lord. This whole world is pervaded by beings that are parts of Him.”

SHVETASHVATARA –“Health, a light body, freedom from cravings, a glowing skin, sonorous voice, fragrance of body, these signs indicate progress in the practice of meditation.”

SHVETASHVATARA UPANISHAD –“He is fire and the sun, and the moon/ and the stars. He is the air and the sea/ He is the blue bird, he is the green bird/ with red eyes; he is the thundercloud, / and he is the seasons and the seas/ from his divine power comes forth all this/ Magical show of name and form.”

SHVETASHVATARA UPANISHAD –“Health, a light body, freedom from cravings, a glowing skin, sonorous voice, fragrance of body: these signs indicate ‘ progress in the practice of meditation.”

SID CAESER- “Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.”

SID MADWED –“When you choose to be happy everyday You’ll find good things come your way If you want to be happy start where you are. Don’t look for happiness, distant and far. You can find happiness just where you are. You can find it just where you are…”

SIDDHASANA –“Lord Mahavira, your word sometimes supports the view of providence, at other times calls events spontaneously occurring or ascribes destiny to external factors. At times you hold) the deeds of individuals to be the mould of their desert, at other times find that another’s deeds project their moral reflection on the individual.”

SIDHAGOST –“The lotus in the water is not wet nor the water-fowl in the stream. If a man would live, but by the world untouched, Meditate and repeat the name of the Lord.”

SIDNET POITIER –“We will suffer from the preoccupation that there exists, in our love one, perfection.”

SIDNEY MADWED –“You can choose to be happy or sad and whichever you choose that is what you get. No one is really responsible to make someone else happy, no matter what most people have been taught and accept as true.”

SIDNEY PETTIER –“We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists, in our loved one, perfection.”

SIGMUND FREUD – “A fool in love makes no sense to me. I only think you are a fool if you do not love.”

SIGMUND FREUD – “The essential sadness is to go through life without loving. But it is almost equally sad to leave this world without ever telling those you love that you do.”

SIGMUND FREUD –“A kiss is a trick devised by nature to stop speech when words become superficial.”

SIGMUND FREUD –“Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man.”

SIGMUND FREUD –“Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.”

SIGMUND FREUD –“Heartbreaks last as long as you want and cut as deep as you allow them to go.”

SIGMUND FREUD –“Hopeless romantics are only hopeless in the eyes of those who don’t believe in romance.”

SIGMUND FREUD –“Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.”

SIGMUND FREUD –“In the long run nothing can withstand reason and experience.”

SIGMUND FREUD –“It is a mistake to believe that a science consists in nothing but conclusively proved propositions, and it is unjust to demand that it should. It is a demand only made by those who feel a craving for authority in some form and a need to replace the religious catechism by something else, even if it be a scientific one.”

SIGMUND FREUD –“Love isn’t about becoming somebody’s perfect person; it’s about finding someone who helps you become the best person you can be.”

SIGMUND FREUD –“The essential sadness is to go through life without loving. But it is almost equally sad to leave this world without ever telling those you love that you do,”

SIGMUND FREUD –“We are never so helplessly unhappy as when we lose love.”

SIGN IN A SHOP –“THANK YOU FOR NOT SMOKING. Cigarette smoke is the residue of your pleasure. It contaminates the air, pollutes my hair and clothes, not to mention my lungs. This takes place without my consent.”

SIKH PRAYER –“Having first remembered God the Almighty, think of Guru Nanak. Then of Angad Guru and Amar Das, and Ram Das, may they help us. Remember Guru Arjan, Guru Har Gobind and the holy Guru Har Rai. Let us think of holy Har Krishan whose sight dispels all sorrows. Let us remember Tegh Bahadur and the nine treasures shall come hastening to our homes. May they all assist us everywhere. May the tenth Guru Gobind Singh the lord of hosts and protector of the faith assist us everywhere: Turn your thoughts. 0, Khalsa to the teachings of Guru Granth Sahib and call on God.”

SIKH THOUGHT –“From Primal Truth emanated air; from air emanated water; from water emanated three worlds and Himself He merged with the creation.”

SIKH THOUGHT –“From Primal Truth emanated air; from air emanated water; from water emanated three worlds and Himself He merged with the creation.”

SIMI BAJAJ –“…The little girl closed her eyes And prayed to the mother divine O Ma, enlighten this world with wisdom Erase the, demarcation line.”

SIMI BAJAJ –“An aura as brilliant as the magnificent Sun A beauty as luminous as the ethereal Moon A lingering fragrance that reminds you Of beautiful flowers in full bloom.”

SIMI BAJAJ –“Call her Durga, call her Sati Call her Devi, call her Ma; Pray to her with a true heart And seek her blessings in the Navratra.”

SIMI BAJAJ –“Do not seek her in lifeless idols Widen your horizon and aim for the whole You will not have to go too far As she resides in the depth of your soul.”

SIMI BAJAJ –“Her love is unconditional and pure Her presence sweet, soft and calm Her heart is full of deep emotions Her touch, like a soothing balm She is the anchor of wavering ships Sailing on the rough waters of life She slips with ease into the role of a mother After perfecting those of daughter and companion If only the people of this world Treated Mother Earth with the same love As that of their own mother This world would be like heaven above.”

SIMI BAJAJ –“I see her Image in a helpless, old woman I see her countenance in the smile of a girl I sense her presence everywhere In tinkling anklets and skirts that swirl.”

SIMI BAJAJ –“Let the girl child enjoy every right equally And not only on these nine holy days Cherish and nurture her forever Make her the light of your life…”

SIMI BAJAJ –“She might be the wife of Lord Shiva She might be the mother of Ganesha But I see in her my mother the source of all compassion and love.”

SIMI BAJAJ –“The experience of Motherhood Gave a new dimension to Love The depth of feelings and emotions Moved, even the heavens and God above.”

SIMI BAJAJ –“The little girl smiled to herself As she reviewed her precious treasure Glittering bangles, bright dupattas And lots of coins to measure.”

SIMI BAJAJ –“The most pure relationship in this world Is that of a child and mother Treat me like your child, Oh Devi Ma! For me you are motherhood incarnate.”

SIMI BAJAJ –“The name they gave her was ‘kanjak’ But what it meant, she had no clue She was to be worshipped in the Navratras And showered with gifts, too!”

SIMI BAJAJ –“Words cannot express the depth of emotions That a man feels on becoming a father A role that grants him maturity and responsibility A role above that of a son, husband or brother I think of my father with deep affection He gave me roots and also wings I feel grateful for all that he did In shaping my heart, that loves and sings.”

SIMON AND GARFUNKEL –“Old friends, Old friends Sat on their park bench Like bookends. A newspaper blown through the grass Falls on the round toes On the high shoes Of the old friends. Old friends, Winter companions, The old men Lost in their overcoats, Waiting for the sunset. The sounds of the city, Sifting through the trees, Settle like dust on the shoulders Of the old friends. Can you imagine us Years from today, Sharing a park bench quietly? how terribly strange To be seventy Old friends, Memory brushes the same years, Silently sharing the same fear…”

SIMON CAMERON –“An honest politician is one who, which he is bought, will stay bought.”

SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR-“One is not born a women one becomes one”.

SIMONE SIGNORET –“Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.”

SIMONE WEIL –“If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.”

SIMONE WELL –“The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.”

SIMONE WELL –“What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.”

SINTETOS –“A 60-day warranty guarantees that the product will self-destruct on the 61st day.”

SIOUX PRAYER –“Behold this buffalo, 0 grandfathers, which you have given us. He is the chief of all four-legged upon our Sacred Mother. From him the people live and with him they walk the sacred path.”

SIR A.P.HERBERT- “People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any act of parliament.”

SIR ARTHUR CONAM DOYLE –“”What the deuce is it to me?” he interrupted impatiently; “You say that we go round the serif we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work”.

SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE –“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”

SIR EDMUND HILLARY –“It is not mountain we conquer, but ourselves.”

SIR EDWARD COKE –“He is not cheated who knows he is being cheated.”

SIR GEORGE PORTER –“I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun’s energy… If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.”

SIR GEORGE PORTER –“If sunbeams were weapons of war, we could have had solar energy centuries ago.”

SIR ISAAC NEWTON –“I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”

SIR ISAIAH BERLIN –“Man cannot live without seeking to describe and explain the universe.”

SIR JAMES FRAZER –“The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux.”

SIR JAMES M. BARRIE –“If you have love, you don’t need anything else. And if you don’t have it, it does not matter much what else you have.”

SIR JOHN LUBBOCK –“What we see depends mainly on what we look for.”

SIR MARTIN REES –“It gives one a slightly different perspective on time scales. From astronomy one learns the immense time spans involved in cosmic evolution — billions of years. More importantly, we are still at the beginning of cosmic evolution, not the culmination. Even our sun is less than halfway through its life. So we should regard ourselves as part of the natural order, rather than the culmination of it… There’s as much time ahead of us as there has been in

SIR MARTIN REES –“We are the dust of long dead stars. Or, if you want to be less romantic, we are nuclear waste… The most wonderful thing we know about in the universe is life, and that’s the most complicated emergent phenomena we know of.”

SIR PHILIP SIDNEY –“They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.”

SIR ROGER L. ESTRANGE –“It is with your passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad master.”

SIR THOMAS BROWNE –“By compassion we make others’ misery our own, and so, by relieving; them, we relieve ourselves also.”

SIR WALTER RALEIGH –“Give me my scallop shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon, My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation, My gown of glory, hope’s true gage, And thus I’ll take my pilgrimage.”

SIR WALTER SCOTT- “All men who have turned out worth any thing have had the chief hand in their own education.”

SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL –“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”

SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL –“Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”

SISMUND FREUD –“Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.”

SKYE THOMAS –“I’d rather be pissed off with my eyes wide open than to be blessed out with my eyes glazed over.”

SLMAN RUSHDIE- “Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.”

SNOOP DOGG –“Don’t get upset girl, that’s just how it goes/ I don’t love you hoes/I’m out the do. And I’ll be/Rollin’ down the street/’ Smokin’ indo/sippin’ on gin and juice.”

SOCRATES –“As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.”

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Horse is an important and valuable member of the mammalia. Among the earliest evidence of the importance of the horse to human culture are the unearthed wall paintings in the caves of Lascaux, in southern France, dating around 30,000 B.C. The horse first became useful in welfare sometimes before 1500 B.C. when Mesopotamian people began to use horses to pull their chariots. There is however a question rose by Canon Taylor in his Origin of the Aryans (p.161), whether the horse was at first used for drawing chariots or for riding. He, and William Ridgeway (Academy of 3rd January, 1891) says that, “At first the horse was very small and incapable of carrying man and that it was after generations of domestication under careful feeding and breeding that the horse became of sufficient size to carry man on his back with ease.” According to Max Muller, it appears from the Vedas that, in India, it was used both for chariot-driving and riding.

The thoroughbred racehorse, whose remote ancestor, Eohippus, was a small, hoofed quadruped about the size of a fox, is the most beautiful animal bred by man. By a careful process of selection through the race-course test over a period of two hundred and fifty years, a noble and courageous beast has been fashioned in the hands of skilled breeders, from an original blend of the imported, pure-bred Arabian, and so called Turkish or Barbary sires, and the English hybrid mares existing in Europe at the end of 17th century.

The earliest dates for horse-racing have not yet been confirmed. Such contests were however held in Babylonian, Syria and Egypt. Clay tablets excavated in Cappadocia in Asia Minor, written in 1400 B.C. reveal on the training of horses for racing. The four horse chariot races were introduced into Olympic Games of Greece in 23rd Olympiad, or about 664 B.C. It was 33rd Olympiad that the race for mounted horses was first introduced about 624 B.C., and the first race for saddled horses was held in the games of 564 B.C.

Horse-racing is derived from warfare, chariot racing, and the chase, and it is not without significance that, at the time of the Roman occupation of Britain, Queen Boadicea and her people, the tribe of the Iceni, lived on Newmarket Heath and that their gold and silver coins were stamped on the reverse side with the effigy of a horse. The earliest horse-race in England, of which a record still exists, took place at Netherby in Yorkshire in about A.D. 210 between Arabian steeds brought to Europe by the Roman Emperor Septimus Severus Alexander, who made special arrangements for the shelter and training of these delicate horses. In the reign of King Richard I, the horse race became a fashionable pastime for the barons and knights. It was not until the reign of King Henry VIII that the first race-course was officially established on the Roodee at Chester in 1540, and an annual prize first instituted, which took the form of a silver bell; and moreover this monarch did much to improve the royal studs and the breed of the horse in general throughout the country.

The Arabian is regarded as the oldest pure breed, but its exact origins remain unproven for lack of scientific evidence. Antique sculpture and ancient rock drawings depicting horses of Arabian appearance found in the Arabian peninsular, as well as wall inscriptions in Egypt, confirm that an Arabian type has existed in the Middle East for well over 3000 years. These Eastern or Oriental, horses are considered to be the taproot stock of all Southern hot-blooded equines, as opposed to the Northern cold-blooded.

As an old pure breed the Arabian is extremely prepotent, and for centuries has been used up-grade, with the result that there is hardly a breed of light horse that does not contain some Arab blood – the most outstanding breed to evolve from Arabian sources is the Thoroughbred. The foundation stock was an admixture of eastern mares and stallions, and Gallowavs and other British horses. Three phenomenal stallions -The Darley Arabian, The Godolphin Arabian and the Byerley Turk – dominated Thoroughbred ancestry, and every Thoroughbred traces in the male line to just these three.

Originally most Arabians were nomadic. With a climate of extremes, scarcity of food, and the hard work expected of horses, it was a cast of survival of the fittest. In the days when the tribes were constantly at war or raids were a regular occurrence, the Arab relied on the speed and endurance of his mount for his very survival. Mares were used for forays against enemies, as stallions could not be relied upon to remain quiet, and the Arabian mare thus became a most treasured possession of their owner.

When fighting the rider carried a lance (which in some Northern tribes could be as much as 6 meters long) and the mare had to be extremely agile, able to stop dead in her stride, spin on her hocks, and dart off again. The mares were kept tethered in the Bedouin camps and sometimes shared a tent with their master. Centuries of living in close proximity with humans have endowed the Arabian with an exceptional ability to form strong companionships with people. It is probable that there were no horses in Arabia prior to the Christian era, and that they are direct descendants of the wild Libyan horse of North Africa, which was domesticated in Egypt. Ridgeway states the kings of Egypt had these horses 1500 years B.C., and they probably came to Arabia through Palestine between the 1st and 6th centuries.

According to Encyclopaedia Americana (14:391), “Horses begin to appear in Arabia in the 1st century B.C., and by the time of (Prophet) Muhammad a distinct and unique type of Arabic horse had evolved.” The Prophet used horses to great effect in the holy wars. They proved faster and more maneuverable than camels. It was the Prophet who directed that horses should be bred by the faithful, so that they would be better prepared to gallop out and spread the Faith of Islam. The order from the Prophet, enshrined in the Koran meant that horse breeding began to spread among the Bedouin and the true Arabian breed began. Historian Ibn Khallikan (3:476) writes that “We know that in the 12000 Berber cavalry who disembarked in Spain under the command of Tariq bin Zihad, there were twelve Arabian horses. Hence the Arabian horses introduced into the West.” Thus, Arab became the home of England’s Derby.

The common Arabic word for horse is faras, whether stallion (fahl) or mare; as a collective al-khayl. The word khayl for horse occurs five times in the Koran. The title and the first verse of Sura 79 (Those that Draw, al-naziat) and Sura 100 (The Runners, al-adiyat) are probably further references to horses. The title of Sura 37 (Those who Dress the Ranks, al-saffat), Sura 51 (Those that Scatter, al-dhariyat) and Sura 77 (Those that are Sent, al-mursalat) may also refer to them as well.

According to the Koran: “By the adiyat that run panting, and those that strike fire dashing” (100:1-2). Most of the commentators suggest the meaning of adiyat as panting horses on the authority of Ibn Abbas.

“And (He created) horses and mules and asses for you to ride and as zinat” (16:8). The Arabic word zina or zinat means ornament, amusement, or entertainment. Hence, the horses, mules and asses, in which horses are prominent; are meant not only for riding, but breeding and racing.

The tradition has it that the first to ride a horse was Prophet Ismael. Others again claim that the Arab horses are descended from those of Solomon. The latter inherited 1000 horses from David. It is said that the tribe of Azd once came to Solomon and asked for a present, he gave them one of the steeds, to which they gave the name zad al-rakib; from it are descended all the Arab horses.

An ancient race that came to prominence with the rise of Islam. They have bred closely guarded pure strains of hot blooded desert horses for centuries – it is said an Arab can recite the pedigree of his favorite horses going back to 600 A.D. The best horses were never sold and never left Arabia. God is said to have created the horse out of the south wind, and some Arabian horse bear the Prophet’s thumb mark on their neck, where Mohammed was supposed to have touched them

Horse Racing (sibak al-khayl or ijra al-khayl) had been a major sport and a favorite pastime in pre-Islamic Arabia. It was a part of equitation (furusiyya), regarded as essential for military training and also as an object of entertainment for the people from all walks of life. During the Islamic period the breeding, maintenance and training of horses became one of the means of facilitating the prosecution of the holy war. The Prophet regarded horse-breeding as a meritorious calling, and assigned to it a share in the booty obtained on the battle field. This religious sanction fostered a competitive attitude amongst the breeders and encouraged the augmentation of the stock, which suffered considerable depletion in the course of the wars of that time. Cavalry was in fact to become an important factor in the military success of the Muslims.

Kunwar Muhammad Ashraf writes in Life and Conditions of the people of Hindustan (Karachi, 1978, p. 187) that, “Horse-racing was just as popular. It had the additional advantage of the blessings of the Prophet who had prohibited other amusements and gambling in no uncertain terms, but was indulgent towards betting on horse-racing. A regular literature soon sprang up on the study of the habits, the foods, and the nourishment, the care and the training of horses, which does credit to the scientific methods of the age. It is quite reasonable to infer from these facts that the number of pedigree horses was quite large in the studs of the Sultans and the nobles. Special Arab horses were imported for racing purposes from Yamen, Oman, and Fars. Each animal is reported to have cost from one hundred to four thousand tankas.”

It is therefore not surprising that a rich literature came into being which contained information on hippology, horse-breeding, the genealogies of horses and their various categories, on race-courses, horse-racing, farriery and equitation. No other animal evoked from the writers of the time so large a number of literary works, both in prose and in poetry. Ibn Nadim in his famous catalogue of Arabic books, compiled in 377/987, Kitab al-Fihrist (tr. by Bayard Dodge, London, 1970, pp. 80-213), mentions the following works on the horse and on matters relating to it: Kitab al-Khayl by Abu Ubaidah (d. 210/825), Kitab al-Khayl, Kitab khalq al-Faras and Kitab al-Sarj wal-lijam by Asma’i (d. 213/828), Kitab al-Khayl by Ahmed bin Hatim (d. 231/846), Kitab khalq al-Faras by Ibrahim al-Zujaj (d. 310/914), Kitab khayl al-Kabir and Kitab khayl al-Saghir and Kitab al-Sarj wal-lijam by Ibn Durayd (d. 321/925), Kitab al-khayl and Kitab Nasab al-khayl by Mohammad bin Ziyad al-Arabi (d. 231/846), Kitab khalq al-Faras by Abi Thabit, Kitab khalq al-Khayl by Hisham bin Ibrahim al-Kirmani, Kitab khalq al-Faras by Kassim al-Anbari, Kitab al-khayl al-Sawabik by Khawlani, Kitab khalq al-Faras by Washsha (d. 325/930), Kitab al-khayl by Hisham al-Kalbi (d. 207/822), Kitab al-khayl wal-Rihan by Madaini (d. 215/830), Kitab al-Hala’ib wal-Rihan by Ahmed al-Khazzaz (d. 258/871), Kitab al-khayl bi Khatt Ibn al-Kufi by Mohammad bin Habib, Kitab al-Fursan by Abu Khalifa (d. 305/909), Kitab Sifat al-khayl wal Ardiya wa Asmaiha bin Makka wa ma Walaha by Abu al-Ashath, Kitab Akhbar al-Faras wa-Ansabuha by Abul Hasan al-Nassaba, Kitab al-khayl by Qadi al-Ashna’i, Kitab al-khayl by Attabi, Kitab al-khayl by Utabi (d. 228/843), Kitab al-khayl al-Kabir by Ahmed bin Abi Tahir (d. 280/894) and Kitab Jamhara al-Ansab al-Faras by Ibn Khurdadhbih (d. 300/904). Masudi (d. 345/950) in his Muruj al-Dhahab (Paris, 1861, 4:24-5) refers a book, called al-Jala’ib wal Hala’ib by Issa bin Lahi’a, a work which, according to him, included a detailed description of almost every race (halba) of pre-Islamic and Islamic periods.

In the Hidayah (2:432), it is said that horses are of four kinds: 1) Birzaun or Burzun (a heavy draught horse brought from foreign countries). 2) Atiq (a first blood horse of Arabia). 3) Hain (a half-bred horse whose mother is an Arab and father a foreigner), and 4) A half-bred horse whose father is an Arab and whose mother is a foreigner).

Long maydans (hippodromes) were set apart for this purpose in Arabia. According to Hilayat al-Fursan fi Shi’ar al-Shujan (Leiden, 1872, p. 142) by Ibn Hudhayl, “Islam forbade gambling (maisar) but allowed the placing of wagers on archery (nasal), foot-racing (qadam) and horse-racing (hafir)” The Egyptian scholar Isa bin Lahiah (d. 762) is already credited with a book entitled al-Jala’ib wal Hala’ib in which he mentioned every race, where horses were run in pre-Islamic and Islamic times. The work of al-Asma’i, Kitab al-khayl (ed. Haffner, Vienna, 1875) and Kitab al-Sarj of Abu Ubaidah are very rich to provide the relative informations.

According to Fadl al-khayl (p.389) by ad-Dimyati (1217-1306), “Contrary to the hadith of the Prophet which permitted competitions with camel, horse and arrow (khuff, hafir, nasl), some people even contented that racing for stakes was permissible only for horses, as this was what the Arabs of old were accustomed to.” We may also quote what ad-Dimyati has to say in the 5th chapter of his Fadl al-khayl that, “Ibn Banin (1181-1263) has mentioned in his book that the Messenger of God raced horses with garments that had come to him from Yamen as stakes. He gave the winner (sabiq) three, the second horse (musalli) two, the third horse one, the fourth horse one dinar, the fifth horse one dhiram, and the sixth horse a rod (qasabah). He said: “May God bless you and all of you, the winner (sabiq) and the loser (fiskil)”.

Abul Hasan Ahmad bin Yahya bin Jabir al-Baladhuri, Ibn Sad, al-Waqidi, Abd al Muhaymin bin Abbas bin Sahl bin Sad, his father (Abbas), his grandfather (Sahl), who said: “(Once) when the Messenger of God raced horses, I was riding on his az-Zarib. He gave me a Yamenite cloak.”

He (al-Baladhuri) said: I have been told by Muhammad bin Sad, al-Waqidi, Sulayman bin al-Harith, az-Zubayr bin al-Mundhir bin Abi Usayd, who said: “Abu Usayd as-Saidi raced on the Prophet’s horse Lizaz, and he gave him a Yemenite garment.”

Al- Khuttali reports in his book a tradition of Ibn Lahiah, Bakr bin Amr, Ibrahim bin Muslim, Abu Alqamah, the client of the Banu Hashim (stating) that the Messenger of God had ordered the horses to be raced, and he put up as prizes for them (sabbaqaha) three bunches of dates from three palm trees. He gave one bunch to the winner, one to the second horse, and one to the third horse. They were fresh dates.” (vide Fadl al-Khayl by ad-Dimyati)

According to Dar-Qutni (2:552), “Sanjah was another horse the Prophet used to ride on. Once it was made to have a race. It won and the Prophet was much delig

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As you start out on the ironman-marathon you will most likely experience several different emotions.

I used to find it very difficult at times to convince myself to leave the run-transition area. After a long hard bike it often feels that finishing the marathon distance would be next to impossible. It is at this point in the race that your determination and reslove may truly be tested. This is where the term “ironman” begins to have meaning.

Remember that you are not alone in feeling this. There are hundreds of first time Ironman hopefuls dealing with the same emotions. Keep in mind that you had an intelligent swim and conserved energy for this point in the race.

One thing I learned over the years is how much our bodies can withstand and just how much we are capable of if we dare to try. Often our spirit is conquered long before our physical energy is used up.

A good example is my last ironman. At almost exactly the half-way point in the bike I had a bad crash. I lost focus for just a few seconds and slipped off the shoulder of the road. When I tried to recover the bike went over and I hit the road very hard. The last half of the bike was fairly difficult. As I sat in the run-transition tent my shoulder was extremely sore and it was only my experience that I knew my body could withstand quite a lot if I gave it a chance.

I was at the stage in my career where I felt that Ironman could well be my last and I didn’t want to end my career by dropping out of the race.

The marathon took me 5 hours and 5 minutes. The Ironman took me 14 hours and 15 minutes. I found out later that I had a separated shoulder. I sort of had a feeling that was the case but then I reasoned that I wasn’t running on my hands so it would work out.

I’m telling you this story because when you get at this point in the race you just have to realilze that no matter how sore and tired you feel, the ability your body has to recover will amaze you if you give it a chance.

As soon as you cross that start mat and your timer beeps do your best to run. At first your stride will be very short and unnatural, but as your legs adjust to the demands of running you will begin to feel and run better. Run for as long as you can without stopping. You want to get some kilometers behind you. When and if you just ‘have’ to walk try and walk the aid stations and run in between as much as you can. When you do walk try and walk at a fast pace.

Hopefully you practiced this in your training as I suggested in the run-training page. It makes a huge difference if you go into the Ironman with a flexible race plan.

Be very careful at the aid stations when it comes to choosing your food and drink. The urge is to try some of everything as you try and find the secret that will make you feel less sore and tired and possibly boost your energy. Many athletes have gotten sick during the ironman-marathon from making this mistake.

Really try not to mix your food and drink choices. I would suggest avoiding coke and pepsi until the last 6 or 7 miles. Remember that if you do start drinking it, then you should drink it at ‘every’ aid station or else you risk really upsetting your sugar balance.

One year I drank nothing but water at every station and didn’t eat at all. I felt good and didn’t want to mess with it. My ironman-marathon time was 3 hours 34 minutes. So I think that goes to show you don’t necessarily have to fill your body with grapes, bananas,cookies, and whatever else you have to choose from. Just go with what works for you at the time.

Try and make a point of not walking the downhills. I have seen many people do this and I could never understand it. You should take advantage of gravity every chance you get. Just like on the bike. If you plan on walking the uphills then be sure to run the downhills. Do everything you can to get those kilometers behind you without using up too much energy too soon.

Take heart in the fact that there are hundreds of you out there sharing the same dream. To finish the race. It is truly a beautiful thing when you see so many so determined to reach a common goal.

You may find it helpful to run with someone along the way. Be careful however. They may deviate quite a bit from what you have been doing and throw off your race plan. Sometimes its best to run on your own until you are CERTAIN you are hooking up with the right person.

Its always an uplifting moment when you make the final outward leg and turn for home for the last time. Now each kilometer that passes you feel a lift in your spirit.

In the final 6 or 7 kilometers you will most likely discover that you have an amazing amount of energy left. This happens over and over in the Ironman-marathon. For some reason, some sort of physical change takes place and many people have a sustained burst of energy.

You will also be lifted by an increasing number of spectators as you get nearer and nearer to the finish. Soon dozens turn to hundreds and you hear that amazing, welcome sound of the finish line announcer. This is when it will really hit home that you are really going to do it! You are going to be an Ironman!

Be sure to take it all in, because this moment will be etched in your memory forever. No matter how many Ironman races you do, this is one you will never forget.

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ieved that horse racing became a professional sport in this country in the 12th century, when the English knights returned from the Crusades with Arab horses. The Arabian Horse, which hails from Middle Eastern deserts, is acknowledged as being the purest and oldest of all horse breeds, and has incredible stamina ? being able to carry its rider at speed across miles of open desert with little food or water. Today, almost every breed and type of horse has traces of Arab blood and all English Thoroughbreds that are used in horseracing in the UK today are descended from three Arabian stallions: Byerley Turk, Darley Arabian or Godolphin Arabian, which were imported to Britain in the late 17th and early 18th century.

Newmarket was the venue for the first horse racing meetings in Britain, and horse races became a professional sport and the subsequent legal betting and racecourses quickly followed, with Ascot being founded in 1711 by Queen Anne.

The Jockey Club was formed to oversee and control English horse racing, making horse racing the first regulated sport in the UK. The Jockey Club wrote a comprehensive set of rules for horse racing and sanctioned racecourses to adhere to them. Five races were designated as “classics”: ‘The 2000 Guineas’, ‘The Epsom Derby’ and ‘The St Ledger’ which together make up ‘The Triple Crown’, and the ’1,000 Guineas’ and the ‘Epsom Oaks’ open to fillies only.

In order to regulate the breeding of race horses, the Jockey Club formed the General Stud Book which lists all Thoroughbred horses who were to be allowed race in this country professionally.

Millions of people began to watch horseracing with the technological advances of the 19th century, with a marked increase in betting and media coverage. Interest continued to escalate with the introduction of television, and was compounded by the opening of the first betting shops in the early 1960s.

Organised steeplechase racing developed from the English and Irish past-time of foxhunting – rough cross-country races known as “pounding races”, in which the winner was simply the one who out-lasted other riders. At the end of the 1700s, racers agreed on the end-point for a cross-country race ? more often than not, a church steeple. The prizes back in those days tended to be money and alcohol! The word “steeplechase” appeared officially for the first time in the Irish Racing Calendar in 1807.

Two of the most famous steeplechase races in the world are the Grand National which started in 1839 and is run at Aintree in Liverpool, and the Irish Grand National, held every year over the Easter weekend at the Fairyhouse Racecourse in County Meath, Ireland. The Irish Grand National has a prize fund of ?250,000 and runs over 3 miles, 5 furlongs, and includes 23 fences. An added bonus goes to any UK trained winner who takes the Irish Grand National after having also won the Cheltenham Festival Chase. So all very exciting stuff!

Today, online horse race betting continues to draw new audiences to the sport of horse racing ? why don’t you get involved for the Easter weekend festivities?

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