Sunday, April 26, 2009

Polyp On The Gallbladder

setting the tone from Berlin

Am vergangenen Sonntag fand in Berlin der von ProReli initiierte Volksentscheid statt. Die Bürger waren aufgerufen, über die Frage abzustimmen, ob Berliner Schüler künftig

a) verpflichtend am allgemeinen Ethikunterricht teilnehmen sollten, wie dies schon in den vergangenen drei Jahren der Fall war, oder
b) sowohl Ethik als auch Religion als Wahlpflichtfach zur Verfügung stehen sollten.

Für einen Erfolg der ProReli-Initiative hätten 25% aller Wahlberechtigten mit „Ja“ stimmen müssen. Doch nur insgesamt 29,2 % ließen sich bei schönem Wetter in die Wahllokale locken. 51,3 % der abgegebenen Stimmen votierten gegen ProReli.

Was können wir aus diesem Ergebnis schließen?

Nun, zuerst einmal ist es eine doppelte Ohrfeige für alle Bestrebungen, unter dem Deckmäntelchen der Wahlfreiheit weiterhin alte Ideologien breitzutreten. Eine Absage an den Versuch, unsere Kinder für religiöse Vereinigungen zu instrumentalisieren.
Es ist kein Votum gegen Religion per se. Jeder Mensch ist weiterhin frei, zu glauben, oder eben nicht. Am zusätzlich angebotenen Religionsunterricht teilzunehmen, oder eben nicht.

Die Bedeutung dieses Wahlergebnisses reicht jedoch weit über its concrete consequences,. Rather, it reflects in tangible percentages, what the situation is (at least in the German capital) to the actual ratio of men to religion: Only about 29% of people are still driven about by this issue. More than half of them in an unfavorable way. This means that 70% believe the issue for so unimportant that a spring outing with bratwurst and beer, such a choice is always preferable.
This fact, dear readers, I feel as the real calming of the election results. Even a generous helping of celebrity advertising in favor of ProReli could not change this: people are now their own opinions and are quite capable to set priorities for their lives.

Head-referendum

How would assume a similar referendum in other states? If we subject ourselves and that our children may look old tradition, a practice which, on closer inspection, no longer has a majority? So maybe we miss the opportunity to install the professional ethics to coverage as a way of learning, tolerance and mutual respect?

religions should be viewed with distance in a public school. You should explain the subject of ethics, can be discussed, in their effects, positive or negative, are discussed. It is not appropriate for a state-funded school to provide a platform specific world views, but exclude others. Who
religion exciting finds will participate in his free time, as excited as he is / she perhaps for ballet classes in the riding school or to soccer. Those who do are not the case, will result in any penalty whatsoever to the contrary.

ProReli The initiative was nothing more than an attempt to maintain a mix of compulsion and habit that we had long since accepted because we know no different.

world can clearly see es nur ein legitimes Ziel geben: Freiheit!
Und dazu passt es einfach nicht, schon geschäftsunfähige Kinder im Babyalter zu Zwangsmitgliedern bestimmter Vereine zu machen, noch dazu staatlich subventioniert.

Monday, April 13, 2009

Can You Kill Yourself With Restoril

A follow-up assessment for Easter

„Wer sich auf Jesus Christus einlässt, hat die Gegenformel zu allen Ideologien gefunden“.
(Zitat des Augsburger Bischofs Walter Mixa, Ostern 2009)

Also ich habe ja schon vieles gelesen. Mögliche und unmögliche Behauptungen aller Couleur. Und allen ist gemein, dass man, wenn man sich auf die jeweilige Denkweise wahrhaft einlässt, die dahinter stehenden Motivationen versteht. Irgendwie hat jeder Recht. Jeder auf seine Weise. Jeder Man is in his inimitable way disturbed enough to fall for a variety, degree and severity of his disorder corresponding ideologies.
tolerance is therefore usually called for. Every person in his uniqueness plays more or less skillfully his instrument in the full orchestra of humanity.
But in this case, dear readers, it's different. The words of Bishop Mixa require a response. Clarification. One observation made in historical context.

is the starting situation considering the Easter sermon in 2009 Bishop of Augsburg, in which he set up the claim that the inhumanity of the Nazi regime a sequence of at that time practiced atheism was. Translation: In his view, the millions of mass murder never happened if the churches and their representatives the power had been held. In the name of Jesus.

If you ask me this Jesus has done for me has always been suffering. nailed to the wall of each classroom Bavarian we find him. Generation after generation grew up with the image of a tortured to death before his eyes. Even as a child I found it purely emotionally somehow not right, especially since we live in a country run in which dying and death a secret and treacherous existence. Concealed, suppressed. Why do not try to set up the urn of your great grandmother on the mantelpiece! Even if this a natural Death should be dead, you will make the clerk's office upset by the bill and demand a decent burial. And even if you should be Catholic, it seems doubtful that grandma would go through ash as a holy relic.
Only Jesus. With it you can do anything. In wood, carved in stone, clay kneaded or painted on canvas. Granted, these are all just images. But such work, the more devastating than one filled with ash vase with lid on your mantel.
Who wants that his children could be led as lambs to the slaughter? And in the tradition of Jesus held out his left cheek when they were beaten on the rights?

fight all of these concerns are, so you argue, there's Easter. Yes! Easter! Resurrection! Hope! New life! The executed man gets up so easy, after three days - is his way!
Easter a truly Christian celebration, right? What, however, is already the previous unsavory nailing of a living person in two hewn wooden cross beams? Jesus gave us for Easter, right? Chocolate eggs, extra holidays and clogged highways?

Far from it: We celebrate Easter nothing urheidnisches as a spring festival! By the way: It's very strange that Jesus was born just around the time of the winter solstice and to have died for Ostarafest, right?
In the environment of two parties, therefore, which already enjoyed in pre-Christian times special meaning?

All this is somewhat off-topic. So back to Bishop Mixa and his claim that mass murder and the belief in a poor murdered were incompatible.
This statement reflects a historical ignorance that borders on audacity.
Suppose only time the Middle Ages and his witch hunts. Or the Catholic Church sanctioned by the "discovery" and "conquest" of America. Well, a few million dead is just unfortunate. At least all these acts served a good purpose: the dissemination of the Bible. The theft of gold. Is long been barred, like the good will argue.
but the rat lines are also the already time-barred? The escape routes, the senior representative of the church many Nazi criminals have open? Thanks to active participation of the church could avoid some perpetrators to justice. Since it is somehow comforting, if you believe in a heavenly court.

No, Bishop Mixa: This sermon was more than wrong! Jesus Christ, or what have made his representative on earth of him is no protection against ideologies. Rather, it is the mother of all ideologies. The general truth claims of the churches speak for themselves. And their priests should be ashamed mit dem Blut eines Gekreuzigten ihre Geschäfte zu betreiben. Es ist zwar schwierig, so etwas wie Mitgefühl zu entwickeln für einen Menschen, der vor etwa 2000 Jahren durch sein elendes Sterben eine Geschäftsgrundlage geschaffen hat. Unmöglich aber ist es nicht.

Friday, April 10, 2009

Price Broken Capillaries Face Laser Treatment

neighbor to pay please!

Stellen Sie sich folgende Situation vor: Ein Nachbar klingelt an Ihrer Tür. Eigentlich kennen Sie ihn gar nicht so gut, eher vom Sehen und durch gelegentliches unverbindliches Grüßen im Treppenhaus.
„Lieber Nachbar“, sagt er zu Ihnen, „wie Sie vielleicht bemerkt haben, ist mein Auto schon ziemlich alt. Zwar fährt es noch und erfüllt seinen Zweck, aber es hat immerhin schon neun Jahre auf dem Buckel, . So it is now time for a new "
He looks at you frankly, he continues:
" You probably do not even drive cars at all? I see you always rushing to the bus stop, morning. . That I'm sometimes pretty sorry, especially when it rains "
As you may consider that car ownership for the middle of the city dwelling people more of a burden than an advantage, you nod impatiently and ask," What can I now actually do for you, neighbor "
" Well, make it short: Because guess all of this in building the state of my car may have noticed, I ring now time to get my scrapping premium . Pick "
you look at him quizzically:
" then what are you trying to "
" My calculations, "he rages in some papers," the participation of neighbors of € 62.50 per head would be appropriate. After all, met the model that I intend to buy the highest environmental standards. All of you here will in future benefit from the cleanliness of its almost non-existing gases. So: If you pay cash equal to, or should I leave some of your transfer form? I inserted the sum ever, "he will press a piece of paper in his hand.
They are too stunned to give the begging the answer be Suggestion deserves. Instead, you say:
"But here is 250 €. They spoke first of € 62.50? "
" Of course this is all calculated per capita. Your wife and two children breathe yes, then free, "the three most
Staring in disbelief, but he misinterpreted your head flushed with anger. "You need not be ashamed that you have not come even to the idea, grab me a little under the arms, viewed technically disabled. Now I'm here. I will collect all of 40 persons living here in the block my share. "

aperture we here. The further development of the conversation to picture, leave that I your imagination and your particular temperament. The described situation seems absurd to you? Hm, yes, me too somehow. Added. But in Germany it is a fact.
No, no one has to scour the neighborhood with referral sources. We have the environmental bonus, (popularly known as "scrapping premium" or "gift choice.")
Why are we willing to endorse the approach of the state, the three nearest neighbors in our example, but not?
5 billion "given away" to the State for that purpose. This Spendierhosen the rulers cost every German resident (calculated coarse) 62,50 €. From baby to the elderly. Eine Familie mit zwei Kindern hat nun rein rechnerisch 250 € Schulden mehr. Geld, mit dem die Autos fremder Menschen gesponsort werden. Geld, das irgendwann wird bezahlt werden müssen. Zumindest Zins und Zinseszins, denn an Schuldentilgung scheint in diesem Land niemand ernsthaft zu denken.
Wenn es eines Tages so weit ist und es heißt: „Guten Tag Herr Finanzminister, mein Name ist Peter Zwegat, was kann ich für Sie tun?“, dann ist die Insolvenz zum Greifen nahe.
Sie glauben das nicht? Ein Staat kann nicht bankrottgehen? - Nun ja. Schon jetzt beträgt der Schuldenzuwachs der Bundesrepublik 4439 €. In jeder Sekunde. (Quelle: Bund der Steuerzahler ). Jeden fünften Euro, den der Covenant in the hand takes, he has already put in the debt service (for interest and compound interest. This is not a single euro erased!). With this burden that we impose on our children and grandchildren, effective work of the state in the foreseeable future will not be possible.
Granted, the temptation is there already: Let's enjoy our high standard at the expense of the offspring! If the yet to see how they cope in due time on it. Main thing is that they will pay for our pensions!

© 2009, Ursula Prem