All this is flashy rhetoric about loving you.
I never had a selfless thought since I was born.
I am mercenary and self-seeking through and through:
I want God, you, all friends, merely to serve my turn.
Peace, re-assurance, pleasure, are the goals I seek,
I cannot crawl one inch outside my proper skin:
I talk of love --a scholar's parrot may talk Greek--
But, self-imprisoned, always end where I begin.
Only that now you have taught me (but how late) my lack.
I see the chasm. And everything you are was making
My heart into a bridge by which I might get back
From exile, and grow man. And now the bridge is breaking.
For this I bless you as the ruin falls. The pains
You give me are more precious than all other gains
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
MILTON ROGOVIN
I had never heard of this man before this afternoon. His website proclaims him to be a social documentary photographer. Much of his work is focused on the East and West side of Buffalo, NY IN THE 1950S. I'm going to be writing more about this man over the next little while, but for now, here is a sample of his work from "Milton Rogovin: The Forgotten Ones."
HERSHEY AIN'T CHOCOLATE
HERSHEY’S AIN’T CHOCOLATE
Sorry ladies, and any other chocolate lovers out there, but the title is true, Hershey’s ain’t chocolate!
This story was originally covered by the Smart Set, an online magazine of Drexel University. The article claims that Hershey’s chocolates, for the most part, aren’t really chocolate. They’re “the terrible bastard children of chocolate and corporate frugality,” according to Meg Favreau, writing for The Smart Set.
It seems that Hershey’s, and other industrial chocolate makers, mix their real coco butter with other vegetable oils. This process makes production cheaper, but it also makes something that is not chocolate. For now, the FDA requires Hershey’s to call its industrial byproducts “chocolate flavored” instead of real chocolate. However, according to Favreau, the website refers to the candies as “chocolate bars” and “milk chocolate.” That may change, however, as industry groups lobby the FDA to relax its definition of “chocolate” to include other vegetable oils.
So much for thinking that if it looks like chocolate and tastes like chocolate it must be chocolate!
It reminds me of a time when one of my children came home sporting a $10 G.A.P. hoodie, instead of a GAP hoodie!
As I think of this deception by Hershey’s my mind turns to a Bible verse found in Matthew 24. It was also a foot stomping gospel song by Johnny Cash – “Matthew 24 is Knockin’ at the Door!” The verse I am referring to is the 24th verse in Matthew; 24 "For false Christs and false prophets will arise and will show great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect.
I wonder a lot about the many “Christ’s” we have in our world today. There is the “Christ” of slick, multi millionaire TV preachers who will tell you that Jesus wants you to be rich and free of illness. There is the “Christ” presented by others who want us to live lives of perpetual suffering and misery. There is the “Christ” worshipped by cults who believe that Jesus was just an angel, or a brother of Satan, or just one of many roads that lead to God. There is Green Day’s “Jesus of Suburbia”.
So what do we do? We don’t have an agency like the FDA to tell us if we are following the real Christ or not.
We could learn something from FBI agents trained to discern the difference between real and counterfeit money. You may be surprised to know that these agents don’t spend countless hours studying counterfeit bills, but study the real money instead. This way, when something phony is placed before them, they can identity it as such immediately.
Stay tuned for future postings as I examine the real Jesus, and in doing so, help us all to beware of the false Christ’s spoken of in Matthew 24:24.
UPDATE ON NOV 1 POST "SUNDAY MORNING"
(CNN) -- A 20-year-old woman from Iraq has died in an Arizona hospital, nearly two weeks after her father, police say, ran her over with a car because she had become "too Westernized."
Noor Faleh Almaleki died Monday of injuries suffered when she was run over October 20 in a parking lot in the Phoenix suburb of Peoria, Arizona, police there said. Authorities said they expect to change the aggravated assault charge against her father, Faleh Hassan Almaleki, 48, to more severe counts after meetings with prosecutors, Peoria
police announced.
Peoria police said Faleh Hassan Almaleki believed his daughter had become "too Westernized" and had abandoned "traditional" Iraqi values. Peoria police spokesman Mike Tellef told CNN the family moved to the Phoenix area in the mid-1990s, and Almaleki was unhappy with his daughter's style of dress and her resistance to his rules.
After the incident, Almaleki's father drove to Mexico, abandoning his vehicle in Nogales, Peoria police said. He then made his way to Mexico City and boarded a plane to Britain, where authorities denied him entry into the country and put him on a plane back to the United States, police said.
A friend of the daughter, Amal Edan Khalaf, 43, also suffered serious injuries in the attack, police said. Almaleki faces a separate aggravated assault charge in connection with her injuries.
He is currently held in Phoenix, with bail has been set at $5 million, Tellef said.
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