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Mohammad
FAITH THAT MOVES MOUNTAINS:
The Way of the Peaceful Warrior is a great book that would allow people to see how they can cause change. It is written by Dan Millman who brings us the following from another of his books that are all worth contemplation.
“On an otherwise ordinary day, an angel appeared to a young merchant and former camel herder, known by all in the city where he was born. The angel’s words filled him with awe and dread–it told him that he was to defy his people’s ancestral religion, to denounce 360 deities carved in stone and worshipped for centuries, to declare himself the prophet of a single God, to abolish a way of life upon which countless lives and beliefs were founded–and establish a new religion out of nothing. Surely, he would be met with incredulity, rejection, violent persecution, and exile. Could his seemingly mad quest bring anything but failure–or at best, a martyr’s death?
Or would this mortal, obedient to the divine command of an angel, achieve a victory beyond any that reason could have foretold?
He was born in Mecca in A.D. 570. His father died before his birth. His devastated mother, unable to nurse him, named Muhammad and gave him to a nursemaid–a shepherdess in a band of Bedouins. Muhammad spent his first five years with these nomads, living a hardy open-air existence following the grazing flocks through desert grass and scrub, sleeping in tents beneath a vast desert sky. Once weaned, he drank camel’s milk and ate mostly rice, dates, wild birds, and locusts fried in oil. From the beginning, the desert claimed Muhammad as its own. He would always be a Bedouin at heart.
At age six, he returned to his mother, but she died later that year. He ended up living with an uncle, a caravan merchant. In the years that followed, Muhammad traveled throughout Arabia with his uncle’s caravans, learning the wisdom of the desert, the ways of business, and the art of war as they fought off bands of marauders. His travels took him into close contact with various tribes and religions–Judaism, Christianity, and the Arab sects who worshipped hundreds of gods and goddesses in the form of stone idols. These experiences made a deep impression on this thoughtful, introspective youth. From these early threads, the tapestry of his fate was woven.
He grew into a handsome young man admired for his strong character, moral integrity, and sharp mind. But he had come to a merchant’s life more by chance than choice. Disinterested in money and drawn to solitude, he left the caravan to work as a shepherd in the desert for months at a time.
When he was 25, Muhammad took a position in a trading company owned by a beautiful woman 15 years his senior. Her name was Khadija. For two years, he led Khadija’s caravans throughout Arabia, rising to the position of company manager. Not surprisingly, Khadija fell in love with him. Finally, she proposed to him through an intermediary. Their marriage, which blessed them with six daughters, would last until Khadija’s death 21 years later.
But almost as soon as the wedding ceremony had ended, Muhammad’s mind again turned inward. His encounters with so many cultures and religions had planted hidden seeds within him that began to grow. He found himself pondering how the 360 stone gods in the temple of Mecca could save souls. Such questions drew him to once again search his own soul in the solitude of the desert.
Muhammad began spending his days in a cave in the hills outside Mecca, fasting, praying, and meditating. Sleeping little, he began to enter altered states {Seems a man away from a woman having visions who is a shepherd and poor person, might have begun to prove appealing in the literary tradition.} and have waking visions–to experience the inner life of a mystic. At times, violent trembling seized him and he lost consciousness. A practical man of robust health who had endured many grueling journeys across the desert, he found these phenomena strange and disturbing. But these inner quakes {Buddha’s story includes lots of this kind of thing. What would happen to them today?} that he feared might be the harbingers of failing health were actually the premonitory tremors of a great awakening.
One night in the holy month of Ramadan in his 40th year, while fasting and praying in his desert cave, Muhammad heard a voice calling him with great urgency. Looking up in the darkness of his cave, he saw an angel standing before him, emanating a dazzling light. Muhammad fainted with fear, when he awoke, he found the angel still standing there.
‘Read, thou,’ the angel commanded him in a voice of stern authority.
‘I cannot,’ Muhammad stammered, for he could barely read.
‘Read, thou,’ the angel commanded him again in verse, ‘in the name of the Lord who created all things, who created man from a clot. Read in the name of the Most High who taught man the use of the pen and taught him what before he knew not.’
In awe, Muhammad repeated these words, memorizing each one. Then the angel said, ‘Muhammad, thou art the messenger of Allah and I am his angel, Gabriel.’
With that, the angel vanished.
In stunned exaltation, Muhammad went and told Khadija what had happened. She embraced him and unequivocally expressed her faith in his vision and his mission, saying, ‘Rejoice, dear husband. He who holds in His hands the life of Khadija is my witness that thou wilt be the messenger of His people.’
But Muhammad could not accept his own vision. How could he, an ordinary man so far from perfection, be such a messenger? He feared that he might be deluded or perhaps insane. Days passed. He waited for another sign, for further confirmation so that he might believe in himself and know how to proceed. But no sign came.
At last, he returned to the cave on Mount Hira, seeking the angel Gabriel. He waited and prayed, but to no avail. In despair, haunted by terrible doubts and assailed by fears of madness, Muhammad climbed onto a precipice and prepared to leap to his death. At that very moment, the angel appeared before him again and, raising his hands, repeated, ‘I am Gabriel, and thou art Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah.’ Muhammad froze on the edge of the chasm in a spellbound trance. Hours passed. That night one of Khadija’s servants came and found Muhammad still perched on a crag, lost in ecstasy, and led him home.
After that event, Muhammad began to quietly spread the revelation of his new faith among only a few close friends and family members. But in this tightly knit culture, word spread quickly. Before long, his persecution began–gossip, brutal beatings, plots against him, and attempts against his life. Over time, his honesty and virtue, the words of scripture revealed through him, and the mysterious workings of fate brought about the conversions of several of Mecca’s greatest warriors. All this greatly strengthened the fledgling faith of Islam and drove fear into the hearts of its enemies.
People demanded that he perform miracles as proof of his divine mission. Muhammad answered that he had not come to perform miracles; he had come to preach the word of Allah. Challenged to move a mountain, he gazed toward it but it did not budge, so he spoke the now-famous words demonstrating his wisdom, humor, and humility: ‘If the mountain will not come to Muhammad, then Muhammad will go to the mountain.’
From beginning to end, Muhammad acknowledged himself as an ordinary man, full of faults and limitations–a man chosen by God, for reasons he did not understand, to deliver a new revelation of Islam, which means ’submission to God.’ Islam required faith in God, charity, purity, and a life free of idols, lived with the courage of a warrior in battle, with prayer as a cleansing immersion in His spirit.
The citizens of Mecca were roused to fury by Muhammad’s attack on their cherished idols–and by his declaration that there was but one God, named Allah, and that he, Muhammad, was His prophet. Forced to flee across the desert to the city of Medina, he began his mission anew, once again a lonely prophet with a handful of followers in a city of unbelievers.
Over time, the angel Gabriel revealed scripture to Muhammad, which he recited aloud and which Khadija and others wrote down. This scripture became known as the Holy Koran (Quran). The Koran was Muhammad’s defining miracle–the writing of this masterpiece of poetic religious scripture by a simple, semiliterate man might in itself have earned him fame as a prophet. But this feat was only one chapter in the life of Muhammad.
Persecuted as a heretic for nearly two decades by the people of Mecca {How was Khadija still alive if he spent almost two decades there? The math doesn’t work, but perhaps the semiliterate don’t worry.}, including many of his own relatives and former friends, the once young Bedouin became in old age a fearless military general. More than once, Mecca’s army laid siege, seeking to destroy Medina, where Muhammad and his followers lived–their war would not end until Muhammad or Mecca fell. In the final battle, while outnumbered three to one, but filled with the power of Allah, Muhammad and his followers descended like a storm upon the Meccan army and destroyed it. This battle turned the tide.” (1)
The people who ridicule the legends of Indians and natives aren’t funny and it isn’t right for me to do it either. Still it seems a poor role model to win followers by the sword of Allah or Yahweh (Yahu) or Shiva. We are all paying the price these story-tellers have wrought since the day of Caliph Omar and Constantine who took the fledgling new beliefs and built empires under their spell of ignorance. Omar said there was no need to read anything other than the Koran as he commanded one of the raids to destroy the great library at Alexandria that housed all knowledge; we need to really know about our roots. Islam has much good and is less intolerant than other Ur Story based religions. The Caliphate still has its stranglehold on the souls of people. It does not want people to have knowledge – so it encourages reading old books with limited meaning, as I see it.
About the Author
Author of Diverse Druids
Columnist for The ES Press Magazine
Guest ‘expert’ at World-Mysteries.com
Excellent Early Snowfalls for Most of the Southern Alps
Global warming and the financial crisis, these double risks have spared the S. Alps, leastwise for the time being. However it may have been so altogether different. In the weeks before Xmas hamlets in the Les Deux Alpes locale were cut off when snow came down. Dual carriage way routes such as the important Col du Araches-la-Frasse were severed. In that location there was no mains or telephone lines, residents had to be moved out to make shift dwellings, it appeared as if it were a repeat of 1999.
It seems that all publicity is good publicity. Les Menuires featured every night on national French news. As soon as power was repaired reservations began to come in, drawn in by the first class skiing conditions.
Tignes and neigboring Bessans claim almost 4.5 meters snow depth on the upper pistes at 2000 metres elevation and 2.3 metres at the end of the resorts. Presently a record for the Alps. La Clusaz says there is 3 meters at the the highest point of the resort. Unluckily avalanches have knocked over a pylon of the chair lift that goes up to the domain. They’ll be out of action till the end of Feb.
Elsewhere in the S. Alps inquiries have increased 17% in Chatel, Luz Ardiden and La Grave. La Rosiere, not too far from Geneva airport, has 99 tenancy and distributed a record number of lift passes on Friday. That is great for big skiing firms.
COMMERCIALS THAT CONFUSE, CONFOUND AND SELL NOBODY ANYTHING
I may be missing something, here, but it seems to me that, in
advertising terms, the loonies have taken over the asylum. What
is getting me all lathered up is the preponderance of TV
commercials that go out of their way, not only to confuse their
target audience, but also to project an alarming image of their
product.
I’ll elaborate. The first example is the sad, but fortunately
short story of a current tv spot for a company called Debenhams.
Now, Debenhams is a large UK department store which has branches
in many major cities throughout the country. As such, it has an
excellent reputation and an enviable turnover.
Well, this outfit is running a commercial which has two distinct
scenes. The first shows a man sitting in a room at a table, and
beside him is a back-projection of a pond. As he sweeps an object
off the table and into the pond, we see ripples in the water. The
second scene is of a young girl in a room and the back projection
is of some trees, each carrying a profusion of autumn leaves. As
the girl moves around the room, the leaves begin to fall.
So far so good; and as an exercise in special effects this spot
is exemplary, because the last thing you’d expect to see in your
living room is a pond or a stand of trees.
Anyway, we are now treated to a voice-over which says, to the
effect, that if you drop into Debenhams you’ll find lots more of
the same. My question is: the same what? Throughout this
commercial, we are not actually told what it is we are being
offered.
I assume it is wallpaper, but I could be wrong – it might be
personal back projection.
The second example concerns a new computer from Apple-Mac. The
spot opens with an explosion and a man being thrown against a
tree. The camera then tracks towards a house, in the side of
which is a gaping hole. The camera continues through into the
house, showing us debris falling all around and large holes in
the walls of successive rooms. We finally track towards a
computer, and the voice-over says something like: Introducing the
fastest, most powerful computer in the Mac stable.
The message I interpret from this is that the new Apple-Mac is so
powerful it explodes. Not only that, it will probably reduce your
home to rubble.
Oh, yeah, I must rush out and buy one of those.
Am I alone in thinking that these two commercials, despite their
huge production values, are less than clever? On the one hand,
the advertiser neglects to tell us what it is that he’s trying to
sell. On the other, we have a product that is reminiscent of
Mission Impossible and self-destructs when you switch it on.
Given all of this, I’d like to pose a question. When the
respective ad agencies presented the storyboards for these
commercials to their clients, did nobody on the client side raise
a query or two? Like: since we’re spending all this money,
shouldn’t we at least say what we’re offering? Or: is it really a
sensible idea to associate our computers with explosions?
Of course, it could be that I am missing some wonderful new
marketing strategy that will shortly be revealed and will make me
look extremely foolish. Though I doubt it. And I doubt it because
I saw a beer commercial the other day (Stella Artois, I think),
in which a man on a balcony actually spat on the people below.
You have to be a very brave advertiser -or a very stupid one -to
ally your product to this kind of imagery. And this crudity seems
to be more and more prevalent.
I leave you to ponder all of this. Meanwhile, you’ll do no better
than visit www.wordpower3.com. There, you’ll find an e-book that
could make your working life a whole lot easier. It contains
close to 200 ready-made headlines, taglines, copy openers and
clinchers, plus a comprehensive theme-finder that will give you
just about every promotional word and phrase you’ll ever need.
It’s called Word Power III. Buy it and every word you write, will
Sell.
About the Author
Patrick Quinn is a copywriter, with 40 years’ experience of the
advertising business in London, Dublin, Edinburgh and Miami.
Over the years, he has helped win for his clients just about
every advertising award worth winning
His published books, include:
The Secrets of Successful Copywriting.
The Secrets of Successful Low Budget Advertising.
The Secrets of Successful Exhibitions.
Word Power.
Christ and Covenant
The Covenant and Christ
All are under sin, whether under the law or barbarians, and apart from the Law we are all in need of righteousness. Not one of us can stand before God righteous apart from Christ in us as our righteousness. God does have a covenant with Israel as His chosen race and we as believers are grafted onto the chosen race by grace. This is where there is neither Jew nor Gentile, slave nor free for we are all in Christ, and there is a level playing field for all mankind who are made partakers of divine nature.
We as Gentiles never become Jews, except in the spiritual sense we become circumcised in our hearts having the law of God written on our hearts and in our minds. In Christ we realise the fulfillment of the law in our lives. We cannot attain to it and neither can the Jew, so whether we are under the law or not, we are all facing the wrath of God towards sin. Where God will judge us for what we have done according to Paul’s gospel, which is Christ in us, the hope of Glory. We as gentiles do by nature that which is required by the law because we have Christ the fulfillment of the Law at work within us. What a wonderful position to be in before God. Israel is still God’s chosen people and as such they have the protection and covenant of God.
Sin is what all men have and righteousness is what all men need.
Who Are These Real Estate Gurus and Why Are They Here?
These days, there’s an ever-increasing supply of information about real estate investing on the internet. From the explosion in the number of people who consider themselves real estate gurus to the vastly expanded number of blogs and other websites that focus on real estate, the options for online learning have become incredibly numerous.
Not surprisingly, not everything you find on the internet is worthwhile – or even true. So with that in mind, we offer some thoughts about some available real estate investing resources. Important note – the resources below are not being judged by us, but we’re merely pointing them out to you.
* Terry Wygal may be a real estate investor, or a search engine optimization expert, or both, or neither. Terry Wygal charges around $800 to teach people to make videos and put them on YouTube – a pricey lesson to be sure.
* Bryan Ellis is a verifiable marketing visionary and sometimes real estate investor who has a clear fascination with news and how the economy affects investors. Ellis has a blog at http://realestate.BryanEllis.com that has become a mainstay among serious investors.
* Gerald Romine sells his software package to real estate investors, who use it to determine what to offer on property deals and to complete their legal paperwork. Romine’s program is not cheap – not even close – but the feature set is impressive.
To a greater or lesser degree, all three of these people are well known in the real estate investing business. However, being well known doesn’t mean a whole lot these days. You’ll benefit by a more complete investigation into these people and their resources.
Matches expensive Fashion Collection
Matches Fashion is nowdays an enormously high ended clothes fashion outlet with loads of great achievements. Seventeen years & www.matches.com have seen themselves escalate from 1 clothes fashion shop to a string of fashion shops in great and trendy Notting Hill, prosperous Richmond & dainty Wimbledon along with their stunning online website now as well. Each and every single Matches Store has a mixed personality and elegant style. This has resulted in Matches Shops which are also as different and cherished as their buying public. The Matches philosophy locates extensive significance on look & creative classic style
Like masses of other exclusive fashion shops, Matches Fashion Fashion is regularly changing & presenting new original chic designers. The staff are accomplished at seeking out the most up to date key items for the particular time of year & constantly centre around the key fashion pieces from high flying fashion designers such as Freda, Christian Louboutin and Chloe along with more flourishing fashion designers & new original up and coming ones.
Both the fashion outlets and the wonderful looking website has had tons of achievement; the fantastic looking site is like reading into a terrific glossy expensive fashion monthly mag, it supplies the web site surfers the ideas that they all need to catch a glimpse of exclusive clothes that could apprearnace elegant & feel beautiful. www.matches.com is consistently featured in stylish fashion magazines such as Vogue and The Times Magazine. For Christian Louboutin hot off the catwalk visit Matches Fashion.
Constant Moving with Parents- Part 2 – My Childhood
During my childhood so far, I have moved 9 times within one city, Charleston. I love Charleston from Mt. Pleasant to Seabrook Island. Unfortunately, I have not become settled in a specific house yet. I have become settled with my mom, but my father is not settled.
When I was born my mother, father, and I lived in a house in West Ashley. When I was about 4 years old, my parents got divorced. My mom stayed at the house in West Ashley. I lived there until I was about 7 years old, and then we moved. The day we moved out, I was crying. I still remember, vividly, how to get around in the house. I miss this house, probably since it is my birth home.
My mother and I moved, temporarily, to a Condo in James Island. We were there for about a year. I was not particularly fond of the Condo. My mom became engaged to a man and we moved in with him into my current house.
We moved into my mothers’ fiancé’s house in West Ashley on the Intracostal Waterway during the very beginning of ‘99. My mom and her husband became married in March of 2000. After the wedding, I officially had a stepfather, a stepbrother, and two stepsisters. However, the story of my stepfamily is for my next article. On December 3 2000, my mother finally gave into me begging to get a dog. We got a dog, which we think is a Cocapoo we are not sure. Even though my dog is not the smartest, I still love him. Sometime in 2001, my mom hired a painter to paint my stepsister, stepbrother, and my rooms. My stepsister got hers painted with horses, my stepbrothers had his dark red with a large wave, and I had mine done of weather. We have a boat out there, and I love living out there on the water.
My father and I have moved many times. It all started when my parents became divorced. My mom stayed in the house, but my father moved into an apartment. I do not remember much of the apartment. The only thing I remember was that my cousin liked to stay over.
Then we moved to a house in downtown. I do not remember anything about the house. We moved then to another house downtown. It was on Queen St. and it was, I believe, a condominium. . During our short time at the house, I had my room painted with fishes everywhere. At the end of the street, there was a play park.
We moved into a house out in Mt. Pleasant. This is our longest house we stayed in. I remember that there was a backyard pond, and there were fish and ducks in it. There were rose plants on the side of the house, and gardens in the back. I liked this house of all. There were not many kids that I knew, but I met one that became my best friend, but unfortunately moved to Rhode Island. There are many memories from that house. That is where my dad became engaged to Mindy, one of a couple of failed relationships. I will cover that later. I started to believe that my father has finally settled, but I was proven wrong. Then we moved again.
For a little while we moved in with my grandmother Nini. She lives out on Seabrook Island, a nice community with no hotels, or any shops inside it. Everything was within biking distance, so I went to the pool/ beach area over the summer. I played tennis that summer. She was also a very good cook. I loved to just eat, eat, and eat. She also had a Boston Terrier. He was the smartest dog. He can sense anything. When anyone went to sit down, he would jump into the chair and lay right behind you. Then we moved to our present location.
We moved to Headquarters Island on Johns Island. It is a condominium. I have lived here for about 2 years now. I am not crazy about the place, but it is fine. My father became engaged in this house to a woman named Risa; it did not turn out to well. That is a completely different story for a later time. There is a lake in the back yard. Also unfortunately, there are repairs and restorations going on, on the outside of the condominium. All the banging and noise drives me crazy.
I, of course, go back and forth each house on a regular basis. It is annoying when I run out of clothes at one house, and forget a book for school at the other, but I manage. I often forget whom I am with on the specific weekend.
Moving is not an easy thing to go through, especially if your parents are divorced. Also moving into someone else’s house feels strange. I know the feeling of the sense that you are finally settled, you start to become comfortable with your surroundings, and then all of a sudden you move. I am 14 years old and have moved 9 times. I now do not feel safe to become comfortable since I know that as soon as I do, that I will move.
In Part 3 I shall discuss what it is like to have a stepfamily, and to live in the same house with them.
Seth Cohen
If you have questions or comments for me, e-mail me at Hurricaneman3691@yahoo.com
Screenwriting; Story Structure; Hero’s Journey – Forget About Conflict!
The Hero’s Journey is the template upon which the cast majority of successful screenplays are built upon. Films as diverse as Gladiator (2000), Million Dollar Baby (2004), Raging Bull (1980) and Scarface (1983) were all constructed around the Hero’s Journey Template.
Many theorists argue that the screenplay is essentially about conflict. This is misleading.
Forget about conflict. Don’t focus on it. Simply take your heroes through the stages of the Hero’s Journey. And make sure you give them inner, outer and romantic challenges.
Sure, conflict is the basis of all human behaviour. Sure, every action, movement and inflexion is about status and hierarchy. We know that. But it doesn’t help you write a screenplay. Or if it does, it forces your nose to follow the diversion sign.
This concept of conflict derives from the highly simplistic three act structure: setup, conflict and resolution. Its usefulness as a tool is questionable. Three act structure is like saying a meal consists of a starter, main course and dessert. It doesn’t tell you how to cook the meal. For that you need a cookbook. And the best cookbook there is, is the Hero’s Journey.
Learn more…
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Kal Bishop is a management consultant based in London, UK. His specialities include Knowledge Management and Creativity and Innovation Management. He has consulted in the visual media and software industries and for clients such as Toshiba and Transport for London. He has led Improv, creativity and innovation workshops, exhibited artwork in San Francisco, Los Angeles and London and written a number of screenplays. He is a passionate traveller. He can be reached at http://managing-creativity.com/
How to Grab Your Audience Attention when Public Speaking
You need to grasp your audience’s attention within the first 30 seconds of your speech or presentation. If you don’t grab them in that short space of time, you could lose them. The people you are speaking to could simply look at you, but be thinking of the next coffee break, the shopping they need to do or that attractive person sitting in front of them. Without gaining the immediate attention of the audience the moment you start to speak, you could effectively be talking to yourself.
Something like a gunshot, fireworks or a troupe of naked dancers should grab the audience attention, sure enough. But your problem is you have to follow them – and that may well be an anti-climax for the audience. Dramatic starts to presentations and speeches can often backfire. People remember the sudden drama, but often cannot recall what the speaker actually said.
What you need are openings to your speech that make the audience want to listen to the rest of what you have to say. In other words, the stunning start to the speech or presentation has to be something you say, rather than a dramatic device.
There are several options you can choose from, but audience research shows that the most preferable attention-grabbing opening you can make is an anecdote; tell a personal story, preferably funny. Most business presenters try to be serious, or set the agenda right at the start. Time and time again, audiences report that this is the sure way to lose their attention. Yet, time and time again audiences say that personal anecdotes are a great way to start a business presentation – even serious ones.
If an anecdote isn’t appropriate, there are other options. Starting with a question, or a series of linked questions, is a favourite loved by audiences. Similarly, a quotation by a famous person is also a good opener to a talk or presentation.
Other possibilities include a statistic or a controversial statement about the audience or the subject area. An appropriate poem is also a good start.
Things to avoid to open your presentation or speech include jokes, role plays or anything where you are trying to be ‘clever’. The audience may be offended and therefore will distance themselves from you, lessening your impact. And even if you get a good producer for a major conference speech, try to avoid their convincing cries that you should make some kind of dramatic entrance. It’s great for the show’s production team – but not for the audience.
No matter what the size of the audience, you can use the suggestions here. Whether you speak to a small group or several thousand, anecdotes, questions, quotations, statistics and controversial statements will always work.
Graham Jones can help you make great presentations. He provides online courses in presentation skills and also provides information on how you can overcome the fear of public speaking.