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as found on: http://channels.isp.netscape.com/news/story.jsp?idq=/ff/story/0001%2F20061104%2F0041360835.htm&sc=1120&floc=NI-ntk3 Naked Man Arrested for Concealed Weapon EL CERRITO, Calif. (AP) - A man was arrested on suspicion of carrying a concealed weapon after police found him outdoors - naked - and he told them he had a tool in his rectum, authorities said. The man was lying on a tree stump, masturbating beside a nature path, near a Bay Area Rapid Transit station Thursday, police said. John Sheehan, 33, of Pittsburg, was initially arrested on suspicion of indecent exposure. But when asked whether he was carrying anything police should know about, Sheehan mentioned the tool, said El Cerrito Detective Cpl. Don Horgan. ``You can't get much more concealed than that,'' Horgan said. Officers drew their weapons and firefighters were called to the scene. Sheehan removed a 6-inch metal awl wrapped in black electrical tape without incident. Sheehan, who was paroled from state prison last week, was then booked into jail on suspicion of parole violations, indecent exposure and one felony count of possessing a concealed weapon. ``When you're talking about an awl or an ice pick and you're dealing with somebody who's fresh out of prison, it's a weapon. That's a stabbing instrument,'' Horgan said. It was not immediately clear what Sheehan was on parole for. A person answering the phone at the jail Friday night did not know whether Sheehan had a lawyer. 11/04/06 00:41 © Copyright The Associated Press. All rights reserved. The information contained In this news report may not be published, broadcast or otherwise distributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press.

as found on : http://channels.isp.netscape.com/news/story.jsp?idq=/ff/story/0002%2F20061031%2F1016041844.htm&sc=reodd&floc=NI-ntk1 Dead woman wins election in Alaska after coin toss ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - A dead woman won re-election to a school board in rural Alaska after her opponent lost a coin flip meant to break an electoral tie. Katherine Dunton, who died of cancer on October 3, the day of the local election, was re-elected to the Aleutian Region School District board after her opponent, Dona Highstone, called "heads" on a coin toss that landed "tails," state and local officials said. "This is the first that I have ever heard about, not only in our state but in any other," said Whitney Brewster, director of the Alaska Division of Elections. The coin toss was held on Friday, in accordance with state law, to break the tie since both candidates had 19 votes. The school district, which covers an island region stretching 600 miles and has jurisdiction over about 50 students, has not yet decided how to fill Dunton's seat. 10/31/06 10:16 © Copyright Reuters Ltd. All rights reserved. The information contained In this news report may not be published, broadcast or otherwise distributed without the prior written authority of Reuters Ltd.

as found on various parts of : http://www.churchofsatan.com/home.html The Nine Satanic Statements from The Satanic Bible, ©1969 by Anton Szandor LaVey [français] 1. Satan represents indulgence instead of abstinence! 2. Satan represents vital existence instead of spiritual pipe dreams! 3. Satan represents undefiled wisdom instead of hypocritical self-deceit! 4. Satan represents kindness to those who deserve it instead of love wasted on ingrates! 5. Satan represents vengeance instead of turning the other cheek! 6. Satan represents responsibility to the responsible instead of concern for psychic vampires! 7. Satan represents man as just another animal, sometimes better, more often worse than those that walk on all-fours, who, because of his “divine spiritual and intellectual development,” has become the most vicious animal of all! 8. Satan represents all of the so-called sins, as they all lead to physical, mental, or emotional gratification! 9. Satan has been the best friend the Church has ever had, as He has kept it in business all these years! The Eleven Satanic Rules of the Earth by Anton Szandor LaVey ©1967 [Spanish, Croation] 1. Do not give opinions or advice unless you are asked. 2. Do not tell your troubles to others unless you are sure they want to hear them. 3. When in another’s lair, show him respect or else do not go there. 4. If a guest in your lair annoys you, treat him cruelly and without mercy. 5. Do not make sexual advances unless you are given the mating signal. 6. Do not take that which does not belong to you unless it is a burden to the other person and he cries out to be relieved. 7. Acknowledge the power of magic if you have employed it successfully to obtain your desires. If you deny the power of magic after having called upon it with success, you will lose all you have obtained. 8. Do not complain about anything to which you need not subject yourself. 9. Do not harm little children. 10. Do not kill non-human animals unless you are attacked or for your food. 11. When walking in open territory, bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask him to stop. If he does not stop, destroy him. The Nine Satanic Sins by Anton Szandor LaVey ©1987 1. Stupidity—The top of the list for Satanic Sins. The Cardinal Sin of Satanism. It’s too bad that stupidity isn’t painful. Ignorance is one thing, but our society thrives increasingly on stupidity. It depends on people going along with whatever they are told. The media promotes a cultivated stupidity as a posture that is not only acceptable but laudable. Satanists must learn to see through the tricks and cannot afford to be stupid. 2. Pretentiousness—Empty posturing can be most irritating and isn’t applying the cardinal rules of Lesser Magic. On equal footing with stupidity for what keeps the money in circulation these days. Everyone’s made to feel like a big shot, whether they can come up with the goods or not. 3. Solipsism—Can be very dangerous for Satanists. Projecting your reactions, responses and sensibilities onto someone who is probably far less attuned than you are. It is the mistake of expecting people to give you the same consideration, courtesy and respect that you naturally give them. They won’t. Instead, Satanists must strive to apply the dictum of “Do unto others as they do unto you.” It’s work for most of us and requires constant vigilance lest you slip into a comfortable illusion of everyone being like you. As has been said, certain utopias would be ideal in a nation of philosophers, but unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately, from a Machiavellian standpoint) we are far from that point. 4. Self-deceit—It’s in the “Nine Satanic Statements” but deserves to be repeated here. Another cardinal sin. We must not pay homage to any of the sacred cows presented to us, including the roles we are expected to play ourselves. The only time self-deceit should be entered into is when it’s fun, and with awareness. But then, it’s not self-deceit! 5. Herd Conformity—That’s obvious from a Satanic stance. It’s all right to conform to a person’s wishes, if it ultimately benefits you. But only fools follow along with the herd, letting an impersonal entity dictate to you. The key is to choose a master wisely instead of being enslaved by the whims of the many. 6. Lack of Perspective—Again, this one can lead to a lot of pain for a Satanist. You must never lose sight of who and what you are, and what a threat you can be, by your very existence. We are making history right now, every day. Always keep the wider historical and social picture in mind. That is an important key to both Lesser and Greater Magic. See the patterns and fit things together as you want the pieces to fall into place. Do not be swayed by herd constraints—know that you are working on another level entirely from the rest of the world. 7. Forgetfulness of Past Orthodoxies—Be aware that this is one of the keys to brainwashing people into accepting something new and different, when in reality it’s something that was once widely accepted but is now presented in a new package. We are expected to rave about the genius of the creator and forget the original. This makes for a disposable society. 8. Counterproductive Pride—That first word is important. Pride is great up to the point you begin to throw out the baby with the bathwater. The rule of Satanism is: if it works for you, great. When it stops working for you, when you’ve painted yourself into a corner and the only way out is to say, I’m sorry, I made a mistake, I wish we could compromise somehow, then do it. 9. Lack of Aesthetics—This is the physical application of the Balance Factor. Aesthetics is important in Lesser Magic and should be cultivated. It is obvious that no one can collect any money off classical standards of beauty and form most of the time so they are discouraged in a consumer society, but an eye for beauty, for balance, is an essential Satanic tool and must be applied for greatest magical effectiveness. It’s not what’s supposed to be pleasing—it’s what is. Aesthetics is a personal thing, reflective of one’s own nature, but there are universally pleasing and harmonious configurations that should not be denied.

as found on: http://www.squirtingtruth.com/how_to_ejaculate.phtml SquirtingTruth: How To Ejaculate Before making any efforts to learn how to ejaculate please keep in mind that studies show not all women will be able to ejaculate. That is not to say that it cannot be learned but that it is possible that some women will not be able to, for whatever reason. For that reason ejaculation should not be considered the 'be all and end all' of sex for any woman. And it isn't. Many women who do not ejaculate have very satisfying and fulfilling sex lives. So why should you attempt this? 1. The g-spot stimulation needed for ejaculation may, in itself, cause a very satisfying type of orgasm. Whether you ejaculate or not, this intense orgasm is certainly worth the effort. 2. Developing your PC muscles, through Kegel exercises can also have enormous benefits, including helping non-orgasmic women achieve orgasm and intensifying the orgasms of already orgasmic women. 3. If you are attempting this with a partner there are numerous benefits, including but not limited to a better quality sex life and a stronger relationship, the direct result of the communication needed for this project. Now, assuming that you're prepared for the adventure that lays ahead, let's get started. But please don't take out bits and pieces, this information is important, otherwise it wouldn't be included. Limiting your education on this subject only increases your chances of failure which will in turn make further attempts that much more difficult. 1. Learn about your body You need to know where your g-spot is located and be familiar with the basics of female ejaculation, e.g. where the fluid comes from (not the vagina). If you need help with this please check our G-Spot / Female Prostate page. It has complete information including diagrams, to help you. 2. Practice Kegel Exercises Both women and men do kegel exercises to strengthen their PC muscles. Not only do they have many benefits such as increasing blood flow, they can help women achieve both orgasms and I believe, ejaculation. Please see our page on Kegel Exercises. 3. Communication Communication is the most important thing for any female wishing to learn how to ejaculate. Why? In order to ejaculate women need not just good but great sex and there is nothing that can ruin great sex more than a lover who does all the wrong things. Some women have very sensitive g-spots. Maybe direct or hard/fast manipulation is just too much for us. Perhaps the vibration of a vibrator is what we need. Maybe the feeling starts but then we need them to go faster and harder. Maybe your partner brings you close then wonders off and begins doing something else. Not only do we have to experiment to discover what works for us, we all need to convey this to our partners. Whether you ejaculate or not, the improved communication in your relationship will not only strengthen your relationship but open up a whole new world between you and your partner sexually. 4. Learning to Relax the Urethra Women are programmed to act properly, especially when it comes to 'bathroom manners' and plain and simply, ejaculation conflicts with that. For those who are battling the subconscious resistance of our bodies to close everything up tight when we're about to ejaculate, nothing is more important than re-teaching our minds. After all it is our minds that control our muscles. In the case of female ejaculation the part of our body that needs to be re-taught is the urethra. It allows urine to pass and just as with men, it allows ejaculation to occur. We've spent a lifetime teaching it to hold things in while we're in bed, now we have to teach it to let things out. So how do we do this? I would suggest that you begin by learning how to relax the urethra and urinate in places and in positions that you're not accustomed to. Here are some examples: - Standing - On your hands on knees - Laying on your back - Any position, while you're touching yourself - In front of your partner (if this is generally difficult for you) I would suggest the bathtub for most as it makes for a quick and easy clean up. As long as you learn how to relax your urethra at will, you have half the battle won. 5. Learning to Relax Your Body When a woman who does not regularly ejaculate comes close to ejaculation for the first time she may: a) tense up, arching her back and forcing her hips into the bed ultimately stopping it; or b) pull away stopping the sensation completely. This happens because of the intense feelings being brought on and because often the urge to 'pee' kicks in, causing a mental panic. You can learn to relax through this feeling and bring your body back under your control. Please see our Relaxation page for full information and instructions. Proceed to Technique: With A Partner Proceed to Technique: Masturbation as found on: http://www.squirtingtruth.com/how_to_partner.phtml SquirtingTruth: Technique: Female Ejaculation With A Partner Preparations For Your Partner: » Wash hands well. Trim fingernails. » Have a towel ready but don't insist on putting it under your partners butt immediately. If she's been struggling to learn to ejaculate this may only add to her performance anxiety. » Have some KY Jelly or other lubricant handy. At some point additional lubrication may be necessary, even if she is having heavy orgasms and climaxes. » Set aside enough time. The first successful ejaculation may take an hour or more. » It may be wise to exercise your hands, fingers, and arm for several days prior to this exercise. The motions necessary can become quite tiring after a while if you are not in good physical shape. » Reassure your partner that there is nothing to be embarrassed about or ashamed of. Women fear men's reactions to ejaculation so maybe even telling her how much it would turn you on would be a good idea and would help put her mind at ease. Start slow. Use typical foreplay. Stimulate the clitoris. Once you are sexually aroused, look for an area about 2 inches inside the vagina, which should be somewhat enlarged. This is the G spot. It lies directly along the urethra, and is located almost directly behind the clitoris. Slowly stroke this area. It should start becoming more enlarged. Ejaculation is almost always triggered by stimulating the G spot. Clitoral stimulation can often assist in helping her reach an ejaculation, and also can make it more intense. But stimulating the G spot is usually necessary at least initially. Once she starts ejaculating easily, she may find that clitoral stimulation alone is sufficient. Stroking can be done a number of ways. The two fingers can rub the area as a unit, or they can take opposite strides, similar to walking. A third method involved sliding the two finders out a fraction of an inch, and pushing them back in, similar to the in-out motion of intercourse, but with smaller strokes. Initially pace the stimulation somewhat slow. Alternate with clitoral stimulation either with the thumb, other hand, or mouth/tongue. Also try simultaneous stimulation of the clitoris and G spot. Watch her reactions. Simultaneous may be too intense for some but necessary for ejaculation for others. Take your cues from her. When she starts bearing down, and you feel the vagina contract, begin pumping rapidly. When she is in the middle of an orgasm, stimulate the clitoris at the same time, and pump the G spot gently, but very rapidly. Talk to her. Say, "your getting it, go for it, don't worry, relax and let it come" or other similar words. She may need reassurance that if she drenches you, you will not be upset. Tell her how erotic you find it for her to ejaculate. Make her comfortable with both you, and the idea of ejaculation. This actually is not the best position. If she does not succeed after a short time, have her roll over on her stomach, and get up on her knees. You will find stimulating the G spot much easier in this position, and she will most likely respond much better. With the two fingers turned down, slide your two fingers back into her vagina. Find the G spot and continue stimulating the G spot. You may use the other hand to stimulate the clitoris. If after a couple of orgasms, using rapid pumping on the G spot during orgasm, she still has not ejaculated, then turn the hand around, putting the thumb into the vagina. The thumb will likely not reach the G spot, but don't worry, it should come up to meet the thumb during orgasm. Take the two fingers and lay them down on the clit. Allow the entire curve between the thumb and forefinger to lie along her from the vagina to her clitoris, and begin pumping with the thumb, and rubbing the clit at the same time. When she starts an orgasm, start pumping the entire hand rapidly. At this point she will most likely ejaculate. The trick is to massage the area where the urethra comes out, while stimulating the clitoris and G spot. This will help to override the feeling she is about to pee, and allow her to let it pass. If you're trying to make her ejaculate with your fingers, you should feel her clamp down as she gets close. Since the movement of the fluid through the urethra will initially feel exactly like when she starts to pee, this is very important. The reflex to stop peeing will immediately abort the ejaculation, so she needs to be told to relax, and allow the fluid to pass. In other words when she feels like she is about to pee, she should go ahead and pee. Only it really won't be pee, it will be an ejaculation, and within a couple of seconds it will be very obvious to her that this is something quite different. The natural instinct at this point is for her to raise her hips and hold it in. At this point put your hand on her pubic bone and gently ease her back down, reminding her to relax and let it happen. Be aware that the female is not only capable of multiple orgasms, but also multiple ejaculations. It is not unusual for her to have from 3 to 5 ejaculations before depleting her supply of cum. Once she has ejaculated one or more times, you can continue with intercourse. Entering from behind will stimulate the G-spot more easily than missionary style, and often additional ejaculations will occur during intercourse. Even if they don't, she will be highly excited, and very sensitive. The final result will most likely be the most intense and pleasurable sex she has ever had. Anal Stimulation and Female Ejaculation: One area often overlooked when it comes to female ejaculation is the anus. In truth this is a highly erotic area and will often contribute greatly to the orgasm leading to ejaculation or the ejaculation itself. It's important to note that some women enjoy anal manipulation and anal penetration and some don't. It depends on the female, their body and their taste. Some women are able to ejaculate just by anal stimulation. If this is something new or something you would like to experiment with it is important to use LOTS of lubrication and to be very slow and gentle. Begin by stimulating the outside of the anus with just one finger, rubbing small circles, or putting slight pressure. If the sensation is pleasurable you can slowly work towards inserting a well lubricated finger into the anus. It is vital that you are careful doing this in the beginning. Too rough, too dry or simply rushing into it can be painful. If it's done properly it is certainly something that will add to your sexual experience. If Manual Stimulation or Intercourse Don't Work: Depending on the sensitivity of the g-spot, the first ejaculation or even the first dozen, can be exhausting work for a man. In his 'how to' video Seymore Butts suggests that men work on arm exercises for a period beforehand because of how strenuous this can be. I thought this was rather cute and even comical until I discovered for myself that it was true. Why? It isn't the in / out action of the hand that causes the strain but the fingers bent / in / out motion for any length of time that does it. If you're both new to this, this may present a challenge and could even ruin the experience. It's very difficult for a woman to maintain her arousal or to ejaculate if her partner is in obvious physical pain and struggling to maintain his rhythm. So what can you do? If after attempting to ejaculation you find that it just isn't working, I would suggest buying a g-spot vibrator that your husband could use on you to either get you close or use once he's reached his breaking point. A g-spot vibrator is basically a normal vibrator with a curved end, designed specially to hit the g-spot. They come in all shapes and sizes and all price ranges. They can be purchased online or just a local sex shop. as found on: http://www.squirtingtruth.com/how_to_self.phtml SquirtingTruth: Technique: Masturbation Many women find it easier to practice and have greater success in their initial efforts to ejaculate without a partner present. The following steps should assist you in your efforts. Begin masturbating as you normally would. Stimulate the clitoris. Once you are sexually aroused, look for an area about 2 inches inside the vagina, which should be somewhat enlarged. This is the G spot. It lies directly along the urethra, and is located almost directly behind the clitoris. You should be able to tell this is the right spot by the sensations you get when you touch it. Slowly stroke this area. As you do it should start becoming more enlarged. If you find it more comfortable would prefer, a g-spot vibrator (preferably the gel type) can be a big help with this. If you have trouble finding this spot I would suggest positioning yourself so that you are sitting more upright rather than laying flat on your back. While ejaculation is almost always triggered by stimulating the G spot, clitoral stimulation can often assist and can make it more intense. But stimulating the G spot is usually necessary at least initially. Stroking can be done a number of ways. The two fingers can rub the area as a unit, or they can take opposite strides, similar to walking. A third method involved sliding the two finders out a fraction of an inch, and pushing them back in, similar to the in-out motion of intercourse, but with smaller strokes. Alternatively, you could also try using a vibrator on your clit while you use your fingers on your g-spot or the other way around. As you become more and more aroused you will notice that your "need" for g-spot manipulation increases as do the strong sensations that come with it. At this point because you will often need it harder or faster, a dildo or vibrator will be very handy. When you get close to ejaculation you may feel a need to "bear down" or to urinate. If you feel the need to bear down, do it. But try not to tense everything up when you do. If you tense up you will not ejaculate. If you feel the need to urinate you need to relax and simply allow it to happen. You will not urinate. And if you pay close attention you will notice that this feeling does not come from your bladder. The feeling is caused by the fluid in your urethra. Regardless of which way you interpret the feelings, it's important to relax. If you tense up and raise your butt off the bed, make a conscious effort to relax and let your butt sink back into the bed. Relax your muscles and relax your urethra. You should then ejaculate freely. Anal Stimulation It's important for women to be highly aroused when attempting to ejaculate and one area often overlooked when it comes to female ejaculation is the anus. In truth this is a highly erotic area and will often contribute greatly to the orgasm leading to ejaculation or the ejaculation itself. It's important to note that some women enjoy anal manipulation and anal penetration and some don't. It depends on your body and your taste. Some women are able to ejaculate just by anal stimulation alone. If this is something new or something you would like to experiment with it is important to use LOTS of lubrication and to be very slow and gentle. Begin by stimulating the outside of the anus with just one finger, rubbing small circles, or putting slight pressure. If the sensation is pleasurable you can slowly work towards inserting a well lubricated finger into the anus. It is vital that you are careful doing this in the beginning. Too rough, too dry or simply rushing into it can be painful. If it's done properly it is certainly something that will add to your sexual experience. Masturbation Tips For Females 1. If you are learning to ejaculate through masturbation, laying on your back in a normal position is not the easiest way to go about it. If you do need to lay on your back, bend your legs up towards your chest or even try a sitting type position so that you have better access to your g-spot. 2. Consider buying a g-spot vibrator. It will be much easer to get the right area's stimulated while allowing you the freedom to focus on other areas such as your clit or anus. 3. Don't be afraid to experiment. Faster, slower, harder, softer. Find the technique that works the best then you can teach your partner without all the trial and error.

as found on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_ejaculation Female ejaculation From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Female ejaculation (colloquially known as squirting or gushing) refers to the expulsion of noticeable amounts of clear fluid or a small amount of thick, white fluid, always from the urethra during sexual stimulation at or near orgasm. Female ejaculation is nearly always facilitated by stimulation of the g-spot (the urethral sponge, named after Dr. Ernest Gräfenberg), an area on the front vaginal wall. Contents [hide] 1 The nature of female ejaculation 2 Research 3 The 'female prostate' and female ejaculation 4 In society 4.1 Medical Contradictions 4.2 Female transsexual ejaculation 4.3 Pornography 4.3.1 Famous female ejaculators in adult film 4.3.2 British film censorship 5 References 6 External links [edit] The nature of female ejaculation Female ejaculation is not a new concept. The Greek philosopher Aristotle noted its existence, Galen (2nd century) described the female prostate, the Italian anatomist Renaldus Columbus referred to female ejaculate while he was explaining the function of the clitoris and in the 17th century, the Dutch anatomist Regnier de Graaf wrote a book about female anatomy and spoke of female fluid "rushing out" and "coming in one gush" during sexual excitement.[1] Up until the 1980s female ejaculation was largely ignored by the medical community. At that time the subject resurfaced with the bestselling book "The G-Spot" by Drs. Ladas, Whipple and Perry. The book not only addressed the validity of the g-spot but brought female ejaculation to the forefront of women's sexual health inside the medical community. While many in the medical and scientific communities are now acknowledging the existence of female ejaculation, there remains a large void when it comes to solid scientific data explaining the process of ejaculation in females or the source of the fluid itself. Studies have been done by Dr. Beverly Whipple, Dr. John Perry, Dr. Gary Schuback, Dr. Milan Zaviacic and Dr. Cabello Santamaria but their findings are limited. While current information offers no solid information about the source of the fluid, chemical analysis performed on the fluid by a number of teams has revealed that it is not urine (the levels of creatinine and urea are too low). [edit] Research There have been a number of studies done on the fluid expelled during female ejaculation to detemine the chemical makeup. Through chemical analysis the expelled fluid has been found to contain glucose (a natural sugar) and fructose (another natural sugar, also found in the prostatic fluid of semen) prostate-specific antigen (PSA), the fluid produced by males which forms the base of male ejaculate, produced by the prostate gland, and in females, believed to be generated by Skene's glands very low levels of creatinine and urea (the two primary chemical markers of urine, found in high levels in pre- and post-ejaculatory urinalysis).[2] In 1988, Milan Zaviacic, M. D., Ph.D., head of the Institute of Pathology, Comenius University Bratislava, published a study of five women who were patients at a fertility department of a hospital of gynecology and obstetrics. Total samples from one of the participants and one of four samples from a second participant were collected in the laboratory. The rest were collected at the homes of the women and transported to the laboratory in ice. In four of the five cases, the samples were analyzed within three hours of collection, with the fifth subject’s specimens analyzed three months after collection. The results in all five cases showed a higher concentration of fructose in the ejaculate sample than in the urine sample.[3] In 1997 Dr. F Cabello Santamaria analyzed urine for PSA using Microparticle Enzyme Immunoassy and found that 75 percent of the samples showed a concentration of PSA in post-orgasmic urine samples which was not present in pre-orgasmic urine samples. The fluid collected at the point of orgasm (distinct from the urine samples) showed the presence of PSA in 100 percent of samples.[4] In 2002, Emanuele Jannini of L'Aquila University in Italy offered one explanation for this phenomenon, as well as for the frequent denials of its existence: Skene's gland openings are usually the size of pinholes, and vary in size from one woman to another, to the point where they appear to be missing entirely in some women. If Skene's glands are the cause of female ejaculation, this may explain the observed absence of this phenomenon in many women. Retrograde ejaculation, where the fluid travels up the urethra towards the bladder could also possibly account for the absence otherwise observed. [edit] The 'female prostate' and female ejaculation Women do not have an exact equivalent of the male prostate gland, an essential part of the male reproductive system. They do, however, have structures which are homologous to the male prostate, this meaning that they have developed from the same embryonic tissue. (The testicles of the male and the ovaries of the female are also homologous.) These are called para-urethral glands or Skene’s glands – although the term ‘Skene’s glands’ is often reserved for the two para-urethral glands closest to the opening of the urethra. They are there because, for the first weeks of development, the male and female embryo are not yet differentiated. The size and structure of the para-urethral glands varies, it seems relatively considerably, from woman to woman. The fluid they produce is similar to that produced by the male prostate and, as in the male, passes into the urethra – and in some cases may pass into the vagina. The glands fill with fluid during sexual arousal and may be felt through the vaginal wall. The swelling of the tissue surrounding the urethra may be a combination of the glands filling with fluid and of the swelling of the woman’s erectile tissue, the corpus spongiosum, which latter, in the male, gives a man his erection. Swelling of the non-visible part of the clitoris will also be evident. It is, it seems, the rhythmic contractions of pelvic muscle during orgasm which expel the accumulated fluid as at least one constituent of female ejaculation. The amount of fluid released can be considerable, through repeated filling and emptying of the glands during orgasm.[5] [edit] In society [edit] Medical Contradictions Misinformation about female ejaculation can lead to misdiagnosis of underlying medical conditions or wrong diagnosis where no medical condition exists. Current studies verify that female ejaculate is expelled through the urethra yet many continue to believe that the fluid leaves the body through the vagina. Expulsion of copious amounts of fluid from the vagina is called profuse vaginal discharge and can have several different causes: physiological discharge - an abundant amount of discharge with no underlying medical disorder; infection or sexually transmitted disease - presents with typical symptoms including itch, odor and / or redness; or a sexually transmitted infection such as Trichomonas Vaginalis which will often present without typical symptoms.[6] For this reason it is important that any female who experiences abnormal amounts of vaginal discharge undergo a physical examination to rule out underlying medical conditions. In other cases women who may not be properly educated about female ejaculation will assume to be suffering from urinary stress incontinence and will seek medical intervention. Treatment for urinary stress incontinence will often involve the use of medications or surgery, both unnecessary and dangerous if the source of the fluid leakage is female ejaculation. Prior to seeking medical intervention these women should try to determine whether the fluid is female ejaculate or urine. [edit] Female transsexual ejaculation Female ejaculation in post-operative transsexual women has also been reported. The source of this fluid would most likely be the prostate gland, which is not removed during neovaginoplasty.[citation needed] [edit] Pornography In some pornographic movies, women are shown ejaculating a clear or milky fluid. The validity of pornography as a source of evidence is, however, suspect, as there is a strong incentive to generate dramatic visual effects, with no implication or assurance of accurate recording of real events. Allegedly, some of this is done through trick editing or by filling the vagina with fluids from external sources; with the camera on, the woman can then expel the fluid. In other cases, the fluid is clearly seen as coming from her urethra, at high velocity. It is possible that urination is sometimes used in this context to provide the illusion of a female ejaculation. Studies by Gwendolyn Kelly Boyer indicate that the white fluid may be semen from former sexual encounters that has not exited the vagina. According to her theory, the male who has sex with the female before she has a chance to dispel the semen from previous encounters, may cause strong enough contractions during orgasm to force the fluid through the vaginal opening. This does not occur in many women because some women are unable to achieve orgasm during regular intercourse.[citation needed] [edit] Famous female ejaculators in adult film In the pornographic film industry, Cytherea is generally acknowledged to be the "squirt queen", due to her particularly intense and voluminous ejaculations. Other famed ejaculators include Debi Diamond, Flower Tucci, Tianna Lynn, Dasha, Daphne Rosen, Fallon, Alisha Klass, Missy Monroe, Lily Thai, Nikki Charm, Annie Cruz, Nici Sterling, Sarah Jane Hamilton, and Ariana Jollee. Outside the realm of pornography, author and sexologist Carol Queen has produced an instructional video (starring herself) that purports to teach female ejaculation to women not previously able to achieve it. Sex Educator Dr. Susan Block has produced an instructional video called "Dr. Suzy's Squirt Salon" featuring G-Spot Female Ejaculation Expert Deborah Sundahl teaching her to squirt, as well as demonstrations from voluminous ejaculator Annie Body and Tantric ejaculatrix Leila Swan, and extreme close-up footage of the G-Spot before, after and during ejaculation.[citation needed] [edit] British film censorship In the United Kingdom, the British Board of Film Classification denies the existence of the phenomenon of female ejaculation, regarding it instead as urination during sex, thus banning its depiction under its rules. These dictate the removal of anything that could be successfully prosecuted under Section 2 of the Obscene Publications Act, the current interpretation of which includes the depiction of urolagnia.[1] [edit] References ^ Regnier de Graaf, New Treatise Concerning the Generative Organs of Women ^ Edwin G. Belzer, Jr., Beverly Whipple and William Moger, co-researchers with Addiego, et al (1981) ^ Gary Schubach, Ed.D 2001, Urethral Expulsions During Sensual Arousal and Bladder Catheterization in Seven Human Females ^ Cabello, F. (1997). Female ejaculation: Myth and reality. In J.J. Baras-Vass & M.Perez-Conchillo (Eds) Sexuality and Human Rights: Proceedings of the XIII World Congress of Sexology (pp.325-333) Valencia, Spain: E.C.V.S.A. ^ Female Ejaculation. Citing The Lovers' Guide (2006-08-26). Retrieved on 2006-08-26. ^ CEG (2001) National guidelines on the management of Trichomoniasis vaginalis. Clinical Effectiveness Group (Association of Genitourinary Medicine and the Medical Society for the Study of Venereal Diseases) Addiego, F., Belzer, E. G., Comolli, J., Moger, W., Perry, J. D., & Whipple, B. (1981). Female ejaculation: A case study. The Journal of Sex Research, 17, 13-21. Arthur, Clint (2004) "9 Free Secrets of New Sensual Power" Nicola Jones (2002-07-03). "Bigger is better when it comes to the G spot". New Scientist. Retrieved on 2006-06-29. Female Ejaculation. Retrieved on 2006-08-26.

as found on: http://www.rotten.com/library/conspiracy/fluoridation/ Fluoridation "Have you ever heard of a thing called fluoridation? -- fluoridation of water? . . . Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous Communist plot we have ever had to face? . . . Do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water -- why, there are studies under way to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk, ice cream? Ice cream, Mandrake! -- children's ice cream! "Do you know when fluoridation first began? . . . Nineteen hundred and forty-six. 1946, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual -- certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core Commie works." -- Gen. Jack D. Ripper, Dr. Strangelove Is your drinking water trying to kill you? Some people think so. And still more think: Why take a chance? More than four out of five dentists agree that fluoride will reduce cavities. But non-dentists are kind of split. Fluoride is a naturally occurring mineral used to fight tooth decay in children and also used to poison rats. This is the sort of juxtaposition that gets people upset. The defenders of fluoridation, the practice of adding a small amount of fluoride to drinking water in order to fight tooth decay, are forced to respond to comments about these contradictory uses of fluoride by explaining that it's a matter of dosage. The amount of fluoride used to fight cavities is very small, you see, whereas the amount of fluoride in rat poison is very large. This isn't exactly the most viscerally satisfying response. A concerned parent wants to hear "we are NOT adding rat poison to your children's drinking water," but instead they're being told "we're not adding MUCH rat poison to your children's drinking water." On the other hand, Americans are the kings of ingesting toxic substances at sub-lethal levels. A shot of whiskey is fine, but drink three fifths in the course of an evening, and you'll have some trouble. Glue-sniffing was briefly a national fad, and it's still practiced, along with cocaine, heroin, whippets and ecstasy, all of which are highly toxic in large doses. On the other other hand, alcohol is regulated to keep it away from minors, and all of the latter examples are entirely illegal. But you can find plenty of other examples, like nutmeg and Robotussin. Both are perfectly legal, one as a tasty seasoning and the other as a child's cough syrup in small doses. They're both middling hallucinogens in large doses and entirely toxic in still larger doses. So you can see, the whole thing is kind of a sticky issue. But there are several elements of the debate which make fluoride more contentious than nutmeg. Chief among these is the fact that no one is pumping nutmeg into your drinking water. For another thing, there's the way that fluoride was discovered. Around the dawn of the 20th Century, a dentist noticed that the people of Colorado Springs all had miserably ugly stains on their teeth. It was eventually discovered that this was caused by high levels of fluoride in their water supply, which was causing a mild disease due to overexposure. But at the same time, it was noted that the people of the area had much fewer cavities than the norm. This led to the conclusion that smaller doses of fluoride could prevent tooth decay without causing the discoloring, but the fact is that fluoride was first discovered due to its negative effects. When dentists learned about this new technique, there was a rush to get the "benefits" of fluoride out to the American public. With a very short span between the early 1940s and the late 1950s, fluoridation flooded into American communities, often with very little public debate. By the time people started asking hard questions about fluoride, it was too late. Today, two thirds of the United States population drinks fluoridated water. The push to get fluoride into drinking water was a nearly unprecedented success in government implementation during a time when major new technologies were transforming the world. At the very same time that fluoride was being rolled out to the public in dramatic fashion, the country was embracing the newfound miracle of atomic power, which was presented as a clean, safe alternative to fossil fuels. Just as atomic power turned out to be a little messier than advertised, research began raising questions about fluoridation, which had been rapidly spread all over the country as the result of a full-court press by dental industry lobbyists and federal health agencies. A major irritant to many people was the fact that the fluoridation of drinking water was, as often as not, presented as a statewide mandate which took the choice away from local (and suspicious minded) communities. People don't like that. It also raises further question: Why fluoride? Why not have make it mandatory to add Vitamin C to drinking water? Or Vitamin B-12? Or calcium? Or zinc? Or echinacea? All of these things are theoretically good for people. In fact, most of them are arguably more important to good health than fighting cavities. The dynamics of the fluoridation debate tend to run counter to the usual conspiracy/skeptic debate. With most conspiracy theories, it's the theorists who cite a lot of dicey statistics and launch a lot of ad hominem attacks on their opponents. In the fluoridation debate, it's the establishment, which frequently makes blanket statements to the effect that anyone worried about fluoridation is just a crackpot. But in point of fact, there are actually rather a lot of valid concerns regarding fluoride in the diet. The major worries regarding fluoridation include: There isn't any scientific body of work that examines how much fluoride is in the environment and food supply of the average American, a key point raised by not-quite-a-fluoridation-conspiracy-nut-but-at-least-a-fluoridation-skeptic Ralph Nader. That means there's no way of knowing just how much fluoride kids (and adults) are actually ingesting on any given day. Since we've already established that only the dosage differentiates toothpaste from rat poison, this is a pretty important question. If you read your toothpaste label, you will see a warning demanding you contact a doctor immediately if you accidentally swallow some toothpaste. We go out of our way to make everything from Play-Doh to magic markers non-toxic, but we give kids toothpaste and tell them to put it in their mouths? The EPA's professional union (including scientists and engineers) is on the record opposing the fluoridation of water. According to their statement, "Our members' review of the body of evidence over the last eleven years, including animal and human epidemiology studies, indicate a causal link between fluoride/fluoridation and cancer, genetic damage, neurological impairment, and bone pathology. Of particular concern are recent epidemiology studies linking fluoride exposure to lowered IQ in children. As the professionals who are charged with assessing the safety of drinking water, we conclude that the health and welfare of the public is not served by the addition of this substance to the public water supply." While many things are in dispute regarding fluoride, the effects of an overdose are not. They include drooling, tremors, weakness, convulsions, labored breathing, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain and shock. And that's just for a short-term overdose. Long-term exposure to excessive doses of fluoride causes bow-leggedness, arthritis, paralysis and makes people into hunchbacks. According to one anti-fluoride researcher, Dr. John Lee, "The goal of our public water facilities should be to provide water that is as pure and safe as possible and not as a vehicle for universal pharmacological treatments regardless of age, the health status of the individual, or the presumed benefit, which, in the case of fluoride, is highly questionable, to say the least." This seems quite reasonable. Shouldn't water just be water? It's not like fluoridation is universally accepted worldwide; and it's not just poor and underdeveloped countries that have rejected it. Nations in Asia and Africa have adopted fluoridation programs at the insistence of Western science, with often mixed or decidedly negative results, including in China, India and South Africa. Among the crackpots rejecting the fluoridation of drinking water are the governments of Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Iceland, Belgium, Austria and France. But hey, what do the Swiss know, right?

as found on: http://www.rotten.com/library/medicine/bodily-functions/shitting/fecal-transplant/ Fecal Transplant Regardless of how much Lysol you want to spray around the house, the fact is that human beings need certain kinds of bacteria. While some bacteria is bad, and eats our face and makes us sick, there's other bacteria that helps us digest and swims around inside us in a symbiotic (partnered) relationship. Without these bacteria, we're actually on the road to ruin. It's a weird situation, but you've gotten along with it so far. It is possible for this bacteria within us to die off, raising all sorts of medical issues. It doesn't just happen, but when it does, we start feeling really awful. One way to fix this problem is the unbelievably disgusting fecal transplant, wherein bacteria located within feces of a donor is placed in your lower colon to have a grand old time and start a new life in your bowels. Granted, if you've gotten into this situation, you're pretty much ready for anything.

as found on: http://www.rotten.com/library/culture/pentagon/ Pentagon There's a Really Good Reason why the headquarters for the most powerful military force in the world is shaped like an occult Masonic symbol. No, really! You see, the shape of the building makes for an incredibly efficient space. According to the United States Department of Defense, the building's current tenant, you can walk from any one point in the Pentagon to any other point in seven minutes or less. Which is a really interesting statistic, especially delivered in a vacuum. How long does it take to get from any point in the Sears Tower to any other point, for instance? Does anyone know? I thought not. Granted, you need an elevator to do it, but still. If pentagonal shapes are the most efficient in the world, why aren't there pentagons on every corner? No, no, I'm afraid a world-shattering Occult-Masonic-Demonic Conspiracy is the only explanation that holds up to the cold, harsh scrunity of the unwavering rational intellect. But first, the official story of the U.S. military command center, so you'll at least know what the sinister puppet masters want you to believe. The Pentagon was built in a big hurry, starting in July 1941 with a proposal written by General Brehon B. Sommervell, who (rather shockingly) does not appear to have been a Freemason, on orders from President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the U.S. who was a 33rd degree intiated Mason inaugurated in 1933 (conspiracy). Construction of the Pentagon began on, and you'll love this, September 11, 1941, exactly 60 years to the day before you-know-what. Tell me that's not a conspiracy of some sort! The construction was remarkably swift and efficient for government work (conspiracy), partly because World War II conveniently broke out just three months after construction started (conspiracy). The building was ready for occupancy by April 1942 (although it wasn't quite complete for several months more). The original five-sided design was allegedly concocted to allow for a pre-existing road on the property selected for the building. But when Roosevelt authorized the construction of the Pentagon, he moved it to another site a mile away while retaining the five-sides (conspiracy). The new site was, to put it charitably, inconvenient (conspiracy). In fact, it was a submerged swampland. The government had to move 5.5 million tons of earth to the site in order to be able to build anything there in the first place (conspiracy). Had Roosevelt been thinking ahead, he would have realized that triva like this could fuel scurrilous speculation of Masonic conspiracies (conspiracy) for years to come. But maybe that's what he wanted us to think he was thinking. Wait, I'm getting lost here... OK, better get back to the facts. The exterior of the building is made of limestone, the interior of concrete. In order to distract Americans from the fact that the entire building is, in the final analysis, devoted to killing people, the Defense Department offers up a dazzling array of numerical trivia points The Pentagon is a white five-sided building with five floors each made up of five concentric pentagons, separated by five interior courtyards with the fifth being a five-acre courtyard in the middle. It's 77.3 feet tall and 77 million cubic feet in volume, housing about 23,000 employees. It has 131 stairways and 13 elevators. It's covered by 7 acres of glass windows. As you can plainly see, the building was designed by either some sort of brilliant occult numerologist, or possibly by a demented architect with a fixation on religious symbolism. Either way, it's a lot of fives (sacred pentagons, pentagrams, number associated with Satan) and sevens (number of God), with the ones and threes (symbolic of the trinity) thrown in for good measure. Whether or not it was actually intended to some massive occult-power-control-spooky-demon totem, it sure would be great for that purpose. The Pentagon served as headquarters for the War Department on its launch in 1942, which was later rechristened the National Military Establishment in 1947, and then the Department of Defense in 1949. (Fortunately, someone stepped in before the no-good peaceniks could rename it the Department of Reluctant Defense As A Last Resort, the Department of You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry, or the Department of Love and Flowers.) Aside from the prosecution of war, you'd be surprised at how little officially goes on at the Pentagon. Officially. Although, technically, some orders originate from the building, not to mention reams of paperwork , and guys like Donald Rumsfeld do hang their hats inside, the main action is almost always happening somewhere else, be it Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, or Evil-Doer to-be-announced-later. Or that's how it was up until September 11, 2001. It's possible you may have heard about what happened on that day, but in case it slipped your attention, four airliners were hijacked by the al Qaeda terrorist network. Two were crashed into the World Trade Center, one crashed in Pennsylvania after the passengers rose up against the hijackers, and one hit the Pentagon. Or so they say. Which is as good as jumping-off point for the trip to Crazyland as anything. Now, it can hardly come as any great surprise that a massive pentagram-shaped white stone icon housing the top-secret heart of the military-industrial complex would engender a certain amount of healthy and imaginative theorizing (especially if you've been carefully reading up until now). It's like the pyramid on the dollar bill. Why even put it there unless you want people to talk? The most popular recent conspiracy theory about the Pentagon has to do with the September 11 attack, which has inspired an entire generation to endlessly dissect the minutia of that day's video barrage, as a defense mechanism against thinking about the actual implications of such a disastrous and successful terrorist attack. Rather than worry about the wave of militant fundamentalism that is actually sweeping the world with apocalyptic fervor, it's understandably easier to fixate on the small details, especially when those details suggest a massive yet conceptually simple conspiracy that comfortingly obscures the difficult dangers of the real world. So, for instance, there's a French guy named Thierry Meyssan who has made a cottage industry out of suggesting that a missile hit the Pentagon on September 11, rather than American Airlines Flight 77, which is what They want you to believe. The major basis for these claims can be summed up thusly: "It's obvious that a crashing 757 wouldn't cause the kind of damage that is clearly visible in pictures of the Pentagon." The problem with this reasoning is fairly obvious: There is not a large body of data on what happens when you crash a 757 into a large concrete pentagon-shaped building. In fact, there's no data at all concerning what happens when you crash a 757 into a large concrete pentagon-shaped building except, presumably, the very pictures that the author is summarily dismissing. So let's chalk this one up to "doubtful," and get back to the juicier Masonic stuff. There's still the matter of the giant occult symbol built by Freemasons to protect the heart of the nation's defenses. You'd think this would be less credible than the French conspiracy theory, but that's the way life is, full of curve balls when you least expect them. As endless Web sites and self-published books will point out to you, there are rather a lot of pentagram-type shapes in the layout of Washington, D.C. Most of the authors will assure you that this is the result of a Masonic conspiracy. Whether conspiracy or simply a quirk of urban planning, the fact is that you can trace fairly credible pentagram shapes over a map of the D.C. area. Rotten.com leaves it to you to decide the occult significance of this fact, or lack thereof. But consider the following: The first image is an unretouched U.S. Geological Service satellite photo of Washington, D.C. The second image shows the devil pentagram with the tip at the Washington Monument (allegedly a Masonic-phallic totem) and the corners corresponding to the street layout. The arrow drawn through the center point of the Pentagon points to the general direction of the White House. Now, the first problem with all this, from an occultist's point of view, is that you have to muck up the geometrically correct occult pentagram in order to make it do anything interesting. The most common way that conspiracy lovers do this is to mush up the pentagram so that it originates over the White House. The effect of this alteration is that the points of the central pentagon can be made to terminate at three Washington circles which each have six streets protruding from them. 6-6-6. Very nifty. The downside of this is that the resulting pentagram is no longer a geometrically correct Satanic pentagram. Nor is it a particularly good Masonic pentagram. And while the arrow going through the Pentagon then points fairly well to the lower tip of the pentagram when viewing the map, the arrow is actually several thousand feet off when you drop from the orbital satellite point of view to actually look at where it lands on the ground. Make of this what you will. It's interesting, and the pent shape is pretty visible, even if it doesn't spell out a 6-6-6. And let's face it, the whole damn idea of the Pentagon is pretty creepy anyway. And it all comes back to France, anyway, because the street layout was designed by a French guy named Pierre Charles L'Enfante, a Mason, who was commissioned to design the government center by George Washington, a Mason. When you mix up the 9/11 theory with the occult symbol theory, you get something a little extra-special creepy. If the Pentagon is an occult powerhouse that holds the nation together, and al Qaeda blew it up on its 60th anniversary (while simultaneously creating the world's biggest enactment of "The Falling Tower" disaster card from the Tarot deck), then maybe Osama bin Laden is actually an evil Masonic sorceror who just killed the secret magickal spell that has held the United States together lo these many years. Or, um, maybe not.

as found on: http://www.rotten.com/library/religion/bible/discrepancies/ Discrepancies Within The Bible Any time someone points to the Christian Bible to justify their moral standards (or, more often, their bigotry) their opposition will usually shrug them off by pointing out the various logical inconsistencies and logistical improbabilities contained in the text of the Bible. How likely is it, they argue, that the Earth was really created in seven days? Or, if God only created two original people -- Adam and Eve -- and left it up to them and their descendents to populate the Earth, doesn’t that mean that God created people to commit incest? Is incest then a "Bible value"? So why pick on homosexuals? And so on. Because the Bible was constructed by different authors over at least 3500 years, it is rife with discrepancies of both logic and detail. Not only are there things within it that don't make sense from modern scientific and materialist perspectives, but there are also discrepancies between various manuscript copies of the Bible (300,000 within the New Testament alone). Even within any given modern text of the Bible (such as the King James Version, the NIV, the English Standard Version etc.) there are scores of conflicting facts and moral guidelines. Everything from descriptions of God's nature and desire for the life of Christ to moral guidelines and prohibitions -- all are riddled with conflicting claims and assertions. Certainly this fact does not invalidate the Bible as a spiritual text. Inaccuracies or conflicting accounts do not invalidate the gems of historic and spiritual truth contained therein -- we need not throw out the baby with the bath water. However, such discrepancies indicate that we would be equally foolish to accept blindly each word or passage of the Bible as an absolute truth, the uncontestable word of God, unless of course we were trying to claim God has a sick sense of humor and is trying to lead us astray by confusing us. But as much as Christian Fundamentalists would have us interpret every word in the Bible literally (thus rejecting the entire Theory of Evolution, among other things), antagonists of the Bible (those soured on Christianity by Fundamentalist interpretations) gleefully point out the scores of contradictions in the Bible as if trotting out a list of character blemishes that should utterly discredit it. Far more realistic than either of these opportunistic approaches is to acknowledge the types of errors which occur in the Bible and to understand the underlying source of the error. This being done, those hermeneutic somersaults becomes similar to the work of a police investigator who collects the statements of various witnesses to an event (or series of events) and then compares them for shared details and observations. Nowhere is this principle more blatantly obvious than in the New Testament, which is is clearly a collection of different people's telling of the story of Christ and/or the Apostles. For example, we have the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. There are the Acts of the Apostles, and there are letters written by various individuals. Thus, regarding the coming birth of Jesus, the Gospel of Matthew has the angel announcing the birth (and explaining matters) to Joseph (Matthew 1:20), while Luke has the angel visiting Mary (Luke 1:28). We as readers should not assume that one version of the story is wrong while the other is right, nor should we assume that both are totally false. What is more likely, in such situations, is that each story contains some measure of truth (or at least, some measure of the original story), and that each story represents a different oral tradition of the life of Jesus. That is, someone told one version of the tale, as he remembered it, and someone else told another version, and then these were passed down through other people, who may have added or deleted something as they passed the tale along. These accounts were often not written down until decades after the original events had transpired. And just as often, they were not written by the individual whose names they bear, but by one or more disciples, themselves working from notes and remembered oral lore. In some cases it may be that the story written down was only transcribed after it had been told and retold and retold, until the original details had grown fuzzy or had been slightly embellished for dramatic purposes. (Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us, just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word. -- (Luke 1:1-3)) In other cases, the written account may be trying to conflate more than one version of the tale. Thus there is repetition and even conflicting claims within the narrative. As a result, for example, we have grossly varying accounts of the birth and early years of Jesus. Matthew tells of wise men (the magi) coming from afar to find the baby Jesus lying in a manger and give him gifts. Herod the King is having babies slaughtered left and right in order to eliminate the prophesied King of the Jews who he thinks will dethrone him. Joseph dreams of the danger and whisks his little family away to Egypt. Eventually Herod dies and the Holy Family can safely return to Israel and settle in at Nazareth. In Luke's version of the tale, shepherds pay him homage and then, 8 days later, he is presented in the Temple (where he is prophesied over by saints), after which they return to Nazareth. There are no magi, not even later on. What's more, in Luke's version there is no slaughtering of innocent babes (historians agree with Luke). However, the discrepancies in the story of Jesus are not to be found only in the narration of his early years. In fact, some of the conflicts present in the Gospels and other accounts make it difficult to understand what exactly Jesus' mission and philsophy was: But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ. For he himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, by abolishing in his flesh the law with its commandments and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace... (Ephesians 2:13-15) versus: "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. Anyone who breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven." (Matthew 5:17-19) Clearly one is left to wonder: which way is it? Was Jesus here to initiate his followers into a new way of life in which the old commandments no longer applied, or simply to reinforce and honor them along with all the old purity rules (see Leviticus)? Some have suggested that Jesus' ministry (and the man himself) may have gone through some kind of spiritual and philosophical transformation, leaving remnants of both earlier and later phases in these writings. Or it might be that one or both of the writers didn't get their facts straight. In any case, the fact remains that such conflicts make it difficult for Christians (and their critics) to understand what exactly Christianity was orignally all about and to compare this to current interpretations coming from varied Christian denominations -- including, of course, know-it-all televangelists. While the passages quoted above are but two amongst scores of discrepancies to be found in the New Testament, they actually raise a very important point: what is Christianity's relationship to the Old Testament -- or more accurately, to the doctrines of Judaism, from whose holy Tanach is derived the Christian Old Testament? While this might seem like a trivial, scholarly matter to some, it is in fact Christianity's adherence to the ancient Jewish purity rules that cause it to reject all human sexual expression besides the blandest missionary coitus. Fellatio, cunnilingus, anal sex, homosexual explorations, sex on the rag -- all are taboo thanks to ancient Jewish purity laws. Additionally, the more repressive branches of Christianity have taken these same Jewish purity laws (now known as The Word of God or "the Bible tells us...") and blown them all out of proportion. That is, simple classifications of impurity are now damnable offenses that will corrupt your soul and send you down a one way road to hell. The irony is, it is still being debated (outside Fundamentalist circles at least) as to whether Jesus truly wanted non-Jews to follow these purity rules. Clearly they have been excused from the ban on pork eating and male circumcision (which became an American fad only in the 19th century -- see Masturbation.) This is not the only point of confusion for earnest Christians seeking guidance from the Bible. In fact, a whole slew of contradictions exist in the Bible which make it rather difficult to know what "Christian behavior" really means. Compare the following: "...thou shalt give life for life, Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe." (Exodus 21:23-25) versus "...ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on the right cheek, turn to him the other also." (Matthew 5:39) and When a man makes a vow to the LORD or takes an oath to obligate himself by a pledge, he must not break his word but must do everything he said. (Numbers 30:2) versus "Again, you have heard that it was said to the people long ago, 'Do not break your oath, but keep the oaths you have made to the Lord.' But I tell you, Do not swear at all: either by heaven, for it is God's throne; or by the earth, for it is his footstool; or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the Great King. And do not swear by your head, for you cannot make even one hair white or black. Simply let your 'Yes' be 'Yes,' and your 'No,' 'No'; anything beyond this comes from the evil one." (Matthew 5:33-37) The last passage, attributed to Jesus, would imply that Christians should not assume that what the Old Testament teaches holds still holds true. Various other Old Testament rules and advice are also, elsewhere, specifically invalidated by Jesus (Mark 7:18-19 on food restrictions, and Galatians 6:15 on circumcision). Even divorce, which was allowed under Mosaic Law (Deuteronomy 24:1-5) is expressly prohibited by Jesus: Some Pharisees came and tested him by asking, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?" "What did Moses command you?" he replied. They said, "Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce and send her away." "It was because your hearts were hard that Moses wrote you this law," Jesus replied. "But at the beginning of creation God 'made them male and female.' 'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.' So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate." When they were in the house again, the disciples asked Jesus about this. He answered, "Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her. And if she divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery." (Mark 10:2-12) All this emphasizes the point that when it comes to "what the Bible says", what it says is rarely clear cut. On most issues of importance, one can find at least one Biblical passage to support each side of the argument. Which is why, for centuries, the Catholic Church maintained such a jealous hold over the interpretation of doctrines, asserting that "the truth" could not simply be found in the Bible, but must be handed down from on high to lay persons via the priest, who supposedly had it handed down to him via a long lineage dating back to the Apostles. Naturally such assertions do little to explain why "the truth" would then contain later dogmas that were largely the invention of the Catholic Church (for example: purgatory, the buying of indulgences, etc.). as found on: http://www.rotten.com/library/religion/bible/discrepancies/nature-of-god/ Discrepancies Within The Bible The Nature of God Does God accept Human Sacrifice? "Thou shalt not do so unto the Lord thy God: for every abomination to the Lord, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods." Deuteronomy, 12:31 "And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of." Genesis, 22:2 "And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the Lord, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hand, Then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be the Lord's, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering. So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon..." Judges, 11:30-39 "For thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors; the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me." Exodus, 22:29 Can God be seen? God CAN be seen: "And I will take away my hand, and thou shalt see my backparts." Exodus, 33:23 "And the Lord spake to Moses face to face, as a man speaketh to his friend." Exodus, 33:11 "For I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved." Genesis, 32:30 God CANNOT be seen: "No man hath seen God at any time." John, 1:18 "And he said, Thou canst not see my face; for there shall no man see me and live." Exodus 33:20 "Whom no man hath seen nor can see." 1 Timothy, 6:16 as found on: http://www.rotten.com/library/religion/bible/discrepancies/scientific-errors/ Scientific Errors In The Bible Here are but a few: Insects with four feet? "Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth; Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind. But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you." Leviticus 11:21-23 Just for the record, insects have six feet and arachnids have eight. You'd think the ancient Israelites might have picked up on this little detail, what with eating locusts and beetles and all. Bats identified as "birds"? "And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray, and the vulture, and the kite after his kind; Every raven after his kind; and the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind, and the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl, and the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat." Leviticus 11:13-19 An almost identical passage occurs in Deuteronomy 14:11-18. The bat is of course a flying mammal, not a bird. Rabbits claimed to chew their cud? "And the hare, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you." Leviticus 11:6 To chew the cud means to eat grasses, swallow, then regurgitate later for further chewing. Rabbits simply do not do this. However, rabbits do eat their own poo, in order to absorb certain nutrients that passed through unabsorbed the first time. This is similar to human urine drinking. as found on: http://www.rotten.com/library/religion/bible/discrepancies/incest/ Incest in the Bible "Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of this mother..." Deuteronomy 27:22 "And if a man shall take his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter...it is a wicked thing...." Leviticus 20:17 Yet Abraham marries his father's daughter and remains God's favorite: "And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake. And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife." Genesis 20:11-12

as found on: http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/NWO/All_Seeing_Eye.htm The All-Seeing Eye, The President, The Secretary and The Guru - by Terry Melanson ©, July 2001 (Updated: March 15th, 2005) “Wallace's reasons for wanting to introduce the Great Seal onto the American currency were based on his belief that America was reaching a turning point in her history and that great spiritual changes were imminent. He believed that the 1930s represented a time when a great spiritual awakening was going to take place which would precede the creation of the one-world state.” - Michael Howard, The Occult Conspiracy, p.95 If you live in the United States of America, then from the time you become conscious of money, the Great Seal becomes a part of your psyche – whether you realize it or not. Moreover, since U.S. dollars are, in effect, standard international currency, this Great Seal infiltrates the minds of men the world over – both free and bond. The centerpiece of this mandala is the All-Seeing Eye – an important symbol within freemasonry and rosicrucian traditions for hundreds of years. So it is not surprising to find pride among occultists who understand the significance of this emblem: “Our beautiful seal is an expression of Freemasonry, an expression of occult ideas.” (Wyckoff, H. S. The Great American Seal. The Mystic Light, the Rosicrucian Magazine, p.56) 1 The first attempts at including the All-Seeing Eye on the seal were not successful. The first die of the Great Seal was cut from brass in 1782. In 1825, 1841, 1877, 1885, and 1902, new dies were cut, but each time the reverse went uncut and unused . . . the Illuminati's plan for the New World Order had not been advanced far enough, yet, to be announced. The New World Order is an expression that has been used by illuminized Freemasonry since the days of Weishaupt to signify the coming world government. “It is necessary to establish a universal regime over the whole world”, Weishaupt had said. (Writings of the Illuminati, 1780) During the first part of the 20th century and up to the time the reverse of the seal was first used, a series of victories over the sovereignty of the United States had already been won. Illuminist agents committed to the one-world interests of the Rothschild-Warburg-Rockefeller cartel had accomplished some important stepping stones to this New World Order: Federal Reserve System (1913); League of Nations (1920); Royal Institute of International Affairs, and Council on Foreign Relations (1920-21); and the Stock Market Crash of 1929. The consolidation of power was complete and the reverse side of the seal, which remained largely unknown to the American people for more than 150 years, could now be placed. The Intervention by the Masonic-Rosicrucian-Illuminati In 1934, Secretary of Agriculture, soon-to-be Vice-President (1940-44) and 32nd degree freemason Henry Wallace submitted a proposal to the president to mint a coin depicting the seal's obverse and reverse. President Franklin D Roosevelt, also a 32nd degree freemason, liked the idea but opted to instead place it on the dollar bill. According to Henry Wallace, in a letter dated February 6, 1951, “the Latin phrase Novus Ordo Seclorum impressed me as meaning the 'New Deal' of the Ages.” “Roosevelt as he looked at the colored reproduction of the Seal was first struck with the representation of the 'All-Seeing Eye,' a Masonic representation of Great Architect the Universe. Next he was impressed with the idea that the foundation for the new order of the ages had been laid in 1776 (May 1st, 1776, founding of the Illuminati) but would be completed only under the eye of the Great Architect. Roosevelt like myself was a 32nd degree Mason. He suggested that the Seal be put on the dollar bill rather that a coin.” Besides being a high ranking freemason and having the distinction of introducing socialism into the American political system, Roosevelt was a member of a secret society called the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystics Shrine (Shriners), attaining the grade of a Knight of Pythias. The Order of Nobles and Mystics claimed to be an offshoot of the Illuminati. Freemasons, Walter Flemming and William Florence founded an American branch in New York, 1872. Membership in the order was open only to Freemasons who had reached the 32nd degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite or those who've attained the last degree of the York Rite, the thirteenth degree (Knight Templar). The Order of Nobles and Mystics have origins which date back to the seventh century – apparently founded by a descendent of Mohammed. Author Michael Howard describes the Order's symbols. “The symbol of the Order is a crescent moon, made from the claws of a Bengal tiger, engraved with a pyramid, an urn and a pentagram. The crescent is suspended from a scimitar and in the Order is a representation of the Universal Mother worshipped in ancient times as Isis. The horns of the crescent point downwards because it represents the setting moon of the old faith at the rising of the Sun of the new religion of the brotherhood of humanity.” - The Occult Conspiracy, p.93 According to Anton LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan, Roosevelt's Shriner's have a ritual similar to a satanic ritual called "The Ceremony of the Stifling Air", or better known as "L'air Epais." LaVey says that this rite was originally performed "when entering the sixth degree of the Order of the Knights Templar." Remember that if the Masonic candidate chooses to follow the York Rite, after he completes the 13th degree called the Knight Templar, he can apply to become a Shriner. LaVey describes the Templars' ritual thus: “The original Templars' rite of the Fifth degree symbolically guided the candidate through the Devil's Pass in the mountains separating the East from the West (the Yezidi domain). At the fork of the trail the candidate would make an important decision: either to retain his present identity, or strike out on the Left-Hand Path to Shambhala, where he might dwell in Satan's household, having rejected the foibles and hypocrisies of the everyday world. A striking parallel to this rite is enacted within the mosques of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, an order reserved for thirty-second degree Masons. The Nobles have gracefully removed themselves from any implication of heresy by referring to the place beyond the Devil's Pass as the domain where they might "worship at the shrine of Islam." Once the celebrant has taken this degree, he embarks upon the Left Hand Path and chooses Hell in place of Heaven.” - The Satanic Rituals — Companion to the Satanic Bible, p. 21 [PDF Version here] Pretty powerful stuff for sure, and not what you would expect of the "merry old men" wearing "fez-hats" and tending to burn victims! One part of LaVey's interpretation I find interesting is the choice the candidate makes in following the "Left-Hand Path to Shambhala." 2 In esoteric doctrine the principle city of the underground world is Shambhala. In this subterranean kingdom presides an all-powerful and All-Seeing ruler – The King of the World. Some have called him Sanat Kumara 3, others, King Satan. This may not be as far fetched as it seems. The Bible clearly states that Satan is the "prince" and "lord" of this world – John 12: 31 & 14: 30, Eph. 6: 12, Luke 4: 6-7, and 2 Cor. 4: 4 – and in fact has dominion over this fallen world. This King of the World, according to Eastern tradition, has a rule and influence which stretches to the surface by means of trusted emissaries who carry out specific tasks and duties – including a secret 8 million who carry out his tasks unbeknownst to us all. 4 As we shall see, one such "emissary" had a considerable influence with Roosevelt's Secretary of Agriculture. Wallace's Occult Connections Many of Henry Wallace's ideas originated with his guru, the Russian mystic and artist Nicholas Roerich. He was an adventurer/occultist in the tradition of Madame Blavatsky, Aleister Crowley and G. I. Gurdjieff. Roerich spent many years travelling through Nepal and Tibet studying with the lamas in the Buddhist monasteries of those countries. Roerich was searching for the lost city of Shambhala. In esoteric circles Shambhala is the home of the Ascended Masters, Secret Chiefs, or the Great White Brotherhood – the hidden hand behind the formation and guidance of Freemasons, the Sufis, the Knights Templars, the Rosicrucians, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and the Theosophical Society – both Wallace and Roerich were members of the Theosophical Society, this is how Wallace met his Master. Roerich seems to have been an emissary of sorts for the Great White Brotherhood – even bringing a mysterious stone to guide the League of Nations on behalf of the Masters. According to legend, the 'Chintamani Stone' was believed to be a part of a magical meteorite from a solar system in the Orion constellation. This Chintamani Stone is sent wherever a spiritual mission vital to humanity is set up, and is returned when that mission is completed. 5 A mysterious stone was indeed mentioned by Wallace in one of his typical 'Dear Guru' letters to Roerich: “And I have thought of the admonition 'Await the Stone.' We await the Stone and we welcome you again to this glorious land of destiny.” 6 Not surprisingly, occultists regard Roerich as the guiding hand behind the placement of America's Great Seal and the All-Seeing Eye, and matter-of-factly state that it was at Roerich's insistence that Wallace approach Roosevelt about finally printing the All-Seeing Eye on the dollar bill. Henry Wallace was well versed in occult knowledge himself. In a letter to Roerich he stated, “the search – whether it be for the lost word of Masonry, or the Holy Chalice, or the potentialities of the age to come – is the one supremely worthwhile objective. All else is karmic duty. But surely everyone is a potential Galahad? So may we strive for the Chalice and the flame above it.” The chalice he refers to, according to Michael Howard, is the Holy Grail, regarded by the Rosicrucians as a feminine symbol for perfection, and 'the age to come' is the dawning of the Aquarian Age. This I agree with, and further, "the age to come" is synonymous with Aleister Crowley's "New Age of Horus" – a Roerich occult contemporary. It seems that Novus Ordo Seclorum and Annuit Coeptis (He has blessed our beginning) has even deeper occult meanings than we're led to believe. Illuminist Conspiracy? Well, yes! These three "wise men" – by placing the reverse of the Great Seal on the dollar bill – succeeded in announcing to the world that America is on "the path", and is the world's best hope for the spiritual (occult) evolution of the planet. Considering how deep into the occult both Roosevelt and Wallace were already – and Wallace's connections to Theosophy – they had to of known that the most esteemed Theosophist of her time, Alice Bailey, had already declared that the Aquarian Age had begun in 1932. The whole symbology of the reverse is meant to be a mandala announcing this "New Age of Horus." They could not help but see the significance of this. And giving that their fellow illuminists in the Federal Reserve had now taken control of America's currency, it was a shoo-in. As for Roerich, he was only doing the Hierarchy's bidding for he was also a channeler of the Ascended Master El Morya – a major avatar in the pantheon of Theosophy. Roerich, after his death, apparently succeeded in joining the Hierarchy, and has now become the occult equivalent of a catholic saint himself – an "Ascended Master." His messages are now channeled by Elizabeth Clare Prophet and one such message was "received", ironically enough, on October 28, 1990 at The Roosevelt Hotel. “Symbolism is the language of the Mysteries ... By symbols men have ever sought to communicate to each other those thoughts which transcend the limitations of language. Rejecting man-conceived dialects as inadequate and unworthy to perpetuate divine ideas, the Mysteries thus chose symbolism as a far more ingenious and ideal method of preserving their transcendental knowledge. In a single figure a symbol may both reveal and conceal, for to the wise the subject of the symbol is obvious, while to the ignorant the figure remains inscrutable. Hence, he who seeks to unveil the secret doctrine of antiquity must search for that doctrine not upon the open pages of books which might fall into the hands of the unworthy but in the place where it was originally concealed.” — Manly P. Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages, p. 20 “These considerations lead us to an interesting topic, the Eye of Mind or the Eye of Horus ... and conveying the idea of the 'All seeing Eye'. The end set before the Egyptian neophyte was illumination, that is to be 'brought to light'. The Religion of Egypt was the Religion of the Light.” Thomas Milton Stewart, Symbolism of the Gods of the Egyptians and The Light They Throw on Freemasonry, London, England, Baskerville Press, Ltd., 1927, p. 5 “On the reverse of our nation's Great Seal is an unfinished pyramid to represent human society itself, imperfect and incomplete. Above floats the symbol of the esoteric orders, the radiant triangle with its all-seeing eye. ... There is only one possible origin for these symbols, and that is the secret societies which came to this country 150 years before the Revolutionary War. ... There can be no question that the great seal was directly inspired by these orders of the human Quest, and that it set forth the purpose for this nation. ...” - Manly P. Hall, The Secret Destiny of America, pp. 174, 181.