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2. alan says:

   January 29, 2005 at 04:37

   lady­bird last ques­tion answer

   Salam pax reports yes they were on the elec­tions, I cre­ated a link on my web­site if want to see them as I think BBC taken off its site now

   alan
3. Jim Baxter says:

   January 29, 2005 at 06:56

   The HUMAN PARADIGM

   Con­sider:
   The way we define ‘human’ deter­mines our view of self,
   oth­ers, rela­tion­ships, insti­tu­tions, life, and future.
   Impor­tant? Only the Cre­ator who made us in His own image
   is qual­i­fied to define us accu­rately. Choose wisely…
   there are results.

   In an effort to dimin­ish the mul­ti­ple and per­sis­tent
   dan­gers and abuses which have char­ac­ter­ized the affairs
   of man in his every Age, and to assist in the req­ui­site
   search for human iden­tity, it is essen­tial to per­ceive
   and spec­ify that dis­tinc­tion which nat­u­rally and most
   uniquely defines the human being. Because def­i­n­i­tions
   rule in the minds, behav­iors, and insti­tu­tions of men,
   we can be con­fi­dent that delin­eat­ing and com­mu­ni­cat­ing
   that qual­ity will assist the process of res­o­lu­tion and
   the coura­geous ascen­sion to which man is called. As
   Amer­i­cans of the 21st Cen­tury, we are obliged and privi–
   leged to join our fore­bears and par­tic­i­pate in this
   con­tin­u­ing par­a­digm proclamation.

   “WHAT IS MAN…?” God asks — and answers:
   HUMAN DEFINED: EARTH’S CHOICEMAKER
   by JAMES FLETCHER BAXTER © 2005

   Many prob­lems in human expe­ri­ence are the result of false
   and inac­cu­rate def­i­n­i­tions of humankind premised in man–
   made reli­gions and human­is­tic philosophies.

   Human knowl­edge is a frac­tion of the whole uni­verse. The
   bal­ance is a vast void of human igno­rance. Human rea­son
   can­not fully func­tion in such a void; thus, the intel­lect
   can rise no higher than the cri­te­ria by which it per­ceives
   and mea­sures values.

   Human­ism makes man his own stan­dard of mea­sure. How­ever,
   as with all mea­sur­ing sys­tems, a stan­dard must be greater
   than the value mea­sured. Based on pre­pon­der­ant igno­rance
   and an ego­cen­tric car­nal nature, human­ism demotes rea­son
   to the sim­ple­ton task of excuse-making in behalf of the
   rule of appetites, desires, feel­ings, emo­tions, and glands.

   Because man, hob­bled in an ego-centric predica­ment, can­not
   invent cri­te­ria greater than him­self, the human­ist lacks
   a pre­dic­tive capa­bil­ity. With­out instinct or tran­scen­dent
   cri­te­ria, human­ism can­not eval­u­ate options with fore­sight
   and vision for pro­gres­sion and sur­vival. Lack­ing fore­sight,
   man is blind to poten­tial con­se­quence and is unwit­tingly
   com­mit­ted to medi­oc­rity, aver­ages, and regres­sion — and
   worse. Human­ism is an unwor­thy worship.

   The void of human igno­rance can eas­ily be filled with a
   func­tional faith while not-so-patiently await­ing the foot–
   drag­ging growth of human knowl­edge and behav­ior. Faith,
   ini­ti­ated by the Cre­ator and revealed and val­i­dated in His
   Word, the Bible, brings a tran­scen­dent stan­dard to man the
   choice-maker. Other philoso­phies and reli­gions are man–
   made, human­ism, and thereby lack what only the Bible has:

   1.Transcendent Cri­te­ria and
   2.Fulfilled Prophetic Validation.

   The vision of faith in God and His Word is sur­vival equip–
   ment for today and the future.

   Man is earth’s Choice­maker. Psalm 25:12 He is by nature
   and nature’s God a crea­ture of Choice — and of Cri­te­ria.
   Psalm 119:30,173 His unique and defin­i­tive char­ac­ter­is­tic
   is, and of Right ought to be, the nat­ural foun­da­tion of
   his envi­ron­ments, insti­tu­tions, and respect­ful rela­tions
   to his fellow-man. Thus, he is ori­ented to a Free­dom
   whose roots are in the Order of the universe.

   At the sub-atomic level of the phys­i­cal uni­verse quan­tum
   physics indi­cates a mul­ti­far­i­ous gap or divi­sion in the
   causal chain; par­ti­cles to which posi­tion can­not be
   assigned at all times, sys­tems that pass from one energy
   state to another with­out man­i­fes­ta­tion in inter­me­di­ate
   states, enti­ties with­out mass, fields whose sub­stance is
   as insub­stan­tial as “a probability.”

   Only sta­tis­ti­cal con­glom­er­ates pay trib­ute to
   deter­min­is­tic forces. Sin­gu­lar­i­ties do not and are
   there­fore ran­dom, unpre­dictable, mutant, and in this
   sense, uncaused. The finest con­tri­bu­tion inan­i­mate
   real­ity is capa­ble of mak­ing toward choice, with­out its
   own selec­tive agen­cies, is this con­tin­u­ing man­i­fes­ta­tion
   of oppor­tu­nity as the pre-condition to choice it defers
   to the nat­ural action of liv­ing forms.

   Bio­log­i­cal sci­ence affirms that each level of life,
   single-cell to man him­self, pos­sesses attrib­utes of
   sen­si­tiv­ity, dis­crim­i­na­tion, and selec­tiv­ity, and in
   the exclu­sive and unique nature of each diver­si­fied
   life form.

   The sur­vival and pro­gres­sion of life forms has all too
   often been depen­dent upon the ever-present unde­ter­mi­na­tive
   poten­tial and appear­ance of one unique indi­vid­ual organ­ism
   within the whole spec­trum of a given life-form. Only the
   uniquely equipped indi­vid­ual organ­ism is, like The Golden
   Wedge of Ophir, capa­ble of tra­vers­ing the causal gap to
   sur­vival and pro­gres­sion. Mere repro­duc­tive deter­mi­nacy
   would have ren­dered life forms inca­pable of such potential.

   Only a mov­ing uni­verse of oppor­tu­nity plus choice enables
   the present reality.

   Each indi­vid­ual human being pos­sesses a unique, highly
   devel­oped, and sen­si­tive per­cep­tion of diver­sity. Thus
   aware, man is endowed with a nat­ural capa­bil­ity for enact–
   ing inter­nal men­tal and exter­nal phys­i­cal selec­tiv­ity.
   Quan­ti­ta­tive and qual­i­ta­tive choice-making thus lends
   itself as the supe­rior basis of an active intelligence.

   Man is earth’s Choice­maker. His title describes his
   defin­i­tive and typ­i­fy­ing char­ac­ter­is­tic. Recall that his
   other fea­tures are but vehi­cles of expe­ri­ence intent on
   the devel­op­ment of per­cep­tive aware­ness and the
   fol­low­ing acts of deci­sion. Note that the prod­ucts of
   man can­not define him for they are the fruit of the
   dis­cern­ing choice-making process and include the
   cog­ni­tion of self, the util­ity of expe­ri­ence, the
   devel­op­ment of value-measuring sys­tems and lan­guage,
   and the accul­tur­a­tion of civilization.

   The arts and the sci­ences of man, as with his habits,
   cus­toms, and tra­di­tions, are the cre­ative har­vest of
   his per­cep­tive and selec­tive pow­ers. Cre­ativ­ity is a
   choice-making process. His arti­cles, con­structs, and
   com­modi­ties, how­ever mar­velous to behold, deserve
   nei­ther awe nor idol­a­try, for man, not his con­trivance,
   is earth’s own high­est expres­sion of the cre­ative process.

   Man is earth’s Choice­maker. The sub­lime and sig­nif­i­cant
   act of choos­ing is, itself, the Archimedean ful­crum upon
   which man levers and redi­rects the forces of cause and
   effect to an elected level of qual­ity and diver­sity.
   Fur­ther, it ori­ents him toward a nat­ural envi­ron­men­tal
   oppor­tu­nity, free­dom, and bestows earth’s title, The
   Choice­maker, on his sin­gu­lar and plural brow.

   Deter­min­is­tic sys­tems, ide­o­log­i­cal sym­bols of abdi­ca­tion
   by man from his nat­ural role as earth’s Choice­maker,
   inevitably degen­er­ate into col­lec­tivism; the nega­tion of
   sin­gu­lar­ity, they become a con­glom­er­ate plural-based
   sys­tem of mea­sur­ing human value. Blunt­ing an aware­ness
   of diver­sity, blur­ring alter­na­tives, and lim­it­ing the
   selec­tive cre­ative process, they are self-relegated to
   a pas­sive and cir­cu­lar regression.

   Tam­per­ing with man’s selec­tive nature endan­gers his
   sur­vival for it would ren­der him impo­tent and obso­lete
   by deny­ing the tools of diver­sity, indi­vid­u­al­ity,
   per­cep­tion, cri­te­ria, selec­tiv­ity, and progress.
   Coer­cive attempts pro­duce revul­sion, for such acts
   are con­trary to an inde­ter­mi­nate nature and nature’s
   inde­ter­mi­nate off-spring, man the Choicemaker.

   Until the oppres­sors dis­cover that wis­dom only just
   begins with a respect­ful acknowl­edg­ment of The Cre­ator,
   The Cre­ation, and The Choice­maker, they will be ever
   learn­ing but never com­ing to a knowl­edge of the truth.
   The rejec­tion of Creator-initiated stan­dards rel­e­gates
   the mind of man to its own prim­i­tive, empir­i­cal, and
   delim­ited devices. It is thus that the human intel­lect
   can­not ascend and func­tion at any level higher than the
   cri­te­ria by which it per­ceives and mea­sures values.

   Addi­tion­ally, such rejec­tion of tran­scen­dent cri­te­ria
   self-denies man the vision and fore­sight essen­tial to
   decision-making for sur­vival and pro­gres­sion. He is left,
   instead, with the redun­dant wreck­age of expen­sive hind–
   sight, includ­ing human insti­tu­tions char­ac­ter­ized by
   aver­ages, medi­oc­rity, and regression.

   Human­ism, mired in the cir­cu­lar and mun­dane ego­cen­tric
   predica­ment, is ill-equipped to pro­duce tran­scen­dent
   cri­te­ria. Evi­denced by those who do not per­ceive
   supe­ri­or­ity and thus find them­selves beset by the shift­ing
   winds of the carnal-ego; i.e., moods, feel­ings, desires,
   appetites, etc., the mind becomes sub­or­di­nate: a mere
   device for excuse-making and ratio­nal­iz­ing self-justifica–
   tion.

   The carnal-ego rejects cri­te­ria and self-discipline for such
   instru­ments are tools of the mind and the atti­tude. The
   appetites of the flesh have no need of stan­dards for at the
   point of con­tention stan­dards are per­ceived as alien, re–
   stric­tive, and inhibit­ing. Yet, the very sur­vival of our
   phys­i­cal nature itself depends upon a main­tained sover–
   eignty of the mind and of the spirit.

   It remained, there­fore, to the ini­tia­tive of a per­sonal
   and liv­ing Cre­ator to tra­verse the human hori­zon and
   fill the vast void of human igno­rance with an intelli–
   gent and defin­i­tive faith. Man is thus afforded the
   prime tool of the intel­lect — a Tran­scen­dent Stan­dard
   by which he may mea­sure val­ues in expe­ri­ence, antic­i­pate
   results, and make enlight­ened and vision­ary choices.

   Only the unique and supe­rior God-man Per­son can deserved–
   ly dis­place the ego-person from his predica­ment and free
   the indi­vid­ual to mea­sure val­ues and choose in a more
   excel­lent way. That sub­lime Per­son was indi­cated in the
   words of the prophet Amos, “…said the Lord, Behold,
   I will set a plumbline in the midst of my peo­ple Israel.“
   Y’shua Mashiy­ach Jesus said, “If I be lifted up I will
   draw all men unto myself.”

   As long as some choose to abdi­cate their per­sonal real­ity
   and sub­mit to the delu­sions of human­ism, deter­min­ism, and
   col­lec­tivism, just so long will they be sub­ject and re–
   act­ing only, to be tossed by every impulse ema­nat­ing from
   oth­ers. Those who abdi­cate such real­ity may, in per­fect
   jus­tice, find them­selves weighed in the bal­ances of their
   own choosing.

   That human insti­tu­tion which is struc­tured on the
   prin­ci­ple, “…all men are endowed by their Cre­ator with
   …Lib­erty…,” is a sys­tem with its roots in the nat­ural
   Order of the uni­verse. The oppo­nents of such a sys­tem are
   nec­es­sar­ily engaged in a los­ing con­test with nature and
   nature’s God. Bib­li­cal prin­ci­ples are still today the
   foun­da­tion under West­ern Civ­i­liza­tion and the Amer­i­can
   way of life. To the advent of a new sea­son we com­mend the
   present gen­er­a­tion and the “mul­ti­tudes in the val­ley of
   decision.”

   Let us pro­claim it. Behold!
   The Sea­son of Generation-Choicemaker Joel 3:14 KJV

   CONTEMPORARY COMMENTS
   “I should think that if there is one thing that man has
   learned about him­self it is that he is a crea­ture of
   choice.” Richard M. Weaver

   “Man is a being capa­ble of sub­du­ing his emo­tions and
   impulses; he can ratio­nal­ize his behav­ior. He arranges
   his wishes into a scale, he chooses; in short, he acts.
   What dis­tin­guishes man from beasts is pre­cisely that he
   adjusts his behav­ior delib­er­ately.” Lud­wig von Mises

   “To make any sense of the idea of moral­ity, it must be
   pre­sumed that the human being is respon­si­ble for his
   actions and respon­si­bil­ity can­not be under­stood apart
   from the pre­sump­tion of free­dom of choice.“
   John Chamberlain

   “The advo­cate of lib­erty believes that it is com­ple­men­tary
   of the orderly laws of cause and effect, of prob­a­bil­ity
   and of chance, of which man is not com­pletely informed.
   It is com­ple­men­tary of them because it rests in part upon
   the faith that each indi­vid­ual is endowed by his Cre­ator
   with the power of indi­vid­ual choice.“
   Wen­dell J. Brown

   “Our Found­ing Fathers believed that we live in an ordered
   uni­verse. They believed them­selves to be a part of the
   uni­ver­sal order of things. Stated another way, they
   believed in God. They believed that every man must find
   his own place in a world where a place has been made for
   him. They sought inde­pen­dence for their nation but, more
   impor­tantly, they sought free­dom for indi­vid­u­als to think
   and act for them­selves. They estab­lished a repub­lic
   ded­i­cated to one pur­pose above all oth­ers — the preserva–
   tion of indi­vid­ual lib­erty…” Ralph W. Husted

   “We have the gift of an inner lib­erty so far-reaching
   that we can choose either to accept or reject the God
   who gave it to us, and it would seem to fol­low that the
   Author of a lib­erty so rad­i­cal wills that we should be
   equally free in our rela­tion­ships with other men.
   Spir­i­tual lib­erty log­i­cally demands con­di­tions of outer
   and social free­dom for its com­ple­tion.” Edmund A. Opitz

   “Above all I see an abil­ity to choose the bet­ter from the
   worse that has made pos­si­ble life’s progress.“
   Charles Lindbergh

   “Free­dom is the Right to Choose, the Right to cre­ate for
   one­self the alter­na­tives of Choice. With­out the pos­si­bil–
   ity of Choice, and the exer­cise of Choice, a man is not
   a man but a mem­ber, an instru­ment, a thing.“
   Thomas Jefferson

   THE QUESTION AND THE ANSWER
   Q: “What is man that You are mind­ful of him, and the son
   of man that You visit him?” Psalm 8:4
   A: “I call heaven and earth as wit­nesses today against
   you, that I have set before you life and death, bless­ing
   and curs­ing; there­fore choose life, that both you and
   your descen­dants may live.” Deuteron­omy 30:19

   Q: “Lord, what is man, that You take knowl­edge of him?
   Or the son of man, that you are mind­ful of him?” Psalm
   144:3
   A: “And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose
   for your­selves this day whom you will serve, whether the
   gods which your fathers served that were on the other
   side of the river, or the gods of the Amor­ites, in whose
   land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will
   serve the Lord.” Joshua 24:15

   Q: “What is man, that he could be pure? And he who is
   born of a woman, that he could be right­eous?” Job 15:14
   A: “Who is the man that fears the Lord? Him shall He
   teach in the way he chooses.” Psalm 25:12

   Q: “What is man, that You should mag­nify him, that You
   should set Your heart on him?” Job 7:17
   A: “Do not envy the oppres­sor and choose none of his
   ways.” Proverbs 3:31

   Q: “What is man that You are mind­ful of him, or the son
   of man that You take care of him?” Hebrews 2:6
   A: “I have cho­sen the way of truth; your judg­ments I have
   laid before me.” Psalm 119:30 “Let Your hand become my
   help, for I have cho­sen Your precepts.“Psalm 119:173

   Ref­er­ences:
   Gen­e­sis 3:3,6 Deuteron­omy 11:26–28; 30:19 Job 5:23
   Isa­iah 7:14–15; 13:12; 61:1 Amos 7:8 Joel 3:14
   Eccle­si­astes 3:1–8 Psalm 119:1–176
   DEDICATION

   Sir Isaac New­ton
   The great­est sci­en­tist in human his­tory
   a Bible-Believing Chris­t­ian
   an author­ity on the Bible’s Book of Daniel
   com­mit­ted to indi­vid­ual value
   and indi­vid­ual liberty

   Daniel 9:25–26 Habakkuk 2:2–3 KJV selah

   “What is man…?” Earth’s Choice­maker Psalm 25:12 KJV
   http://www.choicemaker.net/
   jbaxter@choicemaker.net

   An old/new par­a­digm — Mr. Jef­fer­son would agree!
   (There is no alternative!)

   + + +

   “Man can­not make or invent or con­trive prin­ci­ples. He
   can only dis­cover them and he ought to look through the
   dis­cov­ery to the Author.” — Thomas Paine 1797
4. liminal says:

   January 29, 2005 at 08:43

   Woah…wow…

   but i’m not sur­prised at all…

   lim.
5. On the Mark says:

   January 29, 2005 at 09:09

   Dear Friends,

   I have just posted this on my blog at http://worlddebate.blogspot.com. If you think it is wor­thy or impor­tant, please link to it.

   Best Regards,

   Mark

   ——————————————————————————–

   A Prayer for the Iraqi Peo­ple on Elec­tion Eve
   From World Debate — http://worlddebate.blogspot.com
   To you the Iraqi peo­ple, what­ever your race, your faith or your polit­i­cal beliefs, tonight I offer a prayer for you.

   I pray that you vote. Your vote counts and is the gate­way to the future of your choice. Choose wisely.

   I pray that you will not be afraid. You deserve to live free from fear and intim­i­da­tion. But know that oth­ers have voted even when they were afraid, and have cre­ated a bet­ter future for their chil­dren and grand­chil­dren in the process.

   I pray that you will be safe from harm. Know that many of us, of many faiths all around the world, will have you in our prayers and thoughts as you go to your polling places.

   I pray that your chil­dren and grand­chil­dren will have a bet­ter future. That is the promise of democ­racy. You will be able to move your coun­try to the future of your choosing.

   I pray that we will be friends in the spirit of democ­racy. We may not always agree, but I trust that the com­mon bond of free­dom and democ­racy will build a friend­ship between our coun­tries and our peo­ple that can­not be broken.

   Finally, I pray that your dreams of peace, tran­quil­ity, pros­per­ity and hap­pi­ness for you and your loved ones all come true. Democ­racy is big enough to hold that promise for each and every cit­i­zen of your great nation.

   Know that you are in our thoughts and prayers on the momen­tous occa­sion of your first truly demo­c­ra­tic election.
6. American says:

   January 29, 2005 at 14:40

   No need to work to hard, you own noth­ing that mother and father gov­ern­ment don’t give you. No need to try to get ahead… Mother and father gov­ern­ment take it all… No need to get upset about it…mother and father gov­ern­ment can not be opposed… They know what is best..You are just a child…