From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1017">Beloved</a><BR>
Date: 21 November 2002<P>

Found this on a website:<BR>
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November 17, 2002 ~ November 23, 2002<BR>
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The sun is in Scorpio, while the moon is in Aries for the second quarter of the month of Kislev. <BR>
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The week starts with a lot of vigor, enthusiasm, renewal and creativity, especially toward the middle as the moon reaches its fullest phase. An isosceles triangle is created between all of the fire signs, with the moon in Aries, Jupiter in Leo and Pluto in Sagittarius. We’ll experience the positive energy of activity, initiative, renewal, optimism, creativity, capability and ability to organize and manage at the same time. <BR>
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Another triangle is created between the air signs: Saturn in Gemini, Uranus in Aquarius and Mars in Libra. This triangle works towards social action, learning, asking questions and receiving answers. <BR>
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Saturn, which will be in retrograde from October 11, 2002 until February 22, 2003, reminds us forgotten things, unsolved problems and issues from the past that return in order to be confronted and solved. <BR>
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Since Saturn is in Gemini, this is an important time to learn and understand important principles. Don’t fall into superficiality and shallowness, and keep yourself from jumping from one topic to the other, from one guru to the next or from one philosophy to its contradiction. Concentrate on one target and focus. <BR>
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Saturn in Gemini (and all planets in Gemini) give a variety of information sources, in order for you to choose the best one and reach certainty by focusing. <BR>
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Also Mars, which is in Libra, is suspected of uncertainty and indetermination, what to do, where to go - left of right. The sun, Mercury in Scorpio, the moon in Aries help us to arrive at firm decisions, making brave choices and staying the course. <BR>
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Be careful of insignificant conflicts this week due to Mercury in Scorpio 90 degrees to Uranus in Aquarius. Don’t waste energy war or battle. There is also the element of competition between spouses and business partners. Pluto in Sagittarius announces the month of Kislev and the potential of miracles and wonders. <BR>
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Take life easy, be happy and optimistic through positive and spiritual behavior. <BR>
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Sunday: Moon in Aries, sun in Scorpio. Water and fire mixed. Together creates naivety with sarcasm. Caution certainly pays and of course a lot of proactive behavior. <BR>
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Monday-Tuesday: The moon moves to Taurus with the sun still in Scorpio. The position of Taurus facing Scorpio offers us tremendous business potential. Practicality, determination, and devotion to the goal will yield good results in business, money and partnerships. <BR>
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Wednesday - Thursday: The moon moves to Gemini while the sun remains in Scorpio. Work logically, and leave the Scorpio extremism aside. Emotions can cause partnerships to fall apart. The moon in Gemini offers wisdom and an ability to manipulate in times of crisis. These will be important days for learning, intellectual meetings and for matchmaking. <BR>
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Friday: The moon moves to Cancer while the sun is in the last degree of Scorpio. Look forward to lots of family nostalgia and longing for the past. Venus in Scorpio is coming out of retrograde, which results in a romantic day, family meetings and international rendezvous. It is a great day to set a date for a wedding. Make time for business, arts and socializing. <BR>
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Saturday: The moon is in Cancer when the sun finally enters is going Sagittarius! Optimism, happiness and joy are headed our way. The balance between the intellectual and spiritual is within reach. Your relationship just might be ready for something more serious, perhaps even marriage, with a gentle push!<BR>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=872">cryingshame58</a><BR>
Date: 21 November 2002<P>

Rennie,<BR>
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Happy belated birthday! I have heard that TN is beautiful in the fall...Hope you had a lovely birthday...<BR>
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CryingShame
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=436">Jon</a><BR>
Date: 21 November 2002<P>

Bridget O~ Thank you and, no, I won't be proposing to her anytime soon. We're both still in college and I rather get through school first. So, I guess you can say I wrote that in advance.<BR>
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Astrology? Eh, I'm not big on that stuff. I never bought into the whole idea of the stars and planets ruling my overall fate. I'm a Gemini whatever that means.<BR>
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Anyway follow this link and we may all be wrong<BR>
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<a href="http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/fe-scidi.htm?">http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/fe-scidi.htm?</a>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=436">Jon</a><BR>
Date: 21 November 2002<P>

;-)
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1017">Beloved</a><BR>
Date: 21 November 2002<P>

Message<BR>
&gt; &gt; &gt; Please visit the  Department of Defense web<BR>
&gt; &gt; &gt; page below<BR>
&gt; &gt; &gt; and sign in thanking the men and women of the<BR>
&gt; &gt; &gt; U.S.<BR>
&gt; &gt; &gt; military services for  defending our freedom.<BR>
&gt; &gt; &gt; The compiled list of<BR>
&gt; &gt; &gt; names will be sent out  to our soldiers at the<BR>
&gt; &gt; &gt; end of the month. So far,<BR>
&gt; &gt; &gt; there are only  about 1.2 million names. What a<BR>
&gt; &gt; &gt; shame. National Military<BR>
&gt; &gt; &gt; Appreciation  Month.  The entire exercise takes<BR>
&gt; &gt; &gt; 10 seconds...literally.<BR>
&gt; &gt; &gt; Please pass it on to your email friends.<BR>
&gt; &gt; &gt;<BR>
&gt; &gt; &gt;<BR>
&gt; &gt; &gt;<BR>
&gt; &gt; &gt; <a href="http://www.defendamerica.mil/nmam.html">http://www.defendamerica.mil/nmam.html</a><BR>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=4">tj holland</a><BR>
Date: 21 November 2002<P>

Here's a weird thing to think upon...<BR>
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There are countless Americans who complain about government, freedoms, and their way of life. There are countless Americans who drove their gasoline engines downtown to walk about with poster boards declaring, "NO WAR FOR OIL". There are countless Americans who think that if the USA turns a blind eye to Osama Bin Laden, and men like him, they will go away and stop what they are doing. There are countless Americans who have forgotten how Hitler came to extreme power because the countries he invaded turned a blind eye, or gave him what he wanted thinking he would go away and stop what he was doing. And there is a Canadian, living in the US, who wants her children, friends and loved ones to be safe from a fate like that so she joined the military. <BR>
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I am an army of one. I am an American soldier. I believe in Operation Enduring Freedom. And I am Canadian. <BR>
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-Teej
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 21 November 2002<P>

Sister Teej; It's admirable that you want to fight for freedom but I feel you need to look a bit more closely at what you are perhaps doing. The war in VIETNAM should be a clue that war for OIL is dirty business and yes we drive our cars (But not the big ass gass guzzlers but the ones that last and give good value and mileage) We turn down our heat and gas and wear sweaters as our brilliant NOBEL PEACE PRIZE winning former President asked us to do years ago. I think your headstrong Aries Ram warrior girl is about to find out what HELL really is and while John Wayne looked good in the movies in reality War is drity business. I truly believe if they made the children and grandchildren of the big ass politicians and voters and loudmouths that want it so bad go off to war we would be closer to peace real fast. It's not the rich that fight the wars, they send someone else to do their dirty work for them and at a very large cost.  Now not to sound unpatriotic here, I love this country but to start a war when with Sadam when Osama has not even been captured yet is kinda taking a large risk with all our Arab Neighbors. A balance is what we need between us all and Arabs and Jews alike. PEACE NOT WAR!!!<BR>
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Sister Beek<BR>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=2">scqueen</a><BR>
Date: 21 November 2002<P>

BK ~ Good golly, Miss Molly! - You'd get my vote any day of the week.<BR>
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And I love the word 'ass'. Big ass, crazy ass, loud ass, skinny ass, fat ass, and my very favorite is to hear Red Foreman on 'That 70's Show' say 'You dumb ass' :-)<BR>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1020">**The Color of Love**</a><BR>
Date: 21 November 2002<P>

an excerpt, "Gender in Genesis" by Gwynn Kessler.<BR>
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And Gd created man in His image, in the image of gd He created him; male and female He created them (Genesis 1.27, JPS translation).<BR>
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So Gd created the human/humanity (ha-adam) in Gd’s image.  In the image of Gd, Gd created him/it: male and female Gd created them (Genesis 1.27, my translation).<BR>
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Genesis 1:27, for all its brevity, is difficult to translate—the original Hebrew eludes our easy understanding.  Because of this difficulty, we often ignore this account of human creation altogether, concentrating instead on the other, more familiar account of human creation—in which woman is created from man (Genesis 2:21-23).  We forget that there is any other biblical paradigm for thinking about the creation of humans and gender, even though the Hebrew Bible itself repeats Genesis 1:27 practically verbatim at Genesis 5:2.<BR>
	In part, the difficulty decoding Genesis 1.27 stems from its fluctuation between singular and plural, and from the lack of punctuation in the Hebrew Bible.  Seemingly slight differences in punctuation can alter our understanding of a crucial question: how does the phrase ‘male and female’ relate to the phrase ‘in the image of Gd’?  In my translation of the verse, I suggest that not only did Gd create human(ity)—male and female—in Gd’s image, but that Gd’s image is both male and female.<BR>
	During the rabbinic period (1st-7th centuries CE), some of the rabbis resolved the problem of the two creation stories by understanding the first human as a two-sexed being (androgynos), who is then quite literally split into two differently gendered beings (Genesis Rabbah 8:1; Leviticus Rabbah 14:1 and parallels).  This interpretation reflects, and simultaneously helped to construct, certain ideals about gender differentiation during the rabbinic period. <BR>
	As transgender Jews and allies look to our traditions, we can now ask again what becomes of the first human: male and female?  Can we read our texts in order to reflect, and simultaneously help construct, new ideals about gender for our own society?  Perhaps we can.  First, we can note that according to Genesis Rabbah 8:1, even though adam is split into two separate genders, Gd remains one: both male and female.<BR>
	Furthermore, we might stress that Genesis Rabbah 8:1 records another interpretation of adam in which the first human is a “golem”—an undifferentiated, perhaps ungendered, being.  That this undifferentiated adam is created in Gd’s image provides us a model for a Gd who trans(cends) gender altogether—a Gd who is both male and female, meaning neither.<BR>
	Although Genesis Rabbah 8:1 does not imagine a world where a person who identifies as both female and male can refuse to be split in two, we can work to shape a world where ze proclaims hir creation in the image of Gd.  Even though Genesis Rabbah does not envision a world where a person might choose to identify as neither female nor male, thus existing outside of a rigid bi-gender system—we must affirm all gender expressions and identities.<BR>
	I began by stating that Genesis 1:27 is difficult.  What I mean to say is that Genesis 1:27 is complex.  In fact, what is most queer about this verse is its ability to challenge—or dare—us to understand it easily.  It prophecies, as it were, gender trouble.  This verse, which at least mythically purports to usher gender into the world, simultaneously canonizes gender ambiguities.<BR>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=268">Misti</a><BR>
Date: 21 November 2002<P>

Yeah, I drive a car and I shop at the mall for Christmas crap. I pay sixteen dollars for a tube of lipstick. I could pay two bucks for a similar lipstick but it won't last as long or smell as good. I support big bizness by shopping for underwear at Wal-Mart and Victoria's Secret. I don't recycle, unless you count the ton of magazines I use for my pop art collages. But I am definitely not a Republican or a "proud American" who weeps whenever I hear "The Star-Spangled Banner." I don't believe in heroes. I don't believe in martyrs. I don't believe in war. At least not the kind the fat cats are sellin'. Peace.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=109">Stephen</a><BR>
Date: 21 November 2002<P>

Sorry my nose is too big to not stick it in this...<BR>
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"There are countless Americans who complain about government, freedoms, and their way of life."<BR>
Yes, and all these people using their 1st amendment rights better have been voting. War? Uh-oh...Republican majority in congress, anyone? (Don't think much would change if it wasn't either)<BR>
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"There are countless Americans"<BR>
What constitutes countless: majority? 1 or 2?<BR>
Who are these people who turn blind-eyed to terrorism in the US? I don't know anyone who does. It is foreign affairs that people frequently turn blind-eyed to. Why is foreign problems the US's problem? Economic stability and prosperity. We're greedy bastards looking out for #1; just like every country has done from the beginning of organized government. D'uh. <BR>
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Hitler? He became powerful within the German government through devious means, yet the public still adored him. Bin Laden doesn't control a country, nor shares the brute genocide capabilities Hitler had. Sedum Hussein? Not much genocide there, he just has the influence to alter the steady flow of oil we need to lower natural gas prices and further delay the inevitable. Yey. (think we have like 30 years left now at the current rate/nothing else discovered)<BR>
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Protecting our Freedom? How is our freedom being threatened? Because not every country wants to trade economically with us, or maybe dislikes us a tad?(understatement)<BR>
Stay sharp TJ. Try to not allow yourself to be brainwashed in any way by the honor mixed with deadly ignorance. These days I'd be more afraid of that than the chance of being in any real conflict.<BR>
Go get 'em ya crazy Canadian...A <BR>
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Aye, Aye, agreed. Except on the warfare section. This isn't 1942. I think the only surprise TJ is going to encounter is how incredibly boring being a foot-soldier in the ARMY is today. If you want real action, sign into the USAF. This is how modern military actions are carried out. Even then, you wont even see the aftermath of what you have done until you flick on the TV and turn it to CNN. Not like they are going to show the burnt and buried corpses on TV any ways, so really it would be more disconnecting to the average person than you would think. <BR>
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Anyhoo, not to sound like a advocate for war, but trends have shown extremely good economic prosperity when large scale conflicts occur(for the winning side that is, sux royally for the losing, not like the conditions could get any WORSE over there unfortunately.) <BR>
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All and all, our economy is a giant turd right now, so one could believe a war would help out according to traditional trends. <BR>
More realistically though, not much will change. Like I said earlier, loss of life to the US during conflict has decreased almost un-imaginarily so, and resources poured into this war will never equivalent past economical effecting wars unless the problem turns into a Massive global issue. (as in, breaking treaties, invasion of several other countries, and division of superpowers.)<BR>
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So in conclusion, I believe sticking our noses too deep into the affairs of foreign problems (and more importantly, taking forced prerogative over the situation), is as useful and beneficial as me writing out this huge response. It's not really at all.<BR>
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Oh well, that's enough sticking for me;<BR>
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Pinocchio out.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=902">spaded</a><BR>
Date: 21 November 2002<P>

Sadam is a threat, so no matter why we declare war on Iraq (as I am sure we will), in my eyes it is with good reason.<BR>
Of course I would perfer if we could all just get along, but this is the real world and I don't think I would be doing anyone any favors if I walked through it with my eyes closed. So instead I just find myself thankful for those brave enough to volunteer to fight those wars.<BR>
Let me repeat that, .....VOLUNTEER to fight those wars. It is not fair to complain about rich men sending others off to do there dirty work, because I am sure (like me) the men and women of the armed forces live there life with there eyes open. <BR>
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holly
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=109">stephen</a><BR>
Date: 21 November 2002<P>

Oh and Jon, great one bro. Omg lol.<BR>
The members of that society must truly have closed&locked minds<BR>
All they need to do is jump in a plane and fly at normal commercial airplane altitude, and they would EASILY see the curve of the earth/horizon. Morons. lol..<BR>

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