Polluting the Temple

The average child gets 5+ servings of pesticides in their food and water each day.

The pesticide Atrazine is so toxic it is banned in Europe, but it is used so widely in the U.S., that it is found in 71% of the U.S. drinking water.

Currently, over 400 pesticides can be legally used in the U.S. For example, apples can be sprayed up to 16 times with 36 different pesticides. None of these chemicals are present in organic foods.

According to the US Department of Health and Human Services, organophosphate pesticides (OP) are now found in the blood of 95% of Americans tested, and the levels are twice as high in blood samples taken from children. Exposure to OPs is linked to hyperactivity, behavior disorders, learning disabilities, developmental delays and motor dysfunction.
http://www.organicconsumers.org/

Happiness Is Contagious

Happiness Is Contagious

If your car sports one of those “Smiles Are Contagious” bumper stickers, you may be onto something. A new study has shown that in fact,happiness begins with you, and then it spreads far and wide. Not only does your happiness make your friends and neighbors happier, but it also uplifts the friends and neighbors of your friends. The equation works in reverse, too: if your friend gets happy, so will you. Or so the study says.

This research comes on the heels of earlier studies proving that obesity spreads through groups, as does the decision to stop smoking. The study, a joint venture by Harvard University and the University of California at San Diego, followed 5000 people over a 20-year period. The family, coworkers, and neighbors of these individuals also were followed, involving at least 50,000 people in the process. The researchers determined just how happy the participants were by administering standard happiness assessments, where subjects responded to statements such as “I feel hopeful about the future,” “I feel I am just as good as other people,” and “I am happy.”

According to the results, if a friend who lives within a mile of you gets happy, your chances of happiness increase by 25 percent. And if that happy friend lives even closer to you, say half-a-mile away, you have a 42 percent chance of being happy yourself, showing that proximity to happy people makes all the difference — up to, but not including the same house or office. In fact, neighbors of happy people feel the effect more than family members do. Siblings who live close to a happy sibling increase their likelihood of happiness by 14 percent, while next-door neighbors of the happy individual reap a 34 percent benefit — even if the neighbors aren’t friends, and the happiness effect lasts up to a year. Since the study found the effect only for neighbors living right next door to the happy person and not for those living further down the street, the researchers believe that the spread of happiness is not the result of happy people being drawn to each other, but of an actual contagious factor.

“We know it’s not a ‘birds of a feather flock together’ effect,” said one of the study authors, Nicholas A. Christakis of Harvard University.

Perhaps the most significant finding is that the happiness of one individual seems to affect others at up to three degrees of separation (take that Kevin Bacon), meaning that the benefit extends to friends of a friend of a friend, although the effect diminishes with each remove, to about 8 percent for friends of friends. In other words, your happiness can affect the happiness of someone you’ve never even met. Interestingly, work colleagues seem immune to the benefit — working with a happy person in the next cubicle apparently won’t make you happy (and what does that say about the work environment?). Plus, partners and spouses are less receptive than friends, reaping only an eight percent benefit from a happy spouse. That’s not necessarily good news for the Coalition for Marriage & Family. On the other hand, a bit of good news the researchers found was that while happiness spreads, unhappiness doesn’t spread nearly as much.

“You would think that your emotional state would depend on your own choices and actions and experience,” said Dr. Christakis. “But it also depends on the choices and actions and experiences of other people, including people to whom you are not directly connected. Happiness is contagious.”

His study co-author, James H. Fowler of the University of California, San Diego, adds, “We need to think of happiness as a collective phenomenon. If I come home in a bad mood, I may be missing an opportunity to make not just my wife and son happy, but their friends.” (It appears Dr. Fowler’s own happiness has blinded him to the fact that his own study found partners and spouses less receptive to the effect.)

As the researchers point out, happiness has a significant impact on health, and given how it spreads, your own happiness has a significant impact on public health, as do your lifestyle choices. Just consider that the same research group followed over 12,000 smokers for a 30-year period and found that as with happiness, quitting is contagious. If you quit smoking, there’s a 30-percent increased chance that others in your network will too. Likewise, the group analyzed obesity patterns in social networks and found that if you become obese, your friends have a 57-percent increased risk of obesity, your siblings have a 40-percent greater chance, and your spouse’s obesity risk goes up by 37-percent. (Again friends are more affected than family — hmmn!)

All of which means that it pays to live next to healthy, happy individuals (maybe that showed be covered in real estate listings), and also, that your responsibility to maintain good health practices and a positive attitude extends beyond your duty to yourself and your family. (Maybe someday you’ll be required to pay a depression tax for bringing the world down.) In any case, this study indicates that when you do something right for yourself, the ripples of that choice extend farther out into the world than you might have thought before.

Wrttien by Jon Barron, Baseline Of Health, May 26, 2009

Women Leading Is NOT the Solution

This editorial outlines man’s solution to the problem he and women created through disobedience to scripture.  

It is NOT the solution of YHWH (aka God).  

Women leading are the solution of Satan and are punishments to those who disobey scriptural rules  

Strong, honorable, righteous men who lead with integrity according to scripture is the answer; not having women lead.

Isa 3:12  As for My people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over him. Oh My people, those leading you cause you to go astray, and they swallow the way of your paths. 

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Editorial from the CS Monitor

What if women ran the world?

Male hubris has made a mess. We need more female qualities.

It is getting harder to escape the sense that most of the trouble in the world – whether it’s coming out of the Senate, a mortgage lender, or a tank turret – can be traced to one overriding problem: too many men steering. Had our economic, domestic, and foreign policy been more informed by women, we might be enjoying a safer ride.

Doubt it? Here’s a test. Would any of the women you admire have set up a healthcare system as byzantine, costly, and underperforming as America’s? Or a financial system where mortgage lenders don’t have to care about being paid back? Or a bailout that spends $1 trillion in public money to subsidize the purchase of junk debt from the same geniuses that generated it?

It may be time for guys to hand over the keys, ask for directions, and sit (quietly, please) in the back seat for a while.

Forget gender politics; just look at results. Our computer-based fantasy financial instruments have erased perhaps 45 percent of the world’s wealth. We’ve waged two wars at the same time for six years at a fully loaded cost in the trillions. And we’ve managed the simultaneous implosion of what amounts to most of the male industrial complex, from banks to newspapers to automakers.

Women’s effectiveness as decisionmakers is well documented, even if it isn’t entirely accepted by either gender.

An MIT study of female leaders running village councils in India found that by objective measures (building better wells, taking fewer bribes) women ran their villages better. American women are about to eclipse men in sheer payroll numbers – and they’re now majority owners of nearly half of the private companies in the country. Yet somehow the average working woman still devotes much more time to child care and housework.

What’s clear is that, on average, men overestimate their IQ while women underestimate theirs. And that may be a clue, in terms of effectiveness: While decisiveness and risk-taking matter, hubris (too often male) creates problems. Humility and collaboration (more often female) solve them. What explains the difference?

It could simply be a matter of emotional need, reinforced by generations of gender stereotyping. Seeking competition and challenge, guys do tend to cast things in shades of conflict: defaulting to a win/lose, right (“my”) position versus wrong (“yours”). On this point, scientists, who are mostly men, disagree. But there’s no doubt that social stability is compromised by masculine habits such as hostile takeovers, and paying enormous retention bonuses to men who’ve driven a business into the ground and have already left.

The difference could be evolutionary. Primordial hunters (men) had to make rapid decisions and act on them, right or wrong, but quickly. Chase that bunny! Club that rival! Run away! Gatherers (women), meanwhile, needed an awareness of the larger context – knowing which berry bushes would ripen when, how to keep the kids from clonking each other with rocks, and generally holding the tribe together and getting things done.

Or, in a world where our reverence for stature remains primitive, it’s possible women just have to be more creative, collaborative, and clever when they average five inches shorter and 27 pounds lighter than men.

But it’s also possible that even men are ready to learn that women make better leaders than they know. A Pew Research survey last year showed that the public rates women equal or superior to men in seven of the eight qualities they value most highly in leadership. The results were striking on the questions of honesty and intelligence, which registered as the two most important characteristics of leadership, and which lately have been in relatively short supply. On these dimensions, women were more than twice as likely to be rated superior to men – by both women and men.

Male cognitive patterns of linear, command-and-control thinking are no longer optimal – either with Gen-Y talent in the workplace, or with geopolitical conflict around the world. We’re heading into an era when we need leadership that enlists self-interest in support of the larger outcome – less transactional and more transformational. Rather than punishing failure or reinforcing conflict, motivating progress.

Many question America’s standing and role in the world. Whatever we might do to mitigate climate change will be completely swamped unless we can positively engage India and China. Complex and interconnected questions of nuclear prolifer-ation, resource scarcity, and interconnected human demands will put an unprecedented premium on collaboration and cooperation.

As women ascend as leaders in policy and business, the decisions they make will be more accountable to a wider array of interests, stakeholders, and outcomes. By example, they will teach us to lead less through positional authority and more through positive influence- with more of a bias toward informed action and a clearer connection between everything we know, and all we have to do.

• Mark Lange is a consultant and former presidential speechwriter.

Where Are The Men? Looking For Their Place!

In a love song from the late 1970’s, Bob Dylan asked, “Can you cook and sew and make flowers grow, do you understand my pain?”

To the barrage of feminist criticism, the unrepentant song writer replied: yes, women should be free to do whatever they liked, but “when a man says he’s looking for a good woman, he isn’t looking for an airline pilot.”

The scriptural mandated need and desire of the men for a stable help-meet and keeper of the home is thwarted by the masculinization of women who have been deceived into believing there is no honor in maintaining the house and helping their husbands. 

This fallacy has been perpetrated under the guise of personal freedom and the result has NOT been the freeing of women, but forcing women to beome men.  Thus they frequenty are overwhelmed with the requirement to act as Alpha males in business and civic activities, but still bear the burden of childcare and household responsibilities.

And men areleft trying to define a role for themselves. 

The politically correct solution to this overworking of women is to feminize the men to take up the slack.  Role reversal is the intent of Satan to derail the plan of the Creator and untimately destroy the order established at creation.

Thus we bring up boys as girls and encourage girls to act as boys.  This promotes intense internal confusion in the adolescent years and subsequently in the adult years.  The author of confusion wins when the family and heirarchy established at creation is destroyed.

1Co 11:3  But I want you to know that Messiaht is the head of every man, and the man is the head of a woman, and YHWH is the head of Messiah. ds

1Co 11:8  for man is not of the woman, but woman of man; 

1Co 11:9  for also man was not created for the sake of the woman, but woman for the sake of the man; 

This is NOT a license to denigrate, berate, overwork, or abuse women!

Eph 5:25  Husbands, love your wives, even as Messiah also loved the assembly and gave Himself up on its behalf, 

Eph 5:28  So, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies, (he loving his wife loves himself), 
Eph 5:29  for then no one hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as also the Master the assembly. 

Terminated Affiliation

We believe that Congregation of YHWH, Jerusalem has valid teachings but has a problem in the leadership. Therefore, we have terminated our  affiliation until the situation is rectified.

America Forever?

According to Sir Alex Fraser Tytler (1742-1813), Scottish jurist, historian and professor of Universal History at Edinburgh University.   “A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury. From that time on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the results that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.

The average age of the world’s great civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence:
from bondage to spiritual faith;
from spiritual faith to great courage;
from courage to liberty;
from liberty to abundance;
from abundance to selfishness;      
from selfishness to complacency;   
from complacency to apathy;                              
from apathy to dependency;
from dependency back again to bondage.”1

America was founded 400 years ago and has been an independent nation for 231 years.  How bright is the future? 

Ezekiel 16:49: “Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had arrogance, abundant food, and careless ease, but she did not help the poor and needy.”

Yahshua — Yah is Salvation

We believe that the name of Yahweh’s “only begotten son” is YahShua as revealed in Matthew 1:21. “…you shall call His name YahShua, for He will save His people from their sins.” The name YahShua means, “Yahweh is my salvation” so the revelation of that name is efficacious and very important to evoking the full power.

Fearful or Faithful?

 

Fearful insure themselves against all loss.

Fearful ask Yahshua to heal, but put their trust in drugs and doctors as healers.

Fearful plan and control their every action to prevent surprise.

Fearful spend the majority of the time in the natural frame of mind.

Fearful are at home in their body.

Fearful have a “works base” salvation plan.

Fearful claim to believe miracles in scripture but see none today.

Fearful fear, worry and have concerns.

Fearful want to walk on water but never leave the boat.

Fearful are members of the culture of disbelief.

Fearful require physical proofs.

Fearful live pessimistic, critical lives

Fearful gossip, ridicule, chastise and mock those who operate on faith.

 

The Faithful do the opposite of the above, because actions always follow your beliefs.

Children’s Behavior Problems

21st Century Explanation for Your Kids’ Behavior Problems
cell phone, childChildren whose mothers used cell phones frequently during pregnancy are more likely to have behavior problems, especially if the children also use cell phones.

A team of scientists looked at a group of more than 13,000 children, including their time in utero. When the children reached age 7, mothers were asked to complete a questionnaire about their own cell phone use in pregnancy and their child‘s use of cell phones, as well as their children‘s behavior and health.

Children with both prenatal and postnatal cell phone exposure were 80 percent more likely to have emotional problems, conduct problems, hyperactivity, or problems with peers. Children who were only exposed prenatally had a higher likelihood of behavior problems compared to those who were only exposed postnatally, but not as high as those who were exposed at both times.

Public Schools – Whoo Hoo!

Calm Down … or Else
child, school, studentFor more than a decade, parents of children with developmental and psychiatric problems have pushed for their children to gain more access to mainstream schools. One unfortunate side-effect may be schools resorting to forceful methods to control behavior; takedowns, isolation rooms, restraining chairs with straps, and worse have all been reported.

In 2007, the public system served 600,000 more special education students than it did a decade ago. Many staff members are not adequately trained to handle severe behavior problems.

In April of this year, a 9-year-old Montreal boy with autism died of suffocation when a special education teacher wrapped him in a weighted blanket to calm him. Two Michigan public school students with autism have died while being held on the ground in what is known as prone restraint.

Federal law leaves it to states and school districts to decide when physical restraints and seclusion are appropriate, and standards vary widely. Oversight is often nonexistent, despite great potential for harm and little evidence of benefit.