Do not watch to see what others are doing. Let them watch you and follow you. You first. One light in the world goes on, and then another. Pretty soon the sky is splattered with stars.

Take a stand for LGBTQ rights.

Forged: Writing in the Name of God
by Bart D. Ehrman

I really enjoyed reading this book and I think that it would be a good book for all people to read.

Here are a few things I read about in the book. If any of this interests you then you should pick up the book and read it. Or if you are a christian, then you really should read this book.

Many early christian writings are pseudonymous, going under a false name. A more common word for this is forgery.

Second Thessalonians which claims to be written by Paul warns against falling for forgeries but it itself is a forgery.

Some believe that Revelation was written by a heretic named Cerinthus.

Many of the books in the bible are not written by who they claim to be written by.

Orthonymous writing is one really written by the person claiming to be writing it. Seven out of 13 of the things in the bible by Paul are actually written by him.

Something else to think about for all you bible followers....
The bible is against deception right? God appears to use deception are times. Example... God told Jonah to tell Nineveh that in 40 days it would be destroyed. God, who is supposedly all knowing would have known though that the people would repent and that he (god) would not destroy the city. So he was never actually planning to destroy the city was he?

The New Testament has a letter allegedly by Paul to Titus which is a forgery.

1 Peter and 2 Peter both say they are written by Peter but he probably didn't write them. Peter was an illiterate peasant. Acts 4:13 Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.  Both Peter and John were agrammatoi aka unlettered aka illiterate.

Also it is written in Greek and Peter didn't speak Greek but Aramaic.

Do you know how many books in the bible are not written by the people that claim to have written it, but people still use all of them to base a religion on. A religion based on a book that has forgers as many of the authors.

Go out and read this book

Most of you know that we have a wonderful cat named Blaze that we rescued almost 2 years ago when he was a baby.

Well, you know the things you need when you have a cat and one of those things is kitty litter. There are so many different types of litter out there for people to try. We tried a few but you would either have the litter smell or the cat smell. That was until we found Kitty's Crumble. That stuff is amazing. There is no litter smell and no cat urine or feces smell either and it is natural.

Kitty's Crumble is a 100% organic and the first litter box material to replicate the natural environment a cat would choose outdoors. The natural, slightly moist loose structure, with a subtle earth-like aroma, provides a cat with an environment suited to their instinctual traits.

It is made 100% from coir (coconut husk), an organic / natural, renewable resource. Kitty's Crumble kitty litter contains no chemicals, pesticides, silica dust, fragrances or other additives that could be unhealthy for your cat or unfriendly to the environment.

It is tremendous absorbent with amazing, unbeatable odor elimination. It can absorb and retain up to 4 times its own weight in liquids.

Kitty’s Crumble has a modest carbon footprint (pawprint) - it includes no chopping straight down trees, no mining the earth, and no crop manufacturing, which are all important greenhouse gas contributors

The packaging is recyclable and filled to the very top (no wasted space). It is lightweight. When you’re done with Kitty’s Crumble and the solid wastes have been removed, use it right away as a fertilizer or add to compost.

Do you think a final exam is necessary to get a high school diploma? Pennsylvania moved closer to a controversial Keystone Exam on Thursday.

The Pennsylvania State Board of Education voted to start the review process that would make passing the Keystone Exam a requirement to get a diploma.

If the exam does pass, it would take effect beginning in 2017.

This tests can cause marginal students to lose the opportunity for a diploma even though they have worked to the best of their abilities and met acceptable standards for many jobs in the community. With this test many will not get that diploma and the lack of having one will cost them for the rest of their lives even though they did their best. It will punish some children who try as hard as they can but have had the school system fail them.

There are many children who are just being passed up and up through the grades, even if parents request that a child be held back it doesn't happen. Teachers are told not to say anything negative about the children and so parents are told things like "he/she is a happy child" or "he/she tries hard" and things like that.

It is children who are trying hard but because of budget cuts schools do not have the money to give these children the help they deserve and could use.

And now the schools want to punish these students (Many of whom are special needs but the district has refused to accept as such) when they hit 12th grade by not allowing them to graduate? They have pushed them through the grades year after year but somehow they are supposed to take the test and pass?

What are your thoughts?

President Obama supports Same-sex marriage. He came out and said it. I say Way to go Mr President. What are your thoughts?

The Wolf Gift
by Anne Rice

The time is the present.

The place, the rugged coast of northern California. A bluff high above the Pacific. A grand mansion full of beauty and tantalizing history set against a towering redwood forest.

A young reporter on assignment from the San Francisco Observer. . . an older woman, welcoming him into her magnificent, historic family home that he has been sent to write about and that she must sell with some urgency . . . A chance encounter between two unlikely people . . . an idyllic night—shattered by horrific unimaginable violence. . .The young man inexplicably attacked—bitten—by a beast he cannot see in the rural darkness . . . A violent episode that sets in motion a terrifying yet seductive transformation as the young man, caught between ecstasy and horror, between embracing who he is evolving into and fearing who—what—he will become, soon experiences the thrill of the wolf gift.

As he resists the paradoxical pleasure and enthrallment of his wolfen savagery and delights in the power and (surprising) capacity for good, he is caught up in a strange and dangerous rescue and is desperately hunted as “the Man Wolf,” by authorities, the media and scientists (evidence of DNA threaten to reveal his dual existence). . . As a new and profound love enfolds him, questions emerge that propel him deeper into his mysterious new world: questions of why and how he has been given this gift; of its true nature and the curious but satisfying pull towards goodness; of the profound realization that there are others like him who may be watching—guardian creatures who have existed throughout time and may possess ancient secrets and alchemical knowledge and throughout it all, the search for salvation for a soul tormented by a new realm of temptations, and the fraught, exhilarating journey, still to come, of being and becoming, fully, both wolf and man.

I've been a fan of Anne Rice's writing since I read Interview with the Vampire. I read so many of her books. I didn't read the ones where she was going through her christian phase (about this life of Jesus) but I have read most of the others.

I hope that this is just the first book of a series. I think that this would make a really good series. I would love to see it go on. See what happens to the characters.

I love her new take on Werewolves.

It has been debated if Anne Rice is now an atheist. I am friends with her on facebook and something she posted on there seems to point to that she might be. The story told by Margon (of the beginning of the Morphenkind) in this book tends to give voice to atheism also.

I finished this book in 2 days. I am hoping there will be a book two.

Go out and read it and tell me what you think.

I had a girls night out on Saturday night with my Mother-in-Law and her wife and some of their friends. We went to Sisters http://www.sistersnightclub.com/ and had tons of fun. Sisters is a 5,000 sq. ft Nightclub and Restaurant catering to Philadelphia’s LGBT community. Located in the heart of Philly’s “Gayborhood”,

It was Equality Forum Weekend at Sisters. 

I am ready for summer. I am ready to go swimming. I just got new swim-trunks which I LOVE! These pictures aren't the best they were taken with my phone.