Man's life sells for less than expected on eBay
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<!-- Article's First Paragraph --><!-- BlogBurst ContentStart -->PERTH, Australia---- A man who auctioned his life -- his house, his car, his job, even his friends -- on eBay said Monday he is disappointed with the selling price: almost $384,000.
Ian Usher, a British immigrant to Australia, put everything he owned as well as introductions to his friends on the online auction site after a painful breakup with his wife prompted him to want a fresh start.
Bidding closed Sunday and reached nearly $384,000 -- an amount Usher said his house in the western city of Perth was worth on its own.
''I guess I'm a little bit disappointed at the final price, I'd hoped it to be a little higher than that,'' Usher told Nine Network television on Monday. ''But I am committed to selling and moving on and making a fresh start.''
He declined to reveal the buyer's identity, or what his next step would be.
Usher said he had hoped to get at least $480,000 (a half-million Australian dollars) for his life -- his house and all its contents, car and a motorcycle, a jet ski, skydiving gear, an introduction to friends and a trial period in his sales job -- but that the final result was enough for him to make a new start in life.
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<!-- Article's First Paragraph --><!-- BlogBurst ContentStart -->PERTH, Australia---- A man who auctioned his life -- his house, his car, his job, even his friends -- on eBay said Monday he is disappointed with the selling price: almost $384,000.
Ian Usher, a British immigrant to Australia, put everything he owned as well as introductions to his friends on the online auction site after a painful breakup with his wife prompted him to want a fresh start.
Bidding closed Sunday and reached nearly $384,000 -- an amount Usher said his house in the western city of Perth was worth on its own.
''I guess I'm a little bit disappointed at the final price, I'd hoped it to be a little higher than that,'' Usher told Nine Network television on Monday. ''But I am committed to selling and moving on and making a fresh start.''
He declined to reveal the buyer's identity, or what his next step would be.
Usher said he had hoped to get at least $480,000 (a half-million Australian dollars) for his life -- his house and all its contents, car and a motorcycle, a jet ski, skydiving gear, an introduction to friends and a trial period in his sales job -- but that the final result was enough for him to make a new start in life.
"Fifty Ways To Leave Your Lover"
(As recorded by Paul Simon)
PAUL SIMON
"The problem is all inside your head," she said to me
"The answer is easy if you take it logic'lly
I'd like to help you in your struggle to be free
There must be, fifty ways to leave your lover."
She said, "It's really not my habit to intrude
Furthermore I hope my meaning won't be lost or misconstrued
But I'll repeat myself, at the risk of being crude
There must be, fifty ways to leave your lover"
Fifty ways to leave your lover.
You just slip out the back, Jack
Make a new plan, Stan
You don't need to be coy, Roy
Just get yourself free
Hop on the bus, Gus
You don't need to discuss much
Just drop off the key, Lee
And get yourself free.
Oo slip out the back, Jack
Make a new plan, Stan
You don't need to be coy, Roy
You just listen to me
Hop on the bus, Gus
You don't need to discuss much
Just drop off the key, Lee
And get yourself free.
She said, "It grieves me now to see you in such pain
I wish there was something I could do to make you smile again"
I said, "I appreciate that, and would you please explain about the fifty ways?"
She said, "Why don't we both just sleep on it tonight?
And I believe in the morning you'll begin to see the light"
And then she kissed me, and I realized she probably was right
There must be, fifty ways to leave your lover
Fifty ways to leave your lover.
You just slip out the back, Jack
Make a new plan, Stan
You don't need to be coy, Roy
Just get yourself free
Oh you hop on the bus, Gus
You don't need to discuss much
Just drop off the key, Lee
And get yourself free.
Slip out the back, Jack
Make a new plan, Stan
You don't need to coy, Roy
You just listen to me
Hop on the bus, Gus
You don't need to discuss much
Just drop off the key, Lee
And get yourself free.
(c) Copyright 1975 by Paul Simon.
- SONG HITS, May 1976.
(As recorded by Paul Simon)
PAUL SIMON
"The problem is all inside your head," she said to me
"The answer is easy if you take it logic'lly
I'd like to help you in your struggle to be free
There must be, fifty ways to leave your lover."
She said, "It's really not my habit to intrude
Furthermore I hope my meaning won't be lost or misconstrued
But I'll repeat myself, at the risk of being crude
There must be, fifty ways to leave your lover"
Fifty ways to leave your lover.
You just slip out the back, Jack
Make a new plan, Stan
You don't need to be coy, Roy
Just get yourself free
Hop on the bus, Gus
You don't need to discuss much
Just drop off the key, Lee
And get yourself free.
Oo slip out the back, Jack
Make a new plan, Stan
You don't need to be coy, Roy
You just listen to me
Hop on the bus, Gus
You don't need to discuss much
Just drop off the key, Lee
And get yourself free.
She said, "It grieves me now to see you in such pain
I wish there was something I could do to make you smile again"
I said, "I appreciate that, and would you please explain about the fifty ways?"
She said, "Why don't we both just sleep on it tonight?
And I believe in the morning you'll begin to see the light"
And then she kissed me, and I realized she probably was right
There must be, fifty ways to leave your lover
Fifty ways to leave your lover.
You just slip out the back, Jack
Make a new plan, Stan
You don't need to be coy, Roy
Just get yourself free
Oh you hop on the bus, Gus
You don't need to discuss much
Just drop off the key, Lee
And get yourself free.
Slip out the back, Jack
Make a new plan, Stan
You don't need to coy, Roy
You just listen to me
Hop on the bus, Gus
You don't need to discuss much
Just drop off the key, Lee
And get yourself free.
(c) Copyright 1975 by Paul Simon.
- SONG HITS, May 1976.
Spelling is an issue, she constantly asks me how to spell very simple words, quite annoying.
Sometimes she will have to address something to say a Lori, asks me how to spell it. Not satisfied with my explanation that you can spell it Lori, Lorrie,Laurie Laura, and probably six more ways... like I'm supposed to know how this person's parents spelled it ?
I question her as to if she graduated HS with questions like this, always good for a fight,but not looking for it. :nohead: I'm glad I didn't go to her skool ! :think2:
Went to a fireworks show with her tonight, asked her if she knew the meaning of the 4th of July.... she did not, best she could come up with was "something about Christopher Columbus"
She's a Catholic that doesn't know what Easter is supposed to mean. Very sad when an athiest has to explain Easter to a Catholic.
Sometimes she will have to address something to say a Lori, asks me how to spell it. Not satisfied with my explanation that you can spell it Lori, Lorrie,Laurie Laura, and probably six more ways... like I'm supposed to know how this person's parents spelled it ?
I question her as to if she graduated HS with questions like this, always good for a fight,but not looking for it. :nohead: I'm glad I didn't go to her skool ! :think2:
Went to a fireworks show with her tonight, asked her if she knew the meaning of the 4th of July.... she did not, best she could come up with was "something about Christopher Columbus"
She's a Catholic that doesn't know what Easter is supposed to mean. Very sad when an athiest has to explain Easter to a Catholic.
I'm cool with you Kornholio, I'm no expert on religion.
Educate me on it:
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2. One who has no religion.
3. A non-Christian.
4. A hedonist.
5. A Neo-Pagan.
adj.1. Not Christian, Muslim, or Jewish.
2. Professing no religion; heathen.
3. Neo-Pagan.
I'm open to hearing how Easter is Pagan ( essentially atheist ?)
Easter
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16th century Russian Orthodox icon of the Descent into The Hades of Jesus Christ, which is the usual Orthodox icon for Pascha.</td> </tr> <tr> <th style="">Observed by</th> <td class="" style="">Most Christians</td> </tr> <tr> <th style="">Type</th> <td class="" style="">Christian</td> </tr> <tr> <th style="">Significance</th> <td class="" style="">Celebrates the resurrection of Jesus</td> </tr> <tr> <th style="">Date</th> <td class="" style="">First Sunday after the first full moon on or after March 21</td> </tr> <tr> <th style="">2007 date</th> <td class="" style="">April 8 (both Western and Eastern)</td> </tr> <tr> <th style="">2008 date</th> <td class="" style="">March 23 (Western)
April 27 (Eastern)</td> </tr> <tr> <th style="">2009 date</th> <td class="" style="">April 12 (Western)
April 19 (Eastern)</td> </tr> <tr> <th style="">Celebrations</th> <td class="" style="">Religious (church) services, festive family meals, Easter egg hunts, and gift-giving (latter two, especially in USA and Canada)</td> </tr> <tr> <th style="">Observances</th> <td class="" style="">Prayer, all-night vigil (almost exclusively Eastern traditions), sunrise service (especially American Protestant traditions)</td> </tr> <tr> <th style="">Related to</th> <td class="" style="">Passover, of which it is regarded the Christian equivalent; Septuagesima, Sexagesima, Quinquagesima, Shrove Tuesday, Ash Wednesday, Lent, Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday which lead up to Easter; and Ascension, Pentecost, Trinity Sunday, and Corpus Christi which follow it.</td> </tr> </tbody></table> <table style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249) none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; font-size: 85%; line-height: 110%;"> <tbody><tr> <td>
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"Eástre" by Jacques Reich.
Easter (Greek: Πάσχα, Pascha or Pasxa) is the most important religious feast in the Christian liturgical year.<sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference">[1]</sup> Christians celebrate this day in observance of their belief that Jesus Christ rose from the dead two days after his crucifixion (Easter Sunday, commonly referred to as the "third day" including the day of crucifixion), now estimated to have taken place between the years AD 26 and AD 36. Many non-religious cultural elements have become part of the holiday, and those aspects are often celebrated by many Christians and non-Christians alike.
Easter also refers to the season of the church year called Eastertide or the Easter Season. Traditionally the Easter Season lasted for the forty days from Easter Day until Ascension Day but now officially lasts for the fifty days until Pentecost. The first week of the Easter Season is known as Easter Week or the Octave of Easter. Easter also marks the end of Lent, a season of prayer and penance.
Easter is termed a moveable feast because it is not fixed in relation to the civil calendar. Easter falls at some point between late March and late April each year (early April to early May in Eastern Christianity), following the cycle of the moon. After several centuries of disagreement, all churches accepted the computation of the Alexandrian Church (now the Coptic Church) that Easter is the first Sunday after the first fourteenth day of the moon (the Paschal Full Moon) that is on or after the ecclesiastical vernal equinox.
Easter is linked to the Jewish Passover not only for much of its symbolism but also for its position in the calendar. The Last Supper shared by Jesus and his disciples before his crucifixion is generally thought of as a Passover meal, based on the chronology in the Gospels.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference">[2]</sup> Some, however, interpreting "Passover" in John 19:14 as a single meal and not an eight-day festival,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference">[3]</sup> interpret the Gospel of John as differing from the Synoptic Gospels by placing Christ's death at the time of the slaughter of the Passover lamb, which would put the Last Supper slightly before Passover, on 14 Nisan of the Bible's Hebrew calendar.<sup id="cite_ref-Leviticus_3-0" class="reference">[4]</sup> According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, "In fact, the Jewish feast was taken over into the Christian Easter celebration."
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16th century Russian Orthodox icon of the Descent into The Hades of Jesus Christ, which is the usual Orthodox icon for Pascha.</td> </tr> <tr> <th style="">Observed by</th> <td class="" style="">Most Christians</td> </tr> <tr> <th style="">Type</th> <td class="" style="">Christian</td> </tr> <tr> <th style="">Significance</th> <td class="" style="">Celebrates the resurrection of Jesus</td> </tr> <tr> <th style="">Date</th> <td class="" style="">First Sunday after the first full moon on or after March 21</td> </tr> <tr> <th style="">2007 date</th> <td class="" style="">April 8 (both Western and Eastern)</td> </tr> <tr> <th style="">2008 date</th> <td class="" style="">March 23 (Western)
April 27 (Eastern)</td> </tr> <tr> <th style="">2009 date</th> <td class="" style="">April 12 (Western)
April 19 (Eastern)</td> </tr> <tr> <th style="">Celebrations</th> <td class="" style="">Religious (church) services, festive family meals, Easter egg hunts, and gift-giving (latter two, especially in USA and Canada)</td> </tr> <tr> <th style="">Observances</th> <td class="" style="">Prayer, all-night vigil (almost exclusively Eastern traditions), sunrise service (especially American Protestant traditions)</td> </tr> <tr> <th style="">Related to</th> <td class="" style="">Passover, of which it is regarded the Christian equivalent; Septuagesima, Sexagesima, Quinquagesima, Shrove Tuesday, Ash Wednesday, Lent, Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday which lead up to Easter; and Ascension, Pentecost, Trinity Sunday, and Corpus Christi which follow it.</td> </tr> </tbody></table> <table style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249) none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; font-size: 85%; line-height: 110%;"> <tbody><tr> <td>
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"Eástre" by Jacques Reich.
Easter (Greek: Πάσχα, Pascha or Pasxa) is the most important religious feast in the Christian liturgical year.<sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference">[1]</sup> Christians celebrate this day in observance of their belief that Jesus Christ rose from the dead two days after his crucifixion (Easter Sunday, commonly referred to as the "third day" including the day of crucifixion), now estimated to have taken place between the years AD 26 and AD 36. Many non-religious cultural elements have become part of the holiday, and those aspects are often celebrated by many Christians and non-Christians alike.
Easter also refers to the season of the church year called Eastertide or the Easter Season. Traditionally the Easter Season lasted for the forty days from Easter Day until Ascension Day but now officially lasts for the fifty days until Pentecost. The first week of the Easter Season is known as Easter Week or the Octave of Easter. Easter also marks the end of Lent, a season of prayer and penance.
Easter is termed a moveable feast because it is not fixed in relation to the civil calendar. Easter falls at some point between late March and late April each year (early April to early May in Eastern Christianity), following the cycle of the moon. After several centuries of disagreement, all churches accepted the computation of the Alexandrian Church (now the Coptic Church) that Easter is the first Sunday after the first fourteenth day of the moon (the Paschal Full Moon) that is on or after the ecclesiastical vernal equinox.
Easter is linked to the Jewish Passover not only for much of its symbolism but also for its position in the calendar. The Last Supper shared by Jesus and his disciples before his crucifixion is generally thought of as a Passover meal, based on the chronology in the Gospels.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference">[2]</sup> Some, however, interpreting "Passover" in John 19:14 as a single meal and not an eight-day festival,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference">[3]</sup> interpret the Gospel of John as differing from the Synoptic Gospels by placing Christ's death at the time of the slaughter of the Passover lamb, which would put the Last Supper slightly before Passover, on 14 Nisan of the Bible's Hebrew calendar.<sup id="cite_ref-Leviticus_3-0" class="reference">[4]</sup> According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, "In fact, the Jewish feast was taken over into the Christian Easter celebration."
I never bought any of the religious stuff. My parents told me I was Protestant, but rarely went to church, so I never bought it.
My childhood friends that were told they were Catholic, went to something called Catechism ( sp ?), often called Cati-crap behind parent's backs.
I'm sorry, I don't believe in God, unless God is just a more advanced alien, depends how you define God,IMO !
My childhood friends that were told they were Catholic, went to something called Catechism ( sp ?), often called Cati-crap behind parent's backs.
I'm sorry, I don't believe in God, unless God is just a more advanced alien, depends how you define God,IMO !
I'm cool with you Kornholio, I'm no expert on religion.
Educate me on it:
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just a sample, best i Could find on short notice. Ressurection Sunday is a farce too. Just another name for Easter. I could go on but I wont'
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2. One who has no religion.
3. A non-Christian.
4. A hedonist.
5. A Neo-Pagan.
adj.1. Not Christian, Muslim, or Jewish.
2. Professing no religion; heathen.
3. Neo-Pagan.
I'm open to hearing how Easter is Pagan ( essentially atheist ?)
The name “Easter” has its roots in ancient polytheistic religions (paganism). On this, all scholars agree. This name is never used in the original Scriptures, nor is it ever associated biblically with the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. For these reasons, we prefer to use the term "Resurrection Sunday" rather than "Easter" when referring to the annual Christian remembrance of Christ's resurrection.
Ancient origin
Most reference books say that the name "Easter" derived from the Eastre, the Teutonic goddess of Spring. Although this relationship exists, in reality, the origin of the name and the goddess are far more ancient - going all the way back to the Tower of Babel. The origin begins not long after the biblical Flood.
Babel was the origin of an idolatrous system that swept the world. The Bible says of her, “Babylon… the nations drank her wine; Therefore the nations are deranged” (Jeremiah 51:7). The Bible often speaks of the Satanic religions which came from her. The ancient Greek historian Herodotus "witnessed the Mystery religion and its rites in numerous countries and mentions how Babylon was the primeval source from which ALL systems of idolatry flowed.[7] Austen Layard said “that we have the united testimony of sacred and profane history that idolatry originated in the area of Babylonia - the most ancient of religious systems.”[8]
Basically, almost every vile, profane and idolatrous practice you can think of originated at Babel with Queen Semiramis, the Mother Goddess and Nimrod. As the people scattered from Babel with their different languages, they, of course, used different names for Nimrod (Tammuz) and Semiramis. Some called the Mother Goddess “ISHTAR” (originally pronounced “Easter”).[9] In other lands, she was called Eostre, Astarte, Ostera, and Eastre. Other names for Semiramis, the Mother Goddess include: Wife of Baal, Ashtaroth or Ashtoreth, and Queen of Heaven.[10] The Mother goddess was frequently worshipped as the goddess of fertility - and as a sort of Mother Nature and goddess of Spring and sexual love and birth. She was also worshipped as a mediator between god and man. Sexual orgies and temple prostitutes were often used in her worship and in attempting to gain her favor.
