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When I worked on Wall Street, I considered a move from one type of bond department to a new type of department. Even though I had been successful in the industry for 7 years, I was still afraid I that I wouldn’t know how to be successful in my new department. Then I spoke with one of the other traders, George Adelle, who was also moving to the new department, about my fears. He said I’d do fine… I’d just need to learn some new words and a different way to do the math on this security. This conversation forced me to think and what I ended up realizing was that all that separates one thing from another is learning 200 new words! That’s not only true for securities… it’s true for so many things in life.

Take computers. They come with 200 new words you need to learn. Using email means learning a list of 200 acronyms. Each new program comes with its own 200 words to learn. Actually each new “thing” in life seems to come with its own 200 words! Next time you’re about to stress out as you learn something new, remember… its just 200 new words!

Use the resources below to learn the meanings of any words or acronyms you come across as you learn more about your computer.

Common Acronyms www.coachmaria.com/articles/acronyms.html Web Acronyms www.ucc.ie/info/net/acronyms/acro.html Acronym Finder http://www.acronymfinder.com/ Computer and Internet Technology Dictionary www.webopedia.com Internet Dictionary www.netlingo.com Meta Tag Dictionary http://vancouver-webpages.com/META/ Dictionary and Thesaurus www.dictionary.com

Cooling towers are used to cool down hot condenser water taken from chillers of air conditioning systems. The cooling effect of cooling towers are attributed to the evaporation of the water when it is blown through by air from the fans.

After some time of circulating through the cooling towers, the water becomes more and more concentrated with the dissolved salts in the water. The concentrated water has to be drained off and fresh new water added into the system to make it less saline.

However, when fresh water is added, it will not have any passivation chemicals to protect the piping and the component condenser parts from corrosion. So chemicals are added to protect the piping and the machinery.

For cooling tower water, the chemical used serve 2 basic functions - a corrosion inhibitor and a biocide.

The corrosion inhibitor is for preventing corrosion in the piping and the related parts. The biocide is to prevent growth of algae, bacteria and other micro organisms.

Every water treatment chemical company has its own formula and special concortions. A typical corrosion inhibitor may contain about 1 - 10% Potassium Hydroxide or similar alkali. This is then further diluted when mixed with the water in the cooling tower. Being an alkali, it will neutralize any acids found in the water that can cause corrosion to occur.

The cooling tower is installed outdoors. With the ample warmth from the chiller, fresh air and sunlight, the water it contains is a very ideal medium for the growth of micro organism.

Micro organism growing in cooling tower water causes a lot of problems. Clumps of algae can cause chokages in the pump strainers. Long strands of microscopic plants can act like nets that can cause restrictions to the flow of the water. Some organisms cause diseases and other health related problems to people. A typical biocide contains Sodium hypochlorite with concentrations ranging from 10 - 20%. Again, this is further diluted when mixed with the cooling water.

Even with the dosing of chemicals, the cooling tower needs to be cleaned every now and then. Dusts from the air still manage to settle down inside the sump of the cooling tower. So does the remains of dead micro organisms. These can stick to the infills and prevent the proper distribution of the water flow.

Sometimes cooling tower plastic infills get brittle due to the exposure to ultraviolet rays found in sunlight. They often break up into small particles that can choke even coarse filters.

Folks, it’s time to clean up!

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If you plan to go shopping for a new printer, there are several key features you want to consider before making your purchase.

Inkjet or Laserjet? The two most popular types of printer technology are inkjet and laser. Whether you buy online or walk into a store, immediately you’ll notice a difference in price. Laser printers are usually more than inkjet printers, sometimes several times as much. In an office environment, you can easily pay $1,000 for a laser printer. In a home office, you can easily pay $100 for an inkjet, even less. However, not all laser printers are that expensive, and not all inkjet printers are that cheap. I’m going to tell you the things to look for that will help you decide what you need.

Speed If speed is your chief concern, the laser printer will win hands down, every time. There are laser printers that can handle in excess of 34ppm (Pages Per Minute) and 22-24 is pretty much the minimum in today’s world. That’s not to say that inkjet’s aren’t plenty fast, some can approach 30ppm in draft mode. I’ve found most people don’t actually use draft mode though, so you’re going to get more like 5-10ppm in normal operation.

Connectivity Something often over looked is, how will you plug in? I have seen people that don’t even know what a USB port is, go out and buy a printer that only has USB support. They return home and end up making a call to find out that their computer doesn’t have a USB port. There’s nothing wrong with printers that only support USB, but make sure your computer supports what the printer supports. Also, don’t get a super short cable, pay attention to where you’ll be locating your new printer, and get a cable plenty long enough.

Small businesses, home-based businesses, and self-employed individuals have been turning to internet telephone service (also called broadband phone or VOIP) in droves. What is the attraction? As a self-employed, telecommuting, small-business-owning freelance writer, I can provide some insight.

I switched my business to internet phones early in 2005. Despite a few hiccups, I’m not going back to landlines. Internet phone service has too many advantages, which I’ll describe for you. I also have some tips for avoiding possible rough patches.

VOIP Internet Phone Small Business and SOHO Advantages

VOIP Advantage No. 1: Look bigger.

* If your small business has to seem large, a virtual PBX with a dial-by-name directory might help. These systems cost thousands to install. But many VOIP companies let you rent this service for less than a hundred dollars a month.

* Give each member of your team their own outside line. With most VOIP companies, each line costs around $10.

* Get one or more 1-800 numbers at around $10/month.

VOIP Advantage No 2. Freedom of movement.

* Freedom to travel. When I went to Sacramento to visit a friend, I ended up extending my stay to a whole month. I couldn’t have done that without regular phone access. With VOIP, my Massachusetts number follows me wherever I go.

* Tropical adventures. I regularly work with a virtual assistant company that takes phone calls on their Quebec phone number everyday. That wouldn’t be so strange except they’re in the Philippines. They’re using the same small business VOIP phone service sold right here in North America. True, VOIP companies don’t generally guarantee their services will work outside the country of purchase. But the internet is the internet, whether in Fargo or the South Pacific. With the growth of broadband to virtually every non-pariah nation on earth, your second office really could be in a tropical paradise–or year-round ski resort. Isn’t that the freedom you hoped being your own boss would bring?

* Telecommuting. Feel a cold coming? Work from home! With VOIP, even the receptionist may be able to telecommute!

* Voicemail by email. You don’t have to be by the phone to get voicemail. This is the perfect service for busy people and email addicts. Bonus: the message (in a file similar those used on MP3 players) can be stored indefinitely.

Internet Phone Advantage 3. Cost

* Make lots of calls? Many VOIP providers’ unlimited-calling plans cost just $20 to $80 a month.

* Features such as call waiting, caller ID, hold, call forwarding, and multiple ring-to numbers are usually costly extras with landline service. With most VOIP services, those are built-in features.

SOHO VOIP: Tips for Making it Work for Your Business

SOHO VOIP Tip 1. Test internet phoning out before committing.

Yes, some VOIP connections are so scratchy and patchy they sound like cell phones. That’s usually because of a problem in the internet connection. Such problems may not be apparent in ordinary web browsing and file downloading. Go with a service that has a 30-day money-back guarantee. Try VOIP out where you live and work. Make sure to try inbound and outbound calls.

Small Business Internet Phone Tip 2. Phoning from a laptop.

With VOIP telephones, you don’t need a computer. But you can use your computer as a phone. A piece of software called a “softphone” uses your computer’s speakers and microphone. If your laptop is running too many programs at once, calls will deteriorate. Higher-end laptops shouldn’t have this problem.

SOHO Internet Phones Tip 3. Go with an established VOIP company.

You don’t want to lose your telephone service and possibly your number. Yet only a few VOIP companies have roots before 2000. Choose a service with deep enough roots to survive a VOIP industry shake-out.

Small Biz Internet Phoning Tip 4. Choose a provider carefully before putting the number on your business cards.

Switching VOIP companies is at least as much of a pain as switching landline phone companies. In fact, there is typically no outward number-portability. You can bring a number in, but good luck taking it with you. Researching in early 2005, I found no nationwide VOIP services officially offering outward number portability.

Choose a VOIP provider with a 30-day money-back guarantee. Test the service out thoroughly. One thing is likely: you may want to switch VOIP providers, but you won’t want to go back to landline.

Encompix (www.encompix.com) has filled the manufacturing software requirements of Engineer-to-Order companies since 1992. Encompix saw an outstanding number of new clients including: * B&K Corporation has two Michigan manufacturing plants, Fenton and Saginaw. * Formglas is located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. * Midwest Patterns is based in Quincy, IL. * Lindquist Machine Corporation (LMC), located in Green Bay, Wisconsin. * ID Merchandising is located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. * Air-x-hemphill (AXH) is located in Tulsa, Oklahoma; plant in Claremore, Oklahoma. * Komline-Sanderson is located in Peapack, New Jersey. * Global Vehicle Systems (GVS) is located in Tilbury, Ontario, Canada. * Pattern Equipment & Prototype (PEP) in Windsor, Ontario, is a division of Tooling & Equipment International (TEI), Livonia, Michigan. * J.F.Berns Company, Inc. is just a few miles from Encompix’s Cincinnati headquarters. * Industrial Engraving is located in Pulaski, Wisconsin. * Applied Motion Systems Inc. is based in Vancouver, Washington.

The company name, Encompix, reflects the commitment to developing business application solutions that encompass the complex areas of project-based and job-based manufacturing. Encompix provides ETO manufacturers with a competitive advantage by improving bottom line results.

According to Thomas R. Cutler, spokesperson for the ETO Institute (www.etoinstitute.org), “Encompix continues to capture significant marketshare in the ETO environment because few other ERP vendors truly understand the nuances and significant distinctions of the ETO process versus the repetitive manufacturing process. Encompix now has more than 200 of the leading ETO manufacturing firms in North America using their ERP Software solution.”

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Inspect to see if the moneylender who is willing to give you a credit loan is fine. Nowadays you can inquire rates quickly online and cast if there are other possible traps you should be aware of. 9.6 percent rate may come out so equitable but will it stay unvaried after you have to pay for your loan. That’s why now you need to check and figure if you can have a loan at a honorable percent rate of interest.

Translated in Dutch it means: Woon je in Ferwerderadiel of Rucphen en heb je BKR verleden. Lenen met zonder BKR is nog nooit zo gemakkelijk geweest. Verwen jezelf met een andere caravan met met lenen bkr codering, 383329 euro is gewoon mogelijk om te lenen. Van Rijssen-Holten tot Halderberge, financieren met BKR is hier geen enkel probleem.

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As awareness of VSAT Systems satellite Internet access (www.vsat-systems.com) becomes more wide spread, demand for secure connections from remote locations to corporate local area networks continues to increase. The high latency inherent in geo-synchronous satellite connections has presented a significant obstacle to efficient virtual private network (VPN) connections over satellite.

Various solutions to carrying IP traffic over satellite have been proposed, but each one has had some limitation that prevented it from becoming widely adopted. Recently Encore Networks released their VSR-30 3DES VPN device, which offers the most popular features of IPSEC appliances, but leaves the IP header unencrypted. This feature makes the VSR-30 attractive for satellite-based VPN applications because visible headers allow VSAT Systems to optimize throughput.

The Problem
In order for a two-way satellite service to perform properly in conjunction with traditional terrestrial networks (Internet, Intranet), satellite data networks must employ special techniques to deal with the extra 44,600-mile space segment of the connection. Without those steps, the increased latency, the time required to traverse the extra distance, means that TCP severely limits performance.

The Internet relies on the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) to ensure packet delivery without errors. TCP works by sending a certain amount of data, the “window size,” then waiting for the receiver to send an acknowledgment of receipt. With TCP, the sender cannot transmit more data until it has received an acknowledgment. If an acknowledgment does not arrive in a timely manner, TCP assumes the packet was lost (discarded due to network congestion) and resends it. When packets go unacknowledged, TCP also slows the transmission rate to reduce congestion and to minimize the need for retransmissions.

TCP/IP sessions start out sending data slowly. Speed builds as the rate of the acknowledgments verifies the network’s capacity to carry more traffic. This is known as slow-start, followed by a ramp-up in speed. The speed of the connection builds until the sender detects packet loss from a lack of an acknowledgment. This allows TCP to achieve the fastest practical data transfer rate for the conditions present on the network.

Terrestrial networks typically have round-trip latencies in the range of 35 to 100 ms. Satellite networks, due to the distance of geo-synchronous satellites above the equator, require 550 ms or more. Some satellite connections have much higher latencies. Depending upon the satellite hardware and subscription policy of the service provider, latencies of 800 ms to as much at 2,000 ms or more can occur. TCP interprets the additional satellite transit time as network congestion. If uncorrected, this effect causes the network to send all additional packets at the slow-start rate.

Current satellite data networks employ a technique referred to as TCP acceleration or IP spoofing to compensate for the extra time required to transit the space segment. Special equipment at the carrier’s main satellite hub appears to terminate the TCP session, so it appears to the sender as the remote location. In actuality the device at the satellite hub acts as a relay or forwarder between the originating terrestrial location and the remote satellite unit.
When the spoofing equipment receives Internet traffic destined for a remote satellite location, it immediately acknowledges receipt of the packet to the sender so more data packets will follow promptly. This way the sender never experiences the actual latency to the remote site because acknowledgments return rapidly. As a result, TCP moves out of slow-start mode quickly and builds to the highest practical speed.

To prevent packets from being acknowledged twice, the spoofing equipment suppresses acknowledgments from the remote site. In this way, computers behind a satellite link communicate seamlessly and efficiently with servers on the terrestrial Internet.

IPsec VPNs not only encrypt the data portion of packets, they also encrypt the TCP port number and IP address of the sender’s computer. (Think of TCP port as the apartment number while the IP address is that of the building.) Consequently, only the VPN software at the remote site can decipher where packets originated and acknowledge receipt of data.

Popular IPsec VPNs, therefore, defeat TCP acceleration over satellite links because ground stations cannot adjust the fields in the header when those fields are encrypted. This situation requires that acknowledgments transit the space segment twice (over and back) and results in substantial performance degradation. The impact on performance increases as the latency rises.
To determine the effect of latency on performance and to measure the effectiveness of an alternative VPN device, engineers at VSAT Systems transferred a variety of data files over a high-quality satellite link under controlled conditions and measured the results.

Test Procedure
The test compared transfer rates over a Cisco 1711 IPsec VPN and an Encore VSR-30 Selective Layer Encryption (SLE) appliance to each other and to the speed of file transfers over the open Internet (unencrypted). The data moved from remote to server, then from server to remote using FTP. Transfer rates were measured in kilobits per second (Kbps). The test utilized six different files to measure data transfers rates: 500 kilobyte, 5 megabyte, and 10 megabyte files in both compressible (text) and non-compressible (binary)forms.

Both the Cisco and Encore equipment used 3DES encryption. However, the Encore unit’s SLE encrypted only the data, leaving the IP and TCP headers accessible. With the headers accessible, the encrypted packets are compatible with all types of satellite modems and all methods of TCP acceleration.

The test transferred files between two similarly configured Free BSD computers containing three identical network cards. With three cards in each system, the computers could multi-home and physically separate data. The resulting three data paths facilitated the near simultaneous testing of the two VPN circuits and the unencrypted, clear connection.

The remote connection utilized VSAT Systems NetModem II (www.vsat-systems.com/satellite-internet/hardware.html) commissioned for 512 Kbps/512 Kbps service to the Internet. The host side had a cable modem connection running at 3 Mbps/384 Kbps. The 384 Kbps outbound connection limited the ability to test the full 512 Kbps download capability of the satellite modem, but it did provide adequate results to compare relative speeds of encrypted and unencrypted data coming from the host.

The latency of the VSAT Systems satellite link (www.vsat-systems.com) used in these tests ranged from approximately 550 ms to 625 ms. Some satellite connections (www.skycasters.com) have much higher latencies. Depending upon the satellite hardware and subscription policy of the service provider, latencies of 800 ms to as much at 2,000 ms have been observed.

The performance of any shared bandwidth system varies throughout the day. To minimize bandwidth effects on results, five iterations of each test ran at different times. To further reduce the influence of bandwidth fluctuations, the testing sequence progressed through all six files, once in each direction, before repeating the transfer of any one file. For example, the 500 K text file ran through the SLE tunnel, then the IPsec circuit, and finally in the clear.

Next a 500 K binary file passed through each circuit, and so on. Each interleaved sequence of transfers repeated five times. An efficient VPN solution must do more than simply transfer files proficiently. The time to establish a TCP/IP session can significantly impact how applications run across a high-latency connection. To gain an indication of the rate at which the connections could establish TCP/IP sessions, the test procedure transferred a directory file and a group of web pages back and forth.

The time required to establish a TCP/IP session can have a noticeable impact on the performance of some web-enabled applications. Since each file included in a
web page requires the browser to start a new HTTP connection to the server, a page with multiple graphics, framed text, or media in external files will cause a delay as multiple connections open and close. Similar circumstances occur in FTP connections as a client traverses the server’s file structure if that action involves multiple files.

To illustrate TCP/IP session initiation efficiency, the test protocol included two additional procedures. First, each server transferred a directory containing files of different sizes and composition over and back across the connections using FTP. Second, the servers moved a series of web pages to and from the remote site using HTTP. Since both FTP and HTTP must establish a new connection for each file, this procedure provided a method to assess start/restart timing issues associated with VPN tunnels extended across satellite links. For convenience, the FTP and HTTP tests measured the total time required to transfer the respective data from one side to another, not the time to reestablish each individual connection.

Results
The 3DES Selective Layer Encryption technology proved consistently faster than IPsec encryption in all three categories: FTP file transfer, FTP directory transfer, and HTTP web page downloads. This is as expected because SLE leaves the TCP/IP headers in the clear which allows the satellite operator to perform IP spoofing or TCP acceleration.

In half of the FTP file transfers, Selective Layer Encryption attained higher data transfer rates than the unencrypted circuit. Data moved 20% slower over the IPsec connection than it did over the unencrypted channel when moving from host to remote and 38% slower going from the remote to the host.
Both the graph on page 3 entitled FTP to Remote Site and the one above labeled FTP from Remote Site present the mean values for five iterations of each file type.

Selective Layer Encryption also performed well in the TCP/IP intensive tests involving directories and web pages. When downloading the directory information to the remote site, SLE performed only 7% slower than the unencrypted connection compared with 25% for the slower IPsec protocol. In the opposite direction, the SLE connection completed the task only 3% behind the unencrypted connection while the IPsec circuit ran 14% slower.

In the web page test, SLE completed the task 0.5% faster than the unencrypted circuit when moving data from the host to the remote site. Reversing direction reduced the SLE performance relative to the clear channel: SLE took 6% longer. The IPsec connection pulled down the web pages 5% slower than the unencrypted circuit going from host to remote and 66% slower when run from the remote site.

As mentioned earlier, satellite latency varies with equipment and service quality. Longer latencies, while affecting all the results, will have a more severe impact on the IPsec connection than either of the other two protocols in this test.

Conclusions
Any encryption technique over any connection imposes some performance loss. Performance also suffers as a function of increased latency. Some of the geo-synchronous satellite services available today, however, have sufficiently low latencies (550 to 625 ms) that even an IPsec VPN becomes practical.

But as the results of these tests clearly indicate, IPsec encryption significantly reduces the performance of TCP/IP over a high latency connection. The Encore VSR-30 with Selective Layer Encryption technology combines with VSAT Systems high-end satellite equipment (www.vsat-systems.com) offers an efficient method to achieve fast, secure 3DES encryption when using a satellite link to access the public Internet.

About the Author

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I do believe there is a Great Spirit responsible for the creation of the universe, but unfortunately, there have been those who have been the victims of the exploitation of this higher power.

When George W. Bush and the Christian Reich took control of the most powerful country in the world, The United States of America, a very dangerous virus began spreading throughout the country.

The virus: Christian Fascism.

This lethal threat to democracy is now infecting the world, ie…the invasion and occupation of Iraq.

To understand the Right Wing Zealots, it is important to acquire an understanding of what it means to be a religious addict. The following identifies important signs of religious addiction:

SYMPTOMS OF RELIGIOUS ADDICTION as written by Paschal Baute
Paschal Baute is a co-founder and facilitator of the Spiritual Growth Network of Kentucky. He is an organizational psychologist working with leadership and team development and personnel screening. His business web page will be found at www.paschalbaute.com

• Inability to think, doubt, or question religious information and/or authority • Black-and-white, good/bad, either/or simplistic thinking: one way or the other • Shame-based belief that you aren’t good enough or you aren’t doing it right • Magical thinking that God will fix you/ do it all, without serious work on your part • Scrupulosity: rigid obsessive adherence to rules, codes of ethics, or guidelines • Uncompromising judgmental attitudes: readiness to find fault or evil out there • Compulsive or obsessive praying, going to church or crusades, quoting scripture • Unrealistic financial contributions
• Believing that sex is dirty; believing our bodies or physical pleasures are evil • Compulsive overeating and/or excessive fasting
• Conflict and argumentation with science, medicine, and education • Progressive detachment from the real work, isolation and breakdown of relationships • Psychosomatic illness: back pains, sleeplessness, headaches, hypertension • Manipulating scripture or texts, feeling specially chosen, claiming to receive special messages from God • Maintaining a religious “high”, trance-like state, keeping a happy face (or the belief that one should…) (1.) © Paschal Baute 1993

Condensed ‘Characteristics of a Religious “Addictive” System.’ Dr. Thomas Edgington is the principle author and contributed 90% of the following:

• God is seen as impersonal and vindictive: members tend to have a “grace- deficit” theology. (Their religion and experience are based totally on fear, not on relief.) • Emphasis on theological “correctness” to the neglect of relationships and of loving others. • Demonstrates a “spiritual arrogance” [considers those from "outside" as less spiritual]. • You will hear comments like “I pride myself on my humility.”
• Majors on minor theological issues and ignores or minimizes major ones. • Scripture is said to be of primary importance, but in reality it is the leader’s interpretation of Scripture that has primary importance. • Traditions often overrule Biblical truth.
• Scripture is often misquoted, used out of context, or is degraded to the level of trite, pat answers in order to prove a point or to exact obedience to a system. • Intellectual development is limited to what fits the system; we think the way we do because we are right; the thoughts and opinions of others are not considered. • Dogmatism is common: the point under discussion is often explained by the quotation of a Bible verse, again, usually out of context. • Members attempt to impose their personal opinions upon “outsiders” or upon those still within the system but under suspicion. • There is a lack of objective accountability: leadership is accountable to itself ONLY. [Often explains why the "religious" fear and despise psychology... fear of exposure by outsider] • Leadership is viewed as infallible and beyond reproach.
• Undue/over-emphasis upon submission to authority.
• Expression of certain emotions, particularly anger, is seen as “unspiritual”. • Low self image, hyperactive conscience, undue guilt, and an inability to forgive, either others or oneself is very common. • Communication often centers around theological issues; personal issues are rarely discussed. When they are, two phenomena find expression: shredding people,setting up and knocking down straw men.
• Interpersonal intimacy is often lacking.
• Poor ability to relate to hurting people; offers pat answers instead of demonstrating loving care (2.)

Religious Addiction preys on the Weak and Vulnerable

After reading and processing the above characteristics of a religious addict, it is very to easy to find incidents of religious addictions since George W. Bush took power:

A while ago, I was watching the news stories about the Ten Commandments Monument being removed from a Government building in the United States. As I watched the protests, I thought how twisted right wing Christian zealots are; the way they whined and moaned lying on the ground reminded me of a religious addicted cult. There is so much hate and mental defects within the Christian Coalition. It is scary.

It is important for all countries to separate government from Organized Religion. Christian Right Wing Organized Religion is a very dangerous political institution. They have decided how people should live and those choosing a different way of life are viewed as deviant or enemies.

When looking at two men, George W. Bush and Mel Gibson, it is easy to see how dangerous Religious addiction can be to the rest of the population. Both these men are recovered drug addicts and drunks. What lead to their recovery was replacing their chemical addictions with Christian addiction. Like a cult, Christian Extremists target people when they are at their weakest; both men have weak minds which made them easy prey. They should not be respected, but looked at as very weak little creatures.

As President of the United States, the mentally feeble man, George W. Bush, has been given the power to flex his religious addicted muscles: supported challenging affirmative action, proposal to ban gay marriage, increase funding to religious groups that help alcoholics and drug addicts recover, invading and taking over Iraq, funding the promotion marriage (push women in the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant, eh Georgie?)

The Christian Right seeks to oppress those who don’t conform to their way of life. In order for society to evolve, Right Wing Religion must be kept out of positions of political power.

Religious addicted Mel Gibson is now a right wing fundamentalist. He believes he knows God personally, and has a whole lot of money, giving him the power to push his beliefs on the rest of us. There is nothing more dangerous than a rich right wing fundamentalist. About Mel Gibson’s movie, The Passion of the Christ, Movie Reviewers and News Commentators did not have the courage to give Mel Gibson’s movie a real review. It is probably like during the invasion of Iraq; people who spoke against it were intimidated, and the media was very biased toward the bullies.

Religious addiction is a serious mental illness in our society. Religious addicts, when given power, have the ability to do some serious damage to the world and its species.

Religious Addiction: a mental illness with deadly social consequences.

Endnotes:

1. Paschal Baute, Symptons of Religious Addiction http://www.lexpages.com/SGN/paschal/religious_addiction.html 2. Dr. Thomas Edgington, Characteristics of a Religious “Addictive” System. Nimbus.org http://www.nimbus.org/Academics/ReligiousAddiction.html

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Symptons of Religious Addiction by Paschal Baute
http://www.lexpages.com/SGN/paschal/religious_addiction.html
Retrieved April, 1st 2004

Characteristics of a Religious “Addictive” System. Nimbus.org
http://www.nimbus.org/Academics/ReligiousAddiction.html
Retrieved April, 1st 2004

Copyright 2004 © TrysDan Roberts

TrysDan Roberts is a freelance writer and published author of the novel, The Sinking Of Noah’s Ark, as well as several published short stories. Permission is granted to post any of TrysDan’s articles that have been submitted to goarticles.com on websites provided that the author is acknowledged and the link to the authors site, www.trysdansbooks.com is placed in the authors bio.

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