As of tomorrow I’m no longer a licensed driver. I have to mail my drivers license to the ministry. What will I do for the most depressing month of the year?

I’ve been officially medication free for three days now. I weened myself off them after the rehab woman told me I’m numb of all emotion & she wants me off them before I come. I told my shrink this & he said I need to be on them. Naturally, I disobey. Yesterday I felt like a pixelated, skipping dvd. The electric shocks I sometimes experience came once about every 2 minutes. Like the beginning of a panic attack lasting a few seconds. I liked the feeling at first but by the end of the day I couldn’t even stand to be awake. I’m experiencing the same electricity still today. I haven’t slept in the past four nights. My bed being drenched with sweat from my head to my toes. Nightmares coming out of my ass. Only to wake up, realize I am who I am, living the life I’m living, desperately trying to get back into a nightmare for relief from this. I’m exhausted.

Yesterday I read an entire book. Douglas Coupland’s Shampoo Planet. It was an easy read trying so hard to be clever, difficult and profound. Dull at moments yet I polished it off in three sittings totaling maybe six hours.

I started Before the Mortgage last night, a collection of short stories about the bridge between college graduate and adulthood. Review coming soon.

At least I have some concentration. More than I can say being on medication.

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I will warn you. This post has NOTHING to do with the huge apple but I am up ( at 5:28am in the morning ) and I needed to write about what I want to tell you about….

SHRINK : A must see film for 2009-2010 and years to come……

This film is, without a doubt, going to be on of my favorite films for life. Right now? My all time favorite movie. I am a huge critic. I look at a lot of things in life and over analyze.. films especially. I can honestly say I have not seen a really good good film in a loooooooooooong time. Until this movie appeared on my netflix page.

Recently released at Sundance, this film hit the theater. The screen captivates your eyes with Kevin Spacey, Robin Williams and many more great great actors! The film is so well written, filmed so creatively, taking place in La La land ( but of course! where else would you want to film people smoking pot 24/7 like they were drinking water?! ) where everyone is indulging in the underworld of alcohol, sex, drugs and depression. I will not go into the actual aspect of the film. THAT you must see for yourself. The characters are so complex and raw, the actors do such an amazing job depicting JUST that. You feel everything. Most likely you will be comparing yourself to at least one of the characters and grow with them as they grow.

If you see any movie, you MUST see this film. Grab a glass of wine, maybe some ( cough cough ) and sit on your couch or bed and watch. Be fully devoted to this film while watching… you really can’t miss anything. PLUS, once you start, you really can’t take your eyes off of the screen….

Deuces- Jade

Check the R5 Release Dates page for the latest release dates. (Dates go up to December 2010)

November 2009
Bring It On: Fight to the Finish – November 3^rd
Zombieland – November 5^th
The Prince & Me 3: A Royal Honeymoon – November 5^th
Hardwired – November 5^th
Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure – November 5^th
Banlieue 13 Ultimatum – November 12^th
Julie & Julia – November 12^th
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee – November 12^th
OSS 117: Rio ne répond plus – November 19^th
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs – November 19^th
Little Hercules in 3-D – November 19^th
Driven to Kill – November 19^th
Hachiko: A Dog’s Story – November 19^th
The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations – November 19^th
Saw VI – November 26^th
Playmobil: The Secret of Pirate Island – November 26^th

December
My Sister’s Keeper – December 1^st
Astro Boy – December 3^rd
Jennifer’s Body – December 3^rd (2nd Date)
Law Abiding Citizen – December 3^rd
American Pie: Book of Love – December 8^th
Inglourious Basterds – December 8^th
2012 – December 10^th
The Box – December 10^th
Love Happens – December 11^th
Funny People – December 15^th
Zombieland – December 17^th (2nd Date)
This Is It – December 17^th
The Stepfather  - December 17^th
Planet 51 – December 17^th
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee – December 24^th

January 2010
The Soloist – January 12^th 2010
Shrink – January 21^st 2010
The Final Destination – January 26^th 2010
Smokin’ Aces 2: Assassins’ Ball – January 26^th 2010
City Island – January 26^th 2010
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel – January 28^th 2010
This Is It – January 2010 (2nd Date)

February 2010
The Informant!  - February 2^nd 2010
500 Days of Summer – February 4^th 2010
Whiteout – February 9^th 2010
The Time Traveler’s Wife – February 9^th 2010
Couples Retreat – February 9^th 2010
The Invention of Lying – February 16^th 2010
Amelia – February 18^th 2010
Into the Blue 2: The Reef – February 18^th 2010
Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead – February 18^th 2010
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant – February 23^rd 2010
The Blind Side – February 23^rd 2010
Tooth Fairy – February 25^th 2010

March 2010
Free Willy: Escape from Pirate’s Cove – March 2^nd 2010
Fantastic Mr. Fox – March 4^th 2010
The Marine 2 – March 4^th 2010
Ninja Assassin – March 9^th 2010
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief – March 11^th 2010
Where the Wild Things Are – March 23^rd 2010
Surviving Evil – March 25^th 2010
The Cabin in the Woods  - March 25^th 2010
Sherlock Holmes – March 30^th 2010
The Wolfman – March 2010
A Christmas Carol – March 2010

April 2010
Paranormal Activity – April 6^th 2010
It’s Complicated – April 20^th 2010
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel – April 25^th 2010 (2nd Date)

May 2010
Preacher’s Kid – May 4^th 2010
Valentine’s Day – May 18^th 2010

For the rest of the dates go to http://tinyurl.com/r5dates

Updated: 18^th November 2009

Note: not all dates are 100% accurate and are likely to vary, please keep checking back for updated release dates.

Doctor please help!

These few words can create a storm in your head ,take you down memory lane and remind you of all the trauma you suffered the last time you were in a hospital with your loved ones laying helplessly on the stretcher waiting for help…
Help I need a doctor
one of the meanings of the word
Doctor :
One duly licensed to practice medicine; a member of the medical profession; a physician.
This simply means somebody who definitely spend more time on books and in the lab and certified to treat people of their ailments.Unfortunately speaking i have to say that today  there are a handful who are still honest in the profession, those handful are very rare .
Today when I hear stories of people being fleeced in hospitals especially in India where more than half of the population is middle class and cannot afford a bypass or a kidney transplant .the doctors make matters even worse

There is a story of a friend who went a very famous hospital with a family member who had a heart attack , once in the hospital the respective doctors were summoned .The doctors took the patient into the emergency room and returned saying Bypass must be performed immediately and 3 and half lakhs be deposited right away for the operation .

Phone calls started going across ,friends relatives all were called and asked if they could contribute towards such a hefty sum …while the naive relatives and friends were running haywire , The doctors who checked the patient knew that he was dead when he arrived at the hospital . This money was just to fill their pockets and not to help anybody .

I know you are devastated after going through this, so was i when i got to know of this incident .I hold no respect for people who make their living out of other peoples death .It’s a sad sad situation and is only getting worse.

So stop being taken for aride next time a doctor tells you do things or asks you to get unnecssary reports qusetion him get to the bottom of the situation and do not fear and blindly believe what a SHRINK tells you.

“Shrink” is a new DVD release, starring Kevin Spacey, and a guy that looks like a cross between Matt Damon and Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jesse Plemons.  It was directed by hipster, Jonas Pate, and written by Thomas Moffett (“Frost,” haven’t seen it yet).

Strange, unexpected, choppy I’d add, transitions in this movie.  It follows the lives of about 5 characters all weaving in and out of each others lives.   I liked it, overall, but it was quiet.  So if you like that sort of thing check it out, if not, don’t.  Be prepared for some subtlety.  It’s like this: if you’re in tune you can get some valuable things out of this movie.  It’s not “Transformers” by any means though.

The following should only be considered as a last resort to force the log file to shrink. I suggest you take a full database back-up first.

The DBCC LOGINFO can be run against the database. This will give you information about your virtual logs inside your transaction log.
In particular look at the Status column. Status = 2 indicates the portions of the log that are in use, status = 0 are not in use.

DBCC LOGINFO (DATABASE_NAME)

Step 1:
Attemp to shrink the problematic log file and back up the database with TRUNCATE_ONLY.

USE [DATABASE_NAME]
GO
DBCC SHRINKFILE (N’DATABASE_NAME’ , 0, TRUNCATEONLY)
GO

BACKUP LOG [DATABASE_NAME]
WITH TRUNCATE_ONLY

Step 2:
Create a temporary table and insert a record.

CREATE TABLE MyTable (MyField VARCHAR(10), PK INT )
INSERT Mytable (PK) VALUES (1)
GO

Step 3:
Run the following loop to update the table.

SET NOCOUNT ON
DECLARE @Index INT
SELECT @Index = 0
WHILE (@Index < 20000)
BEGIN
   UPDATE MyTable SET MyField = MyField WHERE PK = 1
   SELECT @Index = @Index + 1
END
SET NOCOUNT OFF

The log rows with status 2 should now be available with statis = 0.

Step 4:
Re-run the shrink command.

USE [DATABASE_NAME]
GO
DBCC SHRINKFILE (N’DATABASE_NAME’ , 0, TRUNCATEONLY)
GO

BACKUP LOG [DATABASE_NAME]
WITH TRUNCATE_ONLY

– Drop the temporary table as no longer required
drop table MyTable

The log file should now have shrunk successfully.

Source: http://www.broad-lea.com/sql_server/sql_reduce_log_size.html

Psikolojik boyutları olan, insanların iç dünyalarını yansıtmaya çalışan filmleri seviyorum. Shrink bunlardan biri. Bu tür filmlerde bir taraftan terapinin mahremiyetinin ortaya çıkması beni heyecanlandırırken, bir taraftan psikolog veya psikiyatristlerin kendi problemlerine eğilen senaryolar da ilgimi çekiyor. Bu filmin kısaca konusu, karısı intihar etmiş bir psikoloğun hayata tutunma çabası ve ona danışan bir avuç insanın hikayelerinin birleşmesi üzerine kurulmuş. Alt metinde ise Hollywood, film yapımı, senaryo yazmak, uyuşturucu, aldatma gibi hikayeler var. Filmin temposu yavaş gibi algılansa da, başından itibaren insanı çelecek hikayeler var. Örneğin doktor ile siyahi öğrenci kızın hikayesi gelişirken aynı anda doktorun üvey kardeşi ile hijyen manyağı film yapımcılarının hikayeleri insanı çekiyor. Tabii, sonunda tüm bu anlatılanların bir şekilde birleşeceğini tahmin edip onu da bekleyebilirsiniz.

Görünen yönetmen Jonas Pate şu ana kadar TV için işler yapmış, bu uzun metrajlı ilk büyük işi gibi görünüyor. Jemma karakterini oynayan Keke Palmer‘a dikkat çekmek isterim, çok farklı bir güzelliği var, TV’den film dünyasına geçmiş gibi görünüyor. Kevin Spacey ise gerçekten etkileyici oyunlarından birini gösteriyor, üzerinde yılların tecrübesini hissedebiliyorsunuz, sakince verilmek istenen duyguyu yansıtıyor.

had my first psych session today.  attempted to sum up my situation in 50 minutes. #fail

but at least it was a start.  despite my world opening back up to something approximating normality in the last month or two, i’ve been at this precarious stage a couple of times before, and am determined not to fall back into old habits this time.  so in the spirit of “for things to change, first i must change” (and “a useful definition of stupidity is always doing the same thing, but expecting a different result”), i’ve decided to re-engage professional services.  a qualified psychologist this time.

i saw a ‘counsellor’ for 9 months in 07.  although that was useful, the gentle approach of Narrative Therapy ultimately didn’t help me get to the jugular of this one.  time for a bigger knife…

this lady apparently does CBT – Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, though i always thought CBT stood for something quite different :p

thank the lords of kobol, the Oz govt is now subsidising qualified psych therapy, so this should only cost me about $30/session, hopefully for at least 12 sessions, which should provide a few months of solid engagement (plus 4 weeks while she’s on holidays in january ).

just from the background questions she asked me, a quote from LOST (tv show – Jack’s arm tattoo) that’s always stuck in my mind, and which also came to my consciousness recently when i noticed a tattoo on @richokinetic’s arm, came up today: “He walks among us, but he is not one of us” (which has nothing at all to do with Richo).  kinda sums up alot of my life’s story.  maybe it’s time to work through that one…

but now having waited 2.5 weeks for my 1st appointment, i have to wait for another 2.5 weeks to the next one but then 3 weeks in a row up to xmas.  looking forward to it…

A catholic who pays a well-deserved visit to the confession booth once every seven days may spell the last word in that particular couplet slightly differently, but I feel that the meaning inherent in my unedited version of the rhyme enables everyone else in the world to better relate to the message. Now, you may be expecting me to apologise for that terrible opening joke in an unambiguous display of irony, but I will do no such thing. Why? Well, for one, because I am not a hypocritical bastard. Or at least, I like to think I’m not. Feel free to prove me wrong.

I make no apologies. Not even hilarious ironic ones to leave insipid morons scratching their heads, trying to figure out if going against the sentiment of the aforementioned couplet was radical innovation, or just a mistake (to gleefully swipe inspired lines from Stewart Lee, and alter the context in such a way as to almost render my use of the line imaginative and original). Yes, this is the type of blog which classifies those that don’t understand irony as ‘insipid morons’. Actually, irony is becoming something of a recurring point of discussion in this blog. I’d say I’ll work on that in the future, but if I then didn’t, that act may be misconstrued as another sickening display of the art. And I’m sure nobody wants that. Not even the one person reading my blog. Well, especially not him, for he is also the one person writing my blog. Damn.

I swore that this blog would become a lot more structured after the introductory post, but here we are, three paragraphs in, as amorphous as a free jazz composition. Maybe this is because I don’t really have anything to write about other than the fact that I have a blog, which I have been doing for nearly two posts now. Nearly two posts, that is, assuming I stop in a few paragraphs. Which would be more likely, had I not just hit upon something to write about, after thinking about my throwaway crack at free jazz, and jumping wildly in my mind towards thoughts of obscure electronic indie act The Notwist. Now this is progression!

The Notwist – hailing from Germany, as if that were important – are one of those bands that sound amazing when described, and somehow manage to simultaneously live up to your expectations and disappoint you at the same time. My first impression of the group, at least, embedded this notion into my consciousness. A desire for something more, coupled with a sort of unconscious satisfaction. Perhaps I’m being too vague here. Perhaps I need to delve into my past for a few minutes and come back with a thoroughly unnecessary story about my experiences with the Notwist. Well, perhaps I will.

Sigh.

I was initially introduced to the Notwist by a good friend, who will remain nameless. Not to preserve her identity, in the vain hope of privacy through anonymity, but simply due to the fact that she has no name. Well, I hadn’t heard of them until this point, which struck me as odd. So I asked for more information, and was amazed to find that I actually cared about what my friend was saying. I looked down and my mouth was open, dripping saliva, like a dog that’s just been shown some pictures of meat. Who is this band? I must listen to this band. They apparently embodied everything that I cared about at that time; they were described to me as inventive, noisy and open to experimentation with electronic timbres. And to top it all off, they were as obscure and well-hidden as a good synth pop album.

I think ‘Shrink’ was the first album I heard by them, downloaded from a not-particularly savoury source in a flurry of impatience. And I’d like to say I was hooked from that very first listen, I really would, but the truth is that I felt a bit let down. I had seen all this fantastic imagery cased in textual descriptions of the band’s sound, and I’m ashamed to say I was a tad disenchanted with the end result. Rather than the lush ambient soundscapes paired with noisy garage rock and groovy electronic beats I had been promised, all my mind perceived was a lump of unintelligible sound, meandering structures and sub-standard singing.

Now, we all know the dangers of building things up in our minds. Experiences not yet experienced shouldn’t be put on ridiculous pedestals, for the inevitable ultimatum of such an act is complete and utter disillusionment at even the slightest flaw. And it seemed as though I had come down with a major case of the Hazardous Assumptions. I opted to relentlessly pick the album apart instead of letting the swirling textures wash over me and take me to another place, devoid of such petty criticism.

If I had chosen to immerse myself in the listening experience, to refuse to overthink the minor details which caused my feelings of disdain, maybe it wouldn’t have been nearly half a year before I decided to delve back into the music of the Notwist. My discovery of the subtle electronic pleasures of ‘Chemicals’, the intriguing rises and falls of ‘Another Planet’, and the free-flowing dissonance of ‘Electric Bear’ would certainly not have been delayed had I not expected works of ineffable genius. It took a while, but eventually, I recognised beauty in the imperfections, every element I incorrectly defined as ‘meandering’ or simply ‘unnecessary’ is now permanently etched in my brain, defining the true brilliance of the record, and indeed the band. And I still maintain that the change in ‘Day 7’ – 2 minutes and 21 seconds into the album, that I so hated on my first listen – ranks among the best moments in musical history.

Of course, once I had fully realised the excellence of the group, I had to hear more. I obtained ‘Neon Golden’, and lapped it up as if I had once again become the dog I resembled upon hearing about the band in the first place. On the back of my harshly postponed love for ‘Shrink’, I looked upon this album as the logical next step in my rediscovery of the band. Well, it was the following album, after all. Going in with lowered expectations proved to be a worthwhile tactic, as I immediately found a world of exquisite loveliness ready and waiting for me. First impressions: it was overwhelmingly obvious that this was the same band that could’ve recorded a collection of songs so diverse, yet intrinsically linked as the ones that shape ‘Shrink’, but it didn’t matter to me. I just wanted more of what I had been missing all of the time spent not listening to the band.

Well, needless to say, I listened to both albums pretty much non-stop for a while, all attempts to discover new music were put on hold as I dipped my ears into the aural soup served up by Markus Acher, Michael Acher, Martin Gretschmann and Martin Messerschmidt, and the wide variety of sounds and textures they throw into every song. What can I say? It was delicious. In fact, my refusal to dive back into the mixed bag of new musical experiences nearly led me to miss the release of ‘The Devil, You + Me’, their first studio album in six years…

I would talk about that particular album at length, but instead I think I’ll end the blog here. I spent too long at the beginning talking about things that aren’t the Notwist, and now the post feels bloated and overflowing with information. I will, however, promise that I’ll do a proper review of their recent film soundtrack ‘Sturm’ when I’ve heard it – or even their modest 1995 release, ‘12’ – but for now, I’m off to bed.

Sorry about that.

The Baltimore Chronicle has an interesting article by Gary G. Kohls, MD about the role of psychiatric medications in the Fort Hood incident. From the article:

Most of us have been listening to the massive, round-the-clock press coverage of the latest mass shooting incident at Fort Hood, Texas. Seemingly all the possible root causes of such a horrific act of violence have been raised and discussed. However, there is an elephant in the room, and it’s something that should be obvious in this age of the school shooter pandemic.

We should be outraged at the failure of the investigative journalists, the psychiatric professionals, the medical community and the military spokespersons who seem to be studiously avoiding the major factor that helps to explain these senseless acts. Why would someone unexpectedly, irrationally and randomly shoot up a school, a workplace or, in this case, an army post? Why would someone who used to be known as a seemingly rational person suddenly perpetrate a gruesome, irrational act of violence?

The answer to the question, as demonstrated again and again in so many of such recent acts of “senseless” violence, is brain- and behavior-altering drugs.

…

You can read the rest of it here.

I can see his point, and I think it is a good idea to factor in the potentially dangerous effects of psychoactive drugs. But I also believe there are many layers to this, the effect of drugs being only one of them. Something(s) else contributed to pushing the shooter to that point. And I’m not sure we can fairly lay all the blame at the feet of the pharmaceuticals industry.

Whatever the cause of the rampage, this issue of pharma-gone-bad is of particular interest to me, because as a multiple-TBI survivor with a bunch of cognitive-behavioral issues, it could be all too easy for a “qualified” doctor or neurologist or psychiatrist to load me up with a bunch of pills and send me on my way. I consider myself unbelievably fortunate and blessed to be working with a neuropsychologist who is very wary of pharmaceuticals and approaches them as a last resort, when all else fails. They are also very happy when I come up with alternative solutions to my issues that work well and do not involve drugs –  like exercising regularly as an antidote for fatigue and drowsiness and a way to wake up fully in the morning.

Interestingly, my psychotherapist tends to come down on the side of drug therapies for individuals with attentional difficulties. I may have to cut them loose, if they turn out to start pressuring me to resort to drugs. If they so much as start hinting at me using them, simply because other approaches “don’t appear to work as effectively” I may have to have to reconsider working with them and seek help elsewhere. Who knows? I may even cut out the psychotherapy completely.

Hard to say, at this point. I think it’s been helping me in some ways… no, I’m pretty sure it has.

But I have been growing a little more leery of my shrink, over the past month or so. They seem more distant than they did at the start. They also have said some things to me over the past couple of sessions that don’t sit right with me, but I haven’t actually followed up on. I should probably do that, to clear the air. It’s hard for me to spend the time and money with someone who I think doesn’t believe me, or seems to be insinuating that I’m misrepresenting my difficulties to the rest of the world. I’m not sure if they think I’m worse off than I appear to be, or if they are just having a hard time, themself.

To be fair, they did suffer a devastating personal loss, last year about this time, so I think it may be messing with their head a little bit. They have definitely not been at their best, of late. So, I’ll cut them some slack, give it some more time, slow things down, and not let them pull any punches with me. We’ll see how it goes.

Bottom line (if there is one) is… mental health care providers can have problems, too. And those problems can get to them in some pretty serious ways.  I’m just glad my shrink isn’t trained in small arms — I’m assuming they aren’t — and that they don’t work in an environment where the use of firearms is part of the job.

I often end up with photos that are bigger than they need to be: snapshots of friends and family don’t really need to be in super-high resolution, neither do photos that students have taken with the digital camera. Of course I could change the camera settings before I start taking the photos, but I never think to do that.

Dropresize sorts that problem for me. It’s a really simple little tool and really easy to use:

To install it:

1. Download it from here (hat tip to Lifehacker)
2. Extract the files

That’s it – it’s ready to use, no further installation required.

To run it:

1. Just run the .exe file. It doesn’t sneak into the programs menu, so just find the folder you extracted it to and double click – how very nostalgic! Once it’s running an icon appears in the taskbar.
2. On the first time of running, you need to tell it which folder you would like it to watch. (Being of vast imagination, I called mine Resize.)
3. Tell it how many pixels wide you want the pictures to be.
4. Dump everything that you want to resize into the watched folders. If you want to keep the originals, you will need to copy and paste. This might be useful if you are just shrinking some copies of pictures that will be emailed or put on the web, but don’t want to lose the quality of the original photos. (I know this should be obvious, but some commenters at Semigeek didn’t seem to realise this.) If you want to shrink the originals, just put them in the resize folder. The icon in the taskbar will change to show that Dropresize is shrinking the pictures. Once it’s finished the icon changes back and you can move the pictures back to another folder if you wish.

It’s pretty fast, although obviously the speed depends on how many files you ask it to resize at once. It’s also pretty ace – I’ve cleared the most amazing amount of space on my busting-at-the-seams laptop today, just by shrinking snapshots.

I’ve used this on Vista without problems (so that’s a first!); it should also work with XP and Windows 7, but I haven’t tried it with either (yet).

by Dr. John Lapp

Many years ago I was presented with a drawing that depicted a pastor or counselor sitting at his desk, probably contemplating what he should say.  The counselor was facing the artist rendering of Christ, whose back was facing the viewer.  Christ, the Divine Counselor (that, by the way, was the title given to the drawing) had one of his hands obviously making a point to the counselor while he was looking at the face of Christ.  That drawing reminded me of a very important fact.   Counselors are trained for several years in the theories/ philosophies of how counseling should work, and although many years (actually for me, more than a decade) of graduate training, then two-years of internship and licensing exams in the individual state(s) he chooses to practice, has produced an abundance of knowledge, that is often not enough.   This is where the power, and wisdom of God becomes available to the Christian counselor, and ONLY to the Christian when his knowledge is not sufficient to address and help resolve the problem(s) presented by the one(s) seeking his help and guidance.  In the book of James (1:5) it states “If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.”   At times in my nearly 40 years of practice with individuals, couples, and families I have had the privilege of seeking the wisdom of God when presented with what is known in England as a “sticky wicket,” meaning a difficult situation with an even more difficult solution.  While being presented with this difficult situation, I have prayed in my heart for God to give me the wisdom that only He holds in abundance.  Amazingly, my heart and mind receives this wisdom and the solution(s) become available.

This same wisdom is not available only to me or others who practice in the profession of marriage and family counseling.  This same wisdom, James states, is available to “any of you,” and is for “all” who will be willing to take advantage of this wonderful present from God.  It is also equally important that because of God’s rich mercy and love that when we ask for this wisdom, He “upbraideth not,” meaning that He does not belittle us,
demean us, or ‘scold’ us for asking!

He knows that while for many years we may have accumulated knowledge that is helpful in many situations, there are still some situations where we are ‘non-plused’…confused…not sure…wondering what I should do….what I should say.   Not only does God tell us this wisdom “…will be given,” it states that it will be given “liberally,” meaning in abundance, even super-abundance.   WOW!  That sure beats an abundance of  knowledge, no matter its’ original source(s).

While many seek the counsel of a pastor or a professional counselor who is a born-again Christian, many have sought the help of other than a Christian.  A warning from the scriptures is necessary at this point.  While many psychiatrists, social workers, psychologists, or other mental health counselors have accumulated much knowledge and have earned many degrees (some seemingly have as many degrees as is found on a thermometer), Psalms 1:1 states “Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly….”   The well-meaning counselor whose knowledge appears to render him/ her ready to give advise to his patient/ client(s), unless that counselor is operating under the direction of The Divine Counselor, “blessings” will not be available to the one(s) seeking his/ her counsel.

Finally, it is important to know that, not only is God, through Christ, the Divine Counselor, his very name (see Isaiah 9:6) is Counsellor, among several other names presented by the prophet, Isaiah, and He did not have to go to graduate school to earn that title, nor is He required to be licensed by any particular state to hold that license….that is His Name!   Furthermore, he is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and you don’t have to call and make an appointment.   You also don’t have to check to see if the costs are covered by your insurance company…but you can be ASSURED that “IT SHALL BE GIVEN HIM”!!!

Seek His wisdom, and be assured that the counselor who believes on His Name “Counsellor”  will be able to have His wisdom available to help you in your time of need.

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What is the US Army thinking these days? Ya gotta wonder. Here’s this Major asshole who is obviously a fucking muslim, which in itself is a fucking flaming disease and he is given the right to be a psychiatist in the US army. They flunk him with a bad rep and force him to go to Ft Hood base so he can get ready for his deployment to Iraq and he freaks the fuck out? Give me a fucking break please but then not only does he freak out – he takes two handguns and guns down 12 army personnel killing them and this mother fucking pig of a Muslim cocker is still alive.

I hate waterboarding so water board this freak and kill him – drown him like the Muslim dog he is. I mean, our American military has their briefs in a twist because Gays want to come out in the military and they allow Muslims to dispense drugs and go work with our GIs in dangerous places?

They are truly nuts. Let’s get rid of all the Muslims in America – I don’t care if they were born her legally – we are at war with them – either blow their asses off or deport them dead preferably – Muslims are useless pieces of shit.

—Bonju Patten