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Cultural Holidays: Celebrate Your Heritage!

2008-11-26T14:01:57-05:00

Note: while some of these holidays are of a religious nature (some reformed folks might not care to celebrate saints days), the cultural aspects of each holiday are enjoyable and should be celebrated by those of that particular lineage.

November 30th: St. Andrew’s Day

10 Interesting Facts about St. Andrew’s Day

1) He was a Galilean fisherman who was chosen to be the first disciple, although his brother Peter actually was the first disciple.
2) The meaning of the “Andrew” in St. Andrew is manly.
3) St. Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland.
4) He was crucified on an X-shaped cross in Patras.
5) St. Andrew’s Day is celebrated on November 30th and is Scotland’s official national day, although Robert Burns’ Day is more widely celebrated.
6) St. Andrew’s Day is commonly referred to as The Saltire, and the Scottish national flag is flown on that day.
7) St. Andrew’s Day is the day to celebrate Scottish culture, cuisine, and ceilidh-dancing.
8) St Andrew’s flag is the flag of Scotland, a white X on a blue background.
9) St. Andrew is the patron Saint of Greece and Russia as well.
10) St Andrew’s Societies exist around the world to celebrate Scottish culture.

St. Andrew’s Day

Free St. Andrew’s Day e-Cards

Traditions: Saint Andrew’s Day (warning: many pop-ups here as this is hosted on freeservers.)

Deatails of Movies, TV, and Commercials Containing Propaganda for Interracial Relationships

2009-07-22T11:21:14-05:00

This topic exists to “heads up” people about the propaganda on this topic promoted by the entertainment/media.

Review: Forgotten History of the Western People

2010-07-26T13:28:35-05:00

I admit that I am a young Earth creationist.

To say so today automatically paints one as some sort of naive fundamentalist, but I don’t care. I’ve always been one for romance and fairy tales.

Because I believe in a world that is a little over six thousand years old and was once populated by giants, witches, magicians, dragons and all manner of creatures that no longer exist, (or do they?!) I am inclined to take chronology and legend very seriously.

While browsing through the famous Creation Museum, I found a small book, shoved way back in a corner, written by Bill Cooper, called ‘After the Flood.” Mr. Cooper relies solely on lineage documents from various peoples of European descent and is able to trace the royal families all the way back to Noah! His book was so exciting to me, that I read it through in one sitting.

It was from Bill Cooper’s website that I learned about Mike Gascoigne’s book “Forgotten History of the Western People: From the Earliest Origins.” Cascoigne’s book promised to be a more in-depth look at the same sort of genealogical study.

They say that a student should never read a good book when there are so many great books out there! So, is Mr. Gascoigne’s book good or great? Well, after reading it I can’t say it’s a great book, although, against common wisdom I would nevertheless advise the student to read it. It provides a succinct and interesting overview of history and the movements of people groups from the perspective of a Young Earth creationist.

Mike Gascoigne is not a professional genealogist, nor is he a historian. Instead, like Cooper, he is a laymen who is interested in the subject, though he does have a background in chemical engineering. Many of the arguments he makes are vauge and sometimes I found it hard to determine which source was being spoken about.

So, do I think Mr. Gascoigne has it entirely right? No, I can’t say that I do. However, I think he’s got it mostly right, even despite his ambiguities. History, in my opinion, happened something like the way he describes.

He starts by comparing ancient legends of the Babylonians, Greeks, and the Bible. It must be confessed that there are striking parallels that I had never heard of before. For instance, in the Babylonian flood account, their patriarch builds a giant boat for his family and friends, escapes a world-wide flood, and afterwords, releases birds to see if the flood waters had receded yet. These similarities make sense if you believe that all humanity dispersed from Noah’s three sons.

Some of Gascoigne’s less-concrete cases occur when he argues from some of the more obscure Greek myths and find parallels there with the OT scriptures. The premise is that the gods of the Greek legends at one point represented real people, and thus can be compared to Noah, Noah’s wife, and his three sons. From this idea, he associates different gods with Noah’s sons based on vague reasoning and comes up with a direct descent from the “gods” to the city of Troy, where we join the story of Brutus before he founded the city of “New Troy” or, “London.”

Oddly, Gascoigne seems to disagree with Cooper on one point. Cooper’s studies imply that the Celts originated from Shem. This is verified by the theory of E. Raymond Capt put forth in his book “Missing Links Discovered.” However, Cascoigne maintains that the Celts are from Japeth, and even names one of the patriarchs as “Celtus.”

It’s all quite confusing, and I doubt if we’ll ever know for sure unless major archeological discoveries are made. (And I daydream about that happening.) At any rate, as I said above, I believe something like this happened.

Apparently, after Babel the people were dispersed in different language groups that corresponded loosely with their family groups. For instance, it may be the case that Japeth’s family was divided into three different languages, each of whom migrated with each other in the same general westward direction? Gascoigne doesn’t speculate about this. What happens is, Troy becomes the next greatest established city. Troy is destroyed, as we all know, and Brutus’ father escapes. Brutus comes back later and gathers the remaining Trojans and sets off to find a new homeland.

Along the way, he battles giants and magicians, and ends up on the island of Albion, where he founds the city of London. From here, we see the battles with the invading Saxons, who eventually force the Britons into, what is today known as, Wales.

Gascoigne shows hows the Britons resisted the new Roman Catholic Christianity in favor of their more organic and direct faith, which eventually lead to the slaughter of 1200 monks and the subjection of the Britons as a people.

The story and speculation about the first church built in England was fascinating. There is very good historical evidence that suggests Joseph of Arimathea traveled north with a small band of followers and built it there. There is also speculation and legend that says the apostle Paul, and perhaps even Jesus Christ Himself once visited the isle. But, contrary to E. Raymond Capt (for instance) Gascoigne rejects the latter but admits that it’s possible that Paul could have had a third missionary journey to Britain.

There are many fascinating stories along the way, and much of this was new and inspiring for me. His book isn’t that long, and is not filled with repetitive, mundane, or overly technical language. If you’re interested in genealogies and ancient texts, you’d love it!

Miscellaneous Things Too Good, Interesting, or Unusual to Pass Up

2008-08-29T22:42:55-05:00

Every now and again I run across things that are simply too good to pass up, even though they don’t fit into one of our other categories. Today I found that Amazon.com offers a great many absolutely FREE mp3 downloads, and I looked through the list and found many downloads of Scottish and Irish music for varying instruments and a lot of free offerings in other genres.

Here’s how you find the free mp3s:

Go to Amazon.com, select Search mp3 Downloads. Leave the search field blank. Then, in the Sort menu, choose Sort by Price, Low to High. The free downloads will be listed first in your results, and there are pages and pages of them.

Enjoy!
Laurel

Children’s Book Reviews

2008-07-11T20:35:05-05:00

Well, I kind of hate to start this thread out with a review of a commercially licensed board book, but I have it in hand, and it’s not half bad for what it is.

Precious Moments Be Nice series
Babies are Blessings

by Frank Berrios
Illustrated by Samuel J. Butcher
ISBN 0-375-83170-3
Price US $3.99 CAN $5.99

Targeted toward the toddler whose mom is expecting another baby or who has already had one, the overall attitude of the book is that having a new baby is a good thing, indeed, a blessing. The vignettes in the book each model a positive attitude or action toward babies, and the book ends with the idea that babies “fill our world with love” and “brighten all our days.” The artwork is typical Precious Moments; a pastel palette with the usual teardrop-eyed children engaged in sweet, baby-centered activities.

Positives:
All children portrayed are White.
Babies are presented as a positive addition to the family.
Offers gentle life lessons and advice on how to treat a new baby.
Board book format seems sturdy.

Negatives:
It’s a commercially licensed character book. Some folks choose not to use these when educating their children.
There’s no indication that babies can also be grumpy and/or difficult and sometimes cry.

Overall, I’d say it’s a good book to go over with toddlers before baby’s born and after to reinforce the gentle lessons learned.

Not a classic, but decent for its purpose. And some folks like this kind of art…

God bless,
Laurel

Whites Helping Whites

2010-07-14T17:55:24-05:00

This topic exists to locate and promote instances of White folks helping White folks.

Agrarian and Homesteading How-to’s

2007-12-31T17:19:48-05:00

This topic will serve as a place for us to contribute our knowlege of homesteading and the agrarian life.

Feel free to add your input!

Laurel

Note: Just because we recommend a resource doesn’t mean the producers of that resource share our philosophy. Please use your intellect and your Biblical knowledge when studying all resources.

Movie Reviews (Fiction)

2009-03-18T22:28:32-05:00

Soul Searcher (2005)

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This is a pretty good, albeit low budget, film available from Netflix (and likely video stores). It is not something one will come away from exhilarated, but it is enjoyable.

It could be classed within a loosely Christian fantasy genre with angels and creatures from Hell. And there’s an implied existence of Heaven.

There’s no nudity, no sexual references, no sexual desires, etc. But there are several cases of true love, that continue on eternally even when one (of a couple) passes on to the next life (be it Heaven or Hell).

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Every character that I noticed was white and British. No race-mixing propaganda.

There is some rock music involved, but it’s only as music & dancing (including in front of a band) and not as anything indecent. The lyrics of the band are not indecent either.

Soul Searcher was anti-modern in one or two lines specifically: escapism was criticised in favour of real life experiences.

Where to Live?

2010-06-15T00:03:57-05:00

Forbes has published a list of “Ten Best Cities to Raise Families in.” Here’s the list, and the demographic data we have added as a supplement from City-Data.

No. 10: Buffalo-Niagara Falls, N.Y.

Races in Buffalo:

* White Non-Hispanic (51.8%)
* Black (37.2%)
* Hispanic (7.5%)
* Other race (3.7%)
* Two or more races (2.5%)
* American Indian (1.4%)

(Total can be greater than 100% because Hispanics could be counted in other races)

Races in Niagara Falls:

* White Non-Hispanic (75.3%)
* Black (18.7%)
* American Indian (2.4%)
* Hispanic (2.0%)
* Two or more races (2.0%)
* Other race (0.7%)

No. 9:Albany-Schenectady-Troy, N.Y.

Races in Albany:

* White Non-Hispanic (61.1%)
* Black (28.1%)
* Hispanic (5.6%)
* Two or more races (3.0%)
* Other race (2.2%)
* Chinese (1.0%)
* American Indian (1.0%)
* Asian Indian (0.8%)

(Total can be greater than 100% because Hispanics could be counted in other races)

Races in Schenectady:

* White Non-Hispanic (74.5%)
* Black (14.8%)
* Hispanic (5.9%)
* Two or more races (3.5%)
* Other race (2.5%)
* American Indian (1.0%)
* Asian Indian (0.9%)

(Total can be greater than 100% because Hispanics could be counted in other races)

Races in Troy:

* White Non-Hispanic (78.7%)
* Black (11.4%)
* Hispanic (4.3%)
* Two or more races (2.3%)
* Other race (2.2%)
* Chinese (1.6%)
* Asian Indian (0.8%)
* American Indian (0.7%)

No. 8: Knoxville, Tenn.

Races in Knoxville:

* White Non-Hispanic (79.0%)
* Black (16.2%)
* Hispanic (1.6%)
* Two or more races (1.6%)
* American Indian (0.9%)
* Other race (0.7%)

No. 7: Pittsburgh, Pa.

Races in Pittsburgh:

* White Non-Hispanic (66.9%)
* Black (27.1%)
* Two or more races (1.6%)
* Hispanic (1.3%)
* Chinese (0.9%)
* Other race (0.7%)
* American Indian (0.7%)
* Asian Indian (0.6%)

No. 6: Ogden-Clearfield, Utah

Races in Ogden:

* White Non-Hispanic (70.2%)
* Hispanic (23.6%)
* Other race (12.9%)
* Two or more races (2.9%)
* Black (2.3%)
* American Indian (1.9%)

(Total can be greater than 100% because Hispanics could be counted in other races)

Races in Clearfield:

* White Non-Hispanic (79.0%)
* Hispanic (10.6%)
* Other race (4.8%)
* Two or more races (3.7%)
* Black (3.6%)
* American Indian (2.4%)
* Filipino (0.9%)
* Other Asian (0.9%)

(Total can be greater than 100% because Hispanics could be counted in other races)

No. 5: Provo-Orem, Utah

Races in Provo:

* White Non-Hispanic (84.0%)
* Hispanic (10.5%)
* Other race (5.1%)
* Two or more races (2.4%)
* American Indian (1.3%)
* Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander (0.8%)
* Chinese (0.6%)

(Total can be greater than 100% because Hispanics could be counted in other races)

Races in Orem:

* White Non-Hispanic (86.7%)
* Hispanic (8.6%)
* Other race (3.6%)
* Two or more races (2.2%)
* American Indian (1.2%)
* Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander (0.9%)

(Total can be greater than 100% because Hispanics could be counted in other races)

No. 4: Syracuse, N.Y.

Races in Syracuse:

* White Non-Hispanic (62.4%)
* Black (25.3%)
* Hispanic (5.3%)
* Two or more races (3.6%)
* Other race (2.2%)
* American Indian (2.2%)
* Vietnamese (1.0%)
* Chinese (0.6%)
* Other Asian (0.5%)
* Asian Indian (0.5%)

(Total can be greater than 100% because Hispanics could be counted in other races)

No. 3: Rochester, N.Y.

Races in Rochester:

* White Non-Hispanic (44.3%)
* Black (38.5%)
* Hispanic (12.8%)
* Other race (6.6%)
* Two or more races (3.8%)
* American Indian (1.3%)
* Other Asian (0.6%)
* Vietnamese (0.6%)

(Total can be greater than 100% because Hispanics could be counted in other races)

No. 2: Harrisburg-Carlisle, Pa.

Races in Harrisburg:

* Black (54.8%)
* White Non-Hispanic (28.6%)
* Hispanic (11.7%)
* Other race (6.5%)
* Two or more races (3.6%)
* Vietnamese (1.9%)
* American Indian (1.1%)

(Total can be greater than 100% because Hispanics could be counted in other races)

Races in Carlisle:

* White Non-Hispanic (87.9%)
* Black (6.9%)
* Hispanic (2.0%)
* Two or more races (1.7%)
* Other race (0.7%)

No. 1: Des Moines-West Des Moines, Iowa

Races in Des Moines:

* White Non-Hispanic (79.6%)
* Black (8.1%)
* Hispanic (6.6%)
* Other race (3.5%)
* Two or more races (2.2%)
* Other Asian (1.6%)
* Vietnamese (1.1%)
* American Indian (0.8%)

(Total can be greater than 100% because Hispanics could be counted in other races)

Please note that no endorsement is made of the cities in the article due to lack of personal knowledge; however, it’s all very interesting.

God bless,
Laurel

Parenting Resources

2007-10-21T19:58:50-05:00

One of the objections I sometimes hear to parents having more than a few children is the expense of diapering. Of course, folks are referring to paper, disposable diapers here, for the most part. But even cloth diapering can be expensive, especially if you purchase the fancy fitted diapers and soaker covers.

Fortunately, an enthusiast of cloth diapering has put together a website with how-to’s and some free patterns for different kinds of diapers and soakers available on it. She also sells ready-made patterns for diapers, soakers, baby carriers, cloth dolls, and other cloth items useful to women.

Her instructions for the most budget conscious among us can be found here: Sew a Diaper Stash for $30 or Less http://fernandfaerie.com/frugaldiapering.html There are other pages that show how to sew various kinds of diapers and covers as well.

Her commercial patterns are available here: http://fernandfaerie.com, and she offers commercial licenses to ladies who want to produce them as a cottage industry.

I have no personal knowledge of her business side, but it looks good. And her freebies are awesome.

God bless,
Laurel

Note: Just because we recommend a resource doesn’t mean the producers of that resource share our philosophy. Please use your intellect and your Biblical knowledge when studying all resources.