Buddhist temple vandalized for second time in two weeks Posted: Mar 20, 2010 7:14 PM EDT Updated: Apr 19, 2010 4:05 PM EDT By Shayla Reaves - bio | email LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE)- A Buddhist temple is vandalized for the second time in two weeks. It happened at the Phuoc Hau temple in the 8500-block of Old Third Street Road. Volunteers contacted WAVE 3 to help get answers. "It's hard to deal with this every year," Volunteer Jennifer Le said. Le arrived to help with yard work and discovered property destroyed by vandalism. Spray-paint covered statues and a temple sign near Old Third Street road. It now reads "Buddah's in Hell." "It's a really bad message that grown people will do this to a temple," Le said."This is our church, but it's temple. It's just a different religion, you know. There is no reason for any prejudice against it." This is the fifth time the property has been vandalized in the last five years, according to Le whose mother regularly attends services held there. It's a place families are working together to maintain daily for the monk who calls the property his home. "He say he don't feel mad, he don't get angry," Vietnamese Translator Minh Van Vo said of Monk Ven Thich Thanh Quang. " But feel bad for the person who did something." Egg shells are still on the property from vandalism two weeks ago, according to Le. Cleaning up is getting harder and harder to do. "It gets hard to replace this all the time," Le said of the temple that depends on donations to assist with maintaining the property. "I don't think you're a good Christian if you do this either. I don't think that's in the religion. I don't think you're following your faith if you do this either." The temple is located in LMPD's 3rd Division and WAVE 3 made a call to police to find out more information on the case. We were unable to get any details Saturday but we will continue to follow up. Copyright 2010 WAVE News. All rights reserved

Being Buddhist doesn't always make for an easy, non-suffering life in these neck of the woods. The Temple we usually attend has been vandalized annually by people proclaiming to be Christians, that mark up the statues and break them up. Spray painting on them "Buddah's in hell," and "Christ lives." It happened last year around Christmastime, two weeks in a row. This year, as a tenant of a house owned by a fundemental Christian, knowing not a single soul in the neighborhood less two kids that go to my daughter's school that she is good friends with and helped us move, and my best friend of 13 years, we woke up to this on our car this morning. I can't imagine who violated us like this. It deeply saddens me. Yet at the same time frustrates me because I want to take the same attitude as my fellow Buddhists, yet I am resentful at people who are ignorant and do not practice what they preach. Even if it wasn't connected to my landlord, and was some random people/kids, it was still unreasonable and in this area of the town the chances of them being Christian are about 95 to 10. That angers me too. But I am going to try to focusing on old Buddhist proverb etching my anger into water, or at least wood for now - and not stone. Stone is permanent, and not easily forgotten, or forgiven. It allows negative energy into the universe and therefore I will only get negative energy back. This I cannot afford. I am swarmed with negativity right now. I'm sick with strep throat, We are nearly packed to move to the shelter, and we are just counting down the days to begin a really tough haul. But I have to put this out there - Please be tolerant of other people. It is what Jesus has said in the Bible, it is why the fundemental Jews did not want him telling people there was another way. But there is not only another way - there is a myraid of other ways, and one of those is just being kind to your fellow human being.

Chasing cars around our heads

pepZ Movie - Snap Benefits give headaches

Double Murder of Children and hostage at local university-finally wrapped my mind around it....here's the blog to prove it:

As a former student of the university in question (without name droping ;-) ) their Mental Health services leave much to be desired for their students - although from what I understand they have gotten a BIT better, they still aren’t what they SHOULD be, just as they weren’t at Virgina Tech, or many of the other universities who don’t take into consideration that students are poor working people or kids with or without parental assistance, little or no insurance and they are all under A LOT of stress and pressure! And not just from classes, but from LIFE too! Coupled with financial issues and economic strain - the average student has a myriad of reasons to suffer from anxiety and depression that normal people don’t take into consideration.
NOW, I’m not condoning what she did, NOT BY ANY MEANS! Because what she did was heinous and inexcusable. I have been able to fathom a lot of crimes in my day, not excuse them, but fathom them nonetheless, but this one, this one I cannot even wrap my mind around!
And having depression issues myself, understanding and knowing the concept of mental illness and society’s stigma and watching my mother - a nurse - refuse to go to counseling and just get medication from her PCP so she doesn’t get "labeled" in fear of losing her licences, mental illness is shrouded in prejudice in the worst form! And tragedies like these, where people believe that these resorts are their only way out - THEIR ONLY WAY is the injustice and it is where we as a nation need to step in and say - where are we failing our mentally ill? Where are we as family members failing our family with mental health issues? Where are we as school, as friends, as neighbors, as a community failing our mentally ill?
On my last campus, they were more receptive to helping their students, and made it easier for me to start a sattelite group of a group already meeting here in Louisville sponsored by the National Depressive and Bi-polar Association. It was for students, faculty, AND the community surrounding all of Indiana University Southeast. Although, when I left the university and turned it over to other members, it eventually disbanded. It doesn’t mean that if I can do it, someone else can’t do it too. I have actually been trying to do the same thing out in my area of town again...why, you say, because it’s needed...AND IT’S ALWAYS FREE!!!! Imagine that, community members coming together to offer support, resources and networking to people in need...who heard of the such!???   >:-(

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Apr 27, 2009

Current mood:accomplished

Content & Organization
Points 10.5
Points Earned 10.5
All key elements on biodiversity are covered in substantive way. A central theme
in the paper is directed toward appropriate audience
>All elements were covered in good details
Within 2,500-3,000 words
>The paper was within the required word limit;  without the title and the reference pages, as described in the syllabus 

> Describes clearly the magnitude of the problem of biodiversity

>The problems of global biodiversity are clearly listed, as well as detailed

with good examples.

>Compares and contrasts the threatened, endangered, and extinct species, with

detailed examples of each

>Timely comparison and contrast of threatened, endangered, and extinct species

have been made, with detailed examples of each.

>Considers the ethical considerations of the native population

>Good treatment on the ethical impacts on the native population, and how that

influences their future.

>Describes the challenges faced, such as armed conflicts, health issues, and

other relevant points

>The summary of different challenges faced, as well as the impending crisis of

global biodiversity, is covered well.

Identifies possible solutions, and a practical "first plan of action."

>The paper meticulously extrapolates and convincingly outlines a reasonable

'plan of action' to meet the biodiversity crisis.

 

Organization/Development

Points 2

Points Earned 2

Paragraph transitions present, logical and maintain flow throughout

>The paper had a clear introduction, body, and conclusion.

Tone suited to content and assignment

Sentences complete, clear, concise, and well-constructed, with consistently

strong, varied views

>The essay was timely, and suitably dealt with diverse topics.

Sentence transitions present and maintain flow of thought

>The flow of thought was well-maintained.

Introduction provides sufficient background on the topic and previews major

points

>The introduction is well thought-out, and discusses all points of the paper.

 

Mechanics

Points 2.5

Points Earned 2.5

Conclusion is logically explained, flows from body of paper, and reviews major

points

>The conclusion is brief but to the point, summarizing the paper adequately.

Paper, title page, reference page, tables, appendices follow APA guidelines

>The APA requirements were closely met.

At least three outside quality citations within body of paper, following all APA

guidelines

>Excellent citation list provided.

Paper laid out with effective use of headings, font styles, white space. Rules

of grammar, usage, punctuation followed. Spelling is correct.

>This was a paper that was well-done, and thoroughly researched.

 

TOTAL POINTS 15

POINTS EARNED 15

Can the earth fit my big head?!

Current mood:accomplished

Hello Jeannette, you had a wonderful level of participation. Your comments
proved valuable to the overall class discussion,and a great deal of background information was exchanged. There were numerous posts that consistently had a very high quality. Moreover, an absent of typos
and grammatical errors made for an enjoyable read. Please keep up the
excellent work! you've responded to both DQs in a complete and
substantial fashion. I especially liked how you've taken the time to write
thoughtfully on the topics, and extend it out to fit in your own viewpoints.
Not only does this offer your own perspective, it covers the subject matter in
great detail, and generated interesting discourse on the subject. I
hope to see you make similar interesting DQ responses in future weeks.
Jeannette:
Yes, I did get your message but I'm again (yes, unfortunately) out on a symposium. I'll be back on Thursday, and will try to get back to you with your final grade. Please be aware of the comments left in your individual forum. The time difference makes it hard, since by the time I'm out (now!) it's past midnight in the east coast. Take care! I haven't found a more attentive and hard-working student as you -- and that's the truth.

Niladri

--
Niladri Sarker, Ph.D.
Faculty
University of Phoenix Online
Arizona (PST)
nsarker@email.phoenix.edu

Things that make you go hmmm....

Current mood:contemplative

So, James Dean rolled around today, picking up the phone to say hello and tell me he was profusely sorry. I'm not sure for what, however. It's really not my life that he sincerely f'ed up, my life will continue on unchanged. I mean my cell phone bill will take a bit to straighten out, but that's not anything I can't handle. Otherwise, I'm fairly unscathed. Aside from a few emotional wounds, that I cared not to inflict upon myself or Lou, I'd say we walked away without so much as a scrap...What he did to us isn't anything when you look at the proverbial bigger picture. But what I had to witness him doing to himself, now that is what crushed me. It was almost unbearable actually. For what little time I had to endure it. I don't think he seems to understand that though. That's the sad part. He doesn't realize that it hurts me more to see what he's doing to himself, and that's where my anger and frustrations come from, than it does to see him do what he's doing to me - because that's A. to be expected because he's a man - even though it's still painful because I expected more from him. and B. He's always treated himself with this self-loathing and disdain, and he's always resented me for pointing out he had more potential than he gives himself credit for...and his choices prevent him from living up to it. I should know I walked a few miles in those shoes :-p My one blog reader should know that ;-) - that is if even she is still reading my blog lol!Anyway - I lost my white horse nonetheless but through no choice but his own. However I can't stick around and wait another 15 years until he gets his head out of his butt to figure out how to function in the relationship we have both always wanted...So I give up...the saying always goes, if it was meant to be it will be...and after 20 years it hasn't been yet and he just totally screwed it up this royally because he was so terrified of normalcy then...yeah - I guess I can be a friend, but I'm at arms length because I have to be, not because I want to be. Hmmm - who does this remind me of????? LMAO!! :-p