Tulung post, siapa tahu bisa jd inspirasi ato bisa u diskusi....

Mulai dr gue? Hmmm.... besok ujian terakhir, jd lg teelr bgt en ga sempet baca apa2 (kecuali textbooks en coursepacks )

Floo.. menulis:
Tulung post, siapa tahu bisa jd inspirasi ato bisa u diskusi....

11i Implement and Use Pricing and Advanced Pricing

pinjamin aku buku donkkkk ....
nga ada duit nih buat beli buku

Michael Nicholson - 'A Measure of Danger'

Cerita (curhat?) war correspondent tentang pengalaman dia nulis di front line:
Nigeria - Biafra (1968-69)
Jordan Civil War (1970)
India - Pakistan (1971)
Holly War of Yom Kippur (1973-75)
Cyprus (1974)
Vietname - Cambodia (1969-75)
Angola (1975-78)
Rhodesia
Falklands (1982).

Valen, pinjem library kan banyak.

Azalae menulis:
Michael Nicholson - 'A Measure of Danger'

Cerita (curhat?) war correspondent tentang pengalaman dia nulis di front line:
Holly War of Yom Kippur (1973-75)

andrea7974 menulis:

Azalae menulis:
Michael Nicholson - 'A Measure of Danger'

Cerita (curhat?) war correspondent tentang pengalaman dia nulis di front line:
Holly War of Yom Kippur (1973-75)

mau dong baca itu. tapi mau nyari dimana dong buku gituan di Jkt? Azzy : ceritain dong ke aku yg ttg Yom Kippur aja

Blom baca sampe situ sih tapi ini deh quotationnya.

'Yom Kippur was my fifth war and by all accounts that morning it ought to have been my last. What I remember, before I lost consciousness, was the roaring black shadow of a Syrian MiG, the car somersaulting into the air to meet it, the sharp prickle of glass splinters and what I thought was blood trickling down my neck. ...

That afternoon, on the BBC one o'clock news, I had heard that the Arabs had invaded Israel. The Egyptian army had suddenly and cleverly crossed the Suez Canal into the Sinai Desert, the Syrians had crossed the northern border into the Golan Heights and the Iraqis and Jordanians were also about to join in. ...

... The airport was crammed with thousands of young Israelis of dual nationality, young men and women of military age queuing up to join their brothers and sisters of the faith in their mother land.'

Isinya ada bagian yang harus disensor kali heheh. Butchery, massacre, etc. Library mestinya banyak kan buku bagus. Cari aja di bagian history.

Hiya all, duh leganya udah selesai ujian

The books that I re-read now (yay!!! no more valuation book!!!):

-. The Joffrey Balle School's Ballet Fit (terutama section techniquenya)

-. The Pointe Book (bagian section perkuat kaki)

-. Financial Shenanigans (ini bukan soal ballet...)

Sekrg lg nyari good ballet dictionary di amazon.com.... sigh, keluar duit lg deh...

Azalae menulis:
Michael Nicholson - 'A Measure of Danger'

Buku2 gue yang beli and dipinjemin belum pada dibaca, gak sempet mulu... terakhir baca picture of dorian gray and Spartan. sayang spartan agak mengewakan terlalu dramatis.

Next book:... lagi dipinjemin Jane Eyre, akhirnya bakal baca juga, gara2 sejak baca wuthering heights, jadi sentimen ama Bronte sister's works

Da Vinci Code

moron: bagus ga? kok ngetop bgt sigh?

lagi baca: winter season: a dancer's journal

hmmm.... kok gue luirang suka yah sm winter seasonnya? kynya kurang dalam deh....

next book to read: classical ballet technique (gretchen warren)

Kuraih... namun tak terjangkau - Marga T.

ps: itu ballet smilies special request buat Floo yah?

lagi gak ada waktu buat baca... banyak banget film yg hrs gua tonton.. pusing!

waktu surfing database library, ketemu water margin versi Pearl S Buck, sekarang lagi baca buku I nya Shui Hu Chuan.

Baru ngabisin Undone (Virginia Henley) ama Falling Leaves - The True Story of Unwanted Chinese Daughter (Adeline Yen Mah).

Skrg baru mulai baca Portrait of A Killer - Jack The Ripper Case Closed (Patricia Cornwell). Tp gue suka serem sendiri kalo lg baca malem2, abis gambarnya rada2 horror gitu...kayaknya gue mo beralih ke buku yg laen dulu ah.

Moronian : DaVinci Code bagus gak sih? Kemaren sempet liat2, tp gak beli....pdhl bukunya lagi disale

Ini adalah salah satu komen ttg buku ini. menurutku buku ini mah semacam pengulangan dari buku Holy Grail atau sejenisnya....isinya tak lain bukan dugaan2 ngaco ttg Yesus, etc.

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Perhaps you've heard of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code. This fictional thriller has captured the coveted number one sales ranking at Amazon.com, camped out for 32 weeks on the New York Times Best-Seller List, and inspired a one-hour ABC News special. Along the way, it has sparked debates about the legitimacy of Western and Christian history.

While the ABC News feature focused on Brown's fascination with an alleged marriage between Jesus and Mary Magdalene, The Da Vinci Code contains many more (equally dubious) claims about Christianity's historic origins and theological development. The central claim Brown's novel makes about Christianity is that "almost everything our fathers taught us about Christ is false." Why? Because of a single meeting of bishops in 325, at the city of Nicea in modern-day Turkey. There, argues Brown, church leaders who wanted to consolidate their power base (he calls this, anachronistically, "the Vatican" or "the Roman Catholic church") created a divine Christ and an infallible Scripture—both of them novelties that had never before existed among Christians.

Watershed at Nicea
Brown is right about one thing (and not much more). In the course of Christian history, few events loom larger than the Council of Nicea in 325. When the newly converted Roman Emperor Constantine called bishops from around the world to present-day Turkey, the church had reached a theological crossroads.

Led by an Alexandrian theologian named Arius, one school of thought argued that Jesus had undoubtedly been a remarkable leader, but he was not God in flesh. Arius proved an expert logician and master of extracting biblical proof texts that seemingly illustrated differences between Jesus and God, such as John 14:28: "the Father is greater than I." In essence, Arius argued that Jesus of Nazareth could not possibly share God the Father's unique divinity.

In The Da Vinci Code, Brown apparently adopts Arius as his representative for all pre-Nicene Christianity. Referring to the Council of Nicea, Brown claims that "until that moment in history, Jesus was viewed by His followers as a mortal prophet … a great and powerful man, but a man nonetheless."

In reality, early Christians overwhelmingly worshipped Jesus Christ as their risen Savior and Lord. Before the church adopted comprehensive doctrinal creeds, early Christian leaders developed a set of instructional summaries of belief, termed the "Rule" or "Canon" of Faith, which affirmed this truth. To take one example, the canon of prominent second-century bishop Irenaeus took its cue from 1 Corinthians 8:6: "Yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ."

The term used here—Lord, Kyrios—deserves a bit more attention. Kyrios was used by the Greeks to denote divinity (though sometimes also, it is true, as a simple honorific). In the Greek translation of the Old Testament (the Septuagint, pre-dating Christ), this term became the preferred substitution for "Jahweh," the holy name of God. The Romans also used it to denote the divinity of their emperor, and the first-century Jewish writer Josephus tells us that the Jews refused to use it of the emperor for precisely this reason: only God himself was kyrios.

The Christians took over this usage of kyrios and applied it to Jesus, from the earliest days of the church. They did so not only in Scripture itself (which Brown argues was doctored after Nicea), but in the earliest extra-canonical Christian book, the Didache, which scholars agree was written no later than the late 100s. In this book, the earliest Aramaic-speaking Christians refer to Jesus as Lord.

In addition, pre-Nicene Christians acknowledged Jesus's divinity by petitioning God the Father in Christ's name. Church leaders, including Justin Martyr, a second-century luminary and the first great church apologist, baptized in the name of the triune God—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—thereby acknowledging the equality of the one Lord's three distinct persons.

The Council of Nicea did not entirely end the controversy over Arius's teachings, nor did the gathering impose a foreign doctrine of Christ's divinity on the church. The participating bishops merely affirmed the historic and standard Christian beliefs, erecting a united front against future efforts to dilute Christ's gift of salvation.

"Fax from Heaven"?
With the Bible playing a central role in Christianity, the question of Scripture's historic validity bears tremendous implications. Brown claims that Constantine commissioned and bankrolled a staff to manipulate existing texts and thereby divinize the human Christ.

Yet for a number of reasons, Brown's speculations fall flat. Brown correctly points out that "the Bible did not arrive by fax from heaven." Indeed, the Bible's composition and consolidation may appear a bit too human for the comfort of some Christians. But Brown overlooks the fact that the human process of canonization had progressed for centuries before Nicea, resulting in a nearly complete canon of Scripture before Nicea or even Constantine's legalization of Christianity in 313.

Ironically, the process of collecting and consolidating Scripture was launched when a rival sect produced its own quasi-biblical canon. Around 140 a Gnostic leader named Marcion began spreading a theory that the New and Old Testaments didn't share the same God. Marcion argued that the Old Testament's God represented law and wrath while the New Testament's God, represented by Christ, exemplified love. As a result Marcion rejected the Old Testament and the most overtly Jewish New Testament writings, including Matthew, Mark, Acts, and Hebrews. He manipulated other books to downplay their Jewish tendencies. Though in 144 the church in Rome declared his views heretical, Marcion's teaching sparked a new cult. Challenged by Marcion's threat, church leaders began to consider earnestly their own views on a definitive list of Scriptural books including both the Old and New Testaments.

Another rival theology nudged the church toward consolidating the New Testament. During the mid- to late-second century, a man from Asia Minor named Montanus boasted of receiving a revelation from God about an impending apocalypse. The four Gospels and Paul's epistles achieved wide circulation and largely unquestioned authority within the early church but hadn't yet been collected in a single authoritative book. Montanus saw in this fact an opportunity to spread his message, by claiming authoritative status for his new revelation. Church leaders met the challenge around 190 and circulated a definitive list of apostolic writings that is today called the Muratorian Canon, after its modern discoverer. The Muratorian Canon bears striking resemblance to today's New Testament but includes two books, Revelation of Peter and Wisdom of Solomon, which were later excluded from the canon.

By the time of Nicea, church leaders debated the legitimacy of only a few books that we accept today, chief among them Hebrews and Revelation, because their authorship remained in doubt. In fact, authorship was the most important consideration for those who worked to solidify the canon. Early church leaders considered letters and eyewitness accounts authoritative and binding only if they were written by an apostle or close disciple of an apostle. This way they could be assured of the documents' reliability. As pastors and preachers, they also observed which books did in fact build up the church—a good sign, they felt, that such books were inspired Scripture. The results speak for themselves: the books of today's Bible have allowed Christianity to spread, flourish, and endure worldwide.

Though unoriginal in its allegations, The Da Vinci Code proves that some misguided theories never entirely fade away. They just reappear periodically in a different disguise. Brown's claims resemble those of Arius and his numerous heirs throughout history, who have contradicted the united testimony of the apostles and the early church they built. Those witnesses have always attested that Jesus Christ was and remains God himself. It didn't take an ancient council to make this true. And the pseudohistorical claims of a modern novel can't make it false.

http://www.christianitytoday.com/hist.../nov7.html

gue udah baca bukunya. ngeri deh..... yg ngerinya adl buku tsb memang nunjukin bukti (bukan.... bukan bukti kl Yesus merit sama Magdalena ya...) bahwa memang ada aliran tsb dr jmn dulu yg betul2 menganggap kl Christ's divinity itu cuma dongeng.

Tanda akhir jaman?

Hayo, siapa mau pinjem buku gue hehehe...

sampe lupa.... lagi baca: reinventing the brand-nya kapferer. mabok deh, udah lama ga gaul sm marketing trus..... chronicle of the host, ini bagus, versi novel ttg apa yg tjd di surga sebelum lucifer jatuh dlm dosa sampe manusia jatuh dlm dosa. baca deh.... (promosi)

Floo.. menulis:
gue udah baca bukunya. ngeri deh..... yg ngerinya adl buku tsb memang nunjukin bukti (bukan.... bukan bukti kl Yesus merit sama Magdalena ya...) bahwa memang ada aliran tsb dr jmn dulu yg betul2 menganggap kl Christ's divinity itu cuma dongeng.

Tanda akhir jaman?

Hayo, siapa mau pinjem buku gue hehehe...