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Peygamberimiz (s.a.v.) Allâhü Teâlâ'nın şöyle buyurduğunu bildirmiştir: "Âdemoğlunun her ameli kendisine mahsustur. Oruç müstesna. Zira o, bana mahsustur. Onun mükâfatını ben takdir edeceğim." Efendimiz (s.a.v.) şöyle buyurmuşlardır: "Oruç bir kalkandır. Sizden biri oruçlu olduğu gün cinsel ilişkide bulunmasın, cahillik edip de kem söz söylemesin. Biri ona sataşacak veya dalaşacak olursa "ben oruçlu bir kişiyim" desin. Muhammed (s.a.v.)'in canı yed-i kudretinde olan Allâh'a yemin olsun ki; elbette oruçlunun ağız kokusu, Allâhü Teâlâ katında misk kokusundan daha hoştur." (Buharî) "Kim Ramazan orucunu tutar ve ona Şevval ayından altı gün ilave ederse, sanki yılın bütününde oruç tutmuş gibi olur." (Müslim, Tirmizî, Ebû Dâvûd) "Muhakkak oruçlu için, iftar anında reddolunmayacak duâ vardır." (İbn-i Mâce) "Oruç tutunuz ki sıhhat bulasınız" (Taberani, Mu'cemu'lEvsat) "Her şeyin bir zekâtı vardır. Cesedin zekâtı da oruçtur." (İbn-i Mâce) "Bizim orucumuzla Ehl-i Kitab'ın orucunu ayıran sahur yemeğidir." (Nesaî) "Sahura kalkın. Çünkü sahurda bereket vardır." (Buhârî) "Allâh rızası için bir gün oruç tutan bir kulu Allâhü Teâlâ muhakkak o bir gün oruç sebebiyle cehennemden yetmiş vadi uzaklaştırır." (Müslim) "Oruçlu olan kişi, bir Müslüman'ı gıybet ve yahut ona ezâ ve cefâ etmedikçe ibâdettedir." (Suyûtî, Câmiu's-Sağir) "İki haslet vardır ki onlardan (kendini) muhâfaza edenin orucu sâlim olur: Gıybet ve yalan." (Beyhakî, Şuabü'l-Îmân) "Kim bir oruçluya iftar ettirirse, -oruçlunun sevâbından hiçbir şey eksilmeden- onun orucunun sevâbının bir misli sevâb alır." (Tirmizî)

Orucun sadece yeyip içmeyi ve cinsî alâkayı kesmekten ibâret olduğunu zannetme. Peygamberimiz (s.a.v.) şöyle buyuruyorlar: "Nice oruç tutanlar vardır ki, onların oruçları sadece açlık ve susuzluktan ibarettir." (Müsned-i Ahmed) Böyle kimseler oruçluyken vücudun diğer organlarını günâhlardan korumayanlardır. Nitekim Peygamberimiz (s.a.v.) buyuruyor ki: "Kim yalanı ve yalanla iş yapmayı terk etmezse, bilsin ki Allâh'ın onun yeme ve içmeyi terk etmesine ihtiyacı yoktur." (Buhârî) Tam ve kâmil bir oruç, bütün organlarını, göz, kulak, dil, el, ayak ve diğer organlarını Allâh (c.c.)'un yasak ettiği şeylerden, günâhlardan korumakla tutulan oruçtur. Oruçluyken gözünü harama bakmaktan, dilini haram ve faydasız şeyler konuşmaktan, kulağını Allâh (c.c.)'un haram ettiği şeyleri dinlemekten koruman icap eder. Mideni ve cinsiyet organını koruduğun gibi diğer bütün organlarını da günâhtan korumalısın. Peygamberimiz (s.a.v.) buyuruyorlar ki:"Beş şey oruçlunun sevâbım yok eder: Yalan söylemek, gıybet etmek, koğuculuk yapmak, yalan yere yemin etmek, helâli olmayan bir kimseye şehvetle bakmak." Hz. Peygamber (s.a.v) şöyle buyurdu; "Bakış, Şeytân'ın zehirli oklarından bir oktur. Kim Allâh korkusundan dolayı harama bakmayı terk ederse, Allâh ona öyle bir imân verir ki, o kimse bunun tadını kalbinin ta derinliklerinde hisseder." (Hâkim) Peygamberimiz (s.a.v.) şöyle buyuruyorlar: "Gıybet yapanla gıybet yapanı dinleyen gıybetin günâhına ortakdırlar." "Oruç, koruyucu bir kalkandır. Sizden herhangi biriniz oruçluyken kötü söz söylemesin, haddini aşıp kötülük yapmasın, câhilce hareket etmesin, bir kimse kendisine öldüresiye saldırsa veya sövse bile, ben oruçluyum desin, ona karşılık vermesin." (Buhârî) (İmâm Gazâlî, Nasıl İyi Bir Kul Olunur?, s.269-272)

Âlimler, Hz. Peygamber (s.a.v.)'in vârisleridir. Âlimlerin vâris olmasından, beyân konusunda vâris olduğu kimsenin yerini almaları lâzım gelir. Peygamber (s.a.v.)'e beyân farz olduğuna göre, aynı şekilde vârise de farz olacaktır. Tebliğin esası, şer'î hükümlerin açıklanmasıdır. Tebliğden sonra, âlimler tarafından yapılan tebliğ de, ilk tebliğ gibidir. Âlimlere nisbetle bu konuda gelen deliller çoktur. Allâhü Teâlâ şöyle buyurmuştur: "Gerçekten, Allâh'ın indirdiği Kitap'tan bir şeyi gizlemede bulunup, onu az bir değere değişenler var ya, onların karınlarına tıkındıkları ancak ateştir." (Bakara s. 174) "Hâkkı bâtıla karıştırmayın ve bile bile hakkı gizlemeyin." (Bakara s. 42) "Allâh tarafından kendisine bildirilen gerçeği gizleyenden daha zâlim kim olabilir." (Bakara s. 140) Hadis-i şeriflerde de şöyle buyurulur: "Dikkat edin! Burada bulunanlarınız, bulunmayanlara tebliğ etsin." (Buhârî) "Hased (gıpta) ancak iki kişi hakkında caizdir: Birincisi, Allâh (c.c.)'un kendisine mal verdiği ve o malı hak yolunda harcamaya muvaffak kıldığı kimsedir, ikincisi de, Allâh (c.c.)'un kendisine hikmet (ilim) verdiği kimsedir; onunla âmel eder ve onu öğretir." (Buhârî) "Kıyâmet alâmetlerinden biri de, ilmin kaldırılmış olması ve cehaletin ortaya çıkmasıdır." (Buhârî) Yani eğer âlimlerin mevcut olması sebebiyle ilim mevcut olsaydı, kendilerine düşen görev gereği olmak üzere o ilmi izhâr ederler ve böylece cehâlet ortaya çıkmazdı. Bu da, âlimlerin görevinin ilmi yaymak olduğunu gösterir. Bu konuda vârid olan hadisler pek çoktur. Beyân görevinin âlimler üzerine vacip olduğunda herhangi bir görüş ayrılığı yoktur. Beyân ise, gelen nasslara ve yönelen yükümlülüklere ait ilk açıklamaları kapsar. (Şatıbi, el-Muvâfakat; İslâmi İlimler Metodolojisi, c.3, s.290-291)

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İslam'da çok eşliliğin belirli sınırlar içinde caiz olduğu, “Eğer yetimlerin hakkına riayet edemeyeceğinizden korkarsanız, beğendiğiniz kadınlardan ikişer, üçer, dörder nikâhlayın.” (Nisâ s. 3) ayet-i kerimesi ile sabittir. Sahih-i Buhârî'de geçtiği üzere, Urve bin Zübeyr (r.a.), Hz. Âişe (r.anha) validemize bu ayetin neden indirildiğini sormuş, Hz. Âişe (r.anha)'da şu bilgiyi vermiştir: “Ey kardeşimin oğlu! Bazı yetimler, velilerinin gözetiminde ve terbiyesinde bulunur. Velileri, bu yetimlerin malına ve güzelliğine ilgi duyarak, onlarla olması gerekenden daha düşük bir mehir karşılığında evlenmeye kalkışırlar. İşte bu ayetle veliler, adaleti sağlamaya davet edilmiş; yetimlerle adil bir şekilde mehir belirlemeden evlenmekten men edilerek, kendileri için helal olan başka kadınlarla evlenmelerine izin verilmiştir.” Buradan anlaşılıyor ki, adil İslam hukukumuz, yetimlerin hakkına riayet etmeyen, dinî ve insani değerlere uygun olmayan davranışları erkeklere yasaklamış ve onları doğru bir yola yönlendirmiştir. Bu ilâhî emirleri yerine getiren bir Müslüman, hiçbir zaman kendi arzularına veya şahsi çıkarlarına göre hareket ederek himayesi altındaki yetimlerin haklarına ve hayat saadetine zarar veremez. Ancak meşrû sınırlar içinde hareket ederek, beğendiği kadınlarla adalete riayet etmek şartıyla dörde kadar evlenebilir. Bu hüküm, şer'î bir izinle sabit olduğu için, kimsenin bu uygulamaya itiraz etmeye hakkı yoktur. (Misvak Neşriyat, Ömer Nasuhi Bilmen, Makaleler, s. 107)

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Eğer Kur'ân'ın bütün mânâları tamamlan-mış olmasaydı, o zaman ona böyle denmesi doğru olmazdı. Daha buna benzer, Kur'ân'ın hidayet, kalplerde bulunan her şeye şifa oldu-ğunu belirten ayetler bulunmaktadır. Kalplerde bulunan her şeye şifâ olabilmesi için, onun her şeyin açıklamasını, çözümünü içermesi gerek-lidir. Bunu bildiren hadisler ve selefe ait sözler de vardır. Meselâ Hz. Peygamber (s.a.v.) şöy-le buyurmuştur: “Şüphesiz ki bu Kur'ân, Al-lâh (c.c.)'un ipidir. O apaçık nurdur, faydalı şifâdır. Kendisine tutunan kimse için o, bir korunaktır. O, kendisine tâbi olan için bir kurtuluştur. Ona uyan eğrilmez ki, doğrul-tulsun; sapmaz ki azarlansın. Onun hayret edilecek yönleri bitmez, çokça tekrarla-maktan dolayı eskimez.” (Dârimî)Kur'ân'ın mutlak surette Allâh (c.c.)'un ipi, faydalı şifâ olması, onun her yönden tam oldu-ğunun delilidir. Benzeri bir hadis Hz. Ali (r.a.) vasıtasıyla da rivayet edilmiştir. İbn Mesûd (r.a.)'den şöyle rivayet edilmiştir: “Her ziya-fet veren, verdiği ziyafete gelinmesini se-ver. Allâh (c.c.)'un ziyafeti de Kur'ân'dır” (Dârimî) Hz. Âişe (r.anhâ)'ya Hz. Peygamber (s.a.v.)'in ahlâkının nasıl olduğunu sorarlar. Cevâbında: “Onun ahlâkı Kur'ân'dı” (Buhârî) der. Onun bu sözünü Kur'ân da: “Şüphesiz sen yüce bir ahlâk üzeresin” (Kalem s. 4) ayeti ile tasdik eder. Katâde (r.a.): “Kur'ân ile hem-hâl olan kimse ondan ya bir ziyadelik ya da bir noksanlık ile ayrılır” demiş ve arkasından: “Kur'ân'dan inananlara rahmet ve şifa olan şeyler indiriyoruz. O, zâlimlerin ise sadece kaybını artırır” (İsrâ s. 82) ayetini okumuştur.(Şatıbi, el-Muvâfakât; İslâmi İlimler Metodolojisi, c.3, s.355-356)

JoAnne’s Christmas Curse: Part 1 The Merry Misadventures of the Christmas Cursed. Based on a post by Todd 1 72, in 2 parts. Listen to the Podcast at Steamy Stories. The Curse. JoAnne forced her way brusquely through the dense crowd toward the Thai place on the corner. Lord, she hated holiday shopping; screaming brats, the jarring sounds of ringing bells, the constant fucking "gimme, gimme, gimme" of the damn "charity" workers. As if they weren't really there to guilt you into forking over the goddamn money. And all these fucking people just kept on bumping against her, wrinkling her $2000 black skirt and jacket power suit. Didn't they have somewhere to be, didn't people work anymore? Just as she broke free of the crowd, she half-ran-into and half-plowed-over a diminutive blonde girl in some kind of Christmas outfit, sending packages skittering across the frozen ground and knocking the mini-skirted kid on her ass. Great, what the fuck was a kid doing out in the middle of the day anyway; JoAnne stopped. From the size of her boobs, this was no kid; a midget? Crap, they used something else now, like small person or some shit. The blonde glared at her through her skewed hair while she straightened her tilted elf hat for a second, then caught herself and smiled, although, honestly, it looked a little more like she was gritting her teeth. "Merry Christmas, huh?" JoAnne rolled her eyes and started to walk on. "Hey! Aren't you going to help me get all this shit picked up?" JoAnne looked over her shoulder at the flustered little blonde. "Fuck off, I'm busy" and pushed her way into the Restaurant. Finding her way to her usual seat, as she brushed her short, platinum blonde hair back, she sat and pointed at the waitress who immediately ran to the kitchen to get her order started and get her a damn drink. JoAnne pulled out her blackberry and started to pull up her emails; about 10 seconds later her system froze. Shit. The chair across from her pulled out. Without looking up, JoAnne growled. "I don't need any company, and I need space to work. Fuck off." Even with her cold demeanor, her pale skin, white blonde hair and blue eyes drew more attention than she'd ever wanted. Nothing happened. When she looked up, the tiny honey blonde from outside was leaning back in the chair, staring at her with her arms crossed under her outsized boobs. She looked a like a distinctly adult-oriented version of an elf; long blonde hair, pointy ears, a micro-miniskirt and a huge rack that barely stayed in her costume. Despite the rosy cheeks and turned up nose, though, the twinkle in her eyes looked extremely icy. JoAnne sighed. Oh well, if the little bitch wanted to be a problem, she'd have her thrown out. She started to look around for a waiter, then realized nobody was moving. Nobody at all. Inside or in the vast crowd outside. No sound. Everything was frozen. She looked back at the girl, who slowly arched her left eyebrow in an overly dramatic fashion. "Look Sister, I'd tell you not to do anything stupid, but that would be wasted effort. You can't do anything, you're stuck in that chair until I say otherwise. Elf. Christmas. Magic. Bitch." JoAnne started to protest, but her mouth simply froze as the Elf raised her hand. "Don't bother. This isn't a dream. You didn't fall and hit your head. You haven't even had a drink today yet. And it sure as fuck-all wasn't that nasty bran concoction you had for breakfast. On your salary you eat sawdust for breakfast? Fuck, eat a good breakfast and spend five more minutes on the damn elliptical." She waved her hand and JoAnne found she could speak again. "Look if you want an apology;” The Elf cut her off again "It wouldn't be sincere and you wouldn't learn a god damn thing. Don't bullshit me, Baby, I'm a whole lot older than I look. Besides, I have your file." She leaned back, reached two fingers into her ample cleavage and pulled out an ornate, gilt edged scroll, untied it and began to read over it: "Let's see; JoAnne Steadmann, age 32. No personal relationships. Wow, that sucks. You seem to have a severe case of Greed, brought on by a Self-Centered Nature and a Lack of Human Empathy, which seems to have developed around puberty;” Her voice trailed off as she read more. Then: "Damn!? You're Frigid? No Orgasms? No wonder you're a grade-A Bitch! Hell, I wouldn't wish that on anyone! Got your cherry popped in High School, but didn't enjoy it at all. And you didn't even experiment at Wellesley? Damn that's like the lickety-slit capitol of the world. You missed out on a whole lot of the sweet stuff there, Baby." JoAnne just glared at her. Whatever the hell this was about, the little blonde bitch had no right digging into her personal life. "On the bright side you're not entirely freaked out by this, and that's rarer than you think. Too many people have lost belief in Christmas magic; they can lose it completely when shit like this happens. You're pretty enough in platinum-blonde-career bitch sort of way. And, according to Records Division, you never developed any real sex aversions, so that's good;” Shaking her head, the Elf hastily re-rolled the scroll, tucked it back between her oversized boobs, then leaned forward looking intently into JoAnne's eyes. "I can fix this; but I have to follow the rules. I'm not allowed to just go around helping humanity; free will and all that shit. But I can inflict a Christmas lesson on you because you denied the True Meaning of Christmas. You were rude. To an Elf. Within the Fortnight of Christmas." JoAnne leaned back in shock. "Is this going to be one of those ghosts things? I;” The Elf shook her head "Ghosts wouldn't help you at all." She paused. "God, I love that one, it's a classic but it won't work here. I am giving you the gift of Lust. I am removing most of your inhibitions; the sexual ones anyway and 'cursing' you so that at least once a day until Midnight on Christmas Eve, you're going to find yourself in a situation that ends up in sex of some kind or other. Nothing dangerous, nothing that will destroy your life. You may end up feeling a little used and a bit humiliated, but you'll like it. Besides, a little humility would do you a lot of good, Sunshine." JoAnne felt her anger flare "Nobody uses;” And just as quickly found herself muted as the Elf stood up. "Alright, let's get this show on the road, I've got some fucking Joy to spread by the end of the day. Gimme the panties, you won't be needing them." JoAnne tried to resist, but found herself standing, reaching under her skirt and pulling off her black silk underwear and handing them over. She watched in disgust as the little Elf held them up to her nose and breathed in deeply. The Elf shook her head sadly and looked at JoAnne. "Nothing. Just Fabric softener and soap. You really are Frigid. I'm fixing that right now." She stepped over to JoAnne and reached up under her skirt. JoAnne felt the Elf's very warm hand cup her crotch. The Elf looked her in the eye "Damn. Closed up tighter than a bank vault." She rubbed her palm back and forth for a second. "Ah, there it is!" JoAnne's knees nearly gave out and she almost fell to the ground as she felt something hot surge through her whole body, but the Elf steadied her and guided her back into her seat. As Joanne watched, the Elf licked her fingertips delicately. "Much better." "That was your First Orgasm. It's been sort of stuck in the gate for a damn long time. It was a little weak from the time attenuation, so the next time it will feel better." JoAnne stiffened. "Buh, better?" "More powerful, longer." JoAnne couldn't even imagine that. The Elf continued on without really noticing JoAnne's reaction. "Here's the deal, you get a little something every day, each day gets a little more extreme and a little more intense. I've used this one a lot; it was practically standard in Vicki's day; Queen Victoria. It will be a real experience, but you can handle it. Still, if it gets to be too much, call my name three times; its 'Holly Mistletoe" and I'll pop in to help. If you really need it." Suddenly, with a sound like a balloon popping in reverse, Holly was gone and everything was in motion. The waitress rushed up with her drink; which she drank in one gulp, and her food arrived almost immediately. She managed to catch her breath and tried to act normal, although she just didn't have it in her to bitch at the waitress for being too slow like she usually did. She even caught herself leaving a much larger tip than usual. She must be shaken up. The Tattoo. JoAnne slipped into her desk; the walk back had been weird. She'd been so damn conscious of not wearing any underwear, and she normally never thought about; that. And she felt almost feverishly warm, with everybody bumping into her. She kept wondering if they somehow knew she was panty-less. Worse yet, she guiltily realized she kind of liked the idea. She had practically run by her new red-headed secretary and locked herself in the office. She started to buzz the secretary. With a start she realized she couldn't remember her secretary's name. She had just gotten rid of Samantha, the brunette; JoAnne never kept a secretary very long. She was concerned about secretaries learning too much about her; shuffling them back into the secretarial pool after 6 weeks or two big deals. What was the name of the name of the new one; thin, red hair, pixie cut, pointy nose; Lori? No. Lisa? No. Lil; Lillian. That was it. She punched the intercom on her phone. "Lillian, could you bring me a glass of water please?" A somewhat puzzled, "Yes, Ma'am," came back. Which made sense, after all, JoAnne never asked for anything, she ordered things, and she never, ever said please. Lillian quietly and efficiently brought her the water, then stepped out. As she left JoAnne watched her ass sway under her cream colored skirt. It was awfully perky and cute. JoAnne squeaked. She never, ever thought about things like that. She felt warmth growing between her thighs, more and more intense, like an itch that needed a scratch, but much, much more; personal. She shifted and tried to concentrate on work, but the only emails she had were autoreplies informing her that the recipients would be back after Christmas break. A curious tingling was growing just above her privates. She frantically pulled her skirt up and looked down. All her pubic hair was gone, except for a neatly trimmed patch just above her cunt in the shape of a holly leaf. Even more of a shock, just to the left of it was a tiny incredibly intricate tattoo of a mistletoe ball on crossed candy canes. She could just make out the words "Christmas Magic. Bitch." woven into the mistletoe. Shit. Shit. Shit. How the hell do you explain that to your gynecologist? Maybe it was one of those stick on tattoos, she could just rub it. The second she started rubbing, she knew she'd made a mistake. The feeling shot over her like arcs of electricity; she felt her lips go numb, her legs began to shake and her nipples grew achingly hard; she could make out the tips through the fabric of her blouse. She wanted to stop, she really did, but she couldn't; her fingers were playing with her lips and clit almost instantly. Without stopping, she managed to pull her skirt up around her waist and pull open her jacket and shirt. She couldn't get the fucking bra off, but while she massaged her clit she reached inside the bra and began to pinch and tweak her rock hard nipples. She was so wet that her fingers slipped inside without her even realizing it. First one, then a second. She felt her orgasm hit like a train, then a second, then a third, leaving her gasping, barely able to move in her slowly rotating chair. After a few minutes she rearranged herself into some semblance of order, although her shirt and her jacket were each missing a button. No surprise there. Still, she felt better than could ever remember feeling; relaxed, warm and comfortable. She managed to make it through the next few hours, before she decided to leave. Lillian was watching her curiously; not too surprising since she never left before 5:00. JoAnne heard herself say, "Go ahead and take a couple hours, you probably have some Christmas shopping to do or something." That got a warm smile and a "Thank you". The rest of the evening was normal, although she did finger herself; just a little; in the shower. The Package. The next morning, as JoAnne dressed for work, a number of things became obvious. First off, most of her clothing was missing; not one bra or panty was in the condominium. Even the bra she'd had on yesterday had disappeared from the hamper. There was a card sitting on the kitchen island; from Holly; advising her that she would "get those Manhattan Career Bitch costumes back later" if she still wanted them. All her severe black suits were gone as well; they were replaced with very expensive looking red silk suits of a similar type with slightly shorter skirts and sheer white silk blouses with decidedly more "decisive" necklines. Her shoes had changed too; color and about an inch more heel, although they proved surprisingly comfortable. The morning passed fairly productively; with only a couple of odd glances from Lillian. To be on the safe side, she decided to order lunch in the office, but it was almost two in the afternoon before anything happened. Lillian buzzed: "Miss, there's a bike messenger with a package; he says I can't sign for it." "Send him in." A tall, muscular, dark haired guy with a small, brightly colored box walked in. "Sorry, instructions were explicit, you'll have to sign for it." JoAnne sighed and reached for the box; as soon as she touched it, one end popped open and something fell out onto the desk. A vibrator. An enormous, brightly colored vibrator. And of course it hit right on the on/off button. She and the messenger watched it buzz around in a circle on her desktop for a long second before she grabbed it and fumbled it off. "I, uh, this friend;” "No problem. Short blonde woman; she looked like a joker, all dressed up like an elf. Had a hell of a smirk. I figured it was some kind of practical joke." JoAnne watched his firm ass as he left. Lillian followed her gaze as he walked out. "Just want to bite that and hang on." Instead of admonishing her to be more professional, JoAnne found herself nodding and smiling like an idiot. She suddenly caught herself, then hastily shut the door and retreated to her office. The vibrator stared at her from the center of her desk. It was red and white striped, of course. About 8 inches long, had little gumdrop-like rubber nobs all over it and a bullet like tip of gold metal. She decided to stick it in a desk drawer. Another mistake. As soon as she picked it up, the tingling between her thighs began again, and she couldn't physically put the vibrator down. She reached with her empty hand and clicked the intercom on the phone. "Lillian. Hold my calls." "Yes, Miss." There was something in Lillian's voice, but JoAnne realized she didn't have time to deal with it; the tingling was so intense it was almost painful; and she felt like she was suffocating in her suit; it seemed like her clothes were lined with lead weights. She fumbled her skirt off and opened her blouse and shirt, exposing her tits to the cool office air. Her nipples were standing out like fucking spikes and she could feel wetness between her thighs. Good Lord. Her pussy was absolutely dripping. JoAnne clicked on the vibrator and began to run the tip over her excited nipples. She moaned loudly; it was a damn good thing the office was soundproof. Fuck, that felt amazing. She licked her fingers and got her nipples really wet so they stiffened even more with the cold and the vibrator. Damn, how long could they get? Her breath was coming in short pants as she slumped in the chair, and hooked each leg over a chair arm, spreading herself wide open. "Fah-Fuck, fuck, fuck!" Pinching her nipples with her free hand she ran the vibrator all over her inner thighs, eliciting more hot juice from an already wide open and steaming pussy. When she couldn't wait any longer, she began to run the tip of the vibrator over her pussy lips; she planned to do it for a while, but when the tip hit her swollen clit, she spilled over into orgasm, screaming as quietly as she could. "Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes!" As the spasms died away she meant to put the vibrator down and get dressed but her hands seemed to have minds of their own, her free hand spread her pussy lips wide open while she danced the vibrator in and out, just an inch or so; then she plunged it into the gaping hole, screaming loudly as the orgasms exploded through her. Even then, as she pulled the wet shaft out of herself, her hand seemed to slip and the tip slipped down below her cunt, resting against her asshole. The vibrations felt good. Surprisingly good; almost; she felt another orgasm building. This time she did it; she began to frantically rub her clit with her free hand while she gently pushed the tip of the vibrator into her ass. By the time this orgasm settled, she realized had three fingers up her twat and had shoved the vibrator into her ass almost four inches. Still though, she felt in command enough to stop. She switched off the vibrator and shakily dressed herself, thanking God for soundproofing. After she caught her breath, she dropped the vibrator into her purse and clicked the intercom. "Lillian, you, uh, can resume forwarding my calls." "Yes, Miss." Very definitely a smile in her voice. Fuck her, all she could do would be to spread rumors, and if she did she would be back in the secretarial pool without the executive bonus pay. The rest of the day passed quietly and she decided that on her way out she would feel out if Lillian was going to say anything. As she stepped out the door she watched the cute redhead suppress a wicked little smile. "Lillian, I thought it would be a good idea;” Lillian intercepted the thought "...to remind me that secretaries do not discuss their bosses activities with anyone at all. It's in the confidentiality agreement we sign when we get sent up from the pool." At first JoAnne was appalled that Lillian would cut in like that, but she decided to try to be nice; a very different tack for her. "Umm, yeah. I just didn't want any rumors to, you know, start." Lillian smiled mischievously. "I won't say anything to anyone, but maybe next time you might want to completely shut your blinds. And maybe turn off the intercom. Luckily, I was on headset. I don't mind sharing, yesterday sounded great. Today sounded exquisite and looked even better; but if you want privacy;” JoAnne stared at the communication window to the office; it was open nearly a foot. She was sure it had been closed yesterday; and she was the only one with a remote for it. Even the intercom could only be turned on from inside the office. She must have left it on when she; she began to turn bright red, then raced from the office. The Glass Elevator. The next day was Saturday, her only real day off this week; Sunday was a teleconference with Japan from the office, so she had to go in. She stayed burrowed into her bed almost until noon; she just couldn't figure out what to do about the office. If she stayed in her apartment, she might end up masturbating, but at least she would be doing it without an audience. Just the thought of Lillian listening to her and watching her made her feel; uncomfortable, but somehow it didn't feel as bad as it should have, which worried her even more. She finally had to get out of bed to pee; and of course, her pajamas had disappeared overnight. She went to put on a robe at least, but the only thing in the apartment was a red skirt and white shirt combo that looked like they might be made of tissue paper, and a dark red overcoat, a bit too warm for the apartment, but suitable for the snow outside. And of course, red fuck-me shoes. After a moment of irritation she pulled on the skirt and shirt; she might as well have been walking around topless for all the shirt covered her tits, and the skirt was about one centimeter below her ass cheeks. She went over to the refrigerator; not one stick of food. Damn. Her phone battery was dead; she'd apparently forgotten to plug it in. By the time she lifted the receiver on her house phone, she wasn't surprised to find the line dead. She sat down in her easy chair and turned on the TV. She would just wait it out; the phone line would be back soon. Four hours later, with her stomach complaining, and only cooking shows on, she gave up. If she just zipped downstairs, she could grab some food at one of the trendy-take out joints and be back up in fifteen minutes. She looked in the mirror. A class A slut stared back at her; nipples obvious through the shirt, skirt so short it should be illegal. Looked kind of yummy in a way though. She grabbed the bulky wool overcoat and buttoned it completely. Key card. Wallet. She headed out. The internal elevators were out, so she took the glass elevator on the outside of the building; she could see the whole city; the crowds of people looking up at the elevator as it came down. It didn't take long to get her Cuban sandwich and head back. Which was good, the coat was a little warm, even with snowy weather. As she neared the elevator, she heard a familiar voice. "Trying to hide, today?" JoAnne whirled. Holly was perched on a concrete stanchion toying with an oversize Santa hat. JoAnne started to speak, but a wave of Holly's hand cut her off mute. "Take the hat, you'll need it." JoAnne grabbed the hat; and with the same odd reverse pop, Holly simply vanished. JoAnne sprinted for the elevator; this couldn't be good. Get home. Get home. Get; The now familiar tingling almost overwhelmed her, as the elevator door closed. JoAnne jammed the oversize hat on her head and slipped a hand inside the overcoat to push the skirt up and found; nothing. No skirt, no shirt; her clothes had evaporated. She couldn't stop to fight it; she began fingering herself furiously, three fingers slipping into her hole almost instantly. As the elevator crept up, she realized her coat was evaporating like smoke. She felt tears form as the elevator ground to a halt just three floors up; she was fully visible to the crowd. A crazy naked woman, masturbating in an elevator, wearing nothing but a hat! A hat, she was relieved to note, that obscured her hair and face completely. People were stopping to stare; to her horror, she realized she liked it; hell, she loved it! A middle-aged man pulled out a cell phone and snapped her picture as she managed to fit a fourth finger up her gaping pussy. Hot cunt juice flowed over JoAnne’s hand; she began to cum, over, and over; thinking about all those people watching her. At some point, the elevator began to move upward; just in time as an old lady dragged the building's doorman around to see. Snow thickened around the building, obscuring the ascending elevator. It stopped a floor below hers and refused to move further. She grabbed her purse and food and crept up the stairs; the security camera lights were dark; probably thanks to Holly. JoAnne managed to slip into her apartment, although she had had to hide in the stairwell while three people walked by. Once in her apartment, she collapsed on the bed, just in time to hear her email ping on the computer. She almost ignored it, but the timing. The email was from NaughtyList@northpole.org; and it was a video entitled; "Mystery woman puts on Christmas show." With a sinking heart, she opened the file and watched herself masturbating in front of hundreds of men and women, wearing just a Santa hat. According to the file, nearly 500,000 people had watched the video. Half a million people watching her? This time, she was pretty sure it wasn't Elf magic, but either way, she spent the next hour with her new vibrator buried in her pussy, pumping it like a jack hammer. She wasn't sure how many orgasms she had; one helluva lot. She managed to eat her food, then sank into a deep sleep. Video Tele Conference. Sunday morning, JoAnne woke late, and ended up rushing to the office; the red outfits were miraculously back, although she noticed the skirts were shorter. She decided on a businesslike demeanor. Ignore everything with Lillian. Blame it on medication; if she had to. By the time she arrived, a harassed-looking Lillian was already there, clicking cables into position. "Thank god you're here. The main video teleconference is down, so I'd setting up your desk so you can have both slides and video feed. The partners have called three times already. We are good on this end, but Japan is having problems with dual video. They will be able to hear you, but only see the slides and the video, not you. The partners will be listening in on the phone." JoAnne slipped into her chair, just in time to hear the chime of the video teleconference, coming on line. "Mister Nakamura;” her foot kicked a cable and the video feed went dark. She signaled to Lillian while she continued her spiel. Lillian looked under the desk, grabbed some tape and crawled under. After a few mumbled curses from Lillian, the video feed from Japan came back on. JoAnne started to push her chair back, to let Lillian out, but the video flickered again and she felt Lillian pull her back. A few seconds later, Lillian pushed a note into her hand. "Your chair hooked on cables, if you push back, lose whole Video Tele Conference." JoAnne finished her spiel, then turned on the 40 minute auto presentation, and muted her own audio. "Okay, it's on autopilot. And mute." Lillian pushed her head up on JoAnne's thigh and eyed the control critically "Good, it really is on mute. You haven't had a good track record with mute lately, just wanted to check. The chair clipped a wire, I will replace it tomorrow; but don't try to push back right now, or the Video Conference will go down for good, I wouldn't be able to reroute without a whole new set of cables. You seem stressed." JoAnne sighed. "You have no idea." "I can fix that." JoAnne started to respond, but Lillian's meaning became clear as she spread JoAnne's knees apart and began to settle in between them. JoAnne tried to resist, but her thighs seemed to drift even further apart on their own, and she even lifted as Lillian unzipped her skirt and slid it off. JoAnne stopped even trying to resist, just leaning back and letting Lillian's quick and talented tongue slide her up one orgasm after another. Lillian had slid her own clothes off and was fingering herself as she ate JoAnne. Lillian seemed to orgasm in time with her. After a few minutes, JoAnne heard Lillian's fingers pumping in and out of her hot wet tunnel. All too soon, the auto-play pinged and JoAnne had to return to her speech, although Lillian continued tonguing her gently throughout. The response to the presentation was more than good; the order from Japan was at least three times larger than she had anticipated in her best case scenario, so it was no surprise when the partners called her, and told her to come on down to the office. After one more good cum, she untangled herself from the desk, the chair, and Lillian. "Look, I have to go down there;” Lillian smiled cheerfully, but with a wicked edge "It's okay; I have to go to a family thing anyway. At least now it will be easier to put up with. By the way, I love your ‘lawn and landscaping’; and that is the cutest little tattoo; I never heard you like Christmas that much." She gave JoAnne a warm kiss; which tasted of candy canes. As JoAnne Walked out, she could hear Lillian putting things up; and whistling a cheery Christmas tune. The meeting with the partners went particularly well; and Robert, the older brother; commented that he had never seen her more relaxed and in control. That night she fell asleep, wondering what it would be like to return the favor to Lillian; while she used her now-indispensable vibrator on herself. Hard Dictation. The next morning, in the shower, JoAnne realized her little tuft of designer pubic hair hadn't grown out at all; in fact, it looked kind of, well, glittery, like gold glitter along the edges of the naughty holly leaf. All the red clothes were still there, although the skirts seemed even shorter, and there were little emerald holly pins on each lapel. As she picked up her purse, she found a small scroll on top. In shining gilt letters it said: "Sometimes it is better to give, than receive. Be sure to give a Lil' something." JoAnne actually smiled at the blunt hint, as if she hadn't been thinking about Lillian already. She was waking up hornier every damn morning. Still though, the office was mayhem; frantic arrangements to make sure the Japan orders were completed on time, after action reports and a hasty lunch meeting with the partners combined to keep her from even talking to Lillian for more than a second or two, and that about work. Just as she sat down at her desk from the lunch meeting, the intercom buzzed. "Messenger service again, Miss." "Send him in." The same bike messenger walked in, carrying another Holiday package. Even though she knew the package would pop open, she didn't bother to try to stop it. She had a suspicion that if she tried to stop the Elf curse, it would up the ante. He held the box over the desk, and suddenly the bottom flaps dropped open, of their own doing. This time, the packages contents hit the desk with a thud, and didn't move. Some kind of black leather belt contraption, attached to a huge candy-cane striped dildo. She rolled her eyes "My friend is a little;” "Smart ass? Yeah, the little blonde chick, in some kind of Christmas elf get up; kept giggling to herself." "Just like last time" JoAnne presumed. "I'll take your word on that." As he left, JoAnne watched his muscular ass, and puzzled over his words. He'd been there, how often? To vibrators falling out of packages, anyway? After he left, she grinned wickedly; give a Lil' something? She had just the thing. She tucked it into her top drawer. Then cleared the top of her desk off completely. "Lillian? I need you to come in; and take dictation for me." "Yes, Miss Steadmann." Lillian entered. "Your schedule is cleared until tomorrow morning, Miss JoAnne. Both your afternoon appointments just called in and cancelled." JoAnne glanced at the closed office door. Locked, and the blinds were fully closed. She stood up and looked out the office window into the flurries. "Lillian, we need to talk about a performance reward." "Actually, I'm maxed out this year; I was on the CBN team earlier this year. I can't get any more cash awards until next year. JoAnne turned around and backed Lillian up against the desk. "That isn't exactly what I had in mind." Pinning Lillian against the desk, Joanne kissed her hungrily, forcing her tongue into Lillian's mouth. She had Lillian's skirt unzipped and dropped to the floor and her blouse and bra off in seconds. She gently pressed Lillian back until the blonde girl was lying back on the desk, clad in only a mint green thong. JoAnne slid the thong down Lillian's long legs, eyeing Lillian's obviously wet cunt, with its little topping of strawberry blonde hair. Without thinking, she brought the panties to her face and breathed in deeply. They were filled with a musky, heady scent that made her mouth water. She looked right into Lillian's eyes and said, "Aren't you just a horny little thing!" Lillian let her legs fall open. "You have no idea;” "I can fix that." She dropped the thong onto the skirt and slid in between Lillian's creamy thighs, dropping her own skirt and jacket as she did so. She didn't hesitate at all; her mouth closed over Lillian's swollen pink pussy and she began to tongue and suck with abandon. She must have been doing something right, because Lillian's sighs turned to moans; then outright screams of ecstasy. JoAnne also fingered herself to orgasm, and only after Lillian had practically passed out, did she let up. Lillian breathed heavily, "God, that was fucking fantastic!" JoAnne reached into her drawer, and pulled out the strap-on dildo; and slipped the straps on while Lillian watched wide-eyed. "Your reward isn't over; yet." Despite the very thick size of the rubber red and white, spiral–striped cock, Lillian was so wet, it slipped into her easily. JoAnne began to thrust slowly in and out. "You like that?" Lillian breathed in deeply, then brought her legs up around JoAnne’s ass, "Yes. But; you can do it harder if you want." JoAnne thrust deeper and faster. Lillian hissed and grabbed JoAnne's tits, in a tight grip. "God, yes. Harder; please; harder" JoAnne began to really pump hard, Lillian seemed to have no problem taking in the big fake cock. "Fuck. Yeah. Give it to me. Harder. Harder. Harder!" JoAnne began to slam it into her as hard as she could. Lillian began to make a weird keening sound. "Don't fucking stop. Oh fuck. Don't stop. Please don't stop!" Just as JoAnne was sure her legs were going to give out, Lillian's eyes shot open, and she arched her back and screamed incredibly loud. JoAnne felt a huge gush of hot pussy juice squirt around the dildo and drench her. Lillian collapsed so suddenly she slid off the giant dildo. "Holy. Shit." As JoAnne slid the strap-on off, Lillian rolled over onto her stomach obviously trying to marshal the strength to get up. JoAnne eyed her perky ass; particularly the little pink asshole. She was almost ready to reach for the strap-on when the phone rang. Lillian grabbed the phone without getting up. "JoAnne Steadmann's office. Lillian speaking. Uh huh, yes;” As Lillian talked on the phone, JoAnne reached down and parted her ass cheeks. She knew she shouldn't but she just couldn't resist bending over and tonguing the little pink rosebud. Lillian squirmed, but didn't try to get away; in fact she brought her knees up a little to help JoAnne. After she had the little pink asshole dripping with saliva, she continued tonguing while gently inserted her forefinger and began to pump it gently in and out. Lillian was slowly thrusting her ass back on the finger and into her face while talking on the phone. But as soon as she finished the phone call, she came up on all fours and began fucking her ass back against JoAnne's face and finger, grinding until she came. This time when they broke apart, she slid to the other side of the desk, eyeing JoAnne warily, but with a wide smile. "Okay, you're just plain kinky. And something about you just turns my inner slut on full power. Still, we have to stop; you have a meeting in 30 minutes. You'd better wash your face and get dressed." Scowling and smiling at the same time, JoAnne struggled into her clothes as did Lillian. Still, Lillian was absolutely glowing, and walking a little slowly, which made JoAnne smile. The meeting lasted until well after business closing, so Lillian was gone when she went back to get her purse and coat. But the mint green thong was carefully arranged in the middle of JoAnne's desk; with a candy cane sitting on it. To be continued in part 2. Based on a post by Todd 1 72, in 2 parts, for Literotica.

JoAnne’s Christmas Curse: Part 1 The Merry Misadventures of the Christmas Cursed. Based on a post by Todd 1 72, in 2 parts. Listen to the Podcast at Steamy Stories. The Curse. JoAnne forced her way brusquely through the dense crowd toward the Thai place on the corner. Lord, she hated holiday shopping; screaming brats, the jarring sounds of ringing bells, the constant fucking "gimme, gimme, gimme" of the damn "charity" workers. As if they weren't really there to guilt you into forking over the goddamn money. And all these fucking people just kept on bumping against her, wrinkling her $2000 black skirt and jacket power suit. Didn't they have somewhere to be, didn't people work anymore? Just as she broke free of the crowd, she half-ran-into and half-plowed-over a diminutive blonde girl in some kind of Christmas outfit, sending packages skittering across the frozen ground and knocking the mini-skirted kid on her ass. Great, what the fuck was a kid doing out in the middle of the day anyway; JoAnne stopped. From the size of her boobs, this was no kid; a midget? Crap, they used something else now, like small person or some shit. The blonde glared at her through her skewed hair while she straightened her tilted elf hat for a second, then caught herself and smiled, although, honestly, it looked a little more like she was gritting her teeth. "Merry Christmas, huh?" JoAnne rolled her eyes and started to walk on. "Hey! Aren't you going to help me get all this shit picked up?" JoAnne looked over her shoulder at the flustered little blonde. "Fuck off, I'm busy" and pushed her way into the Restaurant. Finding her way to her usual seat, as she brushed her short, platinum blonde hair back, she sat and pointed at the waitress who immediately ran to the kitchen to get her order started and get her a damn drink. JoAnne pulled out her blackberry and started to pull up her emails; about 10 seconds later her system froze. Shit. The chair across from her pulled out. Without looking up, JoAnne growled. "I don't need any company, and I need space to work. Fuck off." Even with her cold demeanor, her pale skin, white blonde hair and blue eyes drew more attention than she'd ever wanted. Nothing happened. When she looked up, the tiny honey blonde from outside was leaning back in the chair, staring at her with her arms crossed under her outsized boobs. She looked a like a distinctly adult-oriented version of an elf; long blonde hair, pointy ears, a micro-miniskirt and a huge rack that barely stayed in her costume. Despite the rosy cheeks and turned up nose, though, the twinkle in her eyes looked extremely icy. JoAnne sighed. Oh well, if the little bitch wanted to be a problem, she'd have her thrown out. She started to look around for a waiter, then realized nobody was moving. Nobody at all. Inside or in the vast crowd outside. No sound. Everything was frozen. She looked back at the girl, who slowly arched her left eyebrow in an overly dramatic fashion. "Look Sister, I'd tell you not to do anything stupid, but that would be wasted effort. You can't do anything, you're stuck in that chair until I say otherwise. Elf. Christmas. Magic. Bitch." JoAnne started to protest, but her mouth simply froze as the Elf raised her hand. "Don't bother. This isn't a dream. You didn't fall and hit your head. You haven't even had a drink today yet. And it sure as fuck-all wasn't that nasty bran concoction you had for breakfast. On your salary you eat sawdust for breakfast? Fuck, eat a good breakfast and spend five more minutes on the damn elliptical." She waved her hand and JoAnne found she could speak again. "Look if you want an apology;” The Elf cut her off again "It wouldn't be sincere and you wouldn't learn a god damn thing. Don't bullshit me, Baby, I'm a whole lot older than I look. Besides, I have your file." She leaned back, reached two fingers into her ample cleavage and pulled out an ornate, gilt edged scroll, untied it and began to read over it: "Let's see; JoAnne Steadmann, age 32. No personal relationships. Wow, that sucks. You seem to have a severe case of Greed, brought on by a Self-Centered Nature and a Lack of Human Empathy, which seems to have developed around puberty;” Her voice trailed off as she read more. Then: "Damn!? You're Frigid? No Orgasms? No wonder you're a grade-A Bitch! Hell, I wouldn't wish that on anyone! Got your cherry popped in High School, but didn't enjoy it at all. And you didn't even experiment at Wellesley? Damn that's like the lickety-slit capitol of the world. You missed out on a whole lot of the sweet stuff there, Baby." JoAnne just glared at her. Whatever the hell this was about, the little blonde bitch had no right digging into her personal life. "On the bright side you're not entirely freaked out by this, and that's rarer than you think. Too many people have lost belief in Christmas magic; they can lose it completely when shit like this happens. You're pretty enough in platinum-blonde-career bitch sort of way. And, according to Records Division, you never developed any real sex aversions, so that's good;” Shaking her head, the Elf hastily re-rolled the scroll, tucked it back between her oversized boobs, then leaned forward looking intently into JoAnne's eyes. "I can fix this; but I have to follow the rules. I'm not allowed to just go around helping humanity; free will and all that shit. But I can inflict a Christmas lesson on you because you denied the True Meaning of Christmas. You were rude. To an Elf. Within the Fortnight of Christmas." JoAnne leaned back in shock. "Is this going to be one of those ghosts things? I;” The Elf shook her head "Ghosts wouldn't help you at all." She paused. "God, I love that one, it's a classic but it won't work here. I am giving you the gift of Lust. I am removing most of your inhibitions; the sexual ones anyway and 'cursing' you so that at least once a day until Midnight on Christmas Eve, you're going to find yourself in a situation that ends up in sex of some kind or other. Nothing dangerous, nothing that will destroy your life. You may end up feeling a little used and a bit humiliated, but you'll like it. Besides, a little humility would do you a lot of good, Sunshine." JoAnne felt her anger flare "Nobody uses;” And just as quickly found herself muted as the Elf stood up. "Alright, let's get this show on the road, I've got some fucking Joy to spread by the end of the day. Gimme the panties, you won't be needing them." JoAnne tried to resist, but found herself standing, reaching under her skirt and pulling off her black silk underwear and handing them over. She watched in disgust as the little Elf held them up to her nose and breathed in deeply. The Elf shook her head sadly and looked at JoAnne. "Nothing. Just Fabric softener and soap. You really are Frigid. I'm fixing that right now." She stepped over to JoAnne and reached up under her skirt. JoAnne felt the Elf's very warm hand cup her crotch. The Elf looked her in the eye "Damn. Closed up tighter than a bank vault." She rubbed her palm back and forth for a second. "Ah, there it is!" JoAnne's knees nearly gave out and she almost fell to the ground as she felt something hot surge through her whole body, but the Elf steadied her and guided her back into her seat. As Joanne watched, the Elf licked her fingertips delicately. "Much better." "That was your First Orgasm. It's been sort of stuck in the gate for a damn long time. It was a little weak from the time attenuation, so the next time it will feel better." JoAnne stiffened. "Buh, better?" "More powerful, longer." JoAnne couldn't even imagine that. The Elf continued on without really noticing JoAnne's reaction. "Here's the deal, you get a little something every day, each day gets a little more extreme and a little more intense. I've used this one a lot; it was practically standard in Vicki's day; Queen Victoria. It will be a real experience, but you can handle it. Still, if it gets to be too much, call my name three times; its 'Holly Mistletoe" and I'll pop in to help. If you really need it." Suddenly, with a sound like a balloon popping in reverse, Holly was gone and everything was in motion. The waitress rushed up with her drink; which she drank in one gulp, and her food arrived almost immediately. She managed to catch her breath and tried to act normal, although she just didn't have it in her to bitch at the waitress for being too slow like she usually did. She even caught herself leaving a much larger tip than usual. She must be shaken up. The Tattoo. JoAnne slipped into her desk; the walk back had been weird. She'd been so damn conscious of not wearing any underwear, and she normally never thought about; that. And she felt almost feverishly warm, with everybody bumping into her. She kept wondering if they somehow knew she was panty-less. Worse yet, she guiltily realized she kind of liked the idea. She had practically run by her new red-headed secretary and locked herself in the office. She started to buzz the secretary. With a start she realized she couldn't remember her secretary's name. She had just gotten rid of Samantha, the brunette; JoAnne never kept a secretary very long. She was concerned about secretaries learning too much about her; shuffling them back into the secretarial pool after 6 weeks or two big deals. What was the name of the name of the new one; thin, red hair, pixie cut, pointy nose; Lori? No. Lisa? No. Lil; Lillian. That was it. She punched the intercom on her phone. "Lillian, could you bring me a glass of water please?" A somewhat puzzled, "Yes, Ma'am," came back. Which made sense, after all, JoAnne never asked for anything, she ordered things, and she never, ever said please. Lillian quietly and efficiently brought her the water, then stepped out. As she left JoAnne watched her ass sway under her cream colored skirt. It was awfully perky and cute. JoAnne squeaked. She never, ever thought about things like that. She felt warmth growing between her thighs, more and more intense, like an itch that needed a scratch, but much, much more; personal. She shifted and tried to concentrate on work, but the only emails she had were autoreplies informing her that the recipients would be back after Christmas break. A curious tingling was growing just above her privates. She frantically pulled her skirt up and looked down. All her pubic hair was gone, except for a neatly trimmed patch just above her cunt in the shape of a holly leaf. Even more of a shock, just to the left of it was a tiny incredibly intricate tattoo of a mistletoe ball on crossed candy canes. She could just make out the words "Christmas Magic. Bitch." woven into the mistletoe. Shit. Shit. Shit. How the hell do you explain that to your gynecologist? Maybe it was one of those stick on tattoos, she could just rub it. The second she started rubbing, she knew she'd made a mistake. The feeling shot over her like arcs of electricity; she felt her lips go numb, her legs began to shake and her nipples grew achingly hard; she could make out the tips through the fabric of her blouse. She wanted to stop, she really did, but she couldn't; her fingers were playing with her lips and clit almost instantly. Without stopping, she managed to pull her skirt up around her waist and pull open her jacket and shirt. She couldn't get the fucking bra off, but while she massaged her clit she reached inside the bra and began to pinch and tweak her rock hard nipples. She was so wet that her fingers slipped inside without her even realizing it. First one, then a second. She felt her orgasm hit like a train, then a second, then a third, leaving her gasping, barely able to move in her slowly rotating chair. After a few minutes she rearranged herself into some semblance of order, although her shirt and her jacket were each missing a button. No surprise there. Still, she felt better than could ever remember feeling; relaxed, warm and comfortable. She managed to make it through the next few hours, before she decided to leave. Lillian was watching her curiously; not too surprising since she never left before 5:00. JoAnne heard herself say, "Go ahead and take a couple hours, you probably have some Christmas shopping to do or something." That got a warm smile and a "Thank you". The rest of the evening was normal, although she did finger herself; just a little; in the shower. The Package. The next morning, as JoAnne dressed for work, a number of things became obvious. First off, most of her clothing was missing; not one bra or panty was in the condominium. Even the bra she'd had on yesterday had disappeared from the hamper. There was a card sitting on the kitchen island; from Holly; advising her that she would "get those Manhattan Career Bitch costumes back later" if she still wanted them. All her severe black suits were gone as well; they were replaced with very expensive looking red silk suits of a similar type with slightly shorter skirts and sheer white silk blouses with decidedly more "decisive" necklines. Her shoes had changed too; color and about an inch more heel, although they proved surprisingly comfortable. The morning passed fairly productively; with only a couple of odd glances from Lillian. To be on the safe side, she decided to order lunch in the office, but it was almost two in the afternoon before anything happened. Lillian buzzed: "Miss, there's a bike messenger with a package; he says I can't sign for it." "Send him in." A tall, muscular, dark haired guy with a small, brightly colored box walked in. "Sorry, instructions were explicit, you'll have to sign for it." JoAnne sighed and reached for the box; as soon as she touched it, one end popped open and something fell out onto the desk. A vibrator. An enormous, brightly colored vibrator. And of course it hit right on the on/off button. She and the messenger watched it buzz around in a circle on her desktop for a long second before she grabbed it and fumbled it off. "I, uh, this friend;” "No problem. Short blonde woman; she looked like a joker, all dressed up like an elf. Had a hell of a smirk. I figured it was some kind of practical joke." JoAnne watched his firm ass as he left. Lillian followed her gaze as he walked out. "Just want to bite that and hang on." Instead of admonishing her to be more professional, JoAnne found herself nodding and smiling like an idiot. She suddenly caught herself, then hastily shut the door and retreated to her office. The vibrator stared at her from the center of her desk. It was red and white striped, of course. About 8 inches long, had little gumdrop-like rubber nobs all over it and a bullet like tip of gold metal. She decided to stick it in a desk drawer. Another mistake. As soon as she picked it up, the tingling between her thighs began again, and she couldn't physically put the vibrator down. She reached with her empty hand and clicked the intercom on the phone. "Lillian. Hold my calls." "Yes, Miss." There was something in Lillian's voice, but JoAnne realized she didn't have time to deal with it; the tingling was so intense it was almost painful; and she felt like she was suffocating in her suit; it seemed like her clothes were lined with lead weights. She fumbled her skirt off and opened her blouse and shirt, exposing her tits to the cool office air. Her nipples were standing out like fucking spikes and she could feel wetness between her thighs. Good Lord. Her pussy was absolutely dripping. JoAnne clicked on the vibrator and began to run the tip over her excited nipples. She moaned loudly; it was a damn good thing the office was soundproof. Fuck, that felt amazing. She licked her fingers and got her nipples really wet so they stiffened even more with the cold and the vibrator. Damn, how long could they get? Her breath was coming in short pants as she slumped in the chair, and hooked each leg over a chair arm, spreading herself wide open. "Fah-Fuck, fuck, fuck!" Pinching her nipples with her free hand she ran the vibrator all over her inner thighs, eliciting more hot juice from an already wide open and steaming pussy. When she couldn't wait any longer, she began to run the tip of the vibrator over her pussy lips; she planned to do it for a while, but when the tip hit her swollen clit, she spilled over into orgasm, screaming as quietly as she could. "Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes!" As the spasms died away she meant to put the vibrator down and get dressed but her hands seemed to have minds of their own, her free hand spread her pussy lips wide open while she danced the vibrator in and out, just an inch or so; then she plunged it into the gaping hole, screaming loudly as the orgasms exploded through her. Even then, as she pulled the wet shaft out of herself, her hand seemed to slip and the tip slipped down below her cunt, resting against her asshole. The vibrations felt good. Surprisingly good; almost; she felt another orgasm building. This time she did it; she began to frantically rub her clit with her free hand while she gently pushed the tip of the vibrator into her ass. By the time this orgasm settled, she realized had three fingers up her twat and had shoved the vibrator into her ass almost four inches. Still though, she felt in command enough to stop. She switched off the vibrator and shakily dressed herself, thanking God for soundproofing. After she caught her breath, she dropped the vibrator into her purse and clicked the intercom. "Lillian, you, uh, can resume forwarding my calls." "Yes, Miss." Very definitely a smile in her voice. Fuck her, all she could do would be to spread rumors, and if she did she would be back in the secretarial pool without the executive bonus pay. The rest of the day passed quietly and she decided that on her way out she would feel out if Lillian was going to say anything. As she stepped out the door she watched the cute redhead suppress a wicked little smile. "Lillian, I thought it would be a good idea;” Lillian intercepted the thought "...to remind me that secretaries do not discuss their bosses activities with anyone at all. It's in the confidentiality agreement we sign when we get sent up from the pool." At first JoAnne was appalled that Lillian would cut in like that, but she decided to try to be nice; a very different tack for her. "Umm, yeah. I just didn't want any rumors to, you know, start." Lillian smiled mischievously. "I won't say anything to anyone, but maybe next time you might want to completely shut your blinds. And maybe turn off the intercom. Luckily, I was on headset. I don't mind sharing, yesterday sounded great. Today sounded exquisite and looked even better; but if you want privacy;” JoAnne stared at the communication window to the office; it was open nearly a foot. She was sure it had been closed yesterday; and she was the only one with a remote for it. Even the intercom could only be turned on from inside the office. She must have left it on when she; she began to turn bright red, then raced from the office. The Glass Elevator. The next day was Saturday, her only real day off this week; Sunday was a teleconference with Japan from the office, so she had to go in. She stayed burrowed into her bed almost until noon; she just couldn't figure out what to do about the office. If she stayed in her apartment, she might end up masturbating, but at least she would be doing it without an audience. Just the thought of Lillian listening to her and watching her made her feel; uncomfortable, but somehow it didn't feel as bad as it should have, which worried her even more. She finally had to get out of bed to pee; and of course, her pajamas had disappeared overnight. She went to put on a robe at least, but the only thing in the apartment was a red skirt and white shirt combo that looked like they might be made of tissue paper, and a dark red overcoat, a bit too warm for the apartment, but suitable for the snow outside. And of course, red fuck-me shoes. After a moment of irritation she pulled on the skirt and shirt; she might as well have been walking around topless for all the shirt covered her tits, and the skirt was about one centimeter below her ass cheeks. She went over to the refrigerator; not one stick of food. Damn. Her phone battery was dead; she'd apparently forgotten to plug it in. By the time she lifted the receiver on her house phone, she wasn't surprised to find the line dead. She sat down in her easy chair and turned on the TV. She would just wait it out; the phone line would be back soon. Four hours later, with her stomach complaining, and only cooking shows on, she gave up. If she just zipped downstairs, she could grab some food at one of the trendy-take out joints and be back up in fifteen minutes. She looked in the mirror. A class A slut stared back at her; nipples obvious through the shirt, skirt so short it should be illegal. Looked kind of yummy in a way though. She grabbed the bulky wool overcoat and buttoned it completely. Key card. Wallet. She headed out. The internal elevators were out, so she took the glass elevator on the outside of the building; she could see the whole city; the crowds of people looking up at the elevator as it came down. It didn't take long to get her Cuban sandwich and head back. Which was good, the coat was a little warm, even with snowy weather. As she neared the elevator, she heard a familiar voice. "Trying to hide, today?" JoAnne whirled. Holly was perched on a concrete stanchion toying with an oversize Santa hat. JoAnne started to speak, but a wave of Holly's hand cut her off mute. "Take the hat, you'll need it." JoAnne grabbed the hat; and with the same odd reverse pop, Holly simply vanished. JoAnne sprinted for the elevator; this couldn't be good. Get home. Get home. Get; The now familiar tingling almost overwhelmed her, as the elevator door closed. JoAnne jammed the oversize hat on her head and slipped a hand inside the overcoat to push the skirt up and found; nothing. No skirt, no shirt; her clothes had evaporated. She couldn't stop to fight it; she began fingering herself furiously, three fingers slipping into her hole almost instantly. As the elevator crept up, she realized her coat was evaporating like smoke. She felt tears form as the elevator ground to a halt just three floors up; she was fully visible to the crowd. A crazy naked woman, masturbating in an elevator, wearing nothing but a hat! A hat, she was relieved to note, that obscured her hair and face completely. People were stopping to stare; to her horror, she realized she liked it; hell, she loved it! A middle-aged man pulled out a cell phone and snapped her picture as she managed to fit a fourth finger up her gaping pussy. Hot cunt juice flowed over JoAnne’s hand; she began to cum, over, and over; thinking about all those people watching her. At some point, the elevator began to move upward; just in time as an old lady dragged the building's doorman around to see. Snow thickened around the building, obscuring the ascending elevator. It stopped a floor below hers and refused to move further. She grabbed her purse and food and crept up the stairs; the security camera lights were dark; probably thanks to Holly. JoAnne managed to slip into her apartment, although she had had to hide in the stairwell while three people walked by. Once in her apartment, she collapsed on the bed, just in time to hear her email ping on the computer. She almost ignored it, but the timing. The email was from NaughtyList@northpole.org; and it was a video entitled; "Mystery woman puts on Christmas show." With a sinking heart, she opened the file and watched herself masturbating in front of hundreds of men and women, wearing just a Santa hat. According to the file, nearly 500,000 people had watched the video. Half a million people watching her? This time, she was pretty sure it wasn't Elf magic, but either way, she spent the next hour with her new vibrator buried in her pussy, pumping it like a jack hammer. She wasn't sure how many orgasms she had; one helluva lot. She managed to eat her food, then sank into a deep sleep. Video Tele Conference. Sunday morning, JoAnne woke late, and ended up rushing to the office; the red outfits were miraculously back, although she noticed the skirts were shorter. She decided on a businesslike demeanor. Ignore everything with Lillian. Blame it on medication; if she had to. By the time she arrived, a harassed-looking Lillian was already there, clicking cables into position. "Thank god you're here. The main video teleconference is down, so I'd setting up your desk so you can have both slides and video feed. The partners have called three times already. We are good on this end, but Japan is having problems with dual video. They will be able to hear you, but only see the slides and the video, not you. The partners will be listening in on the phone." JoAnne slipped into her chair, just in time to hear the chime of the video teleconference, coming on line. "Mister Nakamura;” her foot kicked a cable and the video feed went dark. She signaled to Lillian while she continued her spiel. Lillian looked under the desk, grabbed some tape and crawled under. After a few mumbled curses from Lillian, the video feed from Japan came back on. JoAnne started to push her chair back, to let Lillian out, but the video flickered again and she felt Lillian pull her back. A few seconds later, Lillian pushed a note into her hand. "Your chair hooked on cables, if you push back, lose whole Video Tele Conference." JoAnne finished her spiel, then turned on the 40 minute auto presentation, and muted her own audio. "Okay, it's on autopilot. And mute." Lillian pushed her head up on JoAnne's thigh and eyed the control critically "Good, it really is on mute. You haven't had a good track record with mute lately, just wanted to check. The chair clipped a wire, I will replace it tomorrow; but don't try to push back right now, or the Video Conference will go down for good, I wouldn't be able to reroute without a whole new set of cables. You seem stressed." JoAnne sighed. "You have no idea." "I can fix that." JoAnne started to respond, but Lillian's meaning became clear as she spread JoAnne's knees apart and began to settle in between them. JoAnne tried to resist, but her thighs seemed to drift even further apart on their own, and she even lifted as Lillian unzipped her skirt and slid it off. JoAnne stopped even trying to resist, just leaning back and letting Lillian's quick and talented tongue slide her up one orgasm after another. Lillian had slid her own clothes off and was fingering herself as she ate JoAnne. Lillian seemed to orgasm in time with her. After a few minutes, JoAnne heard Lillian's fingers pumping in and out of her hot wet tunnel. All too soon, the auto-play pinged and JoAnne had to return to her speech, although Lillian continued tonguing her gently throughout. The response to the presentation was more than good; the order from Japan was at least three times larger than she had anticipated in her best case scenario, so it was no surprise when the partners called her, and told her to come on down to the office. After one more good cum, she untangled herself from the desk, the chair, and Lillian. "Look, I have to go down there;” Lillian smiled cheerfully, but with a wicked edge "It's okay; I have to go to a family thing anyway. At least now it will be easier to put up with. By the way, I love your ‘lawn and landscaping’; and that is the cutest little tattoo; I never heard you like Christmas that much." She gave JoAnne a warm kiss; which tasted of candy canes. As JoAnne Walked out, she could hear Lillian putting things up; and whistling a cheery Christmas tune. The meeting with the partners went particularly well; and Robert, the older brother; commented that he had never seen her more relaxed and in control. That night she fell asleep, wondering what it would be like to return the favor to Lillian; while she used her now-indispensable vibrator on herself. Hard Dictation. The next morning, in the shower, JoAnne realized her little tuft of designer pubic hair hadn't grown out at all; in fact, it looked kind of, well, glittery, like gold glitter along the edges of the naughty holly leaf. All the red clothes were still there, although the skirts seemed even shorter, and there were little emerald holly pins on each lapel. As she picked up her purse, she found a small scroll on top. In shining gilt letters it said: "Sometimes it is better to give, than receive. Be sure to give a Lil' something." JoAnne actually smiled at the blunt hint, as if she hadn't been thinking about Lillian already. She was waking up hornier every damn morning. Still though, the office was mayhem; frantic arrangements to make sure the Japan orders were completed on time, after action reports and a hasty lunch meeting with the partners combined to keep her from even talking to Lillian for more than a second or two, and that about work. Just as she sat down at her desk from the lunch meeting, the intercom buzzed. "Messenger service again, Miss." "Send him in." The same bike messenger walked in, carrying another Holiday package. Even though she knew the package would pop open, she didn't bother to try to stop it. She had a suspicion that if she tried to stop the Elf curse, it would up the ante. He held the box over the desk, and suddenly the bottom flaps dropped open, of their own doing. This time, the packages contents hit the desk with a thud, and didn't move. Some kind of black leather belt contraption, attached to a huge candy-cane striped dildo. She rolled her eyes "My friend is a little;” "Smart ass? Yeah, the little blonde chick, in some kind of Christmas elf get up; kept giggling to herself." "Just like last time" JoAnne presumed. "I'll take your word on that." As he left, JoAnne watched his muscular ass, and puzzled over his words. He'd been there, how often? To vibrators falling out of packages, anyway? After he left, she grinned wickedly; give a Lil' something? She had just the thing. She tucked it into her top drawer. Then cleared the top of her desk off completely. "Lillian? I need you to come in; and take dictation for me." "Yes, Miss Steadmann." Lillian entered. "Your schedule is cleared until tomorrow morning, Miss JoAnne. Both your afternoon appointments just called in and cancelled." JoAnne glanced at the closed office door. Locked, and the blinds were fully closed. She stood up and looked out the office window into the flurries. "Lillian, we need to talk about a performance reward." "Actually, I'm maxed out this year; I was on the CBN team earlier this year. I can't get any more cash awards until next year. JoAnne turned around and backed Lillian up against the desk. "That isn't exactly what I had in mind." Pinning Lillian against the desk, Joanne kissed her hungrily, forcing her tongue into Lillian's mouth. She had Lillian's skirt unzipped and dropped to the floor and her blouse and bra off in seconds. She gently pressed Lillian back until the blonde girl was lying back on the desk, clad in only a mint green thong. JoAnne slid the thong down Lillian's long legs, eyeing Lillian's obviously wet cunt, with its little topping of strawberry blonde hair. Without thinking, she brought the panties to her face and breathed in deeply. They were filled with a musky, heady scent that made her mouth water. She looked right into Lillian's eyes and said, "Aren't you just a horny little thing!" Lillian let her legs fall open. "You have no idea;” "I can fix that." She dropped the thong onto the skirt and slid in between Lillian's creamy thighs, dropping her own skirt and jacket as she did so. She didn't hesitate at all; her mouth closed over Lillian's swollen pink pussy and she began to tongue and suck with abandon. She must have been doing something right, because Lillian's sighs turned to moans; then outright screams of ecstasy. JoAnne also fingered herself to orgasm, and only after Lillian had practically passed out, did she let up. Lillian breathed heavily, "God, that was fucking fantastic!" JoAnne reached into her drawer, and pulled out the strap-on dildo; and slipped the straps on while Lillian watched wide-eyed. "Your reward isn't over; yet." Despite the very thick size of the rubber red and white, spiral–striped cock, Lillian was so wet, it slipped into her easily. JoAnne began to thrust slowly in and out. "You like that?" Lillian breathed in deeply, then brought her legs up around JoAnne’s ass, "Yes. But; you can do it harder if you want." JoAnne thrust deeper and faster. Lillian hissed and grabbed JoAnne's tits, in a tight grip. "God, yes. Harder; please; harder" JoAnne began to really pump hard, Lillian seemed to have no problem taking in the big fake cock. "Fuck. Yeah. Give it to me. Harder. Harder. Harder!" JoAnne began to slam it into her as hard as she could. Lillian began to make a weird keening sound. "Don't fucking stop. Oh fuck. Don't stop. Please don't stop!" Just as JoAnne was sure her legs were going to give out, Lillian's eyes shot open, and she arched her back and screamed incredibly loud. JoAnne felt a huge gush of hot pussy juice squirt around the dildo and drench her. Lillian collapsed so suddenly she slid off the giant dildo. "Holy. Shit." As JoAnne slid the strap-on off, Lillian rolled over onto her stomach obviously trying to marshal the strength to get up. JoAnne eyed her perky ass; particularly the little pink asshole. She was almost ready to reach for the strap-on when the phone rang. Lillian grabbed the phone without getting up. "JoAnne Steadmann's office. Lillian speaking. Uh huh, yes;” As Lillian talked on the phone, JoAnne reached down and parted her ass cheeks. She knew she shouldn't but she just couldn't resist bending over and tonguing the little pink rosebud. Lillian squirmed, but didn't try to get away; in fact she brought her knees up a little to help JoAnne. After she had the little pink asshole dripping with saliva, she continued tonguing while gently inserted her forefinger and began to pump it gently in and out. Lillian was slowly thrusting her ass back on the finger and into her face while talking on the phone. But as soon as she finished the phone call, she came up on all fours and began fucking her ass back against JoAnne's face and finger, grinding until she came. This time when they broke apart, she slid to the other side of the desk, eyeing JoAnne warily, but with a wide smile. "Okay, you're just plain kinky. And something about you just turns my inner slut on full power. Still, we have to stop; you have a meeting in 30 minutes. You'd better wash your face and get dressed." Scowling and smiling at the same time, JoAnne struggled into her clothes as did Lillian. Still, Lillian was absolutely glowing, and walking a little slowly, which made JoAnne smile. The meeting lasted until well after business closing, so Lillian was gone when she went back to get her purse and coat. But the mint green thong was carefully arranged in the middle of JoAnne's desk; with a candy cane sitting on it. To be continued in part 2. Based on a post by Todd 1 72, in 2 parts, for Literotica.

V torek 2. decembra obeležujemo Mednarodni dan boja proti suženjstvu. V tej luči smo z gosti govorili o položaju v Sloveniji, številkah s tega področja in zakonskih pomanjkljivostih ter mogočih rešitvah. Z nami so bili: predstavnica Društva Ključ - Centra za boj proti trgovanju z ljudmi Manca Raušl, predstavnica Karitas Slovenije Magdalena Strmšek Buh in inšpektor za delo iz Inšpektorata za delo Roman Pečnik.

Bishop Felton joins us to discuss Thanksgiving, updates on the cause for Msgr. Buh, the closing of the Jubilee Year, and Advent as a season of longing & hope

Aişe (r.a.), Nebiyy-i Ekrem (s.a.v.)'in şöyle buyurduğunu söyledi: “Cebrâil bana komşuya iyi davranmayı o kadar çok tavsiye etti ki, neredeyse komşu komşuya mirasçı kılınacak sandım.” Ebû Şüreyh el-Huzâ'î (r.a.)'den rivayet edildiğine göre Resûl-i Ekrem (s.a.v.) şöyle buyurdu: “Allâh (c.c.)'a ve âhiret gününe imân eden kimse komşusuna iyi davransın. Allâh (c.c.)'a ve âhiret gününe imân eden kimse misâfirine ikrâmda bulunsun. Allâh (c.c.)'a ve âhiret gününe imân eden kimse ya faydalı söz söylesin veya sussun!” Komşu, evinin yakınlığı sebebiyle akrâba gibi yakın kâbul edilmiştir. Cebrâil (a.s.), Server-i Enbiyâ (s.a.v.) Efendimiz'e işte bu sebeple komşuya iyi davranılmasını sık sık tavsiye etmiş, Allâh'ın Resûlü (s.a.v.) de bu sebeple, Cebrâil (a.s.)'ın bu ısrarlı tavsiyelerini bizlere: “Neredeyse Allâhü Teâlâ, komşuyu komşuya mirasçı kılacak sandım.” şeklinde dile getirmiştir.Ashâb-ı Kirâm (r.a.e.) efendilerimiz Resûl-i Ekrem (s.a.v.)'in bu konuda “Allâh'a ve âhiret gününe imân eden kimse komşusuna iyi davransın” şeklindeki buyrukları sebebiyle, gayr-i müslim komşularıyla bile hediyeleşmeyi ihmâl etmemişlerdir. Fakat müslümanlar, dinlerinden uzaklaştıkça komşularından da uzaklaşmışlardır. Komşuyla selâmlaşmalı, hediyeleşmeli, hâlini hatırını sormalı, hastalanınca ziyâret etmeli, yardıma ihtiyacı varsa yardım etmelidir. Komşuya hiçbir şekilde zarar vermemeli, onu gücendirmemelidir. Misâfire ikrâmda bulunmak, insanlara faydalı söz söylemek, bunu söyleyemiyorsa susmak da dinimizin emirleri arasındadır. Bütün bunlar, imân ile doğrudan ilgili görevlerdir.(İmâm Buhârî, Edebü'l-Müfred, c.1, s.141-142)

Müssen wir den Quarterback der Denver Broncos in "Buh" oder "Boooooooo" Nix umbenennen? Das war schon sehr kurios, als die Broncos Fans die eigene Offense ausgebuht haben. Trotzdem ritten (ja, wir wissen Broncos sind Pferde oder so) sie mit einem Sieg davon. Doch nach Spitzenteam sieht es irgendwie dennoch nicht aus. Grund genug für uns einen alten bekannten Denver Beat-Writer in Cody Roark dazuzuholen. Cody berichtet tagtäglich von und bei den Broncos und gibt uns eine Einschätzung, was bei den Jungs aus Mile High trotz super Record von 8-2 gerade so los ist. Geht das alles noch in die Binnsen, wenn die Defense mal etwas nachlässt. Spannend! Spannend ist auch der Effekt oder gar der Grund für die nächste Trainerentlassung. Brian Daboll muss nach dem verkorksten Spiel (zweimal die Führung aus der Hand gegeben) gegen die Bears seinen Hut nehmen. Wir sprechen im News-Part etwas länger darüber und fragen uns, ob nicht andere Köpfe auch hätten rollen sollen?! Frisch nach unserer Aufzeichnung gab es übrigens die News, dass Interim-HC Kafka am Wochenende Jameis Winston als starting QB ins Rennen schicken wird. Spannend! Spannend wird auch unser Game of the week! Man sind beide gut drauf. Die Seahawks gegen die Rams (beide 7-2) aus der NFC West im großen Clinch am Sonntag. Wir nehmen euch mit auf die Reise der unendlich guten Roster und wichtigsten Matchups im wilden Westen. Auf in Woche 11 - alles wird SPANNEND!

Mekke'nin kızgın kumlarında başlayan bu öykü kölelikten özgürlüğe, Bedir'den Şam semalarına uzanan unutulmaz bir direniş ve sadakat hikâyesi…0:00 Giriş — Mekke sokaklarında bir köle ve zalim efendisi0:45 Hz. Ebû Bekir'in gizli daveti2:17 “Ehadün Ehad!” işkence sahnesi3:45 Azat ediliş ve Medine'ye hicret5:22 Bedir Harbi'nde yüzleşme7:12 Hz. Peygamber'in (sas) Vefatı9:19 Son Ezan: Şam'da gözyaşları

Hırs, “kalbin dünya malına karşı yönelmesi” şeklinde tanımlanır. Hırs, bütün ruhsal hastalıkların başıdır. Çünkü hırstan dolayı kavgalar ve fitneler ortaya çıkar. Türlü yarış ve piyangoların düzenlenip neticede birçok insanın mağdur olmasının arkasındaki en büyük sebep yine hırstır. Hırs olmasaydı, hiç kimse başkasının malına göz dikmez, haklarını ihlal etmez, hırsızlık yapmaz ve yol kesmezdi. Allâh dostları; kibrin, bütün kötülüklerin başı olduğunu söylerler. Kibir; makam, mevki veya para sevgisinden kaynaklanan bir günâhtır. Hırs ise, kibirden daha genel olup makam, mevki ve para sevgisinde olabileceği gibi diğer şeylerde de olabilir. Bu açıdan bütün kötülüklerin asıl kaynağının hırs olduğu anlaşılmaktadır. Hırstan dolayı çeşitli günâhlar işlenmektedir. Kargaşaların, kavgaların sebebi genelde hırstır. Kişinin mal varlığı ile başkalarına üstünlük kurma arzusu, hırsından doğmaktadır. Hırs ve kibir ilme aykırı olan iki huydur. Bu iki huy herkes için tehlikeli olmakla berâber âlimler için daha da tehlikelidir. Dolayısıyla bunlara karşı âlimlerin daha çok dikkatli olmaları gerekmektedir. Resûlullâh (s.a.v.) bir hadis-i şeriflerinde şöyle buyurdular: “Âdemoğlu için iki vadi dolusu mal olsaydı, mutlaka bir üçüncüyü isterdi. Ademoğlunun karnını ancak toprak doldurur. Allâh tevbe edenleri affeder.” (Buhârî)Kişi, kalbinde olan hırsa uygun eylemde bulunup nefsinin isteklerini yerine getirerek hırs duygusundan kurtulamaz. Çünkü nefis doymaz ve hep daha fazlasını ister, böylece hırs kat kat artmaya başlar. Yukarıda zikredilen hadisin ifade ettiği üzere kişinin iki vadi dolusu malı olsa bile üçüncü bir vadiye sahip olmanın peşine düşer. Dolayısıyla hırsa uygun eylemde bulunup bundan kurtulma düşüncesi yanlıştır.(Misvâk Neşriyat, Eşref Ali et-Tehanevî, Tehzibu'l Ahlâk, s.122)

Buh! In dieser Folge sprechen Felix und Alex über den FNAF Film aus dem Jahr 2023, die tiefgreifende Lore des Franchises und erzählen, wieso es schon wieder eine ungewollte Sommerpause gab. Between The Scenes erscheint jeden Monat (wenn alle technischen Geräte intakt sind) und die einzelnen Folgen des Podcasts sind in der Regel 30 bis 40 Minuten lang.Intro/Outro-Musik: Benjamin BergemannFolg' uns doch auf Twitter: https://twitter.com/Podcast_BTSAlle Episoden aus der Zeit, in der wir noch auf YouTube waren, in einer Playlist:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLV_wvZDnGbudJGgRW-DNS1_4yttU5KqUr

Buh! Sorry für den kleinen Jumpscare, aber an Halloween müssen wir uns einfach mit einer kleinen Sonderfolge melden. Wir lesen und besprechen die frühe Kurzgeschichte Morella, für die sich Edgar Allan Poe von der deutschen Schauerliteratur inspirieren lassen hat. In einem kleinen Recherche-Part von Isa erfahren wir außerdem mehr über Poes Frauengeschmack und den Einfluss seines Privatlebens auf die Geschichte. Wir hoffen, ihr habt Spaß mit unserem kurzen Halloween-Special

BUH! Na, habt ihr euch erschreckt? So ging es uns als Manu den Bodensatz von Cocktailrezepten auf Chefkoch durchsucht hat. Was er da ausgegraben hat ist kaum in Worte zu fassen. Hört rein und wie immer: Bleibt durstig!0:00:00 Intro0:10:17 Das Gruselkabinett von chefkoch.de1:08:38 Die Allerletzte Runde1:26:50 Unsere Horrorfilm Empfehlungen1:35:14 Outro#dieletzterunde #barschulefreiburg #cocktails #cocktail #barkeeper #bartender #mixology #podcast #halloween #chefkochIntrosamples von Pixabay:Intro und Outro: Let it Go von ItsWatRDie Allerletzte Runde: Loci Study von FASSounds

“Münafıkların durumu ise tıpkı şeytanın durumu gibidir. Çünkü şeytan insana, “İnkâr et” der; insan inkâredince de, “Şüphesiz ben senden uzağım. Çünkü ben âlemlerin Rabbi olan Allah'tan korkarım” der. Haşr 16“Nihayet ikisinin de sonu, içinde ebedî kalacakları ateş olacaktır. İşte bu, zalimlerin cezasıdır.” 17Ayetteki "inkâr et" sözü, Bedir Savaşı günü iblisin: "Bugün insanlardan size galip gelecek kimse yoktur;şüphesiz ben de sizin yardimcinizım" demesinden ibarettir. Iblis'in onlardan uzak olduğunu söylemesi de,"Ben sizden uzağım; ben sizin göremediklerinizi görüyorum." (Enfâl 48) demesidır.Şeytan diye bir varlık var hayatımızda, bunu bilmemiz gerekiyor. Şeytanı insanın içerisinde varolan bellibelirsiz kötülüğe meyil duygusu gibi psikolojik bir vakaya indirgemek doğru bir yaklaşım değildir. Şeytanbizim dışımızda somut, manevi, metafizik bir şahsiyettir. Eğer insan ona kapı aralayıp yüz verirse şeytaninsanın yanına sokulup ona küfrü bile telkin etme cesareti gösterecek kadar tehlikeli bir düşmandır.Şeytan insana sokulur ve ona vesvese vermeye başlar. Eğer insan onun vesveselerine kulak verir, ona kapıyıaçar ve ona yakınlaşırsa en son demde şeytan ona der ki: "İnkâr et, kurtul. Artık bütün kulluk bağınıüzerinden at."İnsanlara hakikati olmayan şeyleri vaat edip onları yüzüstü bıraktığı için şeytanın bir ismi de “hazûl"dür.“Hazul"; hayırsız, vefasız, sadakatsiz, yüzüstü bırakan, arkadan vuran demektir.Peygamber Efendimiz, ashabından bazı zatlarla bir yere giderken kavga eden iki kişi gördü. Bunlardan birininyüzü öfkeden kıpkırmızı olmuş ve boynunun damarları çıkmıştı.Peygamberimiz o zatın hâlini görünce "Ben bir söz biliyorum, eğer bu kimse o sözü söylerse üzerineçökmüş olan bu hâlden kurtulur." buyurdu ve usulca "Eûzübillahimineşşeytanirracim" dedi. (Buhârî, Edeb,102, Müslim, Birr, 109)Öyle görünüyor ki şeytanın insanın duygu ve düşünceleri üzerinde güçlü bir etkisi var. Şeytan insandaki öfkeduygusunu kullanarak insana telafisi ve tamiri zor hatalar yaptırabilir.Tabiat boşluk kaldırmaz. Bu boşluk ağzınızdaki dişinizin düşen dolgusunun boşluğu bile olsa siz orayı hakdolgu ile doldurmazsanız batıl yemek artığı orayı işgal eder. Onun için Allah (cc) Kur'an'da pek çok ayetteşeytandan kendi zatına sığınılmasını emreder. Öyle ki Kur'an okumaya başlayacağı zaman bile şeytanınmümin üzerinde bir etkisi söz konusu olabilir. Allah'ın ayetlerini muradı ilahiye aykırı bir şekilde anlamasıiçin şeytan insanın aklını ve gönlünü, duygu ve düşünce dünyasını bulandırabilir. Bu sebeple yüce Allah (cc)müminlere Kur'an okumaya başlamadan evvel şeytanın şerrinden kendi Zât'ına sığınmalarını emretmiştir.Allah (cc), Peygamber Efendimizin şahsında bütün müminlere şöyle buyurur: "Eğer şeytandan bir kışkırtmaseni dürterse hemen Allah'a sığın. Şüphesiz O, hakkıyla işitendir, hakkıyla bilendir." (Arâf, 200) Allah'aimanımızın farkında olacağız, O'na sığınacağız ve "Eûzübillahimineşşeytanirracim" diyeceğiz, sonra O'nadayanacağız. Çünkü Nahl Suresi'nin ilgili ayetinde Allah (cc) buyuruyor ki: "Gerçek șu ki; şeytanın, inanan veyalnız Rablerine tevekkül eden kimseler üzerinde bir hâkimiyeti yoktur." (Nahl, 99)İblis Hz. Ådem'e secde etmediği için Allah'ın huzurundan kovulduğunda Allah'tan mühlet istedi. Allah (cc) daona kıyamet gününe kadar süre tanıdı. Bunun üzerine; "İblis,'Senin şerefine andolsun ki, içlerinden ihlaslıkulların hariç, elbette onların hepsini azdıracağım'dedi." (Sad, 82-83)

BUH! Mit schaurigen Sprüchen leiten wir ein in die Spooky Week. Lea stimmt sich schon mal ein mit Twilight und Elfen-Drama, während Lina absolut nichts tut und sich dabei von Jugendlichen im Zug vollstinken lässt. Na gut, ein bisschen AYTO ist auch noch dabei. Happy Halloween ihr Geilen!

Guslün farziyyeti kitapla sabittir. Cenâb-ı Hâkk şöyle buyuruyor: “Cünüp olursanız iyice temizlenin.” (Maide s. 6) Gusülde bedenin tamamını yıkamak farzdır. Yıkanmasında meşakkat olan yerler istisna edilmiştir. Gusledecek kişi önce elleri ve avret mahallini yıkar, varsa bedendeki necâseti giderir sonra ayakları yıkamayı tehir ederek abdest alır. Daha sonra baştan başlayarak her defasında kuru yer kalmayacak şekilde bütün bedeni üç kez yıkar. Son olarak ayaklarını yıkar. Ayaklarını tehir etmesi gusledilen yerde ayaklara değecek şekilde müstamel suyun birikmesinden ötürüdür. Eğer böyle bir durum söz konusu değilse tehir etmesi gerekli değildir. Efendimiz (s.a.v.)'in hanımı Meymune (r.anhâ) validemiz şöyle demiştir: “Resûlullâh (s.a.v.) ayakları dışında aynen namaz için abdest alır gibi abdest aldı. Ardından avret mahallini ve bedenine isabet eden yıkanacak şeyleri yıkadı. Sonra üzerine su döktü. Daha sonra ayaklarını uzatıp yıkadı. Cenâbetten guslü işte budur.” (Buhârî)Suyu normal kullanmak yani ne çok israf etmek ne de çok az kullanmak, ilk yıkamada bütün azaları ovalamak, kimsenin görmeyeceği bir yerde gusletmek ve sonunda bir mendil, havlu ile kurulanmak müstehabtır.SORU: Deniz veya akarsuya girmekle gusledilmiş olur mu?CEVAP: Akıcı bir suda veya büyük bir havuzda ya da şiddetli yağmur altında abdest ve gusül müddetince beklese abdest ve guslü sahih olduğu gibi sünnetlerini de ikmâl etmiş olur.(Suâlli Cevaplı İslâm Fıkhı, c.1, s.231-233)

Bim bim BUH! Erschrocken? Zugegeben, unser kleiner Schreck war nicht ganz so intensiv wie das, was wir im Movie Park erlebt haben. Gemeinsam mit unseren vier Gewinnern Simone, Lara, Pascal und Marcel ging es für uns ins größte Halloween Event Europas.Gruselige Horrorhäuser, nervenaufreibende Achterbahnen und eine Atmosphäre, die einen richtig packt. Und auch wenn Pascal alias LostPlacer auf YouTube kaum zu beeindrucken ist, haben wir es geschafft, ihn hier und da ein bisschen in die Flucht zu schlagen.Ein riesiges Dankeschön an den Movie Park Germany für die Einladung und die großartige Betreuung. Wer selbst noch in den Genuss des Events kommen will, kann mit dem Code 25MOVIE sparen und sich vergünstigt ins Horror Vergnügen stürzen. Infos und Tix (Denkt an den CODE!) https://www.movieparkgermany.de/______Diese Episode wird außerdem unterstützt von HelloFresh. Ihr wollt euch das Leben in der Küche leichter machen und trotzdem lecker essen? Dann probiert HelloFresh aus. Mit unserem Code HFParanormal könnt ihr bis zu 120 Euro sparen. Klickt einfach auf hellofresh.de, bestellt euch die Box, lasst euch frische Zutaten nach Hause liefern und kocht entspannt nach Rezept.⸻

Paradise, propaganda, or just survival in the sand? The logs are cracked open concerning one of the most infamous exiles in Federation history...Buh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh…! --- Regular These Are The Voyages episodes will be released on the 7s (7, 17, and 27).   Reaction Episodes BEAM in every week when we discuss new Star Trek during its original run. --- Make sure to check out our webpage, www.trtvpod.com.  Also, make sure to like our page on Facebook, join our group, and follow us on Instagram and Twitter in the following ways:  Instagram: @trtvpod Twitter @trtvpod | @chase_mckinney Join the podcast community and continue the discussion: You can also hail us by sending subspace communications the following ways: Email: trtvpod@gmail.com Voice only transmission (3-minute limit): 817-752-4757 If you'd like to send us something please address it to: Lone Star Station PO BOX 2455 Azle, TX 76098 **We would love to hear about your origin story with Trek, reactions to the show, or whatever gets you to ENGAGE. If you'd like to support the show and get access to additional Star Trek content then hit us up at Patreon and support the show at Patreon.com/thesearethevoyages.

Günümüzde merak edilen konulardan birisi de Allâh (c.c.) cemalinin ahirette görülmesi (Ruyetullâh) meselesidir. Allâh Rasûlü (s.a.v.) Efendimiz ahirette Allâh'ın cemalinin cennetliklere bir ikram olarak görüleceğini sahih Hadis-i Şerif'lerinde bizlere bildirmiştir. Cerîr İbni Abdullah (r.a.): “Bir gece Resûlullah'ın yanında bulunuyorduk. On dördüncü gecesindeki Ay'a baktıktan sonra şöyle buyurdu: “Şu Ay'ı hiçbir sıkıntı çekmeden gördüğünüz gibi Rabbinizi de ayan beyan göreceksiniz.”(Buhârî) Suheyb (r.a.)'dan rivayet edildiğine göre Resûlullâh (s.a.v.) şöyle buyurdu: “Cennetlikler cennete girince Allah Teâlâ onlara:“Size vermemi istediğiniz bir şey var mı?” diye soracak. Onlar: “Yâ Rabbî! Yüzlerimizi ak etmedin mi? Bizi cennete koyup cehennemden kurtarmadın mı, daha ne isteyelim”, diyecekler. İşte o zaman Allah Teâlâ perdeyi kaldıracak. Onlara verilen en güzel ve en değerli şey Rablerine bakmak olacaktır.”(Müslim)Ehlullâh'tan büyük İslam Alimi İmam Rabbani Mektubat-ı Rabbani adlı eserinde bu konuyu şöyle izah eder: “Allahü Teâlâ'yı müminler cennette, cihetsiz olarak ve karşısında bulunmayarak, nasıl olduğu anlaşılmayarak,ihatasız, yani bir şekilde olmayarak görecektir.Allahü Teâlâ'yı ahirette görmeye inanırız. Nasıl görüleceğini düşünmeyiz. Çünkü, Onu görmeyi akıl anlayamaz. İnanmaktan başka çare yoktur. Felsefecilere ve Mutezile'ye ve Ehl-i Sünnet'ten başka bütün fırkalara yazıklar olsun ki,kör olduklarından, buna inanmaktan mahrum kaldılar. Görmedikleri, bilmedikleri şeyi gördükleri şeylere benzetmeye kalkarak iman şerefine kavuşamadılar.” (Mektubat-ı Rabbani, c.2, s.267)(Basından Derleme)

Ümmü Süleym (r.anhâ) şöyle dedi: “Bir gün Resûl-i Ekrem (s.a.v.)'in yanında bulunuyordum.Şöyle buyurdu: “Ey Ümmü Süleym! Müslüman bir anne-babanın üç çocuğu vefât ederse, Allâhü Teâlâ o çocuklara olan merhameti sebebiyle o anne babayı mutlaka cennete koyar. ”Bunun üzerine ben: “İki çocuğu vefât etse, yine cennete girerler mi?” diye sordum. “Evet, iki çocukları vefât etse yine cennete girerler.” Bu hadis-i şerifte, çocuğu ölen müslümanların gönül yaraları sarılmakta, acıları teskîn edilmektedir.Vaktiyle çocuğunu kaybeden böyle dertli bir baba, Ebû Hüreyre (r.a.) ile karşılaştı ve ondan, bu konuda Peygamber (s.a.v.) Efendimiz'den duyduğu gönül ferahlatan bir müjde olup olmadığını sordu.O da Gönüller Sultanı (s.a.v.) Efendimiz'den duyduğu şu müjdeyi verdi: “Sizin çocuklarınız,cennette gönüllerince dolaşır, istedikleri saraya girip çıkarlar. O çocuklar âhirette anne ve babalarıyla karşılaşırlar, tıpkı benim senin şu elbisenin kenarından tuttuğum gibi onlar da anne ve babasının ellerinden tutarlar, Allâhü Teâlâ kendilerini hep berâber cennete koyuncaya kadar onların ellerini bırakmazlar. ”Anna babanın, kendilerinden önce âhirete gönderdikleri yavrular, orada anne ve babalarına sahip çıkacaklar ve onları cehennem ateşinden koruyacaklar. Çünkü Allâhü Teâlâ o küçük yavruları anne ve babalarından daha çok sevdiği için,onlara bu yetkiyi verecek, böylece hem onları,hem de anne ve babalarını sevindirecektir.Sultân-ı Enbiyâ (s.a.v.) Efendimiz bu müjdeyi önce üç yavrusunu âhirete yolcu edenler için vermiş, sonra iki çocuğu vefât edenlerin de bu güzellikten istifâde edeceklerini söylemiştir. Ancak bir çocuğunu âhirete şefâatçi olarak gönderenlerin de bu müjdeden nasiplenecekleri anlaşılmaktadır.Önemli olan, bu şuur ile onların acısına sabretmek ve bu sabırlarının mükâfatını Allâh (c.c.)'dan beklemektir.(İmâm Buhârî, Edebü'l-Müfred, c.1, s.187-189)

Play along at home with the lyrics:[Verse 1: Carl Wilson]I may not always love youBut long as there are stars above youYou never need to doubt itI'll make you so sure about it[Refrain: Carl Wilson]God only knows what I'd be without you [Verse 2: Carl Wilson]If you should ever leave meWell, life would still go on, believe meThe world could show nothing to meSo what good would living do me?[Refrain: Carl Wilson]God only knows what I'd be without you[Interlude: Carl Wilson, Brian Wilson, and Bruce Johnston]Ooh, oohDo, do, do, do, do, do, doBow, buh-bow, buh-bow, buh-bow (Do, do, do, do)Buh-bow, buh-bow, buh-bow (Do, do, do, do, do, do)Buh-bow, buh-bow, buh-bow, buh-bow (Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do)[Refrain: Carl Wilson]God only knows what I'd be without you[Verse 3: Carl Wilson]If you should ever leave meWell, life would still go on, believe meThe world could show nothing to meSo what good would living do me?[Chorus: Carl Wilson]God only knows what I'd be without you[Outro: Carl Wilson with Brian Wilson and Bruce Johnston]God only knows what I'd be without youGod only knows what I'd be without youGod only knows what I'd be without you (What I'd be)God only knows what I'd be without you (God only knows)God only knows what I'd be without you (What I'd be)God only knows what I'd be without you (God only knows)God only knows what I'd be without you (What I'd be)God only knows what I'd be without you (God only knows)God only knows what I'd be without you (What I'd be)God only knows what I'd be without you (God only knows)God only knows what I'd be without you (What I'd be)God only knows what I'd be without you (God only knows) Jump to section:(00:12) Introduction but no waffling like you get on some podcasts. You know the ones.(01:11) Song title, writers' details, one anagram too many, in memoriam, brothers and emotional scarring, Charles Manson. The controversial title for the time(08:03) To the lyrics. - Peter leads us through a first pass on the lyrics. Is this really the 60s? The Love Generation? Lions, tigers, ligers, and plants.(17:59) Original draft lyrics uncovered - Exclusive(21:30) Dave takes us through what God does and doesn't know, how long stars are above you, and the Five Love Languages. Plus how (40:57) The artist's comments(42:09) The official music video, 55 years in the making(45:50) Other theories from the internet(53:37) Misheard Lyrics(55:52) Notable Trivia(01:02:28) Farewells and ⁠⁠⁠give us money⁠⁠⁠Would you like to appear (well, vocally) on the show? Do you have a pop song or ear-worm from the SMOOTH FM genre that's infested your mind and needs to be investigated? Visit this page ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://speakpipe.com/lyrics⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to record us your own voicemail hot-take on your specific smooth song of suckiness. You could be on a future episode! (you can always email sound files or text your thoughts to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠poidadavis@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ if that's easier). Cheers!Find us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram etc @LyricsPodast ... and we're on all your favourite podcasting platforms.Sound clips are included for educational reference, criticism, satire and parody in fair use. Clips remain the property of the respective rights holder and no endorsement is implied. All information and opinion is performed and expressed in-character and does not reflect reality or genuine commentary on any persons (living or dead), bands or other organisations, or their works, and is not recommended listening for anyone, anywhere.

Hadisler gerçekten güvenilir mi?Kayseri'nin içli “Gesi Bağları" türküsünden yola çıkıyor, Muzaffer Sarısözen'in derleme seferlerinden Dede Efendi'nin meşk geleneğine, Dimitrie Cantemir'in notalarından Homeros'un İlyadası'na, Rical ilminden Buhârî'nin isnad zincirlerine uzanan derinlikli bir yolculuk yapıyoruz. Türkülerle hadislere aynı mercekten bakınca, sözlü kültürün ne kadar “bilimsel” ve titiz bir aktarım sistemi olduğunu daha rahat kavrayacaksınız.

Cep telefonları, internet, instagram, twitter gibi sosyal medya araçlarının yaygınlaşmasıyla birlikte internet başında geçirilen vakit her geçen gün artıyor. Bu durum insanların haramlara kısa yoldan ulaşmasını, haramlara sıklıkla maruz kalmasını sağlıyor.Ailevi ve toplumsal değerlere nüfuz eden ve günümüzün sosyal vebası olarak görülen müstehcen içerik bağımlılığı gün geçtikçe hız kazanıyor. Bağımlılığı bırakmak için bir çok yol bulunmaktadır. Peygamber (s.a.v.)'in tavsiyesi şu şekildedir: “Ey gençler topluluğu! Sizden evlenmeye gücü yeten evlensin. Çünkü evlenmek gözü haramdan daha çok korur ve ferci de daha çok muhafaza eder. Evlenmeye gücü yetmeyen de oruç tutsun. Çünkü oruç, onun için bir kalkandır.” (Buhârî)Bağımlı olan kişi mutlaka her gün Kur'ân okumalı, gün içinde tevbe, istiğfar getirerek Allâh (c.c.)'a duâda bulunmalıdır.Uzmanların bağımlılığı bırakmak için tavsiyeleri ise şu şekildedir:1.Bu fiilin yanlış bir davranış olduğu benimsenilmeli, pişmanlık duyulmalıdır.2.Boş zamanlarda kişiyi meşgul edecek, oyalayacak meşgaleler, hobiler bulunmalı, odak noktası farklı yerlere verilmelidir.3.Gün içinde yalnız kalınmamaya çalışılmalı, aileyle, yakın çevreyle vakit geçirilmeli, topluma karışılmalıdır.4.Düzenli spor yapılmalıdır.5.Müstehcen içeriklere yönlendiren unsurlar tespit edilmeli, bu etkenler engellenmelidir.6.Sosyal medyayı kişi kendine kısıtlamalı, müstehcen içeriğin yoğun olduğu plaformlardan uzak durulmalıdır.7.Bu yöntemlerle de sorun çözülmediyse cinsel terapiste başvurulabilir.(Basından Derleme)

156. Bu mektûb, yine meyân şeyh Müzzemmile yazılmışdır. Kâdîzâde Câlendehr ile gönderdiğiniz mektûb Dehlide geldi. Elhamdülillah ki, fakîrlere karşı olan sevginiz çokdur. (Buhârî)de ve (Müslim)de bildirilen, (Kişi, sevdiği ile berâberdir) hadîs-i şerîfine göre, onlarla birlikdesiniz. Zemân bakımından, Receb ayı yaklaşdı ise de, fekat çok uzak görünüyor.Fârisî beyt tercemesi: Dost ayrılığı, az olsa da, az değildir! Gözde kıl parçası da olsa, çok görünür.Hak sâhiblerinin haklarını yerine getirmek için yapmak istediğiniz şeyleri, hemen yapınız. Receb ayına kadar biz de burada kalacağız. Herşeyin doğrusunu ancak Allahü teâlâ bilir. Herşey Onun huzûruna çıkacakdır. Ömrünüzün birkaç gününü dervîşlerle birlikde geçirmek için uğraşınız! Kehf sûresinin yirmisekizinci âyetinde meâlen, (Rablerine sabâh akşam düâ eden ve Ona kavuşmak istiyenlerle birlikde bulun ve sabr eyle! Onlardan başka bir yere bakma!) buyuruldu. Bu âyet-i kerîmede, Hak teâlâ sevgili Peygamberine Allah adamları ile birlikde bulunmasını emr buyuruyor “aleyhi minessalevâti etemmühâ ve minetteslîmâti ekmelühâ ve minettehıyyâti eymenühâ”Büyüklerden biri buyurdu ki, (İlâhî! Dostlarını öyle yapdın ki, onları tanıyan seni buldu. Seni bulmadıkça,onları tanımadı). Allahü teâlâ, bizi ve sizi, bu yüksek ve şerefli insanları sevmekle rızklandırsın! Dinle! Nemâz kılmıyanın hakkında Allah, ne demiş, Çıksın yer ile gökümden, başka ma'bûd, bulsun demiş. Getirdi Kur'ânı Resûl, etmedi ba'zısı kabûl. Bir vakt nemâzı kılmıyan, Cehennemde yansın demiş.157. Bu mektûb, hakîm Abdülvehhâba yazılmışdır. “İki kere buraya kadar yoruldunuz. İkisinde de çabuk kalkdınız. Sohbetin haklarından birkaçını yerinegetirmeğe vakt olmadı. Müslimânların bir araya gelmesi, yâ istifâde etmek veyâ fâide vermek içindir. Bu ikisinden biri bulunmıyan topluluğun hiç kıymeti yokdur. Din büyüklerinin yanına boş olarak gelmelidir ki, dolmuş olarak dönülebilsin. Onların acıması, ihsânda bulunması için, boş olduğunu bildirmek lâzımdır. Böylece feyz, ihsân yolu açılır. Dolu gelmek, dahâ doldurarak dönmek iyi olmaz. Çok dolmak, doydukdan sonra, dahâ almak hastalıkdan başka birşey yapmaz. İhtiyâcsızlık, azgınlığa sebeb olur. Hâce Nakşibend “kaddesallahü sirreh” hazretleri buyurdu ki, (Önce hastanın yalvarması lâzımdır. Sonra, gönlü kırık olan, ona teveccüh eder). Görülüyor ki, teveccühe, ihsâna kavuşmak için, yalvarmak lâzımdır. Böyle olmakla berâber, ilm öğrenmekde olan bir tâlib gelip, size göndermek için mektûb isteyince, onun böyle gelmesini bir hak sayarak, bu hakkı ödemek lâzım olduğunu düşündüm. Geçmişdeki haklarınızı ve şimdiki hakkı karşılamak için, vakt ve hâle göre, birkaç kelime yazarak gönderiyorum. Herşeyin doğrusunu Allahü teâlâ bildirir. Herkesi doğru yola kavuşduran ancak Odur. Ey mes'ûd kardeşim! Bize ve size herşeyden önce lâzım olan, i'tikâdı Kitâba ve sünnete uygun olarakdüzeltmekdir. Doğru yolun âlimlerinin, “Allahü teâlâ onların çalışmalarına iyi karşılıklar versin!” Kur'ân-ı kerîmden ve hadîs-i şerîflerden anladıklarına ve bildirdiklerine uygun olarak i'tikâd etmek lâzımdır. Çünki, Kitâbdan ve sünnetden bizim ve sizin anladıklarımızın hiç kıymeti yokdur. Ehl-i sünnet âlimlerinin anladıklarına uymak lâzımdır. Bizim anladıklarımız, Ehl-i sünnet âlimlerinin anladıklarına uymuyor ise, hiç kıymeti olmaz. Çünki her bid'at sâhibi, [türedi reformcular] ve doğru yoldan kayarak dalâlete düşenler, sapık bilgilerini ve bozuk işlerini, Kur'ân-ı kerîmden ve hadîs-i şerîflerden anladıklarını ve bu iki kaynakdan çıkardıklarını söylemekdedirler. Bu sözleri çok yanlış ve haksızdır. İkinci olarak hepimize lâzım olan şey, ahkâm-ı şer'ıyyeyi öğrenmekdir. Ya'nî halâli, harâmı, farzı, vâcibi öğrenmekdir. Üçüncü olarak hepimize lâzım olan şey, bütün işlerimizi, öğrendiklerimize uygun yapmakdır. Dördüncüsü, kalbin tasfiyesi ve nefsin tezkiyesidir ki, bu ikisi tesavvuf büyüklerine mahsûsdur “kaddesallahü teâlâ esrârehüm”.İtikâdı düzeltmeden önce ahkâm-ı şer'ıyyeyi öğrenmenin hiç fâidesi olmaz.

The recent entombment of Msgr. Buh and his cause for canonization

Julia Barrettto, napikon! Buh-ket?Nako, si housemate, may video scandal!Buti pa sina Andrea Brillantes, Julia at Gerald, no!

“Düzene sokulduktan sonra yeryüzünde bozgunculuk yapmayın. Allah'a (azabından) korkarak ve (rahmetini) umarak dua edin. Şüphesiz, Allah'ın rahmeti iyilik edenlere çok yakındır.” (A'raf 56)“Allah rahmeti yüz parça yaratmış, doksan dokuzunu kendi nezdinde tutmuş, yeryüzüne bir parçasını indirmiştir. İşte mahlûkât bu bir parçadan dolayı birbirlerine merhamet ederler. Hatta at (bazı rivayetlerde “hayvan” geçmektedir), yavrusuna basmamak için tırnağını (ayağını) kaldırır.” (Buhârî, Edeb 19)“Allah'ın yüz rahmeti vardır; bunlardan bir rahmeti yeryüzü halkı arasında paylaşmış ki, onların ecelleri gelene kadar (hayatları boyunca) onlara kâfi gelir. Rahmetin doksan dokuz kısmını ise kıyamet günü evliyaları, dostları için saklamıştır.” (Buharî, Rikak,19; Müslim, Tevbe, 18-21)“Eğer kâfir, Allah'ın katındaki rahmeti kavrayabilse, asla cennetten ümidini kesmez” (Buhari, Rikak 19)"Yeryüzünde, o iyi hale getirildikten sonra da, bozukluk çıkarmayın" buyruğunun manası, "Yeryüzünde hiçbir surette fesatçılık etmeyin" şeklindedir ki, buna öldürmek veya uzuvları kesip koparmak suretiyle nefisleri, canları; gasb, hırsızlık ve çok çeşitli hilelerle malları; küfür ve bid´at ile dinleri; zina ve livataya yönelme ve iftirada bulunma sebebiyle nesebleri ve sarhoş edici şeyler sebebiyle de akılları bozup ifsat etmekten men etmek girer. Bu böyledir, çünkü dünyada muteber olan menfaatler beş tanedir: Can, mal, neseb, din ve akıl. Buna göre Cenâb-ı Hakk´ın, "bozukluk çıkarmayın" yasağı fesatçılık etmenin mahiyetini varlık âlemine sokmaktan mendir. Kötülük çıkarmanın mahiyetini varlık âlemine sokmaktan men etmek ise, onun her çeşidini yasaklamayı gerektirir. Öyleyse buradaki men, bu beş kısımda da bozukluk çıkarmaktan men etmeyi de içine alır.Allah Teâlâ sanki şöyle demek istemiştir: "Ben, peygamberler göndermek, kitaplar indirmek ve hükümleri açıklamak suretiyle yeryüzünü iyi hale getirdiğimde, sizler bu hükümlere boyun eğin, peygamberleri yalanlamaya, kitapları inkâr etmeye ve hükümleri kabulden yüz çevirmeye yeltenmeyin! Çünkü bu, yeryüzünde fitne ve karışıklıkların vuku bulmasına, böylece de, ıslâh etmeden sonra bozukluğun ortaya çıkmasına yol açar.Bu duanın kabul edilmesi için, muteber olan bazı şartlar içinde bir kusur ve hataya düşme korkusu ile, Allah´a dua edin. Bu şartların tamamıyla yerine getirilebilmesi İçin de, O´na umarak dua edin.Kulun, kat´î ve kesin olarak, duanın kabul edilebilmesi için, gerekli ve muteber olan şartların tamamını yerine getirmiş olması mümkün değildir. İşte bundan ötürü kulun kalbinde bir korku (endişe) bulunur. Yine kul, bu şartların tam bulunmamış olduğunu da kesin olarak bilemez, işte bundan dolayı da onun, duasının mutlaka kabul edileceğini umması gerekir. Yine deriz ki: Dua eden kimse, ancak böyle olduğu zaman, gerçek manada dua etmiş olur. Buna göre Ayetteki "O´na korkarak ve umarak dua edin" buyruğu "Nefsinizde (gönlünüzde), bütün amellerinizde korku ile ümidi birleştirmiş olarak dua ediniz ve bütün gayretinizle çaba sarfetmiş olsanız bile, Rabbinizin hakkını yerine getirmiş olduğunuzu da katî olarak söylemeyiniz" demektir. Bu "Rablerinin huzuruna döneceklerinden yürekleri korku ile çarparak, (zekatlarını) verenler..." (Mü´min, 60) âyeti ile te´kid edilir.Allah´a iman eden ve tevhid ile nübüvveti ikrar eden (kabul eden) herkes, "muhsin"dir. Bunun delili şudur: Çocuk bir kuşluk vakti buluğa erdiğinde Allah´a, peygamberine ve ahiret gününe iman etse, ama öğle (namazı) vaktine ulaşamadan ölse, ümmet-i Muhammed, onun, "İyi iş, güzel amel yapanlara (muhsin olanlara), daha güzel iyilik vardır" {Yunus, 26) âyetinin hükmüne girdiği hususunda itifak etmişlerdir. Malumdur ki, bu şahıs marifet ve ikrarın dışında, başka bir tâat işlememiştir. Çünkü o, sabah vaktinden sonra buluğa erdiği için, ona sabah namazı farz olmamıştır. Öğlen vaktinden önce de öldüğü için, ona öğle namazı da farz olmamıştır. Görünen odur ki, diğer ibadetler de ona vacib olmamıştır.

Buh bye Christmas, see you next... August, most likely ;)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ora bom dia, como estão? Com frio? Pois, a Rita também, tanto que anda em casa de luvas, parece um dos assaltantes do Sozinho em Casa. Esta semana falamos de frieiras, da Rita se assustar com o Guilherme, dentro da própria casa, e de sermos tios novamente. Sim, porque o Guilherme estes dias lançou o seu solo no Youtube mas também segurou um bebé de 48 horas, pela primeira vez. Nunca teve tanto cuidado na vida, coitado. Recebemos ainda um email com o relato de um sonho bastante estranho, de uma ouvinte. Façam como ela e enviem sonhos estranhos connosco, ou então dúvidas, questões e problemas da vossa relação para terapiadecasalpodcast@gmail.com, que respondemos para a semana. Até para a semana e... Buh! ________________ Terapia de Casal é o podcast que pode acabar com o casamento do Guilherme Fonseca e da Rita da Nova. Enviem as vossas questões/inquietações/dúvidas amorosas para terapiadecasalpodcast@gmail.com que nós respondemos. Sigam-nos nas redes: @guilhermefon @ritadanova Música de Vitor Carraca Teixeira. Direcção Criativa de Mafalda Beirão. Fotografia de Márcia Soares. Rebranding de Mariana Cardoso. Obrigado por ouvirem.

brianturnershow.com, eastvillageradio.comHARVEY MILK - Greensleeves - The Singles (Relapse, 2003)DJ BHARIZARD -  Triggaman (Slowed Down) ft Denzel Curry - Personification (Slowed Down) - (BC, 2024)RONCOS - Untitled - Viola Para Fins de Ascensão (cs, Rasga, 2024)BRAINTICKET - Black Sand - Cottonwoodhill (Bellaphon, 1971)THE FALL - Spectre Vs. Rector - Live In London 1980 (Earmark, 2004)DAMON LOCKS - Click - List of Demands (International Anthem, 2025)SUICIDE - Rock & Roll Is Killing My Life - Live Opening For The Cars in Boston, 11/13/80THE RAMONE - Blitzkrieg Bop - The Ramone (Ultra Eczema, 2017)DJ CUMMERBUND - Imagine There's No Yoo HooTHE PABLUMS - Under My Gums - 7" (LAFMS, 1978)TERRY REED - On Way To Alpha - On Way To Alpha (1975, re: Zaius Tapes, 2025)9LIVES w/ LUCI4 & LAZER DIM 700 - NUK3 - NUK3 (Pulse, 2024)DJ JACKUM - Pimpin' - Jack It (Time Is Now, 2024)GUT BANK - Shake - Demo 1984 (cs, NL, 1984)THE STICK MEN - Crash My Dome - Get On Board (Red Music, 1983)CIRCLE X - Underworld - Circle X (1979, re: Dexter's Cigar, 1996)NO FUN - Evasive Measures - V/A: Bold Beginnings: An Incomplete Collection Of Louisville Punk 1978-1983 (Noise Pollution, 2007)GROUND ZERO - Nothing - 7" (GZ, 1979)AK'CHAMEL - Apocalypse By Oud - Rawskulled (Akuphone, 2024)TIM SOUSTER (INTERMODULATION) - World Music Orbit 1 - Connections (1970 - 1974) (Paradigm Disc, 2024)CESAR BOLAÑOS - Intensidad Y Altura - V/A:  Tránsitos Sónicos: Música Electrónica Y Para Cinta de Compositores Peruanos (1964-1984) (Buh 2024)LASSE MARHAUG - Plates - Provoke (Smalltown Supersound, 2024)JON GIBSON - Song I - Two Solo Pieces (Chatham Square, 1977)KLAUS WIESE - Invocation II (Excerpt) - Sabiha Sabiya (1981, re: Black Sweat, 2024)URBAN SAX - Part 2 - Urban Sax (Cobra, 1977)

Giants. Jets. ESPECIALLY Yankees. Buh-bye.

“Ey iman edenler! Cuma günü namaz için çağrı yapıldığı zaman, hemen Allah'ın zikrine koşun ve alışverişi bırakın. Eğer bilirseniz bu, sizin için daha hayırlıdır.” (Cuma 9) “Bu, onların, bu günde bir araya gelişlerinde Allah'ın kendilerine inam ettiği nimetlerin yüceliğine dikkat çekmek içindir. Onların durumları böyle olunca, insanlar, ta yaratıldıklarından beri, hep Cenâb-ı Hakkın kendilerine verdiği nimetler içindedirler. Dolayısıyla da, Allah'ın lütfü, İnsanlar bunu hak etmeden önce onların üzerinde sabittir. Belli milletlerden her birinin, haftanın o yedi gününden, kendisine saygı gösterdiği bir günü vardır: Meselâ, yahudilerin, cumartesi; hıristiyanların, pazar; müslümanların ise Cuma'sı vardır. Hz. Peygamber (s.a.s)'in şöyle dediği rivayet edilmiştir: "Cum'a günü, işte bugün, insanların hakkında ihtilaf ettiği gündür. Cenâb-ı Hakk biz (müslümanlara) bu günü bildirdi. Yahudiler için yarın, hristiyanlar için ise, yarından sonraki gün (önemlidir)" Şükür günü ve sevinç gösterme, nimetleri ortaya koyma (gösterme) günü olduğu için Cum'a gününde, sayesinde o günün şerefinin ortaya konduğu toplanmaya (bir araya gelmeye) ihtiyaç hissedildi de, bayramların adeti gibi, cemaatlar bir araya geldi. Böylece Allah'ın nimetlerini hatırlatmak, şükür nimetlerinin tekrarını sağlayacak şeyi yapmak suretiyle, o nimetlerin sürdürülmesini teşvik için, bu günde hutbe okunmaya ihtiyaç hissedildi. Bu saygının medarı namaz olunca, arzulanan toplanma, tam ve mükemmel olsun diye, bugünün namazı, gündüzün ortasına (öğle vaktine) yerleştirildi. Bu namaz, işte bundan ötürü, daha fazla toplanmayı sağlasın ve daha büyük cemaati biraraya getirsin diye (her beldede) tek bir camide kılınması uygun görülmüştür. Allah en iyi bilendir.” Fahreddini Razi “Güneşin doğduğu en hayırlı gün cumadır. Âdem o gün yaratılmış, o gün cennete girmiş ve o gün cennetten çıkarılmıştır. Kıyamet de cuma günü kopacaktır.” (Müslim, “Cum‘a”, 18); "Cuma günü içinde öyle bir vakit vardır ki, Müslüman bir kul namaz kıldığı halde o vakte rastlar da Allah'tan bir şey dilerse, muhakkak Allah onun dileğini yerine getirir." buyurur ve bu sözleri söylerken de eliyle bu vaktin çok kısa olduğuna işaret ederdi. (Buhârî, Cum`a 37, Talâk 24, Daavât 61; Müslim, Müsâfirîn 166, 167, Cum`a 13-15) “Her kim önemsemediği için üç cumayı terk ederse, Allah onun kalbini mühürler” (Ebû Dâvûd, “Salât”, 210; Tirmizî, “Cum‘a”, 7). Hürriyeti kısıtlanmamış, yolculuk halinde olmayan ve geçerli mazereti bulunmayan müslüman erkeklere cuma namazı farzdır. Hastalık, camiye gidemeyecek ölçüde yaşlılık, hasta bakıcılık, hava ve yol durumunun sağlığa zarar verecek ölçüde olumsuz olması, can ve mal güvenliğinin tehlikeye girmesi cuma namazına gitmemeyi meşru kılan mazeretlerdir. Camiye götürecek kimsesi bulunsa bile âmâya cuma namazı farz değildir. Âyetin “Allah'ı anmaya koşun” diye çevrilen kısmında “Allah'ı anmak”tan maksadın cuma namazının ayrılmaz bir parçası olan hutbe ile birlikte iki rek‘atlık farz namaz olduğu genellikle ifade edilir. Müfessirlerce genellikle, “koşun” emrinden gerçek anlamda koşma, telâşla yürüme ve hızla gitmenin kastedilmediği belirtilir. Bununla birlikte bazıları bunun “gidiniz” anlamına geldiğini, nitekim bu mânaya gelen bir kıraatin de bulunduğunu savunurken, bazıları kalp ve niyetle yönelme, bazıları da bir aksiyon (amel) gösterme yani işe koyulma mânasında olduğunu söylerler. İbn Atıyye son anlamı açıklarken kalkıp abdest almak, elbisesini giymek, yola çıkmak gibi eylemlerin hepsinin bu kapsamda düşünülmesi gerektiğini kaydeder. Cuma hazırlığı çerçevesinde sünnet olan işlerin başında boy abdesti almak gelir.

Need a quick, affordable, and easy meal to cook for the family that will be loved? Chef Plum has a recipe for simple and it uses the one protein you didn't think of! Buh-bye ground beef! Get the recipe in the podcast. Image Source: Getty Images

Season 4 Episode 8: We breakdown Buh-cans, studying bird law, buying records, Andy forces a PJ Harvey discussion, the impact of a Dulski moustache on a marriage, and a quiz with dead air and a lot of hmmmmmms....., we kill it again.

Show Open 09.07.24 -It's FALL Football season y'all-Buh-byeeee Ben and JLO-Who won the virtual coin toss for the Presidential debate To subscribe to The Pete McMurray Show Podcast just click here

It may be hard to believe but fall is rapidly approaching, school and football season will be starting soon!!!  Unless your Chunga and Chandler.  It's still 113 degrees.Over the weekend, Gregg and Chris went on a bro-date!!!!  They went to Deadpool and Wolverine!!!!  This movie is HUGE!!!!!!!  Have you seen it yet?!!?! It's breaking records at the box office and according to industry experts has created massive change at Mavel studios!!!!!!  Buh- bye snowflakes!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Will Lucasfilm follow suit? What do you think?!!What's your favorite theater treat?!?!  We'll find out in the Chunga Poll Shout Outs!!!!!!!Gregg has his final historical movie shout-out, before he starts his first Halloween movies of the season!!!!!!  AAAANNNDDDD!!!!  it's time for Your Really Stupid News!!!!!!!!!!Listen NOW!!!!!!!  It's on www.radioronin.com and everywhere you get your podcasts!!!!!

It may be hard to believe but fall is rapidly approaching, school and football season will be starting soon!!!  Unless your Chunga and Chandler.  It's still 113 degrees.Over the weekend, Gregg and Chris went on a bro-date!!!!  They went to Deadpool and Wolverine!!!!  This movie is HUGE!!!!!!!  Have you seen it yet?!!?! It's breaking records at the box office and according to industry experts has created massive change at Mavel studios!!!!!!  Buh- bye snowflakes!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Will Lucasfilm follow suit? What do you think?!!What's your favorite theater treat?!?!  We'll find out in the Chunga Poll Shout Outs!!!!!!!Gregg has his final historical movie shout-out, before he starts his first Halloween movies of the season!!!!!!  AAAANNNDDDD!!!!  it's time for Your Really Stupid News!!!!!!!!!!Listen NOW!!!!!!!  It's on www.radioronin.com and everywhere you get your podcasts!!!!!

In honor of Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, the fourth installment in the BHC franchise, coming out on Netflix, we finally watched the first Beverly Hills Cop (1984) a film neither one of us has ever seen! buh duh deh deh deh duh Buh duh deh duh deh deh de deh!   Music by: https://jessejacethomas.bandcamp.com/album/want

Din ve felsefe konulu videolarıyla tanınan YouTuber “Diamond Tema” Yer6 isimli bir YouTube kanalında sosyal medya fenomeni Asrın Tok ile şeria hakkında tartıştı. Asrın Tok şeriatın neden gelmesi gerektiğini anlatırken, Diamond Tema da bu duruma neden karşı çıktığından bahsetti. Diamond Tema, şeriatı savunan Tok'a karşı argümanlarında hadis derlemesi Sahih-i Buhârî'den örnekler verdi. Programın yayınlanmasının ardından garip birşey oldu ve Adalet Bakanı Yılmaz Tunç, Diamond Tema hakkında yakalama kararı çıkarıldığını tweetledi. Diamond Tema halen Arnavutluk'ta bulunuyor. Kayde Değer'de soruyoruz: Diamond Tema'nın sözleri ifade özgürlüğü kapsamında mı yoksa suç mu? Bugün Dünya Mülteciler günü. Göç İdaresi'nin açıklamasına göre Türkiye'de 3 milyon 113 bin 278 Suriyeli mülteci var. İBB Başkanı Ekrem İmamoğlu, Almanya'nın Düsseldorf kentinde ATİAD üyeleriyle bir araya geldi. Toplantıda İstanbul'da 2 milyon 500 bin mülteci bulunduğunu açıklayan İmamoğlu, “16 milyon resmi nüfusun neredeyse yüzde 17-18'i demek. Böyle bir artış olamaz. Doğru değil. Mülteciye de haksızlık, İstanbulluya da haksızlık” dedi. Kayda Değer'de Gamze Elvan soruyor, konukları Figen Çalıkuşu ve Murat Erdoğan değerlendiriyor.

Din ve felsefe konulu videolarıyla tanınan YouTuber ve araştırmacı “Diamond Tema” Yer6 isimli bir YouTube kanalında sosyal medya fenomeni Asrın Tok ile şeriata dair görüşlerini savundu. Asrın Tok şeriatın neden gelmesi gerektiğini anlatırken, Diamond Tema da bu duruma neden karşı çıktığından bahsetti. Diamond Tema, katıldığı programda, şeriatı savunan Tok'a karşı kullandığı argümanlarda hadis derlemesi Sahih-i Buhârî'den örnekler verdi. Adalet Bakanı Yılmaz Tunç, “Yer6” isimli YouTube kanalının bir programında kullandığı sözleri nedeniyle “Diamond Tema” isimli yayıncı hakkında yakalama kararı çıkarıldığını bildirdi. Kayda Değer'de Gamze Elvan soruyor, İhsan Eliaçık değerlendiriyor.

Show Open 04.13.24 -Buh-byeeeee OJ, your room is waiting-We survived the eclipse-Do you nap at work Lisa's new haircut #ShortHair #LooksLikeJodyFostersYoungerSister To subscribe to The Pete McMurray Show Podcast just click here

The Supreme Court hears oral arguments about the 14th Amendment and Trump's eligibility to be president again. How will the Supreme Court land on this issue? Office vs Officer. Fox News aired a live hate crime on TV. Curtis Sliwa is a clown. 74 percent of Republicans want a dictator. Republicans can no longer claim to be pro-democracy or pro-Constitution. House Republicans failed to impeach Mayorkas. Republicans blocked the bipartisan border security bill. Biden documents probe ends without charges. Nikki Haley lost the Nevada primary, but gave us some great material for anti-Trump, anti-Republican ads. Buh-bye Marianne Williamson. With Jody Hamilton, David Ferguson, music by Vixen Noir, Tim Russ, and more!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Summary This week on Live Like the World is Dying, Margaret and Patrick talk a lot about covid, public health, the role of anarchism in public health, and the weirdly similar origins of the names of two projects. Guest Info Patrick (he/him) can be found hosting the Last Born in the Wilderness podcast. You can find it at www.lastborninthewilderness.com or wherever you get podcasts. You an also find Patrick on Instagram @patterns.of.behavior or on Twitter @LastBornPodcast Host Info Margaret (she/they) can be found on twitter @magpiekilljoy or instagram at @margaretkilljoy. Publisher Info This show is published by Strangers in A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org, or on Twitter @TangledWild and Instagram @Tangled_Wilderness. You can support the show on Patreon at www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness. Transcript Last Born in the Wilderness on Anarchist Public Health **Margaret ** 00:14 Hello, and welcome to Live Like the World is Dying, your podcast for what feels like the end times. I'm your host today, Margaret Killjoy. I say it that way because there's other hosts now and I'm very excited about that. But sometimes, apparently, we have the same voice. And so people think that we are each other, but we're not. We're different people. And you can tell because my name is Margaret Killjoy and Inmn's name is not Margaret Killjoy. It is instead, Inmn. But that's not what we're talking about. What we're gonna talk about today ... Well, we're gonna talk about a lot of stuff today. I'm really excited about it. We're gonna be talking with the host of a podcast you should probably be listening to if you're not already called Last Born in the Wilderness. And it's like the [laughing] smarter thinking version of this show. And so we're gonna talk about that. And first, here's a jingle from another show on the network, which is ... the network is Channel Zero Network, which is a network of anarchists podcasts, and here's a jingle. Buh buh bah buh buh bah [singing like a simple melody] **Margaret ** 02:09 Okay, we're back. Okay. So if you could introduce yourself with your name, your pronouns, and then kind of maybe introduce this other podcast, this project that you do. **Patrick ** 02:18 Yeah. Thanks for having me on. My name is Patrick Farnsworth. Pronouns are he/him. I'm the host of Last Born in the Wilderness. It's a podcast I've been hosting for quite a long time now and I ... I don't know how to describe it. Someone described it once as a podcast about death and dying, which sounds rather bleak. It's an interesting way to describe it. I mean, it's, uh, you know ... I certainly come from a radical leftist and anarchist, or as someone else has said about me, "anarchistic adjacent perspective." I'm talking about collapse. I'm talking about the implications of global climate change, climate disruption, the so-called sixth mass extinction anthropocene, like these kind of big, heady, huge global subjects around, you know, extinction and mass extinction events and so on. And I kind of also explore the history of settler colonialism and issues around whiteness, or I should say, white supremacy. I talk about a whole bunch of stuff. And I think the point of it is to really get at the question of: what are the roots of these kinds of broader biosphere crises that we're in the midst of? Why is it that human beings, or the dominant culture of human beings that we are part of, producing a mass extinction event? And what does that portend? What does that lead to? What can we expect to happen in the coming decades? And kind of wrestling with really deep ... "Deep." [said with an introspective laugh] I mean "deep" in the sense emotionally and spiritually with the question of what does extinction mean for our species? And how do we grapple with that? It's a big question. So yeah, that's more or less what the podcast is kind of addressing. **Margaret ** 04:03 Yeah, no. Okay, wait, so with extinction, do you run into this thing .... Okay, well, no, first I'm gonna ask about your name, then we're gonna come back to extinction. Where did you get this sick name? It's such a sick name. It's obviously ... As someone who is part of a project called Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness and then has a show called Live Like the World is Dying, I'm clearly a fan of this slightly long and poetic style of naming. But Last Born in the Wilderness is a sick name. I'm curious about its background. **Patrick ** 04:28 Sure. I mean, the name itself came--it's a funny origin story really--when I came up with the name, I was homesick and I didn't know what to call this thing. I didn't even know what I wanted to make. But I was thinking about what my father would call me because I'm the youngest of this large Mormon family. No longer LDS but grew up in this LDS family, LDS environment. He would call me his "last born in the wilderness" because being kind of ... he's kind of a lovely but very quirky man who would have these very strange nicknames for his kids, including me being the youngest, being the, quote, "last born the wilderness," meaning he was paraphrasing from the Book of Mormon. There's a verse in the Book of Mormon about this family going through the wilderness and something about being the "last born in this wilderness of mine afflictions." Like it's really dramatic kind of bleak Mormon scripture stuff and it's weird. So, I don't know, I guess I thought of my dad, I thought of that, I thought of my history, I thought of ... it sounded like it could have multiple meanings. And it does because as I did the podcast more and more I started to really think about the other layers of it, of, "Okay, are we the last generation?"  Like is this the end of this idea of wilderness. Wilderness itself is kind of an interesting idea. And the kind of colonialist notion, the dualism of civilization versus wilderness, and that in and of itself is a problematic idea. Like, there's a lot of layers to it that I've discovered, which is actually what I love about really cool names or titles of things is when you name something and you realize over time that it actually has other meanings that kind of come up, and you're like, "Oh, that actually means this as well. I did not know that." So that's where it comes from. **Margaret ** 06:13 Okay, I really like that for a thousand reasons. One of the things you talked about ...  I've been reading more and more stuff that's critical of the idea of "wilderness," right? Because you're creating an artificial distinction between humans and everything else, right? As if, like ... I mean, we're not capable of doing things that are not natural because we're literally, natural beings, right?  **Patrick ** 06:33 Yeah, exactly.  **Margaret ** 06:35 And the idea of untouched wilderness as this very colonial concept where it's like, actually, a lot of forests are managed by people and we're .... And it gets humans off the hook if we treat ourselves like we're bad, like, inherently, right?  **Patrick ** 06:51 Yeah.  **Margaret ** 06:51 Because like, "Ahhh, well, we're human, so of course we clear cut." And we're like, "Well, that's not true. A lot of people lived here for a very long time and didn't clear cut everything," right?  **Patrick ** 07:02 They didn't. No.  **Margaret ** 07:03 Okay. And then the other reason I like it, it's kind of the same background as Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness.  **Patrick ** 07:09 Oh, really.  **Margaret ** 07:10 I was once, when I was a weird "look at me, I'm so strange, oogle kid" running around and pulling books out of the trash, I dumpstered the Christian Science holy book. I don't know what it's called. And I just started cutting it up to make new assemblages of words and things, right? And one of the pieces that I cut out of it and then put on this piece of art I was making just said "strangers in the tangled wilderness." And I really liked it. And so I named my first zine I ever made like 20 some years ago--well not the first zine--but the first zine that I called Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness because that's how I felt is like this wander, right? And then but since then I've learned, I think, I'm not an expert on Christian Science, although I can claim, my great grandmother was raised that way and then she was like, "This sucks," and then she just became an agnostic atheist pagan person. She was cool. It was like 100 years ago. She applied to college and she got so mad that they asked her what her religion is and she wrote "Sun worshiper," on the thing, which is complicated. But for a woman in the 1910s, I'm fucking into it. Anyway, the next line in it is "strangers in a tangled wilderness, wanders from the parent mind." And so it's using wilderness as a negative conception, I believe, in the traditional thing. And so yeah, it's like this interesting thing where Christianity ... Like, okay, so this "last born in the wilderness" seems to be implying this negative conception of wilderness. Which is this very negative version of Christianity producing such a thing. I don't know. That's what I've got. **Patrick ** 08:46 Yeah, I think the wilderness in scripture and Christian literature, or whatever, it's very much this .... Like, if you're wandering the wilderness, you're not in a good place. You've kind of either been banished or God is leaving you alone, giving you distance to figure your shit out for a while. Like, there's good things and bad things with that. But I think that the wilderness can .... Yeah, there is this implication in it of it being symbolic, or whatever, of it being not the best place to be in. You're not in paradise, that's for sure. You're not in the Promised Land, that's for sure. You're maybe on the way there, but you're not there. Yeah. And certainly, in that passage, if I remember, it's like, "In the wilderness of mine afflictions." Like, it's very, it's not ... you know, it's not a good place to be. But they were on their way to the Promised Land, I guess, in that scripture. So ... **Margaret ** 09:42 Okay, so you're like the last one before we reach paradise or whatever?  **Patrick ** 09:46 I guess. I don't know **Margaret ** 09:47 Like you're the last people who have a concept of wilderness and everyone else is going to live underground growing their food in very controlled environments because everything's hard. **Patrick ** 09:55 I guess so. I mean, yeah, I don't know. I think that certainly the world as we know it, the world that you and I were born into, is like kind of no longer here and we've entered into a new earth, which is not one that is hospitable to human, or much of the more than human life, unfortunately and it's gonna get progressively more and inhospitable. So, being the last born is really ... it's not a ... it's all of us. It's not like ....  You're not the last man on the Earth, or whatever, or the last person on the Earth. You're one of a generation, or several generations, that really remembers what it was like before the climate was completely chaotic and everything was on fire and everyone was coughing in your face with a plague. You know, that was a nice time. Remember that? That was cool. And now we're in this new place, or this seemingly novel place for us at least, of, kind of, amplifying crises. And it's .... Yeah, so anyway, sorry, that's rather bleak. But it's a little bit of what I talk about, I guess, or bring up in the podcast. The overarching sense.  **Margaret ** 11:04 No, no. Okay. Well, let's talk about coughing in people's faces with the plague. [Laughing] One of the topics that we wanted to talk about was kind of a little bit of where we're at with Covid. And not just a like, "Hey, there's a new wave coming. And there's new ... or here." And there's also like, you know, "Time for your yearly booster," and there's the non MRA [struggles with the letters] **Patrick ** 11:27 Non MRNA.  **Margaret ** 11:28 Yeah, thank you. Vaccines that just got approved and like all this other stuff. But, more about, I want to kind of ask you about what you've learned through your work about the fact that we are living in this place where community care has been left to individuals and smaller organizations, by and large, with some larger institutions trying to do good, while the, at least, federal level care and things like that have largely abandoned us to fend for ourselves. **Patrick ** 12:00 Yeah. You know, it's weird. This has been a disillusioning period, I think. Pandemic has been really rough for a lot of reasons. And I think I've talked about it a lot through a variety of lenses. I think there's a baseline of trust that's been lost among myself and a lot of other people. Like, I feel like to kind of continuing to keep up precautions and to avoid catching Covid is really a difficult thing at this time. And it's weird because there's been a normalization on such a broad level. And there's people on the left who really have given up and don't really care about it anymore. And seemingly, it sort of seems like we've kind of turned a corner. It feels like culturally, socially where it's kind of unacceptable to continue to care about it in this way. But I think if you are a leftist, in the broadest sense, not just a radical anarchist, or whatever, you really need to kind of get the facts straight about what Covid is and how it's still impacting people. How many people are becoming effectively disabled as a result of Covid infections? And then normalizing it is really fucked up. It's eugenicist, frankly. It's ableist. It's wrong. And I was just thinking, I don't know if I want to call .... I don't want to .... I don't know. I was thinking recently about how my partner and I moved up to Canada. Actually, we're in Victoria, BC right now, the city that is called Victoria, on Vancouver Island. There was an anarchist bookfair here. No mask requirements at this fair. And I think at other book fairs around, I don't know if around BC or just in the US in particular, masks were a requirement, like respirators were required. It's just a basic thing I think we need to kind of do now as leftists or anarchists is just to have, if we're gonna have a public event, these types of things just need to be kind of there. Like we just have to do them. Because there's a lot of people who are immunocompromised or disabled that just can't show up because this is not a safe, "safe," these [unhearable word] words, but like literally, it'll harm their bodies. **Margaret ** 14:09 Yeah, it's like full of spikes that are shooting out of the ceiling. You know, it's not... **Patrick ** 14:14 Yeah, exactly. So I think just the act of community care on that level--I mean, you don't have to be an anarchist to do this of course--but I think particularly for anarchists that are supposedly about communal acts of care and mutual aid, like this is a really basic one, a pretty easy one. It's interesting how it's not-- you know for anarchists, there's no like ... I don't know if there's a global anarchist Federation that has doled out some kind of guidelines. That would never make sense. But it's interesting how in every place around North America there's different kinds of cultural temperaments, or certain attitudes, around certain things and particularly around Covid. It's interesting how in Canada, how maybe anarchists in Canada don't maybe care as much about it. I don't know. I guess I can't speak for them, but it's an interesting thing to experience the ways in which the normalization of Covid has affected different regions. And it's ... Yeah, so anyway, I just wanted to kind of bring that up because we are still in the midst of this thing. I can get into reasons why it's still a problem, why it is still a threat to people's health, but it shouldn't be. I don't know. I just think it's really imperative that anarchists kind of get with the program if they haven't already. **Margaret ** 15:26 Yeah, and like, I've been fairly proud of the fact that overall I've found anarchists and punks and different sorts of subcultural folks and political folks to be more on top of it than the average person or place, but not .... I haven't been blown away either, you know? And we have had .... Most of the book fairs that I've been aware of or gone to, or whatever, this year have had some kind of masking requirement. Sometimes it's a rigid requirement. Sometimes it's like, here's the masks at the door, and someone's going to kind of be like, "You should really wear one of these," but not like kick you out without a mask. Like, I .... Shout out to the anarchist space called Firestorm in Asheville, North Carolina that during COVID, they actually moved into a new building, and part of why they picked the building, as far as I can tell, is that it used to be an auto shop so the doors open all the way, like one wall is open. And they still have a mask requirement inside of the store because they're like, "Well, they're still a pandemic. So you should wear a mask. This isn't complicated," you know? And like .... Okay, have you ever seen the TV show The 100? **Patrick ** 16:42 I think I've heard of it. **Margaret ** 16:45 I watched the first two or three seasons a while ago. And I .... But there's this thing that I think about all the time. It was not a particularly important TV show to me. But there's one thing that seemed kind of hackneyed at the time where basically almost no one can live on the Earth because there was a pandemic. And a lot of people live in space. And then some people come back down from space. And then there's people who have "lost their minds" and "lost civilization" who, you know, have adapted. And then there's these people who live inside a mountain. And they're like, "Oh, we can't go outside the mountain except with, you know, full suits that protect ...." I forget the word for this, like the chemical suits or whatever.  **Patrick ** 17:23 Like hazmat suits or something like that.  **Margaret ** 17:25 So yeah, you can't go outside without a hazmat suit and a gas mask. And like, you know, when you come back in you have to go through decontamination and all this stuff. And I remember watching it and being like, you just sort of take it for granted. You're like, yeah, you know, if there was a thing in the air that killed people or made people disabled, people would like, take it seriously, you know? And then now I'm like, "Man, that was a utopian piece of fiction right there." Like, within the first week someone would be like 'Fake news. There's nothing in the air outside," and then the whole mountain would have been destroyed.  **Patrick ** 18:00 Speaking of like pop culture .... Like, sometimes it is. I watched that film Contagion a while ago. It came out before Covid. It's like what, a Stevens Soderbergh film? Whatever, it doesn't matter. It came out. And it was like "What would happen if a really, really dangerous, very contagious virus just started spreading? Like, what would the agencies do? What would the CDC do? What would global world governments do?" Whatever. And, you know, it was fairly .... It tried to be realistic while also being kind of dramatic. And it was a really nasty virus. Everybody is locked down, quarantine, blah, blah, blah. They make a vaccine, they do a lottery, people get it at the end, and it's over. Like, that's the end of the movie. Everybody gets the vaccine. Everybody gets the vaccine, everybody's happy to get the vaccine. And no, you know, I mean, yeah, certainly .... Covid is in this weird, I feel like it's in this weird space. And I've said this before on an interview with somebody, this epidemiologist, I was saying it's this weird space where it's like, it's obviously really, really bad to get it, but it's also like a lot of people get it and it doesn't seem to affect them that much. They kind of feel like, "Oh, it's kind of like the cold or kind of like a flu." It isn't, though. I mean, looking at the actual virus and how it affects the body, it is not like those viruses. So it's very different. But the fact is, is that, you know, percentage wise, you know, most people get it, they don't die from it. So what's the big deal? So, I think it's in this weird space where it's a very contagious, very nasty virus, but it doesn't have the mortality rate of like Ebola or something so people aren't going to take it seriously. So, it's weird. It's a weird thing. And we're, you know, almost four years into this thing. So, people are obviously quite weary. We've been talking about it. So yeah, it's hard. **Margaret ** 19:53 No, totally. And like, I mean, it's funny because it's like I also get the ... I get why people are over it and have to live their lives. And I think I talked about this in a recent episode, I can't remember. I was talking to someone about it. I no longer have real conversations. I only have podcast conversations. It was like, okay, we can't not have live music as part of our human experience of the world, or whatever, right? But to me it's all about looking at these cost-benefit analyses. And by and large, with exceptions, like if someone's doing hard manual labor all day I can see why wearing a mask is particularly hard, or like, you know, there's complicating factors. But, overall, it's just not a fucking big deal. Like to--Covid is--but to wear a mask-- **Patrick ** 20:38 Yeah.  **Margaret ** 20:39 --for, I think, most people in most situations, And I think the main reason people don't wear masks is because of the social aspect of it. Because they are afraid of being the only person wearing a mask. And I just like ask us to not act out of fear. I ask us to do what's right. Or I think we are asked by being alive. I think that we are asked to be ... to do what is right, not what is popular, or whatever, right? And, so that's what's so disappointing to me about it. And I mean, this is part of why everyone gets so mad at people who .... Because I also try not to be like .... You don't really like gain a lot when you tell people like, "What the fuck? What's wrong with you? You can't do that." It's not a very effective strategy, you know? And so I do think it's like, overall, I really appreciate a lot of the phrasing that I've seen about being like, "Hey, even if you stop masking, here's like a good reason to start again."  And like, you know, there's no harm in just mea culping and just starting to mask again, **Patrick ** 21:46  Yeah, no, for sure. And I don't know, there's a lot of other things going on too. When you .... It really is fascinating to be like .... You obviously want to be like, you want to encourage this level of care and I think what's sort of hard is there is a real lack of public .... Like, good public health messaging has been terrible. So, it's an interesting dynamic. I feel like anarchists are people who are more on the ground organizing at grassroots levels. At a grassroot level, you are trying to fill a void, which is the government doesn't really want to fucking deal with this shit. They just don't want to deal with it. They have, they've learned enough. And they know that they can move on warm, more or less. And so they're not going to do anything about it anymore. And so you have to take care of yourself, The rich are taking care of themselves. They have all the tools, They know exactly how to run a Covid-safe event. They've been doing it for a while now. And they have really good like .... In the way that you would pay for security or catering at an event, they pay for Covid Safety coordinators. Yeah, they're really good at it. And if they're doing that, and they understand this, then we should be doing it for ourselves because we as the poors, we need to take care of each other, take care of ourselves and learn basic information that unfortunately a lot of people don't have. And actually .... I understand that by doing my podcasts or doing this kind of work that I am able to delve into some of these subjects more closely. So, I might know a little more about Covid than the average person. And honestly, the more I learn about it, the more I don't want to get it and the more I would encourage people to avoid reinfection more than anything. If you've had it before, you don't want to get it again. There's so many intersecting issues here. I guess I just, I just really want to emphasize community care is the most important thing right now in regards to this. Need to really get on top of that, if we haven't already. And a lot of people are. It's amazing, actually, how many people are doing it, like mask blocks. There's all kinds of people organizing around this subject. And they don't have any particular, seemingly political ideology that's animating it. It's just they're doing it because it's right.  **Margaret ** 23:57 Yeah, totally. One of the things you were saying about realizing like the government has abandoned us, so the government has moved on and things like that. It's one of these ... at the beginning of Covid, it actually kind of challenged, in some ways, it challenged a lot of my own anarchist thoughts, right? Because I try not to assume I'm right. I try not to look at a problem and say "What's the anarchist solution?" I try to look at a problem and say, "What's the solution?" I have a bias that lends itself towards non state, non capitalist solutions. But I try to earnestly look at every problem and say, "What is the best solution?" and so far in my life the answer is usually nonstate, anti capitalist, anti oppression, right? Well, and some of those things are also moral, you know. But at the beginning of Covid, you start being like, "Well, shit, someone needs to .... This needs to be organized on a massive scale, right?" And then, now what we actually saw instead gave me the opposite, whereas at the beginning of Covid mutual aid groups popped up everywhere, you know, and mutual aid groups like stepped into the void of what was not being met. Because people were locked down, they were like, not able to meet a bunch of other needs, and a lot of them, in the US, at least, we have, you know, we got stimulus money or whatever. And it wasn't enough for most people. And, but I think that it becomes really clear that you look a year on and as soon as Covid  is over, you're like, "Oh, you're running some cold math about dead people in the economy, or disabled people in the economy, and you are deciding that getting people back to work makes the country more money even though a bunch of people will die or become disabled as a result," you know? And so it's like one of those things, to me, it just lays bare the reality of government, that governments exists to make this kind of cold calculation, not take care of people. **Patrick ** 25:57 Yeah, no, I think at the beginning there was a lot of ambiguity. We didn't know what this would really be. So obviously lock downs--or what we would call lock downs but really just kind of stay-at-home orders--or just tell people, like, "Please just avoid social gatherings for a while." And then the masks came into the picture and things like this, that was implemented just because there was, you know, there was a lot of ambiguity. We didn't know everything we know now. And once the, kind of, the cold calculus really came in, and there's a lot of other things too, but really when that came in and it was like, "This is hurting the economy. This isn't gonna work. You know, we have to really focus on jobs over, you know, everything else, over our lives. So, yeah, let's just get back to work." And I don't know. But I think it is kind of an interesting thing, though, because the anti-mask thing is very much an aesthetic choice. It's not as much a practical, irrational thing, because we could have jobs and all this stuff running exactly as before but people are wearing high quality respirators. Sure, we could have all kinds of things implemented. It would take an investment. From a cold capitalist perspective, it's rational to put an air filtration, it's rational to have people wear respirators, and yet from .... I don't know what it is, but just the idea of actually providing public health infrastructurally on that level is just not possible at this point for some reason. It's just not feasible. I was thinking about the kind of origins of public health, as it were, and like John Sn--I think his name was John Snow in England--he kind of figured out where the cholera outbreaks were coming from. And that really helped kickstart this movement to, you know, kind of figure out how to provide clean water for people on a massive social scale, on the scale of a city, right? It took a long time and a lot of deaths for something to finally change. And now we just take for granted that when you turn on a faucet in most places around, say, North America, you're gonna find you're gonna have clean water. Like it's pretty not always the case, certainly, but, you know, it's kind of taken for granted that that's almost like a right that we have. But clean air has not really entered into that same, that level of feeling like an entitlement that we have as human beings for a quality of life issue, that this is important. So, I don't know, it's interesting to witness how this has been playing out and also sort of an anarchist, or whatever, thinking about it from that level of like, if we want to move away from States and governments, how would an anarchist society deal with this issue? How would non-Statist, anti-Statists deal with this? And it's interesting. I don't know yet. I haven't really figured that out. And, I was kind of thinking because you do a history podcast as well. And I'm wondering if there was anything you came across as, you know, kind of radical leftist movements that were like, "How do we apply the values of public health and health care from a maybe communal collectivist sense that does not rely on the institution of states and bureaucracies? Like, I don't know, I wonder about this because we're trying to just fill the gap of what the State isn't doing. It's almost reactionary, right? What would it look like to be proactive in that sense? I don't know. I don't have an answer to that. I just think it's interesting. **Margaret ** 29:26 Okay, no, that's interesting. From a history point of view, there's a piece that I read right near the beginning of pandemic--that I haven't read in a while and I don't remember as well--this Italian anarchist, Malatesta, wrote a piece called like something like "Anarchists and the Cholera Outbreak," and it was about anarchist public health responses to a late 19th century health crisis. But I also know that anarchists have been doing a ton of stuff on public health since the beginning. I think that like .... I mean, you can look at like ... it's anarchists who, at least in the US, pushed birth control and pushed information about sexually transmitted diseases and like sexual health. And it's like, people are like, "Oh, yes, early feminists," and I'm like, "Yeah, they were early feminist anarchists." I mean, there's some exceptions to that. And then of course, you have bad examples where Margaret Sanger, who founded Planned Parenthood, was, like, a "complicated figure" who embraced non-racialized eugenics. And that is bad. But it is spun to mean that she was different, that she believed in something different than what she actually believed. And, but it's still bad. And she started off as an anarchist. She, actually, by the time she was really doing the eugenics because a lot of like--a lot of eugenics, you kind of need the State for, right, especially like the evilest parts of it or the like who gets to decide who has babies are whatever, right, and all that shit. But Margaret Sanger was an anarchist when she first started doing a lot of the birth control stuff. Emma Goldman got arrested a ton of times. The person who's at the longest in jail in US history for advocating birth control was this guy--I just did an episode about this, I don't normally have all these facts in front of me--was this guy named Ben Reitman, who was mostly an anarchist. He spent most of his life fucking around with the anarchist scene. But the anarchists scene didn't like him because he was super horny and he kept cheating on Emma Goldman, which is impressive because they were in an open relationship. Yeah, but he still managed to sort of piss her off with how many people we slept with, even though it was supposedly okay. He spent the longest of anyone in history, in US history, in jail for advocating birth control. And he was also a ... he was a hobo doctor. He was a doctor who went to medical school, became a physician, specifically so that he could treat STIs in the poorer classes and people who didn't have access to public health. And so a lot ... As far as I can tell, I see this thing, this pattern happen a lot where things come from the bottom up and then the top is like, "Okay, cool, we got that." And you can see this benevolently where you're like, "Oh, it comes from the bottom up and then the State comes in and takes charge and everything's okay." And, and there's some advantages that have come up through that, but overall, I think it is to the detriment of these systems. And I think that... I don't know, I guess I'm like, I think that decentralized networks that have some forms of centralized information sharing, are very capable of doing these sorts of things. Also, sorry, I'll stop spitting out anarchist history in a minute.But the legalization of abortion, the first Western European country... Soviet Russia was the first country to legalize--I could be wrong about this--was one of the first countries, if not the first country, to legalize abortion in Europe. But then Stalin was like, "Just kidding. You must make babies," because he's a bastard. Then Federica Montseny, the woman Minister of Health in revolutionary Spain, who was an anarchist--which is really complicated and there was a lot of arguing at the time about whether Federica Monseigneur and some of her peers should have joined the coalition government--she legalized abortion. And so it's like, funny. So even the State idea of public health came from an anarchist who was part of the State, you know? **Patrick ** 33:30 I don't know, I think that it's this thing where when we're thrust into these big crises, like a pandemic, we start to really... we do have to reevaluate our ideological stances a little bit like. Because for me, you know--I think this is something we talked about when you were on my podcast like three years ago, or whatever--something about, like, it's not our position to tell people how to do things. Like, if it's another country and other people they're going to figure out how to solve their problems in their own way. And, you know, I think a lot of revolutionary movements do lead to certain types of, obviously, State kind of action or States.... It's directed towards the State or the State itself's kind of response to it in a way that is actually beneficial to the people. But that's not because the State is good. It's just under enormous amounts of pressure. It's just.... It's complicated. I don't think it's one thing and I think that it's a good thing that the government was able to mass produce or help mass produce vaccines, but I also think it was really fucked up that it was then decided that that was the end of the pandemic because everybody was vaccinated. It's kind of this... It's this thing. It's not one thing. It's very complicated. But I do think overwhelmingly, absolutely, if public health is being administered on this sort of ground level where the feedback between the actual public and the sort of people administering public health, if that feedback loop is shorter, where you're able to actually hear what people are saying and you can actually see what's going on in the ground, there's an actual connection and it's done democratically and collectively then you actually can administer public health in a way that is going to help people and not being imposed on people. Right? So yeah, I think there's been, for me, a lot of questions and lessons learned from this pandemic up to this point. So, and also, I don't know, I just throw this in there, they're not necessary anarchist, but like the Black Panthers and the Young Lords, you know, they were very much about health care and administering health care on a community level and did forward a lot of things that even today...like I think it was something like the Young Lords were really pushing for patients having access to their own... like that the doctors had to explain to them what....Is that right?  **Margaret ** 35:44 Yeah, they introduced the Patient's Bill of Health that has since been used internationally. **Patrick ** 35:51 So you know, and they were radical, you know, they took over hospitals, they occupied, you know, they did a lot. So, yeah. Anyway, I just, I think in regards to the pandemic, right now, whatever major breakthroughs that we're gonna have in regards to dealing with cleaning the air or, you know, actually making sure that people have access to resources and information, it's gonna have to come from the ground level, in pressure from the ground level because it ain't good right now. It really isn't. **Margaret ** 36:22 No, and that, I really liked that. I think that's a really good point. And when I think about it, the Young Lords are the perfect example of this. And they're, you know, yeah, they were Marxist Leninists, but they were doing something from the bottom up and forced the city of New York City to take action. Like, for example, in the neighborhood that they lived in--they moved all over the place, but they first started in, I want to say, the Upper East Side in a Puerto Rican neighborhood in Manhattan--and no trash was coming. No trash pickup was happening there, partly because of some racism of some white labor unions and the trash union and partly due to just systemic poverty and other forms of racism. It wasn't all just the trash workers problem...fault. But, you know, they just started dragging trash in the middle of the street and setting it on fire. And they did it in the parts of their neighborhood that rich people have to drive through. They did it in the through fares. And it worked. Trash pickup became a major issue in the next mayoral election. And then trash pickup, like they like, revolutionized how trash is picked up in New York City. And it was this major health issue. And then the other things that they would do is they would go door to door to do tuberculosis screenings. And they would also like--they're so fucking cool. At one point, they hijacked an X-ray van that was going through these neighborhoods to like X-ray people for tuberculosis but wasn't going to poor neighborhoods of color. And there's like some arguments about whether that was because of what time the schedule was and didn't work for people's jobs or if it was a straight up, like, "Nah, we're just hanging out in the white neighborhoods." But what happened was the X-ray technicians, they were like, "Sick, we don't give a shit. We just want to fucking help stop TB." And that's what's so interesting to me about government workers versus non-government workers is that the people doing the shit, whether it's for the government or not, they just want to get the shit done. They don't care which system is doing it. Like the X-ray technicians were like "Sick, fuck yeah, we're still getting paid. Like, it's a little weird that you came in with guns, but whatever, it was necessary. You take us up there." And then they started. And they ended up with a fucking X-ray van parked outside the Young Lords headquarters several days a week, paid for by the hospital. And so it.... I got really worked up. **Patrick ** 38:37 Yeah, no. It's cool, though. **Margaret ** 38:38 But I think that these questions about anarchist public health, one of the things that is so interesting to me is that it's like systems allow things to happen but people are who do it. And so often people will ask, will be like, "Well, how will an anarchist society produce insulin?" or whatever. And like, well, part of the answer is, I don't know how we make insulin now, but that's probably how we'll make it then too, right. You know? And so like, anarchist public health can look, in some ways, really similar in terms of like, well, we'll have people who know a lot about public health directing these things, you know? Because it's not the government that regulates things, it is people who design the systems of regulation. And anything that people can do, we are people, and also I'm not trying to disclude those people from my society. And I just want it to happen in a system that is actually anti-oppressive, that is horizontal, that is anti-capitalist, you know, that is all of these things. And so yeah, so what if instead of we build shit from the bottom up and the government swoops in and then kind of makes it shitty and watered down, we build things from the bottom up and then keep building and just keep those buildings that we make horizontal and keep them like.... Yep, I got totally worked up. **Patrick ** 39:51 No, you're good. No, you're right, though. That's exactly it. Like, there are, at every stage of the way, I think...sorry, I'm also kind of worked up.... I feel like health and healthcare is actually is a core and central component of any sort of revolutionary movement because it is so integral to everyone, obviously, our health and well-being is such an integral part of everyone's lives. So how we treat disabled people, how we treat people of all age groups, how access to care is affect...you know, people's sort of demographic that they exist in, the racial system that we have, it affects how people have access to certain types of care. I mean, all of this is so...it intersects with so many things. So, I think the pandemic has highlighted a lot of this. And I think it's been a very upsetting and difficult time. And I think people kind of need to...they've tuned out. They need to kind of tune back in and I get why they tuned out, but they just need to try to tune in tune in a bit because it's going to--I'm sorry, it sounds bleak and this is kind of my thing--it's gonna get worse unless we make it better. And I think there's an assumption that somehow got better and it really hasn't. And again, this is just because I am, I mean, I am doing this sort of collaborative series right now. But also, I've just learned as much as I can about how Covid is affecting the body and it's a nasty virus. It's causing really wild complications in people's bodies. It is a very strange thing. So, you know, it's not enough to just tell you as an individual, "Please do this thing," or "Please do that." We need actual systems of care that really accommodate everybody. So yeah, to me, it is...and I know, we were kind of discussing how this, you know, what my podcast really addresses is a lot of it's around climate and the implications of climate change. How we deal with Covid is indicative of how we're dealing with...it's like a Russian doll, you know, nested within itself. It's like, "This is how we're dealing with this? Well, this is how we're dealing with ecological crisis and the climate crisis as well." How we adapt to the changes that are coming from this pandemic is how we are choosing or not choosing to deal with the changes that are coming from a rapidly changing climate system. So, this is all related. And I think, again, as radical leftists, you have to catch up with that and to kind of recognize that part of it in my opinion. **Margaret ** 42:31 No, that makes sense. There's kind of...one of the things that I do, I do a lot of crafting as my main way to decompress and stuff like that, right, and one of the things that I've like been learning as I get older is a random maxim, that's a cliche, which is how you do one thing is how you do everything. And it's not literally true. But I think about it when I want to cut corners. I think about it, when I like... I finished, you know, I'm making my raised beds and I'm like, "I'm going to not sand that corner. It doesn't really matter. I'm not going to see that part" right? You know? But those all build up and more that by learning the discipline of handling things and taking things seriously, it puts me in the position for the parts that do matter, to not cut corners, to go at things systematically, to make sure I do things right. And I kind of liked this, this presentation of how we handle Covid is how we handle climate change. You know, they're not the same problem. They're related. They're part of the interwoven crises we are facing. And so we shouldn't freak out about either because that literally doesn't do us any good. But we should probably be more alarmed than overall we are about both of these things and looking soberly at the problem and what solutions are and running cost benefit analyses but not cost benefit analysis for what saves the economy but what costs benefit analyses feed people. And to be fair, the economy is part of what feeds people, but there's other methods of feeding people, which the government knows and that's part of why they're like "Shit, we got to make sure that we stay feeding people because otherwise people are gonna figure out communism."  **Patrick ** 44:17 Yeah. [Chuckling] **Margaret ** 44:18 But...No, I like this framework. I like this idea that we should.... You know, I mean, it's a thing that I think I've talked about before on this show where I'm like, well, we should just be installing better HVAC systems. And even if you want to have...like, there's certain things that are not conducive to masking, right? An inside restaurant is not conducive to masking. And personally, I just kind of avoid them because it's not a big part of my life. I live in the middle of nowhere and I make all my own food. But that's me and I can't get mad at other people for making different decisions around that. But--well, I mean, there's certain decisions I can get mad at people about but whatever. But at the very least, you can look at being like, "Okay, we have a restaurant, how are we going to build it for HVAC? How are we going to build it for, you know, cycling the air as much as possible, for keeping windows open, for patio service, for whatever. And this is still within a very not changing that much about society framework. I would prefer greatly to consider larger frameworks. But then again, a lot of things that we talk about within larger frameworks... like when I imagine how I think society would work is that personally, I'd be like, "Well, a lot of food is like people cook at home and eat with their family and friends and stuff, but also, you can just go to the big free restaurant that's kind of probably a food line and they put food on your plate and then you eat it. And it's great. You hang out with everyone. And I'm like, well, how the fuck do you do that in a Covid world? And it's hard to know. And it changes what is possible and what is safe and what is good that we live in this different world. I'm done. This is the end of my rant. **Patrick ** 45:51 Yeah, no, it's.... I think, you know, while I do, admittedly, succumb to sort of bleak and sad and depressed attitudes around a lot of things, I actually think what you said there is interesting because it's actually...you know, people look at it like it is a--what do they call it--a foreclosing of possibilities, right? And it is on some level. You are foreclosing the possibility of...like, for instance, I miss going to just coffee shops and chilling out and drinking coffee and working on my computer, reading, or whatever, and hanging out with people. And there's this whole like social aspect to that particular thing. But it is also a business where people are probably getting paid too little and being treated like shit by entitled customers. And, you know, I've worked in the coffee business long enough that I know exactly what that's like. That said, that is very much related to the restaurant business and all these other types of businesses and industries that people exist in where they're exploited regularly and people don't really, if they don't have to deal with that type of labor and do that themselves, they often don't really care. And so they just want that experience again, right? They just want to go back to being served again in a restaurant. That's so cool. If you, of course, have a more, I mean, anti capitalist laboratory attitude, you'd be like, "Well, how do we have that experience without it being so fucking shitty for a certain group of people," right? And how do we also make it so that it's Covid safe so that people don't catch awful plagues sitting around and having fun together? And eating, you know, and drinking coffee or wine or whatever? It's like, how can we imagine the restaurant/coffee shop experience without it being through this sort of...as it being a sort of capitalist enterprise? And that's...I think, through crisis, or through this sort of thing of a pandemic, we can reimagine it in a way that is safer and better for everybody that isn't exploiting everyone, or certain groups of people. You know what I mean? **Margaret ** 47:48 No, absolutely. I...I don't know, I agree. **Patrick ** 47:53 I think you just said something that kind of brought up something for me because I have this tendency, and it comes through in the podcast that I do a lot, which is I am not a particularly optimistic person. And so I can tend to fall into a.... I mean, there's certain things I'm just always going to have this attitude about, but you know, I think.... My partner laughed when I said that. [A third voice laughs in the background] I...I have the tendency, but I think I can kind of...it does foreclose possibilities and sort of radical action and things that can be done right now and can alleviate some of the suffering and misery that I and others are experiencing if we kind of just...I don't know, it's...I don't know. I guess I just appreciated what you said because it just kind of opened a little door in my head where I kind of forgot, like, "Oh, yeah, like, actually, I don't have to be that way all the time. Okay. Cool."  **Margaret ** 48:47 I think it's really funny that I took the name Killjoy and now I'm basically a professional optimist. I mean, I want to be a realist. But I'm like.... Well, like, I don't know, one of things I learned from cognitive behavioral therapy is they're, "Well, what's the worst that could happen?" and you're like, "Well, I could die." And they're like, "Okay, what then?" and you're like, "Well, then nothing," you know, and they're "Okay, well, what do you want?" Like, you know, and it's kind of like all this really terrible stuff is happening that's absolutely true. We need to take that seriously. But like, well, we're all gonna die anyway, you know? So... **Patrick ** 49:22 Yeah, yeah. Well, I mean, there's even something about..I think that what I've learned from doing my work is that, you know, I do get these responses from people that say, like, "I really appreciate that you're saying the thing. You're not looking away from it. You're just talking about it. There's actually a comfort in it." Because I think people feel kind of--and this word's overused--but gaslit where there's sort of this normalization of stuff that just feels like people aren't quite...like there's a glazed look in their eye when you bring up certain subjects and they're kind of bothered...you know, it's like...Um, it's a difficult thing, and I guess I've always been one to want to talk about those types of subjects. And, yeah, death, if death is the worst possible thing that can happen then, you know, what else? You know, then what? Right?  **Margaret ** 50:12 Yeah, what else you got? Like? **Patrick ** 50:14 Yeah, exactly. So. But, I mean, Frankly, you know, I mean, you know, some of the subjects I deal with in a broad sense, you know, are about extinction and are about the implications of climate change. And that is a heavy thing. And I do think that it weighs on the minds and hearts of people. And so I don't know if there's answers...There's no answer to how to like.... There's no therapy that will fix that, right? There's no like...You can't go to a therapist to fix this problem. It's just, it is what it is. And so then what? And that's... I don't have an answer, but at least I can talk about it. **Margaret ** 50:49 Absolutely. Well, we are running out of time, but I'm wondering if there was anything that I should have asked you on this particular topic and then if not, or after that, I'm wondering how people can find your work to engage with it. **Patrick ** 51:06 Yeah, well, I mean, I'm glad we could talk about Covid and it did kind of open some things up for me, so thank you for the discussion. I don't know, I guess there's a lot to say. I guess I would ask people, if you haven't been masking, start masking again. We are in a wave. Learn more about that. It's actually quite fascinating. So just do that. That'd be cool. It'd be good for your own health and the benefit of others. There's a lot to say, I don't know, I guess I guess we could have talked more about some other aspects of my work. But this is fine because I've been obsessively learning about Covid, so that's probably on my mind more than anything. Yeah, no, I mean, I guess people can learn more about my podcast. I have my website lastborninthewilderness.com. Everything is there. You can listen to it wherever you listen to podcasts. You can support my work on Patreon. All that stuff. I have that.... I mentioned I'm doing a collaborative series with, his name is Joshua Pribanic from the Public Herald. He's a journalist and filmmaker. And we're doing a collaborative series on long covid specifically, so that should be.... We haven't quite figured out exactly how that's gonna play out. But we will have that out in the coming weeks or months, starting to release those episodes. So I would ask people to look out for that. **Margaret ** 52:18 Hell yeah. Alright, well, thanks so much for coming on. And I have a feeling...yeah, there's so much more that even was on our list of things we're going to talk about, so I have a feeling I'm going to try and drag you back pretty soon.  **Patrick ** 52:29 Okay, good.  **Margaret ** 52:34 Thank you so much for listening. If you enjoyed this podcast then take public health seriously. [Said with a skeptically questioning tone] It shouldn't have to be on us. But it kind of always does because everything is always on us because we're all actually equals in this society that we all collectively build. So think about that, I guess, and listen to the Last Born in the Wilderness. And if you want to support this podcast in particular, you can support it by telling people about it, you can do.... You can tell machines about it. Just go to a computer and write on it with a sharpie and say like, "I like Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness, and then whoever's computer it is, hopefully doesn't run as fast as you, and then after that, you can also support us financially by supporting us on Patreon, by supporting our publisher, Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness, whose province of name you now know. Because I was cutting up holy books like a jerk. And you can support us on Patreon and it's patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness. If you support us at $10 or more a month, we send you a zine every month. But if you support us at like $1 a month, you're still helping this podcast have a transcript and you're helping this podcast be edited. Those are the people who get paid currently. And one day it'll pay the hosts and that'll be sweet because I like eating food. But I'm not trying to pressure you about that. Also, if you don't have any money, don't give it to us. Just fucking spend it on your own food. Like whatever. From each according to ability to each according to need. It is a slogan that predates Marx, so don't worry. But now I don't remember who said it off the top of my head. In particular, I would like to thank a list of people. I would like to thank Eric and Perceval, Buck, Jacob, Catgut, Marm, Carson, Lord Harken, Trixter, Princess Miranda, BenBen, anonymous, Funder, Janice & O'dell, Aly, paparouna, Milica, Boise Mutual Aid, theo, Hunter, S. J., Paige, Nicole, David, Dana Chelsea, Staro, Jenipher, Kirk, Chris, Michaiah. And as always, Hoss the Dog was a very good dog. I'm not gonna tell you where Hoss lives, but I've met Hoss. Hoss is great. Okay, I hope everyone is doing as well as you can despite the fact that everything's ending

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