Wednesday, April 12, 2006
More info on Sean Luke
The following is an email I just recieved. Do you guys believe this, can this be real?? It could explain the reason for the close casket at the funeral. What do you guys think? Leave your comments...
The email:
Plz don't read if you get upset easily
Good day to you all.
You all may remember me as the person, who started the day of solidarity for Sean Luke on Friday 31st March, 2006. Well I am to be the bearer of bad news once more. I have recently come into the possession of the real facts concerning young Sean Luke’s agonising murder. These facts were given to me by a very reliable source. I was hoping that the news wasn't true, then so many others who knew about it confirmed it for me, and even someone who visited the family of Sean Luke was in tears, and she confirmed my fears also.
I was contemplating long and hard, whether to release these details or not, seeing as the media and the police had covered up and sugar coated the majority of it. Yes, what you know of the death of Sean Luke is the kiddie version, a watered down façade. What Sean really went through during the final moments of his life is something that has stopped me from sleeping, it has consumed me with anger, hate and sadness. I want all of you to know the facts, so you can wake up to the truth, and know what horrors this defenceless six year old boy went through before he finally gave up.
What was portrayed in the media?
Little Sean Luke was stripped naked, raped, buggered, and killed via a cane stalk being inserted into his anus and forced repeatedly up his body, destroying his intestines, then his other organs while finally stopping at his throat.He died from internal bleeding.
What the media didn’t publicise?
All of Sean Luke’s ten fingers were broken, and then some of his fingers were cut off.
All of his toes were broken also.
His eye was partially torn off (i.e. the eyeball was removed from the socket partially).
His nose was cut off.
His penis was cut off.
His testicles were crushed (possibly by a blunt object or by the boys themselves, I am speculating as to how).
A cane stalk was not used to penetrate his body, but rather a bamboo stalk. This would do even more damage as bamboo is harder and can be sharper, which would account for the violent shredding of his organs and his throat.
Now that I know all of these facts, I am unsure what to think. I don’t even know what sort of creatures could even dream up this sort of torture. What eats me up inside is knowing that two teenage boys dreamt it up, and did it to a six year old child. What did Sean Luke do to deserve such a horrendous fate? Why did this have to happen?
These are questions I cannot answer. I hope now that you all are as shocked and appalled and as sick as I am now that you know the truth.
Thank you all for reading this.
This has been your wake up call,
Valmiki Frankstan-Paul.
The email:
Plz don't read if you get upset easily
Good day to you all.
You all may remember me as the person, who started the day of solidarity for Sean Luke on Friday 31st March, 2006. Well I am to be the bearer of bad news once more. I have recently come into the possession of the real facts concerning young Sean Luke’s agonising murder. These facts were given to me by a very reliable source. I was hoping that the news wasn't true, then so many others who knew about it confirmed it for me, and even someone who visited the family of Sean Luke was in tears, and she confirmed my fears also.
I was contemplating long and hard, whether to release these details or not, seeing as the media and the police had covered up and sugar coated the majority of it. Yes, what you know of the death of Sean Luke is the kiddie version, a watered down façade. What Sean really went through during the final moments of his life is something that has stopped me from sleeping, it has consumed me with anger, hate and sadness. I want all of you to know the facts, so you can wake up to the truth, and know what horrors this defenceless six year old boy went through before he finally gave up.
What was portrayed in the media?
Little Sean Luke was stripped naked, raped, buggered, and killed via a cane stalk being inserted into his anus and forced repeatedly up his body, destroying his intestines, then his other organs while finally stopping at his throat.He died from internal bleeding.
What the media didn’t publicise?
All of Sean Luke’s ten fingers were broken, and then some of his fingers were cut off.
All of his toes were broken also.
His eye was partially torn off (i.e. the eyeball was removed from the socket partially).
His nose was cut off.
His penis was cut off.
His testicles were crushed (possibly by a blunt object or by the boys themselves, I am speculating as to how).
A cane stalk was not used to penetrate his body, but rather a bamboo stalk. This would do even more damage as bamboo is harder and can be sharper, which would account for the violent shredding of his organs and his throat.
Now that I know all of these facts, I am unsure what to think. I don’t even know what sort of creatures could even dream up this sort of torture. What eats me up inside is knowing that two teenage boys dreamt it up, and did it to a six year old child. What did Sean Luke do to deserve such a horrendous fate? Why did this have to happen?
These are questions I cannot answer. I hope now that you all are as shocked and appalled and as sick as I am now that you know the truth.
Thank you all for reading this.
This has been your wake up call,
Valmiki Frankstan-Paul.
Monday, April 10, 2006
Is Christianity changing???
Christianity is one of the big religions in the world today, but is it changing? The book The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail (retitled Holy Blood, Holy Grail in the United States) is a controversial book by authors Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln, which was first published in 1982 by Jonathan Cape in London. The book followed on from a BBC TV documentary, and was followed by a sequel, The Messianic Legacy, in 1987. It was reissued in an illustrated hardcover version in 2005.
In summary, the authors argue that there is a possibility that Jesus might have been married to Mary Magdalene, and that their possible child or children emigrated to what is now southern France. Once there, they established what became the Merovingian dynasty, which is championed today by a secret society called the Priory of Sion.
The response from mainstream historians and academics, however, was all but universally negative. Critics argued that the bulk of the claims, mysteries and conspiracies presented as fact, were concocted by the authors, thus making Holy Blood a work of pseudo history.
The book The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception is anti-Catholic, proposing the existence of a conspiracy organised by the Vatican. The book claims that several key scrolls of the Dead Sea scrolls were deliberately kept under wraps for decades to suppress unwelcome theories about the history of early Christianity. One theory in particular to be suppressed was the speculation, first proposed by Robert Eisenman, that Paul of Tarsus had deliberately fabricated the more supernatural aspects of the life of Jesus, perhaps in order to undermine the anti-Roman messianic cults in the region.
Incase you have never heard about The Dead Sea Scrolls. The scrolls and scroll fragments recovered in the Qumran environs represent a voluminous body of Jewish documents, a veritable "library", dating from the third century B.C.E. to 68 C.E. Unquestionably, the "library," which is the greatest manuscript find of the twentieth century, demonstrates the rich literary activity of Second Temple Period Jewry and sheds insight into centuries pivotal to both Judaism and Christianity. The library contains some books or works in a large number of copies, yet others are represented only fragmentarily by mere scraps of parchment. There are tens of thousands of scroll fragments. The number of different compositions represented is almost one thousand, and they are written in three different languages: Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek.
The most resent information to hit the mainstream would be the release of The Gospel of Judas. One of the most significant biblical finds of the last century—a lost gospel that could challenge what is believed about the story of Judas and his betrayal of Jesus. The National Geographic Society released yesterday the first modern translation of the ancient Gospel of Judas, which depicts the most reviled villain in Christian history as a devoted follower who was simply doing Jesus's bidding when he betrayed him.
The Jesus Myth is a theory usually associated with a skeptical position on the historicity of Jesus, which claims that Jesus did not exist as an historical figure, but was, instead, an abstract, symbolic, and metaphorical allusion to a higher knowledge. The heart of the debate is as old as Christianity itself; even some early Christians who subscribed to a docetic Christology rejected the notion of a corporeal Jesus, though they still accepted his divinity. The theory, based in part on the lack of extant contemporaneous documents or other historically reliable evidence about his life, has not currently found widespread acceptance among Bible scholars and historians, though in more recent times, few scholars have supported it, such as Hyam Maccoby and John Shelby Spong.
These were just a few of the latest things to be revealed….What do you believe???
Please comment….
In summary, the authors argue that there is a possibility that Jesus might have been married to Mary Magdalene, and that their possible child or children emigrated to what is now southern France. Once there, they established what became the Merovingian dynasty, which is championed today by a secret society called the Priory of Sion.
The response from mainstream historians and academics, however, was all but universally negative. Critics argued that the bulk of the claims, mysteries and conspiracies presented as fact, were concocted by the authors, thus making Holy Blood a work of pseudo history.
The book The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception is anti-Catholic, proposing the existence of a conspiracy organised by the Vatican. The book claims that several key scrolls of the Dead Sea scrolls were deliberately kept under wraps for decades to suppress unwelcome theories about the history of early Christianity. One theory in particular to be suppressed was the speculation, first proposed by Robert Eisenman, that Paul of Tarsus had deliberately fabricated the more supernatural aspects of the life of Jesus, perhaps in order to undermine the anti-Roman messianic cults in the region.
Incase you have never heard about The Dead Sea Scrolls. The scrolls and scroll fragments recovered in the Qumran environs represent a voluminous body of Jewish documents, a veritable "library", dating from the third century B.C.E. to 68 C.E. Unquestionably, the "library," which is the greatest manuscript find of the twentieth century, demonstrates the rich literary activity of Second Temple Period Jewry and sheds insight into centuries pivotal to both Judaism and Christianity. The library contains some books or works in a large number of copies, yet others are represented only fragmentarily by mere scraps of parchment. There are tens of thousands of scroll fragments. The number of different compositions represented is almost one thousand, and they are written in three different languages: Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek.
The most resent information to hit the mainstream would be the release of The Gospel of Judas. One of the most significant biblical finds of the last century—a lost gospel that could challenge what is believed about the story of Judas and his betrayal of Jesus. The National Geographic Society released yesterday the first modern translation of the ancient Gospel of Judas, which depicts the most reviled villain in Christian history as a devoted follower who was simply doing Jesus's bidding when he betrayed him.
The Jesus Myth is a theory usually associated with a skeptical position on the historicity of Jesus, which claims that Jesus did not exist as an historical figure, but was, instead, an abstract, symbolic, and metaphorical allusion to a higher knowledge. The heart of the debate is as old as Christianity itself; even some early Christians who subscribed to a docetic Christology rejected the notion of a corporeal Jesus, though they still accepted his divinity. The theory, based in part on the lack of extant contemporaneous documents or other historically reliable evidence about his life, has not currently found widespread acceptance among Bible scholars and historians, though in more recent times, few scholars have supported it, such as Hyam Maccoby and John Shelby Spong.
These were just a few of the latest things to be revealed….What do you believe???
Please comment….
Wednesday, April 05, 2006
We wore black. What next...?
I just got this on email so here it is....
I woke this morning to see that a colleague had changed their MSN Messenger display name to, "We wore black yesterday. What are we supposed to do today?" It got me to thinking about how quickly we as Trinibagonians are to jump on a bandwagon and make much ado of an issue, only to see things fizzle slowly away because nobody ever bothered to help us figure out how to drill it down to a personal level, or how to turn grief and disdain into personal action.
Surely, the murder of Sean Luke is one of the most tragic events of our recent history. All the same, we responded to the call and showed solidarity with the family of the young man. We wore black. We drove with our headlights on all day. Some of us even went to the funeral and
extended our sympathies, or maybe we just went to see what we could see for ourselves. Many of us marched the streets of Port of Spain with the Keith Noel 136 Committee. We placarded. We sang. We begged the Governement to do something about the crime situation. And at the end of the day, what difference does it really make if on a personal level we sit back and do nothing else?
People would ask the question, "what in heavens name can I do? I'm just one Trini hoping to keep myself and my family safe day by day..." And so after all the lacouray, because we have no answers and no desire to find any, we return to the safety of our barricaded homes, hoping against hope that the madness will come to an end all on its own, or that the security forces will do something, or that the bandits will eventually run out of fellow bandits to kill. We sit in the relative safety of our living rooms and offices and talk about how much is not being done. We read the papers and lament that the Police didn't have the intelligence information to prevent the latest murder or kidnapping or whatever bad news the media decides to sensationalise as their lead story on that day. We're quick to berate everyone's efforts at anything, and we always have big ideas about what someone else can or should be doing. It's about time we stopped bumping our gums and that we all got up and did something ourselves.
What can you do, you ask? I'm not suggesting that we all go up into Laventille and Marabella and do mediation with the gangs and social work with the poor. Nor am I saying that we put ourselves in peril to stop that purse snatcher that will run past us on Charlotte Street, even though if enough of us tried to get him, there's no way that he could get away.
There's three things, very simple things that each of us can do. If we all try together and we're consistent, we'll surely make a difference.
1. STOP DOING ONE THING THAT'S NOT GOOD
Have you ever taken a chance and run down the shoulder on the highway, or made an illegal drive down the bus route? What about that sweetie paper or gum wrapper that you absently toss into the drain? Or the stray dog that you kicked? Or the driver that you cursed because he was more hurry than you and almost ran you over? What about the fact that there's that
co-worker that you don't say "Good morning" or "Good evening" to because you just don't like their head? What about the child that you shouted at today because you just didn't have patience with them anymore? We each have one illegal or mindless or foolish thing that we can stop doing, no matter how small. There's always one negative thing that, if we think about it hard enough, we can discipline ourselves to consistently avoid. And don't pretend that there's not even one little thing. None of us are perfect.
2. START DOING ONE THING THAT'S GOOD
Having stopped doing something that's not good, fill the void with something that's good. It will take nothing for you buy a ten-dollar box of chinese food one day in the month for that sleeping vagrant that you stepped over on your way down Frederick Street. It takes nothing out of
you to smile and pleasantly say "hello" or "excuse me" when you walk into a store before you launch into, "allyuh have...?" Stop your car, and let the little old lady trying to cross the road cross. Put the 37-cents change that you got that you're going to lose anyway in the FEEL or Salvation Army or TTSPCA or whatever donation tin next to the cash register. Just like the bad thing, it doesn't have to be some huge press-worthy effort. Do something, anything, because it's just nice to be nice.
3. SPREAD THE WORD
Now that you've stopped doing something dumb and you've started doing something nice, look for company. You don't have to start a political movement or a committee or an organisation. You just need to find one other person to spread the message of goodwill to, and get them to do
what you're doing too. What good will all this do, you ask? Imagine what would happen if even one quarter of our million and a half citizens stopped dropping sweetie paper and doubles paper and styrofoam cups in the road. Can you see already how much cleaner the streets and
highways would be? Imagine how smoothly traffic would flow if we just showed some patience
and didn't sit in the intersection when our light was going from yellow to red. Imagine how much more pleasant a trip to town would be if just one stranger with whom our two eyes made four smiled and muttered, "have a nice day." The vagrant wouldn't have to tear up the garbage looking for food if just 21 people each paid for one meal on one day a week. If a charity had just 100 donation tins on store counters all over Trinidad and ten miscellaneous people deposited $1.00 each week day in each tin, they charity will have collected at received $20,000 in a month toward their efforts. And imagine how well it would work if each one of us encouraged one
other one of us to follow through. We all wore black off of a text message that we forwarded to all our friends, didn't we? Don't think that your little bit does nothing. A little bit goes a long
way if there are lots of little bits together. So remember:
1. Stop doing one bad thing
2. Start doing one good thing consistently
3. Spread the word
Together, we can make a world of difference.
I woke this morning to see that a colleague had changed their MSN Messenger display name to, "We wore black yesterday. What are we supposed to do today?" It got me to thinking about how quickly we as Trinibagonians are to jump on a bandwagon and make much ado of an issue, only to see things fizzle slowly away because nobody ever bothered to help us figure out how to drill it down to a personal level, or how to turn grief and disdain into personal action.
Surely, the murder of Sean Luke is one of the most tragic events of our recent history. All the same, we responded to the call and showed solidarity with the family of the young man. We wore black. We drove with our headlights on all day. Some of us even went to the funeral and
extended our sympathies, or maybe we just went to see what we could see for ourselves. Many of us marched the streets of Port of Spain with the Keith Noel 136 Committee. We placarded. We sang. We begged the Governement to do something about the crime situation. And at the end of the day, what difference does it really make if on a personal level we sit back and do nothing else?
People would ask the question, "what in heavens name can I do? I'm just one Trini hoping to keep myself and my family safe day by day..." And so after all the lacouray, because we have no answers and no desire to find any, we return to the safety of our barricaded homes, hoping against hope that the madness will come to an end all on its own, or that the security forces will do something, or that the bandits will eventually run out of fellow bandits to kill. We sit in the relative safety of our living rooms and offices and talk about how much is not being done. We read the papers and lament that the Police didn't have the intelligence information to prevent the latest murder or kidnapping or whatever bad news the media decides to sensationalise as their lead story on that day. We're quick to berate everyone's efforts at anything, and we always have big ideas about what someone else can or should be doing. It's about time we stopped bumping our gums and that we all got up and did something ourselves.
What can you do, you ask? I'm not suggesting that we all go up into Laventille and Marabella and do mediation with the gangs and social work with the poor. Nor am I saying that we put ourselves in peril to stop that purse snatcher that will run past us on Charlotte Street, even though if enough of us tried to get him, there's no way that he could get away.
There's three things, very simple things that each of us can do. If we all try together and we're consistent, we'll surely make a difference.
1. STOP DOING ONE THING THAT'S NOT GOOD
Have you ever taken a chance and run down the shoulder on the highway, or made an illegal drive down the bus route? What about that sweetie paper or gum wrapper that you absently toss into the drain? Or the stray dog that you kicked? Or the driver that you cursed because he was more hurry than you and almost ran you over? What about the fact that there's that
co-worker that you don't say "Good morning" or "Good evening" to because you just don't like their head? What about the child that you shouted at today because you just didn't have patience with them anymore? We each have one illegal or mindless or foolish thing that we can stop doing, no matter how small. There's always one negative thing that, if we think about it hard enough, we can discipline ourselves to consistently avoid. And don't pretend that there's not even one little thing. None of us are perfect.
2. START DOING ONE THING THAT'S GOOD
Having stopped doing something that's not good, fill the void with something that's good. It will take nothing for you buy a ten-dollar box of chinese food one day in the month for that sleeping vagrant that you stepped over on your way down Frederick Street. It takes nothing out of
you to smile and pleasantly say "hello" or "excuse me" when you walk into a store before you launch into, "allyuh have...?" Stop your car, and let the little old lady trying to cross the road cross. Put the 37-cents change that you got that you're going to lose anyway in the FEEL or Salvation Army or TTSPCA or whatever donation tin next to the cash register. Just like the bad thing, it doesn't have to be some huge press-worthy effort. Do something, anything, because it's just nice to be nice.
3. SPREAD THE WORD
Now that you've stopped doing something dumb and you've started doing something nice, look for company. You don't have to start a political movement or a committee or an organisation. You just need to find one other person to spread the message of goodwill to, and get them to do
what you're doing too. What good will all this do, you ask? Imagine what would happen if even one quarter of our million and a half citizens stopped dropping sweetie paper and doubles paper and styrofoam cups in the road. Can you see already how much cleaner the streets and
highways would be? Imagine how smoothly traffic would flow if we just showed some patience
and didn't sit in the intersection when our light was going from yellow to red. Imagine how much more pleasant a trip to town would be if just one stranger with whom our two eyes made four smiled and muttered, "have a nice day." The vagrant wouldn't have to tear up the garbage looking for food if just 21 people each paid for one meal on one day a week. If a charity had just 100 donation tins on store counters all over Trinidad and ten miscellaneous people deposited $1.00 each week day in each tin, they charity will have collected at received $20,000 in a month toward their efforts. And imagine how well it would work if each one of us encouraged one
other one of us to follow through. We all wore black off of a text message that we forwarded to all our friends, didn't we? Don't think that your little bit does nothing. A little bit goes a long
way if there are lots of little bits together. So remember:
1. Stop doing one bad thing
2. Start doing one good thing consistently
3. Spread the word
Together, we can make a world of difference.
