MUSICAL FACTS: How to be a Groupie: In Bed with Rappers and MCs

If you have followed me long enough on this blog, or my Twitter, my Facebook page, the Facebook pages I help manage: livinsoul Entertainment TM, Mommies On The Mic TM, Livinsoul International Ministries TM, The Day Jesus Spoke Hip-Hop TM, or the Twitter accounts I help manage @livinsoul_ENT, @MommiesOnTheMic, @livinsoul_MIN, @JesusSpoke ... besides knowing how ridiculously busy I am for a mother of 5 (yup 5!) darling children...you most definitely know that I am a huge supporter of Christian-based Music especially, Hip-Hop and Reggae. Sooooo, I go loco on the promo for Christ Music - from tweets, video posts, blogs and Twibbon, to behind the scenes promotion of music-ministry, Artist Fan  Page management and da beat goes on an on. So why exactly do I take the time to prop up these Rappers and Reggae MCs for FREE (mostly)?

Since I entered into the Christian Music, and particularly the Christian Hip-Hop community, as a chatty supporter and opinionated tweeter (LOL), over the last 18 months or so, I have had a fair bit of o_O from folks who seem to think I'm just some groupie chick trying to, I'll just say politely, 'talk' to Rappers (including, I'm sure, a few Rappers thinking this, themselves)...fair, enough, I can say from an outsider eye perspective, I might raise a brow if a 'strange' chick comes out of left field and seems to talk to Rappers and industry males 'just a lil too much,' without a husband in sight...but er, um...Hey World! This announcement may be long-overdue for those raised eye-brow folks, but I found it totally unnecessary for myself, really, to justify my interactions as I support, cheerlead and encourage a genre of music that was tantamount in leading me to Christ.

However, it would seem that folks are just gonna be, well, shall I say, 'feline' in their curiosity...and trully, I have other things to focus on...so FOR THE RECORD, I am, in FACT, not some groupie chick who gets off on being known, applauded or accepted by Rappers and MCs (infact my support and promo is largely ignored by them, so it's not like I get pats on the back for energies and time spent)...and I mos def ain't trynah get laid! #BOING! (insatiable husband at home...HELLO! lol!)...What and who I am is a genuine lover of Christ Music, and a woman passionate about supporting those who create it, and use it to spread the Gospel of Christ. As I have told a few people, and some inquisitive enough to ask...I began interactions with Rappers and MCs after I linked in to a favorite Artist's facebook page in my very early freshman days on facebook. From that Rapper's personal account, I was surprised to hear just how much resistance and disunity the Christian Hip-Hop world faces. I had heard some rap and reggae songs, previously, that spoke of some of the difficulties of these two types of music being accepted in Churches, but to hear it personally sparked a fire in me to publicly support and cheerlead those, whose music had impacted my life in real and intangible ways. Needless to say, the more Rappers and MCs I added as "friends" or "followed," the more I got involved in this community....and here I am...supporting favorite Artists, and many more new & old school Rappers and MCs, Singers, Poets, Musicians, Producers and da beat goes on and on and on! LOL!

Having spent a great deal of the last year of my life publicly supporting and encouraging those in music-ministry, particularly Hip-Hop and Reggae, which continue to be erroneously shunned by the majority as ungodly or, at the least, "inappropriate" for spreading the message of the Gospel, I have had the honor of interacting with many of my favorite Rappers & MCs, as well as Singers, Poets, Ministers, Producers/Beatmakers, Label & Media Company-Owners, Journalists, Dee-Jays and the like, along with some equally enthusiastic supporters, naysayers, and the whole caboodle that make up this nouveau-Christ Church. It has been a fun ride, I  have to say. But I do this for more than fun. I talk to Rappers and MCs etc. because they too, need the encouragement, the upliftment of spirit and the good old fashioned 'well done' pat on the back that us, 'consumers' take for granted when we play the music that ministers to us. Not only have I received some feedback that my own support is meaningful and encouraging, God has truly used this time in my life to break me, mould me and shape me for the greater Vision of support He has had planned all along.

Inevitably, in the midst of supporting the Artists/industry folk behind the music that continues to positively impact my spiritual and emotional life, I have found my joie de vie...the je nais se quoi I have been missing in my journey of life, to find purpose and meaning through who I have been created to be, and what I have wished to offer the world since I was 6 years old (but that is another blog-story)...suffice to say, God has allowed this time in my life of serving others, to become the catalyst for me embracing something I have fought for some time. My Husband has been called to ministry since he was a teen. He has had his own personal struggles and intervening circumstances preventing him from coming to the place of putting his foot in that pool. But along the way, though I saw myself being in the background administratively, I had not actually married the Vision of Livinsoul International Ministries TM, which my husband has been called to, and I was grateful for all the delays in becoming a "Pastor's Wife".

Well, getting in bed with all these Rappers and MCs got my juices going to desire to conjugate my passion at 6 years old to "build the world a home, and furnish it with love", along with my role as a Wife and Partner in incubating and helping to birth and nurture my Husband's seed - the Vision of Livinsoul International Ministries TM. By serving others, I discovered the purpose God has for me. I have had opportunity to see my gifts for what they are; to learn my limitations, and to embrace the destiny God has had planned for me...so yeah! I'm a chick who talks to Rappers & MCs...and yet, soooo much more...as one of my favorite Rappers, Corey Red says: "I was asleep, but the Giant has awakened!"...Mami, got VISION - in 3-D! Watch this space....and see where God directs this script... ;-)

If you do not yet understand the purpose God has for YOU in life, pray, commit yourself to service to others and allow God the opportunity to show you your gifts, your abilities, your purpose, and yes! your limitations. When you do you will truly be able to serve!

Before I formed you in the belly I knew you; and before you came forth out of the womb I sanctified you, and I ordained you a prophet to the nations. -- Jeremiah 1:5

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. -- Jeremiah 29:11

Click here for The Day Jesus Spoke Hip-Hop 4-part blog series, "Does God Have a Purpose For Your Life? - Absolutely!" 

RANDOM FACTS: sniffing White-Out is bad for your health

I was reading this blog The RAS Report: Opt Out about a student form I was totally insulted to receive from my children's school last year, and it seems I was not the only one with raised eyebrows. This short blog outlined precisely my concerns when my children's elementary school sent home a form offering students to opt out of listening to President Barack Obama's Back to School Address to Students across the Nation at the beginning of the school year. The FACT is that this type of Address to students is no new occurrence in the Presidency of the United States of America, yet, following the popular voting-in of the Nation's first African-American President, here I was for the first time in my, then, 11 years of parenthood, and 3 separate Presidencies in my residency in the U.S.A, being offered the 'opportunity' to opt-out my students from hearing what the Leader of our Nation wished to say to them to encourage and inspire them, as many other Presidents have done before him.

I like the author of the quoted blog, Delbert 'Ras' Harris', angle of focus on this incident...but the FACT is, while I certainly considered his wider focus in my initial reaction to the opt-out form, I was more focused and angered by the blatantly racist stunt that got pulled off as student and parent 'options'. A handful of things totally peeve me in life - and one of them is the attempt to disguise racist and political motives as politically correct and 'inclusive'. As one of my favorite Rappers and Bloggers says...GROW THE HECK UP!!!

                                           Culturally Conservative

SPIN

Back over 500 hundred years to a DARK Continent

Made RED with BLOOD

Wet with TEARS from MEN

Who couldn’t protect their WOMEN and CHILDREN

From the onslaught of the Culturally Conservative

Self-imposed Massa
Who kept their BROTHER and SISTER in cages in dungeons downstairs

While they prayed overhead to a God they claimed was theirs alone.

Culturally Conservative

                                                      SPIN

Just yesterday they tried to rob another BLACK MAN of his POWER

To save face of a WHITE Sister who cannot compete

BLACK MAN come a long way since slavery

No longer fighting for his life

But STILL fighting for RESPECT -

                     Now he must prove himself to the women and children

 He could not protect from the Culturally Conservative

Self-imposed Massa

              Who wants them to believe a BLACK MAN cannot make it into the 

                                                      WHITE HOUSE!

Culturally Conservative

SPIN

Hear the MEDIA MACHINE cranking out nonsense in between the lines of

                        ‘Obama still struggling to win key constituencies’

Ignoring the FACT that  a BLACK MAN

has won more States, POPULAR VOTES, and Delegates

than C-LIE-nton.

Purporting that the AMERICAN VOTER

will not vote a BLACK MAN into the WHITE HOUSE

If he is pitted against a WHITE Man

Culturally Conservative

Self-imposed Massa

Trying to keep even his own kind in cages in dungeons downstairs

While they pray overhead to OUR GOD
That a NIGGER won’t make it into their WHITE HOUSE

Culturally Conservative

RACIST

Will WE, as a NATION, a melting pot of GOD’s PEOPLE

overthrow this Culturally Conservative

Self-imposed Mindset for one that says to us ALL

"YES, WE CAN!"

YES, WE CAN!

YES

WE MUST!!!

***

"Culturally Conservative"

© Kalinago Woryi 2008

POETIC FACTS: An eye for an eye leaves us all blind...

As I danced upon beats and wiled the time away in laughter & bubbles of little children's playful smiles
Somewhere miles away many more children died on a playground
Shot down by missiles aimed at parents targetted to pay the price for the greed and vice of a few
Somehow I no longer believe in the motto of a team
'All for one and one for all,' that leads to the massacre of victims who pay all for the price of one
But what do you teach your children to prevent further killing
when every notion of individualism is to attain greatness for self? - even at the cost of all else
It seems the world is upside down and right side out toting gun and cannon
Seeking our own plan not considering that someday, blood will be shed  in our own backyard
and the enemy will be our children
swinging in playgrounds
chasing bubbles
while missiles aim to shoot them down...

"As My Children Played"

© 2011 Kalinago Woryi

FACT:  The International Criminal Court has estimated that 10,000 people have been killed in the Civil War in Libya, as of March 7th, 2011. Many of those killed have been children - whether by the hands of their fellow countrymen, or by the hands of those foreign military involved in the global response to the Civil War. 

I pray the mercy of God on their Souls, and PEACE to their Nation. And I pray every Nation involved will see truth and respond with the Brotherhood necessary to save our children.

MUSICAL FACTS: The consuming power of a song

About 6 years ago I was under some emotional turmoil. If you breathing you know childhood experiences, life circumstances, & life in general can rock you to your core. In exasperation I prayed pretty much in the same manner as this song...today, it finally occurred to me that God has used those very same things that were overwhelming me, allowed me to see them, as if reflected back at me in the mirror of my Soul, and turned them around for my good.

I invite you to allow God to burn all things away from you, from your past, from your here and now that hinder your growth, that cripple your heart, that seek to steal, kill and destroy the purpose of God in your life...do not be afraid...God's fire is far more supreme than the eternal burning one that not only consumes, but destroys...God's fire REFINES & STRENGTHENS...and makes us alive again - with driven purpose.

Be well again...

FACT:

Zechariah 13: 9 - I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on my name and I will answer them; I will say, ‘They are my people,’and they will say, ‘The LORD is our God'

2 Corinthians 7-10 - To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

John 15: 1-8 - I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.

*** "Consume Me" is from Emrand Henry's CD "No Retreat, No Surrender". You can find it on www.GospelReggae.com ENJOY! And let the power, love and fire of God CONSUME YOU! *** 

MUSICAL FACTS: When I grow up I wanna be a Rapper-Poet! LOL

I just love this...you will too...check it, courtesy of "art-ambidextrious", Propaganda. Spinning poetic speech into Hip-Hop flow... you can follow his art flow here: http://twitter.com/prophiphop

LIFE FACT: the truth hurts...but it sets you free

Sooooooo, if ya read a previous blog of mine you already know that I had an abortion some years ago. Yup, I exercised my right to "planned parenthood", and murdered my 12 week-old son by having him vacumn-sucked and swept out of my womb like some dust bunny in the corner of my house. I didn't have the money to raise him, I was already a young, single mother to my firstborn, whom I had given birth to at the not very mature age of barely 19. I was not married, I was not even in a relationship with the father of my now-dead son, that I felt was secure enough to expect him to stand by me, never mind his flesh and blood. There really wasn't much consideration for how God felt about my circumstances, nor how He could redeem those circumstances, as I had an estranged relationship with God, and was not willing to address my inward struggle to do what I knew to be right. Nor did I even consider how I could have kept my legs closed, in the first place, as the best protection against another unwanted pregnancy. Nope! All I thought about was my lack of finances, and my feelings that told me that repeating single motherhood, with a second unwilling father, would be a burden I could not bear. I eliminated even considering adoption as an option. How could "I" deal with "giving away" my own flesh and blood to complete strangers? I was so against the thought of how I would have to cope emotionally knowing I had a child in the world who I would likely never know or see, and they never know me, that the "alternative choice" of ending the life of my son did not even process in my brain as a murder. It was simply me making a decision to "plan" when I would be pregnant. And in that plan, a baby, conceived because of MY CHOICE to have sex outside the God-ordained context of marriage; to have sex without exercising consistent and effective contraceptive methods, and to do so in financial circumstances that could only frustrate any circumstance of me getting pregnant - that baby, was simply an unwanted 'glitch' in my plan for my own life. A glitch I had to 'remedy' so that my plans could work 'smoothly' in the manner I wanted.

Last night, after much protest from many influential African-Americans and supportive voices, an anti-abortion ad, which drew a poignant and FACTual picture of the current crisis in the African-American community regarding abortion rates, was taken down. Scraped off billboard walls like the D & C abortion that ripped my son out of my womb, in a bloody mess that signalled the end of his life. The truth of what I did to my child that day HURTS, but the FACT is, acknowledging the TRUTH that I did actually murder him, and not simply chose to plan out my parenthood, has set me free from the guilt and remorse over his death, because it allowed me the opportunity, through Christ, to repent, and change my way of thinking and doing towards a greater and better plan for my life. By acknowledging the TRUTH, I was able to see my error, and to take steps towards change and growth.

The first time I saw this ad, it pricked me deeply. It hurt, not just because my son had been one of the endangered children in the womb, but because the ad represented the truth of a crisis of genocide that is quietly going on throughout the world...and here in America, to my people, and to every kind of people. I know there are some out of bounds Pro-Life organizations who are dumb and irresponsible enough to kill and physically attack those who perform abortions, but the FACT is what they ultimately stand for cannot be thrown out like a proverbial baby with the bath water. I can't vouch for this particular Pro-Life organization on their moral decency in dealing with those who perform abortions. But what I do endorse in the ad campaign they put forth is FACT and TRUTH:

 "According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , since 1973, the year of the Supreme Court Decision Roe vs. Wade, 13 million (13,000,000) African American lives have been lost to abortion. The CDC reports that of the approximately 4000 abortions that are performed daily in the United States, 1452 of them are performed on African American women and their pre-born children. This means that although African Americans represent only 12% of the population of the United States, they account for 35% of the abortions performed in this country." http://www.nbccongress.org/features/abortion_silent_no_more_01.asp

It is sad that we repress the truth so that we might be comfortable in the lie that we live...May these ads and images stand here as a memorial to all who have died, and all who continue to die through murder by abortion.

         My Son would have developed in the womb

                like this at the time of abortion - 12 weeks.

                                      R.I.P iShaka Zulu

Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” John 8:31-32

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UPDATE September 2011 - I was introduced to the work of this awesome Spoken Word Artist from Kenya by Alffie of http://kifalme.com/newkifalme/en/ ...This is one of his pieces...Ladies and Gentlemen, the raw and uncut TRUTH....courtesy of Number 8.







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MUSICAL FACTS: We are what we eat, view and listen to

Bobby "Tre9" Herring is Co-Owner of popular Hip-Hop website, http://www.dasouth.com/, and Founder of  Eyes On Me Inc., a 501C3 non-profit organization, 'committed to creating a positive environment using Biblical principles and standards, to shape youth culture, for lifelong success and stability in the world.' He is also Owner of Much Luvv Records, and is currently on a mission, with others, to clean up the inFILTHtration of mainstream radio which plays music that is "raping our youth of their innocence". 

 

Operating through 'The Youth Are Listening Campaign', Tre9 is inviting and encouraging everyone, who wants to see real change in what children, and we, as adults, are subject to listen to on the radio, to begin a campaign of forwarding Federal Communications Commission (FCC) complaints against local radio stations that give airplay to songs of a sexual, violent nature, and songs that promote a lack of morality within our society and among our youth. The initial campaign is targeting complaints against airplay of Twista's song "Let's Make a Movie", featuring Chris Brown. The song is of a very graphic sexual nature and describes the making of a movie, which documents sexual acts with a woman. 

Between now and March 8th Tre9 plans to forward at least 1000 FCC complaint forms to mainstream radio stations in Houston, TX. If you would like to assist in efforts to bring about change please contact Tre9 at tretothenine@gmail.com for forms, complete and fax to 1-866-418-0232. You are only required to provide your name and address on these forms.


You can also expand the campaign by sending FCC complaint forms against radio airplay for Twista and Chris Brown's, Let's Make a Movie song (or any offensive songs) to your own local radio station. Here is the link for the form: http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgb/fcc475B.cfm


Please lend your support and help to be a part of real change that shall impact our children's children.


Here's Tre9's direct appeal for the Youth Are Listening Campaign. PLEASE ALSO CHECK SOON FOR THE UPCOMING WEBSITE FOR THE CAMPAIGN http://www.youtharelistening.com/ (under construction)


The Youth Are Listening Campaign from Von Won on Vimeo.

Matthew 18:6: But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea. (NIV)

Romans 12:9: Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil; cling to what is good. (NASB)

ARTFUL FACTS: Memory is persistent

  "Cash Crop" (partial exhibit) by Stephen L. Hayes Jr.

Unforgettable
© 2010 KalinagoWoryi

The feet of my Ancestors beat
down
on the
ground
like a
drum
heavy-laden
with burdens
too big for White men’s hands
So they forced my People to toil
in soil and sun
too hard and hot for their liking
Feet that speak
beat a pain of stories
so long and far away from Home
No longer heard by our Motherland
forgotten, it would seem,
were brothers, sisters
mothers, fathers
wives and husbands
Children of the Soil -
all hands to the plough
BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM
Feet beat down on the ground
like a drum
heavy-laden
with burdens
too big for White men’s hands.
Children trailing blood-soaked dirt
bare-footed and clothed in cotton sacks -
dragged along,
too heavy for their backs
beaten blacker and blue-red
BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM
Feet beat down on the ground
echoing throughout time
still heard by those who would listen
Never Forgotten
Why do you ask me to forget?
Forgive you I must
but your crime? – Never Forgotten
like all who fell in 9:11
all who were gassed in the Holocaust
and every Native American
waiting for reparations on Reservations
Like those who perished in Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima
in Katrina and the Tsunami…in Haiti
Never Forgotten!
Do not ask me to forget!



Ephesians 4:31-32: Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.

BLACK FACTS: We ain't nothing but a bunch of NIGGERS!

BLACK HISTORY MONTH LESSON #2: Division in the Black community is, in FACT, still REAL & RAW. From proportionally high statistics on single parenthood, absent fathers; lack of unity in family, business, class, and society, as a whole, among various 'skin tones' of Blacks; a widening gulf regarding respect for each other in male/female relationships and interactions, as evidenced in much of our music, literature and media; rising disrespect for, and the abandonment of, the elders of our community as a 'village' to raise our children; to the FACT of our blatant lack of self-respect for our own uniqueness - in the form of submitting to Eurocentric myths and lies of 'good hair' and 'right skin'...and on and on. Historians may challenge the validity of Willie Lynch's letter "The Making of a Slave", but it's psychology is FACT & REAL within the Black psyche, Black family, Black marriage, male/female relationships, etc. - with the proof being in the pudding of today's Black Community - particularly the Westernized Black Diaspora. We battle more than mere racism and prejudice; more than the unfair polarization of the classes; more than disproportionate poverty; more than the injustice of second class citizenship...we are under threat by two-fold assault upon our psyche - the natural and the supernatural:
EMANCIPATE YOURSELF FROM MENTAL SLAVERY. WE SHALL FORWARD IN THIS GENERATION BY THE HAND OF THE ALMIGHTY #1people #1love #1GOD

Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness,  and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints... (Ephesians 6:10-18)

THE MAKING OF A SLAVE
""Gentlemen. I greet you here on the bank of the James River in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and twelve. First, I shall thank you, the gentlemen of the Colony of Virginia, for bringing me here. I am here to help you solve some of your problems with slaves. Your invitation reached me on my modest plantation in the West Indies, where I have experimented with some of the newest and still the oldest methods for control of slaves. Ancient Rome's would envy us if my program is implemented. As our boat sailed south on the James River, named for our illustrious King, whose version of the Bible we Cherish, I saw enough to know that your problem is not unique. While Rome used cords of wood as crosses for standing human bodies along its highways in great numbers, you are here using the tree and the rope on occasions. I caught the whiff of a dead slave hanging from a tree, a couple miles back. You are not only losing valuable stock by hangings, you are having uprisings, slaves are running away, your crops are sometimes left in the fields too long for maximum profit, You suffer occasional fires, your animals are killed. Gentlemen, you know what your problems are; I do not need to elaborate. I am not here to enumerate your problems, I am here to introduce you to a method of solving them. In my bag here, I HAVE A FULL PROOF METHOD FOR CONTROLLING YOUR BLACK SLAVES. I guarantee every one of you that if installed correctly IT WILL CONTROL THE SLAVES FOR AT LEAST 300 HUNDREDS YEARS. My method is simple. Any member of your family or your overseer can use it. I HAVE OUTLINED A NUMBER OF DIFFERENCES AMONG THE SLAVES; AND I TAKE THESE DIFFERENCES AND MAKE THEM BIGGER. I USE FEAR, DISTRUST AND ENVY FOR CONTROL PURPOSES. These methods have worked on my modest plantation in the West Indies and it will work throughout the South. Take this simple little list of differences and think about them. On top of my list is "AGE" but it's there only because it starts with an "A." The second is "COLOR" or shade, there is INTELLIGENCE, SIZE, SEX, SIZES OF PLANTATIONS, STATUS on plantations, ATTITUDE of owners, whether the slaves live in the valley, on a hill, East, West, North, South, have fine hair, course hair, or is tall or short. Now that you have a list of differences, I shall give you a outline of action, but before that, I shall assure you that DISTRUST IS STRONGER THAN TRUST AND ENVY STRONGER THAN ADULATION, RESPECT OR ADMIRATION. The Black slaves after receiving this indoctrination shall carry on and will become self refueling and self generating for HUNDREDS of years, maybe THOUSANDS. Don't forget you must pitch the OLD black Male vs. the YOUNG black Male, and the YOUNG black Male against the OLD black male. You must use the DARK skin slaves vs. the LIGHT skin slaves, and the LIGHT skin slaves vs. the DARK skin slaves. You must use the FEMALE vs. the MALE. And the MALE vs. the FEMALE. You must also have you white servants and over- seers distrust all Blacks. But it is NECESSARY THAT YOUR SLAVES TRUST AND DEPEND ON US. THEY MUST LOVE, RESPECT AND TRUST ONLY US. Gentlemen, these kits are your keys to control. Use them. Have your wives and children use them, never miss an opportunity. IF USED INTENSELY FOR ONE YEAR, THE SLAVES THEMSELVES WILL REMAIN PERPETUALLY DISTRUSTFUL. Thank you gentlemen." (Attributed to Willie Lynch, Slave Owner,1712. The term "lynching" is derived from his last name.)
LET'S MAKE A SLAVE 
It was the interest and business of slave holders to study human nature, and the slave nature in particular, with a view to practical results. I and many of them attained astonishing proficiency in this direction. They had to deal not with earth, wood and stone, but with men and by every regard they had for their own safety and prosperity they needed to know the material on which they were to work. Conscious of the injustice and wrong they were every hour perpetuating and knowing what they themselves would do. Were they the victims of such wrongs? They were constantly looking for the first signs of the dreaded retribution. They watched, therefore with skilled and practiced eyes, and learned to read with great accuracy, the state of mind and heart of the slave, through his sable face. Unusual sobriety, apparent abstractions, sullenness and indifference indeed, any mood out of the common was afforded ground for suspicion and inquiry. Frederick Douglas LET'S MAKE A SLAVE is a study of the scientific process of man breaking and slave making. It describes the rationale and results of the Anglo Saxons' ideas and methods of insuring the master/slave relationship. LET'S MAKE A SLAVE "The Original and Development of a Social Being Called "The Negro." Let us make a slave. What do we need? First of all we need a black NIGGER man, a pregnant NIGGER woman and her baby NIGGER boy. Second, we will use the same basic principle that we use in breaking a horse, combined with some more sustaining factors. What we do with horses is that we break them from one form of life to another that is we reduce them from their natural state in nature. Whereas nature provides them with the natural capacity to take care of their offspring, we break that natural string of independence from them and thereby create a dependency status, so that we may be able to get from them useful production for our business and pleasure
CARDINAL PRINCIPLES FOR MAKING A NEGRO 
For fear that our future Generations may not understand the principles of breaking both of the beast together, the NIGGER and the horse. We understand that short range planning economics results in periodic economic chaos; so that to avoid turmoil in the economy, it requires us to have breath and depth in long range comprehensive planning, articulating both skill sharp perceptions. We lay down the following principles for long range comprehensive economic planning. Both horse and NIGGERS is no good to the economy in the wild or natural state. Both must be BROKEN and TIED together for orderly production. For orderly future, special and particular attention must be paid to the FEMALE and the YOUNGEST offspring. Both must be CROSSBRED to produce a variety and division of labor. Both must be taught to respond to a peculiar new LANGUAGE. Psychological and physical instruction of CONTAINMENT must be created for both. We hold the six cardinal principles as truth to be self evident, based upon the following the discourse concerning the economics of breaking and tying the horse and the NIGGER together, all inclusive of the six principles laid down about. NOTE: Neither principle alone will suffice for good economics. All principles must be employed for orderly good of the nation. Accordingly, both a wild horse and a wild or nature NIGGER is dangerous even if captured, for they will have the tendency to seek their customary freedom, and in doing so, might kill you in your sleep. You cannot rest. They sleep while you are awake, and are awake while you are asleep. They are DANGEROUS near the family house and it requires too much labor to watch them away from the house. Above all, you cannot get them to work in this natural state. Hence both the horse and the NIGGER must be broken; that is breaking them from one form of mental life to another. KEEP THE BODY TAKE THE MIND! In other words break the will to resist. Now the breaking process is the same for both the horse and the NIGGER, only slightly varying in degrees. But as we said before, there is an art in long range economic planning. YOU MUST KEEP YOUR EYE AND THOUGHTS ON THE FEMALE and the OFFSPRING of the horse and the NIGGER. A brief discourse in offspring development will shed light on the key to sound economic principles. Pay little attention to the generation of original breaking, but CONCENTRATE ON FUTURE GENERATION. Therefore, if you break the FEMALE mother, she will BREAK the offspring in its early years of development and when the offspring is old enough to work, she will deliver it up to you, for her normal female protective tendencies will have been lost in the original breaking process. For example take the case of the wild stud horse, a female horse and an already infant horse and compare the breaking process with two captured NIGGER males in their natural state, a pregnant NIGGER woman with her infant offspring. Take the stud horse, break him for limited containment. Completely break the female horse until she becomes very gentle, where as you or anybody can ride her in her comfort. Breed the mare and the stud until you have the desired offspring. Then you can turn the stud to freedom until you need him again. Train the female horse where by she will eat out of your hand, and she will in turn train the infant horse to eat out of your hand also. When it comes to breaking the uncivilized NIGGER, use the same process, but vary the degree and step up the pressure, so as to do a complete reversal of the mind. Take the meanest and most restless NIGGER, strip him of his clothes in front of the remaining male NIGGERS, the female, and the NIGGER infant, tar and feather him, tie each leg to a different horse faced in opposite directions, set him a fire and beat both horses to pull him apart in front of the remaining NIGGER. The next step is to take a bull whip and beat the remaining NIGGER male to the point of death, in front of the female and the infant. Don't kill him, but PUT THE FEAR OF GOD IN HIM, for he can be useful for future breeding.
THE BREAKING PROCESS OF THE AFRICAN WOMAN 
Take the female and run a series of tests on her to see if she will submit to your desires willingly. Test her in every way, because she is the most important factor for good economics. If she shows any sign of resistance in submitting completely to your will, do not hesitate to use the bull whip on her to extract that last bit of BITCH out of her. Take care not to kill her, for in doing so, you spoil good economics. When in complete submission, she will train her off springs in the early years to submit to labor when they become of age. Understanding is the best thing. Therefore, we shall go deeper into this area of the subject matter concerning what we have produced here in this breaking process of the female NIGGER. We have reversed the relationship in her natural uncivilized state she would have a strong dependency on the uncivilized NIGGER male, and she would have a limited protective tendency toward her independent male offspring and would raise male off springs to be dependent like her. Nature had provided for this type of balance. We reversed nature by burning and pulling a civilized NIGGER apart and bull whipping the other to the point of death, all in her presence. By her being left alone, unprotected, with the MALE IMAGE DESTROYED, the ordeal caused her to move from her psychological dependent state to a frozen independent state. In this frozen psychological state of independence, she will raise her MALE and female offspring in reversed roles. For FEAR of the young males life she will psychologically train him to be MENTALLY WEAK and DEPENDENT, but PHYSICALLY STRONG. Because she has become psychologically independent, she will train her FEMALE off springs to be psychological independent. What have you got? You've got the NIGGER WOMAN OUT FRONT AND THE NIGGER MAN BEHIND AND SCARED. This is a perfect situation of sound sleep and economic. Before the breaking process, we had to be alertly on guard at all times. Now we can sleep soundly, for out of frozen fear his woman stands guard for us. He cannot get past her early slave molding process. He is a good tool, now ready to be tied to the horse at a tender age. By the time a n-word boy reaches the age of sixteen, he is soundly broken in and ready for a long life of sound and efficient work and the reproduction of a unit of good labor force. Continually through the breaking of uncivilized savage NIGGER, by throwing the NIGGER female savage into a frozen psychological state of independence, by killing of the protective male image, and by creating a submissive dependent mind of the NIGGER male slave, we have created an orbiting cycle that turns on its own axis forever, unless a phenomenon occurs and re-shifts the position of the male and female slaves. We show what we mean by example. Take the case of the two economic slave units and examine them close
THE NEGRO MARRIAGE UNIT 
We breed two NIGGER males with two n-word females. Then we take the NIGGER male away from them and keep them moving and working. Say one NIGGER female bears a NIGGER female and the other bears a NIGGER male. Both NIGGER females being without influence of the NIGGER male image, frozen with a independent psychology, will raise their offspring into reverse positions. The one with the female offspring will teach her to be like herself, independent and negotiable (we negotiate with her, through her, by her, negotiates her at will). The one with the NIGGER male offspring, she being frozen subconscious fear for his life, will raise him to be mentally dependent and weak, but physically strong, in other words, body over mind. Now in a few years when these two offspring's become fertile for early reproduction we will mate and breed them and continue the cycle. That is good, sound, and long range comprehensive planning.                           
WARNING: POSSIBLE  INTERLOPING NEGATIVES
Earlier we talked about the non economic good of the horse and the NIGGER in their wild or natural state; we talked out the principle of breaking and tying them together for orderly production. Furthermore, we talked about paying particular attention to the female savage and her offspring for orderly future planning, then more recently we stated that, by reversing the positions of the male and female savages, we created an orbiting cycle that turns on its own axis forever unless a phenomenon occurred and resift and positions of the male and female savages. Our experts warned us about the possibility of this phenomenon occurring, for they say that the mind has a strong drive to correct and re-correct itself over a period of time if I can touch some substantial original historical base, and they advised us that the best way to deal with the phenomenon is to shave off the brute's mental history and create a multiplicity of phenomena of illusions, so that each illusion will twirl in its own orbit, something similar to floating balls in a vacuum. This creation of multiplicity of phenomena of illusions entails the principle of crossbreeding the NIGGER and the horse as we stated above, the purpose of which is to create a diversified division of labor thereby creating different levels of labor and different values of illusion at each connecting level of labor. The results of which is the severance of the points of original beginnings for each sphere illusion. Since we feel that the subject matter may get more complicated as we proceed in laying down our economic plan concerning the purpose, reason and effect of crossbreeding horses and n-word, we shall lay down the following definition terms for future generations. Orbiting cycle means a thing turning in a given path. Axis means upon which or around which a body turns. Phenomenon means something beyond ordinary conception and inspires awe and wonder. Multiplicity means a great number. Means a globe. Cross breeding a horse means taking a horse and breeding it with an ass and you get a dumb backward ass long headed mule that is not reproductive nor productive by itself. Crossbreeding NIGGERS means taking so many drops of good white blood and putting them into as many NIGGER women as possible, varying the drops by the various tone that you want, and then letting them breed with each other until another circle of color appears as you desire. What this means is this; Put the NIGGERS and the horse in a breeding pot, mix some assess and some good white blood and what do you get? You got a multiplicity of colors of ass backward, unusual NIGGERS, running, tied to a backward ass long headed mules, the one productive of itself, the other sterile. (The one constant, the other dying, we keep the NIGGER constant for we may replace the mules for another tool) both mule and NIGGER tied to each other, neither knowing where the other came from and neither productive for itself, nor without each other.
CONTROLLED LANGUAGECrossbreeding completed, for further severance from their original beginning, WE MUST COMPLETELY ANNIHILATE THE MOTHER TONGUE of both the new NIGGER and the new mule and institute a new language that involves the new life's work of both. You know language is a peculiar institution. It leads to the heart of a people. The more a foreigner knows about the language of another country the more he is able to move through all levels of that society. Therefore, if the foreigner is an enemy of the country, to the extent that he knows the body of the language, to that extent is the country vulnerable to attack or invasion of a foreign culture. For example, if you take a slave, if you teach him all about your language, he will know all your secrets, and he is then no more a slave, for you can't fool him any longer, and BEING A FOOL IS ONE OF THE BASIC INGREDIENTS OF ANY INCIDENTS TO THE MAINTENANCE OF THE SLAVERY SYSTEM. For example, if you told a slave that he must perform in getting out "our crops" and he knows the language well, he would know that "our crops" didn't mean "our crops" and the slavery system would break down, for he would relate on the basis of what "our crops" really meant. So you have to be careful in setting up the new language for the slaves would soon be in your house, talking to you as "man to man" and that is death to our economic system. In addition, the definitions of words or terms are only a minute part of the process. Values are created and transported by communication through the body of the language. A total society has many interconnected value system. All the values in the society have bridges of language to connect them for orderly working in the society. But for these language bridges, these many value systems would sharply clash and cause internal strife or civil war, the degree of the conflict being determined by the magnitude of the issues or relative opposing strength in whatever form. For example, if you put a slave in a hog pen and train him to live there and incorporate in him to value it as a way of life completely, the biggest problem you would have out of him is that he would worry you about provisions to keep the hog pen clean, or the same hog pen and make a slip and incorporate something in his language where by he comes to value a house more than he does his hog pen, you got a problem. He will soon be in your house.

Henry Berry, speaking in the Virginia House of Delegates in 1832, described the situation as it existed in many parts of the South at the time: "We have, as far as possible, closed every avenue by which light may enter their (the slaves) minds. If we could extinguish the capacity to see the light, our work would be complete; they would then be on a level with the beasts of the field and we should be safe. I am not certain that we would not do it, if we could find out the process and that on the plea of necessity." From 'Brown America, The Story of a New Race' by Edwin R. Embree. 1931 The Viking Press."

***ABOVE EXCERPTS TAKEN FROM: http://www.thetalkingdrum.com/wil.html ***
                           
AND JUST IN CASE THE ABOVE TRIP DOWN THE PSYCHO-RACIAL LANE OF BLACK PEOPLE IS NOT ENOUGH TO DELETE THE "NIGGER" IN YOUR VOCABULARY, TRY THIS:

BLACK FACTS: in celebration of Black History Month, LESSON #1

"Let's take a trip back to Africa, before slavery. The year 1591 AD. This year had an effect on you; the same year Morocco invaded Timbuctu. The city fell & caused the fall of the Songhay Empire - even back then we was Kings with bling - we been fired. But there's more instability to Africa's West Coast. Slave traders came, filled their boats and left toast, and sailed across the Atlantic, where hundreds and millions of slaves died, centuries before the Titanic. Some went to America, others the Caribbean. Now you call me a Yankee and I call you West Indian. We all are African-descended, but most of us are ignorant to the experiments of Willie Lynch. He put the dark skinned slaves against the light skin, let 'em argue about who got 'good hair' and 'right skin'. Put the man against the woman and the young against the old; teach 'em capitalism and show 'em how to sell their soul. IT'S TRUE, THE BIBLE WAS MISUSED IN SLAVERY, BUT THAT SAME BIBLE WAS USED TO SET SLAVES FREE. Harriet Tubman - Christian; Frederick Douglass - Christian; many Blacks who fought in the Civil War were Christian. Let me help you UNDERSTAND RELIGION - THERE WERE CHRISTIANS IN AFRICA WAY BEFORE THE WHITE MAN'S RELIGION! ...

Fast forward 21st century - it's real. Mind your business in these streets - you still get killed. We spiritually blind so we can't see far. WE IDOLIZE SCARFACE AND BLASPHEME GOD. WE GLORIFY KILLING, BLACKS ILLING, CATS SPILLING, AS AMERICA MAKES MILLIONS OFF OF MISERY BLACKS FEELING. PSYCHOLOGICALLY DESTROYING THE PSYCHE OF BLACK CHILDREN - ALL WE GOT LEFT IS A NEXT GENERATION OF BLACK VILLIANS. The Church playing games as Lucifer snatch millions. These televangelists better actors than Matt Dillon. BLACK MEN, STOP ABANDONING WOMEN & BLACK CHILDREN. THERE'S A HOLE IN OUR SOUL ONLY CHRIST CAN FILL THAT LACK FILLING. But, nobody's feeling my song - coz ALL MY BROTHERS REALLY WANT IS MONEY AND A THICK CHICK WITH A THONG, HOUSE AND A CAR, MAD WEED, A SPLIFF AND A BONG, LIVE LIKE A DON, ICE AROUND YOUR WRIST AND YOUR ARM. But then the thieves broke in and they stick up his arm, got your family hostage, 4-50 a month, nodding your head - all it take is a click and you gone. You feeling my song? But too late - your Spirit is gone. So, AFRICAN, WE MUST STOP THIS CRAZINESS, AND STOP BLAMING THE WHITE MAN FOR OUR LAZINESS. BLOODS AND CRIPS GOT BEEF THAT'S MAJOR - SPORTING THE SAME COLOR HANDKERCHIEF AUNT JEMIMA WAS ROCKING WHEN MASTER RAPED HER! ...

BLACK PEOPLE, BLACK PEOPLE! WE GOTTA WAKE UP, WE GOTTA WAKE UP!"

*** I wish I could claim this eloquent, succinct and poignant look at the state of Black America - past, present and future - a bright future if we wake up to the LIGHT! But the FACT is, the above quote is the intellectual copyright of, Renaissance Speaker, Writer, Activist, Poet and Emcee, COREY RED. While this could easily take the form of one of his many motivational and inspirational speeches, this is, in FACT, a rap-song, entitled 'BLACK TEARS'. Believe me when I tell you, reading the lyrics is no-where as hard-hitting as hearing the actual song with it's simple, forceful beats and gut-wrenching 3-tier chorus and sound effects.

During Black History Month I like to take the small window of opportunity to refresh our memories of the State of Black America, the African Motherland and the Black Diaspora. Too often in the toil of our lives we miss the impact and severity of our collective history - not as some dark oppressive doom and gloom slavery and fight for civil rights against the white man story - but the OVERCOMING history of our forefathers that has allowed us the opportunities we have today to accept defeat OR to RISE above it. Yes, there is still a spiritual, physical, mental and emotional struggle that rages itself against the Black populus, but REALITY FACT: Like so many of our forefathers, WE CAN OVERCOME...the key to that victory over racism, over prejudice, over poverty, over dis-ease, over depression, over crime, over drugs, over fatherlessness, over what may come is CHRIST. For, just as many of our forefathers had to remind themselves in the face of the whip, the chains, the battons and the guns, "[WE] can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth [us]." (Phillipians 4:13)

RISE UP, BLACK PEOPLE! TAKE YOUR PLACE AMONG KINGS AND QUEENS!
BLOOD WAS SPILLED THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE AN ABUNDANT  LIFE - THE BLOOD OF OUR FOREFATHERS AND THE BLOOD OF CHRIST!

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RANDOM FACTS - Death NEVER dies

Bear with me on this one…it’s a doozy for a second…

The human brain and psyche are complex self-regulating systems (CG.Jung). They are a macroscopic collection of microscopic subsystems, an intricate machine, of sorts. Consider complex systems as being composed of millions of tiny subsystems, for example, the cells in our body, the molecules in an object, and the citizens of a country. While it is highly likely that both the brain and psyche possess global properties, such as memory and consciousness each subsystem is able to act randomly while the overall system is in equilibrium, and remains relatively predictable (Mainzer, 1994).
  
‘Chaos theory’ studies the behavior of dynamical systems. One of the findings of Chaos Theory is that complex systems that seem to be in equilibrium are not really at equilibrium. Tiny variations present within the macrocosm can send the system into chaos at any time. Complex systems, and especially living systems, like the brain and psyche, require more than conditions of equilibrium to maintain self-organization or growth (Cohen & Stewart, 1994; Gleick, 1987; Kellert, 1993; Prigogine & Stengers, 1984).

One finding of Chaos Theory is ‘Bifurcation Theory’. Bifurcation being a crisis point in the life of a system, in which the future of that system becomes uncertain. It is like a fork in the time sequence of a system, in which a system can take two possible paths, one or both leading to chaos. All dynamic systems go through bifurcations, most of which are irreversible (Cohen & Stewart, 1994; Gleick, 1987; Kellert, 1993; Peitgen, Jürgens & Saupe, 1992; Prigogine & Stengers, 1984).

Entropy is a measure of chaos (Nicolis & Prigogine, 1989). The second law of thermodynamics suggests that there that can be no perpetual motion machine as all systems wear down, energy is lost and cannot be totally recovered by a system. We can also consider entropy to be a measure of internal randomness, or molecular chaos. As entropy increases, chaos increases (Angrist & Hepler, 1967; Atkins, 1984).

All too much science for your brain? Well, the FACT is these theories began to make a little sense to me after listening to this song:

The heart-beat of a drum and the singers’ call to a Soldier somehow, through the complex machinations of my brain and psyche, became an energy input. The result: emotional crisis by the friction it brought to my psyche, as memory and consciousness came together to remind me that one day, in the late summer, of 1997, by a random act, previously inconceivable by me, the level of entrophy increased within another subsystem of my body – my womb, and a son, my son, died. The memory of his death is made stronger still by the FACT that he died by my own hands. I have lived these many years with the appearance of equilibrium, while, within the microcosm of my systems, the loss of energy from terminating the pregnancy of my son, was increasing the entrophy within to produce what seemed an 'irreversible' state of grief.

FACT: Ending the life of a human fetus is a death that never dies, because those who commit this act go on living that death perpetually in the memory and consciousness (and subconscious) of the brain and psyche. Following the abortion, my life was truly a season of bifurcation for me. I was suicidal, depressed and plain tired of struggle after struggle, only compacted by the death of my beloved grandmother...Realizing, I needed more than the equilibrium of coming to a place of 'emotional rest' about what I had done to my son, I chose one of the forks in the road of life, and I came to Christ and continued to grow towards a greater equity of Spirit --- Irreversibility Theory be damned! Christ takes the sting out of death:

Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed - in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.” “Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?” The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.

But though I have received the forgiveness of God, REALITY FACT: my brain and psyche, as evidenced from the trigger from the song above, still work together to remind me, of the murder I committed upon another Soul. The difference, now, in the law and science of my brain and psyche - knowing who Christ is has allowed me not to be moved so extremely that all subsystems within me shut down. I remember my son, yes, with regret and grief, but I remember the death of Christ that brings a resurrection LIFE. Through Christ I defy the second law of thermodynamics - my psyche is a "perpetual motion machine". My energy for life shall not be depleted while Christ remains integrated into all subsystems of my being. May my son's death never die, but live forevermore in me, as a memorial of his LIFE, and the LIFE I found through Christ because of his death...for I shall not be moved by past sins. R.I.P ‘iShaaka Zulu’.

For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be (Psalm 139:13-16).

• In the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, the United States Supreme Court ruled that women, in consultation with their physician, have a constitutionally protected right to have an abortion in the early stages of pregnancy—that is, before viability—free from government interference.In 1992, the Court reaffirmed the right to abortion in Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
• Nearly half of pregnancies among American women are unintended, and four in 10 of these are terminated by abortion. Twenty-two percent of all pregnancies (excluding miscarriages) end in abortion.
• In September 2000, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved mifepristone to be marketed in the United States as an alternative to surgical abortion. In 2008, 59% of abortion providers, or 1,066 facilities, provided one or more early medication abortions.
• Forty percent of pregnancies among white women, 69% among blacks and 54% among Hispanics are unintended. In 2008, 1.21 million abortions were performed.From 1973 through 2008, nearly 50 million legal abortions occurred.
• Each year, two percent of women aged 15-44 have an abortion; half have had at least one previous abortion. At least half of American women will experience an unintended pregnancy by age 45, and, at current rates, about one-third will have had an abortion.

 References:

*Abortion statistics: http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_induced_abortion.html

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·         Mainzer, K. (1994). Thinking in complexity: The complex dynamics of matter, mind, and mankind. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.

·         Cohen, J. and Stewart, I. (1994). The collapse of chaos: Discovering simplicity in a complex world. New York: Viking.

·         Gleick, J. (1987). Chaos: Making a new science. New York: Penguin.

·         Kellert, S. H. (1993). In the wake of chaos: Unpredictable order in dynamical systems. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

·         Prigogine, I. and Stengers, I. (1984). Order out of chaos: Man's new dialogue with nature. Toronto: Bantam.

·         Nicolis G. and Prigogine, I. (1989). Exploring complexity: An introduction. New York: W. H. Freeman.

·         Angrist, S. W. and Hepler, L. G. (1967). Order and chaos: Laws of energy and entropy. New York: Basic Books.

·         Atkins, P. W. (1984). The second law. New York: Scientific American.