Virtual Advocacy Day 2025 is on Friday, March 28, 2025: Impact

Friday, March 28, 2025 is Virtual Advocacy Day 2025.

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and Ayatollah Seyyed Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini (Persian: روح الله موسوی خمینی (help·info), Rūḥullāh Mūsawī Khumaynī) (September 24, 1902[1][2] – June 3, 1989) was an Iranian politician and religious figure, and the political leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution which saw the overthrow of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran (Persia). Following the revolution, Khomeini became the country's Supreme Leader—the paramount political figure of the new Islamic Republic until his death.

Khomeini was a marja or marja al-taqlid, ("source of imitation"), providing religious leadership to many Twelver Shi'a Muslims, but is most famous for his political role. In his writings and preachings he expanded the Shi'a theory of velayat-e faqih, the "guardianship of the jurisconsult (clerical authority)" to include theocratic political rule by Islamic jurists and to provide the theological basis for his rule of Iran. Internationally he also made a great impact, and has been called "the virtual face of Islam in Western popular culture,"[3] during his reign as ruler of Iran. He was named Time's Man of the Year in 1979 and also one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people of the 20th century.

His teaching often focused on the importance of religion to practical social and political issues of the day. He was the first Iranian cleric to try to refute the outspoken advocacy of secularism in the 1940s.In January 1963, the Shah announced the "White Revolution," a six-point program of reform calling for land reform, nationalization of the forests, the sale of state-owned enterprises to private interests, electoral changes to enfranchise women and allow non-Muslims to hold office, profit-sharing in industry, and a literacy campaign in the nation's schools. Some of these initiatives were regarded as dangerous, Westernizing trends by traditionalists, especially by the powerful and privileged Shiite ulama. Khomeini and his son MustafaAyatollah Khomeini summoned a meeting of the other senior marjas of Qom and persuaded them to decree a boycott of the referendum on the White Revolution. During November 1964, Khomeini denounced both the Shah and the United States, this time in response to the "capitulations" or diplomatic immunity granted by the Shah to American military personnel in Iran Khomeini believed in Muslim unity and solidarity and the export of Islamic revolution throughout the world. "Establishing the Islamic state world-wide belong to the great goals of the revolution." Khomeini was more interested in the religious devotion of Muslims than their material prosperity -- six months after his first speech he expressed exasperation with complaints about the sharp drop in Iran's standard of living: `I cannot believe that the purpose of all these sacrifices was to have less expensive melons`Opposition to the religious rule of the clergy or Islamic government in general was often met with harsh punishments. In a talk at the Fayzieah School in Qom, August 30, 1979, Khomeini warned opponents: "Those who are trying to bring corruption and destruction to our country in the name of democracy will be oppressed. They are worse than Bani-Ghorizeh Jews, and they must be hanged. We will oppress them by God's order and God's call to prayer. Non-Muslim religious minorities, however, do not have equal rights in Khomeini's Islamic Republic. Senior government posts are reserved for Muslims. Jewish, Christian and Zoroastrian schools must be run by Muslim principals.[99] Compensation for death paid to the family of a non-Muslim was (by law) less than if the victim was a Muslim. (This was recently changed, with non-Muslims families now receiving just as much.[citation needed]) Conversion to Islam is encouraged by entitling converts to inherit the entire share of their parents (or even uncle's) estate if their siblings (or cousins) remain non-Muslim.[100] Iran's non-Muslim population has fallen dramatically.

Can anyone name someone who has MS (Multiple Sclerosis) who is older say 50 and up who's symptoms are not bad?

Well, I guess that I qualify!! I'm 58 and have been successfully managing the myriad symptoms of MS for over 45 years!!!!!! AND, I have to say - with NO QUALIFICATIONS - that my quality of life is far better now than it was in my first 50 years of life!!!! I currently use whatever "daily active hours" I have (about 3 each day) as a passionate and aggressive Disability Advocate, Educator, and Expert Witness!!

Here are my qualifications for this statement:

1) I was an HR Executive for over 30+ years before i went on full disability.

2) When it became obvious that I needed to go on disability - and, having been a Federal "Personnel Auditor" for the first half of my professional career - I put together a process and used it, that got me approved for Long Term Disability and for SSDI the first time around in under 30 days, the first time around!!! AND, it usually takes over 3 years to get approved!!

3) Having been sccessful myself, I documented my process and created a DisabilityKey Workbook - over 100 pages of forms and actual examples. Tthen, created a website with tons of free stuff on it for folks with MS and any other type of disease:

Within this website, you can find my blog with over 80+ entries. Tons of info on: Chronic Disease Self-Management; Expert Patient; and, Patient-Centered Health Care.

4) Since 2000, I've been working locally, nationally, and worldwide to assist people with disabilities better document, corroborate and communicate their symptom impairments, to empower them to self-advocate for themselves and acquire the resources they need to attain the optimum quality of life for themselves.

My website has free ebooklets for download on: triggering ADA while working with a disability; why someone is denied SSDI; and Self-Advocacy.

5) I work closely with the local chapter of the Natn'l MS Assn and offer free quarterly seminars, and meet with folks face to face every other Monday for 2 hours. I've also been priveledged to address MS patients and their caregivers for local health care networks, and am currently working on educational tools to instruct health care professionals on how better to assist folks with disabilities.

6) Since March of 2006 I've been very active as a Moderator on the "virtual village for folks with autoimmune diseases" website:

I moderate the Work Related, Social Security, Baby Boomers and MS Forums.

7) I've been answering questions here on this forum for a while now.

8) Through all these resources, I've been able to provide info to approaching 1,5000 folks with disabilities, and those who actually take the time to follow the process have been successful in their endeavors.

So, please take a look at my website and the "virtual village". Join within the virtual village and ask questions about "life after 50 with any autoimmune disease" - not just MS!! You'll find that our similarities far outweigh our different illnesses/conditions!!

Hope that this helps!! As you can probably tell, attitude is a key component in success.

Finally, please feel free to email me if you want a free copy of my MS Self-Advocacy booklet. The one on the website is for "generic" chronic conditions - not MS specific!!!

Good Luck, and hope that this helps!!!!!

Because Americans are egocentric and proud?

Ultimately one big lie.

A threat to someone else's version of the truth which gives rise to > Meta-ethics > Moral and philosophical relativisms/no universal truths other than my own > Capitalism/Macro-economics > One big Ponzi scheme > towers of mammon > miasmic human minds in the machine = dehumanisation > The "rise and fall" of false empires > cultures fall into moral decay having been rendered dependable upon pervading powers, being confounded and identified with objects of wealth, the psycho physical organism and the passing show > some say spiritual sleep > an unenlightened reactive state of objectivism, subjectivism, formatory thinking and self serving lies > minds start closing in, only to become capricious > delusion > prime market business and ideological war bankrolled by this current economic paradigm, an intrinsically linked predetermined value placed on a piece of paper, which in reality has no value and neither does the prime market commodity it is attached to > destroys culture/sport > breaks up family home = no learned moral parameters = the next troubled brood of mindless delinquency > let’s keep them deluded and misinformed, (divide and rule) away from realising our version of the truth which is actually lies, ignorance, greed and selfishness, but we don’t want them to know that, so let’s employ some lying politicians/masters of construed words who willingly Obfuscate = see the cycle!

Are you watching them or are they watching you?

Not to point fingers (People are not, the world is evil), Room 101, the new virtual reality and the cognate of it is the new False God. (They rose up against Judea for thousands of years, to many to list)

Room 101 > Big brother > Digitization > Macro economics > mechanisation > departmentalisation > Dehumanisation > Eugenics > moral and philosophical relative dominion > local and foreign policy more akin to the Borg out of Star Trek ECT.

> neo-cons acting on the philosophies of relativist nihilists like Leo Strauss > cops carrying out entrapment stings which affects free will ~ vital to humanity > hubris, advocacy of scorning and scoffing by the likes of Jerry Springer.

Trying to pave the earth with leather instead of putting sandals on.

Terrorists interviewing terrorists.

The decline of the Roman Empire led to the Spanish Inquisition > People deluded by heretics accusing people of being heretics, which lead to the worst torture of human beings imaginable.

When we we learn?

<< Luke 9:24 >>

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it.

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If I suspect someone, someone suspects me, if I pick up a gun so may someone else, if I build a nuclear bomb so may someone else, these things are reciprocal and mirrored.

If I posses a nuclear bomb I don't want others to posses a nuclear bomb, the real reason for this is because I don't trust myself with the nuclear bomb.

The devils trying to kick another war, he says to his sleeper cells (Empowered pact signing organizations), Hey some of these doods in the Arabian basin are building nukes and they're trying to kill me and all my fellow Israelite's!

Of course the devil can't be killed, but his sleeper cells barely conscious in spiritual sleep building castle insanity sipping the blood of broken homes munching on poison have no faith and are likely to listen. This how the dood works.

Epistle to Jude 1.

4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

Revelation Chapter 3

9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.