... Babylonian Talmud: Kethuboth 38         Previous Folio / Kethuboth Directory / Tractate List / Navigate Site Babylonian Talmud: Tractate Kethuboth Folio 38a that this applied only where murder had been committed1  in the course of an upward movement,2  because no atonement3  is allowed when such an act4  was committed unwittingly.5  but that where...

... murder was committed in the course of a downward movement,2  which [is an offence that] may be atoned for3  if committed unwittingly,5  a monetary fine may be received from him and thereby he may be exempted [from the death penalty]. Hence we were taught6  [that in no circumstances may the death penalty be commuted for a monetary fine]. Said Raba to him,7  Does not this8 ...

... Structure of the Talmud Files Intentionally. Lit., 'he killed him'. Of the hand, body or instrument. By exile. Murder in the course of an upward movement of the hand or body. V. Mak. 7b. By the text, 'None devoted' from which deduction was made supra. Rami b. Hama. The deduction from 'None devoted' that, in the case of murder, the death penalty may not be commuted for a monetary fine irrespective of...

..., in respect of murder, Lev. XXIV, 21 does not speak. Since the text (Lev. XXIV, 21) speaks of the death penalty as the only punishment for murder. V. supra 35a, B.K. 35a, Sanh. 79b. This shows that no distinction is made in the case of murder between a downward movement or an upward movement, but in every case no money payment can be imposed in addition to the major punishment. And the same...

... for murder. [For the obvious difficulty involved in this reply of Rami b. Hama, which apparently is intended to explain the purpose of the verse 'none devoted' according to R. Ishmael b. R. Johanan b. Beroka; v. p. 210, n. 9.] Rami b. Hama. That for blinding an eye and thereby killing the man no monetary fine may be imposed in addition to the death penalty. Ex. XXI, 24. I. e., compensation for the...

... not required in respect of ordinary monetary payments. If his offence warrants it. Supra 34b, 3 5b. Which, according to his view, is not required to exclude the case just mentioned (cf. supra n. 4). Rabbah. Supra 37b where deduction is made from this text that a vow to give to the Temple the value of a person who was led to his execution, is null and void. [The whole passage is extremely difficult...

... latter verse in the case where the murder was committed in a downward course. This reply, however, is rebutted by Raba, as such a contingency is already provided for in the verse 'he that smiteth etc.' This forces Rami b Hama to fall back on the original assumption that the verse 'you shall take no ransom' comes to teach that no money payment may be imposed in addition to the death penalty; and as to...

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... Untersuchung Appendix 5 (p. 430) Letter of Rohling to the Court at Cleves. To the Royal Criminal Court at Cleves. Your Honor! The well-known Straßburg Professor, Dr. Nöldeke, along with the inclusion of my person before your forum, has rendered an expert opinion concerning ritual-murder by the Jews. Conscience and honor force me to protest against this expert opinion. Professor Nöldeke terms it frivolous...

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... whole anguish through which humanity is passing, and perhaps may perish in. Just think: the way I see it, there is no God who is creating the world, who is looking after the world. Don't throw this responsibility onto someone who exists not. It is we who are here who are in every way responsible to make or mar the opportunity. Remove God and put man in his place, and you will have a totally different...

... consolation. So the first thing is: remove God. Don't wait for any Godot. There is none. There has never been any. Friedrich Nietzsche said... I disagree with him, but my disagreement is totally different from the disagreement of others, of all others who disagree. Nietzsche says, "God is dead." Of course Christians have differed, Mohammedans have differed, Hindus have differed, Buddhists have...

... be the pope when there is no God? What will be his position? This pope, this Polack, will have to go back to Poland. And Poland is communist now. He will become a laughingstock. God is not there. With him, the holy ghost disappears, the son disappears. God is the central focus of the whole fiction. Remove that central idea and the whole palace made of playing cards simply falls on the ground. Just...

... shoemakers in India, they are all Buddhists - they were reduced, forced to make shoes only, and do nothing else. In a country like India where vegetarianism is thought to be one of the fundamentals of religion, who is going to kill animals and who is going to make shoes and other leather things? The Buddhists were forced..."If you want to be alive and you want to live here, then choose this profession...

... power. The politician protects the priest, the priest blesses the politician - and the masses are exploited, sucked; their blood is sucked by both. Remove God and you remove the politicians, you remove the politics, you remove the priest, you remove the conspiracy between the priest and the politician. And with these two removed, fifty percent of your miseries will disappear. The idea of God gives you...

... world war happens..."so I am not responsible that I committed suicide. The world war killed everybody, and killed me too." But the whole situation can be changed. We just have to change the premises of the old man: remove God, remove heaven and hell, remove the idea of a future reward - and remove the idea that some messiah is to come to redeem you from your suffering. Remove the idea that...

... anybody else is responsible for your misery and suffering; remove the idea that somebody can give meaning to your life. Accept that you are alone, born alone, and you will die alone. And you have to accept the fact that you are living alone - maybe in a crowd, but you are living alone; maybe with your wife, girlfriend, boyfriend, but they are alone in their aloneness, you are alone in your aloneness...

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... Jewish race! In fact, one can no longer speak of a Hungarian economy or press. As for the latter, the new Hungarian press law of 1939 seems to want to effect a change -- if the government is in a position to do so. [8] Contained in Brafmann's Buch vom Kahal [Book of the Kahal], published by S. Passarge, Leipzig, 1928. [9] Another ritual-murder victim, the 18 year-old high school student Winter, of...

.... Desportes, p. 25) [39] Paul Nathan, p. 64. [40] Ibid. p. 104. [41] Paul Nathan, p. 238. [42] Moritz had been degraded to [the status of] a dog, therefore of a non-Jew. [43] 2nd day of the hearing. [44] 8th day of the hearing. [45] Also after the blood-murder in Konitz a light was burning in the synagogue! -- See p. 310. [46] Ónody made these discoveries. -- Paul Nathan wisely ends [his writing] without a...

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... idolatry; nor may a heathen woman [be allowed to] act as midwife to an Israelite woman because heathens are suspected of murder. This is the opinion of R. Meir. The Sages, however, say: A heathen may act as midwife to an Israelite woman so long as there are others       Dilling Exhibit 185Begins     standing by, but not if she is acting on her own. [5] But R. Meir holds: Not even...

... if others are standing by her, for she may find an opportunity of pressing her hand on the [infant's] temples and kill it without being observed; witness the incident of that woman who, on being called by a neighbour 'Jewish midwife, the daughter of a Jewish midwife!' retorted, 'May as many evils befall that woman, as I have dropped [Jewish children] like lumps of wood into the river.' Our Rabbis...

..., however, say: No; she may have merely given her some kind of retort. AN ISRAELITE WOMAN SHOULD NOT SUCKLE etc. Our Rabbis taught: An Israelite woman should not suckle a child of a heathen, because she rears a child for idolatry; nor should a heathen woman [be allowed to] suckle a child of an Israelite woman, because she is liable to murder it. This is the opinion of R. Meir. But the Sages say: A heathen...

... may suckle a child of an Israelite woman, so long as there are others standing by her, but not if she is on her own. R. Meir, however, says: Not even while others are standing by her, for she may take the opportunity of rubbing in poison on her breast beforehand and so kill the child. And both the above instances are necessary; for if we were told about a midwife only [we might have thought that...

...] only in that case do the Sages permit, since, being observed by others, she could do no harm, but in the case of suckling, where it is possible for her to apply poison to the breast beforehand and so kill the child, they might agree with R. Meir. If [on the other hand] we were told only about suckling, [we might have thought that] only in that case does R. Meir forbid, because she could kill the...

... lured by the step to get unto the pit. Raba and R. Joseph both of them said: It means to convey that if there is a stone lying by the pit opening, one may cover the pit with it, saying that he does it for [the safety] of passing animals. Rabina said: It is meant to convey that if there is a ladder there, he may remove it, saying, I want it for getting my son down from a roof. Our Rabbis taught: An...

... happy?' he will shrug his shoulders. If you ask Lao Tzu 'Why are you blissful?' he will say 'Don't ask it. Rather than asking why I am blissful, enquire why you are not.' It is like a small spring in the mountains: when there is no hindrance, the spring flows; when there are rocks on the way, it cannot flow. When the rocks are removed.... You don't create the spring - you only remove the negative, you...

... only remove the obstacle. The spring was there, but because of the rock it was not able to flow. When you remove the rock you are not creating the spring - the spring was already there. By removing the rock you have removed the negative, the obstacle, and the spring flows. Now if somebody asks 'Why does the spring flow?' - because the spring is there, that's why it flows. If it is not flowing, then...

... mad when they are forced to live in a zoo - the zoo is a human creation. Animals never commit suicide, but sometimes in the zoo they commit. Animals never turn homosexual in the natural wild state, but in the zoo they turn. In the zoo they become murderous? dangerous. Yes, they kill, but they kill only when they want to eat. Man kills for no reason. A man goes to the wild and kills a tiger and he...

... 'What do you think? If he was hungry, should I be sitting here?' He is not hungry - that is certain. When animals are hungry they kill, but they don't kill as game, they don't kill for fun; they are not interested in killing in itself. Of course they are interested in food - nothing is wrong in it; man kills for no reason. Animals don't kill for ideologies: they don't say 'I am a Communist and you are...

... a capitalist. I will kill you.' They don't say 'I am a Fascist and you are a Communist sol will kill you.' They don't have any ideologies, and they don't kill because they are Christians, Hindus and Mohammedans. Man kills for any excuse, for any excuse whatsoever. Hindus can kill Mohammedans, Mohammedans can kill Hindus, Christians can kill Mohammedans, and Buddhists... and so on and so forth. And...

... for what? For abstract doctrines, principles - and nobody is ready to live for those doctrines and everybody is ready to kill others for those same doctrines. If somebody insults the Bible, the Christian is ready to kill you, and if you ask him 'Are you living your Bible?' he will say 'It is very difficult.' He is not interested in living it, nobody is interested in living it; but if it comes to...

... were; or, on the other hand, if they were to be spared, no bullet would hit them. Sometime later, in the heat of battle, with bullets spraying around him, the priest hot-footed it to the nearest and biggest tree. A soldier was behind it. He enquired of the priest about his predestination sermons and why he should be seeking shelter now. 'You do not fully understand the principles and theories of...

... again and said 'My Lord, send me a sword.' He was planning to kill the woman and be free of her; he was longing to have the good old days back again. But again God laughed and said 'What about the cross? Should I send it now?' The man was in a rage and said 'Don't you think that this woman was enough of a cross? Please just send me a sword.' So the sword came. He killed the woman and was caught and...

... happens: your intention is bad and the result is good. You throw a rock at a person, and he was suffering from migraine for many years, and the rock hit his head and since then the migraine has disappeared - now what to do? What to say about your act? - moral, immoral? You wanted to kill the man: you could only kill the migraine. That's how acupuncture was born. Such a great science! so beneficial! one...

... of the greatest boons to humanity... but it was born in this way. A man was suffering from headaches for many years, and somebody, his enemy, wanted to kill him. Hiding behind a tree, the enemy shot an arrow. The arrow hit the man's leg; he fell down but his headache disappeared. The people who were looking after him, the doctor of the town, were very much puzzled as to how it happened. They...

... then he is healthy, well, and he commits murder. Now, without your help there would have been one murder less in the world. Your intention was good, but the total result is bad. So whether to judge by the intention or to judge by the result? And who knows about your intention? Intention is internal... maybe deep down you were hoping that when he got healthy he would commit a murder. AND sometimes it...

... started studying. By chance, by coincidence, the man had hit one acupuncture point just on the leg; some point was touched on the leg by the arrow, was hit by the arrow, and the inner electric flow of the man's body energy changed. And because the inner flow of the electricity changed, his headache disappeared. That's why when you go to the acupuncturist and you say, "I have a headache," he...

... feels and cares. When your spontaneity is REALLY of awareness, you cannot do anything against compassion: you cannot murder. People come to me and they ask, "Osho, you say to be spontaneous, but sometimes I want to murder my wife - then what?" You cannot murder. How can you murder?! Yes, not even your wife - you cannot murder. When your spontaneity is alert, when it is luminous, how can you...

... even THINK of murder? You will know that there is no possibility; nobody is ever murdered. The being is the sky: you can only disperse the cloud, but you cannot murder. So what is the point? And how can you murder if you are so alert and so spontaneous? Compassion will flow side by side, in the same proportion. As you become aware, in the same proportion there is compassion. Buddha has said: If there...

..., "I never thought THAT way, but maybe you have something. No, they are not better. In fact, with education, they have become cunning, they have become just as other people are. When I reached them fifty years ago, they were tremendously beautiful people. Yes, uneducated - but they had a dignity. Fifty years ago there was not a single murder. And if sometimes it used to happen, then the murderer...

..., wordless, undefined. Then it comes to be a thought. Then it enters in your body; adrenaline and other poisons are released in the bloodstream - you are ready to kill somebody or beat somebody, bite somebody. You are getting mad. But you may not even become aware. When you hit somebody it has entered into the world. That is the fourth stage. Then you become aware: "What have I done?" Haven't you...

... eyes cannot do anything - it is the mind. It is the mind that approaches through the eyes. It is the mind that approaches through the hand. When you hit somebody or you kill somebody, it is not the hand that is the murderer - it is you. And it is not going to help if you cut your hand. And you cannot go to the court and say to the magistrate, "It was my hand." It happened once in a court...

.... Short Title: N.A. Audio Available: N.A. Video Available: N.A. Length: N.A. THE BUDDHA SAID: "THERE WAS ONCE A MAN WHO, BEING IN DESPAIR OVER HIS INABILITY TO CONTROL HIS PASSIONS, WISHED TO MUTILATE HIMSELF. THE BUDDHA SAID TO HIM, 'BETTER DESTROY YOUR OWN EVIL THOUGHTS THAN DO HARM TO YOUR OWN PERSON. THE MIND IS LORD. WHEN THE LORD HIMSELF IS CALMED, THE SERVANTS WILL OF THEMSELVES BE YIELDING...

.... IF YOUR MIND IS NOT CLEANSED OF EVIL PASSIONS, WHAT AVAILS IT TO MUTILATE YOURSELF?' " THEREUPON, THE BUDDHA RECITED THE GATHA: "PASSIONS GROW FROM THE WILL, THE WILL GROWS FROM THOUGHT AND IMAGINATION: WHEN BOTH ARE CALMED, THERE IS NEITHER SENSUALISM NOR TRANSMIGRATION." THE BUDDHA SAID, "THIS GATHA WAS TAUGHT BEFORE BY KASHYAPABUDDHA." THE BUDDHA SAID: "FROM THE...

..., WISHED TO MUTILATE HIMSELF. THE BUDDHA SAID TO HIM, 'BETTER DESTROY YOUR OWN EVIL THOUGHTS THAN DO HARM TO YOUR OWN PERSON. THE MIND IS LORD. WHEN THE LORD HIMSELF IS CALMED, THE SERVANTS WILL OF THEMSELVES BE YIELDING. IF YOUR MIND IS NOT CLEANSED OF EVIL PASSIONS, WHAT AVAILS IT TO MUTILATE YOURSELF?'" MANY THINGS TO BE UNDERSTOOD. First: a great misunderstanding exists about Buddha that he was...

... anti-body. That is absolutely wrong. He was never anti-body. He was not FOR the body, that's true; but he was never anti-body. This sutra will make it clear. He says: "THERE WAS ONCE A MAN WHO, BEING IN DESPAIR OVER HIS INABILITY TO CONTROL HIS PASSIONS, WISHED TO MUTILATE HIMSELF." And there have been many persons like that, not only one person. Millions of people have destroyed their...

... parts, cut the body, drop the body." There was a VERY popular sect in Russia before the revolution - it was very popular - that used to teach people to cut their sexual organs. And there were thousands and thousands of people who followed it - just to mutilate the sexual organs. The idea is that by cutting the sexual organ you will go beyond sex. This is simply foolish, because the sex does not...

... observed it many times? When you have hit somebody - your child, your friend, your wife - then suddenly you become aware: "What have I done? I never wanted to do it! It has happened in spite of me," you say. This simply shows your unawareness. Go deeper and catch hold of anything arising in the first step. And then it is so easy - just like you can destroy a seed very easily, but to destroy a...

...;THERE WAS ONCE A MAN WHO, BEING IN DESPAIR OVER HIS INABILITY TO CONTROL HIS PASSIONS WISHED TO MUTILATE HIMSELF." Buddha is not against the body; he is not anti-body. He cannot be! - because the body is so innocent. It has never done anything wrong. It is so pure; you cannot find a purer thing in existence. Yes, one thing is certain, that whatsoever you want to do, the body follows you. It is a...

... servant and very obedient. Even if you are going to murder somebody, the body follows; it never says no. If you are going to the temple to pray, the body follows. It never says no. Whether you are going to commit a crime or going to pray in the temple, the body follows you so obediently, like a shadow. No, the body is never responsible. And one thing has to be understood about the body. The body is a...

... like a small child: he comes running into the room, gets hit by the door, becomes angry at the door, starts beating the door - as if the door is the culprit. Not only children but even grown-up people do such things. You are writing and your fountain-pen is not flowing well; you become angry and you throw it on the floor - you punish the fountain-pen! And still you think man is rational? And still...

...; if you have no-mind, the body follows the no-mind. But don't start fighting with the body. Don't be stupid. "IF YOUR MIND IS NOT CLEANSED OF EVIL PASSIONS, WHAT AVAILS IT TO MUTILATE YOURSELF?" THEREUPON THE BUDDHA RECITED THE GATHA: "PASSIONS GROW FROM THE WILL, THE WILL GROWS FROM THOUGHT AND IMAGINATION: WHEN BOTH ARE CALMED, THERE IS NEITHER SENSUALISM NOR TRANSMIGRATION."...

... more. Why are you closing the door? Now if somebody claims "I am the prophet," Mohammedans will kill him - because Mohammed has closed the door. But who is he to close the door? The door belongs to nobody, or it belongs to all. How can he close it? And why in the first place this idea? Mahavir thinks he is the last, Mohammed thinks he is the last, Jesus thinks he is the last - then what do...

.... Our hero was after it like a shot, but before he could grab it he was hit by a taxi and carried off to the hospital with a broken leg. He was out in a couple of months, and with the settlement from the insurance company he started back to the casinos. On the way, he limped past the same grating where he had lost his coin. He started to look down to see if he could find it when he was hit by another...

... taxi, and he was back in the hospital with his other leg broken. "How could you get knocked twice in exactly the same place?" the nurse asked him. "I mean, what in the world made you go back to that stupid grating?" "That was my good luck charm," he explained, "and I didn't want to lose it." People go on chasing, go on being hit every time. Their whole life...

... can be certain, nobody. I was reading a beautiful anecdote: Father O'Malley and Rabbi Cohen were playing golf. On the third hole, Father O'Malley hit one into the rough, and he hollered, "Oh, shit!" And he looked up to heaven and said, "Dear Lord, I'm terribly sorry. It was an oversight." On the fifth hole he made another terrible shot into the rough. Again he shouted, "Oh...

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... Contents "Memorial of blood" becomes the basis of the ritual of Pesach Hate as a basis for "religious" beliefs Why Ashkenazi Judaism should have chosen precisely this legend, out of so many? "Pour out your wrath against the peoples who do not recognize you" Turning the blood accusation around and blaming the victims to be the perpetrators The circumcision of Jesus p. 154] BLOOD, LEPROSY AND CHILD MURDER...

... ritual murder accusations in the German-speaking lands. The miniatures are of crude workmanship, restricted to reproducing, often only suggesting, the essential elements of the tale, which was presumed to be well known to the reader. [9] A rather more detailed and revealing example of the iconography of the leprous Pharaoh appears in the most famous and oldest Haggadot with printed illustrations: that...

... persons butcher them with a knife, placed on an altar standing at the end of the room, causing the blood to gush forth in streams, collected in a suitably prepared vessel. [15] The analogies with the classical iconography relating to ritual murder are surprisingly precise here, and certainly intentional. The scene of the bath of blood appears with a few major differences in the Haggadah of Venice...

.... These images were intended to provide a response, of irrefutable historical obviousness and vivid suggestiveness, to the ritual murder accusation linked with the celebration of the rituals of the Pesach. The accusation was therefore turned on its head, or generally subordinated to the crime of child murder for ritual or curative purposes, which was then demoted in the scale of seriousness, as an...

... necromancy". [19] p. 158] Now, the accusation made against the Jews of practicing magic and necromancy, often confused with the practical Cabbalah and assimilated to it, was public knowledge, as was the close relationship, often uncritically presupposed, between necromancy, ritual murder and the magical uses of blood. Even Pope Pius V Ghisleri, when he decided to expel the Jews from the Pontifical State by...

... and flow of the rivers, propelling the bodies of the victims onto the banks, and the miracles performed by the holy martyrs of ritual murder, [alleged to be] capable of floating upriver, against the current, in a stupendous manner and returning miraculously to the surface, was certainly present, in this case, in both the minds of the person illustrating the images and the readers looking at them...

... murder, were considered symmetrical agonies. [32] p. 161] The circumcision of Jesus It should not surprise us that sacred art would assimilate this vision, translated into images. Thus, in one painting depicting the circumcision of Jesus, originating in Salzburg or the central Rhineland and dated 1440, the amputation of the Messiah's foreskin is depicted as an odious and almost lethal surgical...

... caricature-like Jewish faces, crowd around the poor child with the terrorized face. The Jews wear the ritual mantle, bearing Sybillene writings in the holy language, while the mohel, dressed in black, resolute and pitiless, is about to lower the knife on the defenseless body. [33] An iconography of the circumcision of Jesus of this type may be observed to be similar, in both design and execution, to the...

... themes of blood, circumcision, the crucifixion and ritual murder were closely linked in the collective imagination, are eagerly reflected in the artistic expressions of the Germanic world of the late Middle Ages, among both Jews and Christians. [35] NOTES TO CHAPTER TEN [1] On the illustrations of the Haggadahin the manuscripts and printed editions, there is an exceptionally extensive bibliography. See...

... THE SAKE OF BUDDHISM?" IN RESPONSE, KANKEI SAID, "FOR THE SAKE OF BUDDHISM," SO MASSAN SAT UPON HER SEAT, AND KANKEI APPROACHED HER. SHE SAID, "WHERE DID YOU COME FROM TODAY, MAY I ASK?" KANKEI REPLIED, "FROM ROKO." MASSAN THEN SAID TO KANKEI, "WHY DON'T YOU REMOVE YOUR BAMBOO HAT?" KANKEI HAD NO REPLY, AND, MAKING HIS BOWS, ASKED, "WHAT IS MASSAN...

... the master, he overturns the seat gracefully - showing that "this is not my place" - and leaves. That overturning of the Zen seat is symbolic that "I don't accept you as a master, but I will not say it. Saying is so crude. I will just give you the hint, that you could not hit the spot of my being, for which I am searching; I will have to go to another master." HE ENTERED THE HALL...

..., AND MASSAN SENT A MESSENGER TO ASK, "HAVE YOU COME ON A MOUNTAIN-VIEWING JOURNEY, OR FOR THE SAKE OF BUDDHISM?" IN RESPONSE, KANKEI SAID, "FOR THE SAKE OF BUDDHISM," SO MASSAN SAT UPON HER SEAT, AND KANKEI APPROACHED HER. SHE SAID, "WHERE DID YOU COME FROM TODAY, MAY I ASK?" KANKEI REPLIED, "FROM ROKO." MASSAN THEN SAID TO KANKEI, "WHY DON'T YOU REMOVE...

... remove your hat. To keep your hat on is to insult the court." I said to him, "Go back to the magistrate and tell her that if she has courage, she should ask the question herself. Because according to me, to remove the hat is insulting and I will not insult the court." The man thought for a moment, went back to the magistrate. The woman was even more puzzled! She simply thought it was...

... better not to get into an argument. Because it is not written in the constitution; it is just a formal tradition. I am not legally bound to remove my hat. I will remove my hat only when I see a buddha - not for a magistrate. Seeing the situation, the woman behaved sanely. She said to the attendant, "There is no need, just don't raise the question again." Different worlds, different symbols...

... .... When Massan asked, "WHY DON'T YOU REMOVE YOUR BAMBOO HAT?" she was saying that if you have come for the sake of Buddhism - and that means for the search of the buddha within you - then be graceful. Remove the hat, be humble and be receptive. KANKEI HAD NO REPLY, AND MAKING HIS BOWS, ASKED, "WHAT IS MASSAN?" Massan was the woman master's name. SHE ANSWERED, "IT DOES NOT SHOW...