tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25601000539473683162024-03-14T00:24:11.031-07:00ANOTHER ALCOHOL RELATED SUCCESS STORYnoachbenavrahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00901464701676163846noreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2560100053947368316.post-91719613963155631792023-08-04T04:20:00.001-07:002023-08-04T04:20:13.435-07:00This is Viktor Shokin.<div>This is Viktor Shokin. He is the Ukrainian prosecutor that Biden accused of being corrupt and had removed.</div><div><br></div><div>In this video he responds to accusations that his investigation into Burisma was dormant or that he was corrupt. He tells the truth about why he was removed as prosecutor.</div><div><br></div><div>He accuses the Obama Admin of using Ukraine. He says exactly what he thinks of Joe Biden. It's brutal.</div><div><br></div><div>The State Department has refused to let him come to America to tell his story. </div><div>https://twitter.com/mazemoore/status/1687253048995774464?s=20</div>noachbenavrahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00901464701676163846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2560100053947368316.post-48252089158239338122022-07-13T03:32:00.002-07:002022-07-13T03:34:42.007-07:00Madonna relies on the Kabbalah<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD4fZCTUhfwh-GUASuaOuWuBbhAvUiYI3v71_9u-u9lhbfHkZS-bCkgKr4ZY_x2VA56cVYq7zJ1rgUu7RxX5AkAQLf9xE8HqRLNg00pQLe8fFe6fFKU9-YNbbxedIPpVtKBxRnujzaXxMmcRQwee1HLdtTEIRwcaEpWLG15bqMgo-mp_aUvL31m4K7Fg/s711/Untitled3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="402" data-original-width="711" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD4fZCTUhfwh-GUASuaOuWuBbhAvUiYI3v71_9u-u9lhbfHkZS-bCkgKr4ZY_x2VA56cVYq7zJ1rgUu7RxX5AkAQLf9xE8HqRLNg00pQLe8fFe6fFKU9-YNbbxedIPpVtKBxRnujzaXxMmcRQwee1HLdtTEIRwcaEpWLG15bqMgo-mp_aUvL31m4K7Fg/s320/Untitled3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p>Madonna has ''relied'' on the Kabbalah ever since she started studying it.</p><p>The 63-year-old star began learning about the school of thought shortly before the 1996 birth of her daughter Lourdes and whilst she admits that she ''doesn't understand'' everything connected with it, she is glad the discipline has provided her with some guidance throughout her career.</p><p>She said: ''I started studying Kabbalah when I was pregnant with my daughter, so I guess they're connected.</p><p>''It made me become more conscious of my choices, my decisions, what I wanted to say, how it affected people, stuff like that.</p><p>''I feel like it made me become a more responsible person. I mean there are aspects of Kabbalah that I still don't understand.</p><p>''But I would have to devote my life to studying it all the time and then I wouldn't be the person that I am. But I certainly have relied on it and it has informed me as a mother, as an artist, in many ways.</p><p>''[It] pushed me in the direction of asking more questions. Thou doth not protest too much.''</p><p>Whilst Madonna - who was born to a Catholic family - has previously admitted that her 1989 song 'Like A Prayer' stemmed from the uneasiness she feels about being punished for doing something wrong, she believes it is important to reference ''our institutions''.</p><p>Speaking about the single's catholic references, she added to MOJO magazine: ''The Catholic church needs to have a stick poked at it, for God sakes. Doesn't it?</p><p>''On the other hand, I love going to a beautiful Catholic church and hearing the mass in Latin and smelling the incense and the whole pomp and circumstance and drama of it all.</p><p>''It's beautiful, it's hypocrisy. But we have to poke at our institutions. If you can't poke at institutions, then you might as well just live in a fascist state.</p><p>''Which is what we're living in now. Yay! Woo!''</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/BiV_PI1-zLU" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p><p><span face="DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><i><span face="DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.8147px;">Some people want to know if I know the Kabbalah</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.747px;" /><span face="DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.8147px;">And have trouble when the answer is "Why don't you ask Madonna?"</span></i></span></p><p><span face="DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span face="DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Protocols</b></span></p><p><span face="DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.8147px;"></span></span></p><p><span face="DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.8147px;">Rav Shmuel</span></span></p><p><span face="DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.8147px;">Some people ask me if I'm Jewish</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.747px;" /><span face="DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.8147px;">Some people look at me and know</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.747px;" /><span face="DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.8147px;">Some people want to know if I believe in Jesus</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.747px;" /><span face="DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.8147px;">And have trouble when the answer is "Well, no"</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.747px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.747px;" /><span face="DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.8147px;">Some people think that that's my right</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.747px;" /><span face="DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.8147px;">Some people think that I am damned</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.747px;" /><span face="DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.8147px;">Some people think that I'm a part of a conspiracy</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.747px;" /><span face="DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.8147px;">To take over the world and rule with an iron hand</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.747px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.747px;" /><span face="DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.8147px;">CHORUS:</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.747px;" /><span face="DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.8147px;">Y'see, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion are true</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.747px;" /><span face="DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.8147px;">And I am a member of standing</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.747px;" /><span face="DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.8147px;">Our goal is to milk all the money from you</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.747px;" /><span face="DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.8147px;">It's world domination we're planning</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.747px;" /><span face="DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.8147px;">Oh no, there I go, I've let the cat right out of the bag</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.747px;" /><span face="DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.8147px;">Will you please keep my secret, I pray?</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.747px;" /><span face="DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.8147px;">'Cause I'm under cover as a singer-songwriter</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.747px;" /><span face="DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.8147px;">Right here at the Sidewalk Café</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.747px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.747px;" /><span face="DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.8147px;">Some people ask if I'm Middle Eastern</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.747px;" /><span face="DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.8147px;">Some people stare at me with hate</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.747px;" /><span face="DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.8147px;">Some people want to know if I pick up every penny</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.747px;" /><span face="DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.8147px;">So they toss them at me and quickly drive away</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.747px;" /><span face="DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.8147px;">Some people think that that's my right</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.747px;" /><span face="DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.8147px;">Some people think that I am damned</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.747px;" /><span face="DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.8147px;">Some people think that I should pack up all my bags</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.747px;" /><span face="DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.8147px;">And get out of the Promised Land</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.747px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.747px;" /><span face="DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.8147px;">CHORUS</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.747px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.747px;" /><span face="DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.8147px;">Some people ask if I speak English</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.747px;" /><span face="DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.8147px;">Some people stare at me when I pray</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.747px;" /><span face="DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.8147px;">Some people want to know if I know the Kabbalah</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.747px;" /><span face="DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.8147px;">And have trouble when the answer is "Why don't you ask Madonna?"</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.747px;" /><span face="DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.8147px;">Some people think that that's my right</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.747px;" /><span face="DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.8147px;">Some people think that I am damned</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.747px;" /><span face="DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.8147px;">Some people think that I'm a real threat to world freedom</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.747px;" /><span face="DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.8147px;">And that I will turn their oil into sand</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.747px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.747px;" /><span face="DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.8147px;">CHORUS</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.747px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.747px;" /><span face="DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.8147px;">'Cause I'm under cover as a singer-songwriter</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.747px;" /><span face="DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.8147px;">Right here at the Sidewalk Cafe</span></p><p><br /></p><p>Source: https://www.azcentral.com/story/entertainment/people/2015/01/29/madonna-relies-on-kabbalah/22511473/</p>noachbenavrahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00901464701676163846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2560100053947368316.post-56682814336947195102022-06-20T10:12:00.003-07:002022-06-22T03:39:20.701-07:00Putin’s answers to various important questions<div class="news-feed ng-scope sticky" data-ng-class="{"news-feed_active":$root.newsFeedOpened}" data-ng-controller="newsFeedController" id="news-feed" news-feed-directive="news-feed-directive" ng-init="init(true)"><header class="header ng-scope" data-ng-class="{'header_active': $root.newsFeedOpened}" data-ng-controller="headerController" id="header" ng-init="counterTime = 300"><div class="header__bar"><br />Putin’s answers at SPIEF: Ukraine, sanctions and Donbass warfare</div></header></div><main><section class="news" id="news"><div data-io-article-url="https://tass.com/politics/1467863"><div class="news__lead">TASS has gathered Putin’s answers to various important questions</div><div class="news__actions"></div><div class="news__media news__media_photo"><div class="text-include text-include-photo"><div class="text-include-photo__image"><img alt="" src="https://phototass2.cdnvideo.ru/width/1020_b9261fa1/tass/m2/en/uploads/i/20220620/1357741.jpg" /></div></div></div><div class="text-content"><div class="text-block"><p>ST. PETERSBURG, June 18. /TASS/. Russia does not mind Ukraine’s accession to the European Union, but is not ready to forget the 2014 state coup in the country, Russian President Vladimir Putin said, answering to questions during the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum’s plenary session on Friday.</p><p>The Russian leader explained why the Russian forces do not storm Ukrainian defense lines near Donetsk, but was tight-lipped on the question about red lines whose violation will entail strikes at Ukraine’s "decision-making centers." He also explained that Russia would be producing "hemp and saddles" if it loses its sovereignty. In his opinion, army and fleet will remain the only security guarantors for Russia.</p><p>TASS has gathered Putin’s answers to various important questions.</p><h2>On sovereignty</h2><p>"Always, when making any decision, you need to identify the main thing. What is the main thing for us? To be independent, sovereign and ensure development for the future, now and for future generations. If we do not have sovereignty, then in the near future we will have to buy everything and we will produce only oil, gas, hemp, saddles."</p><h2>On Western goods</h2><div class="inread"><div id="_mwayss-deb9bae0dc0dd889fef31fa4e0fd8b641655737176196"></div></div><p>Russia will learn to produce goods that are now disappearing from the market as a result of Western sanctions. "They will continue to sell to us packaging and other such things, even telephones and smartphone. But they have never shared and will never share critically important technologies with us."</p><p>According to Putin, many Western companies, at least from European countries, will return to the Russian market and "will be happy to work here." "I have no doubts about this. Life will make them just do it. And we will not prevent them from doing this, we are open to the whole world."</p><h2>Western sanctions</h2><p>"It is pretty clear that the blitzkrieg against our economy has failed. As Mark Twain once remarked, ‘"The report of my death was an exaggeration’," Putin said.</p><p>The Russian president pointed out that European politicians had dealt their economies a severe blow with their own hands. Western sanctions are having a serious negative effect on the global situation, primarily on the food market. "European politicians have landed a heavy blow on their economies. They did it themselves, with their own hands," Putin concluded</p><h2>On Ukraine</h2><p>Russia does not mind Ukraine’s accession to the European Union: "The EU is not a miliary organization or a military-political bloc, in contrast to NATO. We have always said, and I have always said that our stance is very consistent and clear in his respect: we have nothing against."</p><p>However, in this case Ukraine risks becoming a ‘semi-colony’ of the West: "It is unlikely that this [EU membership] will lead to the restoration of the lost aircraft industry, shipbuilding, the electronics industry and other critical industries. It is unlikely because the European "greats" will not create competitors for themselves."</p><p>At the same time, Putin criticized the notion that Ukraine’s political elites had made a "civilizational choice" in favor of the West: " What <…> civilizational choice are you talking about? They stole money from the Ukrainian people, hid it in banks and want to protect it. Here’s the best way to protect it: It’s to say that this is a ‘civilizational choice.’ They started to engage in anti-Russian policies in the hopes that whatever they do, their money will be protected there. And that’s, of course, what, in fact, is happening. Whatever they do, they get away with it. That’s the whole point of the ‘civilizational choice.’"</p><h2>About military operation</h2><p>Armed hostilities are always a tragedy, but the special military operation in Ukraine was a forced move. "We were simply pushed toward that line."</p><p>Storming Ukrainian strongholds near Donetsk created eight years ago is inexpedient and efforts are underway to overtake them from the rear, Putin said. "This is because this will lead to large casualties among the attacking forces," he explained. Systemic work is underway to overtake these strongholds from the rear. "This, of course, will require certain time. Counter-battery fighting is ongoing there," Putin stressed, adding that the Russian forces had "a huge advantage" in artillery. "We talk about conducting a special military operation and even in this special military operation we must not turn those cities and populated localities that we are liberating into something like Stalingrad."</p><p>Putin preferred to keep quiet when asked about the red lines beyond which strikes against decision-making centers in Ukraine might follow. "As for the red lines are concerned, I will prefer to keep it to myself, because on our side this would imply rather harsh actions against the decision-making centers that I was talking about that you have mentioned."</p><h2>On past and future relations with Kiev</h2><p>Russia will never agree to forget about the bloody state coup in Ukraine in 2014 as it is the root of today’s problems. At the same time, Putin believes that relations between Moscow and Kiev will eventually return to normal. ‘We assume that the situation will normalize sooner or later, and we want all our neighbors to flourish. And then <…> ties will be inevitably restored."</p><h2>Recognition and future of Donbass</h2><p>Russia had every right to recognize the Donbass republics under the UN Charter, in accordance with the Kosovo precedent, and will keep defending interests of Donbass residents. "When Kosovo declared independence, the International Court of Justice, pressured by Western countries, ruled that under the UN Charter, when a country declared independence, there was no need to seek permission from the central government," Putin said, adding that a precedent had been set then. "It means that the Donbass republics did not have to ask Kiev for permission."</p><p>The region’s future depends solely on its residents: "We will treat their every choice with respect," he said.</p><p>Meanwhile, President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, who was also present at the session, said his country regards the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics as quasi states and is unlikely to recognize their independence.</p><h2>On relations with Kazakhstan</h2><p>"We have allied relations with Kazakhstan. One might say, fraternal ones. We are members of the same defense bloc - the CSTO. Also, we are members of the same economic organization. Will it ever occur to anybody in Russia to spoil relations with Kazakhstan on any issues? This is nonsense. We are interested in strengthening such relations."</p><h2>On nuclear threat and security guarantees</h2><p>When asked at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum to comment on the West’s allegations about the threat of a nuclear war and the Third World War, the Russian leader noted that Moscow "hears such rhetoric."</p><p>"Where does it come from? From their own statements. Now and then irresponsible politicians would blurt out something like that, even high-ranking politicians - say, at the level of foreign ministries, the leaders are ranting and raving about it. Are we supposed to stay silent? We are responding correspondingly. As soon as we respond, they would pick on our words and say: look, Russia is threatening us. We are not threatening anyone, but everyone should know what we have and what we will use to defend our sovereignty. These are obvious things."</p><p>Moscow is ready to build relations with all countries, despite of what is happening today, but it will take care about its security on its own: "Solely the Army and the Fleet can be a guarantee of our security."</p><h2>On those who are ashamed of being Russian</h2><p>"Some people say they are ashamed of being from Russia. You know, those ashamed are the people who do not link their own future and life, as well as the future and lives of their children, with our country. They are not ashamed, they are afraid of having problems in regions where they want to live and want their children to live."</p><h2>On optimism in global politics</h2><p>Putin hopes that the situation in global affairs would finally calm down: "We are not happy that some countries may face any negative consequences. We don’t want it. We hope that common sense will ultimately win the upper hand and the situation in global affairs will finally calm down and everyone will respect each other’s interests, and we will be able to operate normally."</p><p>He pointed to a growing controversy in the United States. "If [US] policies remain the same, it will keep growing," Putin said, adding that he had "great respect for the American people."</p><p>"At the end of the day, relations will become what they should in these countries, in the United States and on the international stage. I am more of an optimist than a pessimist.".</p></div></div><div class="news__actions news__actions_bottom"><div class="tags"><div class="tags__title">TAGS</div><div class="tags__list"><a class="tags__item" data-content_tags="data-content_tags" href="https://tass.com/tag/vladimir-putin">Vladimir Putin</a></div><div class="tags__list">Video </div><div class="tags__list" style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/elt-bfwkWuo" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div></div></div></div></section></main>noachbenavrahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00901464701676163846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2560100053947368316.post-87798676352325019282021-10-08T03:29:00.003-07:002021-10-08T03:37:52.582-07:00The Book of Revelations of John The Divine<p><b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This final Book of the Bible is often misunderstood as the rantings of a madman who is suffering a psychotic episode but has, nevertheless, been able to access a typewriter contrary to the rules of the institution. It is also thought of by ridiculing atheists and Catholics as a triumph of obscurity over clarity, which allows them to make up stupid explanations that just happen to be in line with their personal Satanic beliefs and Satan’s Plan for Mankind – ironically, these people are bringing about the events that unfold in the Book.</b></b></p><p><b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Introduction</b></p><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 2.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">John The Divine hears God telling him what will happen, Jesus is going to arrive soon and in force and so John should tell everyone</li></ul><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 2.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">John, who is himself in exile because of persecution, is on Patmos, tells Christians that they are persecuted by Rome</li></ul><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 2.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">John hears a voice and it’s Jesus who gives him the idea that he should write to the seven churches in Asia Minor telling them where they went wrong. They are in Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea. Jesus tells him what to say.</li><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jesus has white hair and his eyes of flames. His feet are made of bronze and his voice sounds like running water. He is surrounded by 7 candlesticks and carries seven stars in his right hand. A sharp sword comes out of his mouth</li></ul><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 2.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jesus tells John to write down everything he sees in a vision that he will be given.</li></ul><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A Message for Ephesus</b></p><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 2.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They’ve lost the idea of “love”.</li></ul><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A Message for Smyrna</b></p><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 2.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jesus knows the people in Smyrna have been persecuted but if they’re faithful ’til death they’ll live with Him, otherwise, it’s the Fiery Pit.</li></ul><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A Message for Pergamum</b></p><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 2.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jesus hears that some in the Church are teaching that it’s okay to make sacrifices to the Roman gods. But, Jesus clarifies, it is most definitely not.</li></ul><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A Message for Thyatira</b></p><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 2.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jesus knows that they’re doing good works. But He also knows there’s a woman called Jezabel whose been putting her favors about like a demoncrat, lieberal, hippy, and worshipping idols. They should stop this.</li></ul><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A Message for Sardis</b></p><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 2.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jesus tells this church that, half of them are OK, but the rest need to straighten themselves out with Him… or else.</li></ul><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A Message for Philadelphia</b></p><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 2.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Just keep the faith, Jesus tells them. If they do, they’ll all get God’s name written on them.</li></ul><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Message for Laodicea</b></p><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 2.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This church is kind of lukewarm and will be spewed out unless they change their ways</li></ul><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Stairway to Heaven</b></p><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 2.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jesus shows John Heaven with 24 Elders and God – God’s seat has a load of weird but Godly animals around it who sing His Praises day and night.</li></ul><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Seals (Not Navy)</b></p><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 2.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">John notices that God is holding a scroll with seven seals in his hand.</li><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A slaughtered lamb with seven horns and seven eyes takes the scroll from God and everyone starts singing, cheering, shouting, rejoicing.</li></ul><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Four Horsemen</b></p><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 2.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">So, the Lamb opens the first of the seven seals.</li><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Immediately, John sees a white horse. Its rider has a bow and is wearing a crown. He is called Faithful and True and is The Word of God – He is Righteousness who will ethnically cleanse the Earth of Evil.</li><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Lamb opens the second seal. John sees a bright red horse. The guy riding this horse has a huge sword… This is War.</li><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Then, the Lamb opens the third seal and out comes a black horse. Its rider has a pair of scales in his hand. This is Famine and the only one of the horsemen to speak – He suggests investing in grain futures.</li><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Next, the fourth seal is opened. John sees a pale green horse whose rider is Death himself. And Death is given authority to kill people all over the Earth.</li></ul><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" height="261" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Benjamin_West_-_Death_on_a_Pale_Horse_%281796%29.jpg/800px-Benjamin_West_-_Death_on_a_Pale_Horse_%281796%29.jpg" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" width="463" /></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">More Seals </b></p><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 2.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Lamb goes on to open the fifth seal. John sees all the Christians martyrs who are shouting for vengeance.</li><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Lamb then opens the sixth seal.</li><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Suddenly the heavens go crazy. There’s an earthquake and the sun becomes black. The moon turns to blood and the stars fall out of the sky. All the kings and rich people and other powerful people on Earth try to run and hide from the Lamb.</li></ul><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Elect Get Heaven</b></p><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 2.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">After this, John sees four angels standing at the four corners of the Earth holding back the winds, Another angel tells them that they still need to mark the foreheads of the 144,000 Elect.</li><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Then, John sees many people from standing around God’s throne wearing white robes and holding palm leaves who are praising everyone around. These are the Elect and have tenure in Heaven.</li></ul><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Seventh Seal</b></p><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 2.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Next, John sees the Lamb open the seventh seal. And eventually seven angels with seven trumpets stand in front of God.</li></ul><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Trump</b></p><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 2.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">When the first angel trumpets, hail and fire mixed with blood starts to rain down on the Earth.</li><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The second angel blows his horn and a burning mountain falls into the sea.</li><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The third angel blows and a star named Wormwood falls from the sky and pollutes the water.</li><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The fourth angel blows his horn and the sun, moon, and stars get dimmer.</li><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Then a horrific eagle sums up, saying, “Woe to the inhabitants of the Earth.”</li></ul><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Food</b></p><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 2.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Then John sees another angel coming down from Heaven with a tiny scroll and that John must eat. John eats.</li></ul><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Two Candlesticks arrive</b><br /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: Symbol; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">· </span>Another voice tells John that two candlesticks are going to go into the world</p><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 2.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They do but a beast comes up from the bottomless pit and attacks and kills them in the streets of Jerusalem while all the non-believers gloat and rejoice. But, after three and a half days, the candlesticks recover from death and start living again.</li><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Then, the candlesticks fly up into Heaven and let loose a huge earthquake. Seven thousand people are killed, but the rest, wisely, repent and put their faith in Jesus.</li></ul><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Angel Number Seven</b></p><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 2.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Finally, the seventh angel goes ahead and blows his trumpet.</li><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">John hears voices announcing that God’s reign on Earth has begun. The 24 elders start to worship God even more intensely and let everyone know that it’s almost time to start judging some people.</li></ul><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Girl and the Dragon</b></p><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 2.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Suddenly, John sees an omen—it’s a woman. She is clothed with sun, the moon is under her feet, and she wears a crown of stars. The woman is in the middle of giving birth and she’s screaming in pain.</li><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" height="344" src="http://endoftheworld.net/Jesus/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/17.jpg" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" width="251" /></li><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There’s also a huge red dragon—it appears with seven heads with crowns on each of them and ten horns, who’s going to eat her when she’s given birth.</li><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The woman delivers a baby boy and it just so happens that he’s going to rule all the nations of the world. He is promptly taken up into Heaven and the woman runs away before the Dragon can eat her.</li></ul><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Heavenly War</b></p><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 2.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Then war breaks out in Heaven.</li><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Michael the Archangel and his band of angel soldiers attack the Dragon and manage to throw him out of Heaven. The Dragon lands down to Earth and he finds the woman who gave birth to the son and chases after her. But she sprouts wings and flies away.</li><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Then he opens his mouth and floods the Earth, trying to drown her. But the Earth comes to her rescue and swallows up the water. The Dragon decides to go off and attack the woman’s other children, i.e. the followers of Jesus.</li></ul><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sea Monster</b></p><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 2.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">John sees a huge beast rising out of the sea and (seven heads and ten horns with a crown on each one.) It looks somewhat like a leopard, but has feet like a bear, and a mouth like a lion.</li><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Dragon gives the Sea Beast its power and everyone on Earth all worship the Sea Beast <b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">and</i></b> the Dragon</li><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">John tells us that the Sea Beast loves to attack Christians and make them into martyrs and he reminds Christians they’d be better off dead than worshipping the Sea Beast.</li></ul><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Sea Monster’s Friend</b></p><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 2.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Next, another beast comes out of the Earth. It has two horns like the Lamb, but sounds like the Dragon — it makes everyone worship the Sea Beast. Its number—666.</li></ul><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Breaking News</b></p><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 2.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">John sees the Lamb standing on Mount Zion. With him are the 144,000 Elect. Then, John hears several angels. One tells them all to fear and worship God, otherwise there is going to be some serious judgment going on. Another tells them that Babylon has fallen. A third one lets everyone know that the people who worship the Beast are going to burn.</li></ul><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Two Reapers</b><br /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: Symbol; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">· </span>Next, John sees someone who looks like the Son of Man floating down on a cloud. He’s wearing a gold crown and holding a sickle with which He reap all the faithful people from the Earth.</p><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 2.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Another angel comes down with a sickle and reaps all the not-so-faithful people. Then he throws them into a wine press of God’s wrath. It squirts out blood all over the place.</li></ul><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Many Plagues</b></p><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 2.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">After this, John sees seven angels carrying seven plagues. (I’m not sure if this is 7 or 49 plagues)</li><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He also sees that the people who brought down the Beast are in heaven playing harps. And then a creature of some sort hand out bowls of God’s Wrath to people</li></ul><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Curses</b></p><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 2.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A voice tells the angels to go ahead and serve up a heaping helping of Gods wrath on the Earth. So, the angels pour out their bowls one by one.</li><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The first angel dumps out his bowl, and all the non-believers who have the mark of the Beast on them break out in painful sores.</li><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The second angel turns the sea into blood.</li><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The third angel turns the rivers into blood.</li><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The fourth angel turns up the heat on the sun and burns all the people.</li><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The fifth angel plunges the entire city of Rome into darkness.</li><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The sixth angel dries up the Euphrates River</li><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The seventh angel pours his bowl out and a voice tells everyone that, “It is done</li><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There’s lightning and thunder and an earthquake. An earthquake that splits Rome into thirds. And destroys every nation on Earth.</li></ul><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Beauty and the Beast</b></p><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 2.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Next, John sees the Whore of Babylon. She is a woman riding the Sea Beast She is dressed in red and purple robes and dripping with gold and jewels and pearls</li><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">John tells us she’s been drinking the blood of the faithful.</li><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">An angel explains the Whore of Babylon. The woman represents Rome who seduces everyone with its beauty and charm, but is really just a prostitute.</li></ul><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Woe unto Babylon</b></p><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 2.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">John sees yet another angel coming down from Heaven. This angel announces that Babylon (i.e., Rome) has fallen.</li><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">However, some of the non-believers on Earth are too busy mourning the loss of Rome, which has provided much need business but the angels aren’t swayed much by this. One of them picks up a giant stone and throws it into the ocean.</li></ul><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" height="301" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/Whore-babylon-luther-bible-1534.jpg" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" width="416" /></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Armageddon</b></p><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 2.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Everyone in Heaven is celebrating but John sees a white horse (not the same one as came with the 4 horsemen) with Jesus riding out on it. Jesus has flames for eyes and the sword coming out of his mouth. But this time, he’s wearing lots of crowns and his robe is dipped in blood. All the heavenly armies are there, too and they’re following Jesus in triumph.</li><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">An angel tells everyone to gather for God’s supper.</li><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But before this can happen, John sees the Sea Beast and its armies.</li><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jesus and his heavenly squadron get rid of the Beast pretty quickly. They toss him into a Lake of Fire. All the other baddies are killed with Jesus’s sword.</li></ul><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Satan’s Last Stand</b></p><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 2.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">John sees that another angel has gotten hold of the Dragon and locked him in the bottomless pit. He’s going to stay there for 1,000 years. After that, he’ll be let out for a little while.</li><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">So then John sees thrones with people seated on them. These people get to judge. Obviously, anyone who was killed for believing in Jesus gets a pass. They will get to reign in Heaven for 1,000 years.</li><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But remember, once that 1,000 years is up, the Dragon is going to be let out of the pit and gather another army to destroy Heaven.</li><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But, don’t worry, this war is going to end a lot like the first one—with the Dragon as the big loser. Except this time, he’ll be thrown into the Lake of Fire for good.</li></ul><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Final Judgement </b></p><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 2.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Once this happens, everyone is going to be judged by God. Even people who have been dead for years are going to have to answer for their actions on Earth.</li><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">God will open up his Book and look over his records and give you either the thumbs up or the thumbs down. If God realizes you’re not in his Book, it’s the Lake of Fire for you, too.</li></ul><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Flat-pack Jerusalem is delivered</b></p><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 2.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">After all the pesky non-believers and manifestations of extreme evil are gone, it’s time to bring about a new Earth.</li><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">John sees it happen—a New Jerusalem comes down from Heaven to Earth</li><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Elect will live there with God. No one will ever mourn or die or be in pain. It will simply be God and his children living together forever and ever.</li><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But people who haven’t led such upstanding lives will get thrown into the Lake of Fire.</li><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The city of New Jerusalem itself is probably the most incredible thing John has seen. The whole city is made of gold and glitters with all different kinds of jewels and gemstones.</li><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It has twelve gates (with the names of the tribes of Israel written on them) and twelve foundations (with the names of the apostles written on them).</li><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This New Jerusalem doesn’t have a temple, though, because God himself is the temple. They also don’t have to worry about lamps, because the presence of God provides all the light they need. It’s always sunny in New Jerusalem.</li><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Crime is also non-existent, because no one ever does anything even remotely bad there.</li></ul><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </p><div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 1.25rem auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 274px;"><img alt="New Jerusalem on Earth" height="212" src="http://tourofheaven.com/images/new-jerusalem/PC170579.jpg" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" width="264" /><p class="wp-caption-text" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.75rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.3125rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Size of New Jerusalem</p></div><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A River Runs Through It</b></p><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 2.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">An angel shows John a beautiful river flowing from God’s throne. It’s the water of life flowing in it. On the banks of the river is the tree of life, which grows twelve kinds of fruit.</li><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Nothing bad is ever going to happen in this new city. Everyone will just hang with God and rejoice and love each other all day.</li></ul><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Truth and Nothing but the Truth</b></p><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 2.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The angel assures John that everything he’s seen and heard is true. All of this is actually going to happen. This is not some sort of story – it’s real folks!</li><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He also tells John to go ahead and share all this with the world. After all, <b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jesus will be coming very, very soon.</b> People need this information because they need to do the right thing.</li><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">God’s judgment is coming. People who lead good lives will be able to live inside the walls of an awesome city made of gold. People who don’t will get to take a little swim in a Lake of Fire… for all eternity.</li><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">John also tells us that if anyone changes what he’s written down, God is going to include them in all those terrible plagues.</li><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But really, <b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jesus is coming soon</b>, John tells us. He ends the book with this hope and a short prayer for the faithful.</li><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">That’s it.</li></ul><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">So, there you are – it’s all pretty straightforward and obvious when you think why you became a True Christian.</p><h1 class="title style-scope ytd-video-primary-info-renderer" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: var(--ytd-video-primary-info-renderer-title-color, var(--yt-spec-text-primary)); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: var(--ytd-video-primary-info-renderer-title-font-size, var(--yt-navbar-title-font-size, inherit)); line-height: var(--yt-navbar-title-line-height, 2.4rem); margin: 0px; max-height: calc(2 * var(--yt-navbar-title-line-height, 2.4rem)); overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-shadow: var(--ytd-video-primary-info-renderer-title-text-shadow, none); transform: var(--ytd-video-primary-info-renderer-title-transform, none);"><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-video-primary-info-renderer" force-default-style="" style="word-break: break-word;">The Truth About the Book of Revelations Elaine Pagels [Clip]</yt-formatted-string></h1><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KFCXRF6D7HM" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </p><div><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;">The Original Book of Revelation</h3></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://updateyoursalvation.blogspot.com/2021/09/the-original-book-of-revelation.html" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="139" data-original-width="361" height="123" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-k4azxN1SwGg/YWAcxGsnAMI/AAAAAAAAHRo/tLryVWprW6Id-kzPNwi9m7y42jytSWlawCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/images.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://updateyoursalvation.blogspot.com/2021/09/the-original-book-of-revelation.html">https://updateyoursalvation.blogspot.com/2021/09/the-original-book-of-revelation.html</a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>noachbenavrahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00901464701676163846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2560100053947368316.post-39794734173336722922021-05-28T03:59:00.002-07:002021-05-28T17:44:58.924-07:00Tithe Teaching Detriments<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Levitical tithe was to meet a need, that of the Levitical priesthood and to help the poor. The Levitical priesthood and all laws and ceremonies pertaining to it ceased when the temple was destroyed in 70 CE. the Books of the Christian New Testament do not teach tithing. "The New Testament" offices or callings of a pastor, etc., are not the same as the Levitical priesthood, which was based on lineage and the Mosaic ceremonial laws, and that the "church*" building is not the same as the Temple. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">1. The "churchs" tithe teaching can cause tithers to have an erroneous feeling of self-satisfaction, a feeling that they have "paid the bill" and placated God. This can become akin to a superstitious practice of "pleasing of the gods" we see in pagan cultures. Are tithers in some cases even attempting to buy their way into heaven? Wouldn’t this be the same as buying spiritual favor by purchasing indulgences? This practice was soundly condemned in Martin Luther's "Ninety-Five Theses."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">2. Mal. 3:8 says, "’ Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me.’ But you ask, "How do we rob you?" ‘In tithes and offerings….’" This verse is used prior to the passing of the offering plate in many "church" services to coax the congregation to get out their wallets. But, contrary to the meaning of the verse under the Mosaic Law to which it refers, today people ARE robbing God, not of tithes, but of proper giving to the work of God and to the poor. When people "pay their bill" to the "church", they aren’t as apt to give that cup of water or $20 to a needy person around them. Therefore, they have robbed God by neglecting opportunities to perform a mitzvah in the form of helping the poor. People write out tithe checks in a dogged, joyless manner as if in bondage. They, too, are robbed. They are robbed of the joy of giving to real needs they can see with their own eyes.</span><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">3. Tithing can cause an undue financial burden on givers. Young families with children often are living hand to mouth anyway. So are many single parents, college students, and the elderly. They themselves are actually the poor who need help occasionally, yet by sitting in "the church", they are told that they must give up ten percent to a "church" that often is wealthy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">4. This brings us to the next point. It is not uncommon today for the incomes of "church"es (some of whom teach tithing and some of whom don’t), especially large ones in America, to have such enormous incomes that they have investment portfolios. They hire experts to help them manage their funds to make it grow. Why? So they can give to missions or the poor? So they can build more buildings, gyms, bowling alleys, climbing walls? So they can have huge paid staffs? Daycare centers? The kingdom of God has nothing to do with buildings. The early "church" grew by great leaps without buildings. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>2 Corinthians 9:7 Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion </i></span></div></blockquote><div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The deceptive means 10’s of thousands of ministers use to raise money, of which the modern tithe is one of them, has drained our country of resources that could tremendously bless the world. But the church is sitting on the money. Now they are beginning to be fleeced themselves.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Recently, hundreds of the leading Christian organizations lost millions of dollars investing in a fund named <i>"New Era."</i> It was a scam called a <i>"Ponze scheme."</i> An evangelical, named Bennett, dropping the right names such as Billy Graham and Rockerfeller, convinced most of the leading Protestant ministries to invest as much as over 500 million dollars into a fund that promised them a doubling of their money over a 6 month period of time. Now anyone with a little sense should smell something amiss here, especially since conservative Christians should be looking at conservative investments that usually give a low return on investment. But top Christian ministries invested hundreds of millions of dollars in a fund started by another Christian, whose sole purpose in setting up the fund was to defraud them of their, or should I say <i>"your" </i>money. The federal authorities finally shut it down, but not before millions of dollars were lost. (See Dew from Mount Hermon, issue number 7 for more details.)</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">A person who teaches tithing robs God’s people from hearing from God Himself about what and whom to give to each and every day. Someone who pays their taxes, and gives 10 per cent of their income to their pastor, plus offerings for missions, building fund, bake and rummage sales, etc., because the law or tradition of their organization pressures them to do so, is likely to develop an attitude that their giving is finished at the offering plate. They are so drained of finances that when Jesus arrives at their door for a piece of bread, their response might be, <i>"Oh, I gave already at the church!"</i> Laws such as the modern tithing law, instituted by either ignorant or deceiving ministers keep God’s children from hearing what they should be doing on a day to day basis! Yes, Mr. or Mrs. or Reverend Tithing Teacher, you are robbing people, God, and the world from the blessings He wants to pour out on them and through us! Now repent and stop it! His mercy endures forever! Go to the fountain of grace, HaShem, and discover how to enter into His rest yourself! Then and only then can you lead God’s sheep into that rest themselves. Until then all you will do is fleece them and eat them yourself!</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><i>"Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the flock? You eat the fat and clothe yourselves with the wool; you slaughter the fatlings, but you do not feed the flock. The weak you have not strengthened, nor have you healed those who were sick, nor bound up the broken, nor brought back what was driven away, nor sought what was lost; but with force and cruelty you have ruled them." (Ezekiel 34:2-4)</i></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that those who twist the Mosaic Law to say what it doesn’t say, are robbing God even though they may not be aware of it. They are also robbing themselves of much-needed rest, and they are robbing the world around them of the true blessings they are to bestow upon their neighbors.</span><br />
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round). </span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;">Circe </span><br /><span style="color: black;">Latinized
form of Greek Κιρκη (Kirke, Kirkh ), which possibly meant
"bird". In Greek mythology Circe was a sorceress who
hypnotized men, and changed men into animals, and made them her
slaves. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;">circle </span><br /><span style="color: black;">c.1305,
from O.Fr. cercle, from L. circulus "small ring," dim. of
circus (q.v.). Replaced O.E. trendel and hring. Meaning "group
of persons surrounding a center of interest" is from
1714. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;">circus </span><br /><span style="color: black;">c.1380,
from L. circus "ring," applied by Romans to circular arenas
for performances and contests (esp. the Circus Maximus), from or akin
to Gk. kirkos "a circle," from PIE *kirk- from base
*(s)ker- "to turn, bend." First attested use for "traveling
show" is 1791. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;">Church </span><br /><span style="color: black;">O.E.
cirice "church," from W.Gmc. *kirika, from Gk. kyriake
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">"Hear an alleged tongues and interpretation where "God" says his mercy is gone, he's going to turn against someone(s) in that church and will pour out his wrath that night." @ 9:30 [1]</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Note: Christian churches are filled with passionate men and women of all ages who love God with all their being, and have a deeply genuine love for other people. Many "Bible believing Christians" believe many unbiblical heresies. The wide acceptance of the beliefs within Christendom does not make it biblical.</span></span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">One of the Six Constant Commands (</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">mitzvot)</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333;"> of God is, </span><b><span style="color: #073763;">"</span></b></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Don't be misled by your heart and eyes."</span></b></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #0b5394;"><b> Why is every Jew commanded to develop the recognition of Divine truth attained by Abraham: a recognition so absolute that it can, by the force of reason alone, dispel a universally entrenched doctrine, while Christians are taught NOT to use reason and logic? (Hebrews 11:1)</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; line-height: 0.2in;"><span face=""calibri" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Other
religious groups have been observed to practice some form of speaking
in tongues - </span></span></span><span style="color: black; line-height: 0.2in;"><span face=""calibri" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><i>theopneustic
glossolalia. </i></span></span></span><span face=""calibri" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 17.3333px; line-height: 19.2px;"><i>It is perhaps most commonly in Paganism, Shamanism, and other mediumistic religious practices.] In Japan, the God Light Association used to practice glossolalia to cause adherents to recall past lives.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span face=""calibri" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Glossolalia
has even been postulated as an explanation for the </span></span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript"><span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face=""calibri" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Voynich
manuscript</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span face=""calibri" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span face=""calibri" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Certain </span></span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosticism"><span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face=""calibri" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Gnostic</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span face=""calibri" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"> magical
texts from the Roman period have written on them unintelligible
syllables such as "t t t t n n n n d d d d d..." etc. It is
conjectured that these may be transliterations of the sorts of sounds
made during glossolalia. The </span></span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coptic_Gospel_of_the_Egyptians"><span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face=""calibri" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Coptic
Gospel of the Egyptians</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span face=""calibri" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"> also
features a hymn of (mostly) unintelligible syllables which is thought
to be an early example of Christian glossolalia.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span face=""calibri" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">In
the 19th century, </span></span></span><span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face=""calibri" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritism">Spiritism</a> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face=""calibri" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">was
developed by the work of </span></span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Kardec"><span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face=""calibri" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Allan
Kardec</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span face=""calibri" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">,
and the phenomenon was seen as one of the self-evident manifestations
of spirits. Spiritists argued that some cases were actually cases
of </span></span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenoglossia"><span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face=""calibri" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">xenoglossia</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span face=""calibri" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">.</span></span></span><br />
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<span face=""calibri" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 17.3333px; line-height: 19.2px;">Glossolalia has also been observed in the Voodoo religion of Haiti, as well as in the Hindu Gurus and Fakirs of India.</span></span><br />
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<span face=""calibri" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span style="color: black;">The
material explanation arrived at by a number of studies is that
glossolalia is "learned behavior".</span><span style="color: #0b0080;">
</span><span style="color: black;">What
is taught is the ability to produce language-like speech. This is
only a partial explanation, but it is a part that has withstood much
testing. It is possible to train novices to produce glossolalic
speech. One experiment with 60 undergraduates found that 20%
succeeded after merely listening to a 60-second sample, and 70%
succeeded after training:</span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""calibri" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Our
findings that glossolalia can be easily learned through direct
instruction, along with demonstrations that tongue speakers can
initiate and terminate glossolalia upon request and can exhibit
glossolalia in the absence of any indexes of trance[…] support the
hypothesis that glossolalia utterances are goal-directed actions
rather than involuntary happenings.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: black;"><span face=""calibri" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">The
admittedly fraudulent preacher </span></span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjoe_Gortner"><span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face=""calibri" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Marjoe
Gortner</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span face=""calibri" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"> described
in a 1977 interview how people learn glossolalia in a highly
emotional religious setting.</span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""calibri" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">"Tongues
is something you learn," he emphasized. "It is a releasing
that you teach yourself. You are told by your peers, the church, and
the Bible – if you accept it literally – that the Holy Ghost
speaks in another tongue; you become convinced that it is the
ultimate expression of the spirit flowing through you. The first time
maybe you'll just go dut-dut-dut-dut, and that's about all that will
get out. Then you'll hear other people and next night you may go
dut-dut-dut-UM-dut-DEET-dut-dut, and it gets a little better. The
next thing you know, it's
ela-hando-satelay-eek-condele-mosandrey-aseya ... and it's a new
language you've got down."</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: black;"><span face=""calibri" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">That
glossolalia can be learned is also seen in the traces left behind by
teachers. An investigation by the </span></span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutheran_Medical_Center"><span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face=""calibri" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Lutheran
Medical Center</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span face=""calibri" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"> in
Brooklyn showed that the influence of a particular leader can shape a
group's glossolalia: where certain prominent glossolalists had
visited, whole groups of glossolalists would speak in his style of
speech.</span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""calibri" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span style="color: black;">Kavan
found that most New Zealand Pentecostals and Charismatics did not
experience trance except during the baptism of the spirit. However,
meditators in a yoga-based purification group experienced frequent
intense trances, of which glossolalia was an occasional
manifestation. Kavan suggested that there are two types of
glossolalia – spontaneous and context-dependent – and the former
is more likely to occur in groups that are radical, experiential and
charismatically led.</span><span style="color: black;">
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<a href="http://www.inplainsite.org/html/tongues.html"><span style="color: #773417;"><span face=""verdana" , "tahoma" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Tongues</b></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;"><span face=""verdana" , "tahoma" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif , sans-serif">Pentecostals,
members of the Assemblies of God churches, and some other
charismatics usually place great emphasis on spiritual "gifts
and manifestations, claiming that there is a special post-salvation
gift/experience called the "Baptism of the Holy Spirit" or
"Second Blessing", in which the Holy Spirit, in all His
fullness, is poured out on the believer and that the initial evidence
of this "Second Blessing" is speaking in other tongues as
the Spirit gives utterance. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span face=""verdana" , "tahoma" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif , sans-serif">When someone is "overcome by the
Spirit" they often begin speaking gibberish, wave their arms, or
even fall writhing on the floor. Apparently the speaker is said to be
possessed by the Holy Spirit with the person himself having no
control over his own tongue, which is is usually taken as absolute
proof that one has been baptized in the Spirit, a highly prized
spiritual goal.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span face=""verdana" , "tahoma" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif , sans-serif">But if, as shown, tongues were a known language
in the New Testament and there is absolutely no evidence to show that
it was some form of ecstatic speech, and Paul instructed that
everything was to be done decently and in order, where does the the
unintelligible gibberish, jerking, twitching, falling on the floor
etc. all come from? Is it even possible that the <a href="http://www.jewfaq.org/human.htm">devil</a> has
substituted the true gift of tongues with a knock-off version? Has
the allure of receiving some form of deeper spiritual experience
deceived countless millions into accepting this counterfeit?</span></span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">-</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Know there is a God. Don't believe in other gods. God is one. Love God. Fear God. Don't be misled by your heart and eyes. Every moment of awareness is another occasion to actualize these goals. None of the other mitzvot has that same constant opportunity, and that's why the Six Constant Mitzvot are our priority. All the other mitzvot only build and bolster these goals.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="color: #0b5394;">INTELLECTUAL KNOWLEDGE OF GOD</span> The first of the Ten Commandments declares: "I am the Lord your God who brought you out of Egypt" (Exodus 20:2).</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">This is the mitzvah (commandment) to "Know there is a God."</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">The logic underlying this commandment seems difficult to understand. Someone who already observe God's commandments obviously believes in His existence -- so what need is there for a new command to do so? And if someone doesn't know that God exists, why should he listen to this command?!</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">So exactly who is this mitzvah for?</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">The answer is that we should not believe in God "on faith" alone. Investigate the evidence. Get knowledge. Research. Study. Analyze. It is a fundamental principle of Judaism: You have to know, not just believe.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="color: #0b5394;">EMOTIONAL TRUST</span> "You shall know this day, and understand it in your heart, that the Almighty is God" (Deut. 4:39, the "Aleynu" prayer).</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">But there's more. It is not enough to intellectually know that God is in charge of everything. You must also know it in your heart. This emotional knowledge is much more profound, because it affects how a person actually conducts his life.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">The circus performer is willing to walk the tightrope because he is confident there's a net below to catch him. Similarly, a child will jump down off a ledge into his father's arms, completely confident that his father will catch him.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">The whole point of life is to strengthen your awareness of God. How do you know if you're really aware of God? Through trust. If you are, then you are willing to walk the tightrope, so to speak, or jump into your father's arms.[a]</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">In the First Book of Kings chapter 22 we are introduced to Zedekiah son of Chenaanah. This Zedekiah prophesied to King Ahab but his prophecy was false. Michaiah, who was a true prophet of God, described how Zedekiah had been misled. Michaiah describes God’s heavenly court sitting in judgment over Ahab. The court seeks to destroy Ahab and a medium is sought to accomplish this goal. A spirit is sent forth to persuade Ahab to go to battle where he will meet his fate. This spirit sent from on high was a real experience that Zedekiah and the other false prophets truly felt. But it was sent to mislead and to confuse.</span></span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><p dir="ltr" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;">Hi there, I needed to post a comment somewhere where people could gain confirmation about any of their suspicions regarding Potters House. My aim of this post is to help anyone feeling trapped or losing their joy of Christianity through this supposed church.</p><p dir="ltr" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;">I got saved in April 2014 and was accepted into the church with open arms, i thought this was strange but quite wonderful at first, i was helped and promised god had a special role for me. I went to church on a Sunday morning and attended bible study to increase my bible knowledge. Sounds okay so far doesn't it? Well after about 2 months I was pressured to attend twice on a Sunday which was running up my fuel bill by 120 miles a month and it was difficult to refuse as the pressure of god and my pastor were bearing down on me. Then we were pressured to attend outreach on Saturdays which my wife and i had very little time together with her supporting me on a part time job whilst i retrained at college. So by 3 months that was Sundays twice, Thursday evenings, then Saturdays and then all the conferences that last for days, and then the prayers at their house every morning (i refused) and then the concerts which we were encouraged to attend which were on Mondays plus fellowships.</p><p dir="ltr" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;">I was put under pressure by the pastor and his wife to quit college to become a pastor which he was told by god was my role in the church and i said no, this was not well received as was my questioning of their interpretation of the bible either. I was told not to have knowledge which is unbiblical as we are asked to question and test the teachers and this made my pastor angry. I watched him not heal anyone and blame the lack of healing on their faith. We went to increasingly creepy fellowship which became clearer that these were people to monitor us. We were asked to forsake family and friends for the church which isolates you from any outside influences and you feel trapped and dammed for every thought.<br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;">I used to be a teacher and have qualifications in the double figures so when i start to research my mind is like a sponge and the more i questioned i noticed how ignorant long standing members knew little about the bible, even after 21 or more years. I had an arguement with my pastor and his wife about tribulation and suffering and he couldn't find his teaching for half an hour in the bible and his wife got angry and dismissed me having knowledge... he had been doing it for 18 years.<br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;">My pastors wife took it upon herself to start checking up on us with drop ins to my wifes work and inviting herself round to our house when she felt fit. We were pressured to tithe which we could not afford either and I had problems with this as well and said it was no longer required by the bible and that i am broke all the time and he got angry again saying why has it worked for others then? (implying i had a lack of faith..again). My interpretation of the holy spirit and speaking in tongues makes no sense with PH thinking as an utterance does not mean babbling and tongues was used as a reference for other languages.</p><p dir="ltr" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;">Also what really got my goat as it were, was the continual reference to "god told me this and that" this is new revelation direct from god if it were true making him a prophet and they were always right biblically 100%, he is already wrong about me being a pastor and numerous other revelations. He also said that his healing powers sometimes work and sometimes don't? Did the apostles heal people 100% or only sometimes....I thought so.</p><p dir="ltr" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;">The final straw was telling my 24 year old friend at Potters House who has been given less than 12 months to live due to cancer who left the church to go and die without causing distress to anyone... her pastor said she would lose her way with god if she didn't keep going to church! What! How could anyone say that to a dying woman who will meet god very shortly and a good and brave christian even sleep at night.</p><p dir="ltr" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;">If you are stuck in this church it is cultic, oppressive, militant, ignorant and perverting the word of god. You need to leave this church as quickly as possible, if you are saved god allows you grace to learn and develop in your worship and when they put the holy spirit in you do you not think it is possible that after it inspired the bible writings that when he sees it corrupted wants you to leave, or alternatively you can suppress it until you become a mindless, pennyless drone with no knowledge of what you are doing or any insight to the grace of god. Go read your bible and have fellowship with other friends who are of the same thinking, follow the word of god and the fruit of gods word will blossom in you regardless of being in Potters House. According to them they are the only people going to heaven but you need knowledge and not to put your faith in paying money for god to pour his blessings on you, everything done in your life is gods will and grace and you cannot change his mind about how he does it by tithing, speaking in gibberish, or having continual supernatural powers.</p><p dir="ltr" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;">I have just scratched the surface to warn you and help you. Have a look at Strange fire conference on you tube which i found helpful and informative, Potters House has caused horrendous damage to many across the world and may also be a part of a larger corruption of Christianity in these troubled times. bless you.<b> [7] </b></p></span></span>
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It has come to my attention that certain members of my people have been promulgating a doctrine that distorts the essence of the teaching that we were entrusted with.</div>
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You have heard how the Creator of all took us out of Egypt with signs and wonders and how He taught us His Torah through national revelation and through His prophet. The open miracles that God preformed for us spread our reputation as the possessors of God’s Law. These men of whom I speak, exploited our reputation as possessors of God’s truth, and they spread a teaching that has no basis in the Torah that God has bequeathed to us.</div>
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These teachers taught you that all of mankind is damned before God to eternal punishment. They taught that if a person commits one sin it is as if he or she violated all of the commandments. These men taught that the God of Israel will not forgive your sins unless you present a blood sacrifice. These men taught that the God of Israel is unapproachable. And they taught that the good deeds that you do will not bring you any closer to God.</div>
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All of these teachings are blatant falsehoods. As a member of the people who were entrusted with God’s Law, I see it as my duty to correct these falsehoods that were taught as if they were the Law of my God.</div>
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God does NOT condemn everyone to the fires of eternal damnation. You can search the Jewish Scriptures from cover to cover; you will not find one verse that supports such a teaching.</div>
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A person who commits one sin is NOT equivalent in God’s eyes as if they violated the entirety of the Law. The Scriptures explicitly teach that God judges every deed, both bad and good (Ecclesiastes12:14). The conscience that God breathed into all of us tells us that there is a great difference in God’s eyes between a person who lived a moral life on the one hand and a person who lived a life of cruelty and immorality on the other hand.</div>
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The Jewish Scriptures do NOT teach that God requires blood sacrifice for the forgiveness of sin. The Scriptures openly declare that if you turn to God in sincere repentance, God will forgive you (Isaiah 55:7).</div>
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The Jewish Scriptures do NOT teach that God is unapproachable. On the contrary, our prophets declare that God is close to all who call upon Him in truth (Psalm 145:18).</div>
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If I were to say that the good deeds that you do will bring you closer to God, I will not have said enough. Our prophets taught us that the practice of justice IS intimacy with God (Jeremiah 22:16). When we follow the universal principle of justice: “that which you hate done unto yourself, do not do unto others”, we allow God’s truth to penetrate into our psyche. When we recognize the grace of God’s goodness that is expressed in every detail of existence, and we are moved to take the goodness that we were blessed with and allow it to flow towards another creation of God, we have then connected to the kindness and love of God. It is not that these activities bring us closer to God. The practice of kindness and truth are a connection to God in and of themselves.</div>
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There is one more false teaching that these men have propagated in the name of the Torah of my God. They have encouraged people to direct their hearts in worship of and in devotion to a man who walked God’s earth and breathed God’s air like the rest of us.</div>
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If there is any teaching that is contrary to the Torah with which we were entrusted it is this one.</div>
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My nation was called upon by God to serve as His witnesses (Isaiah 43:10). God taught us that there is none beside Him that is worthy of our worship and devotion (Deuteronomy4:35). Our core duty as a witness nation before God is to remain loyal to the truth that all created beings are equally subservient to the One Creator of all. Every facet of our existence, including our ability to love and to worship belongs to God and to God alone. It is my duty as a Jew to testify to you that your heart belongs to the One Almighty God who loved your heart into existence in the first place.</div>
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There is no greater joy on earth than approaching your Creator in heartfelt prayer. You don’t need anyone to plead for you and you don’t need to bring Him a blood sacrifice. The One who lovingly created every facet of your existence will accept you. All you have to do is to trust in His love.</div>
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We completely agree with what this rabbi says. Give a listen!</div>
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<span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #fafafa; font-size: 15px;"><br /></span><a href="http://natzrim.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-new-revised-covenant-of-christianity.html"><span style="color: red;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: large;">See:</span><span style="font-size: 15px;"> </span></span><b style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">The New <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">revised</em> Covenant Of Christianity</b></span></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , sans-serif"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "calibri"; line-height: 22px; text-align: justify;">"God changed his mind about people having to follow his perfect</span><em style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Calibri; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> (Psa 19:7)</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "calibri"; line-height: 22px; text-align: justify;"> and eternal</span><em style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Calibri; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> (Psa 119:152,160)</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "calibri"; line-height: 22px; text-align: justify;"> laws and replaced them with a new system of faith in a human sacrifice</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "calibri"; line-height: 22px; text-align: justify;">." </span></span><br />
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background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; clear: both; color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></h2><div style="text-align: center;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: red;">BONUS!!!</span></strong></div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: left;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="clearfix" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; 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border: none; height: auto; margin: 5px 5px 0px; max-width: 622px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-1107" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #777777; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, "Nimbus Sans L", sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 5px 5px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Is teaching children about hell akin to child abuse?</p></div></div><div class="_5k3v _5k3w clearfix" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I was reading Psalm 78 this morning and this verse stood out and started a train of thought that ended up in this note:</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Nevertheless, He, the Merciful One, is forgiving of iniquity and does not destroy: frequently He withdraws His anger, not rousing His entire wrath.”</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">As I read this verse came to mind ‘but Thou wilt not leave his (it’s ‘my’ too many years of listening to Handel’s Messiah) soul in hell, neither wilt Thou suffer Thine Holy One to see corruption.”</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">As I read that, I was prompted to begin searching out what the KJV had to say and what the TaNaK had to say. So, out came the Strong’s Concordance and the KJV (I don’t use it anymore) and out came the TaNak and I began to check out the references to ‘hell’ and after only checking about half a dozen and finding that none of them were anything like how they are recorded in the TaNaK, I knew it was time to do some further study and also to write a note…so here we are.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">As I was raised on a diet of ‘hell fire and damnation’, writing this will hopefully prove to be a purgative. I was raised in the same fear of hel that my late mother was. When she had ‘sinned’, she was taken to the open fire in the lounge and told ‘see that…that’s ice cream in hell’. She grew up with an overt fear of fire, and often told me that she would have nightmares about it, waking up in the middle of the night screaming after some vivid nightmare; after which she would wake her father and get him to check the house to make sure it was safe.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This horrid ‘nt’ doctrine of hell amongst many other ‘sacred cows’ of xtianity and messyanics needs to be slain, and I do trust that this will in some way be the means of helping some people realise that these cows can be slain for they are the product of deceivers. I came back to this paragraph to add this..>> Even typing these references out I can feel the old fear, and while I now believe so differently, these ‘feelings’ serve to measure how deep the depths really are to which the fear has been deposited and laid down over decades of false teaching.<br />I will quote the KJV text first. I wrestled with this for a while and knew it was the way to go, so we you can see the error first and then the truth. In some instances the preceding verse is quoted to give the correct context of the word ‘hell’ and accordingly the TaNaK is extended to give the truest picture possible. I will highlight the word ‘hell’ in the KJV.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There are twenty eight references in the KJV Old Testament to ‘hell’ and it is Strong’s H7585 in every usage. It means:</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">שְׁאֹל שְׁאוֹל<br />she’ôl she’ôl<br />sheh-ole’, sheh-ole’<br />From H7592; hades or the world of the dead (as if a subterranean retreat), including its accessories and inmates: – grave, hell, pit.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">As you will see, ‘hell’ is not the first choice of the translator, whereas hell, the second choice is! Why? To deceive, that is why. Grave is word that is used in the TaNaK. So, with ‘grave’ being the first choice word, why did they not use it? To instill fear into the hearts of the readers, that is why; fears that if people do not not accept the false messiah of christianity and messianics, then they are going to roast in hell!! Roast in hell because they refuse to accept a demi-god? There are of course references in the nt to ‘hell’, however, because it is not Scripture there is no point in using them.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">So, let us commence.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1: KJV Deuteronomy 32:22</b> “For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest <b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">hell,</b> and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.”</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">TaNaK “</b>For fire will have been kindled in My nostrils and blazed to the lowest depths. It shall consume the earth and it’s produce, and set ablaze what is founded on the mountains.<b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></b></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">NO mention of hell.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2:</b> <b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2 Samuel 22:5-7</b> “When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid; 22:6 The sorrows of<b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> hell </b>compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me; 22:7 In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears.”</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">TaNaK</b> <b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></b>“When the pains of death encircled me and torrents of godless men would frighten me, the pains of the grave surrounded me, the snares of death confronted me – in my distress I would call upon HASHEM, and to my God I would call.”</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">NO mention of hell.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">3: Job 11:7 – 8</b> “Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? 11:8 It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than<b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> hell;</b> what canst thou know?”</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">TaNaK </b> “Can you achieve an understanding of God? Can you fathom the extent of the Almighty? It is like the heights of heaven; what can you do [to understand]? It is deeper than the Pit; what can you know?”</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">NO mention of hell.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">4: Job 26:6</b> <b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Hell</b> is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.”</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">TaNaK </b>“The grave is naked, and there is no covering for doom;….”</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">NO mention of hell.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">5: Psalm 9:17</b> “The wicked shall be turned into <b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></b><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">hell</b><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></b>, and all the nations that forget God.”</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">TaNaK Psalm 9:18 </b>“The wicked will return to the depths of the grave, all the nations that forget God.”</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">NO mention of hell</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">6: Psalm 16:10</b> “For thou wilt not leave my soul in <b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">hell</b> neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">TaNaK </b>“Because You will not abandon my soul to the grave, You will not allow Your devout one to witness destruction.”</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">NO mention of hell.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">7: Psalm 18:5</b> “The sorrows of <b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">hell</b> compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.”</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">TaNaK </b>“The pains of death encircled me, and torrents of godless men would frighten me.”</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">NO mention of hell.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">8: Psalm 55:15</b> “Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into<b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> hell</b>: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.”</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">TaNaK Psalm 55:16 </b>“May He incite death against them, may they descend to the grave alive; for evil is in their dwelling with them.”</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">NO mention of hell.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">9 :Psalm 86:13</b> “For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest<b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> hell</b>.”</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">TaNaK</b> <b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></b>“For Your kindness towards me is great, and You have rescued my soul from the nethermost depth..”</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">10: Psalm 116:3 “</b>The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of <b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">hell</b> gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.”</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">TaNaK </b>“The pains of death encircled me; the confines of the grave have found me; distress and grief I would find.”</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">NO mention of hell.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">11: Psalm 139:8 </b> “If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in <b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">hell</b>, behold, thou art there.”</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">TaNaK </b>“If I ascend to heaven, You are there; if I make my bed in the lowest depths, behold, You are there…..”</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">NO mention of hell.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">12: Proverbs 5:5</b> “Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on <b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">hell.</b>”</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">TaNaK </b> “Her feet lead to death; her footsteps support her to the grave”</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">No mention of hell.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> 13: Proverbs 7:27 </b>“Her house is the way to <b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">hell,</b> going down to the chambers of death.”<b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </b></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">TaNaK </b> “Her house is the way to the grave, descending to the chambers of death.”<b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </b></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">NO mention of hell.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">14: Proverbs 9:18 </b>“But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of<b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> hell</b>.”</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">TaNaK </b>“But he does not know that dead men are there, those that she invites are in the deepest grave.”</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">NO mention of hell.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">15: Proverbs 15:11 </b>“<b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hell</b> and destruction are before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?”</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">TaNaK</b> “The grave and perdition are exposed to HASHEM, surely the hearts of men”</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">16: Proverbs 15:24</b> <b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“</b>The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from<b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> hell</b>beneath.”</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">TaNaK </b>“A path of life [waits] above for the intelligent one, so that his soul will turn away from the grave below.”</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">NO mention of hell.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">17: Proverbs 23:14 </b> <b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“</b>Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from<b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">hell</b> ”</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">TaNaK</b> “You should strike him with the rod and you will rescue his soul from the grave.”</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">NO mention of hell.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">18: Proverbs 27:20</b> “<b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hell</b> and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.”</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">TaNaK</b> “[As] the grave and Gehinnom are not sated [so]the eyes of man are not sated.”</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">NO mention of hell.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">19:<b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Isaiah 5:14</b> <b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></b>“Therefore<b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> hell</b> hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.”</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">TaNaK</b> “Therefore, the nether-world has enlarged it’s appetite and opened its mouth wide without limit; and [into it] will descend her glory and the multitude and her horde, and whosoever revels within her.”</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">NO mention of hell.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">20: Isaiah 14:9 </b> <b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Hell</b> from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.”</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">TaNaK </b> “The nether-world from below trembles for you to greet your arrival; it has awakened the giants for you, all the leaders of the world, it has raised all the kings of the land out of their thrones.”</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">NO mention of hell. <b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></b></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">21: Isaiah 14:15</b> “Yet thou shalt be brought down to<b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> hell</b>, to the sides of the pit.”</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">TaNaK </b>“But to the nether-world have you been lowered, to the bottom of the pit.”</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">NO mention of hell.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">22: Isaiah 28:15 </b> “Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with<b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">hell</b> are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:”</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">TaNaK </b> “For you say, “We have sealed a covenant with death, and made a compact with the Grave; when the surging staff [of punishment] passes through it will not come to us, for we have made Deceit our shelter and taken refuge in Falsehood.”</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">NO mention of hell.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">23: Isaiah 57:9</b> “And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase thyself even unto <b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">hell.</b> ”</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">TaNaK </b> “You sent a tribute of oil to the king and prepared numerous spice mixtures [for him]; you dispatched your agents afar, and you demeaned yourself as low as the grave.”</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">NO mention of hell.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">24: Ezekiel 31:16 </b> “I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to<b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> hell</b> with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth.”</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">TaNaK </b>“I made the nations tremble at the sound of his fall, when I brought him down to the grave with those who descend to the pit; then all the trees of Eden were comforted in the nethermost earth, the choicest and best of the Lebanon, all those that drink water.”</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">NO mention of hell.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">25: Ezekiel 32:27</b> “And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to<b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> hell</b> with their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.”</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">TaNaK </b>“They will not lie with the mighty, for they are inferior to those uncircumcised who have descended to the grave with their weapons of war, and they placed their swords under their heads; for their iniquities remain upon them, for the terror of [these] was in the Land of Life.”</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">NO mention of hell.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">26: Amos 9:1-2</b> ” I saw the Lord standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered. 9:2 Though they dig into <b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">hell</b>, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down:”</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">TaNaK </b>“I saw the Lord standing upon the Altar, and He said: Strike the lintel and the side posts will quake ; and shatter the head of them all, and the rest of them I will slay by the sword; no fugitive among them will flee and no refugee among them will escape. If they did down into the grave, from there My hand will take the; and if they ascend to the heavens, from there I will bring them down.”</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">NO mention of hell.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">27: Jonah 2:1-2</b> ” Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish’s belly, “And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of <b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">hell</b> cried I, and thou heardest my voice.”</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">TaNaK Jonah 2:2-3 </b>“Jonah prayed to HASHEM, his God, from the fish’s innards, and said: I called in my distress, to HASHEM, and He answered m: from the belly of the grave I cried out – You heard my voice.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">NO mention of hell.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">28: Habbakuk 2:5</b> “Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as <b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">hell</b>,<b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </b>and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:”</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">TaNaK </b> “The [man of] wine also acts treacherously; he is an arrogant man and does not stay at home. He has widened his soul like the grave and, like death, he is not satisfied He gathered unto himself all nations and assembled unto himself all the peoples.”</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">NO mention of hell.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">So, why all this scaremongering by the nt authors??? Fear fear fear to keep us in bondage and to get us to accept the false messiah of either the christians or the messianics.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">So without the kjv et al and of course the funny supplement (the nt) we would not have the fear of death that it has sown into the hearts of billions and caused just as many to believe in a fake messiah be that jesus or yeshua and dependent on whether you believe in a demi-god or not depends where you go at death!! It matters not which one, for both are idolatrous and the idea of a god-man is rooted in mythology and has nothing at all to do with belief in the G-D of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob…NOTHING at all.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It is because of the centuries of nt conditioning that xtians and messyanics have sat through that we have this immense foundation of fear rooted deception that needs to be broken up, and the only way that it can be broken up is to digest and digest the TaNaK, that is the antidote and good solid teaching by the likes of Rabbi Michael Skobac, Rabbi Tovia Singer Rabbi Stuart Federow….If I have left your favorite RAbbi off, then it was not by design, so please forgive me.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The nt ‘hell’ is known as Gehinnom in the TaNaK and is a place of cleansing, nothing at all like what centuries of Sunday preaching has taught it to be.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">If any christian or messianic reads this then I pray that HaShem will open your heart and your eyes to see that your fathers, like mine and many before me have been lied to. Please read Jeremiah 16:19 from the TaNaK.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“HASHEM, my Strength, my Stronghold and my Refuge on the day of distress! To You nations will come from the ends of the earth and say: “It was all falsehood that our ancestors inherited, futility that has no purpose. Can a man make gods for himself? – they are not gods.”!</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">So, what to do? Buy a TaNaK and a TaNaK is not a kjv/et minus the nt, it is the Hebrew Scriptures, and see what our Scriptures say. As you read. pray and pray and pray again, and you will be surprised at the truth that comes to light. I know I was.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">To the glory of HASHEM is this set forth, and with the prayer that many will be caused to question their belief in what they have been told hell is, because the truth is very different from the lies that we have been told.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">All TaNaK Scriptures are from the Artscroll Stone edition of the TaNaK.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I want to thank HASHEM! Blessed be His Set-Apart Name for inspiring me to write this.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I also want to thank a very good friend of mine in Arizona for prompting me to add some personal details to this article..Thank you.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/david-john-husband/hellit-is-not-what-the-kjv-tells-you-it-is/1028314970541892" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Source: </a></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic;">There is no biblical basis for this teaching!</span></p><blockquote style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3em; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="15027425_1306018759451025_7498620820334333046_n" class=" size-full wp-image-2478 aligncenter" data-attachment-id="2478" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="15027425_1306018759451025_7498620820334333046_n" data-large-file="https://acquiescere9.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/15027425_1306018759451025_7498620820334333046_n.jpg?w=640" data-medium-file="https://acquiescere9.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/15027425_1306018759451025_7498620820334333046_n.jpg?w=300" data-orig-file="https://acquiescere9.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/15027425_1306018759451025_7498620820334333046_n.jpg" data-orig-size="720,720" data-permalink="https://acquiescere9.wordpress.com/2015/08/13/hell-it-is-not-what-the-kjv-tells-you-it-is/15027425_1306018759451025_7498620820334333046_n/" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" src="https://acquiescere9.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/15027425_1306018759451025_7498620820334333046_n.jpg?w=640" srcset="https://acquiescere9.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/15027425_1306018759451025_7498620820334333046_n.jpg?w=640 640w, https://acquiescere9.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/15027425_1306018759451025_7498620820334333046_n.jpg?w=150 150w, https://acquiescere9.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/15027425_1306018759451025_7498620820334333046_n.jpg?w=300 300w, https://acquiescere9.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/15027425_1306018759451025_7498620820334333046_n.jpg 720w" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />Friends, there is nothing just nor loving about this doctrine nor about a god who would create billions of beings solely to torture them throughout eternity. This is NOT the God of the Bible!</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Know The Facts</b></p><ul style="background: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 24px 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There is no biblical basis for this teaching.</li><li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">HaShem can do <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">anything</span> and He could easily make another option for those who do not accept His alleged way of salvation. Therefore if Hell existed it would be God sending people there (God forbid). Such a thing violates everything we know about Him.</li><li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There is no evidence that anyone from the Abrahamic traditions living in the first century C.E. conceived of such a post-life horror.</li><li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Many Pagans did believe in such horrors then and now and the Jews rightly viewed them as savages because of it.</li><li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Not a single person in the Gospel accounts ever challenged Jesus as to the origins of this non-Jewish teaching he allegedly taught. Surely some rabbi would have questioned it had Jesus actually taught it.</li><li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The doctrine directly challenges the biblical assurances that God is Loving and Just (example: Deuteronomy 32:4).</li><li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Most “Bible believing Christians” believe many unbiblical and even anti-biblical teachings. Constantine outlawed the Sabbath and replaced it with the day of the sun god. The wide acceptance of beliefs within Christendom do not make them biblical.</li></ul><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">What the Bible Teaches. See More at <a href="http://allfaith.com/afterlife/afterlife.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">http://allfaith.com/afterlife/afterlife.html</a></b></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">‘For a religion who loves the Bible so much, it is very telling that the study of the Bible/Tanach in its original Hebrew is avoided and not promoted in any way. The reason Christians don’t study the Tanach/Bible in Hebrew is that many of the so-called “prophecies” of the NT would fall apart if examined in the original Hebrew.’</strong></p></blockquote></div></strong></div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: center;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><a href="https://acquiescere9.wordpress.com/2015/08/13/hell-it-is-not-what-the-kjv-tells-you-it-is/">https://acquiescere9.wordpress.com/2015/08/13/hell-it-is-not-what-the-kjv-tells-you-it-is/</a></b></span></div><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;">
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[3]<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> <a href="http://johnofallfaith.xanga.com/771231327/the-first-250-years-of-the-christian-religion/">http://johnofallfaith.xanga.com/</a></span><br />
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[4] <a href="http://yourphariseefriend.wordpress.com/2013/07/07/the-experience-of-the-false-prophet/">http://yourphariseefriend.wordpress.com/2013/07/07/the-experience-of-the-false-prophet/</a><br />
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[5] <span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3em; white-space: pre-line;">TeNaK Talk </span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.9px; white-space: pre-line;"><a href="http://tenaktalk.com/">http://tenaktalk.com/</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">[6] <span face="Montserrat, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px;"><b>A 5 part documentary of short videos exposing The Door as a cult. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.mitchellism.com/english/media/behind-the-door-documentary-series/">https://www.mitchellism.com/english/media/behind-the-door-documentary-series/</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">[7] <a href="https://www.discerningtruth.org/showthread.php?118-Potter-s-House-Christian-Fellowship-a-cult">https://www.discerningtruth.org/showthread.php?118-Potter-s-House-Christian-Fellowship-a-cult</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">[8] Unbiblical Hell Doctrine of the Roman Church</div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://acquiescere9.wordpress.com/2015/08/13/hell-it-is-not-what-the-kjv-tells-you-it-is/">https://acquiescere9.wordpress.com/2015/08/13/hell-it-is-not-what-the-kjv-tells-you-it-is/</a></div>
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Actually this episode is not so much about Bernie, as it is about the total and complete collapse of the Democratic Party, which by default—includes their symbiotes in the traditional broadcast media.</div>
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Their utter incompetence is a direct result of putting <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 900; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">politics above EVERYTHING</span>…which fell in line with the former DNC Chair (2005-09) Howard Dean’s philosophy of <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 900; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Permanent Campaign Mode</span>.</div>
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And in 2008, newly elected POTUS, Barack Obama, <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the community organizer in chief</em>— embraced this permanent campaign– and lifted it to <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">heights only Marxists dream of.</em></div>
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Everything became hyper-political. The Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts,, Hollywood, news, sports, entertainment….<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 900; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">even the freaking WEATHER</span> is now political..</div>
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Democrats propose solutions to <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">‘problems that don’t or rarely exist’</em> and their results are an embarrassment— many times causing problems that never existed in the first place. [SEE: Medieval Diseases in California]</div>
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<li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Obama’s EPA turning rivers orange in Colorado</li>
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<li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Allowing people to defecate on the street</li>
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<li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">impeachment without a crime</li>
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Thank goodness they always have us to blame.</div>
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Great job!<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Please remember,</div>
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Trump is great BUT, he needs our help.</div>
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Don't only vote Trump.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Do your part to clean the swamp.</div>
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Vote out the seats that Mike Bloomberg bought in the house and Senate.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Like, Mitt Romney seat.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Nancy Pelosi seat.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chuck Schumer seat.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />AOC seat many more.</div>
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Vote out swamp in your local and state as well.</div>
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Vote out clean out the swamp in our schools boards.</div>
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We all need to be in waste management.</div>
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The TRASH has to go.</div>
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Not only keep America great. Let's keep it clean as well.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />It's our duty and our turn to do what's right for our kids future.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />If we don't the democratic plantation will do it for you.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Think about it.</div>
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How can you tell that the Democrats don't even expect to win in 2020?</div>
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The Russia stuff is back on the table and it's now being used to push claims that Russia is once again backing Trump. This is all but an admission that they don't expect to win in 2020 and so they're preemptively going to claim that the election was rigged.</div>
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren told MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell: "This is a national security threat. If Americans come to conclude that the result of an election - any election - is not true, that is it is not really based on how Americans voted, then that undercuts our democracy."</div>
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The only reason any Americans think that is because MSNBC, Warren and her fellow Dems keep falsely claiming it.</div>
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What exactly is Russia doing to help Trump?</div>
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Believe it or not, after poring through multiple articles on the topic, including the original ones from the New York Times and the Washington Post, there's no actual answer.</div>
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It's almost as if these guys make this stuff up and assume that their base won't even notice that there isn't anything inside the cover.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"So, this Meme is going around on Facebook, with the hashtag “No Need for Jesus,” (and even though that is not his original name), I am outraged by these insinuations!</span></h5>
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I am going to respond to all seven of these false accusations against our Messiah one-by-one (as I have the time during my travels).</div>
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The first thing that I want to address is this notion that our Messiah was supposedly a “human sacrifice.”</div>
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When somebody is willing to die in order to uphold the Mosaic Law (Towrah), they are not offering themselves as a human sacrifice!</div>
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Some examples are, the prophet Daniel who refused to bow to another false deity, and he was threatened with death by the Lion's Den. Daniel was willing to die rather than to violate Towrah!</div>
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Another example is Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego when they refused to bow to the golden image of Nebuchadnezzar, and they too were threatened with being cast alive into a furnace. They were willing to die rather than violate Towrah!</div>
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During the Maccabean Revolt in 164 B.C. all those Jewish martyrs who were slaughtered in the days of Antiochus Ephiphanes (because they refused to violate the Mosaic Law) fall under the category of a law found in the Talmud.</div>
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In the Babylonian Talmud, (Makkot 23b-24a), it says:</div>
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“Three types of negative commandments fall under the yehareg ve’al ya’avor, meaning ‘One should let himself be killed rather than violate it.’”</div>
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These Towrah commands for which the Talmud states that we should be willing to die for rather than to violate are: murder, idolatry, and forbidden sexual relations.</div>
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This begs the question: “Which of these commandments did Yahuwshuwa allow himself to be killed for, rather than to violate them?”</div>
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To find out, please see this blog entitled:</div>
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Exodus 21:30 says that if the owner of an Ox kills a person, (and it has previously been known to hurt people), the Ox and it's owner must both die. The owner of the Ox may also pay money instead of his life for a RANSOM. Our Messiah did both! He offered up his life, and he also paid the Bride Price!</div>
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Exodus 21:30 If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the RANSOM of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.</div>
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The “Ox” (the aleph, or first-born) is symbolic of Yisra'el, and they were known to kill all the prophets who were sent to them! Therefore, our Messiah (being the owner of the Ox) offered his life as a RANSOM!</div>
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Matthew 20:28 Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a RANSOM for many.</div>
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Our Messiah was in fact, portraying the “twin goats” for Yom Kippur, as well as the “one-year old male lamb” for Passover (Exodus 12:5).</div>
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Not only that, but he was also portraying the “red heifer” for the cleansing of the altar (see Numbers 19). The red heifer was not killed inside the Temple! The red heifer is the only sacrifice that was done OUTSIDE THE CITY LIMITS OF JERUSALEM!</div>
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To understand fully what our Messiah did for us, we must understand that he was actually fulfilling all the sacrifices in the Abrahamic Covenant seen in Genesis 15:9 (a 3-year old heifer; a 3-year old she-goat; a 3-year old ram; a turtledove and a young pigeon).</div>
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Our Messiah came to CONFIRM THE ABRAHAMIC COVENANT, see this blog entitled:</div>
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Yes, it is true that the lamb in Leviticus 4:32 for a sin offering is a female (because Eve being female was the first to sin). However our Messiah fulfilled the pattern of the twin goats on Yom Kippur for Both Houses of Yisra'el.</div>
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The meme is not taking into account the ordinance for Yom Kippur in Leviticus 16, which uses twin goats.</div>
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According to the instructions in Leviticus 16, one goat is killed as a sin offering, and the other is “sent away into the wilderness,” called the scapegoat.</div>
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The Hebrew word for the twin goats in Leviticus 16:7 is “sayir,” which literally means “a he-goat.” The Hebrew word for “scapegoat,” is “azazel,” the root-word being “az,” (a she-goat). However, it is obvious that since the priest had to cast lots to determine which goat was killed and which one was sent away, both goats had to be the same gender, which would be male.</div>
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Our Messiah, Yahuwshuwa, fulfilled the pattern of the Yom Kippur Twin Goats forty days before he began his ministry on Yom Kippur (see Luke 4). His cousin John (a Levite) was the legitimate High Priest that year in the eyes of the Father, (while Caiaphas was an impostor).</div>
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So, yes, as the sin offering, he was indeed brought before the High Priest (his cousin John) according to Deuteronomy 12:13-14!</div>
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2.) The one where Abraham offered up his son, Isaac at the base of the Mount of Olives (this is where Messiah was sacrificed at the place of the Skull!)</div>
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John was the one who “selected” the Yom Kippur goat when he announced, “Behold the Lamb, who takes away the sin of the world!” (John 1:29-36)</div>
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At his baptism, he was portraying the role of the “Yom Kippur” sacrificial goat who would later die for the sins of Both Houses of Yisra’el. Baptism is a metaphor for death (see Romans 6:3-4). Immediately following his baptism, he was “sent into the wilderness” as the scapegoat for the Lost Sheep of the House of Yisra’el (the exiles).</div>
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Not only was he portraying himself as the Yom Kippur twin goats at his baptism, but he was also cleansing himself in preparation to be the High Priest (Melchizedek) after his 40-day fast in the wilderness (see Leviticus 16:4).</div>
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When he read the Isaiah 61 scroll in Luke 4, he was announcing himself as “Messiah” (the anointed one) and as the “High Priest” who “declared the acceptable year of YHWH.” Only the High Priest could “declare the acceptable year of YHWH” on Yom Kippur (see Numbers chapter 10).</div>
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The role of the High Priest was being transferred from the sons of Aaron, back to the original High Priest, Melchizedek when John the Baptist declared “I am not worthy to unloose his shoe-strap” (this is an allusion to the Levirate Marriage in Deuteronomy 25:5-10).</div>
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Our Messiah was the perfect sin offering that had no defect (symbolic of sin) according to Leviticus 22:22-25. His body was broken for us because his body was also symbolic of “Bread from heaven.”</div>
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Wheat must be broken, beaten, and finely milled before it can be made into bread. The stripes and the piercings on his body are seen on Unleavened Bread at Passover (Isaiah 53:5; Zechariah 12:10).</div>
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Our Messiah was killed as the Passover Lamb, which is not a sin offering! The Passover Lamb is a SUBSTITUTE FOR THE FIRST-BORN SONS!</div>
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Our Messiah fulfilled all the sacrifices of the Abrahamic Covenant in Genesis 15:9 in ONE FELL SWOOP!</div>
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To understand fully, how our Messiah portrayed the role of the Yom Kippur Twin Goats as well as the High Priest at the beginning of his ministry, see these two blogs below:</div>
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Messiah’s Forty Days of Fasting Leading Up to Yom Kippur!</div>
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The Yom Kippur Twin Goats Fulfilled in Messiah</div>
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Source:<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/chozenppl/permalink/3345295585495925/"> <span style="color: #385898; font-family: inherit;"><span style="cursor: pointer;"><b>Maria Merola Wold</b></span></span> <span style="color: #616770; font-family: inherit;"><span style="cursor: pointer; font-size: 12px;">June 22 at 9:53 AM</span></span></a></div>
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<span class="r_8d_yj799">The Christian idea of the messiah is that Jesus was the blood sacrifice that saves everyone from his or her sin. But who, exactly, died on that cross? If it was Jesus-the-god, that would mean that Gd can die. But how can Gd die? If it was only Jesus-the-human, then all Christians are left with is a human sacrifice. What, exactly, does Gd say about human sacrifice in the TaNaKH?</span></div>
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<span class="r_8d_yj799">In Deuteronomy, Gd calls human sacrifice something that Gd hates; an abomination to Gd.</span></div>
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<span class="r_8d_yj799">Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou inquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise. Thou shalt not do so unto the Etrnl thy Gd: for every abomination to the Etrnl, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods. [Deuteronomy 12:30-31]</span></div>
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In Jeremiah, Gd tells us that Human sacrifice is so horrible a concept, that it did not even come into Gd's mind.</div>
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Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents; They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spoke it, neither came it into my mind: Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Etrnl, that this place shall no more be called Tophet, nor The Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but The Valley of Slaughter. [Jeremiah 19:4-6]</div>
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Similarly, in Psalm 106 and in Ezekiel 16:</div>
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Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils, And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood. [Psalm 106:37-38]</div>
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Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter? [Ezekiel 16:20]</div>
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Some Christians might claim that Gd seemed to want human sacrifices, because Gd appeared to demand one from Abraham, when He commanded the sacrifice of Isaac. This is a misreading of the biblical text in Genesis. When one reads this section carefully, one sees something quite different.</div>
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Most Jewish biblical commentators interpret this incident as a test of Abraham's loyalty: Gd wanted to see if he would actually kill Isaac, his own son. However, a number of Jewish commentators from the medieval era, and many in the modern era as well, read the text somewhat differently. The early rabbinic midrash 'Genesis Rabbah' imagines Gd as saying 'I never considered telling Abraham to slaughter Isaac.' Rabbi Yona Ibn Janach (Spain, 11th century) wrote that Gd demanded only a symbolic sacrifice. Rabbi Yosef Ibn Caspi (Spain, early 14th century) wrote that Abraham's imagination led him astray, making him believe that he had been commanded to sacrifice his son. Ibn Caspi writes 'How could Gd command such a revolting thing?'</div>
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Rabbi Joseph H. Hertz (Chief Rabbi of the British Empire), writes that child sacrifice was actually 'rife among the Semitic peoples,' and suggests that 'in that age, it was astounding that Abraham's Gd should have interposed to prevent the sacrifice, not that He should have asked for it.' Hertz interprets the Binding of Isaac as demonstrating that human sacrifice is abhorrent. 'Unlike the cruel heathen deities, it was the spiritual surrender alone that Gd required.'</div>
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Let's examine the text:</div>
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And it came to pass after these things, that Gd did test Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am. And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of. [Genesis 22:1-2]</div>
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The text reads that Abraham should 'offer him there for a burnt offering'. It does not read that Gd told Abraham to kill him for a burnt offering!</div>
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The original Hebrew is actually even clearer on this issue. The Hebrew reads, 'v’ha-ah-ley-hu sham l’o-lah.' It translates as, 'Raise him up there FOR a sacrifice.' The text does not say that Gd demanded Isaac to BE a sacrifice, but rather only that he should be raised up for one.</div>
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Furthermore, a close reading of the text tells us that this was a test, and that Abraham did not pass it. What is the test to which Abraham is being put? Gd wants Abraham to tell Gd, 'NO! I WON’T DO IT!' Abraham had just defended people he did not know in Sodom and Gemorrah. So Gd's test of Abraham is whether or not he would defend his own family as vigorously as he had defended strangers. Like many of us, he did not. He flunked. Many of us, for example, will talk sweetly to a voice on the phone, get off the phone, and then speak disrespectfully to our kids or our spouse, treating others, even strangers, better than we treat those we love.</div>
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When the test is first put before Abraham, the day before he actually takes the knife, preparing to kill his own son, Gd speaks to him directly:</div>
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And it came to pass after these things, that Gd did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am. And He said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of. [Genesis 22:1-2]</div>
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Please not that it is Gd speaking directly to Abraham, and not an angel of Gd. However, after he takes hold of the knife, it is only an Angel of Gd who speaks to Abraham:</div>
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And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son. And the Angel of the Etrnl called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I. [Genesis 22:10-11]</div>
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And then later it is still only an Angel of Gd who speaks to Abraham:</div>
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And the Angel of the Etrnl called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time… [Genesis 22:15]</div>
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As a matter of fact, Gd never spoke directly to Abraham again. From the very moment that Abraham demonstrated his willingness to actually kill his son, Gd never again spoke directly to Abraham.</div>
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Note also that the promises of the Angel of Gd to Abraham are nothing new, they are only reiterating what Gd, directly, had already promised to him (cf. Gen. 12:2, 12:3, 12:7, 13:15, 13:16, 13:17, 15:1, 15:5, 15:7, 15:14, 15:18, 17:2, 17:4, 17:6, 17:8, 17:16). It is as if Gd was saying to the Angel, 'I am through with him. Pat him on the head because he thinks he did right, remind him of his reward for his previous faith, but I am done with him!'</div>
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You see, Gd had already told Abraham His covenant would go through Isaac. Gd wanted Abraham to say, 'Wait a minute, You, Gd, are now going against Your own word!' Gd knows that we are always closer to those we will argue with, than with those we will not.</div>
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When person does wrong, who are you more likely to admonish: someone you know, or someone you do not know?</div>
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Gd wants us to be that close to Gd. Gd wants us to be like Abraham, who was willing to argue with Gd regarding strangers in Sodom and Gemorrah. Gd wants us to be as close to Gd as Moses was, indicated by the fact that Moses argued with Gd -- repeatedly -- on behalf of the People of Israel. Gd wants us to be like Job, who felt so close to Gd that he could argue with Gd for justice. We can argue with Gd like true close friends can argue with each other, because Gd is truly our Closest Friend. Abraham flunked Gd's test, and so Gd never spoke to Abraham directly again.</div>
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Note also the true meaning of the word, 'Israel,' which is 'One who wrestles with Gd.' We are not to be blind followers (the word 'Christian' means 'follower of the Christ’), and we are not to merely submit to Gd ('Islam' means 'voluntary submission to Gd.' A Muslim is one who submits to Gd).</div>
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We Jews are to be wrestlers with Gd, like True Friends can do with each other. THAT is how close Gd wants us to be with Him.<br />
Source: <a href="http://www.whatjewsbelieve.org/explanation4.html">http://www.whatjewsbelieve.org/explanation4.html</a></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">“One of
First Baptist’s platinum tithers recently expressed a concern I've heard
frequently of late: "Brother Harry, given all the people who say they've
accepted Christ, will Heaven be overcrowded?" The answer, friends,
is absolutely not. Granted, we have no idea how large Heaven actually is,
but it doesn't matter, because there will be far fewer people in Heaven than
you might think. In fact, the vast majority of people you know will roast
in Hell instead.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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know the first plunged into the smelly, hot bowels of Satan's abode will be the
members of the liberal cult. A cult is a group of individuals who share a
common, outlandish belief they are not willing to subject to rational
discourse. I am, of course, referring to those sacrilegious, blasphemous
liberals who think the Bible is a tiny pamphlet containing nothing more than
the verse, John 3:16. The liberal cultists say what you do wrong doesn't
make one iota of difference – as long as you say, "I accept Jesus,"
you're going to Heaven. Can you believe that? According to this
cult, once you say, "I accept Jesus," you can murder, rape, rob,
plunger, pillage, blow up churches and molest babies, and you're still going to
Heaven as though nothing happened, just 'cause you uttered the magic
words. Needless to say, the liberal cultists won't debate you on this,
because they know it makes no sense, hence making them cultists. But they
have to hold this belief, because they know it's the only hope they have to go
to Heaven despite their depraved, decadent, deviant, debauched, degenerate
lifestyles.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">True
Christians know that the Bible, Old and New Testaments combined, promises Hell
for countless sinners. And when you review the Bible in context, just
about everyone is going to Hell. Through the apostle, Paul, Jesus told us
the majority of so-called Christians cannot enter Heaven because of their sins
(and if you don't go to Heaven, the only place left is Hell). "Know
ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not
deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate,
nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor
drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God (1
Corinthians 6:9-10)." I don't know where the liberal cultists get off
suggesting otherwise. I haven't read any verse saying John trumps
Paul. Just because John's verse appears on more banners at college
football games doesn't make it preeminent. And under the long accepted
legal doctrine that the specific controls over the general, Paul's
pronouncement that these particular people are going to Hell is clearly an
exception to the general rule vaguely enunciated by John.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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you consider Paul's words with the rest of the Bible, rest assured, there'll be
plenty of room for driving ranges in Heaven. Studies show the majority of
people have had premarital sex. (that’s Zenut for those in Boise) They're
condemned as fornicators. All those other than Christians are going to
Hell as idolaters (and that includes the Catholics who worship that harlot,
Mary, and the so-called "saints"). Studies show most people get
drunk at times, so they're out. And, of course, the sodomites are out
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the Hell-bound group is even larger. Of the few people remaining, most of
them will go to Hell as adulterers. Matthew told us that anyone who lusts
after (has sexual thoughts about) someone to whom he is not married is an
adulterer (Matthew 5:28). Matthew also told us that anyone who divorces,
then remarries is committing adultery (as is the person the individual
marries)(Matthew 5:32). The majority of those who get married wind up
divorcing and remarrying at a later date. And the vast majority of people
have sexual thoughts about people other than their mates. We're now down
to very few people, indeed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">But
even if you think you're somehow in the clear, guess again. Not only are
individuals who marry a second time condemned, but so are their children, their
grandchildren, their great grandchildren, etc. Because their second
marriage is a nullity, any children of that marriage are illegitimate and are
thus condemned to the 10th generation (Deuteronomy 23:2). In other words,
not only must you make sure you do not engage in any of the sins Paul said
would ensure eternity aflame, you must hope none of your distant ancestors ever
divorced and conceived one of your great, great, great grandparents
out-of-wedlock or during the second (and unrecognized) marriage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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see, friends, Heaven is going to be a very select place, indeed -- more
exclusive than even the best of country clubs. Now, I know some of you
may find these condemnations a bit disheartening, but you really
shouldn't. After all, God told us centuries ago that children would be
slaughtered for the sins of their parents (Isaiah 14:21-22). Plus, these
condemned people will be joined in Hell by individuals who did nothing wrong in
their lives because they had no lives. God said not only that we are all
born in sin, but that we are conceived in sin as well (Genesis 5:3; Job 15:14;
25:4; Psalms 51:5). In light of that sin, we have no hope of reaching
Heaven unless and until we accept Jesus. Unfortunately, many never have
that opportunity. I am, of course, speaking of all the unborn children
who die in the womb or during delivery, the SIDS children, all the children who
die before they reach the age at which they can understand Jesus, the mentally challenged
who don't have the capacity to know Jesus, and all those third world residents
the missionaries never reached with the good news of our lord. What a
shame that all of these individuals must spend forever in flames. Let us
pray that Satan takes it easy on them in the hereafter. In Jesus' name we
pray, Amen.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />noachbenavrahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00901464701676163846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2560100053947368316.post-2243943888338112882018-04-22T07:11:00.002-07:002018-04-23T16:28:11.517-07:00 AB 2943 California To Ban Sales Of The Bible?<div style="text-align: center;">
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"To take just one example, <a href="https://www.thecut.com/2016/02/fight-over-trans-kids-got-a-researcher-fired.html" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; color: #e92131; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">large numbers of children</a> who exhibit gender dysphoria eventually “desist.” Their dysphoria resolves itself as they grow older. Indeed, there is serious research indicating that this is the “<a href="https://www.thecut.com/2016/07/whats-missing-from-the-conversation-about-transgender-kids.html" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; color: #e92131; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">most likely outcome</a>” for a child with gender dysphoria. Under AB 2943, the very act of communicating this truthful and indeed hopeful message could very well lead to legal jeopardy. This is extraordinary.</div>
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Despite the obvious constitutional problems and despite its obvious intolerance for the Christian ethics of millions of its citizens, the bill is presently sailing through — passing two committee votes by 8–2 and 8–1 margins. It may come up for an Assembly vote as soon as this Thursday.</div>
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And of course California is no marginal state. It’s hailed as the center of opposition to Trump and called the “<a href="https://medium.com/s/state-of-the-future/california-is-the-future-6601cdf8caf8" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; color: #e92131; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">future of American politics</a>.” It’s the progressive model, not the progressive fringe."</div>
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quickly making its way through the California state assembly after it was
approved on the floor Thursday. The bill now goes to the state Senate for a
vote.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #282828; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt;">If passed,<a href="http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2943" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0ca3d4;"> Assembly Bill 2943</span></a> could
ultimately threaten free speech and freedom of religion for Christians. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #282828; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt;">It uses the state's
consumer fraud statute to restrict religious freedom and free speech when it
comes to issues of homosexuality and gender identity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #282828; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt;">This means the bill
would make it illegal to distribute resources, sell books, offer counseling
services, or direct someone to a biblically based model for getting help with
gender confusion and homosexuality.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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with <a href="http://www.savecalifornia.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0ca3d4;">SaveCalifornia.com </span></a>says the bill is very
broad and could affect just about anything helping people overcome same-sex
desires.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #282828; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt;">"So, this is a
pastor speaking, you pay a ticket to hear him speak. He speaks about overcoming
same-sex desires. Hey, that could be outlawed. A church sells a book about
overcoming same-sex desires. There's a sale, there's a transaction, that could
be banned," Thomasson said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #282828; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt;">"This is very
expansive, very tyrannical and absolutely squashing free speech, religious
freedom and basic choice of people. This is an anti-freedom, anti-American
bill," Thomasson told <i>CBN News</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #282828; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Essentially, churches
and Christian schools that share biblical teaching on the subject would be open
to a lawsuit. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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lead to a ban on Bibles or even books from other faiths like the Koran.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #282828; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt;">"Well, you could
see this law going into effect. A church bookstore selling the Bible, of
course, selling a book about marriage or sexual purity or overcoming
homosexuality or overcoming trans-sexuality. You could see a member of the
public or even a member of the state government coming and saying, 'Hey, that's
illegal,'" Thomasson answered.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #282828; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt;">"Even the Muslim
community should be against this, too, because of what is said about sexual
perversity in the Koran," Thomasson also said. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #282828; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt;">If AB 2943 clears
California's Senate and is signed into law, it would negatively impact
Christian counselors, bookstores, church conferences, as well as medical and
health professionals.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #282828; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt;">The bill also seeks to
ban biblically based counseling for those wanting to get help.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #282828; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt;">It comes six years after
California deemed it illegal for minors to receive counseling for same-sex
attraction, even if they and their parents wanted help. Now, this bill would
also address adults.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #282828; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt;">"AB 2943 would
start by saying, ok, nobody can get counseling to overcome same-sex desires...
ok, so no help for adult children, adults who were molested as kids and now
they are adults and they say I want help to overcome these feelings. No help
for you," Thomasson explained.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #282828; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt;">The bill states that
"contemporary science recognizes that being lesbian, gay, bisexual, or
transgender is part of the natural spectrum of human identity and is not a
disease, disorder, or illness."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #282828; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Mat Staver, founder
and chairman of Liberty Counsel, told <i>CBN News </i>that what makes
this bill especially dangerous is that California often leads the charge in pushing
the LGBTQ legislative agenda. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #282828; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt;">California was one of
the first states to ban "conversion therapy" for minors. Shortly
afterward, Oregon, New Jersey, and Vermont passed similar laws. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #282828; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt;">"People have the
right to seek the counsel of their choice, but this bill substitutes the
government for personal choice. The implications are staggering, and the result
is harmful," Staver said in a statement to <i>CBN News</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #282828; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Liberty Counsel <a href="https://www.lc.org/newsroom/details/042018-ca-bill-censors-speech" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0ca3d4;">further explains</span></a>,
"This bill would also make it unlawful for any person to sell books,
including the Bible, counseling services, or anything else that directs people
to trust in Jesus Christ to help them overcome unwanted same-sex attraction or gender
confusion."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #282828; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt;">"Imagine a church
not allowed to sell Christian books, or even Bibles, that help people overcome
same-sex attractions. This bill will do the unimaginable if passed. If it does
pass, we will immediately file suit," the religious liberties organization
states.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #282828; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Source: http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/politics/2018/april/one-step-closer-to-law-could-a-california-bill-ultimately-lead-to-the-banning-of-bibles<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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As Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9njBaZTrCfSMFJfRGMzX2ZQeFh0R0U3bFVMS2ZYWUl1M2VF/view" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #087aae; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">explains</a>:</div>
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<em>At its core, AB 2943 outlaws speech, whether offered by a licensed counselor, a best-selling author, or even a minister or religious leader. It targets a specific message—that an adult who is experiencing unwanted same-sex attraction or gender identity confusion can find help to address those issues—for censorship. The breadth of this censorship is staggering. Under AB 2943:</em></div>
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<em>• A licensed counselor could not help a married mother of three who is experiencing unwanted attraction to a close female friend or confusion over her gender identity overcome those feelings;</em></div>
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<em>• A religious ministry could not hold a conference on maintaining sexual purity if the conference encourages attendees to avoid homosexual behavior;</em></div>
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<em>• A bookstore (including online bookstores like Amazon) could not sell many recently published books challenging gender identity ideology and advocating that these beliefs should be rejected by society; and</em></div>
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<em>• A pastor paid to speak at an event addressing current social topics could not encourage attendees that they can prevail over same-sex desires or feelings that they were born the wrong sex.</em></div>
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<em>In these scenarios, there is a transaction (the counselor’s payment; the conference attendance fees; the cost of the book; and the pastor’s speaking fee) that triggers AB 2943. And under the bill, a person or organization who is paid by a consumer for goods or services cannot engage in any practice—including pure speech—that tells someone that they can overcome unwanted same-sex attraction or gender identity confusion.</em></div>
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AB 2943 comes six years after California's Democrat legislators <a href="http://www.savecalifornia.com/9-30-12-parents-of-molested-children-lose-hope-under-jerry-brown.html" style="color: #087aae; text-decoration-line: none;">passed a law</a> forbidding parents from getting counseling for their molested children to help them overcome sexual confusion.</div>
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quotes from the 3 biggest mass murders of the 20th century. Can you guess who
said what?</span><b><o:p></o:p></b></i></div>
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<b><i>1.</i><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<i>If you win, you need not have to explain…If you lose, you
should not be there to explain!<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you are
insulting yourself.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>What luck for rulers that men do not think.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do
not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who
has no ears or eyes.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>To conquer a nation, first disarm its citizens.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>No politician should ever let himself be photographed in
a bathing suit.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a
statistic.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote
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<i>Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don’t let our
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<i>Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds
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<i>Death is the solution to all problems. No man – no
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<i>If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses
to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>The only real power comes out of a long rifle.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>War can only be abolished through war, and in order to
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<i>Firstly, do not fear hardship, and secondly, do not fear
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<i>Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools
of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the
sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<br />noachbenavrahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00901464701676163846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2560100053947368316.post-19921588866733416672017-12-14T05:38:00.000-08:002017-12-14T05:40:35.284-08:00Man who holds keys to holy Christian site in Jerusalem will refuse to welcome Pence<h1 style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;">
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<span style="color: #2b2c30; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The official custodian
in charge of the keys to one of the most sacred sites in Christianity will not
welcome Vice President Pence when he visits the Old City of Jerusalem this
month. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2b2c30; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">“It has come to our
attention that Vice President Pence intends to make an official visit to the
Church of the Holy Sepulcher, and asked me to receive him officially,” Adeeb
Joudeh, who is responsible for the keys to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre,
wrote in a letter on Wednesday, according to Israel's Channel 2
News. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2b2c30; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">“I absolutely refuse
to officially welcome the American Vice President Mr. <a href="http://thehill.com/people/mike-michael-pence"><span style="color: #2b2c30;">Mike
Pence</span></a> at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher and I will not be
physically in church during his visit," he continued. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2b2c30; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">“This is an expression
of my condemnation of President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the
capital of Israel." <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2b2c30; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The Church of the Holy
Sepulchre is located in the Christian Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City and is
said to contain the sites where Jesus Christ was crucified and where Christians
believe he was buried and resurrected. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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formal or informal request and if there is a request, there is a status quo
procedure to respect involving the three communities. Anyway it is not up to
one of the key keepers to decide anything about this kind of issue,” a church
official said, according to <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/church-of-holy-sepulchre-disavows-keymasters-pence-boycott/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter"><span style="color: #2b2c30;">The Times of Israel. </span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Roman Catholic and now identifies as an evangelical Christian, is set to travel
throughout the region this month seeking an "end to the persecution of
Christians and all religious minorities." <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2b2c30; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">However, a prominent
Christian group in the region has signaled they will not welcome Pence on his
official visit in the wake of Trump's decision on Jerusalem. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2b2c30; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The leader of Egypt's
Coptic Christian Church said last week he will not meet with Pence, saying
Trump's decision came "at an unsuitable time and without consideration for
the feelings of millions of people."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2b2c30; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">A group of Christian
churches in Jerusalem also penned a letter to <a href="http://thehill.com/people/donald-trump"><span style="color: #2b2c30;">President
Trump</span></a> urging him not to recognize Jerusalem as the capital,
prior to his announcement last week. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2b2c30; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Trump's decision to
recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and begin plans to move the U.S.
embassy there has sparked unrest in the region. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2b2c30; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">While Israel views
Jerusalem as its capital, Palestinians view East Jerusalem as the capital of a
future Palestinian state. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2b2c30; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The international
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<span style="color: #2b2c30; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Trump's decision also
broke with decades of U.S. policy that the status of Jerusalem should be
resolved in peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #2b2c30; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Source: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/364701-man-in-charge-of-holy-christian-site-in-jerusalem-will-refuse-to</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">52 years ago (Nov. 29, 1965) the Berkshire Eagle printed a little article about two young men being fined 25 bucks for dumping trash. Little did we know at the </span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; display: inline; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">time that the incident, which ran on page 25, would become the basis for <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=200413315194&extragetparams=%7B%22fref%22%3A%22mentions%22%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/arloguthrie/?fref=mentions" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer;">Arlo Guthrie</a>'s <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=106174642747125&extragetparams=%7B%22fref%22%3A%22mentions%22%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Alices-Restaurant/106174642747125?fref=mentions" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer;">Alice's Restaurant</a>. Here's our original story from 1965: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/berkshire.eagle/photos/a.194851400569277.62253.194810627240021/1497403306980740/?type=3&theater">Source</a></span><br />
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According to his biographer Joe Klein, “<em>one of the last things that Woody Guthrie did before he died was to listen to a recording of his son Arlo singing a long, convoluted talking blues about how he’d been arrested for littering in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and how he’d parlayed that ‘criminal record’ into a means of dodging the draft and avoiding the war in Vietnam.</em>” Whether Woody could actually comprehend the story or even knew it was Arlo singing and story telling will never be known. He was in the final stages of the neurologically debilitating Huntington’s Disease and would succumb to it within a few short weeks.<br />
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Because of Arlo's recording however, fame came to Woody’s oldest son much earlier in life than it came to him. Arlo Guthrie was raised in Howard Beach in Queens, New York. He had just graduated from the Stockbridge School in Stockbridge Massachusetts where he had met Alice & Ray Brock who both taught there. The couple lived in an old church and served large meals for friends and family. On Thanksgiving Day in 1965, 18-year-old Arlo and his classmate Rick Robbins were arrested in Stockbridge by police officer William Obanheim for dumping trash left over from Thanksgiving dinner at the Brocks. The two had originally planned on taking it to the town landfill but it was closed for the holiday. In court a few days later they pled guilty. </div>
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The judge, the Hon. James E. Hannon was actually blind. And as Arlo points out, “<em>in a typical case of American blind justice</em>” he found them both guilty, fined them $50, and made them collect their garbage. Guthrie and Robbins hit the road as performers immediately afterward. According to Robbins, “<em>we followed the footprints of Woody and Cisco [Houston]</em>.” The original song “Alice’s Restaurant” was a <i>faux</i>advertising jingle that Arlo had composed for the Brocks. He began to include it in his stage repertoire and during performances he started telling the story of their arrest and conviction and its effect on his Viet Nam era draft status: "<em>you want to know if I'm moral enough to join the army, burn women, kids, houses, and villages.... after being a litterbug?</em>"<br />
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But it wasn’t until 1967 that the song and story reached a larger audience. That year he performed it at the Newport Folk Festival and then during a WBAI radio broadcast. WBAI is the New York City Pacifica station; a non-profit community station. Arlo’s performance was hugely popular and often requested by the station’s listeners but WBAI only played the tape during fund-raising pledge drives. Its popularity in New York served to get Arlo a record contract and the song was released in 1967 on a long-playing album (at 18 minutes long the song and monologue couldn’t fit onto a 45 rpm single). The album reached #17 on the pop charts. A 45-rpm single called "Alice's Rock 'n Roll Restaurant" was also released by the record company but predictably it tanked.<br />
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In 1969 United Artists and director Arthur Penn released a film version of the story that featured Hollywood actors as well as Stockbridge locals including Officer Obanheim. Said Officer Obie: “<em>If anyone is going to make me look like a fool, it will be me." </em></div>
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As Arlo performed “Alice’s Restaurant” throughout his career he would periodically change the monologue to reflect current social concerns and political situations. A few of these other versions have been released on CD. "Alice: Before Time Began" was first recorded in 1969. Its satirical account of cockroach armies took on the military. A version recorded in 1990 at the Kerrville Folk Festival addressed policies of the first President Bush.<br />
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In 1997 Arlo re-recorded his entire debut album for CD: This recording, "Alice's Restaurant: The Massacree Revisited" includes an updated narrative that involves a visit to Jimmy Carter’s White House and a discovery there related to Richard Nixon. One version or another of “Alice’s Restaurant” has been featured on <strong>American Pastimes</strong> every Thanksgiving Eve since KZFR has been gracing the airwavs.<br />
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Arlo purchased the old Trinity Church in Stockbridge in 1991. The church, formerly owned by the Brocks and site of the infamous 1965 turkey dinner has been developed into The Guthrie Center, a non-profit interfaith church foundation dedicated to providing a wide range of local and international services.<br />
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Alice Brock went on to open a variety of restaurants and has written a number of cookbooks. Officer Obie was forced into retirement after over 30 years on the Stockbridge police department. He evidently beat up another peace officer.</div>
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Rick Robbins, Arlo’s friend and co-conspirator in garbage dumping continued to sing and tour into the late 1970’s when he settled down and became an architect and house builder. In the mid 1990’s he began to perform again, recording a number of CD’s with musical support from Rory Block, Eric Weisberg, John Sebastian, Garth Hudson, and others. In recent years he has toured extensively with Ramblin’ Jack Elliot. <a href="http://www.kzfr.org/broadcasts/3779">SOURCE:</a></div>
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The secret Jewish history of “Alice’s Restaurant”</h1>
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This is the fiftieth anniversary of the song <a href="https://vimeo.com/17182181" rel="noopener" style="color: #b43434; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">“Alice’s Restaurant,”</a> by Arlo Guthrie.</div>
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Well, sort of. The song was released on the album of the same name in September, 1967. The events that the song commemorates actually occurred two years before that, on Thanksgiving, 1965.</div>
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But, nevertheless, if you are of a certain age, nothing says Thanksgiving more than “Alice’s Restaurant.”</div>
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For those of you who don’t know what I am talking about, here is a Cliff’s Notes version.</div>
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“Alice’s Restaurant” consists of Arlo Guthrie delivering a long, guitar-accompanied monologue (a talking blues, really — an art form that his father, the iconic American folk singer, <a href="http://www.woodyguthrie.org/" rel="noopener" style="color: #b43434; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Woody Guthrie</a>, had perfected) about his arrest for littering in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, by the Stockbridge chief of police, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Obanhein" rel="noopener" style="color: #b43434; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">William Obanhein</a>, a.k.a. Officer Obie.</div>
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At the time, Arlo was living with Alice and Ray Brock in a deconsecrated church in Great Barrington, Massachusetts (more about that later).</div>
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Ultimately, as the song’s second part tells us, Arlo’s arrest record was at least partially responsible for preventing him from being drafted and serving in the war in Vietnam.</div>
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Two years later, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%27s_Restaurant_(film)" rel="noopener" style="color: #b43434; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">movie </a>“Alice’s Restaurant” was released. It stars Arlo as himself.</div>
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Jewish geography lesson: For many years, I spent summers in the Berkshire mountains of western Massachusetts, where the song takes place. For me, and for so many, the Berkshires are a magical place — the only place where I ever truly relax.</div>
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The discerning tourist can find all of the places mentioned in the song (with the exception of the scenes at the draft board, which take place on Whitehall Street in New York City).</div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 12px;">In Stockbridge, you can visit the original location of Alice’s restaurant; it is, in fact, “around the back, just a half a mile from the railroad track” off Main Street.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 12px;">For many summers, I used to dump our trash at the Stockbridge town dump, which is probably where Arlo should have dumped his trash in the first place. I could do that, legally, because I had a sticker from the “master garbologist.”</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 12px;">Officer Obie’s extended family still lives in the area; he was a well-known and beloved figure.</li>
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As for the church, it is still there, as well. It serves as the <a href="https://guthriecenter.org/" rel="noopener" style="color: #b43434; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Guthrie Center</a>, a wonderful concert venue, and home to the Guthrie Foundation, a permanent memorial to the legacy of Arlo’s late parents.</div>
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(Check out this <a href="https://theguthriecenter.bandcamp.com/album/woodys-children-by-doug-mishkin" rel="noopener" style="color: #b43434; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">song </a>about Woody’s legacy, written and sung by my friend, Doug Mishkin).</div>
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Which brings me to the Jewish stuff.</div>
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Arlo Guthrie is Jewish, through his mother, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjorie_Guthrie" rel="noopener" style="color: #b43434; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Marjorie Mazia Guthrie. </a></div>
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Fun fact: when Arlo celebrated becoming bar mitzvah, at the Howard Beach Jewish center in Queens, the presiding rabbi was none other than <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meir_Kahane" rel="noopener" style="color: #b43434; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Meir Kahane.</a></div>
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Kahane would go on to become the leader of the Jewish Defense League, and then, in Israel, of the extreme right wing, anti-Arab Kach party.</div>
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Kahane was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Meir_Kahane" rel="noopener" style="color: #b43434; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">assassinated </a>in 1990 by El Sayyid Nosair, who was linked to Osama bin Laden — thus becoming the first American victim of Al Qaida.</div>
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Arlo Guthrie and Meir Kahane — together. Think of it.</div>
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Back to Woody Guthrie.</div>
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Guthrie was not Jewish, and yet, he wrote a bunch of <a href="https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/_blog/The_ProsenPeople/post/woody-guthries-hanukkah-songs/" rel="noopener" style="color: #b43434; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Hanukkah songs</a>. This <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db-4ih0_0No" rel="noopener" style="color: #b43434; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">one </a>is one of my favorites.</div>
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Guthrie’s guitar was adorned by a simple message, placed there in 1941: “This machine kills fascists.”</div>
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As we prepared to enter World War Two, it was the right message.</div>
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And, while we are not fighting foreign wars against fascists right now, the anti-fascism sentiment still stands.</div>
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One last thing about Woody Guthrie.</div>
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When Guthrie lived in Brooklyn, he lived at the Beach Haven apartments, which was a property that had been developed by <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/01/22/the-unbelievable-story-of-why-woody-guthrie-hated-donald-trumps-racist-dad/?utm_term=.1ddb059e3ef1" rel="noopener" style="color: #b43434; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Fred Trump </a>— as in the father of the current president.</div>
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As others have noted, the older Trump was not particularly interested in having blacks rent his properties.</div>
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Which would lead Woody Guthrie to write a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jANuVKeYezs" rel="noopener" style="color: #b43434; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">song </a>about Fred Trump:</div>
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When he drawed that color line</div>
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The spirit of protest, birthed by Woody Guthrie and sustained by Arlo, is still alive in our time.</div>
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And for this, we surely must give thanks. <a href="http://religionnews.com/2017/11/22/alices-restaurant-thanksgiving-guthrie/">SOURCE</a></div>
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Woody Guthrie's Hanukkah Songs</h2>
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<a href="http://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/a-kosher-christmas" style="border: 0px; color: #0f64a4; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" src="https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/bookimages/kosher.christmas.jpg" style="border: 0px solid; float: right; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Here is a recent American tale of old wine in new vessels. Part of our national folklore reveals that Woody Guthrie, the iconic American folk troubadour and songwriter, composed Hanukkah songs. In a 2003 concert, the Klezmatics, a popular Grammy Award-winning Klezmer band, performed Hanukkah songs showcasing lyrics written from 1949 through the early 1950s by Woody Guthrie. The lyrics had laid fallow and long-forgotten in Guthrie’s archives until their discovery in 1998 by Woody’s daughter, Nora Guthrie. Nora asked the Klezmatics to write original music for the lyrics, which fuses strains of Klezmer music with American folk and bluegrass. The 2006 album, “Woody Guthrie’s Happy Joyous Hanuka,” comprises many different songs, including “Happy, Joyous Hanuka” and “Hanuka Tree.” Two of the eight songs, “The Many And The Few” and “Hanuka Dance,” had lyrics and melodies penned entirely by Guthrie. The songs were in part biographical. Woody was married to Marjorie Mazia, a Jewish dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company who was the daughter of Aliza Greenblatt, an activist and</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> </span><a href="http://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/pearls-of-yiddish-poetry" style="border: 0px; color: #0f64a4; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yiddish poet</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">. Nora remembers “For Hanukkah actually, we had a hat—we didn’t get presents—but we had a hat with different amounts of Hanukkah gelt, and every night we’d pick out five cents or twenty-five cents of gelt. My mother played piano, and we used to sing and dance every night.”</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="14a3e89779f1a87f__ednref1" style="border: 0px; color: #0f64a4; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">*</a></div>
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At the 2003 debut concert with the Klezmatics at the 92<sup style="line-height: 0;">nd</sup> Street Y in Manhattan, folk legend Arlo Guthrie, Woody’s son and Nora’s brother, joked that as children they would dance “around the Hanukkah tree.” "Happy Joyous Hanuka" counts down each candle on the menorah (“Seven for the sons of Hannah that died/Six for kings and the tricks they tried/Five for the brothers Maccabee”), while “Hanuka Tree” has a lively simple melody (“Round and around my Hanukah tree/Round and around I go/Round and around my Hanukah tree/Because I love you so”). According to Nora, most of Woody Guthrie’s Hanukkah songs seem to <a href="http://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/honeyky-hanukah" style="border: 0px; color: #0f64a4; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" src="https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/bookimages/honeykey-hanukah.jpg" style="border: 0px solid; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 12px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></a>have been written in November or December within five days of each other “because he had bookings in December for children’s Hanukkah parties in assorted Brooklyn community centers.” As was his wont, Woody would “write songs only for the gig a few days before and then go on to other songs for other gigs.” For the Guthrie family, a family of improvisers not of traditions and for whom the approach to religion was “all or none,” the tree was a “Christmas tree, a Hanukkah tree, and a holiday tree. It was a fluid thing!”</div>
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Indeed, the popularization of Woody Gutherie's Hanukkah songs by the Klezmatics demonstrates the vital role that music plays as an intrinsic cultural force contributing to the Americanization of this Jewish holiday, as it coexists with Christmas.</div>
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Alice Brock: An Artful Life</h1>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Alice Brock is no washashore. “I was conceived on Long Point,” she says, smiling. “Oh, wait, you don’t want to start that far back?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It doesn’t matter how far back you begin in Alice Brock’s life; it’s all interesting, as attendees at the Heritage Day that will be celebrated in her honor at the Provincetown Public Library on June 13 will get a chance to hear.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Maybe it started out on Long Point. Or maybe it started during the summers her father worked for Peter Hunt and the family lived on Commercial Street—“the best summers of my life,” says Brock. She decided then that she wanted to live in Provincetown forever.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There were a couple of rather famous detours on her way back here, however. Brock got married and headed out to Stockbridge to teach at a prep school run by a left-leaning scholar whose assumption was that everyone—faculty, staff, and students—were equals. “It was the mid-sixties,” Brock remembers. “My husband played the guitar, kids would come and hang out at our house on campus all the time. We were bohemians…or maybe beatniks.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">One of the kids who played and sang with Brock and her husband was Arlo Guthrie.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Brock’s mother bought the couple a church as a wedding present; her husband, an architect and sculptor, turned it into living quarters. It was a magical place, complete with bell tower and an arch made by New Bedford shipbuilders who simply reversed their usual approach to curves and space. Parents trusted Brock and her husband, as they were teachers, and more and more kids came to stay, to play, to talk. “But there I was, cooking for all those voracious teenagers!” says Brock. “That had to stop.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Her mother found the solution: “She said, ‘there’s a diner in Stockbridge that’s for rent. I’ll help you, and you can get paid for your cooking.’” Brock smiles. “I always leap before I look, so I said, why not?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That leap eventually brought about her extraordinarily popular cookbook, <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alice’s Restaurant Cookbook</i>, not to mention a song that became an anthem for the age, Arlo Guthrie’s anti-war hymn, <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alice’s Restaurant</i>. It was a golden time. “I loved it; it was all a lot of fun. Arlo’d been called up for the draft and that’s when he came up with the song…We were just all these hippies against the war. We lived as if the world was the way we wanted it to be.” She pauses. “That’s the way we still live.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It was time to go to Provincetown. “I’m very lucky, because I don’t care about money,” says Brock. “When I run out of money, some more comes in, somehow. I spend the money on other people, and as it goes out it makes room for more to come in.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Although she never took an art class, Brock had always been making things. “I love to recycle objects,” she says. “I even used to carve little figures out of sticks of chalk. I made a movie out of a roll of adding-machine tape, with narration. I always felt I was an artist, but I never saw it as a way to make money, it was all very personal. Before moving here, I had one art show in the Berkshires. Everything got sold—and I felt completely bereft! Then I came to Provincetown and I was part of a fall arts festival. I hung things for the first time—for the first time, I had a gallery. And I loved having a gallery!” She had that gallery for the next forty years. “I always enjoyed talking with all the people who came in…you have to understand, the sixties, it was a wonderful time for most people, and they love going back to that time. And so I sold art!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And she has continued to sell art. Her stones, adorned with pictures of women and of cats, can be found literally all over the world. While she no longer has a gallery on Commercial Street—“this is the first time that I don’t have a view of the water”—this summer on weekends she’ll be in one of the art shacks on MacMillan Pier, where everyone will have the opportunity to take home an Alice Brock painting, stone, or book.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Though she now has emphysema and requires oxygen, Alice Brock is still creating, and still in love with the place where she was conceived. “I love Provincetown with all my heart,” she says. “Every day I feel blessed to be here.”</span></div>
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<i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Alice Brock will be the guest of honor at this year’s Provincetown Heritage Day celebration at the Provincetown Public Library, 356 Commercial St., on Tuesday, June 13 at 6 p.m. The event will feature a Q&A with Brock and is free and open to the public. For more information call 508.487.7094 or visit provincetownlibrary.org.</span></i></div>
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<img alt="Alice Brock, 69 Commercial Street, Provincetown (2011), by David W. Dunlap." class="alignleft size-full wp-image-33566" data-attachment-id="33566" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"5.6","credit":"","camera":"NIKON D80","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1317298461","copyright":"","focal_length":"85","iso":"800","shutter_speed":"0.005","title":""}" data-image-title="Alice Brock, 69 Commercial Street, Provincetown (2011), by David W. Dunlap." data-large-file="https://buildingprovincetown.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/69-commercial-street-provincetown-2011-02.jpg?w=450?w=170" data-medium-file="https://buildingprovincetown.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/69-commercial-street-provincetown-2011-02.jpg?w=450?w=170" data-orig-file="https://buildingprovincetown.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/69-commercial-street-provincetown-2011-02.jpg?w=450" data-orig-size="170,255" data-permalink="https://buildingprovincetown.wordpress.com/2010/01/09/69-commercial-street/69-commercial-street-provincetown-2011-02/#main" sizes="(max-width: 170px) 100vw, 170px" src="https://buildingprovincetown.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/69-commercial-street-provincetown-2011-02.jpg?w=450" srcset="https://buildingprovincetown.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/69-commercial-street-provincetown-2011-02.jpg 170w, https://buildingprovincetown.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/69-commercial-street-provincetown-2011-02.jpg?w=100 100w" style="display: inline; float: left; height: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 5px; max-width: 100%;" /><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 14.8px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Alice Brock Studio | R & R Place</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Anyone of a Certain Age will almost certainly share the author’s quiet pleasure in knowing that <a href="http://www.alicebrock.com/All%20About%20Alice.htm" style="border: 0px; color: #88c34b; font-size: 14.8px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Alice M. (Pelkey) Brock</a>, the Alice of <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 14.8px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Alice’s Restaurant</em>, wound up practicing her delightful art right here in Provincetown. She moved to Cape Cod in 1979 and declared three decades later that she was grateful for every “beautiful day in paradise” (Jane Roy Brown, “After Alice’s Restaurants,” <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 14.8px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.boston.com/travel/explorene/massachusetts/regions/capecod/articles/2008/02/24/after_alices_restaurants/" style="border: 0px; color: #88c34b; font-size: 14.8px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Boston Globe</a>, </em>24 February 2008). “Thank God for the National Seashore,” she said. “There’s still the beautiful light, and there are still a few crackpots left. I never want to go anywhere. People say, ‘Don’t you want to go away in the winter?’ The only place I would want to go would be a place like this, and I’m here now.”<span id="more-33549" style="border: 0px; font-size: 14.8px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></div>
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<img alt="Alice and Zina Pelkey, Provincetown (ND). Courtesy of Alice Brock." class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-33569" data-attachment-id="33569" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"4.5","credit":"","camera":"NIKON D80","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1317299621","copyright":"","focal_length":"40","iso":"800","shutter_speed":"0.02","title":""}" data-image-title="Alice and Zina Pelkey, Provincetown (ND). Courtesy of Alice Brock." data-large-file="https://buildingprovincetown.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/69-commercial-street-provincetown-nd-05.jpg?w=450?w=450" data-medium-file="https://buildingprovincetown.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/69-commercial-street-provincetown-nd-05.jpg?w=450?w=300" data-orig-file="https://buildingprovincetown.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/69-commercial-street-provincetown-nd-05.jpg?w=450" data-orig-size="510,410" data-permalink="https://buildingprovincetown.wordpress.com/2010/01/09/69-commercial-street/69-commercial-street-provincetown-nd-05/#main" sizes="(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px" src="https://buildingprovincetown.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/69-commercial-street-provincetown-nd-05.jpg?w=450" srcset="https://buildingprovincetown.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/69-commercial-street-provincetown-nd-05.jpg?w=450 450w, https://buildingprovincetown.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/69-commercial-street-provincetown-nd-05.jpg?w=150 150w, https://buildingprovincetown.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/69-commercial-street-provincetown-nd-05.jpg?w=300 300w, https://buildingprovincetown.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/69-commercial-street-provincetown-nd-05.jpg 510w" style="clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 10px; max-width: 100%;" title="Alice and Zina Pelkey, Provincetown (ND). Courtesy of Alice Brock." /><code style="border: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></code></div>
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<img alt="Poem by Harry Kemp. 69 Commercial Street, Provincetown (2011), by David W. Dunlap." class="alignright size-full wp-image-33571" data-attachment-id="33571" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"5.3","credit":"","camera":"NIKON D80","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1317297391","copyright":"","focal_length":"62","iso":"800","shutter_speed":"0.004","title":""}" data-image-title="Poem by Harry Kemp. 69 Commercial Street, Provincetown (2011), by David W. Dunlap." data-large-file="https://buildingprovincetown.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/69-commercial-street-provincetown-nd-04.jpg?w=450?w=340" data-medium-file="https://buildingprovincetown.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/69-commercial-street-provincetown-nd-04.jpg?w=450?w=253" data-orig-file="https://buildingprovincetown.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/69-commercial-street-provincetown-nd-04.jpg?w=450" data-orig-size="340,403" data-permalink="https://buildingprovincetown.wordpress.com/2010/01/09/69-commercial-street/69-commercial-street-provincetown-nd-04/#main" sizes="(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px" src="https://buildingprovincetown.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/69-commercial-street-provincetown-nd-04.jpg?w=450" srcset="https://buildingprovincetown.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/69-commercial-street-provincetown-nd-04.jpg 340w, https://buildingprovincetown.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/69-commercial-street-provincetown-nd-04.jpg?w=127 127w, https://buildingprovincetown.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/69-commercial-street-provincetown-nd-04.jpg?w=253 253w" style="display: inline; float: right; height: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; margin-top: 5px; max-width: 100%;" title="Poem by Harry Kemp. 69 Commercial Street, Provincetown (2011), by David W. Dunlap." /><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In fact, she had been here before. Though Brock is closely associated in the popular mind with Stockbridge, Mass., her Provincetown bona fides are exceptional. Her parents were Mary Dubro Pelkey (±1909-2010) and Joseph F. Pelkey (1911-2010), who met here. As Brock herself notes, she was conceived here. And even though she was born in Brooklyn, her arrival was announced in the pages of <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 14.8px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Advocate</em>. Pelkey, a professional silkscreener and alumnus of the Cranbrook Academy of Art, had made a name for himself locally working with Peter Hunt, managing the Christmas Tree Shop at <a href="https://buildingprovincetown.wordpress.com/2010/01/08/443-commercial-street/" style="border: 0px; color: #88c34b; font-size: 14.8px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">443-445 Commercial Street</a>. Pelkey also ran the Art Mart on a wharf near the center of town, <a href="https://buildingprovincetown.wordpress.com/2010/01/08/251-commercial-street-wharf/" style="border: 0px; color: #88c34b; font-size: 14.8px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">251-253 Commercial</a>, known variously as Jot Small’s, Heinrich Pfeiffer’s or Charley Cook’s. And he was an <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 14.8px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Advocate</em> contributor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Pelkey family — father, mother, two girls and one dog — spent summers in Provincetown, living in a big room behind the Christmas Tree Shop. There is a charming picture of Alice and her sister, Zina, seated outside Hunt’s Peasant Village complex at <a href="https://buildingprovincetown.wordpress.com/2010/01/08/432-commercial-street/" style="border: 0px; color: #88c34b; font-size: 14.8px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">432 Commercial Street</a>. Harry Kemp dedicated a poem to Pelkey in 1944; one of his better ones, in fact. “Last Word,” it is titled.</span></div>
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<img alt="Alice Brock, left; Arlo Guthrie, upper right. Courtesy of Alice Brock." class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-33574" data-attachment-id="33574" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"5","credit":"","camera":"NIKON D80","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1317298728","copyright":"","focal_length":"52","iso":"800","shutter_speed":"0.00625","title":""}" data-image-title="Alice Brock, left; Arlo Guthrie, upper right. Courtesy of Alice Brock." data-large-file="https://buildingprovincetown.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/69-commercial-street-provincetown-nd-06.jpg?w=450?w=340" data-medium-file="https://buildingprovincetown.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/69-commercial-street-provincetown-nd-06.jpg?w=450?w=300" data-orig-file="https://buildingprovincetown.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/69-commercial-street-provincetown-nd-06.jpg?w=450" data-orig-size="340,340" data-permalink="https://buildingprovincetown.wordpress.com/2010/01/09/69-commercial-street/69-commercial-street-provincetown-nd-06/#main" sizes="(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px" src="https://buildingprovincetown.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/69-commercial-street-provincetown-nd-06.jpg?w=450" srcset="https://buildingprovincetown.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/69-commercial-street-provincetown-nd-06.jpg 340w, https://buildingprovincetown.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/69-commercial-street-provincetown-nd-06.jpg?w=150 150w, https://buildingprovincetown.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/69-commercial-street-provincetown-nd-06.jpg?w=300 300w" style="clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 10px; max-width: 100%;" title="Alice Brock, left; Arlo Guthrie, upper right. Courtesy of Alice Brock." /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Brock’s name entered the national lexicon in 1967 with the release of Arlo Guthrie’s <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 14.8px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Alice’s Restaurant Massacree</em>. “Alice’s Restaurant is not the name of the restaurant, that’s just the name of the song,” Guthrie said at the beginning of an 18-minute talking blues ballad about his arrest for illegally dumping debris from Ray and Alice Brock’s home after discovering that the Stockbridge town dump was closed on Thanksgiving. The jauntily meandering song is, by and by, a lampoon of the police and the Selective Service System and the stupidity of officialdom in general; popular enough in its time that it inspired a movie, <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 14.8px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Alice’s Restaurant</em> (1969), in which Pat Quinn played Alice. The song is still broadcast on radio stations around the country as a Thanksgiving Day anthem.</span></div>
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<img alt="69 Commercial Street, Provincetown (2012), by David W. Dunlap." class="alignleft size-full wp-image-33576" data-attachment-id="33576" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"2.5","credit":"","camera":"Canon PowerShot S100","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1350239266","copyright":"","focal_length":"5.2","iso":"6400","shutter_speed":"0.025","title":""}" data-image-title="69 Commercial Street, Provincetown (2012), by David W. Dunlap." data-large-file="https://buildingprovincetown.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/69-commercial-street-provincetown-2012-07b.jpg?w=450?w=255" data-medium-file="https://buildingprovincetown.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/69-commercial-street-provincetown-2012-07b.jpg?w=450?w=255" data-orig-file="https://buildingprovincetown.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/69-commercial-street-provincetown-2012-07b.jpg?w=450" data-orig-size="255,255" data-permalink="https://buildingprovincetown.wordpress.com/2010/01/09/69-commercial-street/69-commercial-street-provincetown-2012-07b/#main" sizes="(max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px" src="https://buildingprovincetown.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/69-commercial-street-provincetown-2012-07b.jpg?w=450" srcset="https://buildingprovincetown.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/69-commercial-street-provincetown-2012-07b.jpg 255w, https://buildingprovincetown.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/69-commercial-street-provincetown-2012-07b.jpg?w=150 150w" style="display: inline; float: left; height: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 5px; max-width: 100%;" /><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Brock got out of the restaurant business long ago. With Davis E. Gates, she purchased 69 Commercial Street in 1983 from Francis P. and Elizabeth A. Kelley. The house was constructed around 1860 and was the property of William A. Couilliard at the turn of the 20th century, when it was denominated 52 Commercial Street. Adeline and Emil Souda acquired it from Couilliard in 1942. Adolphe Robicheau, who acquired it from Marie Souda in 1962, undertook some astonishing changes, many of which Brock inherited.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Robicheau, a ballet dancer and instructor from Nova Scotia, operated 69 Commercial as a boarding house. He also transformed it into a dramatic expression of Catholic piety, drawing on his talents as a set painter for the Boston Ballet. He built a private chapel on the third floor that was consecrated by the bishop of Fall River, Brock said. He installed a pipe organ, an altar, stations of the cross, a baptismal font, a prie-dieu and icons. A lot of them. “The whole house was filled with icons,” Brock recalled, “including martyrs with their eyes gouged out.” She removed almost everything but a stained-glass window.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">No. 69 is now the Alice Brock Studio, where Brock sells her artwork. She is the author or illustrator — or both — of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mooses-Come-Walking-Arlo-Guthrie/dp/B000W7FBXW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1310318414&sr=1-1" style="border: 0px; color: #88c34b; font-size: 14.8px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-size: 14.8px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mooses Come Walking</em></a>, written with Guthrie (Chronicle Books, 2004), <a href="http://www.amazon.com/How-Massage-Your-Alice-Brock/dp/0811840697" style="border: 0px; color: #88c34b; font-size: 14.8px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-size: 14.8px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">How to Massage Your Cat</em></a> (Chronicle Books, 2003), <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 14.8px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">My Life as a Restaurant</em> (Overlook, 1976) and <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 14.8px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Alice’s Restaurant Cookbook</em> (Random House, 1969).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“I never formally studied art or took lessons, but all my life I have made things, drawn pictures and illustrated stories,” Brock said in an artist’s statement. “Being an artist was never a career choice. It’s my survival technique. Until recently, I rarely showed my work in public”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“I am a serial painter. One is never enough. There are so many possibilities. I want to explore them all. I enjoy repeating images in various configurations. The dynamics of relationships intrigues me. In my mind, objects have personalities, shapes can convey emotions and every carrot has a story.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“One of my favorite materials is the common beach stone. I draw on them and then I put them back on the beach. I also put them along the bike paths, behind the baked beans in the supermarket, on fence posts and in flower pots. And I sell them.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Found by serendipity (when not purchased), the stones have wound up being placed in or carried to the Museum of Modern Art, the Tate, the Louvre and the Hermitage; the top of Denali and the bottom of the Grand Canyon; and beaches in New Zealand and Venezuela. One was tossed over the Great Wall of China. I like the idea that Alice Brock found her way back home to Provincetown after many years of journeying and now dispatches little bits of Provincetown — and herself — on journeys of their own.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">52 years ago (Nov. 29, 1965) the Berkshire Eagle printed a little article about two young men being fined 25 bucks for dumping trash. Little did we know at the </span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; display: inline; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">time that the incident, which ran on page 25, would become the basis for <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=200413315194&extragetparams=%7B%22fref%22%3A%22mentions%22%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/arloguthrie/?fref=mentions" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer;">Arlo Guthrie</a>'s <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=106174642747125&extragetparams=%7B%22fref%22%3A%22mentions%22%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Alices-Restaurant/106174642747125?fref=mentions" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer;">Alice's Restaurant</a>. Here's our original story from 1965: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/berkshire.eagle/photos/a.194851400569277.62253.194810627240021/1497403306980740/?type=3&theater">Source</a></span><br />
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According to his biographer Joe Klein, “<em>one of the last things that Woody Guthrie did before he died was to listen to a recording of his son Arlo singing a long, convoluted talking blues about how he’d been arrested for littering in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and how he’d parlayed that ‘criminal record’ into a means of dodging the draft and avoiding the war in Vietnam.</em>” Whether Woody could actually comprehend the story or even knew it was Arlo singing and story telling will never be known. He was in the final stages of the neurologically debilitating Huntington’s Disease and would succumb to it within a few short weeks.<br />
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Because of Arlo's recording however, fame came to Woody’s oldest son much earlier in life than it came to him. Arlo Guthrie was raised in Howard Beach in Queens, New York. He had just graduated from the Stockbridge School in Stockbridge Massachusetts where he had met Alice & Ray Brock who both taught there. The couple lived in an old church and served large meals for friends and family. On Thanksgiving Day in 1965, 18-year-old Arlo and his classmate Rick Robbins were arrested in Stockbridge by police officer William Obanheim for dumping trash left over from Thanksgiving dinner at the Brocks. The two had originally planned on taking it to the town landfill but it was closed for the holiday. In court a few days later they pled guilty. </div>
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The judge, the Hon. James E. Hannon was actually blind. And as Arlo points out, “<em>in a typical case of American blind justice</em>” he found them both guilty, fined them $50, and made them collect their garbage. Guthrie and Robbins hit the road as performers immediately afterward. According to Robbins, “<em>we followed the footprints of Woody and Cisco [Houston]</em>.” The original song “Alice’s Restaurant” was a <i>faux</i>advertising jingle that Arlo had composed for the Brocks. He began to include it in his stage repertoire and during performances he started telling the story of their arrest and conviction and its effect on his Viet Nam era draft status: "<em>you want to know if I'm moral enough to join the army, burn women, kids, houses, and villages.... after being a litterbug?</em>"<br />
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But it wasn’t until 1967 that the song and story reached a larger audience. That year he performed it at the Newport Folk Festival and then during a WBAI radio broadcast. WBAI is the New York City Pacifica station; a non-profit community station. Arlo’s performance was hugely popular and often requested by the station’s listeners but WBAI only played the tape during fund-raising pledge drives. Its popularity in New York served to get Arlo a record contract and the song was released in 1967 on a long-playing album (at 18 minutes long the song and monologue couldn’t fit onto a 45 rpm single). The album reached #17 on the pop charts. A 45-rpm single called "Alice's Rock 'n Roll Restaurant" was also released by the record company but predictably it tanked.<br />
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In 1969 United Artists and director Arthur Penn released a film version of the story that featured Hollywood actors as well as Stockbridge locals including Officer Obanheim. Said Officer Obie: “<em>If anyone is going to make me look like a fool, it will be me." </em></div>
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As Arlo performed “Alice’s Restaurant” throughout his career he would periodically change the monologue to reflect current social concerns and political situations. A few of these other versions have been released on CD. "Alice: Before Time Began" was first recorded in 1969. Its satirical account of cockroach armies took on the military. A version recorded in 1990 at the Kerrville Folk Festival addressed policies of the first President Bush.<br />
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In 1997 Arlo re-recorded his entire debut album for CD: This recording, "Alice's Restaurant: The Massacree Revisited" includes an updated narrative that involves a visit to Jimmy Carter’s White House and a discovery there related to Richard Nixon. One version or another of “Alice’s Restaurant” has been featured on <strong>American Pastimes</strong> every Thanksgiving Eve since KZFR has been gracing the airwavs.<br />
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Arlo purchased the old Trinity Church in Stockbridge in 1991. The church, formerly owned by the Brocks and site of the infamous 1965 turkey dinner has been developed into The Guthrie Center, a non-profit interfaith church foundation dedicated to providing a wide range of local and international services.<br />
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Alice Brock went on to open a variety of restaurants and has written a number of cookbooks. Officer Obie was forced into retirement after over 30 years on the Stockbridge police department. He evidently beat up another peace officer.</div>
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Rick Robbins, Arlo’s friend and co-conspirator in garbage dumping continued to sing and tour into the late 1970’s when he settled down and became an architect and house builder. In the mid 1990’s he began to perform again, recording a number of CD’s with musical support from Rory Block, Eric Weisberg, John Sebastian, Garth Hudson, and others. In recent years he has toured extensively with Ramblin’ Jack Elliot. <a href="http://www.kzfr.org/broadcasts/3779">SOURCE:</a></div>
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The secret Jewish history of “Alice’s Restaurant”</h1>
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This is the fiftieth anniversary of the song <a href="https://vimeo.com/17182181" rel="noopener" style="color: #b43434; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">“Alice’s Restaurant,”</a> by Arlo Guthrie.</div>
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Well, sort of. The song was released on the album of the same name in September, 1967. The events that the song commemorates actually occurred two years before that, on Thanksgiving, 1965.</div>
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But, nevertheless, if you are of a certain age, nothing says Thanksgiving more than “Alice’s Restaurant.”</div>
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For those of you who don’t know what I am talking about, here is a Cliff’s Notes version.</div>
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“Alice’s Restaurant” consists of Arlo Guthrie delivering a long, guitar-accompanied monologue (a talking blues, really — an art form that his father, the iconic American folk singer, <a href="http://www.woodyguthrie.org/" rel="noopener" style="color: #b43434; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Woody Guthrie</a>, had perfected) about his arrest for littering in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, by the Stockbridge chief of police, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Obanhein" rel="noopener" style="color: #b43434; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">William Obanhein</a>, a.k.a. Officer Obie.</div>
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At the time, Arlo was living with Alice and Ray Brock in a deconsecrated church in Great Barrington, Massachusetts (more about that later).</div>
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Ultimately, as the song’s second part tells us, Arlo’s arrest record was at least partially responsible for preventing him from being drafted and serving in the war in Vietnam.</div>
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Two years later, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%27s_Restaurant_(film)" rel="noopener" style="color: #b43434; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">movie </a>“Alice’s Restaurant” was released. It stars Arlo as himself.</div>
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Jewish geography lesson: For many years, I spent summers in the Berkshire mountains of western Massachusetts, where the song takes place. For me, and for so many, the Berkshires are a magical place — the only place where I ever truly relax.</div>
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The discerning tourist can find all of the places mentioned in the song (with the exception of the scenes at the draft board, which take place on Whitehall Street in New York City).</div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 12px;">In Stockbridge, you can visit the original location of Alice’s restaurant; it is, in fact, “around the back, just a half a mile from the railroad track” off Main Street.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 12px;">For many summers, I used to dump our trash at the Stockbridge town dump, which is probably where Arlo should have dumped his trash in the first place. I could do that, legally, because I had a sticker from the “master garbologist.”</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 12px;">Officer Obie’s extended family still lives in the area; he was a well-known and beloved figure.</li>
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As for the church, it is still there, as well. It serves as the <a href="https://guthriecenter.org/" rel="noopener" style="color: #b43434; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Guthrie Center</a>, a wonderful concert venue, and home to the Guthrie Foundation, a permanent memorial to the legacy of Arlo’s late parents.</div>
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(Check out this <a href="https://theguthriecenter.bandcamp.com/album/woodys-children-by-doug-mishkin" rel="noopener" style="color: #b43434; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">song </a>about Woody’s legacy, written and sung by my friend, Doug Mishkin).</div>
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Which brings me to the Jewish stuff.</div>
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Arlo Guthrie is Jewish, through his mother, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjorie_Guthrie" rel="noopener" style="color: #b43434; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Marjorie Mazia Guthrie. </a></div>
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Fun fact: when Arlo celebrated becoming bar mitzvah, at the Howard Beach Jewish center in Queens, the presiding rabbi was none other than <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meir_Kahane" rel="noopener" style="color: #b43434; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Meir Kahane.</a></div>
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Kahane would go on to become the leader of the Jewish Defense League, and then, in Israel, of the extreme right wing, anti-Arab Kach party.</div>
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Kahane was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Meir_Kahane" rel="noopener" style="color: #b43434; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">assassinated </a>in 1990 by El Sayyid Nosair, who was linked to Osama bin Laden — thus becoming the first American victim of Al Qaida.</div>
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Arlo Guthrie and Meir Kahane — together. Think of it.</div>
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Back to Woody Guthrie.</div>
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Guthrie was not Jewish, and yet, he wrote a bunch of <a href="https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/_blog/The_ProsenPeople/post/woody-guthries-hanukkah-songs/" rel="noopener" style="color: #b43434; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Hanukkah songs</a>. This <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db-4ih0_0No" rel="noopener" style="color: #b43434; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">one </a>is one of my favorites.</div>
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Guthrie’s guitar was adorned by a simple message, placed there in 1941: “This machine kills fascists.”</div>
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As we prepared to enter World War Two, it was the right message.</div>
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And, while we are not fighting foreign wars against fascists right now, the anti-fascism sentiment still stands.</div>
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One last thing about Woody Guthrie.</div>
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When Guthrie lived in Brooklyn, he lived at the Beach Haven apartments, which was a property that had been developed by <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/01/22/the-unbelievable-story-of-why-woody-guthrie-hated-donald-trumps-racist-dad/?utm_term=.1ddb059e3ef1" rel="noopener" style="color: #b43434; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Fred Trump </a>— as in the father of the current president.</div>
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As others have noted, the older Trump was not particularly interested in having blacks rent his properties.</div>
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Which would lead Woody Guthrie to write a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jANuVKeYezs" rel="noopener" style="color: #b43434; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">song </a>about Fred Trump:</div>
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Just how much racial hate</div>
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When he drawed that color line</div>
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Here at his eighteen hundred family project.</div>
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The spirit of protest, birthed by Woody Guthrie and sustained by Arlo, is still alive in our time.</div>
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And for this, we surely must give thanks. <a href="http://religionnews.com/2017/11/22/alices-restaurant-thanksgiving-guthrie/">SOURCE</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/a-kosher-christmas" style="border: 0px; color: #0f64a4; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" src="https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/bookimages/kosher.christmas.jpg" style="border: 0px solid; float: right; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Here is a recent American tale of old wine in new vessels. Part of our national folklore reveals that Woody Guthrie, the iconic American folk troubadour and songwriter, composed Hanukkah songs. In a 2003 concert, the Klezmatics, a popular Grammy Award-winning Klezmer band, performed Hanukkah songs showcasing lyrics written from 1949 through the early 1950s by Woody Guthrie. The lyrics had laid fallow and long-forgotten in Guthrie’s archives until their discovery in 1998 by Woody’s daughter, Nora Guthrie. Nora asked the Klezmatics to write original music for the lyrics, which fuses strains of Klezmer music with American folk and bluegrass. The 2006 album, “Woody Guthrie’s Happy Joyous Hanuka,” comprises many different songs, including “Happy, Joyous Hanuka” and “Hanuka Tree.” Two of the eight songs, “The Many And The Few” and “Hanuka Dance,” had lyrics and melodies penned entirely by Guthrie. The songs were in part biographical. Woody was married to Marjorie Mazia, a Jewish dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company who was the daughter of Aliza Greenblatt, an activist and</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> </span><a href="http://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/pearls-of-yiddish-poetry" style="border: 0px; color: #0f64a4; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yiddish poet</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">. Nora remembers “For Hanukkah actually, we had a hat—we didn’t get presents—but we had a hat with different amounts of Hanukkah gelt, and every night we’d pick out five cents or twenty-five cents of gelt. My mother played piano, and we used to sing and dance every night.”</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="14a3e89779f1a87f__ednref1" style="border: 0px; color: #0f64a4; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">*</a></div>
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At the 2003 debut concert with the Klezmatics at the 92<sup style="line-height: 0;">nd</sup> Street Y in Manhattan, folk legend Arlo Guthrie, Woody’s son and Nora’s brother, joked that as children they would dance “around the Hanukkah tree.” "Happy Joyous Hanuka" counts down each candle on the menorah (“Seven for the sons of Hannah that died/Six for kings and the tricks they tried/Five for the brothers Maccabee”), while “Hanuka Tree” has a lively simple melody (“Round and around my Hanukah tree/Round and around I go/Round and around my Hanukah tree/Because I love you so”). According to Nora, most of Woody Guthrie’s Hanukkah songs seem to <a href="http://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/honeyky-hanukah" style="border: 0px; color: #0f64a4; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" src="https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/bookimages/honeykey-hanukah.jpg" style="border: 0px solid; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 12px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></a>have been written in November or December within five days of each other “because he had bookings in December for children’s Hanukkah parties in assorted Brooklyn community centers.” As was his wont, Woody would “write songs only for the gig a few days before and then go on to other songs for other gigs.” For the Guthrie family, a family of improvisers not of traditions and for whom the approach to religion was “all or none,” the tree was a “Christmas tree, a Hanukkah tree, and a holiday tree. It was a fluid thing!”</div>
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Indeed, the popularization of Woody Gutherie's Hanukkah songs by the Klezmatics demonstrates the vital role that music plays as an intrinsic cultural force contributing to the Americanization of this Jewish holiday, as it coexists with Christmas.</div>
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Alice Brock: An Artful Life</h1>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Alice Brock is no washashore. “I was conceived on Long Point,” she says, smiling. “Oh, wait, you don’t want to start that far back?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It doesn’t matter how far back you begin in Alice Brock’s life; it’s all interesting, as attendees at the Heritage Day that will be celebrated in her honor at the Provincetown Public Library on June 13 will get a chance to hear.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Maybe it started out on Long Point. Or maybe it started during the summers her father worked for Peter Hunt and the family lived on Commercial Street—“the best summers of my life,” says Brock. She decided then that she wanted to live in Provincetown forever.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There were a couple of rather famous detours on her way back here, however. Brock got married and headed out to Stockbridge to teach at a prep school run by a left-leaning scholar whose assumption was that everyone—faculty, staff, and students—were equals. “It was the mid-sixties,” Brock remembers. “My husband played the guitar, kids would come and hang out at our house on campus all the time. We were bohemians…or maybe beatniks.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">One of the kids who played and sang with Brock and her husband was Arlo Guthrie.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Brock’s mother bought the couple a church as a wedding present; her husband, an architect and sculptor, turned it into living quarters. It was a magical place, complete with bell tower and an arch made by New Bedford shipbuilders who simply reversed their usual approach to curves and space. Parents trusted Brock and her husband, as they were teachers, and more and more kids came to stay, to play, to talk. “But there I was, cooking for all those voracious teenagers!” says Brock. “That had to stop.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Her mother found the solution: “She said, ‘there’s a diner in Stockbridge that’s for rent. I’ll help you, and you can get paid for your cooking.’” Brock smiles. “I always leap before I look, so I said, why not?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That leap eventually brought about her extraordinarily popular cookbook, <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alice’s Restaurant Cookbook</i>, not to mention a song that became an anthem for the age, Arlo Guthrie’s anti-war hymn, <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alice’s Restaurant</i>. It was a golden time. “I loved it; it was all a lot of fun. Arlo’d been called up for the draft and that’s when he came up with the song…We were just all these hippies against the war. We lived as if the world was the way we wanted it to be.” She pauses. “That’s the way we still live.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It was time to go to Provincetown. “I’m very lucky, because I don’t care about money,” says Brock. “When I run out of money, some more comes in, somehow. I spend the money on other people, and as it goes out it makes room for more to come in.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Although she never took an art class, Brock had always been making things. “I love to recycle objects,” she says. “I even used to carve little figures out of sticks of chalk. I made a movie out of a roll of adding-machine tape, with narration. I always felt I was an artist, but I never saw it as a way to make money, it was all very personal. Before moving here, I had one art show in the Berkshires. Everything got sold—and I felt completely bereft! Then I came to Provincetown and I was part of a fall arts festival. I hung things for the first time—for the first time, I had a gallery. And I loved having a gallery!” She had that gallery for the next forty years. “I always enjoyed talking with all the people who came in…you have to understand, the sixties, it was a wonderful time for most people, and they love going back to that time. And so I sold art!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And she has continued to sell art. Her stones, adorned with pictures of women and of cats, can be found literally all over the world. While she no longer has a gallery on Commercial Street—“this is the first time that I don’t have a view of the water”—this summer on weekends she’ll be in one of the art shacks on MacMillan Pier, where everyone will have the opportunity to take home an Alice Brock painting, stone, or book.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Though she now has emphysema and requires oxygen, Alice Brock is still creating, and still in love with the place where she was conceived. “I love Provincetown with all my heart,” she says. “Every day I feel blessed to be here.”</span></div>
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<i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Alice Brock will be the guest of honor at this year’s Provincetown Heritage Day celebration at the Provincetown Public Library, 356 Commercial St., on Tuesday, June 13 at 6 p.m. The event will feature a Q&A with Brock and is free and open to the public. For more information call 508.487.7094 or visit provincetownlibrary.org.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Anyone of a Certain Age will almost certainly share the author’s quiet pleasure in knowing that <a href="http://www.alicebrock.com/All%20About%20Alice.htm" style="border: 0px; color: #88c34b; font-size: 14.8px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Alice M. (Pelkey) Brock</a>, the Alice of <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 14.8px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Alice’s Restaurant</em>, wound up practicing her delightful art right here in Provincetown. She moved to Cape Cod in 1979 and declared three decades later that she was grateful for every “beautiful day in paradise” (Jane Roy Brown, “After Alice’s Restaurants,” <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 14.8px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.boston.com/travel/explorene/massachusetts/regions/capecod/articles/2008/02/24/after_alices_restaurants/" style="border: 0px; color: #88c34b; font-size: 14.8px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Boston Globe</a>, </em>24 February 2008). “Thank God for the National Seashore,” she said. “There’s still the beautiful light, and there are still a few crackpots left. I never want to go anywhere. People say, ‘Don’t you want to go away in the winter?’ The only place I would want to go would be a place like this, and I’m here now.”<span id="more-33549" style="border: 0px; font-size: 14.8px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></div>
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<img alt="Alice and Zina Pelkey, Provincetown (ND). Courtesy of Alice Brock." class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-33569" data-attachment-id="33569" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"4.5","credit":"","camera":"NIKON D80","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1317299621","copyright":"","focal_length":"40","iso":"800","shutter_speed":"0.02","title":""}" data-image-title="Alice and Zina Pelkey, Provincetown (ND). Courtesy of Alice Brock." data-large-file="https://buildingprovincetown.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/69-commercial-street-provincetown-nd-05.jpg?w=450?w=450" data-medium-file="https://buildingprovincetown.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/69-commercial-street-provincetown-nd-05.jpg?w=450?w=300" data-orig-file="https://buildingprovincetown.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/69-commercial-street-provincetown-nd-05.jpg?w=450" data-orig-size="510,410" data-permalink="https://buildingprovincetown.wordpress.com/2010/01/09/69-commercial-street/69-commercial-street-provincetown-nd-05/#main" sizes="(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px" src="https://buildingprovincetown.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/69-commercial-street-provincetown-nd-05.jpg?w=450" srcset="https://buildingprovincetown.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/69-commercial-street-provincetown-nd-05.jpg?w=450 450w, https://buildingprovincetown.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/69-commercial-street-provincetown-nd-05.jpg?w=150 150w, https://buildingprovincetown.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/69-commercial-street-provincetown-nd-05.jpg?w=300 300w, https://buildingprovincetown.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/69-commercial-street-provincetown-nd-05.jpg 510w" style="clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 10px; max-width: 100%;" title="Alice and Zina Pelkey, Provincetown (ND). Courtesy of Alice Brock." /><code style="border: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></code></div>
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<img alt="Poem by Harry Kemp. 69 Commercial Street, Provincetown (2011), by David W. Dunlap." class="alignright size-full wp-image-33571" data-attachment-id="33571" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"5.3","credit":"","camera":"NIKON D80","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1317297391","copyright":"","focal_length":"62","iso":"800","shutter_speed":"0.004","title":""}" data-image-title="Poem by Harry Kemp. 69 Commercial Street, Provincetown (2011), by David W. Dunlap." data-large-file="https://buildingprovincetown.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/69-commercial-street-provincetown-nd-04.jpg?w=450?w=340" data-medium-file="https://buildingprovincetown.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/69-commercial-street-provincetown-nd-04.jpg?w=450?w=253" data-orig-file="https://buildingprovincetown.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/69-commercial-street-provincetown-nd-04.jpg?w=450" data-orig-size="340,403" data-permalink="https://buildingprovincetown.wordpress.com/2010/01/09/69-commercial-street/69-commercial-street-provincetown-nd-04/#main" sizes="(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px" src="https://buildingprovincetown.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/69-commercial-street-provincetown-nd-04.jpg?w=450" srcset="https://buildingprovincetown.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/69-commercial-street-provincetown-nd-04.jpg 340w, https://buildingprovincetown.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/69-commercial-street-provincetown-nd-04.jpg?w=127 127w, https://buildingprovincetown.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/69-commercial-street-provincetown-nd-04.jpg?w=253 253w" style="display: inline; float: right; height: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; margin-top: 5px; max-width: 100%;" title="Poem by Harry Kemp. 69 Commercial Street, Provincetown (2011), by David W. Dunlap." /><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In fact, she had been here before. Though Brock is closely associated in the popular mind with Stockbridge, Mass., her Provincetown bona fides are exceptional. Her parents were Mary Dubro Pelkey (±1909-2010) and Joseph F. Pelkey (1911-2010), who met here. As Brock herself notes, she was conceived here. And even though she was born in Brooklyn, her arrival was announced in the pages of <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 14.8px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Advocate</em>. Pelkey, a professional silkscreener and alumnus of the Cranbrook Academy of Art, had made a name for himself locally working with Peter Hunt, managing the Christmas Tree Shop at <a href="https://buildingprovincetown.wordpress.com/2010/01/08/443-commercial-street/" style="border: 0px; color: #88c34b; font-size: 14.8px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">443-445 Commercial Street</a>. Pelkey also ran the Art Mart on a wharf near the center of town, <a href="https://buildingprovincetown.wordpress.com/2010/01/08/251-commercial-street-wharf/" style="border: 0px; color: #88c34b; font-size: 14.8px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">251-253 Commercial</a>, known variously as Jot Small’s, Heinrich Pfeiffer’s or Charley Cook’s. And he was an <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 14.8px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Advocate</em> contributor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Pelkey family — father, mother, two girls and one dog — spent summers in Provincetown, living in a big room behind the Christmas Tree Shop. There is a charming picture of Alice and her sister, Zina, seated outside Hunt’s Peasant Village complex at <a href="https://buildingprovincetown.wordpress.com/2010/01/08/432-commercial-street/" style="border: 0px; color: #88c34b; font-size: 14.8px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">432 Commercial Street</a>. Harry Kemp dedicated a poem to Pelkey in 1944; one of his better ones, in fact. “Last Word,” it is titled.</span></div>
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<img alt="Alice Brock, left; Arlo Guthrie, upper right. Courtesy of Alice Brock." class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-33574" data-attachment-id="33574" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"5","credit":"","camera":"NIKON D80","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1317298728","copyright":"","focal_length":"52","iso":"800","shutter_speed":"0.00625","title":""}" data-image-title="Alice Brock, left; Arlo Guthrie, upper right. Courtesy of Alice Brock." data-large-file="https://buildingprovincetown.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/69-commercial-street-provincetown-nd-06.jpg?w=450?w=340" data-medium-file="https://buildingprovincetown.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/69-commercial-street-provincetown-nd-06.jpg?w=450?w=300" data-orig-file="https://buildingprovincetown.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/69-commercial-street-provincetown-nd-06.jpg?w=450" data-orig-size="340,340" data-permalink="https://buildingprovincetown.wordpress.com/2010/01/09/69-commercial-street/69-commercial-street-provincetown-nd-06/#main" sizes="(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px" src="https://buildingprovincetown.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/69-commercial-street-provincetown-nd-06.jpg?w=450" srcset="https://buildingprovincetown.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/69-commercial-street-provincetown-nd-06.jpg 340w, https://buildingprovincetown.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/69-commercial-street-provincetown-nd-06.jpg?w=150 150w, https://buildingprovincetown.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/69-commercial-street-provincetown-nd-06.jpg?w=300 300w" style="clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 10px; max-width: 100%;" title="Alice Brock, left; Arlo Guthrie, upper right. Courtesy of Alice Brock." /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Brock’s name entered the national lexicon in 1967 with the release of Arlo Guthrie’s <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 14.8px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Alice’s Restaurant Massacree</em>. “Alice’s Restaurant is not the name of the restaurant, that’s just the name of the song,” Guthrie said at the beginning of an 18-minute talking blues ballad about his arrest for illegally dumping debris from Ray and Alice Brock’s home after discovering that the Stockbridge town dump was closed on Thanksgiving. The jauntily meandering song is, by and by, a lampoon of the police and the Selective Service System and the stupidity of officialdom in general; popular enough in its time that it inspired a movie, <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 14.8px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Alice’s Restaurant</em> (1969), in which Pat Quinn played Alice. The song is still broadcast on radio stations around the country as a Thanksgiving Day anthem.</span></div>
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<img alt="69 Commercial Street, Provincetown (2012), by David W. Dunlap." class="alignleft size-full wp-image-33576" data-attachment-id="33576" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"2.5","credit":"","camera":"Canon PowerShot S100","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1350239266","copyright":"","focal_length":"5.2","iso":"6400","shutter_speed":"0.025","title":""}" data-image-title="69 Commercial Street, Provincetown (2012), by David W. Dunlap." data-large-file="https://buildingprovincetown.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/69-commercial-street-provincetown-2012-07b.jpg?w=450?w=255" data-medium-file="https://buildingprovincetown.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/69-commercial-street-provincetown-2012-07b.jpg?w=450?w=255" data-orig-file="https://buildingprovincetown.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/69-commercial-street-provincetown-2012-07b.jpg?w=450" data-orig-size="255,255" data-permalink="https://buildingprovincetown.wordpress.com/2010/01/09/69-commercial-street/69-commercial-street-provincetown-2012-07b/#main" sizes="(max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px" src="https://buildingprovincetown.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/69-commercial-street-provincetown-2012-07b.jpg?w=450" srcset="https://buildingprovincetown.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/69-commercial-street-provincetown-2012-07b.jpg 255w, https://buildingprovincetown.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/69-commercial-street-provincetown-2012-07b.jpg?w=150 150w" style="display: inline; float: left; height: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 5px; max-width: 100%;" /><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Brock got out of the restaurant business long ago. With Davis E. Gates, she purchased 69 Commercial Street in 1983 from Francis P. and Elizabeth A. Kelley. The house was constructed around 1860 and was the property of William A. Couilliard at the turn of the 20th century, when it was denominated 52 Commercial Street. Adeline and Emil Souda acquired it from Couilliard in 1942. Adolphe Robicheau, who acquired it from Marie Souda in 1962, undertook some astonishing changes, many of which Brock inherited.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Robicheau, a ballet dancer and instructor from Nova Scotia, operated 69 Commercial as a boarding house. He also transformed it into a dramatic expression of Catholic piety, drawing on his talents as a set painter for the Boston Ballet. He built a private chapel on the third floor that was consecrated by the bishop of Fall River, Brock said. He installed a pipe organ, an altar, stations of the cross, a baptismal font, a prie-dieu and icons. A lot of them. “The whole house was filled with icons,” Brock recalled, “including martyrs with their eyes gouged out.” She removed almost everything but a stained-glass window.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">No. 69 is now the Alice Brock Studio, where Brock sells her artwork. She is the author or illustrator — or both — of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mooses-Come-Walking-Arlo-Guthrie/dp/B000W7FBXW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1310318414&sr=1-1" style="border: 0px; color: #88c34b; font-size: 14.8px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-size: 14.8px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mooses Come Walking</em></a>, written with Guthrie (Chronicle Books, 2004), <a href="http://www.amazon.com/How-Massage-Your-Alice-Brock/dp/0811840697" style="border: 0px; color: #88c34b; font-size: 14.8px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-size: 14.8px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">How to Massage Your Cat</em></a> (Chronicle Books, 2003), <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 14.8px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">My Life as a Restaurant</em> (Overlook, 1976) and <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 14.8px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Alice’s Restaurant Cookbook</em> (Random House, 1969).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“I never formally studied art or took lessons, but all my life I have made things, drawn pictures and illustrated stories,” Brock said in an artist’s statement. “Being an artist was never a career choice. It’s my survival technique. Until recently, I rarely showed my work in public”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“I am a serial painter. One is never enough. There are so many possibilities. I want to explore them all. I enjoy repeating images in various configurations. The dynamics of relationships intrigues me. In my mind, objects have personalities, shapes can convey emotions and every carrot has a story.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“One of my favorite materials is the common beach stone. I draw on them and then I put them back on the beach. I also put them along the bike paths, behind the baked beans in the supermarket, on fence posts and in flower pots. And I sell them.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Found by serendipity (when not purchased), the stones have wound up being placed in or carried to the Museum of Modern Art, the Tate, the Louvre and the Hermitage; the top of Denali and the bottom of the Grand Canyon; and beaches in New Zealand and Venezuela. One was tossed over the Great Wall of China. I like the idea that Alice Brock found her way back home to Provincetown after many years of journeying and now dispatches little bits of Provincetown — and herself — on journeys of their own.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8px;"><b>This song is called Alice's Restaurant, and it's about Alice, and the restaurant.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8px;"><b>But Alice's Restaurant is not the name of the restaurant, that's just the name of the song, and that's why I called the song, Alice's Restaurant.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8px;"><b><br /></b></span></span>
<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8px;"><b>You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8px;"><b>You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8px;"><b>Walk right in it's around the back, just a half a mile from the railroad track</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8px;"><b>An' you can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8px;"><b><br /></b></span></span>
<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8px;"><b>Now it all started two Thanksgivings ago, was on - two years ago on Thanksgiving, when my friend and I went up to visit Alice at the restaurant, but Alice doesn't live in the restaurant, she lives in the church nearby the restaurant, in the bell-tower, with her husband Ray and Fasha the dog.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8px;"><b>And livin' in the bell tower like that, they got a lot of room downstairs where the pews used to be.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8px;"><b>An' havin' all that room, seein' as how they took out all the pews, they decided that they didn't have to take out their garbage for a long time.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8px;"><b><br /></b></span></span>
<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8px;"><b>We got up there, we found all the garbage in there, and we decided it'd be a friendly gesture for us to take the garbage down to the city dump. So we took the half a ton of garbage, put it in the back of a red VW microbus, took shovels and rakes and implements of destruction and headed on toward the city dump.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8px;"><b><br /></b></span></span>
<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8px;"><b>Well, we got there and there was a big sign and a chain across across the dump saying, "Closed on Thanksgiving."</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8px;"><b>And we had never heard of a dump closed on Thanksgiving before, and with tears in our eyes we drove off into the sunset looking for another place to put the garbage.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8px;"><b><br /></b></span></span>
<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8px;"><b>We didn't find one. Until we came to a side road, and off the side of the side road there was another fifteen foot cliff and at the bottom of the cliff there was another pile of garbage.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8px;"><b>And we decided that one big pile is better than two little piles, and rather than bring that one up we decided to throw ours down.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8px;"><b><br /></b></span></span>
<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8px;"><b>That's what we did, and drove back to the church, had a thanksgiving dinner that couldn't be beat, went to sleep and didn't get up until the next morning, when we got a phone call from officer Obie.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8px;"><b>He said, "Kid, we found your name on an envelope at the bottom of ab' a half a ton of garbage, and just wanted to know if you had any information about it."</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8px;"><b>And I said, "Yes, sir, Officer Obie, I cannot tell a lie, I put that envelope under that garbage."</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8px;"><b><br /></b></span></span>
<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8px;"><b>After speaking to Obie for about fourty-five minutes on the telephone we finally arrived at the truth of the matter and said, that we had to go down and pick up the garbage, and also had to go down and speak to him at the police officer's station.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8px;"><b>So we got in the red VW microbus with the shovels and rakes and implements of destruction and headed on toward the police officer's station.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8px;"><b><br /></b></span></span>
<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8px;"><b>Now friends, there was only one or two things that Obie coulda done at the police station, and the first was he coulda given us a medal for being so brave and honest on the telephone, which wasn't very likely, and we didn't expect it, and the other thing was he coulda bawled us out and told us never to be see driving garbage around the vicinity again, which is what we expected, but when we got to the police officer's station there was a third possibility that we hadn't even counted upon, and we was both immediately arrested. Handcuffed. And I said "Obie, I don't think I can pick up the garbage with these handcuffs on." He said, "Shut up, kid. Get in the back of the patrol car."</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8px;"><b><br /></b></span></span>
<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8px;"><b>And that's what we did, sat in the back of the patrol car and drove to the quote Scene of the Crime unquote. I want tell you about the town of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where this happened here, they got three stop signs, two police officers, and one police car, but when we got to the Scene of the Crime there was five police officers and three police cars, being the biggest crime of the last fifty years, and everybody wanted to get in the newspaper story about it. And they was using up all kinds of cop equipment that they had hangin' around the police officer's station. They was taking plaster tire tracks, foot prints, dog smelling prints, and they took twenty seven eight-by-ten color glossy photographs with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each one was to be used as evidence against us. Took pictures of the approach, the getaway, the northwest corner the southwest corner and that's not to mention the aerial photography.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8px;"><b><br /></b></span></span>
<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8px;"><b>After the ordeal, we went back to the jail. Obie said he was going to put us in the cell. Said, "Kid, I'm going to put you in the cell, I want your wallet and your belt." And I said, "Obie, I can understand you wanting my wallet so I don't have any money to spend in the cell, but what do you want my belt for?" And he said, "Kid, we don't want any hangings." I said, "Obie, did you think I was going to hang myself for litterin'?" Obie said he was making sure, and friends Obie was, cause he took out the toilet seat so I couldn't hit myself over the head and drown, and he took out the toilet paper so I couldn't bend the bars roll out the - roll the toilet paper out the window, slide down the roll and have an escape. Obie was making sure, and it was about four or five hours later that Alice... Remember Alice? It's a song about Alice... Alice came by and with a few nasty words to Obie on the side, bailed us out of jail, and we went back to the church, had a another thanksgiving dinner that couldn't be beat, and didn't get up until the next morning, when we all had to go to court.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8px;"><b><br /></b></span></span>
<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8px;"><b>We walked in, sat down, Obie came in with the twenty seven eight-by-ten color glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one, sat down. Man came in said, "All rise." We all stood up, and Obie stood up with the twenty seven eight-by-ten color glossy pictures, and the judge walked in sat down with a seeing eye dog, and he sat down, we sat down. Obie looked at the seeing eye dog, and then at the twenty seven eight-by-ten color glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one, and looked at the seeing eye dog. And then at twenty seven eight-by-ten color glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one and began to cry, 'cause Obie came to the realization that it was a typical case of American blind justice, and there wasn't nothing he could do about it, and the judge wasn't going to look at the twenty seven eight-by-ten color glossy pictures with the circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each one was to be used as evidence against us. And we was fined fifty dollars and had to pick up the garbage in the snow, but that's not what I came to tell you about.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8px;"><b><br /></b></span></span>
<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8px;"><b>Came to talk about the draft.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8px;"><b><br /></b></span></span>
<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8px;"><b>They got a building down in New York City, it's called Whitehall Street, where you walk in, you get injected, inspected, detected, infected, neglected and selected. I went down to get my physical examination one day, and I walked in, I sat down, got good and drunk the night before, so I looked and felt my best when I went in that morning. 'Cause I wanted to look like the all-American kid from New York City, man I wanted, I wanted to feel like the all-, I wanted to be the all American kid from New York, and I walked in, sat down, I was hung down, brung down, hung up, and all kinds o' mean nasty ugly things. And I waked in and sat down and they gave me a piece of paper, said, "Kid, see the psychiatrist, room 604."</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8px;"><b><br /></b></span></span>
<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8px;"><b>And I went up there, I said, "Shrink, I want to kill. I mean, I wanna, I wanna kill. Kill. I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore and guts and veins in my teeth. Eat dead burnt bodies. I mean kill, kill, kill, kill." And I started jumpin' up and down yelling, "Kill! Kill!" and he started jumpin' up and down with me and we was both jumping up and down yelling, "Kill! Kill!" And the Sargent came over, pinned a medal on me, sent me down the hall, said, "You're our boy."</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8px;"><b><br /></b></span></span>
<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8px;"><b>Didn't feel too good about it.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8px;"><b><br /></b></span></span>
<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8px;"><b>An' I proceeded on down the hall gettin' more injections, inspections, detections, neglections and all kinds of stuff that they as doin' to me at the thing there, and I was there for two hours, three hours, four hours, I was there for a long time going through all kinds of mean nasty ugly things and I was just having a tough time there, and they was inspecting, injecting every single part of me, and they was leaving no part untouched. Proceeded through, and when I finally came to the see the last man, I walked in, walked in sat down after a whole big thing there, and I walked up and said, "What do you want?" He said, "Kid, we only got one question. Have you ever been arrested?"</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8px;"><b><br /></b></span></span>
<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8px;"><b>And I proceeded to tell him the story of the Alice's Restaurant Massacre, with full orchestration and five part harmony and stuff like that and all the phenome... - and he stopped me right there and said, "Kid, did you ever go to court?"</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8px;"><b><br /></b></span></span>
<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8px;"><b>And I proceeded to tell him the story of the twenty seven eight-by-ten color glossy pictures with the circles and arrows and the paragraph on the back of each one, and he stopped me right there and said, "Kid, I want you to go and sit down on that bench that says Group W, now kid!"</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8px;"><b><br /></b></span></span>
<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8px;"><b>And I, I walked over to the, to the bench there, and there is, Group W's where they put you if you may not be moral enough to join the army after committin' your special crime, and there was all kinds of mean nasty ugly looking people on the bench there. Mother rapers. Father stabbers. Father rapers! Father rapers sitting right there on the bench next to me! And they was mean and nasty and ugly and horrible crime-type guys sitting on the bench next to me. And the meanest, ugliest, nastiest one, the meanest father raper of them all, was coming over to me and he was mean 'n' ugly 'n' nasty 'n' horrible and all kind of things and he sat down next to me and said, "Kid, whad'ya get?" I said, "I didn't get nothing, I had to pay $50 and pick up the garbage." He said, "What were you arrested for, kid?" And I said, "Litterin'." And they all moved away from me on the bench there, and the hairy eyeball and all kinds of mean nasty things, till I said, "And creating a nuisance." And they all came back, shook my hand, and we had a great time on the bench, talkin' about crime, mother stabbing, father raping, all kinds of groovy things that we was talking about on the bench. And everything was fine, we was smoking cigarettes and all kinds of things, until the Sargent came over, had some paper in his hand, held it up and said.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8px;"><b><br /></b></span></span>
<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8px;"><b>"Kids, this-piece-of-paper's-got-47-words-37-sentences-58-words-we-wanna-know-details-of-the-crime-time-of-the-crime-and-any-other-kind-of-thing-you-gotta-say-pertaining-to-and-about-the-crime-I-want-to-know-arresting-officer's-name-and-any-other-kind-of-thing-you-gotta-say", and talked for forty-five minutes and nobody understood a word that he said, but we had fun filling out the forms and playing with the pencils on the bench there, and I filled out the massacre with the four part harmony, and wrote it down there, just like it was, and everything was fine and I put down the pencil, and I turned over the piece of paper, and there, there on the other side, in the middle of the other side, away from everything else on the other side, in parentheses, capital letters, quotated, read the following words:</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8px;"><b><br /></b></span></span>
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<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8px;"><b>And that's what it is, the Alice's Restaurant Anti-Massacree Movement, and all you got to do to join is sing it the next time it come's around on the guitar.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8px;"><b>Walk right in it's around the back, just a half a mile from the railroad track</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8px;"><b>That was horrible. If you want to end war and stuff you got to sing loud. I've been singing this song now for twenty five minutes. I could sing it for another twenty five minutes. I'm not proud... or tired.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8px;"><b>You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant (Excepting Alice)</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">HOLD UP. Did the The Young Turks actually advocate for violent protests in America? Yes, yes they did. EXPOSED by Steven Crowder. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f6f7f9; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">"Young Turks are offensive to me! I am a descendant of Armenian survivors of the genocide perpetrated by "the young turks"- google it!! Cenk ungar is an idiot!"</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f6f7f9; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">"So he's okay making a statement that the Right would plant people in a crowd to commit violence, but when actual fact is given that the Dems did that at Trump rallies it's silence."</span><br />
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The Young Turks were the perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide. The Young Turk Movement emerged in reaction to the absolutist rule of Sultan Abdul-Hamid (Abdulhamit) II (1876-1909). With the 1878 suspension of the Ottoman Constitution, reform-minded Ottomans resorted to organizing overseas or underground. The backbone of the movement was formed by young military officers who were especially disturbed by the continuing decline of Ottoman power and attributed the crisis to the absence of an environment for change and progress. Working secretly in unconnected clusters under the watchful eye of the Hamidian secret police, the Young Turks succeeded in overturning the rule of the autocratic sultan when the Ottoman armies in European Turkey openly supported the movement. Abdul-Hamid's reinstatement of constitutional and parliamentary rule in July 1908 ushered in a brief period of legalized political activity by a panoply of reformist Turkish parties as well as Armenian political and revolutionary organizations. The Young Turks earned further public support when their intervention was required to suppress the April 1909 counter-revolution staged by the palace.</div>
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At the center of the Young Turk Revolution stood the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) (<i>Ittihad ve Terakki Jemiyeti</i>) formed in 1895. Its members came to be known as Ittihadists or Unionists. The most ideologically committed party in the entire movement, the CUP espoused a form of Turkish nationalism which was xenophobic and exclusionary in its thinking. Its policies threatened to undo the tattered fabric of a multi-ethnic and multi-religious society. Taking advantage of the political confusion reigning in the aftermath of the First Balkan War which the Ottoman Empire lost in 1912 to its former subject states, the CUP seized power in a coup d'etat in January 1913. As it led the empire to a partial recovery in the Second Balkan War, the CUP monopolized political power domestically by bringing the Parliament completely under its influence. It also began to steer away from the long-held Ottoman foreign policy of alliances with Great Britain and France, and forged a stronger military cooperation with Germany. Moreover, the CUP compensated for the Ottoman retreat in the Balkans by promoting Pan-Turkism, an expansionist program designed to challenge Russia in its southern tier. By the time World War I broke out in August 1914, the CUP constituted a chauvinistic band which had subordinated the Ottoman state to its Turkist ideology. It also propelled the country into war against its better interests by entering into a secret accord with Germany.</div>
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To consolidate Turkish rule in the remaining territories of the Ottoman Empire and to expand the state into the so-called Turanian lands in the east, most held by Iran and Russia, the CUP devised in secret a program for the extermination of the Armenian population. From the viewpoint of Ittihadist ideology and its new and ambitious foreign policy, the Armenians represented a completely vulnerable population straddling an area of major strategic value for its Pan-Turanian goals. Ottoman misrule had made the Armenians, a prosperous minority despite its political disadvantages, sympathetic to Russia. To the Ittihadists, the global crisis of 1914 represented a rare opportunity to change the fortunes of the Ottoman state and to use the cover of war to embark upon a policy of both internal and external social engineering the likes of which had not been attempted or imagined. Once again they gambled on the element of surprise, subterfuge, and radical daring, this time against a civilian minority population.</div>
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Even though the initial advance of Ottoman forces in 1914 into Russia and Iran did not result in a permanent expansion, on the whole the Ottoman armies held Allied forces in check until 1916 and did not capitulate until 1918. The main thrust of the Armenian Genocide, however, was implemented within the first year of the war, years ahead of any imminent collapse. While the mass deportations of the civilian Armenian population was carried out in the spring and summer of 1915 and were completed by the fall, the systematic slaughter of the Armenians had started earlier with the murder of the able-bodied males already drafted into the Ottoman armed forces. By expropriating the movable and immovable wealth of the Armenians, the CUP also looked upon its policy of genocide as a means for enriching its coffers and rewarding its cohorts. The elimination of a commercially viable minority fulfilled part of the nationalist program to concentrate financial power in the hands of the state and promote greater Turkish control over the domestic economy.</div>
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Enver, Talaat, and Jemal, who were responsible for these policies formed the governing triumvirate which had concentrated power its hands with the January 1913 coup. The triumvirs divided the governance of the Ottoman Empire among themselves.</div>
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A young military hero who married into the Ottoman dynasty, Enver provided the most public face of the CUP. As Minister of War he coordinated the buildup of the Turkish armed forces with German financial, logistical, and planning support. In an ill-conceived plan of attack, he precipitated land warfare against Russia in the Caucasus in the dead of winter. His December 1914 campaign cost an entire army lost in a period of four weeks. In his capacity as the Deputy Commander-in-Chief (the honorary command being reserved for the sovereign), Enver exercised ultimate control over the Ottoman armies which carried out major atrocities, first in 1915 and then with renewed vigor when Turkish forces broke the Russian line in 1918 and invaded the Caucasus. The forces under the command of his brother, Nuri, and uncle, Halil, spread devastation through Russian Armenia and carried out massacres of Armenians all the way to Baku. Talaat as Minister of the Interior in Istanbul ran the government for a figurehead grand vizier. He was the mastermind of the Armenian Genocide and coordinated the various agencies of the Ottoman government required for the deportation, expropriation, and extermination of the Armenians. Jemal who was Minister of the Navy controlled the southern part of the Ottoman Empire as virtual viceroy from his seat in Damascus and was responsible for checking the British line in Egypt. As commander of Syria, the concentration camps and extermination sites fell within his jurisdiction. Beyond the government ministries, the CUP also operated secret groups for the purpose of infiltrating enemy territory and for promoting Pan-Turkism in neighboring countries. The most infamous of its operations was the <i>Teshkilâti Mahsusa</i>, Special Organization, composed of outlaws especially recruited to carry out the CUP secret agenda. The high purpose of their mission was evidenced by their disposition at the command of two major CUP ideologues, Dr. Nazim and Dr. Behaeddin Shakir, both of them medical professionals, the prime organizers of the on-site implementation of the Armenian Genocide. Lastly, the CUP entrusted local command of the genocidal process to the provincial <i>valis</i>, or governors-general, who were made responsible for the execution of Talaat's and Enver's orders.</div>
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With the defeat of the Ottomans in World War I the denouement of the CUP became a drawn out matter pursued by all their opponents. Fully cognizant of the Allied threat to hold them responsible for war crimes, the CUP cabinet ministers resigned from the government with the signing of the Armistice of Mudros in October 1918. The key Ittihadist leaders fled Turkey, while the rank and file went underground. The post-war Ottoman government convened tribunals in 1919 to hear testimony on the conduct of the war and the implementation of the Armenian Genocide. While many second rank figures were prosecuted individually, the party as a whole was indicted for the crimes of conspiracy and massacre. The verdicts found the accused guilty of capital crimes, but the principal culprits were only tried in absentia. To bring them to justice, a clandestine group was formed by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (<i>Dashnak</i> Party) to seek out and execute the Ittihadists in hiding in Germany and Italy. Vowing vengeance they tracked down Talaat in Berlin where he was assassinated in 1921. Behaeddin Shakir was also killed in Berlin in 1922, and Jemal in Tbilisi in 1922. Enver in a last adventure met his end in 1922 in Central Asia leading a cavalry charge against an advancing Red Army unit. Though most of the CUP chieftains had taken refuge in Germany, Jemal and Enver had established contact with the Bolsheviks offering their services in the cause of one more revolution. In the meantime, as he led the Turkish Nationalist movement, Mustafa Kemal distanced himself from the Ittihadists but absorbed into his forces former CUP members prepared to switch allegiance. In 1926 Kemal himself stamped out the remaining cells of the CUP when they were accused of plotting his assassination and sent Dr. Nazim and others to the gallows.</div>
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noachbenavrahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00901464701676163846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2560100053947368316.post-73370755598976758242017-02-17T10:53:00.000-08:002017-02-17T11:10:58.442-08:00The Globalist Long Game - Redefine Liberty Activism As Evil "Populism"<div class="content" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">One of the most favored propaganda tactics of establishment
elites and the useful idiots they employ in Marxist and cultural-Marxist
circles is to <b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">relabel or redefine an opponent before they
can solidly define themselves</span></b>. In other words, elites and
Marxists will seek to <b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">“brand” you (just as
corporations use branding) in the minds of the masses</span></b> so that
they can take away your ability to define yourself as anything else.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="border: 1pt none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;">Think
of it this way: Say you want to launch an organization called “Movement Blue,”
and you and others have gone through great struggle to grow this organization
from the ground up. However, just as your movement is about to achieve
widespread recognition, someone else comes along, someone with extensive
capital and media influence, and they saturate every outlet with the narrative
that your movement is actually more like “Movement Red,” and that Movement Red
is a terrible, no-good, bad idea. They do such a good job, in fact, that
millions and millions of people start calling you “Movement Red” without even
knowing why, and they begin to believe all the negative associations that this
label entails.</span></i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="border: 1pt none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;">Through
the art of negative branding, your enemy has stolen your most precious
asset — the ability to present yourself to the public as you really are.</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="border: 1pt none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;">Negative
branding is a form of psychological inoculation.</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> It is designed to close people’s minds to
particular ideas before they actually hear those ideas presented by a true
proponent of the ideas. But beyond that, negative branding can also be
used to trick groups and movements into abandoning their original identity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">For example, the concept
of economic freedom for individuals –the freedom from overt government
interference or government favoritism for certain people over others, the
freedom to compete with ideas and ingenuity to build a better business and a
better product, the freedom to retain the fruits of one’s labor — used to
be widely referred to as “free markets”, as defined by Adam Smith. The
very basis of free market philosophy was to remove obstruction and economic
oppression from the common man in order to inspire a renaissance in
innovation and prosperity. The problem is, you rarely hear anyone but
libertarians talk about traditional "free markets" anymore.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="border: 1pt none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;">Though
Karl Marx did not coin the term “capitalism,” he and his followers (and
editors) are indeed guilty of the pejorative version now used.</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> It has always been Marxist propagandists
who have sought to redefine the idea of “free markets” in a negative way,
and the use of the term capitalism is how they did it. They have been so
effective in their efforts that today even some free market proponents instead
refer to themselves as “capitalists.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">While “free markets”
denote freedom of the common man to pursue a better life through productivity
and intelligence and merit, “capitalism” denotes a monstrous and blind pursuit
of wealth and power without moral regard. One gives the impression of fairness,
the other gives the impression of tyranny.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="border: 1pt none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;">Is
there even such an animal as “capitalism?”</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> I can’t really say. What I do know
is that the system we have today, a hybrid mutation of corporatism and
socialism, is certainly NOT a free market system if we are to follow the true
definition and the original intent. Yet, whenever cultural and economic
Marxists attack the notion of economic freedom, they use the system we have now
as an example of the failures of “free market capitalism.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="border: 1pt none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;">This
is the magic of negative branding, and it is used in every facet of social life
and geopolitics.</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Now, before I get into
the term “populist,” I recognize that people opposed to my position will
immediately spring into a tirade about how liberty and sovereignty champions brand
those against our ideals “in the exact same way.” This is not quite true,
though.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="border: 1pt none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;">When
we refer to “globalists” in a negative manner, we are taking a pre-existing
label, something that they often call themselves, and pointing out that their
philosophy is flawed and highly destructive based on historical evidence and
verifiable facts.</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> We are not
seeking to redefine them as anything other than what they already are. We
are merely exposing to the public what they OPENLY promote and believe and then
offer our side and our evidence as to why their beliefs are wrong.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">This is not what they do
to us. Instead, globalists and their cronies prefer that the public does
not get to hear our views directly from us. They rarely, if ever,
actually use our publications as a source for their attacks on our
principles. They would much rather tell the public what we are and what
we believe before they are ever exposed to us. This is why you will often
find that many participants in protest groups at events held by anti-globalists
like Ben Shapiro or Milo Yiannopoulos have never actually seen or heard a
single speech by the men in question. They have no idea what we really
stand for. In fact, they protest our speakers, groups and movements based
on what they were told we stand for by other biased sources.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="border: 1pt none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;">This
brings us to “populism.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">There has been a deep
and concerted propaganda campaign taking place against liberty activists,
sovereignty champions, anti-globalists, anti-SJW groups, and conservatives in
general. I noticed this particular campaign accelerating at the beginning
of 2016, and it was the primary reason why I chose to take a hard stance on my
predictions for Brexit passage and a Trump election win. The propaganda
narrative could be summarized as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="border: 1pt none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;">Since
early 2016 (according to globalists and the mainstream publications
featuring their opinions), there has been a rising tide of nationalists
and “populists” in western nations. This sudden surge in “populism” is
inexorably tied to the Brexit movement and the support for candidates like
Donald Trump. Populism will overrun the existing “stability” of globalism
and cause severe economic crisis in numerous countries. It finds its
roots in the “less educated” portions of the population, as well as in older
generations that think they have something to lose if globalism succeeds.
It is also driven by an “irrational fear” of economic change, global
interdependence and multiculturalism. Populists are predominantly naive
and desperate for “strongmen” leaders to fight for them. Some of them are
motivated by self interest, while others are motivated by racism.</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">You can see these
sentiments expressed bluntly in numerous mainstream media outlets. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/29/frenzy-hatred-brexit-racism-abuse-referendum-celebratory-lasting-damage" target="_blank"><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #1e439a; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none;">The Guardian</span></a> has no qualms about linking the Brexit to
“racism” and populism, for example. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/05/18/is-it-possible-to-have-populism-without-racism/?utm_term=.ccd606246fcf" target="_blank"><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #1e439a; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none;">The Washington Post</span></a> also has had no problem linking the
Tea Party and Trump supporters to racism and populism as well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Beyond the paper-thin
accusations of racism, the general thrust of the negative branding is
clear; <b><i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">if you are against globalism (or elitism) and
its major tenets, then you are a “populist.” </span></i></b> This is
reiterated in recent articles from <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-02-10/how-do-you-know-a-populist-when-you-see-one-quicktake-q-a" target="_blank"><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #1e439a; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none;">Bloomberg</span></a> and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/oct/13/birth-of-populism-donald-trump" target="_blank"><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #1e439a; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none;">The Guardian</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">But in such
publications, the most egregious argument is the one that is not directly
made. <b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> The insinuation is that “populism” is not just defined by a
fear of corruption through organized elitism, but that this fear is
UNFOUNDED. </span></b>Meaning, anyone who argues against the
mechanizations of globalists, for instance, is not only redefined as a
“populist,” but he/she is also, essentially, ignorant or insane. See how
that works?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="border: 1pt none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;">The
populist label is often used to describe a political movement built on the cult
of personality, a sycophantic love affair with a celebrity dictator that tends
to have ulterior motives.</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">
Thus, the philosophical underpinnings of that particular movement are further
eroded because they don’t even know why they are doing what they are doing;
they are only playing a foolish game of follow the leader.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">So, to recap, according
to the establishment and their “press,” conservatives and sovereignty activists
are actually “populists.” Our concerns over uncontrolled immigration and open
borders are not based on rationalism and historic evidence of social and
economic instability as well as the highly evidenced threats of terrorism; they
are based on “xenophobia.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Our concerns over the
increasing fiscal weakness generated by the economic interdependence of
globalism and our lack of self reliance are not based on math and logic, but
our “lack of understanding” on how interdependence makes everything better.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Our concerns over
rampant organized elitism and the corruption this entails are not based on
numerous concrete examples, not to mention exposed documentation and the words
of elitists themselves; they are based on a “fantasy world” of “tinfoil
hatters” who just make stuff up while consuming heaping helpings of "fake
news".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">If this is the case,
then I suppose I should fasten my own tinfoil hat tightly and note that this
narrative is part of an ongoing long-game by globalists. <b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">They are not attempting to achieve the demonization of
conservatives and sovereignty advocates today or tomorrow. This is about
preparing the public for a near future, perhaps five to 10 years from now,
after they have sufficiently sabotaged the global economy and scapegoated us
for the crisis this will cause.</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Not possible, you
say? By all means, read my article <a href="http://www.alt-market.com/articles/3102-the-false-economic-recovery-narrative-will-die-in-2017"><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #1e439a; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none;">'The False Economic
Recovery Narrative Will Die In 2017'</span></a> for further
explanation. If we are not careful, we will be redefined not just by
establishment propaganda, but by a global calamity that will be gift wrapped
with our name on it and tied around our collective necks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">In the meantime, how do
we fight back against this disinformation campaign?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="border: 1pt none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;">One
factor that a “populist movement” generally does not have is the ability to
remain self-critical. </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Populism,
at least according to the mainstream media, requires a mentality of mass blind
faith in a cause that is misunderstood or a leader that is dishonest. The
liberty movement and conservative groups still have some members who are
not afraid to point out when we are going astray in our logic or our actions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="border: 1pt none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;">We
have not been silenced by our own peers, yet.</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Given enough crisis, it is hard to say how people will
react. A major terrorist attack, an economic panic, a war; these kinds of
rip-tides can inspire a lot of intolerance for contrary views. We are not
there at this point, and as long as members of our movement are able to retain
a critical eye, we will never be “populists.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Another method is to
refrain from adopting the “branding” that the establishment tries to use
against us. Beware of anyone within our groups and organizations
who begins referring to himself or us as “populists” as if this is a label
of which we should be proud.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="border: 1pt none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;">In
the long run, people with ill intent will call us whatever they want to call
us. </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> The real issue is,
will those labels stick? Will we help them to stick by losing our composure
and acting the way the propagandists always said we would?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="border: 1pt none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;">Negative branding is about burning a hole in the historical
record, because memes last far longer than people. </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> In 100 years, how will we be
remembered? This is what the globalists value most - future impressions
of today by generations not yet born. Because wars are not just fought in
one moment over one piece of ground or over one idea; <b><i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">they are fought in ALL moments, for days not yet passed, for the
posterity of all ideas, even those not yet thought of. If we do not fight
back with this in mind, winning will be impossible. [1]</span></i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: large;">The Ability to Remain Self-critical.
The irony is painfully obvious.</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #f6f7f9; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Meet Yvette Felarca. She’s a proud advocate
of violent thuggery in the pursuit of shutting down speech that she deems
unacceptable. If she decides you fit her definition of a fascist - a word she
very clearly doesn’t have a handle on - she is in favor of using any and
all methods to silence you. If that means assault, rioting, and vandalism, so
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The irony is painfully obvious.<br />
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Because her position is so patently absurd, I don’t really have a lot to say
about it. All I’ll add is the following: As you watch the clip, keep two things
in mind.<br />
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1. This woman is a public school teacher. Given her inability to see the flaws
in her own arguments, I doubt she’s much of an educator. ...But it’s important
to remember that this is the sort of person who has sway over your kids for
around eight hours a day.</span><span style="font-family: inherit , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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2. She offers a terrible definition of fascism. It’s not even close to correct.
However, let’s put that aside. Let’s pretend her definition is correct. How can
she not recognize that immediately after she stakes her claim about fascists,
she proudly self-identifies as one? She is, inarguably, precisely what she
claims to be silencing.</span><span style="font-family: inherit , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Exit question: In an era where virtually every school on Earth has a
zero-tolerance policy toward violence, how can a school have a
violence-advocate on staff?</span><span style="font-family: inherit , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Scientists have moved the time of the Doomsday Clock counting down humanity’s dying days closer to midnight, with the dials now set at two and a half minutes to 12am – the highest danger level facing the planet since 1953.</div>
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A global failure to fight climate change and concern over Donald Trump’s cabinet picks were cited as reasons for the increased threat to the planet. The clock had been set at three minutes to midnight since 2015.</div>
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The threat posed to democracy by fake news and the influence exerted on elections were also cited as reasons for the new time, according to a panel of scientists involved in the process.</div>
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The appropriate symbolic time is deduced each year by The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist. The new reading brings the threat closer to midnight than it’s been since the height of the Cold War – when it reached 11:58pm.</div>
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Speaking at the announcement, theoretical physicist Lawrence Maxwell Krauss said, <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“US and Russian leaders need to come together to reduce nuclear arms”</em> adding that <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“President Trump and President Vladimir Putin can act together as statesmen or act as petulant children dictating our future.”</em></div>
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When asked what was the single biggest factor in moving the hands forward, Professor of Meteorology David Titley said the dissemination of facts and science expressed through a <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“verbal looseness”</em> was a particular threat.</div>
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Former US Ambassador to the UN Thomas Pickering said the team behind the change was equally concerned with today's situation as it was during the height of the Cold War. <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“It takes us back, comparatively, to an age of great uncertainty,”</em> he said.</div>
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Krauss warned of the economic impact of the US nuclear arsenal, saying Trump’s proposed modernization could cost $1 trillion.</div>
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<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“It’s a devastatingly large economic program that has limited rationality,”</em> Krauss said.</div>
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<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“The fact that we have a large fraction of our nuclear weapons on our high-alert status raises the possibility of an accidental nuclear war which has almost happened a number of times in its history.” <a href="https://www.rt.com/news/375176-doomsday-clock-moves-closer/">Source: </a></em><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "bitstream charter" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>"The warming community has utterly failed in its climate models and predictions about the climate"</b></span></span><br />
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Breaking: “Clearly, the planet is getting colder,” said Casey, president of the Space and Science Research Corp. </strong></div>
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While the direction of climate change cannot be determined based on a single event, the collection of record-breaking winters shows that the planet is getting colder, climate expert John Casey tells <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.newsmax.com/CMSPages/NewsMax/OoyalaPlayer.aspx?embedcode=Fya2lnczr8RvZFDsDGU6cblczJGFAGxB&section=Newsmax-Tv&author=Courtney+Coren#ooid=Fya2lnczr8RvZFDsDGU6cblczJGFAGxB" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #743399; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Newsmax TV</a></strong>. [Video]</div>
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“Just about every American can now see that we’ve had a series of brutal, record-setting winters that are starting earlier, staying longer and breaking records that are 100 and 150 years old,” Casey told J.D. Hayworth, who was joined by Republican strategist Ford O’Connell, on “America’s Forum” Wednesday.</div>
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“The warming community has utterly failed in its climate models and predictions about the climate,” he said. “We are facing some stark realities right now that say without doubt that we are heading into a new cold era.”</div>
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Casey, who worked as a consultant for NASA and was a White House space program adviser, is the author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Winter-Causing-30-Year-Spell/dp/1630060356/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1424283399&sr=1-1&keywords=%22Dark+Winter%3A+How+the+Sun+is+Causing+a+30-Year+Cold+Spell%2C%22&linkCode=as2&tag=newsmedi9a-20&linkId=JWQX7Q4SOSP2L6BP" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #743399; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Dark Winter: How the Sun is Causing a 30-Year Cold Spell,”</strong></a> in which he argues that the planet is currently undergoing a cooling trend.</div>
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“If we look at the facts based on the five major global temperature data sets that our company tracks and evaluates on a regular basis, we see that the story of 2014 being the warmest year on record was in fact just a story,” he said.</div>
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“According to our analysis, using the best science and technical data available, 2014 was a warm year, an important year, but merely another warm year in a strain of years that have been essentially stable for the last 18 years — where there has been no effective growth in global warming,” he said.<br />
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According to a report by <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Forbes</em>, a NASA satellite instrument revealed that the Earth’s <a class="external" href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/05/19/updated-nasa-data-polar-ice-not-receding-after-all/#379c87a032da" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ed1c24; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.9; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">polar ice caps have not receded at all</a> since it began its measurements back in 1979. From what was <a class="external" href="http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/global.daily.ice.area.withtrend.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ed1c24; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.9; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">shown in its data</a>, total polar ice has generally remained above the post-1979 average, a finding that contradicts the most-frequently spoken claims by those who push global warming as the primary reason why the polar ice caps are receding.</div>
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Actually, an article written by <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Daily Mail</em> back in 2013 reports the opposite of what all the global warming and climate change enthusiasts are pushing. According to their report, the polar ice caps were growing by 29 percent in a year, a result that has caused them to coin the term “<a class="external" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2415191/And-global-COOLING-Return-Arctic-ice-cap-grows-29-year.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ed1c24; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.9; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">global cooling</a>.” As visual proof, the report provided NASA photographs of the Arctic Ocean’s polar ice cap in August of 2012 and August of 2013. By comparing the photographs, there is clearly an expansion of said ice cap from the previous year.</div>
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With that in mind, one person who should be shoving his foot in his mouth is former Vice President Al Gore. Back in 2007, while receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for campaigning global warming especially through <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">An Inconvenient</em> <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Truth</em>, he predicted there would be no more polar ice caps by 2014<em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</em> Seven years later, we had a polar ice cap that is <a class="external" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2738653/Stunning-satellite-images-summer-ice-cap-thicker-covers-1-7million-square-kilometres-MORE-2-years-ago-despite-Al-Gore-s-prediction-ICE-FREE-now.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ed1c24; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.9; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">thicker and covers 1.7 million square kilometers</a>.</div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(Now if someone would tell the Pope)</strong></div>
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Read more: <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/Newsmax-Tv/john-casey-climate-change-cold-winters/2015/02/18/id/625503/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #743399; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.newsmax.com</a></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/204717#.Vmo0hkorKM8">Source:</a> Vatican: Jews don’t need Christ to be</strong> <b>saved</b><br />
Pope Francis <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/12/06/pope-francis-prays-climate-summit-paris-succeed/76882466/">prays for climate summit in Paris</a> to succeed? </div>
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noachbenavrahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00901464701676163846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2560100053947368316.post-78650029107061110352016-10-29T05:28:00.000-07:002016-10-29T05:28:34.127-07:00Journalist Katie Hopkins called out CNN for being the “Clinton News Network,<h1 class="entry-title" itemprop="headline" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 36px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px;">
WATCH: UK Reporter RIPS CNN, Calls Them “Clinton News Network”</h1>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This British reporter held nothing back in her truthful assault on CNN’s anti¬Trump and pro-Clinton bias, keeping the CNN anchor tongue¬tied and flustered throughout the entire interview.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Recently an outspoken British reporter for the U.K. Daily Mail made an appearance on CNN International in London and put into words, while live and on the air, what millions of Americans have been saying to themselves and others throughout the 2016 election cycle, if not for years before that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Journalist Katie Hopkins called out CNN for being the “Clinton News Network,” citing its overwhelming bias in favor of Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, and refused to back down from her assertion when challenged by the stammeringly self¬righteous and indignant host, Hala Gorani.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Asked about her support for Republican nominee Donald Trump, Hopkins proclaimed, “I think he’s going to win. I think you guys are in for a big surprise which I am quite excited about.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Then Gorani indignantly projected her own network’s obvious bias by proclaiming that Hopkins had put words in her mouth that she’d never said, something CNN and other liberal networks have routinely done to Trump throughout the entire election cycle.</span></div>
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noachbenavrahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00901464701676163846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2560100053947368316.post-9516166945069986522016-03-22T04:43:00.000-07:002016-03-22T04:43:13.207-07:00Anyone Who Loves Jesus And The Jews And Supports Ted Cruz As Candidate For President Are Out Of Their Mind<blockquote class="tr_bq">
I'm not sure about all the Lovey Dovey crap Walid Shoebat has in his opening line, but this is an informative bit of news on Ted Cruz's <b>dominionist cult.</b> I don't remember Jesus ever saying he loves anyone...ever. That's for another post, one on the NT. </blockquote>
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Lots of times, when the ones with foresight warns of damaging current foreign policies, the naive crowds object “you’r unpatriotic”, yet when these with foresight are proven correct, and only after seeing the aftermath, no one remembers the watchmen.</div>
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We warned as others did of bad foreign policy regarding Iraq, Syria and the Arab Spring years ago. Many Republicans mocked. Then the same Republicans who mocked, years later, trumpeted the same sentiment we did, but the difference is that these were the Johnny-come-lately.</div>
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So which one would you like to be, a voter with foresight or a Johnny-come-lately?</div>
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Ted Cruz, the darling of many is a disaster for Christianity and Jews for many reasons.</div>
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It is not only that Cruz’ father Rafael Cruz is a weird cultist who says that <a href="http://aattp.org/flashback-rafael-cruz-calls-son-ted-cruz-an-anointed-king-responsible-for-the-end-time-transfer-of-wealth/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f65b3; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">his son was anointed as “king” </a>who will take control of all sectors of society, an agenda commonly referred to as the “<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Seven Mountains Mandate</em>“, but Cruz’s foreign policy supports the very issue he claims to uphold being pro-Jews pro-marriage etc … According to the Seven Mountain <a href="http://www.7culturalmountains.org/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f65b3; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Initiative</a> which started by <a href="https://mkayla.wordpress.com/2010/10/14/finally-found-the-roots-of-the-seven-mountains-mandate/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f65b3; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">reprobates in 1975</a> by <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/unreasonablefaith/2009/05/r-j-rushdoony-reconstructionist-and-racist-bigot/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f65b3; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">R. J. Rushdoony</a> and Francis Schaeffer” (whose son Frank Schaeffer converted to eastern Orthodox and later became atheist) who claimed a special access to the Almighty and with a strange <a href="https://mkayla.wordpress.com/2010/10/14/finally-found-the-roots-of-the-seven-mountains-mandate/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f65b3; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">twist of Scripture</a> started an evil movement. From this, Seven Mountain cult evolved. While it claimed that they used “biblical foundations” this cult evolved into complete insanity:</div>
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The 7 mountains initiative is not an initiative to establish dominion over all the earth or in governments. It is an initiative that seeks to love and serve all people on the earth. As followers of Christ, we believe we are called to love all people, <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">regardless of faith</span>, <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">lifestyle</span> or <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">gender orientation</span>.</div>
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It is this mimicking of some sort of a <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Global Caliphate</em> that Christianity is all about becoming dominionists in which Cruz’s father says that his son will “bring the spoils of war to the priests”, thus helping to bring about a prophesied “great transfer of wealth”, from the “wicked” to righteous gentile believers (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNa5w9js48s" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f65b3; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">link to video</a>). Most are unaware that the cult Ted belongs to with his father Rafael Cruz’ is the <a href="http://www.publiceye.org/christian_right/dominionism.htm" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f65b3; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">dominionist</a> cult.</div>
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While there is no time or space here to cover Cruz’s cultic affiliation, it is crucial that folks understand: American politics whether Democrat or Republican is not at war with Islamists per se: the CIA aided the Islamist terror in Chechnya and the Russian Caucasus in the early 1990’s, they aided the Islamist Mujahideen in Afghanistan during Ronald Reagan’s era (which later became the Taliban), they aided the Jihadi Arab Spring, they aided Islamist Turkey … these are all anti-Israel and anti-Christ. Anyone cares to deny?</div>
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Most American voters are lemmings, sheep led to the slaughter who are unaware (due to lack of education on foreign policy) that the goal is not combatting evil, but is to deliberately weaken Russia’s sphere of influence. This desire must be accomplished no matter what–even by using and supporting Islamists, neo-Nazis or whomever– it doesn’t matter. All this is an undeniable fact of life, politics is not about right vs. wrong, Shiite vs. Sunni, Protestant theology vs. Catholic, marriage vs. gender orientation, Israel vs. Palestine, recognition of Holocaust vs. Holocaust denial, haves vs. have-nots, Republican vs. Democrat … but it is all about a continual war between top-dogs and is a pure struggle over power and world-dominion.</div>
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Thats it.</div>
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Anyone who denies this is simply part of the tide and the drowning sheep who get caught in the quicksand. These will always be the naive masses who are recruited with the cries of “Hurrah” while waiting for Johnny to come home from Iraq or Afghanistan who was supposedly fighting for his country.</div>
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Am I then denouncing the U.S.? Heavens no. America does what is right <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">only by the providence of God</span>. While we applaud Reagan for defeating Russia’s Communism, and before him, the threats from Nazi Germany and the emperor worship of Japan, it was by sheer providence the military found the Nazi death camps, all the while the government knew everything and did absolutely nothing until the end. The goodness of the American, most of the time, is not reflected by the politicians and this coming election Americans have a chance to change this.</div>
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But Cruz is not the answer.</div>
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Why? Besides his cultic affiliations, Cruz, as part of his foreign policy, supports the pro-Nazi Ukrainian government as do most Democrat and Republican politicians. In fact, it was Putin who correctly alleges that the government in Ukraine’s Kiev is propped up by neo-Nazi and anti-Semitic fascist groups including <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Right Sector</em> and <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Svoboda</em> – a nationalist party that won seats in the Ukrainian parliament in 2012. Putin uses this fact to justify the annexation of Crimea and the backing of separatist groups in eastern Ukraine.</div>
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In fact, it was Senator John McCain who actually labeled the Hungarian PM <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Viktor Orban</em>“a neo-fascist dictator” for simply being close to Russia. Yet when it came to the Ukraine, this same John McCain was on the platform with neo-fascist and far-right figures in Ukraine before the coup.</div>
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It is this type of double standard that is quite extraordinary. While the anti-Russia pro-Western side of the Ukraine is neo-Nazi, naive Americans are supposed to pretend that the Nazis are not there. When Cruz rightly walks out on an anti-Israel event ran by Middle Eastern Arab Christians, what is not known by many, is that Cruz could care less about Israel and cares more about political power. If this assessment is wrong, why then would Ted Cruz <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/sen-ted-cruz-ukraine-2014-5#ixzz31nDVOnxR" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f65b3; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">visit in support</a> this same neo-Nazi government, the very anti-Semitic government, whom Ukraine’s Chief Rabbi, Moshe Reuben Asman, has <a href="http://grumpyelder.com/2014/03/chief-rabbi-of-ukraine-urging-jews-to-flee/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f65b3; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">warned</a> about, that Jews in Ukraine should get out of the country due to the pro-Nazi government.</div>
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So why do so many European and American politicians — including, of all people, Sen. Ted Cruz want to help anti-Semites ascend to power and become part of the EU? The Republican establishment as a whole, and its obvious, is all part of the soulless agendas in Washington DC which is U.S. dominion.</div>
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The only way out is that Cruz claims he has no foreign policy experience or to say (as our current administration does) that the Ukrainian government will be “tamed”.</div>
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It is a rule-of-thumb, that when the U.S. cries that Ukraine, Syria, Iraq, or any country needs “democracy”, what they mean by that is “regime change” to thwart another superpower. In Syria it didn’t matter that McCain (republican) and Obama (democrat) supported terrorists who used Sarin gas, it was about changing the pro-Russian Syrian government. This reality is what we call “state backed terrorism” which will never change regardless to who is U.S. President.</div>
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Confirmed by Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, key organizations in the Ukraine including the Neo-Nazi party <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Svoboda</em> were generously supported by Washington:</div>
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This is not an issue of Democrats vs. Republicans, both parties support the same issues. Cruz supports the same Neo-Nazi party Svoboda leader Oleh Tyahnybok. Here he is with the Hitler salute:</div>
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Neo Nazi Svoboda leader Oleh Tyahnybok</div>
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John McCain and neo-Nazi leader Oleh Tyahnybok met to finalize plans to overthrow Ukraine’s legitimate government</div>
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“Beat the Yids” a quot on T-Shirts worn by Ukranian Nationalists which means “beat the Jews”</div>
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The biblical rule of thumb is that nationalism is a system ordained by God. It is a system which the “izims” (Communism, Islamism, Socialism, Paganism …) are always at war with. Evil never stops to reshape us in the milieu of an evil ideology that grinds us into one religion and one government.</div>
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The story of Ukraine is the story of nationalism. Nationalism is ordained by God to all people. The business class in the Ukraine were oriented towards Russia who see the Ukrainian-Russian relationship as vital while the elites are much more oriented towards the EU and not the people. Russia has always been the imperial overlord of Ukraine, both under the Czar and in the time of the Soviet Union.</div>
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So the Pro-EU wing of the elite ruling class succeeded in raising an impressive stage army of protesters, a large part is inspired by the Occupy movement and the other by traditionalists. These see themselves as Europeans and not Russian. Then you have ultra-nationalists like Oleh Tyahnbok, an anti-Semite, which is a tradition that is not exactly dead in Ukraine. These are the bulk of the anti-Russia movement.</div>
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So it’s a geopolitical rivalry between the European Union (which is using its puppets) and Russia.</div>
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Russia’s President Putin has never given up on the idea of a Russian-led and dominated political and economic union as a counterbalance to Nato and the EU. With its historical, cultural and political and economic ties with Russia, it is the biggest prize in a competition for geopolitical power between Russia and the EU.</div>
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Putin started a parallel and competing strategic initiative with the Eurasian Customs Union (ECU) in October 2007 aiming for a ‘fully-fledged union’ similar to the EU as a global pole of power. Russia used similar pressure to force Armenia to give up negotiating with the EU.</div>
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There is a deep dividing line between the EU and Russia. Moscow has always seen the EU’s engagement in Eastern Europe as competitive interference. Dealing with Moscow has always been one of Europe’s most sensitive dilemmas.</div>
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The tsarist empire, the Soviet Union and Russia have all been both the enemy, and an ally to Europe. Europeans have fought with and against the Russians, just as they have done among themselves.</div>
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Many see Russia as a European country, which extends into Asia. Europe has no choice, what is in the interest of most of Europe is to have Russia as a close ally who can help on key matters such as dealing with Syria and the security of their energy supplies – which is about one-third of Europe’s gas, oil and coal imports which come from Russia. Europe’s relationship with Russia is more important for the EU than their relationship with the Ukraine.</div>
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The European Union is in shambles given the terrible economic problems of Southern Europe, so adding the weak Ukraine to the EU was preposterous, but making it in the Russian sphere of influence will prove an asset for Russia in the future.</div>
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Many who argue for Cruz’s theology has a dilemma. Cruz is an Evangelical in which the anti-Putin stems from the wrong interpretation of Gog and Magog being Russia, a nation (so they claim) that comes against Israel prior to Armageddon. While this is an error of interpreting Scriptures, his policy supporting the Ukraine to be part of the EU (which is also thought to be Antichrist) should put him, including all his Evangelical voters in a dilemma: why be on the side of Antichrist while being against Gog? Shouldn’t Evangelicals be anti-both: Gog and Antichrist? This is the pillar of hypocrisy.</div>
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It is here where these err. Donald Trump was right about the war in Iraq and it took a decade to recognize it and it would probably take another decade till the Republican party admits it.</div>
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And here is where foresight is necessary. President Putin (whom many of the naive consider as enemy) bolsters Christian Armenia politically, economically and militarily. The U.S. refuses to do what Putin did in recognizing the Armenian Genocide. Historically speaking, the U.S. is a holocaust denier when it comes to Armenia. How can a nation live with this? The U.S. Government is not about recognition of Holocaust vs. Holocaust denial.</div>
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Support for Armenia and Russia’s occupation of the Ukraine is bad for Turkey. Armenia’s recent rise as a regional power has only been possible due to the near total control Moscow has had over Armenia’s energy and military sectors. Armenia in the future will be an asset to fight against Turkey and the Ukraine will be the platform where Russia will invade Turkey when conflicts arise between Russia and Turkey.</div>
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I know that while some see Russia’s support for Iran as bad, this is true, but always keep in mind that Russia supports Iran to harass the U.S. with its anti-Russia attitude. Russia is creating a strategic crisis for the United States who fears Iran more than the Russians who are buffered from Iran by the Sunni Caucasus states. As far as the future goes, many in the U.S. fear the Russian sphere of influence, especially that it strengthened Iran. The Prophecy arena is replete with a Russian Iranian alliance that is based on error. But what needs to be understood are the issues at hand; first, Russia was fighting Sunnis in the northern Caucasus and feared the strengthening of radical Sunnis anywhere, but particularly in the larger Sunni-dominated republics in Russia. This is the same case with the U.S. in allying with Iran to fight ISIS.</div>
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It is just the way the ball bounces.</div>
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The Russians do not really have an interest to attack Israel as many in the Prophecy mania proclaim. No serious analyst would see any reason for Russia to invade Israel, and neither does Russia want the Iranians to gain nuclear weapons. What they do want is an extended conflict in Iraq, extended tension between Iran and the United States, and they wouldn’t much mind it if the United States went to war with Iran as well.</div>
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Second, an Iranian sphere of influence would threaten Saudi Arabia and would compel the United States to re-engage in the region to protect Saudi Arabia and by that will also be inclined to defend Israel. After all, the Americans remain obsessed with the Islamic world.</div>
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The key foreign policy then is to bring <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Russia</em> closer while keeping <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Iran and Turkey</em> at a distance. Yet the U.S. has its ties closer to Turkey and is now aiding Iran while they alienate Russia. It is also true that U.S. policy in the region (and why the U.S. Administration are behind the Sunni-Shia divide) is that the U.S. needs a region equally treacherous both for Turkey and Iran. Current balance of forces between extremist religious groups prevents Turkey and Iran to feel comfortable, whereas Washington reaps geopolitical dividends from the situation.</div>
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But Turkey and Iran have a common interest in preventing an independent Kurdish nation. The more the United States supports the Muslim Iraqi Kurds there will be a greater danger of an Iranian-Turkish alliance which is what we project will happen.</div>
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The only problem with this policy is that it undermines the situation for the Christians in the region, who are becoming highly persecuted. Such persecution will extend to the future in which the entire Christian population in the Middle East will have to flee or be slaughtered. To Christians, this issue should be the highest priority. Please help us rescue Christians.</div>
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Folks ask me why I support Donald Trump. It is not only that Trump has foresight and was one of very few to stand against the war in Iraq, but Trump also has a simple policy: bring Russia closer, prevent Russia and China to unite, while keeping Japan, Turkey and Iran at a distance, all the while defend U.S. economy from all these greedy nations that do not want to play fairly. This is the vision of a man with foresight:</div>
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If you’re not much of a church-goer, then the word “tithing” probably sounds like a cockney guy with a lisp getting ready to taze you, but in the evangelical circles where <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ted Cruz</strong> hopes to find his advantage in Iowa, it is an <a href="http://www.gotquestions.org/tithing-Christian.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1d455e; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Old Testament guideline</a> that sets the level of an individual’s charitable giving at ten percent of their income. That custom has now become part of the Republican presidential campaign.</div>
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I grew up in a fundamentalist Christian church, so I can attest to the fact that tithing is really important to some pastors, but most Christians wouldn’t judge someone on this standard because even the churchiest among us gives the side-eye to this convenient bit of New Testament-ignoring self-service, and are more inclined to heed<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Corinthians+9:7&version=KJV" style="border: 0px; color: #1d455e; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"> the two Corinthians</a> on this: “Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver."</div>
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Ted Cruz: “Listen on the question of tithing, all of us are on a faith journey, and I will readily admit that I have not been as faithful in this aspect of my walk as I should have been”</div>
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“That article focuses on ten years ago. We don’t have the ability to go back and change what occurred ten years ago when Heidi and I were newly married and we’d just started a family. But at the end of the day, being a Christian is not about holding yourself out as righteous. It’s about beginning with the understanding that we are flawed sinners and we are saved not by deeds but by Christ’s redemption. I am grateful that God is a patient and forgiving God and this area, as in many areas of my life I am working to do a better job walking in my faith.”</div>
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Look, the real answer to this question is that nobody tithes, not even that guy at your church who sings all the hymns without looking at the book and scowls like you farted every time someone reads a verse from a New International Version, but if you’re going to engage the question, Jesus would like it if you told the truth.</div>
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The story he references, first of all, doesn’t focus on “ten years ago,” it covers Ted’s tax returns for a five-year period that ended five years ago. From <a href="http://keranews.org/post/cruz-tax-records-show-growing-salary-limited-giving" style="border: 0px; color: #1d455e; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">2006 to 2010</a>, Ted Cruz made $5,064, 248.00 and gave $44,000.00 to charity. That’s 0.86% of his income, or about 8.6% of a tithe. In 2006, when Cruz made “only” $350 grand, he and Heidi weren’t “newly married,” they’d been married for five years, and they weren’t “starting a family,” they didn’t have kids until 2008.</div>
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The thing is, Ted Cruz knows he’s not telling the truth, because this issue also came up during his campaign for U.S. Senate, and he threw an <a href="http://www.wfaa.com/story/news/politics/2014/08/15/13832940/" style="border: 0px; color: #1d455e; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">entirely different piece of spaghetti</a> at the wall that time:</div>
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“That article focuses on ten years ago. We don’t have the ability to go back and change what occurred ten years ago when Heidi and I were newly married and we’d just started a family. But at the end of the day, being a Christian is not about holding yourself out as righteous. It’s about beginning with the understanding that we are flawed sinners and we are saved not by deeds but by Christ’s redemption. I am grateful that God is a patient and forgiving God and this area, as in many areas of my life I am working to do a better job walking in my faith.”</div>
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Asked to explain, the Cruz campaign told News 8 Cruz also donates many hours of his time to charitable and educational endeavors.</div>
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Look, I’ll be the first one to admit that it’s garbage for liberal outsiders to try and attack Ted Cruz over a custom that they, themselves, think is silly, and Cruz could have responded to this in any number of ways. The doctrine of tithing isn’t widely practiced or believed. But if you’re going to treat it seriously, then make Jesus happy and tell the truth.</div>
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Source: <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/ted-cruz-lies-right-to-christian-journalists-face-about-tithing/">http://www.mediaite.com</a><br />
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Eisenhower, a retired five-star Army general, the man who led the allies on D-Day, made the remarks in his farewell speech from the White House.<br />
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Eisenhower gave the address after completing two terms in office; it was just days before the new president, John F. Kennedy, would be sworn in.<br />
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My fellow Americans:<br />
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Three days from now, after half a century in the service of our country, I shall lay down the responsibilities of office as, in traditional and solemn ceremony, the authority of the Presidency is vested in my successor.<br />
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This evening I come to you with a message of leave-taking and farewell, and to share a few final thoughts with you, my countrymen.<br />
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Like every other citizen, I wish the new President, and all who will labor with him, Godspeed. I pray that the coming years will be blessed with peace and prosperity for all.<br />
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Our people expect their President and the Congress to find essential agreement on issues of great moment, the wise resolution of which will better shape the future of the Nation.<br />
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My own relations with the Congress, which began on a remote and tenuous basis when, long ago, a member of the Senate appointed me to West Point, have since ranged to the intimate during the war and immediate post-war period, and, finally, to the mutually interdependent during these past eight years.<br />
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In this final relationship, the Congress and the Administration have, on most vital issues, cooperated well, to serve the national good rather than mere partisanship, and so have assured that the business of the Nation should go forward. So, my official relationship with the Congress ends in a feeling, on my part, of gratitude that we have been able to do so much together.<br />
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<b>II.</b><br />
We now stand ten years past the midpoint of a century that has witnessed four major wars among great nations. Three of these involved our own country. Despite these holocausts America is today the strongest, the most influential and most productive nation in the world. Understandably proud of this pre-eminence, we yet realize that America's leadership and prestige depend, not merely upon our unmatched material progress, riches and military strength, but on how we use our power in the interests of world peace and human betterment.<br />
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<strong>III.</strong><br />
Throughout America's adventure in free government, our basic purposes have been to keep the peace; to foster progress in human achievement, and to enhance liberty, dignity and integrity among people and among nations. To strive for less would be unworthy of a free and religious people. Any failure traceable to arrogance, or our lack of comprehension or readiness to sacrifice would inflict upon us grievous hurt both at home and abroad.<br />
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Progress toward these noble goals is persistently threatened by the conflict now engulfing the world. It commands our whole attention, absorbs our very beings. We face a hostile ideology -- global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose, and insidious in method. Unhappily the danger is poses promises to be of indefinite duration. To meet it successfully, there is called for, not so much the emotional and transitory sacrifices of crisis, but rather those which enable us to carry forward steadily, surely, and without complaint the burdens of a prolonged and complex struggle -- with liberty the stake. Only thus shall we remain, despite every provocation, on our charted course toward permanent peace and human betterment.<br />
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Crises there will continue to be. In meeting them, whether foreign or domestic, great or small, there is a recurring temptation to feel that some spectacular and costly action could become the miraculous solution to all current difficulties. A huge increase in newer elements of our defense; development of unrealistic programs to cure every ill in agriculture; a dramatic expansion in basic and applied research -- these and many other possibilities, each possibly promising in itself, may be suggested as the only way to the road we wish to travel.<br />
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But each proposal must be weighed in the light of a broader consideration: the need to maintain balance in and among national programs -- balance between the private and the public economy, balance between cost and hoped for advantage -- balance between the clearly necessary and the comfortably desirable; balance between our essential requirements as a nation and the duties imposed by the nation upon the individual; balance between actions of the moment and the national welfare of the future. Good judgment seeks balance and progress; lack of it eventually finds imbalance and frustration.<br />
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The record of many decades stands as proof that our people and their government have, in the main, understood these truths and have responded to them well, in the face of stress and threat. But threats, new in kind or degree, constantly arise. I mention two only.<br />
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<b>IV.</b><br />
A vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment. Our arms must be mighty, ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction.<br />
Our military organization today bears little relation to that known by any of my predecessors in peacetime, or indeed by the fighting men of World War II or Korea.<br />
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Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United States corporations.<br />
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This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence -- economic, political, even spiritual -- is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.<br />
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In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.<br />
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We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.<br />
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Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades.<br />
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In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.<br />
Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.<br />
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The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present<br />
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Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientifictechnological elite.<br />
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It is the task of statesmanship to mold, to balance, and to integrate these and other forces, new and old, within the principles of our democratic system -- ever aiming toward the supreme goals of our free society.<br />
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Another factor in maintaining balance involves the element of time. As we peer into society's future, we -- you and I, and our government -- must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering, for our own ease and convenience, the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.<br />
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Down the long lane of the history yet to be written America knows that this world of ours, ever growing smaller, must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.<br />
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Such a confederation must be one of equals. The weakest must come to the conference table with the same confidence as do we, protected as we are by our moral, economic, and military strength. That table, though scarred by many past frustrations, cannot be abandoned for the certain agony of the battlefield.<br />
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Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative. Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose. Because this need is so sharp and apparent I confess that I lay down my official responsibilities in this field with a definite sense of disappointment. As one who has witnessed the horror and the lingering sadness of war -- as one who knows that another war could utterly destroy this civilization which has been so slowly and painfully built over thousands of years -- I wish I could say tonight that a lasting peace is in sight.<br />
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Happily, I can say that war has been avoided. Steady progress toward our ultimate goal has been made. But, so much remains to be done. As a private citizen, I shall never cease to do what little I can to help the world advance along that road.<br />
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<strong>VII.</strong><br />
So -- in this my last good night to you as your President -- I thank you for the many opportunities you have given me for public service in war and peace. I trust that in that service you find some things worthy; as for the rest of it, I know you will find ways to improve performance in the future.<br />
You and I -- my fellow citizens -- need to be strong in our faith that all nations, under God, will reach the goal of peace with justice. May we be ever unswerving in devotion to principle, confident but humble with power, diligent in pursuit of the Nation's great goals.<br />
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To all the peoples of the world, I once more give expression to America's prayerful and continuing aspiration:<br />
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We pray that peoples of all faiths, all races, all nations, may have their great human needs satisfied; that those now denied opportunity shall come to enjoy it to the full; that all who yearn for freedom may experience its spiritual blessings; that those who have freedom will understand, also, its heavy responsibilities; that all who are insensitive to the needs of others will learn charity; that the scourges of poverty, disease and ignorance will be made to disappear from the earth, and that, in the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Pro-life,” Trump replied. “We want– It starts with that, starts with it. A very conservative, a very, very smart, I mean like Judge (Antonin) Scalia would be a perfect. He was a perfect representative.” “I’ve always said that Justice (Clarence) Thomas doesn’t get enough credit. He is a wonderful man, a wonderful guy and I’ve always said Judge (Samuel) Alito is a terrific guy. So, in that realm is what we’re talking about for me,” Trump said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Trump also discussed Middle East affairs. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“I didn’t want to go into Iraq; it was one of the worst decisions ever made,” Trump said. “We lost $2 trillion, thousands and thousands of lives — thousands of lives. We have wounded warriors who I love all over the place, and what happens? Iran is now taking over Iraq.” “When you think of how Iran is doing lately, right? Between the Iran deal, we give them $150 billion — we got nothing for it,” he said. “We should have gotten our prisoners back long before we started negotiating… (Secretary John) Kerry – this is the worst negotiator I think I’ve ever seen.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Trump also took a jab at Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Boy, did you ever see anybody so nice to the president, though? ‘ ‘Oh, the president is wonderful,’ she says. ‘Oh, the president, he’s great … You know why she’s doing that, right? You know why? I know why. Boy, oh boy, she’s become like a marshmallow.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Trump said the president should bring government to a consensus on issues and move forward, something President Obama has been unable to do. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“You’re supposed to get the congressmen in, the senators in; you’re supposed to make deals,” he told Robertson. “I deal in politics in other countries ’cause we’re building all over the world. And we have jobs going up all over the world — a lot of jobs. But I have never seen division like you have now.” </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“The country is so divided, whether it’s African American, white, congressman, Democrat, Republican. I mean it’s just like we have a whole divided country. I’ve never seen anything like it,” he said. “But we used to see, and I used to be part of Democrats and Republicans having dinners together with their families and their wives, and it was a nice thing. There’d be combat the next day, but there would be — they’d get along — and they’d get things done.”</span></div>
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TRUMP ACCUSES IRS OF AUDITING HIM OVER HIS RELIGION & POLITICS</h1>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">During a post-debate interview with CNN last night, Donald Trump accused the IRS of targeting him over the fact that he’s a “strong Christian” and is taking on the establishment in the presidential race.</span></div>
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"I'm a strong Christian....there is a bias"</h4>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">CNN’s Chris Cuomo asked Trump about Mitt Romney demanding the billionaire release his tax returns.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“The one problem I have is I am always audited by the IRS, which I think is very unfair,” said Trump. “I don’t know — maybe because of religion, maybe because of something else, maybe because I am doing this [running for office], though this is just recently.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cuomo asked Trump to clarify what he meant, to which Trump responded, “Well, maybe because of the fact I am a strong Christian and I feel strongly about it, and maybe there is a bias.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When Cuomo questioned the legitimacy of Trump’s claim, the Republican frontrunner pointed to the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/oct/25/irs-tea-party-targeting-accusations-legal-issues-p/?page=all" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #194e8e; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">long running scandal</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>involving the IRS targeting conservative groups for extra scrutiny based on their names or political themes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Meanwhile, during the debate itself, Ben Carson also revealed how he had been politically targeted by the IRS after he publicly criticized Barack Obama.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“I never had an audit until I spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast. And then all of the sudden they came in and said, “We just want to look at your real estate dealings.” And then they didn’t find anything. And then they took a look at the whole year. And they didn’t find anything. And then they looked at the next year and they didn’t find anything. And they won’t find anything… The fact is the IRS is not honest and we have to get rid of them,” said Carson.</span></div>
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