“Who controls the past [narrative] controls the future [narrative]: who controls the present [narrative] controls the past [narrative].”
In other words, who controls the propaganda pays it forward to the future generations because to pro•pagar literally means to “pay it forward” … the only people willing enough to do such a thing would have to be insane idealogues (one given to fanciful ideas or theories; a theorist; a spectator); religious zealots/soulless automatons/ unquestioning cult members/out of touch crackpots/cranks who are cookoo for cookoo puffs.
George Orwell
For good effect; or for ill effect, having been born a •First American [insignificant, Colombnized (sic.) “Mexican-Greaser”] ISN’T a job… it’s a fulltime career…set in stone from birth; written in the stars…a spiritual destiny that one can never escape from!!!
What does “having it all” mean to you? Is it attainable?
For what does it benefit a person to gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul?
The phrase “having it all” is evidently an undefined statement of arbitraryvalue. Thus interpreted as meaning something different for everyone; rendering it a meaningless phantom for all. A victory undefined is impossible to recognize if ever realized: therefore pointless in striving after.
36 ·It is worthless [What good/profit/benefit is it…?] to ·have [gain] the whole world if they ·lose [forfeit] their souls. 37 ·They could never pay enough [L Or what could they give…?] ·to buy back [in exchange for] their souls. 38 If people of this ·sinful and evil time [adulterous and sinful generation] are ashamed of me and my ·teaching [words; message], the Son of Man will be ashamed of them when he ·comes [returns] with his Father’s glory and with the holy angels [Dan. 7:13–14].”
Mark 8:36-38 Expanded Bible
In general, western society—now more than ever—punishes morality and rewards depravity; villainizes the hero and martyrs the villains; calls light darkness and calls the darkness light.
2 It would be better for him if a millstone [as large as one turned by a donkey] were hung around his neck and he were hurled into the sea, than for him to cause one of these little ones to stumble [in sin and lose faith].
Luke 17:2
It is the personal, cosmological, world-view of yours truly that people such as Jeffrey Epstein; Sean “P. Diddy” Combs; Nathan Wade; the “Island Boys,” and Thomas Dexter Jakes, to name a few, are recent examples of individuals who gained the “whole world” and forfeited their “souls“: ultimately becoming slaves to “wicked forces” greater than themselves. (cf., Romans 2:27-29; Proverbs 23:1-5; Matthew 6:23-25; 2 Thessalonians 2:3–10)
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23 But if your eye is unsound, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the very light in you [your conscience] is darkened, how dense is that darkness! (cf., Zechariah 11:17)
24 No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will stand by and be devoted to the one and despise and be against the other. You cannot serve God and mammon (deceitful riches, money, possessions, or whatever is trusted in).
25 Therefore I tell you, stop being perpetually uneasy (anxious and worried) about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink; or about your body, what you shall put on. Is not life greater [in quality] than food, and the body [far above and more excellent] than clothing?
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“Here it must be said that the environmental heroes in the West are NOT the Richard Bransons or Leonardo DiCaprios of the world. The real heroes for the environment, due to their almost non-existent environmental footprint, are the homeless – despite the scorn they receive from society as a whole.” ~wrongkindofgreen.org
Either by my own volition or by market forces greater than myself, I have sacrificed the American Way of Life for the AVARICE and CORRUPTION of the •”toomale, toopale, toostale” [too GREEDY,] capitalists over at the UNELECTEDW.E.F. (cf., Revelation 6:8)
Q. ¿POR QUÉ TENEMOS QUE SUFRIR?
A. POR CAUSA DE la avaricia y corrupción, la situación política en algunos países resulta en mucha guerra y muerte. Los con profundas convicciones espirituales SUFREN persecución A CAUSA DE la obediencia a sus creencias.
¡Amén! ¡Gloria, aleluya! ¿Podemos conseguir un testigo?
“Here it must be said that the environmental heroes in the West are NOT the Richard Bransons or Leonardo DiCaprios of the world. The real heroes for the environment, due to their almost non-existent environmental footprint, are the homeless – despite the scorn they receive from society as a whole.” ~wrongkindofgreen.org“FAKE VALIDATION is equal to ‘NO’ VALIDATION;
“Here it must be said that the environmental heroes in the West are NOT the Richard Bransons or Leonardo DiCaprios of the world. The real heroes for the environment, due to their almost non-existent environmental footprint, are the homeless – despite the scorn they receive from society as a whole.” ~wrongkindofgreen.org
(cf., 2 Timothy 4:3, 3 For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine and accurate instruction [that challenges them with God’s truth]; but wanting to have their ears tickled [with something pleasing], they will accumulate for themselves [many] teachers [one after another, chosen] to satisfy their own desires and to support the errors they hold,)
(cf., 2 Timothy 4:3, 3 For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine and accurate instruction [that challenges them with God’s truth]; but wanting to have their ears tickled [with something pleasing], they will accumulate for themselves [many] teachers [one after another, chosen] to satisfy their own desires and to support the errors they hold,)
(cf., 2 Timothy 4:3, 3 For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine and accurate instruction [that challenges them with God’s truth]; but wanting to have their ears tickled [with something pleasing], they will accumulate for themselves [many] teachers [one after another, chosen] to satisfy their own desires and to support the errors they hold,)HE AQUÍ, LAS MARAVILLAS DEL CHAINSAW GOVERNMENT 🔗🪚👑 ¡Haz América… MAKE ARGENTINA GREAT AGAIN …Otra Vez!
“Here it must be said that the environmental heroes in the West are NOT the Richard Bransons or Leonardo DiCaprios of the world. The real heroes for the environment, due to their almost non-existent environmental footprint, are the homeless – despite the scorn they receive from society as a whole.” “Here it must be said that the environmental heroes in the West are NOT the Richard Bransons or Leonardo DiCaprios of the world. The real heroes for the environment, due to their almost non-existent environmental footprint, are the homeless – despite the scorn they receive from society as a whole.”
4 “Kings should not drink wine, Lemuel, and rulers should not ·desire [crave] ·beer [T strong drink; C alcoholic beverage made from grain; 20:1; 23:19–21, 29–35]. 5 If they drink, they might forget the ·law [decrees] and ·keep the needy from getting their rights [violate the rights of the needy]. 6 Give ·beer [T strong drink; v. 4] to people who are ·dying [perishing] and wine to those ·who are sad [who have bitter hearts]. 7 Let them drink and forget their ·need [poverty] and remember their ·misery [or hard work] no more [Eccl. 2:24–26; 3:12–14, 22; 5:18–20; 8:15; 9:7–10].
3 “Why do you notice the ·little piece of dust [speck; tiny splinter] in your ·friend’s [L brother’s (or sister’s)] eye, but you don’t ·notice [consider] the ·big piece of wood [log; plank; beam] in your own eye? 4 How can you say to your ·friend [L brother], ‘Let me take that ·little piece of dust [speck; splinter] out of your eye’? ·Look at yourself [T Behold]! You still have that ·big piece of wood [log; plank; beam] in your own eye. 5 You hypocrite! First, take the ·wood [log; plank; beam] out of your own eye. Then you will see clearly to take the ·dust [speck; splinter] out of your ·friend’s [L brother’s] eye.
4 “Kings should not drink wine, Lemuel, and rulers should not ·desire [crave] ·beer [T strong drink; C alcoholic beverage made from grain; 20:1; 23:19–21, 29–35]. 5 If they drink, they might forget the ·law [decrees] and ·keep the needy from getting their rights [violate the rights of the needy]. 6 Give ·beer [T strong drink; v. 4] to people who are ·dying [perishing] and wine to those ·who are sad [who have bitter hearts]. 7 Let them drink and forget their ·need [poverty] and remember their ·misery [or hard work] no more [Eccl. 2:24–26; 3:12–14, 22; 5:18–20; 8:15; 9:7–10].
3 For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine and accurate instruction [that challenges them with God’s truth]; but wanting to have their ears tickled [with something pleasing], they will accumulate for themselves [many] teachers [one after another, chosen] to satisfy their own desires and to support the errors they hold,
2 It would be better for him if a millstone [as large as one turned by a donkey] were hung around his neck and he were hurled into the sea, than for him to cause one of these little ones to stumble [in sin and lose faith].
(cf., Luke 17:2, 2 It would be better for him if a millstone [as large as one turned by a donkey] were hung around his neck and he were hurled into the sea, than for him to cause one of these little ones to stumble [in sin and lose faith].)
(cf., Luke 17:2, 2 It would be better for him if a millstone [as large as one turned by a donkey] were hung around his neck and he were hurled into the sea, than for him to cause one of these little ones to stumble [in sin and lose faith].)
11 Concerning this we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull and sluggish in [your spiritual] hearing and disinclined to listen. 12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers [because of the time you have had to learn these truths], you actually need someone to teach you again the elementary principles of God’s word [from the beginning], and you have come to be continually in need of milk, not solid food. 13 For everyone who lives on milk is [doctrinally inexperienced and] unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a spiritual infant. 14 But solid food is for the [spiritually] mature, whose senses are trained by practice to distinguish between what is morally good and what is evil.
Hebrews 5:11-14
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10 For the love [cf., “Love is love!” ] of money [that is, the greedy desire for it and the willingness to gain it unethically (cf., Jeremiah 17:9-11)] is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves [through and through (cf., Core; Heart & Soul)] with many sorrows.)
We’ve all heard it said that nothing in life is for free; that isn’t true!
The only thing free in this world is BAD advise; and so much of it, people can’t give it away fast enough.
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3 For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine and accurate instruction [that challenges them with God’s truth]; but wanting to have their ears tickled [with something pleasing], they will accumulate for themselves [many] teachers [one after another, chosen] to satisfy their own desires and to support the errors they hold,
2 It would be better for him if a millstone [as large as one turned by a donkey] were hung around his neck and he were hurled into the sea, than for him to cause one of these little ones to stumble [in sin and lose faith].
(cf., Luke 17:2, 2 It would be better for him if a millstone [as large as one turned by a donkey] were hung around his neck and he were hurled into the sea, than for him to cause one of these little ones to stumble [in sin and lose faith].)
11 Concerning this we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull and sluggish in [your spiritual] hearing and disinclined to listen. 12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers [because of the time you have had to learn these truths], you actually need someone to teach you again the elementary principles of God’s word [from the beginning], and you have come to be continually in need of milk, not solid food. 13 For everyone who lives on milk is [doctrinally inexperienced and] unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a spiritual infant. 14 But solid food is for the [spiritually] mature, whose senses are trained by practice to distinguish between what is morally good and what is evil.
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(cf., 2 Timothy 4:3, 3 For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine and accurate instruction [that challenges them with God’s truth]; but wanting to have their ears tickled [with something pleasing], they will accumulate for themselves [many] teachers [one after another, chosen] to satisfy their own desires and to support the errors they hold,)
(cf., 2 Timothy 4:3, 3 For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine and accurate instruction [that challenges them with God’s truth]; but wanting to have their ears tickled [with something pleasing], they will accumulate for themselves [many] teachers [one after another, chosen] to satisfy their own desires and to support the errors they hold,)
“[Here it must be said that the environmental heroes in the West are NOT the Richard Bransons or Leonardo DiCaprios of the world. The real heroes for the environment, due to their almost non-existent environmental footprint, are the homeless – despite the scorn they receive from society as a whole.]” ~wrongkindofgreen.org
(cf., 2 Timothy 4:3, 3 For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine and accurate instruction [that challenges them with God’s truth]; but wanting to have their ears tickled [with something pleasing], they will accumulate for themselves [many] teachers [one after another, chosen] to satisfy their own desires and to support the errors they hold,)
(cf., 2 Timothy 4:3, 3 For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine and accurate instruction [that challenges them with God’s truth]; but wanting to have their ears tickled [with something pleasing], they will accumulate for themselves [many] teachers [one after another, chosen] to satisfy their own desires and to support the errors they hold,)
(cf., Luke 17:2, 2 It would be better for him if a millstone [as large as one turned by a donkey] were hung around his neck and he were hurled into the sea, than for him to cause one of these little ones to stumble [in sin and lose faith].)
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The ONLY True FREEDOM is a Clean and Pure Conscience!
Freedom means theGod given—inalienable—right of ·self-governance [i.e., self control; self discipline; autodidactic; sovereignty] which Saint Paul discusses at length in chapter two of His letter to the Romans; and I shall provide a brief excerpt of here:
Romans 2:13-16
English Standard Version
13 For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified. 14 For when ·Gentiles [autodidacts], who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though ·they do not have the law [are autodidacts]. 15 They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them 16 on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by ·Christ [the Way (medium, method, or instrument used to obtain a result or achieve an end): the Truth; and the Life Eternal].
¡Amén! ¡Gloria, aleluya! ¿Podemos conseguir un testigo?
We can now see more clearly that words really do have meaning!
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So, with all of that said, the only real (authentic) sovereign is the one who makes their bed with a clean and pure conscience and sleeps like a baby all night. Priceless! 🕊
3 For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine and accurate instruction [that challenges them with God’s truth]; but wanting to have their ears tickled [with something pleasing], they will accumulate for themselves [many] teachers [one after another, chosen] to satisfy their own desires and to support the errors they hold,)
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“Cretans are always liars, evil ·animals [beasts], and lazy ·people who do nothing but eat”
3 For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine and accurate instruction [that challenges them with God’s truth]; but wanting to have their ears tickled [with something pleasing], they will accumulate for themselves [many] teachers [one after another, chosen] to satisfy their own desires and to support the errors they hold,)
3 For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine and accurate instruction [that challenges them with God’s truth]; but wanting to have their ears tickled [with something pleasing], they will accumulate for themselves [many] teachers [one after another, chosen] to satisfy their own desires and to support the errors they hold,)
3 For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine and accurate instruction [that challenges them with God’s truth]; but wanting to have their ears tickled [with something pleasing], they will accumulate for themselves [many] teachers [one after another, chosen] to satisfy their own desires and to support the errors they hold,)
3 For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine and accurate instruction [that challenges them with God’s truth]; but wanting to have their ears tickled [with something pleasing], they will accumulate for themselves [many] teachers [one after another, chosen] to satisfy their own desires and to support the errors they hold,)
3 For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine and accurate instruction [that challenges them with God’s truth]; but wanting to have their ears tickled [with something pleasing], they will accumulate for themselves [many] teachers [one after another, chosen] to satisfy their own desires and to support the errors they hold,)
(cf., Titus 1:12, “Cretans are always liars, evil ·animals [beasts], and lazy ·people who do nothing but eat”; Leviticus 5:17; Romans 2; Hebrews 5:11-14; Zechariah 11:17)
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(cf., 2 Timothy 4:3
3 For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine and accurate instruction [that challenges them with God’s truth]; but wanting to have their ears tickled [with something pleasing], they will accumulate for themselves [many] teachers [one after another, chosen] to satisfy their own desires and to support the errors they hold;
Titus 1:12, “Cretans are always liars, evil ·animals [beasts], and lazy ·people who do nothing but eat”;
3 For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine and accurate instruction [that challenges them with God’s truth]; but wanting to have their ears tickled [with something pleasing], they will accumulate for themselves [many] teachers [one after another, chosen] to satisfy their own desires and to support the errors they hold;
Titus 1:12, “Cretans are always liars, evil ·animals [beasts], and lazy ·people who do nothing but eat”;
Now, I’m no clairvoyant here. But I find it difficult to surmise how when asked, “Which public figure do you most disagree with?”, ‘Genocide Joe’ doesn’t top most pollsters’ lists. 💭 🤔
Despite the fact that there is ample ‘critique’ to go around.
(cf., Titus 1:12, “Cretans are always liars, evil ·animals [beasts], and lazy ·people who do nothing but eat”; Leviticus 5:17; Romans 2; Hebrews 5:11-14; Zechariah 11:17)
(cf., Titus 1:12, “Cretans are always liars, evil ·animals [beasts], and lazy ·people who do nothing but eat”; Leviticus 5:17; Romans 2; Hebrews 5:11-14; Zechariah 11:17)
SPEAKING OF THE KING OF ROME, THROUGH THE DOOR HE APPEARS!
DIA•BOLICAL, dei basilica, for convenience:
diabólico, diabolicus, διαβολικης, δια βολικης, for convenience
Luke 17:2
2 It would be better for him if a millstone [as large as one turned by a donkey] were hung around his neck and he were hurled into the sea, than for him to cause one of these little ones to stumble [in sin and lose faith].
(cf., Titus 1:15, To those who are pure, all things are pure, but to those who are ·full of sin [defiled; polluted (with sin)] and ·do not believe [unfaithful], nothing is pure. Both their minds and their consciences have been ·ruined [defiled; polluted].)
(cf., Luke 17:2, 2 It would be better for him if a millstone [as large as one turned by a donkey] were hung around his neck and he were hurled into the sea, than for him to cause one of these little ones to stumble [in sin and lose faith].)
(cf., Luke 17:2, 2 It would be better for him if a millstone [as large as one turned by a donkey] were hung around his neck and he were hurled into the sea, than for him to cause one of these little ones to stumble [in sin and lose faith].)
(cf., Luke 17:2, 2 It would be better for him if a millstone [as large as one turned by a donkey] were hung around his neck and he were hurled into the sea, than for him to cause one of these little ones to stumble [in sin and lose faith].)
(cf., Luke 17:2, 2 It would be better for him if a millstone [as large as one turned by a donkey] were hung around his neck and he were hurled into the sea, than for him to cause one of these little ones to stumble [in sin and lose faith].)
(cf., Luke 17:2, 2 It would be better for him if a millstone [as large as one turned by a donkey] were hung around his neck and he were hurled into the sea, than for him to cause one of these little ones to stumble [in sin and lose faith].)
10 For the love [cf., “Love is love!” ] of money [that is, the greedy desire for it and the willingness to gain it unethically (cf., Jeremiah 17:9-11)] is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves [through and through (cf., Core; Heart & Soul)] with many sorrows.)
The meaning “treacherous person” is attested by 1580s (it was used of Satan in early 15c., and serpent and adder are older in this sense) Compare Old Church Slavonic gadu “reptile,” gadinu “foul, hateful.” The snake’s reputation was not helped by the Genesis story, but the notion is older. The phrase snake in the grass “underhand, plotting, deceitful person” translates Virgil’s Latet anguis in herba [Ecl. III:93].
10 For the love [cf., “Love is love!” ] of money [that is, the greedy desire for it and the willingness to gain it unethically (cf., Jeremiah 17:9-11)] is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves [through and through (cf., Core; Heart & Soul)] with many sorrows.
23 When you sit to dine with a ruler,🤴 note well what is before you,🚫 2 and put a knife to your throat if you are given to gluttony.🔪 3 Do not crave his delicacies, for that food is deceptive.☣
Saying 8
4 Do not wear yourself out to get rich; do not trust your own cleverness. (cf., 1 Timothy 6:10) 5 Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone, (cf., 1 Timothy 6:10) for they will surely sprout wings and fly off to the sky like an eagle.💸
Proverbs 23:1-5 New International Version
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CHILDREN ARE 🍏 A CHOP OFF THE OL’ BLOCK!
The Fall of Man
3 Now the serpent was more crafty (subtle, skilled in deceit) than any living creature of the field which the Lord God had made. And the serpent (Satan) said to the woman, “Can it really be that God has said, ‘You shall not eat from any tree of the garden’?” (cf., Jeremiah 17:9-11; 1 Timothy 6:10)
early 14c., “heart or inmost part of anything” (especially an apple, pear, etc.), of uncertain origin, probably from Old French cor, coeur “core of fruit, heart of lettuce,” literally “heart,” from Latin cor “heart,” from PIE root *kerd- “heart.”
Magic Square in Roman Numerals: (BLN) Brown Lunation Cycle 666 ($666.66)
heart (n.)
Old English heorte “heart (hollow muscular organ that circulates blood); breast, soul, spirit, will, desire; courage; mind, intellect,” from Proto-Germanic *hertan- (source also of Old Saxon herta, Old Frisian herte, Old Norse hjarta, Dutch hart, Old High German herza, German Herz, Gothic hairto), from PIE root *kerd- “heart.”
🍏 CHILDREN NEVER FALL FAR FROM THEIR ORCHARDS:
To have one’s heart in the right place “mean well” is from 1774. Heart and soul “one’s whole being” is from 1650s. To eat (one’s own) heart “waste away with grief, resentment, etc.” is from 1580s.
LIKE DUST IN THE WIND SCATTERED TO THE FOUR CHERUBIM OF THE FOUR DIRECTIONS:
9 “The heart is deceitfulabove all things And it is extremely sick; Who can understand it fully and know its secret motives? 10 “I, the Lord, search and examine the mind, I test the heart, To give to each man according to his ways, According to the results of his deeds. 11 “Like the partridge that hatches eggs which she has not laid, So is he who makes a fortune in ways that are unjust. (cf., 1 Timothy 6:10) It will be lost to him before his days are over, And in the end he will be [nothing but] a fool.” (cf., Genesis 3:1)
8 “‘·You keep saying [L How can you say…?], “We are wise, ·because we have the teachings of the Lord [L and the teachings/laws/instructions of the Lord are with us].” But actually, ·those who explain the Scriptures have written lies with their pens [L the false pens of the scribes have made it a lie].
13 Then Cain said to the Lord, “This punishment is more than I can ·stand [bear]! 14 Today you have forced me ·to stop working [L from] the ground, and now I ·must hide from you [or will be hidden from your face]. I ·must wander around [L will be a fugitive and wanderer/homeless wanderer] on the earth, and ANYONE ¿who? ·MEETS [finds] me can kill me.”
15 The Lord said to Cain, “No! If ANYONE kills you, I will ·punish [avenge] ¿THAT PERSON? seven times more.” Then the Lord put a mark [C the nature of the mark is uncertain] on Cain warning ANYONE ¿WHO? ·MET [finds] him not to kill him. (cf., Jeremiah 8:8)
Cain’s Family
16 So Cain went away from the Lord and lived in the land of Nod [C resembles a Hebrew word meaning “wanderer”], east of Eden. 17 He ·had ¿SEXUAL RELATIONS? with [L knew; 4:1] ¿HIS WIFE?, and ¿SHE? ·became pregnant [conceived] and gave birth to Enoch. At that time ·Cain [L he] was building a city, which he named after his son Enoch. (cf., Jeremiah 8:8)
“Because you have done this, You are cursed more than all cattle, And more than every beast of the field; On your belly you shall go, And you shall eat dust All the days of your life.
“They were stronger than Turk and Saracen, but not than Hunger and Disease. Leaders did not know then, as our little Friend at Berlin came to know, that ‘an Army, like a serpent, goes upon its belly.’”
Therefore the Lord cuts off head and tail [the highest and the lowest] from Israel, (cf., Genesis 3:14-15) Both [the high] palm branch and [the low] bulrush in one day. (cf., Genesis 3:14-15)
“And I will put enmity (open hostility) Between you and the woman, And between your seed (offspring) and her Seed; (cf., Cain & Abel) He shall [fatally] bruise your head [the high], And you shall [only] bruise His heel [the low].” (cf., Isaiah 9:14)
15 The elderly and honorable man, he is the head [the high]; (cf., Genesis 3:15) And the prophet who teaches lies, he is the tail [the low]. 16 For those who lead this people are causing them to go astray; And those who are led [astray] by them are swallowed up. (cf., Genesis 3:15; Jonah in the Belly of the Beast)
3 Then another ·wonder [sign; portent; 12:1] appeared in heaven: There was a giant red dragon with seven heads [C reminiscent of the many-headed Leviathan representing evil and chaos, here representing Satan; Ps. 74:14; Is. 27:1; Dan. 7:1–9] and seven ·crowns [diadems; royal crowns] on each head [the high]. He [or It; C the Greek masculine pronoun can refer to a person or thing] also had ten horns [C symbols of strength and power; Dan. 7:7–8, 20, 24]. 4 His tail [the low] swept a third of the stars out of ·the sky [or heaven] and ·threw [cast; hurled; Dan. 8:10] them down to the earth [C representing an early victory against God’s people; 12:1]. He stood in front of the woman who was ready to give birth so he could ·eat [devour] her ·baby [child; C Christ the Messiah] as soon as it was born.
23 But if your eye is unsound, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the very light in you [your conscience] is darkened, how dense is that darkness! (cf., Zechariah 11:17)
24 No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will stand by and be devoted to the one and despise and be against the other. You cannot serve God and mammon (deceitful riches, money, possessions, or whatever is trusted in).
25 Therefore I tell you, stop being perpetually uneasy (anxious and worried) about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink; or about your body, what you shall put on. Is not life greater [in quality] than food, and the body [far above and more excellent] than clothing?
Matthew 6:23-25 Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
If you were busy living, you wouldn’t be obsessed with dying.
“saying or story in which something is expressed in terms of something else; allegorical or metaphorical narrative, usually having a MORAL FOR INSTRUCTION,” late 13c., parabol, modern form from early 14c.
amoral (adj.)
“ethically indifferent,” 1882, a hybrid formed from Greek-derived a- “not” + moral, which is from Latin.
1. Said of a person: Devoid of moral sense.
2. Said of a human work, especially artistic: That of purpose dispenses with the moral end.
Why did Jesus speak to the multitudes in parables?
By The FISHER of MENSIS
With many similar parables Jesus spoke God’s ·message [word] to the multitudes—as much as they were able to ·understand it [hear]. Indeed, He would not say anything to them without using a parable. But when he was alone with his own ·disciples [disciplined students], he explained everything. ~ Mark 4:33–34 (cf., The Parable of the Wheat and the Tares: Matthew 13:24-30; God favored Jacob over Esau ·UNCONDITIONALLY [Prior to moment of conception] — “not because of works but because of Him who calls” ~Romans 9:11).
The disciples, bewildered by Jesus’ parables and wanting him to speak more directly, came closer and asked Jesus, “Why do you speak to them in parables?” (Matthew 13:10).
This is why He spoke to them in parables:
“Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.” ~ Matthew 13:13
3 For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine and accurate instruction [that challenges them with God’s truth]; but wanting to have their ears tickled [with something pleasing], they will accumulate for themselves [many] teachers [one after another, chosen] to satisfy their own desires and to support the errors they hold,)
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Jesus was revealing that they were indifferent legalists who did not understand the kingdom of God (cf., Matthew 12:10; Hebrews 5:11-14; Leviticus 5:17; Jeremiah 8:8).
Romans 2:13-16
English Standard Version
13 For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified. 14 For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. 15 They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them 16 on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by ·Christ [the Way; the Truth; and the Life Eternal].
Jesus told his disciples that—in an incredibly important sense—the world is divided into two groups: those who hear and understand the parables, and those who hear but do not understand (cf., The Parable of the Wheat and the Tares: Matthew 13:24-30; God favored Jacob over Esau ·UNCONDITIONALLY [Prior to moment of conception] — “not because of works but because of Him who calls” ~Romans 9:11). The Gospel of Mark highlights this division when Jesus told the disciples: “To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but to those who are outside everything is in parables” (Mark 4:11).
The disciples must have been shocked by Jesus’ response, and if we are honest, we will feel that same shocking power today. Parables reveal and conceal simultaneously. They divide their listeners into two worlds. In one world, a parable reveals the secret of the kingdom of God. But in the second world a parable is still just a parable, nothing more.
We now see more clearly what is at stake in the parables and why Jesus used them practically every time he taught. It turns out that our response to the parables reveals everything important about us, with eternal consequences. Each of the parables is a shocking revelation of the kingdom of heaven, so if we hear the parables and all we hear is a bunch of “stories,” something is profoundly wrong with us.
3 For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine and accurate instruction [that challenges them with God’s truth]; but wanting to have their ears tickled [with something pleasing], they will accumulate for themselves [many] teachers [one after another, chosen] to satisfy their own desires and to support the errors they hold,)
3 For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine and accurate instruction [that challenges them with God’s truth]; but wanting to have their ears tickled [with something pleasing], they will accumulate for themselves [many] teachers [one after another, chosen] to satisfy their own desires and to support the errors they hold,)
3 For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine and accurate instruction [that challenges them with God’s truth]; but wanting to have their ears tickled [with something pleasing], they will accumulate for themselves [many] teachers [one after another, chosen] to satisfy their own desires and to support the errors they hold,)
VINDICATED!: Georgia Election Board finally admitted both the Hand Audit and Certified Machine Count have been found to be in violation of Georgia law!
Game Over for Election Fraud Deniers! Georgia Board of Elections Confirms Violations in 2020 Election Law
The Georgia Board of Elections in a letter to election fraud investigator Joe Rossi confirmed that a multi-year investigation found “errors” in both the hand count and the machine count from the 2020 election in Fulton County.
4 “Kings should not drink wine, Lemuel, and rulers should not ·desire [crave] ·beer [T strong drink; C alcoholic beverage made from grain; 20:1; 23:19–21, 29–35]. 5 If they drink, they might forget the ·law [decrees] and ·keep the needy from getting their rights [violate the rights of the needy]. 6 Give ·beer [T strong drink; v. 4] to people who are ·dying [perishing] and wine to those ·who are sad [who have bitter hearts]. 7 Let them drink and forget their ·need [poverty] and remember their ·misery [or hard work] no more [Eccl. 2:24–26; 3:12–14, 22; 5:18–20; 8:15; 9:7–10].
4 “Kings should not drink wine, Lemuel, and rulers should not ·desire [crave] ·beer [T strong drink; C alcoholic beverage made from grain; 20:1; 23:19–21, 29–35]. 5 If they drink, they might forget the ·law [decrees] and ·keep the needy from getting their rights [violate the rights of the needy]. 6 Give ·beer [T strong drink; v. 4] to people who are ·dying [perishing] and wine to those ·who are sad [who have bitter hearts]. 7 Let them drink and forget their ·need [poverty] and remember their ·misery [or hard work] no more [Eccl. 2:24–26; 3:12–14, 22; 5:18–20; 8:15; 9:7–10].
3 For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine and accurate instruction [that challenges them with God’s truth]; but wanting to have their ears tickled [with something pleasing], they will accumulate for themselves [many] teachers [one after another, chosen] to satisfy their own desires and to support the errors they hold,)
3 For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine and accurate instruction [that challenges them with God’s truth]; but wanting to have their ears tickled [with something pleasing], they will accumulate for themselves [many] teachers [one after another, chosen] to satisfy their own desires and to support the errors they hold,)
The last live performance I saw was last evening’s showing of the musical production of George Orwell’s Animal Farm, in the suburb of Rome proper. 🎟🍿🎭
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sycophant (n.)
1530s (in Latin form sycophanta), “informer, talebearer, slanderer” (a sense now obsolete), from French sycophante and directly from Latin sycophanta, from Greek sykophantēs “false accuser, slanderer,” literally “one who shows the fig,” from sykon “fig” + phainein “to show” (from PIE root *bha- (1) “to shine”).
“Showing the fig” was a vulgar gesture made typically by sticking the thumb between two fingers. That it was considered obscene and insulting is all that is sure. A split fig was symbolic of a vagina (sykon also meant “vulva”). The thumb-poking-between-the-fingers gesture has been a sexual image in various times and places; see fig (n.1).
Noun
apparatchik (pluralapparatchiksorapparatchiki)
(historical) A member of the Soviet apparat; a Communist bureaucrat or agent. [from 20th c.]
3 For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine and accurate instruction [that challenges them with God’s truth]; but wanting to have their ears tickled [with something pleasing], they will accumulate for themselves [many] teachers [one after another, chosen] to satisfy their own desires and to support the errors they hold,)
3 For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine and accurate instruction [that challenges them with God’s truth]; but wanting to have their ears tickled [with something pleasing], they will accumulate for themselves [many] teachers [one after another, chosen] to satisfy their own desires and to support the errors they hold,)
3 For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine and accurate instruction [that challenges them with God’s truth]; but wanting to have their ears tickled [with something pleasing], they will accumulate for themselves [many] teachers [one after another, chosen] to satisfy their own desires and to support the errors they hold,)
3 For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine and accurate instruction [that challenges them with God’s truth]; but wanting to have their ears tickled [with something pleasing], they will accumulate for themselves [many] teachers [one after another, chosen] to satisfy their own desires and to support the errors they hold,)
3 For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine and accurate instruction [that challenges them with God’s truth]; but wanting to have their ears tickled [with something pleasing], they will accumulate for themselves [many] teachers [one after another, chosen] to satisfy their own desires and to support the errors they hold,)
VINDICATED!: Georgia Election Board finally admitted both the Hand Audit and Certified Machine Count have been found to be in violation of Georgia law!
Game Over for Election Fraud Deniers! Georgia Board of Elections Confirms Violations in 2020 Election Law
The Georgia Board of Elections in a letter to election fraud investigator Joe Rossi confirmed that a multi-year investigation found “errors” in both the hand count and the machine count from the 2020 election in Fulton County.
VINDICATED!: Georgia Election Board finally admitted both the Hand Audit and Certified Machine Count have been found to be in violation of Georgia law!
Game Over for Election Fraud Deniers! Georgia Board of Elections Confirms Violations in 2020 Election Law
The Georgia Board of Elections in a letter to election fraud investigator Joe Rossi confirmed that a multi-year investigation found “errors” in both the hand count and the machine count from the 2020 election in Fulton County.
VINDICATED!: Georgia Election Board finally admitted both the Hand Audit and Certified Machine Count have been found to be in violation of Georgia law!
Game Over for Election Fraud Deniers! Georgia Board of Elections Confirms Violations in 2020 Election Law
The Georgia Board of Elections in a letter to election fraud investigator Joe Rossi confirmed that a multi-year investigation found “errors” in both the hand count and the machine count from the 2020 election in Fulton County.
When a mistake is proven, the wise correct themselves; but the Cretans persist in their asininity!!! 🤣 🤣 🤣
(cf., Genesis 3:14 | “They were stronger than Turk and Saracen, but not than Hunger and Disease. Leaders did not know then, as our little Friend at Berlin came to know, that ‘an Army, like a serpent, goes upon its belly.’”) 💭 🤔
(cf., Genesis 3:14 | “They were stronger than Turk and Saracen, but not than Hunger and Disease. Leaders did not know then, as our little Friend at Berlin came to know, that ‘an Army, like a serpent, goes upon its belly.’”)
(cf., Titus 1:12, “Cretans are always liars, evil ·animals [beasts], and lazy ·people who do nothing but eat”; Leviticus 5:17; Romans 2; Hebrews 5:11-14; Zechariah 11:17)
When a mistake is proven, the wise correct themselves; but the Cretans persist in their asininity!!! 🤣 🤣 🤣
4 “Kings should not drink wine, Lemuel, and rulers should not ·desire [crave] ·beer [T strong drink; C alcoholic beverage made from grain; 20:1; 23:19–21, 29–35]. 5 If they drink, they might forget the ·law [decrees] and ·keep the needy from getting their rights [violate the rights of the needy]. 6 Give ·beer [T strong drink; v. 4] to people who are ·dying [perishing] and wine to those ·who are sad [who have bitter hearts]. 7 Let them drink and forget their ·need [poverty] and remember their ·misery [or hard work] no more [Eccl. 2:24–26; 3:12–14, 22; 5:18–20; 8:15; 9:7–10].
“…their differences from the world. The ‘PACHUCO’ [colonized Mexican-Greaser] has lost all his heritage: language, religion, customs, beliefs. He only has a body and a soul left out in the open, in front of all eyes. If the disguise protects him and, at the same time, highlights and isolates him: he hides it and exhibits it.”—The Labyrinth of Solitude and other works by Octavio Paz
Ricardo ValenzuelaI am part optimist and part naïveté. However, in a world of despotic clowns, I’d like to believe that there still exists a little bit of Elfego Baca left in each of us. Such as: Hope, Courage & equal Justice for all!
History has produced a montage of flavorsome firebrands like Adolf Hitler, Vladimir Lenin and Chairman Mao. But Elfego Baca is not one of them. Elfego’s gentle manner, directness, and few words exude a level of confidence that is still unparalleled today.
(cf., Genesis 3:14 | “They were stronger than Turk and Saracen, but not than Hunger and Disease. Leaders did not know then, as our little Friend at Berlin came to know, that ‘an Army, like a serpent, goes upon its belly.’”)
When a mistake is proven, the wise correct themselves; but the Cretans persist in their asininity!!! 🤣 🤣 🤣
(cf., Genesis 3:14 | “They were stronger than Turk and Saracen, but not than Hunger and Disease. Leaders did not know then, as our little Friend at Berlin came to know, that ‘an Army, like a serpent, goes upon its belly.’”) 💭 🤔DEFEND OUR BORDERS: Assault on America’s Sovereignty
4 “Kings should not drink wine, Lemuel, and rulers should not ·desire [crave] ·beer [T strong drink; C alcoholic beverage made from grain; 20:1; 23:19–21, 29–35]. 5 If they drink, they might forget the ·law [decrees] and ·keep the needy from getting their rights [violate the rights of the needy]. 6 Give ·beer [T strong drink; v. 4] to people who are ·dying [perishing] and wine to those ·who are sad [who have bitter hearts]. 7 Let them drink and forget their ·need [poverty] and remember their ·misery [or hard work] no more [Eccl. 2:24–26; 3:12–14, 22; 5:18–20; 8:15; 9:7–10].
The FISHER of MENSIS 