Is America on the brink of collapse like Rome?

Thomas Sowell

¡Hablando del Rey de Roma, 

por la puerta asoma!

Speaking of the King of Rome, through the door he appears!

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].

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Saying 7

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.
⁵ Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone,
    for they will surely sprout wings
    and fly off to the sky like an eagle.💸

Proverbs 23:1-5
New International Version

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)

Genesis 3:1
Amplified Bible

core (n.)

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.”

LIKE DUST IN THE WIND SCATTERED TO THE FOUR CHERUBIM OF THE FOUR DIRECTIONS:

⁹ “The heart is deceitful above 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.
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)

Jeremiah 17:9-11
Amplified Bible

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].

Jeremiah 8:8
Expanded Bible

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)

Genesis 4:13-17
Expanded Bible

¹⁴ So the Lord God said to the serpent:

“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.

Genesis 3:14
Expanded Bible

“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.’”

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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)

Isaiah 9:14
Amplified Bible

“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,
And you shall [only] bruise His heel.” (cf., Isaiah 9:14)

Genesis 3:15
Expanded Bible

¹⁵ 
The elderly and honorable man, he is the head; (cf., Genesis 3:15)
And the prophet who teaches lies, he is the tail.
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)

Isaiah 9:15-16
Amplified Bible

“A fish rots from the head down”

~Author unknown

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!

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.

Siddhartha Gautama

parable (n.)

“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

“Milk for babes and meat for strong men”

~Hermes Trismegistus

In other words, imbeciles are always impervious to facts (e.g., there are only two biological sexes).

“Cretans are always liars, evil ·animals [beasts], and lazy ·people who do nothing but eat”

Titus 1:12

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.

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What are your favorite brands and why?

brand (n.)

Old English brand, brond “fire, flame, destruction by fire; firebrand, piece of burning wood, torch,” and (poetic) “sword,” from Proto-Germanic brandaz “a burning” (source also of Old Norse brandr, Old High German brant, Old Frisian brond “firebrand; blade of a sword,” German brand “fire”), from PIE root gwher- “to heat, warm.”

mfw 💭 🤔

brand (v.)

c. 1400, “to impress or burn a mark upon with a hot iron, cauterize; stigmatize,” originally of criminal marks or cauterized wounds, from brand (n.). Figuratively, often in a bad sense, “fix a character of infamy upon,” mid-15c., with the criminal marking in mind. As a means of marking ownership or quality of property, 1580s. Related: Branded; branding.

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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.

¡Viva Elfego Baca!

The Fisher of Mensis

JOHN OF PATMOS’ REVELATION TO LUKEWARM CHRISTIANS

15 I know ·what you do [your works], that you are not hot or cold. I wish that you were hot or cold [C both positive images, alluding to cold refreshing mountain streams and healing hot springs near Laodicea]! 16 But because you are lukewarm—neither hot, nor cold—I am ready to ·spit [vomit] you out of my mouth.

Revelation 3:15-16
Expanded Bible

“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”

~Mohandas “Mahatma” Karamchand Gandhi

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List the people you admire and look to for advice…

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.

¡Viva Elfego Baca!

The Fisher of Mensis

JOHN OF PATMOS’ REVELATION TO LUKEWARM CHRISTIANS

15 I know ·what you do [your works], that you are not hot or cold. I wish that you were hot or cold [C both positive images, alluding to cold refreshing mountain streams and healing hot springs near Laodicea]! 16 But because you are lukewarm—neither hot, nor cold—I am ready to ·spit [vomit] you out of my mouth.

Revelation 3:15-16
Expanded Bible

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Do you vote in political elections?

Per U.S. Army colonel Douglas Abbott Macgregor, the two-party system of the Banana Republic of the U.S.A. is irrelevante, because neither Party represents the tax-paying citizens of the U.S.A. 💭 🤔

Now, I’m no political scientist, here. But I am a student of history. And, what would be the point of voting in political elections . . . besides legitimizing the uni-party’s obvious ineptitude?

In a face-off between Trump or Biden (cf., The Difference Between Pharisees and Sadducees – Ecclesiastes 1:9) … Jesus is the lesser of three evils!

Mark 10:18-19

The world’s all-time Best-Seller, ever!
(cf., Proverbs 23:1-5; Matthew 6:23-25; 2 Thessalonians 2:3–10)
💭 🤔

Doesn’t that defeat the purpose of holding elections in the first place?

And haven’t we already seen this before in the past?

Please, do feel free to correct me if I’m wrong here . . . but isn’t it just inching us closer to following in Ukraine’s foot steps of canceling elections all together? 💭 🤔

First it’s election interference, and next it’s full-blown dictatorship! . . . And before we know it . . . it’s der Führer’s final solution!

I kinda feel as though we’ve seen this rerun play out in the past. 💭 🤔

That’s what’s so troubling about it all!

The colombnized [sic.], ethnically-cleansed, “Mexican-Greaser” has zero polished steel horses in the uni-party’s dog and pony show:

In fact, he detests the neo-liberal war-hawks’ neo-conservative/neo-fascist uni-party ALL TOGETHER.

“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”

~Mohandas “Mahatma” Karamchand Gandhi

May the God of their forefathers rebuke them sharply: by speeding himself to ’em, ASAF [sic.]!!!

😝 😇 🤣

JOHN OF PATMOS’ REVELATION TO LUKEWARM CHRISTIANS

15 I know ·what you do [your works], that you are not hot or cold. I wish that you were hot or cold [C both positive images, alluding to cold refreshing mountain streams and healing hot springs near Laodicea]! 16 But because you are lukewarm—neither hot, nor cold—I am ready to ·spit [vomit] you out of my mouth.

Revelation 3:15-16
Expanded Bible

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What gives you direction in life?

God provides?

provide (v.)

early 15c., providen, “make provision for the future; arrange, plan; take care, relieve of needs, supply the needs of,” from Latin providere “look ahead, prepare, supply, act with foresight,” from pro “ahead” (from PIE root *per- (1) “forward”) + videre “to see” (from PIE root *weid- “to see”).

God provides direction?

direction (n.)

late 14c., direccioun, “action of directing or guiding,” from Latin directionem (nominative directio) “a making straight, a straight line, a directing (toward something),” noun of action from past-participle stem of dirigere “to set straight, arrange; give a particular direction to,” from dis– “apart” (see dis-) + regere “to direct, to guide, keep straight” (from PIE root *reg- “move in a straight line”).

Q&A SESSION:

Q. God provided math?

A. God provides EVERYTHING!:

Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe. The laws of nature are written by the Hand of God in the language of mathematics. God is known by nature in His works, and by doctrine in His revealed Word.

Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de’ Galilei

• Math is ▪︎SUPERnatural [not FINITE; not PHYSICAL]
• Math is ▪︎INFINITE [beyond nature]
• Math is ▪︎EVERYWHERE [always PRESENT]
• Math is ▪︎ALL-KNOWING [explains EVERYTHING]
• Math is ▪︎ALL-POWERFUL [Our ENTIRE (finite; physical) universe is GOVERNED by Math]
• Math PROVES the existence of God!

7 A person might say, “When I lie, it really ·gives him [L increases his] glory, because my lie shows God’s truth. So why am I ·judged [condemned as] a sinner?” 8 It would be the same to say, “We should do evil so that good will come.” Some people ·find fault with [slander] us and say we teach this, but ·they are wrong and deserve the punishment they will receive [L their condemnation is just].

Romans 3:7-8, Expanded Bible

Hablando del rey de Roma, por la puerta asoma

(cf., Proverbs 23:1-5; Matthew 6:23-25)

Jeremiah 8:8
Expanded Bible

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].

Genesis 4:13-17
Expanded Bible

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)

cf., 14 The Lord God said to the serpent, (cf., Jeremiah 8:8; Genesis 4:13-17)

“Because you have done this,
You are cursed more than all the cattle,
And more than any animal of the field;
On your belly you shall go,
And dust you shall eat
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.’“

14
Therefore the Lord cuts off head and tail [the highest and the lowest] from Israel,
Both [the high] palm branch and [the low] bulrush in one day.
15
The elderly and honorable man, he is the head;
And the prophet who teaches lies, he is the tail.
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., Jonah in the Belly of the Beast)

“A fish rots from the head down”

~Author unknown

Genesis 3:14; Isaiah 9:14-16
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philistine

QUICK REFERENCE

A person devoted narrow-mindedly to material prosperity at the expense of intellectual and artistic awareness; or (as an adjective) ignorantly uninterested in culture and ideas. This sense of the term comes from the insulting label Philister applied by German students to their non-academic neighbours in university towns, likening them to the enemies of the chosen people in the Hebrew scriptures; it was given wide currency in English by the poet and critic Matthew Arnold in his book Culture and Anarchy (1869), which attacks the philistinism of the British middle class. Arnold usually applied the term ‘the Philistines’ to the prosperous bourgeoisie, especially to its nonconformist Liberal representatives.

Reference entries
philistine
in The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms (3)
Length: 108 words

“Está bien amar a tu país, con defectos y todo, con los ojos abiertos”. ~Dexter Taylor

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Do you have a quote you live your life by or think of often?

There exists so many great quotes to choose from; I often find it difficult deciding on which one to quote.

However, there does exist one quote in particular that has had the most bearing on my personal, private, and public lives; I may as well quote it here for WP:

Hablando del rey de Roma [Speaking of the “Man of Sin,” (Greek: ὁ ἄνθρωπος τῆς ἁμαρτίας, ho anthrōpos tēs hamartias)] 

Por la puerta asoma […through the door, he rears his ugly crown!]

The world’s all-time Best-Seller, ever!
(cf., Proverbs 23:1-5; Matthew 6:23-25; 2 Thessalonians 2:3–10)
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He pointed to his head and said, “That’s prime real estate, Luca. Don’t let ’em squat there rent free!”

Author unknown

OVERVIEW

philistine

QUICK REFERENCE

A person devoted narrow-mindedly to material prosperity at the expense of intellectual and artistic awareness; or (as an adjective) ignorantly uninterested in culture and ideas. This sense of the term comes from the insulting label Philister applied by German students to their non-academic neighbours in university towns, likening them to the enemies of the chosen people in the Hebrew scriptures; it was given wide currency in English by the poet and critic Matthew Arnold in his book Culture and Anarchy (1869), which attacks the philistinism of the British middle class. Arnold usually applied the term ‘the Philistines’ to the prosperous bourgeoisie, especially to its nonconformist Liberal representatives.

Reference entries
philistine
in The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms (3)
Length: 108 words

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Hablando del rey de Roma, por la puerta asoma (cf., Proverbs 23:1-5; Matthew 6:23-25)

Jeremiah 8:8
Expanded Bible

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].

Genesis 4:13-17
Expanded Bible

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)

cf., 14 The Lord God said to the serpent, (cf., Jeremiah 8:8; Genesis 4:13-17)

“Because you have done this,
You are cursed more than all the cattle,
And more than any animal of the field;
On your belly you shall go,
And dust you shall eat
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.’“

14
Therefore the Lord cuts off head and tail [the highest and the lowest] from Israel,
Both [the high] palm branch and [the low] bulrush in one day.
15
The elderly and honorable man, he is the head;
And the prophet who teaches lies, he is the tail.
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., Jonah in the Belly of the Beast)

“A fish rots from the head down”

~Author unknown

Genesis 3:14; Isaiah 9:14-16
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What is your favorite holiday? Why is it your favorite?

As a child growing up, my favorite season was always the autumn season marked by the turning of the tree leaves. That coupled with the macabre holiday decorations; which could only mean one thing for a child: the prospect of dressing up in cool looking costumes and going door-to-door in search of free candy. “Trick-or-treat!” 🦇 ☺

Back then, the autumn season was also marked by Harvest Days Celebrations and countless State & County Fairs. I always wished that these festivities would go on forever!

“Be careful what you wish for, boy!” is what they used to say to me as a child. “‘Cuz you might just get it!” . . . Even the phrase “get IT!” was quite noire in them days.

e.g., “You’ll ‘get IT’ just as soon as we get home, ¡Cabrón Chingao!” 😂

And, yes, it’s true that I was born in the fall, just not last fall! 🤣

However, seasons change; and so do we. Some of us even live long enough to reach maturity . . . but most of us do not!

💭 🤔

As for me — for good effect; or for bad effect — as a direct result of all the “New [Ab]normal” and draconian changes that have been foisted upon the spineless masses since the start of 2020 A.D., I have come to regret my haphazard childhood wish that someone, anyone would ban all other American Holly•days [sic.] and declare everyday Halloween🎃Season.

He pointed to his head and said, “That’s prime real estate, Luca. Don’t let ’em squat there rent free!”

Author unknown

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Have you ever been camping?

Camping is my favorite recreation on earth! There’s nothing like the serenity that comes with reconnecting to nature. 😊

Here is my favorite scene from the film The Great Outdoors (1988):

He pointed to his head and said, “That’s prime real estate, Luca. Don’t let ’em squat there rent free!”

Author unknown

Hablando del rey de Roma, por la puerta asoma (cf., Proverbs 23:1-5; Matthew 6:23-25)

Jeremiah 8:8
Expanded Bible

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].

Genesis 4:13-17
Expanded Bible

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)

cf., 14 The Lord God said to the serpent, (cf., Jeremiah 8:8; Genesis 4:13-17)

“Because you have done this,
You are cursed more than all the cattle,
And more than any animal of the field;
On your belly you shall go,
And dust you shall eat
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.’“

14
Therefore the Lord cuts off head and tail [the highest and the lowest] from Israel,
Both [the high] palm branch and [the low] bulrush in one day.
15
The elderly and honorable man, he is the head;
And the prophet who teaches lies, he is the tail.
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., Jonah in the Belly of the Beast)

Genesis 3:14; Isaiah 9:14-16
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7 A person might say, “When I lie, it really ·gives him [L increases his] glory, because my lie shows God’s truth. So why am I ·judged [condemned as] a sinner?” 8 It would be the same to say, “We should do evil so that good will come.” Some people ·find fault with [slander] us and say we teach this, but ·they are wrong and deserve the punishment they will receive [L their condemnation is just].

Romans 3:7-8, Expanded Bible

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He pointed to his head and said, “That’s prime real estate, Luca. Don’t let ’em squat there rent free!”

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cf., 14 The Lord God said to the serpent,

“Because you have done this,
You are cursed more than all the cattle,
And more than any animal of the field;
On your belly you shall go,
And dust you shall eat
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.’“

14
Therefore the Lord cuts off head and tail [the highest and the lowest] from Israel,
Both [the high] palm branch and [the low] bulrush in one day.
15
The elderly and honorable man, he is the head;
And the prophet who teaches lies, he is the tail.
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., Jonah in the Belly of the Beast)

Genesis 3:14; Isaiah 9:14-16
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Corazón lleno; panza contenta 😊

The Fisher of Mensis (cf., Proverbs 23:1-5; Matthew 6:23-25)

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He pointed to his head and said, “That’s prime real estate, Luca. Don’t let ’em squat there rent free!”

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9 On the Day of ·Cleansing [Atonement; 16:1–34], you must blow the horn of a ·male sheep [ram]; this will be on the tenth day of the seventh month. You must blow the horn through the whole country. 10 Make the fiftieth year a ·special [consecrated; holy] year, and announce ·freedom [liberty] for all the people living in your country. This time will be called Jubilee [a word related to the Hebrew for “ram’s horn”]. You will each go back to your own property, each to your own family and family group. 11 The fiftieth year will be a special time for you to celebrate. Don’t plant seeds, or harvest the crops that grow by themselves, or gather grapes from the vines that are not ·trimmed [pruned].

Leviticus 25:9-11
Expanded Bible

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7 A person might say, “When I lie, it really ·gives him [L increases his] glory, because my lie shows God’s truth. So why am I ·judged [condemned as] a sinner?” 8 It would be the same to say, “We should do evil so that good will come.” Some people ·find fault with [slander] us and say we teach this, but ·they are wrong and deserve the punishment they will receive [L their condemnation is just].

Romans 3:7-8, Expanded Bible

²⁰ In the same way, you will know ·these false prophets [^Lthem] by ·what they do [^Ltheir fruit].

²¹ “Not all those who say [^Lto me] ·‘You are our Lord’ [^L‘Lord! Lord!’] will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only those who do ·what my Father in heaven wants [the will of my Father in heaven]. ²² On ·the last day [judgment day; ^Lthat day] many people will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, ·we spoke for you [^LDid we not prophesy in your name…?], and ·through you we forced out demons [^Lcast out demons in your name…?] and did many ·miracles [^Lmighty works in your name…?].’ ²³ Then I will ·tell them clearly [declare to them; publicly announce to them], ‘I never knew you. ·Get away [Depart] from me, you who ·do evil [break God’s law; practice lawlessness; Ps. 6:8].’

Matthew 7:20-23

“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”

~Mohandas “Mahatma” Karamchand Gandhi

Hablando del rey de Roma, por la puerta asoma

cf., 14 The Lord God said to the serpent,

“Because you have done this,
You are cursed more than all the cattle,
And more than any animal of the field;
On your belly you shall go,
And dust you shall eat
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.’“

14
Therefore the Lord cuts off head and tail [the highest and the lowest] from Israel,
Both [the high] palm branch and [the low] bulrush in one day.
15
The elderly and honorable man, he is the head;
And the prophet who teaches lies, he is the tail.
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., Jonah in the Belly of the Beast)

Genesis 3:14; Isaiah 9:14-16
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