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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18106700271302988372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4704445330607294612.post-35336416041381115412013-01-25T08:05:00.002-05:002013-01-25T08:12:41.102-05:00REVELATION 22:21<span style="color: blue;">Revelation 22:21</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">The<a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=G5485&t=KJV" target="_blank"><i><b> grace </b></i></a>of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with you all. Amen.
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The word "Grace" in Greek, is charas. It is used 130 times in the New Testament.<br />
Without grace, there is no hope of salvation, or of eternal life. Even our faith is a gift of God, by God's grace.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">For the law was given by Moses, [but]<a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/Bible.cfm?b=Jhn&c=1&v=17&t=KJV#conc/17" target="_blank"><u> <i><b>grace</b></i> </u></a>and truth came by Jesus Christ.
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<span style="color: blue;"> And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great <a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/Bible.cfm?b=Act&c=4&v=33&t=KJV#conc/33" target="_blank"><u><i><b>grace</b></i></u></a> was upon them all.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"> By whom we have received <a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/Bible.cfm?b=Rom&c=1&v=5&t=KJV#conc/5" target="_blank"><i><b>grace </b></i></a>and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:
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<span style="color: blue;"> For by <a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/Bible.cfm?b=Eph&c=2&t=KJV#conc/8" target="_blank"><u><i><b>grace </b></i></u></a>are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God:
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<span style="color: blue;">By grace, we are freed from sin:For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under <u><i><b>grace.</b></i></u></span>
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:Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18106700271302988372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4704445330607294612.post-26845372789987457032013-01-24T17:46:00.000-05:002013-01-24T17:46:27.395-05:00REVELATION BACKWARDS<br />It's time for my Revelation study. I was told 20 years ago that if I thoroughly studied Revelation once a year, it would bless my soul. The best way to do it, I've learned, is to write it out, or be part of a discussion. Since I have no church to affiliate with, I can only rely on my faith, and the hope that the Holy Spirit would give me the light to understand.<br />
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I've decided to do it backwards, because, when I'm done, it will be formatted in front to back, first to last chapter, and because, I've never done a study backwards. I'm so familiar with this book, that I could recite it from memory, so, I feel competent to know the book well enough. I want to see if I can get different insight, if I do it backwards.<br />
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When I was a young teenager, i had this vintage classic dress in every color it came in. I wore it as robes.</div>
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I wouldn't imagine keeping it for decades, but, i wish i did. Goodwill got themall. My dad made these, with his talented partner, Mautice.</div>
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Maurice died in his fifties of cancer, and my dad went to work for Albert Nipon, but, I am proud of him.</div>
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He was a brilliant designer. So many of his designs and dresses are iconic, or subtly influenced other designers, and continue to do so.</div>
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These engineered prints, originally inspired by Pucci, in the sixties, were very hard to produce. </div>
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I worked in dad's factory since i was a kid, and remember the skill they reqired to master.</div>
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I am now trying to buy back dresses i had by the hundreds, and for free, giving them to Goodwill, and now sell for 150- ??????!!!!!</div>
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I wonder how much Lindsay paid for this one, or if it originally was mine.</div>
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Sabbath rules are broken by typing this, but, in my heart and soul, I worship Y'shua HaMasciach, every waking moment, not just on Sabbath nights.</div>
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changed the keyboard to see if I can post and type easier since My last few entries were full of problems.....</div>
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Although i am certainly used to texting, for some reason, i am still not happy typing android prose due to a lifetime of typing on real keyboards, but, it is something i can try to get the knack of....i have tons of things to say and need to write right now. </div>
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I weighed 145.8 today, but, according to the govtt's BMI charts, I'm overweight, and according to the odious MIchelle Obama, Overweight Americans are the "greatest threat to National security."</div>
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I marvel at the Goebbels lIke MSM, who tout this hideous beast, as If she were Princess Kate, when she looks like a wild animal and a nasty, dangerous one. That Is dangerous to our Image as a civilised Nation. The Empress has no clothes. She's not "stunning", but, a hideous bigot, the ugliest creature In public display. In my thinking she looks like a gorilla Is racist, then this nasty woman Is sIzIst, and Is Instilling misery and hate against an already persecuted and bullIed group of Americans. F U MIchelle o.</div>
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and illnesses, and recoveries, and a boredom with writing. I went through a final metamorphosis, first from near death-lIke revelation, an otherworldly consciousness of what is real outside this pathetic planet, and a sense of futility in participating in the race, both the human and cIrcular rat race.<br />
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Brother Camping has warned the world about the rapture next week. My dad and I feel so badly about watching him go through this again.<br />
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In defense of Camping, let me offer my opinion about him. He has a really good heart, and he has a body of good works that few in our age can rival. He was the founder of "Family Radio" which was the first of its' kind, and had exceptional programs, including daily Bible studies, and top notch teachers. His heart, is truly in the right place.<br />
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I want him to be right, and if next week turns out to be the return of Christ, no one will be happier than me. I pray I am worthy to be taken aboard.<br />
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But, the world's media machine is always looking to discredit people of faith, and by issuing such public predictions, he opens himself up to the ridicule and criticism of those who think Christ is a myth, let alone his return.<br />
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Just like when bad Jews, like Madoff, paint their entire race in a negative light, Brother Camping's predictions are used against those of us who earnestly believe that Christ will return in our lifetimes, hopefully.<br />
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I think all the signs are there, and it could be anytime, but, that doesn't guarantee that Christ will be back when I say it could be. It could take another 1000 years. A thousand years is like a day to God, or even more extreme.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
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Also, there's nothing black and white about the "Rapture" being what we think it should be. For as many scriptures as I can point to that implies a beaming up of believers, there are twice as many that indicate a trial and tribulation of the saints, where the only escape is physical death as the road to salvation.<br />
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In other words, none of us can know precisely. It pleased the LORD to make these signs ambiguous, and like much of prophecy, it takes a balanced view to get the whole picture.<br />
We won't know, until it happens.<br />
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While I find Harold's predictions cringe-worthy, on the other hand, I think it's a good message to impart to people of faith to get their acts together, NOW.<br />
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While I'm typing this, I'm listening to the News and how Iran is drawing a line in the sand, even threatening nuclear action. Along with Syria, and the unstable individual countries of the Middle East, right now, the one prediction I can feel safe in projecting is the likelihood of nuclear war in the next decade. The rapid succession of nations which surround Israel, and becoming more unstable and trending towards extremist Jihad, the prophetic messages are clearer than ever before in history.<br />
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I join Harold in agreeing that something is going to probably happen, but, I don't know the order of these events, and neither can Harold. It would be amazing if we were beamed up before the radioactivity affects us, because the Book of Revelations states that the suffering and sickness will be so intense that the living will envy the dead.<br />
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I wish people would take these kind of real life events to heart, and stop focusing on Harold's predictions. As wacky as it seems, he's closer to the truth than the backwards and misguided individuals marching in the Wall Street spectacle. <br />
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While jobs and poverty are certainly a valid cause to join forces to fight, when compared to nuclear holocaust, it seems like a fatuous waste of time. We need to fix the world before we can become one-world at peace.<br />
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I believe that the only path to peace is Jesus Christ, who hopefully will come back soon. But, I am sad to report that I don't share Camping's view that it is soon. I think it's more likely that we'll all see a nuclear incident before that happens.<br />
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I pray for Harold Camping often, because, he's such a dear man, and he meant a lot to me, especially when I was a fledgling evangelical in the 80s. I truly admired and trusted him. The important thing to remember is that no one person, other than Christ, is infallible. I write some controversial things about prophecy, and I am offering my opinions, not claiming that I have divine inspiration, just personal revelations. I am also a flawed person, to say the least, and I hate it when someone points to my foolishness and use it against Christ or Christians.<br />
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Sometimes, Christians are the most gullible, because, we tend to be trusting. We have good intentions, and deeply desire to have everyone we meet exposed to the love Christ has bestowed on us.<br />
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Heavenly Father, in Jesus' Name, I pray for Brother Camping to not lose heart, but, to have a sense of humor about our fallibility. I pray that people see that it's out of his passionate love for Christ that he projects topics like the Rapture, and that even if the message is flawed, that many will awaken to the fact that we're probably in the final ten years.<br />
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If we can live each day, prepared for it to be our last, then, for this alone, Harold has imparted a good work.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18106700271302988372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4704445330607294612.post-84990842791521627622011-10-13T21:02:00.008-04:002011-10-13T21:47:47.334-04:00Succot, Tabernacles, and The Birth Of Christ<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_4dX6-_EPLbZUUOoLgQQ3AQrzZFzybAWF-L3JqiCFDePzolymcyEVvhNS7ZHjtHVZzk_9wECSngP3-295rOdqC6c_47CmS2HtFDGueDQUP_QEX-eKWZbIF-8eMv6sJ-aiTjGV2no4t3k/s1600/sukkot5771.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_4dX6-_EPLbZUUOoLgQQ3AQrzZFzybAWF-L3JqiCFDePzolymcyEVvhNS7ZHjtHVZzk_9wECSngP3-295rOdqC6c_47CmS2HtFDGueDQUP_QEX-eKWZbIF-8eMv6sJ-aiTjGV2no4t3k/s320/sukkot5771.jpg" width="261" /></a></div><br />
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The cluster of holy days in the Tishri, the Hebrew seventh month have great prophetic meanings. On the first day of the seventh month, the shofar, a ram's horn, is blown, and it signifies a holy convocation. It represents remembrance of the victories which allowed the Israelites to enter the holy land, and God's faithfulness to promises that he makes to us.<br />
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It's a day of rest, a sabbath, and also marks the harvest season. Every seven years, when the festivities ensue, it designates a year of resting the land from planting. Every 49 years, when the ram's horn is blown, it represents the "Jubilee" which is a time of restoration of land, an end to servitude for debtors, and represents many spiritual metaphors that help us to understand God's grace.<br />
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For the next week, other celebrations were observed, in the spirit of the season. It really invoked the kind of festivities that we associate with Christmas.<br />
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On the 8th day of the 7th month, the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, commences and it is a day of fasting and repentance for sins and for supplications to have received grace to be pardoned for transgressions.<br />
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The next week was a week of rest. When you consider that this probably followed the harvesting, and it was a time of being renewed and forgiven for sins, it was a special time for them to celebrate and thank God for their blessings and His infinite grace.<br />
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On the 15th day of the 7th month (around today) is the very festive holy day of Succot, also called Tabernacles. As a Jew, all I knew about this holiday is that some people put out little decorated shacks. They deck the little buildings, or booths, with gourds of many colors, fruits and other natural decorations. Again, it's a precursor to the decorative enjoyment of Christmas with stringing up lights and mementos.<br />
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This is the last of the mandated holy days, and it was always strange that it is mentioned in Zechariah as the one sabbath that will be retained in the Millennium Kingdom, following the return of the Lord. It states that the nations will be required to send representatives to Jerusalem to present themselves at Succot, The Feast of Tabernacles (succa) and there is a curse towards the nation that refuses to acknowledge it will be vulnerable to the plagues that will be otherwise gone from the world.<br />
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So, Succot, Tabernacles, as the third tier of a holy month of awe, is a big deal to the Israelites.<br />
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In close examination of Succot, it turns out that it was both a place, and it has the literal meaning of "tabernacle" or "booth": <span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: red;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;"><span class="lexTitleHb" style="font-family: 'New Peninim MT', 'SBL Hebrew', Cardo, 'Ezra SIL', 'TITUS Cyberbit Basic', 'Times New Roman', 'Arial Unicode MS'; font-size: 41px; font-weight: bold; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px;">סכה</span> <em>cukkah</em></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;"><em> </em></span>Most Jews were taught that it represents the booths or makeshift shelters the Israelites had to dwell in while camping in the wilderness, with Moses, for 40 years. This holy day was ordained by Moses, as well, so, originally, this is the most general remembrance.<br />
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With a little investigation, though, the first mention of Succot, was when Jacob traveled to the territory of Succoth (Succowth), where he built housing booths for his cattle (called succah) and for himself. <br />
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Succoth, the place, was also the first campsite that the Israelites, led by Moses, were encamped, and built<br />
tents/booths/temporary housing.<br />
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I've written many times about how Christ's birth can be definitively identified to be in the period between Rosh Hashana and Succoth, The Feast of Tabernacles. This formula is valid and follows John the Baptist's birth story. Zecharias, his father, was a priest, and his term of service in the Temple for two weeks can be calculated as being in the Spring. When he returned, he impregnated his wife Elizabeth, as prophesied by Gabriel. Six months later, Gabriel announced to Mary and Joseph that Jesus would be born, and in the Fall, he was born.<br />
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Since I'm murdering the formula, due to fatigue, please read the link to learn the connection:<br />
<a href="http://biblelight.net/sukkoth.htm">Christ's Birthday</a><br />
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It explains in detail why Christ was born at Tabernacles.<br />
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But, here's the latest insight I had on the topic. In studying the etiology of the Hebrew word, I discovered that the first use of the word cucca (succa) of tabernacle or booth, referred to the housing for livestock and horses.<br />
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Then it dawned on me that Christ was put in a MANGER, which is the exact structure that would be decorated and present when Mary and Joseph were in Bethlehem.<br />
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D'OH! OF COURSE!<br />
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I always felt that the only natural time for them to attend a mandatory census count was for the holy days, when people went back to their tribal land. We know that Mary and Joseph travelled there with Jesus, at Passover, when he was a kid, because, he stayed behind to teach in the Temple, and they had to travel back to find him. Their entire clan had to have been travelling, otherwise, they would have noticed he wasn't there sooner, like in "Home Alone."<br />
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So, they had a routine of going back to Bethlehem and Judea during the holy days. Even though it doesn't state it, it's not hard to see Succot in the season of Christ's birth.<br />
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She gave birth, and they put the baby in one of the booths, or tabernacles....in other words, the MANGER, or succa, and I bet it was decorated with the fruits and gourds that were festive for the season.<br />
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Think of how the magi found them there, and how even in the town, people were celebrating his birth. He was one of their kin, but, they were also waiting for the Messiah. The Messiah had to come from David's kin, and enough people took notice that Mary and Joseph had to flee to Egypt to prevent the paranoid Herod from killing Jesus, parallel to Moses's birth.<br />
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So, Shalom y'all. It's Messianic Christmas, the Feast of Tabernacles. Decorate your backyard tree, and gazebo, if you will, with pumpkins and brightly colored pomegranates and if you're blessed to live in a place where the leaves are turning, celebrate the birth of the Lord as the leaves explode in color and die.<br />
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There's always that flip sided dichotomy. At harvest, after reaping, there's new life, not death, as the New Year begins with the forgiveness of sins, and the hope of the Messiah.<br />
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At the beginning of planting the next season's crops, when the blood of the lamb was shed to mark the doorway of the homes of the redeemed of God, Christ's blood was shed to be a propitiation for our sins. .<br />
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There is a divine balance and lesson for it. There's so many more layers beneath this cursory study. I hope to get more depth this week and come back to it.<br />
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<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Luk&c=2&t=KJV&x=6&y=4#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">Luk 2:1</a> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Luk&c=2&t=KJV&x=6&y=4#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">Luk 2:2</a> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">([And] this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Luk&c=2&t=KJV&x=6&y=4#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">Luk 2:3</a> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Luk&c=2&t=KJV&x=6&y=4#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">Luk 2:4</a> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:)</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Luk&c=2&t=KJV&x=6&y=4#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">Luk 2:5</a> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Luk&c=2&t=KJV&x=6&y=4#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">Luk 2:6</a> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Luk&c=2&t=KJV&x=6&y=4#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">Luk 2:7</a> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Luk&c=2&t=KJV&x=6&y=4#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">Luk 2:8</a> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Luk&c=2&t=KJV&x=6&y=4#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">Luk 2:9</a> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Luk&c=2&t=KJV&x=6&y=4#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">Luk 2:10</a> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Luk&c=2&t=KJV&x=6&y=4#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">Luk 2:11</a> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Luk&c=2&t=KJV&x=6&y=4#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">Luk 2:12</a> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">And this [shall be] a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Luk&c=2&t=KJV&x=6&y=4#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">Luk 2:13</a> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,</td></tr>
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<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Luk&c=2&t=KJV&x=6&y=4#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">Luk 2:15</a> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Luk&c=2&t=KJV&x=6&y=4#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">Luk 2:16</a> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger.</td></tr>
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<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Luk&c=2&t=KJV&x=6&y=4#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">Luk 2:19</a> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">But Mary kept all these things, and pondered [them] in her heart.</td></tr>
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<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Luk&c=2&t=KJV&x=6&y=4#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">Luk 2:21</a> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called JESUS, which was so named of the angel before he was conceived in the womb.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Luk&c=2&t=KJV&x=6&y=4#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">Luk 2:22</a> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">And when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present [him] to the Lord;</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Luk&c=2&t=KJV&x=6&y=4#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">Luk 2:23</a> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">(As it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male that openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord;)</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Luk&c=2&t=KJV&x=6&y=4#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">Luk 2:24</a> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">And to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Luk&c=2&t=KJV&x=6&y=4#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">Luk 2:25</a> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name [was] Simeon; and the same man [was] just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Luk&c=2&t=KJV&x=6&y=4#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">Luk 2:26</a> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Luk&c=2&t=KJV&x=6&y=4#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">Luk 2:27</a> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after the custom of the law,</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Luk&c=2&t=KJV&x=6&y=4#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">Luk 2:28</a> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">Then took he him up in his arms, and blessed God, and said,</td></tr>
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<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Luk&c=2&t=KJV&x=6&y=4#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">Luk 2:30</a> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">For mine eyes have seen thy salvation,</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Luk&c=2&t=KJV&x=6&y=4#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">Luk 2:31</a> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people;</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Luk&c=2&t=KJV&x=6&y=4#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">Luk 2:32</a> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Luk&c=2&t=KJV&x=6&y=4#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">Luk 2:33</a> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">And Joseph and his mother marvelled at those things which were spoken of him.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Luk&c=2&t=KJV&x=6&y=4#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">Luk 2:34</a> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">And Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his mother, Behold, this [child] is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel; and for a sign which shall be spoken against;</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Luk&c=2&t=KJV&x=6&y=4#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">Luk 2:35</a> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">(Yea, a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also,) that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Luk&c=2&t=KJV&x=6&y=4#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">Luk 2:36</a> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity;</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Luk&c=2&t=KJV&x=6&y=4#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">Luk 2:37</a> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">And she [was] a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served [God] with fastings and prayers night and day.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Luk&c=2&t=KJV&x=6&y=4#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">Luk 2:38</a> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">And she coming in that instant gave thanks likewise unto the Lord, and spake of him to all them that looked for redemption in Jerusalem.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Luk&c=2&t=KJV&x=6&y=4#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">Luk 2:39</a> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">And when they had performed all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city Nazareth.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Luk&c=2&t=KJV&x=6&y=4#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">Luk 2:40</a> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Luk&c=2&t=KJV&x=6&y=4#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">Luk 2:41</a> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Luk&c=2&t=KJV&x=6&y=4#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">Luk 2:42</a> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Luk&c=2&t=KJV&x=6&y=4#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">Luk 2:43</a> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">And when they had fulfilled the days, as they returned, the child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem; and Joseph and his mother knew not [of it].</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Luk&c=2&t=KJV&x=6&y=4#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">Luk 2:44</a> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">But they, supposing him to have been in the company, went a day's journey; and they sought him among [their] kinsfolk and acquaintance.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Luk&c=2&t=KJV&x=6&y=4#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">Luk 2:45</a> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">And when they found him not, they turned back again to Jerusalem, seeking him.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Luk&c=2&t=KJV&x=6&y=4#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">Luk 2:46</a> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions.</td></tr>
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<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Luk&c=2&t=KJV&x=6&y=4#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">Luk 2:48</a> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">And when they saw him, they were amazed: and his mother said unto him, Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold, thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Luk&c=2&t=KJV&x=6&y=4#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">Luk 2:49</a> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?</td></tr>
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</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18106700271302988372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4704445330607294612.post-27570396855991691872011-10-12T20:50:00.002-04:002011-10-13T15:51:43.869-04:00The DIVINE Kim and Kyle Richards of RHOBH<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-U8aBODCAOILY87Suq8Ua3QyrYH_eiJCn7PM2nus0gZ9bUyp7BHa5_0qTry5kiApY8K_3QwjLSCyPImC1LqXJGHKI1TlhIEX4JNI7pBK-3qOgYVQKnSMrEi0Q4qqqp8rdkYpkJBMRP7U/s1600/425.ROBH.tg.101011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="237" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-U8aBODCAOILY87Suq8Ua3QyrYH_eiJCn7PM2nus0gZ9bUyp7BHa5_0qTry5kiApY8K_3QwjLSCyPImC1LqXJGHKI1TlhIEX4JNI7pBK-3qOgYVQKnSMrEi0Q4qqqp8rdkYpkJBMRP7U/s320/425.ROBH.tg.101011.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
I've been getting so deep and philosophical lately, that I needed to get back to a lighter topic. I've already admitted that I am a voyeur of the Real Housewives franchise. I finally got around to watching the DVR latest episode, called "Game Night."<br />
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While I've never been a huge fan of the NJ or Orange County casts, I am hooked on these Beverly Hills divas. I think Bravo can easily flush the other cities, and concentrate on them. Maybe they can relocate Carolyn Manzo because she belongs more with these elegant women than the mob ladies surrounding her in New Joisey.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
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Even with Taylor Armstrong's controversial presence this season, which was filmed before her husband Russell died, she is notably skeletal and unbalanced. You really have to feel sorry for her for this fact, although, I was not a supporter of her selling pictures of her sporting a black eye and blaming it on her dead husband.<br />
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This week's crowning moment was the fantastic chemistry between the Richard sisters, which was strained last season. This season, there is an endearing and interesting unity and co-dependency. They are unrestrained and their personalities are unstoppable, mesmerizing and electric. While many will criticize them for the events of this week's show, I loved it, and I love them!!!! LOVE LOVE LOVE!<br />
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First of all, I think Kyle Richards is the most stunning woman of the entire series. She is also someone who I can relate to, and I think other people feel that way, as well. Kim is fragile, histrionic, needy and very charismatic, in her own way. Both were kid actors, and they are the aunts of Paris and Nicky Hilton, which makes their chemistry even more appealing, because, let's face it, it is hard to watch them and not see Paris and Nicky in ten years. Kim is so Paris and Kyle is Nicky.<br />
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The weird thing about the producers of the show this season is that they decided to add this inappropriate tacky and strange ex-model to the cast, plopping her into the scenes, forcing these women to consider her a "new friend" even though she's not very likable really.<br />
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Last week's show illuminated some problems, because, as a newcomer, she jumped right in and acted like a street ho-bag with these elegant matrons, both in language and attitude. It may be a fit for Jersey Shore, but, very strange to pair her with these women. She had no edit button, and no class.<br />
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At a party at the imperial palace of Princess Malooof, her feral 3 year old stood in front of the women and pulled out his pee-pee and peed in front of people. This ding-dong strange mom thought it was adorable. That made me appreciate Kyle, because, she established the fact that it really isn't okay to not tell a child that peeing in public on people's lawns in front of strangers is not what we do. When her boy gets touched by Chester, the neighborhood molester, she can blame herself.<br />
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I'm not fond of people who let their kids run wild, without restraints. Sure, they're just kids, but, they need to learn social skills. I think women like Brandi are dangerous reproductive units. They know how to make babies and give birth, but, that's about it. For the next 18 years, those kids become the irritants to all around them, and usually wind up in rehab.<br />
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It's not that Brandi seems like a bad person, actually, as much as she doesn't belong in the cast, and it doesn't fit. So, it felt amazing when Kyle and Kim, supported by the other new castmate, Dana, cut her to ribbons. What the heck does she have to offer, other than being smug and irritating?<br />
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At least the newly rich Dana, with her label obsessions, is a piece of work, and funny, truly a contender as a character.<br />
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Oh man, Brandi is just another washed up super-model who's looking for a way to stay relevant since 15 year olds took up her slack on the runways. She should try the Bachelor, Great Race or some other reality venue. She doesn't have anything worth seeing in this crowd, other than a defensive snarky tongue, in my opinion, and this attitude that she's poorer, but, really much superior to the other matrons.<br />
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It's not that the Richards women weren't horrendously cruel to her and rude, but, you know what? When a newcomer is introduced into an established group, their role is to ease into it, without sending out screaming signals by dressing like a slut, or talking like a slut, and begging for attention, "LOOK AT ME ME ME!!!" I don't blame them for not liking her, and I LOVE them for actually going to mat to put her in her place! I may be perverse, but, it's real.<br />
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We're all familiar with being the new person at work, or in the neighborhood. You have to let people get to know you, gradually, and show enough respect to try to get to know them, as well. Even with her self-deprecation, it's obvious that Brandi feels superior to these slightly older women. Yet, she's only a few minutes younger than Kyle and Kim, so, her attitude really is crappy. She has this sign on her face that reads, "VICTIM" and you know what? Everyone is a victim. Get over it, and show some respect to get respect.<br />
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What is beautiful about the Richards is that they really let their feelings out, not like the stilted Camillle, who is actually very cool, and very very funny! I honestly think Camille is an outstanding person, based on the show. I hope she can let her hair down. She's pretty special.<br />
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I don't know how to explain it, but, I appreciated the mean girl drama of it all, because, in a way, this newcomer was asking for it by her non-verbal signals and energy. In the media, people are trying to pretend like they felt sorry for her, but, I bet if they were honest, they would be beside me, and huge fans of the Richards.<br />
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There's all this melodramatic posturing about bullying, and it's a controversial modern obsession. This awareness is artificially exacerbated by the attention-whore antics of Lady Gaga, attaching herself to some poor misfit EMO kid who committed suicide because kids in his middle school were mean to him. I mean, what can you say about this? I was bullied, and everyone went through these rites of passage.<br />
I was actually stabbed with scissors, and had to leave that school.<br />
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But, here's the dilemna, while you can try to bring awareness, you can't legislate or regulate everyone's behavior. I HATE being told what is politically correct and acceptable, particularly by someone morally loathsome like Gaga who is a blatant Satanic high priestess who performs before children with her breasts and crotch exposed.<br />
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If it wasn't for Kyle and Kim, this show would be on life support. Lisa Vanderplump is gorgeous, successful, eccentric and divine, but, not very interesting this season, with her mother of the bride boring boring boring storyline, although, the wedding planner is hilarious.<br />
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It was far more engaging last season, with her non-sexual gigolo adopted son mooching off them. But, that little dog, Jiggy, is a star, for sure, and her husband is awesome. Any 50 year old man who dresses to match his tiny toy dog deserves his own show.<br />
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Taylor offers some drama to the season, but, it's all too real, you know? If poor Russell hadn't been found at the end of a rope before the first episode, it would feel differently. Now, it's painful to see her bony body and cadaverous face, with the only roundness possible through pillow cheek implants which are as obvious as the humongous duck lip extensions.<br />
She's a complete freak show, and her unbalanced behavior in the episodes only makes it more sad. I do feel sorry for her, on that level, and yet, it's not fun to see, so, I find myself fast forwarding. I don't know what to think about Taylor. On one level, I think she's pretty cool, but, I don't like how she seems to be exploiting her husband's death.<br />
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Adrienne Maloof is another completely divine creature, and I like her, but, she offers very little excitement or drama, so, I wind up fast forwarding her, usually, as well. I do love her Dr. 90125 Hollywood plastic surgeon husband, except when she talks to him like a dog, and he is like a hangdog used to being put down and whipped. In his own merits, he's pretty special, and has a wonderful personality. She's very classy, but, imperious and too politically correct and tactful, not to mention perfect to add any real excitement to the episodes. I think that she needs to go. Other than lifestyles of the rich and famous, we're not really getting to see her life, except for scripted sequences.<br />
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If the series continues with Kyle and Kim, maybe Paris and Nicky, with their mom Kathy could join the cast. In that event, the show would soar without any need of the others, who probably don't add anything anyway.<br />
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I just want to finish by applauding the absolutely most entertaining moment in Housewife history, in my opinion, when Kim absconded with the annoying Brandi's crutches and HID THEM!!!!! LOVED IT! I know it's mean, but, that's the point. Fantastic episode, at least the Kim and Kyle part.<br />
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If you get a chance, watch this week's show and if you're not fans of the Richards' sisters after that, this franchise of housewife programming isn't for your tastes.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18106700271302988372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4704445330607294612.post-86457124418476196642011-10-12T03:13:00.027-04:002011-10-12T15:20:26.174-04:00Chaz Bono's Lion's Heart<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>I love Dancing With The Stars, and this season, one of my favorites is Chaz Bono.</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>I was reminded of when as a youth leader, and becoming knowledgeable enough to minister, I was recommended to participate in a missionary assignment. This is the ultimate dream of all young Christians, especially Jewish ones! We all desire to be sent to the Congo, like Audrey Hepburn in "The Nun's Story", haha, but, in reality, missionary assignments usually refers to work amongst our own environment. In my case, it was suggested that I help minister a mission to gays and transgender people.</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>I was honored, but, it was a strange ministry to be asked to participate. Back then, Jews 4 Jesus was sponsored and funded, in part, by the Southern Baptist Convention. They funded the Messianic movement. In turn, after educating us, they expected us to impart their dogma, doctrine and mission goals, with the latitude to incorporate our Jewish culture and beliefs.</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>When they suggested I participate in a mission to the gays, I was a little surprised, but, it made sense as well. </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>I had some good friends, who were gay, who I brought to church, from time to time. I suppose I was much less imposing or threatening than a male sponsor or spiritual mentor, anyway. </b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b> However, their plan was to help convert them, both in spirit and sexual orientation. In my heart, I believed that it wasn't possible to change their sexual orientation. I didn't share this belief, and that my be my first mistake.</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>I never believed that they were condemned, 0R that God created them flawed, or that their love wasn't valid. While there is certainly promiscuous behavior in the gay community, it is not different from heterosexuality, where pornography and lust lure the individual down a destructive path.'</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>But, in general, I cannot attribute someone else's sexuality to rebellion, sin or the devil, gay or straight.</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>It grieved me, to constantly try to fight the daunting bias against gays, and that's not even close to how narrow minded their view was of transgender people. </b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>I became concerned for transgender, knowing three or four individuals personally. One transgender male to female I knew was so successful that she dated prominent blue blood people, even Grace Kelly's brother. But, the story for the others was far different. It pierced my own heart to feel their heartbreak and hear their stories of rejection and ridicule. Not one transgender person I ever knew was in the flagrantly exploitative "drag queen" mode, but, quite the opposite, being more subdued than we were.</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>By mid 1980s, AIDS was casting a dark shadow on the gay and transgender communities, and it was not unusual for otherwise decent, kind-hearted, and God-fearing Christians to hate these people, without knowing anything about them. </b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>What was far worse was how many believed AIDS was a plague that they deserved. Meanwhile, thousands of hemophiliacs were afflicted, not to mention those who were not considered high risk. </b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b> Instead of providing safe haven and being a refuge to these dear souls, we became their tormentors, condemning them by justifying our prejudice by assuming God's "plague" was a license to hate and judge them. In fact, we were judging ourselves, because, the absence of love is considered the greatest sin.</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b> I recognized this syndrome to be from pure ignorance and fear. Unfortunately, the case with those who consider themselves "children of God," is that we often think that our own impulses and knee-jerk responses are infallible, in the mistaken assumption that we are imbued with the mind of Christ. How can we grow, or get past that major obstacle?</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Back then, the church recognized that a mission to the gays was essential, but, felt our role was to emphasize total renunciation of their lifestyles. </b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>It's absurd to consider why heterosexuals are welcomed into the church, with no questions asked, while homosexuals and transgender, were outcasts. In fact, my closest gay friend, had not even had sex for years and years. He felt this was directed by God, and the way he he could achieve his goals. That was not different from my own self-imposed chastity before God as a single person.</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>I don't think the Kingdom of God pertains to who you have sex with, anyway, but, how faithful we are to the Gospel of Christ, and our faithfulness to HIM, following his commands, his example, his ministry and extending the hope of eternal life to a hopeless world. </b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>What more deserving group is there than those who the world cast out ?</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>In the course of my early association with this ministry, </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b> I encountered a transgender teen, just a helpless young pup, who was heartlessly thrown out to the streets by his own so-called Christian family. I ended up bringing him (her) home with me. She was lovable, ethereally beautiful, kind and spiritual. It broke my heart to pieces seeing how at risk she was, living on the street, starving, getting beaten and even raped.</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b> Christ is about redemption to ANYONE who accepts His free gift. If this free gift went out to Paul, a murderer and persecutor of the disciples, then, why would two people who are committed to love one another be seen as being outside the grace and cleansing of the blood of Christ?</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The Kingdom of Heaven is not about sex. It just is not. We're informed that in God's Kingdom, we'll be like the Angels, being neither male or female, while being both male and female. If it's the nature of Angels, why can't the Church be more open-minded?</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>In the course of a rapidly expanding gay attendance in our congregation, we inherited two Israeli women, one a female-to-male transgender.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>They had to leave their Orthodox communities in Israel, and sought a place where they could exist in peace. They were joyful believers, and they filled me with a helium-like contact high from being in the presence of two people who loved God.</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The coup des gras was when they were married in our church by our rabbi. </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Their relatives were overcome with emotions, because, the wedding was wonderful to behold, with unadulterated joy and blessings. Naches, as they say.</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The rabbi also had a blast, with a jubilant audience appreciating every word of his consecration and sermon to them. There wasn't a dry eye, and people were laughing and crying when they were pronounced man and wife!</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The bubble burst when their exuberant families extended their deepest thanks to our rabbi, and expressed their awe in how liberal-minded our branch of Judaism was in accepting two people, both born as woman, and joining them in a legally binding marriage.... well, kind of legal.</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The kerfuffle that ensued in rapid order is actually unnecessary to describe, because, it is obvious how it would upset many. </b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b> The objectives for damage control ensued : 1. Keep this out of the MEDIA; 2. Remove me from all contact with the gay community; 3. Make my life miserable... including being yelled at and insulted.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>A lot.</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The next mission I was offered was to Druids. Yes. That's right. DRUIDS! If I heard the line, "You don't look Druish," a thousand times, it wouldn't surprise me. Anyway, I left the congregation shortly afterward. I loved Jews 4 Jesus, but, it felt like wearing a pair of jeans I outgrew, cutting into my flesh and making me miserable. I went looking for a better fit somewhere else, and to be honest, I'm still looking....</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>I wanted to emphasize these stories to portray why I have always been tender-hearted to gays and transgender, and why I believe they are as worthy of Christ's Kingdom as me. The amount of suffering they endure almost pre-qualifies them, in my opinion, because it helps to create the mirror image of Christ on the cross. </b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>I'm reminded of John 9:1 to 9:3 where Christ is presented with a blind man. Sicknesses were considered to be a punishment for sin back then, (and for some, in our day.)</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">9:2 </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?</span></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">9:3 </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.</span></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>It may seem like a stretch to use this illustration to compare gays and transgender, but, it parallels the type of prejudice and self-righteous indignation that many of us, as Christians, are prone towards. Just like in this passage, Christ utilizes the infirmity in this innocent man to impress the disciples how some, who are ostensibly cursed, or are different and despised, are not smitten to punish them, but, to earnestly test our hearts, and our faith.</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>When we label people unworthy of salvation and condemn them to Hell, based on our narrow-minded understanding derived from framing a few lines of Scripture and developing a curse, we have impeded the work of God, and persecuted His creation. God isn't the author of confusion. We need to think about the way we react to many who are outcasts from church society.</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>God does NOT make mistakes. These people are born with an orientation as certain as any heterosexual or original gender individual. We know that genes and hormones determine sexual identity, and development is unique to each person.</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b> I don't believe that someone decides to be rebellious, and succumbs to a sexual preference due to sinfulness. The amount of turmoil and pain that most gays endure make that premise LUDICROUS! They were made the way they are by a perfect and merciful God, and deserve the same opportunity to be loved by God, and by God's so-called "chosen." They stand as witnesses of God's perfection, and God-forbid we condemn those who God has blessed.</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Anyway, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">I think Chaz Bono has a ton of courage, and I'm proud of him. I pray that he has not been scarred or scared off by the prejudice of many Christians. I would feel honored to call him, "Brother."</span></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>And as far as I'm concerned....That's that.</b></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18106700271302988372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4704445330607294612.post-13567944779254847912011-10-11T14:41:00.024-04:002011-10-11T19:18:25.425-04:00Doomed to Repeat History<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Rv95cVPtlJw/TpSM8S1xrzI/AAAAAAAAFIE/TEtY8xXPp3E/s1600/WallStreetProtest4_4_09-JW.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3;"><img border="0" height="254" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Rv95cVPtlJw/TpSM8S1xrzI/AAAAAAAAFIE/TEtY8xXPp3E/s320/WallStreetProtest4_4_09-JW.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3;">I grabbed a book to take to the doctor's appointment, and my dad was reading a copy of my " <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 25px;">The <em style="font-style: normal;">Gulag Archipelago" by</em></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3; line-height: 25px;">100 years ago, my family were in those demonstrations, half a world away. Eventually, their determination helped to crush an Empire. Indeed, my mother's uncle is given credit, along with Lenin, for crushing it and killing the last Cesar, launching what is the end of freedom for mankind, not the opposite they were willing to die to achieve. They died all right, but, not the way they were willing to die. Their ultimate fate was crueler than the Nazis' mistreatment, as unlikely as it seems.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3; line-height: 25px;">I believe the Holy Spirit helped me to see the truth of the misery caused by my mother's family, and their comrades, the original Bolsheviks. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3; line-height: 25px;">Finally, the original Bolsheviks, including most of my mother's family, who built the machinery of oppression, were picked to die like the aristocracy they despised and persecuted. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3; line-height: 25px;">Alexandr makes a chilling comparison of the severity of these unchristian, Antichristian forces in Russia, with the Nazis watching their moves. Whatever the Nazis did, was first done by Stalin's iron legions of death. However cruel Hitler was, the cruelty of the Stalinist regime's Marshall Law State, made Hitler , the Gestapo and the SS, look democratic and sane. This is not a hyperbole. Solzhenitsyn gives hard facts that are incontrovertible and documented.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3; line-height: 25px;">The profound shame I experience is heightened by my love of Christ and freedom. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3; line-height: 25px;">In 1925, my grandfather was an American citizen, after immigrating in 1917. This is when the winds changed in the Soviet Union. Lenin was gone. Yakov Sverdlov was dead. Trotsky was marginalized and criminalized.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3; line-height: 25px;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3; line-height: 25px;">Stalin, the last of the Bolshevik triad in power, seized the reigns and indiscriminately began a campaign of misery, suffering, subjugation and torture such as has not been witnessed in the world, because, unlike dictators who victimize their enemies, he wiped out anyone who was a threat, inclusive of his most "inner circle,." </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3; line-height: 25px;">It is still a mystery to me why my mother's biological dad abandoned six young children, following their young mother's poisoning at 40 years old. He never looked back. For all he cared, they could starve, and nearly did. He returned to the USSR to serve as one of Stalin's henchmen. To comprehend the scope of his personal crimes against humanity makes me want to slit my own throat, and I feel guilty for even being alive, when up to 100 </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 25px;">million souls were eliminated, never to produce progeny for the future. I feel guilt and shame for being alive.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3; line-height: 25px;">Ultimately, at risk, were 2/3rds of the Russian people, who were fair game for massacre and elimination. No matter what you did, you never had any security, whether you pledged your heart and soul to Stalin, or renounced him.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3; line-height: 25px;">You can't compare the murderous rampage of Stalin to Hitler.The truth is that Stalin killed more than Hitler's 12 million, by at least six times that amount!</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3; line-height: 25px;">There is a saying that is profound and true, by George Santayana, that "those who do not know history's mistakes are DOOMED to repeat them."</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3; line-height: 25px;">The full quote is even more applicable to our current age:</span></span><br />
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Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.<br />
Those who do not remember their past are condemned to repeat their mistakes.<br />
Those who do not read history are doomed to repeat it.<br />
Those who fail to learn from the mistakes of their predecessors are destined to repeat them.<br />
Those who do not know history's mistakes are doomed to repeat them.</span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">While many Socialists idealize the young Yakov Sverdlov, Lenin and Trotsky, the reality is that one day, the benefactor reigns, and the next, the devil is their overlord.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I confess that I idealized Sverdlov, and my grandfather, his young brother, because, it is quixotic and exciting to know people in your own family played a role in shaping the 20th Century. Most of my cousins and brother have collections of Soviet memorabilia. Right now, I'm looking at an original Soviet flag, in my room, the one with the hammer and sickle on a sea of red. It has nostalgia for us because my mother's uncle designed it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Now, I look at it with a burning knot in my gut. I think of the millions and millions of souls who were crushed and erased from life. I envision all the pious religious leaders and devout Christians being given the opportunity to renounce Christ, or die. I put myself in their shoes, for a second, and feel the tribulation of not being allowed to share any mention of God or Christ, not in my home, not in church, not anywhere. I think of the martyrs who were tortured and murdered, not in Nero's Roman Colosseum, but, less than 100 years ago, at the dawn of a technological renaissance of machine and philosophies on the flip side of barbaric genocide.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Solzhenitsyn, like Maxim Gorky, was a bitter man, and it reads all through his works, but, why shouldn't it? Should he sugar-coat it, or not hold them accountable, lest Communism spreads like the cancer it is? Look at Obama-nation's masses, spinning their wheels, and chanting the same proletariat mantras that their predecessor in the USSR perfected.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Don't they understand that the final end of their devotion to a false messiah and failed system will only get them what it got the revolutionaries 100 years ago, which was eventual persecution and death?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">In fact, Stalin seemed to lean harder on his former compatriots than other infidels and peasants. He eradicated each group of professionals, fearing their intellect would devise a way to overthrow his plans. I believe he was possessed by a demonic entity, and could be considered the first modern incarnation of the Beast, although, Satan has always been there in kings and queens.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I can't think of a more grim fate than to consider the lives of Stalin's era of citizenship. When the Bible speaks of Daniel's "Abomination of Desolation", which Christ used as a metaphor to wake up future believers, it establishes the breadth and scope of such spiritual bankruptcy. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">We see it's beginnings now, particularly in some big cities like NYC and LA. In California, there is a push to legalize a prohibition on circumcision. WHY IS IT NECESSARY? If you don't want your kid circumcised, FINE! But, that's not good enough for the neo-Stalinists resurrecting Big Brother. They want to decide for you. The fact that it forces Jews to abandon a six thousand year heritage is not even relevant because it is really the point....</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">In NYC, a billionaire mayor, would like to reign as Cesar, or Stalin, and regulate every breath you take, every bite of food you eat, and the decision to make "Ground Zero" a "pastoral free zone" is evidence of his heart and soul.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">These things are happening all over the world. In the antichristian stronghold of the UK, they have now abandoned the designation A.D. or "Anno Domini" - after Christ for the secular replacement, CE. Not a huge thing, in and of itself, but, every day, subtle changes are made to further remove the legitimacy of having legal choice to worship Christ.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">This is the EXACT way the Soviet Union began. There was a diabolical machine at work, and it's tentacles were seemingly infinite and without seam, making people feel unconcerned about each change, until the day that their day comes, or their loved one is erased, or they become an unperson.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Every time I behold Obama-nation, and the body of supporters who prop him up, it is chilling to my very bone marrow, because, I know history better than some.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">What's chillingly ironic to me is the outcome of my own grandfather's dedication to this revolutionary organization, and service as Commissar under Stalin. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Even a national treasure, as well as a SIGNIFICANT Socialist propagandist, Maxim Gorky, was terrorized in the end, and many believe murdered, because, he had an affinity for Trotsky, and they had been friends, even though Stalin was also once friends with him. In a pathetic attempt to preserve his life, Gorky ended his days renouncing Trotsky, a man he trusted and loved. That didn't defer his fate, however. There was no right move. It was all whim and chance.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">In trying to achieve a level playing field for all, in a place where 1% of the population held 100% of the wealth, they created a version of Hell on Earth, where all were reduced to live in hunger, terror, disloyalty to kin and neighbor, abandonment of spiritual consolation and by the time they died, they probably looked forward to the release. This is the fate of Obama-nation citizens of the one-world global government to come.</span><br />
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</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18106700271302988372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4704445330607294612.post-28584738980433100472011-10-09T18:15:00.002-04:002011-10-09T18:25:47.373-04:00The Harvest King Comes<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/yG5e1oaen-M" width="420"></iframe><br />
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The epiphany I sought came in a single word: Harvest.<br />
I've been working on it's meaning, beyond the obvious...<br />
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I longed for the incredible first years of my walk with Christ, when every last breath was filled with ecstasy and revelation, but, we all grow up and are tested. The pain that comes with it is unexpected...<br />
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It's okay, though. We pledged our lives and so we stand, and with the help of the Holy Spirit, may stand until the time appointed.<br />
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We were given a mission, for truth, and it's no longer the big secret. Yet, we're spies in the House of God, playing blind against unseen forces, with faith as our shield, and righteousness of Jesus Christ as our covering, because, we cannot stand in our own strength as mortals.<br />
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We groan and plead to be done with this, but, get pulled back into the world with all it's temptations and necessary obligations. We are literally caught between two worlds, and it's been 25 years or triumph and tears. When we feel anointed, we fall hard and to the bottom. We can't seem to learn our place. We're beloved, but, we are also slaves.<br />
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I pledge my last ounce of breaths to Y'shua HaMaschiach, my Lord and King, who I know and who has known me.<br />
No matter what comes ahead, I have a foundation of peace that is impermeable. I pray for this to bless every person who is unsteady, forsaken and lost, as lost as we were when we were brought in from the wicked darkness of the endless night.<br />
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If we have 3 or 4 years, or the 7 until 2018, I pray that my brothers will regain the energy of our original state, though, we're so far gone. I pray that we finish the race strong.<br />
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We're not the Apostles, but, the Reapers.<br />
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I have so much more to say, but, I need to do some things right now. I have had a great study on why the manger scene mirrors the tabernacle booths in Succoth, and thus another puzzle piece to why Tabernacles is the ONE mandated Sabbath in the New Millennium....<br />
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Shalom. Father God, please watch over all who call on your NAME, and guide the lost to your sanctuary. Thank you for making Israel the most born-again place in the modern day era, ushering in our new age.<br />
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For the heck of it, I've been obsessed with this song today.<br />
Leonard Cohen's "Everybody Knows."<br />
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<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #324395;">Joe 3:1</span> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #324395;">Joe 3:2</span> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and [for] my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #324395;">Joe 3:3</span> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #324395;">Joe 3:4</span> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly [and] speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head;</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #324395;">Joe 3:5</span> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things:</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #324395;">Joe 3:6</span> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #324395;">Joe 3:7</span> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head:</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #324395;">Joe 3:8</span> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the LORD hath spoken [it].</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #324395;">Joe 3:9</span> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up:</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #324395;">Joe 3:10</span> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I [am] strong.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #324395;">Joe 3:11</span> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #324395;">Joe 3:12</span> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about.</td></tr>
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<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #324395;">Joe 3:17</span> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">So shall ye know that I [am] the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.</td></tr>
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</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18106700271302988372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4704445330607294612.post-27014702454802787122011-10-07T19:33:00.013-04:002011-10-14T02:46:01.811-04:00Justice For Michael Jackson Trial- AUUUGH! HELP!Much of today's testimony in LA for the Michael Jackson murder trial involved a taped interview that Conrad Murray had with the LAPD. I nearly had a nervous breakdown listening to this shady guy describing and justifying his medical interventions.<br />
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First of all, considering Michael was on VERSED and ATIVAN, as well as a cocktail of other narcotics, the administration of Diprivan on top of the other potent respiratory depressants, would require for him to be mechanically ventilated.<br />
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In the OR, the patient is induced, put on a ventilator after intubation. They have a dynamic ECG, Pulse oximetry reading for PaO2, a sensor for CO2, in some monitors, Blood Pressure, respiratory efforts and rate, and heart rate.<br />
In Michael's makeshift clinic, in his bedroom, he had a pulse oximeter, which only monitors his oxygen saturation levels, by having a lighted probe which determines by how red the blood is underneath, on the fingertip, how much oxygen is present. It's no indicator of CO2, how well the patient is breathing.\<br />
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This is a guy who had a frikkin' amusement park in his backyard. Why couldn't he have a proper cardiac monitor and effective ventilating equipment, which would cost less than a cotton candy concession at Neverland?<br />
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This guy Murray's standard of care was beneath appalling and criminal. My dad and I discussed whether he is an actual medical doctor at all. He may have some credentials, but, I have to assume that he retained no substance from Medical School. He's shady enough to wonder if someone else stood in for him at school and to sit at boards. Who knows the standards in the islands for certifying doctors.<br />
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The heart and lungs may seem like two separate organs, but, they are part of a single system. In fact, that's what my title was, "Cardio-Pulmonary Care Specialist" and this is why I am as offended by what I hear. I take it personally, not merely because I've loved Michael all my life, but, I am proud of participating in the care of such ill patients, and helping many of them, to the very best of my ability. It didn't matter if I didn't sleep for a week. They always came first. It was like a holy pledge and an honor to be one of the healthcare team who could help to heal. I can't fathom a man like Murray, beneath contempt, whose only agenda seemed to be for his own self-aggrandizement and profit and glory.<br />
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Ventilation requires effective movement of air in and out of the lungs. This effects the PCo2, and pH of the arterial blood. When you under breathe, or experience hypoventilation, especially due to heavy sedation, the CO2 levels rise and the pH of the blood decreases.<br />
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You can receive oxygen via nasal cannula, like MJ was, and not have any idea how well, or effectively, he's breathing, until his CO2 levels are so high that they take up the space in the blood, so to speak, and replace O2, so the O2 goes down, and that will be noticed on the pulse oximeter as a lower reading and an alarm will go off.<br />
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By that point, the patient is in deep trouble.<br />
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Murray claims he did "mouth to mouth" which the ACLS protocols don't even care about anymore, nor does it make sense! There should have been bag--mask ventilation. This is ABCs. The A is for AIRWAY management. EFFECTIVE airway management. This is the imperative in the rescue of a patient that is down.<br />
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. It's like he had no connection with modern algorithms! Nowadays, they recommend single rescue CPR to achieve effective chest compressions. How come Murray didn't know this? How could he achieve it with one-handed compressions on a bed?<br />
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Second, he had a rescue AMBU bag clearly visible in the room. WHY would you do literal "mouth to mouth" when you had a rescue bag that you can hook up to oxygen, but, more importantly help blow off the accumulated CO2? He didn't need Murray's kiss of life. He needed something to help him to breathe out CO2 and receive 100 % O2 from an oxygen source, not the 20.9% or less from from Murray's exhaled kiss.<br />
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Makes NO SENSE!<br />
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He tells the cops that Michael was never administered electrical shocks for asystole because he was in a process called PEA, or pulseless electrical activity. How did he KNOW this? Even a great god cardiologist cannot tell this rhythm anomaly without precise equipment.<br />
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You cannot know if someone is in PEA unless they are on a cardio-monitor, and a pulse oximeter cannot determine if there is an electrical rhythm at all, let alone a toxic one.<br />
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PEA means that the electrical system in the heart is working, producing a rhythm, but, the heart is not beating, not circulating oxygen rich blood.<br />
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The PEA means there's an underlying reason, like hypercapnia, High CO2, amongst other things, so, it could be possible, but, Murray couldn't have known this until the EMTs put him on a monitor that could visualize a dynamic ECG .<br />
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PEA is very rare, as well, so you certainly couldn't assume it was happening. Why didn't he try to shock the heart? He had a dead patient by the time EMS came, UNLESS, he knew that MJ was already down for longer than 30 minutes. He'd be a total vegetable. I think he knew it, and wouldn't let them shock him. He knew it from the time he left off with his stripper girlfriends and tended to a cyanotic Michael.<br />
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He claimed that MJ had a HR in the 120s, but, pulse oximetry is unreliable for heart related monitoring, and if MJ had PEA, he had no pulse. Murray just contradicts himself again and again. He claims he had a femoral pulse so how did he have PEA? The cops don't have the technical knowledge to question him on the aberrations, but, I am going nuts listening to this guy.<br />
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Michael's death was so unnecessary, and I think anyone with a medical background could have saved his life, or prevented this tragedy. What Murray did was take the money, easy money, and had not one particle of ethics in caring for this precious man's life. I have literally cried over this tragedy. How I wish I was the one to care for Michael.<br />
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I've had patients that had to be under anaesthesia overnight, for things like unresponsive refractive Status Asthmaticus, and I've stayed with them, by their side, all night long. When I needed to go to the bathroom, I had someone like a nurse relieve me. And these are patients who were on a ventilator!<br />
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Murray claims when he came back from using the rest room MJ was unresponsive. WHAT? U gave him nearly fatal levels of narcotics, and anaesthesia. He wasn't supposed to respond. You Murray, DOCTOR MURRAY, had a condom catheter on him because he would be unresponsive. OF COURSE HE WAS UNRESPONSIVE!<br />
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I would have put MJ on an overnight system of ventilation, like a BiPAP machine, which many hundreds of thousands of people routinely use. I'd have him on a proper monitor. like in a hospital. I'd have intubation trays available. I'd have a portable ABG machine to check his blood, if he was distressed<br />
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Murray claims to have witnessed the arrest. I have witnessed quite a few arrests and have NEVER lost a patient, not ONE, in a personally witnessed full arrest. That's not to say they survived longer than a day, but, I have never been in a situation where we could not get a rhythm back when witnessed. Even without rescue equipment, I've done precordial thumps to start hearts, and got them back before the code teams arrived with crash carts.<br />
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In MJ's case, he didn't have a cardiac incident, like a heart attack. He had respiratory failure which triggered a heart attack. It's outrageous that Murray couldn't bring him back from the tunnel.<br />
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Murray said that he could feel a femoral pulse when he did compressions. How in the world could he both compress effective depth and rate chest compressions, AND feel a pulse in his deep groin at the same time? I've done literally HUNDREDS of CPR resuscitations and cannot visualize how to do perfusion-effective compressions and feel for a femoral pulse at the same time. It's LAUGHABLE!<br />
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In fact, why would you need to feel for the femoral pulse, when the standard and protocol is to feel for the carotids? The carotid is stronger. I'm not saying I wouldn't feel for a femoral, but, only once we're back in business with a carotid pulse first. I have only used the femoral pulses to take blood for ABG's or blood gases, and used them as a secondary standard to guess lateral perfusion, not central, which is your primary concern in CPR.<br />
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Next, he said he had them administer Bicarb HCO3 to reverse the acidosis that he could safely assume was happening. Yet, the ACLS algorithms of the 21st Century have pretty much abandoned that as well. There are many reasons for this, but, I would get too technical to explain. It can really mess you up... It's a ridiculous way to adjust the pH of the blood, when you need to be bagging the patient and getting the CO2 out of their lungs, which will restore the pH. He was doing MOUTH TO MOUTH! I realize some laymen will think it's endearing, especially since this clown claims that he did "mouth to mouth<br />
because MJ was "his friend."<br />
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With friends like that, huh?<br />
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I knew he was shady when he did CPR on the bed, in the first place! His explanations to cops were bizarre. He said that *Acidemia* was when the oxygen level was low and that it made the pH low. WRONG. Acidosis is when the PCO2 is HIGH, and that brings the pH down. It's called Acute UNCOMPENSATED Respiratory Acidosis. He couldn't know that unless he did a blood gas, and he didn't do one until the hospital.<br />
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Here's my BIG problem. WHY DIDN'T he have a portable blood gas machine? I've used them for home monitoring, for my patients on home ventilators, and they are only a few thousand dollars. Every doctor knows how to do blood gases, a measurement of gas and chemical components in arterial blood, the best assessment of respiratory status.<br />
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There's a bunch of possibilities in monitoring his breathing at home, even under these drugs, beside a blood gas, which were not available to MJ.<br />
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Why was he only on a nasal cannula? When you have surgery, you are INTUBATED, and externally ventilated, and it's afterwards when they pull the tube and have you wake up with nasal oxygen. That's because the effects of anaesthetic can last for a time, making breathing more shallow, but, MJ was left on stupefying drugs without a safety net.<br />
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He should have been hooked up, at the very LEAST, to a ventilating source, like BiPAP, which is a positive flow of air and oxygen, and keeps the airway open, and can also be regulated to provide mechanical breaths, like a big ventilator, to assist in moving the chest to breathe when a patient cannot assist by himself..<br />
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I've put dozens and dozens of patients on home BIPAP with rates, because, some people stop breathing at night.<br />
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In that event, you also put them on apnea monitors, not just pulse oximetry, and there are also monitors which estimate the exhaled CO2 to assure adequate ventilation.<br />
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Ventilation is one thing and respiration is another thing entirely. Ventilation involves the movement of air with O2 and CO2, in and out of the lungs, and the mechanical action of the chest wall and thorax as well as airways and lung parenchema.<br />
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Respiration is the gas exchange in the blood from the lungs. This is where oxygen passes into the blood to be used for energy and CO2 moves from the blood to lung to be exhaled. Ventilation is different than respiration. One's mechanical the other biochemical.<br />
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I trained in Sleep Management, and am well-versed in every aspect of the stages of sleep, abnormal breathing, and correcting the problem with adjunctive aids in ventilation and monitoring. One thing that boggled my mind is how any doctor would let this man not go through the stages of sleep, which is what our bodies need, not anaesthesia, which is NOT sleep, just unconsciousness. Sleep is a process that is vital to our homeostasis, our well being.<br />
What these doctors did to Jackson is a crime.<br />
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He deserves to go to jail and never practice medicine again EVER EVER EVER!<br />
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Who cares if Michael was addicted. It was doctors like Murray who fixed him up with drugs and killed him, recklessly, heartlessly and negligently, to say the least.<br />
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Diprivan would not allow a normal sleep experience. In fact, whenever I've had surgery, I become a little psycho after anaesthesia. It's never a substitute for sleep.<br />
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It's a testament to how strong MJ was to endure this travesty of care. I wish I had been privileged with the opportunity to help Michael.<br />
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Shame on Dr. Adams, Dr. Klein and Dr. Murray. Y'all are<br />
disgraceful. As far as I'm concerned, all these doctors deserve to go to prison.<br />
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I feel sick reviewing this gross incompetence and malfeasance of professionals who pledged to "do no HARM." They were worse than Charles Manson.<br />
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Heavenly Father, in Christ's NAME, I pray that there will be justice for dear Michael. May he rest in peace and finally have peace and rest.<a href="http://www.myspace.com/michelebond" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><br />
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An example of this is the interpretation and latter day prophecies found in the books of prophets like Isaiah, Ezekiel, Daniel and Jeremiah, not to mention the12 minor prophets.<br />
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In Chapter 34 of Isaiah, judgement comes upon the entire world for sin. When Isaiah wrote these words, he was addressing his contemporary time, believing these warnings would apply to Israel and the known world to them.<br />
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I'll produce the entire chapter, following my supposition that at least part of this prophecy has a surprising opening in our era. In what clearly appears to be a nuclear event, where the people of the world suffer grievous loss of life, the final outcome is that people are not able to endure many areas of the world, and that only wildlife can survive, and thrive.<br />
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On April 26, 1985, the meltdown at Chernobyl caused surrounding regions to clear. It was thought that it would turn into a wasteland, but, the opposite happened. Within a short span of time, the area blossomed, and virtually every species of animal, insect, and flora benefited. Not merely did they survive to breed, but, some species, thought to be extinct, suddenly appeared.<br />
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The scientists were gobsmacked and bewildered, but, the evidence was there. While humans would never be able to repopulate the radioactive area, even decades later, virtually every animal had the land returned to their ownership.<br />
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One may say that our understanding of radiation is flawed, and that perhaps people could withstand the levels present now, but, they cannot.<br />
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For years and years following the infusion of radioactive gas, birth defects were devastating to babies conceived and born after the meltdown, if their parents were exposed. DNA damage was catastrophic.<br />
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I started my therapist profession at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, a world class hospital, where children from throughout the world were brought for extreme abnormalities in heart and perinatal development. It was a heartbreaking sight to see what genetic damage causes to an innocent child. Having this knowledge, I understand that genetic damage is real to humans.<br />
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Yet, the animals of the area suffered no obvious defects, in fact, they were robust and healthy. The only animal who did not return to this radioactive ecosystem were bears. All the house cats left behind became feral and reverted to their animal nature, hunting and caring for their young.<br />
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It's a remarkable phenomenon how animals thrived on what mutated and destroyed in human genes. I don't believe that's an accident.<br />
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Having this information, helps to explain why in Isaiah 34, humans are dispatched from the area, metaphorically the Babylon of Revelation, but, in reality, the big cities of the world, mirrored from the ancient metropolis.<br />
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My conclusion is that nuclear radiation will occur in the war to come, and that animals are given back the land we took for ourselves.<br />
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We were made custodians and caretakers of Earth, but, have failed to protect all species from annihilation. The abandonment of caring for the land is a sin. In the Old Testament, the Hebrew nation were told to rest the land every seven years, for a full year, but, they were too greedy and failed to do so 70 times in 149 years, so, the LORD has them conquered by Babylon and taken as slaves.<br />
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Speaking through his prophets, he explained that they would leave the land of Israel for those 70 years of negligence, and then the land would finally have it's rest.<br />
Rest is a sabbath, and Sabbaths are holy, not just to priest and religious person, but, to the creation itself.<br />
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In Isaiah 34, which embraces the judgment reserved for the end-times in the latter days, finally has a feasible solution.<br />
When the nuclear material makes areas uninhabitable for man, the majority of animals, even ones thought to be extinct, as in Chernobyl's outlying cities, will once again have their right to exist.<br />
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Like Israel, beckoning and imploring the world for the right to exist on it's land, the animals cry out to be returned to natural habitat. Soon, it will happen for those who weep and mourn for our LORD'S return, and the critters will inherit the Earth.<br />
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<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Isa&c=34&t=KJV&x=15&y=14#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">Isa 34:2</a> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">For the indignation of the LORD [is] upon all nations, and [his] fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Isa&c=34&t=KJV&x=15&y=14#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">Isa 34:3</a> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Isa&c=34&t=KJV&x=15&y=14#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">Isa 34:4</a> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling [fig] from the fig tree.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Isa&c=34&t=KJV&x=15&y=14#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">Isa 34:5</a> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Isa&c=34&t=KJV&x=15&y=14#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">Isa 34:6</a> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, [and] with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Isa&c=34&t=KJV&x=15&y=14#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">Isa 34:7</a> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Isa&c=34&t=KJV&x=15&y=14#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">Isa 34:8</a> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">For [it is] the day of the LORD'S vengeance, [and] the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Isa&c=34&t=KJV&x=15&y=14#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">Isa 34:9</a> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Isa&c=34&t=KJV&x=15&y=14#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">Isa 34:10</a> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Isa&c=34&t=KJV&x=15&y=14#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">Isa 34:11</a> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Isa&c=34&t=KJV&x=15&y=14#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">Isa 34:12</a> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none [shall be] there, and all her princes shall be nothing.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Isa&c=34&t=KJV&x=15&y=14#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">Isa 34:13</a> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, [and] a court for owls.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Isa&c=34&t=KJV&x=15&y=14#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">Isa 34:14</a> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Isa&c=34&t=KJV&x=15&y=14#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">Isa 34:15</a> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td class="v-ref" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Isa&c=34&t=KJV&x=15&y=14#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">Isa 34:16</a> </td><td class="v-body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 23px;">Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #93c47d; color: purple; font-family: arial, helvetica;"><b>Rosh Hashanah</b> is the first and second days of the first Jewish month of Tishrei. It marks the beginning of the Jewish new year. The celebration of this holiday is marked with solemnity, as it is the day on which the whole world is judged for the coming year. Rosh Hashanah is the birthday of the world, as it was on this day that G-d created Man on the 6th day of creation. Every year, on this day, we proclaim G-d as our one and true King.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>When I was much younger, and craved intense mysticism as an escape from a world I wanted to transform above, I sought this light in everything from the Cabala to Sacred Geometry and Jungian symbolism. There was nothing off limits then, but, I eventually stumbled down a rabbit hole and ingested poison that nearly ended my life, metaphorically and in reality.</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>In craving to see spirits, I sought demons, and saw them. Inviting them into my mind caused torment and pain so intense that I almost ended my life to escape the confusion and horror.</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>When I was literally saved by Jesus Christ, in a salvation story that was as radical as they get, I was blessed, early on, to experience mystical moments that built the foundation of my unshakable faith. The dark spirits that I had summoned were no match for the boundless light and happiness that I was given.</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>But, as years pass, these mystical revelations and passages become less sensational, and they fade into the mundane pace of ordinary existence. There's getting up early, shaking off fatigue, working hard, dealing with people, dealing with frustration, and once you marry and become part of someone Else's life, it dilutes the bond you have with the Kingdom of God, unless you are married to someone as intense as you desire to be, yourself.</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>In my case, for some inexplicable and self-destructive reason, I chose a dark soul to love. The marriage didn't last, and I was not eager to marry again. Once again, I could pursue the mystical marriage I longed for by devoting my body and soul to Christ. But, this is not an easy path.</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>I was recently asked why I never had children, and I truthfully asked the LORD to provide for me the best environment for my continuation in the realm I desire to belong to for eternity, without the encumbrances of worldly obligations, such as children, unless it was his will.</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>My family is distressed that I don't date, even though I was engaged, and technically, still love and plan to marry my fiance. John and I are best friends and true soul mates, and we came to the conclusion that we have longer than this life to accomplish our partnership. He doesn't live in Florida anymore, but, in Illinois. He hates Florida, and I don't love Illinois. </b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>I gave it to God to provide the right path for us. Just like sacrificing children, I don't want to make more mistakes that will take my heart away from full devotion to Christ.</b></span><br />
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My blood pressure cannot take listening to this moron any longer, and it is distressing to believe that sheep will follow this demagogue into the abyss. It's not that I'm all for billionaires not paying their fair share, but, let's be real.<br />
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Warren Buffet donates hundreds of millions of dollars to charity each year, and his wealth generates prosperity, jobs, and a healthy economic atmosphere for those around him. The reason he pays less taxes is that he pays his share in charities, business matters, and has bigger deductions. These trade-offs are valid, and have supported a healthy capitalism for two hundred years.<br />
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Let's not even speak of the third richest man on the planet, shall we? Let's talk about the common millionaire, who has a net worth of a few million. Their tax base is high, not low.<br />
Where a middle-class family would be in the 1/3 range, theirs is in the 40% range. To encourage those with money to spend it, the govt rewards those who have businesses who employ, buy homes, give to charities. If these people end up paying less taxes, that doesn't mean that they are not patriotic, or are harming the economy. They ARE the stable pillars who are support walls for our structure.<br />
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If you create a bogus redistribution of wealth based on global progressive agendas, and take the wealth away from those with a million dollars in assets, they will spend less, expand businesses less, stop donating to causes, stop shopping, and it will lead to the slippery slope of total collapse.<br />
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This idiot messiah in charge gave away billions of dollars to General Motors, along with many other private corporations. Let's focus on GM. What did they do with their relief? Did they tighten up their pork and waste, increase product efficiency, reduce cost to consumers, or implement any other modification to prevent their future collapse? <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
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It's rhetorical. They stopped debating with the most ball-breaking union in history, and let the relatively minimally skilled factory workers keep their 56 bucks an HOUR BASE PAY, and just approved a 5000 dollar sign on fee, not for new recruits, but, applicable to every employee in their fleet. How cool would that be for everyone else to get 5000 bucks from the taxpayers, without any accountability?<br />
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My guy works in Illinois, and his company's business is getting a govt incentive check to hire on employees that they don't even need. That means they will have less productivity, and it's all a smokescreen, to boost the rotten leader's election agenda, with a false system of temporary employment, and nothing else.<br />
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Are we effing mad to tolerate this?<br />
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In a terrifyingly short time, Obamacare will destroy our health care system. They will add tens of millions of people into a system that will not be able to respond with a reasonable corresponding staff of doctors, hospitals, clinics, and treatment options.<br />
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That means that, like in the hellish UK, we'll hear about "Death Panels", and anyone over 65 may not be eligible for cancer treatment, heart surgery, etc. In England, the govt has recommended that it stop wasting money on cancer patient's medicine, since it won't cure certain cancers and they will die anyway.<br />
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We all will die anyway, but, if a cancer drug can give a mom, someone's grandpa, or brother, a few more years, what's the cost have to do with long term survival? It's all part of a huge more widespread plan to deal with humanity like a slaughterhouse, with Mengele- like practitioners prepared to point right or left.<br />
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The devil is the father of lies, and Obama may not be the devil or messiah, but, he has proven which side his bread is buttered on. He is a liar, and transparent.<br />
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If you criticize him, you're called a racist. That's clever of the devil to install that system, huh? Yet, if Harold Cain becomes the candidate, as a full African-American, not some half black, the progressives will call him an Uncle Tom, no doubt, just like they maligned Condoleeza Rice, probably the most dignified and accomplished African-American woman in the world, who was self-made and awesome! The things she was called were racist and disgraceful, but, I'm a racist for loving her and hating the half-breed, who has a forked tongue and lying words.<br />
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I pray more people will wake up before it's too late for them.<br />
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It's the end, either way, but, it's better to go out honorably, than join with pure evil. Whose side do you want to be seen as belonging to when the BrideGROOM arrives WITH TICKETS TO RIDE? DO YOU CARE?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18106700271302988372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4704445330607294612.post-31840893813802705682011-09-25T04:43:00.002-04:002011-09-25T04:56:40.065-04:00Tale of Two "REAL" HousewivesI occasionally watch Bravo's "Real Housewives" series, although, I don't know why. Virtually none of the characters possess virtues which I consider worth watching, but, maybe for that reason, I'm drawn, like a moth to a light.<br />
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I have noticed, and it's my view, that nothing about these people is real. Maybe most of them have more money, but, not necessarily true. We've learned that in the case of the Jersey crew, Theresa and Joe, owe over 11 million dollars.<br />
In Atlanta, Nene and hubby owed a fortune, and in the case of the Armstrongs, it was virtually all smoke and mirrors, concerning money.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIPKTMM2CnszivzbNTGrYgcYf2r2Au1zT0BQPWpK-2dWQ1W1ioEoTbZbdAIRpTENlq_7qlH27vJN0rfv8tbVv02Ar8Znsf4_lDl81VDZrjTV-kcIRfojkoidkjuGm8SQqSHCeZwegcKv4/s1600/Taylor-Armstrong-Sept22newsbt-300x221.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIPKTMM2CnszivzbNTGrYgcYf2r2Au1zT0BQPWpK-2dWQ1W1ioEoTbZbdAIRpTENlq_7qlH27vJN0rfv8tbVv02Ar8Znsf4_lDl81VDZrjTV-kcIRfojkoidkjuGm8SQqSHCeZwegcKv4/s1600/Taylor-Armstrong-Sept22newsbt-300x221.jpg" /></a></div>Taylor Armstrong is a fascinating study of our culture. From a small town girl, born Shannon Something, she transformed herself into a glamorous Taylor, with an original already beautiful face and body, which she ended up mutilating by indulging in absoltuely grotesquely hideous lip implants, and starvation to the point of looking like a concentration camp survivor. It's weird that once a corn-fed true beauty, she found this latter look more desirable, and was willing to spend money to achieve the look she now is stuck with, which makes her a laughingstock. Everyone I know who watches the show, or sees her for the first time remarks on what a shame it is to see some female Michael Jackson, in the throes of severe BDD, and willing to destroy their looks.<br />
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There is none so blind as those who will not see. Phil McGraw, Dr. Phil, tried to orient her to the original Shannon, the one so gorgeous and natural, and how she's buried her, but, she just stared blinking, without a drop of insight, like a deer in headlights. This is one sick chick who is a permanent casualty of life in the fast line.<br />
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As if I wasn't already fatally irritable, my neighbor knocked on my door and told me a SNAKE was trying to get in my car?!!!!! Yes, a S.N.A.K.E. A real snake.<br />
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I ran downstairs and he reluctantly joined me, reminding me that I didn't bring anything to kill him with. The thought was as alien to me as killing a baby. Why would I kill him, even though it's a snake?<br />
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So, he's filling me in on the details, how the snake was crawling up my tires and entering my car. He was concerned because earlier last week a guy had an accident when a snake appeared in his car. Makes sense. If you don't have a heart attack, an accident is a probable event.<br />
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When I got to my car, the snake was back on the ground, by the rear tire. In my mind, I was imagining a python, since invasive killer pythons are taking over the Everglades. People had them as pets, and when they grew too big, let them go in the Glades. They mated with indigenous species to produce a monstrously menacing new python population.<br />
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My cousins in Boca opened their garage to find to huge pythons standing straight up in defensive stance. I'm sorry, but, I would have never gone back to that house again.<br />
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The snake by my car was no python, but, there are poisonous snakes that live by the water, and I live on a canal. I grabbed a towel from my car and threw it over the critter, with the intent on moving him back to the canal, but, the thing broke apart!<br />
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Like lizards, when threatened, it turns out that some snakes shed their tails. What was mind-boggling was that when it broke off, it had moving cells, and flopped around like a fish out of water. It scared me to death until I realized what was happening.<br />
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I tried to tell the snake that I was trying to save him, not kill him, but, obviously the poor creature was more scared of me than I was of him, and I can't begin to describe the adrenalin shooting through my veins. I picked him up again, and another piece of tail popped off, flopping around in a grotesque charade. I both marvelled at nature's defense maneuvers and cringed at the weirdness.<br />
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That little guy lost literally half his size, shedding segments every time I grabbed him. What astounded me was how strong he was. I could not get a grip on him, and my neighbor was just standing there trying to be a man, but, obviously scared of the snake.<br />
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I finally got him to a grassy knoll area near the canal, and I felt sorry for the little snake. He seemed so traumatized.<br />
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I couldn't shake the cringe-worthy repulsion of touching and seeing this creature fall apart before my eyes.<br />
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The only thing worse than keeping a snake out of your car and trying to save it's life is going back upstairs to a home with no air-conditioner, and the thermostat was up to 95.<br />
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It's been a rotten five days.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18106700271302988372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4704445330607294612.post-89207557711153936862011-09-18T01:46:00.002-04:002011-09-18T01:51:13.143-04:00PLEASE DR. PHIL- NO MORE CINDY ANTHONY EVER!! PLEASE!I can't take it anymore. After I thought the nightmare was over, and lying Cindy Anthony got all her deceitful damage control agenda out, Phil has been advertising even more shows with this horrific horrible horror of a mother and grandmother.<br />
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I have prayed to the LORD and now I am pleading with Dr. Phil. Please Phil, I importune you, and beckon to your sense of fairness, based on all the decency and ethical cells in your body, to reject this nasty and wicked liar's attempts to utilize the media for her own selfish and greedy gains.<br />
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It is adding insult to grievous injury, and it exacerbates the frustrating disbelief in our system, to see how cruelly justice abandoned a child that the world fell in love with, but, was never granted a fair shake in life. What chance did she have with that nightmare of a lying grandmother, and that psychopathic murderous mother?<br />
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We all know that Casey Anthony murdered that baby. At least George acknowledges that he believes the monster drugged the child in order to party, (I don't believe it for a second- I think she viciously and savagely suffocated her to death with the duct tape wrapped around her skull three deep.) Cindy now claims, oh no, the baby drowned while the psychopath had a seizure. (EYE ROLL)<br />
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Phil, I can't tell you how much anguish it causes the public to see these people parade their evil shamelessly, and try to sell snake oil to a sophisticated audience who know every nuance of the crime. WE HATE THESE PEOPLE!<br />
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I don't hate George, but, he disgusts me because he stays with that miserable and lying hag who raised a psycho-killer and taught her to get away with just about any lie, even murder, grand theft, deceit at any price and have an attitude about it.<br />
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PLEASE LEAVE HER GEORGE! You still have some life left in you, and I believe you still have a drop of human blood circulating in that body that has to live in that nest of horror.<br />
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There is NO HOPE for Cindy, Dr. Phil, and please have compassion on the public and don't give her the opportunity to lie with impunity and callousness, which eerily explains the actions of her psychopathic dangerous daughter.<br />
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It's bad enough that justice failed a little murdered kid, and her own grandparents don't care, but, for a man of principles to perpetuate the travesty is unfair.<br />
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STOP THEM! MAKE THEM JUST GO AWAY FOREVER.<br />
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Please Father God, deal with these people in your wisdom and great plan. Whatever the reason for justice to fail that baby, please don't allow these wicked people to flaunt this crime in front of the world any longer. I pray for justice that can only come from YOU, since there was no one on the jury who cared, and no one on the jury who had a normal brain and intentions. 12 bad people met their match in one of the worst people on the planet.<br />
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WHY IS EVIL ALLOWED TO FLOURISH? Why is someone like Dr. Phil allowing this lying evil woman to spit at the American public, mocking the very murder of an innocent child.<br />
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I REALLY HATE CINDY ANTHONY. Help me LORD.<br />
I ask you to remove this obstacle to justice and truth, in the NAME of Jesus Christ. Forgive me Lord for hating her the way i do.<br />
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</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18106700271302988372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4704445330607294612.post-10990439992730622752011-09-13T13:35:00.001-04:002011-09-13T13:41:47.448-04:00GO AWAY ALREADY! The LYING ANTHONYS continue the Gospel of LIES. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRLike most people who have followed the case of Casey Anthony, I maintain the belief that Casey got away with murder, and am utterly disillusioned in the jury system for high profile cases. In order to get 12 people to serve, they needed to find those who had no real interest in the case, or didn't form an opinion. Considering that this was such a sensational trial, they had to find 12 people who had no interest in the world around them, basically.<br />
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The chances are that the majority had heard of the case, well enough, but, were anxious to sit on the jury, and could be viewed as "stealth jurors." These days, it's not difficult to find 12 individuals with issues, who needed this experience to bolster their own sense of identity.<br />
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In any event, in my opinion, they were complete idiots. I watched the entire trial, and knew the case, so, it's not like they heard evidence that the public was not aware existed. They were simply jerks. They freed a psychopath, and there is no justice for a murdered child. There's no other way to look at it. The fact that Casey Anthony is the most hated human being in the Western world echoes that sentiment.<br />
She would have been despised had justice prevailed, but, the reality of her going scott free, is truly a travesty.<br />
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Fortunately, I have faith that God's will is supreme, and that he has his own plan for Casey. This may mean that she is completely redeemed by grace, and turns her life around to honor God and her dead kid. Most likely, she'll meet with consequences later on in life, like Joran VanderSloot, or OJ.<br />
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It is what it is with Casey. What's most frustrating this week is the highly tauted George and Cindy Anthony interview on Dr. Phil. I respect Phil, and think he's the real deal. I believe he's a straight shooter, and doesn't suffer fools. However, he gave a platform for the most egregious lies and damage control spin of a very mentally unstable Cindy Anthony.<br />
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I haven't seen the interview yet, but, in teasers, she's been publicized to claim that Casey had epilepsy, like that would be a reason for her keeping her dead kid in her trunk and then tossing her away in garbage bags.<br />
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It's frustrating to see the continuing lies of the Anthonys. It's more than frustrating, it's infuriating. I suppose the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, and Cindy has demonstrated the same ability to lie as her daughter.<br />
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At some point in the trial, my heart truly went out to the Anthonys. While I intellectually grasp that as a mother, she can't help but defend her daughter, no matter how bizarre her behavior was, or the consequences of her sick murderous act, it's too much.<br />
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I'm just tired of the Anthonys lies, and it puts them in the worst possible light, at a time when people would have sympathy for them. Instead, they appear as monstrous as their daughter, and it's a shame this fraud was perpetrated on Dr. Phil.<br />
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I pray that one day they will learn to tell the truth. I think they're otherwise normal people, but, there's an element of malice when people tell outrageous lies, because it assumes people are stupid.<br />
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The devil is marked not only as a murderer or fiend, but, the "Father of LIES."<br />
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TELL THE TRUTH CINDY! I want to reach through the screen and slap them. Actually, I don't want to see them again. I want them to go away, farrrrrrrr away.<br />
<br />
When justice is deferred, it feels worse than heinous criminal behavior. I don't usually hate people who I don't know, but, I honestly hate them at this point. They're horrible, horrible people.<br />
<br />
Everyone hates liars.<br />
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Concurrently, Mitch Winehouse is on a damage control tour to try to sanitize his dead daughter. My heart goes out to him, but, c'mon, she didn't have a seizure that killed her. She was drugged, whether on booze and prescription pills or crack. To paint it in any other way is insulting to the public, and damaging. It's a lie, Mitch. Give it up, or campaign for drug and alcohol education, letting Amy's death be a wakeup call for a lost generation in Britain, where the addiction to booze is beyond pandemic amongst the young.<br />
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I am starting to see a pattern, not that of good people defending lost kids, but, bad parents trying to save face for the acts of their indulgent and spoiled brat adult children.<br />
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There's a lesson to be learned from observing all of it. The first one is that everyone sees through a lie, and next, defending indefensible behavior is worse than lying.<br />
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</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18106700271302988372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4704445330607294612.post-24342657226152041482011-09-11T01:47:00.009-04:002011-09-11T03:25:33.192-04:00The Fallen :9/11/11 Oh What a Fall<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="345" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/KcC6bTHosx0" width="420"></iframe><br />
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Many will find my morbid way to remember the tragedy appalling, but, for me, the deepest darkest depths of grief were realized while watching the innocents falling to escape the inferno. They are representative of this atrocity, and I feel like we need to watch the way they had their lives terminated, so, we never forget.<br />
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An hour before these images were captured, it was just another day, the beginning of a work day, with all it's mundane tasks and expectations. No one, in their darkest fears would ever conceptualize a fate that ended their lives in such a horrendous way.<br />
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It's become impersonal seeing the towers burn, the towers collapse, and the living survivors running in terror covered in ash. They are part of the story, but, these souls who have been sanitized from our memories, are the reality.<br />
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We live in an age where we put up warnings for anything that may offend. Well, maybe we need to be offended. Maybe it's time we force ourselves to see horror and terror at it's flesh and blood level. The mere fact that almost 3000 perished is not even enough to refresh our minds to the reality of a true enemy that has not abated.<br />
<br />
Today, in the Palestinian territory of Israel and Egypt, there is growing animosity, yet again, over Israel's right to exist.<br />
<a href="http://www.mysinchew.com/node/63448">http://www.mysinchew.com/node/63448</a><br />
The USA naively celebrated Mubarak's demise, but, since their gov't began transitioning to an Islamic entity, there is increasingly more frightening rhetoric and violence towards Jews in Israel, the Israeli Embassy in Egypt, today in shambles, ending decades of a cautious alliance between neighboring states. No more.<br />
<br />
Israel is becoming more and more isolated, and the feckless Commander-In-Chief, has more or less told them to jump, at least by his frigid inferences, not to mention, hateful indifference to their plight. He has exactly the opposite reaction to all who despise Israel, and it is heartbreaking to see the way he panders to the oil states, and anything Islamic and Antisemitic.<br />
<br />
The year 2011 is even more ominous than 2001, in terms of actually seeing the writing on the wall for Israel, and hence, the globe and the fate of nations.<br />
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I see a blatantly Antisemitic and Anti-Christianity Israel-hating President, who I call, "Obama-nation", for his callous and cruel indifference to Israel's fate. Coupled with the transformation and transition of Zion's few formally neutral neighbors, like Egypt, into new Sharia-Islamified hegemonic Unions, like a cursed EU for the Middle East and Africa, the sound of the war drums is deafening and defeating. In a way, the part of me that is desperate for Christ's return, I am blissfully happy, but, it is not cheerful to perceive and understand the suffering of all who will be burned in the war to come.<br />
<br />
The lions can hear the chants in the jungle, and the restless acolyte is sharpening their sickles and swords and AK47s.<br />
The titular leader of the emerging Islamic Brotherhood gleefully boasts that he wants to live long enough to shoot Jews, even if that's from his wheel chair. This is the organization that our great leader is tacitly granting his approval towards, because, after all, Mubarak and dictators like Qaddafi are bad, so, anything is better.<br />
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BZZZZT. WRONG.<br />
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Our government has sent Islamic rebels sophisticated weapons of warfare. Will they not use them against Israel, their avowed eternal enemy? The whole world will soon be burning. The people of the world, like the people in the towers, will be the victims of fanatic zealots in the cult of death.<br />
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Falling...<br />
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The Middle East is falling, like a prophetic partner to the tall structures of the Twin Towers on that beautiful sunny Tuesday morning in NYC.<br />
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Like the falling of the seminal tower of Babylon, everything is confusing, and there is a cacophony of voices, but, no one hears what the other is saying..<br />
<br />
Like the dead of 9-11-01, we won't realize the danger until the flames push us out the windows. We won't know the truth until we spend those 10 seconds in free-fall and for the first time recognize the finger of God.<br />
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I cry every 911, and spend the day trying to watch programs and study the pictures and stories of the day. Ultimately, it's the sight of the people falling from the towers that pierces me in a place so deep that I cry out for God's mercy!<br />
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God is merciful, but, there are forces at play that are contrary to our way of life, and who will not tolerate Jews and Christians much longer. Do you doubt this?<br />
<br />
Exhibit A. : Consider today's memorial in NYC, and how the Jewish Mayor has BANNED all clergy, calling the sacred ground where the fallen lay, a "Clergy-Free Zone!"<br />
<br />
It tears me up, and crushes my spirit, especially, considering<br />
all the brave people of faith who rescued others. It is sacrilege, and blasphemes those like the heroic and dear Father Mike, the chaplain who went down with his brother fire-fighters.<br />
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What good is any tribute or memorial if we exclude God?<br />
The gracious Lord is not to be despised. Why couldn't there be a chaplain, rabbi, Imam and even Shaman, if not to remind us of our temporal nature and dependence on God's mercy and grace?<br />
<br />
If this war on terror is brought about by the worst bastardization of religion, why not fight evil with the best unity of mankind through our individual spirituality?<br />
Even in today's hedonistic age, the vast majority of all people profess a belief in a Divine and Supreme Creator!<br />
<br />
Instead of rising to the occasion, we are paradoxically allowing the consciousness of our faith in God to wax old and old-fashioned, by insidious means, by evil men in power, who even subtly are linking this evil use of religious fanaticism to justify total annihilation of the need to have faith in God at all.<br />
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It's bad enough to remember September 11, ten years gone, but, to consider September 11, 2011, with the leadership gone, Europe crushed, the Middle East erupting, African genocide and the mark of the beast being marketed by pop stars, it is almost worse than watching the dear innocent people falling, watching the towers fall to dust. <br />
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Oy vei. Oh Hamlet, what a falling off was there.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18106700271302988372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4704445330607294612.post-4444043110575890702011-09-11T00:57:00.000-04:002011-09-11T00:57:02.342-04:00Eternal Brother In ArmsTonight, a dear old friend, and truly blessed brother in the faith, surprised me by calling. We've not spoken for decades, since adolescence and young adulthood. Hearing his voice pierced the Time/Space boundaries of our temporal lives, and transported me back, in an instance, to another place, like a true time machine.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
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<br />
First, let me try to explain how this man is truly blessed. As a disciple, he's been given the most remarkable gifts of the Holy Spirit that I've ever witnessed.<br />
<br />
He is an accomplished and extremely respected virtuoso violinist, whose work is top tier, by any standard. He's been given the gifts of prophecy and healing. Most importantly, he's been given the ultimately rarefied precious gifts of kindness, compassion, and humility. Someone with all of his attributes would walk around like a king, but, he has no airs, and has been tempered with a thorn in the side, like the Apostle Paul, who likewise accepted this as the Lord's Will, to keep him from becoming egocentric or too grand.<br />
<br />
I don't often endorse Christians who claim certain powers, such as healing and prophecy, for oftentimes, these are willful desires, not genuinely endowed by the Holy Spirit. The reason he has proven himself to me, outside of knowing what a dear soul he has, is that without knowing how sick I've been, he called, out of the blue, because the Holy Spirit told him to pray with me.<br />
<br />
He didn't have a clue, nor did I tell him, how yesterday, my doctor told me, once again, that I cannot put off fixing my spine, which is a mess. The pain I've been in has been a test of my own faith. It would be easy to feel sorry for myself, but, I know that we all have our crosses to bear, and I accept that God has a reason for all things, even our suffering. Yet, I constantly fail to remember that God's mercy is greater than our meager faith.<br />
<br />
Now I feel almost foolish to have neglected to pray for my own healing, almost too afraid that all I deserved was pain, for the price of my own precious faith.<br />
<br />
Isn't that strange? I'm just saying.... I realize now that I feel guilty for being blessed, and have allowed limitations in my life, due to pain and suffering, believing I needed to go through it, like some medieval penitent, whipping themselves for the privilege of having the love of Christ in my heart.<br />
<br />
The scales fell from my eyes as I spoke to him, and I recognized how convolluted this was.<br />
<br />
After he prayed for me, in the Spirit, fhe intense electrical current running hot through my spinal nerves to my toes and arms instantaneously stopped. It's been so long since I've had no pain that it felt like I was under the influence of morphine!<br />
<br />
Not that morphine stops this kind of pain. Not that I take morphine, either, but, earlier in the year, when I had my last surgery, the suffering was beyond morphine and Demerol's reach. All i could do was pray for the strength to endure.<br />
All I could think of was that I must need this pain to be right with the LORD!<br />
<br />
Many will say my sudden relief, even before we prayed, was psychosomatic, even though my pain can be physiologically validated by MRIs.<br />
<br />
Even before he prayed for me, I felt better. The Lord seemed to transport me back in time to when we were so innocent. Here I was speaking to a really profound man of faith, and a minister of Christ, but, I blurted out that he was the real Harry Potter. It caught me by surprise, but, it stunned him, and he understood that this was more truth than imagination or analogy. If I called any other dignified man of Christ "Harry Potter" they would try to exorcise my demon/s.<br />
<br />
There is truth to it. We were both caught up in this whirlwind of adventure and love of Christ, that transported us into mystical existences, and oftentimes into real danger and truly daunting spiritual warfare.<br />
<br />
It took me back to a time when we thought we were the last apostles and disciples of Christ, preparing to fight the dragon, with Michael. There were miracles, and things that can't be told, since in the retelling, decades later, would sound more contrived and fictional than Harry Potter.<br />
<br />
What it really meant to me, to hear from him, was a confirmation that we are eternal brothers in Christ. I feel that way. If we never spoke again, I know that we'd meet up in New Jerusalem, and take up where we left off.<br />
<br />
It's just nicer to hear from him, again, on this side, and more importantly, to have proof, once again, that our faith is real, and our bonds are eternal.<br />
<br />
Thank you Heavenly Father, In Christ's NAME, for my eternal family, and I pray that you bless my deal old friend with the desires of his heart, shielding him from melancholy or darkness, because, his light is your light, shining through, like Moses coming down the mountain. It refreshed my soul, and eased my suffering. He held up that brass serpent, which is the faith of our LORD, and I believe that I was healed from within.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18106700271302988372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4704445330607294612.post-59248875495356060042011-09-11T00:42:00.000-04:002011-09-11T00:42:08.823-04:00Eternal Brother In ArmsTonight, a dear old friend, and truly blessed brother in the faith, surprised me by calling. We've not spoken for decades, since adolescence and young adulthood. Hearing his voice pierced the Time/Space boundaries of our temporal lives, and transported me back, in an instance, to another place, like a true time machine.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span><br />
<br />
First, let me try to explain how this man is truly blessed. As a disciple, he's been given the most remarkable gifts of the Holy Spirit that I've ever witnessed.<br />
<br />
He is an accomplished and extremely respected virtuoso violinist, whose work is top tier, by any standard. He's been given the gifts of prophecy and healing. Most importantly, he's been given the ultimately rarefied precious gifts of kindness, compassion, and humility. Someone with all of his attributes would walk around like a king, but, he has no airs, and has been tempered with a thorn in the side, like the Apostle Paul, who likewise accepted this as the Lord's Will, to keep him from becoming egocentric or too grand.<br />
<br />
I don't often endorse Christians who claim certain powers, such as healing and prophecy, for oftentimes, these are willful desires, not genuinely endowed by the Holy Spirit. The reason he has proven himself to me, outside of knowing what a dear soul he has, is that without knowing how sick I've been, he called, out of the blue, because the Holy Spirit told him to pray with me.<br />
<br />
He didn't have a clue, nor did I tell him, how yesterday, my doctor told me, once again, that I cannot put off fixing my spine, which is a mess. The pain I've been in has been a test of my own faith. It would be easy to feel sorry for myself, but, I know that we all have our crosses to bear, and I accept that God has a reason for all things, even our suffering. Yet, I constantly fail to remember that God's mercy is greater than our meager faith.<br />
<br />
Now I feel almost foolish to have neglected to pray for my own healing, almost too afraid that all I deserved was pain, for the price of my own precious faith.<br />
<br />
Isn't that strange? I'm just saying.... I realize now that I feel guilty for being blessed, and have allowed limitations in my life, due to pain and suffering, believing I needed to go through it, like some medieval penitent, whipping themselves for the privilege of having the love of Christ in my heart. <br />
<br />
The scales fell from my eyes as I spoke to him, and I recognized how convolluted this was.<br />
<br />
After he prayed for me, in the Spirit, fhe intense electrical current running hot through my spinal nerves to my toes and arms instantaneously stopped. It's been so long since I've had no pain that it felt like I was under the influence of morphine!<br />
<br />
Not that morphine stop this kind of pain. Not that I take morphine, either, but, earlier in the year, when I had my last surgery, the agony was beyond morphine and Demerol's reach. All i could do was pray for the strength to endure.<br />
All I could think of was that I must need this pain to be right with the LORD!<br />
<br />
Many will say my sudden relief, even before we prayed, was psychosomatic, even though my pain can be physiologically validated by horrendously scary MRIs. Even before he prayed for me, I felt better. The Lord seemed to transport me back in time to when I cavorted with this sweet young guy, days which the poets would describe as "salad days."Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18106700271302988372noreply@blogger.com0