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Good info admin. A friend of mine's mother had a stroke at a party, but didn't know it. She went home, died and wasn't found for a week. This info should help a lot of folks become aware of the subtle signs of stroke.
Good video.
Unlike religion, science, good science, always checks out its presumptions (called hypotheses).
The Big Bang theory is not a theory at all. It is a joke.
Someone asked a scientist how the universe began and, unable to address the question scientifically, he said it came from a Big Bang. Of course the question becomes “What caused the Big Bang to happen?” The Big Bang 'theory' doesn't go that far…so it's not really a scientific theory. Good science would asked what happened to create the Big Bang, what preconditions existed?
Of course, God could have just said, “Let there be a big bang and see where the dust settles.” So that 'theory' doesn't get God out of the picture and it doesn't account for the order in the universe.
Big Bangs, even little ones, create chaos not order.
In the video, professor Burchat talks eloquently of dark matter and dark energy.
It's the apparent nature of matter to be attracted to other matter and form clusters of galaxies.
But, the galaxies are moving apart, which is counterintuitive because of gravity.
So, Burchat tells us, the galaxies are not actively moving through space and away from each other when gravity is actually drawing them closer to each other. Space, dark energy, is expanding and keeping the galaxies from becoming one big lump of highly dense matter (a black hole).
The point is that some non-caused Big Bang doesn't even address these findings and hypotheses.
What is apparent is that these phenomena are not happening by chance or randomness. If these things were random they could hardly be discovered.
Apparently there are laws governing these things, and those laws, discovered and described by man, and in this video a very bright woman, but they are not man-made laws.
While human intelligence can find and describe these laws, human intelligence could not, and did not make them up.
Even an honest atheist would have to admit that some intelligence higher than that of humans is at work in the universe.
And, of course, atheism is all about God.
Without God there could be no such thing as an atheist.
God even created atheists. And each one is a theologian.
Neo,
Please do report back on what you found out and how you evaluated it. The Dave Gentry video you linked to is an exercise in simple unadulterated minister blathering that addresses nothing and discloses nothing, but hopes that you will join them.
We'd be especially interested in whether the ministry involves 501c3; how the powers that be of the ministry are vetted, whether their personal finances are separate from the ministry, etc.
Religion and money = BIG BUSINESS. Always has, always will. It's right there in the scripture where Jesus kicked butts, took names and probably used every Aramaic cuss word he could muster up when he busted the merchants in the Temple courtyard.
I'm reminded of the Bakers and how beautifully they marketed Jesus, and how Tammy Faye even had a Christian lingerie shop ministry for Christian wives (yes, indeed, there are Christian crotchless panties 😮 ). And then there was the white Rolls Royce, and the air conditioned dog house, and the time share condos, etc. etc. etc.
All peanuts next to Billy Graham's ability to sell out every single stadium seat time and time again.
And then there's the Bible Belt radio shows where people send in their savings because Jesus cured their hemmoroids through the intercession of the minister who prayed over the airwaves that those devilish hemmoroids would be gone like satan [only when praying for a hemmoroid cure you don't say “get thee behind me” like you do with satan 😉 ].
And then there's Mother Angelica, a catholic nun, owner of the Eternal Word Television station, with a vow of poverty whose Forms 990 in 1996 showed 50 million in real estate and 50 million in cash (A 501c3 organization's Form 990 is open to inspection by the public any time during normal business hours). She would tell her audience after her blathering about how the feminists ruined the sacrament of Confirmation to send her a note, “I especially like GREEN notes,” she would say while rubbing her thumb and index finger together. (Poor woman had a stroke several years ago. “God smote her”, one archbishop said).
Then there's Joseph Fessio, S.J., a Jesuit religious priest, with a vow of poverty, who owns Guadalupe Associates, DBA Ignatius Press, with a publishing empire worth hundreds of millions.
Then there's the Vatican, with its own central bank (for Christ's sake, of course).
There is nothing wrong with entering into commerce wisely and prudently without making it a “ministry”. Jesus was a carpenter, he most likely got paid for his services. As the scriptures don't suggest that he went around begging for alms. And he distinguished monies that belong to Caesar, which should be returned to him, and those that did not.
Dig deep Neo, before you pay for attendance at their symposia.
Terrific 😆
Reminds me of the one where the lawyer was questioning the expert witness, a pathologist who did an autopsy on the deceased.
Attorney: You did the autopsy on the deceased, is that correct?
Dr.: Yes.
Attorney: And the deceased was dead at the time of the autopsy. Is that correct?
Dr.: If you say so. Yes, he was dead.
Attorney: Are you sure?
Dr.: Quite.
Attorney: But, Dr. isn't it possible, just possible, that he wasn't dead at the time of the autopsy.
Dr.: It's not possible.
Attorney: I'm not asking for a definitive statement, Doctor, I'm just asking if there wasn't a remote possibility that he was not dead at the time of the autopsy.
Dr.: He was dead.
Attorney: What makes you so certain?
Dr.: Because his head was in a jar of formaldehyde on my desk.
Attorney: But isn't it possible that he wasn't dead at the time of the autopsy.
Dr.: Well counselor, if you insist, I'll agree that there is a remote possibility that he was alive and trying to practice law in some courtroom.
The authors of this piece of tabloidial trivia are not likely to be invited either. 😛
Quote:the Queen Mother, William's grand mother, also has her reasons.The Queen Mother, dead these past six years, is William's great grandmother.
His grandmother is the queen (the so-called 'sovereign' who must sign her own death warrant if the sovereign People [i.e. the prime minister] put it in front of her) 😮 🙁 .
It's amazing how complicated and tortuous the reasoning of so many patriots is. They make a difficult enough situation so difficult that they can never really explain how they arrived at their conclusions and just exactly what relief they are asking for from the courts they are in.
None of their assertions are causes of action or affirmative defenses. And they all have the built-in presumption that if they were not in admirality jurisdiction, as some claim, or if the fringe on the flag were absent or blue or of a different length than described in the statute specifying the decoration of the flag, then they would be liable for taxation under 26USC.
They create presumptions with the same efficiency as the fed gov but without knowing they are doing so.
Maybe there needs to be a license, with continuing education credits before someone can become a “patriot”
The irs, the courts and the doj use these lost causes as victories for the rightness of their own presumptions that everyone is a statutory “taxpayer”.
The author is slightly incoherent and leaves out the important information: what did he or she actually say to the court and the clerk that made them understand he was not in their jurisdiction?
Then there's this.
Quote:The Government cannot bill an American National, as he is within the purview of the municipal laws of the District of Columbia.Sounds like a contradiction to me.
An American national who earns gross income from a “trade or business” is a taxable transferee of government property within the jurisdiction of the municipal corporation and must respond appropriately zip code or no.
Does the author mean “unless” where the word “as” appears.
What is the point of this lengthy piece?
Is it so that the American national knows what jurisdiction he is in?
Is it to inform the post office that the American national knows what tricks they are up to?
I may be undereducated in court matters, but I don't know of any cases where the lack of jurisdiction by zip code has been an affirmative defense.
As noted above, the author's affirmative defense, if that is what is was, against the court's jurisdiction is not spelled out.
And why is the word “languish” used where the sentences requires the word “language”?
Too many questions to be of practical use.
One might want some answers to this conceptually unclear 'information' before mailing in the $77.95 donation. (Do they email the info to you as a zip file? <_< )
It's tiring to keep trying to figure out what legislatures mean. So with respect to cars on roads I am…
A traveler guiding my horseless carriage.
Amen 😛
Things like dream change are just the religiousification of a natural mental process that most people use routinely: it's called paradigm shifting. It can be about the environment, it can involve anything or anyone.
In paradigm shift you see things “in a different [but not divine] light”. We've all done it when we suddenly began to like someone we didn't really care for. The person said or did something quite simple that suddenly changed our view of him or her. Or people who base their relationships on romance find that those dear little quirks that were so cute are a real pain in the neck a year later…paradigm shift.
You can cause paradigm shift by simply reframing something. Bush's friend Saddam Hussein became a satan [in the bad sense] because he had weapons of mass destruction that he could whack us with in forty five minutes. Paradigm shift that caused parents to send their children to fight the satan and die in the cause.
Tidbits of gossip cause immediate paradigm shift in how we view something…or someone.
After 9/11 a vast majority of Americans had a paradigm shift away from the government's conspiracy theory. Now it's common to read “9/11 was an inside job” even on the bumpers of federal slaves.
That empty shell B@rry S0etoro can become a saving messiah or a “gift from God [as Pelosi put it]even though the gift box, attractively wrapped on the outside, had nothing but tissue paper within. But look at how many people shifted to the messiah paradigm.
St. Paul had a paradigm shift from terrorist to evangelist when he had an epileptic fit and fell off his horse.
St. Peter had a paradigm shift when he went from devoted apostle to a Jesus denier.
Most sales letters on the internet selling anything are invitations to a paradigm shift.
Dreamchange is a word of propaganda with economics as its foundation…workshops, conventions, certification programs, etc. An expensive way to induce a paradigm shift in oneself.
Paradigm shifting is something we can do ourselves in a nanosecond…no money in that.
Anyone who pushed the start button on this site and followed through had a gazillion paradigm shifts without propaganda. (There are thousands in the GIRSH book alone!)
Amen.
- Quote:“What does it mean to cite federal statutes as authority for protecting your rights?”
There are times to cite federal statutes as the documents on FG and SEDM show. However, I make it clear in the text and in a disclaimer that I am not seeking the protection of those statutes.
In the text I might say “Your code 26 USC Sec. 6065 requires you to sign all communications under penalty of perjury, and you have failed to follow the laws that govern you.”
If I say merely that the writer hasn't signed the document under penalty of perjury, it could be presumed that IF THEY HAD done so, I would be in their jurisdiction. So in communications with federal and state govs, it is probably best to remove any opportunity for them to presume if they correct their error then they gotcha.
At the end I would add a disclaimer that makes the point “The undersigned in quoting federal statutes is not seeking protection under those statutes. They are cited to put the recipient on Notice of what is required of recipient under those statutes.”
- Quote:Billy Graham's daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her 'How could God let something like this happen?' (regarding Hurricane Katrina). Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response. She said, 'I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?'
Well said!
Rejecting God, and then challenging His existence, His power, His morals even, by asking the question “If God exists how can he permit evil?”
God told us early on that if we turned away from Him we would experience enslavement and all its attendant evils (I Samuel 8:10ff). (Remember that the First Commandment is a prohibition against living in slavery.)
God permits the evils we reap from the evils we sow because he will not hear prayers uttered by hypocrites, those who reject Him and then ultimately call out to Him from their fox holes while under seige. If you note in the New Testament, hypocrisy was the one sin that drove Jesus to distraction.
Hypocrites do not feel any need for divine protection, for divine intervention. They look to the president and to congress and to the courts to take care of them. And when the president, the congress and the courts appear to be exactly what they are, liars, hypocrites, idols with clay feet, then the hypocrites demand to know why God permits evil things to happen.
God made us to be free. He respects our choice when we freely choose evil and reap its poisonous results.
Jesus had great patience with sinners, but when the sin was hypocrisy, he could spew nothing but contempt on its practitioners.
- Quote:This site does not advocate or condone violence of any kind.
Not even in self-defense? 😕
Didn't Jesus tell his disciples to sell their cloaks and buy a sword [which is why one of them used a sword in Gethsemane].
By telling the disciple to put up his sword, Jesus was not advocating 'sword control'.
His message to the disciple was: “You were not attacked, so you were on the offense, not on the defense. [Being on the offense with a weapon is living by the sword.]” And “Hey dufus, look around, this is an armed CROWD, do you want to get us all killed?”
Tactfully, Jesus replaced the ear of the disciple's victim.
- Quote:Since there is no constitutional authority for the Department of Education or the Obama health care program for example, repealing the health care act was a proper move by the new members of Congress. Good for them! And, maybe we ought to suggest they read the Constitution every year and start cutting all unconstitutional entitlement programs.
Repealing unconstitutional 'laws' gives them legitimacy as being applicable to all and creates a case or controversy.
Those laws, Acts of Congress, apply in the District of Columbia and on other federal land. Why would a non-resident alien give a hoot what federal laws are on the books.
How and to whom the law applies, not whether it is on the books, is the issue.
The new members, who by February will belong to the ole boys club doing business as usual, should keep it simple and do two things…
1. Simply DECLARE all executive orders, federal agencies, and other federal laws to be binding only on federal officers on federal territory, which means that an agency such as the department of education only regulates schools in DC, Guam, the Northern Marianas, etc. and on military bases. And that only federal employees domiciled, no matter where they live, in the District of Columbia can be forced into a contract with private insurers. And…
2. If you take anything styled as a 'benefit' from the federal government, you are subject to ALL of its codes. If you don't take any benefits from the federal government, and do not live on federal territory, you are basically only eligible for excise taxes typically involved in interstate commerce and paid at the source of the transaction.
'Repealing' Acts of Congress is, constitutionally speaking, way off the mark for people to whom they do not apply.
Those declarations would be a good start to getting the attention of the lard brains supersizing their butts at Mickey Ds.
- Quote:America needs a Queen Ferdinand now!!
Who is or was Queen Ferdinand? And what use would she be?
If you mean Queen Isabella (as in Ferdinand and Isabella) of the Spanish Inquisition, she was as violent in her religious zealotry as you seem to think Islam may be.
When the Vatican wanted to canonize Isabella a decade or so ago, five hundred years later, Jews everywhere protested loudly for her policy of force-baptizing the Jews in her realm. Her religious zealotry, demonstrated in book burnings and burnings at the stake, was also directed against Christians with whom she disagreed. And Isabella's legacy did not die with her.
Henry VIII (Tudor) married Isabella's daughter Catherine of Aragon, the mother of Mary Tudor, who became queen of England on Henry's death. Mary is known to history as “Bloody Mary” for her incessant burning of non-Christians throughout her five year reign of terror.
Islam as a religion is entitled to the protections of the US Constitution. However,
The danger of “Islamification” is that to function as a religion it will have to replace Constitutional law with Sharia Law.
The ONLY thing that makes the US Constitution and its first ten amendments unique in a world of beautifully written constitutions, UN Charters, Lisbon Treaties, is the requirement for DUE PROCESS of Law.
Due process requirements are the Constitution's ONLY fundamental distinguishing characteristic from other forms of government and that is the only basis for resisting an Islamic takeover, a UN takeover, a Chinese takeover, an EU takeover, of the system of American Jurisprudence. (You will note that people like Bader Ginsburg and others, want to use other forms of foreign law as a basis for precedent-making supreme court decisions. Yet there is no outcry about the “ginsburgification” of America).
Without due process, which trickles right down to a cop stopping you on the street and a local county court following its own local rules, there is no way to enforce any other rights. in a Constitution.
The danger to this republic from Islam is not religious or cultural in nature (without Islam we would not have Aristotle), the danger lies in the jurisprudence of Sharia law usurping the very Constitution which protects Islam as a religion and provides due process to any of its adherents.
Good post. Thanks. I don't use smart phones or have social networking accounts, but I'm going to pass this on to all family members who have facebook and other social networking accounts.
