Music to Soothe the Soul

Looking around I stumbled into an incredible pianist:

Jarrod Radnich

Gay Marriage Legalized for New York

 New York Governor Signs Law Approving Gay Marriage

(Reuters) - Governor Andrew Cuomo made same-sex marriages legal in New York on Friday, a key victory for gay rights ahead of the 2012 presidential and congressional elections.

Sodom and Gomorrah: (had to remove the picture, whenever I came to do something on this blog I kept seeing it, and it was really getting me down so it had to go....but I'm praying for all those lost souls and hope that they realize what a terrible mistake they are making before it's too late)

Video link


Also notice on the sidebar to the video there are two other videos, one in regards to "gays" in Russia, and the other in Rio de Janeiro

link to smilie

Sociology and the Middle East Oil Problem

I'm taking two classes, and having an interesting experience in both. One of them I've already posted on, the abnormal psychology class. Today I'm posting about my other class, the sociology (uh-oh) class. There have been red flags (as you can imagine) all over the stuff that I'm reading in the textbook, although it is at the same time fascinating.
This week, one of the topics involves  U.S. policies regarding the Middle East.

Here is what I posted there on the topic, with a couple of interesting links:

I found a couple of interesting articles in regard to our foreign oil consumption and how it effects us as well as the Middle East and our relationships. One is the Jewish Virtual Library:

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/usoil.html

They give us the perspective of how our U.S. policies with the Arab nations effect Israel and our U.S. relationship with Israel. They also give some information on other countries as sources for U.S. oil imports.
There is another article that I found that has multinational contributors to this foundation, which I believe to be affiliated with the U.N. somehow (I cannot confirm it from their website, it just has that kind of "feel" to it):

http://www.ips-dc.org/reports/us_oil_policy_in_the_middle_east

I am not a big fan of the U.N. but I understand that is the way we are headed, and the U.S. will lose it's sovereign status. It already has, actually, and the U.S. Constitution has not been the solid basis of our governing policies for, well, since before the Bushes, however, we still pretend that it is in place, just as we pretend alot of things that we'd rather not know the real truth about. I'm a Christian, so I'm observing this more like watching a movie from an outsider's perspective on this whole thing. Sometimes some of the things I see happening in this world scares me, but I don't put my whole needs and desires to depend on the government, or governments, of this world.

I understand the arguments pro and con for going for alternative fuels, and the wars that have been fought in the Middle East, and having it said that it is all about establishing democracy there. I don't believe the arguments, and I don't support the actions. I'm just observing them, and praying for Jesus to come quickly to set it straight, because there really isn't any other way that is more than a band aid solution with bad consequences any way we turn.

Advertisements and Body Image

In my abnormal psychology class this week, one of the things we are discussing (besides smoking) is obesity and body image.

I found an interesting blog that gives lots of information and proof that there's alot of photoshopping of images going on these days. This leads many people in having a misguided mental template for what is "attractive". Some of the images are so obviously distorted that the women in the pictures look more insect-like rather than looking like healthy women.

Check out the article here

...and here too

Smoking

It's a terrible addiction and a very bad habit. I'm taking a course in abnormal psychology and this week we are discussing addictions and eating disorders. A big chunk of the discussions and homework deals with nicotine addiction and all the effects and problems associated with smoking. I had to talk about my own experiences on this subject, if I smoked what got me started and have I tried to quit, etc, and if I don't smoke the reasons why I don't, and if I were to do some kind of stop smoking program what would it involve and what group would I target as my target audience. It made me think alot more on the subject and had me looking deeper and further for information.

I found a website that an ex-smoker has up. He gives lectures on the topic of smoking and the physiological effects on lung tissue, the tissue of the mouth, pharynx (throat), and that it even gets into the esophagus (part of the digestive tract). He has scary pictures of black smoker's lungs, and this blackening happens to ALL smokers...

 ...and he gives demonstrations why this happens with a Palmolive bottle.

He painted DILUTED (not concentrated, like most research studies would do) tars that he collects in his smoking machine....

and paints the diluted tars

onto lab rats every day....60% of these rats get cancer within the year.

Picture of smoker's lung, the white portion is the cancerous part

The GOOD NEWS is that once a person quits smoking, all these bad things begin reversing almost immediately. The little hairs inside the lungs and trachea that are called cilia which were destroyed by smoking are restoring themselves within 3 days of stopping the filthy habit. However once there is a cancer, that is like a point of no return...

This is a picture of a city dweller's lung with the dark portions coming from carbons from air pollution

Check out the rest of the article and pictures here at Joel's Library

He makes a very good case for the evils of smoking and why it is a very good idea to quit. Yes, it is very hard to quit, but the Bible promises special blessings to overcomers! You CAN do it, with Jesus' help.

smilie link

"Free Will" and the Lies of Socialism

 Musematers recent posts have gotten me searching out more information on the education of our youth. That is where we can really observe them at work, molding the malleable minds into exactly the kind of utopian drones that tptb would love us all to be.


Being a Reform Christian, I am very intimate with the term "free will" and I have seen it twisted out of shape everywhere I look. I have heard of God referred to as a "benevolent dictator" and even that, although it sounds like it's accurate, doesn't bring up an adequate mental picture of who Jesus really is, because of our human skewed ideas of such terms as "benevolent" and "dictator".  And now the world wants to adopt the term "free will" which was already bad in the Arminian misrepresentation, now even worse in the socialist stranglehold it wants to place on "the masses".




Consider the following excerpt:

TRAIN EVERYONE FOR VOLUNTARY COMPLIANCE

"The long-range objective of brainwashing is to win converts who can be depended on to react as desired at any time anywhere. This is the inside-out meaning they give the word voluntary and is why they condemn free will with such ferocity, for its existence is basically inconsistent with communism.

"Even when he stands by himself, the truly indoctrinated communist must be part of the collectively. He must be incapable of hearing opposing ideas and facts, no matter how convincing or how forcibly they bombard his senses. A trustworthy communist must react in an automatic manner without any force being applied. Only then is he the 'new Soviet man' that Lenin foresaw." (184)

"Brainwashing was made up of two processes.

• One is the conditioning, or softening-up, process primarily for control purposes.
• The other is an indoctrination or persuasion process for conversion purposes." (182)

"[Conditioning and indoctrination] operate strictly within the 'practical' framework of dialectical materialism, which recognizes only power. They want to make sure that their followers will not grab the first opportunity to turn against them. That is the dilemma they have been unable to solve short of creating a 'new Soviet man' with the instinctive obedience of the termite instead of a free will which is subject to reasoning faculties and is therefore never 'reliable'." (183)

Link: Brainwashing and Education Reform

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That reminds me of Obama's "mandatory volunteer work". How can something that is mandatory be volunteer work? Sounds like Orwellian "newspeak". If you aren't familiar with George Orwell or his book "1984", it is where the term "big brother" comes from....kinda warms the heart like the term "Uncle Sam", doesn't it? Check out the Newspeak Dictionary

 Everything that God does and calls good, the devil has a clever counterfeit for. He's quite a tricky one, isn't he?

Thoughts about Gerald Celente

Gerald Celente is a curious man full of seeming contradictions. He claims to be one of us "little people" but I think he is a very wealthy individual, capable of alot more than he would let on.

Ma and I (going by the Avatar name "Shamar") discussed him here last year:


link to Tex's messageboard conversation with Ma

Who Is George Soros?

George Soros is a multibillionaire who backed Barack Obama, and yet we rarely hear about him. When did the popular news/entertainment shows EVER talk about George Soros, one of the most powerful men in the world? I've never heard them ever mention his name. A little background on this "gentleman":

Who is George Soros link

And another article tells about how he makes money today....every time the dollar devaluates, good ole George makes lots of money:

excerpt:

As the dollar trends lower against other countries’ currencies, people like George Soros make billions. Soros has already said “This has been a good crisis for me,” and why not? Soros was able to get 158% profits in just 24 days by buying options that stood to gain when the Euro rose against the dollar. The Euro rose less than a dime but Soros and others like him wound up with huge gains. Add another 74% profits in two weeks with options on the British pound and more profit on just a change of 9 cents – a 77% profit when the pound increased 10.3 cents against the dollar. Now with the size the bailouts and the huge multi-trillion dollar deficits, the US dollar will likely fall even more. 

link to article 

 Here's an interesting picture for you....see the man that the red arrow is pointing to?

Here's another tidbit about the Obama and Soros connection:

Obama/Soros connection .

Something is rotten in Washington....

Glenn Beck on Our Money Situation

This graph that he shows....yeah, well, it made me gasp I must admit:

Presidential Debate....???

 Honestly? I like Gerald Celente's comments such as CNN being the "cartoon news network" and called the debate the "presidential reality show". SIGH. Yeah, I hear ya, Gerald. What a terrible state of affairs. They are talking drivel while the economy is in a shambles, and they pretend that everything is getting better because we have a black president in charge...ummmmm....

 link for this smilie

Ouch!

and then there is this next one, I like what he says, that anyone who believe Bernanke really needs to have their head examined, going on Bernanke's track record:

I actually feel sorry for Ben Bernanke because I think he isn't actually responsible for all the problems, yes maybe he is partially responsible, he wouldn't be in the high position they put him in if he wasn't all wrapped up to his ears in the bulls#it however he has the bullseye painted on him where I think it goes alot wider and deeper than Bernanke...I think he is their "fall guy" and under all the pressure, he seems to be doing pretty good, I mean do you really think he really believes all the lies that they want him to put out there for everyone? I don't, I think he's miserable, so he's making a ton of money, so what? What will that get him when the whole monstrosity collapses on him? Millions of worthless dollars will provide zero comfort in hell.

What a mess...

What does the Bible call the Gospel?

I understand that we don't want to get into arguments, and we need to present the truth "in love". So why did the people of Paul's time kill people like Stephen, Peter, Paul, John the Apostle, John the Baptist, etc, etc, etc? Jesus said if we stand for the truth and proclaim it, the world will hate us....why? And if the world doesn't hate us, does that mean we are not actually proclaiming the gospel?
I understand that the Lord's sheep will come to Him, does that let us off the hook from proclaiming the truth which the world hates to hear about? Paul named names of those who didn't preach the truth, are we somehow better than he is if we don't argue?

Just some things to wrestle in the spirit about.

smilie link

The Coming Holocaust

Chris White talks about 2012 and the "age of enlightenment" and that Christians will be (and are) perceived as standing in the way of a spiritual evolution into the new spiritual age of enlightenment, a golden age of utopia. Chris believes (and I do also) that many people will want to get rid of those old fashioned and outdated "dinosaurs" (us Christians) who are not in compliance with their agenda. We stand in the way of their "progress". Many "Christians" will be fooled, but they are not "of the elect". The elect will even go to their deaths still proclaiming the truth about Jesus.

And then there is this one (there is so much that I agree with Chris White on about this) he tells why he believes "The Truth Movement" is telling us what it is telling us...partly because they can't hide what they are doing anyway that they may as well tell us in a way that suits their purpose. That picture with Jordan Maxwell holding the paper with Is/Ra/El  I had seen that before, but I couldn't remember where, ok now I know. They try to discredit Jesus and the God of Israel by that bogus kind of etymology and they hope that you won't figure it out....it also ties into those false stories about Jesus and Mary Magdalene such as in the Da Vinci Code and the Jesus Tomb, etc...anyway, here's the clip:

The Felonies of Our President

 "FASCISM HAS COME TO AMERICA"

This brings up the latest released "official long form birth certificate" and shows the problems with it, as well as other problems, such as Bernanke and China and some interesting words from Harry Truman:

"Here Come the Unicorns"

I don't fully agree with Gerald Celente, I personally believe he is behind a move for a revolution in America, and I never support a revolution, unless you are talking about the revolution to seek Jesus and accept our sinfulness and confess it before God. However, I do agree with him in that many people would rather pretend nothing bad is happening, and that's even worse than wanting to fight against this junk.

We need to acknowledge the truth, and we need to be penitent and remorseful. We need to humble ourselves and pray. The fact that there is a huge cover up regarding the Fukushima reactor meltdown and the fact that they are not testing the water, and not blasting the truth about what is really going on, should have us concerned, not apathetic and looking for imagined rainbows and happy faces drawn over the sad truth.

2Chronicles 7:14  If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

This takes honesty and confession and commitment to the truth,
not hiding our heads in the sand.

Antisemitism and Shulamit Aloni

Shulamit Aloni is a former Israeli minister:

She says the labeling of antisemitism is a trick used to justify mistreatment of Palestinians. Whenever anyone challenges Israel of wrongdoing, they are reminded of the holocaust and accused of being an antisemite.

And a journalist received this death threat (recording on phone message machine):

 

I'm not even going to pretend to know all the answers about the problem. Of course the devil is behind it. Of course, Israel is not saved, and as of this time is still a nation of this world. Yes, there are special promises that God promised to Israel. I acknowledge that fact. I also acknowledge the fact that they are a nation of fallen people prone to error just as anyone else is. To cover up their errors and blindly support everything they do, is not being a "friend of Israel". It is no more being their friend to do so, than it would be kindly to support "a friend" with an alcohol or drug problem. We need to be honest, and honesty says we need to tell them the truth, that they are subject to sins and mistakes, and that they need to repent before a holy and forgiving God, Jesus, whom they have rejected.

Honesty is still the BEST policy.