I will begin this discussion by saying that the human condition is key because the human heart is Christianity. God is love. We have to react to this and all reality as stoics following principles from Zeno. Nothing is static but God. We must and only can react to reality as a result I was in my 20's among all Muslims and all of a sudden a man as his wife came home came out and shouted, "I divorce thee, I divorce thee, I divorce thee," in Arabic among witnesses. In such a lawless society he is now divorced. Due to the product of a physically abusive partner and her own abuse of substances I am divorced. Call it the product of youthful desire which has to be always tamed with the questions of "why?" and "how?" Christianity keeps divorcing each other because of power which spawned initially out of issues related to borders, language and culture. That was the vehicle the leaders of these church splits used. Today it has gone far more carnal than even that. We have big periods of macro division starting with overtly radical movements like Ebionites, Gnostics, and Montanists. Then you have more difficult disagreements in the Nestorians and Monophysites. Those were all sub-cultural divisions which now are prime cultural divisions. Then you have the Great Schism where you see major cultural differences. This preceded far greater misunderstandings in the Protestant Reformation related to how others see words, governance and material reality. The first divisions were about the identity of God but the later were about denying his spirit. If you know history and toss away your flying monkeys and refuse to be a groups agent you know that the church from the late first century onward when Apostles lived had a well working judicial system. When New Rome and Old Rome were together it had both lungs and could resolve any issue with great efficiency. The Church could speak as one even before council through synod's and the judicial chain. It had wind and now it has hot air. We must speak the same language though because this is largely matter of communicating with your spouse or sibling properly. The judiciary as a matter of communication was made up of priests of or elders who were also bishops. We must know the origin of elder not the Angelo-Saxon one. It's origins are from "pres pergos" (Proto-Indo-European for a guider of sheep), "presbus" (Attic Greek for a venerable leader including of cattle), "presbuteros" (late classical and Koine Greek for shepherd), "presbyter" (Latin or the version without a definite or indefinite article), then you have "Priester" (Old High German), missionaries to Britain developed "praist" and that become our word in English for "priest." Now there is no accident that a bishop and a priest in the bible or "presbuteros" and "episkopos" and have two sets of qualifications. They are sometimes follow each other which is not accidental because the latter is the former but not the other way around exclusively. The "episkopos" from epi" and "skopos" ( over watcher) an overseer so he is the areas macro families father. The priest is micro families father in the local church. These fathers raise you like your own papa not as all powerful. However, a bishop is an ordained priest but not all elders qualify or become priests to go down to your level. The earliest patristics show that was always understood this way. This heart and faith is like the full expression of who one is materially in the Greek view of the "heart," or "soul," or Word like in "Logos" not as in "graphon" or written words and thus the full persuasion in something or "faith." All that contrasted Greatly from the Angelo-Saxon views most of the time in their culture, art and language. In fact, it is obvious that this created the vehicle for the divorce in the Protestant Reformation. "Elder" in contrast comes from "eldra" in Old High German and it became "eld" where we get "old" this blog is getting. The word "eldra" was largely used early on by earth religions contrasting old men to trees like the Druids. The biggest difference between the Greek and German concerning elder is that in the Greek being a priest is a matter of venerability where in the Angelo-Saxon the matter is mostly about age. John was called an elder but he was the youngest Apostle even younger than Jesus at 33 years of age. The biggest argument made though against priests is a presupposition that the current sacrificial priesthood offers dead sacrifices. Is Jesus dead or is his Resurrection a paradox of the tree of life or the two thieves crushing Satan's head with a tree as Genesis foreshadowed? Shepherds give life they don't take life though. They want fleece so the answer is this is a living sacrifice with living priests and an eternal high priest. They sow and reap living sacrifices. So where in the Bible does it say you can break from the elders of the church without going to them and also doing it without consent of those elders put in place by God? Where does it say to not obey the leaders of the church? The answer is nowhere. It is sinful in fact, and Luther from a biblical definition along with the leaders of missed the mark away from Christ on a foundational level. However, while I call myself a very liberal Orthodox Catholic I can't join either communion in good conscience anymore than I can call myself an evangelical or Protestant. The other side of just one schism for example the chief justice of the supreme court or Pope (the "pontifex maximus" per Tertullian in rebellion to the court) chose to manipulate himself into the president for life. This murdered the "brothers keeper" in the church. Accountability and true leadership died in men because they walked away and followed their own ways. The Church lives only because we divorced him but he is to patient to divorce us. I can't join in Orthodox communion because they have become nationalistic to a degree that is not only a sin of the God who loves the whole world but it also changes the God to one of the national god of ego and arrogance. I can't be evangelical because they marry God to many other ideas. One you say I am an x "Christian" the weaker and added phrase rules and destroys the stronger one. If you have one foot on the rock of Christ and another on sand you get pulled in and drown like we have seen the church do in America and watched over in Europe. I can't be mainline Protestant because they like evangelicals exist because of their own sin. They exist living in sin and there is no new creation. Just watch their church splits and the insertion of political protest in all things. So what do we do we do? Repent and be baptized. We go back on the path and love the foreigner, the orphan and the widow. As Christ James paraphrased this teaching for us. We be stoic and react with love, empathy and compassion with a purpose. We change the human condition with love. Christianity is a religion of the heart. God is love and nothing else but it means infinite things. Love is why God is empirically visible when we choose to show his material face in our conformed image and copied steps we take and breaths we breathe. Then and only then, the believer and non-believer can accept him. Then they can learn about him, touch him, immerse in him, taste him from the bread and cup of life and hear him from the new spirit in them. This is how you win back your prodigal son by loving him no matter what unconditionally, showing him that every moment you like God are there for them. That is how you restore unity in a family through the heart. That is the only language all sane people at least understand. We can do nothing for the Pharisee (the conservative) and the Sadducee (the liberal). Jesus tried and failed because this mental state hardens the heart. However, with open hearts you can win the world of real people with love. God is love and unity will spread with your light shining on all the world.
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I will share something with friends that goes back to the time of the builders of the pyramids and the Sumerians before them. This is an equalizing secret that is life-changing. Getting the results you want socially, politically, and economically is dependent on the technique and methods used for each situation. We have levers that impact us whether we know it or not and there are static levels and dynamic levers and they work in the micro and macro of your life. You can drop the other end of the teeter-totter if you wish you just need speed or mass and positioning. Every good lever has a fulcrum (the thing at the bottom of the teeter-totter) somewhere under the lever pushing things to a degree where we want them to go. It can keep us from getting associated with the result, having the hardship of doing the impossible work, needing the resources, it can overcome time constraints or prevent us from being linked to our goal by using the fulcrum correctly. You can be in solitary confinement and have almost unbridled power if you know how to use levers it just might not always impact you directly at first. Major crime syndicates run their organizations this way and world leaders were broken out of prison to take power. God made these and levers of different kinds exist throughout nature and the gospel is one. Death is the ultimate destroyer that is a double edge sword. This has crushed the head of many snakes. It is life-changing. Do no harm is the goal for me. I use what I call the embrace, the kiss, the question, the slide, the direction, the transference, the infection, the mirage, the push, the move, and the lift. I don't use dark things like division because this is not about me per se or some ideology. I am not powerful but ideas are and they have the power, not me (an important rule). I think ethics are paramount to anything we work on and a better end product. Darkness is an enemy to both nurture and nature. All that actually stands between you and the driver seat to the world is the right tools and method is are kinds of levers without limits. Now I will never sell a program because to me money is trouble and liability almost as much as poverty is. However, just as Samuel Colt equalized the West with the Peace Maker or how tactics do the same in a battle we have to be strategic and think outside of our box and spheres using levers. If your enemy of infinite size is tempted to walk over quicksand you win even if you're a mere mite. This would be a lever and getting him to do so is easy with a fulcrum. Your class is dependent on the positions you take in all spheres of existence. If you think this is odd or even off mentally or practically it has been replicated many times and is linked to the whole history of science, philosophy, and religion updated to the present. We only have influence over destiny because of the tools and methods we employ. This is about the outcome, strategy, and implementation of those things. A crowd of members of "religious" people living in the stately affairs must merge with the heavenly came into the town square. woman with a Black Lives Matter shirt came running from them as they waved flags from their group like ISIS and brandished AR-15s. They said, "she made a sex tape with a black man and her lesbian lover. The law of Ignorantstan says she must be shot."
I am going to cover why everyday shopping, dining, movies, religious services, conventions, a lot of health care, banking, and work are about to go mostly online pandemic or no pandemic. Shopping, Dining, and Entertainment Shopping will go mostly online for the following reasons; ₿ Changing Spending Habits Even before the pandemic and Amazon. Ever since 9/11 in-store shopping has steadily declined slowly at first and the decline has gotten faster over time. ₿ Hub Only Savings When you send things by FedEx, mail, or a smaller service you don’t need so many locations. This hub approach means lower labor costs, lower property taxes, lower equipment costs, lower utility costs, and less product waste from attrition at stores. For the consumer, this lowers the price and makes them competitive. Even Walmart is having a hard time competing with not just Amazon but some of the smaller and middle-sized websites. Walmart BTW is rapidly boosting its website and closing stores and expanding its distribution centers. ₿ A Bigger Market There is no need to have a store in each market or any at all. ₿ The convenience of Grocery Delivery IstaCart means you don’t need to bend over at the supermarket. People who get paid a small fee can deliver the groceries to your door without you needing to leave your home. If InstaCart doesn’t have something Amazon Pantry does and it can be at your door within 4 days. ₿ The Best Dining in Your Home Services like Uber Eats, GrubHub, and DoorDash among others let you eat from McDonald’s to 5-star restaurants both locally and company-owned from home in your PJs. You can sip wine and eat celebrity chefs' food in your undies or a Big Mac. Dine-in places don’t let you eat their food nearly in your underwear or let you watch your favorite show at the same time. There is no reservation, no waiting in line, and no noisy patrons. ₿ Increased Movie Earnings In the movie theatre business, the standard breakdown is 45/55. This means the studio gets $4.45 for a $10 ticket and the theatre gets $5.55. When a new release plays on Amazon for example they pay either 10 cents per hour or 6 cents per hour for a movie. That means if you pay $7 to stream a new movie they make huge bucks. Technology has made piracy like making a screenshot or download almost impossible. They have software with several layers of military-grade encryption and the file type they use is also encrypted. ₿ Making the Movies at Home New green screen technology and some new methods that don’t even require one are making these things look more real. You can use 4K or 8K cameras showing them on live feed to synchronize scenes and then use backgrounds and file footage to film anywhere you want. Now no plane tickets, hotels, security, or permits are needed. You often can avoid building costly sets this way. ₿ Deep Fake Movies We have seen deep fake videos. Movies can be made with computer-generated actors and the studio gets almost all the money. They can look identical to a real person and sound like one. This is coming to a streaming service near you. ₿ Faster Banking Banking apps allow you to deposit checks, wire transfers, opening another account, ordering checks, get your bank statements, and some e-banks allow you to make your first account online. Religious Services Here are some reasons why religious institutions may be doing services and programs all or mostly online; ₿ Broader Audience If your place of worship is in a town of 1200 people you could soon be a church of 300,000 or even 3 million if you have a good online presence. You can have church members watch your services and do Zoom/Google Hangout bible studies from almost every country. You can do lots of your evangelism online as well. Why not have a seminary online by your church? ₿ Fundraising Lots of people have raised millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars online. Donald Trump raised a lot online but he chose to spend too much time doing in-person fundraising. In contrast, Joe Biden went more online and raised $365 million in one more. He managed to get 150,000 first time new political donors giving small amounts among his donors. You can post a link for the whole church stream and at your Bible studies to ask for offerings. You can start the event telling people where they can share their contact information which can be used for newsletters and links to your new videos. You then can announce the giving information and send it in newsletters and put it into your videos. However, be careful. I suspect the reason Trump didn’t do as well partly is he made it almost feel like a threat. ₿ Information Sharing Now if you do a bible study do they have a book to buy? If you have books that charge e-books are cheap and some ebooks in fact many millions of them are free on several sites. You can also share not just your bulletins but information on the topics of a study or sermon. You can give ebooks, studies, images, videos, and audio files and except in most cases, it will cost nothing. ₿ E-Stores This is not about the money from items sold at cost. This is about marketing after you have a following. Your shirts and other items should have social media handles and your web address, phone number, and email on them. Note: In the past most online churches have been by really lousy speakers and their production was also really bad. However, even fringe people like Steven Anderson got huge following but getting good production and finding their audience wherever in the world it may be. Things like his global travel, equipment lifestyle aren’t paid for by 60 crazies at his brick and mortar building in Tempe Arizona. He has hundreds of thousands of donors over the course of the year. Why Most Offices Will be Online Here are some reasons why employers love ditching the office building; ₿ Real Estate If you can downsize or ditch your buildings altogether the company is not paying property taxes, utilities, landscaping, building maintenance, and insurance. ₿ Overhead Without a brick and mortar office or fewer people in one now you don’t need to pay for internet (possibly less bandwidth with just cuts), phones, cable, catering, computers, printers, fax machines, projectors, other high-end office machines, furniture, and janitorial staff/services/supplies. ₿ Productivity People working from home are more productive due to spending more time on work rather than their commute or messing around with co-workers and there are ways to see, hear, and watch everything you do at home. Your manager can literally be next to you and in your phone and computer and 500 others at once digitally. ₿ No Travel Costs You can do lots of complex meetings or conferences on Zoom or other video applications and not pay for private jet costs, airlines, hotels, meals, and other costs. ₿ Accountability When it comes to being digital, spying is really easy. In LA I knew a lot of people who own businesses and or have projects in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East as well as around the US or Latin America. This digital thing is not new it is just growing fast. I know two people whose company aid whose offices are going digital and their business has gone up to as high as 500% of where it was in February. One way to monitor your workers' computers with software like Time Doctor is used by fortune 500 companies. You have stats on pretty much everything and data. It will tell you if they’re slacking or not working and how they spent their time in summary and detail. InterGuard and Teramind are also good ways to spy. InterGuard is better for phones so two wares might be best. You also can require that they leave their camera on during business hours and use a service to split the cameras so you can watch them at one time. ₿ Data Security is Better Than You Think One of the biggest concerns of at-home offices is data security. However, lots of things can be done. These include having employees use good secure routers that have been updated, have good passwords, and use computers that can be updated to current security updates. A hard wire connection to the modem is ideal but not practical. Also, they can install good malware protection and antivirus software. Another thing to do is to use 256-bit AES level encryption. I use 13 kinds of 256-bit AES encryption and a VPN (allows you to secure your internet and access from another location like Switzerland) and my VPN bonus off others that are all in non Five Eyes intelligence network nations. I would also use anti-DDoS applications or wares as I do. VPNs aren’t an option for most due governments, banks including non-bank banks and insurance companies not allowing them to be used in their portals. You can turn them off but you will be exposed. A good free you can get on Chrome extensions in the chrome store Touch VPN and then there is Hide Me. Unless you know someone you will otherwise need to pay to get a fast one. ₿ Bonuses If you cut these costs the owner shareholders are paid more and your boss can buy his trophy wife some nice stuff. They will find out this option soon if they haven’t from their online conferences. Once this is discovered you will be Satan himself bring up getting a brick and mortar office. You will be asking the boss to give up his new boat or his partner's new car for Christmas. Before starting, I will address some frequently asked questions: If I sell a home or property investment will my taxes go up? No, the new capital gains rates would only impact people who sold stocks before owning them a few years only on a portfolio over $375,000. Will everyone have to pay the new capital gains rate on short term stock investments? No, if they invest all the money from the stocks sale in US real estate or Main Street projects in the US they would be exempt from the new rate and get a 50% tax cut from the current capital gains rate. Will this cost trillions of dollars? No, it actually increases revenue and cuts spending. Will every adult get $1000? No just an individual making 62% or less of the national median household and households making no more than $56,000 per year. My proposal for the future would be $1000 per month for individuals making 62% or less than the median income and capped at $52,000 for a household to offset the automation impact to the household economy. Just making it 62% of the median income lowers the cost to $76 billion per year and the household threshold will cut the cost even lower probably below $80 billion per year. The 12-time payments of $1000 every year would not be taxed and would increase based on COLA. The workweek would be cut down to 25 hours per week nationally and anything over that would be subject to 2 overtime. This would increase the number of job openings offsetting the impact of my automation plan for workers. This would give a 32% job cushion for automation and probably net 12% to 17% more jobs without the rest of the plan. Then a capital gains taxes will be set on stock market investors only for those who have a portfolio worth over $375,000. The new capital gains tax doesn't go up unless you sell a stock in that bracket within 3 years of buying it which will be at a rate of 65%, then 45% before 5 years, and no increase will exist after 5 years. If the sale of the stock goes to American real estate or Main Street projects in the USA it is exempt from the new capital gains rates mentioned. Also, people or companies who qualify for the exemption even in stocks not covered under the tax would get a 50% capital gains tax cut. This controls volatility, promotes investing in Main St. projects instead of stocks, and raises government capital. It would be retroactive to that tax year. This would raise $550 billion per year (it would be over $1 trillion if they sold at normal rates). You would have a public work initiative where factories/explorations that produce raw materials would be constructed and so would mass rail system which could both transport goods better and people. Once constructed these partially automated factories, mines, and mills would be sold in shares of stock on the open market. No one can own more than 37% of one of these companies under the plan. Individuals would be given a 25% discount on the price of the stock. This program would last for 48 months. In the long run, most of the total cost would be redeemed from stock sales within 3 years of the completion of the program. Only US companies and citizens can buy the stock and companies have to agree to not sell to foreign companies for 7 years. Without calculating the sale of the stock to offset the cost of this is $200 billion per year. 700,000 temporary jobs would result for 4 years and eventually 2 million jobs and over 43,500 factories, mines, and mills that will create other industry sparking an automation revolution. Then you will also offer the top 30% of students graduating high school a new full-ride scholarship as the conservative fiscal hawks do in Germany. This will free up even more student loans, grants, and scholarships for the rest of the class. You also have a national standard for degree accreditation that prohibits requiring general education courses not essential to the professions related to a degree. For more specialized training you will rely on added course requirements in addition to certain advanced degrees which often already have extra course prerequisites. Then you make courses at least partially by distancing learning which includes video chats (required for federal funding unless it is for a degree program that requires professional licenses like doctors requires practical work or like a mechanical engineer) and requires approved texts be made available on eBook to retain federal funding. Also, require all courses to be at the student's own pace and Pell grants would be paid based on the rate of completion and book money would be paid per course. These measures all reduce cost which Democrats oppose and increase access with public money which Republicans oppose. You will also see 4-year degree accelerated programs now being completed on average in 26 months and 2-year degrees being done in 14 months. This overall would increase the college enrollment rate to over 50% and as high as 65%. The overall cost is $331 billion per year with measures in place. Most of this will be paid for with over $300 billion in defense cuts defunding all foreign military lethal and non-lethal aid, some foreign base realignments/closures, foreign military training programs that we fund, and some more money would cut from State Department arms programs and foreign aid. The remainder plus new revenue comes from the short-selling capital gains tax on stocks only in large portfolios which generates $550 billion. That would be $850 billion and the tax cut would cost $150 billion. The overall cost is $606 billion per year and would drop to $406 billion after the building projects are done without adjusting COLA and the cost of education. The outlook would be a 13% to 18.5% increase in GDP per year. It would actually cut the federal budget overall by about $100 billion, overall vastly raise revenue and create uncountable future jobs after the first 2 million permanent jobs. Often people look to the Old Testament as a literal historical document. In reality before Herodotus invented fact based historical narratives in the 4th century BCE that was not a way of communicating. Different cultures had their own ways but at least in the Ancient Near East where the Old Testament came from people used poetry, songs and tales (sometimes all at once sometimes) that often adapted other peoples stories for their own purpose. Think of this being like making a song. You don’t have the exact same song but you are unlikely to make new chords. In fact thousands of songs have the same 2 chords together on a guitar. You want people to relate to your ideas and understand them as well as dismiss other ideas? You employ them for your purposes. When people talk about Genesis 1-2 and creation there are at least a dozen stories from Ancient Near East that predate a little or a lot the story in Genesis. The most famous relative creation story though is Enuma Elish from Sumer and this is probably because it relates so well in elements to other stories that relate to scripture like Enki and Ninhursag which is the foundation of Genesis 3-4 and you have some of the tablets of the Epic of Gilgamesh which is the basis of Genesis 6-9 as well. I could cover most of the Old Testament but I won’t write a whole commentary at this time.The most relevant part of Enuma Elish says, "The Great Abode, Esharra, which he made as the firmament. Anu, Enlil, and Ea he made occupy their places. Marduk puts the heavens in order, establishing the zodiac and telling the moon how to shine." So the cosmology is a solid dome with water above like it appears and the stars, moon and sun are stuck inside of the wall of the dome. Now let's talk about Leviathan. In the Ancient East as you can see from pictures of artifacts from Sumer and Iraq a seven headed monster was a common myth people used to symbolize evil things or what they feared. There are Ugaritic texts mentioning a dragon called “Litanu” or “Lotan” depending on your transliteration that have matching consonants to Leviathan. In fact a lot of the words in the accounts are related. This is important because Ugaritic is the closest related language to Hebrew near that period. Isaiah 14:29 says, "That the rod that struck you is broken, for from the serpent's root will come forth an adder, and its fruit will be a flying serpent." Ugaritic text KTU 1.5:I:2-3 "When you smote Litanu, the fleeing [Ugaritic brb] serpent, annihilated the twisting serpent the powerful one with seven heads." Isaiah 27:1 “In that day the Lord with His severe sword, great and strong, Will punish Leviathan the fleeing [Hebrew brb] serpent, Leviathan that twisted serpent; And He will slay the dragon [tannin] that is in the sea.” Psalm 74:14, "You crushed the heads of Leviathan; you gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness." The added yud on the end of rosh makes it plural or roshi as heads instead of head. In most Semitic languages only consonants were originally written and they are the same in “Litanu” and “Leviathan” (in Hebrew). Also the terms “fleeing serpent" and “twisting serpent” are so rare in texts together that this would be flagged for patchwork plagiarism by most modern professors if used in a paper without citation or attribution in Isaiah and the Ugaritic texts. Note that Psalm 74:14 also describes Leviathan as a hydra with multiple heads like the images shown and the Ugaritic text. Another similarity is that in KTU 1.5:I the dragon is smited and that is also the case in Psalm 74 and Isaiah 27 which ties those two chapters together. Also in KTU 1.5:I and Job 41 they both emphasize the strength of the dragon. Now to key it all back, Isaiah 27 says the dragon Leviathan is related to the end of days. This ties it to Revelation 12:3 as like the Ugaritic texts and the tablets this dragon has 7 heads and like Isaiah 27 it was linked to the end of days. The Apostle John was using a known symbol in their mythology that identifies the nature of the adversary Ha Satan or Satan. Mythological Pagan Symbols Repurposed in the BibleI was reading Isaiah one day and a passage caught me off guard. It was Isaiah 14:29 and I was reading a text. What caught me off guard is that I have studied Egyptian hieroglyphs. I have seen a lot symbols and gods among them. The flying serpent and the History and relationship both Israel and Canaan had with Egypt got me thinking due to the flying snake goddess Wadjet. Now let's get onto some things that did occur;The Walls of Jericho Jericho's walls did fall around 1573 BCE give or take less than 100 years. Jericho has been dated with its tells, artifacts and carbon dating to 9600 BCE. Now Joshua was not involved in the battle of Jericho even if I think Moses was a real person. As he would have been born in 1355 BC. The date of the fall of Jericho just means the Exodus occurred on the early side of estimated dates. Joshua was a prophetic model for Jesus as that name in Hebrew “Yehoshua” is the Hebrew form of “Yeshua” that was more common in Aramaic. Both names mean “Yahveh is salvation." Connecting Moses to Joshua is the coming "Yeshua" (Jesus) the new vine of life or the renewed Israel in the everlasting covenant who was encompassed through the women in Jeremiah. In Genesis 3 it says the man (Jesus) and the women (Mary Jeremiah 31:22;32:40) will crush Satan's head just as the heads of Leviathan were crushed in Psalm 74. This is not a replacement of God’s people but a continuation. This was a promise made going back to Moses. In Isaiah 27 it says in the last days Leviathan the serpent will be destroyed and this theme is repeated in Revelation. The new covenant is a nation without borders and its people can't be removed from its blessing. The Captivity on EgyptAt a place called Serabit el-Khadim on the Sinai Peninsula, in and around an ancient mining site that slaves likely worked, Proto-Canaanite inscriptions have been found dating between the 16th and 17th centuries BCE. The dating matches being just before the time they appear outside of Egypt. The inscriptions were mostly in the mine. Israelites Getting Established in Canaan After CaptivityThe Amarna tablets are mostly discourses between city states in Canaan and sometimes those states and Egypt. In those tablets there are “habiru” and there were lots of groups of “habiru.” Originally “habiru” meant dusty or dirty and over time this is how nomads, fugitives, bandits, and workers of inferior status were labeled. The “habiru” in the tablets that we're concerned with about were attacking the cities that became Israel. They would be considered nomadic bandits by the Canaanites and Egyptians. The Amarna tablets that are relevant date between the 15th and 14th centuries BCE.
Finally if you’re still skeptical ask yourself this was Adam a man named man? Why did they spell it without identifying it as a proper name in Hebrew on papyrus? Why is everyone before Abraham or for that matter Moses given a modern Hebrew name? Abram which is not a Sumerian or Akkadian name would had been a speaker of Akkadian in Ur. He would not know proto-Canaanite yet much less Hebrew which came after the time of Moses. Just try to create the shape in 1 Kings 7:23 and you will see God is a God of riddles. These things are all symbolic and make us better children of God. Recommended Old Testament Teachers Dr. Brevard Childs (Hebracist) Dr. Richard Elliott Friedman (Hebracist) Dr. Bruce Waltke (Old Testament and Hebracist) Dr. Gordon Wenham (Hebracist) Dr. Peter Enns (Old Testament and Harvard Ancient Near East scholar) Dr. Tremper Longman III (Old Testament and Hebracist) Dr. Miguel Civil (Ancient Near East languages specializing in Sumer) Dr. Neil Asher Silberman (Holy Land Archaeologist and Historian) Dr. Aren Maeir (Holy Land Archaeologist ) Dr. John Walton (Old Testament) Dr. Michael Heiser (Old Testament) Ben Stanhope (Old Testament) As far as learning languages and finding texts free quality materials for even languages like Akkadian, Sumerian and Hebrew and related languages can be found online. There is also a database of over 100,000 tablets online from Sumer and Assyria but there are technical tricks to searching it. There is a video on YouTube that shows how to search it though. How To Make An Olson Filtered Mask
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There are a lot of myths going around on Fox News, OAN and a number of blogs trying to downplay COVID 19 for political reasons. So I will tell you what my experience was as a 35 year old that is proven to have no comorbidity. Lets start by saying a mild case is not mild like common viruses. All mild means is that you didn't stay inpatient at a hospital and need a ventilator. |
The next thing you need to note is it is hard to find any two people who have the exact same symptoms together with the same onsets. A person who is 80 years old can be fine and a 17 year old dies. The real reasons are unknown with this new virus for this but there appears to be favor for the virus to do more based on gender, blood type and the number of ace 2 receptors in your veins and organs giving the virus a home and something to attack. There are also long term health conditions like mine that will kill people for years after the virus.
My Symptoms
These were the most notable symptoms and I give the point of onset by day in chronological order;
-Day 1 (March 12th) I had a dry cough that stayed dry for 9 days.
-On day 5 I could barely stumble to the bathroom from fatigue.
-On day 9 my cough was wet.
-On day 10 I couldn't taste or smell.
-On day 11 I got a small rash on my right foot and my face.
-On day 14 started producing so much mucus it looked like I was throwing up.
-On day 16 I began having numbness periodically in my arms.
-On day 18 I developed tachycardia with a heart rate of 167 and climbing. The ER said to come in and they screened me in the tent outside. They then put me in a glass air-locked room alone in the ER separated from the main ER (you won't see COVID patients for this reason). The doctor was in protective gear when he came in. I was not admitted to the hospital.
-On day 21 my heart rate was 45 (very low when it normally is 72). The ER's said to not come in then.
-On day 22 I went back to the ER for severe tachycardia after the medication the prescribed failed to reduce my heart rate. The ER told me to come in. I was not admitted to the hospital.
-On day 24 my oxygen dropped from 97 to 80 in 2 minutes and the inhaler the doctor gave me failed. It was brought back up on CPAP after an hour or two and I didn't need help.
-On day 24 my feet were numb for the next 3 days plus I could feel my arm and leg veins opening and closing quickly.
-On day 28 I could feel my feet totally again but had periodic arm numbness (I always passed the stroke test). Note I took aspirin as soon as I heard about stroke risk and talking to my doctor earlier on.
-On day 35 I had a little weakness left but no arm numbness or opening and closing veins.
-On day 37 my cough reduced and my fatigue went away.
-I still periodically have to take meds to lower a tachycardia and still occasionally have a cough.
Medications
I took Guaifenesin 1200mg (non-DM) every 12 hours (starting day 9), aspirin once daily (starting day 5), vitamin C 2000 mg daily (starting day 18), zinc (starting day 18), propranolol as needed (starting day 18) and albuterol inhalers as needed for my symptoms (starting day 18). I also used Breathe essential oil which is similar to Vicks Vaporub on my nostrils 4 times per day (starting on day 20). I took azithromycin to prevent secondary infection and right after finishing it my white blood cell count went up another 2000 when it was already high.
The Bodies
A lot of conspiracy theorists have said there are no dead bodies from the virus. So here below are some of them!
What Doctors are Saying
Young COVID 19 Patients in the ICU
Final Notes
There are a lot of people who have died, lost limbs or can't breathe without oxygen now. I am not the worse case and feel much worse for these people. We need to respect the virus no matter your age.
Research with Links Plus Other Info
Here are some things to know from sources about the virus.
Antibodies Last 6 Weeks (Nature Medicine)
COVID 19 and the Heart (European Society of Cardiology)
COVID 19 and the Heart (AHA Journals)
COVID 19 and the Heart (JAMA Network Journal)
COVID 19 Strokes in Young and Healthy People (New England Journal of Medicine)
Liver Issues and COVID 19 (The Hospitalist)
COVID 19 and Delirium (Harvard University)
COVID 19 Nervous System Damage (Science Direct)
SARS CoV-2/COVID 19 Recent Mutation Means no Immunity in the Recovered and Increases Ratio of Transmission (Bio RX IV)
COVID 19 Severe Kawasaki-like Disease in Young Children (The Lancet Journal)
COVID 19 Strange Deadly Heart Condition in Children (Web MD)
COVID 19 Infections Spread Throughout a Restaurant in China due to one Asymptomatic Person (CDC)
Man Goes out After South Korea Reopens Before he Showed Symptoms and Infected 80 People at one location with the virus (VOX)
Baby in South Africa Dies COVID 19 (BBC)
COVID 19 Connecticut Baby Dies Because of Virus (Web MD)
17 Year Old Dies of COVID 19 (Channel 4 in March)
15 Year Old Dies of COVID 19 (CBS Local Baltimore)
21 Year old with no Pre-Existing Condition Dies of COVID 19 (The Guardian)
COVID 19 Data Lags for Weeks Before Being Reported as Being Same Day After the 10 day Turn Around (The Atlantic)
Florida Republican Governor Fires Top Reporting Official For Refusing to Continue to Under Report on COVID 19 (USA Today)
Georgia Republican Governor was Caught Faking Data to Make COVID 19 Numbers Look Lower (Yahoo/LA Times)
Republican Nebraska Governor to Stop Reporting Meatpacking Plant COVID 19 Cases and Deaths (The Hill)
Most Get COVID 19 at two Reopened Churches in Georgia and Texas After Social Distancing (The Hill)
Outbreak of COVID 19 Caused by Arkansas Reopened Church (Channel 13)
Singing is a Super Spreader of COVID 19 (Live Science)
Study Proves Face Masks Prevents Spreading of COVID 19 From You (The University of Hong Kong)
Non-COVID 19 Deaths Were Way up in March
Reported COVID 19 Cases in New York City and the Rest of the US Without NY
The government is planing on riots due to food shortages in the coming months and during flu season due to the pandemic as shown in the articles below.
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For the above reasons I will cover a list of affordable home and self defense options with exception of the last two weapons shown. I selected all but the last two weapons options based on price, availability/price of ammunition, being legal in the most possible locations and effectiveness against rioters and home invaders.
Before getting anything check your state laws. I chose all but two options based on widespread legality but even some kinds of knives, pepper spray and stun guns are restricted and regulated in some states. Never use force unless your life is at risk due to violence.
Links
State Gun Law Information
Pepper Spray Laws by State Information
Knife Laws by State Information
Stun Gun Law Information by State
California Approved Handgun Roster
Guns
Hi-Point C9 (9mm)
The Hi-Point C-9 (9 mm with 8+1 rounds capacity) is still widely available at online dealers, gun stores and pawn shops (due being a lender they're open in almost all states). A new C-9 runs between $130 and $160 not including tax. A used C-9 sometimes can be found for a little over $100 at pawn shops and places that deal in used guns. They're ugly, bigger then the picture looks but work, are reliable, accurate and 9 mm is probably the second most common type of ammunition.
Rock Island M20P (LR22)
The Rock Island is in 22 long rife the most common type of ammunition. It goes for $130 to $165 not including tax. It is very reliable for a rimfire cartridge, accurate and as said before the ammo the most common kind even though 22 is not as abundant as it once was.
Akkar 12 Gauge Model 300
This shot gun uses the most common type of shot gun ammunition. The Akkar M300 goes for $160 to $180 not including tax. I recommend 00 buckshot for ammunition (it can kill a bear) but whatever you don't use bird shot it is to weak. It is reliable and can hold multiple rounds as a pump gun.
ATI NOMAD SGS 12GA (Single Shot)
The ATI Nomad is a single shot 12 Gauge shotgun that runs for between $80 and $100 brand new. Don't be sold on this model alone. There are lots of used single shot shotguns that run from between $80 and $120 used some with ejectors. This is a poor mans gun that works but there is a problem if you have to shoot at more than one target.
Pietta Model 1851 Navy .44 (copy)
This copy of a Model 1851 Navy is in 44 Caliber. It is cap and ball revolver not a cartridge gun. To my knowledge (could be wrong) this requires no paperwork in any state and can be mailed to your door. They go for between $200 and $230 not including tax. They do tend to work if you learn how to use them. The advantage is you can cast your own bullets and make your own black powder (beware it is dangerous though). This I believe is a 5 shot revolver as I recall. These reproduction cap and ball revolvers sometimes are almost a quarter of the price if you can find a used one.
PMR 30 in 22 Magnum (don't buy early generation ones)
This pistol is in 22 magnum a hot round and holds 30 rounds of ammunition. This is one of two exceptions in the article due to its non-budget price of $445 to $500 not including tax and the fact this is not legal in some states. However if you need a budget PDWish gun in a state that allows them is a good path for the price. In earlier generations in suffered reliability issues as do many KEL-TEC guns because they're basically experimental. However these issues have mostly been ironed out now.
STRIBOG SP9A1 Gen 2 with Brace (9 mm)
This the second and last recommendation of weapons that are expensive and not legal everywhere. This gun uses 30 round magazines and is in 9 mm. It runs between $775 and $870 with a brace not including tax.
Knives
Grand Way 5296
This knife is compact enough, sharp and sturdy. It also is well designed shape wise for self defense. It runs for around $10 not including tax
Red Deer Survival Knife
This knife runs for under $4 on Amazon, features a great design, is compact and has useful paracord and a fire starter.
Oerla TAC OLF-1009
This sturdy fixed blade knife has a great design for self defense and runs for $30 not including tax on Amazon.
Crossbow Pistol
SwordMaster 80LB Crossbow Pistol
This 80LB cross runs for $55 on Amazon and has a lot of power.
Pepper Spray
Wildfire 18% 1/2 oz Key Chain Pepper Spray
Most pepper spray is 8% to 10% capsaicin and will just make a tough attacker angry. This stuff is 18% capsaicin and will blind most people temporarily. It is available with several dealers from $14 to $16 not including tax. Due to the size I recommend more then one bottle. In many states but not all it is legal to buy a tank of this stuff that is a fogger.
This gun is very powerful and a great price point at around $22 not including tax.
Vipertek VTS-979-S3 Billion Stun Gun
Mop Handle
6 Foot Mop Handle
A 6 foot mop handle can be found for around $20 and even be sharpened like a spear. It can be used to protect yourself and or keep distance from attackers.
Hand to Hand Self Defense
Links
Manual Titled: "US Army Special Forces only ST 31-204" and "Hand to Hand Fighting."
US Army Comparatives Manual TC 3-25.150
Knife Fighting Training
Be careful hurting youself is ten times worse in a pandemic.
Be careful hurting youself is ten times worse in a pandemic.