Bully_Pulpit
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Chike;2812911 said:
get outta my head chike lol
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get outta my head chike lol
rusty shackleford
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be that as it may, whats it have to do with the facts?@My_nameaintearl;2812774 said:
Solar Storm Warning
03.15.06
Researchers say a storm is coming--the most intense solar maximum in fifty years.
It's official: Solar minimum has arrived. Sunspots have all but vanished. Solar flares are nonexistent. The sun is utterly quiet.
Like the quiet before a storm.
Recently researchers announced that a storm is coming--the most intense solar maximum in fifty years. The prediction comes from a team led by Mausumi Dikpati of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). "The next sunspot cycle will be 30% to 50% stronger than the previous one," she says. If correct, the years ahead could produce a burst of solar activity second only to the historic Solar Max of 1958.
Intense aurora
That was a solar maximum. The Space Age was just beginning: Sputnik was launched in Oct. 1957 and Explorer 1 (the first US satellite) in Jan. 1958. In 1958 you couldn't tell that a solar storm was underway by looking at the bars on your cell phone; cell phones didn't exist. Even so, people knew something big was happening when Northern Lights were sighted three times in Mexico. A similar maximum now would be noticed by its effect on cell phones, GPS, weather satellites and many other modern technologies.
Dikpati's prediction is unprecedented. In nearly-two centuries since the 11-year sunspot cycle was discovered, scientists have struggled to predict the size of future maxima--and failed. Solar maxima can be intense, as in 1958, or barely detectable, as in 1805, obeying no obvious pattern.
The key to the mystery, Dikpati realized years ago, is a conveyor belt on the sun.
We have something similar here on Earth--the Great Ocean Conveyor Belt, popularized in the sci-fi movie The Day After Tomorrow. It is a network of currents that carry water and heat from ocean to ocean--see the diagram below. In the movie, the Conveyor Belt stopped and threw the world's weather into chaos.
Above: Earth's Great Ocean Conveyor Belt.
The sun's conveyor belt is a current, not of water, but of electrically-conducting gas. It flows in a loop from the sun's equator to the poles and back again. Just as the Great Ocean Conveyor Belt controls weather on Earth, this solar conveyor belt controls weather on the sun. Specifically, it controls the sunspot cycle.
Solar physicist David Hathaway of the National Space Science and Technology Center (NSSTC) explains: "First, remember what sunspots are--tangled knots of magnetism generated by the sun's inner dynamo. A typical sunspot exists for just a few weeks. Then it decays, leaving behind a 'corpse' of weak magnetic fields."
Enter the conveyor belt.
"The top of the conveyor belt skims the surface of the sun, sweeping up the magnetic fields of old, dead sunspots. The 'corpses' are dragged down at the poles to a depth of 200,000 km where the sun's magnetic dynamo can amplify them. Once the corpses (magnetic knots) are reincarnated (amplified), they become buoyant and float back to the surface." Presto--new sunspots!
All this happens with massive slowness. "It takes about 40 years for the belt to complete one loop," says Hathaway. The speed varies "anywhere from a 50-year pace (slow) to a 30-year pace (fast)."
When the belt is turning "fast," it means that lots of magnetic fields are being swept up, and that a future sunspot cycle is going to be intense. This is a basis for forecasting: "The belt was turning fast in 1986-1996," says Hathaway. "Old magnetic fields swept up then should re-appear as big sunspots in 2010-2011."
Like most experts in the field, Hathaway has confidence in the conveyor belt model and agrees with Dikpati that the next solar maximum should be a doozy. But he disagrees with one point. Dikpati's forecast puts Solar Max at 2012. Hathaway believes it will arrive sooner, in 2010 or 2011.
"History shows that big sunspot cycles 'ramp up' faster than small ones," he says. "I expect to see the first sunspots of the next cycle appear in late 2006 or 2007--and Solar Max to be underway by 2010 or 2011."
Who's right? Time will tell. Either way, a storm is coming.
http://science1.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2006/10mar_stormwarning/
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DoUwant2go2Heaven
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Social conditioning for "the lie" that is coming. Reference 2 Thessalonians chapter 2, Daniel chapter 7, and Revelation chapter 13.
God bless.
God bless.
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DoUwant2go2Heaven
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VIBE86;2823348 said:
The devil led 1/3 of the angels in rebellion against God. They are the minions who are behind the UFO/Alien phenomenon. To put into perspective how many angels rebelled with Lucifer we can look at the demon-possessed man of the Gadarenes found in Mark chapter 5. He had a legion of demons cast out of him by the Lord Jesus Christ. And a legion of angels is normally considered to be at least 6,000 angels. So This 1 man alone had thousands of evil spirits inside of him. So there are literally billions of demons roaming this earth right now.
But to top it off the most vile of Satans demonic forces have not even been unleashed yet. When the book of revelation opens the real nasty demons will be let out of the bottomless pit to torment man. These are the evil angels that will torment man for 5 months during the tribulation period. And God said of that day and time that, "in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them." (Revelation 9:6)
So Satan is not alone my friend. He has countless demons at his disposal who do his bidding. Satan is just the chief of the demons because he is the original angel that led in the rebellion against God.
Forgive me for not clarifying my initial post. I forgot that this is the IC and that words are easily twisted by the reading audience in order to line up with the responding posters thoughts.
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DoUwant2go2Heaven?;2823657 said:
So even the demons have power to create things to deceive people, that's putting them on the same level as god who is the only person who should be able to create. I wasn't twisting your words, I was being a smart ass about it. I find it to be complete utter bullshit. It doesn't make sense, and never will.
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DoUwant2go2Heaven
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VIBE86;2824997 said:
The invisible things of Gods creation will never make sense to an unregenerate person. Ye must be born again to understand these things Vibe. That's why the born again believer must preach truth in order to plant seeds into those who will be called by God to receive salvation. My prayer for you is that one day it will make sense to you. Because it will definitely make sense to you once you pass through the doorway of death. May God open up your eyes and ears. Amen.
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DoUwant2go2Heaven?;2825619 said:
Anything can make sense if you force yourself to make sense of it. It doesn't matter how ridiculous the belief, the fact is you can always make it sound as damn good as you please. Bigfoot isn't real, we both know that but can we prove that? We couldn't, we just say "oh it doesn't exist and people have said they pulled hoaxes with fake suits etc" but there is believers out there that could make it seem so real, it's almost plausible. So if I want it to make sense I could, but it's not logical.
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rusty shackleford
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Christianity is but 1 of many systems of mind control disguised to hide what is so blatantly obvious sun worship..DoUwant2go2Heaven?;2823657 said:
The Sun and Sun/Savior Gods
"Solstice" comes from words meaning "sun stop." On the winter solstice, Dec. 21 or 22 in the Northern Hemisphere, the sun reaches its lowest point above the horizon; it stops its descent. The winter solstice is also the shortest day of the year; the days stop getting shorter and begin to get longer again.
In ancient times, pagans celebrated this day as a "rebirth" of the sun or a sun god, and the beginning of a new year. In some cultures, the winter solstice was also a time to celebrate the birth or rebirth of a savior man-god (who was often connected with the sun). He was usually believed to be the offspring of a god father and a goddess or human mother (who was often a virgin).
Some of the ancient man-gods, most of whose births were celebrated on the winter solstice, include: Tammuz of Babylon; Attis of Phrygia (Asia Minor); Krishna of India; Adonis of Syria; Bacchus of Italy; Osiris/Horus of Egypt; Dionysus, Perseus, and Heracles of Greece; Mithra of Persia and, later, Mithra of the Roman Empire; and, last of all, Jesus of Nazareth.
In fact, Christians began referring to their savior, Jesus, as the "Light of the World" and the "Sun of Righteousness." Christians moved their Sabbath from the Jewish Saturday to Sunday (sun-day). The Seventh-Day Adventists, however, are an example of one modern Christian group that has kept the Sabbath on the original Saturday.
Parallels Between Pagan Savior Man-Gods and the Jesus Story
Besides the fact that the Christian savior man-god, Jesus, shares the same birthday, the winter solstice, with many pagan savior man-gods, there are many other parallels between Christianity and paganism.
These are some aspects of the Jesus myth that appeared earlier in pagan mythologies:
The savior is god made flesh, as the son of god.
His father is god and his mother is a mortal virgin.
He is born in a cave or humble cowshed on December 25 before three shepherds.
He offers his followers the chance to be born again through the rites of baptism.
He miraculously turns water into wine at a marriage ceremony.
He rides triumphantly into town on a donkey while people wave palm leaves to honor him.
He dies at Easter time as a sacrifice for the sins of the world.
After his death he descends to hell, then on the third day he rises from the dead and ascends to heaven in glory.
His followers await his return as the judge during the Last Days.
His death and resurrection are celebrated by a ritual meal of bread and wine, which symbolize his body and blood.
In fact, pagan sun god celebrations proved too popular for early Christians to overcome. Therefore, they decided to superimpose their story of Jesus (which contained many pagan elements anyway) onto the sun god festivals of the winter solstice (Christmas) and the spring equinox (Easter).
Osiris/Horus/Isis
About 3000 B.C.E., Egyptians began worshiping the god Osiris, who was associated with the sun. He was portrayed as a trinity: a heavenly god, an earthly god, and a falcon. (Later, Christians depicted their trinity as God, Jesus, and a Holy Spirit dove).
The king of Egypt claimed to be the earthly god. He acted as a link between humanity and the heavenly god (like Jesus). It was believed the earthly god king became the heavenly god after death.
Another version of the myth is that the heavenly god, Osiris, was said to have fathered (through Isis, a virgin) an earthly god-son, Horus, who was actually a rebirth of Osiris.
According to legend, the birth of Horus was announced by Three Wise Men, symbolized by three stars in Orion's Belt pointing to Osiris' star in the east. Angelic voices hailed his arrival. His birth was often depicted in a manger, with Isis as the Madonna standing over him, and was said to have occurred on the winter solstice. Horus stayed with his mother, Isis, until he was 12 years old. No mention is made of him again until age 30, when he was baptized and received into godhead.
Belief in Osiris, Isis, and Horus later spread to the Roman Empire, until believers began to be persecuted under Christianity.
Five centuries before the supposed birth of Jesus, the Greek historian Herodotus traveled to Egypt. There he witnessed an enormous festival, held every year, in which the Egyptians performed a drama before tens of thousands of people, representing the death and resurrection of Osiris. This story is so ancient that it can be traced back to pyramid texts written over 4,500 years ago.
As far as we can tell, Osiris is the original story of a dying and resurrecting god. The story spread to Ancient Greece in the story of the god Dionysus, then to Ancient Rome in the story of the god Mithra, and then to Christianity in the story of the god Jesus. Along the way it appeared in several cultures under various names.
Mithra
About 2000 B.C.E., Persians began worshiping the man-god Mithra. In the first century B.C.E., Mithra was introduced into the Roman Republic and became, with some changes, the god Mithra.
Mithras was supposedly born from a god father and a human virgin mother. His birth was said to have occurred in a cave or stable, and was witnessed by shepherds who brought him gifts.
Later, his followers celebrated this event with a ceremony at midnight on the eve of the winter solstice, which had many similarities to today's Christmas Eve Catholic midnight mass celebrating the birth of their savior man-god, Jesus. In fact, the Vatican now stands on the same spot as an ancient temple to Mithra.
Mithra was believed to have performed miracles, such as raising the dead, healing the sick, making the blind see and the lame walk, and casting out devils. According to legend, Mithra celebrated a Last Supper with his twelve disciples before he ascended to heaven. In memory of this, his worshipers partook of a sacramental meal of bread marked with a cross. The bread was eaten with water, and possibly wine.
In subsequent years, Mithra's' death and resurrection was reenacted by placing a stone image symbolizing Mithra's in a tomb. It was then withdrawn and he was said to live again.
Mithra's was viewed as a Redeemer. Followers of Mithra's believed a person had to be baptized in blood in order to ascend into the heavens after death. Mithra is supposed to return at the end of time to judge the human race.
Here are two excerpts from ceremonies to Mithra:
"He who will not eat of my body and drink of my blood, so that he will be made one with me and I with him,... shall not know salvation."
"give me over to immortal birth... so that... I may gaze upon the immortal beginning with the immortal spirit, with the immortal water, with the most steadfast air, that I may be born again in thought and the sacred spirit may breathe in me."
Mithra-ism stood as a powerful rival to the newly emerging Christianity:
In 274 C.E., the Roman emperor Aurelian proclaimed the birth feast of Mithra, Dec. 25th, as an official holiday.
In 307 C.E., Mithra was officially designated the "Protector of the Roman Empire."
However, by 358 C.E., followers of Mithra began to be persecuted under Christianity.
The Roman Empire and the Saturnalia
The Catholic Encyclopedia (1911) admits "Christmas was not among the earliest festivals of the Church... the first evidence of the feast is from Egypt."
Pagan celebrations of the winter solstice, especially in the Roman Empire, included social gatherings, lights, singing, gifts, feasts, yule logs, mistletoe, holly, and decorated trees. These festivities were later adopted by many Christians.
The Christian Bible acknowledges that decorating trees is a pagan idea. Jeremiah 10.2-4 states: "Learn not the way of the heathen... For the customs of the people are in vain: for one cuts a tree out of the forest... They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not." It seems it is not proper for a Christian to have a Christmas tree!
In 46 B.C.E., Julius Caesar adopted what became known as the Julian calendar. The winter solstice and the beginning of the new year fell on December 25th. Caesar declared this date as the rebirth of the Unconquered Sun (Sol Invictus).
The ancient Roman festival of the Saturnalia (honoring Saturn, the god of agriculture) lasted from December 17th to December 24th. The event concluded with a great feast, the Brumalia, held on December 25th.
Due to imperfections in the Julian calendar,the Roman celebration of the sun god's rebirth continued to be held on December 25th (as did its replacement, Christmas), while the actual winter solstice drifted to December 21st or 22nd.
Most of the Roman persecution of Christianity occurred from 250 to 313 C.E. However, in 380 C.E. the Roman emperor Theodosius ordered all pagan temples to be destroyed and forced pagans to accept Christianity.
In 354, Bishop Liberius of Rome decreed that the birth of Jesus should be celebrated on the same day as the birth of the sun gods - December 25th. Before this, the Christian church had no official observance of the birth of Jesus.
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rusty shackleford
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it's just an inalienable branch of human nature to wanna reach a helpin' hand out.. even if it's refused. coincidentally enough, it's one of the things that book suggest we do for one another. the love of my life kinda laughs when i take the time to break it down like that & calls it "arguing with the homeless guy in the [public] bathroom"... i can't help it though... i've seen the light go on in people's minds when i told them about the brotherhood.. kinda like a life that had never made sense, all of the sudden completely does.. & that reaction solidifies my position rather than rattling it.. it's more than being considerate... telling them the Truth is my obligation because otherwise, i'd feel like a sellout.
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texas_slab
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My dude Doyouwannago2heaven just broke it down. I just think that angels and demons are common terms for extra-dimentional beings and all these sightings that we're witnessing are only the beginning. I mean its in the bible about the mothership and new jerusalem coming down and all types of stuff. But i do believe the bible has been tampered with also. Its just up to you whether you believe or not. I for one refuse to sit here and believe that we are born, we work, and then we die and theres nothing else after that. The universe has been in existence way to long for us to be the highest form of civilization. I would get into how a lot of ya'll will remember this convo on the day of judgement and the punishment thereafter for not believing in a power higher than self but ya'll would just take it as me being judgemental and over-zealous.
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DoUwant2go2Heaven
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rusty shackleford;2838362 said:
How can you be telling the truth when you have denied the way, the Truth, and the life? If that's not an oxymoron, what is Rusty?
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DoUwant2go2Heaven
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texas_slab;2839412 said:
Blessed are your eyes for they see into the unseen world. May God continue to reveal His truth to you my friend. God bless you.
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rusty shackleford
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Denied what again exactly? Just for clarity's sake.. I never denied the existence of a higher power.. Just the credibility of a structured distortion of our Creator's true nature & IT's role in our lives.. In all honesty, the so called religious text of the Distortion turns people against one another more than it ever brings them together.. I think our hearts are in the same place as far as the Infinite is concerned.. My problem is with the strategically designed divide & conquer, mind control curriculum that too many can't disassociate with the true message that is the Truth..DoUwant2go2Heaven?;2840223 said:
Infinite Love is the only Truth. Everything else is illusion.
.. & I'm willing to bet my soul on it.
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DoUwant2go2Heaven
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Well Rusty God is love. But that doesn’t mean that one of His attributes is love. It means that love is the very essence of His nature. Because of this, we need to understand everything about God and all that He does in the context of this love. This includes His law and His wrath, which must be understood in the context of His love. So you can't just say infinite love is the only truth, because if God is love we have to take into account everything else that is wrapped up in that package. But sadly people don't see that God is also a just and righteous God who will by no means pardon the wicked.rusty shackleford;2844489 said:
So you see to understand what truth is, you must accept the truth. And that truth is Jesus Christ our Lord. He is the way, the truth, and the life. No man will enter into His soon coming kingdom apart from knowing Him personally. You can take it to the bank my friend. Because when all is said and done there will only be 2 types of people in eternity. The saints and the aint's, the saved and the lost, the righteous and the wicked, the sheep and the goats, the wheat and the tares, those who have trusted Christ and those who have refused Christ. Only 2 types Rusty. So what side do you stand on today?
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