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I have never said people can not own guns....ever.
So can you read Hebrew or Greek?
Read the top
Ok let's first say...on your video....Obama banned this video....it loaded. Lol!
I'm not a liberal. To the rest of your post, does it matter? I mean really you will listen?
In Judaism, yetzer hara (Hebrew: ??? ???? for the definite "the evil inclination"), or yetzer ra (Hebrew: ??? ??? for the indefinite "an evil inclination") refers to the inclination to do evil, by violating the will of God. The term is drawn from the phrase "the imagination of the heart of man [is] evil" (Hebrew: ????? ??? ??????? ???,yetzer lev-ha-adam ra), which occurs twice in the Hebrew Bible, at Genesis 6:5 and 8:21.
The yetzer hara is not a demonic force, but rather man's misuse of things the physical body needs to survive. Thus, the need for food becomes gluttony due to the yetzer hara. The need for procreation becomes sexual abuse, and so on. The idea that humans are born with a yetzer ra (physical needs that can become "evil"), but that humans don't acquire a yetzer tov ("a good inclination") until an age of maturity—12 for girls and 13 for boys—has its source in Chapter 16 of the Talmudic tractate Avot de-Rabbi Natan.
Traditionally, a person's indulgence of either the good or evil impulse is seen as a matter of free choice. For example, Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, wrote in Derech Hashem ("The Way of God") that "Man is the creature created for the purpose of being drawn close to God. He is placed between perfection and deficiency, with the power to earn perfection. Man must earn this perfection, however, through his own free will...Man's inclinations are therefore balanced between good (Yetzer HaTov) and evil (Yetzer HaRa), and he is not compelled toward either of them. He has the power of choice and is able to choose either side knowingly and willingly..."[1]
So are you atheist?
Don't throw the baby out with the bath water. Christianity has evolved.
I enjoyed our debate......don't worry....America loves her guns. I enjoyed sparring with you.
Good point!
This is the word you are looking for Homeostasis
is the property of a system that regulates its internal environment and tends to maintain a stable, relatively constant condition of properties such as temperature or pH. It can be either an open or closed system. In simple terms, it is a process in which the body's internal environment is kept stable. It was defined by Claude Bernard and later by Walter Bradford Cannon in 1926,[3] 1929[4] and 1932.[5][6]
Typically used to refer to a living organism, the concept came from that of milieu intérieur that was created by Claude Bernard and published in 1865. Multiple dynamic equilibrium adjustment and regulation mechanisms make homeostasis possible.
Homeostasis needs to be distinguished from a simple dynamic equilibriums, which are not regulated, and steady states, which may be stable but sensitive to perturbations.
I believe in Gun ownership....just not every gun.
We don't have 10 Billion people eating, procreating, and defecating. Wars will be fought for fresh water. Wait in 200 years we will be down to half our population. Antibiotics are becoming obsolete.
Again, we have the luxury now not in 100 years.
I can many more.....how about this
), or sickle-cell anaemia (SCA) or drepanocytosis, is an autosomal recessive genetic blood disorder with overdominance, characterized by red blood cells that assume an abnormal, rigid, sickle shape. Sickling decreases the cells' flexibility and results in a risk of various complications. [color=red]The sickling occurs because of a mutation in the hemoglobin gene. [color=red]Life expectancy is shortened. [color=red]In 1994, in the US, the average life expectancy of persons with this condition was estimated to be 42 years in males and 48 years in females,[1] but today, thanks to better management of the disease, patients can live into their 50s or beyond.[/color][/color]
So you want an Assault Rifle that can shoot thru a house and your neighbors to a 12 gauge shot gun? Again, why does a civilian, not in a battlefield need an AK-47......other than the fact, you can own one.
My wife has this...she won't mind
OBJECTIVE—The goal of this study was to estimate the prevalence of diabetes and the number of people of all ages with diabetes for years 2000 and 2030.
RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS—Data on diabetes prevalence by age and sex from a limited number of countries were extrapolated to all 191 World Health Organization member states and applied to United Nations’ population estimates for 2000 and 2030. Urban and rural populations were considered separately for developing countries.
RESULTS—The prevalence of diabetes for all age-groups worldwide was estimated to be 2.8% in 2000 and 4.4% in 2030. The total number of people with diabetes is projected to rise from 171 million in 2000 to 366 million in 2030. The prevalence of diabetes is higher in men than women, but there are more women with diabetes than men. The urban population in developing countries is projected to double between 2000 and 2030. The most important demographic change to diabetes prevalence across the world appears to be the increase in the proportion of people >65 years of age.
Personal protection? Really? Like in IRAQ right?
Does anybody really need an AK-47?
It's called 245 -T it was a defoliant...had it on my farm as a kid. The military sprayed it on paths......nobody knew. Remember thermometers with Mercury in them? I do. Leaded gas? I do. Genetic food......we have the luxury now not to grow it. 100 years from now....they won't be so lucky.
I have to disagree. Medical Science is killing us. Prolonging humans to absurd lifespans and allowing genetic diseases to flourish. I'm not trying to be mean just stating a fact....as a race .....Homo Sapiens are getting more numerous but genetically weaker. Antibiotics are loosing their punch......and fresh water will be the cause of wars. You are taking the easy way out..... Blaming a pesticide.
I have an Agriculture Degree.....if we don't modify Crops we will run out of food. I will be dead but in the next 50 years there will be 10 Billion People on this planet.
Yep.....and they need to put little brother on a leash.
Bob you get the Gold Star for responding. Great Job! I expect more.
Great post.
If you promote Democracy you can't get mad when people elect a party you don't like...... That would defeat the purpose of a Democracy.
Now One........ President Obama has been portrayed as belonging to a Radical Black Christian Church and a Muslim....he can't be both.
China just stepped in and I think they are pissed at North Korea.
What's your take on North Korea? Are they crazy and desperate enough to attack?
I was there in 93....... Horrible.
Touché. Jerk.
I do! Edit...but I believe in Gay Rights.
I'm Sam
That's the buzz.....
Jesus as a shapeshifter......was well known this is in Mark 16:12
Afterward Jesus appeared in a different form to two of them while they were walking in the country.
Before you read this I'm giving you a preemptive ...Go to Hell
One of the world's leading primatologists believes his decades of research with apes answers a question that has plagued humans since the beginning of time.
Are we moral because we believe in God, or do we believe in God because we are moral?
Frans de Waal argues in his latest book that the answer is clearly the latter. The seeds for moral behavior preceded the emergence of our species by millions of years, and the need to codify that behavior so that all would have a clear blueprint for morality led to the creation of religion, he argues.
Most religious leaders would argue it's the other way around: Our sense of what's moral came from God, and without God there would be no morality.
But this is a column about science, not religion, so it's worth asking if de Waal's own research supports his provocative conclusions, documented in the newly released book, "The Bonobo and the Atheist."
Just the title answers one question: he is an atheist, although he disparages the efforts of other atheists to convince the public to abandon all beliefs in the supernatural. Religion serves its purpose, he argues, especially through the rituals and body of beliefs that help strengthen community bonds.
De Waal is a biology professor at Emory University and director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes Primate Center in Atlanta. He is widely regarded as one of the world's top experts on primatology, especially the sometimes violent chimpanzees and their fun-loving sexually obsessed cousins, the bonobos, sometimes called the forgotten apes because they have become so rare.
Through years of research all over the world, de Waal has reached these basic conclusions: Chimps and bonobos and other primates clearly show empathy with others who are suffering. They have a sense of fairness, they take care of those in need, and they will share what they have with others who are less fortunate.
Those and other human-like characteristics, that have been clearly documented by other researchers as well, at least show they have some grasp of morality. It doesn't mean they are moral -- especially chimps, which can be very violent -- but they have the "basic building blocks" for morality, de Waal argues.
Chimps, he says, "are ready to kill their rivals. They sometimes kill humans, or bite off their face." So he says he is "reluctant to call a chimpanzee a 'moral being.'"
"There is little evidence that other animals judge the appropriateness of actions that do not directly affect themselves," he writes. Yet, "In their behavior, we recognize the same values we pursue ourselves.
"I take these hints of community concern as a sign that the building blocks of morality are older than humanity, and we don't need God to explain how we got to where we are today," he writes.
Our sense of morality, he continues, comes from within, not from above. Many activities he has witnessed show that apes feel guilt and shame, which also suggest a sense of morality. Why should anyone feel guilty if they don't know the difference between right and wrong?
For example, Lody, a bonobo in the Milwaukee County Zoo, bit the hand -- apparently accidentally -- of a veterinarian who was feeding him vitamin pills.
"Hearing a crunching sound, Lody looked up, seemingly surprised, and released the hand minus a digit," de Waals writes.
Days later the vet revisited the zoo and held up her bandaged left hand. Lody looked at the hand and retreated to a distant corner of the enclosure where he held his head down and wrapped his arms around himself, signs of both grief and guilt.
And here's the amazing part. About 15 years later the vet returned to the zoo and was standing among a crowd of visitors when Lody recognized her and rushed over. He tried to see her left hand, which was hidden behind the railing. The vet lifted up her incomplete hand and Lody looked at it, then at the vet's face, then back at the hand again.
Was he showing shame and grief? Or was it fear of a possible reprisal? The ape at least realized he had done something wrong, de Waal argues, showing the seeds of moral behavior.
There are scores of other examples showing deep grief over a dying colleague and compassion for a mother ape that has lost her young and care for young apes that have lost their parents. All those things are signs of what we would call unmistakable morality, if the subjects were humans, not apes.
"Some say animals are what they are, whereas our own species follows ideals, but this is easily proven wrong," de Waals writes. "Not because we don't have ideals, but because other species have them too."
When an ape expresses grief or guilt or compassion he is living out the blueprint for survival in a culture that is becoming more complex, and possibly more dangerous. He is acting from within, not because he believes in God who defined right and wrong. De Waal puts it this way:
"The moral law is not imposed from above or derived from well-reasoned principles; rather it arises from ingrained values that have been there since the beginning of time."
He cites at least one instance when those "ingrained values" led to action among bonobos that seems like a divine solution to a nasty problem that confronts human society around the world.
Bonobos, according to his research, know how to avoid war.
Over and over he has seen neighboring bonobo colonies gather near a common border as the males prepare to do battle. Ape warfare can indeed be violent. But when the bonobos are ready to fight, the females often charge across the boundary and start making out with both genders on the other side.
Pretty soon, the war has degenerated to what we humans would call an orgy, after which both sides are seen grooming each other and watching their children play.
So an orgy is moral? Maybe these guys understand it really is better to make love, not war.
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Hey Bob read this
Evidence that Ronald Reagan
was the Beast of Revelation
A number of Web sites comment briefly on the implications of Ronald Wilson Reagan having six letters in each of his names. They go on to dismiss the implications because:
(a) the whole idea is crazy, or
(b) it disagrees with their own theory which is even crazier.
Whether our 40th President was the Beast of Revelation* or not, someone ought to mention the rest of the evidence which suggests that he was, if only as a study in coincidence.
Revelation 13
3 One of its heads seemed to have a mortal wound, but its mortal wound was healed, and the whole earth followed the beast with wonder.
Revelation 17
7 But the angel said to me, "Why marvel? I will tell you the mystery .... of the beast with seven heads .... 9 This calls for a mind with wisdom: the seven heads .... 10 they are also seven kings .... 12 And the ten horns that you saw are ten kings who have not yet received royal power, but they are to receive authority as kings for one hour, together with the beast." James Brady, press secretary to Ronald Reagan, was shot in the head during an attempt on the president's life. Hearing that Brady's wound was certain to be fatal, a Whitehouse staffer mistakenly informed the press that Brady had died. The major television networks announced the death of James Brady. The story traveled throughout the world at electronic speeds. Miraculously, Brady survived his surgery. The press revealed that the man they had been memorializing was still alive.
It was this event which drew my attention to the Reagan/Beast coincidences. I did not look up Ronald Reagan's middle name until later.
Revelation 13
17 ....the name of the beast or the number of its name. 18 This calls for wisdom: let him who has understanding reckon the number of the beast, for it is a human number, its number is six hundred and sixty-six.
RONALD = 6
WILSON = 6
REAGAN = 6
Most efforts to explain 666 rely on complex numerological systems, but the word "psephizo" in the original text implies counting, not mystical calculation. Some variant texts give the number as 616. Ronald W. Reagan?
Ron and Nancy Reagan retired to a house at 666 St. Cloud Road. Nancy had the address changed to 668.
Revelation 13
2 .... its feet were like a bear's .... The Reagan family coat of arms, commissioned by Ron and Nancy Reagan, includes a bear, the state animal of California. California is both the Reagan's home, and their power base.
Revelation 17
3 ....I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast which was full of blasphemous names, and it had seven heads and ten horns. 4 The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and bedecked with gold and jewels and pearls .... Nancy Reagan consistently wore very expensive designer clothing while she was First Lady, strongly favoring the color red.
Revelation 17
5 and on her forehead was written a name of mystery: "Babylon the great, mother of harlots and of earth's abominations."
Ezekiel 3:7-9
Jeremiah 2:19-20, 3:1-5
Revelation 7:3, 9:4, 14:1, 14:9, 17:1-2 Nancy Reagan consulted her astrologer when setting the President's schedule.
Astrology is the surviving remnant of the faith of ancient Babylon.
A mark on the forehead is a Biblical reference to one's faith. Harlotry is a reference to a false faith. When Jeremiah condemns Israel for following false gods with the phrase "you have a harlot's brow" he nicely combines both images.
Revelation 17
16 And the ten horns that you saw, they .... will hate the harlot .... Many people, on leaving the Reagan administration, wrote books which included an attack on Nancy. This became such a regular thing that when Nancy wrote her own memoirs she titled them My Turn and attacked her attackers.
Revelation 13
11 Then I saw another beast which rose out of the earth; it had two horns like a lamb .... George Bush, Reagan's successor, fought a war against Iraq consisting of two very distinct phases. First an air war, then a ground war.
In the scriptural passage, note that the word for horn, kerata, can also be used to refer to a military division.
Of course, I have come to wonder if this might be a reference to the two sons of George Bush, George W. and Jeb.
Revelation 13
13 It works great signs, even making fire come down from heaven to earth in the sight of men; It was only in the war against Iraq that air power finally became the decisive factor in a war. Iraq was subjected to a tremendous bombing campaign, essentially destroying its fighting ability before the ground war began. The bombing was broadcast live world wide.
Revelation 16
13 And I saw, issuing from the mouth of the dragon and from the mouth of the beast and from the mouth of the false prophet, three foul spirits like frogs; 14 for they are demonic spirits, performing signs, who go abroad to the kings of the whole world, to assemble them for battle .... Bush sent his men, including Secretary of State James Baker, an old Reagan man, to the capitols of the world, seeking and getting military, financial and moral support for the army he put together in Saudi Arabia. He got United Nations approval to build and use the army against Iraq.
The term "false prophet" in the Scriptural passage refers to the successor of the beast.
Revelation 13
16 Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, 17 so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name. 18 This calls for wisdom: let him who has understanding reckon the number of the beast, for it is a human number, its number is six hundred and sixty-six. George Bush convinced the United Nations to pass a number of resolutions in 1990 dealing with Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. The resolutions included trade restrictions preventing any nation from doing business with Iraq. There was an exception allowed. Humanitarian aid, defined by UN Security Council Resolution 666, allowed medical supplies and food into Iraq for humanitarian reasons. Iraq, Yemen and Cuba opposed this resolution because it only allowed the supplies in if they were in compliance with Resolution 666.
UN Chronicle, December 1990, pp18-19
These sanctions were in place until George W. conquered Iraq/Babylon.
Revelation 14
8 Another angel, a second, followed, saying, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, she who made all nations drink the wine of her impure passion."
Revelation 16
19 .... and God remembered great Babylon, to make her drain the cup of the fury of his wrath.
Revelation 18
2 .... Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! .... 10 .... Alas! alas! thou great city, thou mighty city, Babylon! In one hour has thy judgement come. .... 21 .... So shall Babylon the great city be thrown down with violence, and shall be found no more; The Iraqi military, the fourth largest in the world, was largely destroyed by the UN coalition forces in less than two months. The ground war lasted only a few days.
Iraq contains the ruins of ancient Babylon. Baghdad, the capitol of Iraq, is just across the Tigress and Euphrates rivers from Babylon. Saddam had a huge sign created showing himself inheriting the authority of Babylon from King Nebuchadnezzar.
It is actually unusual for an interpretation of the Book of Revelation to suggest that the city of Babylon mentioned is intended to represent Babylon. Simplicity is frowned on in Biblical interpretation.
Revelation 13
14 and by the signs that it is allowed to perform on behalf of the beast, it deceives the inhabitants of earth, telling them to make an image for the beast that had been wounded by the sword and yet lived; 15 and it was allowed to give breath to the image of the beast so that the image of the beast could even speak and cause those who would not worship the image of the beast to be killed.
This one still bothers me. It is a major prophecy of an act by the False Prophet, but I can't find a good match for it in the facts. I gave up on it when George Bush left office without constructing a powerful image of Ronald Reagan to be worshiped. The election of his son and that son's conquest of Babylon has given me renewed hope. We may see this one come true yet, if not through the work of George W., then perhaps by Jeb's hand.
Revelation 8
10 The third angel blew his trumpet, and a great star fell from heaven, blazing like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the fountains of water. 11 The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters became wormwood, and many men died of the water, because it was made bitter. The nuclear reactor at Chernobyl produced a cloud of fallout which fell over much of Europe. This fallout moved in rain water and runoff, eventually collecting and concentrating in the rivers. Long term health results can be expected. Nuclear reactors use a power source related to that found in stars. Chernobyl is Ukrainian for wormwood.
Nothing to do with Reagan, but a lovely coincidence none the less.
*A note on terms: Many of the sites dealing with this theme suggest that Ronald Wilson Reagan is "The Antichrist". The term "antichrist" does not appear in the Revelation. The only place in the Bible where it does appear is in the First and Second letters of John. There it is used to describe people who claim to be followers of Jesus, but who disagree with the true followers on certain points, such as Jesus' incarnation or that Jesus is the Christ. Historically, the word Antichrist is now often used to mean the beast described in the Revelation, and certain phrases in the letters suggest that this might be correct, but as this is not clearly stated in the Bible, I avoid the usage.
OK. But does this really mean anything?
Obama is not a Satanist. Period.
The reason for the Judas Kiss
The reason for Judas using a kiss
In the canonical bible the apostle Judas betrays Jesus in exchange for money by using a kiss to identify him leading to Jesus' arrest. This apocryphal tale explains that the reason Judas used a kiss, specifically, is because Jesus had the ability to change shape.
"Then the Jews said to Judas: How shall we arrest him [Jesus], for he does not have a single shape but his appearance changes. Sometimes he is ruddy, sometimes he is white, sometimes he is red, sometimes he is wheat coloured, sometimes he is pallid like ascetics, sometimes he is a youth, sometimes an old man ..." This leads Judas to suggest using a kiss as a means to identify him. If Judas had given the arresters a description of Jesus he could have changed shape. By kissing Jesus Judas tells the people exactly who he is. [Religious Mysteries: 8 Alleged Relics of Jesus]
This understanding of Judas' kiss goes way back. "This explanation of Judas' kiss is first found in Origen [a theologian who lived A.D. 185-254]," van den Broek writes. In his work, Contra Celsum Origen stated that "to those who saw him [Jesus] he did not appear alike to all."
Very interesting spin
A newly deciphered Egyptian text, dating back almost 1,200 years, tells part of the crucifixion story of Jesus with apocryphal plot twists, some of which have never been seen before.
Written in the Coptic language, the ancient text tells of Pontius Pilate, the judge who authorized Jesus' crucifixion, having dinner with Jesus before his crucifixion and offering to sacrifice his own son in the place of Jesus. It also explains why Judas used a kiss, specifically, to betray Jesus — because Jesus had the ability to change shape, according to the text — and it puts the day of the arrest of Jesus on Tuesday evening rather than Thursday evening, something that contravenes the Easter timeline.
The discovery of the text doesn't mean these events happened, but rather that some people living at the time appear to have believed in them, said Roelof van den Broek, of Utrecht University in the Netherlands, who published the translation in the book "Pseudo-Cyril of Jerusalem on the Life and the Passion of Christ"(Brill, 2013).