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Brother LG everybody is welcome here...eom
No Husker don't worry about it....
Supposedly I am still a member.” Never been removed" I just wanted to find out for sure. You answered all my questions Thank you.
Paule
Husker........Is my name there anywhere?
Doubt it?
Paule
Enough about me..You?... eom
Prudential ups NVidia to Strong Buy........
http://betasite.marketwatch.com/tools/stockresearch/updown/default.asp?type=0&pgID=3&siteid=...
This may have a positive affect on FCSE considering Focus Enhancements may be involved in future NVidia products.
http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20010116S0078
http://www.tweakmax.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=12&threadid=222
Have a nice day everybody.
Always been financially responsible though.
I don't buy new cars. Except my wife’s she needs it for her office job. Being the third in charge she wouldn't look to good driving up in a beater (still its almost paid for). I don't believe in debt. I have none except for my house. I pay cash for everything or I don’t buy it. I wear my clothes till they fall off and conserve anything I can. Fast food is another waste of cash.
The way we set ourselves up, we both could loose our jobs and survive for over a year.
Financially I am grinding out just a little bit more than the rent money. I figure time and experience will solve that.
As a father I couldn't be happier. I am there for my boy instead of the daycare lady. My boy seems to be happy as well.
My wife is glad I quit cause I don't come home and complain about how I hate my job anymore.
So all in all I'd say yes.
Sometimes Get cabin fever though.
Taken from Guns/Barms 2..Does The Pope likes guns?
Patron Saint for Handgunners? Gun Campaigner Presses Vatican
By Patrick Goodenough
CNS London Bureau Chief
March 13, 2001
London (CNSNews.com) - A Roman Catholic gun campaigner who says the Vatican should support the right to bear arms in self-defense is pressing ahead with a drive to have the church name a patron saint for handgun owners.
John Snyder, a former associate editor with the NRA's journal, The American Rifleman, has on several occasions lobbied the Vatican to consider naming Saint Gabriel Possenti to that position, most recently last week during a visit to Rome.
Possenti, who was made a saint early in the 20th century, was allegedly renowned for his shooting skills. In 1860, Snyder said this week, he rescued Italian villagers "with a striking, one-shot, lizard-slaying demonstration of handgun marksmanship."
A Vatican spokesperson said Tuesday there were some "biographical discrepancies" with regard to the saint and the gun claims.
Snyder runs the St. Gabriel Possenti Society, based in Arlington, Virginia, whose aim is to promote public awareness of the saint and discussion of the doctrine of legitimate self-defense.
"Recently, the Catholic Church named St. Thomas More the patron of politicians," he said. "Certainly, handgunners are at least as deserving of their own patron as are politicians.
"There are scores of millions of law-abiding handgunners in the world who ought to have a patron. In the USA alone, over 80 million law-abiding citizens own about 200 million handguns, rifles and shotguns."
As a former seminarian, Snyder said, he promotes the right to keep and bear arms.
"How can one claim to be a defender of the right to life without also being a defender of the right to self-defense and of the right to the means necessary for self-defense?"
The Catholic Church, he said, was a world leader in defense of the right to life. To be consistent, however, it should also defend the right to self-defense, and the right to the means of self-defense - gun ownership.
Snyder said he had yet to get any response from his latest request. On a previous occasion, he had received a reply from Bishop (now Cardinal) Noe, who said the proposal needed to have support from bishops in various parts of the world.
"Things in the Catholic Church often take a very, very long time."
A Vatican spokesperson said Tuesday requests to have patron saints named were usually made by organizations or a group of the faithful, to a body called the Congregation for Divine Worship.
She could not say whether a new request had been received from Snyder.
However, she continued, if the request was received it "would not be taken seriously" as there were biographical discrepancies "with reference to the saint and the handgun."
An entry on Possenti in the Catholic Encyclopedia makes no reference to the gun incident. It says he was "renowned for sanctity and miracles" before he died of consumption at the age of 24.
But the "One Year Book of Saints" by Rev. Clifford Stevens tells this story of him:
"On a summer day a little over a hundred years ago, a slim figure in a black cassock stood facing a gang of mercenaries in a small town in Piedmont, Italy. He had just disarmed one of the soldiers who was attacking a young girl, had faced the rest of the band fearlessly, then drove them all out of the village at the point of a gun."
The story goes that the mercenaries' leader scoffed at Possenti's abilities until the young man pointed to a lizard running across a road and shot it clean through the head.
Possenti was canonized by Pope Benedict XV in 1920. His feast occurs on February 27.
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=\Nation\archive\200103\NAT20010313a.html
I'm a hands on person myself...
I started 3 years ago with a NAIC (National Association Investment Clubs) class. The course lasted five weeks and I really didn't understand most of it, until I started trading.
I learned how to find good fundamentals and some basic charting methods. Meanwhile the industry I was working in was dying out due to this false economy. The service industry gets hit first and longest. Along came this certain broker who offered to sponsor me in my series 7 so I decided to give it a go. I’ve been mostly trading and studying God since that offer. Don’t figure. I have gone as far as I wish to with my studies about God.
Now I figure I had better get back to my broker studies while I'm waiting for this bloated economy to thin out a little more.
Through all of this I quit my job became a stay at home dad and trader.
Paule
Another round please.
Right now I'm studying Interest rates and yield curves.
The series 7 is the required study to become a registered representative. A licensed stockbroker.
Maybe someday I’ll take the test as of right now I am just using the information to better my abilities as a short-term trader. No I am not a day trader. I look for short-term payoffs. Day trading is tooooo much like gambling and not investing.
As for hunting. May 19-20 we are going down to Cali to hunt wild boar with pistols. Tentatively set for the last week in august we are going to Alaska for a caribou hunt.
Personally I will be hunting western Oregon for white tail and winter Elk. I already have my elk tag so the deer trip will be mostly a scouting trip for that. My Texan friend is supposed to join me on those two hunts.(I will be going out every friday through sunday until the season ends.)
I've been up since 4 am studing my series 7. My head hurts and i'm prety tired.
You
Mornin Bar Keep....The usual please eom
Of course she wouldn't. Wild Turkey please. eom
I don't know but by the sounds of it,
dont do cardboard boxes with plastic bags & long plastic tubes either!!!
a low budget porno flick. lol
Paule
I'm not sure but,
I think that means he just likes to watch????
McDonald's has almost half of the globally-branded quick-service restaurants outside the U.S. and we generate almost two-thirds of the sales.
Our international business has enormous growth potential.
Europe, our largest segment, has three of our top 10 markets: France, Germany and the U.K. However, we see huge opportunity in our other segments. For example, Asia/Pacific is home to more than 3.4 billion people. We operate 5,831 restaurants, outstripping other globally-branded quick-service restaurants. Our strong infrastructure supports our growing business and our emphasis on a menu that serves more chicken than beef aligns us with the Asia/Pacific culture.
McDonald's is the largest and most recognized brand with more than 28,000 restaurants in 119 countries.
In 1999, Systemwide sales were over $38 billion, operating income was over $3.3 billion, and there were over 15 billion customer visits.
We have a significant market share lead in virtually every country in which we operate.
We own about 40 percent of the land on which McDonald's is located around the world and control almost all the remainder through long-term leases.
This gives us long-term tenure and helps control occupancy costs.
HEY NYC......
What NYC does not admit to are the picks that I gave him that have performed.Like McDonalds for a 'put'. Oh my look at the chart since he asked me to find him a stock.What news did we hear today? McDonalds warns of earning due to Mad Cow and Foot and mouth disease impacts on european markets.
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Beef fears cut McDonald's earnings
OAK BROOK, Ill., Mar 14, 2001 (United Press International via COMTEX) --
McDonald's Wednesday warned its first-quarter earnings would be reduced by fears
over mad cow and foot-and-mouth disease in Europe. The fast-food giant said it
expects earnings to be 29 or 30 cents, or 4 to 5 cents a share lower than
forecast.
Copyright 2001 by United Press International.
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McDonald's says its earnings will miss Wall Street expectations
CHICAGO, Mar 14, 2001 (Chicago Tribune - Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service via
COMTEX) -- McDonald's Corp., still reeling from a consumer beef scare in Europe,
said Wednesday that its first-quarter and full-year earnings would miss Wall
Street expectations.
In response, the fast-food giant will not open as many restaurants in emerging
markets as originally planned and said it plans to cut overhead expenses.
McDonald's said it expects earnings for the quarter ending March 31 to be 29 to
30 cents a share, below the 32-cent consensus of analysts as tracked by First
Call/Thomson Financial. The estimate would represent a rare quarterly profit
decline; a year ago, the suburban Oak Brook-based company earned $450.9 million,
or 33 cents a share.
The company placed much of the blame for the profit warning on the outbreak of
mad cow disease in Europe, which has rattled consumer confidence in red meat and
lasted longer than McDonald's anticipated. Now the company has another livestock
illness to contend with: foot-and-mouth disease.
McDonald's also said its 2001 earnings would be 4 cents to 5 cents lower than
its previous guidance, excluding currency adjustments. Before Wednesday,
forecasts called for full-year earnings of $1.60 a share.
"We are taking immediate action to improve financial performance and are
optimistic about returning to double-digit earnings per share growth (in
constant currencies) for the remaining nine months of the year," said Jack
Greenberg, McDonald's chairman and chief executive.
That may be wishful thinking, analysts said. Besides mad cow, the company faces
challenges on several other fronts. Weak economic conditions persist in certain
Asian and Latin American markets. The incidence of foot-and-mouth disease has
pushed up prices of chicken and pork in Europe. The company also is dealing with
increased price competition in the United States.
"The magnitude of the reduction was deeper than expected, but I still think it's
not enough," said Allan Hickok, an analyst at U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray, who
lowered his full-year earnings estimate 10 cents to $1.50.
While investors have already factored in mad cow concerns into McDonald's stock
price, sentiment for the shares continued to be negative. Shares fell 25 cents
to $27.55 on Wednesday after a delayed opening at $26.30.
McDonald's European sales began falling late last year after cases of mad cow, a
fatal brain-wasting disease, were discovered in France and Germany. The consumer
panic overwhelmed McDonald's, despite assurances about the quality of its beef
and food safety standards. Fourth-quarter earnings fell 7 percent.
The ongoing concerns are hurting sales in the first quarter, although McDonald's
said strong promotions during the same period a year ago and an extra day due to
Leap Year have tempered comparisons.
Sales in Europe, before currency adjustments, were flat for the first two months
of the year, compared with a 14 percent increase a year ago. Europe is
McDonald's second-largest market behind the United States and accounts for a
third of its profits.
U.S. sales for the first two months increased 4 percent, compared with 6 percent
growth a year earlier.
The livestock worries in Europe have worsened with the recent outbreak of
foot-and-mouth disease. To prevent the spread of the highly contagious disease
to the United States, the Department of Agriculture on Tuesday suspended imports
of livestock and fresh meat from all 15 countries in the European Union.
McDonald's is trying to combat further erosion of its European sales by offering
more pork products on its menus and better informing consumers about the safety
of its hamburgers. To aid with menu variety, the company is testing its
made-to-order cooking system, which was rolled out in the United States a few
years ago, in more European restaurants.
The company is also tightening its belt by cutting its store openings this year
outside the United States by about 100 units. McDonald's had said it would open
about 1,800 new restaurants in 2001. As for other cutbacks, Greenberg did not
offer any details other than saying the company was reviewing its worldwide
expense budgets.
"We can't promise our plans will all work but we are not standing still," he
told analysts during a conference call.
Despite measures to improve its performance, "it is likely that the Street's
confidence in McDonald's could be at an all-time low," said Mark Kalinowski, an
analyst at Salomon Smith Barney. He added that investors will want to see "hard
evidence" of a sustained turnaround before they warm to its shares again. "This
may not happen until the second half of 2001 - if that soon."
No I'm not into penny stocks. The money was there for a short period of time.Most of my picks are nasdaq $10 and under.I believe most institutions cannot buy under $5 without a shitload of paperwork. That is why NYC always calls my picks pennies.
Paule
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CIA strikes out again
In Kosovo, U.S. Army paratroopers are receiving and returning fire. Our guys are shooting made-in-the-USA M-16 rifles, and their opponents, Albanian extremists, are using ex-Soviet Union AK-47 assault rifles.
So what's new? M-16s and AK-47s have been blasting each other for decades, and anyone familiar with Albanians and Serbians and the bloody history of ex-Yugoslavia would say, "What do you expect? Those crazies have been going at it with hot lead longer than the Hatfields and McCoys."
What's new is that the AK-47s, the ammo and the wherewithal to field the Albanian army of insurgent thugs currently going up against our and other NATO troops were provided not by Russia or Red China or North Korea, but by the USA. Yes, American taxpayers paid for the bullets being used to shoot American soldiers!
For months our CIA has secretly trained, funded and supplied former Kosovo Liberation Army rebels conducting a guerrilla campaign into southern Serbia to undermine former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic -- exactly the same kind of operation our spooks supported before and during the war against Serbia over Kosovo.
European commanders in Kosovo are not only charging the CIA with playing footsie with the Albanian rebels. They're also claiming American commanders in Kosovo have deliberately looked the other way and allowed a steady flow of KLA rebels and CIA-provided arms and war-fighting material to slip across Kosovo's border.
Last Sunday, Britain's Observer newspaper reported a European commander in Kosovo as saying: "The CIA has been allowed to run riot in Kosovo with a private army designed to overthrow Slobodan Milosevic. Now he's gone (and) the U.S. State Department seems incapable of reining in its ####### army."
The angry NATO commander added: "Most of last year, there was a growing frustration with U.S. support for the radical Albanians. U.S. policy was and still is out of step with the other NATO allies."
Now -- with CIA help -- the Kosovo Liberation Army rebels are attacking on two fronts: Southern Serbia and along the Macedonian border, where our paratroopers tangled with them last week.
The attacks into Serbia could bring the Belgrade army back with a vengeance and restart the war in Kosovo. The Macedonian border fighting also could explode into an ethnic civil war inside of that country, which could be even more destructive than the 1999 Kosovo shootout. And meanwhile -- right in the middle of the killing field -- American soldiers are caught in a cross fire of our own making.
Most military writers familiar with the centuries-old Albanian-Serb conflict predicted it would never go away when President Clinton first began talking about sticking our troops in those swamps. Many warned, "Don't go there."
But our government seldom listens -- and rarely learns from past hard lessons. In the 1930s, because it was good for business, we sold scrap metal to Japan. The Japanese shot it back at us from 1941 to 1945 at places like Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima.
We've trained, supplied and armed bad guys from Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam to Saddam Hussein in Iraq to the KLA in Kosovo. Young Americans always end up downrange getting hammered by the very stuff we provided, with the folks we trained out there happily pulling the trigger.
During the presidential campaign, George W. Bush questioned our operations in ex-Yugoslavia.
Now that he's getting the inside scoop, hopefully he's realized that it's a mass of endless running sores. Six years after we went to Bosnia for only one year, we're still there -- and Kosovo looks like an even more open-ended and far more dangerous commitment.
The president must put a muzzle on the CIA to stop it from supporting one of the most cutthroat gangs of terrorists in the world.
Next he should turn the Yugoslavian mission over to our European allies. We've already spent too many lives and too many dollars on a land that Otto von Bismarck declared was not worth the bones of one Prussian soldier. It's Europe's back yard, not ours. And the perfect time to exit that snake pit is now. Our allies are so furious with American duplicity and stupidity, they'd probably be glad to see us go.
Bill Clinton couldn't have staged a more typical exit strategy.
Col. David H. Hackworth, author of "Price of Honor" and "About Face," has seen duty as a sailor, soldier and a military correspondent in nearly a dozen wars and conflicts, from the end of World War II to the recent meltdown in the ex-Yugoslavia.
CIA strikes out again
In Kosovo, U.S. Army paratroopers are receiving and returning fire. Our guys are shooting made-in-the-USA M-16 rifles, and their opponents, Albanian extremists, are using ex-Soviet Union AK-47 assault rifles.
So what's new? M-16s and AK-47s have been blasting each other for decades, and anyone familiar with Albanians and Serbians and the bloody history of ex-Yugoslavia would say, "What do you expect? Those crazies have been going at it with hot lead longer than the Hatfields and McCoys."
What's new is that the AK-47s, the ammo and the wherewithal to field the Albanian army of insurgent thugs currently going up against our and other NATO troops were provided not by Russia or Red China or North Korea, but by the USA. Yes, American taxpayers paid for the bullets being used to shoot American soldiers!
For months our CIA has secretly trained, funded and supplied former Kosovo Liberation Army rebels conducting a guerrilla campaign into southern Serbia to undermine former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic -- exactly the same kind of operation our spooks supported before and during the war against Serbia over Kosovo.
European commanders in Kosovo are not only charging the CIA with playing footsie with the Albanian rebels. They're also claiming American commanders in Kosovo have deliberately looked the other way and allowed a steady flow of KLA rebels and CIA-provided arms and war-fighting material to slip across Kosovo's border.
Last Sunday, Britain's Observer newspaper reported a European commander in Kosovo as saying: "The CIA has been allowed to run riot in Kosovo with a private army designed to overthrow Slobodan Milosevic. Now he's gone (and) the U.S. State Department seems incapable of reining in its ####### army."
The angry NATO commander added: "Most of last year, there was a growing frustration with U.S. support for the radical Albanians. U.S. policy was and still is out of step with the other NATO allies."
Now -- with CIA help -- the Kosovo Liberation Army rebels are attacking on two fronts: Southern Serbia and along the Macedonian border, where our paratroopers tangled with them last week.
The attacks into Serbia could bring the Belgrade army back with a vengeance and restart the war in Kosovo. The Macedonian border fighting also could explode into an ethnic civil war inside of that country, which could be even more destructive than the 1999 Kosovo shootout. And meanwhile -- right in the middle of the killing field -- American soldiers are caught in a cross fire of our own making.
Most military writers familiar with the centuries-old Albanian-Serb conflict predicted it would never go away when President Clinton first began talking about sticking our troops in those swamps. Many warned, "Don't go there."
But our government seldom listens -- and rarely learns from past hard lessons. In the 1930s, because it was good for business, we sold scrap metal to Japan. The Japanese shot it back at us from 1941 to 1945 at places like Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima.
We've trained, supplied and armed bad guys from Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam to Saddam Hussein in Iraq to the KLA in Kosovo. Young Americans always end up downrange getting hammered by the very stuff we provided, with the folks we trained out there happily pulling the trigger.
During the presidential campaign, George W. Bush questioned our operations in ex-Yugoslavia.
Now that he's getting the inside scoop, hopefully he's realized that it's a mass of endless running sores. Six years after we went to Bosnia for only one year, we're still there -- and Kosovo looks like an even more open-ended and far more dangerous commitment.
The president must put a muzzle on the CIA to stop it from supporting one of the most cutthroat gangs of terrorists in the world.
Next he should turn the Yugoslavian mission over to our European allies. We've already spent too many lives and too many dollars on a land that Otto von Bismarck declared was not worth the bones of one Prussian soldier. It's Europe's back yard, not ours. And the perfect time to exit that snake pit is now. Our allies are so furious with American duplicity and stupidity, they'd probably be glad to see us go.
Bill Clinton couldn't have staged a more typical exit strategy.
Col. David H. Hackworth, author of "Price of Honor" and "About Face," has seen duty as a sailor, soldier and a military correspondent in nearly a dozen wars and conflicts, from the end of World War II to the recent meltdown in the ex-Yugoslavia.
Resurrection of the Body
The Bible tells us that when Jesus returns to earth, he will physically raise all those who have died, giving them back the bodies they lost at the end of their earthly life.
These will be the same bodies people had before, our resurrection bodies will not die and, for the righteous, they will be transformed into a glorified state, freed from suffering and pain, and enabled to many of the amazing things Jesus could do with his glorified body (cf. 1 Cor. 15:35-44, 1 John 3:2).
The resurrection of the body is an essential Christian doctrine, as the Apostle Paul declares: "f the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised. If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished" (1 Cor. 15:13-18).
Because, as Paul tells us, the Christian faith cannot exist without this doctrine, it has been infallibly defined by the Church. It is included in the three infallible professions of faith--the Apostles' Creed, the Nicene Creed, and the Athanasian Creed--and has been solemnly infallibly taught by ecumenical councils.
The Fourth Lateran Council (1215), infallibly defined that at the second coming Jesus "will judge the living and the dead, to render every person according to his works, both to the reprobate and to the elect. All of them will rise with their own bodies, which they now wear, so as to receive according to their deserts, whether these be good or bad [Rom. 2:6-11]" (constitution 1).
Most recently, the Catechism of the Catholic Church reiterated this long-defined teaching, stating, "'We believe in the true resurrection of this flesh that we now possess' (Council of Lyons II). We sow a corruptible body in the tomb, but he raises up an incorruptible body, a "spiritual body" (cf. 1 Cor 15:42-44)" (CCC 1017).
As the following quotes from the Church Fathers show, this has been the historic Christian faith on the matter since the very beginning.
Pope Clement I
"Let us consider, beloved, how the Master is continually proving to us that there will be a future resurrection, of which he has made the Lord Jesus Christ the firstling, by raising him from the dead. Let us look, beloved, at the resurrection which is taking place seasonally. Day and night make known the resurrection to us. The night sleeps, the day arises. Consider the plants that grow. How and in what manner does the sowing take place? The sower went forth and cast each of the seeds onto the ground; and they fall to the ground, parched and bare, where they decay. Then from their decay the greatness of the master's providence raises them up, and from the one grain more grows and bring forth fruit" (Letter to the Corinthians 24:1-6 [A.D. 80]).
The Apostles Creed
"I believe in . . . the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the flesh. Amen" (Old Roman Symbol [A.D. 125]).
Polycarp of Smyrna
"[W]hoever perverts the sayings of the Lord for his own desires, and says that there is neither resurrection nor judgment, such a one is the first-born of Satan. Let us, therefore, leave the foolishness and the false-teaching of the crowd and turn back to the word which was delivered to us in the beginning" (Letter to the Philippians 7:1-2 [A.D. 135]).
Aristides
"[Christians] have the commandments of the Lord Jesus Christ himself impressed upon their hearts, and they observe them, awaiting the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come" (Apology 15 [A.D. 140]).
Second Clement
"Let none of you say that this flesh is not judged and does not rise again. Just thing: In what state were you saved, and in what state did you recover your [spiritual] sight, if not in the flesh? In the same manner, as you were called in the flesh, so you shall come in the flesh. If Christ, the lord who saved us, though he was originally spirit, became flesh and in this state called us, so also shall we receive our reward in the flesh. Let us, therefore, love one another, so that we may all come into the kingdom of God" (Second Clement 9:1-6 [A.D. 150]).
Justin Martyr
"The prophets have proclaimed his two comings [of Christ]. One, indeed, which has already taken place, was that of a dishonored and suffering man. The second will take place when, in accord with prophecy, he shall come from the heavens in glory with his angelic host, when he shall raise the bodies of all the men who ever lived. Then he will clothe the worthy in immortality, but the wicked, clothed in eternal sensibility, he will commit to the eternal fire along with the evil demons" (First Apology 52 [A.D. 151]).
Justin Martyr
"Indeed, God calls even the body to resurrection and promises it everlasting life. When he promises to save the man, he thereby makes his promise to the flesh. What is man but a rational living being composed of soul and body? Is the soul by itself a man? No, it is but the soul of a man. Can the body be called a man? No, it can but be called the body of a man. If, then, neither of these is by itself a man, but that which is composed of the two together is called a man, and if God has called man to life and resurrection, he has called not a part, but the whole, which is the soul and the body" (The Resurrection 8 [A.D. 153]).
Tatian the Syrian
"We believe that there will be a resurrection of bodies after the consummation of all things" (Address to the Greeks 155 [A.D. 170]).
Theophilus of Antioch
"God will raise up your flesh immortal with your soul; and then, having become immortal, you shall see the immortal, if you will believe in him now; and then you will realize that you have spoken against him unjustly. But you do not believe that the dead will be raised. When it happens, then you will believe, whether you want to or not; but unless you believe now, your faith then will be reckoned as unbelief" (To Autolycus 1:7-8 [A.D. 181]).
Irenaeus of Lyons
"For the Church, although dispersed throughout the whole world even to the ends of the earth, has received from the apostles and from their disciples the faith in . . . the raising up again of all flesh of all humanity, in order that to Jesus Christ our Lord and God and Savior and King, in accord with the approval of the invisible Father, every knee shall bend of those in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and that every tongue shall confess him, and that he may make just judgment of them all" (Against Heresies 1:10:1-4 [A.D. 189]).
Tertullian
"After the present age is ended he will judge his worshipers . . . All who have died since the beginning of time will be raised up again and shaped again and remanded to whichever destiny they deserve" (Apology 18:3 [A.D. 197]).
Tertullian
"Therefore, the flesh shall rise again: certainly of every man, certainly the same flesh, and certainly in its entirety. Wherever it is, in the safekeeping with God through that most faith agent between God and man, Jesus Christ, who shall reconcile both God to man and man to God, [and] the spirit to the flesh and the flesh to the spirit" (The Resurrection of the Dead 63:1 [A.D. 210]).
Tertullian
"In regard to that which is called the resurrection of the dead, it is necessary to defend the proper meaning of the terms 'of the dead' and 'resurrection.' The word 'dead' signifies merely that something has lost the soul, by the faculty of which it formerly lived. The term 'dead' then applies to a body. Moreover, if resurrection is of the dead, and 'dead' applies only to a body, the resurrection will be of a body. Again, the word 'resurrection' applies to nothing else except that which has fallen. 'To rise' may be said of that which never in any way fell, but which was always lying down. But 'to rise again' can only be said of that which has fallen; for by 'rising again' that which fell is said to 're-surrect.' The syllable 're-' always implies iteration [happening again]. We say, therefore, that a body falls to the ground in death . . . and that which falls, rises again" (Against Marcion 5:9:3-4 [A.D. 210]).
Minucius Felix
"See, too, how for our consolation all nature suggests the future resurrection. The sun sinks down, but is reborn. The stars go out, but return again. Flowers die, but come to life again. After their decay shrubs put forth leaves again; not unless seeds decay does their strength return. A body in the grave is like the trees in winter: They hide their sap under a deceptive dryness. Why are you in haste for it to revive and return, while yet the winter is raw? We must await even the spring of the body. I am not ignorant of the fact that many, in the consciousness of what they deserve, would rather hope than actually believe that there is nothing for them after death. They would prefer to be annihilated rather than be restored for punishment" (Octavius 34:11-12 [A.D. 226]).
Aphraahat the Persian Sage
"Therefore be instructed by this, you fool, that each and every one of the seeds is clothed in its own body. never do you sow wheat and reap barley, and never did you plant a vine and have it produce figs. But everything grows in accord with its own nature. So also the body which has been laid in the ground is the same which will rise again" (Treatises 8:3 [A.D. 340]).
Cyril of Jerusalem
"This body shall be raised, not remaining weak as it is now, but this same body shall be raised. By putting on incorruption, it shall be altered, as iron blending with fire becomes fire--or rather, in a manner the Lord who raises us knows. However it will be, this body shall be raised, but it shall not remain such as it is. Rather, it shall abide as an eternal body. It shall no longer require for its life such nourishment as now, nor shall it require a ladder for its ascent; for it shall be made a spiritual body, a marvelous thing, such as we have not the ability to describe" (Catechetical Lectures 18:18 [A.D. 350]).
Epiphanius of Salamis
"As for those who profess to be Christians . . . and who confess the resurrection of the dead, of our body and of the body of the Lord . . . but who at the same time say that the same flesh does not rise, but other flesh is given in its place by God, are we not to say that this opinion exceeds all others in impiety" (The Man Well-Anchored 87 [A.D. 374]).
The Nicene Creed
"We confess one baptism for the forgiveness of sins; we look for a resurrection of the dead and life in the age to come. Amen" (Nicene Creed [A.D. 381]).
The Athanasian Creed
"[Jesus Christ] sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty. From there he shall come to judge the living and the dead; at his coming all men have to rise again with their bodies and will render an account of their own deeds; and those who have done good will go into life everlasting, but those who have done evil, into eternal fire [Rom. 2:6-11]. This is the Catholic faith, unless everyone believes this faithfully and firmly, he cannot be saved" (Athanasian Creed [A.D. 400]).
Augustine
"Perish the thought that the omnipotence of the Creator is unable, for the raising of our bodies and for the restoring of them to life, to recall all [their] parts, which were consumed by beasts or by fire, or which disintegrated into dust or ashes, or were melted away into a fluid, or were evaporated away in vapors" (The City of God 22:20:1 [A.D. 419]).
Augustine
"God, the wonderful and inexpressible Artisan, will, with a wonderful and inexpressible speed, restore our flesh from the whole of the material of which it was constituted, and it will make no difference to its reconstruction whether hairs go back to hairs and nails go back to nails, or whatever of these had perished be changed to flesh and be assigned to other parts of the body, while the providence of the Artisan will take care that nothing unseemly result" (Handbook of Faith, Hope, and Charity 23:89 [A.D. 421]).
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IBP Reinforces 2001 Earnings Estimate
DAKOTA DUNES, S.D., Mar 14, 2001 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Senior management officials
at IBP, inc. (NYSE: IBP) today reported they believe the company's 2001 earnings
should meet previous estimates.
"It is not common practice for us to issue earnings projections, however, given
recent statements about the company's 2001 financial performance, we feel
compelled to provide our perspective," according to Robert L. Peterson, IBP
chairman and chief executive officer. "While a recent analyst projection of
$0.12 per share in earnings for the first quarter is reasonable, we continue to
believe 2001 earnings could be in the $1.80 to $2.20 per share range. This range
is consistent with our previous estimate of $1.93 per share, which was included
in IBP's preliminary LBO proxy last fall."
Meat industry analysts are forecasting an increase in livestock supplies, a
factor that should contribute to improved earnings during the remainder of the
year. Livestock industry publications are reporting "a record number of cattle
on feed for this time of year," as well as the expectation of "large marketings
come late spring and summer." This should be very positive for IBP's beef
results in the second and third quarters of 2001.
There are also predictions by pork industry analysts of greater hog supplies in
the last half of 2001. This should result in lower raw material costs and higher
earnings for both IBP's fresh pork operations and the company's Foodbrands
America unit, which produces many pork-based products.
"We currently expect Foodbrands to perform considerably better than a year ago,"
Peterson said.
Headquartered in Dakota Dunes, South Dakota, IBP has more than 60 production
sites in North America, joint venture operations in China, Ireland and Russia
and sales offices throughout the world. The company, which generates annual
sales of $17 billion, employs over 50,000 people.
Forward Looking Statements
Tyson Issues Statement in Response to IBP Announcement
SPRINGDALE, Ark., Mar 14, 2001 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- In response to recent
announcements made by IBP, inc. (NYSE: IBP), Tyson Foods, Inc. (NYSE: TSN)
issued the following statement:
We are pleased that IBP continues to make progress resolving its outstanding
issues with the Securities and Exchange Commission. However, the non-cash
impairment charge has not been settled, and IBP has not filed their 2000 10-K.
In addition, while we are disappointed with the revised expectations for first
quarter, we are encouraged that IBP's management has confidence in future
results. We are continuing with our due diligence and are closely monitoring all
factors related to IBP's business. It is still too early to determine what
effect these issues will have on the transaction structure.
About Tyson Foods, Inc.
Tyson Foods, Inc., headquartered in Springdale, Ark., is the world's largest
fully integrated producer, processor and marketer of chicken and chicken-based
convenience foods, with 68,000 team members and 7,400 contract growers in 100
communities. Tyson has operations in 18 states and 15 countries and exports to
73 countries worldwide. Tyson is the recognized market leader in almost every
retail and foodservice market it serves. Through its Cobb-Vantress subsidiary,
Tyson is also a leading chicken breeding stock supplier. In addition, Tyson is
the nation's second largest maker of corn and flour tortillas under the Mexican
Original(R) brand, as well as a leading provider of live swine.
About IBP, inc.
IBP, inc., headquartered in Dakota Dunes, South Dakota, is the world's largest
supplier of premium fresh beef and pork products, with more than 60 production
sites in North America, joint venture operations in China, Ireland and Russia
and sales offices throughout the world. The company, which generated annual
sales exceeding $16 billion, employs 50,000 people.
NYC..IBP, INC - New York Stock Exchange: IBP
One of the things that gets commonly overlooked about wild hogs is the fact that they are omnivorous, meaning they will eat both plant and animal matter. Because of this, they need very little assistance to survive. They are very opportunistic feeders and much of their diet is based on seasonal availability. Foods include grasses, roots, bulbs, leaves, nuts (acorns, pecans, etc.), fruits, mushrooms, and invertebrates. They will also eat insects, snails, earthworms, eggs, reptiles, live mammal and birds, as well as carrion dead animals. Feral hogs are especially fond of acorns, and domestic agricultural crops such as corn, Milo, rice, wheat, soybeans, peanuts, potatoes, watermelons and cantaloupe. They feed primarily at night and during twilight hours, but will also feed during daylight in cool or wet weather.
As long as they can find water they will thrive and flourish in the harshest of environments. Under normal conditions their population will increase at astonishing rates. A young sow is capable of breeding at six months of age but will normally have her first litter of pigs at eight to ten months, provided there is good nutrition. Under poor habitat conditions, sows have been known to eat their young. The average survival rate of a litter is approximately four to six pigs, but under good conditions may be as many as ten or twelve. Sows usually have two litters per year, roughly half males and half females. The production peaks in the early spring. However, if a sow has a litter in early January, she will have two more litters before the end of the year. When you put a pencil to those numbers, you can see why that there are so many wild hogs running around down here.
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The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (T.P.W.D.) did just that. They performed a study in 1991 and it was estimated that there were over one million feral hogs in Texas alone. I recently spoke with Mr. Rick Taylor, a Wildlife Biologist for T.P.W.D. and he agreed that was a conservative figure. There Is no way of knowing exactly how many hogs there are in and area as large as Texas, but these people make It their business to get a close count.
This was Mr. Taylor's answer to the question, "Can I wipe out a hog population through hunting or trapping?" He says, "The feral hog has managed to survive, adapt, and Increase its numbers despite attempts at population control. While it is possible to keep the population in check with continuous control, it Is highly unlikely to eradicate a hog population within an established range."
In talking with Mr. Taylor, he offered to provide me with some very interesting distribution and technical data from TEXAS FERAL HOG FACTS and FERAL HOG DISTRIBUTION IN TEXAS. The distribution map illustrates the areas were the hog populations are higher. I reside in south Bexar County, and we do most of our hunting south of where we live. However, the area just northwest of Bexar County provides some good hunting as well.
The "Russian boars" or European hogs that are mentioned on the "Texas feral hog facts" sheet were imported without the foresight of the effects they would have on this country. Soon the people involved with this endeavor realized these hogs were going to be a problem. The game ranchers were not prepared for such a beast. This is an animal that knows no boundary or border. There are very few fences, then or now, that will contain these massive wedge shaped creatures. This resulted In the loss of many of these large European hogs to the wilderness. Eventually they interbred with other wild hogs.
That is how the multiple varieties came to be, there are feral hogs that have the appearance of some of the more common domestic hogs. I have seen litters of wild pigs that have several different color piglets Contrary to popular belief, hogs are very intelligent animals. They travel the many miles around the countryside in search of food sources. Somehow they always know when the crops are ready for the picking. For this reason alone, thousands of dollars worth of crops are destroyed within days of harvest. An average size group of hogs will devour several acres of crops per night. A large group, of say eighty to ninety head, will destroy hundreds of acres of crops in less than a week. I have personally seen the results of such a feast. My father has told me of places he has seen that make what I just described look like child's play. That makes me wonder how much of this goes on and how, many dollars are lost each year.
Many of the farmers in and around our area know we have hog dogs, so they call upon my father to run the hogs off their land. Whether it be at planting time or harvest time, they are always having problems with wild hogs. When they go into a freshly planted field they will eat nearly every seed that was put in the ground. I think the sound of a tractor is probably like a big dinner bell. So, when a farmer calls us, he is usually desperate. He needs help and he needs it fast. Traps are helpful, but not effective. The same with shooting them or even at them. There is even an automatic "SHOT GUN" simulator that discharges a loud blast at preset intervals. They are usually set and placed in and around the problem areas. This is usually effective on deer and other small animals, but the hogs simply don't scare off that easy.
Most farmers have tried these conventional methods to rid the vermin, but the shear numbers are against them. However, when the dogs catch a hog In a given area and the hog lets out a loud squeal the other hogs seem to take that a little more seriously. It usually only takes one time, or one hog to squeal, for them to decide to look elsewhere for food. There have been a few occasions that the crops were bothered again after we caught hogs there, but I believe that it was probably a different group of hogs. When that happens the farmer calls us back and that's usually the end of his problems for that season.
This works well for us, we like to help the farmers and ranchers, plus we like to hunt with our dogs. We help the ones we can and other hunters help the ones they can, but some farmers get left out In the cold. In some cases the farmer only owns a few hundred acres. This leaves him at the mercy of his neighbors. What typically happens, is the hogs are coming from somewhere else, usually from the neighbors property or crossing through his land to get to the crops. When the dogs arrive, the hogs go back where they came from and the dogs follow. This can present a problem if the neighbor does not agree to allow the hunter to enter his property. Some do, some do not. Therefore we can only help the ones that obtain these rights prior to our arrival.
There have been cases where the neighbor changes his tune when he realizes how much damage the hogs are doing to his land and livestock. Not only do hogs like fresh produce, they love grub worms. Not that anybody cares about grub worms, but the fact remains, the hogs have to dig to get to them. That means rootings and lots of them. They dig holes, ruts, and trenches deep enough to get a truck or tractor stuck in. It looks like an army squadron was there having target practice when the hogs get through with a place.
Sheep, goat, and even cattle ranchers battle the hog population consistently. It is common knowledge that many small animals are taken by hogs. There was one cattle ranch foreman down here that took pictures of hogs devouring small calves. He had to use them as evidence to show his boss where the missing animals were going.
Because of the fact that hogs are over populating many areas, more and more people are starting to be effected by them. When someone tells me they have "x" amount of acres out in the country, I'll usually ask then if they have any thick brushy areas with hogs. Most people don't have a clue. The one statement I hear all the time is, "I never see any hogs on my ranch or deer lease. The reason for that is a hog is a nocturnal creature, meaning they do most of their traveling and hunting for food at night. Therefore, they are rarely seen during the daylight hours. However, an experienced hunter can spot hog signs (their tracks, crossings, rootings, rubs, bedding grounds, etc . . .) in many places that are thought not to be populated by wild hogs. But If I ask them about deer or turkey they usually say, "Ya know, I haven't been seeing as many deer or turkey lately as I used to." The thing that most people don't realize is that the hogs will starve the deer, turkey, and other wildlife off their land. When there are no crops in season, acorns and other such natural food sources becomes the hog's main diet. That is what most of the wildlife native to Texas rely on for survival. It's simply a matter of over population by a more dominant species. Either the other forest creatures move elsewhere or their numbers deplete rapidly.
I think one of the biggest future problems that landowners are facing is the wild hog. The lack of education by the general public will be their own downfall. We had a group of activists down here a few years back that were trying to protect these "harmless" animals. Somehow they got the idea that too many poor little pigs were being slaughtered. They were demanding that a season and bag limit be put on feral hogs. What a joke. For starters, wild hog are going to be here when we are all dead and gone. Secondly, there is not enough people hunting them to even put a dent in their already enormous population. Besides all of that, the wild hogs are very good to eat. Therefore every hunter I know takes the meat home to his family, the same as they do with deer, turkey, fish, etc . . . There is no meat wasted, so the idea that the hogs were being needlessly slaughtered must have been someone's idea of a joke. I don't know who started that little rumor, but I bet my best hat that not a single one of them ever had a hog in their backyard. If he did, then there might be a slaughter. Needless to say that didn't happen, but they will keep trying or another bunch of uneducated do-gooders will come along and try to put a stop to hog hunting for some other silly reason. If they only knew . . .
NYC why arent you looking for USA meatpackers that will be getting all this new business cause of the ban on imported meats.Someones loss is anothers gain......
Viv you just described the food pyramid...
The same diet they use to fatten hogs.
Any nutritionist that tells you to keep theat diet should be shot!
More from WW......Mediators Under Christ
But why ask the saints to pray to God for you? Why not pray to God yourself? After all, isn't Christ the one Mediator (1 Tim. 2:5), and don't the saints become mediators in violation of that if they pray for you?
No. Christ is the one Mediator between man and God because he is the only person who is both God and man. He is the only bridge between the two, the only God-man. But that role as Mediator is not compromised in the least by the fact that others intercede for us. Paul says, "First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all men, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life, godly and respectful in every way. This is good, and pleasing to God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth" (1 Tim. 2:1-4). Clearly, then, intercessory prayers offered by Christians on behalf of others is not a violation of Christ's sole mediatorship. In fact, as Paul tells us, such intercession is "good and pleasing to God."
This does not violate Christ's role as the one Mediator because ours is a secondary mediatorship which is entirely dependent on his and of a fundamentally different kind. Christ is the "one Mediator (Gk. mesites) between God and men" in the sense that he is the only God-man, but that does not mean humans are incapable serving as intermediaries in particular situations. This was the sense in which Moses is described as the mediator (Gk. mesites) of God's covenant with the children of Israel in his day (Gal. 3:19-20)
And it certainly does not prevent one Christian from praying for another. As mentioned above, Paul asked his friends to pray for him as he prayed for them. Christians today do the same, but none of this violates the truth that without Christ as Mediator our prayers to the Father would be ineffectual.
even the bible says that bible alone(sola scriptura) is not enough.Since the Reformers rejected the papacy, they also rejected the teaching authority of the Church. They looked elsewhere for the rule of faith and thought they found it solely in the Bible. Its interpretation would be left to the individual reader, as guided by the Holy Spirit. But reason and experience tell us that the Bible could not have been intended as each man's private guide to the truth. If individual guidance by the Holy Spirit were a reality, everyone would understand the same thing from the Bible since God cannot teach error. But Christians have understood contradictory things from Scripture. Fundamentalists even differ among themselves in what they think the Bible says.
The Bible also tells us that private interpretation is not to be the rule for understanding the Bible. Peter declares this to be a matter of prime importance, saying, "First of all you must understand this, that no prophecy of scripture is a matter of one's own interpretation" (2 Peter 1:20). Later he warns what can happen if a person ignorantly approaches Scripture on his own or is unstable in clinging to the apostolic teachings he has received. He states of Paul's letters, "There are some things in them hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures" (2 Peter 3:16). Private interpretation and instability in clinging to the doctrines passed down from the apostles can thus result in one twisting the Scriptures to one's own destruction.
The Bible also denies that it is sufficient as the Church's rule of faith. Paul acknowledges that much Christian teaching is to be found in the tradition which is handed down by word of mouth (1 Cor. 11:2, 2 Tim. 2:2). He instructs us to "stand firm and hold to the traditions which you were taught by us, either by word of mouth or by letter" (2 Thess. 2:15). We are told that the first Christians "devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching" (Acts 2:42), which was the oral teaching that was given even before the New Testament was written.
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Vivian....
I have onebig friend who lost 250-300 lbs on the Atkins Diet.
I've studied nutrition as I used to be a body builder. I am very interested in what Ola gives you.
I do the finger down the throat method :Oo
All you see in the world is the outcome of your idea about it.
(Supposedly) God.
Is it blasphemous to write a book declaring God is dictating it to you?
We certainly do not ask this question about the Bible. So what has happened in the last say 1000 years that have changed our willingness to accept such a belief today?
In the Book 'Conversations with God' By Neale Donald Walsch, claims just this. That God dictated this book to him over several years. Not only that, He dictated two other books as well.
Now the books say God talked to him as a simpleton however quantum mechanics and physics do not seem to be the common language of the layperson. Throw in a mobius loop and you've really confused the common reader. Did the editor play a part? Did God speak to him as well? Or Did God grant Nealy the supernatural ability to produce these books individually by himself ready for the publisher as is?
These are just some of the thoughts that used to discredit these types of reading materials. The the first thing the most staunch conservative theist does, is try to disprove these books as phony or fraud. It would seem to me, and I could only assume God as well, that the theist would do the exact opposite. Centuries of War, martyrdom, and death have followed the Bible and the People who fought for the principals and Words that they believe to have come directly from God. Did we as individuals become so lax in our faith that we honestly believe that God refuses to talk to us in any other way than through prayer and the Bible. Or is this pompousness and conceit of Gnosticism? A practice of faith that is clearly and repeatedly warned against, in the very book used to repudiate books from today’s era. Have con men and shysters hardened our hearts to the point that we block out the word of God attempting to protect ourselves from deceit? Again the Bible has an answer to that. God’s word is protection and life.
That brings me right back to the start. The Bible isn't just one big book. Its composed of many books written by different writers over a great period of time. Man wrote it and man arranged its order. Why is it we refuse to believe God could have selected modern individuals to spread His word through modern times? I suggest ‘The Best Seller List’ might have a little to do with it. But I feel the real answer lies within our own hearts.
Paule
I just put that on the gov thread a few minutes ago. eom
The Jewish Question Answered
By David Allen Comfort
Prologue
THE JEWISH QUESTION - FACT OR FANCY from the June 12, 1920 issue of the Dearborn Independent , a newspaper published by Henry Ford Sr., who wrote the following:
"The chief difficulty in writing about the Jewish Question is the supersensitiveness of Jews and non-Jews concerning the whole matter. There is a vague feeling that even to openly use the word 'Jew' or to expose it nakedly to print, is somehow improper. Polite evasions like 'Hebrew' and 'Semite,' both of which are subject to the criticism of innaccuracy, are timidly essayed, and people pick their way gingerly as if the whole subject were forbidden, until some courageous Jewish thinker comes straight out with the good old word 'Jew,' and then the constraint is relieved and the air is cleared. . . .
"There is extreme sensitiveness about the public discussion of the Jewish Question on the part of Gentiles [ i.e., non-Jews]. They would prefer to keep it in the hazy borderlands of their thought, shrouded in silence. Their heritage of tolerance has something to do with their attitude, but perhaps their instinctive sense of the difficulty involved has more to do with it. The principle public Gentile pronouncements upon the Jewish Question are in the manner of the truckling politician or the pleasant after-dinner speaker; the great Jewish names in philosophy, medicine, literature, music and finance are named over, the energy, ability and thrift of the race are dwelt upon, and everyone goes home feeling that a difficult place has been rather neatly negotiated. But nothing is changed thereby. The Jew is not changed. The Gentile is not changed. The Jew still remains the enigma of the world.
"Gentile sensitiveness on this point is best expressed by the desire for silence - 'Why discuss it at all?' is the attitude. Such an attitude is itself a proof that there is a problem which we would evade if we could. 'Why discuss it at all?' - the keen thinker clearly sees in the implications of such a question, the existence of a problem whose discussion or suppression will not always be within the choice of easy-going minds.
"Here in the United States it is a fact of this remarkable minority - a sparse Jewish ingredient of three percent in a nation of 110,000,000 [Mr. Ford was writing in 1920] attaining in 50 years a degree of control that would be impossible to a ten times larger group of any other race, that creates the Jewish Question here. . . .
"And that is were the Jewish Question begins. It begins in very simple terms - How does the Jew so habitually and so resistlessly gravitate to the highest places? What puts him there? Why is he put there? What does the fact of his being there mean to the world?
"That is the Jewish Question in its origin. From these points it goes on to others, and whether the trend becomes pro-Jewish or anti-Semitic depends on the amount of prejudice brought to the inquiry, and whether it becomes pro-Humanity on the amount of insight and intelligence.
"The Jewish Question in America cannot be concealed forever by threats against publication of matter extremely and invariably favorable to everything Jewish. It is here and it cannot be twisted into something else by the adroit use of propaganda, nor can it be forever silenced by threats. The Jews of the United States can best serve themselves and their fellow-Jews all over the world by letting drop their far to ready cry of "anti-Semitism," by adopting a franker tone than that which befits a helpless victim, and by seeing what the Jewish Question is and how it behooves every Jew who loves his people to help solve it."
This rather lengthy quote from the work of Henry Ford Sr. expresses the problem of the Jewish Question extremely well. While he wrote this over 75 years ago, it is just as pertinent today, if not more so, than it was in 1920. There are certain questions concerning the people we call Jews that must be answered to be able to have a real understanding of world events and their connection to prophecies found in the Old Testament and The Revelation.
The Jewish Question is one that should concern every Christian, every American, and even every person in the world; simply because the Jewish Question effects all of us. The Jewish Question needs to be examined with an open mind and a willingness to accept the facts that are revealed, even if to do so makes us uncomfortable.
The Jewish Question needs an answer for time is running out, and if the current state of world affairs is not soon changed, then the end is just around the proverbial corner.
Let us now answer the Jewish Question.
Chapter 1.
Who or What Is a Jew
OLD TESTAMENT
Jew - Yehuwdiy: a Judaite or Jew, a descendant of Judah."
The first use of the word "Jew" in the Bible appears in 2 Kings 16:6 and is referring to the House (or Kingdom) of Judah. As the Hebrew definition states, the word "Jew" only refers to either the descendants of Judah or the descendants of those tribes that comprised the House of Judah: the tribes of Judah, Benjamin, and Levi. Nowhere is the word "Jew" used in connection with any of the ten tribes that comprised the House (or Kingdom) of Israel.
NEW TESTAMENT
Jew (2453)* Ioudaios: (in the sense of Judah as a country); Judean, i.e., belonging to Judah.
Every use of the words "Jew," "Jewess," "Jews," Jewish, and "Jews' ," in the New Testament, except in Galatians 1:13, 14; 2:14, and Titus 1:14, is translated from the Greek word "Ioudaios."
Galatians 1:13, 14: "For you have heard of my former conduct in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God beyond measure and tried to destroy it. And I advanced in Judaism. . . . ."
Judaism (2454)* Ioudaismos: "Judaism," i.e., the Jewish faith."
* All numbers marked with * are word numbers in the related lexicons of Strong's Concordance.
Galatians 2:14: " . . . .live in the manner of the Gentiles and not as Jews.
Jews (2450)* Ioudaikos: "to become a Judean, i.e. "Judaize" (derived from Ioudaios, (2453)*.
Titus 1:14: ". . . .not giving heed to Jewish fables. . . ."
Jewish (2451)* Ioudaiko: Judaic, I. e., resembling a Judean."
WEBSTER'S NEW UNIVERSAL UNABRIDGED DICTIONARY (1989)
Israelite: "a descendant of Jacob, especially a member of the Hebrew people who inhabited the ancient kingdom of Israel; one of a group considered by its members or by others as God's chosen people; of or pertaining to ancient Israel or its people, Hebrews.)
From the above definitions and the definitions from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, we can conclude that the word "Jew" was, and is, never meant to refer to all thirteen tribes of Israel. The word "Jew" is an abbreviation of the word "Judean," which means "belonging to Judah" or is referring to a person living in Judea.
This next quote from The Jewish Almanac gives us what the Jews themselves have to say on the interchangeability of the words "Jew" and "Israelite."
THE JEWISH ALMANAC (1980), Bantam Books, Inc.
"Strictly speaking, it is incorrect to call an ancient Israelite a 'Jew' or to call a contemporary Jew an 'Israelite' or 'Hebrew.' The first Hebrews were not Jews at all, and contemporary Palestinians, by their own definition of the term 'Palestinian,' have to include Jews among their people. . . ." (page 3, under the heading "Identity Crises).
Where does modern Jewry descend from? This is the question we will be answering next with the help of the encyclopedia, the dictionary, and a few well-known and well-respected Jewish authors.
AMERICAN PEOPLES ENCYCLOPEDIA
"Khazars: The Jewish people became very influential [in Khazaria] and in A. D. 740 succeeded in converting the court to Judaism. A century later the incoming Slavic speaking tribesmen broke the power of the Khazars and scattered their people over central Europe, where they became known as 'Jews.' It is important to note that a large portion of the central European Jews are descendants from the converted Khazars."
THE THIRTEENTH TRIBE By Arthur Koestler (Random House)
Here is what this well-known and well-respected Jewish author had to say concerning the fact that a large portion of European Jews are descendants of converted Khazars: "If so, this would mean that their [European Jews'] ancestors came not from Jordan but from the Volga; not from Canaan but from the Caucasus. . . .and that genetically they are more related to the Hun, Uiger, and the Magyar tribes than to the seed of Jacob. . . ."
Mr. Koestler refers to these Jews as Ashkenazi Jews, and he proves in his above-mentioned book that ninety to ninety-five percent of world Jewry falls into the category of Ashkenazi Jews.
WEBSTER'S NEW UNIVERSAL UNABRIDGED DICTIONARY (1989)
Ashkenazim: "Jews of central and eastern Europe, or their descendants, distinguished from the Sephardim [Spanish Jews] chiefly by their liturgy, religious customs, and pronunciation of Hebrew."
Ashkenaz: son of Gomer and grandson of Japheth [Noah's youngest son], Genesis 10:1-3 and 1 Chronicles 1:6; an ancient kingdom in ancient Armenia."
There is a conspiracy going on today to erase any link between the Khazars and the Jews. The quote from the American Peoples Encyclopedia was taken from an early twentieth century edition. But in the last fifty years, most, if not all, references to the Khazars and their connection to modern Jewry has "mysteriously" been deleted from this and other publications. Arthur Koestler's book "The Thirteenth Tribe," which was once a Book of the Month Club selection and received rave reviews from such noted newspapers as the New York Times and Los Angeles Times, is now almost impossible to find in most major bookstores. In fact in almost all Jewish-owned bookstores they will say that this book is out of print, which is utterly untrue. The only way to get this book, in most cases, is to buy it from "underground" book sources. This is just one example of how far the rich and powerful Jewish financiers are dictating what you and I are to know and believe.
THERE GOES THE MIDDLE EAST (1957) By Alfred L. Lilienthal
"In the Middle East struggle, Semite is pitted against Semite. For the Arabs, as well as the Israelis, are Semitic people, which means no more than that they both speak a Semitic tongue" (Page 269).
"In fact, many Jews in Israel are of non-Semitic origin, [i.e., non-descendant of Shem]. Judaism was at one time a tremendous proselytizing force in the pagan world. Those who carried the religion of Yahweh [he is referring to the Judaic-Talmudic religion, which will be shown in chapter 2 to not be the religion of Yahweh] to the other parts of the globe were hardly more than a drop in the ocean of foreign peoples who had never possessed and racial, lingual, or cultural affinity with Israel but, nonetheless, became members of the Judaic monotheistic faith. See 'What Price Israel?', pages 213-228." (Footnote: page 269.)
WHAT PRICE ISRAEL? By Alfred L. Lilienthal
"Here is a paradox, a most ingenious paradox, it is an anthropological fact that many Christians have more Hebrew-Israelite blood in their veins than do most of their Jewish neighbors." (page 223).
AMERICAN PEOPLES ENCYCLOPEDIA (1952)
"The evidence of archaeology and history indicates that the early Jewish people were predominantly of Mediterranean race and that their homeland was in or near Arabia. At one time they formed an important state and through the centuries have maintained themselves as a distinctive religious grouping. Following their dispersal many spread across North Africa to Spain and during this movement converted many of the Berber tribes to Judaism. This had little effect on the physical type since most of the Berber tribes were likewise of Mediterranean race. That portion which moved into Spain and later northward achieved considerable wealth and prestige and became known as Sephardim Jews.
"Others of the faith pushed into the region south of the Aral and Caspian Seas and there so mingled with the local population that today they are predominantly of the Armenoid subrace of Caucasoids. Still others spread to the area around the Black Sea where they came in contact with the people of the Alpine race who made up the empire of the Khazars. This was a powerful trading stage which controlled the commerce between the Baltic and Black seas and the lower portions of the Danube. In the year 740 the Khazars were officially converted to Judaism. A century later they were crushed by the incoming Slavic-speaking people and were scattered over central Europe where they were known as Jews. It is from this grouping that most German and Polish Jews are descended, and they likewise make up a considerable part of the population now found in America. The term Askenazim is applied to this roundheaded, dark complexioned division.
"It is clear from this brief discussion that the Jews do not form a race. Some are Mediterranean, some are Alpine, some Armenoid, and a minority are Nordic." (Article: "Peoples of the World" Subtopic: "The Jews.")
So far, it has been shown that most of the Jews of today are not descendants of the ancient Israelites is undeniable. What may surprise a lot of people is that even at the time of Christ many, if not most, of the Jews living in Palestine were not of Israelite blood. The Roman historian Flavius Josephus detailed these facts out for us.
ANTIQUITIES OF THE JEWS. Now at this time [during the reign of Alexander Janeus in the first century B.C.] the Jews were in possession of the following cities that had belonged to Syrians, and Idumeans, and Phoenicians: at the seaside, Strato's Tower, Appolonia, Joppa, Jamnia, Ashdod, Gaza, Anthedon, Raphia, and Rinocoluna; in the middle of the country, near Idumea, Adora, and Marissa: near the country of Samaria, Mount Carmel, and Mount Tabor, Scythopolis, and Gadera; of the country of Moab, Heshbon, and Medaba, Lemba, and Oronas, Gelethon, Zara, the valley of the Cilices, and Pella; which last they utterly destroyed, because its would no bear to change their religious rites for those particular to the Jews." (Book 13, Chapter 15, Section 4.)
WARS OF THE JEWS by Flavius Josephus, Whiston Translation
"Jews of Antioch made proselytes of many of the Greeks and, in that manner, brought Greeks into the body of the Jews." )Book 7, Chapter 4, Section 3.)
ANTIQUITIES OF THE JEWS by Flavius Josephus, Whiston Translation
"For there were three philosophical sects among the Jews. The followers of the first of whom are the Pharisees; of the second the Sadducees; and of the third sect, who pretend to a severer discipline, are called Essens [Essenes]. These last are Jews [i.e. belonging to Judah] by birth, and seem to have a greater affection for one another than the other two sects have." (Book 3, Chapter 3.)
From the writings of Josephus we can see that even at the time of Christ most of the people who called themselves Jews were really people who were forced to accept Judaism or be destroyed like the people of Pella were destroyed. The problem of non-Israelite people being brought into the "body of the Jews" only got worse as the Romans Expelled the Jews from Palestine, as has been shown earlier in this chapter.
FACTS ARE FACTS by Benjamin Freedman
"The utterance by the Christian clergy which confuses Christians most, and which is constantly repeated from the pulpit, and on the written page, is that Jesus was a Jew. It is uttered by the clergy on the slightest pretext. They utter it without provocation. They appear to be 'trigger happy' about it! They never miss an opportunity to proclaim it to their congregations.
"The only way the clergy can get out of this mess they have brought on themselves, is to resort to telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. This is the only formula by which they can regain the confidence of their flock.
"Without fear of contradiction, based on the most competent, the best qualified authorities today, the clergy will have to admit, if they are honest, that Jesus was not a self-styled Jew."
A HISTORY OF THE JEWS By Albert Switzer
"In this connection we may note that principal source of anti-Jewish sentiment . . .the New Testament. In it, disparaging reference is made in several instances to people whose name is translated as 'Jews.' The term seems to designate the whole people, whether construed ethnically or religiously. But there is a linguistic confusion in the New Testament usage, for actually it does not always mean the entire people. In most instances the term Judeans (of which Jews is an abbreviation) is used in contradistinction to Galileans, Samaritans, Idumeans, and the residents of the other Roman provinces of Palestine. E.g., Jesus fled from the Judeans to the Galileans, where they 'received Him' (John 4:45). Furthermore, when Paul wants to identify the whole people, he says: 'Hath God cast away his people? For I also am an Israelite.' (Romans 11:1)" (Footnote: pages 115-116)
RELIGION IN AMERICA (College textbook)
"However, not all Jews in America have considered themselves to be religious Jews. Though many Jews claim something called Jewishness, it is not the synagogue or the temple or the religion of Judaism that they are talking about. Instead, they are claiming something else, an ethnic tradition perhaps. [Footnote: 'Nor might we add, is it a racial term. There is no such thing as a Jewish race. Jews are found among different people of varying characteristics the world over.'] The point becomes clearer when one substitutes, say Baptist, for Jew. To say that one is a Baptist but no longer a religious Baptist is a virtually meaningless utterance. You may be making a highly figurative allusion that your friend is no longer evangelical, morally rigorous, or some other thing. But there is no way to give up membership in the Baptist church and still be thought of as a Baptist. The Jew, on the other hand, can continue to think of himself as, and call himself a Jew, although he has not affiliation or intention of affiliating with a Jewish religious group. Or to put it still another way: a Baptist (or any other Christian in America) has to work at being a Baptist because being a Baptist is pretty much a voluntary matter. But an atheistic or skeptical Jew is still recognized as a Jew by others."
THE TEN "LOST" TRIBES OF ISRAEL
It is a false belief that Christians have that the Jews of today make up the twelve tribes of Israel. That falsehood has been exposed so far in chapter one, but then what has happened to the people who are real descendants of Israel? What follows will show that Israel does exist in the world and that they are the ones who have fulfilled the prophecies of the Old Testament, not the Jews.
THE JEWISH ENCYCLOPEDIA (1905)
"If the ten tribes have disappeared, the literal fulfillment of the prophecies would be impossible. If they have disappeared, they must exist somewhere under a different name." (Volume 2, page 249.)
This quote is in agreement with the Bible, Hosea 2:23, . . . then I will say to those who were not My people, 'You are My people!' and they shall say, "You are my God!' " Most pseudo-Christian clergy try to explain this away by saying that this verse is speaking about the Gentiles who've become Christians, but the clergy are either being outright dishonest or they are just ignorant of Hosea. It also could be that since they falsely believe that the Jews are all of Israel they say this verse is about Gentiles because it is the only way for them to explain it. A reading of all of Hosea will show that it deals with the House of Israel and the House of Judah from the time right before their being taken into captivity right on through to modern times. God tells us that Israel will exist and that they will be a vast multitude and that until the "end times" they will lose the knowledge of their heritage.
THE JEWISH RELIGION By Isaac Leiser
"By this return of the captives [from Babylon], the Israelite nation was not restored, since the ten tribes were left in banishment; and to this day, the researchers of travelers and wise men have not been able to trace their fate." (Volume 1, page 25.)
While the first half of this quote is true, the second half is false; but you have to expect that since the last thing modern Jewry wants is for it to be known that they are imposters and that the real physical descendants of Israel are the Anglo-Saxon-Celtic , (Germanic) people. There is no need to take my word on this statement, there are ancient documents that actually tell us what happened to the ten tribes of Israel.
ANTIQUITIES OF THE JEWS By Flavius Josephus
"Wherefore there are but two tribes in Asia and Europe subject to the Romans, while the ten tribes are beyond the Euphrates 'till now, and are an immense multitude and not to be estimated by number." Book 2, chapter 5, paragraph 2.
THE HOLY BIBLE the New King James Version
"James. a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ. To the twelve tribes that are scattered abroad: Greetings." James 1:1.
"Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the resident aliens throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asiaa, and Bithynia, elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father . . ." Peter 1:1-2.
THE APOCRAPHA
Those are the Ten Tribes which were carried away prisoner out of their own land in the time of Osea the king, whom Shalmanesar, the king of Assyria, led away captive; and he carried them over the waters, and so came they into another land. But they took this council among themselves, that they would leave the multitude of the heathens, and go forth into a further country, where never mankind dwelt, that they might there keep their law, which they never kept in their own land. And they entered into the Euphrates by the narrow passages of the river. For the Most High then showed signs to them, and held still the flood till they were passed over. For through that country there was a great way to go, namely a year and a half; and the same region is called Asareth. Then dwelt they there until the latter time." 2 Esdras 13:40-46.
HISTORY IS ON OUR SIDE By Oxonian
"If we draw a straight in a north-westernly direction from Media, through Armenia, to the boundary of the world, as it was to the Romans, we shall find it passes through the Crimea to the northern portions of the Danubian provinces. In that country there remains to this day a place called Ar-sereth, i.e., the city or hill of Sereth. The river Sereth flows beside the city of the same name."
The Israelites were carried away captive by the Assyrians towards the close of the eighth century B.C. By the middle of the seventh century B.C., the power of the Assyrians was thrown off and Media, where the ten tribes were brought by the Assyrians, was independent. This is when the House of Israel would effect their removal into the European land of Asareth. This was about the middle of the seventh century B.C.
The Greek historian, Herodotus, in his writings of about 450 B.C., tells us of the entry into Europe, about 200 years before his time, of a people who came from Asia, to be more precise, from the very region where the Israelites were carried off captive. He referred to these people as Scythians. To reach Europe, Herodotus tells us that the Scythians crossed the Araxes, or Aras, in Armenia; therefore they dwelt southward of that river before they crossed it. The upper course of the Araxes overlaps the upper course of the Euphrates.
Herodotus records that the Scythians advanced until they reached the land of the Kimmerians on the northwest of the Black Sea. This is the very same region described by Esdra as the land of Arsareth. Herodotus continues by saying that the Scythian movement into Europe took place in the reign of the king of Lydia who occupied the throne between 686 and 637 B.C. Between 686 and 637 B.C. would be the middle of the seventh century B.C., or at the same time the Israelites made their migration into Europe.
It is impossible that two precisely similar movements should start from the same point, arrive at the same destination, and proceed along a common route, at exactly the same epoch. Two different authors may use two different names for the people who migrated from Asia into Europe, but there can be no doubt that both authors are talking about the very same people.
It should be understood that the ten tribes did not migrate as one whole group. That would be very difficult, for two sources have told us that they were an "immense multitude not to be estimated by number." So the ten tribes came into Europe by different paths and by different names, such as: Jutes, Norsemen, Angles, Danes, Vandals, Goths, Saxons, Scythians, Celtics, and other Germanic or Teutonic tribes, but they all share a common racial bond in that their ancestry can be traced back through Jacob, Isaac, and Abraham the forefathers of the Israelite people.
In Hosea 1:10 we are told this about the future of the House of Israel after their captivity: "Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which can not be measured or numbered. And it shall come to pass in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not My people,' there it shall be said to them, 'Your are the sons of the living God.' " The House of Israel was not destroyed after the Assyrians took them into captivity, the ten tribes continued to grow in number and eventually, in the middle of the seventh century B.C., migrated toward Europe where they populated and prospered in western and central Europe, and later in America and Canada. They are known as the Anglo-Saxon-Celtic, Germanic people. As God foretold in Hosea 1:10 and 2:23, the House of Israel "lost" the knowledge of their true identity. They were to lose this knowledge until the "end times"; i.e., near the time of Christ's return. It has not been until the twentieth century that archaeology has unearthed the evidence that, indisputably, traces the ancestry of the Anglo-Saxon-Celtic, Germanic race to that of the tribes of Israel.
Some people may wonder why this knowledge is so important to Christians today. Well, there are two very vital reasons why this is such important information for all Christians to know. First, to understand the many prophecies in the Old Testament concerning the Israelites and the prophecies of The Revelation, we must first know to whom the prophecies are referring. Without that knowledge, it is impossible to decipher the meaning and/or message that the prophecy contains. Secondly, this knowledge brings with it massive responsibility for those people who are of the Anglo-Saxon-Celtic, Germanic race. We who are physical descendants of the tribes of Israel are to be the bringers or bearers of light to the rest of the world. We are supposed to be an example of how God-fearing and God loving people are to act and behave towards each other and in society: a calling we have performed dismally at for quite some time now.
This is what separates New Covenant Identity Christians from other groups (i. e., Aryan Nations, Israel Identity, etc.) who use their knowledge of their ancestry as an excuse to abuse, oppress, and harass anyone who is not a member of the "white" race. This is not, in any way, Christianly moral, and those groups or individuals who believe and act, in that manner, are not Christian. I do not support nor condone their beliefs or actions and I am just as vocal in denouncing them as I am against Judaic-Tamudism and all non- or anti-Christian groups.
Chapter one will close with two poems that best describe how I believe concerning the responsibility of the modern-day descendants of Israel and how every Israelite and Christian should behave towards people, no matter what their race may be.
ARISE 0 ISRAEL
The forgotten name that lingers deep in the abyss of our minds.
Our loss of a heritage that has been beneficial to all mankind.
We are taught to despise ourselves because ours is an evil race.
If the truth is spoken, then you're a bigot, a hater, society's disgrace.
Do not believe their lies about our heritage, for this truth we must defend.
From Abraham to Isaac, from Isaac to Jacob is from where we descend.
From our people emerged the Savior, this truth we must confess
Ours is a rich past which Almighty God Himself has sanctified and blessed.
We are chosen of Yahweh and in his love we must strive.
Strive to never let the real haters corrupt us from living humble lives.
This is not a call for oppression, for that is not from God above.
Treat the stranger as if he were a friend, for we are to be messengers of mercy and love.
Brothers and sisters, to you do I make this plea, "Arise, it is almost too late.
We have failed in our duty to God and man, bringing this sorrowful fate.
O ye nations of Israel, how much longer shall thine eyes be blind?
Arise O Israel and once again be God's earthly example to mankind.
--David Allen Comfort
COME YE STRANGERS
O ye strangers come join in the blessings bestowed from God above.
There is no hate in His creed, he is a God of truth, mercy, and love.
Salvation is granted only through Jesus Christ who bore the sins of mankind.
With your heart confess to Him and repent, leaving your life of sin behind.
Come be adopted into the Israelite family, for we are the bride of Yahweh.
To be without Christ is to be without hope, to have blinded eyes that'll never see.
Christian fellowship unites us as brothers and sisters no matter what our race.
All who follow Christ form one body, the Church, endowed by God's mercy and grace.
To the young and the old, to the rich and the poor, to all do I make this plea:
Come join in the blessings of God that are bestowed on all who believe.
So come ye strangers believe in Christ and be a member of God's family.
Embrace salvation, repent, and let the blood of Christ set you free.
--David Allen Comfort
CHAPTER 2.
JUDAISM, ITS ROOTS, AND THE TALMUD
THE JEWISH WORLD March 1923
"Fundamentally, Judaism is anti-Christian."
THE INTERNATIONAL JEW: THE WORLD'S GREATEST PROBLEM: By Henry Ford, Sr.
"The Christian can not read his Bible except through Jewish spectacles, and, therefore, reads it wrong." Volume 4, page 236.
"If the Jew were fully understood by the Gentiles [i.e., non-Jews], if the Christian churches, for example, were freed from their delusion that the Jews are Old Testament people, and if the churches really knew what the Talmudic religion was all about, this policy of misrepresentation would die. This policy succeeds because there is a feeling strongly entrenched in Christians by their religious leaders to the point where their people believe it is dangerous to oppose the Jews in anything, for whoever opposes a Jew damns himself! The 'fear of the Jews' is a very real element in our life. It is as real among Jews as among 'non-Jews' since the Jew is bound by fear of his own leaders, and he exercises the of the curse throughout all the sphere of his religion.
"If Jews were really Old Testament people, if they were really conscious of a 'mission for the blessing of all mankind,' the very things in which they offend the Christian world would disappear. If the Jew is being attacked, it is not because he is a Jew, but because he is the source and life of certain tendencies and influences which, if they are not checked, will mean the destruction of moral society."
I would like to take the time now to say that while I firmly believe that it is a vital part of the Talmudic-Judaic faith to be anti-Christian in all that a Jew does, I do not now nor have I ever condoned, advocated, nor failed to speak up against anyone who commits or advocates violence against the Jews or anyone who vandalizes their property both personal and religious. That kind of behavior is not committed by anyone who is Christian and should not be tolerated in any way whatsoever. I do, however, follow Christ's example of speaking out very strongly against the actions and beliefs of those people who call themselves Jews and follow the Talmudic religion (Mark 7:1-13: Matthew 28:11-15; John 5:10-47, 8:12-59).
Where does the modern Judaic religion trace its origin from? The Jews themselves, in their own words, can tell us this.
THE UNIVERSAL JEWISH ENCYCLOPEDIA 1943
"The Jewish religion, as it is today, traces its descent, without break, through all the centuries from the Pharisees. Their leading ideas and methods found expression in a literature of enormous extent of which a great deal is still in existence. The Talmud is the largest and most important single piece of that literature . . . and the study of it is essential for any real understanding of Pharisaism."
THE JEWS - THEIR HISTORY, CULTURE, AND RELIGION By Rabbi Louis Finklestein
". . . and decisions regarding the Jewish religion must be based on the Talmud, as the final resumé of those authorities when they existed." Volume 4, page 1332.
WEBSTER'S NEW UNIVERSAL UNABRIDGED DICTIONARY 1989
Torah - 1. the Pentateuch [books of Moses], being the first of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament; 2. the Old Testament itself; 3. the entire body of Jewish law as contained chiefly in the Old Testament and the Talmud."
Talmud - the collection of Jewish law and tradition consisting of the Mishnah and the Gemara and being either the edition produced in Palestine A.D. c400 or the larger, more important one produced in Babylonia A.D. c500."
COLLIER'S ENCYCLOPEDIA 1966
Sadducees: With the destruction of the Temple in A. D. 70 and the concomitant discontinuance of the priesthood, the Sadducees disappeared. While the Pharisees, too, disappeared as a separate party, the Pharisaic tradition has prevailed in Judaism. The Talmud, a product of that tradition, tends to minimize and depreciate the Sadducees in its references to them ." Herbert Bloom, volume 20, page 322.
Talmud - a body of rabbinical literature, consisting of the Mishnah (a compilation of laws) and the Gemara (the discussion and expositions revolving around the Mishnah). There are actually two Talmuds, the Palestinian and the Babylonian, each having different Gemara but the same Mishnah text; of the two the Babylonian Talmud is the most important and has received more attention.
. . . The Talmud represents the Oral Law and is considered, by Orthodox Jews, as authorative as the Written Law, represented by the Bible. According to tradition, the teachings of the Oral Law are Mosaic in origin and have been transmitted by word of mouth through the centuries. The Talmudic law is in a sense a derivative of biblical law, but to a great extent it reflexes the custom and thought of its own time. The Jewish observance of biblical law is determined by Talmudic interpretation, and all codes of Jewish law are based on the Talmud; hence the Talmud is of prime importance in Jewish religious practice. " Volume 22, page 47.
From all of this we see that the Talmud is a product of Pharisaism and, as many of the Jews themselves tell us, is the basis for the Judaic religion. The Bible tells us what our Lord Jesus Christ had to say about the Pharisees (and consequently the Talmud) and their religious practices. (See Matthew 28: 11-15; Mark 7:1-13; John 5:10-47, 8;12-59). Now let's see what author Benjamin Freedman, who converted from Judaism to Christianity, has to say about the Jewish "holy" book, the Talmud.
FACTS ARE FACTS By Benjamin Freedman
"From the birth of Jesus until this day, there never have been recorded more vicious and vile blasphemies of Christ and the Christian faith by anyone, anywhere or at any time than you will find between the covers of the 63 infamous books, which are the legal code that forms the basis for Jewish law . . . You will have to excuse the foul, obscene, indecent, lewd and vile language you will see from the official unabridged translation of the Talmud into English."
I have various photocopied pages of the Talmud in my possession and if anything Mr. Freedman understated the obscene and lewd context of the Talmud. It is the most vile and disgusting work of literature that can be found on this earth.
It should be mentioned that there are three major religious sects among the Jews. The first being Orthodox Judaism, which believes that biblical law can only be interpreted by the Talmud. They consider the Talmud to be of more importance than any other piece of literature. This includes the Bible.
The second major sect of the Jews is Conservative Judaism, which keeps the Old Testament as supreme authority but believes that the Talmud is the main way to understand the Bible.
The third, and final, major religious sect of the Jews is called Reform Judaism, which does not believe that the Talmud is divinely inspired. Reform Judaism is the liberal wing of Judaism. These are the ones you always hear about trying to have what are called "inter-faith" meetings and conferences with Christians.
Listed below will be but a very few quotes from the Talmud, and you can judge for yourself whether the Talmud is a produce of some "Oral Law" given to Moses from God. I must first warn you that these quotes from the Talmud will offend your sense of morality and decency.
NEW EDITION OF THE BABYLONIAN TALMUD New Talmud Publishing Co., Boston
"Rab Said: Pederasty with a child below nine years of age is not deemed as pederasty with a child above that. Samuel said: Pederasty with a child below three years is not treated as with a child above that.
Footnote from the Talmud: "I.e. Rab makes nine years the minimum; but if one committed sodomy with a child of lesser age, no guilt is incurred. Samuel makes three the minimum."
"What is the basis of their dispute? - Rab maintains that only he who is able to engage in sexual intercourse may, as the passive subject of pederasty throw guilt (upon the active offender); while he who is unable to engage in sexual intercourse cannot be a passive subject of pederasty (in that respect)." Sanhedrin 54b.
"R. Joseph said: Come and hear! A maiden aged three years and a day may be acquired in marriage by coition [sexual intercourse], and if her deceased husband's brother cohabits with her, she becomes his." Sanhedrin 55b
"It applies to the withholding of a labourer's wage. One Cuthean from another, or a Cuthean from an Israelite is forbidden, but an Israelite from a Cuthean is permitted." [Footnote: i.e., not-actionable] Sanhedrin 57a
Footnote from the Talmud:" 'Cuthean' (Samaritan) was here substituted by the censor for the original 'goy.' "
"Rab said: It means this: when a grown-up man has intercourse with a little girl it is nothing, for when the girl is less than this [Footnote: that is less than three years old.] it is as if one puts the finger into the eye, but when a small boy has intercourse with a grown-up woman he makes her as 'a girl who is injured by a piece of wood.' " Kethuboth 11b
Footnote from the Talmud: "I.e., tears come to the eye again and again, so does virginity come back to the little girl under the age of three."
"There is a greater stringency in respect to the teachings of the scribes than in respect to the Torah. If one says there is no precept or tefillin, so that a Biblical Law may be transgressed, he is exempt." Mishnah
Footnote from the Talmud: "But if he rules that the tefillin must contain five compartments; thus adding to the words of the scribes, he is liable."
In other words, if a Jew violates the Bible he is not liable, but if he violates the law of the Talmud he is liable.
"R. Eleazer further stated: What is meant by the Scriptural text, 'This is now bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh'? This teaches that Adam had intercourse with every beast and animal but found no satisfaction until he cohabited with Eve."
Footnote from the Talmud: [Gen. 2:23, emphasis on, 'This is now.']
"R. Papa observed: This is what men say, 'She who was the descendant of princes and governors played the harlot with carpenters.' . . . .A certain man [Footnote from the Talmud: 'Heretic.'] said to R. Hanina: Hast thou how old Balaam was? He replied: It is not actually stated, but since it is written, 'Bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days,' (it follows that) he was thirty-three or thirty-four hears old. He rejoined: Thou hast said correctly; I have personally seen Balaam's Chronicle in which it is stated, 'Balaam the lame was thirty years old when Phinehas the Robber killed him.
Footnote from the Talmud: 'Christianity in the Talmud, page 48, suggests that Balaam is frequently used in the Talmud as a type of Jesus (also pages 64-70). Though no name is mentioned to show which woman is meant, the mother of Jesus may be alluded to, which theory is strengthened by the statement that she mated with a carpenter.
Footnote from the Talmud: 'According to the view that all the Balaam passages are anti-Christian in tendency, Balaam being used as an alias for Jesus, Phinehas the Robber is thus taken to represent Pontius Pilatus, and the Chronicle of Balaam probably to denote the Gospel.' Sanhedrin 106a-106b.
"R. Eleazer, B. Jacob said: Also he who wishes to subject his friend to a vow to eat with him, should declare: 'Every vow which I may make in the future shall be null. (His vows are then invalid) provided that he remembers this at the time of the vow.
THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT Newspaper by Henry Ford Sr. (Also found in Mr. Ford's 4-volume book set, "The International Jew: The World's Greatest Problem.":
"It would be pleasant to be able to declare that this is merely one of the curiosities of the darkness which covers the Talmud, but the fact is that 'Kol Nidre' ['All Vows'] is not only an ancient curiosity; it is also a modern practice. In the volume of revised 'Festival Prayers,' published in 1919 by the Hebrew Publishing Company, New York, the prayer appears in its fullness:
"'All vows, obligations, oaths or anathemas, pledges or all names, which we have vowed, sworn, devoted, or bound ourselves to, from this day of atonement, until the next day of atonement (whose arrival we hope for in happiness) we repent, aforehand, of them all, they shall all be deemed absolved, forgiven, anulled, void and made of no effect; they shall not be binding, nor have any power; the vows shall not be reckoned vows, the obligation shall not be obligatory, nor the oaths considered as oaths.'
"If this strange statement were something dug out of the misty past, it would scarcely merit serious attention, but as being part of a revised Jewish prayer book printed in the United States in 1919 . . . it cannot be lightly dismissed after attention has once been called to it." (November 5, 1921).
These few quotes should be enough to convince any sane, reasonable, and morally upright person that the Talmud is the most vile set of books in existence. And do not forget that the 63 volumes of the Talmud are considered "holy" by two thirds of the religious Jewish community. These are the same people that your church leaders tell you are your spiritual brothers and sisters and who tell you that you must support your "Jewish brothers and sisters" both spiritually and financially. Christ did not embrace the Pharisees and their teachings and neither should we embrace the teachings of the modern-day Pharisees, encoded in the Talmud. Those who hold the Talmud as holy are very anti-Christian for the Talmud is very expressive in its view that Christianity should be eradicated. Entered below is a quote that exposes this very fact.
ANTISEMITISM By Bernard Lazare
"The Jew is not satisfied with de-Christianizing, he Judaizes and destroys the Christian faith; he provokes indifference, but he imposes his ideals on the world, of morals and of life, upon those whose faith he ruins; he works tirelessly at his age-old task, the annihilation of the religion of Christ." page 350
The above quote could be dismissed if it was written by someone the Jews call "Gentile" or "goy," but it is written by a Jew and is only one of many, many such quotes that could be used to illustrate the hatred of Christ and Christianity by most Jews. Mr. Henry Ford knew what he was talking about when he said, "The Christian can not read his Bible except through Jewish spectacles, and, therefore, reads it wrong.
Also, the Jewish World knew from where it spoke when it proclaimed in its March 1923 issue that, "Fundamentally, Judaism is anti-Christian.
The Miami Herald for January 3, 1993, ran a headline that read, "Czech: Declare Talmud a Racist Document." This is over the fact that Jews in the above-mentioned country are claiming anti-Semitism and trying to ban certain material that they do not like and that they claim is also anti-Semitic. The people there are now saying "what's fair is fair" and are trying to get the Talmud banned under the same laws that the Jews are using to ban literature that they feel is anti-Semitic. Needless to say, the Jews are not pleased that their very own tactics are being used against them.
To speak in the manner that I have will, and has, earned me various labels; i.e., neo-nazi and anti-Semite. The neo-nazi label is so absurd as to not even warrant a reply, but the anti-Semitic label is worthy of reply. To understand what is meant when one is labeled anti-Semitic we need to see what the predominant opinion of the Jewish community is concerning proper handling of anti-Semites.
AMERICAN HEBREW
"For the anti-Semite has no morality, and he has no conscience. He understands but one language, and he must be dealt with on his own level. The Purim Jews stood up for their lives. American Jews too must come to grips with our contemporary anti-Semites. We must fill our jails with anti-Semitic gangsters, we must fill our insane asylums with anti-Semitic lunatics, we must combat every alien Jew-hater, we must harass and prosecute our Jew baiters to the extreme limits of the laws, we must humble and shame our anti-Semitic hoodlums to such an extent that none will wish to dare to become 'fellow-travelers.';" March 1, 1946 (from an article concerning the Purim 'holy' day).
It must be understood that both orthodox and Conservative Judaism believe that the New Testament is an anti-Semitic book and even the liberal wing of Judaism, known as Reform Judaism would say, if they were honest, that they would like to, at the very least, change or delete some of the New Testament. In the eyes of both Orthodox and Conservative Jews all Christians who believe the New Testament word for word are anti-Semites. Anyone who voices opposition to anything remotely Jewish in nature is labeled "anti-Semitic."
These repeated charges and accusations of anti-Semitism against Christians and other non-Jews is a form of brainwashing and control. The chief aim is to make a person or persons feel guilty of some alleged evil-doing or crime of which they are not guilty. By making the person feel guilty the Jews manage to demoralize the accused and make him or her feel subservient to them. Most Christians have been effectively brainwashed into believing that they are inferior and indebted to the Jews in spiritual matters. As a result of these Christians are scared to oppose the Jews for fear of being cursed by God and outcast by society. There is no curse sent down from God on anyone who opposes the immoral decadence of the Talmud and other Jewish writings. The blame for allowing this "fear of the Jews" to exist must fall on our so-called "Christian" leaders who have never failed to express to their congregations that Christians and Jews are spiritual brothers and that Christians have a duty to help the Jews in any way they can, while the truth is that we are not spiritual brothers with the Jews, and the only ones we should be afraid of offending is God and Christ in both our actions and our beliefs.
PERSEVERANCE IN CHRIST By David Allen Comfort
The Jewish rabbis and other Jewish authorities say that the Talmud is the most important source of Jewish culture today. They have also shown from where the Talmud is derived, namely, the Pharisaic traditions. The same traditions that Jesus condemned in His earthly ministry. In fact, all followers of the Talmud can and should be classified as followers of the Pharisees, since they believe in the Pharisaic authority that is embodied in the Talmud.
In Matthew 23 Jesus calls the scribes and Pharisees "hypocrites" seven times, "blind guides" twice, and "serpents, brood of vipers" once, and He strongly denounced their religious practices. Matthew 15:6 has Jesus saying this about the Pharisaic traditions: "Thus you have made the commandments of God of no effect by your traditions." This we understand when we read the Talmud and see the filth that it embodies.
In John 8:44 Jesus refers to the Pharisees as being of their "father the devil." By this Jesus is saying that the Pharisee's real god is Satan and not Yahweh as they claim. Paul, in Thess. 2:15-16 had this to say about them: ". . . .and they do not please God and are contrary to all men."
According to today's standards, Jesus Christ and the apostles would all be labeled anti-Semitics; and the New Testament (if it were written today) would be denounced and banned as hate literature. It follows, therefore, that every true follower of Christ is, according to Jewish and societal standards, anti-Semitic.
Christ told us in Matthew 12:30 that "He that is not for Me is against Me." Whoever does not condemn the beliefs and actions of the enemies of Christ are, by their fear, apathy, or ignorance, supporters of those enemies and thus enemies of Christ themselves.
By not opposing the beliefs and actions of Talmudic Judaism we are in effect showing shame for the position that Christ held on this subject. We are told to follow His example and there are very few "Christians" who are willing to denounce the evils of Jewry as He did as is recorded in the New Testament. If our ignorance, apathy, of our "fear of the Jews" leads us to keep our lips closed then we have, ourselves, become antichrists and "partakers of their evil deeds." (2 John 11).
We need to speak out against all enemies of Christ, whether they are Jews or our so-called "Christian" leaders and their subjects. We must oppose the teaching of the Babylonian Talmud just as Jesus opposed the teachings of the Pharisees, for they are one and the same.
We need to repeat these truth over and over again until they become ingrained in the hearts of those who profess to love Yahweh. Instead of being intimidated by the phrase "anti-Semite" we should wear it as a badge of honor, for it means we are staying true to the path that Christ laid out for us.
When someone calls you an anti-Semite your reply should be, "Thank you, it is better than being an anti-Christ." Those who oppose Christ, Christianity, and God's law are the ones who need to be ashamed and feel guilty, not us. Likewise those who defend those who hate Christ, because they have been duped into believing that the Jews are God's chosen people, must be made to see their error and change their ways or they should be removed from our Christian congregation. We need to weed out the disease that has infected the body of Christ, the Church.
The apostle Paul, in his epistle to Titus, warned about the practices and the lies that would come from Jewry. He first states, in Titus 1:10, "For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, especially among those of the circumcision [i.e., the Jews], whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole households, teaching things that they ought not for the sake of shameful gain. . . ." Then in Titus 1:13-16 Paul says, "Therefore, rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in faith, not giving heed to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn from truth. To the pure all things are pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but even their minds and conscience are defiled. They profess to know God but in works they deny Him, being abominable, disobedient, and to every good work reprobate."
"We need to follow the example that Christ, Paul, Henry Ford, and Benjamin Freeman have set for us. We must unbury our heads from the proverbial sand and expose the followers of the Talmud and their supporters in the pseudo-Christian churches for what they are: imposters and antichrists. We need to stand tall in the face of adversity and against the pressure to cave into that societal demon: fear of the Jews; unlocking doors, breaking down walls, eradicating barriers and fences, and denouncing their blasphemies and heresies for what they are.
Exposing their lies, however, is not without dire consequences. Speaking the truth is deadly in a world run by deceivers. Only the elect have ears to hear and will continue as believers. They will label you, trying to ruin your integrity, your reputation; destroying righteous men under a false pretense of liberation.. By labeling you as a racist, a bigot, and an evil anti-Semitic monger of hate, they'll turn you into a social leper but don't be afraid of fate. No, don't be faint. Trust in Yahweh, be strong and fight for the truth. If not for yourself, then do it to save our brainwashed youth. Those who point to us do so to shield themselves from blame. False accusations labeling the innocent, is a cover for shame.
Never deny to society what we know to be honestly true. It is God Almighty, not man, whom we will be held accountable to. So let them spew out their labels and speak their vicious lies. The reality is that it is not a people or race that we hate or despise; it is the anti-God, anti-Christian actions and beliefs we condemn. It is the evil, demented ideals of the Talmud that is espoused by them So against all adversity we must persevere to preach the Word of Yahweh. Faith in God and Christ will give us strength as we root out the Talmudic tree.
Chapter 3.
INTERNATIONAL JEWISH FINANCIERS CONTROL THE WORLD
The Federal Reserve System is not a branch of the United States Government. It consists of privately owned banks that have been commissioned since 1913 by our government to issue currency and regulate interest rates. The regulation of interest rates is a vital factor in the rate of inflation; and as the inflation rate goes, so goes the economy of the United States.
There are eight banks, all under Jewish control, that own the grade 'A' stock in the Federal Reserve Banks. Four of these banks are located in Europe and are owned by "Old World" aristocratic Jewish families. The other four banks are located in New York City, the undisputed capital of U.S. (if not world) Jewry. (". . .more than 20% of world Jewry lives in the five boroughs of New York City." wrote Alfred Lilienthal, in "There Goes The Middle East," 1957, page 230.) The eight banks are as follows:
Rothschild Bank of London and Berlin
Lazard Brothers Bank of Paris
Israel Moses Seif Bank of Italy
Warburg Bank of Amsterdam and Hamburg
Lehman Brothers Bank of New York City
Kuhen-Loeb Bank of New York City
Goldman, Sachs Banks of New York City
Chase Manhattan bank of New York City (owned by the Rockefeller family - the "Rothschilds" of the Americas).
THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT Newspaper By Henry Ford Sr. for July 2, 1921.
"What the people of the United States do not understand and never have understood is that while the Federal Reserve Act was governmental, the whole Federal Reserve System is private. It is an officially created private banking system."
"Take up the standard encyclopedia, and while you will find no misstatement of fact in them, you will find no direct statement that the Federal Reserve System is a private banking system. . . ."
"Mr. Warburg is not at all shocked by the idea that the Federal Reserve System is really a new kind of banking control, because in his European experience he saw that all the central banks were private affairs."
"It will be well worth the reader's time, especially the reader who has always been puzzled by financial matters, to turn over in his mind the facts here given by a great Jewish financial expert [Paul M. Warburg] about the central bank idea. Observe the phrases:
"(a) 'without giving the government any part in the management or control."
"(b) 'these central banks, while legally private corporations . . . . are permitted to issue the notes of the nation.'
"(c) 'they are custodians of practically the entire metallic reserves of the nation and the keeper of the governmental funds.'
"(d) 'in questions of national policy, the government must rely on the willing and loyal co-operation of these central organs.' "
Mr. Ford attributed the above quotes to an essay by Paul Warburg entitled, "American and European Banking Methods and Bank Legislation Compared," as follows:
". . .Mr. Warburg is quite outspoken concerning the benighted state in which he found this country, and he is also outspoken about the 'untrained amateurs' who are candidates for every office. These, he says are not fitted to take part in the control of monetary affairs. But Mr. Warburg is. He says so. He admits that it was his ambition from the moment he came here as an alien Jewish-German banker, to change our financial affairs more to his liking. More than that, he has succeeded; he has succeeded, he himself says, more than most men do in a lifetime: he has succeeded. Professor Seligman [ ". . .wrote in the Proceeding of the Academy of Political Science that 'the Federal Reserve Act will be associated in history with the name of Paul M. Warburg' . . ."] says, to such an extent that throughout history the name of Paul M. Warburg and that of the Federal Reserve System shall be united." THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT, July 2, 1921.
ELITES AND MASSES: AN INTRODUCTION TO POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY By Martin N. Merger, Northern Kentucky University, 1981
"The extent of bank control of corporate stock in the entire range of the American economy is documented by a Senate report of 1974. Although the Senate committee which took the study was given only partial information by those corporations which responded to its request to identify their thirty (30) top stockholders, enough information was gathered to reveal a clear pattern: a concentration of stock held among a handful of banks, primarily in trust accounts, in corporations representing almost every area of economic activity- utilities, manufacturing, transportation, communication, and retail trade. Of the eighty-nine (89) corporations which cooperated by submitting data, Chase Manhattan Bank (New York) held two (2) percent or more of the stock in more than half (46) of the companies. . ." Chapter 6, page 140.
THE CONGRESSIONAL MINYAN By Rabbi Kurt Stone
One hundred and sixty-seven Jewish people have served in the U.S. Congress since 1774, this is out of a total of approximately eleven thousand, one hundred (11,100) congressmen and women, as of 1993. In 1993 there were forty-three Jewish members of Congress, that means that three to five percent of the U.S. population have twelve point four (12.4) percent of the Congressional population.
This does not really constitute a problem because the Jewish population in elected office is still insignificant. The real concern comes about when one sees the number of Congressional aides, Presidential aids, lobbyists, and presidentially non-elected appointees who are Jewish. Over the last fifty to seventy-five years the Jews have been the main advisors and policy makers to our elected officials, thus making them the real powers and force behind the direction our government takes. Mr. Warburg and the Federal Reserve System are prime examples of this.
It is estimated that at least fifty to sixty percent of President Clinton's appointees are Jewish. Here is a list of a few:
Tom Epstein, special assistant to the President
Joseph Stiglitz, economic advisor
Madeline Albright, Ambassador to the United Nations
Roger Altman, Deputy to the Secretary of the Treasury
Robert Rubin, Head of the Council of Economic Advisors
Bernard Nussbaum, White House Counsel (the last having been '"let go" and is facing criminal charges in the Whitewater investigation).
PROTOCOLS OF THE LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION
This book is evidence that the Jews, years ago, made plans for the destruction of God's real chosen people (real Israelites - the Anglo-Saxon-Celtic, i.e., the Germanic race) and everyone and everything that is considered Christian. This book contains the minutes (or portions of them) of a conference of international Jewish leaders with a plan to control the world. These minutes fell into the hands of a non-Jew in Russia, named Sergyei Nilus, who published them in 1905. A copy of this resides now in the British Museum in London, bearing the date of its receipt, August 10, 1906.
THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT Newspaper by Henry Ford Sr.
". . .in the American Hebrew of June 25, 1920, Herman Bernstein writes thus: 'About a year ago a representative of the Department of Justice submitted to me a copy of the manuscript of The Jewish Peril [later renamed: The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion] by professor Nilus. He asked for my opinion of the work. He said that the manuscript was a translation of a Russian book published in 1905 which was later suppressed. The manuscript was supposed to contain 'protocols' of the Wise Men of Zion and was supposed to have been read by Dr. Herzl at a secret conference of the Zionist Congress at Basle. He expressed the opinion that the work was probably that of Dr. Theodor Herzl. . . .He said that some American Senators who had seen the manuscript were amazed to find that so many years ago a scheme had been elaborated by the Jews which is now being carried out, and that the Bolshevism had been planned years ago by Jews who sought to destroy the world.' " July 10, 1920.
"In their present form [the protocols], which forms being their original form, there is no contradiction. The allegation of Jewish authorship seems essential to the consistency of the plan.
"If these documents were the forgeries which Jewish apologists claim them to be, the forgers would probably have taken pains to make Jewish authorship so clear that their purpose could easily have been detected. But only twice is the term 'Jew' used in them. After one has read much further than the average reader usually cares to go into such matters, one comes upon the plans of the establishment of the World Autocrat, and only then is it made clear of what lineage he is to be." July 24, 1920.
TRAGEDY AND HOPE By Carroll Quigley, Published by MacMillian Company of New York City
Mr. Quigley was a professor of History at the Foreign Service School of Georgetown University, also, he taught at Princeton and Harvard Universities. "Tragedy and Hope" is about the Illuminati and the Bilderbergers; i.e., the super-secret consortium of international financiers (most of whom are Ashkanazi Jews), who meet at least once a year to plan the fate of the rest of the world. Mr. Quigley was a member of the Bilderbergers but he chose to expose their plans for world control. It should be noted that soon after publishing this book against the wishes of his former associates, Mr. Quigley went into a hospital for minor surgery and died during the process . (You may judge for yourself whether his death was just an unfortunate accident or murder for disobeying orders.)
THE TRILATERAL COMMISSION (From the Information Sheet from the Trilateral Commission itself that is, included at the end of this document)
The European Community, North America, and Japan - the three main democratic industrialize areas of the world - are the three sides of the Trilateral Commission. The Commission's members are about 335 distinguished citizens with a variety of leadership responsibilities from these three regions. . ."
"The full commission gathers once each year - in Washington, DC in 1993, in Tokyo in 1994, in Copenhagen in 1995."
THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC Newspaper
"Indeed, the New York office of the commission, a 22-year-old organization of world corporate and political leaders, including three of the past four presidents. . .
"Begun in 1973 by banker David Rockefeller to promote international cooperation. . . .
"Three of the past four presidents, for example, were members of the Trilateral Commission until their election: Bill Clinton, George Bush, and Jimmy Carter. . .
"Currently, nine members of Congress are Trilateralists: Senators John Chafee, (R-RI); William Cohen, (R-ME); Dianne Feinstein, (D-CA); Charles Robb, (D-VA); Jay Rockefeller, (D-WV); William Roth, (R-DE); and Representatives Lee Hamilton, (D-IN); Jim Leach, (R-IA); and Charles Rangel, (D-NY).
"Its members also include the chairmen of such international corporations as Xerox; Archer-Daniels Midland Co.;, ITT Corp.; Ryder Systems, Inc; the Moslem Companies Ltd; Times-Mirror Co.; Eastman Kodak; Goldman, Sachs & Co.; Trw, Inc; The Washington Post Co.; Levi-Strauss & Co.; the Chase Manhattan Bank; Times-Warner; Nations Bank; Exxon; Chemical Banking Corp.; Sony; and Toyota Motor Corp." May 27, 1995.
There are 18 members of the Clinton Administration, including Clinton himself, that are "former" members of the Trilateral Commission. They are labeled "former members" because supposedly once you go into government service you must relinquish your membership, except that does not apply to senators and representatives.
Any organization that has over 300 members who are current and former, economic, political, and corporate leaders in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Japan must have influence and power beyond the scope for the average American citizen to comprehend. (See the information sheet at the end of this document for a list of members as of April, 1995.)
The Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations are minor compared to the Illuminati and the Bilderbergers. The Illuminati and the Bilderbergers are the controlling groups who use the Trilateral Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Club of Rome, and other such groups to ready the various nations for the coming "New World Order." These minor groups execute the plans of the "Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion." In other words, they do the dirty work in creating the World Government under the control of the international Jewish financiers.
The term "international Jew" has been used quite a bit so far and thus needs to be explained, so as to avoid any confusion about who is meant by it. Mr. Henry Ford Sr. explains its meaning very well so I will let his words from his newspaper define "international Jew."
(It should be noted that Mr. Ford refers to the Jews as a race, but it has already been proved that they are not a race. So his use of the term "race" must be excused, since we are privy to more information about the Jews than he was in the early 1920s.)
THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT Newspaper By Henry Ford Sr.
"There has been used in this series the term "international Jew." It is susceptible to two interpretations: one, the Jew wherever he may be; the other, the Jew who exercises internal control. The real contention of the world is with the latter and his satellites, whether Jew or Gentile.
"Now, this international type of Jew, this grasper after world-control, this actual possessor and wielder of world-control is a very unfortunate connection for his race to have. The most unfortunate thing about the international Jew, from the standpoint of the ordinary Jew, is that the international type is also a Jew. And the significance of this is that the type does not grow anywhere else than on a Jewish stem. There is no other racial nor national type that puts forth this kind of person. It is not merely that there are a few Jews among international financial controllers; it is that these world-controllers are exclusively Jews. That is the phenomenon that creates an unfortunate situation for those Jews who are not and never shall be world-controllers, who are plain people of the Jewish race. If world-control were mixed, like the control, say, of the biscuit business, then the occasional Jews we might find in those higher financial altitudes would not constitute the problem at all; the problem would then be limited to the existence of world-control in the hands of a few men of whatever race or lineage they might be. Bus since world-control is an ambition that has been only achieved by Jews, and not by any of the methods usually adopted by would-be world conquerors, it becomes inevitable that the question should center in that remarkable race.
"This brings another difficulty: in discussing this group of world-controllers under the name of Jews (and they are Jews). It is not always possible to stop and distinguish the group that is meant. The candid reader can usually determine that, but the Jew who is in a state of mind to be injured is sometimes pained by reading as a charge against himself what was intended for the upper group. 'Then why not discuss the upper group as financiers and not as Jews?' may be asked. Because they are Jews. It is not to the point to insist that in any list of rich men there are more Gentiles than Jews; we are not talking about merely rich men who have, many of them, gained their riches by serving a system, we are talking about those who Control - and it is perfectly apparent that merely to be rich is not to control. The world-controlling Jew has riches, but he also has something much more powerful than that." June 12, 1920.
It is an indisputable fact that the same international Jewish financiers who control America and western Europe also financed the Russian Revolution of 1917 that brought Communism to the Russian people, and, eventually, to eastern Europe.
JUDISK TIDSCRIFT By Blumenthal, Published in Sweden in 1929.
"Only recently our race [i.e., the Jews] has given the world a new prophet, but he has two faces and bears two names: on one side his name is Rothschild, the leader of the Capitalists, and on the other Karl Marx, the apostle of those who want to destroy capitalism
"The founders of the dynasty of the Occult Supreme World Rulers and World Assassins, were Amschel Rothschild and his wife Gutten Schnappen, a Jewess, in Frankfort-on-Main in Southern Germany. The Rothschilds are everywhere Masters of the financial situation, there is but one power in Europe, and that is the Rothschild. . . they can start or prevent wars. Their words can make or break empires. . . .:"
KARL MARX By David McLellan
According to Bruno Bauer [a Jew], for Jewish emancipation to be effective the state has to cease to be Christian - otherwise discrimination against the Jews was inevitable. But for Marx, Bauer had not gone for enough: the mere secularization of politics did not entail the emancipation of men as human beings. The United States had no established religion, yet was notorious for the religiosity of its inhabitants. 'But since the existence of religion,' Marx continued, 'is the existence of a defect.'"
ZIONISM RULES THE WORLD By Henry Klein (A Jewish lawyer from NYC)
In 1917, Schiff, Warburg, and their associates [super-rich Jewish capitalists], financed Trotsky [real name: Bronstein] and Lenin who overthrew the Russian Government. Their revolutionary followers murdered the Czar and his family and millions of Russians in the Ukraine. . ."
"Communism is no enemy of money control - it is the instrument of money power."
AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE REPORT February, 1916
"We learned for the first time that a revolution was being fomented in Russia. We discovered that those engaged in the work of destruction were - Jacob Schiff, Felix Warburg, Otto Kahn, Mortimer Schiff, Jerome Hanover, Charles Guggenheimer and Max Breiting - Jewish directors of Kuhn Loeb and Company [a Jewish bank subsidiary of the Rothschilds in New York]. There is scarcely a doubt that this revolution was worked up and launched by distinctly Jewish influences."
It is also stated in this report that while the Jews made up approximately five percent of the Russian population at that time, between eighty and ninety percent of the estimated fifty thousand communists who started the revolution were Jews. That figure goes to almost one hundred percent inside Lenin's inner circle.
THE SECRET WORLD GOVERNMENT OR THE HIDDEN HAND By Russian Major General Count Cherep Spiridovich in 1926
"Evil is enthroned in Moscow. The promoters are not Russians but Jews . . . soviet Jews have changed their name into Bolshevism.
In 1931 the U.S. Congressional Committee, which investigated the spread of Communism in the U.S., reported to Congress the following revelation:
U.S. HOUSE REPORT #2290
". . . a large proportion of all communist district organizers are of Jewish origin. Composition of communist membership in the United States of foreign origin, shows the Jews in the forefront. The largest daily communist newspaper in America is the Morning freiheit published in Yiddish, in New York City." (page 14)
OVERMAN COMMITTEE HEARINGS Testimony By R. R. Dennis (An overseas functionary of the YMCA in Moscow prior to the 1917 Revolution.)
"Our general opinion in Moscow was that anywhere from 20 to 25% of the communist leaders in Russia were Jews from America."
In the Illustrated Sunday Herald of London, England in 1920, Winston Churchill published an article entitled "Zionism versus Bolshevism: The Struggle for the Soul of the Jewish People." He identifies the Jewish leaders behind Communism. Other references for the proof of the Jewish control of the Russian revolution and of Communism are:" The Encyclopedia of Jewish Knowledge," published in 1938, edited by Jacob DeHass. This book gives tremendous amounts of information and evidence to proved the Jewish financial backing is what made the Bolshevik (Russian) Revolution of 1917 as successful as it was; and noted Jewish author Koestler's "Thieves in the Night" is good reading if one wants to get the feel on what the Jews were in during the first half of this century.
Some may say that this is all unimportant now, since "Communism is dead" and no longer is a threat to the world. There are two things wrong with that kind of thinking. First, it must be understood that the Cold War was orchestrated by international Jewish financiers to consolidate their power and give them even greater control. The United States and Europe have, over the last seventy-five years, grown increasingly socialist and thus made it easier for wealth and power to be consolidated and wielded by a few people. Communism and Socialism are not dead; they are alive and well in Europe, Canada, and, yes, even in the United States.
Just because Russia is no longer the Soviet Union does not mean that Russia is no longer under international Jewish control. The Jews have even set up one of their own to possibly either take control of the Russian Senate or maybe replace Yeltzin. Vladimir zhirinovsky, who plays the role of the Russian ultranationalist who uses anti-Jewish rhetoric to gain support, is the man. While he used anti-Jewish rhetoric to gain support the truth is that Vladimir zhirinovsky is himself Jewish.
THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC Associated Press By Nick Moore
"Public records show that Vladimir zhirinovsky, a Russian nationalist leader who campaigns on anti-Semitic themes, had a Jewish last name until age 18.
"zhirinovsky vehemently denies that he or his parents were Jewish. His origins have political significance in Russia because of his attacks on Jews, and the documents raised questions about his honesty.
"The Public records were found by a reporter working for The Associated Press and Cable News Network in four archives in Alma-Ata, the capitol of Kzakhstan and the city where zhirinovsky was born and raised. . .'
"Although the records do not say specifically who his father was, zhirinovsky's surname is listed on his birth registration as Eidelshstein. Documents show he applied for and changed his name to zhirinovsky from Eidelshstein in June 1964.
"Jewish activists say zhirinovsky worked for Shalom, a Jewish organization, in Moscow in the late 1980's but he has denied any affiliation with the group. He obtained an invitation to emigrate to Israel in 1983, although he never applied.
"Zhirinovsky denies being anti-Semitic but he has been quoted as saying that Jews are ''infecting the country" through media and that Jews have tried to dominate the world." (April 4, 1994.)
Zhirinovsky has also been quoted as saying that if he came to power in Russia he would "completely destroy" Germany. This hatred of Germany and of the German people is a fundamental trait among most Jews.
APPOINTMENT WITH HATE By Elie Wiesel, Avon Books, New York, 1968
"Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate - healthy virile hate - for what the German personifies., and for what persists in the German. To do otherwise would be a betrayal of the dead."
Now, tell me who the real haters are? This quote shows the true nature of those who follow the teachings of the Talmud. And make no doubt, the Nobel Peace (?) Laureate Elie Wiesel is a follower of the Talmud. He is quoted in Parade Magazine (January, 1995, the Sunday edition) as saying, "And so, in welcoming the new year, one is forced to contradict king Solomon, who was the wisest of all rulers, according to the ancient Talmudic sages." Notice that he used the Talmud as his reference point and not the Old Testament.
Elie Wiesel is also someone whom most pseudo-Christian preachers would, and do, hail as a hero and a great person. I know that for me anyone who touts this man (or any other man filled with hate) as a hero or a "great person" is not a Christian and is no friend of mine. What about you?
Mr. Wiesel is also a very good story teller. He is quoted in Time magazine (March 19, 1985) on page 79 as making the following statement: "In Buchenwald they sent 10,000 persons to their deaths each day. I was always in the last hundred near the gate. They stopped. Why?" The real question here should be: How could the Nazis have killed 10,.000 people a day (remember this is but one of many supposed "death camps")? Do the math: 10,000 people per day, say five days per week, for one year. That is 2,600,000 at one camp who were supposedly killed in only one year's time (and this is only if they took weekends off). The numbers do not add up, but no one dares to question the authority of what Mr. Weisel says because he is Jewish and we are all afraid of being labeled a racist or anti-Semitic or a neo-nazi.
International Jewish financiers will, and do use any means necessary to achieve their ultimate goal, world domination. Henry Ford, in his four-volume work "The International Jew: The World's Greatest Problem, reveals the Jewish nature of Communism and their funding, planning, and execution of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. It also details the activities of all the "International Jew nation within the nations." This includes how they provoked and controlled financially both sides of World War One. He also showed the way they would do the same in World War Two.
Here is what Mr. Ford had to say concerning war and the involvement of international Jewish financiers: "I studied the causes of wars and am convinced that nearly all wars are caused so someone can profit, and those who have profited now are the international financiers, the Jews. . . .Two very prominent Jews began to tell me about the power of the Jewish race, how they controlled the world through gold, and that no one but the Jews could stop the war [World War One]. They went into details to tell me the means by which they controlled the war . . . how they had the money, how they cornered all the basic materials needed to fight the war and all that, and they talked so long and so well they finally convinced me . . . Gather together the fifty most wealthy Jew financiers, the men who create war for their own profit, and control them, and you will put an end to all of it."
JEWISH WORLD News paper
"International Judaism forced Europe into war [World War One] not only to seize a large part of the gold, but to start a New Jewish World with that gold." (January 16, 1919)
This behavior is not new for the Jews. Even though we have been brainwashed by a constant barrage of lies and half-truths about the "poor plight" of the Jews and how they have been persecuted in every European country and by Christians since the time of Christ. Anyone who believes that the Jews have been persecuted through the centuries for no reason and that they are but innocent victims is sorely ignorant of history and the truth.
First, it should be said that true Christians do not oppress or kill anyone. Just because some group connects the title "Christian" to their cause or actions does not make it a Christian cause. It is our actions and beliefs that make us Christian, not our words or our declaration of being Christian. Words are hollow.
Secondly, the Jewish leaders are not as innocent as they proclaim to be.
THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE By Gibbons
[Quoting the French historian Guizot] "In Cyrenea, Jews slaughtered 220, 000 Greeks and 240,000 on the Isle of Cyprus, while in Egypt, they murdered a great multitude of people. Most of the Christian victims were sawed from head to foot."
SEPHER-JUCHAIN
". . .FROM A.D. 91-100, Jews killed in and outside Rome, innumerable crowds of Christians." (page 11)
"Upon the desires of the Jews, Diocletian [Roman Emperor, 284-305 A.D.] killed a great number of Christians." (page 108)
ROMAN HISTORY By Dion Casius (Translated into English in 1660)
"At the time the Jews who lived along Cyrenea, having for their captain a certain Andreas, killed many Christians in that area and even bathed in their blood. They were cruelly killed - some of them - sawing from the top of their heads down through the middle of their bodies."
THE HOLY BIBLE, The New King James Version
"[King Herod] vexed certain of the church and he killed James the brother of John with the sword, and because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter." (Acts 12:2-3)
The book of Acts is full of continual suffering and persecution of early Christians at the hands of the Jews, or at the hands of the Romans who wanted to appease the Jews. The Jews are by no means guilt-free when it comes to persecuting other people. One look at what they have done to the Palestine Arabs over the last forty-five years shows that they are no more immune to inflicting hatred and persecution against some other race, group, or nationality than is any other ethnic group. The truth is they may even be better at it than other groups are.
It should also be stated that while the "six million" figure of Jews killed by the Nazis is extremely inflated, no excuses should be made for the atrocities that the Nazis committed against the Jews, the Polish people, and other nationalities that they put into slave camps. It must also be remembered that the international Jewish financiers are the ones who funnelled the money into Hitler's Germany. They are the ones who financed Hitler's war machine. International Jewish leaders have always been willing to sacrifice their "lower, insignificant" brethren to achieve their goals. And make no doubt about it the real winners of W.W. II were the Jews; they took over Eastern Europe, they received their own country (though they literally stole it from the Palestinians with the help of the United States and Great Britain), and they got the United Nations formed, which has been used to advance their plans for world control. All of that and the international Jewish financiers increased their riches amazingly.
EPILOGUE
THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT Newspaper By Henry Ford Sr.
". . . 'Is there likelihood of the program of the Protocols being carried through to success?' The program is successful already. In many of its most important phases it is already a reality. But this need no cause alarm, for the chief weapon to be used against such a program, both in its completed and uncompleted parts is clear publicity. Let the people know. Arousing the people, alarming the people, appealing to the passions of the people is the method of the plan outlined in the Protocols. THE ANTIDOTE IS MERELY ENLIGHTENING THE PEOPLE.
"That is the only purpose of these articles. Enlightenment dispels prejudice. It is as desirable to dispel the prejudice of the Jew as the Gentile. Jewish writers too frequently assume that the prejudice is all on one side. The Protocols themselves ought to have the widest circulation among Jewish people, in order that they may check those things that bring suspicion upon their name." (July 24, 1920)
My goal in these writings is to shed some light on a rather dark reality. You will have to be the judge on whether I achieved that goal or not. Many good men have tried to bring to light some of the truths that I have outlined here and we must remember these men and their bravery; it is never easy to stand up for the truth. Men, such as Henry Ford Sr., who, along with his family, was severely harassed by the Jews because of his newspaper (The Dearborn Independent); Professor Caroll Quigley, who died mysteriously very soon after exposing his former colleagues in the Bilderbergers; and the Jewish men who took the high road and exposed their own people and their plans for world-control such as Benjamin Freeman, who converted to Christianity; Samuel Roth; Oscar Levy; Arthur Koestler; and all the men and women who publish and expose the international Jewish conspiracy for world power and the lies of their being Old Testament people, knowing the societal harassment they will face. Some of these people are Elizabeth Dilling and Raymond and Jo Bray. The latter two having spent over thirty years trying to do God's work and spread the truth that the Bible holds.
All of these people, and many more, deserve and have earned our respect and admiration for their bravery and dedication to exposing the international Jewish conspiracy that exists against the Anglo-Saxon-Celtic (Germanic) people, against Christians, and against the world.
These people area acting in the examples set by the apostles, the prophets, and Jesus Christ Himself. All of them, working together, separately, have shown the way of the path that we should follow.
Christ tells us twice in The Revelation that there would be a group of people who would claim to belong to Judah but would really be imposters. In Rev. 2:9 He says, "I know your works, and tribulation and poverty (but you are rich); and I know the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews [i.e. belong to Judah] and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan." Then in Rev. 3:9 He says, "Behold, I will make those of the synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews and are not, but lie; behold I will make them to come and worship before your feet and to know that I have loved you."
It is irrefutable that the people known as Jews in the world today are not descendants of the ancient Israelites but are imposters. It is my firm belief that most people who consider themselves to be Jews genuinely believe that they are descendants of the twelve tribes of Israel and are being used by their international Zionist brethren (who are the Jews who have achieved world control) to achieve their ends. Our contention is with the world control wielding international Jews and any Jew or non-Jew who helps them in achieving their goal.
They have stolen the title of God's chosen people to assure themselves of a "free ticket" to do whatever they wish without fear of retribution or even verbal opposition from anyone who wants to remain a "respectable" member of society. To challenge the Jews in public can cause one to lose family, friends, jobs, or even one's life.
The Illuminati, The Bilderbergers, the Trilateral Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations, the United Nations, and other such groups have, as their members, the most powerful and influential people in the world. The control of these groups is exclusively in the hands of the international Jewish financiers. While there are many non-Jews who are members of these groups, they do not hold top position within their respective organization; they are merely lackeys for the Jews.
The Holy Bible, in Isaiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, and The Revelation, details all of this out for anyone who has eyes to see and ears to hear. There are many good reference books to use to help you concerning the subjects mentioned in this writing. All of the books I have quoted from are good reference points as is a book entitled "The Revelation Decoded," written by the aforementioned Raymond Bray, which can be obtained from The Lord's Work, Inc., P. O. Box 37, Austin, KY 42123, U.S.A.
PATRIOTIC ADDRESS By Henry W. Beecher and Published by Ford, Howard & Hulbert, New York 1887.
"Some men so love that they will not speak painful truth, and some men utter truth so bitterly as to destroy love; and both are evil."
Mr. Beecher's words need to be heeded, because all too often people come out violently when speaking of these matters and that is neither helpful nor is it a Christian way to solve the "Jewish Question." If people don't come out violently, then most likely they say nothing at all, which is worse because then the message does not even get heard. We need to speak the truth but we must never let the mob mentality of violence, hatred, and fear become the outcome of our words.
In Christ's Sermon on the Mount there are a few passages that directly pertain to our discussion of truth and what we have to endure for speaking the truth.
MATTHEW 5:10-16
"Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for My sake. Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you. Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt has lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted? it is therefore good for nothing, but to cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men. Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father which is in heaven."
Are you the salt that has lost its savor; i.e., its flavor? Are you afraid of being labelled a racist or an anti-Semitic for speaking the truth? The apostles Paul, Stephen, and Peter, and Jesus Christ Himself were all not afraid to stand against public opinion and even to die before keeping quiet. We must be willing to speak out, despite all adversity, concerning God, Christ, and, yes, the "Jewish Question," too. We must speak the truth firmly and plainly for all to hear, just as Christ did, not with hatred or malice but with love, faith, and hope that another Benjamin Freeman, Henry Klein, or Caroll Quigley comes forward and exposes his comrades and their plans.
Christ, in Matthew 5:44-45 says, ". . .love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them that despitefully use you and persecute you; that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.: Do not hate the international Jews, for if you do, then you are no better than they are for they hate all non-Jews; but hate their actions and beliefs. Speak out against their actions and beliefs and pray that they may see the light and change their ways. While it is unlikely that even one of these Jews or non-Jew lackeys will ever repent, that is not really the point we much be concerned with. Our concern is with acting in a way befitting a follower of Christ. He has His plans for the world laid out; it is up to each and everyone of us to decide which side we will follow; and sitting on the proverbial fence will not leave us blameless. We must put our faith in Christ and God. We must speak loudly and strongly concerning the Jewish problem and let God's will, not our own, be done.
In Christ's name,
David Allen Comfort
Could You Have Passed the 8th Grade in 1895?
This is the eighth-grade final exam from 1895 from Salina, Kansas. It was taken from the original document on file at the Smoky Valley Genealogical Society and Library in Salina, Kansas and reprinted by the Salina Journal.
8th Grade Final Exam: Salina, Kansas - 1895 Examination Graduation Questions of Saline County, Kansas
April 13, 1895
J.W. Armstrong, County Superintendent.
Examinations at Salina, New Cambria, Gypsum City, Assaria, Falun, Bavaria and District No. 74 (in Glendale Twp.)
Reading and Penmanship - The Examination will be oral and the Penmanship of Applicants will be graded from the manuscripts.
GRAMMAR (Time, one hour)
1. Give nine rules for the use of Capital Letters.
2. Name the Parts of Speech and define those that have no modifications.
3. Define, Verse, Stanza and Paragraph.
4. What are the Principal Parts of a verb? Give Principal Parts of do, lie, lay and run.
5. Define Case. Illustrate each Case.
6. What is Punctuation? Give rules for principal marks of Punctuation.
7-10. Write a composition of about 150 words and show therein that you understand the practical use of the rules of grammar.
ARITHMETIC (Time 1 1/2 hours)
1. Name and define the Fundamental Rules of Arithmetic.
2. A wagon box is 2 ft. deep, 10 feet long, and 3 ft. wide. How many bushels of wheat will it hold?
3. If a load of wheat weighs 3,942 lbs., what is it worth at 50 cents per bushel, deducting 1,050 lbs. for tare?
4. District No. 33 has a valuation of $35,000. What is the necessary levy to carry on a school seven months at $50 per month, and have $104 for incidentals?
5. Find cost of 6,720 lbs. coal at $6.00 per ton.
6. Find the interest of $512.60 for 8 months and 18 days at 7 percent.
7. What is the cost of 40 boards 12 inches wide and 16 ft. long at $20 per in.?
8. Find bank discount on $300 for 90 days (go grace) at 10 percent.
9. What is the cost of a square farm at $15 per acre, the distance around which is 640 rods?
10. Write a Bank Check, a Promissory Note, and a Receipt.
U.S. HISTORY (Time, 45 minutes)
1. Give the epochs into which U.S. History is divided.
2. Give an account of the discovery of America by Columbus.
3. Relate the causes and results of the Revolutionary War.
4. Show the territorial growth of the United States.
5. Tell what you can of the history of Kansas.
6. Describe three of the most prominent battles of the Rebellion.
7. Who were the following: Morse, Whitney, Fulton, Bell, Lincoln, Penn and Howe?
8. Name events connected with the following dates: 1607, 1620, 1800, 1849 and 1865. ORTHOGRAPHY (time, one hour)
1. What is meant by the following: Alphabet, phonetic, orthography, etymology, syllabication?
2. What are elementary sounds? How classified?
3. What are the following, and give examples of each: Trigraph, subvocals, diphthong, cognate letters, linguals?
4. Give four substitutes for caret "u".
5. Give two rules for spelling words with final "e". Name two exceptions under each rule.
6. Give two uses of silent letters in spelling. Illustrate each.
7. Define the following prefixes and use in connection with a word: Bi, dis, mis, pre, semi, post, non, inter, mono, super.
8. Mark diacritically and divide into syllables the following, and name the sign that indicates the sound: Card, ball mercy, sir, odd, cell, rise, blood, fare, last.
9. Use the following correctly in sentences: Cite, site, sight, fane, fain, feign, vane, vain, vein, raze, raise, rays.
10. Write 10 words frequently mispronounced and indicate pronunciation by use of diacritical marks and by syllabication.
GEOGRAPHY (time, one hour)
1. What is climate? Upon what does climate depend?
2. How do you account for the extremes of climate in Kansas?
3. Of what use are rivers? Of what use is the ocean?
4. Describe the mountains of N.A.
5. Name and describe the following: Monrovia, Odessa, Denver, Manitoba, Heela, Yukon, St. Helena, Juan Fermandez, Aspinwall, and Orinoco.
6. Name and locate the principal trade centers of the U.S.
7. Name all the republics of Europe and give capital of each.
8. Why is the Atlantic Coast colder than the Pacific in the same latitude?
9. Describe the process by which the water of the ocean returns to the sources of rivers.
10. Describe the movements of the earth. Give inclination of the earth.
PHYSIOLOGY (Time, 45 minutes)
1. Where are the saliva, gastric juice, and bile secreted? What is the use of each in digestion?
2. How does nutrition reach the circulation?
3. What is the function of the liver? Of the kidneys?
4. How would you stop the flow of blood from an artery in case of laceration?
5. Give some general directions that you think would be beneficial to preserve the human body in a state of health.
Could You Have Passed the 8th Grade in 1895?
This is the eighth-grade final exam from 1895 from Salina, Kansas. It was taken from the original document on file at the Smoky Valley Genealogical Society and Library in Salina, Kansas and reprinted by the Salina Journal.
8th Grade Final Exam: Salina, Kansas - 1895 Examination Graduation Questions of Saline County, Kansas
April 13, 1895
J.W. Armstrong, County Superintendent.
Examinations at Salina, New Cambria, Gypsum City, Assaria, Falun, Bavaria and District No. 74 (in Glendale Twp.)
Reading and Penmanship - The Examination will be oral and the Penmanship of Applicants will be graded from the manuscripts.
GRAMMAR (Time, one hour)
1. Give nine rules for the use of Capital Letters.
2. Name the Parts of Speech and define those that have no modifications.
3. Define, Verse, Stanza and Paragraph.
4. What are the Principal Parts of a verb? Give Principal Parts of do, lie, lay and run.
5. Define Case. Illustrate each Case.
6. What is Punctuation? Give rules for principal marks of Punctuation.
7-10. Write a composition of about 150 words and show therein that you understand the practical use of the rules of grammar.
ARITHMETIC (Time 1 1/2 hours)
1. Name and define the Fundamental Rules of Arithmetic.
2. A wagon box is 2 ft. deep, 10 feet long, and 3 ft. wide. How many bushels of wheat will it hold?
3. If a load of wheat weighs 3,942 lbs., what is it worth at 50 cents per bushel, deducting 1,050 lbs. for tare?
4. District No. 33 has a valuation of $35,000. What is the necessary levy to carry on a school seven months at $50 per month, and have $104 for incidentals?
5. Find cost of 6,720 lbs. coal at $6.00 per ton.
6. Find the interest of $512.60 for 8 months and 18 days at 7 percent.
7. What is the cost of 40 boards 12 inches wide and 16 ft. long at $20 per in.?
8. Find bank discount on $300 for 90 days (go grace) at 10 percent.
9. What is the cost of a square farm at $15 per acre, the distance around which is 640 rods?
10. Write a Bank Check, a Promissory Note, and a Receipt.
U.S. HISTORY (Time, 45 minutes)
1. Give the epochs into which U.S. History is divided.
2. Give an account of the discovery of America by Columbus.
3. Relate the causes and results of the Revolutionary War.
4. Show the territorial growth of the United States.
5. Tell what you can of the history of Kansas.
6. Describe three of the most prominent battles of the Rebellion.
7. Who were the following: Morse, Whitney, Fulton, Bell, Lincoln, Penn and Howe?
8. Name events connected with the following dates: 1607, 1620, 1800, 1849 and 1865. ORTHOGRAPHY (time, one hour)
1. What is meant by the following: Alphabet, phonetic, orthography, etymology, syllabication?
2. What are elementary sounds? How classified?
3. What are the following, and give examples of each: Trigraph, subvocals, diphthong, cognate letters, linguals?
4. Give four substitutes for caret "u".
5. Give two rules for spelling words with final "e". Name two exceptions under each rule.
6. Give two uses of silent letters in spelling. Illustrate each.
7. Define the following prefixes and use in connection with a word: Bi, dis, mis, pre, semi, post, non, inter, mono, super.
8. Mark diacritically and divide into syllables the following, and name the sign that indicates the sound: Card, ball mercy, sir, odd, cell, rise, blood, fare, last.
9. Use the following correctly in sentences: Cite, site, sight, fane, fain, feign, vane, vain, vein, raze, raise, rays.
10. Write 10 words frequently mispronounced and indicate pronunciation by use of diacritical marks and by syllabication.
GEOGRAPHY (time, one hour)
1. What is climate? Upon what does climate depend?
2. How do you account for the extremes of climate in Kansas?
3. Of what use are rivers? Of what use is the ocean?
4. Describe the mountains of N.A.
5. Name and describe the following: Monrovia, Odessa, Denver, Manitoba, Heela, Yukon, St. Helena, Juan Fermandez, Aspinwall, and Orinoco.
6. Name and locate the principal trade centers of the U.S.
7. Name all the republics of Europe and give capital of each.
8. Why is the Atlantic Coast colder than the Pacific in the same latitude?
9. Describe the process by which the water of the ocean returns to the sources of rivers.
10. Describe the movements of the earth. Give inclination of the earth.
PHYSIOLOGY (Time, 45 minutes)
1. Where are the saliva, gastric juice, and bile secreted? What is the use of each in digestion?
2. How does nutrition reach the circulation?
3. What is the function of the liver? Of the kidneys?
4. How would you stop the flow of blood from an artery in case of laceration?
5. Give some general directions that you think would be beneficial to preserve the human body in a state of health.
Askher had something to do with this.
Some might think that atheists would be content with simply not believing in God and leave the theists to themselves. After all, if God doesn't exist then what's the big deal? Why not let the theists believe in God the way a child believes in the tooth fairy? To the atheist neither exists. So why bother?
Even though many atheists don't care if people believe in God or not, WZ feels obligated to fight what is often labeled as "oppressive religious bigotry." To this end, many atheists are active in politics, social groups, the Internet, and various lawsuits with the intent of changing society to a more atheistic nature. They often consider Christians as a threat to freedom, common sense, and a good life. Consider this quote I found on an atheist web site at atheists.org.
"We are constantly being overrun by people trying to get their ticket to Heaven at our expense, and if we don't stand up and be counted we will lose the very freedom we hold most dear; freedom of thought. . . "
This kind of statement is quite common in atheist circles. Many atheists I've spoken to tell me that I cannot think logically, that I am deluded, and that I believe in myths. They tell me that I am bound by foolish antiquated beliefs and need to abandon my religious bigotry and become a 'free thinker' like them.
Additionally, after reading much atheist material and debating with them over the internet, I've discovered that they often use mockery of God, religious leaders, and the Bible as weapons. This isn't the case with all atheists, as I have had very good conversations with some of them, but ridiculing attitudes are surprisingly prevalent and strong. Character assassination, half-truths, and out-of-context Bible quotes are typical tools used by many of them in attempts to make Christianity look bad.
Now, I am not trying to dismantle the atheist position with a generic character assassination. I am only making on observation. In the majority of my dealings with atheists, I have encountered great arrogance, rudeness, and condescension. Atheists have told me that religion is only a giant con-game designed to get peoples' money, that clergymen are in business for themselves, and that I was mentally ill for believing in God. Following are other comments from atheists:
· "I do not want to be bound to archaic mythologies. This is the 20th century."
· "Christianity is an oppressive system used to control and manipulate people."
· "Logic demands that religion be proven wrong."
· "Christians should all be in mental wards."
· "We are free thinkers and not bound by outdated and oppressive myths."
· "Christians are sycophantic sheep."
Atheists often imply that reason is best used by them and not by Christians who, many say, need psychological help for believing in God. This condescending attitude is a fountain for derogatory comments. I have been called stupid, absurd, illogical, and a slave to my religion. I get the impression from atheists that they are so convinced they have the truth that no other options are available to them and that if you don't agree with them, you're not smart. Of course, they will deny this and say I am being ridiculous, but this is what I have observed -- right or wrong.
Consider some of the terms the atheists use to describe themselves: "Free thinkers," "Free from religion," "Rational," etc. They use these self-descriptive terms in juxtaposition to statements of Christians as religious bigots, losers, and brainwashers. On the atheist.org website I read,
"Critical thinking, objectivity, scientific methodology, and peer review are all hallmarks of Atheism. Submission, fear, credulity, and insupportable claims are the hallmarks of religious belief. "
When I read statements like this I can't help but wonder which religion they are referring to. It can't be Christianity because the Bible teaches us to love God and love our fellow man. It teaches that the fear of the Lord is wisdom, that truthfulness is a way of life, and that eyewitness accounts of the miraculous is one of the evidences for its validity. Of course, the atheist would argue with all of this because he must. But still, if an atheist wants to attack religion in general and Christianity specifically, it should, at least, do so objectively. But this doesn't seem to be the hallmark of the atheistic movement; at least not from what I've seen so far.
Consider the following statements from Atheists.
"Godism is consistent with crime, cruelty, envy, hatred, malice, and uncharitableness."
"As long as religious purposes are served, ethics, inquiry and reason are abandoned."
Are these the statements of tolerance, impartiality, truth, and sound judgment? Not at all. It seems to me that if the atheists were in power, that their views of religion being cruel, evil, and unreasonable would force them to either imprison the 'offenders' or legislate complete and total annihilation of all things religious. No wonder they are working against the Lord and His people.
Does atheism really teach freedom? No. It teaches bondage for its adherents and for those who disagree with it.
And...
Even on a theoretical level, it does not seem possible for mutations to account for the diversity of life on earth, at least not in the time available. According to Professor Ambrose, the minimum number of mutations necessary to produce the simplest new structure in an organism is five (Davis, 67-68; Bird, 1:88), but these five mutations must be the proper type and must affect five genes that are functionally related. Davis, 67-68. In other words, not just any five mutations will do. The odds against this occurring in a single organism are astronomical.
Mutations of any kind are believed to occur once in every 100,000 gene replications (though some estimate they occur far less frequently). Davis, 68; Wysong, 272. Assuming that the first single-celled organism had 10,000 genes, the same number as E. coli (Wysong, 113), one mutation would exist for every ten cells. Since only one mutation per 1,000 is non-harmful (Davis, 66), there would be only one non-harmful mutation in a population of 10,000 such cells. The odds that this one non-harmful mutation would affect a particular gene, however, is 1 in 10,000 (since there are 10,000 genes). Therefore, one would need a population of 100,000,000 cells before one of them would be expected to possess a non-harmful mutation of a specific gene.
The odds of a single cell possessing non-harmful mutations of five specific (functionally related) genes is the product of their separate probabilities. Morris, 63. In other words, the probability is 1 in 108 X 108 X 108 X 108 X 108, or 1 in 1040. If one hundred trillion (1014) bacteria were produced every second for five billion years (1017 seconds), the resulting population (1031) would be only 1/1,000,000,000 of what was needed!
But even this is not the whole story. These are the odds of getting just any kind of non-harmful mutations of five related genes. In order to create a new structure, however, the mutated genes must integrate or function in concert with one another. According to Professor Ambrose, the difficulties of obtaining non-harmful mutations of five related genes "fade into insignificance when we recognize that there must be a close integration of functions between the individual genes of the cluster, which must also be integrated into the development of the entire organism." Davis, 68.
In addition to this, the structure resulting from the cluster of the five integrated genes must, in the words of Ambrose, "give some selective advantage, or else become scattered once more within the population at large, due to interbreeding." Bird, 1:87. Ambrose concludes that "it seems impossible to explain [the origin of increased complexity] in terms of random mutations alone." Bird, 1:87.
When one considers that a structure as "simple" as the wing on a fruit fly involves 30-40 genes (Bird, 1:88), it is mathematically absurd to think that random genetic mutations can account for the vast diversity of life on earth. Even Julian Huxley, a staunch evolutionist who made assumptions very favorable to the theory, computed the odds against the evolution of a horse to be 1 in 10300,000. Pitman, 68. (If only more Christians had that kind of faith!)
This probability problem is not the delusion of some radical scientific fringe. As stated by William Fix:
Whether one looks to mutations or gene flow for the source of the variations needed to fuel evolution, there is an enormous probability problem at the core of Darwinist and neo-Darwinist theory, which has been cited by hundreds of scientists and professionals. Engineers, physicists, astronomers, and biologists who have looked without prejudice at the notion of such variations producing ever more complex organisms have come to the same conclusion: The evolutionists are assuming the impossible. Fix, 196.
Renowned French zoologist Pierre-Paul Grassé has made no secret of his skepticism:
What gambler would be crazy enough to play roulette with random evolution? The probability of dust carried by the wind reproducing DÜrer's (Matt, I can't get the 'u' to go small for me there!) "Melancholia" is less infinitesimal than the probability of copy errors in the DNA molecule leading to the formation of the eye; besides, these errors had no relationship whatsoever with the function that the eye would have to perform or was starting to perform. There is no law against daydreaming, but science must not indulge in it. Grassé, 104.
In 1967 a group of internationally known biologists and mathematicians met to consider whether random mutations and natural selection could qualify as the mechanism of evolutionary change. The answer of the mathematicians was "No." Morris, 64-65; Sunderland, 128-36. Participants at the symposium, all evolutionists, recognized the need for some type of mechanism to reduce the odds against evolution. In the words of Dr. Murray Eden of M.I.T.:
What I am claiming is that without some constraint on the notion of random variation, in either the properties of the organism or the sequence of the DNA, there is no particular reason to expect that we could have gotten any kind of viable form other than nonsense. Sunderland, 138.
Summarizing his and Hoyle's analysis of the mechanism of evolution, Wickramasinghe states:
We found that there's just no way it could happen. If you start with a simple micro-organism, no matter how it arose on the earth, primordial soup or otherwise, then if you just have that single organizational, informational unit and you said that you copied this sequentially time and time again, the question is does that accumulate enough copying errors, enough mistakes in copying, and do these accumulations of copying errors lead to the diversity of living forms that one sees on the earth. That's the general, usual formulation of the theory of evolution.... We looked at this quite systematically, quite carefully, in numerical terms. Checking all the numbers, rates of mutation and so on, we decided that there is no way in which that could even marginally approach the truth. Varghese, 28.
Thus, several decades have only confirmed the observation of Gertrude Himmelfarb in her book Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution (1959):
t is now discovered that favorable mutations are not only small but exceedingly rare, and the fortuitous combination of favorable mutations such as would be required for the production of even a fruit fly, let alone a man, is so much rarer still that the odds against it would be expressed by a number containing as many noughts as there are letters in the average novel, "a number greater than that of all the electrons and protons in the visible universe" -- an improbability as great as that a monkey provided with a typewriter would by chance peck out the works of Shakespeare. Fix, 196.
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References: (Just for you, Zebub!)
· Bird, W.R., The Origin of Species Revisited (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1991; originally published by Philosophical Library in 1987). Bird graduated summa ### laude from Vanderbilt University and has a J.D. degree from Yale Law School. He has published articles in numerous law journals and represented the State of Louisiana in the challenge to its "creation statute." Both volumes of this work are extensively documented with references to the pertinent scientific literature.
· Davis, Percival and Dean H. Kenyon, Of Pandas and People (Dallas: Haughton Publishing Co. 1990). Davis has an M.A. degree from Columbia University and is a life science professor at Hillsborough Community College. Kenyon has a Ph.D. in biophysics from Stanford and is Professor of Biology at San Francisco State University. He is the co-author of Biochemical Predestination published by McGraw-Hill in 1969. The Academic Editor of Of Pandas and People was Charles B. Thaxton who has a Ph.D. in chemistry from Iowa State University and is the co-author of The Mystery of Life's Origin published by the Philosophical Library in 1984.
· Fix, William R., The Bone Peddlers (New York: Macmillan PUblishing, 1984). Fix has an M.A. degree in behavioral science from Simon Fraser University (Canada) and is the author of several books.
· Grassé, Pierre-P., Evolution of Living Organisms (New York: Academic Press, 1977). Grassé is France's most distinguished zoologist. Dobzhansky has described his knowledge of the living world as "encyclopedic."
· Morris, Henry M. and Gary E. Parker, What is Creation Science (San Diego: Creation-Life Publishers, 1982). Morris has a Ph.D. in hydraulic engineering from the University of Minnesota. Parker has a M.S. and Ed.D. in biology from Ball State University.
· Pitman, Michael, Adam and Evolution (London: Rider & Co., 1984). Pitman has a B.A. degree in science from Open University (England), a M.A. degree in classics from Oxford, and teaches biology in Cambridge, England. The introduction is by Dr. Bernard Stonehouse, a scientist who has held academic posts at Oxford, Yale, and other prestigious universities.
· Sunderland, Luther D., Darwin's Enigma: Fossils and Other Problems, 3d ed. (Santee, CA: Master Book Publishers, 1984). Sunderland had a B.S. from Penn. State University and worked as an aerospace engineer with General Electric specializing in automatic flight control systems (died 1987).
· Varghese, Roy Abraham, ed., The Intellectuals Speak Out About God (Chicago: Regenery Gateway, 1984). Those quoted are Robert Jastrow and Chandra Wickramasinghe. ...Wickramisinghe is an internationally recognized authority on interstellar matter and is the head of the department of applied mathematics and astronomy at University College in Cardiff, Wales.
· Wysong, Randy L., The Creation-Evolution Controversy (Midland, MI: Inquiry Press, 1976). Wysong has a B.S. and D.V.M. from Michigan State University
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The General Possibility of Time Travel in General Relativity
Time travel has recently been discussed quite extensively in the context of general relativity. Time travel can occur in general relativistic models in which one has closed time-like curves (CTC’s). A time like curve is simply a space-time trajectory such that the speed of light is never equalled or exceeded along this trajectory. Time-like curves thus represent the possible trajectories of ordinary objects. If there were time-like curves which were closed (formed a loop), then travelling along such a curve one would never exceed the speed of light, and yet after a certain amount of (proper) time one would return to a point in space-time that one previously visited. Or, by staying close to such a CTC, one could come arbitrarily close to a point in space-time that one previously visited. General relativity, in a straightforward sense, allows time travel: there appear to be many space-times compatible with the fundamental equations of General Relativity in which there are CTC’s. Space-time, for instance, could have a Minkowski metric everywhere, and yet have CTC’s everywhere by having the temporal dimension (topologically) rolled up as a circle. Or, one can have wormhole connections between different parts of space-time which allow one to enter ‘mouth A’ of such a wormhole connection, travel through the wormhole, exit the wormhole at ‘mouth B’ and re-enter ‘mouth A’ again. Or, one can have space-times which topologically are R4, and yet have CTC’s due to the ‘tilting’ of light cones (Gödel space-times, Taub-NUT space-times, etc.)
General relativity thus appears to provide ample opportunity for time travel. Note that just because there are CTC’s in a space-time, this does not mean that one can get from any point in the space-time to any other point by following some future directed timelike curve. In many space-times in which there are CTC’s such CTC’s do not occur all over space-time. Some parts of space-time can have CTC’s while other parts do not. Let us call the part of a space-time that has CTC’s the "time travel region" of that space-time, while calling the rest of that space-time the "normal region". More precisely, the "time travel region" consists of all the space-time points p such that there exists a (non-zero length) timelike curve that starts at p and returns to p. Now let us start examining space-times with CTC’s a bit more closely for potential problems.
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