Michael Tellinger Tells It As It Is ~ A Very Powerful Presentation to Start Your New Year

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Michael Tellinger Tells It As It Is ~ A Very Powerful Presentation to Start Your New Year

Get ready! NASA spacecraft soon to rendezvous with dwarf planet Ceres

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After voyaging 2.4 billion miles through space, NASA’s Dawn

spacecraft is finally in the home stretch of its journey to Ceres, the

largest member of the asteroid belt and one of five dwarf planets in the

solar system.

Dawn

was launched in 2007 to study two very different asteroids and learn

more about the building blocks of our solar system. Ceres is Dawn’s

second stop; its first was Vesta, which the spacecraft circled from July

2011 to September 2012.

Now,

after leaving Vesta and traveling through space for more than two

years, the spacecraft is roughly 400,000 miles away from Ceres and

speeding toward it at about 450 mph, with a rendezvous set for March 6.

Ceres

is a dwarf planet, along with Haumea, Makemake, Pluto and Eris (whose

discovery led to Pluto’s infamous planetary demotion). At 590 miles

across and holding roughly a third of the mass of the asteroid belt,

Ceres is large enough that its own gravity pulls it into a spherical

shape – which is part of why it was once considered to be very planet-like.

In fact, Ceres was listed as a planet for decades after its discovery

in 1801, and was briefly reconsidered during the 2006 debate surrounding

Pluto’s planetary status.

Ceres

is the only dwarf planet in the inner solar system. Although it’s much

larger than Vesta, it’s more of a mystery. Scientists have meteorites that they believe are from Vesta,

which they can study and compare to Dawn’s observations of the

asteroid; but no such fragments found on Earth have been linked to

Ceres. Until now, fuzzy images taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope

have provided our best view of the icy dwarf planet. But that should

change by the end of January, as Dawn approaches its target.

Why

are these two “protoplanets” so different? Scientists think Vesta

formed earlier, when radioactive material was more abundant and produced

more heat, leaving the asteroid very dry. Ceres may have formed later.

Some researchers also think that Ceres may have originated much farther

out in the solar system, before being yanked into its current position

during a dramatic upheaval earlier in the solar system’s development.

As

building blocks of our solar system that never became full planets,

these protoplanets’ divergent life stories could shed light on the early

solar system’s history.

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Get ready! NASA spacecraft soon to rendezvous with dwarf planet Ceres

Top 6 tips for using ordinary binoculars for stargazing

Excerpt from earthsky.org




Admit it.  You’ve probably got a pair of binoculars lying around your

house somewhere. They may be perfect – that’s right, perfect – for

beginning stargazing. Follow the links below to learn more about the

best deal around for people who want to get acquainted with the night

sky: a pair of ordinary binoculars.

1. Binoculars are a better place to start than telescopes

2. Start with a small, easy-to-use size

3. First, view the moon with binoculars.

4. Move on to viewing planets with binoculars.

5. Use your binoculars to explore inside our Milky Way.

6. Use your binoculars to peer beyond the Milky Way.

1. Binoculars are a better place to start than telescopes.

The fact is that most people who think they want to buy a telescope

would be better off using binoculars for a year or so instead.  That’s

because first-time telescope users often find themselves completely

confused – and ultimately put off – by the dual tasks of learning the

use a complicated piece of equipment (the ‘scope) while at the same time

learning to navigate an unknown realm (the night sky).

Beginning stargazers often find that an ordinary pair of binoculars –

available from any discount store – can give them the experience

they’re looking for.  After all, in astronomy, magnification and

light-gathering power let you see more of what’s up there.  Even a

moderate form of power, like those provided by a pair of 7×50

binoculars, reveals 7 times as much information as the unaided eye can

see.

You also need to know where to look. Many people start with

a planisphere as they begin their journey making friends with the

stars. You can purchase a planisphere at the EarthSky store. Also consider our Astronomy Kit, which has a booklet on what you can see with your binoculars.

2. Start with a small, easy-to-use size. 

Don’t buy a huge pair of binoculars to start with! Unless you mount

them on a tripod, they’ll shake and make your view of the heavens

shakey, too. The video above – from ExpertVillage – does a good job

summing up what you want. And in case you don’t want to watch the

video, the answer is that 7X50 binoculars are optimum for budding

astronomers.  You can see a lot, and you can hold them steadily enough

that jitters don’t spoil your view of the sky.  Plus they’re very useful

for daylight pursuits, like birdwatching. If 7X50s are too big for you

– or if you want binoculars for a child – try 7X35s.

3. First, view the moon with binoculars.

When you start to stargaze, you’ll want to watch the phase of the moon

carefully. If you want to see deep-sky objects inside our Milky Way

galaxy – or outside the galaxy – you’ll want to avoid the moon. But the

moon itself is a perfect target for beginning astronomers, armed with

binoculars. Hint: the best time to observe the moon is in twilight.

Then the glare of the moon is not so great, and you’ll see more detail.

You’ll want to start your moon-gazing when the moon is just past new – and visible as a waxing crescent

in the western sky after sunset. At such times, you’ll have a

beautiful view of earthshine on the moon.  This eerie glow on the moon’s

darkened portion is really light reflected from Earth onto the moon’s

surface.  Be sure to turn your binoculars on the moon at these times to

enhance the view. 

Each month, as the moon goes through its regular phases, you can see the line of sunrise and sunset

on the moon progress across the moon’s face. That’s just the line

between light and dark on the moon. This line between the day and night

sides of the moon is called the terminator line.  The best

place to look at the moon from Earth – using your binoculars – is along

the terminator line. The sun angle is very low in this twilight zone,

just as the sun is low in our sky around earthly twilight.  So, along

the terminator on the moon, lunar features cast long shadows in sharp

relief.

You can also look in on the gray blotches on the moon called maria,

named when early astronomers thought these lunar features were seas. 

The maria are not seas, of course, and instead they’re now thought to

have formed 3.5 billion years ago when asteroid-sized rocks hit the moon

so hard that lava percolated up through cracks in the lunar crust and

flooded the impact basins. These lava plains cooled and eventually

formed the gray seas we see today.

The white highlands, nestled between the maria, are older terrain

pockmarked by thousands of craters that formed over the eons. Some of

the larger craters are visible in binoculars. One of them, Tycho, at the

six o’clock position on the moon, emanates long swatches of white rays

for hundreds of miles over the adjacent highlands. This is material

kicked out during the Tycho impact 2.5 million years ago.

4. Move on to viewing planets with binoculars. Here’s the deal about planets.  They move around, apart from the fixed stars.  They are wanderers, right?

You can use our EarthSky Tonight page to locate planets visible around now.  Notice if any planets are mentioned in the calendar on the Tonight page,

and if so click on that day’s link.  On our Tonight page, we feature

planets on days when they’re easily identifiable for some reason – for

example, when a planet is near the moon.  So our Tonight page calendar

can help you come to know the planets, and, as you’re learning to

identify them, keep your binoculars very handy. Binoculars will enhance

your view of a planet near the moon, for example, or two planets near

each other in the twilight sky. They add a lot to the fun!

Below, you’ll find some more simple ideas on how to view planets with your binoculars.

Mercury and Venus. These are both inner planets.  They orbit the sun closer than Earth’s orbit.  And for that reason, both Mercury and Venus show phases

as seen from Earth at certain times in their orbit – a few days before

or after the planet passes between the sun and Earth.  At such times, 

turn your binoculars on Mercury or Venus. Good optical quality helps

here, but you should be able to see them in a crescent phase. Tip:

Venus is so bright that its glare will overwhelm the view. Try looking

in twilight instead of true darkness.

Mars. Mars – the Red Planet – really does look red, and

using binoculars will intensify the color of this object (or of any

colored star). Mars also moves rapidly in front of the stars, and it’s

fun to aim your binoculars in its direction when it’s passing near

another bright star or planet.

Jupiter. Now on to the real action!  Jupiter is a great

binocular target, even for beginners.   If you are sure to hold your

binoculars steadily as you peer at this bright planet,  you should see

four bright points of light near it.  These are the Galilean Satellites

– four moons gleaned through one of the first telescopes ever made, by

the Italian astronomer Galileo. Note how their relative positions

change from night to night as each moon moves around Jupiter in its own

orbit.

Saturn.Although a small telescope is

needed to see Saturn’s rings, you can use your binoculars to see

Saturn’s beautiful golden color.  Experienced observers sometimes

glimpse Saturn’s largest moon Titan with binoculars.  Also, good-quality

high-powered binoculars – mounted on a tripod – will show you that

Saturn is not round.  The rings give it an elliptical shape.

Uranus and Neptune. Some planets are squarely binocular and

telescope targets. If you’re armed with a finder chart, two of them,

Uranus and Neptune, are easy to spot in binoculars. Uranus might even

look greenish, thanks to methane in the planet’s atmosphere. Once a

year, Uranus is barely bright enough to glimpse with the unaided eye . .

. use binoculars to find it first. Distant Neptune will always look

like a star, even though it has an atmosphere practically identical to

Uranus.

There are still other denizens of the solar system you can capture

through binocs. Look for the occasional comet, which appears as a fuzzy

blob of light. Then there are the asteroids – fully 12 of them can be

followed with binoculars when they are at their brightest. Because an

asteroid looks star-like, the secret to confirming its presence is to

sketch a star field through which it’s passing. Do this over subsequent

nights; the star that changes position relative to the others is our

solar system interloper.

5. Use your binoculars to explore inside our Milky Way. 

Binoculars can introduce you to many members of our home galaxy. A good

place to start is with star clusters that are close to Earth. They

cover a larger area of the sky than other, more distant clusters usually

glimpsed through a telescope.

Beginning each autumn and into the spring, look for a tiny dipper-like cluster of stars called the Pleiades. 

The cluster – sometimes also called the Seven Sisters – is noticeable

for being small yet distinctively dipper-like. While most people say

they see only six stars here with the unaided eye, binoculars

reveal many more stars, plus a dainty chain of stars extending off to

one side. The Pleiades star cluster is looks big and distinctive

because it’s relatively close – about 400 light years from Earth. This

dipper-shaped cluster is a true cluster of stars in space.  Its members

were born around the same time and are still bound by gravity.  These

stars are very young, on the order of 20 million years old, in contrast

to the roughly five billion years for our sun.

Stars in a cluster all formed from the same gas cloud. You can also

see what the Pleiades might have like in a primordial state, by shifting

your gaze to the prominent constellation Orion the Hunter. Look for

Orion’s sword stars, just below his prominent belt stars. If the night

is crisp and clear, and you’re away from urban streetlight glare,

unaided eyes will show that the sword isn’t entirely composed of stars.

Binoculars show a steady patch of glowing gas where, right at this

moment, a star cluster is being born. It’s called the Orion Nebula. A summertime counterpart is the Lagoon Nebula, in Sagittarius the Archer.

With star factories like the Orion Nebula, we aren’t really seeing

the young stars themselves. They are buried deep within the nebula,

bathing the gas cloud with ultraviolet radiation and making it glow. In a

few tens of thousands of years, stellar winds from these young,

energetic stars will blow away their gaseous cocoons to reveal a newly

minted star cluster.

Scan along the Milky Way to see still more sights that hint at our

home galaxy’s complexity. First, there’s the Milky Way glow itself; just

a casual glance through binoculars will reveal that it is still more

stars we can’t resolve with our eyes . . . hundreds of thousands of

them. Periodically, while scanning, you might sweep past what appears to

be blob-like, black voids in the stellar sheen. These are dark,

non-glowing pockets of gas and dust that we see silhouetted against the

stellar backdrop. This is the stuff of future star and solar systems,

just waiting around to coalesce into new suns.

6. Use your binoculars to view beyond the Milky Way. 

Let’s leap out of our galaxy for the final stop in our binocular tour.

Throughout fall and winter, she reigns high in the sky during northern

hemisphere autumns and winters: Andromeda the Maiden. Centered in the

star pattern is an oval patch of light, readily visible to the unaided

eye away from urban lights. Binoculars will show it even better.

It’s a whole other galaxy like our own, shining across the vastness of intergalactic space. Light from the Andromeda Galaxy

has traveled so far that it’s taken more than 2 million years to reach

us.
Two smaller companions visible through binoculars on a dark,

transparent night are the Andromeda Galaxy’s version of our Milky Way’s

Magellanic Clouds. These small, orbiting, irregularly-shaped galaxies

that will eventually be torn apart by their parent galaxy’s gravity.

Such sights, from lunar wastelands to the glow of a nearby island

universe, are all within reach of a pair of handheld optics, really

small telescopes in their own right: your binoculars.

John Shibley wrote the original draft of this article, years ago,

and we’ve been expanding it and updating it ever since. Thanks, John!

Bottom line: For beginning stargazers, there’s no better tool than

an ordinary pair of binoculars. This post tells you why, explains what

size to get, and gives you a rundown on some of the coolest binoculars

sights out there: the moon, the planets, inside the Milky Way, and

beyond. Have fun!

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Top 6 tips for using ordinary binoculars for stargazing

Ring in the New Year with comet Lovejoy

Excerpt from smnweekly.com


Comet Lovejoy is scheduled to make an appearance right before New Year’s Day, a treat for astronomers looking forward to 2015.

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Ring in the New Year with comet Lovejoy

The Gilgamesh Epic

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The Gilgamesh Epic

Our Love Affair With God

 

December 31, 2014

We don’t realize that we have a great need
to feel loved by God, and to love Him.
This need is sublimated in romantic love
which is a form of idolatry.

by Henry Makow Ph.D
(from Nov 27, 2009)

While making a spaghetti sauce, I put on a collection of old Paul Anka hits.

Listening to the lyrics, it struck me: If you imagine the love object is God, instead of some empty headed girl with regular features, there’s little difference between popular love songs and religious hymns, prayers and chants.

We are all pilgrims and God (Love) is our Mecca.

I don’t have to tell you that 97 per cent of all popular songs are love songs. A visitor from another planet would conclude that our religion is romantic love.

But instead of recognizing the real object of our desire, we have fixated on the opposite sex, whom we mystify and idealize to reflect our true sublimated desire.

I am not a Jungian, but I agree with Carl Jung’s statement: “If you take away God, man will invent a thousand false ones.”

They have taken away God. You can’t mention the word in polite company. As if, given the magnificence of the universe and the complexity of the natural world, the concept of a Creator and a Design is so outlandish that it must be banned.

The people who want to replace God (with themselves) are responsible for our inability to mention or imagine God when it is so simple.

God is synonymous with our spiritual ideals and desires: truth, beauty, love, peace, bliss, justice and harmony.  So don’t blame God for letting bad things happen to good people. Bad people are responsible, the same people who abolished God.

We are God’s agents. If we don’t bring about his Kingdom, it won’t happen. Eventually, we’ll all become extinct.

GETTING BACK TO LOVE SONGS
 

Next time you hear a love song, imagine it’s about God. You will be surprised how well it fits.

“I love you with all my heart, we’ll never part, please stay with me…(God).”

“I’m so alone. All I want is somebody to love”

“Show me, you love me too.”

“I’m so lonely; I’m so blue, now that you’re gone.”

These lyrics remind me of Christian, Muslim and Hindu mystics pining away for Divine Grace. 

We’re religious zealots, just like them. All that’s missing are the white robes. We don’t pray five times a day. We listen to these prayers 50-100 times a day.

But we’ve taken a wrong turn. Instead of recognizing the true object of our desire, we have glommed on to the opposite sex. We are looking for a person to play the role of God.

Frankly, we’ve been misdirected. (Think who runs the music and movie business.)  And, of course, lust is a confounding factor …

CONCLUSION

If we could just begin with the knowledge that God loves us, then we wouldn’t have this desperate misguided need “for love” expressed in love songs.

We’re never alone. God is within us.  He is our constant companion, a warm, glowing fire at the center of our being. Our primary relationship is with Him.

 
 

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Comments for “Our Love Affair With God”

Greg said (January 1, 2015):

With reference to EJ, the reason we refer to God as a male presence is because God is considered an active force in the universe, that creates. A goddess is the opposite and is a receptive vehicle for the action of God. Jesus himself is considered “Lord of lords and king of kings.” Jesus even said, “Be not many masters.” So there is an inherent recognition of many different gods, goddesses, lords, and masters in the universe, and they are all in hierarchy inferior to God the Creator.

There are many religions with many spirits and many gods and goddesses. When a person practices the religion of choice, there is no guarantee what type of spirit(s) they will allow to enter them. With God, there is only one recognized spirit, the Holy Spirit. Jesus said, “The Holy Spirit, He will teach you all things.” The reason Christianity is a logical belief system is because you deal with only one spirit and you know who that spirit is. In order to effectively have a relationship with God, it has to be more than just a yearning. A person has to ask and be willing to be filled with the Holy Spirit so that the person can learn to have a relationship with God. The Holy Spirit is a promise.

PS. A shout out to Thomas Carter for citing Media Exploitation. The book is even more pertinent now that it ever was.

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Chyrs said (January 1, 2015):

henry, thank you or Our Love Affair With God….one of my favorites is a

an old song by Ray Noble…with one significant change:

God is the sweetest thing

WHAT ELSE ON EARTH COULD EVER BRING

SUCH HAPPINESS TO EVERYTHING

as God’s love story

God is the strangest thing

no song or bird upon the wing

shall in our hearts more sweetly sing

than God’s love story

whatever hearts may desire

whatever life may send

His is the tale that never will tire

His is the song without end

God is the strongest thing

the oldest, yet the latest thing

i only hope that fate may bring

God’s story to you

God is the sweetest thing

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Magda said (January 1, 2015):

Loved you post and am in agreement regarding the distractions that serve as imposter Gods in our life. Excessive focus on the material is a tool of enslavement by our puppet masters in their bid to become our Gods and entertain us to death. The truth is our potential if properly understood is far beyond the material and these worldly elements we seek are not much needed.

Here is an video from the Islamic perspective on these issues.

Never lose Hope: People of the Hereafter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUlbcXoKZVA

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Anthony Migchels said (December 31, 2014):

That’s a great article! Totally spot on, I never realized it. But indeed, if you think of Rumi, he could have made a fortune today, just by claiming his poems were about his gal.

In recent years I have grown closer to God’s Spirit, which pervades creation. And when you start to see how the material Universe springs from Him and that He is indeed the Source of the ten thousand things (as Lao Tse called the world), you can’t help but laugh at the silliness of His children, worshipping His creations, instead of the Creator.

But, women love bling and men love women. Hence: Babylon.

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Magda said (December 29, 2014):

Loved you post and am in agreement regarding the distractions that serve as imposter Gods in our life. Excessive focus on the material is a tool of enslavement by our puppet masters in their bid to become our Gods and entertain us to death. The truth is our potential if properly understood is far beyond the material and these worldly elements we seek are not much needed.

Here is an video from the Islamic perspective on these issues.

Never lose Hope: People of the Hereafter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUlbcXoKZVA

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Thomas Carter said (December 28, 2014):

I had a book called Media Exploitation (1977) written by a Brian Key a colleague of Marshall Mcluhan. Brian Key also testified against the band Judas Priest regarding subliminal messages in their music which, allegedly, lead to the suicide death of two teenagers.

Chapter 8 (pg 117) is entitled subliminal rock and deals with specifically with Paul Anka on pages 128 and 129 (copied below.)

Book is online here
http://www.scribd.com/doc/25190176/Wilson-Bryan-Key-Media-Sexploitation#scribd

“Mommy’s Many Pseudonyms

Paul Anka’s first recording, “Diana,” sold in excess of 8 1/2 mil-lion copies—the third largest-selling single record of all time.A national publicity campaign was launched over the enigma of Diana’s identity. Several girl vocalists and actresses of the early 1960s were considered as fantasy possibilities in public-ity releases. Like most publicity department fantasies, how-ever, these were simply nonsense—designed only to milk thathigh discretionary income from the pockets of teen-ager’sparents.Paul Anka, serving the Oedipal conflicts of North Ameri-can teen-agers, serenaded his symbolic mother:”

I’m so young and you’re so old

This my darling I’ve been told

I don’t care just what they say’

Cause forever I will pray

You and I will be as free

As the birds up in the trees

Oh please stay by me, Diana*

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Steve said (December 28, 2014):

Excellent article!

What “empty headed” female could empower me with the faith, wisdom and peace we need every day simply to survive let alone build a positive family life! We need the Great God and Creator!

I was only today thinking after washing my face (after waking and then looking in the mirror) how my very complex life and its food maintenance totally refutes evolution and cries out that a Creator exists, that He designed me and that I need to relate to Him more than any other person or thing in my life.

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C said (March 2, 2010):

I just finished reading your article, “Our Love Affair With God.” I realize that was written a while ago, but I just discovered it. I was somewhat surprised to read it, I thought you didn’t like Christians much. I was,

glad I was wrong. I read your articles all the time and enjoy them very much. I discovered you through Rense, a site I visit daily. Anyway, my comment on your article: Yesterday, (Sun) I did not make time to pray, my day, my morning was busy, I wanted to get dressed and start my errands. This morning, (after prayer) I was just

ready to get into the shower, when God burst through my mind with the beautiful words from Unchained Melody:

Oh my love, my darling, I hunger for your touch

a long, lonely time. Time goes by so slowly, and

time can do so much. Are you still mine?

Even as I write this, tears are flooding down my face. I could not stop crying. Abba, Father, Abba, Abba I LOVE YOU!!!!

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Julian Lee said (November 29, 2009):

I liked your article about the love songs. I’ve often thought the same thing.

Sometimes I pretend the singer is singing to God and it’s perfect. It becomes a

wonderful devotional song. You mentioned how “you can’t mention the word [God] in polite company.”

That’s probably starting to become true. In this recent video I confront a crowd gathering to go into a movie theatre for a “Portland Amateur Porn Festival.” I sang them a song I composed for the occasion having the word “God” in the early start. As soon as the crowd hears the word they laugh:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX3O5sCrnqc

Your expressions of faith are very helpful.

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Julian Lee said (November 29, 2009):

To Ray [below] who said “God is good, religion is not. Let’s not confuse the two.” How ’bout, let’s not be confused and forget the deep connection between the two.

A modern fad is to imagine them as dichotomous. But the connection is deep. An individual (Christ, Mohammed) has a profound experiences with God and that’s what founds religions. The religion survives to show the way others can have that same knowledge. Religion is the map back to God, the seed carrier or husk that carries the seed of spiritual knowledge, and the directions to it. All of the great saints who felt they had a direct experience with God attained that by being part of a religion and following a religious discipline. One example is religions teaching moral self-control.

The mystics attest that their blissful God experiences were made possible partly by moral self-control. Religions have priceless value even if all they do is keep alive the mere idea and memory of God. People who try to separate God from religion are, to me, shallow and usually have some negative experiences that have made them neurotic and unable to see religion objectively.

Attacking religion only further separates the majority of people from the possibility of having the highest divine experiences of saints. Both God and religion are good. It would actually be more valid to say that religion is better than God. Most people don’t really feel much “connection” to God, and He is unimaginable and abstract in his higher aspect.

But religion, by contrast, is God translated down to human terms and is easily accessible. Discover your church. Discover your saints. Discover the truth about religion and the vaster, more authentic history of the churches. It’s not what you see on T.V., but in the words of their saints. And as Henry said, you can learn about their experiences by listing to the lyrics of love songs. It’s the religions that keep alive the idea of the superiority of divine love over unreliable human love.

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EJ said (November 28, 2009):

You said:

>>God is synonymous with our spiritual ideals and desires: truth, beauty, love, peace, bliss, justice and harmony>>

I say those ideals were around a long time before people recently made up this god character, especially the male, off planet one. For hundreds of generations prior to that take over by the male church state, “god” was not around. For the majority of tribal cultures and others a “goddess” or prime creator idea was there. It was a simple thing of appreciating sentience and seeking a channel to express that gratitude. It was NOT a rigid formula of rules and regulations seeking some sort of salvation from a scary, vengeful, murdering god.

As any thinking person knows, the mythical, biblical Jesus did not exist and that story was 1000 years old when Constantine made it up. Millions of people have seen UFO’s with photos to prove it and no one has seen these god or Jesus characters. We most certainly can depend on the so-called “Holy Book” that took 900 years to put together.

God was made up by man to control spiritual expression. Religion is the business of spirituality.

>>We are God’s agents. If we don’t bring about his Kingdom, it won’t happen. Eventually, we’ll all become extinct. >>

That is ridiculous logic. We are our own agents. And why is god always a “he” and not just a thing or being? And us going extinct has nothing to do with religion and more to do with cycles. Cremo and Johnson in the their magnificent work: Forbidden Archeology exposed “man made” objects from around the world from 50 to 200 MILLION years old…explain that when the belief is we are about 10,000 years old.

It is arrogant to talk in that manner about us Henry. Weak people believe in god because they avoid self responsibility. Strong people are spiritual in their daily lives without and rule books and simply good intention.

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Ray said (November 28, 2009):

God is good, religion is not. Let’s not confuse the two. That’s how wars are started and people with different views are tortured and killed. Religion is man worshipping his own concept of God.

Ecstatic, ” spiritual” highs can be found in many religions. Just because someone finally settles on Christianity or Buddhism etc. and finds that sense of peace they lacked in other religious experiments does not mean their religion is the “one true faith”. Many people come to find evangelical Christianity to be extremely stifling and counter to emotional health and leave it without regret. After all it has only been around 500 years why should something Luther and Calvin started be the “one true way”. Early apostolic Christianity was very different and rather diverse. Further, the record of its precursor, Roman Catholicism from 350 AD until about 1800 AD with its millions of murder and torture victims is likewise enough to turn people away from those who preach organized Christianity as the one true way.

Therefore, the true God is not bound by religion, but rather, exists apart from man’s recent or ancient attempts to define him a particular way using particular dogmas. Christianity itself was a very diverse set of beliefs (often contradicting each other) until Constantine essentially developed Christianity as we know it. Regarding the existence of evil, you lay it all at mans feet, however, consider that if God is all-powerful and all-loving he might not allow us to murder, torture and rape each other. Would you sit by and watch a child raped if you had a .45 auto in your hand? No, because you would love the child enough to stop the rape. Yet, God allows such atrocities daily. I am not saying he is not loving; I am saying that His nature and ultimate purposes are somewhat beyond our comprehension. Maybe these reasons will be explained in the after-life.

The Love of the opposite sex can indeed be very self-destructive if we replace God with the man/woman. They were meant to be loved but not deified. Right on to that sentiment. Yet intense romantic love is a natural experience that is designed to perpetuate the species. If sex with our mate was as bland as eating cold grits without butter we wouldn’t do it often! =-) The problem is, pornographers like Hefner have led men to expect and demand anatomically perfect women rather than loving and desiring the ones we have. There simply are not enough perfect specimens to go around! Thus porn is extremely deleterious to our development and health. The ability to feel erotic attraction and deep affection for a very average mate is a nice thing albeit a rarity these days.

In my life the law of love seems to have emerged as the ultimate truth. Anything contrary to love including religious bigotry, porn, abuse, torture and wars of aggression (Iraq, Afghanistan etc) is to be avoided and denounced like the plague.

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Anon said (November 27, 2009):

Been doing that for years. It’s a wonderful feeling, singing along in the vehicle putting God in the song and thinking God might accept it in the way I believe ( but know it’s not so ) sounds like I’m delivering it. It gets beautifully emotional. Needless to say it is only God and I in the vehicle. Shouldn’t say only.

Nice to see it being written.

Keep up the Good Work!

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Jeffrey said (November 27, 2009):

What you say is true, and if you take any popular song from the last sixty years or so and replace “baby” or “girl,” “you,” “woman,” etc. with Jesus, God, Allah etc. you will have spiritual music.

Frank Zappa was more cynical but just as spot on when he said (and I’m paraphrasing, it’s in his book) that if people acted on all the love songs heard daily in our culture we would all love each other and conflict would be minimal, maybe even non-existent. Has it ever been like that? Of course not.

Even more cynically, he suggested that love songs were responsible in a large part for bad mental health, that the perfect relationships often sung about and “everlasting love” do not, in fact, exist, and that we live in anger and frustration in disappointment, feeling short-changed, somehow.

Popular music has changed so much in the last twenty years or so and grown much darker and more sexual, just like the rest of entertainment in general. I used to believe that movies and popular culture were a reflection on our times, but now I know that they condition us and our behavior.

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Tony said (November 27, 2009):

A great observation that needed said and you were obedient to the call.

The illuminnatis first target of hatred is the Lord himself so it seems his praise is being diverted to lesser objects such as sensual

love. Also the devil knows that we are created to praise God as was he also originally and when he fell that worship was perverted to

self worship Isaiah 14v12-15,Ezekiel 28v13-19

I have also sang ‘Annie’s song’ as a praise hymn to Jesus as in Michaels comment, and there are many other songs that lend themselves

to higher expression. Good songs reflect our human experience and whether religious or not can be edifying. Leonard Cohens ‘Hallelujah’

illustrates this subject and the lyrics are worth study.

The major content of its theme refers to Davids fall over his affair with Bathsheba which was an adulterous but human love.

The refrain ‘Hallelujah’ throughout the song supercedes everything else,it is the highest expression that we can attain to. Everything

else is subject to it,both in this song and in our lives as you have demonstrated.

It is also interesting that when the Prophet King David died Bathsheba was no comfort to him,showing the fickleness of human love

but it was his faith in God that sustained him. Were all going to die and were all going to do that alone and thats another good reason to

acquaint ourselves with our creator who is also our Saviour.1 John 4v19,5v7

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Martin said (November 27, 2009):

After reading your article “Our Love Affair With God”, I was reminded of ‘something’, which you might find of interest.

Seems that George Harrison after his awakening wrote his songs to God (Krishna). Though instead of singing ‘he’ he used the word ‘she’.

His reasoning was that if he sung he, the people would think that he was a homosexual.

This quote is from Syamasundara Dasa who was George’s Hare Krishna friend.

Picking up where we had last left off, in that roomful of rock-stars, promoters, and delirious fans, we huddled shut off from their puzzle and envy and yakked about the Absolute, who you knew to be a Person–yeah, yeah, and yeah, you said, and who am I to be telling you that Krishna is the Supreme Person, the All-Attractive Person–“attracts me like no other lover”–(later you said you had to say “she” or everyone would think you a “poof”)–and who am I to say the way to God’s heart is through love (you, minstrel of love to the world)? Ah, but you must meet my master, Bhaktivedanta Swami, I said that day. He’s so wise and beautiful… (My Sweet George, A tribute to George Harrison from an old friend.)

Ironically Frank Sinatra considered George’s Something to be the “the greatest love song ever written,”

Sinatra was particularly impressed with “Something;” calling it “the greatest love song ever written,” he sang it hundreds of times at various concerts. However, he once made the comment that “Something” was his all-time favourite Lennon/McCartney song, and frequently introduced it as such.[21] Harrison did not appear to mind this, and instead borrowed an alteration to the lyric that Sinatra had made. Where the original song was “You stick around now it may show,” Sinatra sang “You stick around, Jack, she might show.” This change was adopted by Harrison, who used the same lyrics whenever he performed “Something” as part of his touring repertoire.[22] (WIKIPEDIA)

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Thanks said (November 27, 2009):

Well Henry, one fine day I shall sort it out but here is what I heard.

Through the Moorish conquests in Spain, Sufi’s, those Muslim mystics, brought ecstatic God-directed love poems/songs to Europe. In the centuries thereafter, this ecstatic worship of God was changed into the worship of women.

By faithless troubadours roaming through Spain and (Southern) France. And this seems to be the reason why most pop songs -yet another couple of centuries later- are about our love for the other sex: women. This because men wrote and -still- write the bulk of the songs.

The Swedish playwright August Strindberg called the worship of women the religion of the heathen. Must be a correct observation. If God is out, then what’s the highest around (even if she is as human as we are)? Yep, that short-legged, broad-hipped, round-breasted creature our souls are so enamored by.

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Michael said (November 27, 2009):

‘By Jove, I thinks she’s got it.’ (From My Fair Lady)

I’ve been listing to songs this way for more than 30 years.

In terms of consciousness, it has to do with listening not with the consciousness of the “self” and the ‘thinker’–that is, the dualistic

or ‘fallen’ consciousness–but, rather, with the “observing consciousness”; that is, the consciousness Created “by and in the

image of God” (Genesis 1:27)

See:

http://after-the-false-peace.blogspot.com/

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John said (November 27, 2009):

Shortly after abandoning Hinduism, Buddhism, & all other religions to embrace Jesus, & only Jesus – about 5 years ago -

I had, & I still have, that same insight, & feeling,you are talking about here.

It seems to me, we are ‘hard-wired’ to love God (Jesus); Anything else is the sin of idolatry.

I am convinced that Jesus must be 1st in our lives, & then our spouses (partners), & then

the rest of our families, relatives, friends, acquaintances, etc.

Ever since then, life makes infinitely more sense to me.

The wonderful, remarkable thing is that

my relationship with Jesus is not one-sided.

It is a real two-way relationship, &

I feel, & I know, He loves me, too!

I feel that each & every one of us is

‘hard-wired’ to love Jesus, & that

only then does everything make sense.

God bless you, & all of your readers,

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Neil said (November 27, 2009):

On your essay- Our love affair with God.

Wonderful, wonderful, The obvious so hidden!! It’s crazy isn’t it?

I am laughing…

I will have a silly grin on my face now everything time i listen to these songs!

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Michael said (November 27, 2009):

thought this very interesting and so true an observation. I play guitar and write a little music, most of which has been melodies set to various Psalms and scripture. I have heard it taught that music is worship (of one thing or

another). By its nature often it expresses praise, adoration, desire etc. I learned to play because of John Denver’s music, and even though I like to play something like “Leaving on a Jet Plane” and some of his love songs, there is a

longing and loneliness in them that perhaps is unconsciously a reach for what man is really missing most. But when I, in simple worship to the Lord, play and sing a psalm, many of which express praise and worship and love of God,

there is a depth of satisfaction, fulfillment. Very much this was one of the prime reasons we were made: to love God and worship Him…that being said, Song of Solomon has all that flowery poetry of human love, and one person I

know made a comparison of it to John Denver’s “Annie’s Song”…I have written a couple of “Christian romance” songs. One was for a niece’s wedding. I think there is a place for them, but like anything they or the subject can be or

become an idol put before God and much of the worlds adulation expressed musically does this, and though not the case presently, I would love to have a special someone and sing one of those songs to her and have her enjoy it, and

since He created woman and men I think He would enjoy it as well.

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Say No To Dog Meat – Demonstration, Rescue and Rehabilitation.

Say No To Dog Meat – Demonstration, Rescue and Rehabilitation.

An organisation called Say No To Dog Meat.Net are holding an event on the 4th April 2015 at 10:00 am internationally. The event that’s been in the planning since last year is to be held in many countries from London, Australia, Canada, America, Serbia, Indonesia, South Africa and more. For more information on Say No To Dog Meat’s global demonstration please click this >here< that will direct you to their Facebook page event forum.

Say No To Dog Meat was formed by three Chief Executive Officers that work within the environmental and animal rescue sector. The organisation has to date attracted hundreds of thousands of people worldwide, readers and supporters to their cause. Say No To Dog Meat is within the transition process of becoming an Australian registered charity, furthermore have recently purchased a run down derelict building within Viet Nam of which will be their main Asian pet medical rescue and rehabilitation clinic. Once dogs and cats are safe from the clutches of pet eaters, traders and snatchers they will be re-homed internationally to loving and caring adopters.

The rescue and rehabilitation clinic is incredibly important to the three Chief Executive Officers their volunteers and staff. Say No To Dog Meat’s rescue and rehab clinic will be one of few such rescues within Viet Nam that actively help to remove strays of the streets within Viet Nam that have no home thus removing dogs and cats from the snatchers clutches whom feed into the cruel and diseased pet meat trade.

B.A.R.C. IS ALSO MARCHING WITH Say No To Dog Meat in their Global March for dogs and cats in the meat trade; 10am Saturday April 4th, 2015. Will you be marching with them too, in your country? For more information email Say No To Dog Meat here at – contact@saynotodogmeat.info for a march location in your country. 

While the Organisation is being heavily supported by its sister Environmental Organisation – International Animal Rescue Foundation Africa via media, press and private funding, funds are limited. Say No To Dog Meat need public support both financially and via its supporters through sharing articles, news and helping with organizing events and educational classes worldwide to help reduce the pet trade through honest youth and adult education. Not forgetting educating the public about meat food viruses and viruses as a whole that are passed on or mutate from live or dead animals and meat kept in unsanitary conditions. Some amazing media articles have already been released about Say No To Dog Meat such as here on Dogster and even while underfunded Say No To Dog Meat have already helped shut down a small dog meat market and rescued dogs from the meat trade – Read more here 

A unique organisation:

Say No To Dog Meat are unique as their main ambition is not only to end the pet meat trade within Asia and Africa but also the cruel and barbaric bushmeat trade that poses a serious disease and health risk threat to humans and animals. The term bushmeat, also called wildmeat and game meat, refers to meat from non-domesticated mammals, reptiles, amphibians and birds hunted for food in tropical forests. Commercial harvesting and the trade of wildlife is considered a threat to biodiversity and human security. Should the bushmeat trade trade continue to be ignored we’ll see catastrophic declines of wildlife in areas of Africa and Asia of which extinctions are already occurring both locally and regionally of some exotic species.

Say No To Dog Meat also appeals to all tourists visiting Viet Nam to please refrain from making their jobs harder to ban the trade. Its commercials such as this seen below that only feed the trade.

Mission Statement:

Say No To Dog Meat’s founders have decades of experience fighting this inhumane industry and have worked hard to achieve unprecedented access into areas of the trade not readily accessible to most outsiders. The organisations investigative work allows them to gather current, accurate and up-to-date information and images, evidence that is paramount in spreading global awareness and pressuring governmental organizations to enact enforceable animal welfare laws that protect companion animals. Ultimately, the organisations intention is to help create meaningful social and governmental change that results in a more humane world for dogs and cats and wildlife endangered by the bushmeat industry.

The organisation is determined to expose the cruel and ruthless activities within the dog and cat meat trade that are perpetrated by dog farmers, cat farmers, animal traffickers, butchers, vendors and dog and cat eating customers. “This is a billion dollar industry” Co-Founder Donna Armes stated, centered on live companion animals being tortured, killed and served as menu items. “It is a gruesome, violent trade that must be halted” stated Michelle Brown Director of Say No To Dog Meat and Co-Director for International Animal Rescue Foundation Africa.

Video below shows Viet Nam dog snatchers this October caught on CCTV – these dogs are most likely now dead – fed into a cruel and horrific pet meat industry, Say No To Dog Meat aims to stop this with new laws they are lobbying the Viet Nam government with on two separate petitions. 

By tackling poverty in the nations of Africa where dog meat is being consumed, Say No To Dog Meat will work with aid organisations and companies, as well as welfare groups and communities. Founder Dr Jose Depre states “we are positive that by improving dietary needs and wiping out poverty in these small areas of Africa, we can wipe out the dog meat trade and black market, thus decreasing infectious diseases, rabies, H1N1, mutations and food poisoning”.

Further to this awareness and education, within the arable agricultural section, Say No To Dog Meat hope to improve the lives of families and increase employment, thus decreasing crime, however the CEO stated “this is going to be the toughest area both within the pet meat industry and black market trade we’ve ever tackled, these actions will bring a better welfare for all though and we’ll not stop marching forwards for animal welfare nor will anyone get within our way in conquering our goals set, we have a job to do and we’re going to do it”

INDONESIA IS MARCHING WITH Say No To Dog Meat in their Global March for dogs and cats in the meat trade; 10am Saturday April 4th, 2015. Will you be marching with them too? For more info email Say No To Dog Meat.Net @ contact@saynotodogmeat.info for a march location in your country. INDONESIAN SUPPORTERS: please join Animal Defenders Indonesia in the JAKARTA march.

Founders of Say No To Dog Meat aggressively opposes legislation that promotes or legalizes companion animal slaughter. They do not believe in the myth of “humane meat,” reject the concept of “humane slaughter” and strongly believe that dog and cat butchers cannot be relied upon to implement “humane” practices. The organisation founders also oppose dog farmers, cat farmers, slaughter unions, individual farmers or any persons being permitted to “farm” small numbers of dogs and/or cats for personal consumption. In addition, they are against dog and cat elixirs and tonics, despite (unproven) claims of their health benefits.

Through educational efforts, Say No To Dog Meat hopes to enlighten the global public about the miserable lives farmed companion animals face and how this trade impacts dogs and cats throughout the world. Education will also be provided for those wishing to adopt rescued animals from the live meat trade. These animals have been through varying degrees of trauma, so guidance is needed in ensuring adoptive families understand the process of restoring their new pet’s health, happiness and well-being. In addition, Say No To Dog Meat will provide education for people in dog and cat eating countries who wish to learn about responsible pet ownership and providing safe, long-term environments for dogs and cats as loved family members.

Please Donate:

Say No To Dog Meat has commenced fundraising, from which their efforts will include rehoming rescued dogs and cats from the live meat trade once the Viet Nam rescue and medical clinic has been established. “All fundraising will be conducted with full transparency and information pertaining to our monetary activities will be made readily available” stated Michelle Brown wildlife rescue specialist that resides in Australia. Donna Armes that resides now in Canada stated “participating in Say No To Dog Meat campaigns and signing our petitions supports our work furthermore to bring change for a better world for dogs and cats victimized by this trade”. “We invite you to join our fight to halt the live dog and cat meat trade and Say No To Dog Meat” stated the team of elite environmentalists and animal rescuers.

Say No To Dog Meat’s donation link is below. The link will direct you to their Facebook page from which you can also subscribe to their site for news and events plus lots more.

 

Please Make a donation TODAY and help Say No To Dog Meat – Thank you

The organisation now requires public funding to help establish their rescue and medical facility for dogs and cats in Viet Nam and hopefully over the borders too. Say No To Dog Meat requires funding for renovation, water, gas and electrical services to be reinstated, pet triage and surgical clinic, rehabilitation and special needs area, isolation clinic, cages and pet boxes, surgical equipment, bedding and blankets, medical supplies, food, and much more.

Once the rescue and rehabilitation clinic is fully operation specialist staff employed will then commence rescuing strays from the streets of Viet Nam of both sick dogs and cats and pets in need of a loving forever home. There’s more too. The organisation will also be holding rabies and vaccination clinics to help reduce disease and decrease rabies within the country and over the borders. Lastly while Say No To Dog Meat recognizes the honest work undertaken by groups of Asian activists that actively seek out pet meat traffickers – no animals that Say No To Dog Meat’s staff rescue will come from traffickers or butchers that require payment. “What’s the point in paying pet meat traffickers and marketeers just for them to purchase more dogs and cats from public funding” stated Jose Depre, “that is defeating the main objective and continues to feed the pet meat trade, were here to help and rescue pets not to continue a trade a circle of abuse”.

SAY NO TO DOG MEAT.NET is calling on the public to help them with their global march planned since January 2014. Demonstration event organizers and demonstrators are required eagerly to beef up numbers to make change happen. For more information you can contact Say No To Dog Meat hereto at contact@saynotodogmeat.info

Liam Williams – Publisher Environmental News and Media 

info@international-animalrescue-foundation.org.uk

 

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