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‘Government Really Not Good at Keeping Secrets’ and Other Logical Fallacies of Skeptics
For the second time this week I’ve heard the logical fallacy that the (US) government has no secrets because it’s not good at keeping secrets. If that isn’t circular reasoning than what is? I just heard it repeated again on Coast to Coast AM by Ronald L. Mallett. The show edition is described by the Coast site as,
Time Travel
Date: 08-15-11
Host: George Noory
Guests: Ronald L. Mallett, Lauren Weinstein
Physics Professor Ronald Mallett will discuss his breakthrough research on time travel, as well as share an update on the latest in theoretical physics.
Ronald was responding to a caller who asked if the government was hiding a secret program on time travel. Ronald then immediately contradicted himself by saying, “Whatever the human mind can think of, it can and will achieve.” In other words: “IF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT CONCEIVES OF A WAY TO KEEP SECRETS THEN IT WILL SUCCESSFULLY DO SO.” So, once again, a non-Christian, a Mainstreamer Cultist severely contradicts himself in a breath without even realizing it, and if he did realize it, he should have corrected himself, but failed and allowed others to be deceived. Some might ask, “What does that matter?” It matters because it helps people to be gullible and naive that they can believe whatever the government says, which is utter nonsense. The statement that the government is bad at keeping secrets is also nonsensical in that it contradicts itself, because it’s implying to opposite things: that the government can’t do anything in secret, and the opposite: when it does do something in secret it’s exposed right away. That is what people mean but are vague. Vague as in, how long can’t the government keep a secret? Ronald made it clear, “really bad” at it, so, not long. But what is the evidence that the government can’t do so? That’s also a logical fallacy because it’s the same as saying, “I know that the government can’t keep a secret for long because because it can only do so for a short time because it’s bad at keeping secrets” but saying so without evidence. Ronald is claiming he knows all the secrets and therefore knows all the secret departments of the military, all military secrets, that none have been kept for long, like a year? (vague), everything said in secret by every individual apart of the government, including the FBI, CIA and NSA, and that even when they classify something as above top secret and make UFOs more secret than the atomic bomb (which the military stated it did do), that he would know soon. So then, China and every other country with spies in America must know all the secrets of our government, because it has none, or accidentally reveals it soon after. So can Ronald tell us what the secret craft are that the military has? Can he tell us what happened at Area 51 for the past 40 years? Can he tell us what crashed at Roswell?: Which story out of three conflicting ones that the military gave is correct? What are the names of the many Area 51 workers that are flown and bussed in to Area 51? What are the launch codes for all the nuclear missiles of the USA and what are the names of the ones who possess the launch keys? Ronald’s claim is also logically fallacious and arrogant in another way: he’s negating that any non-government person, no citizen, can find out about the secrets, and only the government and military would in their incompetence or by accident, or that some spy would reveal it (but not a citizen who is spying on behalf of some government like China). In other words: us stupid citizens are stupid, only government and the military is smart and wise, just not smart and wise enough to keep secrets from us… uh wait, but us stupid citizens can’t find out about their secrets because we’re stupid… and there is yet another contradiction from the Royal Mainstream Scientist Ronald Mallett, wannabe time traveler, who’s motivation for going back in time, according to his self-proclaimed Skeptic self, to see his dad again. Can anyone say “shallow”? How much more needs to be pointed out about the Mainstream cult to show that they are very bad at logic in general, and that also effects their effectiveness in scientific research, and therefore can’t be trusted with their fundamental(ist) claims: There was a Big Bang billions of years ago, we evolved from some simple creatures that were created by lightning hitting chemicals (able to reproduce and think and sense what was around them), and that after billions of years, turned into (super complex and much more intelligent animals and super intelligent) humans, with many characteristics (that can’t be reasonably explained without resorting to God as having designed us), and that aliens can’t get here, because… well one guest evolutionist this or last year, on Coast to Coast AM said because it would be too coincidental. And it would be too coincidental that they showed up during this time of our evolution. But why? If there are trillions of planets with possible life and some aliens evolved to become intelligent much sooner then us, then why wouldn’t there be any chance of “just another planet out of trillions” being visited by some alien out of those trillions? Mainstream scientists truly are confused and forgetful of what they study, ever learning and never able to reach the truth. I think that if they would stop obsessing on money and selfish and shallow desires they wouldn’t be so “scatter-brained” and forgetful.
I’ve also been noticing, that recently (others would probably say often) Noory has been asking really stupid questions. During the show he asked Mallet if the time travel he was working on would be MENTAL or physical. What the Hell kind of question is that? George was asking “is your time travel device going to be metaphysical and use spiritual time travel”, because the mind is a spiritual thing, it’s not material. That’s a fact by the way, you materialists, because awareness for example, which you must have a mind for, is not a physical thing, just as actions and information are not physical things. But Ronald Mallett obviously was not talking about a spiritual device or one that manipulated the mind. I wonder if George prepares questions long before the show starts. It doesn’t seem he does, otherwise his questions wouldn’t be so dumb. But, at least God lets me use them to teach profound, deep and useful things.
There was also something else that Ronald implied which is typical of how Mainstreamers, and which shows how their morality leads to things like the 500+ million people killed by atheists (not all atheists obviously): when he said that humans can achieve anything they can think of, he was answering the same caller I mentioned earlier who brought up a stupid example for his question, which was that Suparman’s dad said that going back in time was forbidden and so asked Ronald if God ever forbade it (how about read the Bible and study religion idiot, and ask a religious person and not a materialist Mainstreamer?). Ronald, besides saying humans could do whatever they wanted to, said that if we weren’t meant to do something, then God wouldn’t allow it. That answer implies that if child molestation happens and anything that is obviously evil, it’s good or permitted by God, because we were able to do it. That besides being evil reasoning, is also a logical fallacy: if you aren’t doing something then it can be said you aren’t meant to do anything that you aren’t doing. So then it’s also contradictory. And Ronald was implying that to know if something is permitted by God, you should do it, and he surely meant that, because he also said in his answer, and I’m paraphrasing this part till I can listen again to what he said, that it was wrong to not learn and progress.
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. – Romans 8:28
Ethiopia’s Nazi Government Starves Own Citizens to Death
Here is a repost of an 11 day old news report from the UK by Watch Angus Stickler of the BBC
Ethiopia ‘using aid as weapon of oppression’
8/5/2011 12:48 UK/11:48 GMT
A joint undercover investigation by BBC Newsnight and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism has uncovered evidence that the Ethiopian government is using billions of dollars of development aid as a tool for political oppression.
Posing as tourists the team of journalists travelled to the southern region of Ethiopia.
We are just waiting on the crop, if we have one meal a day we will survive until the harvest, beyond that there is no hope for us
Villager in southern Ethiopia
There they found villages where whole communities are starving, having allegedly been denied basic food, seed and fertiliser for failing to support Prime Minister Meles Zenawi.
The investigation has also gathered evidence of mass detentions, the widespread use of torture and extra-judicial killings by Ethiopian government forces.
Yet Western donors including Britain – which is the third largest donor to Ethiopia – stand accused of turning a blind eye by continuing to provide aid money despite being warned about the abuses.
The aid in question is long-term development aid, not the emergency aid provided in response to the current drought in Ethiopia and its neighbours in the Horn of Africa.
Government response
Ambassador Abdirashid Dulane, the Deputy Head of Ethiopia’s UK Mission, has rejected the allegations saying that the Newsnight/Bureau report “lacked objectivity, even-handedness”.
“The sole source of the story was opponents of Ethiopia who have been rejected by the electorate, and time and again it has been shown that their allegations are unfounded”.
Our reporters visited one village in southern Ethiopia with a population of about 1,700 adults.
Despite being surrounded by other communities which are well fed and prosperous, this village, which cannot be named for fear of reprisals, is starving. We were told that in the two weeks prior to our team’s arrival five adults and 10 children had died.
Lying on the floor, too exhausted to stand, and flanked by her three-year-old son whose stomach is bloated by malnutrition, one woman described how her family had not eaten for four days.
“We are living day to day on the grace of God,” she said.
Another three-year-old boy lay in his grandmother’s lap, listless and barely moving as he stared into space.
“We are just waiting on the crop, if we have one meal a day we will survive until the harvest, beyond that there is no hope for us,” the grandmother said.
‘Abandoned’
In another village 30 km (19 miles) away it was a similar story.
Almost all of the aid goes through the government channels… in terms of relief food supply and some of the safety net provisions, they simply don’t get to the needy of an equitably basis
There our team met Yenee, a widow who along with her seven children is surviving by begging, eating leaves and scavenging scraps from the bins in the nearest town.
“The situation is desperate,” she said. “We have been abandoned… It is a matter of chance if we live or die.”
The two villages sit just 15km (9 miles) either side of a major town, surrounded by other communities where the populations are well fed and healthy. They are in desperate need, but no-one is helping.
According to local opposition members they are being punished for failing to vote for the ruling party, the Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), which Mr Meles leads.
Further north a group of farmers alienated by Mr Meles’ government met the BBC/Bureau team at a secret location on the edge of a remote village.
One farmer described how he had been ostracised for failing to support EPRDF: “Because of our political views we face great intimidation. We are denied the right to fertiliser and seeds because of political ideology,” he said.
‘Buying support’
The Ethiopian federal and regional governments control the distribution of aid in Ethiopia.
Professor Beyene Petros, the current vice-chairman of the Ethiopian Federal Democratic Forum, an alliance of eight opposition parties known as Medrek, told our reporters that aid is not distributed according to need, but according to support for the EPRDF:
“Almost all of the aid goes through the government channels… in terms of relief food supply and some of the safety net provisions, they simply don’t get to the needy of an equitably basis.
“There is a great deal of political differentiation. People who support the ruling party, the EPRDF, and our members are treated differently. The motivation is buying support, that is how they recruit support, holding the population hostage,” he said.
Mr Beyene said that the international community, including the British government, is well aware of the problem and that he has personally presented them with evidence:
“The position of the donor communities is dismissive… they always want to dismiss it as an isolated incident when we present them with some proof. And we challenge them to go down and check it out for themselves, but they don’t do it.”
Accountability
The UK International Development Minister Stephen O’Brien issued a statement in response to the allegations raised by the investigation, saying:
“We take all allegations of human rights abuses extremely seriously and raise them immediately with the relevant authorities including the Ethiopian Government, with whom we have a candid relationship. Where there is evidence, we take firm and decisive action.
They raped me in a room, one of them was standing on my mouth, and one tied my hand, they were taking turns, I fainted during this – Ethiopian woman from the Ogaden – continued here
The Cult of the Demon Ramtha, Refuted
I was listening to Coast to Coast again, this edition described as,
Channeling Ramtha
Sun 08-14
Guest host Rob Simone (email) was joined by founder and President of Ramtha’s School of Enlightenment, JZ Knight, for a discussion about her experiences connected with the channeling of a 35,000 year old warrior from the lost continent of Atlantis, called Ramtha.
According to Wickedpedia, “Judy Zebra Knight (born Judith Darlene Hampton on March 16, 1946, in Roswell, New Mexico), usually known as JZ Knight, is an American mystic teacher and author. She is also the reputed channel of a spiritual entity named Ramtha. Knight has appeared on US TV shows, such as Larry King,[1] MSNBC[2] and The Merv Griffin Show, offering spiritual insight and inspiration. Her teachings have attracted figures from the entertainment and political world such as Linda Evans and Shirley MacLaine.[3] Knight claims to bridge ancient wisdom and the power of consciousness together with the latest discoveries in science.[4] Some of the ideas are similar to those of Shirley MacLaine,[5] which have in turn been criticized for being “kindergarten metaphysics” by mathematician and skeptic Martin Gardner.[6]
So, I listened to JZ Knight, an obvious liberal from what I heard, who seems to allow herself to be possessed by a demon, and I noted some severely ironic contradictions she made on the show, which some may find funny. I got the impression that host Rob thought she was a liar, because at one point he said that a psychologist (as in any) would label her “a nut” for saying what she did, and asked how she knew she wasn’t being possessed by a demon. Those two things the host, George Noory, has and probably never would say to any guest, unless they were a fundamentalist Christian, at least not in the way Rob put it. George tries not to offend anyone except those oh so bad fundamentalists who try and force everyone to have babies and believe the Bible so that they can rule the world, a book which says not to steal, murder or lie or “Lord it” over anyone, to help the needy with money, not the rich and that both should share if they can, and to seek the truth will all your heart, to be quick to listen and slow to speak and anger, to not show partiality and hate all such immoral things and not to listen to anyone who lives life doing those things, and that those who do live like that and listen to people like that she die and go to Hell forever… A great book to use if you want to deceive and dominate the world right? Moving on.
JZ reminded me of another popular liar, much more popular (because he uses “God” to endorse his babble), who allegedly wrote, “Conversations With God : An Uncommon Dialogue”. That liar’s name i Neale Donald Walsch. I call him a liar because I found that he made severe contradictions in his claims about humans and God. I don’t call someone a liar for nothing. But back to JZ: Rob asked if she or her followers went out and preached, and she told an utter lie, which was that she didn’t “prosetize” or said in some incorrect way like that, contradicted by the fact that she moves around and leaves her house and lets the demon Ramtha speak through her! And was on the show preaching about her religion, which she also claimed wasn’t religion, though it obviously was, since those following Ramtha allow it to take control of their lives and want it to in order to “ascend”. She didn’t say ascend on the show but knowing these types of cults I’m sure she’s used it before. Demons like Ramtha are called “ascended Masters”. The concept was used heavily in Stargate, an atheistic sci-fi series. How can someone say they aren’t attempting to get anyone to follow their way of life when they are emphatically endorsing it and putting religion in a bad light? She said that in the ancient times people would listen to prophets, but then religion got mixed into it, as if that were a bad thing. Why would it be a bad thing? Is simply listening going to get you anywhere if you don’t apply the truths you here? If you don’t live them? Blind ignorants and liars who hate truth, like forget and don’t want to learn that that is what TRUE religion is, as opposed to human-invented rituals and reasonless parroting like Catholicism, Mormonism and Jehovah’s Witnessism.
She also said on the show, “it’s about free will” then almost right after said, “we’re predestined”. This is very strange since most people, except Calvinists, would say that that is a contradiction. Near the end of the show she was asked by Rob Simone if it was true that (according to her x-Catholic friend, who left Catholicism “for Ramntha”) that Ramntha was in a UFO which shined a beam on the Holy of Holies which is what tore it when Jesus died. She replied, “I wouldn’t know, I’m not here when Ramtha speaks.” What happened to free will!? And doesn’t this person record, or anyone else, what she says when she babbles supposed ultimate truths or truths that lead to it?! And no one writes it down even!? Not even about what happened in the time of the perfect one Jesuss!? WOW! How worthless Ramtha’s words must be if the very whom the spirit “master” of the truth speaks through is ignored by her! And how is it she said that if she repeates other things Ramtha’s said to her? And how can you endorse your cult if you don’t know what it is your cult leader says!? AAAAAHHHH!!!!! Liberals are so frustrating! Frustrating because they claim to have the truth and living free while bashing truth and twisting the meaning of freedom and accusing those who point out that they do that with condemnation, that they are the ones who do that! In other words, frustrating because they are hypocrites claiming to be honest accusing the honest of being hypocrites. The worst ones are the ones who are conniving to those who point out there errors, who point it out to help them.
When the host asked if it was true that she believed that she was being spied on at some point, she replied as if preparing to lie, “If I personally believed that?” and then the host seemed to think he accidentally threw her a hard ball (oh no, can’t ask tough questions to clearly deluded people who wreck lives can we?), and changed what he said by asking if she or others (apart of her cult) thought that. And she said she was sure, and that it was the CIA and knew this because of remote viewer who was amazed to have finally been with her. It was a remote viewer who was on Coast to Coast AM a few times I think, becacuse the host repeated his name in a way like he was well-known. She then said absurd things like that everyone was being spied on, and therefore, she said, “it’s not like we’re really free… it’s like we’re in a bubble… in a great experiment… but they can’t control your mind, if you realize you have one” and that the CIA monitors YOUR EVERY WORD, yes, all of them, and that evidence of this is that they can read the letters of a dime with a satellite, basically a rant reply. So, a cult leader JZ, who for some strange reason doesn’t know what her leader Ramtha teaches, while teaching what Ramtha teaches, he says that we have free will while being trapped in a bubble-like world and therefore aren’t really free [because the CIA will stop you or hurt you for it?!] unless you realize you have a mind [a poor way of saying free will that allows you to do whatever you want to?]. But that’s not all of the incredible infant-talk by this woman at 65 years of age she said with a depressed tone, who has been leading her cult for 36 years: she said in set-up-knock-down fashion, “I just make up my own reality.”…
The sins of some are obvious, reaching the place of judgment ahead of them; the sins of others trail behind them. – 1 Timothy 5:24
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Another Strange Synchronicity: Friday Nights
A very strange coincidence happened to me this morning: I was writing down the lyrics to a song to find out what song it was, “it’s Friday night” (and “Friday night” seemed to be the theme of the song) and about two minutes later some man on the radio said that a teacher said to her students that the most important day was Friday and that she used it for studying rather than partying, I think she meant when she wasn’t a teacher, but a student. I tried figuring out what the radio discussion was about, like if it was a guy selling some book, but it got boring and I zoned out while working on my laptop. I did record it though, but missed the repeated comments he made about the importance of Friday. The song I’ve found out was called, “Last Friday Night” aka “T.G.I.F” by Katy Perry.
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Hastings: London Rioters Were Liberals, Dalrymple: Bankers Spawned Corrupt Britons
Years of liberal dogma have spawned a generation of amoral, uneducated, welfare dependent, brutalised youngsters
By Max Hastings
8/10/2011/12:49 PM
A few weeks after the U.S. city of Detroit was ravaged by 1967 race riots in which 43 people died, I was shown around the wrecked areas by a black reporter named Joe Strickland.
He said: ‘Don’t you believe all that stuff people here are giving media folk about how sorry they are about what happened. When they talk to each other, they say: “It was a great fire, man!” ’
I am sure that is what many of the young rioters, black and white, who have burned and looted in England through the past few shocking nights think today.
It was fun. It made life interesting. It got people to notice them. As a girl looter told a BBC reporter, it showed ‘the rich’ and the police that ‘we can do what we like’.
If you live a normal life of absolute futility, which we can assume most of this week’s rioters do, excitement of any kind is welcome. The people who wrecked swathes of property, burned vehicles and terrorised communities have no moral compass to make them susceptible to guilt or shame.
Most have no jobs to go to or exams they might pass. They know no family role models, for most live in homes in which the father is unemployed, or from which he has decamped.
They are illiterate and innumerate, beyond maybe some dexterity with computer games and BlackBerries.
They are essentially wild beasts. I use that phrase advisedly, because it seems appropriate to young people bereft of the discipline that might make them employable; of the conscience that distinguishes between right and wrong.
They respond only to instinctive animal impulses — to eat and drink, have sex, seize or destroy the accessible property of others. – More here
British rioters the spawn of a bankrupt ruling elite
By Theodore Dalrymple
8/11/2011/12:00AM
THE riots in London and elsewhere in Britain are a backhanded tribute to the long-term intellectual torpor, moral cowardice, incompetence and careerist opportunism of the British political and intellectual class.
They have somehow managed not to notice what has long been apparent to anyone who has taken a short walk with his eyes open down any frequented British street: that a considerable proportion of the country’s young population (a proportion that is declining) is ugly, aggressive, vicious, badly educated, uncouth and criminally inclined.
Unfortunately, while it is totally lacking in self-respect, it is full of self-esteem: that is to say, it believes itself entitled to a high standard of living, and other things, without any effort on its own part.
Consider for a moment the following: although youth unemployment in Britain is very high, that is to say about 20 per cent of those aged under 25, the country has had to import young foreign labour for a long time, even for unskilled work in the service sector.
The reasons for this seeming paradox are obvious to anyone who knows young Britons as I do.
No sensible employer in a service industry would choose a young Briton if he could have a young Pole; the young Pole is not only likely to have a good work ethic and refined manners, he is likely to be able to add up and — most humiliating of all — to speak better English than the Briton, at least if by that we mean the standard variety of the language. He may not be more fluent but his English will be more correct and his accent easier to understand. – more here
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Socialist Psycopath Israeli Government Sues Bedouins For Having to Oppress Them
[Socialist] Israel[is] to bill Bedouins for razing their homes
7-28-2011
JERUSALEM (AFP) — Israeli authorities are suing residents of a makeshift Bedouin village for the cost of repeatedly evicting them and razing “illegal structures” where they live, an official said on Wednesday.
“They built about 40 structures there for which they have no [building] rights,” Israel Land Administration spokeswoman Ortal Tzabar told AFP.
“They have already invaded the site more than 20 times, putting up huts and buildings and it costs us, for policemen and bulldozers and manpower, a huge amount.”
“We added it up and found that the cost of evictions so far is 1.8 million shekels [$529,400],” she said.
A lawsuit for that amount was filed on Tuesday in a court in Beersheba, the capital of southern Israel’s Negev desert region, where the Bedouin village of Al-Araqib, which is not recognized by Israeli authorities, regularly rises and falls.
An Israeli non-governmental group, Bedouin-Jewish Justice, reported in March that the homes there had been destroyed and rebuilt 21 times since July 2010. – More here
For the Sake of the Desert
This is not a prophecy God have given to me to speak, but I imagine, if God were to tell me to say something to Israel at this time, that it would be this:
You complain to your leaders about the price of your housing while your kin complain about having no housing at all. So then, if you pray to be able to afford your houses, should I listen? Did I not tell you to treat strangers as you want to be treated, to love your neighbor as yourself? To not forget how the Egyptians oppressed you, oppressed you in that fiery furnace, making bricks for their houses? Did I not tell you to treat strangers with kindness because you know what it was like to be oppressed as strangers in a strange land? But what have you done to your kin in the desert, a dry place with hot and cold extremes, and little to eat and drink?: You’ve watched your neighbors, your kin, the Bedouins, ground into the dust and removed from a home which was no home. Your rulers, whom you elected, would not begrudge these homeless wanderers a life in a tent, in the desert, their goats feeding on weeds. And after they drove them to the edge of the desert, they again took away their homes and oppressed the poor, the orphan and the widow. They would not even begrudge them a poor home, while enjoy their pleasant and comfortable ones. They would not even begrudge them gardens. And why? “For the sake of the desert,” they said. If for the sake of the desert, why destroy their gardens? Why destroy their farms? So then, should you complain when you cannot afford your good houses or gardens? Go and beg other countries for money, who will help you? How much longer will you get money from Americans? Beg them since they themselves are becoming poorer and poorer. You will beg them since they will begrudge you homes. Since you have said to your own kin who were at peace with you and doing you no harm, “for the sake of the desert we drove you and your goats out from it,” only to relentlessly destroy their homes and gardens and diminish their goats to a remnant; I too will raise your homes to the ground for the sake of the desert and give you no peace even when beg for it. And as a vineyard is gone over many times, so that only a few grapes are left on the vine, so I will go over my vineyard Israel many times, so that only a remnant of my sheep remain. For the sake of my promise to Abraham and the sake of desert, I will do this, and deprive you of the pools of water and forests I will make, in my wilderness, the Negev.
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Deuteronomy 15:9-11
Be careful not to harbor this wicked thought: “The seventh year, the year for canceling debts, is near,” so that you do not show ill will toward the needy among your fellow Israelites and give them nothing. They may then appeal to Yahweh against you, and you will be found guilty of sin. Give generously to them and do so without a grudging heart; then because of this Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work and in everything you put your hand to. There will always be poor people in the land. Therefore I command you to be openhanded toward your fellow Israelites who are poor and needy in your land.
2 Chronicles 6:32-34
“As for the foreigner who does not belong to your people Israel but has come from a distant land because of your great name and your mighty hand and your outstretched arm—when they come and pray toward this temple, then hear from heaven, your dwelling place. Do whatever the foreigner asks of you, so that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your own people Israel, and may know that this house I have built bears your Name.”
Exodus 22:21
“Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner, for you were foreigners in Egypt.”
Exodus 23:9
“Do not oppress a foreigner; you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners, because you were foreigners in Egypt.”
Leviticus 19:34
“The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.”
Leviticus 25:23
“The land must not be sold permanently, because the land is mine and you reside in my land as foreigners and strangers.”
Leviticus 26:3-6, 14-45, NIV
“If you follow my decrees and are careful to obey my commands, I will send you rain in its season, and the ground will yield its crops and the trees their fruit. 5 Your threshing will continue until grape harvest and the grape harvest will continue until planting, and you will eat all the food you want and live in safety in your land. I will grant peace in the land, and you will lie down and no one will make you afraid. …
But if you will not listen to me and carry out all these commands, and if you reject my decrees and abhor my laws and fail to carry out all my commands and so violate my covenant, then I will do this to you: I will bring on you sudden terror, wasting diseases and fever that will destroy your sight and sap your strength. You will plant seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it. I will set my face against you so that you will be defeated by your enemies; those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee even when no one is pursuing you.
If after all this you will not listen to me, I will punish you for your sins seven times over. I will break down your stubborn pride and make the sky above you like iron and the ground beneath you like bronze. Your strength will be spent in vain, because your soil will not yield its crops, nor will the trees of your land yield their fruit.
If you remain hostile toward me and refuse to listen to me, I will multiply your afflictions seven times over, as your sins deserve. I will send wild animals against you, and they will rob you of your children, destroy your cattle and make you so few in number that your roads will be deserted.
If in spite of these things you do not accept my correction but continue to be hostile toward me, I myself will be hostile toward you and will afflict you for your sins seven times over. And I will bring the sword on you to avenge the breaking of the covenant. When you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be given into enemy hands. When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will be able to bake your bread in one oven, and they will dole out the bread by weight. You will eat, but you will not be satisfied.
If in spite of this you still do not listen to me but continue to be hostile toward me, then in my anger I will be hostile toward you, and I myself will punish you for your sins seven times over. You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters. I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars and pile your dead bodies on the lifeless forms of your idols, and I will abhor you. I will turn your cities into ruins and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will take no delight in the pleasing aroma of your offerings. I myself will lay waste the land, so that your enemies who live there will be appalled. I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out my sword and pursue you. Your land will be laid waste, and your cities will lie in ruins. Then the land will enjoy its sabbath years all the time that it lies desolate and you are in the country of your enemies; then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths. All the time that it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not have during the sabbaths you lived in it.
As for those of you who are left, I will make their hearts so fearful in the lands of their enemies that the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. They will run as though fleeing from the sword, and they will fall, even though no one is pursuing them. They will stumble over one another as though fleeing from the sword, even though no one is pursuing them. So you will not be able to stand before your enemies. 38 You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will devour you. Those of you who are left will waste away in the lands of their enemies because of their sins; also because of their ancestors’ sins they will waste away.
But if they will confess their sins and the sins of their ancestors—their unfaithfulness and their hostility toward me, which made me hostile toward them so that I sent them into the land of their enemies—then when their uncircumcised hearts are humbled and they pay for their sin, I will remember my covenant with Jacob and my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land. 43 For the land will be deserted by them and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them. They will pay for their sins because they rejected my laws and abhorred my decrees. Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them or abhor them so as to destroy them completely, breaking my covenant with them. I am Yahweh their God. But for their sake I will remember the covenant with their ancestors whom I brought out of Egypt in the sight of the nations to be their God. I am Yahweh.”
Chariots of the Deluded: No To Giorgio, Down With Daniken, Ditch Sitchen
Yesterday night’s Coast to Coast AM show (07-31-11), titled “Ancient Aliens”, featuring Giorgio Tsoukalos the,
“Producer of Ancient Aliens, and publisher of Legendary Times magazine,”. The rest of the Coats description of the show is,
“Giorgio A. Tsoukalos, joins George Knapp to ponder the idea that extraterrestrials have been visiting us since the dawn of man and how one day they might return.”
Once again Georgi skewed or rather skewered the Bibl by making it out to be a misunderstood story about an alien. Obviously he hasn’t read the Bible carefully or the evidence for its claims. He repeatedly made various cliche and stupid comments, like that if aliens were time travelers, that “we wouldn’t pull anyone’s leg” (if “we” went back in ancient days and met ancients) by telling them we were anything other than them from the future. How stupid to generalize all humans as being nice and honest, including the ancients, when he knows that humans are so corrupt, that these beings we call “aliens” mostly won’t talk to most of us. He also spoke about the Quetzalcoatl legend, saying that “we know that snakes don’t fly” and that therefore it must have been some machine. Giorgio apparently is no cryptozoology fan or one himself, or doesn’t listen to Coast to Coast himself much, since on it and on the internet are accounts of flying serpents that have been seen in modern times. Accounts of flying serpents by the way would be evidence for the Bible’s claim that God disabled snakes from flying, evidence in that if it were a biological ability, then it could be that very very rarely there will be a flying one from a recessive gene expressing itself, or cousins of snakes that retained the ability to fly, though hidden mostly in the wild. Further, he claimed that Quetzalcoatl came from the mouth of a snake, something that isn’t found in the legends about him. However, there is at least one legend that claims he left on a raft of snakes (hardly UFO-like or indicative of a god-like alien, more like an insane one). He also claimed that the resurrections in the Bible might really have been resuscitation, which is very dumb, since there is no indication in the Bible at all, only the opposite, that that is what they were: it says that ancients were resurrected, points out ancients returning in spirit form, that a prophet is what resurrected a dead boy, by lying on him in an odd manner, that Lazarus was wrapped and rotting, and that Jesus was beaten and bled to death, and also wrapped along with herbs (would that have helped a dead man to breath or helped his blood circulation?) So clearly Giorgio is an ignorant speculator who isn’t interested in understanding the truth, but only airing the opinions of his heart.
Giorgio also believes that proof will be found that our DNA was altered by aliens in the past, but even if that were so, so what? Would that invalidate the Bible is someone made it more frequent for humans to have red hair, or less so? Further, why would it have to be an enhancement rather than a correction, like making diabetes less frequent, or staving off for a while some allergy, or causing giantism and multiple fingers and toes or other odd features? So? So then relegate the Bible to a quaint misunderstanding just because of that? Another problem with Giorgio’s beliefs about aliens changing our DNA in ancient times, is: if they have a prime directive as he and the interview George Knapp seemed to believe, or if they stay away from us mostly, if they at the most make some alien human hybrid babies for themselves, probe us or put some tracking devices in us, and not many, then why would they do something major like change our DNA, as in the DNA of all humans? Would that not be a violation of any Prime Directive? Further, how in the world would you change the DNA of millions of humans? Or did Giorgio mean some monkey or ape-like or human-like creatures (maybe he thinks Neanderthals, which were most likely already humans according to some scientists, both Christian and non-Christian scientists), so that a modern human type came out, us? Supposing that were the case, that would mean that aliens pre-programmed us with new skills and guided us, rather than God (the Bible says that God at various times taught humans things, besides the Scripture). And if were aliens that taught us, why would they not make it clear even BILLIONS of years later!? And what a sad job they did if it took BILLIONS OF YEARS for humans to come about from monkeys or apes. That was the best DNA manipulating aliens or who made life on Earth could do? It took them BILLIONS of years? Supposing humans keep up the level of (Hellish) peace they have now, and kept technologically progressing, would it take us that long to learn how to make life or turn it into humans? Yet Giorgio claims archeologists are insulting humanity when they dismiss his theories. But clearly, it’s his anti-Christian claims that are insulting both mankind and God, and elevating aliens beyond their abilities. The only one who can make life, the souls necessary for it, is God, with the exception of Satan one day, to make “the beast”. Perhaps Satan will figure out finally how to make souls and physical life or God will temporarily give him that ability, just long enough to make that creature, or, perhaps angels already have that ability, but God suppresses it or disabled it in demons like Satan (and will one day restore Satan’s ability to give birth for a moment).
Giorgio isn’t just crypto-ignorant, but as was revealed on the show, also ignorant that Atlantis was already found (beware of the Zedo popups on Piratebay), years ago (maybe even in 1973), and that it corroborated the Bible archeologically. also said on the show, “you know I’m a very nuts and bolts kind of guy,” but how so if he as he implied on the show, he believes in aliens who are so advanced that we can’t see them, in rotting dead people or skeletons being resuscitated and in a vague “God who doesn’t play dice”? He also made out Einstein to be a scientific genius for supposedly saying to someone who asked him if he believed in God, that if the asker meant a God who didn’t play dice, then yes he believes in that definition (which doesn’t at all define what God is). Giorgio also said that when science and religion combine that then we’ll know the truth, but if that were so, then we already would, since there is already Mainstreamism, Darwinism, , and UFO cults like Scientology and Raelianism and all of those are failures. Further, Christianity already incorporates science, many of it’s members practice science (in ordinary ways every day like non-Christians) and it’s even taught in the story of Gideon. Further, in what way does Giorgio mean by “combine”? Like the examples I already gave, it’s already been combined. And why doesn’t he do it himself if that’s the case? But by his own admission then, Christianity leads to the truth, but because of his ignorance about the basics of Christianity, doesn’t realize he’s spiritually blind.
For those ignorant about the Bible, too lazy to read even a small part of it carefully, who believe or wonder if UFO’s were being talked about in Ezekiel: NO. If you read the first pages it clearly points out that these are spiritual creatures that perhaps animals were made in the image of. Would God be limited to just making angels and humans and aliens and animals? Couldn’t he make even stranger creatures? Maybe he’s even made creatures in this universe that are energy-based or which hardly have anything we’d think of as blood, and are very much like machines (but knowing God such machine-like creatures would have machine-like cells, making them as complex as a human body). I wonder what Mainstreamers would think if they found machine-like aliens, or crystaline-aliens, and found programming in their cells or the particles making up the crystals, would they finally admit to a divine programmer, or just dismiss it as just more coincidental, random-made order?
Related Information:
Study: Children of Unmarried Parents Worse Off Claim Researchers
From NPR
8/16/2011
As more and more U.S. couples decide to have children without first getting married, a group of 18 family scholars is sounding an alarm about the impact this may have on those children.
In a new report out on Tuesday, they say research shows the children of cohabiting parents are at risk for a broad range of problems, from trouble in school to psychological stress, physical abuse and poverty.
The study is put out by the National Marriage Project and the Institute for American Values, groups whose missions include strengthening marriage and family life. It suggests a shift in focus is needed away from the children of divorce, which has long been a preoccupying concern for such scholars.
Brad Wilcox, a report co-author and head of the National Marriage Project, says divorce rates have steadily dropped since their peak in 1979-80, while rates of out-of-wedlock childbearing have soared. Forty-one percent of all births are now to unwed mothers, many of them living with — but not married to — the child’s father. – Continued here with audio
So once again, the Bible is proved true, including where it commands rapists to marry a virgin they rape. Can you figure out why now? And for you who say, “AWWW OOOOOH OH MY GOD WHAT ABOUT THE WOMAN’S RIGHTS!?” You’re forgetting the study just mentioned, forgetting that such a law would be to the benefit of the child, especially in the culture of the world at that time (especially if the rapist learned his lesson by not running away, or just paying some small fine or some other inadequate compensation or God letting him be free to decide, “I’ll just kill her or the baby to get away with what I did.” During those times (and still among many Orthodox Jews and many millions of Muslims), women were discriminated against if they were thought to be adulterous and that the Israelites were in a barren desert, and were going to wander there for 40 years. And how many men today would want to marry a woman with a child not there own or from a racist? So it’s in favor of the woman. And as for “rights”, what “rights”? The concept of human rights developed from ancient Greek Sophists (ever heard of “sophistry”?) who claimed that all humans were equal, which is a false statement. Physically, they are not equal: women are at a disadvantage because of their strength and are not as aggressive as men in general, and in my opinion, it’s apparent that they are not as innovative, at least not in the same way men are. The lesser innovation ability is due to the way God programs female minds and how he programmed their DNA in my opinion, or God programmed them in general to me innovative at other things, like weaving, cleaning and visual design. For those who argue, “So God lets you rape virgins and you don’t have to pay for it?” I’d say you didn’t study the link or listen to the law if you read it and didn’t read or forgot the points I just made: Deuteronomy says he must be fined and stay with her for life as her husband. And how many times do you think anyone can get away with rape if they keep having to pay fines? The law also suggests that the rape victim has the full right to accuse the one who raped her of having raped her without penalty, unlike in the Quran, or Muslim law, or Muslim tradition, in which it’s a heavy and dangerous burden for a woman to accuse anyone of anything. And God, as Bible-haters know, who’ve bothered to study the Bible in general well, records every evil (and good) act a person does, and if a person isn’t forgiven of their sins – if Jesus hasn’t suffered and died for their past and future sins – they will pay the penalty of eternal pain, limited movement and limited company, forever, for every rape they committed, besides all their other sins.
Some idiotic and simpleton replies to the article I found, no doubt from liberals, were:
“No preconceived notions or bias, I’m sure.”
I thought someone would say that. So then is a homosexual automatically biased if he or she says, “Homosexuality is good” or finds that gay marriage is good or when they say that gay marriage is equal to straight marriage, or when a father of a raped 13 year old demands she kill the baby “so you can feel better”? Is it biased when a mainstream scientist, liberals who trust in them or atheists make claims in favor of the Big Bang, abiogenesis, Darwinian evolution, or anything in such a way that it says or implies that the Bible is false, that creationism is false, that intelligent design is false or that Christians are wrong for believing whatever Christ says, or anything at all, or that he even existed? It’s as dumb as saying that if a Counsel on Single Life did the study and found marriage was less beneficial than being single that they were biased too. The idiot is just speculating and it’s poor speculation since he’s merely judging by the name of the group that did the study.
Another liberal poop reply was, “I’m sure More proof that gay marriage would be beneficial to the same sex parented families.”
That’s as stupid as saying that if someone found “eating salmon raw is beneficial” that therefore eating Puffer fish/fugu raw was good too”. The moron liberal took the research out of context. It was on straight couples, not gay. And why did he capitalize “more”? Weird.
Related Information:
National Marriage Project Study Information
Are Married Parents Really Better for Children?
Rape in the Bible
A correlation between homosexuality and violence