Saturday, April 30, 2016

Death by Distraction?


Just like the bread and circuses of old Rome, WE THE PEOPLE of the World are being anesthetized to reality. We congregate around artificial stages of fantasy and fabrication while the real world disintegrates around us. Please take time for a “blast of truth” and WAKE UP.

If We Don't Stop This We're Dead (Time 36:05 min.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHttfbmFJ_s&list=TLqrNfGZboDJIyODA0MjAxNg
It's past time to become part of the critical mass.

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See also:
▪ Geoengineering Watch Global Alert News, April 23, 2016 ( geoengineeringwatch.org ) (Time 55:07 min.) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EABDHF1q5cM
▪ Geoengineering Watch Global Alert News, April 16, 2016 ( geoengineeringwatch.org ) (Time 54:44 min.) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akPLxCYJdaA

Saturday, April 16, 2016

Spellbinding


Once again, leaks, hacks, and unauthorized revelations (i.e., “The Panama Papers”1) shock / anger /sadden us as if we expected something different. How many times must this déjà vu repeat itself before we truly understand the warning:
And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. (New Testament | Matthew 19:24)
Wealth changes people, so if we are still dreaming about striking it rich, let’s read and listen to these discussions:
● The Rich Are Different: More Money, Less Empathy2

Studies reveal the super-rich suffer anxiety, lack of empathy due to wealth3 (Time 23:25 min.)
And let us revisit this from a March 18, 2014 Déjà Vu Times post, Truly Afflicted (With Riches)!!4


    “Money on the Mind” (8:.55 min.)
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuqGrz-Y_Lc&sns=em
Great wealth also seems to be accompanied by a companion condition called spellbinding. We may know we have wealth (sufficient to conceal it in shell companies) but we may never realize we have contracted the companion condition where money and its power progressively blinds and deafens us to fatal consequences.
Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. And now for a man to take up his cross, is to deny himself all ungodliness, and every worldly lust, and keep my commandments. … Therefore forsake the world, and save your souls; for what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? (New Testament | Matthew 16: 24, 26 combined with Matthew 16:25-26, 29 JST5)
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1. Panama Papers: Document leak exposes global corruption, secrets of the rich http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/panama-leak-offshore-records-putin-messi-money-1.3518951
Panama Papers reveal billions hidden in anonymous paper shares http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/panama-papers-bearer-shares-1.3525434
2. http://healthland.time.com/2010/11/24/the-rich-are-different-more-money-less-empathy/
3. CBC’s The Current with Maria Tremonti (podcast hosted by Laura Lynch Friday, April 8, 2016) at http://www.cbc.ca/radio/popup/audio/listen.html?autoPlay=true&clipIds=&mediaIds=2686455432&contentarea=radio&subsection1=radio1&subsection2=currentaffairs&subsection3=the_current&contenttype=audio&title=2016/04/08/1.3526575-studies-reveal-the-super-rich-suffer-anxiety-lack-of-empathy-due-to-wealth&contentid=1.3526575
Text summary at http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-april-8-2016-1.3526499/studies-reveal-the-super-rich-suffer-anxiety-lack-of-empathy-due-to-wealth-1.3526575
4. http://www.dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/2014/03/truly-afflicted-with-riches.html
5. JST = Joseph Smith’s New Translation of the Bible

Wednesday, April 6, 2016

And It Came to Pass ?

Assyria. Egypt.
        Babylon. Persia.
                Greece. Rome.
                         United States?
“Whom art thou like in thy greatness?”

Circa 600 B.C.E., this was the question a prophet was commanded to “speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude.”

But does this same prophet also speak (in archetype and déjà vu) to our latter-day world?—especially to the US of America?
1 AND it came to pass ... that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness?
3 ¶ Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.
4 The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants, and sent out her little rivers unto all the trees of the field.
5 Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the multitude of waters, when he shot forth.
6 All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.
7 Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters.
8 The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chesnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.
9 I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.
10 ¶ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;
11 I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness.
12 And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.
13 Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches:
14 To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.
15 Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.
16 I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth.
17 They also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain with the sword; and they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen.
18 ¶ To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD. (Old Testament | Ezekiel 31:1-18)
What could Ezekiel be saying to US, today?
“To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword. This is [the United States] and all [her] multitude.”
But does another great destruction really have to come to pass, again? Is there yet some possibility for an awakening sufficient to bring us, like Nineveh of old, to fasting and sackcloth and ashes?1 (At least for a time.2)

Or are most of us pretending we are the special exception to the déjà vu?

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1. Old Testament | Jonah 3:3-10 JST ~ So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey. And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown. So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water: But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands. Who can tell, if we will repent and turn unto God, but he will turn away from us his fierce anger, that we perish not? ¶ And God saw their works that they turned from their evil way and repented; and God turned away the evil that he had said he would bring upon them.
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineveh

 
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