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What a Diabolical Situation.
Try as I might, I just can’t come up with a quick and easy way of conjuring up an entity from the underworld. A simple method that doesn’t require loads of paraphernalia and hours of chanting nonsense. That’s all I ask.
It’s not like I want to evoke Satan himself. Some minor, lower ranking demon is all I need for the little job I have in mind. I mean, it costs a fortune just for the candles. Those ordinary thin candles that you get from the supermarket won’t do. No, they have to be great fat red things that look like they’re bleeding as they melt.
Then you have to find a suitable building to perform the ritual, which has to look at least a little bit gothic. There can be Hell to pay if you get that wrong. I remember summoning up something really ugly at home one time, and it was absolutely furious when it realised that I had forced it to materialise in my garden shed. I won’t be doing that again.
Anyway, I’m sorry for using my first post here for letting of steam like this, but I had to get it out of my system.
It’s not like I want to evoke Satan himself. Some minor, lower ranking demon is all I need for the little job I have in mind. I mean, it costs a fortune just for the candles. Those ordinary thin candles that you get from the supermarket won’t do. No, they have to be great fat red things that look like they’re bleeding as they melt.
Then you have to find a suitable building to perform the ritual, which has to look at least a little bit gothic. There can be Hell to pay if you get that wrong. I remember summoning up something really ugly at home one time, and it was absolutely furious when it realised that I had forced it to materialise in my garden shed. I won’t be doing that again.
Anyway, I’m sorry for using my first post here for letting of steam like this, but I had to get it out of my system.
Why human need God?
Apart from humans, all other species live their life without God, then why do humans only need God?
If believing in God brings good changes in us then it is good to believe in God, But there are more ideological conflicts among those who believe in God than among those who do not believe in God.
Everyone says that God is one but they have created different religions by giving different names to God. And they are fighting each other because of religious differences.
The reason behind most of the wars in the world is theological differences.
If you look deeply into all the Holy Books, they all have the same meaning and purpose. The only differences are in the language and some rules due to the environment of that place.
As long as we give importance only to 'words', there will be more differences among us humans, when we start giving importance to the 'meaning' then unity among us humans will increase.
If believing in God brings good changes in us then it is good to believe in God, But there are more ideological conflicts among those who believe in God than among those who do not believe in God.
Everyone says that God is one but they have created different religions by giving different names to God. And they are fighting each other because of religious differences.
The reason behind most of the wars in the world is theological differences.
If you look deeply into all the Holy Books, they all have the same meaning and purpose. The only differences are in the language and some rules due to the environment of that place.
As long as we give importance only to 'words', there will be more differences among us humans, when we start giving importance to the 'meaning' then unity among us humans will increase.
The Truth About Pumpkins
Most people have no idea of the evil that dwells within a pumpkin, although any non-American who has eaten pumpkin pie may well have suspected it. Its flesh is that of the Devil, and its seeds are the seeds of damnation. Remember that the next time you come to fill your bird feeder. Never put a pumpkin outside your door, you may forget it's there and trip over it. God hates pumkins: verse something or other somewhere in the Bible clearly tells us that pumpkins are an abomination upon the face of anybody who puts one over their head. Jesus tells us that whenever we encounter a pumpkin, we must cast it down upon the ground with mighty force, and stamp upon it for good measure.
This is Halloween. This is Halloween.
https://youtu.be/aU0eU6IirOI
It was in the eighth century that the Church appointed a special date for the feast of All Saints, followed by a day in honor of her soon-to-be saints, the feast of All Souls.
She chose this time of year, it is supposed, because in her part of the world it was the time of barrenness on the earth. The harvest was in, the summer done, the world brown and drab and mindful of death. Snow had not yet descended to comfort and hide the bony trees or blackened fields; so with little effort man could look about and see a meditation on death and life hereafter.
Apparently how you spent the vigil of All Saints depended on where you lived in Christendom. In Brittany the night was solemn and without a trace of merriment. On their "night of the dead" and for forty-eight hours thereafter, the Bretons believed the poor souls were liberated from Purgatory and were free to visit their old homes. The vigil for the souls, as well as the saints, had to be kept on this night because of course the two days were consecutive feasts and a vigil is never kept on a feast.
Breton families prayed by their beloveds' graves during the day, attended church for "black vespers" in the evening and in some parishes proceeded thence to the charnel house in the cemetery to pray by the bones of those not yet buried or for whom no room could be found in the cemetery. Here they sang hymns to call on all Christians to pray for the dead and, speaking for the dead, they asked prayers and more prayers.
Day 2 of my liquid fast
I'm craving broccoli 
What a promising change. Usually it's some sort of processed junk food I crave, but this Zeolite mineral supplement must really be pulling out the toxins.
Prayerfully I successfully end the sugar addiction.
So far I've been chanting and meditating daily, followed up by my Yoga.
Feels so great to have my discipline back
The liquid fast will conclude early Tuesday morning; and every week going forward, I'll be fasting 3 days a week - from Saturday thru Monday
What a promising change. Usually it's some sort of processed junk food I crave, but this Zeolite mineral supplement must really be pulling out the toxins.Prayerfully I successfully end the sugar addiction.
So far I've been chanting and meditating daily, followed up by my Yoga.
Feels so great to have my discipline back
The liquid fast will conclude early Tuesday morning; and every week going forward, I'll be fasting 3 days a week - from Saturday thru Monday
Fast day 3
So, I'm surprised that I wasn't hungry today. Instead my stomach felt sour, as if I ate something that didn't agree with me. Which, I drank some Turmeric Ginger tea, and it nixed that straight away.
I don't get it.
I was expecting this to be much more difficult than it is. I can't tell you how many water fast/liquid fast video's I've seen on YouTube, and people are saying day three is the hardest. It's said that, if you can get past day 3, you're on easy street.
Oh well, shit. Saving money on food will be a cake-walk then. Hell!
I don't get it.
I was expecting this to be much more difficult than it is. I can't tell you how many water fast/liquid fast video's I've seen on YouTube, and people are saying day three is the hardest. It's said that, if you can get past day 3, you're on easy street.Oh well, shit. Saving money on food will be a cake-walk then. Hell!
EDELWEISS - Vol. I: The ALGORHYTHM - II
EDELWEISS
***
- Chapter I:
The ALGORHYTHM
( - )
II.
“When you just realize that you live in a world of lies and deceit, what you convey as truth, without reasoning its value or meaning, becomes irrelevant, to a degree. The entire world has been drastically changed, all becoming a large theatre in which the crowds embrace a role, given by their rulers who drag them in slavery by centuries, reshaping over and over again the scene. Once someone dares to face such challenge of truth, without to uphold a trial, discovers gradually a maze of illusions, which only Reality, can overcome it. Who could challenge the rulers behind the scenes, when crowds applaud their tyrants, or the hands that feeds them, regardless of ego or just their belly?! Who could challenge in a fair trial, the ones lurking in shadow, the masters and the puppeteers which nowadays by social engineering and think-tanks direct the path of the crowds? When one is being surrounded by a mob mentality, or by people reduced to numbers in a list of numbers, what can do about it – regardless of what truth represents?! World has been built on corpses, and skulls being crushed for less! World has been raised through spilling of the innocents blood witnessing empires to rise then fall, while death plowing the lands with the bones of the kings of the earth – mostly tyrants – and reseeding the weed growing to cover the obscure, darkness and evil of millennia. Century by century, new societies formed to accomplish their roles and tasks given by the oppressors – merely, pitiful creatures ranked as noble ones in feasting and dominion. All the heads who were placed for the crowds to worship, were the same idols of ancient times, but with new ways of conquering minds and hearts, new paths of proclaiming lawlessness and edification of sin as worthy to follow. One would be astounded to find out truths which can not be told without to deal with the consequences of even daring bring word about, but in the same time, be chained to a sufferance to discover its own kind, the human being, being caught in the same web dominating the times. Century after century of lies and deceit. All but theft, rape, and murder…”
[ … ]
- Shall be continued…
2022 © Th3Mirr0r
EDELWEISS - Vol. I/Chapter I: The ALGORHYTHM
***
- Chapter I:
The ALGORHYTHM
( - )
II.
“When you just realize that you live in a world of lies and deceit, what you convey as truth, without reasoning its value or meaning, becomes irrelevant, to a degree. The entire world has been drastically changed, all becoming a large theatre in which the crowds embrace a role, given by their rulers who drag them in slavery by centuries, reshaping over and over again the scene. Once someone dares to face such challenge of truth, without to uphold a trial, discovers gradually a maze of illusions, which only Reality, can overcome it. Who could challenge the rulers behind the scenes, when crowds applaud their tyrants, or the hands that feeds them, regardless of ego or just their belly?! Who could challenge in a fair trial, the ones lurking in shadow, the masters and the puppeteers which nowadays by social engineering and think-tanks direct the path of the crowds? When one is being surrounded by a mob mentality, or by people reduced to numbers in a list of numbers, what can do about it – regardless of what truth represents?! World has been built on corpses, and skulls being crushed for less! World has been raised through spilling of the innocents blood witnessing empires to rise then fall, while death plowing the lands with the bones of the kings of the earth – mostly tyrants – and reseeding the weed growing to cover the obscure, darkness and evil of millennia. Century by century, new societies formed to accomplish their roles and tasks given by the oppressors – merely, pitiful creatures ranked as noble ones in feasting and dominion. All the heads who were placed for the crowds to worship, were the same idols of ancient times, but with new ways of conquering minds and hearts, new paths of proclaiming lawlessness and edification of sin as worthy to follow. One would be astounded to find out truths which can not be told without to deal with the consequences of even daring bring word about, but in the same time, be chained to a sufferance to discover its own kind, the human being, being caught in the same web dominating the times. Century after century of lies and deceit. All but theft, rape, and murder…”
[ … ]
- Shall be continued…
2022 © Th3Mirr0r
EDELWEISS - Vol. I/Chapter I: The ALGORHYTHM
God is not in that what you think wrong
God is Almighty and All wise and all Present.
God know you before you are born, He know your future.
God know everything and every thought.
God know what you think if you think right or wrong.
Every thought which do not agree with God ,is from evil.
So watch what you think ,so if you think right or wrong.if right is ok, if wrong,reject and don,t do so!
if you do wrong you are sining and sining lead to suffer!
So who are you when think wrong? are you of God or of evil doing?
surely you are of evil doing.If you think there is no God or God is not righteous or if you do against God:
you are fooling yourself and serving evil so !
So don,t make suffer for yourself and so don,t do wrong to be judged!
Have you ever seen that those who do wrong and repent not are judged for their sin!
They escape not the judgement!
So there are two worlds: 1. Perfect and 2. Imperfect.
Perfect world is from God and imperfect world is from Evil.
So Devil is all evil powerful: what so ever is imperfect and lead men so to do imperfect is from evil.
So if you are not converted and become humble as children:you can,t enter kingdom of God.
So refuse every evil thought that come to you to make you do wrong or sin.
There is only two sort of thoughts: Good thoughts that agree with God and Evil thoughts that comes from devil to man.So agree with good thoughts and refuse bad thoughts.
when you refuse evil , evil goes away.
when you accept bad thoughts, evil is with you!
So what so ever you think wrong which do not agree with God or which is against God, is from evil.
Evil comes to steal, kill and destroy.
If you believe and obey God,s truth, you don,t need be afraid from evil, because God is with you and He
will save you.
So what are your thoughts if you don,t agree with God or believe not in God ?
Your thoughts are against God and are wrong:so you will say,there is no God,or you say God is not right
who allowed suffering and bad to man, or what ever you say wrong which do not agree with truth of God,
is from evil .
So read bible and seek God and Truth and believe and obey truth and you will be saved and away from evil.So don,t lose time but do so believe God, because soon will be too late,because time will end.
And then is judgement and so comes suffering.
So now you know that what is Good and true is from God but what is wrong and untrue is from evil.
If you love God with all heart.., and love your neighbours as your self, neighbours are people you see daily.
So if you do these two greatest commandments: you will live and leaded into truth and salvation and
God will be with you.
Blessing.
God know you before you are born, He know your future.
God know everything and every thought.
God know what you think if you think right or wrong.
Every thought which do not agree with God ,is from evil.
So watch what you think ,so if you think right or wrong.if right is ok, if wrong,reject and don,t do so!
if you do wrong you are sining and sining lead to suffer!
So who are you when think wrong? are you of God or of evil doing?
surely you are of evil doing.If you think there is no God or God is not righteous or if you do against God:
you are fooling yourself and serving evil so !
So don,t make suffer for yourself and so don,t do wrong to be judged!
Have you ever seen that those who do wrong and repent not are judged for their sin!
They escape not the judgement!
So there are two worlds: 1. Perfect and 2. Imperfect.
Perfect world is from God and imperfect world is from Evil.
So Devil is all evil powerful: what so ever is imperfect and lead men so to do imperfect is from evil.
So if you are not converted and become humble as children:you can,t enter kingdom of God.
So refuse every evil thought that come to you to make you do wrong or sin.
There is only two sort of thoughts: Good thoughts that agree with God and Evil thoughts that comes from devil to man.So agree with good thoughts and refuse bad thoughts.
when you refuse evil , evil goes away.
when you accept bad thoughts, evil is with you!
So what so ever you think wrong which do not agree with God or which is against God, is from evil.
Evil comes to steal, kill and destroy.
If you believe and obey God,s truth, you don,t need be afraid from evil, because God is with you and He
will save you.
So what are your thoughts if you don,t agree with God or believe not in God ?
Your thoughts are against God and are wrong:so you will say,there is no God,or you say God is not right
who allowed suffering and bad to man, or what ever you say wrong which do not agree with truth of God,
is from evil .
So read bible and seek God and Truth and believe and obey truth and you will be saved and away from evil.So don,t lose time but do so believe God, because soon will be too late,because time will end.
And then is judgement and so comes suffering.
So now you know that what is Good and true is from God but what is wrong and untrue is from evil.
If you love God with all heart.., and love your neighbours as your self, neighbours are people you see daily.
So if you do these two greatest commandments: you will live and leaded into truth and salvation and
God will be with you.
Blessing.
Interesting article about why evangelicals are predisposed to believe liars
In response to:
Neuroscientist explains why Christian evangelicals are wired to believe Donald Trump’s gaslighting lies
President Donald Trump lies so often that it is no longer shocking when it happens, no matter how blatant or absurd the falsehood may be. Not only does Trump regularly exaggerate the truth, he frequently denies facts that can be observed directly from video or audio tapes. This has led some professionals to diagnose his lying as compulsive or pathological, and many psychologists have pointed out that he is constantly gaslighting his base—a term that refers to a strategic attempt to get others to question their direct experience of reality.
With so much evidence to contradict his claims, like having the largest inauguration crowd size despite pictures clearly showing otherwise, one must wonder how there are still people out there who believe anything the man says. But the fact of the matter is there are many who swallow it hook, line, and sinker. Most of his fervent supporters are convinced that Trump is the harbinger of truth when it comes to important issues like climate change—which he states is really just a “hoax perpetrated by the Chinese government”.
While this might sound laughable, it is a serious problem, as it has contributed to fake news and dangerous propaganda running rampant. Given its negative impact on society, it is important to understand why certain groups of people are more vulnerable to believing unsupported lies than others. For this, we must look to science for answers, and fortunately, the fields of psychology and neuroscience offer valuable insight.
One reason Trump supporters believe his lies comes from a basic fact about the brain: it takes more mental effort to reject an idea as false than to accept it as true. In other words, it’s easier to believe than to not.
This fact is based on a landmark study published in the journal PLOS ONE in 2009, which asked the simple question, how is the brain activated differently during a state of belief compared to a state of disbelief? To test this, participants were asked whether or not they believed in a series of statements while their brain activity was being imaged by an fMRI scanner. Some sentences were simple and fact-based (California is larger than Rhode Island), while others were more abstract and subjective (God probably does not exist). The results showed the activation of distinct but often overlapping brain areas in the belief and disbelief conditions. While these imaging results are complicated to interpret, the electrical patterns also showed something that was fairly straightforward. Overall, there was greater brain activation that persisted for longer during states of disbelief. Greater brain activation requires more cognitive resources, of which there is a limited supply. What these findings show is that the mental process of believing is simply less work for the brain, and therefore often favored. The default state of the human brain is to accept what we are told, because doubt takes effort. Belief, on the other hand, comes easily.
This troubling finding makes sense from an evolutionary standpoint. If children questioned every single fact they were being taught, learning would occur at a rate so slow that it would be a hindrance. But this fact could be just as easily applied to both the political left and right. So how does it explain why conservatives, specifically evangelicals, are so easily duped by Donald Trump?
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Neuroscientist explains why Christian evangelicals are wired to believe Donald Trump’s gaslighting lies
President Donald Trump lies so often that it is no longer shocking when it happens, no matter how blatant or absurd the falsehood may be. Not only does Trump regularly exaggerate the truth, he frequently denies facts that can be observed directly from video or audio tapes. This has led some professionals to diagnose his lying as compulsive or pathological, and many psychologists have pointed out that he is constantly gaslighting his base—a term that refers to a strategic attempt to get others to question their direct experience of reality.
With so much evidence to contradict his claims, like having the largest inauguration crowd size despite pictures clearly showing otherwise, one must wonder how there are still people out there who believe anything the man says. But the fact of the matter is there are many who swallow it hook, line, and sinker. Most of his fervent supporters are convinced that Trump is the harbinger of truth when it comes to important issues like climate change—which he states is really just a “hoax perpetrated by the Chinese government”.
While this might sound laughable, it is a serious problem, as it has contributed to fake news and dangerous propaganda running rampant. Given its negative impact on society, it is important to understand why certain groups of people are more vulnerable to believing unsupported lies than others. For this, we must look to science for answers, and fortunately, the fields of psychology and neuroscience offer valuable insight.
One reason Trump supporters believe his lies comes from a basic fact about the brain: it takes more mental effort to reject an idea as false than to accept it as true. In other words, it’s easier to believe than to not.
This fact is based on a landmark study published in the journal PLOS ONE in 2009, which asked the simple question, how is the brain activated differently during a state of belief compared to a state of disbelief? To test this, participants were asked whether or not they believed in a series of statements while their brain activity was being imaged by an fMRI scanner. Some sentences were simple and fact-based (California is larger than Rhode Island), while others were more abstract and subjective (God probably does not exist). The results showed the activation of distinct but often overlapping brain areas in the belief and disbelief conditions. While these imaging results are complicated to interpret, the electrical patterns also showed something that was fairly straightforward. Overall, there was greater brain activation that persisted for longer during states of disbelief. Greater brain activation requires more cognitive resources, of which there is a limited supply. What these findings show is that the mental process of believing is simply less work for the brain, and therefore often favored. The default state of the human brain is to accept what we are told, because doubt takes effort. Belief, on the other hand, comes easily.
This troubling finding makes sense from an evolutionary standpoint. If children questioned every single fact they were being taught, learning would occur at a rate so slow that it would be a hindrance. But this fact could be just as easily applied to both the political left and right. So how does it explain why conservatives, specifically evangelicals, are so easily duped by Donald Trump?
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(Continued in my first comment below)
Believing or unbelieving
There are two roads: 1. Believing truth of God or 2.Unbelieving truth of God.
Believing lead to salvation from sin and from evil,and lead to heaven.
Unbelieving lead to sin,sicknesses,suffer and hell.
Believing and obeying truth lead to salvation.Believing alone without obeying truth is not enough and
and lead not to salvation but to judgement.
All men have sin,therefore need believe and obey truth to be saved.
Believing and obeying commandments of God lead to salvation.
Starting with two greatest commandments :1.Love God with all heart..,2.Love your neighbours as yourself.
neighbours are people you see daily.So this commandments lead you to live eternal life.
then is ten commandments in bible in exodus 20:2-17.
So you will be leaded to life,salvation and Heaven.
Many protestant christians:believe and obey not the truth or commandments,so their belief is dead without
obeying truth.
So they will be judged from God and will be in left side of Jesus,Jesus will judge them,and many of them
are leaded to hell.
So there are believers of free church and many other churches who believe without obeying truth or commandments.
So Jesus Christ came to give truth and salvation,if unbelieving truth is good,Jesus would not come!
So unbelieving truth lead to sin,sicknesses,suffer and hell.
Many unbelievers are not afraid of hell,so devil has misleaded and deceived them:so to not believe truth,
and so are leaded to hell. They think they will not suffer hell, but day will come when they will go to hell
and so many years they will suffer hell.And so then they would want to go out of hell, but is too late,
they can,t go out of hell, they will suffer in hell till all judgement they suffer for their sin.
So they will burn in hell and suffer so many tortures and so many other things they will suffer in hell.
So they will be so sad and sorry that they didn,t believe and didn,t obey truth to be saved.
So wake up and let not be deceived and misleaded from evil,but now is time to believe and obey truth.
So any one who want to be saved, now is the time and soon will end time and will be no time or too late.
So soon take the bible and learn first new testament to know Jesus, and then old testament,
but read and believe and obey commandments soon to be saved,i given here them in the begining.
So unbelieving truth, is danger way.
Knowing God is important and blessings,God is love and good and will save you.
Believing lead to salvation from sin and from evil,and lead to heaven.
Unbelieving lead to sin,sicknesses,suffer and hell.
Believing and obeying truth lead to salvation.Believing alone without obeying truth is not enough and
and lead not to salvation but to judgement.
All men have sin,therefore need believe and obey truth to be saved.
Believing and obeying commandments of God lead to salvation.
Starting with two greatest commandments :1.Love God with all heart..,2.Love your neighbours as yourself.
neighbours are people you see daily.So this commandments lead you to live eternal life.
then is ten commandments in bible in exodus 20:2-17.
So you will be leaded to life,salvation and Heaven.
Many protestant christians:believe and obey not the truth or commandments,so their belief is dead without
obeying truth.
So they will be judged from God and will be in left side of Jesus,Jesus will judge them,and many of them
are leaded to hell.
So there are believers of free church and many other churches who believe without obeying truth or commandments.
So Jesus Christ came to give truth and salvation,if unbelieving truth is good,Jesus would not come!
So unbelieving truth lead to sin,sicknesses,suffer and hell.
Many unbelievers are not afraid of hell,so devil has misleaded and deceived them:so to not believe truth,
and so are leaded to hell. They think they will not suffer hell, but day will come when they will go to hell
and so many years they will suffer hell.And so then they would want to go out of hell, but is too late,
they can,t go out of hell, they will suffer in hell till all judgement they suffer for their sin.
So they will burn in hell and suffer so many tortures and so many other things they will suffer in hell.
So they will be so sad and sorry that they didn,t believe and didn,t obey truth to be saved.
So wake up and let not be deceived and misleaded from evil,but now is time to believe and obey truth.
So any one who want to be saved, now is the time and soon will end time and will be no time or too late.
So soon take the bible and learn first new testament to know Jesus, and then old testament,
but read and believe and obey commandments soon to be saved,i given here them in the begining.
So unbelieving truth, is danger way.
Knowing God is important and blessings,God is love and good and will save you.
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