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wombatwisdom · 1 year ago

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The Institution

In the version of the first vision that is most frequently quoted by church members, I find the question posed by the 14 year old, soon to be prophet, rather telling.

He does not ask a personal question, such "how can I be a better disciple of Jesus Christ?" Or even more biblical "what lack I yet?"

Nor does he ask a more general question like "how can I help people more fully come unto Christ?"

The question he poses is an institutional one: "Which of all the sects was right, that I may know which to join." (JS History 1:18)

It should be noted that this account was not drafted until 1838, and is likely not a perfect recounting of events but rather a recounting with a purpose. If you are trying to convince people that a church is the one true church of God, the question that initiated the vision had better be about churches.

I think, however, this institutional focus looms large in our church, exacerbated by correlation efforts in the latter half of the 20th century. In many ways, the church has survived and thrived off its institutional design.

As I see it, the church has two aspects that constantly create tension: the centralized institution (think church headquarters) and the local congregation (think your ward or branch). Historically, the church has oscillated between different approaches: at times highly centralized, others more localized. In the modern church, it has struck a rather successful balance between the two, and landed in what I like to call the "franchise model".

My mother likes to say she loves that church is the same no matter where she attends. And generally that's true--she knows she can share her testimony on the first Sunday of the month, she knows what class to attend for second hour, and she knows when to sit, stand, sing, and say amen.

In truth the structure of the church on this tightrope between the top down approach of the centralized church and the bottom up approach of the localized church is a marvel. The average member feels empowered at the local level while supported by a larger framework maintained by a centralized group. Local leaders are volunteers (sort of), so less likely to be swayed to corruption, while the central leadership is full time with the capacity to address sweeping and large issues.

But these two structures pull against each other too. Local congregations can veer too far from the comfort of Central planning and can have their autonomy reduced (see women on the stand in California). Central leadership can implement policy that is difficult to enforce at the local level that will just kind of be forgotten (see the countless examples of leadership roulette).

Central leadership's goal is to maintain the institution and keep the train on the tracks, where the local congregation's goal is to foster community. And between the two is the estuary of middle-management who are trying support both at the same time (a confusing and thankless task if there ever was one).

These goals can be tricky to support and are often contradictory but can be advantageous to the church as a whole.

You've probably seen this in action. If someone in your ward mistreats you and you offer this as reason for no longer attending, you are often reminded that the church is more than the local community, it is a global Church run by God and you shouldn't abandon it because of a less than stellar ward environment. Similarly, if Central Leadership proposes a policy that marginalizes you or othes, the defense is to remember how great a community of saints exists and how much you are loved.

This makes it difficult to criticize, advocate or create positive change in the church. While grassroots movements can work, it is important to see how both sides of the church work and in what ways they are interconnected and how they are separate. A movement solely focused on improving the community does not change damaging centralized policy or teachings, likewise even perfect policy will not create the desired effect if the local community is hostile or otherwise unable to implement it.

From the very beginning of the LDS tradition there has been an eye towards institutionalism. Much more can and needs to be said regarding how Christ fits into the institution, but this post is already too long to tackle that. So, I'll leave it here for now.

#queerstake #tumblrstake #far too long a post #i find the institutions we create so fascinating #i bet some cool people have already studied this

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thechurchesofchristsagendas · 3 months ago

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3 Honda Accord and 3 Disciples of the Denver Church of Christ

🟨 3 Honda Accords and 3 Disciples.

In 2004, there were three Honda Accords, early 1990s model that three Disciples of the Denver Church of Christ owned.

A Red Honda Accord 4-door owned by James Andrew Neary, he is from California and he was in the Air Force in Colorado. He met up with Gerard 2018 in San Francisco - a different person, he's involved here.

A Blue Honda Accord 4-door owned by Thomas "Tom" Carson. He is Joseph "Joe" Campbell's childhood friend, his brother is a Physician's Assistant (Doctor's assistant). He introduced Gerard to James Andrew Neary (Red Honda Accord).

A Beige Honda Accord 2-door owned by Joseph "Joe" Campbell. He pursued the studying and teaching of the Bible to Gerard involving many people in the church: Roel Gutierrez with Tyler Collier, Christopher Reed and Matthew Ottenweller(both are preachers), and also Tom Carson.

🟨 Dan Ho. Ca Co rd.

3 Honda Accords Dan Ho can be spelled from Honda - Daniel Ho(Asian last name, Vietnamese). There are Daniels in Gerard's life - Daniel Venegas, Daniel(Landlord of a house in Lakewood, California), Christopher Daniels( UCD Music Business instructor).

Accord - Ca and Co Rd can be spelled. California and Colorado road.

Coca Rd can also be spelled...

Leia dn(414) can also be spelled. Leia and Lea are maternal 1st cousins of Gerard.

Dan Ho, Ca Co road in three colors, Red Accord(Ca), Blue Accord(Co), and Beige Accord(Co).

*Beige is a light yellow brown color.

🟨 2019 Lakewood, California - Lakewood, Colorado. Back in 2019, Gerard decided to move to Lakewood, California to be close to a new job at Aurora World, Inc., it's 20 minutes away from the house.

The Landlords of the house are asian brothers, Ryan and Daniel. There was a white man named Christopher.. Piotrowski Ph.D. in Communications with the same birthday as Trishia's, Gerard's older sister; an Asian engineer, Andrew Genkuong; and a black man that had a blue collar job, Derrion...

Gerard and his parents are from Lakewood, Colorado, in Lakewood, California he was renting a small room, the same size as his room in Lakewood, Colorado.

The three vehicles, Red, Blue, and Beige Honda Accords... Dan Ho, Ca, Co road, are used somehow to match the two states together - the room is the same size.

Daniel is the name of a landlord of the Lakewood, California house, he and his brother Ryan... So Dan Ho, Ca Co Rd(road).

#3 Honda Accords and 3 Disciples of Christ #Honda Accord 2-door Beige Colorado #Blue Honda Accord 4-door Colorado #Red Honda Accord 4-door California #James Andrew Neary California United States of America #Thomas Tom Carson Colorado pilot #Joseph Joe Campbell Colorado Denver Church of Christ #Joe Campbell used to drive a Beige Honda Accord 2-door 1990s #Thomas Andrew Carson used to owned a dark blue Honda Accord 1990s model #James Andrew Neary California used to own a Red Honda Accord 4-door 1990s model #Gerard Enrico Mercado California #Gerard Enrico Mercado Colorado #Gerard Enrico Mercado missing #Denver Church of Christ disciples #Kip Mckean #Henry Kriete

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shewhoworshipscarlin · 1 year ago

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Evelyn Preer

Evelyn Preer (née Jarvis; July 26, 1896 – November 17, 1932), was an African American pioneering screen and stage actress, and jazz and blues singer in Hollywood during the late-1910s through the early 1930s. Preer was known within the Black community as "The First Lady of the Screen."

She was the first Black actress to earn celebrity and popularity. She appeared in ground-breaking films and stage productions, such as the first play by a black playwright to be produced on Broadway, and the first New York–style production with a black cast in California in 1928, in a revival of a play adapted from Somerset Maugham's Rain.

Evelyn Jarvis was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, on July 26, 1896. After her father, Frank, died prematurely, she moved with her mother, Blanche, and her three other siblings to Chicago, Illinois. She completed grammar school and high school in Chicago. Her early experiences in vaudeville and "street preaching" with her mother are what jump-started her acting career. Preer married Frank Preer on January 16, 1915, in Chicago.

At the age of 23, Preer's first film role was in Oscar Micheaux's 1919 debut film The Homesteader, in which she played Orlean. Preer was promoted by Micheaux as his leading actress with a steady tour of personal appearances and a publicity campaign, she was one of the first African American women to become a star to the black community. She also acted in Micheaux's Within Our Gates (1920), in which she plays Sylvia Landry, a teacher who needs to raise money to save her school. Still from the 1919 Oscar Micheaux film Within Our Gates.

In 1920, Preer joined The Lafayette Players a theatrical stock company in Chicago that was founded in 1915 by Anita Bush, a pioneering stage and film actress known as “The Little Mother of Black Drama". Bush and her troupe toured the US to bring legitimate theatre to black audiences at a time when theaters were racially segregated by law in the South, and often by custom in the North and the interest of vaudeville was fading. The Lafayette Players brought drama to black audiences, which caused it to flourish until its end during the Great Depression.

She continued her career by starring in 19 films. Micheaux developed many of his subsequent films to showcase Preer's versatility. These included The Brute (1920), The Gunsaulus Mystery (1921), Deceit (1923), Birthright (1924), The Devil’s Disciple (1926), The Conjure Woman (1926) and The Spider's Web (1926). Preer had her talkie debut in the race musical Georgia Rose (1930). In 1931, she performed with Sylvia Sidney in the film Ladies of the Big House. Her final film performance was as Lola, a prostitute, in Josef von Sternberg's 1932 film Blonde Venus, with Cary Grant and Marlene Dietrich. Preer was lauded by both the black and white press for her ability to continually succeed in ever more challenging roles, "...her roles ran the gamut from villain to heroine an attribute that many black actresses who worked in Hollywood cinema history did not have the privilege or luxury to enjoy." Only her film by Micheaux and three shorts survive. She was known for refusing to play roles that she believed demeaned African Americans.

By the mid-1920s, Preer began garnering attention from the white press, and she began to appear in crossover films and stage parts. In 1923, she acted in the Ethiopian Art Theatre's production of The Chip Woman's Fortune by Willis Richardson. This was the first dramatic play by an African-American playwright to be produced on Broadway, and it lasted two weeks. She met her second husband, Edward Thompson, when they were both acting with the Lafayette Players in Chicago. They married February 4, 1924, in Williamson County, Tennessee. In 1926, Preer appeared on Broadway in David Belasco’s production of Lulu Belle. Preer supported and understudied Lenore Ulric in the leading role of Edward Sheldon's drama of a Harlem prostitute. She garnered acclaim in Sadie Thompson in a West Coast revival of Somerset Maugham’s play about a fallen woman.

She rejoined the Lafayette Players for that production in their first show in Los Angeles at the Lincoln Center. Under the leadership of Robert Levy, Preer and her colleagues performed in the first New York–style play featuring black players to be produced in California. That year, she also appeared in Rain, a play adapted from Maugham's short story by the same name.

Preer also sang in cabaret and musical theater where she was occasionally backed by such diverse musicians as Duke Ellington and Red Nichols early in their careers. Preer was regarded by many as the greatest actress of her time.

Developing post-childbirth complications, Preer died of pneumonia on November 17, 1932, in Los Angeles at the age of 36. Her husband continued as a popular leading man and "heavy" in numerous race films throughout the 1930s and 1940s, and died in 1960.

Their daughter Edeve Thompson converted to Catholicism as a teenager. She later entered the Sisters of St. Francis of Oldenburg, Indiana, where she became known as Sister Francesca Thompson, O.S.F., and became an academic, teaching at both Marian University in Indiana and Fordham University in New York City.

Still from the 1919 Oscar Micheaux film Within Our Gates.

#historical #black history #actress #evelyn preer

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camisoledadparis · 7 months ago

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THIS DAY IN GAY HISTORY

based on: The White Crane Institute's 'Gay Wisdom', Gay Birthdays, Gay For Today, Famous GLBT, glbt-Gay Encylopedia, Today in Gay History, Wikipedia, and more … December 27

c.15 AD – John the Evangelist. The Gospel of John makes several references to "the disciple Jesus loved", and to "the Beloved Disciple", including references to special priviliges that Jesus gave to this relationship, not granted to other disciples. This is taken by some Biblical scholars as evidence that Jesus had a relationship with this disciple which was at least emotionally intimate, and possibly sexual. In medieval Northern Europe, there was even a long-standing tradition that he and Christ were the bridal couple at the Cana Wedding Feast.

It is not clear whether this "Beloved Disciple" was John himself (although it could have been), or someone else possibly Lazarus.

In any event, there are suggestions from elsewhere that John may have had a same-sex relationship with another, his scribe Prochorus, after Christ's death. Prochorus later became bishop of Nicomedia, and in turn, formed a fresh relationship of his own with a younger man, Irenaeus.

1846 – Ezra Allen Miner, more popularly known as Bill Miner, was an American bandit, originally from Bowling Green, Kentucky, who served several prison terms for stagecoach robbery (d.1913). Known for his unusual politeness while committing robberies, he was widely nicknamed the Grey Fox, Gentleman Robber or the Gentleman Bandit. He is reputed to have been the originator of the phrase

"Hands up!"

Legend has it that Bill Miner admonished his cohorts to fire their guns when in danger of capture but "do not kill a man".

Miner was born Ezra Allen Miner in Vevay Township, near Onondaga, Ingham County, Michigan. He never legally changed his first name, but regarded William Allen Miner as his true name throughout most of his life. He was arrested for the first time in 1866 in San Joaquin County, California and served time there. He then formed a partnership with Bill Leroy to rob a stagecoach. Leroy was caught and lynched, but Miner escaped. He was later caught for another robbery in Tuolumne County, California and was released from San Quentin in 1901.

After his third prison term, Miner moved to British Columbia in Canada, where he adopted the pseudonym George Edwards and is believed to have staged British Columbia's first-ever train robbery on September 10, 1904 at Silverdale about 35 kilometres (22 mi) east of Vancouver, just west of Mission City.

Miner was eventually caught after a botched payroll train robbery near Kamloops at Monte Creek (then known as "Ducks"). Choosing the wrong car, they managed only to rob $15 plus a bottle of kidney pills that Miner picked up off of a shelf. Miner and his two accomplices, Tom "Shorty" Dunn and Louis Colquhoun, were located near Douglas Lake, British Columbia after an extensive manhunt. A posse surrounded them while they were lunching in the woods. Miner presented himself as George Edwards and claimed that he and his cohorts were prospectors. The officer in charge of the posse suspected he had encountered the nefarious train-robbing gang and challenged the claim, putting them under arrest.

Dunn attempted to fire at the police and was shot in the leg. He gave up quickly after being wounded. Colquhoun was disarmed by an officer standing nearby and Miner never drew his weapon. Miner's arrest and subsequent trial in Kamloops caused a media spectacle. Apparently the most damning evidence against him was the bottle of kidney pills that Miner had picked up during the Ducks robbery. Upon his conviction, he, Dunn and Colquhoun were transported by train to the provincial penitentiary in New Westminster. By that time, Miner's celebrity status had risen to the point that the tracks were reputedly lined with throngs of supporters, many of whom expressed satisfaction with the fact that someone had taken the very unpopular CPR to task.

While serving time in the B.C. Penitentiary, Miner escaped in 1907 and was never recaptured in Canada. He moved back to the United States, becoming once again involved in robberies in the South at Gainesville in 1909. There, he served more prison time, and escaped twice.

He died in the prison farm at Milledgeville, Georgia, of gastritis, contracted from drinking brackish water during his previous escape attempt.Researchers Mark Dugan and and John Boessenecker contend that Miner was the only known homosexual outlaw in the American "Wild West." In his younger days, "Miner, who had a slender, girlish figure, no doubt was a target for sex-starved older and stronger convicts." Later, they claim, he lured young men into crime and preyed on them sexually. Whatever Miner's sexual preference, the only evidence of Miner's homosexuality surfaced in 1903 when the Pinkerton Detective Agency stated that Miner "is said to be a sodomist and may have a boy with him."

1901 – Marlene Dietrich (d.1992) was a German-American actress and singer.

Dietrich remained popular throughout her long career by continually re-inventing herself, professionally and characteristically. In the Berlin of the 1920s, she acted on the stage and in silent films. Her performance as Lola-Lola in The Blue Angel, directed by Josef von Sternberg, brought her international fame and provided her a contract with Paramount Pictures in the US.

Hollywood films such as Shanghai Express and Desire capitalised on her glamour and exotic looks, cementing her stardom and making her one of the highest paid actresses of the era. Dietrich became a US citizen in 1937, and throughout World War II she was a high-profile frontline entertainer.

Although she still made occasional films in the post-war years, Dietrich spent most of the 1950s to the 1970s touring the world as a successful show performer.

Unlike her professional celebrity, which was carefully crafted and maintained, Dietrich's personal life was kept out of public view. Dietrich, who was bisexual, enjoyed the thriving gay scene of the time and drag balls of 1920s Berlin.

She married only once, to assistant director Rudolf Sieber, who later became an assistant director at Paramount Pictures in France, responsible for foreign language dubbing.

Throughout her career Dietrich had an unending string of affairs, some short-lived, some lasting decades; they often overlapped and were almost all known to her husband, to whom she was in the habit of passing the love letters of her men, sometimes with biting comments.

During the filming of Destry Rides Again, Dietrich started a love affair with co-star Jimmy Stewart, which ended after filming. In 1938, Dietrich met and began a relationship with the writer Erich Maria Remarque, and in 1941, the French actor and military hero Jean Gabin. Their relationship ended in the mid-1940s. She also had an affair with the Cuban-American writer Mercedes de Acosta, who was Greta Garbo's lover. Her last great passion, when she was in her 50s, appears to have been for the actor Yul Brynner, but her love life continued well into her 70s. She counted John Wayne, George Bernard Shaw and John F. Kennedy among her conquests. Dietrich maintained her husband and his mistress first in Europe and later on a ranch in the San Fernando Valley, California.

In 1999, the American Film Institute named Dietrich the ninth greatest female star of all time.

1932 – On this date Fritz "Fred" Klein the Austrian-born American sex researcher, psychiatrist and pioneering Bisexual rights activist was born (d.2006). He's best known as the inventor of the Klein Sexual Orientation Grid. He was also a pioneering bisexual rights activist, who was an important figure in the modern LGBT rights movement.

As a self-identified bisexual, Klein was surprised at the lack of literature on his sexuality in the New York Public Library in 1974. He was inspired to place an advertisement in a New York City alternative newspaper the Village Voice and founded a ground-breaking social and support group for the Bisexual Community called Bisexual Forum.

He devised the Klein Sexual Orientation Grid, a multi-dimensional system for describing complex sexual orientation, similar to the "zero-to-six" scale Kinsey scale used by Alfred Kinsey, but measuring seven different vectors of sexual orientation and identity (sexual attractions, sexual behavior, sexual fantasies, emotional preference, social preference, lifestyle and self-identification) separately, as they relate person's past, present and ideal future.

Klein published The Bisexual Option: A Concept of One Hundred Percent Intimacy in 1978, based on his research, the world's first real psychological study of bisexuality. He also co-authored Man, His Body, His Sex in 1978, and published Bisexualities: Theory and Research in 1986 and Bisexual and Gay Husbands: Their Stories, Their Words in 2001. He published a novel, Life, Sex and the Pursuit of Happiness in 2005.

1962 – Joseph Mantello is an American actor and director best known for his work on Broadway productions of Wicked, and Assassins, as well as earlier in his career being one of the original Broadway cast of Angels in America. Mantello directed The Ritz, his sixth production with playwright Terrence McNally, in 2007.

Joe Mantello was born the oldest son of an Italian-American family in the suburban community of Rockford, Illinois, a city some 90 miles outside of Chicago. With his parents' encouragement, he spent much of his childhood acting in community theater.

In 1984, he graduated from the North Carolina School of the Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in acting. That same year he moved to New York to pursue a career in theater. As an actor, Mantello appeared in several Off Broadway productions.

Mantello's early acting career culminated in the original Broadway production of Tony Kushner's groundbreaking seven-hour, two-play cycle Angels in America (1993). In both of the play's two parts, Millennium Approaches and Perestroika, Mantello portrayed Louis Ironson, a liberal, self-centered Jewish New Yorker who leaves his lover Prior Walter, a gay man struggling with AIDS, and becomes involved with Joe Pitt, a Mormon Republican lawyer struggling with his sexuality.

Since his appearance in Angels in America, however, he has concentrated on his directing career. Nevertheless, in early 2011 Mantello returned to acting in a limited-run Broadway production of The Normal Heart, Larry Kramer's 1985 landmark play about the AIDS crisis.

Mantello also drew attention for his widely-chronicled romantic partnership from 1990 to 2002 with the playwright Jon Robin Baitz. In 1994, the New York Times dubbed the two men "the New York theater's couple of the moment."

They were linked professionally as well, with Mantello directing several of Baitz's plays. As the New York Times' Bruce Weber noted, their personalities and talents are "complementary," with Mantello's "warmth and humor burnishing" Baitz's "intellectual rigor and undercutting his earnestness."

When the two men separated after 12 years together, Mantello felt "completely isolated and heartbroken," but he never ascribed blame for the breakup to Baitz. "Neither of us felt wronged," Mantello later explained. "There wasn't another person. It was just a very painful, mutual acknowledgement that we had evolved from being a couple who lived together into best friends."

Indeed, Mantello and Baitz have remained friends, and in 2011 the two men reunited professionally, when Mantello directed, to critical acclaim, Baitz's new play Other Desert Cities.

Other noeworthy productions by Mantello include Terrence McNally's play Love! Valour! Compassion!, about eight gay men sharing a series of summer holidays in an upstate New York house; and Richard Greenberg's Take Me Out, which focuses on the issue of gay athletes in the straight-male-dominated world of professional sports.

1973 – Wilson Cruz (born Wilson Echevarría) is an American actor known for playing Rickie Vasquez on My So-Called Life and the recurring characters of Junito on Noah's Arcand Dr. Hugh Culber on Star Trek: Discovery. As an openly gay person of Puerto Rican ancestry, he has served as an advocate for gay youth, especially gay youth of color.

Wilson Cruz was born in Brooklyn, New York to parents of Puerto Rican descent. His family eventually moved to Rialto, California where he attended Eisenhower High School, graduating in 1991. At age 19, Cruz came out to his parents as gay, first to his mother and then his father. While his mother was initially hurt and shocked, she eventually accepted the news. His father, however, threw him out of the house, and Cruz spent the next few months living in his car and at the homes of friends. He later reconciled with his father.

After coming out to his parents, Cruz went to Hollywood to seek work as an actor, intending to be open about his sexuality from the beginning of his career. In 1994 he was cast as Enrique "Rickie" Vasquez, a troubled gay teen, in the short-lived critically acclaimed cult classic TV series My So-Called Life. In one episode (entitled "So-Called Angels") drawn from Cruz's own life, Rickie comes out to his family, who throw him out of the house.

Cruz works with and advocates on behalf of LGBT youth, especially youth of color. He has volunteered his time as host for the Youth Zone, an online community at Gay.com for LGBT youth. He was the Grand Marshal of the 1998 West Hollywood Gay Pride parade and the 2005 Chicago Pride Parade. In 2008, he was the keynote speaker at the University of Illinois at Chicago's Lavender Graduation and Rainbow Banquet honoring graduating LGBT students.

Cruz joined the board of directors of GLAAD in 1997 in order to assist the organization through a leadership transition, and joined the staff of GLAAD in 2012 as a National Spokesperson and Strategic Giving Officer.

Rowland in his army days

1990 – Died: Chuck Rowland (b.1917) was a founding member of the Mattachine Society. He was active with ONE Inc. and founded the short-lived Church of One Brotherhood. Upon retiring from twenty years of teaching in 1982, Rowland founded Celebration Theatre in Los Angeles.

Chuck Rowland was born and grew up in tiny Gary, South Dakota. He recognized he was homosexual at an early age, and after reading a sympathetic series of articles in a pulp magazine, concluded that, if millions like him existed, they could be mobilized. At the University of Minnesota in the late 1930s, he was active on campus in support of the loyalists of Spain and other causes. While in grad school during 1939–40 he returned to Gary as a substitute for the spring term. On a weekend visit to Minneapolis, he met Bob Hull, a U of M undergraduate. The two had a brief romance, lived together, and became lifelong friends.

In 1942, Rowland was drafted into the army. Due to a severe injury, he stayed stateside during the war. While enlisted, Rowland became a charter member of the American Veterans Committee, a liberal alternative to the American Legion. After discharge in March 1946, he showed his talent as an AVC organizer, but his active support for veterans’ bonus legislation, which the group disparaged as “handouts,” led to his being “canned” by the AVC by 1947.

While in the AVC, Rowland noted that those he knew to be communists were some of AVC’s best organizers. “I was just carried along with this feeling of liberalism and the horror of the [anti-communist] reaction that was setting in,” he said, “and my feeling was that we had to move farther and farther to the left, as a result of which I got into the Communist Party.” Rowland returned to Minneapolis and headed the CP’s Midwest youth division.* (His value as an organizer trumped any chance of being expelled under the party’s unwritten anti-gay policy.) Rowland recruited Hull into the party, and the two contemplated Rowland’s childhood dream of organizing homosexuals.

In 1948, he quit the CP and move to Los Angeles, followed by Hull. There, at a labor school, the two met a teacher, Harry Hay, who also had done some thinking about a homosexual organization.

Harry Hay was developing a blueprint for a homophile support group, but before he could show it to them, Rowland and Hull moved to Mexico in the summer of 1950, intending to relocate permanently to avoid anti-Communist witch-hunts. They returned by fall, however, and received Hay’s completed prospectus, which they eagerly shared with Hull’s new boyfriend, Dale Jennings. The three met with Hay and his lover Rudi Gernreich on Armistice Day 1950, and eventually formed the (necessarily) secretive Mattachine Society and its public nonprofit, Mattachine Foundation.

Mattachine members clockwise from top: Chuck Rowland, Konrad Stevens, unknown, Bob Hull, Jim Gruber

Rowland immersed himself in ONE Inc., writing for its magazine and directing its social services division. In 1954 he proposed that ONE open a guidance center staffed with gay counselors to mentor the waifs who found themselves alone in a new city. The project foundered, but Rowland nevertheless reported to ONE that in 1955 his division provided job placement and/or vocational counseling for nearly 100 people.

The early 60s saw Rowland involved in a possible FBI blacklisting (as both Red and gay), a failed business partnership, a dependence on intoxicants, mounting debt, and eviction. Finally, following the tragic suicide of his friend Bob Hull in May of 1962, Rowland returned to the Midwest. That summer he was hired as a credentialed high school teacher in Iowa. Obtaining his master’s degree in 1967, he chaired the theater arts department at a Minnesota college.

Upon retiring in 1982, Rowland returned to Los Angeles from his “exile,” as he put it, while admitting to “some worthy accomplishments” and meaningful relationships. In late 1982, with Jim Kepner and ex-Mattachino Martin Block, Rowland founded Celebration Theatre, billed as “the only theatre in Los Angeles dedicated exclusively to productions of gay and lesbian plays.” Kepner hosted its debut in the late spring of 1983, in his National Gay Archives.

Having been hospitalized in March 1090 with prostate cancer that proved to be terminal, Rowland “moved to Duluth where a former student fixed up a handsome apartment overlooking the lake,” according to a Kepner-penned obituary. “He spent five happy months among students and relatives….” Chuck Rowland died December 27, 1990.

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astrology-by-sita · 6 months ago

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PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA BIRTH CHART ANALYSIS

Let's look into the chart of a very wise man, a Yogi from India known as Paramahansa Yogananda (original name is Mukunda Lal Ghosh), a spiritual teacher who popularized the practice of Kriya Yoga all over the world. He is known as "the father of meditation in the west".

His book "Autobiography of a Yogi" gained huge popularity, to the extent that after George Harrison from The Beatles read the book, Yogananda was featured on the cover of the album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". Steve Jobs also has read this book several times.

Virgo rising, Mercury in Sagittarius, the sign of spirituality, in the 4th house of home and parents. His parents were spiritual, they practiced Kriya Yoga, and they were disciples of Lahiri Mahasaya, a great Guru who taught a whole line of teachers. This definitely means that he came from a spiritual home, he had a spiritual upbringing which shared his life direction. Sagittarius is the sign of Travel also. And Mercury is about transportation. His family moved around a lot when he was a child bc his father worked in a large Indian railway company.

His moon is in the 12th house. This can show a deep bond with the mother and sometimes loss of the mother figure in one way or another. Paramahansa Yogananda was deeply affected when his mother passed away during his childhood, then the Divine Mother appeared to him in a vision and told him that She is the one who was taking care of him all along. The 12th house is also about foreign lands. He had great success abroad in the USA where he founded an institution to initiate disciples into the practice of Kriya Yoga and teach them. In year 1925 he founded The International Center for the Self Realization Fellowship in Los Angeles,California,which is near his sun-ascendant line & Uranus-midheaven line in astrocartography. He was meant to "shine" there & get recognition (sun-asc line) & he got sudden success(Uranus-Mc line).

His Ascendant and moon, according to Vedic astrology, fall in the Lunar Mansion called Magha. This is the Lunar Mansion or Pitris (ancestors). People with this lunar mansion honor their forefathers. They don't have to be related by bIood though! Paramahansa Yogananda chose his own ancestors who are the line of Kriya Yoga masters and teachers: Mahavatar Babaji, Lahiri Mahasaya, and Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri who was Yogananda's teacher. He followed and honored ancient wisdom. Also if you're one of those who believe that Nakshatras have a planetary lord then Magha is ruled by Ketu (the South Node) which purifies the shallowness of material life, this shows detachment from the material realm and a tendency towards austerity.

This is what the 2nd century astrologer Vettius Valens says in "Anthologies - Book I" about the bound of Yogananda's Ascendant, the Mercury bound of Virgo :" lofty, procurational, an arranger, handsome, organizing great affairs, most intelligent, entirely noble and eminent..". I think it describes him accurately. Also the fact that his asc is in the bound of Mercury contributed to the immense success of his autobiographical book (Mercury is writing and books). The 12th part of Mercury is also on his Ascendant. His natal Mercury is actually debilitated. This is a proof that debilitation isn't the end of the world. His book sold four million copies.

His out of sect malefic is saturn is in the 2nd house of wealth. He was not interested in wealth and making money which caused his family- especially his older brother - to criticize him a lot. He was only interested in what transcends the material world which we live in.

He met his teacher Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri when he was 17 years old in 1910, and he was in a level 2 peak period when releasing from the Lot of Spirit. In 1915 when he was 22 he formally took his monastic vows, which was in another level 2 peak period. In 1917 he founded a school in India for young boys which teaches Yoga and spirituality, which was another level 2 peak period, but now under level 1 Gemini period, and Gemini rules schools and education. In the pre-LB period, in 1924, he was on a successful tour in the USA. In 1925, he was in a level 2 peak period and that was when he established the Self Realization Fellowship in California.

He has his 1h ruler Mercury conjunct his benefic of sect Venus cause he has a night chart. Venus rules his 9h which is all about gurus and teachers so the best thing in his life is his guru and teacher Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri. Yukteswar had a stellium in Taurus (Sun, Mercury, Mars and the North Node), and they all fall into Yogananda's 9h of teachers. Nice fact: Yukteswar was an astrologer.

Yogananda composed a lot of spiritual music ("Cosmic chants"), he has Mercury-Venus conjunction which imo gives musicians and musical abilities. I am not using asteroids much nowadays but I couldn't ignore his chiron conjunct Ascendant: it's clear in his book that since he was a child he realized that he was not like other people, that he was connected to the spiritual world which shallow people didn't even pay attention to, that he didn't desire to get a high position, accumulate wealth, get married, have children etc ... he didn't care about all that,he desired a union with the divine and that was his desire only. In a much corrupted world back in his days as it is now,his teachings brought inner peace to people. In this way he is a healer, & he devoted his life not to personal material ambition but to a higher purpose.

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So, a while back I got really into Alaskan saints and so decided to write an Akathist to St. Peter the Aleut; if you don't know who he was, you'll learn from reading this Akathist. Tagging @idylls-of-the-divine-romance (my go-to guy for reviewing theological poetry) and @sapphosremains (because Anglo-Catholics are some of the few non-Orthodox who won't find this at least a little objectionable).

Kontakion 1: The gospel hath gone out unto the ends of the earth and disciples hath been made of every nation, o Lord; even in the ice-bound darkness of the North Thy church hath been established. For this we cry, with angels and all nations: alleluia!

Oikos 1: And in all places and at all times, o Christ God, Thou art wondrous in Thy saints. Hence we praise Saint Peter the Aleut, Protomartyr of America!

Rejoice, glory of the Arctic ice!

Rejoice, fame of Kodiak Island!

Rejoice, thou who burnest brighter than the Northern Lights!

Rejoice, thou who outshinest the sun upon snow!

Rejoice, for the New World is ennobled by thy blood!

Rejoice, for thy triumph is a blessing to America!

Rejoice, Saint Peter, Protomartyr of America!

Kontakion 2: Thou wast reared amidst pagan darkness, o holy Peter, the depth of which was not known in the Old World at that time, on a snow-bound lonely island. But when the call of the Shepherd was first heard on Kodiak Island, thou didst reply with the cry of: alleluia!

Oikos 2: The monks of Russia didst administer the light of Christ to a people burdened by avaricious colonists and the religion of demons alike; it opened thine eyes, o righteous one.

Rejoice, first-fruit of Alaska!

Rejoice, sheep of an island where sheep were not known!

Rejoice, for the light of Christ pierceth all darkness!

Rejoice, for by Its light we are enlightened!

Rejoice, pagan adopted as a son of God!

Rejoie, heathen who by grace partook of the glory of the Lord!

Rejoice, Saint Peter, Protomartyr of America!

Kontakion 3: When thou wert offered baptism, thou most eagerly accepted. The priest immersed thee in saving water in the name of the blessed Trinity, and upon thee was bestowed the name Peter, mystically linking thee to the glorious Apostle. A soul entered the Kingdom of God, and all the powers of Heaven exclaimed: alleluia!

Oikos 3: The mystery of baptism bestowed upon thee a new name and new life; henceforth, thou wouldst no more be named Cungagnaq, but Peter.

Rejoice, successor to the blessed Apostle!

Rejoice, thou who betrayed not Christ at any time!

Rejoice, son of snow reborn in the water!

Rejoice, child of ice regenerated in the font!

Rejoice, firstborn of a Christian nation!

Rejoice, guide of thy people to the Word!

Rejoice, Saint Peter, Protomartyr of America!

Kontakion 4: Not long after thou wast received into the Church, Spanish raiders abducted thee, carrying thee and nineteen others away to California. In spite of thy youth, the terror of the event and the great distance thou wast taken, thou feared not, but sang: alleluia!

Oikos 4: Though thou wast carried from the frozen shores of Alaska to the burning heat of California, the gold of thy soul was neither melted nor diluted, o longsuffering victor.

Rejoice, prize who sought the prize of life eternal!

Rejoice, captive of God and not of men!

Rejoice, thou who wast free in Christ while in chains!

Rejoice, thou who wore thy bonds as a string of pearls!

Rejoice, gold refined in the fire of the sun!

Rejoice, silver purified in the southern crucible!

Rejoice, Saint Peter, Protomartyr of America!

Kontakion 5: Thou wast confined to a gloomy dungeon with the other abducted Aleut, thy captors deigning to convert thee to the Church of Rome. But thou didst believe in the Father and in Christ, and so thine heart was not troubled and thou didst exclaim with the others in unison: alleluia!

Oikos 5: Although imprisoned in a foreign land by wicked men with evil designs, thou didst rejoice in the Lord who made thy feet like the deer’s.

Rejoice, servant of the lord who freeth captives!

Rejoice, freedman of Christ!

Rejoice, rampart of Orthodoxy!

Rejoice, one stalwart in the faith of the Apostles!

Rejoice, northern light in the Roman darkness!

Rejoice, torch of faith in foreign lands!

Rejoice, Saint Peter, Protomartyr of America!

Kontakion 6: Some monks of the Pope approached thee and thy fellow captives, availing to convert thee to the Roman church. But thou and thy fellow prisoners refused to renounce Holy Orthodoxy, in spite of their threats and abuse, singing: alleluia!

Oikos 6: Though unlearned and far from any learning, thou didst discourse with the educated in defence of the faith, rebuking their many accusations.

Rejoice, thou who succumbed not to falsehood!

Rejoice, thou who spoke the truth with boldness!

Rejoice, one stalwart in Orthodoxy!

Rejoice, opponent of the heterodox!

Rejoice, crown-bearer from a nation without kings!

Rejoice, soldier for Christ from a people without soldiers!

Rejoice, Saint Peter, Protomartyr of America!

Kontakion 7: The Franciscans began to threaten torture, their diabolical determination to break thy faith undeterred by thy steadfastness. But thou wast also undeterred, o Peter, refusing to renounce thine Orthodoxy, appealing instead to Christ and the Mother of God and crying: alleluia!

Oikos 7: Even as they presented the implements of thy torment, thou wast not swayed, instead being comforted by the Lord and readying thyself for thy cross.

Rejoice, confessor like the confessors of old!

Rejoice, hero walking the road of heroes!

Rejoice, ice not melted by the heat of terror!

Rejoice, cedar not bent by the persecutor’s rancour!

Rejoice, rock resistant to the hammer and axe!

Rejoice, jade uncut yet sparkling!

Rejoice, Saint Peter, Protomartyr of America!

Kontakion 8: The hard-hearted Franciscans then began to torture thee, cutting off a toe from each foot. When finished, they asked thee to convert, but thou remained faithful. After removing a finger from each hand, they asked thee again, but thou simply sang: alleluia!

Oikos 8: Burning with impotent rage, the monks then cut off thy hands and thy feet alike, but no mortal or bodiless tyrant could prise thee from the Lord.

Rejoice, for thy blood hath brought thee a crown!

Rejoice, for thy sufferings are recompensed in Heaven!

Rejoice, diamond cut to glittering brilliance!

Rejoice, gold refined in a fire of agony!

Rejoice, victor over thine and thy companion’s enemies!

Rejoice, athlete who hath run the holy race!

Rejoice, Saint Peter, Protomartyr of America!

Kontakion 9: The Franciscans were unable to subject thee to any further tortures, for the loss of blood proved fatal, and thou didst exit the earth and ascend to Christ with thy faith incorrupt. As a new saint entered the Father’s mansions, the chorus of apostles and prophets exclaimed: alleluia!

Oikos 9: The futile anger of the monks continued as thou rose to the bosom of the Lord, but all sorrows of the flesh were behind thee forever as thy soul reaped its reward.

Rejoice, conqueror of the world and the flesh!

Rejoice, triumphant hero of Alaska!

Rejoice, prisoner rewarded with undying freedom!

Rejoice, tortured one compensated with incorruptibility!

Rejoice, prince dressed in blood!

Rejoice, saint adorned with wounds!

Rejoice, Saint Peter, Protomartyr of America!

Kontakion 10: The wicked monks had planned to torture others, endeavouring to capture souls as they had laboured to capture thine, but they received orders to return the prisoners to their native land; the captives set free sang with one voice: alleluia!

Oikos 10: Thy body remained behind, o Peter; they returned it not, in a last gesture of spite towards the one swayed by none of their tortures.

Rejoice, for though thy body is captive thy soul is free!

Rejoice, for thy fellow captives hath been freed from torment!

Rejoice, for thou didst never waver from Christ!

Rejoice, for thou wert always allied with His Church!

Rejoice, unshakeable pillar of the Truth!

Rejoice, impenetrable wall of the Faith!

Rejoice, Saint Peter, Protomartyr of America!

Kontakion 11: The ship of thy fellows at last returned to Kodiak, whence all dismounted in the sight of Saint Herman, equal to the Apostles and evangelist of Alaska. Not finding thee, he enquired as to the cause of thine absence; thy story was related by a friend and witness, at which he cried: alleluia!

Oikos 11: Upon hearing of the many sufferings and the death in faith thou hadst suffered, he made the sign of the cross and exclaimed “holy new martyr Peter, pray to God for us!”

Rejoice, thou who standest at the gate of Paradise!

Rejoice, thou who hast passed through the doors of Heaven!

Rejoice, advocate for our souls before the Father!

Rejoice, intercessor before the Holy Trinity!

Rejoice, first-born saint of the Alutiiq!

Rejoice, glory of the tribes of Alaska!

Rejoice, Saint Peter, Protomartyr of America!

Kontakion 12: In this present age the light of Orthodoxy shineth brightly in Kodiak; there a Christian nation hath been established. All of them, and the rest of the Orthodox people, looketh to thee as a shining example in the past and an intercessor in the future, singing in perfect unity: alleluia!

Oikos 12: Thou, o Peter, attained sainthood by thy sufferings and trials, and by faith; thou didst synergise with the mind of Christ, attaining union with the energies of God.

Rejoice, bearer of a crown shining with the Northern Lights!

Rejoice, one dressed in robes of shimmering snows!

Rejoice, hero stronger than the ocean storms!

Rejoice, martyr mightier than the winter wind!

Rejoice, for mortal sufferings hath won thee immortal glory!

Rejoice, for thy trials were an adornment to the New World!

Rejoice, Saint Peter, Protomartyr of America!

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Earthquake: 15:44:00 GMT+2 Jerusalem, Israel, 05:44:00 PST Local Time Furnace Creek, California (5 minutes, 59 seconds (359 seconds) after the 13:38:01 UTC "Abortion" truth post)

Matthew 13:38 The field is the world, and the good seed represents the people of the Kingdom. The weeds are the people who belong to the evil one. Matthew 13:39 The enemy who planted the weeds among the wheat is the devil. The harvest is the end of the world, and the harvesters are the angels. Matthew 13:40 “Just as the weeds are sorted out and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of the world. Matthew 13:41 The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will remove from his Kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil. Matthew 13:42 And the angels will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Matthew 13:43 Then the righteous will shine like the sun in their Father’s Kingdom. Anyone with ears to hear should listen and understand! Matthew 13:44 “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure that a man discovered hidden in a field. In his excitement, he hid it again and sold everything he owned to get enough money to buy the field.

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English) Page 1457 Psalm 38:1 A psalm of David. Lehazkir. Psalm 38:2 O Lord, do not punish me in wrath; do not chastise me in fury. Psalm 38:3 For Your arrows have struck me; Your blows have fallen upon me.

Mark 15:44 Pilate couldn’t believe that Jesus was already dead, so he called for the Roman officer and asked if he had died yet. Mark 15:45 The officer confirmed that Jesus was dead, so Pilate told Joseph he could have the body. Mark 15:46 Joseph bought a long sheet of linen cloth. Then he took Jesus’ body down from the cross, wrapped it in the cloth, and laid it in a tomb that had been carved out of the rock. Then he rolled a stone in front of the entrance. Mark 15:47 Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joseph saw where Jesus’ body was laid. Mark 16:1 Saturday evening, when the Sabbath ended, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome went out and purchased burial spices so they could anoint Jesus’ body. Mark 16:2 Very early on Sunday morning, just at sunrise, they went to the tomb. Mark 16:3 On the way they were asking each other, “Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance to the tomb? Mark 16:4 But as they arrived, they looked up and saw that the stone, which was very large, had already been rolled aside. Mark 16:5 When they entered the tomb, they saw a young man clothed in a white robe sitting on the right side. The women were shocked, Mark 16:6 but the angel said, “Don’t be alarmed. You are looking for Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He isn’t here! He is risen from the dead! Look, this is where they laid his body. Mark 16:7 Now go and tell his disciples, including Peter, that Jesus is going ahead of you to Galilee. You will see him there, just as he told you before he died.”

John 5:44 No wonder you can’t believe! For you gladly honor each other, but you don’t care about the honor that comes from the one who alone is God. John 5:45 “Yet it isn’t I who will accuse you before the Father. Moses will accuse you! Yes, Moses, in whom you put your hopes.

Strong's Concordance #359 Eloth: "grove of lofty trees" Original Word: אֵילוֹת

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English) Pages 987, 988, and 989 Isaiah 61:1 The spirit of the Lord God is upon me, Because the Lord has anointed me; He has sent me as a herald of joy to the humble. To bind up the wounded of heart, To proclaim release to the captives, Liberation to the imprisoned; Isaiah 61:2 To proclaim a year of the Lord's favor And a day of vindication by our God; To comfort all who mourn-- Isaiah 61:3 To provide for the mourners in Zion--To give them a turban instead of ashes,The festive ointment instead of mourning, A garment of splendor instead of a drooping spirit. They shall be called terebinths of victory, Planted by the Lord for His glory. Isaiah 61:4 And they shall build the ancient ruins, Raise up the desolations of old, And renew the ruined cities, The desolations of many ages. Isaiah 61:5 Strangers shall stand and pasture your flocks, Aliens shall be your plowmen and vinetrimmers; Isaiah 61:6 While you shall be called "Priests of the Lord," And termed "Servants of our God." You shall enjoy the wealth of nations And revel in their riches. Isaiah 61:7 Because your shame was double--Me cried, "Disgrace is their portion"--Assuredly, They shall have a double share in their land, Joy shall be theirs for all time. Isaiah 61:8 For I the Lord love justice, I hate robbery with a burnt offering. I will pay them their wages faithfully, And make a covenant with them for all time. Isaiah 61:9 Their offspring shall be known among the nations, Their descendants in the midst of the peoples. All who see them shall recognize That they are a stock the Lord has blessed. Isaiah 61:10 I greatly rejoice in the Lord, My whole being exults in my God. For He has clothed me with garments of triumph, Wrapped me in a robe of victory, Like a bridegroom adorned with a turban, Like a bride bedecked with her finery. Isaiah 61:11 For as the earth brings forth her growth And a garden makes the seed shoot up, So the Lord God will make Victory and renown shoot up In the presence of all the nations.

Those who love, fear, seek out, and turn to the almighty G-d of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and who study the Living Word of the Abrahamic G-d know and understand that wisdom is female…

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English) Page 1603 Proverbs 3:13 Happy is the man who finds wisdom, The man who attains understanding. Proverbs 3:14 Her value in trade is better than silver, Her yield, greater than gold. Proverbs 3:15 She is more precious than rubies; All of your goods cannot equal her. Proverbs 3:16 In her right hand is length of days, In her left, riches and honor. Proverbs 3:17 Her ways are pleasant ways, And all her paths, peaceful. Proverbs 3:18 She is a tree of life to those who grasp her, And whoever holds on to her is happy. Proverbs 3:19 The Lord founded the earth by wisdom; He established the heavens by understanding;

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Strong's Concordance #2585 Chanok: From chanak; initiated; Chanok, an antediluvian patriach -- Enoch; four Israelites, sons of Cain, Jered, Midian and Reuben Original Word: חֲנוֹךְ

Strong's Concordance #2596 chanak: to initiate, train up, dedicate, an apprentice Original Word: חָנַךְ

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English) Page 1636 Proverbs 22:6 Train a lad in the way he ought to go; He will not swerve from it even in old age.

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English) Page 15 Genesis 9:5 But for your own life-blood I will require a reckoning: I will require it of every beast; of man, too, will I require a reckoning for human life, of every man for that of his fellow man!

In Genesis 9:5, this is the original word for "your lives/human life" in Hebrew that is in the TANAKH that Jesus Christ, an Israeli Hebrew, taught from: Strong's Concordance #5315 nephesh: a soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, passion, appetite, emotion Original Word: נֶפֶשׁ

In Genesis 9:5, this is the original word for "man" in Hebrew that is in the TANAKH that Jesus Christ, an Israeli Hebrew, taught from: Strong's Concordance #120 adam: man, mankind, humankind, a human being, a person Original Word: אָדָם

In Genesis 9:5, this is the original word for "his" in Hebrew that is in the TANAKH that Jesus Christ, an Israeli Hebrew, taught from: Strong's Concordance #251 ach: kindred, a brother, a sister, a fellow human being Original Word: אָח

An accurate reading of the original Hebrew for all Jews and Christians is thus: Genesis 9:5 But for your own life-blood I will require a reckoning: I will require it of every beast; of humanity, too, will I require a reckoning for every human being's life, soul, spirit, desire, passion, hopes, dreams, and the entirety/sum of their moment-by-moment human experience on earth, of every human being for that of their fellow human beings!

Strong's Concordance #9 abedah: From 'abad; something lost; destruction, i.e. Hades -- lost, a lost thing Original Word: אֲבֵדָה

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English) Page 901 Isaiah 26:3 The confident mind You guard in safety, In safety because it trusts in You.

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English) Page 1440 Psalm 26:1 Of David. Vindicate me, O Lord, for I have walked without blame; I have trusted in the Lord; I have not faltered. Psalm 26:2 Probe me, O Lord, and try me, test my heart and mind; Psalm 26:3 for my eyes are on Your steadfast love; I have set my course by it. Psalm 26:4 I do not consort with scoundrels, or mix with hypocrites; Psalm 26:5 I detest the company of evil men, and do not consort with the wicked;

Earthquake: M 0.9 - 26.3 km (16.3 mi) NW of Furnace Creek, California

2024-11-05 13:44:00 (UTC) 36.596°N 117.082°W 5.0 km depth

In Death Valley at the base of Tucki Mountain near Route 190/Death Valley Scenic Byway, Salt Creek, and Stovepipe Wells Road.

Tucki ciktu 3+9+10+100+200=322.

Strong's Concordance #322 achorannith: from 'achowr; backwards -- back (-ward, again). Original Word: אֲחֹרַנִּית

Strong's Concordance #190 oyah: woe! alas! Original Word: אוֹיָה

Matthew 5:13 “You are the salt of the earth. But what good is salt if it has lost its flavor? Can you make it salty again? It will be thrown out and trampled underfoot as worthless.

Mandisa Ft. TobyMac & Kirk Franklin - Bleed The Same (There's no definition of "United" other than standing and coexisting together as one "We The People" of the United States of America.) Duration: 4:56 (296 seconds) Published: January 14, 2018 (14th day) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVKuA1s5I3o HVKuA1s5I3o (1, 5, 3) HVKuAsIo ahikosuv 1+8+9+10+50+90+200+700=1068. 1068+1+5+3=1077. 1077+14=1091. 1091+296=1387.

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Strong's Concordance #1387 Geba: a Levitical city of Benjamin; a hill Original Word: גֶּבַע

Matthew 5:14 “You are the light of the world—like a city on a hilltop that cannot be hidden. Matthew 5:15 No one lights a lamp and then puts it under a basket. Instead, a lamp is placed on a stand, where it gives light to everyone in the house. Matthew 5:16 In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven. Matthew 5:17 “Don’t misunderstand why I have come. I did not come to abolish the law of Moses or the writings of the prophets. No, I came to accomplish their purpose. Matthew 5:18 For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. Matthew 5:19 So if you ignore the least commandment and teach others to do the same, you will be called the least in the Kingdom of Heaven. But anyone who obeys God’s laws and teaches them will be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English) Page 1759 Lamentations 3:45 You have made us filth and refuse In the midst of the peoples.

"Ours was the first revolution in the history of mankind that truly reversed the course of government, and with three little words: 'We the People.' 'We the People' tell the government what to do; it doesn't tell us. 'We the People' are the driver; the government is the car. And we decide where it should go, and by what route, and how fast.

Almost all the world's constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document in which 'We the People' tell the government what it is allowed to do. 'We the People' are free. This belief has been the underlying basis for everything I've tried to do these past 8 years.

An informed patriotism is what we want. And are we doing a good enough job teaching our children what America is and what she represents in the long history of the world? Those of us who are over 35 or so years of age grew up in a different America. We were taught, very directly, what it means to be an American. And we absorbed, almost in the air, a love of country and an appreciation of its institutions. If you didn't get these things from your family you got them from the neighborhood, from the father down the street who fought in Korea or the family who lost someone at Anzio. Or you could get a sense of patriotism from school. And if all else failed you could get a sense of patriotism from the popular culture. The movies celebrated democratic values and implicitly reinforced the idea that America was special. TV was like that, too, through the mid-60s.

So, we've got to teach history based not on what's in fashion but what's important -- why the Pilgrims came here, who Jimmy Doolittle was, and what those 30 seconds over Tokyo meant. You know, four years ago on the 40th anniversary of D-day, I read a letter from a young woman writing to her late father, who'd fought on Omaha Beach. Her name was Lisa Zanatta Henn, and she said, 'we will always remember, we will never forget what the boys of Normandy did.' Well, let's help her keep her word. If we forget what we did, we won't know who we are. I'm warning of an eradication of the American memory that could result, ultimately, in an erosion of the American spirit. Let's start with some basics: more attention to American history and a greater emphasis on civic ritual.

And let me offer lesson number one about America: All great change in America begins at the dinner table. So, tomorrow night in the kitchen I hope the talking begins. And children, if your parents haven't been teaching you what it means to be an American, let 'em know and nail 'em on it. That would be a very American thing to do.

The past few days when I've been at that window upstairs, I've thought a bit of the 'shining city upon a hill.' The phrase comes from John Winthrop, who wrote it to describe the America he imagined. What he imagined was important because he was an early Pilgrim, an early freedom man. He journeyed here on what today we'd call a little wooden boat; and like the other Pilgrims, he was looking for a home that would be free. I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That's how I saw it, and see it still." - Ronald Reagan (1989 Farewell Speech)

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Strong's Concordance #1548 galach: to be bald, shave, shave off, shaved; to lay waste -- poll Original Word: גָּלַח

Anti-American MAGA book bans:

"As President, I was never an 'officer of the United States' and I did not take an oath 'to support the Constitution of the United States'. Therefore, Section 3 of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution doesn't apply to me, can't be applied to me, and can't prevent me from running for or holding office for my actions on January 6, 2021." - donald j. trump (November 27, 2023)

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Strong's Concordance #3227 yemini: right, on the right hand, right-handed Original Word: יְמִינִי

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English) Page 145 Exodus 15:6 Your right hand, O Lord, glorious in power, Your right hand, O Lord, shatters the foe!

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English) Pages 1483 and 1484 Psalm 60:1 For the leader; on shushan eduth. A michtam of David (to be taught), Psalm 60:2 when he fought with Aram-Naharaim and Aram-Zobah, and Joab returned and defeated Edom--[an army] of twelve thousand men--in the Valley of Salt. Psalm 60:3 O God, You have rejected us, You have made a breach in us; You have been angry; restore us! Psalm 60:4 You have made the land quake; You have torn it open. Mend its fissures, for it is collapsing. Psalm 60:5 You have made Your people suffer hardship; You have given us wine that makes us reel. Psalm 60:6 Give those who fear You because of Your truth a banner for rallying. Selah. Psalm 60:7 That those whom You love might be rescued, deliver with Your right hand and answer me.

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English) Page 1561 Psalm 118:16 The right hand of the Lord is exalted! The right hand of the Lord is triumphant!"

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Strong's Concordance #2143 zeker: remembrance, memorial; male Original Word: זֵכֶר

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English) Page 1555 Psalm 111:1 Hallelujah. I praise the Lord with all my heart in the assembled congregation of the upright. Psalm 111:2 The works of the Lord are great, within reach of all who desire them. Psalm 111:3 His deeds are splendid and glorious; His beneficence is everlasting; Psalm 111:4 He has won renown for His wonders. The Lord is gracious and compassionate; Psalm 111:5 He gives food to those who fear Him; He is ever mindful of His covenant. Psalm 111:6 He revealed to His people His powerful works, in giving them the heritage of nations. Psalm 111:7 His handiwork is truth and justice; all His precepts are enduring, Psalm 111:8 well-founded for all eternity, wrought of truth and equity. Psalm 111:9 He sent redemption to His people; He ordained His covenant for all time; His name is holy and awesome. Psalm 111:10 The beginning of wisdom is fear of the Lord; all who practice it gain sound understanding. Praise of Him is everlasting.

36.596°N

Strong's Concordance #36 Abitub: From 'ab and tuwb; father of goodness (i.e. Good); "my father is goodness," a Benjamite Original Word: אֲבִיטוּב

Strong's Concordance #596 anan: to complain, murmur, to mourn Original Word: אָנַן

117.082°W

Strong's Concordance #117 addir: From 'adar; wide or (generally) large; figuratively, powerful -- excellent, famous, gallant, glorious, goodly, lordly, mighty(- ier one), noble, principal, worthy, majestic Original Word: אַדִּיר

Strong's Concordance #82 abar: to fly, to soar Original Word: אָבַר

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English) Page 446 Deuteronomy 32:9 For the Lord's portion is His people, Jacob His own allotment. Deuteronomy 32:10 He found him in a desert region, In an empty howling waste. He engirded him, watched over him, Guarded him as the pupil of His eye. Deuteronomy 32:11 Like an eagle who rouses his nestlings, Gliding down to his young, So did He spread His wings and take him, Bear him along on His pinions; Deuteronomy 32:12 The Lord alone did guide him, No alien god at His side.

A home of my Father's goodness and defense: אַ דִּיר אֲבִי טוּב אָבַראָנַן

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