#babylon 5: dark genesis

[that-dinopunk-guy]

Hell yeah, now I have all but five of the Babylon 5 novels. All I need now are Final Reckoning, Casting Shadows, and the novelizations of In the Beginning, Thirdspace, and A Call to Arms.

I love how the titles on some of these range from boring and utilitarian to amazing:

Also, they chose some interesting angles to show the station from on a couple of these:

[azazel-dreams]

Babylon 5 - Dark Genesis: The Birth of the Psi Corps by J Gregory Keyes

Rating: ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[dailydemonspotlight]

The God you cravenly revere is dead...

DAY 100

Race: Tyrant

Arcana: Devil

Alignment: Dark-CHAOS

The prince of darkness needs no introduction. The Morning Star, the Devil, the Fallen Angel who brought about so much to our demon-focused blog. Sure, I may be jumping the gun a bit by covering him only on day 100, but given that his closest compatriot, Beelzebub, was covered on day 50, I feel it's warranted. Lucifer is iconic to the SMT series, a legendary figure who serves a major role in many games in the series, being the perfect representative of one of the three major alignments: Chaos. In most games throughout the series, Lucifer plays a part, even in ones disconnected from mainline- if there is chaos, there will be the dying light of the morning star. Even in Persona, a series mostly concerned with Jungian psychology, Lucifer commonly appears as a late-game persona, and even a form of him in Satanael is the final form of Joker's persona in Persona 5, being a representation of freedom and rebellion- after all, what else is more rebellious and free than rebelling against God himself?

I digress, however. Lucifer is as important to SMT as he is to Biblical history itself, after all, and this is a blog about the stories of demons, right? Lucifer himself is a major character in the Bible, appearing for certain first in the Book of Isaiah, though his overall relevance spreads beyond that. Even in the Book of Genesis, the very first story in the Bible, it's believed that the serpent that tricked Eve into eating the apple of knowledge was Lucifer, cast down from heaven. This interpretation is supported by Paradise Lost, a story I'll likely be referencing a lot here, but its importance to Lucifer and his interpretations throughout not just SMT, but history itself, cannot go understated.

The Devil's conniving ways are depicted throughout the bible in several verses, especially in the New Testament, wherein he's seen as a figure analogous to the Buddhist demon Mara, a being tempting humanity away from their rightful path of sin/good karma to partake in their desire. However, this isn't to spell a connection between the two, as Lucifer himself is given a far different story than Mara, as he is with many other tempters in religion, even including some other biblical figures such as Mastema. Instead, what we should be focusing on is Lucifer's existence as a fallen angel.

Lucifer's existence in the Bible is strange, as the name Lucifer is a translation from the original Latin Helel, meaning 'Light-bearer.' His first reference in one of the most prevalent translations of the Bible, the King James Bible, goes as follows:

How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

This immediately points to Lucifer being an angel who fell for his own hype, so to speak- one who believed himself to be as strong, if not stronger than God, which led to him being cut down by the forces of Heaven. However, in Paradise Lost, it's shown that Lucifer was more than just vain- he held a rebellion, and when it fell, and he fell with it, he became Satan. I know, that's strange, but it's not really canon to the SMT interpretations of both characters- it just helps to shape Lucifer's characterization in the series as a rebellious figure who stood even against God himself. Strangely, adding on to this odd maze of interpretation, Lucifer was also commonly interpreted as the king of Babylon, the famously sinful city of evil described in the Bible. What I think all of this adds to is less a solid character of his and rather a general interpretation and idea that surrounds Lucifer- that of him being the embodiment of rebellion, chaos, and standing against the mold of society in order to partake in sin. There's a reason that his deadly sin, after all, is one of the most dangerous- that being Pride.

Lucifer's role in the Bible is strange, however, and many interpretations differ completely, whether they be him as Satan, him as the Devil, or even him as a tragic hero. However, as for SMT's purposes, it takes a very unique take, combining several aspects from several interpretations to make the Morning Star into a perfect prince of darkness. For one, it pulls a lot from Paradise Lost, giving Lucifer the role of a rebellious figure who rules over scores of demons, though it separates him from Satan in opposition to the poem. His sin of pride is intact, as he's shown to be a very individualistic figure throughout, valuing freedom and one's own strength above all else, tying very well into the purveying themes of individualism and might-makes-right that are constant in the Chaos ideology.

In terms of design, what is there really to say? Lucifer's design is utterly iconic- the six split wings, the gorgeous plays on the angelic aspects of his character, the great horns reaching sky-high, there's a reason so many were disappointed with his weird redesign in IV. Like, what were they doing? I get that he was meant to look offputting, but turning him into a skinhead was not the right way to go about it- well, whatever. Every design of Lucifer throughout the series has its merits, and I love how several games even have different human disguises for him- my personal favorite has to be Louis Cyphre, but I adore how each human disguise including Louis plays on the traditionally angelic traits of pale skin and blonde hair, though twists that on its head due to him commonly wearing all black.

Thank you all for tagging along with this series, and it is so ridiculously lucky that day 100 was placed perfectly on my birthday. There's gonna be more, for sure, coming soon, don't worry- but for now, I love you all, and goodnight. Or good morning. Whichever works.

You didn't even mention his role in Gnosticism!

Jack, I'm not touching on Gnosticism with a ten foot pole for the time being. I don't even know what's going with that half the time. Wait for the Demiurge analysis.

Coward.

[futa69]

You're already a fan of the ancient astronaut theory.

Here's a list of books, movies, TV shows, and video games featuring ancient astronauts. (revised)

▪︎Edison's Conquest of Mars (1898)

▪︎The Call of Cthulhu (1926)

▪︎Analog Science Fiction and Fact (1930)

▪︎At the Mountains of Madness (1931)

▪︎Childhood's End (1953)

▪︎Forbidden Planet (1956)

▪︎Quartermass and the Pit (1958)

▪︎The Twilight Zone (1959)

▪︎The Sirens of Titan (1959)

▪︎The Flintstones (1960)

▪︎Doctor Who (1963)

▪︎Hercules Against the Moon Men (1964)

▪︎Known Space (1964)

▪︎Star Trek (1966)

▪︎2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

▪︎Chariots of the Gods (1968)

▪︎The Bible & Flying Saucers (1968)

▪︎Horror Express (1972)

▪︎Rendezvous with Rama (1973)

▪︎Land of the Lost (1974)

▪︎The Spaceships of Ezekiel (1974)

▪︎The Outer Space Connection (1975)

▪︎Space: 1999 (1975)

▪︎The Sirius Mystery (1976)

▪︎The Earth Chronicles (1976)

▪︎Star Wars (1977)

▪︎Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

▪︎The Manna Machine (1978)

▪︎Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

▪︎Battlestar Galactica (1978)

▪︎Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1978)

▪︎Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979)

▪︎Alien (1979)

▪︎Hangar 18 (1980)

▪︎Valis (1981)

▪︎The Thing (1982)

▪︎Xevious (1982)

▪︎Super Dimension Fortress Macross (1982)

▪︎The Transformers (1984)

▪︎Cocoon (1985)

▪︎Bio Booster Armor Guyver (1985)

▪︎The Legend of Zelda (1986)

▪︎Predator (1987)

▪︎Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)

▪︎Red Dwarf (1988)

▪︎The Gods of Eden (1989)

▪︎Moontrap (1989)

▪︎Spriggan (1989)

▪︎Total Recall (1990)

▪︎Babylon 5 (1993)

▪︎The X-Files (1993)

▪︎Stargate (1994)

▪︎Neon Genesis Evangelion (1994)

▪︎Fingerprints of the Gods (1995)

▪︎Encounter with Tiber (1996)

▪︎Final Fantasy (1997)

▪︎Earth: Final Conflict (1997)

▪︎The Fifth Element (1997)

▪︎Space Island One (1998)

▪︎Naked Pictures of Famous People (1998)

▪︎Dilbert (1999)

▪︎Futurama (1999)

▪︎Star Ancestors (2000)

▪︎Mission to Mars (2000)

▪︎Halo (2001)

▪︎Ice Age (2002)

▪︎Alien vs. Predator (2004)

▪︎The Orion Zone (2007)

▪︎Mass Effect (2007)

▪︎Assassin's Creed (2007)

▪︎Outlander (2008)

▪︎Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)

▪︎Marvel Cinematic Universe (2008)

▪︎Spore (2008)

▪︎Knowing (2009)

▪︎The Fourth Kind (2009)

▪︎Ancient Aliens (2009)

▪︎Borderlands (2009)

▪︎The Great Airship of 1897 (2010)

▪︎Dark Void (2010)

▪︎The Ancient Alien Question (2011)

▪︎Cowboys and Aliens (2011)

▪︎Battle: Los Angeles (2011)

▪︎Paul (2011)

▪︎John Carter (2012)

▪︎Prometheus (2012)

▪︎Iron Sky (2012)

▪︎Man of Steel (2013)

▪︎Beyond the Sky (2018)

▪︎Resident Alien (2021)

▪︎Moonfall (2022)

▪︎Prey (2022)

▪︎65 (2023)

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

The Fall of Babylon Predicted

1 Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.

2 Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.

3 Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yes, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man.

4 As for our Redeemer, the LORD of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel.

5 Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.

6 I was wroth with my people, I have polluted my inheritance, and given them into thy hand: thou didst show them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.

7 And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it.

8 Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thy heart, I am, and none else besides me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:

9 But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection, for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thy enchantments.

10 For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thy heart, I am, and none else besides me.

11 Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.

12 Stand now with thy enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, in which thou hast labored from thy youth; if thou shalt be able to profit, if thou mayest prevail.

13 Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the star-gazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee.

14 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.

15 Thus shall they be to thee with whom thou hast labored, even thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save thee. — Isaiah 47 | Webster Bible Translation (WBT) The Webster Bible is in the public domain. Cross References: Genesis 3:7; Deuteronomy 28:50; Deuteronomy 28:56; Deuteronomy 32:29; 2 Chronicles 28:9; Psalm 19:14; Psalm 35:8; Psalm 52:7; Psalm 62:10; Psalm 129:1; Psalm 137:8; Isaiah 5:24; Isaiah 5:29; Isaiah 8:19; Isaiah 10:17; Isaiah 13:10; Isaiah 13:19; Isaiah 14:14; Isaiah 20:4; Isaiah 22:13; Isaiah 41:14; Isaiah 44:25; Jeremiah 51:58; Matthew 24:41; Luke 17:27; 1 Corinthians 11:5; 1 Thessalonians 5:3; Revelation 9:21; Revelation 18:7; Revelation 18:11

[itsyourchoicedevotionals]

Reset

“But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.” Genesis 11:5-7NIV

Reading through Genesis again was important for me. Why? Genesis reveals people’s roots for all society. God’s timing for my reading this revealed the similarities between Genesis and today is amazing. Depravity abounds.

Our world, especially our nation, is without a moral compass. We removed Yahweh from schools, court rooms, government, media, businesses, entertainment, and even from churches. New Age has intermingled in many of our church denominations. Western liberal mindsets have encroached upon many denominations tenets of faith and morality.

But……….. God. Noah’s time: the depravity had grown to such a point that God decided to perform a reset by destroying mankind and animals with a flood. One man, Noah, walked with God. Yahweh wouldn’t destroy Noah. He saved Noah and his family.

Depravity struck again with Noah’s sons promoting evil instead of good. Putting their heads together, they decided to raise themselves high up to become gods like Holy God. Yahweh realized they could accomplish whatever they set out to do, “nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.” For God’s reset to their society’s evil, Yahweh confused their languages. Suddenly, no one could understand each other’s words.

Lou and I hosted an exchange student from Spain. Rodrigo spoke English but had his limits in our language. When our second daughter married, Rodrigo returned for her wedding. At the same time, we were hosting many from Lou’s French family. Three languages in the same household caused me to become confused. With the stress of all the wedding arrangements, I found myself sometimes speaking French to Rodrigo and English or my limited Spanish to Lou’s family. I can relate to the people of Babel.

In the time of the exit of the Israelites from Egypt, God didn’t reset the entire world just resets for Egypt and Israel. Another reset was when Israel had grown very evil again. Yahweh brought Babylon down to conquer and take Israel captive for deportation. Every time God does a reset, He does something different.

We’re rolling up to a reset once again. The one world government is planning their reset to take over the entire world. They’re calling it a ‘reset.’ People are yelling China, Russia, World War III. Whomever, whatever the satanic realm uses makes no difference.

But……… God has different plans. He’s about to do a reset of His own. Listen to what the prophets have been saying— ***They’ve been telling us for two years satan’s plans, lies and evil will be revealed. Guess what, it’s happening. ***We’ll see a short war in the USA. ***God’s going to change the political landscape. ***Death in abundance is coming, and I think of Noah’s days. Last, this will be God’s reset, not the force’s of darkness.

What I’m holding on for is the healing revival, the glory falling over the nations, churches and peoples: money coming into the hands of God’s people. How? When? Yahweh knows and no else. He has said this reset will be like nothing ever recorded or seen. I’m sure He can do it differently.

All of those walking closely with the Lord like Noah and Lot will be rescued. I believe their families will be rescued too. The Israelites rescue was a show of mercy. Are you walking close with the Lord? It’s your choice. You choose.

LET’S PRAY: Yahweh Adonai, Lord over everything I am thankful You are in-charge, trustworthy, faithful, and true. Bring on Your reset precious Lord we pray, in the name of Jesus Christ.

by Debbie Veilleux Copyright 2024 You have my permission to repost this devotional for others. Please keep my name with this devotional, as author. Thank you.

[blondrichclosetwitch]

Innocence is what we want

Now even children think that way, yeah

The humor's not the same, coming from denial

If I get out of bed, you'll see me standing all alone, Horrified on the stage, my little dark ago

“I can’t do this anymore.”

I'm falling in love with Calliope

She don't belong to anyone, why not give her to me?

“This time around, bring your friend with you. In my city I'm a young god.”

That pussy kill be so vicious/my god white/Infatuated by the fame status

Baby, I can make that pussy rain, often, make that pussy poppin', do it how I want it

That girl been drinkin' all day

She's just happy that the crew back in town

Blame it on the lies that killed us, blame it on the truth that ran us down

When the breakdown hit at midnight there was nothing left to say

Stranded in the park and forced to confess

Well we swore forever friends

Oh, Joey, if you're hurting so am I

She's better known for the things that she does on the mattress

but I'll always get the last word

Aum Ekadantaya Viddhamahe, Vakratundaya Dhimahi,
Tanno Danti Prachodayat॥

I am the reason that the child dies

She gotta swelled belly and there’s money in her bank

I talk like this cause I can back it up

Rich girls

Dreams watching each other

6 packs of beer

And the carnival immediately begins

War, penny arcade, Babylon fading

A city rises from the sea

I had a splitting headache from which the future was made

Coming from nothing and struggling somehow makes you more knowledgeable

The psychology of the voyeur

Criminal actions

Cycles of energy

Major case

The group is a major part of the community

Music music music

Would you hear my voice come through the music?

What we talkin' 'bout fiction or we talkin 'bout fact?

You talkin' 'bout fiction, hold up pardon my back

I'm talkin' 'bout real shit dem people playin'

Talkin' 'bout revenge while carryin' his casket

All teary-eyed 'bout to take it to a mattress

Still they can't' focus on them they be talkin' 'bout me

Try to re-write history Lets talk about facts

That's just how the game goes I don't owe nobody Jakk

Peace out Medusa

(Putting these together because it’s playing again, right now. The number meanings 1:14 relates to past lives and creation/genesis related to the Baby, 3:50 is 3’s aka Maggie’s ten of cups moment, about ultimate happiness. The first number was 31, l didn’t catch the second number)

Maggie I wish I’d never seen your face

Madman, drummers, bummers: hey since it’s the last day of the year, I just want to bring up again that the Lonnie removed screws from my stool so that accident would occur where I tore my ACL. Recently she reminded me that for the longest time it was in the kitchen which has a tile floor; if the accident had happened there, my head would have bled out.

I don’t doubt Katie got me to move it.

Sometimes this will come back in my memory, and i find myself getting very angry.

Like insanely angry.

Anyway I ended up coming across this last night, a text to the teacher who said that fall was meant to end me.

“The Calliope crashed to the ground.”

Also, 20 is the Judgement card, and 6:48 is “things get broken”.

They were together for 5 years

“Now I know why you’ve been taken.”

I’m closer to the Golden Dawn immersed in Crowley’s uniform of imagery

We’re so young and so gone

Where are you taught that’s a solution?

It seems worth mentioning that 51 as a temporary vibration is symbolic of legal dealings, Justice, perception and authorities.

Im leaving but I don’t know where to

Focus for learning

Hey

Been trying to meet you

Must be a devil between us

[zagreus-eats-your-bread]

Okay, yay! Here you go (also @platypusbunnyfromthetardis, @creator-of-masks)

Dr Who:

Star Trek (+ some zines, Douglas Adams books, the 2001: A Space Odyssey series and Red Dwarf and Babylon 5 tie-ins):

Listed under the cut!

Dr Who

Print

Doctor Who and The Sixties (nonfiction)

DWM 249

Doctor Who Annual 1981 (German comic reprint by polyband in 2022)

Doctor Who and the Daleks (Target novelization)

Doctor Who and the Genesis of the Daleks (Target novelization)

Rememberance of the Daleks (German translation of 50th anniversary edition, actual title: "Die Hand des Omega")

Ten Little Planets (50th anniversary edition)

Festival of Death (50th anniversary edition)

Scratchman

Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen

The Infinity Doctors

Love and War

All Consuming Fire

Original Sin

So Vile A Sin (with a Fucked Up spine)

Bad Therapy

Alien Bodies

The Scarlet Empress

Interference Book One

Interference Book Two

The Blue Angel

The Burning

The Turing Test

The Year of Intelligent Tigers

Earthworld

Of the City of the Saved, of its diverse citizenry and of its sundry divinities, with a disquisition on the protocols of history

This Town Will Never Let Us Go

Dead Romance (Faction Paradox anthology reprint)

From Wildthyme with Love

CD

(Woah these are not in order. SMH)

The End of the World

The Tub Full Of Cats

Bernice Summerfield and the Bellotron Incident

Bernice Summerfield and the Mirror Effect

Bernice Summerfield and the Green-Eyed Monsters

Bernice Summerfield and the Extinction Event

Human Resources Part 1

Please also note the stress ball on top that looks like Joseph

DVD

Doctor Who and the Daleks (German dub; actual title: "Doctor Who und die Daleks")

The War Games (German Special edition boxset, the one with the map of the warzones and all that; actual title: "Der Zweite Doktor: Kriegsspiele")

Genesis of the Daleks (German dub; actual title: "Genesis der Daleks")

The Caves of Androzani (German dub; actual title: "Die Höhlen von Androzani")

The Five Doctors (German dub; actual title: "Die fünf Doktoren")

Season 25 (German dub; actual title: "Siebter Doktor Volume 2")

Doctor Who TV movie (German dub; actual title "Doctor Who Der Film")

The Scream of the Shalka

Star Trek

The Prometheus Design (German translation; actual title: "Das Prometheus Projekt")

The Wounded Sky (German translation; actual title: "Der verwundete Himmel")

Star Trek Prometheus: Feuer gegen Feuer (this one sucks bad) (English translations are called "Fire with Fire")

Starfleet Academy (TNG) #1: Worf's First Adventure

Starfleet Academy (TNG) #2: Line of Fire (German Translation; actual title "Mission auf Dantar")

Starfleet Academy (TNG) #3: Survival

Star Trek New Frontier Book One

Star Trek New Frontier Book Two

Star Trek New Frontier Book Three

Star Trek New Frontier Book Four

New Frontier: Martyr

New Frontier: Fire On High

Star Trek Double Helix: Double or Nothing (I should be allowed to kill Peter David for this one)

New Frontier: The Quiet Place

New Frontier: Dark Allies

New Frontier: Excalibur: Requiem

New Frontier: Excalibur: Renaissance

New Frontier: Excalibur: Restoration

New Frontier: No Limits (anthology)

Star Trek Gateways #6: Cold Wars

New Frontier: Being Human

New Frontier: Gods Above

New Frontier: After the Fall

New Frontier: Stone and Anvil

New Frontier: Turnaround (complete comic)

New Frontier: Missing in Action

actually does anyone wanna see my Dr Who and Star Trek collection

[steal-this-idea]

Am I supposed to pronounce the T is Vacit or is it a French name?

I’ve personally gone with vah-SEE all these years.

That’s the trouble with stuff that never made it to the TV show or movies...

[tenebraevesper]

Sonic Cyber Revolution/Sonic the Hedgehog Analyzer (Masterlist)

Sonic Cyber Revolution

Sonic the Hedgehog, a biodigital anomaly created from the data of his video game self, finds his home in the technologically advanced Neos City, which is operating on an augmented reality system. In a reality where Irregulars like him are seen as a danger to society, Sonic refuses to back down from protecting those he cares about, and together with Tails, Knuckles, Amy, Silver, Shadow and their human partners stands against the likes of those who want to destroy the life they created for themselves, Dr. Eggman being only one of their numerous enemies.

The Blue Blur’s thrilling adventure continues in a world outside the video game existence he is known for, but when both of these realities clash, this is where the singularity begins.

Chapters

The Metal Irregular Arc: Entry 0: Ready, Set, GO!, Entry 1: Team Up, Entry 2: Showdown At Eden, Entry 3: The Awakening

The Ultimate Lifeform Arc: Entry 4: Project Shadow, Entry 5: The Looming Shadow, Entry 6: Chaos Surge, Entry 7: Countdown To Destruction, Entry 8: The Illusion Of Hope, Entry 9: Live and Learn

The Memories of The Past Arc: Entry 10: His World, Entry 11: Believe In Myself, Entry 12: Unknown From M.E., Entry 13: My Sweet Passion, Entry 14: Dreams of an Absolution, Entry 15: I Am... All Of Me, Entry 16: What I’m Made Of

The Enter The E.G.G.M.A.N. Arc: Entry 17: The Challenge, Entry 18: Escape From The City, Entry 19: Enter The E.G.G.M.A.N.

The Babylon Rogues Arc: Entry 20: Catch Me If You Can, Entry 21: Sonic Speed Riders

The Final Haunt Arc: Entry 22: The Treasure Hunter, Entry 23: Stop & Rewind, Entry 24: Artificial Life, Entry 25: For Your Sake, Entry 26: The Chosen One, Entry 27: Never Turn Back

The Starfall Arc: Entry 28: The Kitsune’s Deception, Entry 29: Amy’s Cursed Day, Entry 30: The Chaotix Detective Agency, Entry 31: The Starfall

The Green Hill Zone Arc: Entry 32: The Tricore, Entry 33: The Blazing Guardian, Entry 34: Green Hill Zone, Entry 35: Speeding Through Stardust, Entry 36: A Twinkle of Chaos, Entry 37: Breaking The Fields

The Team Dark Arc: Entry 38: Operation ARMS (Part 1), Entry 39: Operation ARMS (Part 2), Entry 40: The Spy and The Network, Entry 41: The Irregular Hunt, Entry 42: Mission: Omega, Entry 43: Team Dark, Entry 44: When The Shadow Calls, Entry 45: I Will Fight Like I Always Have, Entry 46: This Machine

The Chaos Rising Arc: Entry 47: Cream’s Rough and Tumble Adventure, Entry 48: The Seven Mysteries of Nagatsuki Academy, Entry 49: Operation! Starline’s Total Chaos, Entry 50: The City Of Floods, Entry 51: An Ancient Ally, Entry 52: The Chaos Emerald Caper, Entry 53: The Scream Of Perfect Chaos, Entry 54: Open Your Heart

The Neo Genesis Arc: Entry 55: Walking In Your Shoes, Entry 56: Vandalize My Heart, Entry 57: Heat Wave, Entry 58: The Rush Adventure, Entry 59: Romance Dawn, Entry 60: The Sol Dimension, Entry 61: What I’m Here For, Entry 62: Neo Genesis

The Imposter Syndrome Arc: Entry 63: Mission Dark, Entry 64: A Punk Philosophy, Entry 65: The Guardian and The Thief, Entry 66: Burn It All Down, Entry 67: Imposter Syndrome, Entry 68: A Single Flower Petal

The Black Arms Arc: Entry 69: The Invasion, Entry 70: Eclipse, Entry 71: A Cruel Angel’s Thesis, Entry 72: Darker Side Of Me, Entry 73: Echoes In The Dark, Entry 74: Forging My Own Path, Entry 75: A Spark That Lights The Night, Entry 76: Destiny In Hand, Entry 77: The Last Story, Entry 78: All Hail Shadow

The ??? Arc: Entry 79: Alien Family

Sonic Cyber Revolution: Night of The Werehog

Sonic is not feeling well. He had been vanishing night after night, returning home the next morning with no memories. To make things worse, there are reports of a strange beast roaming through Neos City, attacking people. As the full moon rises, Sonic and his friends need solve the mystery behind the attacks before they succumb to the beast's bloodthirst.

Entry 0: Night of The Werehog

Sonic Cyber Revolution: Christmas Truce

It is Christmas time in Neos City, and Sonic and his friends have decided to join the festivities, each in their own way. Unfortunately for them, Dr. Eggman has decided that this would be the perfect opportunity to launch an attack and ruin their Christmas spirit.

Entry 0: Christmas Truce

Sonic Cyber Revolution Analyzer

The Story, Lore & Characters

Sonic the Hedgehog & Lucas Kinomoto

Sonic Cyber Revolution Arcs - Part 1

Sonic Cyber Revolution Arcs - Part 2

Sonic Cyber Revolution Arcs - Part 3

Sonic Cyber Revolution Arcs - Part 4

Sonic Cyber Revolution Arcs - Part 5

Sonic Cyber Revolution Arcs - Part 6

Sonic Cyber Revolution Arcs - Part 7

Sonadow Moments in Sonic Cyber Revolution (The Ultimate Lifeform Arc)

Sonadow Moments in Sonic Cyber Revolution (The Memories of The Past Arc)

Sonadow Moments in Sonic Cyber Revolution (The Enter The E.G.G.M.A.N. Arc & The Babylon Rogues Arc)

Sonadow Moments in Sonic Cyber Revolution (The Final Haunt Arc)

Sonadow Moments in Sonic Cyber Revolution (The Starfall Arc & The Green Hill Zone Arc)

Sonadow Moments in Sonic Cyber Revolution (The Team Dark Arc)

Vandalize My Heart

Sonic knew that he shouldn't be feeling like this. They were rivals most of the time, but that didn't mean that they weren't friends when the occasion called for it. It was just their dynamic and he was fine with it. This was how things always were. So, why was he feeling like someone stabbed him in the chest when Shadow accepted that proposal?

Entry 0: Sound The Alarm

Entry 1: Leave Your Mark

Entry 2: Vandalize My Heart

Shatter Me

After the events of the Shatterverse, Sonic finds himself reminiscing of what had happened, especially when it comes to his interactions with Shadow. Even though the two returned to their normal routine of racing and fighting with each other, something has changed in their relationship.

Entry 0: Fight Together

Entry 1: Ambivalent

Entry 2: The Reason I’m Here

Entry 3: Vandalize My Heart

Entry 4: LOVE or HATE?

Entry 5: Shatter Me - Sonic X Shadow Generations

With Light In My Heart

To fight for everyone's sake with light in his heart. This was the path Shadow chose to follow, even if it's filled with thorns that keep leaving bleeding wounds. Reminiscing about his past and haunted by what could be, he comes across Sonic, who might be the spark that he needed to understand this endless fight.

Entry 0: In The Far Distance

Entry 1: Be My Fake

Entry 2: Reach For Me

Knuckles - The Epilogue

Knuckles and Wade return to Green Hills from their road trip and victory over Pistol Pete and The Buyer. But, what awaits them at home? Knuckles is assured that there will be a celebration as he tells his tale to his tribe, and while Sonic and Tails are excited to hear about his adventure, Maddie has a few choice words for him.

Entry 0: Knuckles - The Epilogue

Sonic The Hedgehog Analyzer

Sonic the Hedgehog Analyzer is a compilation of my personal analysis of the Sonic the Hedgehog IDW comic regarding the story, characters and whatever else catches my interest.

Team Sonic Racing

Team Sonic Racing

Sonic Forces

Sonic Forces: Moment of Truth

Sonic Forces: Stress Test

Sonic Forces: Looming Shadow

Sonic Forces: Rise of Infinite

The Fallout Arc

Issue #1: Fallout (Part 1)

Issue #2: Fallout (Part 2)

Issue #3: Fallout (Part 3)

Issue #4: Fallout (Part 4)

The Fate of Dr. Eggman Arc

Issue #5: The Fate of Dr. Eggman (Part 1)

Issue #6: The Fate of Dr. Eggman (Part 2)

Issue #7: Meet the New Boss

Issue #8: Silent Support

The Battle For Angel Island Arc

Issue #9: The Battle for Angel Island (Part 1)

Issue #10: The Battle for Angel Island (Part 2)

Issue #11: The Battle for Angel Island (Part 3)

Issue #12: The Cost of the Battle for Angel Island

Sonic the Hedgehog Annual 2019

The Infection Arc

Issue #13: Calling Card

Issue #14: Misdirection

Issue #15: Patient Zero

Issue #16: Infection

Sonic the Hedgehog: Tangle & Whisper (Miniseries)

Issue #1: Imposter

Issue #2: Ambush

Issue #3: Betrayal

Issue #4: Showdown

The Crisis City Arc

Issue #17: Plague

Issue #18: Victims

Issue #19: Crisis City (Part 1)

Issue #20: Crisis City (Part 2)

The Last Minute Arc

Issue #21: The Last Minute (Part 1)

Issue #22: The Last Minute (Part 2)

Issue #23: The Last Minute (Part 3)

Issue #24: The Last One Out

Sonic the Hedgehog Annual 2020

The All or Nothing Arc

Issue #25: A Sudden Shift

Issue #26: All or Nothing (Part 1)

Issue #27: All or Nothing (Part 2)

Issue #28: All or Nothing (Part 3)

Issue #29: All or Nothing (Part 4)

The Out of the Blue Arc

Issue #30: Cured

Issue #31: Recovery (Part 1)

Issue #32: Recovery (Part 2)

Sonic the Hedgehog: Bad Guys (Miniseries)

Issue #1: A Few Bad Men

Issue #2: Smash & Grab

Issue #3: Trust Issues

Issue #4: No Honor Among Thieves

The Chao Races and Badnik Bases Arc

Issue #33: Chao Races and Badnik Bases (Part 1)

Issue #34: Chao Races and Badnik Bases (Part 2)

Issue #35: Chao Races and Badnik Bases (Part 3)

Issue #36: Chao Races and Badnik Bases (Part 4)

The Test Run! Arc

Issue #37: Test Run (Part 1)

Issue #38: Test Run (Part 2)

Issue #39: Test Run (Part 3)

Issue #40: Test Run (Part 4)

Sonic the Hedgehog 30th Anniversary Special

The Zeti Hunt! Arc

Issue #41: Zeti Hunt (Part 1)

Issue #42: Zeti Hunt (Part 2)

Issue #43: Zeti Hunt (Part 3)

Issue #44: Zeti Hunt (Part 4)

Sonic the Hedgehog Free Comic Book Day 2021

The Trial by Fire Arc

Issue #45: Trial by Fire (Part 1)

Issue #46: Trial by Fire (Part 2)

Issue #47: Trial by Fire (Part 3)

Issue #48: Hit the Pavement

Issue #49: Wound Up

Sonic the Hedgehog Free Comic Book Day 2022

Sonic the Hedgehog: Imposter Syndrome (Miniseries)

Issue #1: Imposter Syndrome (Part 1)

Issue #2: Imposter Syndrome (Part 2)

Issue #3: Imposter Syndrome (Part 3)

Issue #4: Imposter Syndrome (Part 4)

The Battle for the Empire Arc

Issue #50: Battle for the Empire

Issue #51: Escaping the Empire

Sonic the Hedgehog Annual 2022

Sonic the Hedgehog: Tails' 30th Anniversary Special

The Overpowered Arc

Issue #52: Overpowered (Part 1)

Issue #53: Overpowered (Part 2)

Issue #54: Overpowered (Part 3)

Issue #55: Overpowered (Part 4)

Issue #56: Overpowered (Part 5)

Sonic the Hedgehog: Scrapnik Island (Miniseries)

Issue #1: Scrapnik Island (Part 1)

Issue #2: Scrapnik Island (Part 2)

Issue #3: Scrapnik Island (Part 3)

Issue #4: Scrapnik Island (Part 4)

The Urban Warfare Arc

Issue #57: Urban Warfare (Part 1)

Issue #58: Urban Warfare (Part 2)

Issue #59: Urban Warfare (Part 3)

Issue #60: Urban Warfare (Part 4)

Issue #61: Urban Warfare (Part 5)

Sonic the Hedgehog 5th Anniversary Edition

The Misadventures Arc

Issue #62: Misadventures (Part 1)

Issue #63: Misadventures (Part 2)

Issue #64: Misadventures (Part 3)

Issue #65: Misadventures (Part 4)

Issue #66: Misadventures (Part 5)

Issue #67: Second Chances

Issue #68: The Protector

900th Adventure

Endless Summer

A Very Chaotix Halloween

Winter Jam

Shadow the Hedgehog (Sonic Prime, Character Analysis)

Shadow the Hedgehog (Sonic Prime, Character Analysis - Part 1)

Shadow the Hedgehog (Sonic Prime, Character Analysis - Part 2)

Shadow the Hedgehog (Sonic Prime, Character Analysis - Part 3)

Shadow the Hedgehog (Sonic Prime, Character Analysis - Part 4)

Shadow the Hedgehog (Sonic Prime, Character Analysis - Part 5)

Shadow the Hedgehog (Sonic Prime, Character Analysis - Part 6)

Shadow the Hedgehog (Sonic Prime, Character Analysis - Part 7)

Shadow the Hedgehog (Sonic Prime, Character Analysis - Part 8)

Shadow the Hedgehog (Sonic Prime, Character Analysis - Final Conclusion)

Misc. Analyzer

Vandalize - Sonadow Prime

Shattered Memories (Sonic Prime)

Sonic Boom Shatterverse (Sonic Prime/Sonic Boom)

Sonic Prime (Thoughts)

Sonic Prime (Timeline Placement)

Sonic Prime (My Interpretation of The Ending)

Locke’s Mistreatment of Shadow & The Shadow Android Theory

King Shadow (The Altered Future & The Altered Character)

King Shadow (The Alternate Story)

Isekai'd As My Past Self (Sonic the Hedgehog AU Story)

The Sonic Adventure (Story Concept)

Not So Different (Sonic and Shadow’s Interactions With Metal Sonic)

Our Last Meeting (Sonic & Shadow... & Knuckles)

The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog (My Thoughts)

Shadow in TailsTube

Knuckles (My Thoughts)

Sonic X: The Perfect Chaos Plant

Sonic X Shadow Takeover Analyzer (Part 1)

Sonic X Shadow Takeover Analyzer (Part 2)

[calltothebar]

THE BLACK BOX DILEMMA

Is the Big Bang theory a myth?

And God said, “Let light shine out of darkness” and thus was light. (Genesis 1:3)

Was this the Big Bang? No! No-thing could stand in more extreme contrast to the modern cosmologies.

To understand Genesis, you need to read Enuma Elish first, because this is the story Jewish Priests used for their inspiration while they were in exile in Babylonia. This once-mighty city in Iraq - a microcosm of human history, on the desert plains 60 miles south of Baghdad, where the sun turns horizons into flashing pools of mercury. Adam and Eve’s Garden of Eden is said to have been nearby.

Understanding why historic events took place is important. To do this, historians often turn to geography. Of course, the Babylonian creation myth it is of vital significance for them. A thing being so, the word that says it is so, is the truth. Nevertheless, Enuma Elis (also spelled Enuma Elish) is a Babylonian creation myth with an unclear composition, though it possibly dates back to the Bronze Age.

This piece was thought to be recited in a ritual celebration of the Babylonian new year. It chronicles the birth of the gods, the world, and man, whose purpose was to serve the gods and lighten their work load. The focus of the narrative is on praising Marduk, the patron god of Babylon, who creates the world, the calendar, and humanity. Maybe you can be a better judge of that than I can, (all for understanding historical events). However, the Genesis account has nothing to do with the Big Bang.

On the principle that ignorance is darkness and knowledge is light, this is a case of darkness versus light, and Genesis is on the former side, not the latter. It ignores centuries of human culture and history that built our iconic cityscape. In addition, it fails to acknowledge the continuing plight of some neighborhoods that fall outside of the more affluent that are benefiting disproportionately.

The key to addressing this kind of division is to have better -not fewer- arguments. After all, argument is fundamental to any democracy, and limiting arguments can suppress needed deliberation. But these are the Arguments which are Facing History and Ourselves. These tensions are not just about old versus new (nihilism). They are inextricably linked to race, class and neighborhood identity.

Earth is our natural world

One of the difficulties found in the first chapter of Genesis is the mention of light-apparently before the creation of the sun.

However "the light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it," since people, blinded by their passions, could not overcome it.

John 1:5

The Bible says light was created after the heavens and the Earth, which is false, and incompatible with cosmology and physics. God made two great lights, the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night, (the sun that produces light and the moon that reflects light). He also made the stars. God made many stars when he created the cosmos, that is the physical heavens. Then God made the two lights appear in the newly cleared atmosphere.

Earth’s atmosphere is special. Our Earth is the only planet in the solar system with an atmosphere that can sustain life. The Earth’s atmosphere protects and sustains the planet’s inhabitants by providing warmth and absorbing harmful solar rays. In addition to containing the oxygen and carbon dioxide, which living things need to survive, the atmosphere traps the sun’s energy and wards off many of the dangers of space. So the sun is giving life to our planet. Plants need sunlight (solar energy) to grow. Animals, including humans, need plants for food and the oxygen they produce... Finally, the Sun is a natural source for visible light waves and our eyes see the reflection of this sunlight off the objects around us.

The color of an object that we see is the color of light reflected. All other colors are absorbed.

But I was told, to my great surprise, that shadows are not black but of a neural tint. So, the color of the shadow must be the average color of the diffused light, and must vary, as that varies, with the colors of all surrounding thing's. This primitive scenario ideally corresponds to a 'liveness detection' that it is either indecompos - able or zero. This primitive problem is used typically between homogenized, but might be useful to some atoms who won't give the big plot twist away (conspiracy theorists). Thus was at once explained the inconstancy I had already noticed? Yes, reflection is when light bounces off an object. Nevertheless, the modern age of alienation had truly begun some time before, when our kind of cruelty realizes that this fair experience of uncreated light presupposes the transcendence of space and time.

They are interested in my stories, not just because of oral traditions, but because it justifies their lifestyle. So whenever somebody says oral tradition, I want to say, "Could you show it to me? I know you can not show me oral tradition, but can you show it to me some way in the text, or at least, in the lifestyle of somebody who would have cared about it? " Otherwise we have a free-floating oral tradition that is meaningless.

The hairy shadows think it suits them better, while demanding responsibility from those who are not immediately responsible to them!

Nevertheless, there's no such creationist reality narrative in certain eastern philosophies which serve as the ideological basis for certain spiritual practices. They promote an eternal ongoing process of return, a cycling (recycling) of all energy and matter.

This is true in the World's of Uncreated light. What if God doesn’t exist? What would people do then? What if his ‘existence’ is simply a lie, or it’s used to live stream murder and sexual assault?

That’s toxic. However, He isn’t the most recognised and internationally praised superhero, and He don’t fight any crime. Instead, He use His powers over stone and metal to repair the damage caused by the catastrophic fights other heroes get into.

Of course, the reason why someone is doing something is unknown... What exactly does that mean? Although Genesis seems to be related to the Big Bang, the truth is that it has nothing to do with it..!

Let me think about it..! In the moment of creation. In The Moment, 100%. That moment is a particular point in time. And some moments you remember forever..!

The irony of a defining moment is that if you don’t define it, it will surely define you.

When we reach for explanations beyond our universe, we’re reaching beyond the limits of science. So what is the universe expanding into, if not into some pre-existing empty space? This old metaphysical question has perplexed and intrigued humankind for ages. In the last 10 years the vacuum has taken center stage as a font of confounding mysteries like the nature of dark energy and matter; only recently has the void turned into a tantalizing beacon for cranks. Could the vacuum contain dark energy, gravity particles, and frictionless gears?

Nothing can make us go back in time and fix our bad decisions. Nothing can predict our future precisely. There are two forms of nothing which we can delineate: one concerns the absence of something and the other hint perhaps worth noting is the extraordinary aptness of our Super' eXistence. What is the eXistence? It is an attribute and an attribute is a property of some entity. And you have to understand that time is the fourth dimension in mathematical terms. Our three-dimensional world exists in the present, but it also moves forward in time. However, we cannot creatively use the concept of zero yet. One thing is certain. In addition to our own three-dimensional of space, other three-dimensional "branes" may float in a higher-dimensional space!

Contrastingly, in physics, spacetime is any mathematical model which fuses the three dimensions of space and the one dimension of time into a single four-dimensional manifold. Spacetime diagrams can be used to visualize relativistic effects, such as why different observers perceive differently where and when events occur.

In the year 2 0 5 0

The environment destruction caused by humans is a global, ongoing problem. By the year 2050, the global human population is expected to grow by 2 billion people, thereby reaching a level of 9.6 billion people.

Today, a wide range of environmental problems has emerged. However, we are far from powerless in the face of this global threat. We are protecting the natural environment on the individual, organizational or governmental levels, for the benefit of both the environment and humans.

Accelerating environmental, climatic, and biodiversity changes push scientists, engineers, and various stakeholders to explore new environmental applications, and even functional integrations of robotics technologies into ecological systems. Consequently, we must confront a multitude of novel ethical challenges. But it is not so clear how to understand or evaluate the challenges presented by environmental applications of robots because the very nature of these emerging technologies remains unclear. So what are the real challenges? People who think about machine ethics make it sound like you can come up with a perfect set of rules for robots. What we already know here is that there are no universal rules!

Ever since humanity’s beginnings, we seem to have possessed an innate capability to murder each other. This urge manifests itself in many ways. For example, we first thoroughly examine any emerging technology in order to assess its potential to either wage war or to support it (although to be fair, an amazing number of inventions have emerged from war-related research).

For transhumanists, this matter is of utmost importance. Their view is that technology deserves special respect that is in no way inferior to that given to humans. Most transhumanists emphasize only the benefits that their movement would supposedly bring to the human race. Perhaps they omit possible problems because, like all Culture of Death movements, they lack even the most fundamental understanding of human nature. Their primary problem seems to be not dishonesty, but ignorance.

As a species we should seek to rescue ourselves by entering into a symbiosis with humanoids and environmental robots. The humanoid beings that will come out of such a symbiosis (as a combination of living organisms and electronic systems) could survive civilizational catastrophes and break free from the limitations of biology. These could be humanoid robots capable of performing the kinds of actions we see as intellectual activity.

However, imagine an industrial robot that suddenly breaks down. An investigation reveals that it has been damaged intentionally. Sometime later, an offender is found who had access to the machine’s software. The company sustains losses and the perpetrator is legally liable. But then there might be other considerations here that will matter in the future. Deep learning, the category of AI algorithms that kick-started the field’s most recent revolution, has fallen short in imbuing machines with sophisticated reasoning, grounded in a conceptual model of reality.

In other words...

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Machine's don’t truly understand the world around them, which makes them fall short in their ability to engage with it... assuming the robot is a sophisticated mechanism and that its operation relies on reasoning algorithms? in the future the most sophisticated robots will be able to write their own source code.

We are now faced with the so-called black box dilemma (double equals 0 problem). This is reasoning: Is the action of thinking about something in a logical, sensible way. Reasoning could be behind of what is emerging from the insights of an AI black-box. I am referring to circumstances in which people no longer understand the principles that drive intelligent technologies in the field of artificial intelligence.

Such technologies grow independent causing some to believe that things are slipping out of our control. But it doesn't take a creative conspiracy theorist to devise a logical explanation that involves the double equals zero problem frequent antagonists... The issue is one of accountability.

A subconscious computer can’t explain what it’s doing. Because it’s a black box, the process is hidden. So, can we still use this technology: a machine that cannot justify its own decisions? Maybe this is one of the most challenging questions we are facing in AI today. If an AI program is a black box, it will make predictions and decisions as humans do, but without being able to communicate its reasons for doing so. Nevertheless, true love always has a way of working thing’s out... If you use %g to print (in C) the floating point number instead of %f, you’ll see that it’s not actually zero. After all, C (or C++) is a major AI programming language used for artificial intelligence and can be an effective choice for building most parts of an AI system or robot. Moreover, new frameworks and guidelines are been created in daily basis that identify objectives and priorities for ethical AI. This is certainly a step in the right direction.

Artificial Intelligence enables for most organisations their digital transformation! This springs partly from the ‘black box’ nature of the algorithms (sets of digital instructions implemented to achieve defined goals) dictating AI responses, which are difficult to understand for members of organizations that are being increasingly shaped by AI.

Artificial Intelligence is now playing a crucial role in the digital transformation that allows machines to detect, understand, act and learn.

0,000… equals 0! Nothing is impossible

{1, 2, 3, …}

The sequence of natural numbers never ends, and is infinite. One-third OK, 1/3 is a finite number (it is not infinite). But written as a decimal number the digit 3 repeats forever (we say “0,3 repeating”):

0,3333333… (etc)

There’s no reason why the 3s should ever stop: they repeat infinitely.

{0,999…}

So, when we see a number like “0,999…” (i.e. a decimal number with an infinite series of 9s,) there is no end to the number of 9s. A humanoid being cannot say “but what happens if it ends in an 8?”, because it simply does not end. (This is why 0,999… equals 1).

How would you describe yourself? Will your actions regain your reputation? It’s basically the same reputation that you had, within any model of the fascinating Creative Conspiracy theory.

There is no doubt, we are the ‘nihilistic players’ into a wildly unfamiliar place, wherein the objects are acting as though they can be in two places at once, particles leading double lives as waves and information appears to travel faster than the speed of light. Probably all of these mystical arguments are supporting the claim that quantum physics and consciousness are a (strong) defense of panpsychism.

However, the word uncertainty is used a lot in quantum mechanics. Consciousness is innate to the universe as such. Nothing is certain.

Maybe the crux of quantum science is the relationship between consciousness and reality. The name for that relation is varied, and serves as the groundwork that points out to a most fundamental problem, namely the possibility to overcome dualism. Haven't you ever asked yourself, "where does consciousness comes from?" Instead of a code encrypted in the wiring of our neurons, could consciousness reside in the brain’s electromagnetic field?

But, can you answer to the question? "how can the events in space and time which take place within the spatial boundary of a living organism be accounted for by physics and chemistry?" Sometimes, everything seems random. Life, on the other hand, has withstood the elements for billions of years precisely because it is able to build order out of chaos. The living thing persists turning all that small scale chaos into large scale order.

Human Systems Dynamics (HSD)

These unforgettable memories through iterative cycles of Adaptive Action ruled so far the game which, meanwhile, is including mechanisms for the players to change the rules to whatever sort of game they want to play... Transhumanists game? Immortalists maybe?

The Immortalists game it’s slaitly different. “It sounds like you’re saying we can choose to live. Or we can choose to survive.”

Similar, our modernized world throughout its Human Systems Dynamics (HSD) helps us see, understand, and influence the patterns of interaction and decision making that shape our world. However, crazy bloggers like me continue to struggle with a question that seems almost unbearably basic: what gives the quantum world its distinctively counter-intuitive quantum flavour? Today, in the quest to build a quantum computer (billed as the superior successor to ordinary PCs,) we have finally identified the true root of quantumness. It is this fake and fabled edge of the quantum phenomena! So, forget the Information Age... From the ‘information age’, we are moving towards the ‘Reputation Age’, in which information will have value only if it is already filtered, evaluated and commented upon by others...

A civilised cyber-world will be one where people know how to assess critically the reputation of information sources, and can empower their knowledge by learning how to gauge appropriately the social ‘rank’ of each bit of information that enters their cognitive field.

Making a pact with the Devil

What will happen if we avoid self indulgence and abandon ourselfs? When we self-indulge, we obtain the object of our desire up front-whether it’s some glorious 'high’ (think cocaine, really good New York cheesecake, Ecstasy, or a reckless splurge at Tiffany’s); or an almost rapturous sense of tranquility that before then may have been painfully elusive (think heroine).

However, the bill for such self-indulgence (i.e., the associated 'costs’ of our intemperance,) invariably arrives later, only because we believe conflict sensitivity forms the foundation for peacebuilding programming.

Unfortunately, sometimes we're completely unable and even negative to recognize and receive totally our inside beliefs and assertion. Its the truth that comes from the gut, not the book. Because he is an introvert. Introversion is a major personality trait that specifically was engaged for the case which is defined by what it is not: extroversion. The introverts are people who get their energy from spending alone their time and away from the real world.

Humans will start living in a virtual world surrounded by machines and eventually they'll also start getting detached from the real world. This can affect the emotional ability of humans.

When people will be surrounded greatly by machines which will do all their jobs as well as make decisions for them, people may have less empathy for each other in future. However, some scientists may have found the most plausible explanation for the era of the great reboot, In my opinion, the "simulation hypothesis" is an obvious choice.

Sources:

HSDI, EWT, NewScientist, Quora, DDI

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20 Questions, Writer's Edition!

Thanks for the tag @demigodbeautiies!!

How many works do you have on AO3?

6. I haven't gotten around to uploading the works that live(d) on ff.net.

What’s your total AO3 word count?

57, 637

How many fandoms have you written for and what are they?

Let's see.. Bleach, Final Fantasy VII, Six of Crows and An Ember in the Ashes on AO3, but I also have unfinished/unpublished fic for RPF, Gundam Wing, Fushigi Yuugi, Dragonriders of Pern, Robotech, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Babylon 5, Star Wars, the Valdemar series,

What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

The Four Seasons (Six of Crows)

Somewhere Between Limit Breaks and Mako Eyes (FFVII)

Halfway to Anywhere (An Ember in the Ashes)

Raison d'etre (Bleach)

A Lantern in the Dark (An Ember in the Ashes)

Do you respond to comments, why or why not?

I'm trying to! It's been so lovely to receive them, and I know how much I love receiving a reply, so I'm trying for all my lovely commenters <3

What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

Technically it would be one of the Bleach fics, but none of those are finished yet.

Do you write crossovers? If so what is the craziest one you’ve written?

I have not!

Have you ever received hate on a fic?

I have not, thankfully!

Do you write smut? If so what kind?

Yes I do. My published stuff is M/F but I have written m/m as well.

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

To the best of my knowledge, no.

Have you ever had a fic translated?

I have not.

Have you ever co-written a fic before?

I think... technically no? I had co-written some original stuff that had been born of fandom but that didn't go far.

What’s your all time favourite ship?

I always come back to Zutara.

What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

I'm sorry Bleach fans, I've been poking at Raison d'etre for so long, but it's probably not gonna get done...

What are your writing strengths?

FEEEEEEEEEEEEELINGS. I'm told my smut is pretty good too ;)

What are your writing weaknesses?

Writing in a linear order, and finishing what I've started.

What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

It can be done well, but rarely is. I don't mind as much when the words are written in the fic's language and then otherwise marked as being in another language when it serves a purpose. Back in ye old'n dayes, people would write whole conversations in romaji Japanese and never provided translations and it was HARD y'all.

And for the love of pete, don't write accents. Especially don't write really thick accents.

What was the first fandom you wrote for?

Teddy Ruxpin lol. I was like 9 years old.

What’s your favourite fic you’ve written?

Gosh, I don't know! I'm so enjoying The Four Seasons and my Ember in the Ashes fics right now, it's been a very very very long time since I wrote fic, but these were my first forays back into it and it's been so fun!

Tagging @bastetsbard, @marycontraire and @anonniemousefics

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These are some of the fandoms I'm invested in, and would consider creating art or writing for. Although I would create art for anything I'm watching and I might not think too strongly about writing for all of these fandoms, there are quite a few things that I watch that are missing here, especially films and book/films. But I have not included them because I probably won't consider them to write for ever unless pushed.

Stargate SG-1

Stargate Atlantis

Stargate Universe

Andromeda

Star Trek Original Series

Star Trek Next Generation

Star Trek Deep Space Nine

Star Trek Enterprise

Star Trek Voyager

Star Trek Reboot

Mission Genesis: Deepwater Black

Babylon 5

Alice (SyFy)

Primeval

Fringe

X-Files

Travellers

Sense8

Medium

Cold Case

Waking the Dead

Without A Trace

Life On Mars

Teen Wolf

Twilight Saga

Vampire Diaries

Pretty Little Liars

Supernatural

Shadowhunters - Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (film only)

Once Upon A Time

Riverdale

The Umbrella Academy

Stranger Things

His Dark Materials

Prince of Persia, Sands of Time

John Carter

Avatar

Maze Runner (all films only)

Divergent (all films only)

City of Ember

Shark Boy and Larva Girl

National Treasure

Big Time Rush

The Thundermans

Austin and Ally

Love Alarm

My Little Pony

Tracy Beaker Returns

Story of Tracy Beaker

The Dumping Ground

Wizards Vs Aliens

Sarah Jane Adventures

Doctor Who

Wolf Blood

Merlin

Sparticle Mysteries

Nowhere Boys

Narnia (films only)

Voyage of the Unicorn

Casualty

The Avengers (and all separate marvel films within)

The Flash

The Arrow

DC Legends of Tomorrow

The Justice League

The X-Men (both future and past)

Wolverine

Deadpool

Smallville

[futa69]

You're already a fan of the ancient astronaut theory.

Here's a list of books, movies, TV shows, and video games featuring ancient astronauts. (revised)

▪︎Edison's Conquest of Mars (1898)

▪︎The Call of Cthulhu (1926)

▪︎Analog Science Fiction and Fact (1930)

▪︎At the Mountains of Madness (1931)

▪︎Childhood's End (1953)

▪︎Forbidden Planet (1956)

▪︎Quartermass and the Pit (1958)

▪︎The Twilight Zone (1959)

▪︎The Sirens of Titan (1959)

▪︎The Flintstones (1960)

▪︎Doctor Who (1963)

▪︎Hercules Against the Moon Men (1964)

▪︎Known Space (1964)

▪︎Star Trek (1966)

▪︎2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

▪︎Chariots of the Gods (1968)

▪︎The Bible & Flying Saucers (1968)

▪︎Horror Express (1972)

▪︎Rendezvous with Rama (1973)

▪︎Land of the Lost (1974)

▪︎The Spaceships of Ezekiel (1974)

▪︎The Outer Space Connection (1975)

▪︎Space: 1999 (1975)

▪︎The Sirius Mystery (1976)

▪︎The Earth Chronicles (1976)

▪︎Star Wars (1977)

▪︎Mysteries of the Gods (1977)

▪︎Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

▪︎The Manna Machine (1978)

▪︎Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

▪︎Battlestar Galactica (1978)

▪︎Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1978)

▪︎Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979)

▪︎Alien (1979)

▪︎Hangar 18 (1980)

▪︎Valis (1981)

▪︎The Thing (1982)

▪︎Xevious (1982)

▪︎Super Dimension Fortress Macross (1982)

▪︎The Transformers (1984)

▪︎Cocoon (1985)

▪︎Bio Booster Armor Guyver (1985)

▪︎The Legend of Zelda (1986)

▪︎Predator (1987)

▪︎Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)

▪︎Red Dwarf (1988)

▪︎The Gods of Eden (1989)

▪︎Moontrap (1989)

▪︎Spriggan (1989)

▪︎Total Recall (1990)

▪︎Babylon 5 (1993)

▪︎The X-Files (1993)

▪︎Stargate (1994)

▪︎Neon Genesis Evangelion (1994)

▪︎Fingerprints of the Gods (1995)

▪︎Encounter with Tiber (1996)

▪︎Final Fantasy (1997)

▪︎Earth: Final Conflict (1997)

▪︎The Fifth Element (1997)

▪︎Space Island One (1998)

▪︎Naked Pictures of Famous People (1998)

▪︎Dilbert (1999)

▪︎Futurama (1999)

▪︎Star Ancestors (2000)

▪︎Mission to Mars (2000)

▪︎Halo (2001)

▪︎Ice Age (2002)

▪︎Alien vs. Predator (2004)

▪︎The Orion Zone (2007)

▪︎Mass Effect (2007)

▪︎Assassin's Creed (2007)

▪︎Outlander (2008)

▪︎Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)

▪︎Marvel Cinematic Universe (2008)

▪︎Spore (2008)

▪︎Knowing (2009)

▪︎The Fourth Kind (2009)

▪︎Ancient Aliens (2009)

▪︎Borderlands (2009)

▪︎The Great Airship of 1897 (2010)

▪︎Dark Void (2010)

▪︎The Ancient Alien Question (2011)

▪︎Cowboys and Aliens (2011)

▪︎Battle: Los Angeles (2011)

▪︎Paul (2011)

▪︎John Carter (2012)

▪︎Prometheus (2012)

▪︎Iron Sky (2012)

▪︎DC Extended Universe (2013)

▪︎Jupiter Ascending (2015)

▪︎The Great Wall (2016)

▪︎Life (2017)

▪︎Beyond the Sky (2018)

▪︎Resident Alien (2021)

▪︎Moonfall (2022)

▪︎Prey (2022)

▪︎65 (2023)

[roman-catholic-mass-readings]

14th November >> Mass Readings (Except USA)

  Saturday, Thirty Second Week in Ordinary Time 

    or 

Saturday memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary 

    or

Saint Laurence O'Toole, Bishop.

Saturday, Thirty Second Week in Ordinary Time

 (Liturgical Colour: Green)

       First Reading

3 John 5-8

It is our duty to welcome missionaries and contribute our share to their work

My friend, you have done faithful work in looking after these brothers, even though they were complete strangers to you. They are a proof to the whole Church of your charity and it would be a very good thing if you could help them on their journey in a way that God would approve. It was entirely for the sake of the name that they set out, without depending on the pagans for anything; it is our duty to welcome men of this sort and contribute our share to their work for the truth.

The Word of the Lord

R/ Thanks be to God.

    Responsorial Psalm

Psalm 111(112):1-6

 R/ Happy the man who takes delight in the commands of the Lord.

Happy the man who fears the Lord,

 who takes delight in all his commands.

His sons will be powerful on earth;

 the children of the upright are blessed.

R/ Happy the man who takes delight in the commands of the Lord.

Riches and wealth are in his house;

 his justice stands firm for ever.

He is a light in the darkness for the upright:

 he is generous, merciful and just.

R/ Happy the man who takes delight in the commands of the Lord.

The good man takes pity and lends,

 he conducts his affairs with honour.

The just man will never waver:

 he will be remembered for ever.

R/ Happy the man who takes delight in the commands of the Lord.

    Gospel Acclamation

James 1:21

Alleluia, alleluia!

Accept and submit to the word

which has been planted in you

and can save your souls.

Alleluia!

  Or:

cf. 2 Thessalonians 2:14

Alleluia, alleluia!

Through the Good News God called us

to share the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Alleluia!

    Gospel

Luke 18:1-8

The parable of the unjust judge

Jesus told his disciples a parable about the need to pray continually and never lose heart. ‘There was a judge in a certain town’ he said ‘who had neither fear of God nor respect for man. In the same town there was a widow who kept on coming to him and saying, “I want justice from you against my enemy!” For a long time he refused, but at last he said to himself, “Maybe I have neither fear of God nor respect for man, but since she keeps pestering me I must give this widow her just rights, or she will persist in coming and worry me to death.”’

And the Lord said ‘You notice what the unjust judge has to say? Now will not God see justice done to his chosen who cry to him day and night even when he delays to help them? I promise you, he will see justice done to them, and done speedily. But when the Son of Man comes, will he find any faith on earth?’

The Gospel of the Lord

R/ Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

—————————-

     Saturday memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary 

  (Liturgical Colour: White)

     (Readings for the memorial)

(There is a choice today between the readings for the ferial day (Saturday) and those for the memorial. The ferial readings are recommended unless pastoral reasons suggest otherwise)

       First Reading

Genesis 3:9-15,20

The mother of all those who live

After Adam had eaten of the tree the Lord God called to him. ‘Where are you?’ he asked. ‘I heard the sound of you in the garden;’ he replied ‘I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.’ ‘Who told you that you were naked?’ he asked ‘Have you been eating of the tree I forbade you to eat?’ The man replied, ‘It was the woman you put with me; she gave me the fruit, and I ate it.’ Then the Lord God asked the woman, ‘What is this you have done?’ The woman replied, ‘The serpent tempted me and I ate.’

Then the Lord God said to the serpent, ‘Because you have done this,

‘Be accursed beyond all cattle,

all wild beasts.

You shall crawl on your belly and eat dust

every day of your life.

I will make you enemies of each other:

you and the woman,

your offspring and her offspring.

It will crush your head

and you will strike its heel.’

The man named his wife ‘Eve’ because she was the mother of all those who live.

The Word of the Lord

R/ Thanks be to God.

      Responsorial Psalm

1 Samuel 2:1,4-8

 R/ My heart exults in the Lord my Saviour.

My heart exults in the Lord.

 I find my strength in my God;

my mouth laughs at my enemies

 as I rejoice in your saving help.

R/ My heart exults in the Lord my Saviour.

The bows of the mighty are broken,

 but the weak are clothed with strength.

Those with plenty must labour for bread,

 but the hungry need work no more.

The childless wife has children now

 but the fruitful wife bears no more.

R/ My heart exults in the Lord my Saviour.

It is the Lord who gives life and death,

 he brings men to the grave and back;

it is the Lord who gives poverty and riches.

 He brings men low and raises them on high.

R/ My heart exults in the Lord my Saviour.

He lifts up the lowly from the dust,

 from the dungheap he raises the poor

to set him in the company of princes

 to give him a glorious throne.

For the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s,

 on them he has set the world.

R/ My heart exults in the Lord my Saviour.

    Gospel Acclamation

cf. Luke 1:28

Alleluia, alleluia!

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee!

Blessed art thou among women.

Alleluia!

  Or:

cf. Luke 1:45

Alleluia, alleluia!

Blessed is the Virgin Mary, who believed

that the promise made her by the Lord would be fulfilled.

Alleluia!

  Or:

cf. Luke 2:19

Alleluia, alleluia!

Blessed is the Virgin Mary,

who treasured the word of God

and pondered it in her heart.

Alleluia!

  Or:

Luke 11:28

Alleluia, alleluia!

Happy are those 

who hear the word of God

and keep it.

Alleluia!

  Or:

Alleluia, alleluia!

Blessed are you, holy Virgin Mary,

and most worthy of all praise,

for the sun of justice, Christ our God,

was born of you.

Alleluia!

  Or:

Alleluia, alleluia!

Happy is the Virgin Mary,

who, without dying,

won the palm of martyrdom

beneath the cross of the Lord.

Alleluia!

��                                EITHER: 

    Gospel

Matthew 1:1-16,18-23

The ancestry and conception of Jesus Christ

A genealogy of Jesus Christ, son of David, son of Abraham:

Abraham was the father of Isaac,

Isaac the father of Jacob,

Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers,

Judah was the father of Perez and Zerah, Tamar being their mother,

Perez was the father of Hezron,

Hezron the father of Ram,

Ram was the father of Amminadab,

Amminadab the father of Nahshon,

Nahshon the father of Salmon,

Salmon was the father of Boaz, Rahab being his mother,

Boaz was the father of Obed, Ruth being his mother,

Obed was the father of Jesse;

and Jesse was the father of King David.

David was the father of Solomon, whose mother had been Uriah’s wife,

Solomon was the father of Rehoboam,

Rehoboam the father of Abijah, Abijah the father of Asa,

Asa was the father of Jehoshaphat,

Jehoshaphat the father of Joram,

Joram the father of Azariah,

Azariah was the father of Jotham,

Jotham the father of Ahaz,

Ahaz the father of Hezekiah,

Hezekiah was the father of Manasseh,

Manasseh the father of Amon,

Amon the father of Josiah;

and Josiah was the father of Jechoniah and his brothers.

Then the deportation to Babylon took place.

After the deportation to Babylon:

Jechoniah was the father of Shealtiel,

Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel,

Zerubbabel was the father of Abiud,

Abiud the father of Eliakim,

Eliakim the father of Azor,

Azor was the father of Zadok,

Zadok the father of Achim,

Achim the father of Eliud,

Eliud was the father of Eleazar,

Eleazar the father of Matthan,

Matthan the father of Jacob;

and Jacob was the father of Joseph the husband of Mary;

of her was born Jesus who is called Christ.

This is how Jesus Christ came to be born. His mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph; but before they came to live together she was found to be with child through the Holy Spirit. Her husband Joseph; being a man of honour and wanting to spare her publicity, decided to divorce her informally. He had made up his mind to do this when the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, ‘Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because she has conceived what is in her by the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a son and you must name him Jesus, because he is the one who is to save his people from their sins.’ Now all this took place to fulfil the words spoken by the Lord through the prophet:

The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son 

and they will call him Emmanuel,

a name which means ‘God-is-with-us.’

The Gospel of the Lord

R/ Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

   OR: 

    Gospel

Matthew 1:18-23

How Jesus Christ came to be born

This is how Jesus Christ came to be born. His mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph; but before they came to live together she was found to be with child through the Holy Spirit. Her husband Joseph; being a man of honour and wanting to spare her publicity, decided to divorce her informally. He had made up his mind to do this when the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, ‘Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because she has conceived what is in her by the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a son and you must name him Jesus, because he is the one who is to save his people from their sins.’ Now all this took place to fulfil the words spoken by the Lord through the prophet:

The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son 

and they will call him Emmanuel,

a name which means ‘God-is-with-us.’

The Gospel of the Lord

R/ Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

   OR: 

    Gospel

Matthew 2:13-15,19-23

The flight into Egypt and the return to Nazareth

After the wise men had left, the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, ‘Get up, take the child and his mother with you, and escape into Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, because Herod intends to search for the child and do away with him.’ So Joseph got up and, taking the child and his mother with him, left that night for Egypt, where he stayed until Herod was dead. This was to fulfil what the Lord had spoken through the prophet:

I called my son out of Egypt.

After Herod’s death, the angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt and said, ‘Get up, take the child and his mother with you and go back to the land of Israel, for those who wanted to kill the child are dead.’ So Joseph got up and, taking the child and his mother with him, went back to the land of Israel. But when he learnt that Archelaus had succeeded his father Herod as ruler of Judaea he was afraid to go there, and being warned in a dream he left for the region of Galilee. There he settled in a town called Nazareth. In this way the words spoken through the prophets were to be fulfilled:

‘He will be called a Nazarene.’

The Gospel of the Lord

R/ Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

   OR: 

    Gospel

Matthew 12:46-50

My mother and my brothers are anyone who does the will of my Father in heaven

Jesus was speaking to the crowds when his mother and his brothers appeared; they were standing outside and were anxious to have a word with him. But to the man who told him this Jesus replied, ‘Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?’ And stretching out his hand towards his disciples he said, ‘Here are my mother and my brothers. Anyone who does the will of my Father in heaven, he is my brother and sister and mother.’

The Gospel of the Lord

R/ Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

   OR: 

    Gospel

Luke 1:26-38

'I am the handmaid of the Lord'

The angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the House of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary. He went in and said to her, ‘Rejoice, so highly favoured! The Lord is with you.’ She was deeply disturbed by these words and asked herself what this greeting could mean, but the angel said to her, ‘Mary, do not be afraid; you have won God’s favour. Listen! You are to conceive and bear a son, and you must name him Jesus. He will be great and will be called Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his ancestor David; he will rule over the House of Jacob for ever and his reign will have no end.’ Mary said to the angel, ‘But how can this come about, since I am a virgin?’ ‘The Holy Spirit will come upon you’ the angel answered ‘and the power of the Most High will cover you with its shadow. And so the child will be holy and will be called Son of God. Know this too: your kinswoman Elizabeth has, in her old age, herself conceived a son, and she whom people called barren is now in her sixth month, for nothing is impossible to God.’ ‘I am the handmaid of the Lord,’ said Mary ‘let what you have said be done to me.’ And the angel left her.

The Gospel of the Lord

R/ Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

   OR: 

    Gospel

Luke 1:39-47

Blessed is she who believed the promise

Mary set out and went as quickly as she could to a town in the hill country of Judah. She went into Zechariah’s house and greeted Elizabeth. Now as soon as Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the child leapt in her womb and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. She gave a loud cry and said, ‘Of all women you are the most blessed, and blessed is the fruit of your womb. Why should I be honoured with a visit from the mother of my Lord? For the moment your greeting reached my ears, the child in my womb leapt for joy. Yes, blessed is she who believed that the promise made her by the Lord would be fulfilled.’

And Mary said:

‘My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord

and my spirit exults in God my saviour.’

The Gospel of the Lord

R/ Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

   OR: 

    Gospel

Luke 2:1-14

'In the town of David a saviour has been born to you'

Caesar Augustus issued a decree for a census of the whole world to be taken. This census – the first – took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria, and everyone went to his own town to be registered. So Joseph set out from the town of Nazareth in Galilee and travelled up to Judaea, to the town of David called Bethlehem, since he was of David’s House and line, in order to be registered together with Mary, his betrothed, who was with child. While they were there the time came for her to have her child, and she gave birth to a son, her first born. She wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger because there was no room for them at the inn. 

In the countryside close by there were shepherds who lived in the fields and took it in turns to watch their flocks during the night. The angel of the Lord appeared to them and the glory of the Lord shone round them. They were terrified, but the angel said, ‘Do not be afraid. Listen, I bring you news of great joy, a joy to be shared by the whole people. Today in the town of David a saviour has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord. And here is a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger.’ And suddenly with the angel there was a great throng of the heavenly host, praising God and singing:

‘Glory to God in the highest heaven,

and peace to men who enjoy his favour.’

The Gospel of the Lord

R/ Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

   OR: 

    Gospel

Luke 2:15-19

The shepherds hurried to Bethlehem and found the baby lying in the manger

Now when the angels had gone from them into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, ‘Let us go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened which the Lord has made known to us.’ So they hurried away and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby lying in the manger. When they saw the child they repeated what they had been told about him, and everyone who heard it was astonished at what the shepherds had to say. As for Mary, she treasured all these things and pondered them in her heart.

The Gospel of the Lord

R/ Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

   OR: 

    Gospel

Luke 2:27-35

'A sword will pierce your soul too'

Prompted by the Spirit Simeon came to the Temple; and when the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for him what the Law required, he took him into his arms and blessed God; and he said:

‘Now, Master, you can let your servant go in peace,

just as you promised;

because my eyes have seen the salvation

which you have prepared for all the nations to see,

a light to enlighten the pagans

and the glory of your people Israel.’

As the child’s father and mother stood there wondering at the things that were being said about him, Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother, ‘You see this child: he is destined for the fall and for the rising of many in Israel, destined to be a sign that is rejected – and a sword will pierce your own soul too – so that the secret thoughts of many may be laid bare.’

The Gospel of the Lord

R/ Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

   OR: 

    Gospel

Luke 2:41-52

Mary stored up all these things in her heart

Every year the parents of Jesus used to go to Jerusalem for the feast of the Passover. When he was twelve years old, they went up for the feast as usual. When they were on their way home after the feast, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem without his parents knowing it. They assumed he was with the caravan, and it was only after a day’s journey that they went to look for him among their relations and acquaintances. When they failed to find him they went back to Jerusalem looking for him everywhere.

Three days later, they found him in the Temple, sitting among the doctors, listening to them, and asking them questions; and all those who heard him were astounded at his intelligence and his replies. They were overcome when they saw him, and his mother said to him, ‘My child, why have, you done this to us? See how worried your father and I have been, looking for you.’

‘Why were you looking for me?’ he replied. ‘Did you not know that I must be busy with my Father’s affairs?’ But they did not understand what he meant.

He then went down with them and came to Nazareth and lived under their authority.

His mother stored up all these things in her heart. And Jesus increased in wisdom, in stature, and in favour with God and men.

The Gospel of the Lord

R/ Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

   OR: 

    Gospel

Luke 11:27-28

'Happy the womb that bore you and the breasts you sucked!'

As Jesus was speaking, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said, ‘Happy the womb that bore you and the breasts you sucked!’ But he replied, ‘Still happier those who hear the word of God and keep it!’

The Gospel of the Lord

R/ Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

   OR: 

    Gospel

John 2:1-11

'My hour has not come yet' - 'Do whatever he tells you'

There was a wedding at Cana in Galilee. The mother of Jesus was there, and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited. When they ran out of wine, since the wine provided for the wedding was all finished, the mother of Jesus said to him, ‘They have no wine.’ Jesus said ‘Woman, why turn to me? My hour has not come yet.’ His mother said to the servants, ‘Do whatever he tells you.’ There were six stone water jars standing there, meant for the ablutions that are customary among the Jews: each could hold twenty or thirty gallons. Jesus said to the servants, ‘Fill the jars with water’, and they filled them to the brim. ‘Draw some out now’ he told them ‘and take it to the steward.’ They did this; the steward tasted the water, and it had turned into wine. Having no idea where it came from – only the servants who had drawn the water knew – the steward called the bridegroom and said, ‘People generally serve the best wine first, and keep the cheaper sort till the guests have had plenty to drink; but you have kept the best wine till now.’

This was the first of the signs given by Jesus: it was given at Cana in Galilee. He let his glory be seen, and his disciples believed in him.

The Gospel of the Lord

R/ Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

   OR: 

    Gospel

John 19:25-27

'Woman, this is your son'

Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala. Seeing his mother and the disciple he loved standing near her, Jesus said to his mother, ‘Woman, this is your son.’ Then to the disciple he said, ‘This is your mother.’ And from that moment the disciple made a place for her in his home.

The Gospel of the Lord

R/ Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

      ———————————-

     Saint Laurence O'Toole, Bishop 

   (Liturgical Colour: White)

     (Readings for the memorial)

(There is a choice today between the readings for the ferial day (Saturday) and those for the memorial. The ferial readings are recommended unless pastoral reasons suggest otherwise)

       First Reading

Exodus 32:7-14

Moses pleads with the Lord his God to spare Israel

The Lord spoke to Moses, ‘Go down now, because your people whom you brought out of Egypt have apostatised. They have been quick to leave the way I marked out for them; they have made themselves a calf of molten metal and have worshipped it and offered it sacrifice. “Here is your God, Israel,” they have cried “who brought you up from the land of Egypt!”’ the Lord said to Moses, ‘I can see how headstrong these people are! Leave me, now, my wrath shall blaze out against them and devour them; of you, however, I will make a great nation.’

But Moses pleaded with the Lord his God. ‘Lord,’ he said ‘why should your wrath blaze out against this people of yours whom you brought out of the land of Egypt with arm outstretched and mighty hand? Why let the Egyptians say, “Ah, it was in treachery that he brought them out, to do them to death in the mountains and wipe them off the face of the earth”? Leave your burning wrath; relent and do not bring this disaster on your people. Remember Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, your servants to whom by your own self you swore and made this promise: I will make your offspring as many as the stars of heaven, and all this land which I promised I will give to your descendants, and it shall be their heritage for ever.’

So the Lord relented and did not bring on his people the disaster he had threatened.

The Word of the Lord

R/ Thanks be to God.

    Responsorial Psalm

Psalm 88(89):2-5,21-22,25,27

 R/ I will sing for ever of your love, O Lord.

I will sing for ever of your love, O Lord;

 through all ages my mouth will proclaim your truth.

Of this I am sure, that your love lasts for ever,

 that your truth is firmly established as the heavens.

R/ I will sing for ever of your love, O Lord.

‘I have made a covenant with my chosen one;

 I have sworn to David my servant:

I will establish your dynasty for ever

 and set up your throne through all ages.

R/ I will sing for ever of your love, O Lord.

‘I have found David my servant

 and with my holy oil anointed him.

My hand shall always be with him

 and my arm shall make him strong.

R/ I will sing for ever of your love, O Lord.

‘My truth and my love shall be with him;

 by my name his might shall be exalted.

He will say to me: “You are my father,

 my God, the rock who saves me.”’

R/ I will sing for ever of your love, O Lord.

    Gospel Acclamation

Matthew 23:9,10

Alleluia, alleluia!

You have only one Father, and he is in heaven;

you have only one Teacher, the Christ.

Alleluia!

  Or:

Matthew 28:19,20

Alleluia, alleluia!

Go, make disciples of all the nations.

I am with you always; yes, to the end of time.

Alleluia!

  Or:

Mark 1:17

Alleluia, alleluia!

Follow me, says the Lord,

and I will make you into fishers of men.

Alleluia!

  Or:

Luke 4:18

Alleluia, alleluia!

The Lord has sent me to bring the good news to the poor,

to proclaim liberty to captives.

Alleluia!

  Or:

John 10:14

Alleluia, alleluia!

I am the good shepherd, says the Lord;

I know my own sheep and my own know me.

Alleluia!

  Or:

John 15:5

Alleluia, alleluia!

I am the vine, 

you are the branches.

Whoever remains in me, with me in him, 

bears fruit in plenty, 

says the Lord.

Alleluia!

  Or:

2 Corinthians 5:19

Alleluia, alleluia!

God in Christ was reconciling the world to himself,

and he has entrusted to us the news that they are reconciled.

Alleluia!

                               EITHER: 

    Gospel

Matthew 9:35-37

The harvest is rich but the labourers are few

Jesus made a tour through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the Good News of the kingdom and curing all kinds of diseases and sickness.

And when he saw the crowds he felt sorry for them because they were harassed and dejected, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, ‘The harvest is rich but the labourers are few, so ask the Lord of the harvest to send labourers to his harvest.’

The Gospel of the Lord

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Matthew 16:13-19

You are Peter and on this rock I will build my Church

When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi he put this question to his disciples, ‘Who do people say the Son of Man is?’ And they said, ‘Some say he is John the Baptist, some Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.’ ‘But you,’ he said ‘who do you say I am?’ Then Simon Peter spoke up, ‘You are the Christ,’ he said ‘the Son of the living God.’ Jesus replied, ‘Simon son of Jonah, you are a happy man! Because it was not flesh and blood that revealed this to you but my Father in heaven. So I now say to you: You are Peter and on this rock I will build my Church. And the gates of the underworld can never hold out against it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven: whatever you bind on earth shall be considered bound in heaven; whatever you loose on earth shall be considered loosed in heaven.’

The Gospel of the Lord

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Matthew 23:8-12

The greatest among you must be your servant

Jesus said to his disciples, ‘You must not allow yourselves to be called Rabbi, since you have only one master, and you are all brothers. You must call no one on earth your father, since you have only one Father, and he is in heaven. Nor must you allow yourselves to be called teachers, for you have only one Teacher, the Christ. The greatest among you must be your servant. Anyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and anyone who humbles himself will exalted.’

The Gospel of the Lord

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Matthew 28:16-20

Go and make disciples of all nations

The eleven disciples set out for Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had arranged to meet them. When they saw him they fell down before him, though some hesitated. Jesus came up and spoke to them. He said, ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go, therefore, make disciples of all the nations; baptise them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teach them to observe all the commands I gave you. And know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time.’

The Gospel of the Lord

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Mark 1:14-20

I will make you into fishers of men

After John had been arrested, Jesus went into Galilee. There he proclaimed the Good News from God. ‘The time has come’ he said ‘and the kingdom of God is close at hand. Repent, and believe the Good News.’

As he was walking along by the Sea of Galilee he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting a net in the lake – for they were fishermen. And Jesus said to them, ‘Follow me and I will make you into fishers of men.’ And at once they left their nets and followed him.

Going on a little further, he saw James son of Zebedee and his brother John; they too were in their boat, mending their nets. He called them at once and, leaving their father Zebedee in the boat with the men he employed, they went after him.

The Gospel of the Lord

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Mark 16:15-20

Go out to the whole world; proclaim the Good News

Jesus showed himself to the Eleven and said to them:

‘Go out to the whole world; proclaim the Good News to all creation. He who believes and is baptised will be saved; he who does not believe will be condemned. These are the signs that will be associated with believers: in my name they will cast out devils; they will have the gift of tongues; they will pick up snakes in their hands, and be unharmed should they drink deadly poison; they will lay their hands on the sick, who will recover.’

And so the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven: there at the right hand of God he took his place, while they, going out, preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the word by the signs that accompanied it.

The Gospel of the Lord

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Luke 5:1-11

They left everything and followed him

Jesus was standing one day by the Lake of Gennesaret, with the crowd pressing round him listening to the word of God, when he caught sight of two boats close to the bank. The fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets. He got into one of the boats – it was Simon’s – and asked him to put out a little from the shore. Then he sat down and taught the crowds from the boat.

When he had finished speaking he said to Simon, ‘Put out into deep water and pay out your nets for a catch.’ ‘Master,’ Simon replied, ‘we worked hard all night long and caught nothing, but if you say so, I will pay out the nets.’ And when they had done this they netted such a huge number of fish that their nets began to tear, so they signalled to their companions in the other boat to come and help them; when these came, they filled the two boats to sinking point.

When Simon Peter saw this he fell at the knees of Jesus saying, ‘Leave me, Lord; I am a sinful man.’ For he and all his companions were completely overcome by the catch they had made; so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were Simon’s partners. But Jesus said to Simon, ‘Do not be afraid; from now on it is men you will catch.’ Then, bringing their boats back to land, they left everything and followed him.

The Gospel of the Lord

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Luke 10:1-9

Your peace will rest on that man

The Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them out ahead of him, in pairs, to all the towns and places he himself was to visit. He said to them, ‘The harvest is rich but the labourers are few, so ask the Lord of the harvest to send labourers to his harvest. Start off now, but remember, I am sending you out like lambs among wolves. Carry no purse, no haversack, no sandals. Salute no one on the road. Whatever house you go into, let your first words be, “Peace to this house!” And if a man of peace lives there, your peace will go and rest on him; if not, it will come back to you. Stay in the same house, taking what food and drink they have to offer, for the labourer deserves his wages; do not move from house to house. Whenever you go into a town where they make you welcome, eat what is set before you. Cure those in it who are sick, and say, “The kingdom of God is very near to you.”’

The Gospel of the Lord

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Luke 22:24-30

I confer a kingdom on you, just as the Father conferred one on me

A dispute arose between the disciples about which should be reckoned the greatest, but Jesus said to them:

‘Among pagans it is the kings who lord it over them, and those who have authority over them are given the title Benefactor. This must not happen with you. No; the greatest among you must behave as if he were the youngest, the leader as if he were the one who serves. For who is the greater: the one at table or the one who serves? The one at table, surely? Yet here am I among you as one who serves!

‘You are the men who have stood by me faithfully in my trials; and now I confer a kingdom on you, just as my Father conferred one on me: you will eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and you will sit on thrones to judge the twelve tribes of Israel.’

The Gospel of the Lord

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John 10:11-16

The good shepherd is one who lays down his life for his sheep

Jesus said:

‘I am the good shepherd:

the good shepherd is one who lays down his life for his sheep.

The hired man, since he is not the shepherd

and the sheep do not belong to him,

abandons the sheep and runs away

as soon as he sees a wolf coming,

and then the wolf attacks and scatters the sheep;

this is because he is only a hired man

and has no concern for the sheep.

‘I am the good shepherd;

I know my own

and my own know me,

just as the Father knows me

and I know the Father;

and I lay down my life for my sheep.

And there are other sheep I have

that are not of this fold,

and these I have to lead as well.

They too will listen to my voice,

and there will be only one flock,

and one shepherd.’

The Gospel of the Lord

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John 15:9-17

You are my friends if you do what I command you

Jesus said to his disciples:

‘As the Father has loved me,

so I have loved you.

Remain in my love.

If you keep my commandments

you will remain in my love,

just as I have kept my Father’s commandments

and remain in his love.

I have told you this

so that my own joy may be in you

and your joy be complete.

This is my commandment:

love one another, as I have loved you.

A man can have no greater love

than to lay down his life for his friends.

You are my friends,

if you do what I command you.

I shall not call you servants any more,

because a servant does not know

his master’s business;

I call you friends,

because I have made known to you

everything I have learnt from my Father.

You did not choose me:

no, I chose you;

and I commissioned you

to go out and to bear fruit,

fruit that will last;

and then the Father will give you

anything you ask him in my name.

What I command you

is to love one another.’

The Gospel of the Lord

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John 21:15-17

Feed my lambs, feed my sheep

Jesus showed himself to his disciples, and after they had eaten he said to Simon Peter, ‘Simon son of John, do you love me more than these others do?’ He answered, ‘Yes Lord, you know I love you.’ Jesus said to him, ‘Feed my lambs.’ A second time he said to him, ‘Simon son of John, do you love me?’ He replied, ‘Yes, Lord, you know I love you.’ Jesus said to him, ‘Look after my sheep.’ Then he said to him a third time, ‘Simon son of John, do you love me?’ Peter was upset that he asked him the third time, ‘Do you love me?’ and said, ‘Lord, you know everything; you know I love you.’ Jesus said to him, ‘Feed my sheep.’

The Gospel of the Lord

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The Question Of Psalm 104

Written by Alden Bacuzmo

“This story begins in ancient Egypt with Amenhotep IV. (l350-1334 BC). He has been identified as uniquely the first "monotheist" worshipping his single god "Aten", the Sun. Aten, similar to the ancient Egyptian god "Ra", was represented by the sun-disk, was the creator of all life, and was a god of goodness and divine benevolence. Amenhotep was so sincere that he changed his name to Akenaten [also spelled Iknaten].

In each of the three divisions of the Egyptian empire Egypt, Kush, and Syria, he built a temple consecrated to Aten. He took up residence in a city he had built called Akhetaten, known today as the Tell el-Armarna in the southeastern part of Egypt. Aten represented a universal power that paralleled the Pharaoh's growing power over the known world. Akenaten actually paid individuals to proselytize his cult of Aten. However, the faith never became popular.

During Akenaten's reign, Egypt's power significantly declined. When Akenaten died, his temples were destroyed. Among the few remains of his cult were hymns found written in the tombs of the proselytes at Amarna. The longest of these hymns to Aten is noted to be similar to the Psalm 104, written for the Bible hundreds of years later. There are a few possibilities for how this might have come about. It is fairly certain that, even previous to the time of Moses, fleeing slaves in groups of various sizes, had wondered into the Sinai Peninsula. As the emigrants walked, they sang to keep up their spirits. One of the songs they sang may have been Akenaten's hymn to the Sun. Oral tradition could have perpetuated the elements of his hymn for 600 years. For those who are unconvinced about the similarity of these two documents, Jacob's descent into Egypt, described in the Bible, recalls the Hyksos dynasties, where the Iron age Canaanites conquered Egypt and ruled for several generations as Pharaohs. When the descendants of the original rulers regrouped and repelled the Hyksos, both the conquerors and the large Semitic population that had entered as migrant workers before and during the foreign dynasty were either driven out or placed in bondage. This was the beginning of the 400 years of slavery. Through those who were driven out, Hymns to the Sun were introduced into Canaan. Probably due to this, worship of the Sun is forbidden in the Bible.

Another possibility stems from the evidence of Persian names in residence at Amarna. These were literate people who may have transcribed Akenaten's poems. This would have placed the essence of this poem in Babylon, a world center for literature, by 600BC when the Jews were in exile, and the early Hebrew bible was assembled. Dr. H. Brugsch collected quite a few epithets and quotes from Egyptian scripture around fifty years ago and published them in his work, 'Religion and Mythology'. Much of Psalm 104 is vaguely similar to Egyptian Hymns, such as the following hymn to Ra from the Papyrus of Hu-nefer:

O thou who art crowned king amongst the gods...

[Here is expressed the polytheistic point of view]

Thou art the lord of heaven, Thou art the lord of the earth; Thou art the creator of those who dwell in the heights, and Those who dwell in the depths. Thou art the One God who came into being at the beginning of time.

[monotheism was beginning throughout the world with the idea of the "God of Gods", and is consistent with the concept of G-d in the Pentateuch]

Thou didst create the earth, Thou dist fashion the man, Thou didst make the watery abyss of the sky... Thou dost travel across the sky with thy heart swelling in joy; The great deep of heaven is content thereat..."

"the watery abyss of the sky" is similar to the Sumerian creation story, of 1500 years previous, where gods parted the water to create the world with a third god [see History begins at Sumer, by Noah Kramer]. This idea is repeated in Genesis with the actions of one God. The idea of water being above and below solves the enigma of where rain comes from. The Veda, Hindu scripture, considered this Sumerian story but concluded: "who cares" and left the process of creation unanswered.

Attributing the Lord with the characteristics of the sun. The Psalm 104 starts out attributing the Lord with the characteristics of the Sun. This is found nowhere else in the Scriptures.

[2. Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment; Who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain. 3. Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters. Who maketh the clouds his chariot; Who walketh on the wings of the wind; Who maketh winds his messengers; Flames of fire his ministers.]

A search for references in the Bible to the sun is within our grasp. You may skim over the following scripture of the types of references to the Sun:

* The sun as a symbol of permanency and endurance: Psalms 72:5 They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations. Psalms 72:17 His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and [men] shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed. Psalms 89:36 His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me.

* The Sun must not become an object of worship: Deuteronomy 4:19 And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, do not be enticed into bowing down to them and worshiping things the Lord your God has apportioned to [even] all the host of heaven. Ezekiel 8:16 And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD'S house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, [were] about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east. 8:17 Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen [this], O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here?

* The sun was darkened at the time of Jesus' crucifixion, and will be darkened again at the time of his return to judge the world: Matthew 27:45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour. Mark 13:24 (But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,) Mark 13:25 (And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken.) Mark 13:26 (And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory.) Mark 13:27 (And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.)

* Sunlight as splendor: "Then adorn yourself with majesty and splendor, And array yourself with glory and beauty." [Job 40:10] "Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who has ears to hear, let him hear." [Matthew 13:43]

* Speaking of Jesus when He was with Moses and Elijah in the mount with His disciples: "And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and His raiment was white as the light." [Matthew 17:2]

* Paul in talking about what he saw on the road to Damascus, and learned that He was seeing Jesus at the right hand of the 'Majesty' of God: "...at midday, O king, along the road I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who journeyed with me." [Acts 26:13]

* In describing the One like the Son of Man, John in Revelation says this: "He had in His right hand seven stars, out of His mouth went a sharp two-edged sword, and his countenance was like the sun shining in its strength." [this is similar to a typical Egyptian sun poem] [Revelation 1:16] "And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof." [Revelation 21:23] "And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God gives them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever." [Revelation 22:5]

Only in Psalm 104 could the chosen description of the Lord be construed as that of the sun..

The eight points of comparison: Psalm 104 and the Hymn to Aten The following text in [parenthesis] is from Psalm 104 while the remainder is quoted translation by J.H.Breasted, from Cambridge Ancient History, Vol. II, Chapters 5 & 6.. and "The Rock Tombs of Tell el Armarna", Archeological Survey, Egyptian Exploration Society (6vol, 1903) N. de G. Davis.

The tradition of Egyptian, Hindu, and Hebrew cultures starts the day at sunset. Today the day normally starts at sunrise.

Akenhaten's Hymn to the Sun When thou settest in the western horizon of the sky, [1st comparison, verse 20] The earth is in darkness like the dead. They sleep in their chambers Their heads are wrapped up. Their nostrils are stopped And none see the other. While all their things are stolen Which are under their heads And they know it not Every Lion cometh forth from his den [2nd comparison, verse 21] All Serpents they sting Darkness The world is in silence. He that made them resteth in his horizon.

[22. The Sun riseth, they get them away, and lay them down in their dens.] [23. Man goeth forth unto his work And to his labor until the evening.]

Bright is the earth when thou riseth in the horizon. [3rd comparison, verse 22] When thou shinest as Aten by day Thou drivest away the darkness. When thou sendest forth thy rays The two lands (Egypt) are in daily festivity. Awake and standing upon their feet When thou has raised them up. Their limbs bathed they take their clothing Their arms uplifted in adoration to thy dawning Then in all the world they do their work.. [4th comparison, verse 23] All cattle rest upon their pasturage The trees and the plants flourish

[12. By them the birds of the heavens have their habitation. They sing among the branches.]

The birds flutter in their marshes, [5th comparison, verse 12] Their wings uplifted in adoration to thee. All sheep dance on their feet. All winged things fly, They live when thou hast shone upon them.

[25. Yonder is the sea great and wide. Wherein are things creeping innumerable. Both small and great beasts.] [26. There go the ships.]

The barges sail upstream and downstream alike. [6th comparison, verse 26] Every highway is open because thou dawnest. The fish in the river leap before thee. Thy rays are in the midst of the great green sea. Creator of the germ in woman Maker of the seed in man Giving life to the son in the body of his mother Soothing him that he may not weep. Nurse (even) in the womb.

[29. Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled. Thou takest away their breath and they die. And return to their dust.]

Giver of breath to animals, every one that he maketh When he cometh forth from the womb [7th comparison, verse 29] On the day of their birth Thou openest his mouth in speech

[27. These wait all for thee. That thou may give them food in due season.]

Thou suppliest his necessities. [8th comparison, verse 27] When the fledgling in the egg chirps in the shell Thou givest him breath there-in to preserve him alive. When thou hast brought him together to (the point of) bursting it in the egg To chirp with all his might, He goeth about on his two feet When he hath come forth therefrom.

How manifold are thy works, They are hidden from before (us) O Sole God, whose powers no other possesseth. Thou didst create the earth according to thy heart While thou wast alone Man, all cattle, large and small All that are upon the earth That go about on their feet (All) That are on high That fly with their wings The foreign countries, Syria and Kush, The land of Egypt Thou settest every man into his place Thou suppliest their necessities Everyone has his possessions And his days are reckoned The tongues are divers in speech Their forms likewise and their skins are distinguished (For) thou makest different the strangers.

There is no doubt that the evolution of ideas throughout the history of human endeavors is a combination of past knowledge and original thinking. However, as short as sixty years ago, there is little doubt that the archaeologists who discovered the similarities in ancient texts were astounded since they had been raised to believe in the Bible as the "only word of God". The importance that The Measure of Truth assigns to this study is not to denigrate any of these early beliefs, but to examine why the Biblical scripture has lasted to be arguably the most read and influential literature in the history of mankind.” - Alden Bacuzmo