#uniting science with religion with the coming of the antichrist

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American organized religion is facing a downward spiral crisis of its own creation. The latest effort by conservative Catholic bishops to use abortion as a cudgel to deny President Biden communion is a perfect example of this self-sabotage:

The Roman Catholic bishops of the United States, flouting a warning from the Vatican, have overwhelmingly voted to draft guidance on the sacrament of the Eucharist, advancing a push by conservative bishops to deny President Biden communion because of his support of abortion rights.

The decision, made public on Friday afternoon, is aimed at the nation’s second Catholic president, perhaps the most religiously observant commander in chief since Jimmy Carter, and exposes bitter divisions in American Catholicism. It capped three days of contentious debate at a virtual June meeting of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. The measure was approved by a vote of 73 percent in favor and 24 percent opposed.

It’s honestly astonishing. President Biden is devout Catholic who attends church with uncommon regularity. He wears his faith on his sleeve and uses it to guide his moral decisions. He has suffered personal tragedies that would break many people, and somehow maintained an almost maddening optimism about America, his fellow human beings (even his Republican opponents) and the Divine itself. A religious organization suffering dramatic declines that was serious about maintaining its influence on this earth should be elated to have such a person as arguably the most powerful person in the world.

But not the leadership of the Roman Catholic bishops, which stands well to the political right of the laity. They aligned themselves strongly with Donald Trump, one of the most personally reprobate men imaginable, an inveterate avoider of church with a personality so far from that of the textual Jesus Christ that conservative Christians had to rationalize their support for him as an “imperfect vessel” or a modern-day Cyrus—the unbeliever who nonetheless helped the faithful. It would be difficult to imagine a more cruel, mean-spirited, narcissistic and vainglorious person than Trump, a more perfect icon of the seven deadly sins.

They took no action to attempt to deny communion to Trump despite his offensive personality and his heresies on nearly every point of Christian doctrine in the New Testament–including, notably, the death penalty. But they’ve decided to draw the line against Biden on abortion, an issue that famously does not actually appear in the Bible and requires tortured textual interpretations to justify doctrinal enforcement. This despite the fact that Catholics split their votes for Biden and Trump almost evenly.

The decision by the bishops to take greater offense to a fellow Catholic over abortion than, say, the abuse of migrant children or the the state murder of prisoners by a grinning philanderer illustrates their real motivations. The bishops are not acting in the interest of their faith or their flock; they’re acting as agents of the warped moral morass that is American Conservatism, Inc. They are prioritizing control of women’s bodies over every other spiritual or secular importance. In so doing, they are rapidly alienating at least half of what remains of the American church’s adherents.

Relatedly, protestant pastors are struggling to control the growth of QAnon conspiracies in their congregations. The QAnon cult is partly just the latest gloss on Satanic panic and Great Awakening movements in the past. But it is also a form of apostasy, a bizarre heretical substitution of Donald Trump for the avenging Jesus of the Book of Revelation, come to punish the wicked in a fallen world, vindicate the ostracized true believers, and usher in the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.  In the case of the Q faithful, the flaming sword of Jesus wreaking havoc against the devotees of the Antichrist has been replaced with the mass executions of Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and fellow liberals at Gitmo by secret military tribunals.

Much like the conservative Catholic bishops, QAnon adherents substitute their profane racial and sexual insecurities and temporal partisan allegiances for authentic spiritual connection and compassion. But the pastors of America’s white evangelical churches largely have only themselves the blame: they have allowed their culture to become dominated by the hard right with little pushback. White evangelical America is now a very distinct subculture on social and economic issues from most of the rest of America, including even other Americans of faith. It was only a matter of time before lashing their beliefs to the altar of partisan culture wars would end up with the sacrifice of their faith itself to the golden idol of Donald Trump.

It is no surprise, then, that an increasingly progressive America has recoiled in horror, fleeing churches and abandoning the religious organizations that have set themselves squarely at war with multicultural democracy.

Religion could find a footing even in a socially liberal world where science and technology have supplanted so much of what was previously the mystery of the divine. Young generations beset by existential environmental and economic crises in the face of an intransigent political system have little secular grounding for hope in the future. Faith could provide some irrational courage in the face of despair, much as it has done for President Biden.

But that would require religious leaders to abandon the American revanchist conservative project. For the time being, however, it appears they would prefer to take a Hail Mary pass at an authoritarian theocracy to gain the world even if it means losing their soul—and their faithful—in the bargain.

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Commentary on a lecture entitled: "The `Aqidah of Ahl-ul-Sunnah wal-Athar about the awaited Al-Mahdy" تصفح برقم المجلد > Volume 4 > Commentary on a lecture entitled: "The `Aqidah of Ahl-ul-Sunnah wal-Athar about the awaited Al-Mahdy" (Part No. 4; Page No. 98)   Commentary on a lecture entitled: "The `Aqidah of Ahl-ul-Sunnah wal-Athar about the awaited Al-Mahdy " After the lecturer finished his speech about the `Aqidah (belief) of Ahl-ul-Sunnah wal-Athar (those adhering to the Sunnah), His Eminence, the vice-president of the Islamic University at that time, Shaykh `Abdul-`Aziz ibn `Abdullah ibn Baz commented on the lecture with the following [4] :May Allah's Peace and Blessings be upon Allah's Messenger, his household, Companions and those who follow his way and make use of his guidance until the Day of Judgment.To proceed:I offer my grateful thanks to our honorable lecturer, Shaykh, `Abdul-Muhsin ibn Hamad Al-`Abbad for this comprehensive valuable lecture. Indeed, it is a perfect and useful lesson from him for he rightfully elaborated on the issue of the awaited Mahdy. So, there is no need for more than what he mentioned in his worthwhile lecture and the Hadiths he cited as well as the sayings of religious scholars. Truly, he was aided and guided by Allah concerning illustrating what is correct in the issue. May Allah reward him with the best for his precious lecture and his considerable efforts. May Allah double the reward for him and help him complete his treatise on this subject. On our part, we will publish his treatise after he finishes it owing to the great benefit it has and the need of most Muslims to it. However, what I want to say here is thatour lecturer pointed out in his lecture the sound opinion in this regard as illustrated by the people of knowledge. In fact, the issue of Al-Mahdy is well-known and there is a great deal of Hadiths about it; there are many Mutawatir Hadiths (a Hadith reported by a significant number of narrators throughout the chain of narration, whose agreement upon a lie is impossible) concerning Al-Mahdy, (Part No. 4; Page No. 99)  which all support each other as stated by more than one scholar and clarified by our Shaykh during the lecture. However, the Hadiths are Mutawatir by meaning for the increasing number of their ways and the variety of their focal narrators (the focal narrator looks like the common dominator in mathematics for he occupies the position on which the Hadith is centered), the Companions who related these Hadiths, narrators and words. These Hadiths rightfully confirm that the matter of this promised person is well-established and his appearance is a truth. Al-Mahdy's name is Muhammad ibn `Abdullah Al-`Alawy Al-Husny from the precedents of Al-Hasan ibn `Aly ibn Abu Talib (may Allah be pleased with him). This Imam is an indication on Allah's Mercy with the Islamic nation for he will come out at the end of time and administer justice and truth and prevent injustice and oppression. Allah will raise by him the matter of goodness in the nation; spreading justice, guidance and direction among people.I have read many of the Hadiths about Al-Mahdy and therefore I approve the views of Al-Shawkany and Ibn Al-Qayyim in this regard who state that among the Hadiths concerning Al-Mahdy, there are authentic and good, and some are weak Hadiths that are supported by other Hadiths, and fabricated Hadiths. However, the Hadiths that have sound Isnad (chain of narrators) - regardless of whether they are authentic by virtue of themselves or by virtue of other Hadiths or they are good by virtue of themselves or by virtue of other Hadiths - are sufficient concerning the establishment of the matter of Al-Mahdy. Scholars of Hadith state that weak Hadiths if they support each other, will be valid to be used as evidence.However, scholars of the science of Hadith state that there are four categories of Hadith which are all accepted; authentic by virtue of itself, authentic by virtue of another Hadith, good by virtue of itself, and good by virtue of another Hadith.Those are other than the Mutawatir Hadith which is wholly accepted whether it is Mutawatir by text or by meaning. The Hadiths concerning Al-Mahdy according to this presentation are Mutawatir by meaning i.e. Different words and meanings as well as large number of chains of transmission and narrators of these Hadiths. The trusted scholars have confirmed that these Hadiths are established and Mutawatir, so they are established and accepted.Moreover, we found that some of the people of knowledge have approved many rulings by a lesser number of Hadiths. However, the truth is that the majority of scholars, even all scholars, agreed to the establishment of the matter of Al-Mahdy as being a truth and that He will come out at the end of time.There are some of the scholars who gave some irregular opinions in this regarded but their views are not considered here. As for what Al-Hafizh Isma`il ibn Kathir (may Allah confer His Mercy on him) stated in his book of the exegesis of the Qur'an in Surah Al-Ma'idah while speaking about the deputies of the people of Al-Madinah, that Al-Mahdy may be (Part No. 4; Page No. 100)  one of The Twelve Imams , this is doubtful.The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: The matter of this nation will continue well-established when they are ruled by twelve caliphs who all belong to Quraysh. [1] The saying of the Prophet (peace be upon him) indicates that religion at their time is established and prevailing and the truth is apparent. It is known that this prophecy was fulfilled before the end of the era of Banu Umayyah. However, during the last days of this era a great difference occurred which caused disunity and was a disaster for Muslims for they divided into two countries, one in Andalusia and one in Iraq as well as other inflictions which affected Muslims during this time as known.The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: The matter of this nation will continue well-established. [2] Then, there were many great matters that helped unbalance the system of caliphate and the Islamic territory disunited into small countries with their own rulers, as is the case in the present time, even widely and apparently.To this day, Al-Mahdy has not appeared so how can one dare to say that the matter of religion will continue well-established until the coming of Al-Mahdy ? Indeed, this is rejected by fair thinking and contemplation.According to some scholars, the most proper meaning of the Hadith, The matter of this nation will continue well-established when they are ruled by twelve caliphs who all belong to Quraysh, [3] is that the Prophet (peace be upon him) intends the fourth caliphs, Mu`awiyah (may Allah be pleased with them), his son Yazid , `Abdul-Malik ibn Marwan, his four sons and `Umar ibn `Abdul-`Aziz. These are twelve caliphs.What I want to assure is that the strongest and soundest view concerning the twelve Imams is that they end with Hisham ibn `Abdul-Malik as religion in their time was established, Islam was prevailing, the truth was apparent and Jihad was in force. As for what happened after the death of Yazid of difference and disunity in the caliphate so that Marwan ruled the Levant (the region covering Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Palestine) and Ibn Al-Zubayr ruled Al-Hijaz all of this did not harm Muslims in their religion for their religion was predominant and widespread and their enemy was subjugated in spite of the dispute that happened then it ended by paying (Part No. 4; Page No. 101)  the pledge of allegiance to `Abdul-Malik and people became united in spite of the trouble that happened at the hands of Al-Hajjaj and others.It becomes clear that the matter which the Prophet (peace be upon him) told us about has happened and ended whereas the matter of Al-Mahdy is to be during the last days (of the world) and that it has no relation to the Hadith narrated by Jabir ibn Samurah concerning the Twelve Imams .With regard to the fact that Al-Mahdy exists at the time of the descent of Jesus Christ, Ibn Kathir indicated in the Chapter of "Afflictions and Battles" that he thinks that Al-Mahdy exists at the time of the descendent of Messiah. There is a Hadith related by Al-Harith ibn Abu Usamah that refers to this for the Prophet (peace be upon him) said: (Their leader is Al-Mahdy.) This Hadith is clear concerning the coinciding of the coming of Al-Mahdy and the descent of Jesus, Son of Mary as indicated by some of the narrations of Muslim and other narrations of the Hadith which are not so explicit. However, this seems more appropriate and strong but it cannot be stated as being decisive.As for the fact that Al-Mahdy comes out during the last days (of the world), this is a known matter according to Hadiths of the Prophet (peace be upon him) which are clear in this regard as mentioned previously. Indeed, the matter of the coming of Al-Mahdy is decisive according to the sayings of Imams and Scholars in this regard.With reference to Jesus, the son of Maryam (peace be upon him) and Al-Masih-ul-Dajjal (the Antichrist), their case is stronger and clearer; it is a decisive matter as well as the fact that scholars agreed to the descent of Jesus at the end of time. In a relative manner, Al-Dajjal will come out at the end of time according to Hadiths of the Prophet (peace be upon him) concerning the descending of 'Isa (peace be upon him) at the end of time which are all authentic and Mutawatir. The Hadiths state that `Isa will rule by the Shari`ah of Muhammad (peace be upon him) and kill Al-Dajjal, the Antichrist.This is true and similarly, the coming of Al-Dajjal. As for those who deny this and say that the descent of Jesus and the coming of Al-Mahdy are signs of the appearance of goodness and that Al-Dajjal, Ya'juj and Ma'juj (Gog and Magog) and the like, are signs of the appearance of evil, they are speaking in vain and their views are invalid and one should not trouble oneself with them since their holders have turned away from the truth and said an abominable matter that has no grounds from the Shar`, narrations about the Salaf (righteous predecessors) or even reason. In fact, one is to react to the sayings of Allah's Messenger with acceptance, belief in them (Part No. 4; Page No. 102)  and admittance. If the report from the Prophet is proved sound, then it is not permissible to contradict it with someone's opinion or Ijtihad (juristic effort to infer expert legal rulings). Allah says: But no, by your Lord, they can have no Faith, until they make you (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) judge in all disputes between them, and find in themselves no resistance against your decisions, and accept (them) with full submission. [5] The Prophet (peace be upon him) stated this concerning Al-Dajjal , Al-Mahdy, and `Isa (peace be upon him). Accordingly, it is necessary to receive what he (peace be upon him) said with acceptance and belief and avoid pretentiousness and blind imitation that bring no benefit in this world or in the Hereafter.I supplicate to Allah (Exalted be He) to grant all of us success to what pleases Him and to grant us all comprehension of the religion and be steady on the truth so that we meet our Lord (Glorified be He) while He is satisfied with us.May Allah's Peace be upon His Slave and Messenger: Muhammad, his household, and Companions.            [1] Al-Bukhari, Sahih, Book on judgments, no. 7223; Muslim, Sahih, Book on rulership, no. 1822; Al-Tirmidhy, Sunan, Book on trials, no. 2223; Abu Dawud, Sunan, Book on Al-Mahdy, no. 4279; and Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Musnad, vol. 5, p. 107. [2] Al-Bukhari, Sahih, Book on judgments, no. 7223; Muslim, Sahih, Book on rulership, no. 1821; Al-Tirmidhy, Sunan, Book on trials, no. 2223; Abu Dawud, Sunan, Book on Al-Mahdy, no. 4279; and Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Musnad, vol. 5, p. 86. [3] Al-Bukhari, Sahih, Book on judgments, no. 7223; Muslim, Sahih, Book on rulership, no. 1822; Al-Tirmidhy, Sunan, Book on trials, no. 2223; Abu Dawud, Sunan, Book on Al-Mahdy, no. 4279; and Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Musnad, vol. 5, p. 107. [4] Transcribed from a tape and was read to His Eminence who approved publication. [5] Surah Al-Nisa', 4: 65 http://alifta.gov.sa/En/IftaContents/IbnBaz/Pages/FatawaDetails.aspx?cultStr=en&View=Page&PageID=270&PageNo=1&BookID=14 https://shamela.org/src/files/contents_url.php?id=07ff814a29dbe1bfd78a2e8737ef602d #Islam #Quran #Hadith #Sunnah #Fatwa

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COVID-19 vaccine and the conspiracy theories:Is Bill Gates the Anti-Christ?



COVID-19 vaccine and the conspiracy theories:Is Bill Gates the Anti-Christ

The Bible says there will be an Antichrist, a man that proclaims to be God, who will try to unite the world in a one-world government with a one-world financial system and establish a one-world religion.

Pastor Adam Fannin, a controversial Florida preacher, is one of the advocates of the anti-vaccination movement in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. In his preaching, he asked, “who is this man?” Fannin is referring to Microsoft founder, Bill Gates. This is according to an online publication,fastcompany.com, where Ruth Reader writes on the conspiracy theories surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. “In Fannin’s video, which has garnered 1.8 million views on YouTube, he lambasts Gates for supporting vaccination and suggests that he is working on implantable devices with “digital certificates” and “quantum dot tattoos” that would identify people with COVID-19 and send their information to the United Nations.” Could Bill Gates indeed be the Antichrist?

There are many reasons why a lot of people in The United States have gone to the streets to protest against the proposed vaccine by Bill Gates. Many claim that “Gates is going to spread nanobot mind control systems through a COVID-19 vaccine he’s going to help create and deliver. They’re claiming links to 5G, which will be used to talk to the nanobot and of billions of dollars he intends to make from this project”.

In a report by Business Insider (businessinsider.com), according to Ben Gilbert, in his article posted on April 19, 2020, the factors behind the conspiracy theories that claim Gates is responsible for the coronavirus pandemic are:

• Bill Gates has pledged a quarter billion dollars to combat the coronavirus through his foundation

• Gates has been an advocate for pandemic preparedness for years, and his Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is contributing financing to several vaccine initiatives. He famously gave a 2015 TED talk warning of the potential devastation caused by---- and urged readiness for---- worldwide pandemic. 



Even though he did not give the name of the pandemic, many now believe it is the coronavirus. Many are of the opinion that he engineered the virus in an effort to depopulate an overcrowded planet and, while he’s at it, to inject people with free-will- subduing microdots. They claim that Gates started the severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV2).

In another report by cnbc.com, some claim that” Gates has reportedly stockpiled food in his basement to prepare for a pandemic”. Melinda also gave a TED talk speech in 2015-“warning people that an infectious virus was a greater risk to humanity than nuclear war. That speech has seen 25 million new views on YouTube in recent weeks according to the New York Times. Various anti-vaccination groups and the conspiracy group QAnon now reportedly cite the video as supposed evidence of Gates’ foreknowledge of the event”.

Christopher James in his article on “Bill Gate’s comments on COVID-19 vaccine enflame mark of the beast worries in some Christian circles”. He writes, “the Anti-Christ will,according to many Christians, come to power in the chaos of the apocalypse”.

In Revelation 13, it is believed that the beast, commonly known as the Anti-Christ will deceive the nations to worship the image of an earlier beast, a dragon with seven heads and ten horns that is sometimes identified as Satan himself. Some Christian pastors believe it is part of the plan of the beast to keep people away from weekly church services in the guise of social distancing orders.

In an article written by Kathy Clubb titled: “Bill Gates: Saviour for a New World Order”;she emphasized ,“ in Bill Gates we see a nexus of control over heath, politics, surveillance, finance, energy, water and digital industries, making him a perfect front man for a global economy. Coupled with his influence on social norms such as family size, it becomes obvious that Gates has been behind plans for a One World Government. He is absolutely committed to immoral practices such as abortion, abortifacient contraception and population control”.

Before we continue with reasons why many believe that he is the one responsible for the outbreak of the pandemic, let us examine the man Bill to see how he started.



Gates co-founded the computer software business, Microsoft in 1975 and built it up into one of the world’s most indispensable companies. He worked at Microsoft on a daily basis until 2008, and still has an advisory role there. In 2000, Gates and his wife founded the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation hereafter known as BMGF, which in 2015 became the largest private charitable organization in the world. This is according to Kathy Clubb.

Some are of the opinion that Bill is not the one responsible for the pandemic. According to Ben Gilbert of Business Insider, “this is a bizarre conspiracy theory that puts Bill Gates at the centre of the coronavirus crisis and he is of the view that major conservative pundits are circulating it”.



In an analysis in the Washington Post, Valerie Strauss writes an article titled: No, Bill Gates did not engineer the Covid-19 pandemic-and other fake news. She writes,”the theories–which selectively and inaccurately knit together quotes from Gate’s speeches and interviews, his connections with people such as Jeffrey Epstein and Bill Clinton and details from grants and other activities of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation-advance wildly false schemes accusing the Microsoft co-founder of having foreknowledge of the pandemic, actually engineering the pandemic, and using the pandemic for profit or to institute population surveillance and control mechanisms”.

However, “despite being especially vocal lately, Gates hasn’t said much in response to the conspiracies. He declined an interview with the New York Times for its report on coronavirus-related conspiracy theories. He however answered a question in a televised interview with Chinese broadcast channel CGTN”. He stated in the interview, “I’d say it’s ironic that you take someone who’s doing their best to get the world ready and putting, in my case, billions of dollars into these tools for infectious diseases, and really trying to solve broadly infectious disease-including those that causes pandemics. But we’re in a crazy situation, so there’s going to be crazy rumours”.



Even though the US president, Donald Trump has criticized China as being responsible for the pandemic, Bill Gates has come in the defence of both China and The WHO (World Health Organization). Trump accused the WHO of colluding with China in hiding thorough investigation to the source of the virus he attributed to the Wuhan laboratory in China. In his interview with CGTN, he talked on: China is reliable, time for collaboration on Covid-19. He stated, ”the Chinese have made all the data accessible”, praising the country for its contribution to the global research on the novel coronavirus as well as avoiding a medical supplies market disruption. China is no longer a source of spread of the infection”. Gates also absolved The WHO of any cover up in the saga.



If China is not the source of the infection, is Bill Gates the source? Or is there some sort of collaboration between China and Bill Gates to form a New World Order? In a report by Washington Post on April 30, 2020, Josh Rogin writes: Bill Gates is wrong, China’s coronavirus cover-up is not a distraction. In the article, Josh claims that Gate’s comments in defence of China “are simply wrong, and dangerously so. Beijing’s bad behaviour is neither past nor benign. In fact, it continues to put us at increased risk”. Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo also declared,” we’ve had now thousands of Americans that have died as a result of this virus, and we know where the virus started”.

In an article by Peter Beaumont in theguradian.com, he writes: “Donald Trump, the US president, has given credence to the idea that intelligence exists suggesting the virus may have escaped from a lab in Wuhan. Several theories have been promoted. The first, and wildest, is that scientists at Wuhan Institute of Virology, were engaged in experiments with bat coronavirus, involving so-called gene slicing, and the virus then escaped and infected humans. A second version is that sloppy biosecurity among lab staff and in procedures, perhaps in the collection or disposal of animal specimens released the virus”.

Business Insider’ report by Aylin Woodward states that-” both the new coronavirus and SARS outbreaks likely started in Chinese ‘wet market’, the Huanan Seafood wholesale market. There are two things common between the SARS outbreak in 2003 and the novel coronavirus- animals commonly sold in “wet markets”.

While the world is confused as we battle the pandemic, there are lots of current conspiracy theories surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Mark Lynas of the Alliance for Science, an online journal, writes: “Conspiracy theories that behave; like viruses themselves are spreading just as rapidly online as SARS-CoV-2 does offline. Here are some of the conspiracy theories he penned:



• Blaming 5G. According to him, “this conspiracy theory should be easy to debunk. It is biologically impossible for viruses to spread using the electromagnetic spectrum”. But I’m afraid to buy a 5G phone though.

• Bill Gates as scapegoat. COVID-19 is part of a dastardly Gates-led plot to vaccinate much of the world’s population” so he could make more money.” Some have spread the myth that Gates wants to implant digital microchips that will somehow track and control people.

• The virus escaped from a Chinese lab. “This one at least has the benefit of being plausible. It is true that the original epicentre of the epidemic, the Chinese city of Wuhan, also hosts a virology institute where researchers have been studying bat corona viruses for a long time”. I’m of the opinion that if this is correct, why is China denying the fact and Bill Gates absolving them? Is Trump really wrong? I have my doubts.

• COVID was created as a biological weapon. Another view is that COVID not only escaped from a lab, but it was intentionally created by Chinese scientists as a bio warfare weapon.

• The US military imported COVID into China. The Chinese government responded to the anti-China theories with a conspiracy theory of its own that seeks to turn blame back around onto the United States.

• COVID-19 doesn’t actually exist: According to professional conspiracy theorists like David Icke and InfoWars’ Alex Jones, COVID-19 doesn’t actually exist, but it is a plot by the globalist elite to take away our freedoms. As a result of this, their believers increasingly refuse to observe social distancing measures.

These and many more are some of the conspiracy theories surrounding the coronavirus. Who shall we believe in all these? 

As we try to unravel the mysteries around this pandemic, let me show you who to believe:The Lord Jesus Christ. He already prophesied about what we are currently seeing in the world today. Turn to the Holy Bible, in Luke 21:11: “There will be great earthquakes, and there will be famines and epidemics in many lands, and there will be terrifying things and great miraculous signs in the heavens”. But in all these, we have a sure anchor in the Word of God.

Whether Bill Gates is the Anti-Christ or not, I don’t know but one thing I know is that Jesus declared in His Word, in Matthew 16:18 ...” I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it”.

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The belief that demons have sex with humans runs deep in Christian and Jewish traditions

Incubus, a male demon, was said to prey on sleeping women in mythological tales. Walker, Charles: The encyclopedia of secret knowledge

Cavan W. Concannon: Associate Professor of Religion, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

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August 12, 2020

Houston physician and pastor Stella Immanuel – described as “spectacular” by Donald Trump for her promotion of unsubstantiated claims about anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a “cure” for COVID-19 – has some other, very unconventional views.

As well as believing that scientists are working on a vaccine to make people less religious and that the U.S. government is run by reptilian creatures, Immanuel, the leader of a Christian ministry called Fire Power Ministries, also believes sex with demons causes miscarriages, impotence, cysts and endometriosis, among other maladies.

It has opened her up to much ridicule. But, as a scholar of early Christianity, I am aware that the belief that demons – or fallen angels – regularly have sex with humans runs deep in the Jewish and Christian traditions.

Demon sex

The earliest account of demon sex in Jewish and Christian traditions comes from the Book of Genesis, which details the origins of the world and the early history of humanity. Genesis says that, prior to the flood of Noah, fallen angels mated with women to produce a race of giants.

The brief mention of angels breeding with human women contains few details. It was left to later writers to fill in the gaps.

In the third century B.C., the “Book of the Watchers,” an apocalyptic vision written in the name of a mysterious character named Enoch mentioned in Genesis, expanded on this intriguing tale. In this version, the angels, or the “Watchers,” not only have sex with women and birth giants, but also teach humans magic, the arts of luxury and knowledge of astrology. This knowledge is commonly associated in the ancient world with the advancement of human civilization.

The “Book of the Watchers” suggests that fallen angels are the source of human civilization. As scholar Annette Yoshiko Reed has shown, the “Book of the Watchers” had a long life within Jewish and early Christian communities until the middle ages. Its descriptions of fallen angels were widely influential.

The story is quoted in the canonical epistle of Jude. Jude cites the “Book of the Watchers” in an attack on perceived opponents who he associates with demonic knowledge.

Christians in the second century A.D., such as the influential theologian Tertullian of Carthage, treated the text as scripture, though it is only considered scripture now by some Orthodox Christian communities.

Tertullian retells the story of the Watchers and their demonic arts as a way to discourage female Christians from wearing jewelry, makeup, or expensive clothes. Dressing in anything other than simple clothes, for Tertullian, means that one is under the influence of demons.

Christians like Tertullian came to see demons behind almost all aspects of ancient culture and religion.

Many Christians justified abstaining from the everyday aspects of ancient Roman life, from consuming meat to wearing makeup and jewelry, by arguing that such practices were demonic.

Christian fascination with demons having sex with humans developed significantly in the medieval world. Historian Eleanor Janega, has recently shown that it was in the medieval period that beliefs about nocturnal demon sex – those echoed by Immanuel today – became common.

For example, the legendary magician Merlin, from the tales of King Arthur, was said to have been sired by an incubus, a male demon.

Demonic deliverance

For as long as Christians have worried about demons, they have also thought about how to protect themselves from them.

The first biography of Jesus, the Gospel of Mark, written around A.D. 70, presents Jesus as a charismatic preacher who both heals people and casts out demons. In one of the first scenes of the gospel, Jesus casts an unclean spirit out of a man in the synagogue at Capernaum.

In one of his letters to the Corinthians, the apostle Paul argued that women could protect themselves from being raped by demons by wearing veils over their heads.

Christians also turned to ancient traditions of magic and magical objects, such as amulets, to help ward off spiritual dangers.

Evangelicalism and Pentecostalism

In the wake of the Enlightenment, European Christians became deeply embroiled in debates about miracles, including those related to the existence and casting out of demons.

For many, the emergence of modern science called such beliefs into question. In the late 19th century, Christians who sought to retain belief in demons and miracles found refuge in two separate but interconnected developments.

A large swath of American evangelicals turned to a new theory called “dispensationalism” to help them understand how to read the Bible. Dispensationalist theologians argued that the Bible was a book coded by God with a blueprint for human history, past, present and future.

In this theory, human history was divided into different periods of time, “dispensations,” in which God acted in particular ways. Miracles were assigned to earlier dispensations and would only return as signs of the end of the world.

For dispensationalists, the Bible prophesied that end of the world was near. They argued that end would occur through the work of demonic forces operating through human institutions. As a result, dispensationalists are often quite distrustful and prone to conspiratorial thinking. For example, many believe that the United Nations is part of a plot to create a one world government ruled by the coming Antichrist.

Such distrust helps explain why Christians like Immanuel might believe that reptilian creatures work in the U.S. government or that doctors are working to create a vaccine that makes people less religious.

Meanwhile the end of the 19th century also saw the emergence of the Pentecostal movement, the fastest growing segment of global Christianity. Pentecostalism featured a renewed interest in the work of the Holy Spirit and its manifestation in new signs and wonders, from miraculous healings to ecstatic speech.

As scholar André Gagné has written, Immanuel has deep ties to a prominent Pentecostal network in Nigeria – Mountain of Fire Ministries or MFM founded in 1989 in Lagos by Daniel Kolawole Olukoya, a geneticist turned popular preacher. Olukoya’s church has developed into a transnational network, with offshoots in the U.S. and Europe.

Like many Pentecostals in the Global South, the Mountain of Fire Ministries believe spiritual forces can be the cause of many different afflictions, including divorce and poverty.

Deliverance Christianity

For Christians like Immanuel, spirits pose a threat to humans, both spiritually and physically.

In her recent book “Saving Sex,” religion scholar Amy DeRogatis shows how beliefs about “spiritual warfare” grew increasingly common among Christians in the middle of the last century.

These Christians claimed to have the knowledge and skills required to “deliver” humans from the bonds of demonic possession, which can include demons lodged in the DNA. For these Christians, spiritual warfare was a battle against a dangerous set of demonic foes that attacked the body as much as the soul.

Belief that demons have sex with humans is, then, not an aberration in the history of Christianity.

It might be tempting to see Immanuel’s support for conspiracy theories as separate from her claims that demons cause gynecological ailments.

However, because demons have also been associated with influencing culture and politics, it is not surprising that those who believe in them might distrust the government, schools and other things nonbelievers might take to be common sense.

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On July 27, the president and his son Donald Trump, Jr. tweeted a viral video featuring Dr. Stella Immanuel, in which the Houston pediatrician rejected the effectiveness of wearing face masks for preventing the spread of COVID-19 and promoted hydroxychloroquine to treat the disease.

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Meaning of numbers:

NUMBER 1

The number one often symbolizes the primal being or creation. It is sometimes seen as a symbol of God. One also symbolizes humankind (reflecting our upright stance.) In modern western culture to be "number one" is to be the best.

NUMBER 2 Pythagoras believed that the number two signified diversity. In fact, Pythagoras regarded the number two as the first true number because it represented plurality. Two is the symbol of disorder, separation, opposition and conflict. But two is also a symbol of equilibrium, order and balance in philosophies such as Taoism, where yin and yang represent the two opposite but complementary forces that govern the entire universe. Two is a lucky number in Chinese culture, on the basis that good things come in pairs.

NUMBER 3

Three is a sacred number in most religions. The Ancient Egyptians had a powerful trinity of gods as did the Ancient Greeks and Romans. Hindus worship a trinity known as the Trimurti ("three forms"). Christians believe in a Holy Trinity. In Islam three symbolizes the human soul. To Pythagoras three symbolized perfect harmony, being the sum of unity (one) and diversity (two). The universal meaning of three probably relates to man, woman and child—the fulfillment of birth and productivity. As a symbol of fulfillment, three often occurs in fairy tales as the number of tests to be passed or riddles to be solved.

NUMBER 4

The meaning of the number four is frequently a symbol of wholeness and universality often represented by the square and the cross. Like the square, the number four symbolizes stability. Four is the number of the cardinal directions, the seasons, the four elements and the stages of life (childhood, youth, maturity, and old age). To Pythagoras four symbolized perfection, being the first square number. Four is taboo in Japan and parts of China because it sounds like the word for "death." For American Indians four symbolizes organization: space is divided into four regions, time into four units and human life into four ages. As a number that divides and orders space, the number four is primarily a symbol of the earth.

NUMBER 5

The meaning behind the number five is often related to "Man", whose head and four limbs form the five-pointed pentagram as well as having five fingers and five senses. Pythagoras believed the number five symbolized marriage and union since it is two plus three. Five played a special role in China as symbol of the midpoint. In Hinduism five signifies, among other things, the number of the life principle. The god Shiva was sometimes imagined with five faces. Five is a sacred number to the Mayans, for whom it symbolized the maize god, because maize shoots appear five days after the seed is planted; and for the Aztecs it symbolized completeness and the awakening of consciousness. Five has great significance in Islam, being the number of pillars of piety, hours of prayer, elements of the Hajj, and other religious aspects.

NUMBER 6

The meaning behind the number six is common with the six-pointed star in that six can symbolize harmony and perfect balance. In China the number six is associated with heaven. For Christians, the number six is ambivalent. Six can represent completeness because God created the world in six days. However, in the Apocalypse, six appears as the number of evil—666 is the number of the "beast". To the Mayans six was an unlucky number, signifying death. In modern western culture six symbolizes luck, being the highest throw of a dice.

NUMBER 7

The number seven symbolizes wholeness, completion and fullness in many cultures because it unites divinity and sky (three) with the material Earth (four). The number seven has also been regarded as holy because of the four phases of the moon each lasting seven days. Seven is auspicious in Hindu, Muslim and Judeo-Christian teachings. The menorah, a sacred candelabrum with seven stems, is a symbol of Judaism. In Ancient Egypt seven symbolized eternal life. Buddhism speaks of seven different heavens. The Chinese see the seven stars of the Great Bear in connection with the seven bodily openings and the seven openings of the human heart. In the Bible the number seven occurs many times in both a positive and negative sense as an expression of totality.

NUMBER 8

The number eight is very auspicious in eastern traditions. Eight plays an important role in both Hinduism and Buddhism. It is usually the number of spokes in the Buddhist "Wheel of Law"; the lotus typically has eight petals; eight paths lead to spiritual enlightenment; and the Hindu god Vishnu has eight arms that are connected with the eight guardians of the universe. In China the number eight is considered lucky because it sounds like the word for "prosper." In Christianity, eight is a symbol of the resurrection of Christ and the hope for the resurrection of humankind. Eight is also the number of the major directions of the compass in its simplest form and relates to cosmic order and equilibrium.

NUMBER 9

Nine amplifies the power of three (being three times three). As such, the meaning of the number nine is eternity, completion, wholeness and fulfillment. Nine is considered lucky in China because it sounds like the word for "long-lasting." In addition, the nine-story pagoda is a symbol of heaven in China. Nine is considered unlucky in Japan because it sounds like the word for "pain." The Aztecs considered the number nine to be inauspicious, symbolizing the gods of night, but the Mayans thought it lucky. In Judaism the number nine symbolized intelligence and truth. Historically, nine muses personified the human arts and sciences. In Christianity, the choir of angels equals nine.

NUMBER 10

The number ten is a holy number and a symbol of totality. This is because it is the sum of the first four numbers and also the number of fingers on both hands. Pythagoras considered ten to be a symbol of universal creation. The reason being that ten is the foundation of most counting systems (again because humans have ten fingers) and symbolizes the return to oneness or the beginning—after you count to ten on your fingers, you must begin the cycle again. In China, ten symbolizes duality since it is the double of five (five represents totality). The number ten occurs often in the Bible as a symbol of totality.

Some common numbers and their meaning:

NUMBER 11

The meaning behind the number eleven ranges widely depending on the culture. In many African cultures and traditions, eleven symbolizes fertility because it is believed that it takes eleven days for the semen to reach the egg. In other cultures and belief systems (especially Christianity) the number eleven is a symbol of excess and imbalance because it exceeds ten—the number for completeness.

NUMBER 12

As the multiple of divinity (three) and the material earth (four), twelve symbolizes both spiritual and earthly order. The fundamental number of the duo-decimal system (used by the Babylonians) and of the sexagesmial system, it was thus a sacred, lucky number and a symbol of wholeness. In the Bible and in Christian symbolism, twelve plays a major role as the symbol of completeness and perfection.

NUMBER 13

Thirteen symbolizes bad luck in many cultures. It is linked to the thirteen people at Christ's Last Supper, one of which betrayed him. It follows the number 12 in the duodecimal system which is thought to bring good fortune; hence for the Babylonians it was the number of the underworld and of the destruction of perfection.

NUMBER 14

Fourteen is significant in Christian symbolism as the double of the sacred number seven, it is also the number of goodness and mercy.

NUMBER 21

As a product of three times seven, the number twenty-one has long been considered a symbol of perfection. It is also a holy number in the Bible and a symbol of divine wisdom. In the West, twenty-one is a symbol of responsibility and adulthood.

NUMBER 24

It is the total number of the hours of day and night, and the double of the perfect number twelve. It therefore represents the number of harmonious equilibrium.

NUMBER 666

For Christians 666 symbolizes evil, being the number of the beast referred to in the Bible's Book of Revelations. It is still seen by many in the western world as symbol of the Antichrist.

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THE NEW AGE OF AQUARIUS Eren Melchizedek

HISTORY

The ruler of Aquarius is Uranus. Its symbol represents water, a universal image which dates back into prehistory. This will also be recognized in the egyptian hieroglyph representing the same. The association in Aquarius is that of the servant of humanity pouring out the water of knowledge to quench the thirst of the world. These symbolic waves of water, share the dual expression of vibrational waves of electricity or parallel lines of force.

Personalities: Aquarians are interesting and attractive people. They can be shy, sensitive, gentle and patient; or enthusiastic and lively with a tendency to be exhibitionists. Both types are strong willed and forceful in their own way. Very opinionated with strong convictions, they fight for what they believe in. They will argue vehemently for what they believe to be true, however, if you can show them facts to the contrary, they have little trouble altering their opinion.

These are farsighted people with an eye and ear to the new and innovative. They are generally without prejudice and quite tolerant of the point of view of others. They have an interesting side to their nature that allows them to see a valid argument even when they disagree with it. They are quite objective folk and never get waylaid by being too close to an issue or person.

Regardless of type, Aquarius is truly a humane, human being. Known to be frank and outspoken, a 'on my mind, on my mouth' type, Aquarius makes for a serious and genial companion. Refined and idealistic, romantic but practical, they are personable and likable people. Quick in mind and quick to respond, Aquarians love activity and are quite reasonable, though difficult to get close to. They cherish and guard their independence, and are a strange mixture of caring concern and cool detachment. They will go out of their way to help when needed, but never get involved emotionally.

Mythic Origins —

To fully appreciate the mythological significance of Aquarius, it is necessary to bear in mind the importance of water to our ancestors. The very existence of the ancients depended upon the supply of life sustaining moisture. During the month of Aquarius, the rains were on the land, literally poured from the heavens. In many regions of the ancient world, this was seen as the beginning the new year, a time of new life cycles. It is not hard to understand why some images depict the figure of Aquarius as a water bearing angel.

The region of the night sky in which Aquarius resides is populated by water signs. In Babylonia, this region of the zodiac was known as the Sea. Here we also find, Capricornus, the water goat and Pisces, the fish.

To the Greeks, Aquarius was associated with Ganymede, the son of Tros, king of Phrygia. The god Zeus, so admired the boy's beauty that he abducted him to serve as cup bearer on Mount Olympus. It was this desire to possess the young prince which inspired Zeus to cast his image eternally in the night sky.

The Egyptians associated this time of year with the god Hapi. A heavyset, abundant figure, Hapi was responsible for the annual flooding of the river Nile. In some images he is seen watering the earth from two large jugs.

The Dreams: People have been having many water type dreams. Usually they are very scary. Many people are afraid that these dreams are prophetic and that the ocean is going to come over the land and kill everyone.  However, other dreams like this portray similar ocean dreams but the dreamer just stands there and watches in awe and feels no fear.  Other dreams are about fish tanks which are broken and fish are flopping on the floor helplessly, and others where the tank breaks and water falls to the floor, but the fish swim in the air just like they were still in the water.  We have come to think of these dreams, as being prophetic, Yes!  However, not that the physical world will be destroyed but that we are undergoing a spiritual change, and these dreams are messages that the Age of Pisces (a water sign) is ending, and that the Age of Aquarius (the water bearer sign) is coming in.  This link is provided if you would like to read the dreams we have collected.  WATER DREAMS

Let me quote from the book 'Millennium Prophecies, Predictions for the Year 2000, by A.T. Mann'.  Chapter 10: Dates for the Beginning of the Age of Aquarius:

In the 'Book of World Horoscopes' Nicholas Campion mentions at least seventy dates for the beginning of the Age of Aquarius covering a range of 1500 years. He forewarns his readers by stating that there has been much confusion over this issue, and quotes the noted astrologer Charles Carter's statement that more rubbish has been written about this subject than any other branch of astrology, which is probably, in itself, an exaggeration.

As an illustration, Campion mentions an interesting synchronicity that occurred in 1962 involving a nineteenth-century French hoaxer and the renowned American clairvoyant Jeanne Dixon. In the 1890's Gabriel Jogand, primarily to agitate superstitious Catholics, deliberately devised and publicized a myth that the Antichrist was going to be born in 1962. On the projected day seventy years later, Jeanne Dixon had a vision that somewhere in the Middle East a baby had been born who would become a world teacher and lead humanity away from Christianity...an accurate definition of the Antichrist and also as a symbol of the beginning of the Age of Aquarius.

Campion constructed the horoscope computed from Dixon's estimated time and transposed it to Jerusalem and discovered that there had been a Solar Eclipse on the previous day when all of the traditional seven planets were in the sign of Aquarius. This is an interesting possibility for the entrance of the Age of Aquarius, but was not accompanied by an significant world events which would justify such a selection. This is also true of the majority of dates previously set for this momentous entrance...although enticing, they have not been persuasively connected with any major world events which would justify their claims. However, it could be reasons that the entrance into the Age of Aquarius is an inner, rather han an outer transformation, which could be the case. 

It is generally believed that the Aquarian Age started in the year 2000, 2160 years roughly being the Age of a Sign. The Piscean age started at around 200 BCE ( Before Common Era ). Let us study the symbolisms of the Piscean and the Aquarian Ages.

As the Earth's precession is 72 degrees per degree, 2160 years is an Age Cycle. 25920 years ( 12*2160) is a Precessional Cycle or a Great Plato Year or an Aeon.

Pisces means Fishes and Jesus was the Redeemer of the Piscean Age. The Piscean Age emphasised Faith. The two fishes of Pisces indicate Dualism and during this time, the conflict between Religion & Science intensified as Science rose against blind Faith.The belief in an external God was rejected by Science.

Aquarius is ruled by two planets in  Astrology - Uranus & Saturn. Uranus represents Independence and Saturn Universal Humanism. Humanism postulates that no dogma or political doctrine can save you; only you can save yourself. If you save yourself, you save society, you save the nation and the Planet Earth ! In other words, Universal Humanism will be the hallmark of the Aquarian Age.

The astrologic scholar  Jeff Jawer remarks that the Aquarian Age has not arrived in his article " On The Cusp between Pisces and Aquarius. " The first Venus Transit occurred in 2004 & the next one wlll be in 2012. These 8 years will be like the Dark Night of the Soul, a chaotic period of purgatorial suffering as the Planet Earth goes through a dark phase. Dr Jose Arguelles, the scholar who brought the concept of Harmonic Convergence, also thinks that the enlightening Age of Aquarius will dawn on 2012.

The famous song on Aquarian Age states thus

                      When the moon is in the Seventh House                       And Jupiter aligns with Mars                       Then peace will guide the planets                       And love will steer the stars!                       This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius                       The age of Aquarius                       Aquarius!                       Aquarius!

All freethinkers are excited about the New Aquarian Age where Wisdom will blossom and importance will be on Self development, Self Transformation, Self Realisation & Self Actualisation. Gone are the days of dogma & Blind Faith. Personal transformation will result in Planetary Transformation !

Dante, Bernard Shaw & Alice Bailey had highlighted in their writings that a World Government is the only solution to achieve permanent World Peace. Mahesh Yogi inaugurated the World Government in 1975 in Seelisberg, Switzerland ( " In response to the call of time, a global organisation has been structured, the non-political, the non-religious World Government which has the knowledge and expertise to create an ideal society" ). Foster Bailey, the husband of Alice Bailey, said  that " Free Masonry is the descendent of a United World Religion, a divinely imparted Religion. Then came separativeness and religions. Now we are striving for a United World Order"  There is also a move to create a World Stock Market & to control all governments in the world. The foundations behind the United Nations are spiritual. The Global Oneness Movement is gaining momentum and a Council of Global Governance has been constituted with Maurice Strong as the President.

Dr Wilhmhurst saw the dawning of the Aquarian Age as the fulfillment of the Plan and said that Free Masonry may be the vehicle for that fulfillment. Wise people point out that the New Age Movement is the Universal Religion which H G Wells predicted would one day take over mankind.

The hand of the Mysteries controlled the establishment of the United States Government and the signature of the Mysteries may still be seen on the Great Seal of the United States of America. The Seal discloses a mass of Masonic symbols, chiefly amongst them the American Eagle, which is a conventionalized phoenix. The U S Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter said  " The real rulers in  Washington are invisible and exercise power from behind the scenes ". 

THE AQUARIAN SHIFT

Many changes were coming that were associated with the shift to the Aquarian Age, and it was time for people to have the tools they would need to transition from the Piscean Age that we had been in for 2000 years, into this new age.

What are these ages? Astronomers will tell you that the Earth rotates on an axis and that this line going through the center of the earth has a slight wobble to it. It goes through a little circular wobble about once every 24,000 years. This cycle has been broken into 12 parts associated with the 12 astrological signs, based on which constellation the axis is wobbling towards. From around 2000 B.C. to 0 A.D. we were in the Age of Aries. From 0 A.D. to the present we have been in the Age of Pisces.

For the next 2000 years we will be in the Aquarian Age. We have been in the transition from the Piscean Age to the Aquarian Age for the last 50 years. The official beginning of the Aquarian Age is November 11, 2011 or 11/11/11. Some people have set this date as December 21, 2012. Considering that this is a 2000 year cycle, no matter which date you accept, we are in for lots of change in the near future!

Why is this so important? Many people go their whole lives not caring or knowing if they are a Pisces, or a Gemini, or what their moon or rising sign is. This change to the Aquarian age is so important because it changes the astrological conditions for the entire planet. Every person on planet Earth has been and will be affected by this shift. Let’s investigate what will be changing.

The Piscean Age has been dominated by hierarchy, and power. The key phrase for this age was from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, “To be or not to be.” To make a successful and happy life, you needed to resolve this question. The key to the astrological sign Pisces is “I believe.” During this age, in order for you “to be,” you needed to find someone or something to believe in.

When you found that thing, you attached yourself to that thing and were guided how to live. This could be a religion, a political ideology, a charismatic leader, work, etc. The keys to life were hidden and secret in the halls of power and in the monasteries and ashrams. But you didn’t need to know these secrets, only to follow leaders and guides who did. This created vertical hierarchies as a result, and it was essential to find your place in the pecking order.

This has been the foundation for human consciousness for the past 2000 years. Everything that you have learned from your parents, and they from their parents, going back 2000 years, has been colored by this Piscean frame of reference. And now that is all changing.

The Aquarian Age will be dominated by networks, and information. The key phrase for this age is “Be to be.” The key to the astrological sign Aquarius is “I know.” This is the age of information. Nothing is secret anymore. All information is available at your fingertips. Where the Piscean age was organized in a vertical, up and down structure of hierarchies, the Aquarian Age is organized in a horizontal network, opening the world up to true equality.

During this age, the focus is no longer on your identity and existence (“to be or not to be”), but on accepting yourself as a whole person (“be to be”) who does not need to believe in something outside of yourself. You are ready to accept that you have the knowledge and wisdom within yourself. It is no longer necessary to attach to something outside yourself, but to become a leader of one: yourself. Instead of being a railroad car that is pulled by an engine, you become your own engine. It is your responsibility to stay on the tracks and to keep moving forward.

With this understanding, it is easier to comprehend what has been happening in the world over the last 50 years. On the inner level, since the 1960’s, there has been a huge movement towards personal transformation: self awareness, self improvement, yoga, meditation, tai chi, alternative healing, natural foods, etc. There has also been a major increase in depression, suicide, anxiety, stress, and drug use, both pharmaceutical and recreational.

In the outer world, we have seen amazing changes: civil rights, environmental consciousness, women’s rights, gay rights, global consciousness, etc. We have also seen the rise of fundamentalism, terrorism, partisan politics, racism, xenophobia (the fear of the “other”), and general fear mongering.

This shift is bringing out the best and the worst in mankind. Some people are preparing for this shift by opening their hearts and minds and embracing this new age, and some people are intimidated by the changes that they don’t understand and want to return to a “golden age” in the past, or to circle the wagons and trust only those who are like themselves.

Transformation is never a painless process. When you fast or cleanse to purify your body, at first you feel worse, because toxins get stirred up in order to be eliminated. Once these poisons have been cleared, you feel lighter and more energized. Now imagine that every person on planet Earth is going through this shift. We are heading into a time of radical change. It is a time of great potential growth and expansion, but it is also a time of great potential pain and suffering. The more that you understand what is happening, the more that you can go through all of the changes without losing your balance and stability.

What can you do to help make this transition into this new age of information and consciousness? Here are some suggestions:

1. Have a daily spiritual practice. Every spiritual tradition has one thing in common: a daily practice. This can be many different things: yoga, meditation, chanting, prayer, contemplation, exercise, journaling, etc. It is not important what you are doing, but that you do something almost every day, and do it with an intention to let go of your blocks and focus your consciousness. Kundalini yoga and meditation are the most powerful tools that I have found, but everyone must find their own pathway and collect the tools for their own toolbox.

2. Don’t give in to fear, despair, or anger. There is so much happening that can trigger these emotions: the media, the environment, politics, terrorism, etc. If you understand that these emotions are all symptoms of the Aquarian shift, then you can go through them without losing your center.

3. Don’t be a victim. You have the power to change your life. Don’t give that power away to anyone through blame or resentment. You are responsible for your happiness and grace. Don’t buy into any view of reality in which you are not 100% responsible for making your life work. The Aquarian Age is all about empowerment and consciousness.

4. Be a source of light. The more people who consciously choose to embrace the Aquarian shift, the easier this transformation will go for humanity. It is a spiritual truth that a small percentage of people who have shifted their consciousness can influence the rest of humanity. If you are reading this, then you are most likely one of these pioneers. Find a way to spread your light: teach, heal, create community networks, serve, sacrifice, love. Welcome to the Aquarian Age!

More Information:

https://www.3ho.org/3ho-lifestyle/aquarian-age/aquarian-shift-what-will-be-different

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Like Christianity, the Illuminati Satanist believe in the end time prophecy and the Antichrist coming to "decieve the nations", but side with the Antichrist. Many Illuminatist that have devoted their lives to the "Satanic Cause" believe the Antichrist will appear no later than 2013, as one Illuminatist said "by 2020 there will be a full fledged world government." Unlike Catholics, Illuminati Satanist are not sure who is to be the victor of the final battle between Satan and God, they believe they are just there to fight, not predict. The Illuminati Satanist follow the old Roman term for war "Come back victorious, or don't come back at all." The Illuminati Satanist still follow the Eleven Satanic Rules of Earth and the Nine Satanic Sins. 10. 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Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly: ‘Sometimes films need is high time to marinate’

The director of the cult favorite Donnie Darko was once hailed as the next David Lynch. Now, as fans rediscover his 2007 flop Southland Tales, he explains why patience is still a virtue and Trumps victory was a grotesque inevitability

Talking with the writer and director Richard Kelly, its easy to steer the conversation toward the end of the world. After all, Kelly developed a fervent cult following( and alienated it) through tales of prophesied apocalypse 2001 s cult curio Donnie Darko and 2007 s cult-classic-in-the-making Southland Tales. But its not the collapsing buildings or rivers of blood that fascinate Kelly; its what comes right before. The sneaking anxiety. The normalizing of madnes. The casual disregard for your neighbor. The glob in your throat that signifies your newfound understanding that this was inevitable.

If those impressions sounds familiar in our current Trump-addled dystopia, that was not Kellys intention. Southland Tales, a post-9/ 11 satire melded with a retelling of the Book of Revelation that also includes a complex theory of hour traveling, was never meant to feel like a pre-game show for the next decade of global misery.

The sprawling narrative set in an alternative 2008 in which a nuclear attack on Abilene, Texas, triggers a third world war revolves around an amnesiac action starring named Boxer Santaros( played by Dwayne The Rock Johnson) who falls in love with a porn starring/ talkshow host/ entrepreneur/ pop superstar/ psychic who goes by the professional name Krysta Now( Sarah Michelle Gellar ), who has written a screenplay about the end times.

Oh, and theres also a government agency dedicated to spying on Americans, an underground neo-Marxist cult, alternative solutions energy source that might be ripping a hole in the space-time continuum, a United States military been supported by Hustler and Bud Light, and a mind-altering medication that keeps American soldiers docile and dependent. Jon Lovitz plays a racist cop, Seann William Scott plays identical twin police officers, Amy Poehler shows up as an anarchist improv comic, Justin Timberlake plays a drug-addled war veteran and Wallace Shawn of The Princess Bride fame is the antichrist( or a reasonable fax ).

Its overwhelming to process, and reflects so much of the nervousnes of our age, even if it isnt always pleasant to watch. I actually wanted it to be something that you would get lost in and that would sustain multiple viewings, Kelly tells me over dinner in Los Angeles. When discussing the movie, his eyes widen and he projects an impish yet tentative enthusiasm as though hes feeling out whether youre going to receive his ideas without judgment. Now, that ambition can be a self-defeating prophecy, as we watched clearly.

Kelly seems wistful about the experience of making and releasing the film, which, after a disastrous Cannes screening at which the movie was booed heavily, virtually lost theatrical distribution. We were in Boston, in pre-production on[ his Southland Tales follow-up] The Box, the weekend Southland Tales opened in 50 -some theaters. The upcoming Monday was our first day of principal photography. We were scrambling for our first day. We had done the AFI Fest premiere and they rushed me back to Boston. And then, I remember that morning, were shooting Cameron[ Diaz] and Frank Langella, this really emotional scene in the Boston Public Library. Someone comes up to me and tells me per-screen medians on Southland Tales. It was such a bummer. A screening Kelly attended with the actor James Marsden was attended by only four other people. Roger Ebert likened the cinema to the third day of a pitch session on velocity. One of the rare positive reviews of the movie came from the New York Times critic Manohla Dargis, who called it funny, audacious, messy and feverishly inspired.

I definitely remain proud of the ambition of it. I feel like sometimes things just require is high time to marinate, he says. The cinema has started to find a new audience. At the time of our meeting, hes in between hosting screenings of Southland Tales thanks to a roadshow tour of the film sponsored by the Alamo Drafthouse chain of arthouse theaters. The newfound appreciation for Southland Tales by both audiences and emerging pockets of critics hasnt yet translated to tangible opportunities for Kelly. I dont ever want to feel defeated or that Ive let the system defeat me, he says.

Sarah Michelle Gellar in Southland Tales. Photograph: Publicity image from cinema company

Southland Tales discovering an audience nearly 10 years later would not mark the first time one of Kellys cinemas gained esteem upon second( or third) glance. Donnie Darko grossed a scant $517,375 when it was released a month after 9/11. When it observed a huge audience on video and DVD, Kelly became a hot commodity, an heir apparent to the surrealist tradition of directors like David Lynch. Sometimes, the wind is at your back. Sometimes, its at your front, Kelly says about the ups and downs of his career. Darko remains his greatest up, a cinema thats become a touchstone work for the generation that grew up with it. Darko was a disaster at Sundance too, he tells me. No one remembers that, but it was. Im grateful for any rosy light of hindsight. I remember it took us virtually six months to sell the movie. It nearly ran immediately to the Starz network. We had to beg them to put it in theaters. Christopher Nolan stepped in and persuaded Newmarket to put it in theaters.

After those issues, Kelly could have gone the expected route and taken on a big-budget studio tentpole. He could have directed the sequel, which he declined to do( it aimed up being terrible and running straight-out to DVD ). Instead, he choice this peculiar, dense story about the decline of American power.

President-elect Donald Trump was merely a reality show curiosity when Southland Tales was released, but his mixture of profane and pious could easily have constructed him a character in the film. I think that Donald Trump is this grotesque inevitability that has gotten this far because there was something really, really dangerous concealing beneath the surface, that has been concealing beneath the surface for many, many years. The Republican Kelly imagined in Southland Tales were the neocon religious zealots that seem almost quaint to modern eyes. They seemed like the ultimate boogeymen in 2007, but as Kelly points out , no one in the Bush family would even show up at the RNC[ Republican national convention ].

What Southland Tales conveyed better than most politically charged films of the Bush era was the sentiment that it would get worse, that something had been unleashed that could not be put back. At the time that we were building Southland Tales, it was Iraq war and Britney Spears. That dichotomy on your Tv screen. The branding and everything was happening. It seemed inevitable that everyone would start to co-opt branding. Social media hadnt actually exploded yet. To watch legislators running after each other on Twitter, its bizarre. To insure Elizabeth Warren quoting the monorail on the Simpsons. To see legislators co-opting this millennial social media branding, its a blur of the lines.

Each of his three cinemas reflects that sheepish rebellion that is part of his personality. Donnie Darko was a mostly passive protagonist struggling against both the oppressive system of high school and the levers of fate that he could only pull at the cinemas climax. Boxer Santaros is a pawn in a conflict between fascism and socialism, religion and science, and love and demise. Eventually, those characters succumb to a power greater than any on Earth, something unknowable. So does Kelly think all this is down to higher power pulling the strings?

I dont believe any of this happened by accident. Thats just depressing and absurd, in my opinion, he answers. I do think theres a design to things, and we can never hope to know it in any of our lifetimes. Proportion of the challenge is trying to make sense of it. Thats whats cathartic for me as an artist, to try to make sense of it.

Read more: www.theguardian.com

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Like Christianity, the Illuminati Satanist believe in the end time prophecy and the Antichrist coming to "decieve the nations", but side with the Antichrist. Many Illuminatist that have devoted their lives to the "Satanic Cause" believe the Antichrist will appear no later than 2013, as one Illuminatist said "by 2020 there will be a full fledged world government." Unlike Catholics, Illuminati Satanist are not sure who is to be the victor of the final battle between Satan and God, they believe they are just there to fight, not predict. The Illuminati Satanist follow the old Roman term for war "Come back victorious, or don't come back at all." The Illuminati Satanist still follow the Eleven Satanic Rules of Earth and the Nine Satanic Sins. The Tribulation, the Biblical belief that there will be a 7 years where the Antichrist rules over Earth after gaining political, economic, and military power over the entire world where he rules in a world government, becoming the worst tyrant in Human history. The Illuminati Satanist believe they either must win or die. They claim they will aid the Antichrist throughout the Tribulation no matter how tyrannical he gets or how much dictatorial rights he recieves. Like Christianity, the Illuminati Satanist believe in the end time prophecy and the Antichrist coming to "decieve the nations", but side with the Antichrist. Many Illuminatist that have devoted their lives to the "Satanic Cause" believe the Antichrist will appear no later than 2013, as one Illuminatist said "by 2020 there will be a full fledged world government." 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Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly: ‘Sometimes films need is high time to marinate’

The director of the cult favorite Donnie Darko was once hailed as the next David Lynch. Now, as fans rediscover his 2007 flop Southland Tales, he explains why patience remains of virtue and Trumps victory was a grotesque inevitability

Talking with the writer and director Richard Kelly, its easy to steer the conversation toward the end of the world. After all, Kelly developed a fervent cult following( and alienated it) through tales of prophesied apocalypse 2001 s cult curio Donnie Darko and 2007 s cult-classic-in-the-making Southland Tales. But its not the collapsing houses or rivers of blood that fascinate Kelly; its what comes right before. The creeping anxiety. The normalizing of madnes. The casual disregard for your neighbour. The glob in your throat that signifies your newfound understanding that this was inevitable.

If those impressions audios familiar in our present Trump-addled dystopia, that was not Kellys intention. Southland Tales, a post-9/ 11 irony melded with a retelling of the Book of Revelation that also includes a complex hypothesi of time traveling, was never meant to feel like a pre-game show for the next decade of global misery.

The sprawling narrative set in alternative solutions 2008 in which a nuclear attack on Abilene, Texas, triggers a third world war revolves around an amnesiac action starring named Boxer Santaros( played by Dwayne The Rock Johnson) who falls in love with a porn superstar/ talkshow host/ entrepreneur/ pop star/ clairvoyant who goes by the professional name Krysta Now( Sarah Michelle Gellar ), who has written a screenplay about the end times.

Oh, and theres also a government agency dedicated to spying on Americans, an underground neo-Marxist cult, an alternative energy source that might be ripping a hole in the space-time continuum, a United States military sponsored by Hustler and Bud Light, and a mind-altering medication that keeps American soldiers docile and dependent. Jon Lovitz plays a racist policeman, Seann William Scott plays identical twin police officers, Amy Poehler shows up as an anarchist improv comic, Justin Timberlake plays a drug-addled war veteran and Wallace Shawn of The Princess Bride fame is the antichrist( or a reasonable facsimile ).

Its overwhelming to process, and reflects so much of the nervousnes of our age, even if it isnt always pleasant to watch. I genuinely wanted it to be something that you would get lost in and that would sustain multiple viewings, Kelly tells me over dinner in Los Angeles. When discussing the film, his eyes widen and he projects an impish yet tentative enthusiasm as though hes feeling out whether youre going to receive his ideas without decision. Now, that aspiration can be a self-defeating prophecy, as we considered clearly.

Kelly seems wistful about the experience of making and releasing the movie, which, after a disastrous Cannes screening at which the movie was booed heavily, virtually lost theatrical distribution. We were in Boston, in pre-production on[ his Southland Tales follow-up] The Box, the weekend Southland Tales opened in 50 -some theaters. The upcoming Monday was our first day of principal photography. We were scrambling for our first day. We had done the AFI Fest premiere and they rushed me back to Boston. And then, I remember that morning, were shooting Cameron[ Diaz] and Frank Langella, that is something that emotional scene in the Boston Public Library. Someone comes up to me and tells me per-screen averages on Southland Tales. It was such a bummer. A screening Kelly attended with the actor James Marsden were engaged in only four other people. Roger Ebert likened the cinema to the third day of a pitching session on speed. One of the rare positive reviews of the film came from the New York Times critic Manohla Dargis, who called it funny, audacious, messy and feverishly inspired.

I definitely remain proud of the ambition of it. I feel like sometimes things just require time to marinate, he says. The cinema has started to find a new audience. At the time of our meeting, hes in between hosting screenings of Southland Tales thanks to a roadshow tour of the cinema sponsored by the Alamo Drafthouse chain of arthouse theaters. The newfound expressed appreciation for Southland Tales by both audiences and emerging pockets of critics hasnt yet translated to tangible a chance for Kelly. I dont ever want to feel defeated or that Ive let the organizations of the system defeat me, he says.

Sarah Michelle Gellar in Southland Tales. Photograph: Publicity image from cinema company

Southland Tales observing an audience almost 10 year later would not mark the first time one of Kellys movies gained esteem upon second( or third) glance. Donnie Darko grossed a scant $517,375 when it was released a month after 9/11. When it observed a huge audience on video and DVD, Kelly became a hot commodity, an heir apparent to the surrealist tradition of directors like David Lynch. Sometimes, the wind is at your back. Sometimes, its at your front, Kelly says about the ups and downs of his career. Darko remains his greatest up, a cinema thats become a touchstone work for the generation that grew up with it. Darko was a disaster at Sundance too, he tells me. No one remembers that, but it was. Im grateful for any rosy glow of hindsight. I remember it took us almost six months to sell the movie. It almost went immediately to the Starz network. We had to beg them to put it in theaters. Christopher Nolan stepped in and persuaded Newmarket to set it in theaters.

After those issues, Kelly could have gone the expected route and taken on a big-budget studio tentpole. He could have directed the sequel, which he declined to do( it ended up being terrible and running straight to DVD ). Instead, he choice this peculiar, dense story about the decline of American power.

President-elect Donald Trump was only a reality show curiosity when Southland Tales was released, but his mix of profane and pious could easily have attained him a character in the film. I think that Donald Trump is this grotesque inevitability that has get this far because there was something actually, really dangerous concealing beneath the surface, that has been hiding beneath the surface for many, many years. The Republicans Kelly imagined in Southland Tales were the neocon religious zealots that seem virtually quaint to modern eyes. They seemed like the ultimate boogeymen in 2007, but as Kelly points out , no one in the Bush family would even show up at the RNC[ Republican national convention ].

What Southland Tales expressed better than most politically charged cinemas of the Bush era was the sentiment that it would get worse, that something had been unleashed that could not be put back. At the time that we were attaining Southland Tales, it was Iraq war and Britney Spears. That dichotomy on your TV screen. The branding and everything was happening. It seemed inevitable that everyone would start to co-opt branding. Social media hadnt really exploded yet. To assure legislators going after one another on Twitter, its bizarre. To see Elizabeth Warren quoting the monorail on the Simpsons. To ensure legislators co-opting this millennial social media branding, its a blurring of the lines.

Each of his three films reflects that sheepish rebellion that is part of his personality. Donnie Darko was a largely passive protagonist struggling against both the oppressive system of high school and the levers of fate that he could only pull at the films climax. Boxer Santaros is a pawn in a conflict between fascism and socialism, religion and science, and love and demise. Eventually, those characters succumb to a power greater than any on Ground, something unknowable. So does Kelly suppose all this is down to higher power pulling the strings?

I dont guess any of this passed by accident. Thats just depressing and absurd, in my opinion, he answers. I do think theres a design to things, and we can never hope to know it in any of our lifetimes. Part of current challenges is trying to make sense of it. Thats whats cathartic for me as an artist, to try to make sense of it.

Read more: www.theguardian.com

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Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly: ‘Sometimes films require time to marinate’

The director of the cult favorite Donnie Darko was once hailed as the next David Lynch. Now, as fans rediscover his 2007 flop Southland Tales, he explains why patience is still a virtue and Trumps victory was a grotesque inevitability

Talking with the writer and director Richard Kelly, its easy to steer the conversation toward the end of the world. After all, Kelly developed a fervent cult following (and alienated it) through tales of prophesied apocalypse 2001s cult curio Donnie Darko and 2007s cult-classic-in-the-making Southland Tales. But its not the collapsing buildings or rivers of blood that fascinate Kelly; its what comes right before. The creeping panic. The normalizing of insanity. The casual disregard for your neighbor. The lump in your throat that signifies your newfound understanding that this was inevitable.

If those feelings sounds familiar in our current Trump-addled dystopia, that was not Kellys intention. Southland Tales, a post-9/11 satire melded with a retelling of the Book of Revelation that also includes a complex theory of time travel, was never meant to feel like a pre-game show for the next decade of global misery.

The sprawling narrative set in an alternative 2008 in which a nuclear attack on Abilene, Texas, triggers a third world war revolves around an amnesiac action star named Boxer Santaros (played by Dwayne The Rock Johnson) who falls in love with a porn star/talkshow host/entrepreneur/pop star/psychic who goes by the professional name Krysta Now (Sarah Michelle Gellar), who has written a screenplay about the end times.

Oh, and theres also a government agency dedicated to spying on Americans, an underground neo-Marxist cult, an alternative energy source that might be ripping a hole in the space-time continuum, a United States military sponsored by Hustler and Bud Light, and a mind-altering drug that keeps American soldiers docile and dependent. Jon Lovitz plays a racist cop, Seann William Scott plays identical twin police officers, Amy Poehler shows up as an anarchist improv comic, Justin Timberlake plays a drug-addled war veteran and Wallace Shawn of The Princess Bride fame is the antichrist (or a reasonable facsimile).

Its overwhelming to process, and reflects so much of the anxiety of our age, even if it isnt always pleasant to watch. I really wanted it to be something that you would get lost in and that would sustain multiple viewings, Kelly tells me over dinner in Los Angeles. When discussing the film, his eyes widen and he projects an impish yet tentative enthusiasm as though hes feeling out whether youre going to receive his ideas without judgment. Now, that ambition can be a self-defeating prophecy, as we saw clearly.

Kelly seems wistful about the experience of making and releasing the film, which, after a disastrous Cannes screening at which the film was booed heavily, almost lost theatrical distribution. We were in Boston, in pre-production on [his Southland Tales follow-up] The Box, the weekend Southland Tales opened in 50-some theaters. The upcoming Monday was our first day of principal photography. We were scrambling for our first day. We had done the AFI Fest premiere and they rushed me back to Boston. And then, I remember that morning, were shooting Cameron [Diaz] and Frank Langella, this really emotional scene in the Boston Public Library. Someone comes up to me and tells me per-screen averages on Southland Tales. It was such a bummer. A screening Kelly attended with the actor James Marsden was attended by only four other people. Roger Ebert likened the film to the third day of a pitch session on speed. One of the rare positive reviews of the film came from the New York Times critic Manohla Dargis, who called it funny, audacious, messy and feverishly inspired.

I definitely remain proud of the ambition of it. I feel like sometimes things just need time to marinate, he says. The film has started to find a new audience. At the time of our meeting, hes in between hosting screenings of Southland Tales thanks to a roadshow tour of the film sponsored by the Alamo Drafthouse chain of arthouse theaters. The newfound appreciation for Southland Tales by both audiences and emerging pockets of critics hasnt yet translated to tangible opportunities for Kelly. I dont ever want to feel defeated or that Ive let the system defeat me, he says.

Sarah Michelle Gellar in Southland Tales. Photograph: Publicity image from film company

Southland Tales finding an audience almost 10 years later would not mark the first time one of Kellys films gained esteem upon second (or third) glance. Donnie Darko grossed a scant $517,375 when it was released a month after 9/11. When it found a huge audience on video and DVD, Kelly became a hot commodity, an heir apparent to the surrealist tradition of directors like David Lynch. Sometimes, the wind is at your back. Sometimes, its at your front, Kelly says about the ups and downs of his career. Darko remains his greatest up, a film thats become a touchstone work for the generation that grew up with it. Darko was a disaster at Sundance too, he tells me. No one remembers that, but it was. Im grateful for any rosy glow of hindsight. I remember it took us almost six months to sell the movie. It almost went directly to the Starz network. We had to beg them to put it in theaters. Christopher Nolan stepped in and convinced Newmarket to put it in theaters.

After those issues, Kelly could have gone the expected route and taken on a big-budget studio tentpole. He could have directed the sequel, which he declined to do (it ended up being terrible and going straight to DVD). Instead, he chose this peculiar, dense story about the decline of American power.

President-elect Donald Trump was only a reality show curiosity when Southland Tales was released, but his mix of profane and pious could easily have made him a character in the film. I think that Donald Trump is this grotesque inevitability that has gotten this far because there was something really, really dangerous hiding beneath the surface, that has been hiding beneath the surface for many, many years. The Republicans Kelly imagined in Southland Tales were the neocon religious zealots that seem almost quaint to modern eyes. They seemed like the ultimate boogeymen in 2007, but as Kelly points out, no one in the Bush family would even show up at the RNC [Republican national convention].

What Southland Tales expressed better than most politically charged films of the Bush era was the sentiment that it would get worse, that something had been unleashed that could not be put back. At the time that we were making Southland Tales, it was Iraq war and Britney Spears. That dichotomy on your TV screen. The branding and everything was happening. It seemed inevitable that everyone would start to co-opt branding. Social media hadnt really exploded yet. To see politicians going after each other on Twitter, its bizarre. To see Elizabeth Warren quoting the monorail on the Simpsons. To see politicians co-opting this millennial social media branding, its a blurring of the lines.

Each of his three films reflects that sheepish rebellion that is part of his personality. Donnie Darko was a mostly passive protagonist struggling against both the oppressive system of high school and the levers of fate that he could only pull at the films climax. Boxer Santaros is a pawn in a conflict between fascism and socialism, religion and science, and love and death. Eventually, those characters succumb to a power greater than any on Earth, something unknowable. So does Kelly think all this is down to higher power pulling the strings?

I dont think any of this happened by accident. Thats just depressing and absurd, in my opinion, he answers. I do think theres a design to things, and we can never hope to know it in any of our lifetimes. Part of the challenge is trying to make sense of it. Thats whats cathartic for me as an artist, to try to make sense of it.

Read more: www.theguardian.com

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Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly: ‘Sometimes films require time to marinate’

The director of the cult favorite Donnie Darko was once hailed as the next David Lynch. Now, as fans rediscover his 2007 flop Southland Tales, he explains why patience is still a virtue and Trumps victory was a grotesque inevitability

Talking with the writer and director Richard Kelly, its easy to steer the conversation toward the end of the world. After all, Kelly developed a fervent cult following( and alienated it) through narratives of prophesied apocalypse 2001 s cult curio Donnie Darko and 2007 s cult-classic-in-the-making Southland Tales. But its not the collapsing buildings or rivers of blood that fascinate Kelly; its what goes right before. The creeping anxiety. The normalizing of insanity. The casual disregard for your neighbor. The hunk in your throat that signifies your newfound understanding that this was inevitable.

If those feelings sounds familiar in our present Trump-addled dystopia, that was not Kellys intention. Southland Tales, a post-9/ 11 satire melded with a retelling of the Book of Revelation that also includes a complex theory of time travel, was never meant to feel like a pre-game show for the next decade of global misery.

The sprawling narrative set in an alternative 2008 in which a nuclear attack on Abilene, Texas, triggers a third world war revolves around an amnesiac action star named Boxer Santaros( played by Dwayne The Rock Johnson) who falls in love with a porn starring/ talkshow host/ entrepreneur/ pop star/ psychic who goes by the professional name Krysta Now( Sarah Michelle Gellar ), who has written a screenplay about the end times.

Oh, and theres also a government agency dedicated to spying on Americans, an underground neo-Marxist cult, alternative solutions energy source that might be ripping a pit in the space-time continuum, a United States military sponsored by Hustler and Bud Light, and a mind-altering medication that maintains American soldiers docile and dependent. Jon Lovitz plays a racist cop, Seann William Scott plays identical twin police officer, Amy Poehler shows up as an anarchist improv comic, Justin Timberlake plays a drug-addled war veteran and Wallace Shawn of The Princess Bride fame is the antichrist( or a reasonable facsimile ).

Its overwhelming to process, and reflects so much of the nervousnes of our age, even if it isnt always pleasant to watch. I genuinely wanted it to be something that you would get lost in and that would sustain multiple viewings, Kelly tells me over dinner in Los Angeles. When discussing the movie, his eyes widen and he projects an impish yet tentative enthusiasm as though hes feeling out whether youre going to receive his ideas without judgment. Now, that ambition can be a self-defeating prophecy, as we saw clearly.

Kelly seems wistful about the experience of making and releasing the cinema, which, after a disastrous Cannes screening at which the film was booed heavily, virtually lost theatrical distribution. We were in Boston, in pre-production on[ his Southland Tales follow-up] The Box, the weekend Southland Tales opened in 50 -some theaters. The upcoming Monday was our first day of principal photography. We were scrambling for our first day. We had done the AFI Fest premiere and they rushed me back to Boston. And then, I remember that morning, were shooting Cameron[ Diaz] and Frank Langella, that is something that emotional scene in the Boston Public Library. Someone comes up to me and tells me per-screen medians on Southland Tales. It was such a bummer. A screening Kelly attended with the actor James Marsden was attended by only four other people. Roger Ebert likened the movie to the third day of a pitching session on speed. One of the rare positive reviews of the film came from the New York Times critic Manohla Dargis, who called it funny, audacious, messy and feverishly inspired.

I definitely remain proud of the ambition of it. I feel like sometimes things just require time to marinade, he says. The cinema has started to find a new audience. At the time of our meeting, hes in between hosting screenings of Southland Tales thanks to a roadshow tour of the movie sponsored by the Alamo Drafthouse chain of arthouse theaters. The newfound appreciation for Southland Tales by both audiences and emerging pockets of critics hasnt yet translated to tangible opportunities for Kelly. I dont ever want to feel defeated or that Ive let the organizations of the system defeat me, he tells.

Sarah Michelle Gellar in Southland Tales. Photo: Publicity image from movie company

Southland Tales seeing an audience virtually 10 years later would not mark the first time one of Kellys cinemas gained esteem upon second( or third) glance. Donnie Darko grossed a scant $517,375 when it was released a month after 9/11. When it observed a huge audience on video and DVD, Kelly became a hot commodity, an heir apparent to the surrealist tradition of directors like David Lynch. Sometimes, the wind is at your back. Sometimes, its at your front, Kelly tells about the ups and downs of his career. Darko remains his greatest up, a cinema thats become a touchstone work for the generation that grew up with it. Darko was a disaster at Sundance too, he tells me. No one remembers that, but it was. Im grateful for any rosy light of hindsight. I remember it took us almost six months to sell the movie. It almost ran immediately to the Starz network. We had to beg them to set it in theaters. Christopher Nolan stepped in and convinced Newmarket to set it in theaters.

After those issues, Kelly could have gone the expected road and taken on a big-budget studio tentpole. He could have directed the sequel, which he declined to do( it aimed up being terrible and running straight-out to DVD ). Instead, he preferred this peculiar, dense narrative about the decline of American power.

President-elect Donald Trump was only a reality show curiosity when Southland Tales was released, but his mixture of profane and pious could easily have constructed him a character in the film. I think that Donald Trump is this grotesque inevitability that has get this far because there was something really, really dangerous hiding beneath the surface, that has been hiding beneath the surface for many, many years. The Republicans Kelly imagined in Southland Tales were the neocon religion zealots that seem nearly quaint to modern eyes. They seemed like the ultimate boogeymen in 2007, but as Kelly points out , no one in the Bush family would even show up at the RNC[ Republican national convention ].

What Southland Tales expressed better than most politically charged films of the Bush era was the sentiment that it would get worse, that something had been unleashed that could not be put back. At the time that we were making Southland Tales, it was Iraq war and Britney Spears. That dichotomy on your Tv screen. The branding and everything was happening. It seemed inevitable that all individuals would start to co-opt branding. Social media hadnt really explosion yet. To see politicians going after one another on Twitter, its bizarre. To consider Elizabeth Warren quoting the monorail on the Simpsons. To ensure legislators co-opting this millennial social media branding, its a blur of the lines.

Each of his three cinemas reflects that sheepish rebellion that is part of his personality. Donnie Darko was a mostly passive protagonist struggling against both the oppressive system of high school and the levers of fate that he could only pull at the films climax. Boxer Santaros is a pawn in a conflict between fascism and socialism, religion and science, and love and demise. Eventually, those characters succumb to a power greater than any on Ground, something unknowable. So does Kelly guess all this is down to higher power pulling the strings?

I dont suppose any of this happened by collision. Thats just depressing and absurd, in my opinion, he answers. I do think theres a design to things, and we can never hope to know it in any of our lifetimes. Portion of current challenges is trying to make sense of it. Thats whats cathartic for me as an artist, to try to make sense of it.

Read more: www.theguardian.com

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Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly: ‘Sometimes movies need time to marinate’

The director of the cult favorite Donnie Darko was once hailed as the next David Lynch. Now, as fans rediscover his 2007 flop Southland Tales, he explains why patience is still a virtue and Trumps victory was a grotesque inevitability

Talking with the writer and director Richard Kelly, its easy to steer the conversation toward the end of the world. After all, Kelly developed a fervent cult following( and alienated it) through narratives of prophesied apocalypse 2001 s cult curio Donnie Darko and 2007 s cult-classic-in-the-making Southland Tales. But its not the collapsing builds or rivers of blood that fascinate Kelly; its what comes right before. The creeping panic. The normalizing of madnes. The casual neglect for your neighbour. The clod in your throat that signifies your newfound understanding that this was inevitable.

If those impressions audios familiar in our current Trump-addled dystopia, that was not Kellys intention. Southland Tales, a post-9/ 11 satire melded with a retelling of the Book of Revelation that also includes a complex theory of day travel, was never meant to feel like a pre-game show for the next decade of global misery.

The sprawling narrative set in an alternative 2008 in which a nuclear attack on Abilene, Texas, triggers a third world war is organized around an amnesiac action star named Boxer Santaros( played by Dwayne The Rock Johnson) who falls in love with a porn star/ talkshow host/ entrepreneur/ pop star/ clairvoyant who goes by the professional name Krysta Now( Sarah Michelle Gellar ), who has written a screenplay about the end times.

Oh, and theres also a government agency dedicated to spying on Americans, an underground neo-Marxist cult, an alternative energy source that might be rending a pit in the space-time continuum, a United States military sponsored by Hustler and Bud Light, and a mind-altering drug that maintains American soldiers docile and dependent. Jon Lovitz plays a racist cop, Seann William Scott plays identical twin police officers, Amy Poehler shows up as an anarchist improv comic, Justin Timberlake plays a drug-addled war veteran and Wallace Shawn of The Princess Bride fame is the antichrist( or a reasonable fax ).

Its overwhelming to process, and reflects so much of the anxiety of our age, even if it isnt always pleasant to watch. I truly wanted it to be something that you would get lost in and that would sustain multiple viewings, Kelly tells me over dinner in Los Angeles. When discussing the movie, his eyes widen and he projects an impish yet tentative exuberance as though hes feeling out whether youre going to receive his ideas without judgment. Now, that aspiration can be a self-defeating prophecy, as we assured clearly.

Kelly seems wistful about the experience of making and releasing the movie, which, after a disastrous Cannes screening at which the movie was booed heavily, almost lost theatrical distribution. We were in Boston, in pre-production on[ his Southland Tales follow-up] The Box, the weekend Southland Tales opened in 50 -some theaters. The upcoming Monday was our first day of principal photography. We were scrambling for our first day. We had done the AFI Fest premiere and they rushed me back to Boston. And then, I remember that morning, were shooting Cameron[ Diaz] and Frank Langella, that is something that emotional scene in the Boston Public Library. Someone comes up to me and tells me per-screen medians on Southland Tales. It was such a bummer. A screening Kelly attended with the actor James Marsden was attended by only four other people. Roger Ebert likened the movie to the third day of a pitch conference on velocity. One of the rare positive reviews of the movie came from the New York Times critic Manohla Dargis, who called it funny, audacious, messy and feverishly inspired.

I definitely remain proud of the aspiration of it. I feel like sometimes things merely need time to marinate, he says. The movie has started to find a new audience. At the time of our meeting, hes in between hosting screenings of Southland Tales thanks to a roadshow tour of the movie sponsored by the Alamo Drafthouse chain of arthouse theaters. The newfound expressed appreciation for Southland Tales by both audiences and emerging pockets of critics hasnt yet translated to tangible opportunities for Kelly. I dont ever want to feel defeated or that Ive let the organizations of the system defeat me, he says.

Sarah Michelle Gellar in Southland Tales. Photo: Publicity image from movie company

Southland Tales finding an audience almost 10 year later would not mark the first time one of Kellys cinemas gained esteem upon second( or third) glance. Donnie Darko grossed a scant $517,375 when it was released a month after 9/11. When it found a huge audience on video and DVD, Kelly became a hot commodity, an heir apparent to the surrealist tradition of directors like David Lynch. Sometimes, the wind is at your back. Sometimes, its at your front, Kelly says about the ups and downs of his career. Darko remains his greatest up, a movie thats become a touchstone work for the generation that grew up with it. Darko was a disaster at Sundance too, he tells me. No one remembers that, but it was. Im grateful for any rosy light of hindsight. I remember it took us almost six months to sell the movie. It almost went immediately to the Starz network. We had to beg them to set it in theaters. Christopher Nolan stepped in and convinced Newmarket to set it in theaters.

After those issues, Kelly could have gone the expected road and taken on a big-budget studio tentpole. He could have directed the sequel, which he declined to do( it objective up being terrible and going straight-out to DVD ). Instead, he choice this peculiar, dense tale about the decline of American power.

President-elect Donald Trump was only a reality show curiosity when Southland Tales was released, but his mixture of profane and pious could easily have attained him a character in the film. I think that Donald Trump is this grotesque inevitability that has get this far because there was something truly, really dangerous concealing beneath the surface, that has been concealing beneath the surface for many, many years. The Republicans Kelly imagined in Southland Tales were the neocon religious zealots that seem almost quaint to modern eyes. They seemed like the ultimate boogeymen in 2007, but as Kelly points out , no one in the Bush family would even show up at the RNC[ Republican national convention ].

What Southland Tales expressed better than most politically charged cinemas of the Bush era was the sentiment that it would get worse, that something had been unleashed that could not be put back. At the time that we were stimulating Southland Tales, it was Iraq war and Britney Spears. That dichotomy on your Tv screen. The branding and everything was happening. It seemed inevitable that everyone would start to co-opt branding. Social media hadnt truly exploded yet. To find politicians going after each other on Twitter, its bizarre. To find Elizabeth Warren quoting the monorail on the Simpsons. To find politicians co-opting this millennial social media branding, its a blurring of the lines.

Each of his three cinemas reflects that sheepish rebellion that is part of his personality. Donnie Darko was a mostly passive protagonist fighting against both the oppressive system of high school and the levers of fate that he could only pull at the cinemas climax. Boxer Santaros is a pawn in a conflict between fascism and socialism, religion and science, and love and demise. Eventually, those characters succumb to a power greater than any on Ground, something unknowable. So does Kelly believe all this is down to higher power pulling the strings?

I dont believe any of this happened by accident. Thats just depressing and absurd, in my opinion, he answers. I do think theres a design to things, and we can never hope to know it in any of our lifetimes. Component of the challenge is trying to make sense of it. Thats whats cathartic for me as an artist, to try to make sense of it.

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Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly: ‘Sometimes cinemas require time to marinate’

The director of the cult favorite Donnie Darko was once hailed as the next David Lynch. Now, as fans rediscover his 2007 flop Southland Tales, he explains why patience is still a virtue and Trumps victory was a grotesque inevitability

Talking with the writer and director Richard Kelly, its easy to steer the conversation toward the end of the world. After all, Kelly developed a fervent cult following( and alienated it) through narratives of prophesied apocalypse 2001 s cult curio Donnie Darko and 2007 s cult-classic-in-the-making Southland Tales. But its not the collapsing houses or rivers of blood that fascinate Kelly; its what comes right before. The sneaking anxiety. The normalizing of lunacy. The casual neglect for your neighbour. The hunk in your throat that signifies your newfound understanding that this was inevitable.

If those impressions voices familiar in our present Trump-addled dystopia, that was not Kellys intention. Southland Tales, a post-9/ 11 satire melded with a retelling of the Book of Revelation that also includes a complex theory of period travel, was never meant to feel like a pre-game show for the next decade of global misery.

The sprawling narrative set in alternative solutions 2008 in which a nuclear attack on Abilene, Texas, triggers a third world war revolves around an amnesiac action star named Boxer Santaros( played by Dwayne The Rock Johnson) who falls in love with a porn star/ talkshow host/ entrepreneur/ pop star/ psychic who goes by the professional name Krysta Now( Sarah Michelle Gellar ), who has written a screenplay about the end times.

Oh, and theres also a government agency dedicated to spying on Americans, an underground neo-Marxist cult, alternative solutions energy source that are likely to rending a hole in the space-time continuum, a United States military sponsored by Hustler and Bud Light, and a mind-altering narcotic that keeps American soldiers docile and dependent. Jon Lovitz plays a racist cop, Seann William Scott plays identical twin police officer, Amy Poehler shows up as an anarchist improv comic, Justin Timberlake plays a drug-addled war veteran and Wallace Shawn of The Princess Bride fame is the antichrist( or a reasonable facsimile ).

Its overwhelming to process, and reflects so much of the nervousnes of our age, even if it isnt always pleasant to watch. I truly wanted it to be something that you would get lost in and that would sustain multiple viewings, Kelly tells me over dinner in Los Angeles. When discussing the cinema, his eyes widen and he projects an impish yet tentative enthusiasm as though hes feeling out whether youre going to receive his ideas without judgment. Now, that aspiration can be a self-defeating prophecy, as we saw clearly.

Kelly seems wistful about the experience of making and releasing the cinema, which, after a disastrous Cannes screening at which the cinema was booed heavily, virtually lost theatrical distribution. We were in Boston, in pre-production on[ his Southland Tales follow-up] The Box, the weekend Southland Tales opened in 50 -some theaters. The upcoming Monday was our first day of principal photography. We were scrambling for our first day. We had done the AFI Fest premiere and they rushed me back to Boston. And then, I remember that morning, were shooting Cameron[ Diaz] and Frank Langella, this really emotional scene in the Boston Public Library. Someone comes up to me and tells me per-screen averages on Southland Tales. It was such a bummer. A screening Kelly attended with the actor James Marsden were engaged in only four other people. Roger Ebert likened the cinema to the third day of a pitching conference on speed. One of the rare positive reviews of the cinema came from the New York Times critic Manohla Dargis, who called it funny, audacious, messy and feverishly inspired.

I definitely remain proud of the aspiration of it. I feel like sometimes things just need time to marinate, he tells. The cinema has started to find a new audience. At the time of our session, hes in between hosting screenings of Southland Tales thanks to a roadshow tour of the cinema sponsored by the Alamo Drafthouse chain of arthouse theaters. The newfound expressed appreciation for Southland Tales by both audiences and emerging pockets of critics hasnt yet translated to tangible a chance for Kelly. I dont ever want to feel defeated or that Ive let the system defeat me, he tells.

Sarah Michelle Gellar in Southland Tales. Photograph: Publicity image from cinema company

Southland Tales find an audience virtually 10 years later would not mark the first time one of Kellys films gained esteem upon second( or third) glance. Donnie Darko grossed a scant $517,375 when it was released a month after 9/11. When it saw a huge audience on video and DVD, Kelly became a hot commodity, an heir apparent to the surrealist tradition of directors like David Lynch. Sometimes, the wind is at your back. Sometimes, its at your front, Kelly tells about the ups and downs of his career. Darko remains his greatest up, a cinema thats become a touchstone work for the generation that grew up with it. Darko was a disaster at Sundance too, he tells me. No one remembers that, but it was. Im grateful for any rosy light of hindsight. I remember it took us virtually six months to sell the movie. It virtually ran immediately to the Starz network. We had to beg them to put it in theaters. Christopher Nolan stepped in and convinced Newmarket to put it in theaters.

After those issues, Kelly could have gone the expected route and taken on a big-budget studio tentpole. He could have directed the sequel, which he declined to do( it ended up being terrible and going straight to DVD ). Instead, he chose this peculiar, dense tale about the decline of American power.

President-elect Donald Trump was only a reality show curiosity when Southland Tales was released, but his mix of profane and pious could easily have made him a character in the film. I think that Donald Trump is this grotesque inevitability that has gotten this far because there was something truly, really dangerous hiding beneath the surface, that has been hiding beneath the surface for many, many years. The Republicans Kelly imagined in Southland Tales were the neocon religion zealots that seem virtually quaint to modern eyes. They seemed like the ultimate boogeymen in 2007, but as Kelly points out , no one in the Bush family would even show up at the RNC[ Republican national convention ].

What Southland Tales conveyed better than most politically charged films of the Bush era was the sentiment that it would get worse, that something had been unleashed that could not be put back. At the time that we were stimulating Southland Tales, it was Iraq war and Britney Spears. That dichotomy on your TV screen. The branding and everything was happening. It seemed inevitable that all individuals would start to co-opt branding. Social media hadnt truly explosion yet. To consider legislators going after one another on Twitter, its bizarre. To consider Elizabeth Warren quoting the monorail on the Simpsons. To consider legislators co-opting this millennial social media branding, its a blur of the lines.

Each of his three films reflects that sheepish rebellion that is part of his personality. Donnie Darko was a mostly passive protagonist fighting against both the oppressive system of high school and the levers of fate that he could only pull at the films climax. Boxer Santaros is a pawn in a conflict between fascism and socialism, religion and science, and love and demise. Eventually, those characters succumb to a power greater than any on Ground, something unknowable. So does Kelly guess all this is down to higher power pulling the strings?

I dont guess any of this happened by collision. Thats just depressing and absurd, in my opinion, he answers. I do think theres a design to things, and we can never hope to know it in any of our lifetimes. Portion of current challenges is trying to make sense of it. Thats whats cathartic for me as an artist, to try to make sense of it.

Read more: www.theguardian.com

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