The Mask of Zorro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th4QuKimphk

Strengthening the Regime of Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.  The Verification Regime.  To Actually Explore the Space.
“The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.”
–  Thucydides

What’s at Stake is Madness or Sanity.

Of Faith and Deeds  –  Narrative Control.  –  Revisiting “Source.”  Hybrid Theory.

“My people, hear my teaching; listen to the words of my mouth. I will open my mouth with a parable;
I will utter hidden things, things from of old—  things we have heard and known, things our ancestors have told us.
We will not hide them from their descendants; we will tell the next generation“
–  Psalm 78  (“sacred poem or song“)

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Star Trek: The Next Generation – Your Move

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAGGEw4TcFY
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“There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history”
                                                                      –  Sir Isaac Newton
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Puddle Of Mudd – She Hates Me

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYE4CVhVkhw

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Archetype:  ALCHEMIST

“Scientist”  “Psychologist”  “Logician” 
 “Researcher”  “Archivist”  “Compiler”  “Writer”   “Messenger”  “Teacher”
“Watchman”   “Intercessor” “Tertiary Adjunct Witness.”  “Strategist”  “Civil Servant”

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History –  Culture
Religion  –  Theology – Eschatology
Psychology  –  Philosophy  –   Epistemology –  Linguistics  –  Literature
Etymology – – Philology –  Onomastics –  Toponymy –  Theurgy –  Hermetics – Hermeneutics 
Theophany – Theodicy –  Mythology – Cosmography – Stoichiometry – Sortition  – Ethnography  –  Folklore
Lexicography – Doxology – Phylogeny – Ontogeny –  Tropology –  Ontology –  Anthropology – Phenomenology – Praxeology –  Trust Law
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A Special Civil Operation.
Alternative Dispute Resolution.
The People Request a Coming & Going.
In Order To Make the Rough Places Smooth.
So America Does Not Become Some Dictatorship of Petty Shopkeepers.
He who hears and Decides a Case.  As a witness or mediator, umpire, judge. arbiter.
A Special Citizen Who is Entitled to Participate in an Office Involving Deliberation or Decision.
A Person who has Power of Judging Absolutely According to his Own Pleasure in a Dispute or Issue.
To Be The One Chosen by Two Disputing Parties to Decide a Matter.  Someone who Settles Disputes.  One Who Goes Somewhere (as witness or judge).
A Right or Privilege Exclusive to a Particular Individual or Class.  Of the People By the People For the People.  As the Proposer of this new Motion.
I Request to be Used as a  : “Tertiary Adjunct Witness.“
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“The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.”
“It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.” 
                                                                                            –  John Locke

“Those who are going to rule in the authoritative offices ought to have three things: first, affection for the established regime; next, a very great capacity for the work involved in rule; third, virtue and justice –  in each regime the sort that is relative to the regime… It is difficult to find all three of these in many men, but it is important for the regime to make use of the men with these qualities to the greatest degree possible, or else the regime will be harmed, either by sedition, incompetence, or corruption… While the virtuous also have a claim to rule, the very fact that they are virtuous leads them to avoid factional conflict. They are also too small a group to be politically consequential.”
–   Aristotle

Plato & Aristotle in the School of Athens
Painting by Rafael 1509-1511

“States will never be happy until rulers become philosophers or philosophers become rulers.“
– PLATO, The Republic

” BEYOND / THROUGH “
Plato’s right hand points upwards and he holds ‘Timaeus’,
his book on the formation of the universe and an explanation of its order and beauty.
Aristotle’s right hand is reaching forward, also with a book; ‘Ethics’, his treatise on ethical theory and living a good life.
Aristotle’s  Virtues

“In this meaningless life of mine I have seen both of these: the righteous perishing in their righteousness,
and the wicked living long in their wickedness. Do not be overrighteous, neither be overwise why destroy yourself? 
Do not be overwicked, and do not be a fool—why die before your time? It is good to grasp the one and not let go of the other. Whoever fears God will avoid all extremes.“
–  Ecclesiastes 7  (“one who addresses an assembly”  “speaker in an assembly or church, preacher”  “to call out“)

Marcus Aurelius

Wit and smartness are not your talent.  What then?  There are a great many other good  qualities in which you cannot pretend nature has failed you.  Improve them as far as you can, and let us have that which is perfectly in your power. You may if you please hehave yourself like a man of gravity and good faith, endure hardship, and despise pleasure ; want but a few things, and complain of nothing; you may be gentle and magnanimous if you please, and have nothing of luxury or trifling in your disposition.  Do not you see how much you may do if you have a mind to it, where the plea of incapacity is out of place ? And yet you do not push forward as you should do. What then!  Does any natural defect force you to grumble, to lay your faults upon your constitution, to be stingy or a flatterer, to seek after popularity, boast, and be disturbed in mind?  Can you say you are so weakly made as to be driven to these practices?

Some men, when they do you a kindness, at once demand the payment of gratitude from you others are more modest than this. However, they remember the favour, and look upon you in a manner as their debtor.  A third sort shall scarce know what they have done. These are much like a vine, which is satisfied by being fruitful in its kind, and bears a bunch of grapes without expecting any thanks for it. A fleet horse or greyhound does not make a noise when they have done well, nor a bee neither when she has made a little honey. And thus a man that has done a kindness never proclaims it, but does another as soon as he can, just like a vine that bears again the next season. Now we should imitate those who are so obliging, as hardly to reflect on their beneficence. But you will say, a man ought not to act without reflection. It is surely natural for one that is generous to be conscious of his generosity; yes, truly, and to desire the person obliged should be sensible of it too. What you say is in a great measure true. But if you mistake my meaning, you will become one of those untoward benefactors I first mentioned; indeed, they too are misled by the plausibility of their reasoning. But if you will view the matter in its true colours, never fear that you will neglect any social act.

“If the freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter“
–  George Washington

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The Apotheosis of George Washington

Fresco by Constantino Brumidi (1865)
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“Our democratic principles require that the American people be informed of the activities of their Government.
Also, our Nation’s progress depends on the free flow of information both within the Government and to the American people. “
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/executive-order-classified-national-security-information

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“War“

In The Apotheosis of George Washington

Fresco by Constantino Brumidi (1865)
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“Freedom“, also known as “Columbia“, is directly below George Washington in the personification of War.
The scene depicts a woman fighting for liberty with a raised sword, a cape, and a helmet and shield trampling figures representing Tyranny and Kingly Power.

Negotiating “Authority.”  An Annual Reminder of Sins.
The Day is Approaching.  Addressing the Multiplication of Wickedness.  Almost Human.  Into the Unknown.
” if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don’t fall!  No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful;
he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it. “
–  1 Corinthians 10   (“point” “peak“)   
“Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.”
― Ralph Ellison,   (Invisible Man)A Mandate from the Masses
For a Singular Cooperative Purpose Interwoven for the Common Good.
For Those Who are Furnishing Provocations as a Pretext For Some Military Intervention.
A Call to Maturity.  Not To Join All the General Lamentations and Get Ourselves All Churned Up.

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Of Monsters and Men – Little Talks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghb6eDopW8I

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“If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth,
no sacrifice for sins is left, but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God.“
–  Hebrews 10 (“a biblical Jew Israelite” “one from the other side“)

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“I ask you, my true companion, help these women since they have contended at my side in this cause that is just and honorable.“
– Philippians 4  (“ fond of horses ”  ” beloved, loving “) Power On Self Test.  CD…  Config.Sys … Autexec.Bat …  Reset CMOS.  Format BIOS..
Initialize System Diagnostic Program.  To Help The People Identify Errors & Address National Trauma.
A Routine Serving to Distinguish and Identify.  Gifts to Your Future Self.  Dangerous Women.  Pain Killers.

To whom will you compare me? Or who is my equal?  What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived.

Conference at Yalta

A Deniable Asset.
For All These High Steaks Situations.
Suicidal Brinksmanship.  I’m Getting Too Old for This $H!%.

I’ve Cooked this Pig.
Can We Move Along?  I’ve Heard Stories About You.
So  America Does Not Become Some Dictatorship of Petty Shopkeepers.  The Enemy is Already Inside.  The Perfect Disguise.
Appropriate and Good for the Community at this Moment in Time.  What is Socially Useful and Fitting.
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“ He will judge between the nations and will settle disputes for many peoples.
They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.
Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore.”
–  Isaiah  2   “salvation of the Lord” “salvation, deliverance“

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Nature’s Loyal Servant.

Truth.  Wisdom.  Moderation.  Courage.

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“To Better Ourselves.”  Star Trek Inspirational Tribute  “Explorers“

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jph2qWXJ-Tk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vu5TsBwG9w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNu1cdISsvY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxyp7oHm2F0
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“ It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand,
more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new.  This coolness arisespartly from fear of the opponents, who have the laws on their side, and partly from the incredulity of men, who do not readily believe in new things until they have had a long experience of them.”
                                                                ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

From Classical Antiquity  :  The Hermetic Tradition.

“He filled a great mixing bowl with it and sent it below, appointing a herald whom he commanded to make the following proclamation to human hearts: ‘Immerse yourself in the mixing bowl if your heart has the strength, if it believes you will rise up again to the one who sent the mixing bowl below, if it recognizes the purpose of your coming to be.’ 

All those who heeded the proclamation and immersed themselves in mind participated in knowledge and became perfect people because they received mind.  “But those who missed the point of the proclamation are people of reason because they did not receive (the gift of) mind as well and do not know the purpose or the agents of their coming to be.  These people have sensations much like those of unreasoning animals, and, since their temperament is willful and angry, they feel no awe of things that deserve to be admired; they divert their attention to the pleasures and appetites of their bodies; and they believe that mankind came to be for such purposes.

“But those who participate in the gift that comes from god, O Tat, are immortal rather than mortal if one compares their deeds, for in a mind of their own they have comprehended all—things on earth, things in heaven and even what lies beyond heaven. Having raised themselves so far, they have seen the good and, having seen it, they have come to regard the wasting of time here below as a calamity. They have scorned every corporeal and incorporeal thing, and they hasten toward the one and only.

“This, Tat, is the way to learn about mind, to {resolve perplexities} in divinity and to understand god. For the mixing bowl is divine”

Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus
(Floor inlay in the Cathedral of Siena )

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(Citation Source)
HERMETICA
The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin
Asclepius in a new English translation, with
notes and introduction
BRIAN P. COPENHAVER
Pg. 93 – 94

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A Ministry of Reconciliation, Healing & Creation.

“The world hangs on a thin thread and that is the psyche of man.“
“No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.” 
–           Carl Jung
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          “Healing may be called a religious problem. In the sphere of social or national relations the state of suffering may be civil war and this state is to be cured by the Christian virtue of forgiveness and love of one’s enemies. That which we recommend with the conviction of good Christians as applicable to external situations we must also apply inwardly in the treatment of neurosis. This is why modern man has heard enough about guilt and sin. He is sorely beset by his own bad conscience. And wants rather to know how he is to reconcile himself with his own nature how he is to love the enemy in his own heart, and call the Wolf his brother. The modern man does not want to know in what way he can imitate Christ, but in what way he can live his own individual life, however meager and uninteresting it may be. It is because every form of imitation, seems to him deadening and sterile — that he rebels against the force of tradition that would hold him to well trodden ways. All such roads for him lead in the wrong direction. He may not know it, but he behaves as if his own individual life were God’s special will which must be fulfilled at all costs. This is the source of his egoism, which is one of the most tangible evils of the neurotic state. But the person who tells him he is too egoistic has already lost his confidence and rightly so, for that person has driven him still into his neurosis (“functional derangement arising from disorders of the nervous system (not caused by a lesion or injury” “The change in the nerve cells of the brain resulting in symptoms of stress,” but not radical loss of touch with reality”) If I wish to effect a cure for my patients, I am forced to acknowledge the deep significance of that egoism. I should be blind indeed if I did not recognize it as a true will of God. I must even help the patient to prevail in his egoism if he succeeds in this he estranges himself from other people. He drives them away and they come to themselves as they should for they were seeking to rob him of his sacred egoism. This must be left of him. For it is his strongest and healthiest power. It is as I have said a true will of God, but sometimes drives him into complete isolation. However wretched this state may be it also stands him in good stead. For in this way alone can he get to know himself and learn what an invaluable treasure is the love of his fellow beings. It is moreover only in the state of complete abandonment and loneliness that we experience the helpful powers of our own natures.”

Interview with Carl Jung
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqfL94VtSJ8 

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 2 Thessalonians 2
(“Victory“)
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(New International Version)

The Man of Lawlessness

Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him, we ask you, brothers and sisters,  not to become easily unsettled or alarmed by the teaching allegedly from us—whether by a prophecy or by word of mouth or by letter—asserting that the day of the Lord has already come.  Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction.  He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God.

Don’t you remember that when I was with you I used to tell you these things?  And now you know what is holding him back, so that he may be revealed at the proper time.  For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way.  And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of his coming.  The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan works. He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the lie,  and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.  For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.

Stand Firm

But we ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters loved by the Lord, because God chose you as firstfruits to be saved through the sanctifying work of the Spirit and through belief in the truth.  He called you to this through our gospel, that you might share in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

So then, brothers and sisters, stand firm and hold fast to the teachings we passed on to you, whether by word of mouth or by letter.

May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by his grace gave us eternal encouragement and good hope,  encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good deed and word.

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Ezekiel 13
(“God strengthens” “he was strong, he strengthened“)
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(Berean Stanadard Bible)

Ezekiel Eats the Scroll

“Son of man,” He said to me, “eat what you find here. Eat this scroll, then go and speak to the house of Israel.”

So I opened my mouth, and He fed me the scroll.

“Son of man,” He said to me, “eat and fill your stomach with this scroll I am giving you.”

So I ate, and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth.

Then He said to me, “Son of man, go now to the house of Israel and speak My words to them.  For you are not being sent to a people of unfamiliar speech or difficult language, but to the house of Israel—  not to the many peoples of unfamiliar speech and difficult language whose words you cannot understand. Surely if I had sent you to them, they would have listened to you.

But the house of Israel will be unwilling to listen to you, since they are unwilling to listen to Me. For the whole house of Israel is hard-headed and hard-hearted.

Behold, I will make your face as hard as their faces, and your forehead as hard as their foreheads.  I will make your forehead like a diamond, harder than flint. Do not be afraid of them or dismayed at their presence, even though they are a rebellious house.”

“Son of man,” He added, “listen carefully to all the words I speak to you, and take them to heart.  Go to your people, the exiles; speak to them and tell them, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says,’ whether they listen or refuse to listen.”

Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard a great rumbling sound behind me: “Blessed be the glory of the LORD in His dwelling place!”  It was the sound of the wings of the living creatures brushing against one another and the sound of the wheels beside them, a great rumbling sound.

So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness and in the anger of my spirit, with the strong hand of the LORD upon me.  I came to the exiles at Tel-abib who dwelt by the River Kebar. And for seven days I sat where they sat and remained there among them, overwhelmed.

A Watchman for Israel

At the end of seven days the word of the LORD came to me, saying,  “Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from My mouth, give them a warning from Me.

If I say to the wicked man, ‘You will surely die,’ but you do not warn him or speak out to warn him from his wicked way to save his life, that wicked man will die in his iniquity, and I will hold you responsible for his blood.  But if you warn a wicked man and he does not turn from his wickedness and his wicked way, he will die in his iniquity, but you will have saved yourself.

Now if a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I put a stumbling block before him, he will die. If you did not warn him, he will die in his sin, and the righteous acts he did will not be remembered. And I will hold you responsible for his blood.  But if you warn the righteous man not to sin, and he does not sin, he will indeed live because he heeded your warning, and you will have saved yourself.”

And there the hand of the LORD was upon me, and He said to me, “Get up, go out to the plain, and there I will speak with you.”

So I got up and went out to the plain, and behold, the glory of the LORD was present there, like the glory I had seen by the River Kebar, and I fell facedown.

Then the Spirit entered me and set me on my feet. He spoke with me and said, “Go, shut yourself inside your house.  And you, son of man, they will tie with ropes, and you will be bound so that you cannot go out among the people.  I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth, and you will be silent and unable to rebuke them, though they are a rebellious house.

But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you are to tell them, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says.’ Whoever listens, let him listen; and whoever refuses, let him refuse, for they are a rebellious house.

Modern Contextual Understanding.
Regarding What Causes Both the Destruction and Preservation of Governments.
What Mode of Conduct is Best Suited to Our Particular of State.  For Long Term Economic Stability
“Nations are not ruined by one act of violence, but gradually and in an almost imperceptible manner
by the depreciation of their circulating currency, through its excessive quantity“
–  Capernicus
A Generation of Economic Mismanagement Will Breed a Cynical, Nihilistic & Embittered Citizenry Who Break Down the Walls.
“Therefore, those of the popular sort
should see to it that the multitude are not too poor,
since this is a cause of the democracy’s being a corrupt one.“
–  Aristotle

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mazie – dumb dumb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZAj6xfyHIw
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The Andrew Jackson Equestrian Statue

Located in Nashville, Tennessee AKA “Music City” on the Front Lawn of the Tennessee State Capitol Building.
“Davidson” County
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At 40 Trillion in Debt.
The Prioritization of Personal Advantage Over the Common Good.
It Has Become Obvious.  Institutional Corruption & Moral Bankruptcy.  This is Un-American.
We Have Been Turned Into a Dysfunctional Kleptocracy.  Our Parasitic Elite Thriving on Financial Extraction.
“The mischief springs from the power which the monied interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control,
from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges which they have succeeded in obtaining…and unless you become more watchful in your states
and check this spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that the most important powers of government have been given or bartered away.“
–  Andrew Jackson

“Reverse This Curse.“
The People Are Not To Be Ignored So Easily.
Regarding The Predictable Tendencies of Human Behavior.
Changing the Social Interactions Between the Ruling “Elite” and the General Public.
The People are to Address Their Unforgiving Spirit of Monopoly.  Sometimes “Ambition” Must Be Restrained.
For Governments Which are Comprehensible to Its Citizenry.  Governments Which Embody the Results of Their Sacrifices.
Leaders Who Are Brave And Courageous and Who Do Not Demand Sacrifices From Others, Which They Would Never Be Called Upon to Make Themselves.

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Massive Attack – Group Four

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1BkecC0tSg
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“THOSE who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.”
–        Thomas Paine

A View of the Constitutionoff Boston by Isiah Whyte
( public domain image from Art Institute of Chicago )

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Fox Sailor – Spread Your Wings (Deluxe Version)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mcNfJTmt6A

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Economic Monetary Policy

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Rep. Schweikert is Back on the House Floor to Issue Dire Debt Spiral Warnings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQashk_d60s
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–  Truth, Wisdom, Moderation. Courage.   –

Tradition & Convention.

Addressing the Negative Spirit of Our Age.
Ridding Ourselves, of all The Malice, Deceit, Hypocrisy, Envy, and Slander.
The Discord, Jealousy, Fits of Rage, Selfish Ambition, Slander, Gossip, Arrogance & Disorder.
The People Request a Meeting of People at a Certain Place, at a Certain Time and Under Certain Circumstances.
It is The People’s Right & Responsibility.  To See You Personally With Our Own Eyes.  For Governments Comprehensible to the Citizenry.

A Day of Names.|
To Establish a Testimony in Jacob.
Dedicated to Those Holders of Power and Responsibility.
At This Point of Mutually Assured Destruction.  (Nuclear Brinksmanship.)
The Monumental Issues of Our Time.  Why are We Endangering Ourselves Every Hour?
Regarding How Humanity Survives this Technological Adolescence Without Us Destroying Ourselves.
Wisdom Calls for a Hearing.  Creating An Intergovernmental Commission on Trade and Economic Cooperation.
Concerning the Governance of a Country or People Pertaining to the State and its Administration; Pertaining to Public Life.
The Introduction of a More “Earthier Element.”  To Keep Ourselves “On Our Mettle.”  As Rational Beings.  “As Is Appropriate for Each Case.“
A System of Measures or Line of Conduct Which a Ruler, Minister, Government, or Party Adopts as Best for the Interests of the Country in Domestic or Foreign Affairs.

John Williams – Duel of the Fates

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_2bluVPsb0
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In Exchange For the Honor of Your Presence, 

          “The People” Bestow Unto You This Gift of Education Which is In Accordance with the Holy Author of Our Religion.  A Presentation Offering as The Proper Interpretation of Our Times.  The “Big Picture” of the International Political, Military and Economic Situation.  These Words are Trustworthy and True.  We Live in a Time that is Not of Peace but of Division.  A Time of Political, Social, and Environmental Upheaval. The We are in Schism and Making the Vision of Hades More Vivid.  We Need Some Air.  We “The People“, Ask you to Please Leave the City and Camp in the Open Fields for a Rendezvous with History.  Shuttle Diplomacy to Change the Game.  A Skillful Maneuver to Rescue Ourselves From the Present Evil Age.  We Seek to Bring Together Governments, Banks, Corporations, Academia, Civil Society & Prominent Men of The Cities for a Summit of the Future. A Cooperative Effort to Change the World for the Better.  A Divine Intervention for “The Culmination of the Ages.”  A Movement so Sweeping as to Immortalize the Reign and Legacy of all Involved.   A Place for The Ascended Kings of the Earth, The Princes, The Generals, The Rich & The Mighty.  A Place of Healing In Order to Make this Life Less of a Burden and More of a Joy.  A Special Civil Operation to Alchemize All this Trauma.  Appointed Festivals of Life of Rich & Plenty.  Ceremonies of Freedom With an Abundance of Fire and Wood.  12 Crops of Fruit,  A Tree of Life, And a River of the Water of Life.  A Fountain of Living Water. 

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Healing the Nations

International Resource Management & The Lack of Surplus.

The Verification Regime of the Non-Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction.

Addressing These Prolonged Disputes Over Fundamental Issues.  The Constant Agitations.

The Case of The Breach of Friendly Relations.  The Admission of Ships into Neutral Ports of Entry.

A Season of Discovery Between Civilian and Military Affairs.  During Volatile Times & Mutually Assured Destruction.  

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We “The People,” Appeal to Military Commanders, “The Powers That Be.”  Specifically, Those Who Have Been Given Power to Take Peace From the Earth and to Make People Kill Each Other.  We Ask for a Leap of Faith.  To Avoid a Pyrrhic Victory.  To Take One Step Closer to “The People”  A “Requiem and Crucible.“

Where Important Political, Diplomatic and Military Moves are to Take Shape.  Regarding the Main Drama of Recognizing and Authorizing a Selected Power to Administer and Develop a Territory for a Specified Purpose. The Renunciation and the Rendering Over an Estate, Land Grant, Conveyance or Interest in a Property or Trust Which Serves the Interest of One or More Political Orientations.  Lines of Demarcation. Also, The Allocation of Benefits in Various Policy Fields in Such a Way as to Provide Groups, Persons, and Places with at Least a Minimum Level of Benefits so as to Satisfy Basic Needs.  Equalities of Commercial Privileges. A Judicious Use of Resources.

With Your Permission,  We “The People” Request an Audience with High-Ranking Military Officers and their Counterparts With Capability.  A Meeting of the High Ranking Military Officers and Chiefs of Staff of the Nations.  Ministers of Foreign Affairs.  Chiefs of Municipal Offices.  We ask you to Please Prepare your Plans and Maps for “Big Work Projects“ for the Future for The Organization of the Lives of Citizens & The Preparation of Public Opinion.  “Opportunities for Making a Living.”  Creating Fundamentally Self-Sufficient Cities and The Specific Ways and Means & the Governance Thereof.  Whole Cities Delivered.  Composite Material Plentitudes.

The Notion of Each Thing in its Proper Sphere and Serving its Proper Purpose.  “A Great Human Continuum.”  Characterized by Precision.  To Hone, Refine or Perfect a “Chains of Events” Over a Period of Time. That Which has the Correct Dimensions Without Interval, Deviation, or Variation.   Seeking to be “Exactly that, in that Very Way.“

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      Regarding The Culture of Leadership and the Behavior and Conduct of Interactions of Leaders with Foreign Nations.   Where Currently, Leaders Who Demand from Others, Sacrifices Which they Would Never Be Called Upon to Make Themselves.  In Order to Drive Out an Unclean Spirit, Sometimes the Old Ways are Best.  Fighting the Good Fight.  To Test and Prove Matters of the Heart.  A Call to Maturity.  A Call of Endurance. A Test of Sincerity.  To Know the “Why” of Things.  For Moments of Shared Understandings.  Civilian Mechanisms of Enforcement to Refine the Character, Disposition and the Identity of Our Appointed World Leaders. To Expose Fruitless Deeds of Darkness.  To be More Equitable, Fair and Impartial in Our Dealings.  As is Right & Fitting.

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Scheduling Reconstruction in a Production Environment.

Sequence Alignment  :  Optimizing Resource Allocations  :  Facility Locations  :  Logistics  :  Network Design.  :  Industrial Control Repairs.

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For a Renewed State of Mental Resolution and Peace of Mind.  We Provide this Vision and Concept of the Future to Restore Ourselves to a Healthy Faith which Corresponds with the Fulfillment of Scriptures.  Strange Coincidences by Way of Theophoric Name In Hopes That we have the Courage to Turn from Evil and Do Good.

The People’s “Manifest Destiny 2.0” in Hopes for Better Days.   A Fresh Perspective and New Approach to that of “Secessio Plebis”  (“withdrawal of the commoners“).
A “Universal Interface Override System” and an “Irrevocable Living Trust Agreement.”  For the Purposes of Healing and Restoration of the Conscience.

Best Regards,
Mark David Rich

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The Killers – When You Were Young (Jacques LuCont ReMix)

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xulfWutG9Zg
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Theurgic Secssio Plebis  –  A Dispositive Motion  –  Pre-Healing Circle.

Brave New World.  A Mechanism for Influencing Behavior.  Roses & Guns.  The People’s Fountain of Life.
RUNNING WATER NEVER GOES STALE
“The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside quiet waters.He restores my soul; He guides me in the paths of righteousness Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil… You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.“    –  Psalms 23

Invitations of Wisdom and Folly.Emotions. 
Memories.  Human Rituals and Tradition.
Miracle , Mystery, Authority.  Optimism, Joy and Adventure.
What Are You Supposed to do?  Survive….  Speak No Evil, Hear No Evil. 
Pick the Parts You Like – Faithful Envoys to Bring Healing.  For the Victims of Conformity.  The Casualties of Society.
The People are Sanctified by the Word of God and Prayer.  A Credit To Righteousmess.
Deliverence Through the Nourishing Words of Faith and Sound Instruction.

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Heilung – Buslas Bann

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Av6RP9s7ao8
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“Rivers of Living Water Will Flow from Within Them“
–  John 7  (“Jehovah has favored”  “Jah is gracious”  “he was gracious“)

Anything But Ordinary

The influence of Central banks and How They Can Be Used to Trap The People.
The Distortion in the Nature of The Circulation of Money and Credit.   The Mechanism Which Defines the Future of Humanity.
“When a government is dependent upon bankers for money,
they and not the leaders of the government control the situation,
since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Money has no motherland;
financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.”
–  Napoleon Bonaparte
PROMOTING TENSIONS TO SERVE CAPITALIST INTERESTS IN ORDER TO FUND BOTH SIDES.
“Let me issue and control a nation’s money and I care not who writes the laws“
–  Mayer Amschel Rothschild.
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Nico & Vinz – Am I Wrong

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg1sT4ILG0w
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A Prayer and Petition for the promotion of more Human ends rather than [anking Klaus Schwab. Epstein Ends.

“|The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers
is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.“
–  David Rockefeller

Hélène Rey appointed as Economic Adviser
and Head of Monetary and Economic Department

https://www.bis.org/press/p260316.htm

“We intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans of American nationality

and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding-house.”

Theodore Roosevelt
26th President of the United States

“Citizenship in a Republic,”

“Let the watchwords of all our people be
the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense.”…
“We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given a square deal,
because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less.”  “The welfare of each of us is dependent fundamentally upon the welfare of all of us.”

“We wish to control big business so as to secure among other things good wages for the wage-workers and reasonable prices for the consumers.
Wherever in any business the prosperity of the business man is obtained by lowering the wages of his workmen and charging an excessive price to the consumers we wish to interfere and stop such practices.  We will not submit to that kind of prosperity any more than we will submit to prosperity obtained by swindling investors or getting unfair advantages over business rivals.”

Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910

Square Deal

“We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.”
–  Letter to Sir Edward Gray, November 15, 1913

“A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled, and less than that no man shall have.”
–  Speech to veterans, Springfield, IL, July 4, 1903

“Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense.”… “We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given a square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less.””The welfare of each of us is dependent fundamentally upon the welfare of all of us.”
–  New York State Fair, Syracuse, September 7, 1903

Presidential Criticism

“The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.”

“Roosevelt in the Kansas City Star”, 149   May 7, 1918

Man in the Arena

“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”

These quotes taken from a cdrom – The Works of Theodore Roosevelt –

National Edition, A PRODUCT OF H-BAR ENTERPRISES COPYRIGHT 1997

“…the man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic-the man who actually does the work, even if roughly and imperfectly, not the man who only talks or writes about how it ought to be done.”  (1891)

“Criticism is necessary and useful; it is often indispensable; but it can never take the place of action, or be even a poor substitute for it. The function of the mere critic is of very subordinate usefulness. It is the doer of deeds who actually counts in the battle for life, and not the man who looks on and says how the fight ought to be fought, without himself sharing the stress and the danger.” (1894)

William Mckinley

25th President of the United States

“The more profoundly we study this wonderful book [the Bible], and the more closely we observe its divine precept, the better citizens we will become and the higher will be our destiny as a nation.”

“The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.”

“That’s all a man can hope for during his lifetime – to set an example – and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.”

“We cannot always do what is best, but we can do what is practical at the time.”

“In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.”

“The people of this country want an industrial policy that is for America and Americans.”

  Instead of a Spirit of Dispair, of Robbery & Wrongdoing.  A planting.  An Adornment.  Oaks of Righteousness.  

“You will feed on the wealth of nations, and in their riches you will boast.“
–  Isaiah 61    “salvation of the Lord” “salvation, deliverance“

(Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs)

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Cash Flow Analysis

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PGI                                –        Projected Gross Income
– V&C                            –        Vacancy and Collection (Bad Tenants)
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EGI                                –        Effective Gross Income

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– FE                                –        Fixed Expenses (operating expenses)  Taxes, Insurance,
– VE                               –        Variable Expenses (Operating expenses) (Utilities)
– R                                 –        Reserves for Expenses (operating expenses) (money set aside for replacement items)
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NOI                              –        Net Operating Income

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– DS                              –        Debt Service (Mortgage Payment)
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CTO                             –       Cash Throw-off  (Cashflow before Taxes)

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NOI                              –        Net Operating Income (Income)
+R                                 –        Reserves for Replacement
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ANOI                            –        Adjusted NOI

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– I                                  –        Interest (on Loan)
– D                                –        Depreciation
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TI                                 –        Taxable income

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xTR                             –        Tax Rate
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T                                  –        Tax Payable

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CTO                            –        Cash Throw off
– T                               –        Taxes
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ATCF                          –        After Tax Cash Flow

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Actuaries and Underwriters

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Actuaries develop large-scale risk models and set pricing guidelines,
while underwriters apply these models to individual clients to determine if they qualify for insurance or a loan.

Hidden in The Marrows of  A.I.         Are Those Who are Obssessed About Controling The People. 
Deception Through Smooth Rhetoric.    Shallow Summaries.     “Misattributions.”     A Consideration of the Desires of The Heart.

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The Flagellation of Christ

Guircino  (1657)

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Nehemiah 9
(“the Lord comforts.“)
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(New International Version)

The Israelites Confess Their Sins

On the twenty-fourth day of the same month, the Israelites gathered together, fasting and wearing sackcloth and putting dust on their heads.  Those of Israelite descent had separated themselves from all foreigners. They stood in their places and confessed their sins and the sins of their ancestors.  They stood where they were and read from the Book of the Law of the Lord their God for a quarter of the day, and spent another quarter in confession and in worshiping the Lord their God.  Standing on the stairs of the Levites were Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani and Kenani. They cried out with loud voices to the Lord their God.  And the Levites—Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah and Pethahiah—said: “Stand up and praise the Lord your God, who is from everlasting to everlasting. ”

“Blessed be your glorious name, and may it be exalted above all blessing and praise.  You alone are the Lord. You made the heavens, even the highest heavens, and all their starry host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You give life to everything, and the multitudes of heaven worship you.

“You are the Lord God, who chose Abram and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and named him Abraham.  You found his heart faithful to you, and you made a covenant with him to give to his descendants the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Jebusites and Girgashites. You have kept your promise because you are righteous.

“You saw the suffering of our ancestors in Egypt; you heard their cry at the Red Sea.  You sent signs and wonders against Pharaoh, against all his officials and all the people of his land, for you knew how arrogantly the Egyptians treated them. You made a name for yourself, which remains to this day.  You divided the sea before them, so that they passed through it on dry ground, but you hurled their pursuers into the depths, like a stone into mighty waters.  By day you led them with a pillar of cloud, and by night with a pillar of fire to give them light on the way they were to take.

“You came down on Mount Sinai; you spoke to them from heaven. You gave them regulations and laws that are just and right, and decrees and commands that are good.  You made known to them your holy Sabbath and gave them commands, decrees and laws through your servant Moses.   In their hunger you gave them bread from heaven and in their thirst you brought them water from the rock; you told them to go in and take possession of the land you had sworn with uplifted hand to give them.

“But they, our ancestors, became arrogant and stiff-necked, and they did not obey your commands. They refused to listen and failed to remember the miracles you performed among them. They became stiff-necked and in their rebellion appointed a leader in order to return to their slavery. But you are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love. Therefore you did not desert them,  even when they cast for themselves an image of a calf and said, ‘This is your god, who brought you up out of Egypt,’ or when they committed awful blasphemies.

“Because of your great compassion you did not abandon them in the wilderness. By day the pillar of cloud did not fail to guide them on their path, nor the pillar of fire by night to shine on the way they were to take.  You gave your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold your manna from their mouths, and you gave them water for their thirst.  For forty years you sustained them in the wilderness; they lacked nothing, their clothes did not wear out nor did their feet become swollen.

“You gave them kingdoms and nations, allotting to them even the remotest frontiers. They took over the country of Sihon king of Heshbon and the country of Og king of Bashan.  You made their children as numerous as the stars in the sky, and you brought them into the land that you told their parents to enter and possess.  Their children went in and took possession of the land. You subdued before them the Canaanites, who lived in the land; you gave the Canaanites into their hands, along with their kings and the peoples of the land, to deal with them as they pleased.  They captured fortified cities and fertile land; they took possession of houses filled with all kinds of good things, wells already dug, vineyards, olive groves and fruit trees in abundance. They ate to the full and were well-nourished; they reveled in your great goodness.

“But they were disobedient and rebelled against you; they turned their backs on your law. They killed your prophets, who had warned them in order to turn them back to you; they committed awful blasphemies.  So you delivered them into the hands of their enemies, who oppressed them. But when they were oppressed they cried out to you. From heaven you heard them, and in your great compassion you gave them deliverers, who rescued them from the hand of their enemies.

“But as soon as they were at rest, they again did what was evil in your sight. Then you abandoned them to the hand of their enemies so that they ruled over them. And when they cried out to you again, you heard from heaven, and in your compassion you delivered them time after time.

“You warned them in order to turn them back to your law, but they became arrogant and disobeyed your commands. They sinned against your ordinances, of which you said, ‘The person who obeys them will live by them.’ Stubbornly they turned their backs on you, became stiff-necked and refused to listen.  For many years you were patient with them. By your Spirit you warned them through your prophets. Yet they paid no attention, so you gave them into the hands of the neighboring peoples.  But in your great mercy you did not put an end to them or abandon them, for you are a gracious and merciful God.

“Now therefore, our God, the great God, mighty and awesome, who keeps his covenant of love, do not let all this hardship seem trifling in your eyes—the hardship that has come on us, on our kings and leaders, on our priests and prophets, on our ancestors and all your people, from the days of the kings of Assyria until today.  In all that has happened to us, you have remained righteous; you have acted faithfully, while we acted wickedly. Our kings, our leaders, our priests and our ancestors did not follow your law; they did not pay attention to your commands or the statutes you warned them to keep.  Even while they were in their kingdom, enjoying your great goodness to them in the spacious and fertile land you gave them, they did not serve you or turn from their evil ways.

“But see, we are slaves today, slaves in the land you gave our ancestors so they could eat its fruit and the other good things it produces.  Because of our sins, its abundant harvest goes to the kings you have placed over us. They rule over our bodies and our cattle as they please. We are in great distress.

The Agreement of the People

“In view of all this, we are making a binding agreement, putting it in writing, and our leaders, our Levites and our priests are affixing their seals to it.” 

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2 Samuel 19
(“the name of God”)
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(Berean Standard Bible)

Joab Reproves David

Then it was reported to Joab, “The king is weeping and mourning over Absalom.”  And that day’s victory was turned into mourning for all the people, because on that day they were told, “The king is grieving over his son.”

So they returned to the city quietly that day, as people steal away in humiliation after fleeing a battle.   But the king covered his face and cried out at the top of his voice, “O my son Absalom! O Absalom, my son, my son!”

Then Joab went into the house and said to the king, “Today you have disgraced all your servants who have saved your life and the lives of your sons and daughters, of your wives, and of your concubines.   You love those who hate you and hate those who love you! For you have made it clear today that the commanders and soldiers mean nothing to you. I know today that if Absalom were alive and all of us were dead, it would have pleased you!

Now therefore get up! Go out and speak comfort to your servants, for I swear by the LORD that if you do not go out, not a man will remain with you tonight. This will be worse for you than all the adversity that has befallen you from your youth until now!”

David Restored as King

So the king got up and sat in the gate, and all the people were told: “Behold, the king is sitting in the gate.” So they all came before the king.

Meanwhile, the Israelites had fled, each man to his home.   And all the people throughout the tribes of Israel were arguing, “The king rescued us from the hand of our enemies and delivered us from the hand of the Philistines, but now he has fled the land because of Absalom.  But Absalom, the man we anointed over us, has died in battle. So why do you say nothing about restoring the king?”

Then King David sent this message to Zadok and Abiathar, the priests: “Say to the elders of Judah, ‘Why should you be the last to restore the king to his palace, since the talk of all Israel has reached the king at his quarters?  You are my brothers, my own flesh and blood. So why should you be the last to restore the king?’  And say to Amasa, ‘Aren’t you my flesh and blood? May God punish me, and ever so severely, if from now on you are not the commander of my army in place of Joab!’”

So he swayed the hearts of all the men of Judah as though they were one man, and they sent word to the king: “Return, you and all your servants.”

So the king returned, and when he arrived at the Jordan, the men of Judah came to Gilgal to meet him and escort him across the Jordan.

Shimei Pardoned

Then Shimei son of Gera, a Benjamite from Bahurim, hurried down with the men of Judah to meet King David, along with a thousand men of Benjamin, as well as Ziba the steward of the house of Saul and his fifteen sons and twenty servants.

They rushed down to the Jordan before the king and crossed at the ford to carry over the king’s household and to do what was good in his sight.

When Shimei son of Gera crossed the Jordan, he fell down before the king and said, “My lord, do not hold me guilty, and do not remember your servant’s wrongdoing on the day my lord the king left Jerusalem. May the king not take it to heart.  For your servant knows that I have sinned, so here I am today as the first of all the house of Joseph to come down to meet my lord the king.”

But Abishai son of Zeruiah said, “Shouldn’t Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD’s anointed?”

And David replied, “Sons of Zeruiah, what have I to do with you, that you should be my adversaries today? Should any man be put to death in Israel today? Am I not indeed aware that today I am king over Israel?”

So the king said to Shimei, “You shall not die.” And the king swore an oath to him.

Mephibosheth Excused

Then Mephibosheth, Saul’s grandson, went down to meet the king. He had not cared for his feet or trimmed his mustache or washed his clothes from the day the king had left until the day he returned safely.  And he came from Jerusalem to meet the king, who asked him, “Mephibosheth, why did you not go with me?”

“My lord the king,” he replied, “because I am lame, I said, ‘I will have my donkey saddled so that I may ride on it and go with the king.’ But my servant Ziba deceived me, and he has slandered your servant to my lord the king.

Yet my lord the king is like the angel of God, so do what is good in your eyes.  For all the house of my grandfather deserves death from my lord the king, yet you have set your servant among those who eat at your table. What further right, then, do I have to keep appealing to the king?”

The king replied, “Why say any more? I hereby declare that you and Ziba are to divide the land.”

And Mephibosheth said to the king, “Instead, since my lord the king has safely come to his own house, let Ziba take it all!”

David’s Kindness to Barzillai

Now Barzillai the Gileadite had come down from Rogelim to cross the Jordan with the king and send him on his way from there.  Barzillai was quite old, eighty years of age, and since he was a very wealthy man, he had provided for the king while he stayed in Mahanaim.

The king said to Barzillai, “Cross over with me, and I will provide for you at my side in Jerusalem.”

But Barzillai replied, “How many years of my life remain, that I should go up to Jerusalem with the king?  I am now eighty years old. Can I discern what is good and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or drinks? Can I still hear the voice of singing men and women? Why should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?

Your servant will go with the king only a short distance past the Jordan; why should the king repay me with such a reward?  Please let your servant return, that I may die in my own city near the tomb of my father and mother. But here is your servant Chimham. Let him cross over with my lord the king, and do for him what is good in your sight.”

The king replied, “Chimham will cross over with me, and I will do for him what is good in your sight, and I will do for you whatever you desire of me.”

So all the people crossed the Jordan, and then the king crossed over. The king kissed Barzillai and blessed him, and Barzillai returned home.

Then the king crossed over to Gilgal, and Chimham crossed over with him. All the troops of Judah and half the troops of Israel escorted the king.

Contention over the King

Soon all the men of Israel came to the king and asked, “Why did our brothers, the men of Judah, take you away secretly and bring the king and his household across the Jordan, together with all of David’s men?”

And all the men of Judah replied to the men of Israel, “We did this because the king is our relative. Why does this anger you? Have we ever eaten at the king’s expense or received anything for ourselves?”

“We have ten shares in the king,” answered the men of Israel, “so we have more claim to David than you. Why then do you despise us? Were we not the first to speak of restoring our king?”

But the men of Judah spoke more fiercely than the men of Israel.

The Lord’s Answer

Then the Lord replied:

“Will not all of them taunt him with ridicule and scorn, saying,

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Romans 2
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God’s Righteous Judgment

You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge another, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things.  Now we know that God’s judgment against those who do such things is based on truth.  So when you, a mere human being, pass judgment on them and yet do the same things, do you think you will escape God’s judgment?  Or do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, forbearance and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness is intended to lead you to repentance?

But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God’s wrath, when his righteous judgment will be revealed.  God “will repay each person according to what they have done.”  To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life.  But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger.  There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile; but glory, honor and peace for everyone who does good: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile.  For God does not show favoritism.

All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law.  For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God’s sight, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous.  (Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law.  They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing them and at other times even defending them.)  This will take place on the day when God judges people’s secrets through Jesus Christ, as my gospel declares.

The Jews and the Law

Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God;  if you know his will and approve of what is superior because you are instructed by the law;  if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light for those who are in the dark, an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of little children, because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth— you, then, who teach others, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?  You who say that people should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?  You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?  As it is written: “God’s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.” 

Circumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the law, you have become as though you had not been circumcised.  So then, if those who are not circumcised keep the law’s requirements, will they not be regarded as though they were circumcised?  The one who is not circumcised physically and yet obeys the law will condemn you who, even though you have the written code and circumcision, are a lawbreaker.

A person is not a Jew who is one only outwardly, nor is circumcision merely outward and physical.  No, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is circumcision of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such a person’s praise is not from other people, but from God.

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Ecclesiastes 3
(“one who addresses an assembly”  “speaker in an assembly or church, preacher”  “to call out“)
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A Time for Everything

What do workers gain from their toil?  I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race.  He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.  I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live.  That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God.  I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear him.

And I saw something else under the sun.

I said to myself,

I also said to myself, “As for humans, God tests them so that they may see that they are like the animals.  Surely the fate of human beings is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath ; humans have no advantage over animals. Everything is meaningless.  All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return.  Who knows if the human spirit rises upward and if the spirit of the animal goes down into the earth?”

So I saw that there is nothing better for a person than to enjoy their work, because that is their lot. For who can bring them to see what will happen after them?

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Deuteronomy 4
“second law”  “after-law”  “assign, allot; take”  
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The Year for Canceling Debts

At the end of every seven years you must cancel debts.  This is how it is to be done: Every creditor shall cancel any loan they have made to a fellow Israelite. They shall not require payment from anyone among their own people, because the Lord’s time for canceling debts has been proclaimed.  You may require payment from a foreigner, but you must cancel any debt your fellow Israelite owes you.  However, there need be no poor people among you, for in the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess as your inheritance, he will richly bless you, if only you fully obey the Lord your God and are careful to follow all these commands I am giving you today.  For the Lord your God will bless you as he has promised, and you will lend to many nations but will borrow from none. You will rule over many nations but none will rule over you.

If anyone is poor among your fellow Israelites in any of the towns of the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not be hardhearted or tightfisted toward them.  Rather, be openhanded and freely lend them whatever they need.  Be careful not to harbor this wicked thought: “The seventh year, the year for canceling debts, is near,” so that you do not show ill will toward the needy among your fellow Israelites and give them nothing. They may then appeal to the Lord against you, and you will be found guilty of sin.  Give generously to them and do so without a grudging heart; then because of this the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in everything you put your hand to.  There will always be poor people in the land. Therefore I command you to be openhanded toward your fellow Israelites who are poor and needy in your land.

Freeing Servants

If any of your people—Hebrew men or women—sell themselves to you and serve you six years, in the seventh year you must let them go free.  And when you release them, do not send them away empty-handed.  Supply them liberally from your flock, your threshing floor and your winepress. Give to them as the Lord your God has blessed you.  Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and the Lord your God redeemed you. That is why I give you this command today.

But if your servant says to you, “I do not want to leave you,” because he loves you and your family and is well off with you,  then take an awl and push it through his earlobe into the door, and he will become your servant for life. Do the same for your female servant.

Do not consider it a hardship to set your servant free, because their service to you these six years has been worth twice as much as that of a hired hand. And the Lord your God will bless you in everything you do.

The Firstborn Animals

Set apart for the Lord your God every firstborn male of your herds and flocks. Do not put the firstborn of your cows to work, and do not shear the firstborn of your sheep.  Each year you and your family are to eat them in the presence of the Lord your God at the place he will choose.  If an animal has a defect, is lame or blind, or has any serious flaw, you must not sacrifice it to the Lord your God.  You are to eat it in your own towns. Both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat it, as if it were gazelle or deer.  But you must not eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water.

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Proverbs 12
” A common saying, old adage, maxim”   “words put forth“
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Loving Discipline and Knowledge

Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge,

but he who hates correction is stupid.

The good man obtains favor from the LORD,

but the LORD condemns a man who devises evil.

A man cannot be established through wickedness,

but the righteous cannot be uprooted.

A wife of noble character is her husband’s crown,

but she who causes shame is like decay in his bones.

The plans of the righteous are just,

but the counsel of the wicked leads to deceit.

The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood,

but the speech of the upright rescues them.

The wicked are overthrown and perish,

but the house of the righteous will stand.

A man is praised according to his wisdom,

but a twisted mind is despised.

Better to be lightly esteemed yet have a servant,

than to be self-important but lack food.

A righteous man regards the life of his animal,

but the tender mercies of the wicked are only cruelty.

The one who works his land will have plenty of food,

but whoever chases fantasies lacks judgment.

The wicked desire the plunder of evil men,

but the root of the righteous flourishes.

An evil man is trapped by his rebellious speech,

but a righteous man escapes from trouble.

By fruitful speech a man is filled with good things,

and the work of his hands returns to him.

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes,

but a wise man listens to counsel.

A fool’s anger is known at once,

but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

He who speaks the truth declares what is right,

but a false witness speaks deceit.

Speaking rashly is like a piercing sword,

but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

Truthful lips endure forever,

but a lying tongue lasts only a moment.

Deceit is in the hearts of those who devise evil,

but the counselors of peace have joy.

No harm befalls the righteous,

but the wicked are filled with trouble.

Lying lips are detestable to the LORD,

but those who deal faithfully are His delight.

A shrewd man keeps his knowledge to himself,

but a foolish heart proclaims its folly.

The hand of the diligent will rule,

but laziness ends in forced labor.

Anxiety weighs down the heart of a man,

but a good word cheers it up.

A righteous man is cautious in friendship,

but the ways of the wicked lead them astray.

A lazy man does not roast his game,

but a diligent man prizes his possession.

There is life in the path of righteousness,

but another path leads to death.

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Hebrews 1
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God’s Final Word: His Son

In the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom also he made the universe.  The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.  So he became as much superior to the angels as the name he has inherited is superior to theirs.

The Son Superior to Angels

For to which of the angels did God ever say,

Or again,

And again, when God brings his firstborn into the world, he says,

In speaking of the angels he says,

But about the Son he says,

“Your throne, O God, will last for ever and ever;

He also says,

To which of the angels did God ever say,

Are not all angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?

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Romans 15
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The Example of Christ

We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves.  Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.  For Christ did not please himself, but as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.”  For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.  May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus, that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.  Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God.

Christ the Hope of Jews and Gentiles

For I tell you that Christ became a servant to the circumcised to show God’s truthfulness, in order to confirm the promises given to the patriarchs, and in order that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written,

“Therefore I will praise you among the Gentiles,
and sing to your name.”

And again it is said,

“Rejoice, O Gentiles, with his people.”

And again,

“Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles,
and let all the peoples extol him.”

And again Isaiah says,

“The root of Jesse will come,
even he who arises to rule the Gentiles;
in him will the Gentiles hope.”

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.

Paul the Minister to the Gentiles

I myself am satisfied about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able to instruct one another.  But on some points I have written to you very boldly by way of reminder, because of the grace given me by God to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.  In Christ Jesus, then, I have reason to be proud of my work for God.  For I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me to bring the Gentiles to obedience—by word and deed, by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God—so that from Jerusalem and all the way around to Illyricum I have fulfilled the ministry of the gospel of Christ; and thus I make it my ambition to preach the gospel, not where Christ has already been named, lest I build on someone else’s foundation, but as it is written,

“Those who have never been told of him will see,
and those who have never heard will understand.”

Paul’s Plan to Visit Rome

This is the reason why I have so often been hindered from coming to you.  But now, since I no longer have any room for work in these regions, and since I have longed for many years to come to you, I hope to see you in passing as I go to Spain, and to be helped on my journey there by you, once I have enjoyed your company for a while.  At present, however, I am going to Jerusalem bringing aid to the saints. For Macedonia and Achaia have been pleased to make some contribution for the poor among the saints at Jerusalem.  For they were pleased to do it, and indeed they owe it to them. For if the Gentiles have come to share in their spiritual blessings, they ought also to be of service to them in material blessings.  When therefore I have completed this and have delivered to them what has been collected, I will leave for Spain by way of you.  I know that when I come to you I will come in the fullness of the blessing of Christ.

I appeal to you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to stfrive together with me in your prayers to God on my behalf, that I may be delivered from the unbelievers in Judea, and that my service for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints, so that by God’s will I may come to you with joy and be refreshed in your company.  May the God of peace be with you all. Amen.

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Galatians 6
(“an inhabitant of ancient Gaul“    “a gaul”   “a frenchman“)
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Carry One Another’s Burdens

Brothers, if someone is caught in a trespass, you who are spiritual should restore him with a spirit of gentleness. But watch yourself, or you also may be tempted. Carry one another’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.

If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

Each one should test his own work. Then he will have reason to boast in himself alone, and not in someone else.  For each one should carry his own load. Nevertheless, the one who receives instruction in the word must share in all good things with his instructor.

Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return.  The one who sows to please his flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; but the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.

Let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.  Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to the family of faith.

Final Warnings and Blessings

See what large letters I am using to write to you with my own hand!

Those who want to make a good impression outwardly are trying to compel you to be circumcised. They only do this to avoid persecution for the cross of Christ. For the circumcised do not even keep the law themselves, yet they want you to be circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.

But as for me, may I never boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.  For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything. What counts is a new creation.

Peace and mercy to all who walk by this rule, even to the Israel of God.

From now on let no one cause me trouble, for I bear on my body the marks of Jesus.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers.

Amen.

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Proverbs 4
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Security in Wisdom