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I am requesting prayers for me and all of the other people in the line for Tornadoes and bad wind tonight.

Mark 4:39
And he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.

I don't usually do very personal stuff here but last night I almost cried. I have a buddy whom I've known since middle school that turned into a bleeding hear left winger and we've had some pretty big "disagreements" in the past. We've accepted that we just don't talk politics when we are hanging out. His wife is very left leaning, as in her and their daughter cried when Trump was elected again because muh womans rights are dead now.

Anyway last night he brought up something about the current administration and his wife actually made the comment that - paraphrasing - the media is one big lie and their only purpose is to cause division among the people. She went on to say how they want it to be the rich versus the poor. So as happy as I was at the breakthrough, I had to probe a little. She then went on to admit that it's not rich vs poor as in CEO vs blue collar, but generational wealth, and she specified Roths, and Soros and those types. I nearly cried and told her I'm so glad that she is finally seeing it. And yea I know it is so SO much more than that and I could've educated her for hours, but this is a wonderful first step win.

My buddy still won't admit to it. I think he knows but pride won't let him say it.

Ok there ya go. Happy Saturday to all the frens!

So I watch alot of house inspection videos like this one below. The lawyer mentioned Taylor Morrison so I did a little digging.

https://youtube.com/shorts/zTQq6FduEhI?si=o4gtp2k1zJiQO_m8

Taylor Morrison, the company that is building all the shit houses across America and has a majority of the new house build contracts is owned by TMM holdings, which is a Ukrainian company.

https://tmm.ua/en/company

So blackrock is buying the land and TMM Ukraine is building the shitty overpriced homes no one can afford. Interesting.

testing 123

i got 4 upvotes on it kek. Not alone

I didn't get a picture or I probably would have made a post.

I just drove by our local Valvoline Express Care and on the sign they had, "Free oil changes for Teslas" 🤣🤣🤣

u/#ridetofreedom

Simply. Naturally.

This one's for bubs.

All natural gas powered cars have the same problem.

Every time you turn the key, passengers think you farted! 🥁

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9CdVTCDdEwI

It is with great regret but I feel I must retract my recommendation of MyPillow foam mattress. The middle of the mattress seems to have worn faster than the edges.

I've been the having a burning sensation in the left foot (maybe a pinched nerve?), hip pain, and lower back pain. In that order with several months between onset of new symptoms, without resolution of previous symptoms. The first symptom began before I got this mattress. I my old mattress wasn't good and a potential cause of weird pains. When this mattress was new I think it did support my spine properly. Now when I sleep on my side it's pretty obvious that it doesn't.

EDIT: The mattress was stored vertically in a Murphy bed.

C. H. Spurgeon's Evening Reading (March 14th)

"Then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark." — Genesis 8:9

Wearied out with her wanderings, the dove returns at length to the ark as her only resting place. How heavily she flies-she will drop-she will never reach the ark! But she struggles on. Noah has been looking out for his dove all day long, and is ready to receive her. She has just strength to reach the edge of the ark, she can hardly alight upon it, and is ready to drop, when Noah puts forth his hand and pulls her in unto him. Mark that: "pulled her in unto him." She did not fly right in herself, but was too fearful, or too weary to do so. She flew as far as she could, and then he put forth his hand and pulled her in unto him. This act of mercy was shown to the wandering dove, and she was not chidden for her wanderings. Just as she was she was pulled into the ark. So you, seeking sinner, with all your sin, will be received. "Only return"-those are God's two gracious words-"only return." What! nothing else? No, "only return." She had no olive branch in her mouth this time, nothing at all but just herself and her wanderings; but it is "only return," and she does return, and Noah pulls her in. Fly, thou wanderer; fly thou fainting one, dove as thou art, though thou thinkest thyself to be black as the raven with the mire of sin, back, back to the Saviour. Every moment thou waitest does but increase thy misery; thine attempts to plume thyself and make thyself fit for Jesus are all vanity. Come thou to Him just as thou art. "Return, thou backsliding Israel." He does not say, "Return, thou repenting Israel" (there is such an invitation doubtless), but "thou backsliding one," as a backslider with all thy backslidings about thee, Return, return, return! Jesus is waiting for thee! He will stretch forth His hand and "pull thee in"-in to Himself, thy heart's true home.

Can anyone verify if this is true? https://gazetteller.com/huge-update-trumps-gitmo-expansion-is-live-mass-arrests-underway-as-military-raids-escalate-leaked-intel-reveals-whats-happening-at-gitmo-right-now/

I am unfamiliar with this source.

The Second Coming of Saturn Part 2: The Dark God in the Abyss

The Beast that WAS & is NOT & will COME from the Abyss Rev. 17

by Derek Gilbert

Let’s start with a bit of explanation about where this is going. It’s my belief that the entity known to us as the Roman god Saturn or his Greek equivalent Kronos has gone by many names over the centuries. We can trace his origins much farther in history, however, than the classical era—farther even than Greece’s Archaic period, which began around the time that Isaiah was called to prophesy in the middle of the eighth century BC.

Put simply, when you see any of these names: Saturn, Kronos, Baal Hammon, El, Milcom (and its variant, Molech), Dagan, Assur, Enlil, Kumarbi, and Shemihazah, please remember that they all refer to the same entity. It’s the same god who’s used different identities as times, places, and people changed.

I believe this entity has two other names, but I’ll withhold those for now to build dramatic tension.

The characteristics of this entity—his personality, if you will—has changed over the years, or at least has been perceived differently by various cultures. He was often seen as cunning, cruel, and vindictive, especially where humans were concerned; at other times, he was believed to be kindly, wise, and the ruler of a better time when the world was at peace and blessed with plenty.

All of his aspects, however, are linked to the netherworld. Clues embedded in the myths and rituals of the cultures that occupied the lands of the Bible lead to fascinating conclusions about the nature of this character.

Most significant, he led a rebellion against God that was remembered by Jews of the Second Temple period, the time that includes the ministries of Jesus and the apostles. This uprising, believed to be one of the reasons the world is in its fallen state, is referenced in the New Testament, most prominently by Peter and Jude. This rebellion not only violated a taboo against species propagating outside of their own kind, but Saturn and his colleagues were also condemned for teaching humanity things we weren’t supposed to know.

For this rebellion, he and his associates were banished to Tartarus. This is an important piece of information that’s not obvious to English-speakers because the Greek word tartarōsas in 2 Peter 2:4 is rendered “hell” in most English-language Bibles.

However, even though his rebellion took place before the Flood of Noah and was probably the reason for it, this fallen angel still affects our world today, and not in a good way. How is that possible? We can only speculate, but I’ll try to offer some plausible reasons.

We’ll begin with his oldest incarnation and work our way forward in time. This takes us back to the first book of the Bible, where the first four verses of the sixth chapter of Genesis describe, very briefly, an event that’s had a far-reaching impact on humanity.

When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose. Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.” The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown. (Genesis 6:1–4)

Those four verses are among the most controversial in the Bible. The early church understood their meaning. So did the apostles. In short, the “sons of God” were supernatural beings who came to earth and mated with human women. These unions produced monstrous offspring with disastrous consequences.

This is not the majority view of Christian theologians today. Most seminaries teach that the bene ha’elohim of Genesis 6 were righteous male descendants of Seth, the third son of Adam and Eve. The Nephilim were created by their unions with the wicked female descendants of Cain. This interpretation was brought into the mainstream of Christian theology in the early fifth century AD by Augustine, the bishop of Hippo, who popularized a view put forward about a hundred years earlier by Julius Africanus.[1]

We’ve dealt with this elsewhere, especially in Veneration and Giants, Gods & Dragons, the books I coauthored with my best friend (my wife Sharon), so I won’t recapitulate the arguments here. The bottom line is that Genesis 6:1–4 means exactly what it says: Angels mated with humans. This had disastrous consequences for humanity, and it earned the angels a terrible punishment as a result.

The noncanonical Book of 1 Enoch, written between the late fourth century BC and about the time of Jesus’ birth,[2] describes this event in more detail. What’s more, it names the leader of the rebellion—the entity we identify as Saturn of the Romans.

When the sons of men had multiplied, in those days, beautiful and comely daughters were born to them. And the watchers, the sons of heaven, saw them and desired them. And they said to one another, “Come, let us choose for ourselves wives from the daughters of men, and let us beget children for ourselves.” And Shemihazah, their chief, said to them, “I fear that you will not want to do this deed, and I alone shall be guilty of a great sin.” And they all answered him and said, “Let us all swear an oath, and let us all bind one another with a curse, that none of us turn back from this counsel until we fulfill it and do this deed.” Then they all swore together and bound one another with a curse. And they were, all of them, two hundred, who descended in the days of Jared onto the peak of Mount Hermon. And they called the mountain “Hermon” because they swore and bound one another with a curse on it. And these are the names of their chiefs: Shemihazah—this one was their leader.[3]

Shemihazah, sometimes transliterated Shemyaza or Samjaza, likely means “the Name has seen” (or “My Name has seen”), a reference to Yahweh. That’s ironic, because of course God did see, and He did not approve. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves.

You may be surprised to learn that the Watchers are mentioned in the Bible—just once, in the fourth chapter of Daniel, where the Chaldean king Nebuchadnezzar relates his dream:

I saw in the visions of my head as I lay in bed, and behold, a watcher, a holy one, came down from heaven…. Let his mind be changed from a man’s, and let a beast’s mind be given to him; and let seven periods of time pass over him. The sentence is by the decree of the Watchers, the decision by the word of the holy ones, to the end that the living may know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will and sets over it the lowliest of men. (Daniel 4:13, 16–17, emphasis added)

Since the punishment of Nebuchadnezzar, the earth’s most powerful king in his day, was decided and decreed by the Watchers, they clearly have some authority over the administration of God’s creation. Obviously, this was not the same group who rebelled in the days of Jared and Enoch, so the term “watcher” (Hebrew `iyr) appears to define a class of powerful angel, not all of whom were loyal.

That disloyalty shouldn’t surprise us. We know that the rebel in Eden, Satan, is called a “guardian cherub” in Ezekiel 28, and, like the sons of God in Genesis 6, he chose to reject God’s authority and do his own thing. So, it’s evident in the Bible that angels were created with free will, just like we humans. God did not create the entities in the spirit realm or those of us occupying the natural realm as automatons, unable to think and act for ourselves. And, just like us humans, a fair number of angels decided to go their own way with predictable consequences.

Peter specifically identifies the place of incarceration for the rebel faction as Tartarus. That bit of information is obscured by our English Bibles, most of which translate the word tartarōsas as “hell.” That’s an error. The word refers to Tartarus, not Hades.

That may seem like splitting hairs, but it’s not. To the Greeks, Tartarus was separate and distinct from Hades, the final destination for human dead, and it was believed to be as far below the earth as the earth is below the sky. Some texts even put Tartarus as far below Hades as the earth is below the sky. It was a place of impenetrable darkness reserved specially for supernatural threats to the divine order—rebellious gods.

Second Peter 2:4 is the only place in the New Testament where tartarōsas is used, which means we need to sit up and pay attention. Why did Peter choose that word instead of “Hades” or “Gehenna”? It’s clear from the multiple uses of those terms that they both refer to a place of punishment in the afterlife, usually by fire.[4] The only difference is that those being punished in Peter’s account are angels. Apparently, the place reserved for sinful humans in the afterlife—Gehenna, Hades, or hell—is not where disobedient angels are sent.

What’s even more interesting about his account is that Peter makes it clear that the sin of the angels thrust down to Tartarus was sexual. The second chapter of 2 Peter refers to Sodom and Gomorrah, “sensual conduct of the wicked,” and “the lust of defiling passion.”[5] Jude is even more direct in his brief epistle, specifically accusing the imprisoned angels of sexual immorality.[6] The only example of sexual immorality by angels in the Bible is Genesis 6:1–4.

Back to our question: Why did Peter choose the word tartarōsas? Given that he wrote under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, the choice was deliberate and inspired. At the time he wrote, Judea had been under the influence of Greek culture and language for more than three hundred years. Peter understood what Tartarus was, how and why it was different from Hades, and who was imprisoned there.

The Jewish religious scholars who translated the Tanakh (what we Christians call the Old Testament) from Hebrew into Greek about three hundred years before the birth of Jesus understood the connection between the old gods of the pagans and the giants of Genesis 6. In the Old Testament, there are verses where the translators chose titanes (Titans) and gigantes (giants) for the Hebrew word rephaim. As we explained in chapters 1 through 3 of our book Veneration, the Rephaim were the spirits of the Nephilim destroyed in the Flood, but the pagan cultures around ancient Israel believed they were the spirits of their deified royal ancestors—in other words, “the mighty men who were of old.”[7]

There was a clear connection between the Nephilim of the Hebrews and the demigods of Greece and Rome. As the hybrid offspring of gods and humans, heroes like Herakles and Perseus were by definition Nephilim. Even though that was understood by the Jews of Jesus’ day and the early Christian church, it wasn’t until 1999 that Estonian scholar Amar Annus made the connection for us in the modern world. Annus showed that the term used by the Greek poets Hesiod and Homer to describe the men who lived during the Golden Age when the Titan king Kronos ruled the world, meropes anthrôpoi, was derived from the same Semitic root, `rp, behind the Hebrew word Rephaim.[8] He went a step farther, showing that the name of the old gods of the Greeks, the Titans, came from an ancient Amorite tribe, the Tidanu,[9] about which we’ll have more later. More in reply.

“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”

Frank Zappa

Friday Poem...Emily Dickinson - “After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes”

https://theamericanscholar.org/after-great-pain-a-formal-feeling-comes-by-emily-dickinson/

Joseph P. Farrell - SOME THOUGHTS ON THE ESCHATOLOGY OF C.S. LEWIS, PT 1

https://gizadeathstar.com/2025/03/some-thoughts-on-the-eschatology-of-c-s-lewis-pt-1/

Joseph P. Farrell - SOME THOUGHTS ON THE ESCHATOLOGY OF C.S. LEWIS, PT 2

https://gizadeathstar.com/2025/03/some-thoughts-on-the-eschatology-of-c-s-lewis-pt-2/

Rural Revolution...In-your-face stuff from an opinionated rural north Idaho housewife

http://www.rural-revolution.com/

Theodore Dalrymple - Life Off the Pitch

https://www.takimag.com/article/life-off-the-pitch/

Worst Of Babylon Bee

Federal Judge Appoints Himself President

https://babylonbee.com/news/federal-judge-appoints-himself-president

Trump Announces Creation Of Strategic JD Vance Meme Reserve

https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-announces-creation-of-strategic-jd-vance-meme-reserve

Russia Says It Will Agree To Ceasefire As Soon As It’s Done Conquering Ukraine

https://babylonbee.com/news/russia-says-it-will-agree-to-ceasefire-as-soon-as-its-done-conquering-ukraine

In Effort To Boost Ticket Sales, Disney Edits Rachel Zegler Out Of 'Snow White'

https://babylonbee.com/news/in-effort-to-boost-ticket-sales-disney-edits-rachel-zegler-out-of-snow-white

Disturbing: If You Remove The 'O' In 'Obama' And Replace The 'B' With An 'S' And The 'M' With A 'T' And Add An 'N' At The End, It Spells 'Satan'

https://babylonbee.com/news/disturbing-if-you-remove-the-o-in-obama-and-replace-the-b-with-an-s-and-the-m-with-a-t-and-add-an-n-at-the-end-it-spells-satan

Dear Pam, the interviews wouldn't be such a bad look if we were actually seeing results. Strongly worded letters don't count. Signed, Americans