The 3 6 9 thing was from the Coral Castle “Florida Man” Edward Leedskalnin. He had a “secret” method of winching big stone blocks into interesting formations. Kind of a proto Disneyland. I saw somebody on video who figured had out how he did it and demonstrated the technique with repaired machinery from the original setup.Tripods and homemade stepper motors iirc. No actual levitation involved.
Tesla wanted to “broadcast” electricity. It would still have to be generated. Instead of plugging things into a wall socket you’d have an antenna on your toaster etc.
The story I heard was he promised the hotel he lived in until he died the treasury of his inventions in lieu of his large unpaid bill. There was supposedly nothing worth any money in the shoebox.
He got US Govt. attention by openly claiming to have invented a “death ray” which could “melt aircraft engines in flight”. The fact he had a thick Eastern European accent was a red flag for J. Edgar. They were afraid he’d give his research to Hitler. Ironically, the guy who did invent super weapons for Hitler became a national hero in America. (Von Braun)
The Alternating Current motor/generator is legendary enough. Tesla was a bona fide genius. He was also nutty as a fruitcake. Had OCD so bad it was pathetic. Needing one’s peas aligned on the plate has to become tiresome. I can almost see him at a light switch counting. I’m sorry for what Edison and Westinghouse did to him. Wardenclyffe which used massive amounts of power generated elsewhere, is still standing, sort of. It’s visitable. A fascinating character, but lots of his ideas were impractical at best. I prefer to honor him for what he actually did, and try to disregard what he might have done, “if only”. Also, don’t get too worked up over “number magic” I went through that phase decades ago, and it never ever got me laid, or anything else but made me a very tiresome conversationalist. (A trait I retain, apparently) Yes, yes the “golden mean” etc. are fascinating. They didn’t even have decimal points in antiquity. Everything was fractions. Pi (pee) was 22/7 for practical use. Phi (fee) was 21/13. Architects, and some other artists should consider proportions, but there’s no secret key of divine knowledge in arcane, obscure, “sacred geometry” math books Kepler not withstanding. Euclid, yes. Archimedes, yes. Ptolemy, yes with allowance for geocentric worldview. Thales? Hell yes! Pythagoras? Not so much. Tycho Brahe? Hahaha, I’ll take epicycles for $100 Alex….
All I know is Russia, an enthusiastically Orthodox Christian country didn’t persecute or arrest the priests or close down the Churches as national security threats. As for Ukraine, if the Divine Liturgy is a threat to your national security it strongly indicates an anti Christian nation. It’d be easy for me to pick a side based on that alone. The extreme corruption, the color revolution coup, and nefarious goings on aside. Still, in my Church, in the Litany the war in Ukraine is given a Lord Have Mercy. They should say “cut the crapola”, with a Grant This O Lord, but that’s why I’m not a Liturgist.
Make a rebuilt Gaza their dream destination. Take the American know how they’ve acquired and send them in to make a splendiferous golden age Arabic version of USA lifestyle there with funding from all the Sunni tribes. Badass freeways and self driving muscle cars with built in hookah. Why not. Beats Detroit. Nicer beaches.
FWIW the “Lion of Judah” was a sobriquet for St Paul in his times.
The Holy Spirit, Comforter and Spirit of Truth, who spoke through the prophets, abides with us, is ever present, and fills all things with blessings.
NCSWIC is a prophecy. Let us devote ourselves and one another to Christ, our God and King.
God does what He does and we try to make sense of it. It’s a real struggle. I’m currently reevaluating modernity as a failed attempt by humanity at re-creating paradise on earth through social engineering as it becomes an increasingly obvious bait and switch.
And yet, there’s less war, less massive starvation, less senseless deaths and child mortality, less plagues, etc. than any previous time in history. Something’s happening. God Bless America. Let America Bless God. Amen.
Might as well wait for Whitewater scandal to bear fruit. It’s not as if they’d blow up a federal building in Oklahoma City, or a massive office tower complex in New York City, or stage a running battle in Las Vegas to cover their tracks….
The fruit will never be more bare.
https://youtu.be/Vqbk9cDX0l0?feature=shared
I’ve no Fs left to give….
It’s a massive capacitor. Metal plates, gold in this case, separated by an acacia wood insulator which when housed in a massive tent made of layers of silk and wool would charge it with static electricity. Supposedly it would make an arc across the gap between the wingtips of the angels adorning the lid. Allegedly this arc communicated with the priests. Fascinating.
As to how it levitated, shook the walls of Jericho, or sickened (as described resembling radiation burns) many of the Philistines who captured it so that they hastily returned it, and how were the gemstone encrusted breastplates (Urim and Thummim) worn by attending priests involved it’s a mystery. Killing somebody who touched it would be unsurprising. It must have held kilovolts of charge. ZAP!!!
As for the Ethiopian Orthodox church’s claim to have it via Menelek (Solomon’s son via Queen of Sheba) bringing it from Jerusalem, why not? It’s a great story from a very old (3rd Century AD) and extremely well preserved Orthodox Christian Church. There are also Orthodox Jews in Ethiopia still sacrificing animals as from ancient days. Elephantine Island is another area of interest possibly connected to this history. See also: Lalibela, the marvelous rock carved cathedrals of Ethiopia. Carved down into the ground. An enchanted place imho, but I’d never go. I’d die just trying to get there.
I eliminated a papilloma wart with topical ivermectin. Hasn’t come back either. Looked it up and found vets use it for that in cattle. They do subcutaneous injections, but I’m not sticking a needle in my twig.