It'll blow your mind to learn that Chinese astronomers recorded the eclipse that occurred the moment of Christ's death. There is an interesting video on YouTube of a pastor in Singapore (I believe) who goes into the whole etymology of Chinese kanji and how many convey stories of pre-Tower of Babel stories from Genesis. Like the character for luck is 福 which consists of God, one mouth, and garden. This character still remains today. IIRC, he explains how the ancient character for "temptation" is woman, two trees, and garden. The first big missionary to China was convinced that the monotheistic deity Shang-Di was one and the same as Yahweh. Christianity flourished in China for a while until the crappy Vatican screwed things up. China was originally monotheistic until Buddhism came from India. I cannot remember the name of that video, but if you'd like I can look it up when I am at home.
They'd turn your natural farmland into an abominable sea of glass. Terrible.
"The Norwegians are leaving! The Norwegians are leaving!"
A reminder that the WaPo journalist Khashoggi was a MusBro assset and my Saudi friend said that the main opinion in KSA was "good riddance." That guy never once complained about civil rights when the Religion Police would arrest people and disappear them, yet once social reforms moved forward and gave freedoms to women and removed the Religion Police's ability to arrest anyone, THEN he started complaining. He was a POS.
Also when the Wedding Crasher was President, he attempted to hand Egypt over to his fellow MusBro miscreants and the people there rose up and ousted them from power.
We need to hold the administration accoutable for this. The new director of the FDA even said in an interview with Megyn Kelly that he plans to drastically reduce animal testing. Most of it is completely unnecessary.
Pfizer needs to be destroyed, along with Moderna, Monsanto, and many others. I have zero empathy for anyone who works for these villains and ends up unemployed. And at least those at the top need to be held accountable for their crimes against humanity.
Who is the faggot who downvoted this extraordinarily great news? What an asshole.
EDIT: maybe this is why. Readers added this context to the tweet: "The FDA has announced that at a 4PM press conference the intent to ban dyes will be announced. This has not been announced as being effective today."
Saffron is expensive. I think you're thinking of turmeric. VERY yellow. It can be used as a natural food dye, and it is used as such here in Japan. Most candy here does not have the artificial food colors. They use a lot of flower petals such as gardenias for coloring candy. It's why Japanese candy tends to have more pastel colors rather than the strong, bold, dark candy colors in the USA. Frankly, I cannot eat American candy anymore since I've lived here so long. Someone gave me some Starburst and while I used to like that candy just 15 years ago, I can't stand it anymore.
Isn't "420" the police code for when someone's caught in the possession of illegal MJ? I think that's how that worked.
Oh, I thought 4-20 was a marijuana thing.
Also 9. Russia leads the world in non-GMO, organic farming, rejecting companies like Monsanto. Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych pushed back on the IMF and rejected US corporate interests such as Monsanto. The NeoCons and Obamunists with the CIA deposed Yanukovych and replaced him with Poroshenko, who then began the genocidal war against Russians in the East.
She needs to be deported by firing her out of a cannon and into the shark-infested waters off the coast of Somalia.
While I may not be a real scholar, I identify as one. While Christmas may originally have been Saturnalia for the pagan Romans, it was a festival of lights, of gift giving, and a day when slaves would eat together with their masters. Christ is the light of this world, a gift to this world, who made slaves equal to masters. Thus, it was an appropriate holiday to become a day of celebration for Jesus's birth. As for Easter, it is indeed named after Ishtar and rabbits and eggs are symbols of fertility. Easter is always dependent on the Passover calendar, so it coincides regardless. Those Cadbury Mini Eggs with the hard shells kick ass too, so I don't mind those. If kids enjoy Easter Egg hunts, then that's fine by me. I always hated it as a kid, because my older sister always found all the eggs before I could. I ended up crying every Easter because of that. I never enjoyed it. So my final verdict as someone who identifies as a scholar: Jesus YES, chocolate YES, egg hunts NO. Disobey me and risk the peril of eternal flame or something.
Well if you know about Bill Cooper's book "Behold a Pale Horse," psychiatric patients are intentionally targeted for MK Ultra and groomed to commit these mass shootings. When I was 18 years old and working at a fast food place at the shopping mall, I sure as hell didn't have the cash to buy an arsenal of firearms. All I could afford was alternative music CDs and the occasional Super Nintendo game.
The whole supposed link between seratonin levels and depression is said to be junk science, just as the supposed link between cholesterol and heart attacks. One of the first few chapters in the book "Selling Sickness" is devoted to SSRIs.
My cousin was put on Ritalin after he was caught setting fire to a stack of pine needles on the roof of his house. It really wasn't his fault though. His older stepbrothers were constantly bossing him around and his mom never stood up for him because her ex was an abusive cultist and she was scared of losing her new husband. My cousin told me after he came off of Ritalin that he felt like he was a prisoner in his own mind. Creepy.
About 10 years ago, my wife's uncle was on antidepressants. He had retired from his job and was running an elderly care home. He was stressed and depressed, and was put on an SSRI med. He committed suicide.
In every picture I see of that guy, he has the vacant eyes of a sociopath, devoid of empathy.
Does anyone have much information on artificial flavors used in coffee? I've noticed that over the past year, I've gained back all the weight I began losing in November '22. I haven't been exercising as much for one thing, but I've also lost motivation to reduce carbs as much as I can. Not completely, but significantly.
I've been thinking that part of my problem is that this past year I've started drinking instant coffee that has French vanilla, caramel, hazelnut, and such. Then recently I was looking at the ingredients and it says that they use artificial fragrances. It's the fragrance that causes it to taste good. This could be messing with my metabolism.
https://www.chefsresource.com/faq/is-artificially-flavored-coffee-bad-for-you/
https://donpablocoffee.com/blogs/donpablocoffeenews/the-hidden-dangers-of-flavored-coffee
Well, buttcrap. Here I thought I was being healthier by ditching honey in coffee and going with these flavored coffees that taste pleasant without sugar. They don't contain any crappy-ass aspartame or any artificial sweeteners, but I think they may still have an effect on metabolism.
Sad Katie Hobbs is sad. She probably went home and punted her kitties out of sheer rage. Poor kitties.
I took wormwood/artemesia just as the Corona-chan was taking off in 2020. I took it for two years during the colder months and didn't catch a cold or anything. This was when anyone who "tested positive" here in Japan would be forced to stay home for two weeks and everyone in their family would have to stay home for two weeks. It was the height of the hysteria. Artemesia started getting expensive for me and I stopped taking it, then I caught something in October 2022. But for two years I didn't get sick at all and it was great. I still never "tested positive" though.
They'll probably assault you driving that...
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The video is 2 hours, but it is two sermons put together into one video. I watched it in two parts, and it is very fascinating. This is a pastor at a huge church in Singapore in '09, demonstrating that the Biblical stories of the temptation in the garden, the great flood, the Tower of Babel, blood sacrifice, and more had become embedded into the etymology of the Chinese written language. Granted, I've only really studied the Japanese versions of Chinese characters so several of these are Chinese-only characters, but I have studied enough to see how he makes sense. I wasn't aware of this, but before Taoism and before Buddhism came to China from India just a short number of years before the birth of Christ, China was a monotheistic culture that worshiped Shang Di, or the "one God above all, the sovereign king in heaven." Very interesting sermon.
The second sermon is a comparison of written description of of the omniscient, sovereign God Shang Di and the God of the Old Testament. Chinese texts had recorded an eclipse that darkened the day, and three days later a rainbow had encircled the sun. The prominent missionary to China was convinced that Shang Di was the God of the Old Testament, and the texts spoke of Christ. These texts are rather similar to that of Genesis, with guidelines for animals sacrificed, etc. He talks of how Christianity began spreading very rapidly in China at first, but then the overseers from Rome had to step in, override the wisdom of the Catholic missionaries and began to force cultural superiority onto the Chinese. This did not set well with them. It was the arrogance of the Vatican that had ruined Christianity. They shot themselves in their own foot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS-sKQwB-fc