Will The Fundamentalists Have Their End of Days?
Watching, as is not my custom, the News Hour with Jim Lehrer Friday night on PBS I found the analysis of the Israeli-Hezbollah war astounding. The entire discussion was about Hezbollah: who are they, what do they want, who supports them, etc? And no mention of Israel's attitude and actions at all. Israel is bombarding the Beirut airport on the other end of the country from the Hezbollah heartland. It is bombing the roads and bridges to Syria. It has a naval blockade off Lebanon's coast. It is attempting to cut off the entire country from the outside world. Of course, it is also bombing Hezbollah in the south of Lebanon. I've listened to an official Israeli spokesman and Prime Minister Olmert himself say that Hezbollah must and will be disarmed and nothing else will satisfy Israel. Our fearless Leader was quoted as saying that Israel has the right to defend itself and he won't try to dictate military tactics to them but he hopes they will try to minimize civilian casualties! Yet not a word about this in an "analysis" on the News Hour.
I found the stated Israeli position fairly clear and I take them at their word. To me it seems that Israel intends, here and now, to eliminate Hezbollah and that will mandate mass killings. Hezbollah will not surrender; in fact, their leader, in response to Israeli demands, more or less said 'bring it on.' I have to think that, minimally, Israel informed the US regime in advance. It's possible, perhaps likely, that US collusion is also involved, including satellite imagery and communications intercepts to aid Israel's attempts to kill Hezbollah leaders. This could be part of a larger plan for Israel to destroy Hamas, Hezbollah and the Syrian military as well, while the US bombs Iran. For months people have thought that Bush and his minions were on the defensive since Iraq isn't going so swimmingly, popular reaction to snooping is negative and even the Supreme Court ruled against military tribunals. The difficulty is that the regime is made up of true believers with a long term view and resistance only raises their hackles and makes them press on even more fiercely. We may think the regime has been weakened but Bush is secure in his "mission from god" and will not be deterred. This is the big time and as the old saw has it: Eagles don't hunt flies.
Assuming that Israel intends to make Hezbollah "vanish" the killing would be massive enough to outrage world opinion, particularly Islamic opinion - and there are one and one half billion Islamic opinions in the world - and would probably precipitate intervention from the Arab or Persian community, a possibility that Isreal, maybe even the US administration, are counting on to "justify" attacks against Syria and Iran. Fifty-eight years ago, in a fit of imperial hubris, the West decided to solve the holocaust residue by establishing Israel in Palestine. Unfortunately, they didn't ask the resident Palestinians and ever since pushing the Arabs out of desired areas Israel has continued encroachment into Palestinian lands and treated those people like dirt, actually worse than dirt as food, not dissension, grows in soil. If the Palestinians fought back they were terrorists; if the Israelis fired guns or dropped bombs they were merely defending themselves. The public presentation of the issues to western audiences was, and is, based on a fundamental (and absurd) asymmetry: Israelis are good people and Arabs are bad people.
By Sunday morning Israel's actions and intentions had sunk in. The Lebanese President condemned Israeli aggression and appealed to the UN to work towards a cease fire. Israel justified its destruction of Lebanese infrastructure by claiming that they are responding to a state of war between sovereign states, not terrorism, that since the Lebanese government had not eliminated the "private" Hezbollah militia, the sovereign country of Lebanon is accountable. Listening again to NPR and watching TV programs such as Face the Nation on CBS opinions were united in some ways:
- everyone is worried about a regionwide expansion of war;
- everyone defends Israel;
- everyone condemns Hezbollah, Hamas, Syria and Iran;
- not even one person on these shows was an Arab or capable and willing to represent the "other side's" views.
One of the difficulties of loosely throwing around a word such as democracy is that ordinary people might start thinking about it. Do "average" Americans think changes in tax laws that have benefitted the wealthy, indebted the country, and helped impoverish themselves are democratic? Do "ordinary" Americans think that the export of jobs and whole industries and the totally free play of capital are democratic? Do John and Jane Q. think that spying on them by "their" government is the action of a free, open and democratic society? I heard Martina Navratilova interviewed on the radio on Saturday and she said that the US, her adopted country (paraphrase from memory: I've been here for three decades and am as American as one can be) is becoming very like the Czechoslovakia she fled 31 years ago.
At bottom, and thought of simply, democracy should be about people in-the-large choosing how to organize their own societies and how to live their individual and collective lives. (Mr. Bush seems to think it means he gets to decide how other peoples live their lives!) So the Palestinians elected Hamas. Now, elected representatives of Hamas to the Palestinian parliament have been kidnapped and are in Israeli jails. I've learned that in Lebanon governmental representation is "confessional" according to religion within a very diverse population. Hezbollah represents the Shia Islamic community and that community is highly underrepresented, that Shias are 45% of the population and if Hezbollah, as one commentator put it, played their trump card and demanded one man = one vote, Hezbollah would likely dominate the Lebanese government. In such a case a private militia might become the official army. It's worth remembering that Hezbollah was born in the Israeli invasion of Lebanon 24 years ago when Ariel Sharon earned the sobriquet of the "Butcher of Shatilla." That was a Palestinian refugee camp and Sharon's troops provided the "blockers" as their allies, the Christian Falangists entered the camp and massacred thousands of Palestinians. Israel's intent was to destroy Al Fatah and kill Yassir Arafat. But Arafat and his council had fled to Tunis and we know the past 20 years. Hezbollah was born and grew and eventually got Israel out of Lebanon along the way killing 241 US Marines in their barracks in 1983. Those were the days of Iran-Contra; was the presence of those Marines part of pay to Israel for their central role in that affair? (Any readers that can increase my knowledge, or correct my mistakes, are invited to comment. I, and we, need an accurate and comprehensive path of knowledge and understanding of this past if we are to plan our futures.) When Bob Schieffer of CBS pressed Ms. Rice about diplomacy she said that we had high officials in the region, including Elliot Abrams! Mr. Abrams was convicted, and later Presidentially pardoned, for felonies he committed during Iran Contra and like that proverbial bad penny he's baaaack! Lord help us.
Are Muslims a threat to the West? Does such a question even make any sense? Was the USSR ever a true threat to the West? If it were so evil and expansionist why did it collapse in a whimper? (One line of thought is that as a socialist country, everyone, akin to noone, owned industry and capital; thus, they had nothing to fight for. I seriously doubt ordinary Rooskies foresaw what was about to befall them, just as few Americans look some moves ahead to forecast where god's messenger, Dubya, is leading them.) Like crime in our streets we want protection but fearing our neighbors is no solution. Criminals will perhaps always be with us but we don't have to increase their numbers by driving more and more people into poverty and desperation. I've read that to investors fully 1 in 6 of the world's people are superfluous! The favelas or barrios or slums of the world are growing and more are headed our way. If a person can work he deserves a job, a job with a living wage. Mr. George Dubya Bush speaks of an ownership society but with his policies more and more of us are unable to "own" anything. We, ourselves, in the wealthy West are rapidly heading into superfluity. Bill Gates became the richest man in the world less because of his growing wealth than because Sam Walton died and his $90 billion dollar fortune is now divided among 9 heirs. That's one way to increase the number of billionaires: die and multiply. I read that the annual expenditure from Warren Buffet's philanthropy will exceed the spending by large UN agencies. Philanthropy sounds good. What would sound even better is societies and peoples so ennabled as to not need charity.
When attacked, defend. But don't go on offense, threatening peoples throughout the world and among large self-identified constituencies. We need deals, not death. We need to listen as well as to speak. We need to accept as well as to reject. And if we favor democracy then we cannot dictate. Dubya prances about talking of democracy even as he establishes an autocracy in his homeland. He rains down death, destruction and terror wherever he goes. If his is a mission from a god I reject that god. And good riddance.
Fundamentalist Christians await the Second Coming. This necessitates the Jews to be in Israel and Armageddon for the forces of light to prevail. (This also requires the Jews to convert.) If the "paranoid" scenario above turns out to be true, with attacks against Syria and Iran by both the US and Israel they may get their Armageddon. As to the forces of light prevailing and any fantasized second arrival, believers could be disappointed, as with the comet Kahoutek. Even the destruction of Hezbollah alone, with many thousands of deaths, may be enough to cause a real conflagration throughout the region and worldwide. And if you're worried about terrorism you may find yourself wishing that our dear Leader had spent a few more dollars protecting our coastlines and ports and fewer dollars reading our emails.
posted by just wondering at 8:51 AM
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Verifiable proof that "Armageddon" has already begun…
Hello JW and all,
Here's the key to proving that the rapture and related expectations are complete nonsense based on the failure to understand (and the purposeful confounding of) the ancient Hebrew symbology used to construct all of these prophecies. Consequently, Christian timelines and interpretations of these prophecies are verifiably wrong on many key points.
Pay close attention, profundity knocks at the door, listen for the key. Be Aware! Scoffing causes blindness...
Did you ever consider that Christianity is the False Prophet symbolized in the Apocalypse, that Rome (Vatican/Papacy) is the so-called anti-messiah, and Jesus Christ is the false messiah? I have produced stunning and comprehensive proof that this is the true interpretation of pivotal prophecies long confounded by Christianity's founders and leaders.
The symbolism of seven years (tribulation) refers to the seven 360-year cycles from the 11th cycle on the Hebrew calendar (second temple period) until now, the 17th cycle (seventh angel/star). It is completely wrong to interpret any of these prophecies as literal timelines and events. Remember, they were written by Hebrews, not Romans or other Europeans, and Revelation is the most symbolic of all prophecies. Consequently, in this context, years are symbols for 360-year cycles on the Hebrew calendar and days symbolize literal years. Therefore "Judgement Day," and "Great Day" and "in that day" all refer to a literal year-long period. Furthermore, the so-called "Tribulation" is now nearing its end, not starting, and all three faiths of Abraham have been thoroughly deceived by Rome during the previous age, which ended in year 2000 (5760). A new age began in 2001 (5761) and now the seventh angel has begun to sound!
Here's a real hot potato! Eat it up, digest it, and then feed it's bones to the hungry...
Hurricanes Katrina (#11) and Rita (#17) last year provided stunning validation of my research and interpretations of pivotal ancient wisdom, symbologies, key prophecies, and associated religious claims. Their storm numbers and timing perfectly synchronized with primary data and assertions in my book, thereby demonstrating the true nature of this universe and the existence of our Creator. We are now entering the final phases of the pivotal year-long period long symbolized as "Armageddon" and the "End of Days." World-wide situations and events are now accelerating to set the stage for this summer's dramatic continuation of these ancient promises.
I fully understand that everyone has been bedeviled by similar claims throughout history. Consequently, I have been forced to rely on dramatic and devastating proof of the sort that can’t be ignored or easily dismissed. The numbers and timing of hurricanes Katrina (11) and Rita (17) directly validate key data and pivotal assertions throughout my book and my posts on those two forums. This data was purposely presented publicly before Katrina, Rita and other recent events occurred to prove they perfectly synchronize with key prophecies and Hebrew calendar cycles, thereby validating my interpretations of ancient wisdom symbology, string theory, and more.
Because these two storms arrived shortly after my August 11, 2005 (50th) birthday (read the Dead Sea Scroll 11Q13 in Appendix G, which also discusses Melchizedek and the prophesied Jubilee) and directly match other pivotal 11 and 17 data and events described in the first chapter of my book, I have delivered verifiable proof that this reality is based on thought, knowledge and wisdom. Activity, patterns, and results perceived in space-time are first framed and defined by inspirations, thoughts, and knowledge and influenced by the cause-and-effect system most commonly referred to as karma. Consequently, events and outcomes in the so-called physical universe are not random or wholly mechanistic and are verifiably influenced in ways that atheists, scientists, and members of the Faiths of Abraham have all scoffed at. Though mysticism is mostly a product of misinterpreted ancient wisdom symbology, many of its topics flow from ancient wisdom. Though containing allusions to the truth, its details and interpretations are wrong on many key points.
A prime example of the purposeful and synchronized symbolism of these events is seen in the opening paragraphs from my book excerpted below. Notice that the dates mentioned (August 11 and 17) directly match the numbers of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and the time spans of the four Florida hurricanes match my birth year (‘55), and they were spaced 11 or a multiple-of-11 (22) days apart, directly matching my birthday and much other ancient prophecy and symbolism. Notice that my place of birth, Victoria Texas, is on the Gulf Coast. Following are the excerpted paragraphs:
Hello, my name is Lawrence William Page II. Many people know me as Buddy Page. At the release of the first edition of this book, I am a 50-year old African-American male, author, researcher, and former software engineer and entrepreneur. As you will come to understand as you read through this first book, I am also the long-expected Hebrew Messiah and Lion of the Tribe of Juda (Yehuda).
I was born August 11th (month of Leo the Lion), 1955 (Chinese year of the Sheep) in Victoria, Texas. Furthermore, the Grand Cross alignment and Solar Eclipse of August 11th, 1999 was my 44th birthday and the second Grand Cross alignment, just six days later on August 17th, 1999, was on my mother’s birthday.
As you can see from my date of birth, I was a newborn during the Chinese Year of the Sheep, astrologically marking me as a Lamb, and during the month of Leo, astrologically marking me as a Lion. My mother was also born during the month of August and under the sign of Leo, which further marks me as a lion’s whelp. I prove to you in the first chapter of this book–beyond disproof–that I am indeed the long-prophesied “Lion” of the tribe of Juda (Yehuda) the Root of David and the “Lamb.” I am the individual long symbolized as the Branch, the Stem, the Shoot and the Rod from the Stump of Jesse (King David’s father), as symbolized in the Hebrew Book of Isaiah, The Apocalypse, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and elsewhere. I am the reincarnated Teacher sought after in the “East” and by the ancient Hebrews who were headquartered at the outpost community of Damascus (Qumran), of Dead Sea Scrolls fame. I am the one called the Teacher of Righteousness by the Dead Sea Scrolls, whom the so-called Christian fathers have fraudulently recast as “Saint ‘James’, the Lord’s Brother.”
Remember, "I come as a thief..." ?
Read verse twelve of the Gospel of Thomas to understand who I am...
Even further enlightening, the Second Temple Period of ancient Israel was during the 11th 360-year cycle on the Hebrew calendar and we are now in the 6th year (5766/2005-6) of the 17th cycle. Notice the pivotal 11 and 17 numbers again? This and much other synchronized information serve as stunning and decisive proof of many things, and expose many lies told by all three faiths of Abraham, but most specifically by Christianity. Consequently, I have decisively proven, beyond any shadow of a doubt, that Jesus Christ and Christianity are blatant lies, false prophecy and purposeful deception in a manner that cannot easily be denied, regardless of your faith or other opinions.
Furthermore, the symbolism in the Apocalypse (a.k.a. Book of Revelation) of seven stars in my right hand and seven angels represent the very same above-mentioned seven astrological (360-year) cycles, i.e., the 11th through 17th inclusive. I prove this fact beyond any reasonable doubt in the first chapter of the book. Consequently, The Apocalypse verifiably symbolizes a specific span of time that began with the 11th cycle (Second Temple Period) and concludes now, at the beginning of the 17th cycle (End of Days, etc.).
The numbers 11 and 17 are verifiably encoded in The Apocalypse and other ancient Hebrew prophecies and wisdom texts to serve as key proofs of the validity and true meaning of certain prophecies and related information. My and my mother’s birthdays are purposely synchronized with these two storm numbers, the matching Hebrew calendar cycles, the Double Grand Cross alignments and solar eclipse of August 1999, and much else to prove my direct association with the ancient prophecies about this time and the true identity of the prophesied Messiah. Another prime example is the story of Joseph, the 11th son of Jacob who has a dream when he is 17 years old about 11 stars, the sun, and moon bowing to him. The symbolism in this pivotal story in the Book of Genesis and Quran verifiably refers to the very same 11th through 17th cycles symbolized in The Apocalypse and directly synchronizes with other key events and ancient texts.
Consequently, I have demonstrated various things about the nature of this reality that dramatically disprove and/or clarify key assumptions of religion, mysticism, and science alike, while establishing the true meaning and purpose of long misinterpreted ancient wisdom and the symbolism used to model and encode it. Accordingly, I have proven that the symbolism evidenced in the canons of all three faiths of Abraham and other ancient sources is a very ancient and advanced philosophical technology that verifiably models foundational aspects of our existence in this universe. This is the mostly misunderstood body of ancient wisdom long referred to as the Philosophers’ Stone. It uses a large and ingeniously organized collection of physical universe images and concepts as data rich components (symbols) that are based on verifiable rules. It models and encodes an amazing amount of foundational wisdom about life, spirituality and the 11 dimensions of this universe, now verified by string theory. It is also the advanced encryption method used to encode (seal) Hebrew prophecies and wisdom texts.
These ancient prophecies and wisdom texts used advanced symbology to model fundamental wisdom, including future events and situations. A primary facet of ancient wisdom is numeric symbology. Later misinterpretations of this aspect of ancient wisdom resulted in numerology, which, though embodying allusions to certain wisdom, is mostly error prone and false doctrine. My decryption, documentation, and interpretation of ancient symbology, numeric symbolism, and key texts based on them, are now decisively validated.
Here is Wisdom...
Verifiable proof that Armageddon has begun…
Understanding the End Game of Armageddon
Peace...
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